Inspired itong post na ‘to ng kay Ate Karmi.. :)

Alright… Night shift… Whole month of January night shift ang schedule ko sa trabaho.. Anong oras un? it’s from 7pm to 7am.. 12hrs! Opo, ganon katagal. Buti nalang 3 days or 4 days a week lang un pasok…

Anyway, weekend ang night shift sched namin.. that’s either from thursday to sunday or friday to sunday… Usually gising nako ng 3:30pm para mag prepare ng sarili.. isang oras din un.. 15 minutes para kumain, 15 minutes para sa ‘office’, 15 minutes para maligo and 15 minutes para magbihis and iba pang seremonyas…

That’s the time breakdown ng isang oras na preparasyon. Of course, kung may extra time (for example, natapos akong kumain ng 5minutes lang, kikipaglaro muna ko sa baby ko, or kwentuhan kay misis, or kay nanay nung nandito pa sila)

4:30pm dapat nakalabas nako ng bahay at naghihintay na ng jeep or dpat naka sakay na, byaheng Sta. Maria… Brgy Guyong na ang next destination ko dun.. kung swerte ako, may naunahan akong mga 3 gumagapang na bus byaheng Ayala/LRT Leveriza… Dapat between 5:00pm to 5:15pm nasa bus nko.. 5:30 to 5:45pm dapat Bocaue Tollgate nako.. Tapos, another 30 minutes dapat nasa Camachile nako, near Balintawak QC.

6:00pm to 6:30pm, I should be inside the MRT on my way to Ayala station, para makarating ako ng office by or before 7:00pm!! (Ano, naaawa na ba kyo sakin? byahe palang, ubos na 2 hours ko.. waahhh!!!)

So that’s 12 hours sa office.. 7:00am off ko, pauwi na rin ako nun.. Usually pagdating sa office, turn over, then check ng work email, alerts, IPR then check ng yahoo mail, gmail, friendster .. and everything-eli.com… un na! hehehe.. 12midnight lunch nmin, so break muna.. balik ulit sa project.. Blog.. :)

ganon.. 7am namin uwi.. at darating ako mga 9am sa bahay.. kain ng ‘dinner’ sandali, then chikahan kay Lois (my cute na cute na wife), kikipag laro kay matthew kung gising pa sya… tapos around 10am, natutulog nako till 3:30pm.. tapos ulit ulit.. paikot ikot ikot ikot ikot….

The fastest ticket sales in history took place in 1993 when Paul McCartney announced two shows in Sydney, Australia.

20,000 tickets sold out in eight minutes.

(orig post)

“John Doe” in other countries, or should I say “Juan dela Cruz” ng ibang mga bansa, hehehe:

Australia: Fred Nurk
Austria: Hans Meier
Belgium: Jan Janssen
Chile: Juan Pérez
Colombia: Fulano de Tal
Croatia: Ivan Horvat
Czech Republic: Jan Novák
Estonia: Jaan Tamm
France: Jean Dupont
Guatemala: Juan Pérez
India: Ashok Kumar
Italy: Mario Rossi
Latvia: Janis Berzini?š
Lithuania: Vardenis Pavardenis
Malta: Joe Borg
New Zealand: Joe Bloggs
Philippines: Juan dela Cruz
Poland: Jan Kowalski
Portugal: Manuel Dos Santos
Romania: Ion Popescu
Singapore: Tan Ah Kow
Slovenia: Janez Novak
South Africa: Koos van der Merwe
Turkey: Ali Veli Konya

In the United States, John Doe is always the defendant. An anonymous plaintiff is Richard Roe.

(spotted here)

Updates, updates…. Today is updates day… 4 days off kasi.. super bakasyon

Update today.. as of 12:42pm after lunch.. kakatapos ko lang maglunch and i want to put everything i can remember here.. since mamaya makakalimutan ko na to… And maya maya, I’ll be driving to Malolos.. Mom requested me to take her there. Why? Derma stuffs…

Anyway, today I got Matthew his educational plan from Cocoplans. Aling Cora dropped by here (as she promised last week) to give me the education plan… Naistobo nya nga ako eh.. I was sandpapering the computer tables in the shop… I got the annual plan for 5 years.. with P37,000 per year.. Will paste the plan she gave me.

Update on the computer shop.. well those people doing the wood work just got finished yesterday, according to Nel who called while we were in SM Marilao. And speaking of SM, here’s what we did… The main reason for me, was to buy myself a power supply for my computer and a silicon casing for my iPod (but bought a plastic case instead). Those two items are related in a way… I wanted to sync my mp3s (from my computer) to my ipod… The thing is, my computer is not starting up.. there was no power in the HDD and the CDROM. (Bought Paint, thinner and masilya for the computer table)

Replaced the power supply (which cost P700 btw) and booted the pc up.. Surprisingly, ayaw pa rin! bwahaha! wala pa ring power ung mga discs… I should have notice this during my previous troubleshooting - took off the data cable (hdd/cdrom) para power lang nakakabit, when i turned on the pc, may power… syempre di nadetect.. I then took the ribbon cable of my bro’s pc.. un, nag power!

But the other problem is still there.. nag rerestart sya after mag login… Tried removing other programs, since booting in safe mode is ok. Some program could not be removed.. I have no registry clearner… so i decided to reinstall windows anyway. After installation, ok na! Time to reinstall programs.. Photoshop, Sony Ericson CD, MS Active Sync, iTunes, Office and other utilities…

Last night, while doing the reinstallation of Windows XP.. i finished the “The Dark Tower 6: Song of Susannah” — the story concludes in the Dixie Pig… where sussanah/Mia is suppose to take birth and was taken to the door. Will read the end part again and edit this one.. :D

I will start reading Book 7 soon! Maybe tonight! :)

Last two days, we watched Freddy Krueger - Nightmare on Elm Street - that’s one of my favorite horror movie… well, its the sequel (part 2) but ok na rin un… Maybe tonight we’ll watch the 2nd part. (scared)

Forgot to mention yesterday that after our checkup, we went straight to the Land Transporation Office, Sta. Maria extension branch for my driver’s license.

Remember last Monday’s post? Eto ung second half, dahil di ko natapos ung una..

For the record, here’s what you suppose to do during the licence renewal (plus the expense):
- Drug Test - They will get a urine sample from you. Costs P250
- Medical - They will suppose to make series of test e.g. eye test, weight, dental etc.. but for my case they just asked for P70 hehehe
- LTO/OR P280

The card said will be released Friday, Jan 19.. or early next week.

Matthew got another shot of vaccine today. Don’t know what it is, im sure Lois knows. :) He’ll be back again next month for the chickenpox vaccination.

Here’s a video before the check up at the hospital lobby.

Here’s another one, this time with my Ate and Kim

After Matthew’s visit to his doctor, my turn.

January 9, 2007 (Pang inis kasi, di na naman na save ung date sa post..)

Went to SM Marilao today with mi wife and Matthew. Hirap iwan baby ngayong mga panahon na to, dahil wala kming kasama sa bahay sa pagtulong sa chores dun… kaya nakakahiya naman iwan si Matt sa nanay, daming ginagawa nun.. kaya nag date kmi ni Lois with baby..

Had our lunch sa Goldilocks.. Lois ate first with me handling the boy.. feeding him..

Bought myself a wrangler shift (sh-bb). We bought Matthew his new set of toys.. Zoo animals.. :) I want him to know different kinds of animals habang bata pa…

Uwi din kming maaga..  hirap magbuhat ng baby.. ayaw sumakay sa trolley eh..

Bat ba wala man lang ko picture nun? hmm.. sige picturan ko.. post ko dito.. ma edit nalang.. :D

January 11, 2007 (need to post the date, darn… just found out that the ’save’ function of Wordpress is not the same as ‘draft’ for Bblog) There is a separate Draft option in the ‘Post Status field)

Anyway, just want to note that we did the computer assembling today - all 12 of ‘em. We finished late at night.. we even found out about this movie for gay people while doing the activity.. hehe

Naglibre pa si bro ng miryenda. Ayaw nya kasing mais, kaya nagyaya syang kumain sa Rengmits… We ate palabok and pork bbq and halo halo.. we even saw Jordan Hererra.

January  10, 2007 - Kung mapapansin nyo, pabaliktad na ung post.. kasi naman , kala ko pag nag ’save’ ako ng draft blog, ma reretain ung date when I created that particular post, un pala maling setting ung nagamit ko… so here it is.. posted today, jan 13 which happened jan 10.

Original plan was to go to HMR first (in Mandaluyong) to look for some second hand monitors (since we only have 8 Samsung LCD monitors at home). Then after that, if nothing is available, Greenhills is next, in E-Square then on to Gilmore for the rest of the parts.

 Di kami natuloy sa HMR, we went straight sa E-Square and inquire for the monitors. Kamalas naman nmin, wala na pala ung maganda gandang CRT monitors. So we decided to go to HRM, after we buy all other parts sa Gilmore. (Pero di din kmi natuloy dun, why? read on).

In Gilmore, inquire kmi ng ibat ibang price sa tabi-tabing stalls. Dami nila! I remember when I was in college (not so long ago un)… back then, the only computer store there was PC Options. Ngayon, wow! grabe,super dami… They even a Mall for IT/Computer and all…

Alright, anyway, we bought most of the stuff sa PC Express (headsets, webcam, video cards, casing, cables, rj45s, mouse and keyboards) and we bought the motherboards sa PC Options… In which I have a very nice story to tell… para lang ma-document.

Since the processor that my brother got from his (now defunct) company are all AMD Athlon 64, we need to have a motherboard with a Socket 939 (s939) - Apparently, that model is being phased out.. wawa naman kmi.. The board was either not available or super mahal ng price.

It took us all day (well 12-8pm) to buy all those things… The last couple of hours are with those Mobo. When my brother finally found a store that has that model and in a much cheaper price, and not to mentioned that they have a stock of 8! Lucky us! We thought that that was it! But to the last minute, sabi nung sales lady, sorry daw, kasi isa lang makukuha namin, kasi wala na stock.. ?! huuwaaatt? what’s that?! Malabo pa sa tubig ng ilog Pasig! Dapat nga ibenta nila un, kasi un ang business nila.. and to think the mobo is obselete in a couple of months.. Ewan!

So I said, can we at least have 2? For myself and my bro? Pumayag naman sya in separate receite. Then we found another model (the first was 6100, this time its 6150), we took another 2. So we have 4.. we are short of 4 mobo. The funny this was, PC Option has two stores. What we did was, we went to the other door! Tapos bumili ulit kmi ng same model ng boards! hehe.. nahuli lang kmi ng sales lady… tumawag sya sa kabila and asked us if we were there awhile ago?.. di naman ako makapag sinungaling, kaya ayun! Bistado! hahaha! So we decided the other model for s939 (meron pala! :hehe:)

Nakaalis kami ng Gilmore around 8pm na siguro… Wala pa rin kaming HSF! Shet! San kya kmi makakahanap nun… Pumunta pa kmi sa apartment ng bro ko.. to get the rest of the stuff.. More LCD monitors (laking gulat pa nga nya, kami may nakatago pa palang isa.. so instead ng 4 CRT monitors to buy, 3 nalang kasi 9 n ung LCD).

Arrived at home around 11:30.. may kasambahay na nga pala kmi.. natulog na rin agad.. hehe…

Traffic sa Ayala.. Errr.. Traffic ang Tao sa Ayala

Traffic naman talaga ang main problem when commuting… This time, not only the cars and the buses and other vehicles, but also the people! God!

Etong nangyari last January 5 sa Ayala station ng MRT.. (of course, this happens everyday most probably)… Dumaan lang ako ng gamot sa Mercury (sa area na ng MRT station).. few minutes after, di na mhulugan ng karayom sa dami ng taong nakapila! Umabot na sa north side ng EDSA ung pila sa haba. Kainis! Sana napicturan ko para na post ko man lang dito. Sayang.