I.juander

Thanks to the ever-sprouting call centers here in our country that we are already embracing the american-culture that much. Ten years ago, you cannot see children doing "tricks or treats" in malls or even in respective communities, donned in the most effortless costumes to those who spend a lot to look like ghouls. Ten years ago, only the elitistas in the exclusive subdivisions are observing these. Talk about consumerism, our culture has embraced this non-sense event today. But at least, we don't only see vampires and witches here, who could forget our identity such as aswangs, engkanto, diwata, tikbalang, tyanak at kung anu-ano pa? But since during this season that we have a few days off from work or school, and this event is a prelude to the nearing christmas season. For whatever reasons, I enjoy seeing but I don't see the connection of observing/doing this. But anyway, let me be the first to greet.... Happy Halloween...

Yesterday I celebrated my 2n th birthday. I held a celebration at our home. The last time I did this was three years ago. The usual presence(s) that I have with this sort of gathering are " no shows ", " booze " and " videoke ". Let me first go to the first one: the "no shows"...just who exactly are they? Ever experienced inviting friends or acquaintances to a celebration, having confirmed their attendance but come the event are the ones not present. I just wished that these people would just turn down an invitation on-the-spot rather than confirm and when the event comes will make endless excuses of their non-appearance. I just don't find this attitude right and I think people like this are nothing but disgusting. Despite endless excuses, the underlying reason is still laziness. Well anyway, I was sort of happy because despite "no shows" there are still people who attended my celebration. Rest-assured that I'll treasure these

Being an internet-addict myself, I learned to make use and fully-utilize the dsl internet connection at home. One of the most satisfying and addicting things that you can do with a dsl connection at home is to download using a peer-to-peer file-sharing application. Thank goodness that P2P file-sharing is not sanctioned yet here unlike in the US where downloading and file-sharing is a crime against copyright laws. I've had numerous albums, applications, softwares that I was able to download using this P2P applications. But I must re-iterate that I have these for personal use only and I do not intend to copy and sell these downloads for profit. One of the albums I downloaded that surprised me was My Chemical Romance's, "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge". I have seen the video for "Helena" a couple of times in music video channels but it didn't really appeal to me first "sound-wise". Though, they had done a creepy and eye-catching vid for that one

Just three weeks after zorro died, coco, his last partner gave birth this morning. Coco gave birth to three litters, unfortunately, two died and only one remained. My mom was in a way, kinda happy since there is already a replacement for zorro. Let's just hope that this dog will survive so that in a way, zorro's legacy will live on...

It took me ages before I had to replace my handphone, my nokia 3530. Had this one for more than three years given to me by my brother. I never really intended to have it replaced with the latest and high-tech (and usually very expensive) models given the fact that mobile phone theft and even more serious crimes arise due to this expensive gadgets. It took me three years and one-BPI installment madness to finally have the impulse to buy this phone. Drums rolling...the sony ericsson k750i. I must admit that I just bought this one out of impulse. And I must admit also that I really like this model and unit, feature-wise and look-wise. A camera phone with 2 Megapixel camera with 4x zoom, an external memory that can be upgradeable, an mp3 player, a radio, bluetooth enabled for wireless transfer, etc. This phone and my mp3 player are what I consider my most-valuable material possessions. I never leave home without them.

Yesterday was one of the saddest events of my life. The reason being the untimely death of my beloved pet dog. This dog has been with us for the last three years. He has been like an addition to the family, like almost a child pampered and giving us the bundle of joy, most especially to my parents to whom he must have spent most of my lifetime. "Zorro" died an untimely and tragic death, almost leaving us completely shocked and saddened. He was a victim of hit and run, during a normal day when he is being strolled around routinely every morning to relieve himself, towed by my father. With yesterday being different as his lifeless body is cradled by my dad on the way home. I could still see him struggling with his remaining breath as he was laid down on the floor. My mom cried deeply saddened to see that his youngest lying lifelessly. My father was shocked as if he wants to cry but he cannot. My heart broke. I wrapped him in the towel that we used to dry him with together wit