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Tech Troubles

I can’t seem to post a proper entry nowadays. It’s because of this lousy crappy Internet connection Asia seems to be suffering from. Ugh! It also doesn’t help that after the carpet cleaning at the office, the cable connection seemed to have gone awry. And this is the week our IT won’t be coming in to solve our IT problems. Wow! And, if that’s not enough, my laptop’s modem is suffering from “I don’t want to work for you anymore so deal with it” syndrome. It just won’t connect! Aaaahhhh!

I still don’t have Pyneapple, my digicam. It’s taking Canon ages to repair, este, change the optical lens. It will also make a large hole in my pocket oncetyhey get around to handing the cam over to me! Good thing, Kel was so nice enough to share with the expenses. Hay nako naman talaga. The digicam mishap happened when we were in Sagada last December. I’m still convincing myself it did not happen but who the heck am I kidding?!

That’s not all! Since Pyneapple is currently at the repair shop, I used Tomatoe, my Tungsten E2, to transfer our Sagada pics in my memory cards (buti na lang, my digicam and PDA use the same kind of memory card) to my laptop (which doesn’t have a name yet but I’m thinking of naming it “Kiwee”) via our bluetooth dongle (yes, I’m naming it too… how does “Lemon” sounds? Haha!). While transferring the pics, some of the photo files was lost along the way. How? Beats me! Can’t track them all noh! Anyway, kakainis lang coz those were precious pics noh. And we can’t just make another memory in Sagada. 12 hours of travel din yun so kahit na gustuhin naming bumalik, it won’t be easy with our skeds.

Technology troubles nga naman. Hate it.

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Six Days Before Christmas

SIX Gifts I Dread Receiving

I’m sure you have your own list and I’m sure I haven’t read them so I’m sorry to those who’ll I’ll be giving gifts which they don’t want receiving.

I’m thankful for every gift I receive, whether it be a simple keychain, ref magnet, whatever. But there are things which I really just don’t like receiving if I have a choice. People giving me these would be categorized as crammers, late, and unoriginal shoppers. Hehehe.

Let me cite for you the items, which I’m sure you’ll also least likely want to receive. C’mon now, admit it! You don’t want to receive:

1. Mugs.
No, please. Not mugs. Again. regardless of its cute design or its price, better spend you money on something more worthwhile. Just think that the person you’re giving a gift to has probably received 3 or more mugs in his/her entire life so go and buy something else.

2. Hankies.
We’re not grade schoolers anymore. We can already choose on our own. Stay away from handkerchiefs already. Besides, there’s a superstition behind giving hankies. You don’t want to make someone cry right? Hehe!

3. (I’m Crazy I Don’t Want) Books.
Of course I want books but for this year, I don’t want one. Imagine yourself receiving books in all your college life’s Christmas parties! I just really have this studious look but I’m not that studious! Oh well, I loved the books I received before. Now, you can still give me one but if you have something else to give (esp. if it’s something in my wish list), then give me that something else. (Actually this year, I’m just asking for e-books na lang. Cheaper and I can just read it on Tomatoe.)

4. Figurines.
They’re immediately available. I don’t want gifts like that. When you can almost picture the scenario of the gift giver going to your house and while walking, he/she suddenly remembers “Hey, I don’t have gift for [insert your name here], good thing there’s a bangketa here with these cute little figurines. Let me buy him/her one of these!” Puhleez!

5. Photo Frames
Regardless of the photo placed on the frame or the style, form, or color of the frame, I wouldn’t want to receive a picture frame. Just give me the picture if you’re not creative enough to display it some other way (like a planner/notebook cover, photo mosaic, or scrapbook perhaps).

6. Candles
There was a time when I was so fascinated with candles that I even tried making them. But then I ditched the idea and chose beads as my next interest instead. Now, I wouldn’t want to receive these na regardless of (again) form, style, or color. I can’t think of anything to do with it. If I light it, then the design will be lost, if I don’t, it will last forever on my table top. I guess, what I’m really trying to say here is, “no to desktop display items!” Period! Haha!

Never akong naging maselan sa regalo. Actually, you can give me these also. Just personalize it or something so your identity can be embedded on these things and won’t be as boring. Para naman mukhang ineffortan. Hahahaha!

Happy gift-giving (to me)!

Seven Days Before Christmas

I’ll be with you, counting down the days before Christmas 2006.

SEVEN Christmas Quotes

I’m sure you’ll just be writing ‘Merry Christmas and a Happy New year! Lovelots, —-’ on your gift tags. Why not write a Christmas quote before your usual greeting to add more “cheer?” And well, to just be different from last year. Here, I compiled nine quotes for you to ponder on and share:

1. Christmas is for children. But it is for grown-ups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide-bound hearts. ~Lenora Mattingly Weber

2. I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become… but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress. ~May Sarton

3. There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.
Bill McKibben

4. Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart, To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.

5. Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we don’t quite know how to put our love into words.
~ Harlan Miller

6. Are you willing to forget what you have done for other people, and to remember what other people have done for you … to remember the weakness and loneliness of people who are growing old … Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world … stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death… Then you can keep Christmas! But you can never keep it alone.
Henry van Dyke

7. Christmas … is not an eternal event at all,
but a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart.
- Freya Stark

Well, they’re not gonna be seriously reading these quotes, at least you tried conveying messages of peace, joy, and love. Naks! Hehe!