Milo owes me 10 pesos.

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Milo owes me 10 pesos. Last night I tried to buy a cup of cold Milo from the Milo/Nestea vendo-machine outside my apartment, and it promptly pissed the chocolate milk into the beverage slot — sans cup. 10 pesos literally down the drain. (For you Americans, 10 pesos is a few cents short of a quarter. Don’t knock it. That can buy two cups of rice.)

The Estrada Impeachment Trial begins

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The Estrada Impeachment Trial has begun! Former Chief Justice Andres Narvasa just opened his defense of the president with a comparison to Julius Caesar. *GAG* Hey, but Caesar was stabbed to death by… by… the Senate! Hey, that wouldn’t be so bad. Of course, Erap’s so padded he wouldn’t feel a thing. Thunk, thunk.

I sincerely hope he gets impeached with a vengeance. He’s deceived, damaged, and ravaged this poor country far more than enough. How sorry I feel for those poor farmers in their fields and the squatters along the rails who still cry out their support for him from their poverty, completely blind to the fact that every second Erap is in power adds more and more to their squalor, as he pillages public funds and destroys the local economy. (Except for the recipients of his “free housing” — sheer largesse for a tiny minority; desperate attempts to salvage his dying approval rating.)

IMPEACH ERAP!

Politics aside, ALXBook is still down. Not good. It’s been significantly more than just “a day.” One more day, and I start looking for a new guestbook.

Para!

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[12/6/2000 7:04 pm] Mobile Funny, but whenever I ride the MRT, I have to suppress the urge to pass my fare forward and yell “PARA!” at the train station.

Dreamweaver rollover javascript

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You know something? I don’t like Dreamweaver’s rollover script too much, because it doesn’t really preload. Whenever I load a webpage with rollovers, and I think it’s finished loading, then I roll over an image and the IE5 Windows icon starts revolving again, I know it’s Dreamweaver. Better to write your own javascript rollovers. If only I knew how; I still haven’t gotten down to self-studying all those technologies I want to learn. Not that I need javascript rollovers right now; in the interests of conserving bandwidth, I’m using CSS.

Gingerbread Latte

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Starbucks fans, I do NOT recommend the Gingerbread Latte. Tried one yesterday, and it did not taste good. (In my hubris, I got a tall, confident that I would like it. Next time I try something new, I will get a short.) On the other hand, I’ve never tried real gingerbread before, so I’ve never developed a taste for it.

Helped fix DZFE’s computer today; installed a new modem. What a trial. I’ve found that in all my experiences installing hardware, internal modems on Win95 systems are the most troublesome. Plugging them into the motherboard PCI slot is easy, but when it comes time to install the drivers and assign IRQ and port settings, the tribulation is well nigh unbearable. But I got it done, praise God.

Philippine Madrigal Singers

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[12/5/2000 8:38 pm] Mobile Watching the Philippine Madrigal Singers right now at St. Andrews Church in BelAir. They’re really nice. Right now, it’s “Lead Me Lord,” after a couple of Christmas carols: “Adeste Fideles” and “Oh Little Town of Bethlehem.” Aahhh, full chords and perfect pitch.

This is a tribute to bring awareness to Punla, a home for mentally handicapped children. They’re mostly children with Downs or cerebral palsy. They’re sitting right behind me now. Tiff’s up on the altar, at the pulpit, emceeing the event. She looks pretty up there. = )

Now the Mads are singing “Heal the World.” Yup, the Michael Jackson one. Oh, well, this is a church crowd, after all, not classical music connosieurs … Well, now it’s a multi-handicapped girl named Aileen. This is touching. She’s a dwarf, hunchbacked and heavily deformed, and blind. But she’s up there on stage, singing “The Greatest Love of All,” with a thin, slightly wavering, yet confident and strong voice. She was trained by a woman whose mission in life is to give the gift of music to handicapped Filipino children. And the Madrigal Singers are accompanying. Like angels from heaven.

Standing ovation. Now the special children will all sing. I should put my phone away; low battery, and it’s bad etiquette to be texting or sending email in church at a performance. It’s very heartwarming to see these volunteers giving their lives to help these poor children.

G.A.R.B.

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I know this page looks horrible in Netscape 4.x. I’m sorry to say that I’m not going to do anything about it. If you’re using Netscape 4.x, do yourself a favor and get a better browser.

I just tried viewing in Opera; look’n good! I’m blogging now from Opera, too. It’s okay, nice and compliant, with a few kinks here and there. I still like IE5 best.

Fight Club and Stu Weber

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Interesting, how Russ just watched Fight Club a few days ago, just when someone starts a Fight Club thread on Pinoyexchange.

I like what “Theophilus” put there: “If being a man is about nothing but aggresion, hatred, and anger, then count me out. I know what a real man is, and aggression, hatred, and anger are qualities of weakness, not strength. However, an excellent book I read by Stu Weber does acknowledge that a man is a warrior; a fierce contender for what is true and upright. In that sense, yes, a man is a fighter. But far more than just a lost man fighting to free himself of his material trappings in the middle of a nihilistic film.”

I wonder who “Theophilus” could be? ;) Sounds like he’s been reading Four Pillars of a Man’s Heart. = )

Migraine

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Yesterday I had the worst migraine I’ve had in over a year. That’s all I can say for now. You reading this, Raffy? Remember that headache I got which was so bad I skipped work the next day to see a neurologist? I’m going to go see one again. Wait another day.