We had choir practice for the Christmas cantata today, and yay, we finally finished the choreography for the whole piece! Now we just have to get down to memorizing it.

After getting home and performing my daily ablutions, I committed myself to some serious quiet time with the Lord, which I haven’t really done in earnest for a while. I admit, it’s one of those days when God doesn’t really feel particularly close — all the more reason, then, to get down on my knees and talk to him. So I got down on my knees and prayed, then settled into bed with my bible and read the whole gospel of Luke, just to refresh myself a bit on Jesus’ life. Feel close to him or not, I believe faithful prayer will truly work wonders.

And now, here I am, blogging while I moderate Realm of Thought in another window. I should get to sleep. G’night.

Mobile [ 11/25/2000 1.14 pm ] I am blogging from my cellphone while I wait in Jollibee. (Actually, I texted an abbreviated outline message to my email address, and now I’m copying, pasting and filling out the abbreviations in Blogger.) Today is not a fastfood day. For lunch in Alabang Town Center, I decided to try the newly reopened Carl’s Jr, then quickly left upon seeing the exorbitant prices: as much as P125 for a simple sandwich meal!

So I went to Subway, but an induhvidual in the line wanted to know if he could have roast beef and turkey breast in the same sandwich without having to pay extra. Then, when the attendant had put it on the bread already, he changed his mind and decided he wanted a different kind of bread. I left.

So here I am in Jollibee. And, stupid me, I order a Cheezy Bacon Mushroom burger, forgetting that you almost always have to wait for a Cheezy Bacon Mushroom in Jollibee. Now I’m waiting. That and the fries. Number 45. Murphy’s Law seems to be having some sort of field day.

FB4F didn’t win the Web Award. But that’s okay, I wasn’t expecting to win. I praise God that I even reached the Finalists, which is a miracle all in itself. Well, now the awards are over, I can go about transitioning it to the more serious urban legends site over the weekend. I’m rather glad I didn’t bother going to the awards anymore. Choir practice was a lot more fulfilling.

If I had won, my friend Mike would have been my proxy to accept the award. Just so my wit isn’t wasted, here’s the proxy acceptance speech I sent him:

I’m sorry I couldn’t make it to the web awards tonight. I’m currently in the hospital after waking up this morning in the bathtub, with a tube sticking out of my abdomen and a kidney missing. The last thing I remembered before that, I was in the mall, where I fell through a trapdoor and got attacked by a mutant snake monster. Even now, I’m still not feeling well. Must be the Zagu I was drinking at the time.

While I’m recovering, it seems I’ve won the award, which I find almost as amazing as any urban legend I’ve ever heard. Thanks go out first and foremost to Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior, who constantly inspires me in my online quest for truth. I am also very grateful to Pinoyexchange.com, for providing an excellent venue for me to ask about — and share — all the stories I hear, and also allowing me to shamelessly spam the forum with FB4F plugs. Thanks also to the dozens of people who’ve sent me all sorts of email forwards, hoaxes, and legends, both true and false, confirmed and unconfirmed.

Be vigilant! And watch out for mutant fried chicken and earthworms in your burgers. God bless you.

I hate Impact’s service as a dialup ISP. It is slow. Ssssllloooowwww. Sometimes I just get so exasperated that I hang up and use a prepaid internet card instead, which is much, much faster. And when a prepaid ISP is faster than a subscriber account, you know something’s wrong.

I know I’m getting it as a free privilege, so I can’t claim I’m not getting my money’s worth. But still, when the internet moves at speeds like this, you can’t help but get cross. 0.04 KB/sec? Incredible. And I know it’s not just the regular line noise.

The Philippine Web Awards is on Friday, and I got free tickets since FB4F is a finalist. But we have choir practice for our upcoming Christmas cantata at the same time, plus elections for the new deacons and elders of our church. I was not at peace over that, so I did a little praying tonight, and God has convicted me to go to church instead and seek his glory, not my own.

So I shall go to church. If FB4F does win an award — which I seriously doubt, considering the competition — then praise God for a miracle! But it’s far more important to devote this time to activity which will help win souls to Christ, especially since the Christmas cantata is so close already, but we still don’t have the music and choreography down pat.

I will give my tickets to the PEX moderators, since they need it. Pinoyexchange, I think, is definitely going to get something.