Happy New Year, Happy No Post

what's new....

new TM at work...and these days handling calls mostly from one part of the US only and it's not as easy as it sounds. You can catch me getting irate these days because of it, something that has never happened before.

We've been at work 4 months now and a lot of people have quit already. It's not really surprising. If I didn't NEED the money, I would have gone down that path too.

I'd rather not think about it now.
Day off. Off day.

Quzzzing before Khan

GRYPHON

You are the gryphon! A
gryphon is a large creature that is half lion
and half eage with immense feathery wings. A
gryphon is very fierce and loyal; however, a
gryphon also symbolizes independence and
freedom. The gryphon is actually multi-facted.
The lion half represents ultimate courage,
honor, and loyalty. The eagle half stands for
independence, freedom, and justice.

Which mythical creature resides in your soul? (11 Results + Pictures)

You Are Internal - Realist - Powerful

You feel your life is controlled internally. If you want something, you make it happen. You don't wait around for things to go your way. You value your independence and don't like others to have control. You are a realist when it comes to luck. You don't attribute everything to luck, but you do know some things are random. You don't beat yourself up when bad things happen to you... But you do your best to try to make your own luck. When it comes to who's in charge, it's you. Life is a kingdom, and you're the grand ruler. You don't care much about what others think. But they better care what you think!

The Three Dimension Luck and Power Test

You Are a Losing Lottery Ticket!

Full of hope and promise. But in the end, a cheap letdown.

What Crappy Christmas Gift Are You?

Sick at being sicker

Physically sick, that is.
Didn't go to work last Tue cos of fever, went to work last night feeling a bit better with only an itchy throat to contend with. Alas,what happens after hours of incessant talking? As expected, the sore throat is now a full-blown dry cough. Luckily it's my day-off today and tomorrow and hopefully I'll have a semblance of a voice back by Sat.

So yes, I have work on Christmas Eve and so does Master F. I'm not sure yet about the 25th, but I'm betting we'll still be working then.

Got a Khan guild blog started for Knife's Edge. This will just mean less Khan related posts here (also less stuff to post about here...hmmm).

Must dash off....having...coughing..fit...

Braindead Lazy Ass...

It's after 4:30am and I'm still awake. Got off work at around 2am, now killing time while Marc finishes his work. No complaints here, I'll get to surf and later play Flyff for a bit cos I'm saving up all my Khan load for tomorrow's part-ay. Yey.

Feeling a bit better about the job. Receiving half of the minimal 13th month pay does help put things in perspective. Good passable QA scores also count, I guess.

Beginning to really get annoyed at where we live now. We all feel (again) a bit overcharged with the electric bill. Someone tell me honestly how much they think should be the estimated overall cost of 2 electric fans, a rice cooker, 2 computers (though only 1 is really used), 3 lightbulbs and the occasional cellphone charging.
Seriously.
oh yes, we d plan to move out soon.

I feel the need for more quizzes before going off to play.

Your Birthdate: May 17

You tend to find yourself lucky - both in business and in life.And while being wealthy is nice, you enjoy sharing your abundance with others.You put your luck to good use: you are very ambitious and goal oriented.Often times, you get over excited and take on more than you can manage. Your strength: Your ability to make your own luck Your weakness: Thinking you can do it all Your power color: Bronze Your power symbol: Half Moon Your power month: August

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

Your Fortune Is

Support bacteria -- it's the only culture some people have!

TheWacky Fortune Cookie Generator

Haven't done quizzes in a while...

You scored as Ginny Weasley. You definitely share your mother's (Molly Weasley) fiery resolve and slowly but surely people are learning to respect you because of it. Ginny Weasley 80% Ron Weasley 75% Sirius Black 75% Albus Dumbledore 70% Harry Potter 65% Severus Snape 65% Remus Lupin 60% Hermione Granger 55% Lord Voldemort 35% Draco Malfoy 35% Your Harry Potter Alter Ego Is...? created with QuizFarm.com

Got this quiz from Apwil...can't have this quiz display properly, but it's 80% Ginny. I don't really know why it's Ginny. Luckily, it's not Hermione, eh, Peloy?

He (P) has accused me of having the "Hermione Granger Syndrome" at some point during our training. No, it doesn't mean I'm doing great at the job. It's hard when you don't even like it that much, just something to pay the bills with. Literally, that's all it has been for the last three paydays.
I guess as long as I'll find some call situations funny, I can still take it.
I can't even bitch about it see? It feels like I'm just whimpering.

Anyhoo, to happier thoughts, I'll definitely be able to watch HarryPot this coming week and also Rent when it shows. Weeeee. With my sked, I'm not sure if I'll be able to watch it with friends though...hmmm. I'll probably "see" Harry this Friday. Any of you guys free by then?

Here's another quiz...which made me say, "I thought so too!"

You Are 23 Years Old

Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe. 13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world. 20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences. 30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more! 40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.

What Age Do You Act?

graduation pizza

Gemki and Master F are now officially call center agents.
After five weeks of training, we got our congratulatory graduation pizza in lieu of a diploma.
Woohoo.
Now endeth the "fun" part that is called training.
The part that will make us empathize with Dilbert begins, for me, on Monday at 11:30pm.

And I gift myself with more-or-less 10hrs of Khan time.
Weeee.
There goes my miniscule training allowance.
You didn't see it?
Me too.
;-Þ

money hunt fever

it's a time to look for decent work of any sort.
oh yea.
uhm.

if anyone needs their PCs fixed and the like...
the resident tech is available.
a single text is all it takes.
and you'll be helping us eat too.
yea.

Doctor Unheimlich has diagnosed me with Gem's Lurgy
Cause:	thinking too hard
Symptoms:	crying, vestigial extra head, frequent tiredness, mildly green stools
Cure:	electroshock therapy
Enter your name, for your own diagnosis:

over-exposed!?

Over-excitement sometimes leads to forgetfulness, but it's making me update my blog.

Normally, when I have access to a dsl net connection, I would just download tons of stuff after checking my email...but since I forgot to bring CD-RWs for this session cos I was mostly preparing for the Isengard event, I'll just update this blog and do some long overdue changes in the links.

Thanks a ton to Ely for the food and drinks and to Peloy for the food and the place and to everybody else for the great company. I really miss you people! (that's my cheesy moment right there.)

Anyhoo, just so you'll appreciate the effort I made (for whatever its worth) in giving you plant names in my links, I'll list down the common names of said plants in order after this. After all, only Bengki will probably recognize them for what they are.

Cat tails (methinks this needs no explanation)
Papyrus (it's the same one as the Egyptians used. I say it's appropriate =D)
Weeping Bottlebrush tree (pssst, favorite mo ba ito dati?)
Water Lotus (sacred ito sa mga egyptians. napakadami niyang gamit, edible as well as medicinal.)
Wedelia (a weedlike plant. grows everywhere with small yellow flowers)
Water Hyacinth (marami nito sa pasig!)
Staghorn fern (it was either this or a plant called penisettum hehe)
Morning Glory (kamag-anak ng patatas at kangkong pero maganda ang kulay ng bulaklak para sa 'kin)
Water Lettuce (also locally known as "kiyapo". yes, dito nanggaling ang pangalan ng quiapo kse marami lumulutang nito dun noon. no joke!)
Night-blooming Water Lily (isa lang siya sa varieties.pero interesting kse sa gabi lang nag-oopen ang bulaklak. pasensiya, this is the most non-obscene way I can think of saying that.)

You all belong to my pond hahahahah!
Next time when I'm better prepared, I might actually post or use images as the links themselves. Maybe.
If you feel like I've inappropriately stuck a plant name at you, feel free to suggest a more suitable representation.

Another drinking song...

Here's a song from the Mighty Mighty BossTones...because I've been enjoying having the weekly dose of alcohol in my system and the company that goes great with it.

Gonna dive into a dive I've dove into before
Gonna haunt a haunt I've haunted Like a million times or more
A familiar joint Where getting drunk's the only point
To frequent this place With any frequency at all

Countin' on a remedy I've counted on before
Goin' with a cure that's never failed me
What you call the disease, I call the remedy
What you're callin' the cause, I call the cure

Gonna sing a song, a song to you A song I've sung before
Belt out a ballad that I've belted out A million times or more
The words I'm gonna scream And getting drunk's the central theme
To the lyrics, if you can Make the lyrics out at all

Countin' on a remedy I've counted on before
Goin' with a cure that's never failed me
What you call the disease, I call the remedy
What you're callin' the cause, I call the cure

Just a devotion to a potion
Now please no applause
A dedication to a medication
A crutch a cure a cause
What I've counted on to pick me up
Has knocked me to my knees
Before I hit the floor once more
I'll call it the disease

Countin' on a remedy I've counted on before
Goin' with a cure that's never failed me
What you call the disease, I call the remedy
What you're callin' the cause, I call the cure I call the cure

non-post of non-worry

three people stuck at home with not much money to call their own but with two computers to play with all day long. having a vacation, having a ball. sleeping at dawn, waking at noon.

don't stick your head out of the sand yet, ostrich.

Still a Khanaddict, in and out of the game

withabow
Originally uploaded by gem.cfg.

I haven't played Khan Online for more than a month and the last time I was online, I just took a lot of screenshots. (I didn't have any load so I couldn't really play with my character, just play around with her.)Forget about her leveling up to 100 before my birthday. That already came and went and she's still 98. sigh.

Ingame, most people called this the "Mulawin" attire. For me she looks more like fly. And our armor before that, we supposedly looked like cockroaches. As Ostara, a fellow micko once said, "Go forth and spread disease!"

Forced blagh

HAirBall Awareness DAy!
Click on ze link below.

http://www.bigshotmedia.com/hairball/index.php

It's not even a month yet so I shouldn't write anything.
But i can post a quiz result.


Kutsinta: A sticky rice cake that is served for
dessert.


Which Filipino Food Are You?
brought to you by Quizilla

Death of a Saint

I am forced to update ze blog while ze eic is taking ze bath.

I haven't updated for two months. Not that I was very busy then or I had no money, etc. Mostly it's just because I'd rather play Khan than update or also I'd rather check up my neopet rather than update. But really it's mostly Khan. When I'm online, there's usually people waiting for me to start playing asap so I don't have the luxury of time to blog. Oh, and I don't have any compunctions in admitting I'm addicted to the darn game.

A month ago I said I wanted to accomplish two mediocre things before my birthday (which is next month): 1. have a job and 2. level up my micko to 100.

The second mediocre goal is almost as good as done since the micko currently stands at level 96.

The first mediocre goal is well...almost there too. I have a job and it keeps me busy and I like what I'm doing and I love the people I'm doing it with. And there's the comics side project whch is also turning out very satisfactorily. But, I guess, until I see and hold in my hand proof of financial gain, I won't consider the 1st mediocre goal a done deed.

oh yeah, the title.....was forced on me. so there.

Death of a Hero

RIP Will Eisner
(March 6, 1917 - January 3, 2005)

Will Eisner, dean of American comic book artists and father of the contemporary graphic novel, died last January 3 of complications resulting from quadruple bypass surgery. The world of comics has lost a breathtaking artist/writer, indeed one of its most gifted (and thoughtful) practitioners, as well as one of its most gracious, articulate, and effective teachers and ambassadors.

Eisner was 87 years old, and had recently completed his latest graphic novel, The Plot, to be published by Norton this coming spring.

(excerpted from the Comix Scholars Mailing list. Posted by Charles Hatfield from
Cal State University, Northridge)

Khan Pictures

Some of those Khan screenshots I promised to post.



From left to right, Peloy's sorcerer, my micko, Marc's assassin and some other sorc we met along the way and joined our party.


Another shot with a very shy knight who joined our party too.


Some more exciting shots next time.

Leftover Pizza & Coffee 4 Breakfast

There's life in Paneled Pinoy yet. And don't let anyone tell you differently.

Hopefully I can make some changes this week.
We've received some very encouraging emails and of course forces us (but mainly me)to get off me ass and do something about the site.

In the meantime, me off again to play Khan.

But before that, Dell made a hell of an interesting story in his site out of innocent pictures.

So who wants to play Khan with me? Promise I'll help you out :Þ

so little...

...time to play Khan.
...time to blog.
...time to fix Paneled Pinoy.
...so little money to do the above three.

Oh, yeah, I need a job before I start accumulating debts left and right because of these nasty habits and addiction of sorts.

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Dell, wala na pala ung "Diana tuna"? Nakakita naman ako ng ad ng "Dolly tuna"!

moving house...(not blog!)

So...m blogging cos m gonna play.

I promised myself that everytime I go online I should write something here since I'll just spend the hours away playing that darn addicting game which, by the way has some serious grammar bugs. hehehe The game is still in beta testing so it's free except that I don't have internet access so I pay for that. Hmm..I'll try if I can post a screenshot of my character sometime soon.

If anyone else with net access at home is interested in playing it, just tell me, we got copies of the installer, of course. Runs fine with dial-up connection. Hell, the game even lags with DSL connection so there's not much difference.

That should be enough about Khan. Let's get to the title already (it feels like I'm scolding myself).

We're moving out of our current uh.. room before this month ends to somewhere closer to Sor Dellia's heart. No, not in Novaliches, still in Sampaloc. (Just read between the lines.)

Three of us (me, Marc and his sister) currently live in a room good for two persons. That situation should be enough to prompt us to move to a better place where everyone would fit, where no one sleeping gets stepped on (literally), etc. If this was the only case, we probably would have waited till next year before leaving...but it never is that simple.

Since we're the only group who has a computer in the house (we actually have two, but we only use one), everytime there's an increase in the consumption of electricity we sort of get the fall and our rent gets jacked up even if there's no change in our usage of the computer or as is the case now, even less usage. At this rate, we'd be paying P500 more than our original rent agreement before the year ends. So there. We move out.

Look at the time 0.o
Me off to play now.

renovating my pond

So by now, this is my new pond.

I know it's a very lazy way of fixing it up but it's the best I can do for now. At least it has links and all and a tagboard.

There's still Paneled Pinoy to fix. And another site I promised a friend I'll help with.
And there's an online game I love playing. It's linked somewhere in this page. It's way better than Ragnarok (sorry, peloy hehehe). But it does consume a lot of money...must get a job soon to support gaming habit. haha.

I'm off to play it now.

needs fixing...

This blog is due for an overhaul, that's why it's in this state for now.
That's about it.