Programming can be the most stressful, hairpulling experience, when you find the solution, the most glorious.

- @rogieking

Just got hired for a new job today so I’d like to thank God for giving me the opportunity to work for a new company soon. Thank you Lord, you’re the best! :)

Congrats to my friend Ivy for getting a new job aswell :)

Just watched the movie, it was really awesome! Worth watching! I would watch it again if I have the chance. There’s action, drama, and comedy. I love the movie! Waited for it after the first movie and it’s even better. Another thing that made the movie awesome is of course Linkin Park’s song “New Divide”. I got the chills when the song was played.

“Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing”

Sakit ng tyan ko. Awww.

It’s true the way I feel, was promised by your face, the sound of your voice, painted on my memories, even if you’re not with me…I’m with you.

If I can’t hold on when I’m stretched so thin, I make the right moves but I’m lost within, I put on my daily facade but then I just end up getting hurt again…

One reason why I hate power outages is because my computer always ends up like this. Sucks isn’t it?

First of all, Happy Independence day Philippines!

Went to Ortigas with Ivy today for a job interview. We know it’s a holiday but since our schedule is today we still went to the company’s office considering the company is a BPO and should be operating 24/7 and when we got there the guy who entertained us said that they don’t have work because it’s a holiday (woot). We’re gonna be re-scheduled next week he said – hopefully. So obviously, our trip going down to Manila is a failure, lmao. It’s not so bad after all, we went to Shangri-La mall and I finally got myself a copy of Bob Ong’s new book “Kapitan Sino”. I’m so happy to have his latest book since he’s my favorite local author. Speaking of Shangri-La, I think it’s the most boring mall ever! All you can see are shops for “classy” people and coffee bars all over the place. Or maybe because I don’t have class in me that’s why I’m not feeling Shangri-La?

We walked for a bit to see more of Shangri-La but we got hungry so we went to the food court. There’s only few stalls to choose from and we fail to find Shakey’s (as per Ivy’s request) so we ended up eating at Wendy’s which is also another FAIL! The cheeseburger I ordered is so lame that I almost want to go to McDonald’s and order a cheeseburger there. The bun is sooo dry and I didn’t even felt the presence of the cheese in my mouth. The crew didn’t even gave me a ketchup. Ivy ordered Caesar’s salad and told me it’s far from what she saw in the picture, lol. After we ate we just decided to go home.

Some pictures of my new book and an extra picture of Ivy’s greeeeeen salad, lol:

Kinda late but I still watched it in the mall with friends yesterday and I’m not really happy. It’s more of a home movie than the ones that’s good to watch on the big screen. It’s not bad but it’s not really the kind I would want watch again.

Looking forward to watch Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen soon! It should be good!

I really wish me and my friends Ivy and Chejae will get hired together in one of the companies we’ve applied into. We work well together (because we’re kickass). And Mike too if there’s a chance. And Eds, that CSS guy, he’s also kickass but he is now doing his tricks for a company far away from home.

“A team that codes together, stays together”. I remember saying this to them back when things started to fall apart. And I know I’m the only one who remembered because no one is listening but myself. lmao.

Today I woke up early and found myself in front of the mirror squeezing a pimple on my chin. Disgusting I know. After that, I turned on the TV and patiently waited for American Idol. While waiting I turned on the computer and sat for a while. Checked email, Twitter, Friendster, and Facebook. Signed in to YM! and wondered why there are few people online. I checked the time it was just 7:2x am so no wonder. Took one Quake cake for breakfast and that’s it. My morning routine is really bad I’m telling you. 8am, American Idol started.

I’m still in front of the computer just listening to the loud TV early in the morning. Checked email and I just got an interview invitation from a company. I’m so happy. Left the computer for a bit and focused watching. After a while I got tired of watching and went back to the computer. Hey, people are starting to pop out in YM! now. I guess it’s already their office hours. Went back to watch TV and Black Eyed Peas are performing. Awesome. After that nothing is interesting so went back to the computer and played a Linkin Park song – New Divide. I’m rocking the house with music and TV. Fixed my blog, updated the Project page and back to TV. Wow, I didn’t know Kiss (the band) is still playing. They got fat though. That means they’re really old. Right, back to the computer.

I think I’m losing the order of events here but whatever I really want to mention when Kara DioGuardi revealed her black bikini I was just..wow! But Katrina aka the Bikini Girl is sexier. LMAO, sorry. But enough of that. Many things have happened I go from computer to TV and back I just didn’t noticed it’s already pass 10 in the morning. American Idol came to an end and Kris Allen won. That sucked so I just turned off the TV.

Many more things happened and today I also learned how to use the map and learn the roads and streets of Makati. I’m an idiot so I really need to study the place because I’ll be going there for an interview. I also chatted with people whom I can ask the proper direction and got some ideas so I won’t be lost. I’ll be with Ivy anyway so if ever I got lost I got someone with me. ROFL. To wrap things up, sorry I know this is just non-sense, today is all about American Idol, the computer, TV, and maps.

What a waste of time writing this post. And such a waste of time reading this. Dumbass me.

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It happened again. The dream (here). I don’t like it. It’s like my dreams are dissing me. Probably I should stop thinking about it. Lol.

Right, I’m going to tell you something about my WP theme and why I like it. It’s called Simplish – It’s a WordPress variant of the Scribbish theme for blogs (definition taken from it’s official site). It’s really that simple and yet it looks awesome. It looks clean and nice. It’s classic! I love the fact that it’s really easy to customize. The codes are easy to follow because it doesn’t use any additional confusing classes and functions so customizing is easy. It supports widgets and it supports gravatars too! Nifty, eh? Well, actually it has more than that which you can read from here.

Choosing Simplish…

I was first looking for a theme suited for me, that is, being a programmer. I wanted to have a simple and clean layout. No fancy decorations and not colorful. I want to get away from the “designer” concept of a blog. I know looks is important but for me it doesn’t matter (in this case). So after seeing Simplish I knew this is the one I’m looking for. It has the right simplicity. However, having said that I wanted a theme that will suit me being a programmer, I never meant to use this blog talking about just programming but also for other things I want to rant. I just want to make myself feel that I’m in my zone.

What can you say?

If you’re a big fan of premium themes and you prefer using colorful ones for WP, then I guess we have a different taste. I myself has taste for design. I know what looks good for me by just looking at it. However in this blog it’s not the design I’m after. I just want to give it a nice and clean look. If one of my colleague sees this he might say:

Why is your blog like that? What happened?

or maybe

I like your old blog better. It looks nicer.

Right. That’s something people might say because I’ve used the fancy ones before. But not this time. I’m sticking to this until I can find a better one which is also simple. But I doubt I can see simpler and as elegant as this.

Update: 02.20.2010 – I just made this theme a slightly colorful one so I’m taking back whatever I’ve said here that I don’t want this colorful :p