82% are more weird,
8% are just as weird, and
10% are more normal than you!
I think I'm happy. How about you? Are you happy with your WQ?
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
Not weird enough
I think I'm happy. How about you? Are you happy with your WQ?
New year
It seems that I've been neglecting my blog. Perhaps I should trick myself into thinking that this is a private log, that no one else will be reading this. Not that anybody else is reading my blog. I think nobody else but me knows of its existence. I should learn how to think aloud on this blog.
Tuesday, September 7, 2004
Bigger rewards program
The SAP Community website is revamping their Member Rewards Program. The gist of the new rules is that it will be harder to get the reward items, but the reward items will be more expensive than what were available before. Geez, I don't know. Hopefully they won't be sending defective items like the 4-in-1 Clock I got as my first reward item. An expensive defective item is still defective. *lol*
The Village
I saw The Village last Saturday. It's not bad, but I felt short-changed. The surprise at the end is not satisfying enough. And the fact that the book that was reported to have been plagiarized by Shyamalan, Running Out Of Time, has a better premise isn't helping. I won't recommend it to horror film afficionados. The score by James Newton Howard is very engaging, though. And Bryce Dallas Howard (Ivy Walker) is a very good newcomer actress. I'm sure just like Rachel Hurd-Wood (Wendy in Peter Pan 2003) Bryce may also want to be a marine biologist some day. *corny joke*
The bad comes with the good
The good news is that my GPRS service from Globe is back (since Sunday, September 5). The bad news is that I just found out today that instead of charging me 15 centavos per kilobyte, I'm actually being charged 49 centavos per kilobyte. I'm going to do some further tests to see if the charging is consistently off the mark. This isn't right. I'm still seriously considering changing operators.
Monday, August 30, 2004
Colin, Lord of the Race (wannabe)
In some previous post I said that Charla/Mirna is my least favorite team among the teams competing in The Amazing Race 5. But I shouldn't have spoken too soon. Last week, it became apparent that Colin/Christie is my least favorite team. Colin is an arrogant and pompous ass. While Christie is well an inch short of Colin's slave.
In episode eight, Colin tried to stiff the cab driver by paying him only 50% of what is agreed upon. He blurted, or actually shouted out some incredulous reasons surely for everyone within a mile raidius to hear that he can get away with paying only 50% of the fare if he so wants. Thankfully, the cabbie called a police officer to talk some sense out of Colin. But of course Colin won't go down silently. He ended up in the police headquarters, and there he told another version of the story to the station chief. Thankfully, the chief didn't believe him. The taxi driver decided to file criminal charges against him and so in the end the pompous ass was forced to give what is due to the cabbie. Of course, without the camera crew he would have been in jail for at least maybe enough time for them to miss their chartered flight to Kenya, or worse beaten by the driver and the police officers.
And to make it even worse, Christie was there all along trying to convince Colin to just give the driver the complete fare. And of course, Colin was blurting out some random comments like how Christie was making the situation worse by convincing him to pay up. In the later part of the episode Christie was actually the one who apologized to Colin. This with the effect of a resounding uproar of some women in alt.tv.amazing-race newsgroup.
I take my words last week back. Colin/Christie is my least favorite team. I hope they never made it to the two Philippine legs of TAR5. Or even if they did, I hope the locals (my fellow Filipinos) put him where he rightfully belongs. (This race was supposedly recorded from January to February 2004.)
In episode eight, Colin tried to stiff the cab driver by paying him only 50% of what is agreed upon. He blurted, or actually shouted out some incredulous reasons surely for everyone within a mile raidius to hear that he can get away with paying only 50% of the fare if he so wants. Thankfully, the cabbie called a police officer to talk some sense out of Colin. But of course Colin won't go down silently. He ended up in the police headquarters, and there he told another version of the story to the station chief. Thankfully, the chief didn't believe him. The taxi driver decided to file criminal charges against him and so in the end the pompous ass was forced to give what is due to the cabbie. Of course, without the camera crew he would have been in jail for at least maybe enough time for them to miss their chartered flight to Kenya, or worse beaten by the driver and the police officers.
And to make it even worse, Christie was there all along trying to convince Colin to just give the driver the complete fare. And of course, Colin was blurting out some random comments like how Christie was making the situation worse by convincing him to pay up. In the later part of the episode Christie was actually the one who apologized to Colin. This with the effect of a resounding uproar of some women in alt.tv.amazing-race newsgroup.
I take my words last week back. Colin/Christie is my least favorite team. I hope they never made it to the two Philippine legs of TAR5. Or even if they did, I hope the locals (my fellow Filipinos) put him where he rightfully belongs. (This race was supposedly recorded from January to February 2004.)
Globe sucks, big time!
Last August 21, I ran out of (Globe) prepaid credits. Because of this, I can no longer use WAP over GPRS. So I quickly reloaded my account. But up to this day, I still can't access my favorite wap sites. And I'm getting frustrated already. I've already called their customer service hotline but apparently there is no available technical person to talk to, the one who knows how to solve my problem.
Because of this, I am now seriously considering switching to another carrier, SMART. A lot of people told me that Smart is so much better in terms of services. I would have switched long ago but my main apprehension about Smart is that it has many subscribers (it's the biggest wireless network carrier in the Philippines with almost double the number of subscribers compared to Globe). But as it is I can no longer stand Globe's lack of customer service. Within this week I plan to buy me a new Smart SIM kit. I'm going to try it for maybe a month and see if I like it better than Globe. And by that I mean, better GPRS service. I don't have a very expensive phone, but despite this I still feel that my phone's features are wasted on Globe. Of course Smart is not the only alternative. I'm going to also try Sun Cellular one of these days. I think it's better to seriously try all the alternatives before switching completely from Globe. Loyalty is not rewarded when you're on prepaid so I might as well switch to the better carrier. Not much to lose, better service to gain.
Because of this, I am now seriously considering switching to another carrier, SMART. A lot of people told me that Smart is so much better in terms of services. I would have switched long ago but my main apprehension about Smart is that it has many subscribers (it's the biggest wireless network carrier in the Philippines with almost double the number of subscribers compared to Globe). But as it is I can no longer stand Globe's lack of customer service. Within this week I plan to buy me a new Smart SIM kit. I'm going to try it for maybe a month and see if I like it better than Globe. And by that I mean, better GPRS service. I don't have a very expensive phone, but despite this I still feel that my phone's features are wasted on Globe. Of course Smart is not the only alternative. I'm going to also try Sun Cellular one of these days. I think it's better to seriously try all the alternatives before switching completely from Globe. Loyalty is not rewarded when you're on prepaid so I might as well switch to the better carrier. Not much to lose, better service to gain.
Thursday, August 19, 2004
So long... Charla & Mirna
My least favorite team of The Amazing Race 5 is now gone. I'll surely miss them. But only because I enjoy watching them and my other least favorite team of Colin & Christie fighting each other. And my favorite team Chip & Kim finished first in this leg of the race. Yey! I hope they make ithere in the Philippines and eventually win this season's race.
Wednesday, August 18, 2004
The Amazing Race 5
The Amazing Race is back! It is my favorite reality show. What's more it will have two pit stops here in my country, the Philippines. I am very excited to know which teams will make it here since according to what I have read, the pit stops here will be the last two before the final two or three teams go back to the US for the finish line. My two early favorites, Jim & Marsha and Marshall & Lance, have already been eliminated. So, now my favorites are Chip & Kim followed closely by Brandon & Nicole. My least favorite team is that of Charla & Mirna mostly because of Mirna. My second least favorite would be Colin & Christie mostly because of Colin. [posted via mobile phone]
Thursday, July 1, 2004
Defective 4-in-1 Calendar
I received my first reward from garnering 1000 points in the SAP Community Forums last week. It's a pretty cool gadget. It has four functions. You turn it to one side it becomes a calendar, showing date, time, and day of the week, with alarm function. Turn it another side and it displays the temperature. Turn it again and it becomes a timer. Turn it yet again and it becomes a countdown timer. Pretty cool indeed, except that it's missing an LCD line so that 8 is displayed as E, 0 as C, etc.
This month's reward is a tumbler. I guess it's a much better reward than a high-tech but defective gizmo so I am now working on another 1000 points to get it.
This month's reward is a tumbler. I guess it's a much better reward than a high-tech but defective gizmo so I am now working on another 1000 points to get it.
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