Neko

my digicam is heating up.. ran out of pre-paid for sms (much more, calls!)… my yahoo is not opening.. ahhh…

i went to task manager but it went “not responding” when clicked “networking”. then re-opened another one and closed
explorer in “processing”.. which removed all the overlapping windows but think its a bad idea.. coz everything’s gone now.

all icons on my desktop are gone. even the taskbar is missing.. i can only see my wallpaper and open only mozilla (coz thats the last thing opened when everything crashed)

there is no blue sceen… nor any warning.

HELP! should i just cold boot? will it destroy my digicam (which is now plugged thru usb) or worse (!) destroy my HDD!!!??

..all i wanted was to upload a pic from my digicam 8( help.. anyone?? Babe!!! sniiffff….

It’s Up! The logo finalists for BlogPhotoHut are posted. And yours truly made the cut. woeha! So please take a minute to vote for the best logo…

BlogExplosions members enter here

(not that im saying you go and vote for mine tho.. but hey, thanks if you do! the 50$ will be spent in giving off ice cream to you all! hehe..)

For non-members, please register here and vote.

See my entry details at experimental logo

Current Music: Stereolab - les bons bons des raisons
                    

   

Vous vous presentar s’il vu plaît?

..well dunno if that made sense at all! haha! It was my answer to the part where we write a sentence in french:

    Ask your friend to introduce the person with her

Took the French test last saturday.. and i was like this the whole time or more than half the time -> and the rest of the time, like this -> with about a couple or two dull moments staring into empty space, pretending to think, like this ->

Although, i have some Positive points too. Here are some easy examples:

Repondez aux questions (15 items) └> Comment vous appeles-vous? └> Quelle est votre profession?

= Je m’appelle Velvet Velvetzki (erm, real name withheld. lol) = Je suis concepteur indépendant de site web (HA! Yeah right..)

Negation (10 items) └> Vous êtes avocat └> Elle aime le chocolat

= Vous n’tes pas avocat = Elle n’aime pas le chocolat

The hard parts are (1) fill in the blanks of people engaged in conversations, (2) write the french question that fits, And (3) construct a pharagraph about a person based on the basic details given.

HA! After the test, the gal beside me told me if she made a re-take with the same questions, she doubts if she’ll be able to answer them still. lol.. well i agree that it is indeed not what we all expected. And our prof didnt really concentrate on talking about sentence construction (which she should have, since the test were mostly of that). If i get a “take2″ well, im pretty sure i am not alone. lol.

But hey, fairly worthwhile to learn a bit. At least if i go to some french sites now, i can get what they meant, but not really translate in full tho. Well, what do you expect with mere 40 hours training?

And yeah, as far as i know, its not the test that counts but the process of learning. Fail or not.. it was all fun.

And sheesh.. have no choice now but wait for the results.. Wish me luck!

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note: photo above i took just after the test. well, did some picassa editing there. hehe.. but the original pic is at my flickr. (please see sidebar)

About the song.. gonna upload it in a while. maybe after midnight here (when the free hours start. uploads take too long) And dont worry, song is not all french. Stereolab is such a great band… mmm.. right, Moogie? Please visit their Official Website.

Current Music: The Essence -
         Everything (3.91MB) •♪ Like Christ (5.2MB)
                    

FAITH: I want to hold on TEARS: I cry over you somehow LOVE: Hand in hand in the park HATE: Oh I wish I could sleep for once, before the night comes -Everything, The Essence

Today’s featured artist is The Essence, a fairly unknown and easily misunderstood band. Their singer, Hans Diener, has a voice which would even make Robert Smith stop and wonder who was singing their songs. but nonetheless, they should not be regarded as a shadow of The Cure.

Ok, ok.. some say “Like Christ” inevitably calls to mind the Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me song “One More Time,” but hey.. hmm..

“Diener’s vocals start to sound a little broader in terms of potential influence, reaching for a sort of clean ’80s Euro sound, at least in the moody continent of dreams where everything is always tastefully gloomy and filmed in black and white for videos. But then he’ll hit a higher note here and there and one can just realize Robert Smith is about to phone asking for copyright damages” - Ned Raggett (All Music Guide)

LOL! Well, just click on the two songs above for free download. And you be the judge. Just a quicky post for today.. i just love them so much my player can’t get over running on repeat mode. And hey, great lyrics too!

Read the lyrics of Everything from the album Nothing Lasts Forever, for Like Christ tho, sorry have no time to search for it.. Is it a dark love song using the name of Christ in vain? nhe.. so just shadow dance with me..

..while i go back and study for my French test tomorrow. Ok, this post is just to run away from another velvet anxiety syndrome.. before it strikes again. Voyez-vous plus tard!

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note: Why 2 mp3s for download you say? Get the two songs already before i change my mind. };-}

(hehe for the title)

Oh.. im almost always late.. for everything! tssk..

My illo is almost always late, i dont even submit double entries anymore (used to do that here); my NaNo is going almost nowhere, and im always waking up late recently.

Just this morning, i got a notice from BlogExplosion about the entries for a new logo contest. Last time i tried to make one tho, for BE’s HelpMeBlog.com Logo i came in late.. But this time.. woeha! i made the cut.

So here’s it. It’s for the free photo hosting site for BlogExplosion Members.

Oh but the thing is.. after some hours i decided the eyes should look the other way…

Now, screenshot reveals how it looks like when applied to the site:

And as usual, all these made thru MS Paint and some help with MS Word.

Winners will recieve $50 thru paypal.. hehe.. i go for the credits for simply submitting. lol.. i dont have paypal! (yeah i know.. so primitive of me) Last time i recieved 100 credits even if it was a late entry. but i do hope i get chosen for the finals.

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note: Go to the BE Forum - where other entries are posted as well.
Not a member? To be able to view the forum and use the free photo hosting, just sign in here. Reposted at Outside the Box

ohhh. hehe btw.. noticed the banner?

.. in the name of chaos, outrage and the holy pimp.

My Outrageous Name is:

Ivana B. Laid

My Pimp Name Is…

Suede Shagswell

oh and yeah, i even tried yours.. *.*

Your Pimp Name Is…

Master Pimp Glider

gee, don’t we just look fine together or what!?!

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note: ok, hope that made You smile, Moogie One. I wont be late tonight! promise! mobile phone is still missing tho *snifffff

Current Music: The Lotus Eaters - German Girl 5.92 MB
                    

   

WP Dashboard reported a new link to this blog, and so did Technorati..

“It looked really merry and multicolored, but hey her blog is nice..” - jelena

She was referring to this blog, actually. And thanks to BabelFish for the bit chappy but understandable translation of her post.

  • And after that horrible news yesterday,
  • my NaNo that is going nowhere,
  ☻ the new illo i posted at twisted,
  • the drop of temp here to around 15-20 degrees now (which signals christmas is nearing),
  • a fresh Sunday Morning,
  ☻ re-reading my recent philosophical converstaion with someone *.*
  ☻ and gazing at his moogie pics,
  ☻ the recovery of my relative from ICU
  • and the coming monday..

made me wanna forget all tensions and lay back on my new comp chair (lol) and listen to my Lotus Eaters cd.. hmm.. .. ..

btw, if you were to pic up a novel to read, without knowing what its about, which would be more intersting for a title:

√ Race to Twilight
√ In the Gold Dust Rush
√ Burning the Horizon

…just a li’l thing i can’t get over for my NaNo.. so comments are encouraged here.

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note: Song above available for FREE Download. Read more of The Lotus Eaters.

.. that it’s about time i learned you always lose to blogs with baby pics on BE-BOTB. ha! yeah.. but have to admit, those are lovely baby pics.

But opening up a page with baby pics aren’t always fun. esp if those pics depics the horrendous monstrosity of the US military. This just makes me sick to the bones. (note that i am too striken to post those pics here)

Now the SICK NEWS:

i first came across this blog, Chemical Bush, White Phosporus (A warning tho, before viewing, this is not for the weak of heart.) which both agitated and weakened me.

Searched on the news, how the coined “White Death” befell to poor Fallujah a year ago. How U.S. warplanes illegally dropped white phosphorus incendiary bombs on civilian populations, burning the skin off Iraqi victims. Resulting to a sickening odor of rotting flesh and sight of dead dilapidated bodies. A massacre without no choosing, be it places where innocent children live, which they admit of knowing. Between 4,000 and 6,000, mostly civilians, were killed. In addition to 36,000 of the city’s 50,000 homes were destroyed, along with 60 schools and 65 mosques and shrines.

And how such a sick excuse that they admit on using phosphorus but denies using chemical warfare!?!!!! And you let these people rule over you?! Sick Sick World!

Who would not abhor these people? And the mockery that “the leadership responsible for the wasting of Fallujah has yet to be held accountable”? We all know who he is they are.

You cannot say you are going to invade a country to find chemical weapons and prevent them being used, and then admit that you have used chemical weapons yourself. - Doug Henderson, the former Armed Forces Minister

(add that they found none but still continue to invade)

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Related Articles:
  Wasting Fallujah
  BBC: White phosphorus: weapon on the edge

   

can’t sleep, can’t write more for NaNo, can’t decide if i change my topic or not; can’t update my templates, wanted 3 columns for twisted as well; can’t apply my own timezone to this blog, brr.. can’t use my lava lamp; can’t make any more illos; can’t finish my email to dad; can’t write in the dark; can’t sleep in the dark; can’t sleep with the lights on; can’t light the inscence; can’t open my radio too loud; can’t open my radio at all! gees.. can’t sms, can’t buy pre-paid for my mobile phone, it’s 4 am, no stores yet; can’t listen to iPod, i dont have one; can’t see the moon, my window view is limited due to tree branches blocking; can’t get my boss to stop bugging me about acrobat reader, can’t produce any crack, no, not that kind of crack! tssk.. can’t light a cig, i’ve been clean in hmm.. almost 2 months (woeha!).. can’t get my Altec speakers to work properly, too much use of headphones i guess, lol! can’t download anymore, my pc lacks the space, which reminds me i can’t install photoshop cs coz of that; can’t study for my french exams next week, my sis is dropping from our class btw; can’t watch The Cure live, i doubt if they will ever hava concert here; can’t earn more than 2 dollars a day in google adsense; can’t make any sense out of this post. well anyway, i have flickr now.. yeah!

ok now time to answer some comments..
oh lol! think i scared ‘em off..

Current Music: Pale Saints - A Revelation.wma (6.44 MB)
                    

   

Have you ever looked back on how you write years ago? Or question yourself.. did you ever write at all?

Cleaning up some folders on my now 4GB left free space, i came across some junk i almost deleted. Woah! MS Word Document created: 1997, ‘98 ‘99. !! NO wonder i have no free space.. lol. But dont get me wrong, my PC is not almost a decade old! tssk.

These files i copied from my former pc that i copied from my family’s pc (back when i was still a student), that got lost in diskettes and somehow ended up here. Strange, i still have a copy of my 50 paged paper on “Alternative Music in 1997″ and my thesis on my chosen philosopher ~ “‘The Final Possibility of Man’ by Martin Heidegger” saved on a microfloppy. Oh the famous line.. ich bin mit meinem Dasein zufrieden…

On my PC, the oldest two documents revealed my attempts of writing short stories in fiction. And i just cant make upbeat nor happy ones. One was titled “One Star” (about a separation of two friends who grew up together) the other was “The Stranger” (about a girl in a funeral who saw a strange man who seemed to stalk her). if i remember correctly tho, the latter wasnt given justice from the professor’s grade. My classmates who read it claimed it gave them goosebumps, but sadly i didnt get the grade they expected. turned out my english prof wasnt into dark themes, for she gave the highest score to a story about a cook (!?) oh well..

And so the oldest living document i created that is saved on my present PC is a 700-word critique on an essay about “Filipino Heroism”. [Take note that this was a requirement in school] I wrote it in my native tongue tho, complete with year level and section from my college school. Let me give an excerpt i wrote somewhere in the middle:

Para sa akin, ang kamatayan ng isang rebeldeng komonista, lalo na sa isang sagupaan laban sa mga sundalong gobyerno, ay isang kabayanihan. Dahil, matatag ang kanilang paniniwala sa ediyang sinabi ni Mao Tse-Tung na, sila ay mga tauhang susupil sa gera, hindi nila gusto ang gera, ngunit ang gera ay masusupil lamang sa pamamagitan ng gera. At para mawala ang baril, kailangang damputin ang baril.

And my parting shot was…

Ngunit sinabi sa artikulong kailangan nating maging mapagtimpi(?) upang lakas-loob nating maialay ang ating sarili para sa bayan. Oo’t kailangan natin ng lakas ng loob, pati nga determinasyon. Pero, kung magtitimpi nalang tayo, maghihinay-hinay, lalo pa nating pinatatagal. Lalo pang maraming mahihirapan. Lalong maraming buhay ang maibubuwis. Kailangang magkaisa ang mga mamamayan para matigil ang panloloko’t pagsasamantala sa ating bansa. Kailangang mamulat na tayo sa katotohanan. Kailangang itatag ang bandera ng ating pagiging Pilipino. Huwag tayong paloloko! …Ito ay para sa Pilipinas na nababalot ng maling sistema: “ang pumatay ng dahil Sayo!”

(this is now where i should cast my bolo upon a rock) - lol!

yeah yeah.. even i was shocked. so.. i used to think this way; used to be a radical. i wonder where those years of mine have gone…

Oh well ..let me get back on cleaning my hard disk, before it hangs again.

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today’s challenge:
im just curious What were your thoughts back in 1997ish? (anyone can leave a comment or post about it. just dont forget to give us the link.)

And for those who cannot read the quoted lines tho.. im sorry im just avoiding being mistaken for a commie. lolol!

music note: sorry file is in wma, my mp3 converter isnt working at the moment. But as always, song above available for FREE download, no expiration. Read more about Pale Saints, and their beautifully crafted ethereal, dreamy music.