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Thanks Pia!

Pia, my host at So-phobic was kind enough to set up a database for me. She YMed me today. Yay! That means I can start trying out WP on her server! Yay! I’m keeping this blogthing account though. I’m still thinking of how to organize my pages, but I’m definitely keeping this account. Thanks Pia!

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1,000 Things by Sofia and Benz

I’m addicted to Sofia and Benz’s version of Jason Mraz’s 1,000 Things. Sofia and Benz are a couple who play 1 character on pRO, Xian-Chino. Xian is a full support priest and a member of the Shadowlords. I downloaded the MP3 of their version of 1,000 Things and I’ve been playing it over and over in Winamp. I still cant get the words right though, LOL. They have a beautiful version of Hands to Heaven - very superior compared to that revolting version of that Christian Bautista dude. Check out the music of Sofia and Benz.

1,000 Things by Jason Mraz

well a lover might comfort fool to say
while you wait say
how do you do

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Keeping Silent

People usually laugh in my face or react in disbelief when I tell them I’m really an introvert. They give me this asa ka pa (You wish!) expression. My classmates think I’m an extrovert because I speak out in class. I’m not afraid to address the teacher, or to voice out an opinion and/or complaint.

See, that’s the thing. They mistake my being opinionated (for some, translated to my biatchiness) for being social. So when I’m silent, people notice and assume that something is wrong. Most of the time they’re right. But of course I don’t tell them that. I used to make a lot of noise whenever something was awry. You do something I don’t like, you’re sure to hear from me. Or if I think the timing isn’t right for a confrontation, I write it down on my Harry Potter Diary.

Lately though, I’ve been having trouble expressing myself. I don’t remember how or when it started, but know, if something is amiss, I retreat and suddenly grow silent. I don’t think it’s escapism because eventhough I’m silent, I’m still thinking about it. Sometimes, when I’m really pissed off, I seethe with anger. Yes, it’s a bad habit, something not good for my psyche. I don’t know why I keep it in, why I don’t (can’t?) talk about it. Maybe because it’s exhausting to talk about it? Some things just happen repeatedly and I feel as if I’ve talked enough about this or that subject - love, school, parents, finances, assholes I meet everyday, you name it! So I just retreat into my shell and keep silent.

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Fleeting Thoughts

My hands can’t keep up with my brain. I think of a half-dozen things I want to write about, but by the time I finish posting about the first topic/idea, Ive forgotten the rest. Resolution: write keywords about the stuff I want to write and then look up the notes later on for blog encoding. I’ve thought of 4 ways to keep track of my thoughts.

1. My Palm. Use the Notepad app (or whatever it’s called) to write down keywords.
2. Post-Its. I have the smallest-sized one in my pencil case. It’s supposed to be for school announcements and SEPROJ1 (Software Projects 1) notes. Now it will serve another purpose.
3. The Press It plugin for WordPress. For interesting sites I’m browsing which I may want to write about. I can just save as draft.
4. My Webnotes. Check out this nifty site! I’ll always have it open in Firefox for quick note-taking. I can alt-tab when playing RO, or just add notes when I’m doing school stuff.

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While I was link-hopping, I came across someone who encoded the contents of all her past diaries unto a web journal. I will edit this post later to include the link of that site. Gomen gomen. It’s somewhere in my Bookmarks but I’m a bit too tired to start searching for it. Anyway, her entries went back to 2nd grade! It got me thinking about all the diaries hidden in my secret trunk at home. Maybe I should embark on a similar project? Okay, maybe I won’t include all of my entries. OMFG, I remember writing everyday in those diaries, and about mundane things too! Most of the 1st grade entries were about seeing my crush in school and wanting to be one of the sisters in Little Women. It would certainly be time-consuming, but a fun and worthwhile project altogether I think. Maybe I’ll do it this summer.

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I feel a bit better now. Why did I get peeved anyway?

Well, looking back, it was for a petty reason really. Do you ever get this feeling of being left behind? It’s like when people go somewhere, do something, or experience something and don’t tell you about it before they go there/do that something/experience that something. Or when you have this great idea and you share it with people, but before you can implement it, they already have - without you! I just felt like going to Geffen with the merchies was my idea, you know? And then suddenly, just because he had an elemental weapon, he’s in Geffen and I’m still at the sucky Goblin map. It’s sort of the same feeling when you get picked for a team last during gradeschool games like patintero or that entrance game I used to play. :sigh:

And then I got more peeved when I thought about the petty reason why I was pissed off in the first place. Argh! I’m going to bed.

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This is all Mae’s fault. She should never have mentioned that she was eating Chicken Parmigiana in the YM conference. Now I feel as if I will never be happy again if I don’t eat Chicken Parmigiana for (a late) lunch. I sent Nix to Enterprise, to that gawd-awful pasta place that had half-decent Chicken Parmigiana. Half decent because the chicken-with-cheese was really good, but the pasta kinda sucks a bit. It’s really the cheesy+tomatoey chicken I’m after. Okay, so Nix says that the Enterprise pasta place doesn’t have any Chicken Parmigiana today. WHAT??!!! Why today of all days? Why on the day that I decide that my life’s happiness depends on bits of chicken cooked with lots of cheese and tomato sauce? Oh the pain and the sorrow! So now I’m sending Nix to Italianni’s - where I should have sent him in the first place - to get me the best Chicken Parmigiana on this side of the Earth. Speaking of Italian restos, does Sbarro have Chicken Parmigiana, or is it just Eggplant Parmigiana?

Update 4:32PM:
Yay! I was able to eat Chicken Parmigiana! Sbarro has it! I can die happy now, nyahaha

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WP is just so much fun to use. I don’t think I’m going back to Blogger anytime soon. :coffee: I’ll miss Blogger though. If any of you Blogger engineers out there are reading this: GET WP INSTEAD!!! Or at least make the Blogger engine as functional as WP.

Thank you Blogthing, for enabling me to experience WordPress. :no1: My next aim is to brush up on my PHP and start messing around with WP’s functionality :gg: (plugins, editing index.php, etc).

I hope Jamie and the rest of his development team continue to make Blogthing such a wonderful blog host. :no1: Thanks for Blogthing and the comments Jamie!

I’m going to do a little experiment after I do my Java exercise later. :teehee::coffee:

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