tala @ so-phobic

Windows suddenly started crashing on my laptop. It’s telling me to install SP2. The dreaded day is looming - I need to reformat _soon_.

I really hate it when She speaks to me in our dialect. It’s not from lack of pride or nationalism. We were never taught the dialect when we were kids - in fact, we were forbidden to speak in it - because it would affect the way we spoke English. It’s like how some people use the same tone and stress when speaking in Filipino and English. Supposedly, learning the dialect before we learn how to speak English fluently makes our English matigas. I can pretty much understand the dialect though, and I can even speak a few words (in a hilariously bastardized way).

Anyway, when She came today, she started talking to me in the dialect, and it made my temper rise. Our mode of communication has always been mainly Filipino. I hate it because I’ve seen her use the dialect in the rudest of ways. One time, we were with a Rep who spoke only Filipino. She wasn’t pleased with the Rep and proceeded to tell me why using the dialect. We were in the Rep’s car. I just shrugged her off. For one, I didn’t know enough words to form a reply that would chastise her for being rude. Another time, we had a guest at home, a foreigner. While having coffee with the foreigner, She would speak over his head to me or the maids, making comments about everything from his clothes, to the way his girlfriend looks. She also does this in elevators, commenting about a person’s weight, yadda yadda. I ran out of patience one time and told her, after we got off, that one day she was going to make a disparaging remark about someone in the dialect and it would turn out that the person could actually understand what she was saying. I managed to say it jokingly because she doesn’t like being told off. She still took it against me. It was a sign of disrespect, she said. _I_ was being rude to her. *skews face* I think I developed this aversion to the dialect because of her contextual use. I hear the dialect and my pscho psyche tells me she’s being rude to me. Pft.

I wanted to go to Park Square to look at laptop RAM but ended up in Rockwell. I couldn’t find any decent long sleeves to buy. Most of them had tacky prints. Where are all the pastel cotton long sleeves? I nicked my Shuffle on two sides last week. *sob* I’m such a careless dweeb. I hauled ass to the small Apple Center at Rockwell to get me one of these. They didn’t have that brand, so I got this other generic brand with 2 cases - black and clear - and a lanyard for Php680 instead.

We left Miggy at Q Power Station. It’s his home visit week from the seminary. We got him a VIP Card, lol. Gone are the days when you bought tokens for Php5 each in order to play Timecop (or something like that) and Marvel vs. X-Men. Now you load a card and you tap or swipe. Ah, technology.

Had lunch at Kulinarya again. Migs got the lamb chops, I got porkchops (again). Cafe Provencal’s lamb chops are _way_ better. I love the grilled porkchops though, and the sauce/gravy they use is really yummy. It tastes a bit weird when eaten with liberal helpings of Tabasco.

I was a little late for siege, which sucked because of the lag. It took me so long to get to the agit’s emp room, and 5 minutes later, DC. Pft.

I think I’m allergic to Nivea’s Calendula Body Oil. That’s another one off the list. *sigh*

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Download: The Ordertaker. Link valid only for 7 days or 25 downloads, whichever comes first.

Sing to the tune of System of a Down’s Toxicity + Chopsuey.

Waiter!
Pa order naman ako ng porkchop
At saka ng 2 ngang kanin
Lagyan mo na rin ng konting ketchup
Meron ba kayong chopsuey?
(Wala po)
Meron ba kayong adobo?
(Wala rin po)
Meron ba kayong bulalo?
(Ubos na po)
Meron bang kahit na ano?
(Wala)
Wala?

Hoy wala na bang bangko?
Wala na bang ma-order, ma-order?
Shet, meron ngang menu
Wala namang ma-order, oh waiter
Sana naman may siopao man lamang o burger
Pa-order, pa-order, pa-order!

Waiter! Order! Waiter! Order!
Waiter na gwapito, ano bang meron dito?
Waiter na gwapito
Meron bang chicken mami, longsi, toci at tapsi
Pansit, lugaw at lomi
Tokwa’t baboy, pares, beef, fried siomai
Gutom na talaga ako!

Tanginang karinderya
Wala man lang pang meryenda!

ROFLLMAO!

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This is one of those forwarded emails that I appreciate.

The Washington Post Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are this year’s winners.

None of them get through spell-check.

1. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
2. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
3. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
4. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
5. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
6. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
7. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn’t get it.
8. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late. < <-- Very useful for me.
9. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
11. Karmageddon: It’s like, when everybody is sending off these bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it’s like, a serious bummer.
12. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
13. Glibido: All talk and no action.
14. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
15. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you’ve accidentally walked through a spider web.
16. Beelz ebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
17. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you’re eating. < <-- Or after mahigad ka sa UP Lagoon, Sunken, or Pisay benches.

And the pick of the literature:

18. Ignoranus: A person who’s both stupid and an asshole.

Emphasis and comments are mine. Sarchasm and ignoranus are my personal favorites.

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Switched to K2 Beta One.

How the hell am I supposed to make the archive listing show up on the Archives page? *scratches head in confusion* Back to the drawing board for me.

Except for that, nothing seems to be broken.

Update: Found the Archives answer on the Binary Bonsai Flickr group.

Things to do:

• Upgrade to Spam Karma 2.0 Final.
• Make a header image.
• Change the background.
• Fix Archives page.

I will procrastinate and do those during the weekend.

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