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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Subject: FACTORIZER! Time: 2:26 pm. Mood: amused.

http://www.factorizer.co.uk/index.php Facts refresh every minute. Ooooohhhh....

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Subject: Life Sign Check; small flashback too. Time: 11:23 pm. Mood: chipper.

Ok... so we've finally moved into our new office/warehouse. A friend of my dad had a space he rented to us for a better deal than our old office/warehouse. For one, no jack-asses parking in the driveway. See our old office was inside a sort of arrangement of other shops; one of which was a Car Customization Repair thinga-ma-jig. Now that's cool and all... except those bastards would park the cars in our driveway. If they had cars to fix and no room, they parked it in the driveway. Then there's the Party-Balloons shop. Of course, the customers would park in the driveway since they decided that the side of their shop was no place to park. Bloody brilliant. So now, our current office has no other businesses around it. YAY! But being newly transfered, we still have stuff to clean up. Ack. I'm also gonna try my hand at drawing again. It's been a long while since my last sketch and I needs a refresher. I mean, I can draw stages and schematics and stuff that use a ruler; what I'm trying to re-learn is how to draw cartoons and anime'. As a sort of safety-net, I'm gonna practice on my own creations first; namely my 4 daughters. Quick Trivia: The concept of creating my daughter characters started with Annie. Her general design was inspired by the one and only Relena Peacecraft. After seeing portions of Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz for the first time during my early high school years, I saw Relena and became obsessed with the need to design a character like her. It was also around that time I realized I loved the mix of Brown hair and Blue eyes. Trivia Ends So during the rest of High School (mostly on boring subjects and recess or lunch) I gradually modified Annie's original design. During college, I learned a few more tricks at drawing and evolved her design even further. At some point prior to graduation (about 2-3 years beforehand) I finalized Annie's look. A few months later, we had our Social Service Outreach. The one I signed-up for landed me teaching kids how to draw in Nueva Ecija The inspiration for Cherry was based off one of my students with the same name. Mid-way to designing Cherry, I decided to create a middle-sister to fill-in a gap between the letters A and C. Hence was the initial inspiration for Billie. Billie was supposed to be the more athletic of the three, but gosh darnit... life's just full of inspiration. Around the time I was designing Billie I was in a fit of consuming rage caused by the utter and complete disembowelment of my ego, care of Dorothy. Being a man with a short fuse, I knew I needed to channel that anger; so I made Billie the embodiment of all my hate. At the same time I had just finished making a wooden katana replica for thesis. With help from a couple friends, I channeled my anger into that sword too; giving it the name Ikari which is Japanese for Wrath. Couple years later, I got the inspiration to re-design a cartoon Robot named Jenny from the NickToon My Life As A Teenage Robot. I had actually tried it before during college, basing one off Azumanga Diaoh's Chiyo-chan and redesigning it later for the same thesis as Ikari. After a while, I gave it another redesign which landed on my version of Jenny which debuted on my DeviantArt account; code number XJ9-CD03. And there you have it, my 4 daughters. (well, technically there's 6 since I designed two other girls as random characters in two of my DeviantArt drawings) We have Annie who is my rendition of the perfect girl... There's Billie who is my anger, personified and controlled... There's Cherry who is basically the sweetest little girl in the whole-wide world... And there's Jenny who is artistic proof that I'm actually better at redesigning. Woof.

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Subject: Stupid Mosquitos Time: 11:50 pm. Mood: chipper.

Ok... for anyone who's actually been looking for me, I've been on Bed Rest for the last couple weeks. Turns out I picked up Dengue prior to heading off to Davao where the Viral Infection finally went all out. After 2 days of non-improvement, my dad took me to St. Luke's for a check-up where I was diagnosed with Dengue and immediately admitted. Boy, I'll tell you... having needles poked at you really ruins the nice Air-Conditioned room feel. Besides the regular Dextrose, they would take semi-regular blood samples off me to check the platelet count. The night I was admitted, it had dropped to 91,000 as compared to the safe margin of 150,000. As the Virus got around, my platelets eventually dropped down to 31,000; 11,000 shy of needing a blood-transfusion. But, wooopteedoo! Next time them nurses took my blood, the count started rising back until they reached 80,000+ to which the Doctor decided I was well enough to discharge. So during my 3-day stay at the Hospital, I had been visited by my Best Friends during the last 2 nights. Pep was actually amused at how casually I brought up my being in Hospital. I'm not exactly a Headlines kind of person; what happens happens. Basically I told Pep and Louie I had Dengue like I would tell them I just saw a Movie. No stress, no worries; all casual like. So anyhoo, I got out just a couple days before New Year's Eve. I spent that day out of Manila where my dad had a show over at Trace College Pampanga(?) It was a New Year Celebration for PAGCOR and my dad was hired for it; along with an invite to his family to join in on the celebration. So I spent New Year just watching fireworks and eating at a buffet. Not bad. Not bad at all. But I still want to kill every Mosquito I find. The Bastards.

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Subject: Davao can KISS MY ASS! Time: 10:45 pm. Mood: aggravated.

I go to Davao and what do I get? A F*CKING HEADACHE! First off, some dipshit security at Cebu Pacific denies access to one of my regular crew for the Coke Christmas Caravan project. Apparently this dolt doesn't get any from his wife, or doesn't know how to wack-off and release his 'trapped tension'. Ok, so the E-Ticket got 2-letters wrong on one of our guy's name. But when we went to Cebu with the same grammatical error our guy was let in to both the Cebu AND the Manila Return flights. I mean, seriously? Did this retard watch too many movies in his lonely life to think that someone, IN THE PHILIPPINES, has the ability to get to the Departure Terminal at exactly the right time as the Ticket requires? Without someone like me who actually understands what Punctual means? HELL NO! This country F*CKING starts 6:00pm meetings at 8! And even after a flight is delayed, you still hear some retards who have already acquired their Boarding Passes but still didn't make it to the Boarding time. In fact, the majority of people here are so incapable of determining Time I hear Christmas Fireworks popping at 10:30PM (HK Time). We're THAT goddamned STUPID Now, after we finally made it to Davao we catch some shut-eye since our flight was around 5am. When we finally get to the venue we expected everything to be pretty much "Plug-and-Play". SURPRISE! Filipino Incompetence Strikes Back! We end up needing to re-wire some circuits which we already finalized at Cebu. And to make things worse, it F*CKING showers! And not just any normal rain shower; no. This one was a gentle shower that lasted 4 God-Damned Hours! You know what I call that? Divine Interruption. Apparently the great One decided that us losing one guy wasn't bad enough. Oh no. He decided that He should let it shower for 4 hours straight while we fixed our cables. And here's the fun part: we had the stage covered for such B*LLSH*T. But, gosh-darnit gee-wiz, The Lord added wind to the Divine Insult. I myself like the occasional breeze, but not this CR*P. For the same 4 hours, the Heavenly winds tossed the rain RIGHT AT US; dousing up to Center stage from Stage Left. What makes this so obviously God's Hand is the blatant lack of respect for Physics. With a wind that strong and constant, the stupid rain clouds should have been pushed the f*ck out of our way. In the end, we got the wiring fixed. And I woke up the next day with a terrible fever. The fever stayed until after I got back to Manila. But not after I did My Job. I'm a CRUZ. You don't take Us down that easily. Makes me want to raise my finger to God when we hit Church tomorrow. Another reason Davao can KISS MY A$$ is they have weird people. First off, they have this rude habit: If you happen to face a Davaoeno and s/he looks back, they give you this Evil Stare like they're remembering your face so they can mug you later. It happened to every Davao-local I met faces with. And that was about 10 people. I don't care if people say I'm generalizing. For that to happen to the 10 people I 'saw', in four separate parts of that area of Davao, I call it a Local Phenomenon. I don't care what people say. I experienced it everyday I was there; before and during my fever. I could even tell the Davaoeno's heading to Manila. The gave me the same rude stare. Must be some form of arrogance. And speaking of Arrogance... WTF is with all the Bisaya starting-dialect? Don't these retards know about Toursits? I mean, for crying out loud! We walked out of an Inn. AN INN! The local pearl street-vendors were smart enough to come at us offering goods; not so smart to determine we didn't speak their native tongue. I mean, are such big a$$holes to think the whole world speaks Bisaya? I understand the Chinese, they out-populate any two large countries combined. And from what I've learned, they have the ability to take down a Super-Power if they wanted to. Then there's America. Right bunch of arrogant Jerks right there. Why they refuse to understand why they're being Terrorized is both beyond my ability to analyze, nor do I really give a Rat's A$$. What makes English the lesser evil(Thanks to the British, actually) is that most countries around the world actually use it when interacting with foreigners. So in closing: Davao can KISS MY A$$! Thanks for the income; hope I never have to go there ever again.

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Subject: ReynaNgDuga DIES Time: 5:23 pm. Mood: aggravated.

It is unfortunate that my newest Blurt has to be of a dismally violent nature. However, I am not a man of patience nor am I one who forgives offenses towards me. I've been playing RF Online for about a year's duration and as per my Blurty account, my IGN is also [b]HariNgDuga[/b] In my tenure as a Bellato Ranger, I have made it a point to be the best of my class whenever possible and without the use of over-upgraded equipment. Within in the RF Boards, I give my aid to whoever asks of it and I do my best to empower the Ranger Class to the best of my ability. Safe to say, although hidden, my IGN has a reputation. Enter ReynaNgDuga. Although I haven't seen the character myself, I was informed of it's existance in another Server. Fortunately I had made it a point to own my IGN on all servers, with only the RP-Server deviating from my choice of Race. I don't expect anyone to fully understand why I find it such an insult that someone would use ReynaNgDuga as an IGN. Copy-cats happen all the time, and to be honest I actually expected it. But this particular IGN hits a nerve. And when something hits one of MY nerves, it tends to Go Away... and not in a nice, friendly, happy sort of way. Because I don't do NICE. ReynaNgDuga is, first and foremost, a deviation of HariNgDuga. It is a title I would like to bestow upon my future wife, and or the fiancee' who would eventually be the former. As such, someone using this Title is an outright insult to my being. Game-wise As far as I know, this person could be no more than another wannabe trying to leech off whatever fame I've gained. Nothing pisses me off more than a person pretending to be me, or related to me when they clearly are not. If terms of franchising this person could be, for all I know, the equivalent of a factory defect that could sully my name. For that purpose, I despise anyone who pretends to be me, my friends, or members of my "Inner-Circle." Real Life The title ReynaNgDuga implies a relationship to HariNgDuga. Whether it be intentional, or Role-Play is none of my concern. The fact that it insults my status as a single male is what really pisses me off the most. For whatever reasons they may have had, the women I've 'gone after' have always had them; "Reasons". Because of these 'excuses' I fell into slumps of depression where I tore myself limb from limb trying to figure out what it is I suck at. Enter my dad. He told me that although I had my flaws, I was still me. His Son. As such, whatever flaws I had, I easily made-up for thanks to my heritage. And at the end of the day, they were just women who didn't even try to give me a chance. From this logic branched my 'screw this! let THEM come after me' theology. At least in that sense, women won't have 'excuses' to run off. What really boils my blood about ReynaNgDuga is that this character blatantly mocks my love-life. There is no "ReynaNgDuga" in my life and although I pretend it's fine to be single, IT PISSES ME OFF every time someone brings it up. 'Why are you single?' 'Why don't you go out?' 'Why don't you try dating?' Because I sadly can't! I'm busy with work, and the only interactions I have with members of the opposite sex are ladies who are either spoken for, are outside my age-range, or the ones I've already met and have actually clarified in respectably honest terms that I'm not their type. Simply put, I don't get a lot of chances to go out and meet someone new. Not unless I get a client who's single and looking. So to have some nobody mock me, either directly or indirectly, like this is Unforgivable. I just want to clarify one thing: I am NOT NICE. I am NOT KIND. I am NOT TOLERANT. I [i]WILL[/i] make something go away when it pisses me off and this definitely gets a spot in my Hit-List. And just for 'fun', I'll be taking added steps to make this hurt mentally, physically, and financially.

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Subject: And He said 'Let There Be Light'... and I said 'I'M STILL SLEEPING DAMMET! Time: 1:53 pm. Mood: tired.

So the last few months have been a trifle much. Mostly work, partly gaming, the remainder of it getting some rest... I guess a full tally of every little thing I've done would take too long. With a Guild EB, My Grand-dad's 80th B-day, and a tun of clean up to go through, it's been hecktic at best. Guild EB As the new member of E.C.O.UNIT's High Council, and the right hand-man of my best friend's guild, it is my Duty as Guild Archon to uphold and protect the rules, regulations, and beliefs for which our RF-Online Guild stand for. Just a couple weeks back, we organized a Grand Eye Ball with the majority of our Members in the Manila Area. With a quick Guild-Discussion over at Starbucks, Eastwood, we transfered to Dampa sa Libis for the pig-out of a life time. With fresh materials to work with, we had the heartiest meal we've had in months since the last EB with our Ally Guild, AESIR. Sharing funds with Ryu and Thy left me with a drained budget. But that was only because one of L'OREAL's Paychecks got delayed. I've fixed that problem since then. Grand Dad's 80th Eat that you government scum! My Grand-dad worked for you in his younger years and did it all without being a crook. And he's out-living the lot of you greedy punks! YEAH! I was asked to make 2 video presentations for the party, and I'm currently finishing the DVD of the video we took for that day. Trust me when I say it wasn't a pleasant experience. Nothing annoys and irritates me more than someone who has way to many ideas and no solid storyboard when I edit. It REALLY PISSES ME OFF when someone takes up my time and they don't even know what they're doing. What makes it worse is it's Family. At least in work if they don't have an idea they have a Deadline. That usually forces a final decision or project termination. But when its Family... SHHHHHEEEEEESHHH. There's no end to it. Clean-Up With the reformat of my Editing PC complete, I decided to clean up it's spot at our house. Right now it's running great, and has 2 WinXP OS' installed into two separate Boot Drives which I can choose to boot from during the Start-Up. Basically the Primary Drive is for Editing. Although I've installed and updated an anti-virus scanner into it, the premise of the Drive is simply for editing and should never need to be connected to the internet. The Secondary Drive is essentially an Archive Drive. It has access to all necessary files in the Main Drive so I can burn Videos and Data. Besides having an active Internet connection, the Secondary Drive lacks the Video Editing Program, and access to the Windows folder of the Main Drive. It also has the anti-virus program and I've strictly limited the websites I access using that PC. But in the unlikely event it does receive a virus I can reformat it without cutting of my ability to Edit. Moving on to non-desktop... I opened up the old VAIO to test a theory. I was right. Upon opening the keyboard and front panel, I carefully removed the heat-sink connected to the Processor and the Cooling Fan. As I expected, the the Heat-Sink's exhaust was clogged in a moderately large amount of accumulated dust. This was preventing the Cooling fan from effectively helping the Heat-Sink expedite the heat from the Processor. At the peak of over-heat, the VAIO would shut itself down to prevent further damage. Most of the time, I had to point a fan at the side of the VAIO to help it cool. After cleaning out the Heat-Sink and Cooling Fans, the VAIO's back to it's vibrant self. I was able to run RF-Online for about 10 Hours straight which allowed me to do some in-game Mining. I'm guessing the next time I clean it will be around Christmas time... or when it starts shutting down on it's own again. Poor baby...

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Subject: Enter: The HN-D70s Time: 7:12 pm. Mood: accomplished. Music: FF7 End Battle Theme + Gained Item chime.

OW YEAAAAHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! After a couple years since it's initial release, the Nikon D70s is finally in my possession! Joining my team of gadgets and electronics, I granted it the moniker Hari Ng D70s (HN-D70s) because it is. How so? Two things: 1st, it's MINE! OH YEAH!!! It's ALL MINE! With a large amount of my savings spent on it, there's no way on Heaven or Hell (even f*ing Space or alternate dimensions) that this D70s belongs to anyone else on this plane of reality except me: Dave Cruz - Hari Ng Duga! The receipt's in my name and the internal folder's customized to me as well. 2nd, no one really wants it much any more. Having it's premiere release two years past, the D70s has been out-classed by it's predecessor, the D80 and the little tikee, the D's 50 and 40. Also in your repertory of options for better performance are the D200 and D2x. Almost every one who got a D70s has traded it (or wants to sell it to upgrade to) one of the newer models. Everyone's after the new thing... so the D70s' demand has since dropped... WHICH IS A DAMN GOOD THING FOR ME! 'cause as any Economics Student will remind you, Price is tantamount to the Supply and Demand Chart. During it's hype, the D70s' demand was relatively high with low supply for the D-SLR. Two years later, the photo shops that stacked up on D70s' realized a surplus in their stock, with less demand in the market. Simply put: Less Demand + Lots of Supply = Cheaper Prices. YES! This sick b*stard got his hands on a D70s Kit for the price of a D70 Kit at its mid-peak price 1.5 years ago. The only things that brought the price up to 'almost' regular price was that I needed to buy a UV Filter, an Extra battery, and a 1GB CF card. In the city, that would've cost ALOT... but I got my baby in Quiapo. Practically Dealer-Prices there if you know where to shop. So... I've been spending the better part of 2 days playing around with it. Even found a nasty dust speck inside the sensor, but I cleaned that bugger out fine. Now it's just a matter of explaining to the Cybershot why it has to share the bag with a larger digital camera. I'm sure it'll understand. XD

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Subject: Back to Buckless Time: 8:10 pm. Mood: accomplished.

GRAWR!!!! And so, by this time next week I'll be fidling around with my Brand New Nikon D70s. After two years of trying to save up for one, I was finally able to get a quotation for the D-SLR when Thy decided to get one at Quiapo. Thanks to Ketch's assist, we found our way around the congested open-market and got Thy her D40x from the same shop Ketch got his D70s. Way back then, the D70s cost Ketch about 46-47K. Last time we went there, the price for the kit was about 45. I'm hoping like a little girl on Santa's lap that the price goes down even further by July 2, which is when I'm getting the cam. Originally, the plan was to save up the cash and get the future HN-D70s on July 7, 2007. But with the imposibility of buying it at 7:07 am, and my logical desire not to stay in Quiapo until 7:07Pm, I figured I could cut a couple 7's of the roster. Yes... I wanted to Buy a Nikon D70s on 07/07/2007 at 7:07. But woah is me, for alas it cannot be. So I'm just gonna get at D70s on 07/02/2007. I figure the three 7's will be enough. Plus that added hint of Luck as based off more superstitious people. Here's the catch. With delayed project payments, I had to take the cash out of my Savings. Yes... my Life Savings. Right now it's down to a VERY eye-opening amount. Which makes the D-SLR, the most expensive toy I'll ever buy. Yes... a toy. I don't see myself going Pro-Photographer even if I'm keeping my (Black Body) Nikon F60. About the main factor for me getting one is to save on buying and developing Film. The other factors include complete control which a Cybershot can't quite offer. Minimal factors include it's model number being based on the number 7, my birth month and year, and that my first SLR is the F60 so it would make sense to upgrade to the (although currently out-classed by the D80 and D2x) D70s. The 's' moniker actually adds to the cost since the original model, the D70, costs about 10-12K less. The main difference is a better looking (and slightly larger) Review Screen and updated software. So anyhoo... there goes my cash. As of today, all my Major Project income goes straight to the bank. My allowance will be the daily income I get for going to the office for the week. Yesh.... This Demon Lord just turned poor again TT_TT But with that new cam, it might just be worth it.

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Subject: Roleplaying Time: 1:34 am. Mood: amused.

With limited access to RF Online, (and online gaming rest for Dragon), Louie decided to go back to playing Paper-Based RPGs. As with our previous RP, we did a restructuring of Vampires: The Masquerade. With the story set at Quezon City in the Year 2010, I play the role of Travis D. Rauhzian (an anagram of my name, inclusive of the title CEC: Corporate Executive-Head for Commisions) a 12th Generation vampire Sired by an older Giovanni; making me an outcast among Independents. With 3 Sessions so far, I've already over-bled 2 people, got punched in the gut by the City's Prince, and had to use Necromancy to unveil a plot twist. Not bad for an Accounting Managerial Vampire. This time around, Dragon decided that the RP would be more Story based since me and Pep aren't the usual Fight-And-Level types. So far, the only damage we've both taken is from the Prince because we nearly broke the Masquerade in our attempts to feed. I must confess... I find it easier to Role-play when I'm typing as opposed to actually acting it out. I find myself interjecting descriptions of what it is I'm doing and how I do them when in 'unstable' situations. But overall, it's fun. It lets me interact with people on a face-to-face level. And it's literally Free to Play.

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Subject: I am NEVER getting a Multiply account! Time: 10:56 pm. Mood: cranky.

NO! I am NOT getting one. EVER! Like Playing Ragnarok Online, it's one thing you will never see me do. God Himself would have to come down and ask me REALLY nicely before I think about it. And even then, I still won't change my mind. Why? First and foremost, I HATE when something tells me I can't do This or That because I'm not an Account User. I was born with b@ll$ and a backbone, J@ck@$$! I don't keel over and bend at the first tight-a$$ that tells me I have to be part of their group to do a simple task like comment on a friend's post. "Your comment has been saved and will be posted after you create an account"-Multiply.com "Alright. Then, F**K YOU!" - CD, Hari Ng Duga I didn't let a group of Pyramid Scammers force me into joining, so why the f**k would I break to a bunch of HTML coding posted over the internet? I have Blurty.com, thanks! ...which is the second reason. I already have a SIMPLE, RELIABLE, and EFFECTIVE online Journal Account. I find it more advantageous to have one account since it means I only have to write down my thoughts in one place, much like a pen and paper journal. This allows a single place for entry keepsake, again like an actual journal, and it minimizes the number of people who can gain access to viewing it... yet again, like an actual pen and paper journal. I like how a person would have to do research to even find out that I have a journal. That is... if they type the right keywords. Like Cris... >,< And finally, I like things simple. If I wanted to post pics (not that I have alot to post anyway), I can always upload an image link from my Photobucket account, or post links from my DeviantART site. ...but mainly, I HATE being told I have to do this thing (which I don't really need to do at all) to do something that should be, as per the Freedom of Democracy states, free to do. So F**K YOU Multiply! You're now in my Blacklist along other scum like Ragnarok Online and Kameraworld -Shangri La Plaza Mall branch.

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Subject: Light, Dark, and that ooozy stuff in between. Time: 12:49 am. Mood: relaxed.

Ok... so I FINALLY finished the L'oreal Video edit. It took two whole weeks, but at least the thing is done. As per their Normal payment releasing, I should get my check sometime this week if not next. Note the capitalization on "Normal" because on worse case scenarios, it takes a Year. Yes, a YEAR. That's how long (or near to) I've been waiting for the payment from the same office, albiet from a less competent contact, for payment on a project LONG done. We did receive the payment a couple months back, except due to a lack of interest in reading the fine print on the client's side, the check was miss-named, and thusly discarded by the bank. SO, on the same day of denial, we had the check sent back to be re-named. We're still waiting. Anyhoo... with one project off my shoulder, I can get back to programing the remaining Animations for the Lucban Dancing Fountain. If all goes well and my stress levels don't get too high, I should finish the last 11 programs by Friday; given I pull out 3 programs per day, which is very possible - stress permitting. I expect this week to be the longest I'll have since college days. Also got me a DVD collection of AVATAR: The Last Air Bender - Book Two: Earth. Its a cartoon from Nickelodeon which covers two of my pre-requisites for watching or reading a novel outside of an in-depth story: 1) Must have pretty girls 2) The Story's 'World' is created as a whole and from scratch (albiet minor similarities to the actual world) See... I likes pretty girls, and I love when someone creates a whole world for a story. Take Lord Of The Rings, Star Trek, and Dune to name a few. Ok... so at first I watched an episode from the 1st "Book": Water which basically puts the viewers up to speed on things. What kept me watching was when they showed Katara in her character defining moment. Needless to say, by the end of the episode (which the series has an interesting way of ending with closure while leaving you hanging) I wanted to see more of Katara (who isn't the actual hero of the series... but f**K that) and to see the story unfold. To date, I've only seen a few episodes of the 1st Book, but I pretty much got the gist of it. With this DVD Collection (which isn't original, hence the farked-up sequence of the last few episode orders) I got the whole line up of the 2nd Book. Based on the story, I can presume that there are 4 Books, one for each Element: Water, Fire, Earth, and Wind which is plays a vital plot in the story. So far, the 3rd Book hasn't aired on any Nickelodeon as far as I know. Ok my hair's dry. Yeah... I just needed something to do after my pre-sleep shower so I wouldn't get the pillow wet. XD

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Subject: *Grumble grumble grumble* Time: 2:18 pm. Mood: tired.

Ok... I'm bored, sleepy, tired, and slighlty stressed. I have a video edit for L'oreal, a video project with Ace, about 11 more Animations for the Lucban Fountain, and I need to have 45K by the 2nd of July for the D70s. Holy Jeebuz! >,< It's just one of those days you wake up... then suddenly you get REALLY tired in the office. You know you're supposed to be doing stuff and when you finally do, the computer crashes. WTF?!?!?!?! I would've gotten another Fountain Animation done yesturday, except the power transformer blew out and we were stuck in a dark, humid, and warm office. Not Very Nice. So now I'm TRYING to will myself into finishing an animation but I'm too dang sleepy. I'm hopimg for a quick snack that just might wake my arse up, but we'll see. Anyhoo... wish I could sneak up on Hogi to give her one of my 'It's ok' hugs. She seems to be in something, I just don't know what exactyl. Then I want to give Tiff a bonk on the head for downgrading a VAIO's software... the poor Sony. While I'm at it, grope Gerr for kicking me, theDemon Lord, in YM. GRAWR! That should be good excersise... I'll be taking a break tomorrow. Maybe get some long sleep later tonight after a couple tinkers on the L'oreal Video. Later on, I'm meeting up with Louie who just got back from the land Down Under... the one you can actually return from. O_O Overall, I figure I just need some de-stressing. I figure the workload is giving me mental stress by overwhelming me in its grandeur.

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Subject: O_o Time: 11:54 am. Mood: busy.

Ok... so where have I been? First off, we went to Lucban a couple weeks back to upload 4 new programs for the Dancing Fountain. A found an annoying inconsistency with one of the songs which I'm still trying to fix. For the most part, the Dancing Fountain now has 7 songs and 5 in-between animations which brings the show to about 20-25 minutes per set. Now it's back to the office to program the longer Symphonies. And speaking of back to the office... I just got back after submitting a rush edit to L'oreal. I was given 3-days worth of Raw Video and 8 DVDs to browse through to make a 5 minute video. If anything, the capturing took the most time and hard drive space. All I can say is I never want to do that kind of edit again. (/>,<\) Anyhoo... outside of work, but related to, is my dedicated quest for the Nikon D70s. I intend to get it by the time my BDay comes in so I'm taking what projects I can to save up for the 45K. Said projects including the rushed video mentioned above. O_o Currently, I have 2 pending payments from L'oreal under another office which should equal to about 8K, tax deducted. This most recent project has me plugged for another 6-8K so that leaves about 30K or so to go since I also need a 1GB CF for the D-SLR. And yeah... I need rest. >,

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Subject: Nu-ni-noo-ni-nu... F! Time: 3:06 pm. Mood: chipper.

Well you'd think programing a sequence for a fountain would be easy... well F**K YOU!. Naw... just kidding! XD XD XD XD Well it sorta is, specially when the program sequence is sorta repetitive. Cut/Paste is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO helpfull. I just need to re-arrange some minor tidbits so the timing of the signal and music sync. So, I gues you could say the work load is moderate at best. My dad's pre-programed the beats on a few of the sqeuences so I just need to set the timecode. And he created the sequence for "Itaktak Mo" which greatly releases stress on me for three reasons: -I don't have to listen to the entire song over-and-over-and-over while programing it. -I don't have to listen to the entire song over-and-over-and-over while programing it. -I don't have to listen to the entire song over-and-over-and-over while programing it. Yeah... it's my redundant patern of 3's \(^.^)/ "I don't like that cake because... it hurts my teeth, 2nd.. it hurts my teeth... and most importantly... it hurts my teeth." Oh yeah... I don't like that cake 'cause it hurts my teeth. XD Anyhoo... it's back to work in a bit. I just need to get a snack. =p

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Subject: Step by step... Time: 7:06 pm. Mood: busy.

Ok... so we have the music repertory for the Lucban Fountain. The only two songs that were locally recorded are Lucban's fanfare, and "Itak-tak Mo" by Joey De Leon. JEEZAS for the latter. >,< The rest are musical symphonies including Beethoven's 5th and 9th, Mozart, Shostakovich, a few international artists, and a techno remix of Beet's 5th. Next step is to program animations into each of the 15 songs. The first step being importing the files into the program software... except I haven't done that yet. See, one of the files was burned as WMA: not the most compatible audio format around. Although I can play it using the WMP, I can't open it with both the Animation Program software and Adobe Premiere. Why Premiere? Well... the MP3s came in different audio levels; some louder and some weeker. Using the Audio Mixer in Adobe Premiere, I set the max level at a -16Db. Although some of the MP3s do make it to 0Db, it's mostly audio peaks that are native to the songs/symphonies. Essentially, I re-leveled all the MP3s so that they generally have the same playback level ...except the WMA file. I just sent that over to my dad to convert to WAV of MP3 and he's trying to fix the audio quality as well. Hold on a tick... dad wants to show me something. Ok... so I now know how to convert WAV to MP3 Via Adobe Audition. WOOTS!~!~!~!~! \(^o^)/ Which means I gotta work on them too >,< Here cometh another long week T_T

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Subject: Getting there... Time: 8:10 pm. Mood: blah.

Ok... so I've finished 3 out of 4 projects for the moment. 1st of the third is the way-overdue L'oreal project payment. My contact finally texted to say the check's being re-done and should be available by the end of the week. 2nd of the 3 is a project from another office at L'oreal. I'm just waiting for that contact to recieve the text I sent asking about when the payment will be released. 3rd of the 3 is the DVD transfer for Lorry's officemate. Only the 3rd has been paid in full >,< The current pending project is the Lucban Fountain. We're still waiting for the music que so we can program the animations. I've been informed that some of the music are local songs. No... not the dull and repetetive re-make/artist's rendition of older, more famous international songs. We're talking the pathetic and annoying C-class native songs that people actually dance to in this country. I'm talking along the lines of "Boom Tarat-tarat" BLEH! Speaking of remakes... GAWD... I guess it's true when Pinoy Artists say they're singers. Trust me when I say that's all they are... singers. Only a choice few are actually artists. And when I say artists, I mean they write their own songs and perform with Professional Quality. The rest of our country's 'talents' are just singers. They just sing what's popular and pretend it's thier rendition of that song. When the music companies decide to give them music contracts, their albums are 99% remake of other people's songs. The 1% are less-than-mediocre originals. Oh... btw... these artists... they were picked off American-Idol knock-off contests. Contests held nearly every month. Which means our country picks the best out of 20-50 'singers' every month and a new 'star' is born. Kiss quality out the window, ladies and gentlemen... they'll award whoever the people vote the 'best' for that month... with the voting public being... well... I'd rather not say... *coughsMORONS* Oh dear, ...I need cough medicine.

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Subject: watta-wheek.... >, Time: 1:14 am. Mood: tired.

Ok... so after a tedious week of trying to fix my editing computer, I eventually find out that the new, more-powerful Dual-Core Motherboard is too fast for my Matrox RT100x which I REALLY need to work with my Premiere. So after re-assembling the entire CPU 5 times, I end up returning it to it's previous configuration which doesn't have a dual-core processor, but according to the specs is capable of handling it. With the current editing projects finally finished, I'm gonna try to fix it again one more time to see if I can swap the Dual-core processor from the new motherboard with my current motherboard. Anyhoo... so where have I been for the past week? All over the place. >,< Mid-last-last week, I was assembling the PC. The initial problem was a constant error with the Matrox suddenly failing and slowing down my editing as the live preview would no longer be available. I would need to reboot the system just to get it working. The problem seemed to solve itself when I re-installed the software. Soon after, a new problem came up. The serial ports for both the keyboard and the mouse farked up and delayed my editing indefinitely which lead to the purchase of the new dual-core system. As I had to finish a DVD transfer for the next week, I went to using a USB powered keyboard and mouse. Skip to Sunday where I finally find out that the Matrox was incompatible with the new board... after I spent most of the day assembling the board, installing the SATA Hard Drives, connecting all the cables, and wiring out all the power cords. When I finally re-installed the older motherboard, it was already 9pm. And since I was doing this in the office, I had no time to capture the video. So me and my dad called it a day and I brought the computer home to fix it and capture the vid. Monday... I finish converting the video after transferring it last night. I had yet to catch some sleep. But as I was asked to finish the DVD, I went ahead and put it into DVD data. Around 9am or so, I had finished laying out the DVD Menu for the video. After tedious testing, I found that the menus were farked up. Around that point, it was already 12 and I hadn;t solved the problem. And since I had to be at the office to fix another project, I told Lorry I'd send her the DVD on Tuesday. This time around, I got some sleep.... but not much. Tuesday... I finish the new DVD and fixed the pesky menu problem. I eventually passed the DVD to Lorry and headed straight for the office because my dad and I were gonna check up on a current project at Lucban Quezon, in Laguna. We left to pick up my mom and drop her off the house. With a quick dinner and a shower, we were off to the freeway. We got to Laguna around 11pm. As soon as we cleared the general city area, my dad let me drive the car up the zig-zag path leading to Lucban. It was my first uphill drive and it took a bit of getting used to the sudden curves... especially since it was dark. Wednesday... I finish parking the car beside the City Hall fountain. With the sky still dark, it was a perfect time to test the system. Believe it or not, the first ever fully automated, computer-controlled, digitally-synchronized, audio-visual fountain in the country can be found in Lucban Quezon. YES! Our current project is a fountain that dances to music. We have the entire system rigged so that pumps with spray water up to 1 meter while LEDs give the water color as they do... and all in sync with music. Of course, we also program the pumps to just spray... for morning events. So my dad and I spend the morning fine-tuning the 3 songs we programed. By the time we finished, it was still dark enough to see the lights. We stuck around to see how the locals reacted to the samplers. Just before 9am, we head home and have breakfast at a nearby Jollibee. That night, I got back the sleep I owed for Monday. Basically spent Thursday and Friday cleaning the house... spent Saturday Relaxing... and today started off with this Journal Entry. So that's where I've been. Boy... watta-wheek >,< Oh yeah... got the L'oreal check but the dolt didn't read the conforme and named it wrong, so we had to send it back. SHEEEESH!

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Subject: SHEEESH! >:( Time: 7:49 pm. Mood: aggravated.

Ok so here's the week end update for... well... last week. After losing my wallet, I switched to a smaller ID Flip-out that came with my old wallet. It's not the same but it gets the job done. And as far as my phylosophy on stuff goes... if it works, it works: if it doesn't, make it work. So... no sooner than 24 hours and I find an email telling me I won 1M British Pounds. I later discovered it was a scam after sending them a copy of my Passport Photo, but not before sending them my Bank Account Details. With all the stress of the week, my processing powers were as quick as a Pentium-Poor. Thankfully my logic kicked in when the scammers asked for a 'transfer fee'. With every ounce of critical analysis I had left, I did some research and I found out thier game. But sadly a bit to late for my taste as they have my Full name, Birth Place, and 2nd Home Address. What they don't have is my money. Right now they're wiating for me to send them bank details that will never arrive. For the most part, with both my wallet gone and my info out with some f**king scammer, I expect to end up in the news for some Bulls**t which may be incurred by the fag scammers using my identity. All I can say is the only thing anyone's gonna convict me of is Murder 1st after I beat the life out of whoever uses my name for whatever Bulls**t activity. I fill gladly go to jail knowing I took out the trash and helped make society a better place by killing one less waste of oxygen. Then there's the L'oreal problem. The payment for an EXTREMELY overdue project finally came in... BUT... the bank rejected the check because some DOLT can't read a Conforme. The check was made to "Lights & Sound" and our company is "EFX Lights & Sound" so the bank wouldn't accept the check and we had to send it back to L'oreal to hopefully have it fixed. So there goes ANOTHER week of waiting for MY money. THE F**KING CONFORME SAID "Make Checks Payable to 'EFX Lights & Sound' " WHAT THE FUCK! And when I called the contact to tell him about it, he just redirected me to the Accounting "so there won't be a middle-man". Not that it wasn't what I would do either, but he didn't even have the business courtesy to AT LEAST pass it through. It was everything short of the guy just saying "F**k that! It's not my problem and I don't intend to make it mine either!" out right. That's one less client to get a headache over. SHEEEESSSH!!!! >:( But on a brighter note, seems there's a fair share of Equivalent Exchange for me. My uncle was able to pick-up a 1Gig Thumb Drive that he found while out in the field. Lo and behold... It's a SONY! Yes... a Sony VAIO 1Gb Thumb Drive. The don't even sell those in this country! It branded, and even color-coded with the newer VAIO I use at the office. Talk about interesting twists. The last time I got something free was a Manfrotto Monopod. Oh yeah... Dad needs a faster motherboard for his office PC with the new work load demanding better specs. Sooooo..... he got me a Pentium Dual-Core processor supposrting ASUS motherboard. It will replace the current motherboard for my Editing Computer. And since we were upgrading, we decided to get a Matrox-Approved Motherboard. This time around, the board is SATA HDD based and uses an NVIDIA Dual-screen Video Card. Essentially, we assembled a completely new computer which will be installed into my old and humble PC chasis. I just finished transferring files and I'll be testing the system by transfering a video from VHS to DVD. Still need to re-install Adobe Premiere... and alot of other programs. Sometime next-week, we'll be calling up Microsoft to Re-register the Windows XP on that system. Oh yes... and the 3 new SATA drives are 320Gb each. 100/220 partitioned for Boot Drive C and Drive D 2x 320s for the new Editing HDDs. Yes... that's 600GB of space just for editing. And we finally found the Cyber-Shot after a week of searching... poor baby.

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