Sandro T. Rafael

2008-01-14T09:51:00.000+03:00

Ahhhh! Too much information! I need to diet (information) myself! Back to basics I guess.

one fine day

2008-01-14T06:46:00.000+03:00

went to work @ 4am - feeling good today.
no rain, so far.
organized my stuffs and able to list things to do.
i'll keep this blogger account for my quick and dirty blogging
listed some houses for rent

OpenDNS

2007-08-07T13:38:00.001+03:00

Sounds good!

2007-08-07T09:04:00.000+03:00

work sucks!

Popeye's

2006-08-09T01:25:00.000+03:00

Kumain na naman kami kangina sa Popeye's kasama cla Xtian and Mavis and of course si Xianne. Sabi ko nga kay Xtian mang hingi na ng discount at para i-blog natin cla, na masarap kumain dito.

Anyways, I'm sure soon, Xtian will blog about Popeye's. Ako, hmmmm, dito lang sa blogspot; pero pag may discount, doon ko cla ilalagay sa sandrorafael.com.

Habang Pinapakuloan

2006-07-30T20:02:00.000+03:00

Bago pakuloan

2006-07-30T19:48:00.000+03:00

2006-07-30T12:32:00.000+03:00

I hope Schumi wins today.

I'm back!

2006-07-30T10:09:00.000+03:00

After some contemplation, I decided to revive this blogspot site.

Google Blog Search: Goodbye Technorati?

2005-09-14T14:24:00.000+03:00

Google Blog Search is now up and running being the first major search engine (others like MSN and Yahoo) to offer full-blown blog and feed search capabilities.

Both available in blogsearch.google.com and search.blogger.com.

One of the cool thing is results are also available as RSS or Atom feeds; so if you want to monitor the blogosphere this is the way to go.

Goodbye Technorati?

2005-04-05T20:38:00.000+03:00

What-a-Pit-Stop!

2005-04-05T20:37:00.000+03:00

F1 Car displayed in City Centre

2005-04-05T20:36:00.000+03:00

You want some? Hehehe

Disk Cloning

2005-02-19T05:50:00.000+03:00

"I admin a small ISP. In the past few weeks, we have had three Seagate drives bite the dust (all the same model/batch), so the assumption is that the other drives are following soon.

Replacement drives are only about $100 at Fry's, but who wants to rebuild a dozen machines. The new drives are also bigger, so using dd to image the drives would work, but I wouldn't get the benefit of the increased drive space."

Read more...

Successful and Derailed

2005-02-17T20:35:00.000+03:00

A successful manager has reached at least the general management level and, in the eyes of senior executives, remains a likely candidate for promotion. The most commonly mentioned characteristics indicating success describe leaders who:

establish strong relationships
hire, build, and successfully lead teams
have outstanding track records of performance
adapt and develop during transitions.

A derailed manager is one who, having reached the general manager level, is fired, demoted, or reaches a career plateau. In almost every case, a derailed manager exhibits high potential for advancement, holds an impressive track record of results, and holds a solidly established leadership position—until hitting the derailment trap. Five key characteristics have been observed in derailed executives. Leaders who derail:

have problems with interpersonal relationships
fail to hire, build, and lead a team
fail to meet business objectives
are unable or unwilling to change or adapt
lack a broad functional orientation.

Executives who rise from technical to managerial roles can face challenges in any of these five areas. Fortunately, they can also adopt strategies that take their cue from the descriptions of leaders who enjoy long-term career success. They can avoid the derailment track and work toward long-term success by developing, strengthening, and diversifying their skills among these four leadership qualities:

interpersonal skills
team leadership
achieving business objectives
adaptability and openness to change.

None of these success characteristics or fatal flaws is enough to control the outcome of an entire career. Still, most managers who have potentially derailing flaws but the ability to learn and develop can use leadership training, feedback, and developmental assignments to overcome possible career failure and prepare themselves for more senior leadership roles.

Key point summary from Keeping Your Career On Track: Twenty Success Strategies

Focus on the tasks at hand

2005-02-17T20:18:00.000+03:00

It's all right to focus your developmental plan on skills you will need down the road, but don't forget that your main job is just that—your main job. Focus on what you need to accomplish each day to move closer to achieving personal, team, and organizational goals. Bring jobs to a close. Tie up loose ends. Challenge and develop your direct reports.

Don't forget to think strategically and link your daily work to organizational goals and mission.
Don't allow yourself to become invisible to upper management by burying yourself in your daily work.

Excerpt from Keeping Your Career On Track: Twenty Success Strategies

Goals and Priorities

2005-02-17T20:14:00.000+03:00

If you wait for total security and perfection you may paralyze your leadership development. You can minimize risks by defining a clear goal, setting priorities, and getting organized. Make sure you understand how your boss and your organization measure performance and then meet those standards through your actions.

Putting in long hours and becoming obsessive about your job performance isn't the same as taking action. A balance between your work life and your personal life will go a long way toward making you more productive and keeping you successful.
Don't put off what needs to be done. Decide what tasks are most important to accomplishing your goal and take care of those first. Remember the old 80/20 rule: 20 percent of your efforts accomplish 80 percent of your goal. Determine what the 20 percent is for you and set your priorities accordingly.

Excerpt from Keeping Your Career On Track: Twenty Success Strategies

Dimpler

2005-02-12T17:09:00.000+03:00

Welcome to blogspot!

2005-02-12T11:15:00.000+03:00

Me and Princess with F1 car

Heartbeat

2005-02-07T15:37:00.000+03:00

Today, I’m very happy as I first heard the heartbeat of my upcoming child. Yes, me and Liezl expecting another one! Thanks God for another blessings.

Another win of MS

2004-07-11T23:12:00.000+03:00

Wew!

Love your neighbors

2004-07-11T23:04:00.000+03:00

Today's gospel centered in loving your neighbors - and speaking of neighbors, today is birthday of Cita our nurse neighbor.

P2P Sites

2004-07-06T15:47:00.000+03:00

http://zeropaid.com/
http://konspire.sourceforge.net/index.shtml
http://www.kazaa.com/us/index.htm
http://p2pnet.net/index.php
http://www.bearshare.com/
http://www.morpheus.com/
http://www.bearshare.com/
http://www.blubster.com/
http://www.grokster.com/
http://www.edonkey2000.com/

Getting away with murder

2004-06-15T10:47:00.000+03:00

"In India, two days after their elections, they already knew the winner. In Taiwan, two hours after the elections, they already knew the winner. In the Philippines, two months before the elections, they already knew the winner."

Hello Spam Mails

2004-06-14T17:06:00.000+03:00

I setup two new mail server today to replace my new latest-version-server, due to some problem receiving email from selective-non-compliant-mail-servers.

Now I'm using the old-good-version-server which even friendly to spam mails. :)

I'm sure many people in my company will enjoy reading those spams.

Qatar is richest Arab nation; among top 20 in the world

2004-06-13T16:28:00.000+03:00

"Qatar continues to be the richest Arab nation with a per capita income of more than $30,000, data released by Abu Dhabi-based Arab Monetary Fund (AMF) have revealed. "

And still counting. . .

2004-06-08T13:48:00.000+03:00

And still counting. . . - INQ7.Net: "TODAY is Trinity Sunday. I was going to ask the Commission on Elections to count how many persons there are in the Trinity, but the mystery may just deepen further. Perhaps the networks, but they may just give me the results of exit polls. Or perhaps the National Movement for Free Elections, but it may give me a slow count. Or maybe the joint committee of Congress, but it may just fall into a hole of endless debates and machinations!"

Liezl's Den: friendship!!!

2004-06-08T13:39:00.000+03:00

"Analyze this…meditate on what you’ve been doing to your “friends” and to others. Do you deserve to be called a friend? Are you not ashamed of your mistreatment to others? Don’t camouflage yourself with the color of friendship; better show your true self! It doesn’t make sense at all!!! You are liken to a beast with seven swaggering tongues and a tail that you uses like your microphone."

Wow!

Haste

2004-06-08T13:33:00.000+03:00

"The real constitutional crisis will not come from a president not being proclaimed at the end of the month. It will come from a president being proclaimed so under the cloud of having mugged the voters at the end of the month. That is a crisis that will bedevil this country -- and the presidency -- from Day One. That is a crisis that can, and will, be met by force and oppression, particularly if the media, the Catholic Church, civil society, the human rights lawyers, the civil liberties groups and individuals of conscience consent to being silenced right now in the name of stability, order and peace. There is a price to pay for that silence."

New Data Center

2004-05-18T13:44:00.000+03:00

Today I switched to a new datacenter server. So far so good.

2004-04-14T13:04:00.000+03:00

hello!!!

2002-12-11T10:17:00.000+03:00

wow! after sooooooo long, i remembered i still have str.blogspot.com! my [idle]bits!

2001-07-19T16:13:00.000+03:00

This was posted by my friend Stephen Polo in strdocGroups. Long but must to read.

Somebody once told me that "Finding the right person is very hard and very wrong.....it is best to be the right person for the one you love and start from there...you'll always end up disappointed when you set standards and define a "right person" for you... and don't rush things... coz somewhere somehow God is preparing somebody for you."

You can never be perfect...the person you love can never be perfect...but both of you can be perfect through love and prayers, and your love can be perfect through the both of you. But, no relationship is complete without God... that's why we have marriage..it's a bond not only between you and your loved one....but also with God.

Our relationships fail not because (s)he's not the right person....it's because we expected too much and we decided on our own... let God do the work... you may call it waiting time... but while you are waiting...pray. Let God guide you always... He knows better. No, He knows best.

Love is not what you think it is.... Sometimes we mistakenly feel that our first relationship will be our last. Because we are overwhelmed with joy and romance, we forget to learn the meaning of true love. Some are saying that love is unselfish, blind, unconditional or simply denying oneself for the sake of someone very important in our life.

Others are saying love is immortal and can never be defined. When we think we're in love the first thing we almost wanted the whole world to know is that our love for someone very special can never be taken away from us. We say this phrase "You are the most wonderful gift from GOD I have ever received..." After a terrible fight or sometimes even a petty quarrel we then say "You are the biggest mistake I've ever made for my entire life!!". Now, how do you say and spell the word L-O-V-E? Are you really deeply into it?.

Nobody can tell what love really is until experience speaks and whispers right into our ears. Most of the time, these love promises like "Forever, Till Death do us apart, etc." would end up "Never" and "We should part ways, I'm no longer happy with you! My love for you is DEAD!!!". Many times we thought after having committed to someone and your trust to one another freezes down to zero degree "S/He ain't the right one. I should probably wait for the right one to come." But the big question anyone could not answer is "Is she/he the right one?" and "When is the right time?" That made us stick to whom we are with. Will you always be waiting for the right person to come and the right time to commit? A big YES is the answer.

Don't be in a hurry to get into a relationship because you can never find love if you insist that you are already into it. Try to find time to really understand your real feelings, to know who you really are, and what you really want in a relationship. You're right, there is no such thing as a perfect relationship, but there's a compatible partnership that goes along with it. If you already knew that you're too big to fit into a small sized t-shirt, don't give it a try. You'll probably break it and pay for the damages you have made. If you knew and felt that the relationship will not last, don't go deeper into it. You'll just suffer the consequences and live like hell the rest of your life.

It's really hard to say goodbye though, but you can't make it any better by just pretending you still have the same feelings. Try to let go and give yourself a chance to live life to the fullest. Give yourself a chance to grow and give your heart a much needed attention. Then you will find that you have made the right decision and you made it all by yourself. More frequently than not, we all act in a hypocritical manner for some reason.

We call it love when we can't leave someone and see them crying as we try to let go. We are wrong, its just pity. We call it love when we're too attached and think that losing the one we love will somehow make us weak and unable to face the storms of life. We misunderstood, its just that we're too much dependent to them. We call it love when we give our whole life to them, the wholeness of us and imagined that if they leave no one would accept us and our past. We are mistaken, its just insecurity. But no matter what the definition is, the truth still remains that love isn't something you can buy nor beg. It is real and existing. You can't touch it but you can feel it in your heart. You can't find it, but it will knock before you when you least expect it to come. It can make you the happiest soul in heaven, but don't forget that it also can make you the most miserable person in the whole galaxy.

P.S.
"Contentment is not the fulfilment of what you want,
it is the realization of how much you already have."

Love is the hardest thing in the world to explain.
It's not something you learn in school. But if you
haven't learned the meaning of love, you really
haven't learned anything.

2001-03-03T19:10:00.000+03:00

Thread

Recently I came across a wide golden Thread hanging from a great gray sky. This one sparkled, and glittered, and swayed just so. I wanted to grab hold.. I smiled when my fingers closed around the end and I found that it was stronger than I thought. I became light like a floating feather and into the air I went.. tears came to my eyes when I looked down.. the Thread had taken me to a place I've been many times before, where the rays of the setting sun are present but fleeting.. soon darkness will come.

But then the Thread reminded me that the sun wasn't setting at all, I looked again, and sure enough, it was rising! It was morning and the day had yet to begin..

Copyright and all rights reserved by sniff. Posted here with his ~~permission~~.

2001-02-25T11:29:00.000+03:00

New Guidelines for Dietary Selenium - I'm researching about selinium when I found this report that examines available scientific data on both beneficial and harmful health effects of four nutrients typically found in food: vitamins C and E; selenium; beta-carotene and other carotenoids. Take a look for your information.

2001-02-25T08:38:00.000+03:00

The WORD Today: Judging others (Luke 6:39-45)
JESUS told His disciples a parable, "Can a blind person guide a blind person? Will not both fall into a pit? No disciple is superior to the teacher; but when fully trained, every disciple will be like his teacher. Why do you notice the splinter in your brother's eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own? How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me remove that splinter in your eye,' when you do not even notice the wooden beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! Remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then you will see clearly to remove the splinter in your brother's eye. "A good tree does not bear rotten fruit, nor does a rotten tree bear good fruit. For every tree is known by its own fruit. For people do not pick figs from thornbushes, nor do they gather grapes from brambles. A good person out of the store of goodness in his heart produces good, but an evil person out of a store of evil produces evil; for from the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks."
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In the gospel, Jesus is presented as seeing both words and actions as reflective of inner disposition. Believers are invited to be prudent in choosing a guide. This means that we have to evaluate carefully what our leaders say and do, and see whether there is congruence between their preaching and their way of life. In a situation where the leader is wicked or simply dumb, failure to do so can very well spell disaster. If a blind person attempts to serve as a guide of another blind person, there is a big likelihood that both of them will fall into a pit.

The gospel also reminds us to reflect on our own failures, weaknesses, and limitations, to accept these and learn our lesson. In so doing, we become less judgmental and more understanding of others' frailties. At the same time, backed by the wisdom gained from our experience, we can lead others to change for the better, on the way of conversion. Again we do this as living witnesses - by our words and deeds.

A well-known lay preacher once shared that when he was young, he was sexually molested by two male confreres on separate occasions. One was a youth leader whom he saw leading the morning prayer just a few hours after his dastardly act. It was the most despicable sight he had ever seen in his whole life. But he learned to forgive. Truly he has taken to heart Jesus' call for forgiveness on the cross. This preacher is both popular and effective because he is credible. And he is credible because his words flow from the fullness of his heart.

SOURCE: "365 Days with the Lord," ST. PAULS, 7708 St. Paul Rd., SAV, Makati City (Phils.); Tel.: 895-9701; Fax 8907130; E-mail: stpauls@skyinet.net; Website: http://www.skyinet.net/~stpauls/

2001-02-24T13:22:00.000+03:00

Heartfelt condolence to Pagquil Family. Tatang – father of my brother-in-law, Kuya Nolly – passed away.

Please join me in praying for the soul of Tatang.

2001-02-24T13:14:00.000+03:00

Thanks to all people who prayed for my mother. We have now answered prayers! The scheduled type of treatment for her, which has lots of expected side effects, is now lowered to a milder one. Her MD will observe for one week if she will react positively with this kind of mild treatment. If yes, she’ll maintain this kind of mild chemotherapy. Otherwise, she will need to undergo for severe one.

This week is very crucial for her. Let’s continue praying, whatever the best outcome for her, let it be.

2001-02-22T10:40:00.000+03:00

Judases - THE INDISPENSABILITY of Judas’ role in salvation history has been overlooked. All that Judas receives is condemnation.

2001-02-21T20:37:00.000+03:00

Dear friends, I’m asking your support and help in my moment of crisis. Before, I promised myself not to share this condition here. I don’t want you to sympathize with me and feel you bad. But I guess, sharing this, will help me to cope with my on going stress and loneliness.

The situation is constructive. We’d been here last year, and we manage it rightly. Doing all possible_worldly_remedies and Trusting God was the main component of it. We acted as one big and more loving family.

Now, the sequel came again. Externally all of us showing we are strong and confident as last year – even more. Now it’s easier to comprehend the situation. No “Whys”, No “What-Ifs”, and no many other questions anymore. We know that this is God's Will and He will help us to pass this again.

But internally (personally speaking), I have some fear of losing the most important person in my life… and I love most…

…I can’t continue this writing. I can’t express myself anymore. Sorry friends if I’m un-understandable here…

Before I end this, I’m asking your heartfelt prayer for my mother and to all our loved ones.

God Bless.

2001-02-20T13:18:00.000+03:00

Normally when I’m receiving “forwarded_email” I’m deleting it right away (sorry if you’re one of these people sending those kind of email), I’m not enjoying and spending time to read it specially those chain_kind_of_email.

Today, when I opened my inbox I got around 20+ of it – and I clicked my mouse rhythm-itically ‘delete-delete-delete-delete’ – and bring only 4 new personal emails remaining. Read those email and did some quick replies.

After that I check my server’s log, status of network devices, and other early administrative morning routine.

And when I returned back to my personal workstation, I’m surprise I got 5 new emails again and those are again forwarded_email. More surprisingly the subject are all the same and have similar subject to most of the emails I deleted a while ago!

Those are all about the Philippine Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago’s big mouth.

“What the hell’s going on?” I ask myself.

Inquisitively, I find sometime to read it and I found it really interesting – and worth forwarding for. I’m sure you already received this email many times from your friend. And in case no one still cares to send you this, expect today or the next few days you will receive ample of it.

Internet generation is here now! Level of intelligence and understanding are moving forward - bringing information dissemination unstoppable.

2001-02-19T12:27:00.000+03:00

Last night I went to see the Final match of the first ever woman tennis tournament here in the gulf as world number one Martina Hingis won the tournament. I observe how spectators got wild just to see perfectly_fitted_body of those female tennis players that bring the center court almost packed and big difference in crowd comparing to the past male tennis tournaments held also in same venue.

Some funny thing happened in that event when one of the stallions in the awarding ceremony discharges his shit while moving around, and one cleaner removes it using his hands as people applauded him more than the game match.

The awarding ceremony was really great. Martina entered the stadium riding a brown stallion and dress as a princess in purple thobanashil. In the winner’s interview Martina said, "I have always wanted to look like a princess... it is my childhood dream… and it’s a dream come true here”. She added, “This is the first women's tournament in the Gulf and I am proud to be a part of this historical moment. I felt very responsible coming here and knew that I had to win. I am relieved that I played well and won. I will come next year and defend my title. This is a special event for me."

2001-02-18T09:00:00.000+03:00

Welcome to Manila Mama, Papa. Enjoy your stay. Anything you need just let me know. Hehehe.
I'll call you tonight. Miss you all. I love you.

2001-02-18T07:54:00.000+03:00

My two previous days bring me some new definition in life.

2001-02-15T10:51:00.000+03:00

Computer Dating Agency - This is really cool... hehehe... You just enter some vitals about your box and can match it up with other people's boxen. Who knows maybe mine will be the true love of yours.

2001-02-15T07:59:00.000+03:00

The caused of death of Lolo Teban is not "oldness" but car accident.

2001-02-15T07:48:00.000+03:00

At last Valentine’s Day over!

2001-02-13T21:34:00.000+03:00

Lolo Teban the oldest man in our barrio passed away in the age of more than 100. He’s now really a history - many tales about him he himself told - mixed of noble and awful. Stories like how he survived from Spanish to Japanese up to American rulings and managed to amass vast amount of lands in our place. This made him virtually owner of the whole barrio and nearby places. In fact the house we are living today was his previous family house and almost all of our land properties were bought from him. One great legacy he left is his big family circle. I’m not sure, but I guess he had 3 wives and I’m really not sure about the number of children. One interesting observation in those 3 (or so) families, it was in different generations. You can easily distinguish the difference in his set of children in age and in breed. Well, I don’t want to classify person here but that’s the way I observed.

Since I was a child, I looked Lolo Teban as a human to study how to live fully in this world. He’s my constant teacher about history, present and future. He’s very intelligent, conversational and religious - not to mention his passion and sense in life.

He looked me as a delicate person and always warned in all kinds of adversity in life. He knows me very much from my root – my grand grandfather lives to what I’m now. He has a pretty descent understanding in computers though he based it in films he watched.

He truly believes on me and to my family. Every time we have conversation he is always convincing me to run for public official and to lead our place…. He always reminds me to don’t ever forget my birthplace, the people in our barrio, to share and help them the best that we can.

Endless words of wisdom I can remember from him. Definitely he is one (of many) person shaped my life. Whatever I will achieve in the future, Lolo Teban is one of the reason.

Thank you. I will always remember you with prayers as my teacher, my father, and my friend. Rest in peace Lolo Teban. God Bless you.

2001-02-12T15:20:00.000+03:00

My desktop today in one of my desktop workstation here in the office. Very cool right? Screaming! Hehehe.

2001-02-12T09:00:00.000+03:00

Computing is not about computers. It is about life. We are discussing a fundamental cultural change: Being digital is not just being a geek or Internet surfer or mathematically savvy child. It is actually a way of living and is going to impact absolutely everything. The way you work, the way you study, the way you amuse yourself, the way you communicate among your friends, with your kids.

2001-02-10T09:08:00.000+03:00

Happy birthday to the best mom in the world! Wish you the best of health. Miss you. I love you Mama.

2001-02-09T07:27:00.001+03:00

Weekend here. My last week was not so great. I feel I can do better than what I did last week. I dunno, I’m not satisfied really - because I exert lots of effort to bring my best in my everyday life but the outcome still almost similar to my loss-days.

So what went wrong? Where did I fail? What should I do? Hmmmm.

If I can lesser those “wasted_time”, and convert it in “prolific_time”, I can have more “efficiency”, and save lots of time and effort going to my satisfying day.

This morning when I woke up, I prayed and meditate - visualize myself what will be my activities today, and I’m happy because even weekend here my unconscious mind still willing to spend my day in excellence.

Alright, I hope I’ll be happy.

(I hope you understand the difference of “I’m happy” and “I’ll be happy” in bold letters above.)

2001-02-09T07:27:00.000+03:00

2001-02-08T12:26:00.000+03:00

Fruit Fly Key to Cocaine High?

2001-02-08T12:23:00.000+03:00

Implant Achieves Female Orgasm: Dr. Stuart Meloy was putting an electrode into the woman's spine in an attempt to ease her chronic pain, he not only reduced her back pain, but gave her an unexpected -- but delightful -- side-effect.

2001-02-07T22:07:00.000+03:00

I'm in the zone today. You heard about C-Zone?

2001-02-06T19:53:00.000+03:00

Today is not a good day here in my weblog discussion area. I don’t know why some other people wasting time just to destroy or at least pissed other people lives. I’m really feeling bad to most of the comments today because it shows only majority of my readers are uneducated. Sorry for the word but even worse word than that I can easily use to describe to what “you” are doing here.

I’m giving you freedom of speech here to discuss something about what I posted – but you’re abusing it! The purpose of my discussion area is for you to add more information or ask question and clarify to what I posted. Are we all here ignorant?

Again, if you have any personal message, use the proper method. Send me email and I’m sure I’ll try to reply you back as soon as I have time. Somehow if you’re mad of me and you want to tell the whole wide world how wicked I am, hey don’t use my own web page to get even to me. Build your own and submit it to all search engine or even I can link you here in my homepage.

My apology if I deleted some comments in previous posting. I hope it will never occur again.

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I’m unable to finish even a single chapter in my book today. In the morning I was hook in my new Linux document that I’m reading. In the afternoon I’m just not in focus to read, possibly because of some disturbing comments in my discussion area - honestly I was little bit affected. I really want to participate in that “piece_of_shit”, but I try my best to control my emotion. I even don’t read it again, because I know, series of “clone_shit” will come.

Later in the day in the office, we experienced Internet connection problem – it’s all our ISP’s fault. Heck, this country is so cool – imagined only one ISP (monopoly) and they don’t care to do some maintenance work anytime they wish to. Whew! It just added to displeasure I’m feeling today.

I guess I need to end now my day - sleep and take rest now. Wake up early and start a better day tomorrow.

God Bless everybody.

2001-02-05T21:04:00.000+03:00

Murphy is here now in my discussion area. His law is over ruling now this page. What can I say? “Buckle-up everybody and enjoy the ride!”

Starting now, I’ll try to minimize responding to each comment here – I reserve mine only to those rational one. And I’ll respond back (in my idle time) thru email to answer or clarify other (non-sense) comments posted – so please provide your real email address.

Everyone is entitled to his/her own opinion and I respect that. But please understand that this is not a right place for any flame_word_war, and please respect me too. Before posting anything please think (at least) twice what will be the outcome of your statement.

Anyway, I wanna say thank you for giving time in visiting this site, reading the discussion area, and brave enough to post something notable. Regardless it’s favorable or destructible - you guys bringing more vivacity in this webpage.

Even myself feel thrilled each time new comment posted - lots of surprises huh? This is a great learning experience for me. Hope you’re learning too.

P.S.
Just for clarification: FreiX stands for “free unix” (FREeunIX)… not freak!
Claro? Sprite!

2001-02-04T19:33:00.000+03:00

Arnell my group mate in No:XQz posted some cool pictures in our site, and I created a hilarious but agonizing essay about it.

Thanks to all visiting this weblog. Since I opened discussion in my tripod site, my hits rose steadily. Maybe they are trying to see how many grammar mistakes I’ll commit.

Aileen you’re the one making this craze.

What the hell is this weblog? This is now a big part of my life. It entered in my bloodstream like a virus, took root, and stand my way in documenting myself. I can only let loose on a web journal like this if I don't care what people I know will think when they read it. In case of traditional diary no one else at all ever reads what you've written, which makes the whole exercise completely different. Here putting myself in public is a bold move and almost-insane-thing specially putting the discussion section and all comments are viewable to the public.

Am I destroying my own privacy here? Then, maybe I better stop this hype before too late.

But NO! I’ll not!… I love now this weblog. I will continue this indefinitely. After 50 years I want to read all about myself in the past 50 years – ONLINE.

I’ll remain this public without worrying what other people may think of me, or write of me. I have nothing to hide – I’m honest throughout my life. No one can destroy me.

If you find my weblog interesting, I'm glad. Drop me a line and say hi. If ur message is private please usethe proper means or join the discussion for public viewable comments.

And if you don't, that's fine, too. Maybe you should start one of your own.

2001-02-03T20:55:00.000+03:00

Wew! ‘Twas a long weekend… Back to work tomorrow. I’m unable to finish my book. I read two chapters yesterday and another two chapters today. Pretty bad since I did nothing these two days, suppose to be just to read.

I attended mass yesterday night, and we have a visiting priest. He’s very dark and small (short), most of all he talks very slow. Good thing I was seated near the front row. Otherwise I’ll fall sleep in the church, specially I was alone – no one will wake me up. Gospel is all about perseverance and true belief in God – when Simon (Peter) followed Jesus after the “fishing” incident.

After reading my 2 chapters this morning – my mind start wandering and I'm unable to focus again to what I’m reading. I go outside of my room to have some walk and I saw a VCD titled “The 6th Day” lying near the computer in our living room. I tried to ignore it and go back to the new chapter I’m reading – dammit, it just added to the distraction in my focus.

As you guess, I’m an action and sci-fi movie fan – so immediately I put that VCD to Agila (my notebook) plugged my Bose speaker – blast! My room turned to a Movie Theater!

The film's premise is heavily based in TRUE science fiction; that is, fiction having its basis in scientific truth, using projections of the future to fully examine some aspect of our society. Sorry to go into such an elaborate definition, but I believe a lot of stuff gets swept into the category of science fiction simply because it has a robot, or takes place in outer space. But I digress. This fictional reality here deals with cloning. In the film, which takes place in the "near future," cloning is an every-day practice, but only with pets and animals. Cloning people has been outlawed, as the original human cloning project went horribly wrong.

With this premise, the film is wide open to make many social observations, and does so very well, on occasion. Much of the legalities concerning cloning, as well as the ethical concerns, are discussed and examined by the characters. Even though the technology exists in the future, it is not widely accepted.

Okay, I’m getting long and deeper here; I can find lots of words to say about that film specially I have real interest in this subject – CLONING. You heard about GNOME project?

To sum it up, this film is more than as an action or sci-fi film – it is a reality of our future – sooner than you expected.

Well, I guess that’s it for today. This posting kinda long now. I hope you still reading up to here.

2001-02-02T01:50:00.000+03:00

This site is the coolest among strweb network. Why? Here I'll publish whatever I can't publish in my official site. Meaning more free form of writing you can see here. This must be coolest.

2001-02-02T01:36:00.000+03:00

MS shakes down F2001 - Here Schuma comes... Whoa!

2001-02-01T22:15:00.000+03:00

Another fone call - to my sister in UK. Oh yeah, as well as to Ana too.
I'm busy hacking this site. As you can see lots of changes in design. Basically I'll maintain the simplicity and keep this fast to load in your browser.

2001-02-01T21:53:00.000+03:00

Whoa!!! I have different weblogs now! I dunno what to maintain and what to update. I should select from one from these. This blog is one of the candidate. What's cooler? Let's see. What's easy to maintain? Let's see. What's most visited? Let's see.

2001-01-30T11:14:00.000+03:00

A great learning day today.

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Read already 2 chapters in my ICND book.

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In some of my breather time, I found Joel on Software - it's all about painless software management. Very educational place to rest.

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Today’s Quote(from my colleague Mehboob):

“Music and TV are evil!”

Before I learned from him that the two main source of evil here on earth are money and lady.

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I'm just wondering when I can play PlayStation again?

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Watched late at night movie Here on Earth. Recommended by my friend ‘must to see’… gasp… very much a like a Filips flicks. I’m not against our local movie, but… c’mon ineffective story line (poor and rich teens fall in love), a disastrous change of plot (a new definition again of predictability here); total waste of time.

I am asking myself: why did I see this movie? I better read two more chapters in my book.