Category: life

I first read it on Noemi Dado's blog. Today, Toblerone is spearheading today's Thank You Day here in the Philippines. I joined Noemi's Thank You Day contest, and I received an email yesterday from the organizers telling me I won two tickets to the concert tonight. Unfortunately, I can't go because I'm based here in Davao City. Anyway, I would still like to thank Toblerone for the tickets and this wonderful concept of having a National Thank You Day! From the bottom of my heart, DAGHANG SALAMAT!!! to all the people around me, even those who I wish to kill!

My desktop iz cute, splattered with many, many icons of the software I use most often, the files I open all the time, and some notes on some things I'm working on. The Meme Rules: (Batang Makulit Yagit tagged me for this one.) My Desktop Free View Instruction: A. Upon receiving this tag, immediately perform a screen capture of your desktop. It is best that no icons be deleted before the screen capture so as to add to the element of fun. You can do a screen capture by: Going to your desktop and pressing the Print Scrn key (located on the right side of the F12 key). Open a graphics program (like Picture Manager, Paint, or Photoshop) and do a Paste (CTRL + V). If you wish, you can “edit” the image, before saving it. B. Post the picture in your blog. You can also give a short explanation on the look of your desktop just below it if you want. You can explain why you preferred such look or why is it full of Icons, things like that. C. Tag five of your friends and ask them to give you a Free View of their desktop as well.…

Well, these are not really conversations but exchanges made through the magical powers of technology. Last week, I was chatting via YM with a DotA player that I was interviewing for my DotA Blog. Let's call him "B." We were talking about the game, players, tournaments, my work, and such things. Here's a truncated version of what happened: B: Hey! Can I ask you something? RJ (me): Sure. B: Do you have a lot of guy friends? RJ: Yes. I don't have a lot of female friends. B: That makes sense. RJ: Why? B: You talk like a boy. You're different from most girls I know. Ohhhkay.... Fast forward to this afternoon... My ex-suitor na itatago natin sa pangalang (whom we shall call) "H" sent me an SMS asking about the exhibition games between Malaysia's Cybertime, and local Teams Ch¡LL and CORPOration. I replied. He didn't reply for quite a while. Then... (the English geist of our conversation) H: Ria... RJ: Yes? H: You were beautiful yesterday (referring to last Saturday when we saw each other during a tournament). RJ: Are you drunk again? I'm always beautiful. Your fault... you're slow. (I was joking.) H: If you weren't such a…