in the name of zero

in all my 40 celcius fever, swollen face, and, infected gums glory.

http://ipodlinux.org/Main_Page

ooh… and my apologies for posting one liners (which are supposed to be chirps) but then i’ve been rather busy with real life. no net, no t.v., no radio. i’m practically a caveman. (and that pacquiao match is just around the corner) yeah.. starting out on your own away from dear old momsie and popsie takes you one step closer to a state of destitution. but life gets better.

so again, some linkies for the patient among the crowd.

http://www.draculasriddle.co.uk/veros/darkforest.htm
http://www.deathball.net/notpron/

enjoy chaps.

dear god,

it’s tearing me apart to see her this way. i feel so helpess. make her see the light again.

amen.

i followed my heart… i’m soooooooooooo happy right now… and will be for at least 4 years!

god bless her.

i’m fresh outta college and currently enjoying freedom. (mostly because it took me six years to get through) many of my classmates have said their goodbyes. some have already left carrying with them the promise of employment and all the luxuries and benefits that come with the degree they recently got. at this point though, i’m pretty certain that i won’t be using the calculus and advanced math concepts i learned from school. also the chemistry and some of the physics concepts.

looking at my graduation again this time with my hormones in check, i feel kinda sad that school’s over. afterall, university is the only pace in this city where you can find high quality chicks! usually comes in three flavors:

a) one with all the beauty… and rich.
b) one with all the brains… and rich.
c) one with both all the beauty and all the brains and above all… rich.

that’s that.

for the most part, i’m just slacking off these days, just watching full anime seasons everyday. sometimes, i walk (on my usual route) to the internet cafe near my school to play DoTA. quickly becoming a daily routine if you ask me.

faced with the prospect of getting work soon, my original plan was to make easy money by becoming a call center agent in some company some place up north. actually, i’m still entertained by that idea until now. recruitments will be held this coming april and me and my friends agreed that we’d give it a shot. afterall, the only important requirement is to be “able to speak functional english”.

summer also means that i must again take up a new hobby and/or continue my old ones. usually, i settle for learning a new programming language (of my liking) and doing some fun stuffs with my chosen PL.

coz no one wants a C guy nowadays… i’m practically screwed. so again with the prospect of getting work, i’m giving learning java and “some of the bullshit that comes with it” a shot. that is where the money is “apparently” nowadays. or so i think.

i guess she’s finishing up packing her stuff as i’m typing this entry. she’s going to cebu for a job interview and the thought about not seeing her again and missing her kicked in kinda late. i’m such an asshole.

thinking about her brings back vivid memories of our trip to cagayan! it’s a story i’ll be sure to tell my grandsons if i’ll have any…

this is niel. signing off.

first and foremost, let me just say that “girls and DoTA” don’t mix.

last friday, i thought i’d treat myself to a hearty game of warcraft at the cheapest rate internet cafe in town (which is only a few walks away from university). i fired up ggclient, and went to play with random people in the public room. a few minutes into the game, two girls came in and occupied the units opposite to where i was sitting. they were giggling to much for their own good… and were obviously excited. i couldn’t see what’s going on in their monitors, but i heard them whinning a few gazzillion times over the fact that the heroes they were controlling died because opponents were cheating in the game.

inside, i was like.. “holy crap! please just go home and practice how to become good mommies someday will ya!?”

yeah…. oh, and girls who bounce when they giggle are stupid.

[ tangrams ]

emerge gtans

will keep me occupied for the time being….

recently… i’ve been watching more and more ju mong!

Maligayang pasko! Froehliche Weihnachten! kurisumasu omedeto! Sung Tan Chuk Ha! Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan!

happy birthday jesus.

yeah, so thanks to planet larry, i now know what gentoo linux users are called… “gentooligans”. sounds like “hooligans” but don’t get me wrong. i have no qualms whatsoever about that choice, seeing as no one has stepped up and actually wonder about it loudly.

this was actually a question i’ve asked myself a few times during the past few years of using gentoo… i mean .. redhat linux users (back then) must have called themselves “redhatters”.. recently, with the advent of ubuntu, i’ve read in some writeups referring to its users as “ubuntites” (which by the way, sounds a little gay, at least in a personal perspective. “gay” as in the ‘oh god! i’m still uncircumcised and i’m already 40 years old‘ kinda “gay”…)

anyway, i wonder what debian citizens are called? mandrake? fedora? (i’m guessin’ “fedoreans”). oh well, octoberfest is upon us ladies and gents… let the drunk do the thinking. :p

“i guess that means no” - i find myself saying just before our data communications class. my heart, racing. my mind, trying to come up with the right kind of exit. i can only assume that i’m just another pain in the ass and being persistent in this case would only make things even worse. i wasn’t really being particularly needy. it’s just that i miss her and all. us walking together to the school gate is now a thing of the past. (and i gotta admit, those times are the closest thing i had to a date besides our trip to cagayan)

i really don’t know what to say. and as you might have already known, this isn’t a particularly insteresting story. leaning toward a rant but perhaps it’s just because of my choice of arrangement of negative words. if only a good samaritan would step up and explain what the fck women are thinking… now that i think about it, that clerk at the drive-in counter at “jollibee camins” looks kinda cute.

now (as i’m typing this) i’m drowning myself on the punk melody that is ‘addicted by simple plan’. playing it over and over again. not a bad way to spend a dateless evening.

- niel

just to let people know that i still maintain this blog. just too damn busy with real life recently. college thesis and all that.

cheers.