Weblog Wannabe

Everyone should learn Non-escalating Verbal Self-Defense. There are just too many mean people out there. No, I'm not included. Really. ♥

Ever wondered where it would bring you if you entered AltaVisa.com instead of AltaVista.com into your browser? Neither have I. ♥

With EggThemOn you can throw eggs at anyone anytime anywhere without having to buy any egg or having to be face to face with the person you want to throw eggs at. How convenient is that? ;) ♥

The internet is getting weirder. Now you can send emails on behalf of your pet and in their own native language (like it makes any difference) with PetEmails. Right. ♥

Can't decide what Halloween costume to wear? Try the Match Your Costume To Your Personality quiz and get some suggestions on costumes that best suit your personality. They suggest me to dress as Hillary Clinton. Ha! How scary. ♥

Tuesday Morning Haiku

So glad to be home
I do need a lot of rest
The doctor was right.

I was in the office for only an hour and a half but it already drained me. I'm glad I don' have to come back to work until next Monday. Anyway, I finally received the confirmation letter from SXSW. They sent it in a mass email and since they didn't bother to make the email address of the recipients undisclosed, now everyone knows who their competitors are. Heh. How lovely *grins* ♥

Guess where am I right now? I'm at the office, working on my cataloging statistics. I'm not officially working. I didn't even sign in. It's just that I must hand in the statistics today so I decided to come to work for an hour or so just to work on it. My brother will pick me up in several minutes. Today's haiku will have to wait until I get home. ♥

It's half hour past midnight and I'm wide awake. Well, I am sleepy, but awake. I'm still overwhelmed by the fact that I just killed a bee. First I paralysed it with some insecticide and then I crushed it with my sandal. It made me feel like a cold-blooded murderer but I am afraid of bees. I really am. I got stung by a bee when I was about 5 years old. Even now I can still feel the pain. Now let's see if I could kill every single mosquito in this room. You'd better watch out, mozzies! ♥

I wasn't going to mention this because I was kind of upset about it, but then thought it wouldn't be fair. Justin beat me on The Reflex Tester thingy *boo hoo hoo!* Not that you get anything for making the 0 second time. Not even a congratulations! Just look at the screen shot. Nada! Poor Justin. But I wish him luck on the redesign anyway :) ♥

Oh, there's actually another rather cool thing about the end of daylight savings. Jakarta and Westland, MI is now exactly 12 hours apart. No more confusion for Nikolai :P ♥

You know what sucks about the end of daylight savings? Now I have to wait for another hour to get my daily stats report in the evening. Bummer. Let's see if there's anything cool at all about it. Um. Well, if I use the Blogger time stamp, the time will be correct. That's cool I guess. Too bad I don't use it anymore. ♥

This Geek Love Machine is a riot! One of the answers I got from the machine was "Love hath no fury like a disconnected chatline addict." For some reasons, I found it extremely funny :) I'm so easily amused. (Shockwave required) ♥

Monday Morning Haiku

A windy Monday
It is very cloudy too
No sign of rain yet.

From where I'm sitting, it's easier to observe the weather and watch the clouds changing forms. It made me wish I could fly. The wind's been blowing strongly and tirelessly since last night. I hate it when it's windy. I love it when it rains. Rain, please fall soon! I'm waiting for you! ♥

Now that Halloween is near, here's 20 ways to confuse trick-or-treaters. Most of the things suggested on the list are really, really mean but, hey, there's no harm reading it just for a laugh :) ♥

Superstitions, Old Wives Tales, Beliefs & Misconceptions have a lot of stuff that might either amuse you or scare you. "Saturday's child works hard for a living." That's me. I was born on a Saturday. Does that mean I'm cursed? Rid me of my curse, somebody! ♥

Sunday Morning Haiku

A perfect Sunday
The sun is shining warmly
The sky is bright blue.

And I'm freezing cold. Brrr. But that's okay. Nothing in the world should be perfect. Well, unless you work for NASA. Or for my workplace. That's part of the reason I hate my job. Everything should be perfect and by the rules. There's no room for creativity whatsoever. But I'm not going to talk about my job here. I've talked about it enough as it is. Oh great. Now the song "Perfect Day" is stuck in my head. But don't get me wrong. I love the song. It's just that the song never fails to make me feel kind of sad. Sigh. Well, better start blogging before I get too tired. ♥

Maria McKee's "Show Me Heaven" is stuck in my head. Blech. But at least the song's still much better than Eminem's "The Real Slim Shady" that was stuck in my head last night. I swear I even heard that stupid song in my nightmare. ♥

Join the campaign to get the Internet world to use the ISO8601 : International Date Format. Yes, there really is an international date format and the format is Year-Month-Date. Hmmm, I wonder if Blogger supports this. ♥

I wish my computer was not mute. These pig noises sound like something I'd enjoy listening, just for a laugh or two. ♥

Did you know that Daylight Savings Time is actually useless? If I were you, I'd sign the petition to end it. ♥

I didn't know visiting The Graveyard could be so much fun. The epitaphs are hilarious! ♥

Saturday Morning Haiku

So, what to haiku?
I'm not feeling poetic.
I am feeling sick.

Old news, I know. Makes me glad I still have another week off. Anyway, I took the little comment thingy off until Blogvoices.com server is back up again since it gave some javascript errors. Hopefully it won't be down for long. ♥

I wonder if this ISP has any customer at all :) Read it. You'll laugh. Unless you're an AOL user then you'll probably be angry *grins* ♥

Test your response time with The Reflex Tester. It's very addicting. My best time is 0.16 second. Let me know if you can beat that *grins* Update: My new best time is 0.11 second! Yay! :) I was bored, okay? ♥

Friday Morning Haiku

Happy Friday, y'all!
Even if it's still Thursday
Wherever you live.

I'm really not cut to be a bedridden patient. I tried to be bedridden all morning (read: two hours) to follow the doctor's order, but instead of making me feel better, it made me feel even worse. Blech. Never again am I going to try to be bedridden. ♥

I just got back from the doctor's. She ordered me to take yet another week off from work (I don't know how I'll be able to afford it), to sleep all the time (no way!), to think of nothing (don't ask me how), to eat some weird sounding "food" that can be bought at the chemist (vanilla-flavoured one is the best, she said), to drink honey (do I look like Winnie the Pooh?), and to take even more medicines (augh!). Or else. Blech. I'm doomed. The odd thing is, I am getting better. Give me a standing ovation, please! Thank you :) Now I'm off to bed. Goodnight! ♥

Boo! It's all dark and gloomy at Scarevue Central. Well, not really. It's still colourful as ever but... Just see it for yourself! :) ♥

I know I'm not supposed to laugh to see all these pictures from Africa, but it's just so ironic that it's funny. ♥

I don't know if this is bogus or not but the idea is pretty original. Contact Aliens helps you get in contact with the, um, little green men by transmitting your "Interstellar Email" to another star system. Let's just hope that they understand earthling languages. ♥

This is pretty useless for non-drinkers like me but can be really useful for heavy drinkers. If you got drunk last night and you think you might have, er, exchanged bodily fluid with someone but you can't really remember his/her face, Deep Shock may be able to help you remember. And shock you as well. It's a great laugh, though. (Macromedia Shockwave required) ♥

Thursday Morning Haiku

So glad it's morning
After a miserable night
Full of mosquito bites.

Needless to say, I didn't have a very restful sleep so I'm not really one happy camper right now. I haven't told you that we had an earthquake yesterday, have I? It was a pretty forceful one. 6.5 on the Richter scale and it was going on for a minute or so. In the middle of the earthquake, my usually intelligent mother came up with the Stupid Question of the Day: "Is this all right?" I really didn't know what to say. ♥

By the way, you can start worshipping me, for I am Firda The Rubber Duck Goddess. That is, if you haven't done so already ;) ♥

If you have nothing better to do, you can participate in The Great Bellybutton Lint Survey. They need more responses from people without lint and women. Why anyone cares so much about lint is beyond me. ♥

Find out if your name equals 666 with the 666 Calculator. One of my numbers is 665. Pretty close, eh? ;) ♥

Due to popular request (okay, one request anyway and it came from ages ago), Weblog Wannabe now has a little comment thingy courtesy BlogVoices. Anyway, can you suggest me anything to replace the word "Comments"? I just think it's so overused. Make sure it's not "Discuss" or "Talk" either. Ok, so I'm picky. Just sue me. ♥

Wednesday Morning Haiku

A lovely morning
I will open the window
Let the fresh air in.

Or my mother's going to kill me. She just doesn't want to know that sometimes, just like other mere mortals, I forget to do things. Anyway, I have nothing to complain this morning. I'm not feeling so bad at all. I woke up at 8am because last night I woke up at 2am as I felt like drinking some coke and then I went online, chatted with Bry, got a headache (and no, it wasn't because of anything Bry said *grins*) and then went back to bed. The best thing about today is that it's a public holiday, which means there's no doctor so I have to wait until tomorrow to see the doctor. Yay! :) ♥

I've been trying to get better these last couple of days because tomorrow, I'll have to see the doctor again. Ack! I just don't want her to prescribe me anymore Hello Kitty medicines. I've had enough of them. But the good thing is, I am getting better. I've been sitting here in front of my computer ever since I got home from work like I always did before I got really ill. Once a dork, always a dork :) ♥

You know what's weird? I've never used the dyslexic version of the word "porn" either. So how could my weblog be at ranking 2? Well, it's probably because I've posted so many entries explaining to the world how to "pronounce" my name properly :) ♥

Tuesday Morning Haiku

Yippee, yippee, yay!
This is the last working day
Of the week for me!

So I'm happy :) Tomorrow is a public holiday and I'm taking Thursday and Friday off. Don't you envy me? ;) Hopefully, by the time I get back to work next Monday, I'll have been in a much better shape. Speaking of shape, when I looked at my face in the mirror this morning, I found that I look very much like an owl because my eyes are so huge! A bully used to call me "tennis-ball eye" (among others) when I was a kid *grins* He would got in my way when I was walking back home from school and started calling me names. I called him names back, of course. I was one really brave little girl :) And speaking of that bully, the guy has lost his mind now. Poor guy. ♥

Justin wished me well and he agrees with my BlogHop rant. Nice to know that somebody actually thinks I have a point :) ♥

The folks at TheSpark.com is conducting The Fat Project this month to prove that one can gain 30 lbs in 30 days. I'm not sure about that but I know that one can lose 4 lbs in 2 days. I'm a living proof of that *grins* But of course, you've got to be as ill as me first. Heh. ♥

One can't help but wonder about the effectiveness of this anti-stress kit. ♥

Some people would sell anything for money, even Predator Urines. They're supposed to be effective to keep pests off your property. The site is so obscure it choked me. Hmmm, I didn't know that cats are pests too. You've got to see the spray which is the solution to the cats problem. It's just so gross. I mean, who wants to spray urine anyway? ♥

Reader Peter Jones gave me some very sensible advice and I'm following it and I'm feeling better already :) I've decided not to let myself get too lethargic. I'm thinking positive. At lunchtime, I kept on telling myself how delicious my simple lunch was just to make myself eat it, and somehow it worked. I managed to eat my lunch and finish eating the half-eaten pear I brought for breakfast. That was quite an improvement since I could barely get anything go past my throat all weekend. I've also decided not to invite any guest blogger, unless something really bad happens to me and I have to stay at the hospital or something, in which case I wouldn't be able to blog at all. So there. I'm feeling much better now and I'm smiling :) Now it's your turn to smile at me! ♥

I'm seriously considering inviting some guest bloggers to blog for me until I get some of my strength back. If I ask you, please say yes, please? It'll only be for a couple of weeks. I'm sure I'll be better in a couple of weeks. Blogging for me is easy. As long as it's stupid or useless or weird, it's a Weblog Wannabe material. There are plenty of those things out there. I just haven't had the energy to find them ever since I got ill. Not that finding them is tiring. It's just that I've got to the point where walking slowly 10 steps - no, scratch that - sitting for 10 minutes is just as tiring as running 100 metres at top speed for healthy people. Yeah, it is really that bad. I know that no one forces me to blog but you know how I always feel guilty if I don't blog enough. I won't be able to rest in peace (and I don't mean "die") until I'm sure that my weblog is in good hands. Anyway, I've already got 3-4 names in mind. Let's see how it turned up. ♥

Ok, the stupid experiment has been completed. If you want to see the result, go here. Before the experiment, the number of votes was 27. Whether it was successful or not, you be the judge. Yeah, I've been a bad girl. I'm sorry if I hurt you.

There was actually a reason for the experiment. Let's face it, I don't think there's any weblogger in the world who wants his/her weblog that they created, designed, and update daily with love get voted as anything but the best. I know a few weblogs that deserve to get voted as nothing but the best, but still they get some votes as the worst anyway. It really annoys me. I'd rather get a really nasty feedback about my weblog in an email than just a vote as the worst at Bloghop. At least that way I'd know where I'd done wrong and I could improve my weblog based on that. Just a thought. ♥

Monday Morning Haiku

It's Monday morning
I'm feeling so very ill
But I'm here at work.

Suck, huh? I can't not go to work because I almost run out of sick leave hours in my account (only 30 hours left) and I can't take a leave without pay because I need the money to pay the medical bills since the worthless health insurance doesn't cover long-term treatment. The medicines are so expensive. Yeah, it sucks to be me. But at least I'm still alive. ♥

The reason I felt really ill last night was partly because I forced my brother to drive me to the nearby mall in the afternoon when I was supposed to be resting. Mind you, I was bored to death. Hence, the lame trick yesterday *grins*

Anyway, at the mall I went to the record store and bought a couple of albums by Indonesian artists. I like Indonesian songs more than Western songs these days. I don't really like one of the albums I bought. It was the second album by a female singer named Reza. Her first album was brilliant but her second album is much too jazzy for my taste. I only like 3 songs off that album.

I love the other album, though. I like almost all the songs. It was by a band called Dewa. Ahmad Dhani and Andra Ramadhan, who won MTV VMA for Southeast Asia category with their song "Kuldesak" (available for download at Fairvue Central's "Latest Listens"), are the members of the band. Dhani himself has his own band called Ahmad Band. I usually find it lame when someone becomes a member of so many bands, but I'll make an exception for Dhani because he is brilliant. He wrote great musical pieces.

My favourite song off that album is "Roman Picisan", which means "Cheap Romance". The song itself is not cheap at all. It's pretty classy. Even my very conservative mother loves it, but I think it's mostly because they wear tuxedos in their video *grins* Mum just loves bands whose members dress formally. You know, like the Beatles. She's always been a big fan of the Beatles. Anyway, if you want to listen to the song, you can go here and download "Dewa - Roman Picisan.mp3". Their server is pretty fast. I checked. Go on, download it! We Indonesians make great music. You just don't know it. Yet :) ♥

Sunday Morning Haiku

Dum dum dum dum dum
Dum dee dee dum dee dee dum
Is this a haiku?

If you asked me how I feel, I'd say that I feel like I just got run over by a dump truck. But the good thing is the fever is gone, at least for awhile. Last night I felt so ill that I really thought I wasn't going to make it. I've been dreaming of my own death a lot lately, and apparently, so has my mother. She's so worried about me that I'm beginning to find it really annoying. I will win this fight. It's going to be a long, hard, and tiring one, but I'll win. If it sounds like I'm giving up, that would be because I'm feeling down. I'm not a quitter. Want some proof? Just take a look at this site design :) I was close to giving up on the redesigning, but I didn't. Time is all I need. ♥

Did it work? ;) ♥

This is an experiment. I repeat: this is just an experiment. Do not click here! But if you insist... Keep in mind that I can be evil sometimes. No, it won't crash your browser but it may hurt your ego. Badly *evil grins* Don't say I didn't warn you! ♥

I don't know how using keyboard this way can be easier or more comfortable, but I guess to each his own. ♥

I couldn't find the words to describe Cat Dynamics. You've got to see it to believe it. While you're there, be sure to check out the Cat of the Week. It should give you some ideas on how to dress your cat for Halloween. ♥

Click here to download the Internet. ♥

What do humans want ? Apparently, this question has been answered at Top 20 Gifts Women Want and Top 15 Gifts Men Want. To be honest, the lists really made me go "puhleeese!" But then again, I'm probably just bitter. ♥

What do you do with obsolete CD-ROMs? Here's a suggestion: cook them in a microwave oven. ♥

Saturday Morning Haiku

I wish I could get
Rid of this stupid fever
It ruins my weekend.

The yucky medicines don't seem to work. Oh well. I just hope that my body won't get tired of fighting. I am tired already so I'm just relying on my body now. So I'm a quitter. Just sue me. Don't worry, I still take the medicines even though they don't really work. Anyway, if I still have the energy to sit for several more hours, I'm definitely going to design my new blog, Blogworthy^TM. Aren't you excited to know what it's all about? ;) Well, just check back often! I love visitors :) ♥

Do you know the song "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel? Well, Nikolai has created the weblog version, "We Didn't Start the Weblogs", that he sung himself. Go check it out. Your weblog just might be in the song :) ♥

You know what's weird? I just realised that my eye colour is getting lighter. It used to be very dark brown, close to black. But now it's closer to light brown. Not that you'd care or anything. I just thought it was kind of weird. ♥

Friday Morning Haiku

It's Friday morning
I can't think of anything
To be haikuised.

I'm feeling a bit better than yesterday. Just a tiny bit. I fell asleep as soon as I got home yesterday and didn't wake up until 9pm. I didn't get to work on my new blog design. I didn't even bother to check my stats until much later and I'm actually obsessed with my stats. Yeah, it was that bad. I then stayed up until 2am and got to chat with Nikolai and Bryan. And yes, Bry. I promise not to stop taking the medicines, just for you :) I still think that Spain is not such a bad place compared to the States, though *grins* Bryan said if I stopped taking the medicines, it would be like I am on a plane heading to the States but decide to jump off the plane when it's still in Spain. Without parachute. Count on Bryan for fun analogies :) ♥

From the Molecules with Silly or Unusual Names page I learned that there are actually molecules named "Arsole", "Cummingtonite" and "Fukugetin". ♥

The most interesting part of the Career Guide for Engineers and Computer Scientists is the portraits of people "who are putting their advanced training to good use". Just don't take it literally. ♥

The 27 Conspiracy doesn't explain why being 27 sucks, which is too bad. I'd love to know the answer. It does have a list of celebrities who died when they were 27. I've never heard anyone use 27 in casual conversation, though. ♥

I'm feeling so tired that I can't concentrate on my work. I can barely keep my head up. Still 4.5 hours before I can go home. Sigh. ♥

I love today's link colour :) Don't you? ♥

Thanks for the voicemail, Matt! My voicemail still works but my computer's still mute so I can't listen to it :( But I'm going to save it into a diskette tonight so I could listen to it with my work computer tomorrow. I miss your singing! Matt has a great singing voice. You should know that :) ♥

Thursday Morning Haiku

I almost forgot
To write today's haiku. Why?
I have no idea.

I'm feeling so tired like I've been running miles. I guess that's how you feel when your immune system is low. It must be even worse if you have HIV. At least I don't have HIV. Or pneumonia. Or any other scary disease. I still have to undergo a long treatment, though. I've got a therapy scheduled once a week. Ack! Anyway, I've got a design idea for my new blog already (you know :). I can't wait to go home and start working on it. Oh, and today is payday! Yay! All the bills I've got (well, two bills anyway, and I'm sure you can guess what they are :P) are beginning to depress me. Can't wait to pay them. ♥

Woo, I love Joe's Halloween design! Made me ashamed of my over-simplistic design. It's Joe E., by the way. There are two other Joes I know: Joe J. and Uncle Joe. Ok, it's Joe U., not Uncle Joe, but I've been referring to him as Uncle Joe from day one that it's kind of stuck. Not that he's old enough to be my uncle. One thing for sure, none of the Joes is an Average Joe :) ♥

Uh, my weblog name is Weblog Wannabe, not Wannabe Weblog. It must be the title graphic. I knew it would cause some confusion! Maybe I should have reversed the "Weblog" bit instead of the "Wannabe" bit, I dunno. ♥

Any movie would have been more interesting if there was some ninjas in it. Well, according to the Ninja Hypothesis anyway. According to me, ninjas are silly. But they might have made the movie "Titanic" more appealing to me *grins* I can't be the only person in the world who didn't bother to see "Titanic", can I? ♥

There's nothing contradictory about the anti-internet web-page development, but of course I was being sarcastic. ♥

Microsoft Linux, anyone? They'll start shipping in November. Order your copy now! :) ♥

I just got back from the doctor's. Turned out that I suffer from a bad case of bronchitis. That sucks. Oh well. At least it's not pneumonia. ♥

For my gay readers, here's something from StraightActing.com: How Straight Acting Are You? Yes, it's a quiz, and most of the questions are really stupid but, hey, it's fun! :) ♥

The song stuck in my head right now is "Both Sides Now" by Joni Mitchell, though I like the version sung by Clannad and Paul Young better. I just love the lyrics, especially this verse:

Tears and fears and feeling proud
To say "I love you" right out loud
Dreams and schemes and circus crowds
I've looked at life that way

I don't think I'll ever have the guts to say "I love you" right out loud to anyone. ♥

Wednesday Morning Haiku

Back to work again
I am sick of being sick
But I am still sick.

Really. The only good thing about being sick is you get holidays. But what is a holiday when you're not feeling well? I still have to see the doctor again this week. Ack! I'm sick of seeing the doctor. The doctor's probably sick of me too. I'm also sick of taking the medicines that only make me feel even worse. Anyway, it's Wednesday already and tomorrow it will be Thursday and the day after tomorrow will be Friday and then it'll be weekend. Wow. It's still like a lightyear away from now. Oh well. By the way, I haven't got any email at all today. Not even a spam. Does that mean that my hipness level is sinking? ;) ♥

If you're annoyed by the fact that there is no cent key on your keyboard, join the save the � campaign. My solution to this problem would be to just use the word "cent" instead of using the symbol. Simple, huh? :) ♥

I don't know why they should call this page How to Code Like a Java Newbie when it's more like a guide for Java newbies to code like a pro. Either way, this should be useful if I ever get around to starting to learn how to code. If ever. ♥

Have no luck getting your site listed in Yahoo? Try the Ceremonial Yahoo Submission and let me know if it really works. ♥

Awww, Joe is so sweet. He put a link to Weblog Wannabe redesign up there yesterday and I didn't even notice! Thanks, Joe :) And thanks to everyone who's said nice things about my redesign. That means a lot to me. I'm beginning to like the new design myself, which is good since I always hated every single design I did. Why's it easier to appreciate other people's work than your own? Does anyone know the answer? ♥

Looking for a soulmate? Try The Soul-Mate Server. You don't want to know what my soulmate's like. ♥

For the American folks getting ready for the election, here's The Living Room Candidate, which is a site featuring presidential campaign TV commercials from 1952 through to 2000. We didn't have that kind of thing in Indonesia until the last election, which was only last year. ♥

I think I like this proposal for 28 Hour Day because then there'll be only 6 days in a week and we can get rid of Monday so the week really starts on Tuesday! That'll be like a dream come true to me. ♥

Tuesday Morning Haiku

One Tuesday Morning
I'm down with a 'flu *sniff, sniff!"
I've a runny nose.

I'm calling in sick today because I don't think I could get through the day with this 'flu *sniff!* I've got it since last night. That's the reason I didn't keep my promise to post some links. Anyway, since I don't go to work today, I'll blog like there's no tomorrow :) Not sure I'll be able to find anything blogworthy but I can always try. By the way, I think blogworthy^TM would make a great blog title. Don't you think so? ;) ♥

This is totally useless but now this weblog has two forms of permalink: permalink for each post (represented by ») and permalink for each day (represented by the green box). I used to want to have permalink for each day only in a pathetic attempt to look Kottkesque, but then decided to use the normal permalink instead. Nik just told me that if I used both, my weblog would be the only weblog in the world with two forms of permalink. Being an originality freak, I decided to apply it on my weblog. So there. Now you get two forms of permalink to choose from. Silly, huh? Just blame it on Nikolai :P ♥

Today at lunch my supervisor asked me, "You're not going to resign, aren't you?" I really didn't know what to say because I did plan to resign in a few months so I just said, "Uh. Well. I try not to." I knew my face was red when I said that. It did feel hot. I didn't even dare to look her in the eyes. I am such a bad liar. ♥

By the way, I chose grey to be the colour of Monday for a reason. I'm sure you can guess what the reason is :) ♥

Why don't you go to hit-or-miss.org and tell Matt that he's done really well with his redesign? It's neat, it's organised, and the colours don't make your eyes bleed like the colours of this weblog you're looking at. Who could ask for more? ♥

When I was taking a shower this morning, I thought about how there are so many Indonesian songs about lovers that have to break up because of different religions. None of such songs has a happy ending because in Indonesia inter-religion marriage is illegal. It's funny that the thought had to come to my mind when I was in the shower. ♥

Monday Morning Haiku

Do you know the cure
To my bad Mondayitis?
I need it badly.

Still 8 hours to go before I can call it a day. Ack! Anyway, one thing that made my morning was to see that my new design look so much better on my work computer than on my home computer. When I viewed it as soon as I got to work this morning, I thought to myself, "Hey, it's not so bad at all!" so I guess I don't suck as much as I thought designwise *grins* The lovely comments about this design that I got from Bryan (who hates my lovely daily link colours *boo hoo hoo!*), Brad, and May also made my morning. Thanks, guys! :) Oh by the way, I don't think I'll be able to post any link until I get home because I have so much work to do, but I promise to make it up to you tonight. Meanwhile, just try to enjoy my silly ramblings :) ♥

Now that the redesign is done, I'd like to thank Nikolai for the CSS help, the font for the title graphics, all the suggestions, and also for telling me that my lovely background image has an eye-bleeding quality to it. No, I didn't get rid of the background image. I like it too much to get rid of it. I just put it in disguise :P I'd also like to thank Mike for the supply of ideas and Jason for the words of encouragement. Sorry to disappoint you guys with this overly simple design :) ♥

So, what do you think of the new design? Does it make your eyes bleed? ;) Please don't say that you miss the previous design because if you do I think I'm going to cry. I miss it too. ♥

MajorDomo Fights Back displays amusing and stupid real quotes from real mailing lists. I'm only subscribed to one mailing list and it already supplies me with more than enough stupidity daily. ♥

If you're American and you feel like getting bashed for being one, read You Stupid Americains!, a series of "observations about the USA by Frenchman Pierre Merde", whom I suspect is an American himself. His observations cracked me up all right. ♥

Sunday Morning Haiku

I can't believe it's
Sunday already. Oh no!
Tomorrow's Monday!

I'm beginning to hate Sunday just because the next day is Monday. Sad, huh? And next week is going to be a full 5-day week. Boo hoo hoo! Oh well. At least the week after that I only have to go to work for 2 days (Monday and Tuesday) 'cause I'm taking an annual leave. I need more rest. Anyway, I'm 99% done with the redesign so in several hours you'll see a new design here. Aren't you excited? ;) ♥

Jupiter is a conversational system that provides up-to-date worldwide weather information over the phone. The toll-free number for calling Jupiter is 1-888-573-TALK (1-888-573-8255). I'm more curious about Jupiter's voice more than anything :) Too bad calling Jupiter from outside North America is not toll-free. ♥

If they existed, these books would really be the world's worst children's books. Not that I'm sure that they don't exist. It's just that I've never heard of "Harry Potter and the Church of Satan" so I just assume that all the books mentioned there are fictitious. The cover scans look pretty impressive, though. ♥

Somebody actually bothered to spend (or should I say waste?) money on this domain. ♥

Well, I was having a fun time at the clinic. NOT! So glad I'm home again. And now it's blogging time! Yay! :) ♥

I wonder if this is a real Kodak advertisement. The people in the pic look more like a bunch of guerrillas and their hostages than a bunch of campers having a holiday. ♥

I love GreenEgg/OS, mostly because it's fake. I just love fake OS. They're usually less annoying than the real thing (read: Windows). Be sure to read the about page. ♥

Saturday Morning Haiku

This one Saturday
Doesn't feel like one at all
It feels like Friday.

I dunno. I'm feeling weird this morning. I hope I'll be able to find something blogworthy before I have to leave for the clinic, which is in an hour. Yikes! It's 5.30am now, by the way. See what I meant when I said that today didn't feel like a Saturday? ♥

By the way, we're going to get a 30% payrise effective November so by December, I might already have enough money to buy a new computer. Yay! :) ♥

"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."

W. H. Auden (1907�73), Anglo-American poet. The Dyer�s Hand, pt. 7, �Notes on the Comic� (1962). ♥

Make this button angry. It's easy and fun! Just press it repeatedly no matter what it says :) ♥

Did you know that WWW.Com is an online radio? That's one sexy URL, don't you think? ;) Yeah, I know. I'm a dork. ♥

Apparently, someone has patented a method of exercising a cat using laser beam. How Y2K is that? ♥

Have you ever been involved in a flame war? If you do, or you've ever spent some time in Usenet, you might recognise these types of Flame Warrior. I used to be big into Usenet and I did manage to get a considerable amount of flames. I never sent any flames back, though. I let other people who sympathised with me do that for me *grins* Yeah, I sucked. But I swear, I was no Innocent Abused! Let's just say that I had better things to do than getting into a flame war :) ♥

The Ig Nobel Prize honors individuals whose achievements "cannot or should not be reproduced." Ten prizes are given to people who have done remarkably goofy things -- some of them admirable, some perhaps otherwise. Here's the winners of the 2000 Ig Nobel Prizes. ♥

Friday Morning Haiku

I'm so sleepy but
Happy Friday, everyone!
Weekend tomorrow.

On Saturday, I'll still have to wake up at the usual hour so I could get to the clinic early. I'd rather get the medical tests over with as quickly as possible. Besides, the clinic is closed at noon every Saturday.

Anyway, last night I didn't blog at all, so you see, Nik, I wasn't "fulfilling my blogging duties" when you saw me up late :P Speaking of Nikolai, I finally downloaded the Voicemail Megamix 2 as soon as I got to work this morning. I'm not supposed to download anything unauthorised from my work computer but what the heck. I feel like being a bad girl today *grins*

I recognise some bits from the voicemail The Brad sent me on my birthday and I think that's me singing "these are a few of my favourite things". My voice doesn't sound all that bad there. Heh. I don't recognise any other part of the megamix though there are a few other bits that I suspect is my voice, but I hope I'm wrong.

Well, better start blogging now. Let's see if I can find anything blogworthy :) ♥

I can't wait until weekend because I really want to start working on the redesigning again. I hope the medical lab tests on Saturday won't take too long. I so wish today was already Friday. ♥

"Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn�t the work he is supposed to be doing."

Robert Benchley (1889�1945), U.S. humorous writer. Quoted in: The Algonquin Wits (ed. by Robert E. Drennan, 1968). Benchley�s own method is also quoted in the book: �I do most of my work sitting down. That�s where I shine.� ♥

"It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else."

J. M. Barrie (1860�1937), British playwright. Rectorial address, 3 May 1922, St. Andrew�s University, Scotland. ♥

Yesterday I saw a girl I went to junior high with at the marketplace, waiting to cross the street as my car passed her. For a second we looked at each other. I smiled at her and she mouthed a "hey". I couldn't remember her name. She had two little girls that looked like exact carbon copies of her in tow. I still can't remember her name. ♥

This morning I woke up at 3am because I felt guilty for not blogging anything the other day. Bryan thinks I need help *grins* "The weblogger community can wait," he said. But I couldn't. Yes, I definitely need help. I have a terrible case of bloggeritis. Does anyone know the cure? :) ♥

I've received this virus twice. How about you? I was smart enough to delete them as soon as I received them. I just don't open file attachments in emails that come from strangers, especially when the emails are mass emails. Now I've got the virus sender's address blocked. Hopefully my computer's safe now. ♥

Thursday Morning Haiku

I am so sleepy
It is nothing new really
Help keep me awake!

Send me an email or something. My job already makes me sleepy as it is, but now with the medicine's side-effect, I'm twice as sleepy. It sucks. Anyway, my workmates told me that I looked slim. It really cracked me up :) If only they knew how many kilos I've lost after being sick for nearly a month. Even now I'm still losing weight since I haven't got my appetite back so I simply don't eat because whether I eat or not, I still feel the same. Crappy, that is. On Saturday I'll have to undergo a series of laboratory tests to find out what's actually wrong with my body. I simply hate those tests. I already had tonnes of them last year. I hope this time it won't be as bad and that they won't have to repeat the tests on me over and over again like they did last year. ♥

Karaoke Commute is singing karaoke while you're commuting. That's what this guy did. He took song requests and sang it while he was driving 40 miles to and from London, UK. Too bad it has ended. You can still check out the archives, though. ♥

A former boo.com employee lets off some steam in the good, old madlibs way in whatididforboo.com. It made me wish I knew what boo.com was like. ♥

Raphael Carter has compiled a list of Things That Have Been Sold in Vending Machines. Some of them are pretty hard to believe. ♥

If you want to have a hairstyle that suits your image (if you have one), you need to learn The Semiotics of Hair. It's more fun than it sounds, really. ♥

I was seriously thinking of sending the duck to The Orphanage of Cast-Off Mascots but then found that the duck wasn't really a humanoid and wasn't quite as amusing as the other orphans, not to mention that it had never appeared in any advertisement, so I guess I'll just have to live with it for a bit longer. ♥

"When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird."

Minna Antrim (b. 1861), U.S. epigrammatist. Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions (1901, p. 16). ♥

Wednesday Morning Haiku

I am so sleepy
And I've got a tummyache
Thanks to the medicines.

There's nothing I want more in the world right now than going home and sleep. But of course when I get home, the first thing I'm really going to do would be go online instead of go to sleep. I am that big of a dork. I went to see the doctor again last night and I got some new batches of medicines again and they all make me feel crappy. The worst of all is that I didn't get any more holiday *boo hoo hoo* So here I am, feeling crappy at work. Sighs. Can't wait to go home. Still 8.5 more hours to go... ♥

Al Gore Loves You and George Bush Loves You too. Al Gore is 31.5% in love with me while George Bush is in love with me more with 39.5%. Find out how much they love you. Now please excuse me because I think I'm going to throw up. Ugh! ♥

Now do me a favour. Go to this page and check out the picture of Tina the rock chick. Please? I'm begging you. Please, pretty, please with sugar on top? I promise, you won't be sorry! ♥

What was the UK number 1 single on the day you were born? On mine, it was "Get Down" by Gilbert O'Sullivan. I've no idea what that song's like and I've never heard of Gilbert O'Sullivan. Britney Spears, on the other hand, got one of my favourite songs in the world topped the UK chart on the day she was born. It was "Under Pressure" by Queen and David Bowie. No fair! Oh well. At least it wasn't "Stand By Your Man" by Tammy Wynette. I just can't stand that song. ♥

Adding and Subtracting is a story about the extreme things some identical twins did in order to make themselves unidentical. But please, don't read the ending first. You don't want to spoil your own fun, don't you? ♥

Using ® or ^TM signs is now a thing of the past. The future lies in ®^TMark or RTMark. Curious? Just click the link! :) ♥

"If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven."

Ben Elton (b. 1959), British author, performer. Stark, �Private Investigations� (1989). ♥

"If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don�t be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning �Good morning� at total strangers."

Maya Angelou (b. 1928), U.S. author. Singin� and Swingin� and Gettin� Merry Like Christmas, vol. 3, ch. 5 (1976), quoting her mother�s advice. ♥

I hate it when my supervisor speaks Dutch to her colleagues because they think the others, including me, don't understand it. I understand Dutch. They just don't know it. And they use Dutch to bitch just about everything. It really makes me wish I didn't understand Dutch in the first place. ♥

Would you believe that of all the people in my office, my usually unsympathetic [American] boss was the one who had given me the most sympathetic comment about my health? He basically said I looked like hell. Even my supervisor couldn't care less. Life is indeed full of surprises. ♥

I am sleepy and freezing cold and I really, really wish I could go home. But there's still 8 hours to go before I can go home. I guess complaining won't make the time fly so I'd better get myself busy and try to get something done. There'll be no new links posted until later this evening or Tuesday morning your time if you're in the US so just check back later! ♥

Tuesday Morning Haiku

Back to work again
Why do days off always have
To go so quickly?

I'm beginning to feel sick again as soon as I got to work. I dunno. Maybe I'm allergic to work. Maybe my body knows I hate my job so it tries all its might to make me not to go to work. Anyway, I'm going to see the doctor again tonight. Let's see if I'll get more holidays :) ♥

By the way, if you want to see my ugly mug that doesn't look like my ugly mug, just head over to Friends of Jezebel Mirror and look under my name. ♥

Well, I just had a little chat with Joe J. on ICQ and found that most of you don't get Columbus Day holiday so, well, lucky me, I guess *grins* It must be like Washington Day where only government employees get to enjoy the holiday. Anyway, Joe sent me a link to HalloweenJokes.com which is full of Halloween goodness. The first and last time I went to a Halloween Party was 2 years ago at the prep. school I worked at. I went as a pirate. Heh. Pirate Librarian. What a concept. Now I'm really going to work on that redesign. Don't stop wishing me luck yet! ♥

Check out this Cow-Babe of the Month (well, from August '97 anyway). Is she hot or what? ;) Sorry, I just couldn't resist *grins* ♥

College of Perpendicular Logic is just so unreal, but in a funny kind of way. I think this is the best college website parody that I've ever come across. ♥

Garrett's Tips for Happy Bachelor Livin' is a must read for every (disgusting) bachelor. If you plan to date one, this site will make you think twice. ♥

"Do not click here" in 68 languages is another site that cracked me up. I promise it'll crack you up too :) ♥

Yesterday for the first time in ages I opened ICQ and I got tonnes of requests for authorisation, most of which came from Jason *grins* So I made a mental note to open ICQ more often, mostly because I haven't talked to Jason for weeks and I kind of miss it. And I always forgot to ask how Schroe's doing, now that he's not with Jason anymore. Poor Schroedinger... It's a cat, by the way. ♥

The Jean-Paul Sartre Cookbook really cracked me up :) Well, Sartre is one of those crazy philosophers. I can't remember if he was the one who claimed that he had killed God or the one who had a long time affair with a French feminist named Simone de Beauvoir. How I miss all those philosophy classes. I just love learning about lunatics :) ♥

Well, I'm so sleepy that nothing is funny to me so I guess all the links will have to wait until tomorrow. Now I'm off to bed. Goodnight! ♥

Monday Morning Haiku

It's only midnight
But it is a Monday so
I write this haiku.

I want to blog now so I could dedicate the whole day tomorrow (or rather, later today) to redesigning. I've got another idea :) I always have an idea but the thing is I don't have enough skills to materialise most of my ideas. That's why sometimes I get so frustrated. Anyway, I'd better start blogging now before I get too sleepy. ♥

Happy long weekend! :) You do get Columbus Day holiday over there, right? I mean, it is an American holiday in my calendar. Anyway, if any of you ever had a plan to start the Blogger Awards or something close to that, be sure to include the Hardest Working Blogger category. I might win that one. I'm sure Joe will be happy to nominate me *grins* ♥

I just found that there are more people who rated my blog as the worst than those who rated it as the best. Sad, sad, sad... Oh well, at least MetaFirda got rated as the best. One vote and it was for the best! Yippee! :) ♥

Sorry for the lack of updates but my ISP has been messing up big time. I couldn't surf anywhere from 10am to 2pm and when I did, I could only go to a few sites like Power Bloggers and M³tacubed. I couldn't go anywhere from Power Bloggers but apparently M³tacubed has a supermagicalpower over the internet because from there I could go to my own site and then to Fairvue Central where the webcam shot amazed me for a moment because I thought Nik had a baseball glove on one hand and a lightbulb on the other. Of course only the baseball glove part was correct. And then I held my breath and clicked the link to Blogger and YES! Blogger was responding and after that, I could go just about anywhere. Yay! :) I still can't forgive my ISP, though. I'm seriously thinking of closing it and open another one with a better ISP. But finding a better ISP, my friends, is another story altogether. ♥

Have a problem with your computer? Just report it to the Virtual Sysadmin. Please note that response times may vary with volume of requests. Typical reply times are currently up to 3 months, or more. Or so they say. Ok, so this is a useless site but I've been posting useful sites far too often lately and, well, I feel guilty about it. ♥

If you can't sleep at night, just stare at the Ghost Cam and see if you could spot the Little Grey Lady. There are some proof and spoof photos on the site. Some of the proofs are pretty impressive. ♥

Pancakes Across America features picture galleries of pancakes from all over America. They all look pretty much the same to me, though. Have you ever visited another state and found that the pancake was different from what you have back home? ♥

Sunday Morning Haiku

Had so many dreams
In one night. Good, sad, and bad.
I woke up crying.

In my last dream, I was a little girl again and I lost my mum in a shopping mall. The shops are already closing so it's getting darker and there are only a few people left but my mum was nowhere to be seen so I start crying. Ok, so it's a very childish dream but who can control dreams anyway? ♥

With the risk of looking like someone else's blog, I'm going to take Plan, um, E in my redesign. If it still doesn't work, I'm going to cry blood. ♥

Build a free instant presidential campaign website with IPOcracy. Make yourself or anyone or anything a presidential candidate. Jimmy Hoffa and The Almighty $ are already taken, sorry. ♥

Are you planning to take a trip but don't want to have a meal other than in McDonald's during the trip? Try McDonald's Restaurant Locator. All you have to do is enter the address where you start and end the trip and voila! I personally can't live on McDonald's. The meat in their hamburgers just don't taste like meat. ♥

I don't really know what StarCD is good for but what it does is basically tell you what song is playing on almost every radio station in a city of your choice at that moment. American cities, of course. ♥

Groupie Central FAQ will show you how to become a groupie that is not an obsessive fan. I used to think they were all one and the same. ♥

If "Manic Panic", "Punky Color", "Special Effects", "Directions" and "Fudge" sound familiar to you, then DyeMyHair.com is for you. It's definitely not for me. I love my natural hair colour. ♥

Saturday Morning Haiku

Noisy Saturday
It's very, very noisy
My head is spinning.

Someone who lives at the end of my block is getting married and the procession just started from the other end of the block, which is where my house is, and it was noisy as hell. That's all, I guess. I've got a headache. I've taken all my medicines until there was none left but I still feel so crappy. Ugh. I wonder if I'll ever be on my tip top shape again. ♥

Enter your birthdate and dMarie Time Capsule will transport you back to the day you were born. Too bad the music chart provided was from the year 1973 instead of from the exact day I was born. It would've been nice to know the songs people were singing along to on the day I was born. ♥

Premature Death of Rock Stars (which is hosted on a religious website) has some interesting statistics about the death of various rockstars, including their average age of death, which is not really all that long. So if you want to live a long life, don't be a rockstar! But I don't think there's any internet rockstar name listed on the list of dead rockstars so I guess it's still okay if you want to become one. ♥

Do you own a bunny? Well, now you can learn to communicate with your bunny. All you have to do is understand what the bunny's behaviours mean and then take action. I especially love this one:

BEHAVIOR: Rubbing chin on things, such as houseplants, priceless armoirs, Italian leather shoes. A great misconception: It does NOT mean "marking territory" -- it's a rabbit custom, like saying grace in front of a meal. WHAT IT MEANS: "One day I will eat you". WHAT YOU SHOULD DO: Give your bunny more sticks and branches, keep your stuff off the floor, and kiss the antiques goodbye.

Art Crimes: The Writing on the Wall showcases some of the best graffitis in USA, Europe, and some other parts of the world. You might recognise some from your part of the world. Of course there are no graffitis from Indonesia. The graffitis here are just literally writings on the wall, usually in mispelled English that has no meaning whatsoever. ♥

If you live in America and you're curious (or just plain bored), you might want to know about your local area code in 1947. It might come in handy if you ever hop on a time machine and it brings you back to 1947 and you want to call home. But on second thought, your home might not be there yet. Oh well. ♥

Friday Morning Haiku

I had a weird dream
An angel brings me up to
Heaven. It's a cold place.

So I guess it can't be heaven. It's beautiful, but cold and lonely. And the angel sings a beautiful song to me as she flies with me around the place. I hope that doesn't mean I'm dying. I mean, people don't die just because of a stupid fever, don't they? But if someone decided to explode my office when I was at work, that's another story altogether.

Anyway, I've come up with a new non-trendy design. No orange and no dotted lines. Let's just see how it develops. Of course I might end up ditching it and start over again but, well, let's just wait and see. ♥

Simple is good :) ♥

TVEyes.com offers a very interesting free service. All you have to do is enter your email address and keyword(s) and when your keyword(s) are spoken on TV, they will send you a clipping of what was said to your email address. Cool, huh? ♥

Build A Rock Star. Send your friends a music video that you direct. Just don't expect it to ever make it to MTV. ♥

Learn to shuffle a deck of cards with one hand. Don't try this after using the Carpal Tunnel Onset Accelerator (see below) because it's not going to work. I'm sure that I won't be able to do it, no matter how much I try. I can't even shuffle cards with two hands without messing up. I'm just too clumsy. ♥

Do all your online friends suffer from Carpal Tunnel Syndrome but you don't and you feel left out? Well, fear no more. The Carpal Tunnel Onset Accelerator can help you become a part of "a growing and close-knit community of carpal tunnel sufferers" in no time at all. ♥

I'm glad Superman is not on the list of the Worst-Dressed Cartoon Characters. I just love how he wears his briefs on top of his tight pants. ♥

Thursday Morning Haiku

Is it so wrong if
I don't want to be trendy?
Different is good, right?

That's why it's taking me so long to redesign. Everytime I want to use something in the design, I'd think "but dotted line is trendy" or "orange is a trendy colour" or, worst of all, "gee, it looks like [insert a popular weblog name here]". It's so frustrating. Anyway, I've got another redesign idea that's different from yesterday's. I hope I'll be able to materialise it. I couldn't make the yesterday's idea to work. I suck very much. ♥

Ok, now it's time to materialise my latest redesigning ideas. Wish me luck! :) ♥

Play Rubbish Low Tech Space Invaders, "a game that looks totally crap - even by 1980 standards". It's fun, though. It can be addicting. Seriously. ♥

Even though the ascii-art Banner Creator was made in Y2K, I still think it's so 1996. It's still kind of cool, though. Kind of. But who am I to say. I suck at scripting. ♥

From Modern Humorist comes this theory that people have been forwarding (lame) jokes since the era of the Roman Empire. ♥

Take a look into the hideous interior design seen in pornographic pictures with Obscene Interiors. It really cracked me up. Don't worry (or should I say don't be disappointed?), the "porn stars" are obscured. ♥

Wednesday Morning Haiku

Is it just me or
Has Blogger been really slow?
I really can't tell.

I know my connection is slower than snail but even with that kind of connection, Blogger was not usually this slow. So frustrating.

Anyway, I went to the doctor last night and as it turned out I had dengue fever symptoms but not really a dengue fever. How I could have the symptoms but not having the real thing is beyond me. The fever is kind of funny. The later the day is, the higher my body temperature gets, so when the evening comes, I really don't have the energy to do anything. Not even to blog. That sucks. Oh well. At least I get a long holiday since I don't have to go to work until next Tuesday. Don't you envy me? ;) Well, with my kind of illness, probably not.

Hey, guess what? Since I'll be home for days with nothing else to do, you'll get a lot of updates in Weblog Wannabe! Yay! I know I've been updating less and less often lately and I do feel guilty about it, but I promise to make it up to you :) ♥

A belated happy birthday to May. When I was 14, I found that some of my school bullies could cook. We were having a homemaking class in which we were assigned to cook some fried rice. As always, I ended up in the same group with the bullies. I'd thought we'd end up being the most pathetic group of all since I couldn't cook myself (I can cook almost edible fried rice now, thank you very much), but they really surprised me :) Hope your 14th year of wasting the earth's resources will be full of surprises! ♥

So we got to go home early today. We received a bomb threat. Again. After sunbathing outside the building for half an hour, the power-that-be ordered us to leave the building within 5 minutes. So we left around 2pm and I got home around 3. When I got home, my body was burning hot. It was the fever again. How fun. NOT. ♥

I sounded really desperate below, did I? Nevermind. I was just bored. I think my weblog is getting extremely boring. Ugh. ♥

You know what sucks? I haven't got any email today *hint, hint!* Come on, email me! Tell me about your day. It doesn't matter if it was good or bad, interesting or boring. I'd love to hear it. Please? ♥

I'm a bad librarian because I hate rules. Have I ever mentioned that I decided to do a library degree after high school just because I wanted to be different from my peers? Yeah, I was stupid like that. I was a teenager once, believe it or not. ♥

Tuesday Morning Haiku

A week should begin
On Tuesday. It would be nice.
Don't you think so? No?

Oh well. I didn't post any link yesterday because I was sick. I still am. But I didn't call in sick. I plan to see the doctor tonight. If all goes well (or unwell, depends on how you see it), I might get a 3-day break from work, which means I wouldn't have to go to work for the rest of the week, and since next weekend is a 3-day weekend, I wouldn't have to go to work until next Tuesday! Joy! :) I know, I'm pathetic. It's just that work is depressing me. I'm always sick when I'm depressed. Does anyone know of any telecommuting job I could apply to? I can handcode HTML well :) ♥

After reading the Airplane Discrepancy Report, I can't decide which ones are the silliest, the pilots or the mechanics. ♥

If design is your thing, you might want to try your hand at designing nipples at The Nipple Project. Psychedelic nipples look pretty nice. ♥

You wouldn't be able to guess what a Funsticker is good for. The Dutch are weird... ♥

Dictionary of All-Vowel Words, not necessarily English words. I didn't know "y" is a vowel. Or is it? ♥

I've got another redesigning idea. Yay me! Can't wait to start working on it :) ♥

Yesterday I was quite happy with the red design I came up with, but now I'm not so sure about it anymore. It's just that the design looks so unme. It's too neat, too organised and too formal. One might think my weblog was a corporate website instead of a personal weblog if I used that design. I don't know what to do about the redesigning anymore. I've really run out of ideas :( ♥

I can't wait for the next weekend. It's a three-day weekend! Yay! Next Monday is Columbus Day, I think. It's too bad the weekend is still a million lightyears away. Ok, so it's only 4 days away, but it does feel like a million lightyears away. ♥

I don't know what was with me today but every single workmate who passed my desk just had to either pinch my arm or slap my arm with some paper. Maybe I'm getting too cute. I need a cubicle. ♥

Did anyone see the closing ceremony of the Olympics? I almost fell asleep in the first half of the ceremony because it was so boring, especially the speeches. I think the only rocking song in that first half was Savage Garden's "Affirmation". The second half (after the speeches) was somewhat better. When the opera singer was singing her song, I think there was either a butterfly or a grasshopper landed on her belly. I wonder if she realised that *grins* I liked that song sang by Midnight Oil. Don't know the title. And I liked how they wore black outfit with the word "Sorry" on it. Kylie Minogue singing "Dancing Queen" was a nice touch and so was Slim Dusty (?) singing "Waltzing Matilda" to end the ceremony. The only part that I think is really corny was when they had to show off all the Australian celebrities like Paul Hogan from "Crocodile Dundee", a movie from ages ago, and supermodel Elle MacPherson. Did they really have to do that? I mean, who cares? ♥

Monday Morning Haiku

Do I have to say
That I hate Monday again?
No, I don't think so.

I can't believe it's Monday already. I woke up at 3.30am this morning and then tried to find something to blog but found nothing blogworthy. Bummer. I really wish I didn't have to go to work today. I wrote this at home. It's not even 5am yet. I'm sure I'll fall asleep before 8pm again tonight. I just hope I won't be too tired to blog then because I don't think I'll be able to post a lot today. Well, it's time to take a shower and get ready for work *boo hoo hoo* How I hate my job *sniff!* ♥

Condoms of the Zodiac shows you the kind of condoms that suit you best according to your zodiac. Hmmm, I think I was just stating the obvious (as always). Oh well. ♥

Nikolai, somebody stole the design! They only bothered to get rid of the duck and changed it with, what was that? A turtle? Everything, including my contact info, was still there. Doh. ♥

I always forgot to mention how much I love the design of 120degrees.com. I always feel like stealing it. Brad's done a great job. And he could relate to my silly haiku! :) ♥

For DIY fans, here's the Do-It-Yourself Pope to "add a nice, benevolent touch into your living room". ♥

I don't think I've ever seen any twistlock in my entire life. In case you have and you've always wondered about its use, Twistlocks.co.uk has all the answers. If the official name of the thing is twist lock cable clamps, it shouldn't be too hard to guess the official use, don't you think? I dunno. Maybe they just had too much time on their hands. ♥

Learn how to make a bomb in three easy steps *evil grins* ♥

Check out the winner of the Messiest College Apartment Contest. It's sure to make your messy apartment look really neat in comparison. ♥

I came across this Custom College Applicant Web Pages at thewebtoday.com (which doesn't seem to work unless you put www in front of it). I found it kind of absurd. But maybe it's just me. ♥

Scribble is the online version of Scrabble. I have to avoid this one or else I'd end up being online all day and night. I'm a reformed Scrabble-addict, you see. And it's not really that hard to get me addicted again. ♥

While I was at Matt's, I stole this link: The Great AOL CD Invention Contest, which is a contest to find the most creative, unusual, and original use of an AOL CD. It amused me a lot :) If you have an AOL CD, it's still not too late to enter the contest. I think the prizes are quite appealing. ♥

It's good to know that somebody dreamed about me :) Well, it was either me or my blog. More like the latter *grins* We must be connected, Matt! I am redesigning, and it's going to be red, baby! Some people might disapprove, but I'm sure it wouldn't be for long. It's not a make-your-eyes-bleed kind of red. It's #CC0000 red and it's lovely! Isn't it? ♥

Sunday Morning Haiku

One Sunday morning
My PC's running slowly
It's so annoying.

I need to restart. It's my fault, really. I left the computer on all night with Photoshop and Paintshop Pro open. Somehow it ate up the memory. My computer is really that hopeless. Did you notice that I use a lot of "really" in my sentences? :) I guess I need to supply more English vocabularies into my head. Not that there are plenty of words that are similar to "really". In fact, I can't think of any. Can you? ♥