Weblog Wannabe

I'll see you all again in four days! If you miss me, just remember that I'm only an email away :) ♥

Well, since I have all the time in the world now (well, 45 minutes anyway), I think I'll just list the highlight of 2000:

January 2000: Getting tired of Diaryland after journalling for 3 months and becoming a minor celebrity there *grins* Yeah, I know. I'm very modest indeed.

February 2000: Find Blogger through Fairvue Central. Start blogging. Almost giving up after the second day due to the lack of readers. Jordan blogs me, and then Prol, and the rest is history.

March 2000: Thinking of quitting blogging (again). Prol and Nikolai encourage me to keep on blogging, and I do. Start stalking Bry through his webcam. Write tonnes of silly weblog poems for tonnes of webloggers.

April 2000: Blogger is playing up most of the time due to the server change. My weblog gets its own icon box on Fairvue's famous sidebar. Yay! :) I'm getting depressed as my 27th birthday is approaching. DVG makes me feel somewhat less depressed. Have a crappy birthday offline but a great one online, which includes Brad singing "Rubberducky" in a voicemail just for me. Get listed on the now deceased Beebo ratings and Bloat. Win CoolStop of the Day award.

May 2000: Freespeech.org deletes my account and makes me homepageless. Bry comes to my rescue. He gives me some space on his server and then starts a PayPal fundraising to get me my own domain name. In less than 24 hours, we manage to collect $60 and a few days later I'm domainless no more. Webloggers rule! :)

June 2000: Starts selling Weblog Wannabe t-shirts. Only Bry (see picture), DVG (see picture) and Nik (see picture) buy it. How sad. Sniff! Comes up with a design that according to Nik is my best design ever, but I get tired of the design very soon. Nik comes up with the next Weblog Wannabe design that I love to bits this month. Or is it in July? I can't remember.

July 2000: The only thing I can remember about this month is that I chat on AIM with Nik almost every day :P Oh, I'm also guest blogging at Fairvue Central, along with Mark and Neale, while Nik is away in Wisconsin. Every American I know online seems to be in Wisconsin this month. Weird.

August 2000: Another month of chatting on AIM with Nikolai almost every day :P

September 2000: Hmmm, can't remember anything about this month. My life is that boring.

October 2000: I think this is the month I'm beginning to get really ill.

November 2000: This is the month where I suffer from a fever every night. I feel like I'm dying.

December 2000: I register fakegeek.org, the blank page domain :) My computer breaks down on the second day of Eid. Lovely. NOT

Happy New Milennium (spelling?), everyone! :) ♥

Oh, since I won't be able to be among the first to give a plug to Fairvue's new feature when it's launched, I just want to tell you to check out Fairvue Central often for a great new feature that will be launched soon! :)

And to Bry, have a safe trip to Seattle and keep in touch! ♥

Saturday Morning Haiku

Hey, do you miss me?
I feel so disconnected
There's no 'net at home

I'm blogging from an internet cafe. Just want to let you know that I haven't been slacking. My computer is broken. Ack! It won't detect the modem and the mouse. So annoying. I probably won't be able to get it fixed until after new year's day when businesses are back to, um, business as usual. If you want to start a PayPal fundraising to buy me a new computer, feel free :P I'll be back to Bloggerville as soon as I get back to work next Wednesday. Have a great and safe new milennium celebration and take excellent care of yourself. To Bry and Nik, I miss you guys already! :) I actually had a dream with both of you in it last night. Yeah, I miss you that bad :P ♥

Thursday Morning Haiku

Second day of Eid
Lazy day for everyone
I am still slacking.

I have so many ideas for a redesign but most of them are not doable due to my lack of scripting skills. Blech. But I'll find a way. I still need the javascripts to include a cgi file from a remote location to my weblog, though. I have a cgi script hosted on my other server that I want to use here (I don't have cgi access here). Sure I can always use frames to include it but the thing is I'm not so crazy about frames. I'm not so crazy about javascripts either, I'd rather use javascripts than frames, really. If you can show me how, I'll be forever grateful. ♥

Does anyone know how to include a cgi file from a remote location in a HTML page using javascripts or if it's possible at all? I'll love you forever if you can tell me :) ♥

If you're not so crazy about America's new president, you're going to enjoy GWBush Art. It contains some pretty amusing images, satire and songs. Well, I'm not sure that the songs are amusing since my computer was mute when I visited the site, but some of the images did make me grin. ♥

Test your Sight vs. Sound Reflexes. I took the test anyway even though my computer was mute and found that my reflexes are average. Sight: 0.4417 seconds. Sound: 1.5111 seconds. If my computer wasn't mute, I'm sure I could do better. But on second thought, maybe not. I'm just too clumsy. ♥

Enrich your vocabulary with funny words from Funnywords.com or submit your own. Funny word for today is "Carolpectate", which means "source of relief from too many Christmas Carols". Makes me wonder what could be classified as Carolpectate. ♥

Tuesday Afternoon Haiku

Oh my dear haiku
I can't wait for the day I stop
Writing you. Honest.

Well, not always. Sometimes I think I'm going to miss it. I don't know about you, though. I think most of you hate my stupid haikus anyway. Don't worry. Starting January 1, 2001, there'll be no more daily haiku on Weblog Wannabe. Aren't you happy? ;)

Anyway, now that Ramadan the fasting month is over, I can eat anytime I want. It was something that I already took for granted. But now I realised how good it feels to be able to eat anytime I want and to always have something to eat at home, though I might not like to eat what's there to eat, but that's another story altogether. ♥

Happy Eid ul-Fitr!

Eid is all about forgiveness. If I ever said or did anything to offend you or to hurt your feelings, please forgive me. Your forgiveness will be the greatest gift of all. ♥

My little brother is turning 25 next month. He's the kind of guy that is hard to buy presents for. Most of the time, he just let the birthday presents he got lying around in his room until they got dusty and forgotten. I gave him a Nike backpack for his 24th birthday, and it was a good choice because he actually used it. Daily, if I may add. But I can't give him another backpack for his next birthday, can I? So I'd like to get some suggestions from you. What do you think I should give him? FYI, my brother is a sports journalist, is pretty sporty himself, is a slacker, has a rich girlfriend that drives a BMW, rides an old green Vespa and is saving up to buy a Harley Davidson. And no, he's not a Hell's Angels kind of guy. Don't suggest me to buy him a Harley because I can't afford it! ♥

I can't wait for the second day of Eid because that's when my mum will cook us her heavenly delicious spaghetti. Mmmm. I'm drooling just thinking about it :) And as usual, we'll have to share it with tonnes of my little brother's friends who always seem to show up only when my mum cooks some spaghetti. Not that I mind. They're great kids, my little bro's friends are. They always make me laugh.

So, how was your Christmas meal? Did you have turkey? ♥

I am interested in the Doomsday Algorithm for Day of Week. Really, I am. But the thing is, I have a very short attention span. Will somebody read it thoroughly and explain how it works to me in, like, one sentence? ♥

And here's yet another AmIHotOrNot clone: How Pretty Is My Pet? Sheesh. Will it ever end? ♥

Hey, while you're home for the holidays, why don't you grab a baby picture of you to scan and send me so I could add it to babes? I know I haven't updated babes for awhile now. It's not that the project is dead. I've just been slacking, that's all. But if I get a lot of new baby pictures, I promise I'll update promptly :) ♥

Man Falls From Undercarriage As Plane Takes Off. What a way to die. ♥

CIA celebrates Christmas by displaying a Gadget-Filled Tree. Cool! :) Makes me wonder what James Bond's Christmas tree's like. ♥

Tuesday Morning Haiku

I still don't know why
I'm here at work instead of
At home, sleeping in.

My swollen right arm feels funny. My pinky is now almost as big as my thumb. My doctor is away for the holidays and I don't trust any other doctor but her so ... I've taken some anti-allergic tablets but they don't seem to work. Sigh. And the worst part is I'm here at work. Ack! What a lousy morning. ♥

Oh, about the redesign, I've got a marvellous idea, but it'll have to wait until my week off starts, which is only a day away from now. You all are going to love it :) ♥

Well, I'm tired and I'm having an allergic reaction to some unknown, um, material that my right arm is all swollen and itchy and stiff so I'd better go to bed. I still have to wake up at 3.45am for wacky breakfast tomorrow and I also will have to go to work. But the day after tomorrow is Eid, so I'm all okay with that :) Have a great Christmas! ♥

I'm watching While You Were Sleeping on my brand new TV. As sappy as the film might be, I think I kinda like it. No, scratch that. I love it. Now you know what kind of girl I am :) Anyway, here's my favourite quote from the film:

"Do you believe in love at first sight? Nah, I betcha don't, you're probably too sensible for that. Or have you ever, like, seen somebody? And you knew that, if only that person *really* knew you, they would, well, they would of course dump the perfect model that they were with, and realize that YOU were the one that they wanted to, just, grow old with. Have you ever fallen in love with someone you haven't even talked to? Have you ever been so alone you spend the night confusing a man in a coma?"

Monday Night Haiku

There is always a
First time for everything, right?
Monday night haiku.

I spent all day shopping. Well, more like sightseeing than shopping since I didn't get to buy anything. Well, except for this lovely pink TV. Yep, I bought myself a new TV to replace my poor, 15 years old TV. Woohoo! :) It was a big decision, but I'm glad I made it. Now that I have a TV that really works, I can be both an internet addict and a couch potato at the same time. Only I don't sit on a couch. I've no couch in my room. But you know what I mean :) ♥

Merry Christmas to you and yours! ♥

I've got a redesign idea. Be back later tonight with a new design. ♥

I miss megnut's old look. ♥

I dig Evhead's new look. ♥

Have you ever wondered what cowboys do all day? If someone asked me what cowboys do all day, I'd say that they play in western movies. ♥

I finally found one thing that Bry and I have in common: his hair is parted on the left and so is mine! Wow. Took me nine months to realise it :) ♥

Yet another AmIHotOrNot imposter: Think You're Sexy? I think the rating is not really politically correct. It's from "Ugly" to "Sexy" instead of from "Not (Sexy)" to "Sexy". IMO, "Ugly" is the opposite of "Beautiful". But who am I to say. I don't even speak English. ♥

Sunday Morning Haiku

There's nothing to say
Nothing special on Sunday
Yum, ice-cream sundae!

Ok, so it's one crappy haiku, but I suddenly felt a craving for ice-cream sundae. Chocolate sundae would be nice. Mmmm. Ramadan will be over in a couple of days. Soon I'll be able to enjoy some ice-cream sundae. Yum. The best thing about this Ramadan is I get along with my dad. I just need to tell him some stupid joke every now and then and he'll be nice to me for the rest of the day. But the thing is, I have to choose the jokes very carefully. It may not have any reference to computers since he's computer illiterate and it may not be related to religion because, well, my father is a holier than thou kind of person. That's one of the reasons I can't stand him. But we've been getting along lately, which is good. I hope he won't ruin it again by saying anything to hurt my feelings. He's prone to that. That's another reason I can't stand him. ♥

I've never seen any opera even though I want to. I like opera songs almost as much as I like songs from musicals. Anyway, if you think you are culturally illiterate but are forced to see an opera in the near future, just read A Beginner's Guide to Enjoying Opera before you go and "you'll find opera much more enjoyable than Married With Children reruns". Even if you have no plan to see an opera anytime soon, you can read the guide for a laugh or two. ♥

Corporate Standover Tactics For Dummies contains a correspondence between the site owner and some folks from IDG Books who apparently think they own the phrase "For Dummies". I've never owned or bought any reference book from "For Dummies" series, mostly because I'm too proud to admit that I'm a dummy *grins* ♥

So yesterday I learned from my referrer stats that my blog had been inspected and judged by someone from SXSW Website Competition. And you know what pissed me off? They had to visit my site just when Blogger was giving me archiving hell! The archives from June to December were missing. Bummer. I had to edit an entry from each month to get them back up again. Bad Blogger! ♥

Anyone interested in a New Year's Eve Blog-A-Thon? ;) Didn't think so. I'm probably the only Bloggerville resident with no plan at all for the New Year's Eve (read: no life). But if there's anyone who's interested at all, let me know. I have a (hopefully) interesting concept. ♥

I was surprised to learn that The X-Files was still among the Entertainment Weekly Best of 2000. I thought everyone hated the new episodes. I was also surprised to see that Big Brother was among the Worst of 2000 since everyone seemed to love it. I don't get it. ♥

From The Onion A.V. Club comes The Least Essential Albums of 2000 with some amusing categories, such as Least Essential Album That's So Inessential, It's Eerily Sublime and Least Essential Album Apparently Marketed To Pedophiles. ♥

If you live in a snowless area like I do, you can try growing your own snow crystals. If I weren't such a slacker, I'd try it. It looks pretty easy. Easier than, say, writing a Perl script that actually works. ♥

Saturday Morning Haiku

It's a long weekend!
Saturday, Sunday, Monday
Wish Tuesday was too.

I received a couple of Christmas presents via email this morning (even though I don't celebrate Christmas): a couple of fonts from Sarosh and an email that I'm not required to reply to from David the Toasted Boy. Cute :) Thanks, guys! I also received the "ColdMarble Creator of Smiles" award from John for my "untiring efforts to bring a smile to the face of the world". Right. People are funny :) ♥

My online New Year's resolutions, in no particular order:

- To reply to every email I get, even if I have nothing to say in return.
- To participate in other people's web projects.
- To leave comments in other people's little comment thingy.
- To join #BlogIRC whenever I can.
- To participate in *gasp* Metafilter discussions.
- To experiment more with the web.
- To say "hi!" first to people on my buddy list.
- To post less of depressing entries.

Let's see which one I break first :) I suck at community stuff, but I'm willing to change. ♥

I came across eLance yesterday. If you are a freelance web designer looking for clients or projects to do, you might want to check it out. ♥

Looking for a picture of me or curious about where my weblog used to be located? Look no more. Just go to Fairvue Central Link Collection. There's a tiny, blurry picture of me on the Weblog Wannabe banner. The banner suited one of my designs from March which lasted for a very short time. Like, two days. And the banner is linked to my old url. It is a great weblog historical resource indeed *grins* Hi, Nik! :P ♥

A few days ago, my old aunt told us a story about how the Dutch soldiers were always after her family during the war. Being the silly girl that I was, I asked her if any of the Dutch soldiers was cute looking, and she said, "Oh, yes. All of them were cute, but the one who captured your grandfather was no Dutch. He was an Indonesian working for the Dutch." And so they threw my grandfather to jail. I forgot to ask why. Probably because he was a teacher (funny thing about war).

Anyway, he spent 3 months in jail. According to my aunt, he kind of enjoyed it. He said the food was good *grins* Mind you, food was scarce during the war. After he was released from jail, he occasionally asked my grandmother to cook some food like what he'd had in jail. He liked the green bean soup. Most war prisoners might not want to remember anything about the time they spent in jail, but apparently my grandfather was different. And human. I'd always thought of him as anything but human. He wasn't so crazy about me, mind you. I don't know why. But after listening to my aunt's story, for once he appeared human to me.

My grandfather passed away almost two decades ago when I was just a wee little girl. I wish God had given us more time to get to know each other better. ♥

One of the Mysteries of the Universe: why Kyle MacLachlan's face is on the can of Colgate Shaving Cream. Another Mystery of the Universe: why anyone should care at all that Kyle MacLachlan's face is on the can of Colgate Shaving Cream. ♥

Another weirdness today was I got an email from my old English professor. She found my old homepage and she said she missed me lots. Cool :) She refused to teach once just because I was absent. She said she didn't want to teach because talking to my classmates was like talking to the wall. Hahaha! ♥

Friday Morning Haiku

Hooray for Friday!
It's been such a strange day
I don't know what to say.

Well, actually I have a lot to say but hey, I've got to make it rhyme! :) The day started with my site being down. Well, not altogether anyway. First I couldn't FTP. I went to my weblog and got 403 Forbidden. I went to my directory with WS-FTP and found that everything was gone, except for a few files in my /metafirda folder. I emailed my wonderful host Bry and it bounced back. Thank God for AIM, I could reach Bry. But then I had to go to work.

As soon as I got to work, I checked my site again and found that it was already back up. Now that it was up, I emailed Bry just to say "yay!" and guess where the email ended up? My very own inbox. And I'd addressed the email to Bry's email address with no cc to my own and it wasn't a bounced back email! It's been such a weird morning online.

Oh, and I saw a fresh wreck of what used to be a minibus on my way to work. It seems to have gotten hit by a train a few hours before I passed the spot. I hope there was no victim in the accident, which was quite unlikely, but one can always hope for a miracle. ♥

Brick a Brand game is strangely addicting. Play the Anarchist level. It's more fun. Student level is too slow. Anyway, the game reminds me of a computer game I used to like to play ages ago but I can't remember the name of the game. Hmm. ♥

Making people smile seems to be my one and only talent. At least that's my talent online. If you are here, I'm sure I can make you laugh. But what kind of talent is that? Other people can sing, or act, or draw, or paint, or design, or code, or break world records... I want to have that kind of talent. A talent that other people can recognise and appreciate. I mean, who cares if I can make people smile and laugh? There is no award for that unless you're a stand-up comedian, which I am not and will never be. All I want is just one real talent. Is that too much to ask? ♥

I think I'll volunteer to redesign this online magazine. It used to be a printed student magazine where I was head translator back in college. The online version has been up for a couple of days now, and to be honest, the so-called design not only makes my eyes bleed. It makes my soul mourn. ♥

A site that Kottke linked linked to a site that linked to BestoftheBay.com (wooo, heavymeta!), in which I found this very interesting article about San Francisco called "Nonument" (no, it's not a typo). The article lists the best sightseeing spots in San Francisco, including "Best Place to Contact Your Dead Mother", "Best Intersection to Cycle Through for Near-Death Euphoria" and "Best Place for Blind People to Rent Videos for Free". Makes me wish I lived somewhere in San Francisco. ♥

Thursday Morning Haiku

I'm down with a flu
Hope it's not the same with you
Got to sneeze, "Haatchooo!"

Boy, am I going to miss it when I stop writing silly haiku daily. Everyone in my office seems to be down with a flu and I'm no exception. I hate flu, but it's still so much better than toothache. And as I always do every Thursday, I wish today was Friday. ♥

I just sent an email to Ev, begging him to bring Blogger Search back up (among other things) because "we need our daily dose of ego-surfing". Yeah, I know what you think. I'm pathetic. But I did it for you, my fellow webloggers! I know deep down inside you want Bloggers Search back up too ;) ♥

Weblog Wannabe got linked in a TechTV article, The Famous and the Followers, in the paragraph before the last one, as "click". The first out of the three "clicks" there. The other two "clicks" are for Chris and Brad. Yeah, I love that word. "Click". The next time you decide to link to my blog, please link it using the word "click". Thank you. ♥

Yay, I rock! :) ♥

10 lyrically challenged pop songs is a pretty amusing read. ♥

"To me, fair friend, you never can be old
For as you were when first your eye I eyed,
Such seems your beauty still."

William Shakespeare (1564�1616), English dramatist, poet. Sonnet 104. ♥

Someone has come up with an Illustrated Guide to Christmas Tree Disposal. It looks like a lot of fun. ♥

Choose a bubble at Angel Doorway Bubble Magick that's most appealing to you and it will tell you about your inner self. My bubble shows that I "would succeed in sending out telepathic impressions, healing thoughts, and possibly, have the ability to manipulate various levels of energy, rather than be manipulated by them." Hey, I'm psychic! Cool! :) ♥

What Kind of Gorilla Are You? I'm Taz The Adventurer. Ha! ♥

Have you checked out Yahoo! Internet Life's The 100 Best Sites for 2001? I found Computing and the Net categories the most interesting. Guess who won the Best Instant Messaging category? Here's a hint: it's not ICQ :) ♥

I can't be the only one who hates Clippy the Office Assistant, can I? ♥

Wednesday Morning Haiku

I am halfway there
Halfway to the long weekend
Have to be patient.

I so wish I could rush the week. I want it to be over as quickly as possible. Next week I'll only have to go to work on Tuesday the 26th and only for half-day, and after that it's a week off, baby! I think I'll go shopping on the 25th. I just love last-minute shopping. Not sure I'll be able to buy myself anything, though. But I can still shop for my parents and brothers and aunt. Eid is on the 27th. Can't wait! ♥

Boy, do San Francisco servers host a lot of sites or what? ♥

Random stuff that came to my head when I was freezing and bored to death at work:

- I've got an idea for a redesign.
- If we had snow here, I think I would love it.
- I'm hungry but I'm not supposed to say so.
- I'm picking up an aunt and big bro from the train station after work.
- It's going to be a long ride back home since I'll be on my way home later than usual and the traffic jam will have got worse.
- You always say the web is not all about money and commercial crap, but why on earth do you still take advantage of the referrer reward system everytime you link to sites like Amazon.com? ♥

I have my heroes (design hero, internet superhero). What I need now is an idol. ♥

I've come to a realisation that whether I blog a lot or not, it doesn't really matter. Now I can sleep peacefully at night :) ♥

"Looking for Alibrandi" by Melina Marchetta is my favourite book, ever. I bought the book in early 1990's and I've re-read it so many times that I lost count. I just found that they've turned the book into a movie. That's cool. I always thought that the story would make a great movie. Too bad Australian movies never make it to Indonesia. I would've loved to see it. The homepage for the movie looks so lovely that it worths checking out. ♥

Am I the only who thinks that Le Blogeur's new design is a bit hard in the eye? Ooops, I just broke one of the golden rules of weblogging: thou shalt not criticise other people's weblog design. Sorry, Relton! :) ♥

You know what? I thought my web baby project was the most original idea in the world, but then John sent me a link to NurseryPhotos.com which apparently has a huge database that stores the baby photos of just about everyone I know online. Even you! Yes, YOU! I don't even have your baby picture *sniff!* ♥

Tuesday Morning Haiku

I've nothing to say
I have nothing to complain
It's not a haiku.

But if you think it sounds like one, good :) I've been running out of ideas for everything. I can't think of a haiku, I can't think of a design, I can't think of a prank, I can't think of what to have for dinner (FYI, my mum would cook me anything as long as I eat it since I haven't been in a very good health since last weekend), I can't think of a silly domain name to register...

Speaking of domain names, I've been spending a great deal of time at Register.com, checking some domain names that happen to pop into my head (just checking, not necessarily buying it). Do you know of any site where I can get a whois bookmarklet or something close to that? If you could point me to it, I'd really appreciate it. Or better still, if you could make me one, I would love you forever *grins* ♥

My mum cooks the best stew. Goodnight. ♥

I took the SparkMatch test and the results show that I'm a "Pure Mountain Stream", which means:

"Giving and wholesome, no matter your age or experience, you will always be pure at heart. You sense the good in people, and it's part of your nature to cuddle. As a result, your relationships are deep and lasting, and part of each of them will be with you forever. It's likely that you're still friends with most of your exes."

Hey, looky here! It's the Toilet Door Philosophy! It's an Australian site! It's got a Hall of Fame! It's funny!

I'm bored, can you tell? ♥

You might not be able to afford it but there's no harm in finding out what luxury car you belong in. Just use the Luxury Car Selector. According to the selector, the car I belong in is any Ferrari. I hate Ferraris. ♥

I hate how I always feel crappy in the weekends. So much free time wasted just by moping and feeling sorry for myself when I could've been doing something productive like preparing the backend for Fakegeek.org ("the blank page domain"). I'm planning to build the site in either PHP or CGI or both, but of course I might end up building it in 100% HTML. I suck that way. I can't write a script to save my life. Wish I could get help from a programmer. Any programmer wants to volunteer? ;) ♥

A conversation I had with my mum this morning, around 3.45am:

Mum: Tell me what you want for dinner and I'll cook it for you.
Me: I want stew.
Mum: Stew? I don't think I could get some beef today. How about chicken stew?
Me: But I don't like chicken stew. *sulks*
Mum: *sighs* Alright, alright. Wake me up when your dad's about to leave. I'll have him buy some beef.
Me: Yay! :)

Cigarettes suck, do you hear me? Visit the site and check out the photos. If that doesn't make you want to quit smoking, I don't know what will. ♥

Do you want to be a Santa Claus when you grow up? If so, just go to the Charles W. Howard Santa Claus School in Midland, Michigan. It claims to be the world's oldest Santa School. ♥

If you're looking for a new hobby, you might want to check out Goth Hunting. Why? Because "Goths taste like chicken"! Well, according to them anyway. ♥

I was thinking of doing a nightmare project where people can share their nightmares but apparently, someone already beat me to it. Now what should I do then? Wetdream Project? I don't think so! ♥

Have you ever wondered where your favourite band got their name from? The Origins of Band Names answer all. Well, almost all anyway. ♥

Monday Morning Haiku

Here it comes again
Monday, the dreaded Monday
The day I hate so.

My Mondayitis is not so bad this time. Probably because I got to listen to "Flora's Secret" by Enya before I left for work. The song's been stuck in my head ever since I heard Nikolai sang it in a voicemail last night :) It's a good thing, though. It put me in a good mood.

Hey, guess what, Nik? My stupid computer went mute again soon after I sent you "Wild Child"! Grrr. How annoying. Oh well. At least now I know that to unmute my computer all I have to do is make one of the windows crash so badly that Windows produce a blue screen of death and then turn off the computer abruptly. That was how it worked the last time. But of course, what worked then may not work now. Such is life. ♥

Today's greetings received via ICQ and AIM:

Nikolai, via AIM: "Saya gila."
Michel, via ICQ: "Selamat good morning!"
Matt, via AIM: "Firdaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!"

Apart from what Matt was saying, you need to understand Indonesian language to appreciate the humour. And you know what's funny? None of the above people is Indonesian :) ♥

Nikolai sent me the link to I'm crazy... in 86 languages. It's not funny until you say it to someone else in a language that you both don't understand :) ♥

After slacking for a couple of days, I finally updated Babes. Let's celebrate! ♥

I did find a tutorial on how to disappear completely and never be found. I think I'll end up trying it out sooner or later. I'll make it sooner than later. ♥

I just counted my blessings. I'm feeling better now. My life could've been much worse. ♥

Sunday Morning Haiku

What a lousy day
Wish I could just disappear
From the face of earth

Sometimes I wish I could not only quit my job but also quit my life and return when I'm more prepared to face everything life has in store for me (nothing good so far, unfortunately). That would be so convenient.

Sorry. I'm just in my lowest low. If you'd call my voicemail and sing for me, I'd be very appreciative. I can use all the cheering up I could get. ♥

So I sent a couple of small packages across the ocean via snail mail a couple of days ago. When I was preparing the packages, I ran out of bubblewrap. Being the creative dork that I was, I used flannel cloth instead to replace it. It sounded like such a good idea then. Now I feel really dumb. ♥

Bored? Play the Sperm Game. The idea is to get as many sperm as possible into the condom. It can be pretty addicting. And no, it's not really as vulgar as you think :) ♥

St. Paul, Minn. Police Department post online all the pictures of anyone they arrest for prostitution, both the prostitutes and those who are trying to pay a prostitute for sex. See anyone you know? ♥

The Corporation's Foot4Foot Map of the United States gives a whole new meaning to "under construction". Well, sort of. ♥

The Chronological History of the Christmas Tree. Interesting. ♥

Encode a short message into spam and decode the spam back into the original message with spammimic. This is one site that really makes me feel like screaming, "Oh, humanity!" ♥

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience, your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose

or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands

-e.e. cummings ♥

Saturday Morning Haiku

Sorry, Saturday
I love you, but I don't feel
Like rejoicing you.

I'm beat. I didn't get home until 10pm last night and I still had to wake upat 3.45am to have wacky breakfast ("wacky" contributed by Bry :P) and then I went back to sleep until 8.30am. I shouldn't have slept again since I knew that it would make me feel crappy when I woke up, but what else can a mere mortal do when they're sleepy. I don't want to talk more about last night. It was a disaster. ♥

Guess where I'm blogging from? I'm blogging from an internet cafe at the mall. I'd rather be here than watching my brother and her girlfriend hugging like there's no tomorrow. The connection pretty much sucks. My internet connection at home is still faster than here. They charged Rp8000/hour (less than US$1). And yeah, I didn't get to buy anything. I suck at shopping. ♥

I might take this online course next year (paid by my office, of course). Sounds interesting. I'm already thinking of making weblogs the topic of my final project :) ♥

The closer I get to going home (and shopping!) time, the more I doubt if I really need a new Discman. It's not like I couldn't live without it. My Discman has been dead for almost a year now so I've been playing my CD's with my computer all this time. Of course when my computer went mute, I had no way to play the CDs but, well, it didn't kill me. I might end up not buying anything. It's very typical of Firda. Can't buy anything for herself. ♥

The song stuck in my head right now is "Earthbound" by Conner Reeves. It's a beautiful song. I wish I still had the mp3. ♥

How to Cook Something Special for the Holidays. Some people are not meant to be a cook. Me included. ♥

Find out if you have what it takes to be the winner of the World Mouseclicking Competition. My maximum clicking speed was 29 clicks per 10 seconds, which means "there's hope for you yet". Yay! I rule! :P How did you do? ♥

The Dirty Little Secret about Rock's Teen Idols will show you what the Backstreet Boys, N'Sync and Britney Spears are really saying. Somebody took their silly little songs a bit too seriously. ♥

Contribute dirt from your backyard to the museum of dirt and be on display with famous dirt from places such as Pearl Harbour, Madison Square Garden, Mount Everest and James Belushi's Graveyard. ♥

Friday Morning Haiku

Hey, it's Friday! Yay!
It's not raining but it's grey
A wonderful day.

Well, maybe not, but hey, it rhymes! :) My brother is working morning shift today so we went to work together this morning and after work we'll meet again at the mall two blocks away from my workplace to do some shopping (I need a new Discman) and then later have dinner (or rather, breakfasting) at Hartz Chicken Buffet. My treat, of course. He rarely treats me anything. Blech. Can't wait for this day to be over. Oh, I took some mirror photographs of me in the bathroom as soon as I got to work. If they turn up well, I'll scan them so you can see me looking goofy in my Mickey Mouse polo shirt *grins* And as usual, there are some really cute new babies over at Babes. Check them out! ♥

I hate it when I post to the wrong blog... ♥

You think you can tell Henry from Henrietta? Well, take the Guess My Sex test, and think again. I guessed 8 out of 9 correctly. Yay! I rock! :) ♥

Why didn't you tell me that Babes look crappy in Netscape? *sniff!* Now I have to fix the template of almost 30 entries *boohoohoo!* ♥

I have a toothache. My upper left wisdom tooth is making its way out. It hurts. Ouch! :( ♥

"The Stinky Artists' Collective is dedicated to promulgating and supporting the work of artists and writers who are truly stinky." While you're there, be sure to check out J. Crow, a parody of J. Crew. It's not really all that funny, but I kinda like the tagline. ♥

Canadian Association for the Peaceful Takeover of the USA. Need I say more? ♥

Do you want to be l33t? If so, check out the Guide To Being l33t. I don't think I could become one. Not that I want to be one. I'm happy enough being a geek wannabe, thank you very much :) At least I don't have to "Be An Arrogant Bullshitter". ♥

Pet Projects aim to teach Arthur, aka "Wart", a 20 month old African Grey Parrot, to use the computer by means of Interpet Explorer. Yet another wacky project brought to you by MIT. I'll be looking forward to the time they teach the same trick to goldfish. ♥

The X86 Still, or how to go about using your PC to make pure alcohol. Being a non-drinker, the only good use for the distilled alcohol I could think of is to clean a wound. But I'd rather go to the chemist and buy a bottle of Rivanol than messing around with my poor, old PC's gut. ♥

Have you been to Babes lately? ♥

Thursday Morning Haiku

It's only Thursday
I want it to be Friday
I want what I want.

But I don't always get what I want. C'est la vie. Anyway, it's pay day today. And you know what? I'm thinking of going on a holiday abroad in March but I don't know where to go. I don't know anyone in Austin, TX. If I did, I'd go there for SXSW. I was thinking of going to Sydney, Australia, but I don't know anyone there either. Ooops, I do know someone. My ex-workmate M lives in Sydney now. Hmmm, maybe I'll go there instead. I dunno. Or maybe I'll just take my mum for a holiday in Bali. She needs a holiday. I don't really like Bali but, well, it's like the only safe place to have a holiday in Indonesia. Decision, decision... ♥

Am I A Good Parody of "Am I Hot Or Not" Or Not? is Fairvue's latest feature. I only went for two rounds, though. It was endless. I gave "Am I Kottke Or Not" a 10 and the rest a 5 :) And I was the first voter! Yay! There's nothing like deflowering a Fairvue's feature *grins* Er, nevermind. ♥

Just read the post about Secretariat the race horse at kottke.org and it reminded me of this silly interview with Secretariat that I blogged ages ago.

Have I mentioned that I love horses? I do. My little brother used to be an equestrian athlete. A "National Rider", as they put it. He used to go to a riding school every weekend for years and I liked to come along with him just so that I could check out the horses while he was taking his lessons.

My favourite horse was a stallion named Reece. He was a big, old horse. Very friendly. And he always had a smile on his face. Well, I don't know if horses really smile, but Reece did have a smiling face. I think I miss him. I wonder if he's still alive. It's been ages since the last time I saw him.

I always feel sad everytime I see a horse drawing a carriage on the street, looking shabby and sad instead of shiny and happy like all the horses at my brother's riding school. It makes me wonder if the horse has enough to eat or if it's healthy at all and if the owner cares whether the horse is tired or hungry or sick.

That's all. I suck at endings. ♥

<lazy> I'm having a second thought abut my idea below. It sounds like a lot of work. Hmmm. </lazy> ♥

I think I'm going to use Greymatter instead of Blogger at Fakegeek.org (which still consists of a blank page, unfortunately). Not that it's going to be yet another weblog. I'm going to make it some kind of a review site. I'll be reviewing (read: bitching about) some free CGI and PHP scripts and rate it according to the number of problems I experience during the installation. Just don't expect to find any geeky terms there because, hey, I'm just a fake geek! ;) I'll also be reviewing various free web services, from hosting through to guestbooks. It's going to be fun, fun, fun! Can't wait to start working on it! ♥

Experience Windows like never before at When Windows Attack, Part II. ♥

Nordic Hot Dogs will show you the difference(s) between Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic and Finnish hot dogs. Does each state in America have a different kind of hot dog? ♥

Both men and women can be a Wonder Woman lookalike. Quite an amusing picture gallery :) ♥

Something is missing from these Internet Sex Photos. I wonder what it is. Don't worry, there's no age restriction to enter the site :) ♥

What is your Mobster Name? Mine is Angry Sammy No Nose Soprano. Heh. Lovely :) ♥

Wednesday Morning Haiku

Grey drizzly morning
Some drops of cold rain water
Fell on my face. Nice!

Most people might find this morning grey, cold and depressing. I, on the contrary, found the morning lovely. It's the kind of weather that puts me in a good mood. Told you I was weird :)

I went to bed at 7pm last night and woke up just in time to have "wacky breakfast" at 3.45am before started fasting at 4am. I had some fried rice with shrimps that my father cooked. Mmmm. It was good.

I managed to post a couple of new baby pictures before I left for work. Go check out baby Andrew of phancy.com and baby Becky of mybluehouse.com at Babes! ♥

I bought a roll of film today on a whim. Thought I'd take some pictures of me while I looked "smaller", as everyone, from my workmate through to my doctor, put it :) But I am smaller. My pants have become too baggy and my shirts too large. Even my stomach is almost flat now. Yay! By the time 2001 comes, I'm afraid I'll be sexy. Ha-ha! You wish! ;) ♥

I was feeling so unhip just then because I never posted any chat transcript, but then I went to some weblogs that I thought was cool and found that they never posted any chat transcript either. It made me feel better :) It's just that I don't chat with a lot of people online. In fact, Bry is the only one on my buddy list who'd still talk to me often. I guess I'm too dull. Sigh. ♥

On last World AIDS Day, I was looking all over for my little red ribbon that a friend in Korea sent me ages ago, but I couldn't find it. Yesterday I saw my stuffed dog wearing it. I don't know why but I found it really funny. ♥

I've started planning my great escape from this little hellhole, but the plan is lacking something very important: I still don't know where to go. So frustrating... ♥

Here's a quiz to send out to all those compulsive email forwarder friends of yours. ♥

I was thinking of reliving my Gloat! idea but then I found that Gloat.org that was free about 8 months ago has now been taken by none other than NameZero. Grrr. In case you've never heard of my Gloat! idea, it's that crazy idea of mine to create an online magazine for webloggers. I came up with that idea in April (or was it March?). Anyway, if I decided to go on with the idea again, I guess I'd have to think of another title for the online mag. Let me see... "Bloggers' Digest"? ;) ♥

"Cogito, Ergo Sushi" is a collection of amusing, often stupid quotes from famous people in fashion industry. "Cogito, Ergo Sum" means "I think, therefore I am", so "Cogito, Ergo Sushi" must mean "I think, therefore I'm sushi"? Hmmm. ♥

It's the Britney Spears Dork Dance! Enough said. ♥

Useless Movie Quotes? Aren't all movie quotes useless? ;) ♥

If you're looking for inspirations for a website design, you really should check out media inspiration. It has a collection of links to websites with really yummy design. I can't wait to go home so I could browse all of them! You can submit your own design-related website to get listed and rated. You do know how much you love to get rated, don't you? ;) ♥

Tuesday Morning Haiku

One cloudy morning
I am feeling like sleeping
Instead I'm working.

Not that I have any choice. I really can't wait until the end of the month. I'll have a week off from December 27 until January 2. I need a break so badly.

There's one new baby picture over at Babes, by the way. I wish you'd contribute your baby picture. It would make me happy! Maybe I should start updating the site once a week instead of daily from now on. Hmmm. ♥

You know, sometimes I wish I liked a TV show/an artist/an actor enough to dedicate a whole website to it/him/her. You know, like Nikolai and his Spacemonkeys.net or Bry and his LifeAfterMTV.com (which is not really a fan site, but sort of). I think it would be cool.

I used to be obsessed with some TV show ages ago but I've never become obsessed with any celebrity and I don't think I ever will. I just can't be obsessed with someone that I don't know. I'm more likely to create a website as a tribute to a good friend than a tribute to some celebrity who doesn't even know that I exist. Yeah, I'm weird like that. ♥

What's Your Superpower? Here's mine: "Your inner superpower is Invisibility! It's your ticket to going places you never dreamed of going." No wonder I always feel invisible. It hasn't got me anywhere, though.

Speaking of invisibility, do you know the song "Invisible Man" by Joshua Kadison? Here's some verses from the song:

"Woke up this morning with a funny feeling,
wasn't really sure what it was all about.
But it felt like I was disappearing,
so I ran to the mirror to check it out.
I said, "Here I am, here I am, here I am
...but why do I feel like the invisible man?"

I stumbled back into the bedroom,
and stared out at the rising sun.
Then I heard myself shout out the window,
not really talking to anyone.
I yelled, "Here I am, here I am, here I am
...but why do I feel like the invisible man?"

Lights went on, people started yelling,
"Will the crazy man go back to bed."
And there I was, laughing out my window,
feeling much better now, somebody heard what I said.

Well it's no big thing, no revelation,
no answer to these lives we lead.
But I think I do know one thing;
Sometimes I think we all need to say;
"Here I am, here I am, here I am,"
when life makes us feel like the invisible man."

That's what my website is all about. It's my way of saying "Here I am!" Unfortunately, I have no way to say so offline. I can't do what the old man do or they'd send me off to a mental institution! ♥

I know the reason for the chest pain now. I forgot to take my medicine this morning. Damn. ♥

So I went to see the doctor on Saturday night. She said I was okay and my lungs were cleared. But why on earth does my chest hurt so badly now and I can barely breathe? Heart attack? ♥

The Onion asked some celebrities, "Who could you take in a fight?" and it inspired me to ask you a similar question. Which celebrity annoys you so much that you could take him/her in a fight? ♥

Monday Morning Haiku

Ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh
Ack, ack, ack, ack, ack, ack, ack
Ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh

No, it wasn't supposed to be the sound of a monkey getting spanked. I'm against all sorts of cruelty to animals, though I do eat some of them. Not much. Just chicken, cow, and fish. The poor cow is my favourite, both dead and alive. Of course I don't eat the cow alive. I have enough patience to wait until the poor cow become beef. Back to the haiku, it was supposed to be the sound inside my head complaining about the fact that today is Monday. Ugh.

My weekend was far from enjoyable. Must be because I slept too much. I felt crappy all weekend long. I didn't even get to do all sorts of web-designing stuff that I planned to do because I just didn't have enough will to do so. I also still owe Chris a "singing telegram". I didn't feel like singing at all last weekend, which was bad because usually, no matter how bad my mood was, I still felt like singing.

In addition to the crappy feeling, my spelling and grammar got worse than usual and I got so absentminded that I linked to myself when I was supposed to link to Uncle Joe on Babes' news page. (I'm still waiting for your baby picture, Uncle Joe! With baited breath, if I may add.)

And yes, there are some lovely new babies over at Babes. Yay! ♥

I'm feeling so miserable today. And it's not only because tomorrow is Monday. Been thinking about love, and how it works, and how it doesn't work, and it upset me. I wish I could make one of the the many ways love not work work. Just one. That would make my life so much easier. That would probably make so many miserable people happy. It would be a good thing. How could a good thing not work? Sigh. Nevermind... ♥

I finally got around to taking the Magical Mystical Christmas Test (see Friday's post) to find out what it would suggest me to get Bry for Christmas and these books were among the results: 1-2-3 Be A Porn Star and Controlling Herpes Naturally. To add to the insult, they suggested that I ordered the books from Half.com. Hmmm, I don't remember saying that I hate Bry when I took the test. ♥

Am I the only one who feels tortured by the absence of Blogger Search? I need my daily dose of ego-stroking! *boohoohoo* ♥

Getting Even With Your Computer, or How To Make Your Computer Feel Guilty And Serve You Better, or How To Conquer Your Computer. ♥

If The Matrix is really as funny as the bastardised version, I'd love to see it :) It's just that I'm not really a big fan of sci-fi movies. Unless it's funny, I won't bother to see it. ♥

Some of the Daily Radar's Ten Worst High Tech Gadgets are not really that bad. I mean, I would love to have the Chopstick Fan, the Butter Stick, and the Backscratcher. They're actually useful! Not really high tech, but useful. ♥

Have no time to see movies? Read The Editing Room: Abridged Scripts for Movies. If you plan to see any of the movies listed there, don't read the script, unless you want to know beforehand what the movie is all about and how the story ends. ♥

What is a Cheesesteak? I know what a cheesestick is, but cheesesteak? Is it steak with cheese? Sounds really fatty. According to the site, not knowing what a cheesesteak is is wrong! Help! I don't want to be wrong! ♥

Sunday Morning Haiku

The wind is blowing
Grey coulds are gathering 'round
The rain hasn't come.

I've been spending most of this weekend sleeping to compensate for the lack of sleep I had all week, so if you see very few updates, that would be the reason. I'll still try to redesign Babes and make a proper "coming soon!" page for fakegeek.org. But not until I finish blogging :) ♥

There are five new baby pictures at Babes : the web babies. Go check them out! ♥

Check out the The Great American Tchotchke Peepshow! You might have something at home or in the attic that belongs to it. Have it appraised by their experts in tchotckinology. Who knows, it might be hideous enough to end up in the Hall of Crap! ♥

I have a special formulae that I use to guess crushes. I can't put it into mathematical or programming logic, but if you happen to know how to do it, please let me know:

x wouldn't have done n if x didn't have a crush on y, where n means infinity to x but may equal 0 to y.

Saturday Morning Haiku

Thinking 'bout talents
Wondering about my real talent
Do I have any?

My brother has a talent for killing lots and lots of mosquitoes while he's asleep. Me? I'm still wondering what my talent is. Last month I would say that guessing other people's crushes was my real talent, but now I'm not so sure anymore. Guessing crushes is kind of like an exercise in logic more than anything. Bry said making people smile was my real talent. I'm still wondering about it because, frankly, if that was my real talent then pissing people off would be my real talent too. I seem to be equally good at both. Well, not really. I'm just good at pissing my father off, but mostly because he disapproves of most of the things I do. Hmmm, maybe making people smile is my real talent after all :)

Speaking of talents, Chris (the birthday boy) has "a piece of art that makes you grasp -- if even for a moment -- the beauty inside yourself" in his givelist, addressed to me. He seems to have a natural talent for giving the right gift to the right person. That kind of gift is exactly what I need. God knows how much I need to know that I'm not really half as bad as I think I am. ♥

Did you know that you can make things like movie theater, cigarette lighter, port-o-potty (what on earth is that?) or even accordion out of a Yugo automobile? It's called Yugo Art. Yeah, people are weird. ♥

Does anyone need a Breakfast Cereal Character Guide? Didn't think so. ♥

Do you know the song "Walkin' in a Winter Wonderland"? I don't, but still I think "Walkin' Round in Women's Underwear", that is to be sung to it, is kind of funny. ♥

Have you taken TheSpark.com's Magical Mystical Christmas Test? Hmmm, I wonder what it would suggest me to get Bry for Christmas. ♥

You know, if I knew how to write the script, I'd turn Babes into AmICuteOrNot.com (which is already taken, unfortunately). But on second thought, maybe not :P ♥

I just received some more cash from the Union that's enough to register another domain. Boy, am I tempted! ;) ♥

Babies are cute. Babies make me smile. These babies may make you smile too. Go on, click the link. It's the baby picture project site! Yay! Don't forget to contribute! ♥

Friday Morning Haiku

Been up since midnight
Today's work has just begun
A long day ahead.

Sorry for not blogging much yesterday. I was busy sleeping and working on the baby picture project (in that order). I haven't slept at all since midnight. I went to bed before 7pm so I already slept for 5 hours when I woke up. I couldn't decide whether to blog or to finish the project. Bry helped me decide. He suggested that I finished the project and then blogged it. Sounded good to me, so that was what I did :) ♥

I need more baby boy. Picture, that is. I won't turn down any baby girl, though :) ♥

I think I'll use my newly acquired domain, fakegeek.org, to house my projects, including the baby picture project, temporarily named "Babes" for lack of originality from my part. ♥

Unlike any conventional beggar, e-beggar accepts credit card. In fact, it's the only method of payment they accept. ♥

Thursday Morning Haiku

It's only Thursday
I so wish it was Friday
Long way to weekend.

Thanks to everyone who has sent me their baby picture :) Hopefully the project site will be up and running tonight. I was going to finish it last night but I was so tired and sleepy I fell asleep. Meanwhile, keep the baby pictures coming! If you need some guidelines, here it comes:

1. The photograph must be taken at any time between your birth and your second birthday.
2. Make sure the photograph is in JPEG/JPG format and is no greater than 300 pixels on its longest dimension.
3. Do not type anything on the image.
4. Write down your name, url (if you have a website), the year and location where the photograph was taken in your email. If possible, include a short description or comment. The wittier the description/comment, the better.
5. Send your email with the photograph as an attachment to this address.

If you have any question, don't hesitate to ask! I don't bite, really. I might bark, but I don't bite :) ♥

Cat Rescue shows you what to do if you see a cat stranded in a tree. It also answers some classic questions, such as "Why Do Cats Climb Trees?" and "Why Cats Don't Come Down". Ok, so they're not really classic questions. Just sue me. ♥

You can find all sorts of wacky programs at The Emperor Norton Utilities, from religious belief generator through to a pseudo-German text filter.

Bry asked me if I knew who Emperor Norton was. I didn't, so he told me a short history of Emperor Norton, the Emperor of the United States. I think he led quite an interesting life. ♥

My brothers are probably good at Napkin Folding. They must teach napkin folding to the students at hotel management schools, right? Both my brothers went to one. Me? I did library science instead. I always wanted to be different :) Damn. I think I missed my little brother's performance on TV. I wish I wasn't such a sleepyhead. ♥

You're looking at the proud owner of fakegeek dot org *grins* Told ya the domain name was stupid! But I think it suits me just fine. I am a fake geek. The domain has been registered but not activated yet. I'll let you know when it's up and running. Yay, I'm so happy! :) ♥

I can't think of a title to give to my baby picture project. The only title I could think of is BabyBloggers, and I don't like it. Any suggestion? ♥

Yay! I've got two voicemails, one baby picture, and a couple of nice emails today. It's been such a good day online. I would love to find some more goodies in my little inbox, though ;) *hint, hint!* Just pick up the phone, dial my voicemail number, and sing your favourite song, or grab your favourite baby picture, scan and send it to me. It'll really make my day :) ♥

I'm still waiting for you to send me a baby picture of yourself to include in my baby picture project! For further info, see this entry. ♥

By the way, my little brother (well, he's 24 but he'll always be my little brother) will be on national television tonight. Woo, he's going to be famous! For half an hour anyway *grins* He and some of his fellow dotcom(munist) reporters will be participating in a quiz show. Not sure what the quiz show's like, though. Mind you, I don't watch much TV. Anyway, I hope he'll win. Not that I'll get anything if he did but, well, he's my brother! What do you expect me to wish him if not for the best? ♥

Wednesday Morning Haiku

It's cloudy outside
I hope it'll rain today
But not at lunchtime.

I have to go to the bank at lunchtime to pay for the hosting of my new domain. The domain registration itself is free. Cool, huh? ;) Well, free for a year anyway. The hosting fee is only like 35 bucks for 6 months and it includes CGI access and all the fancy stuff. I think it's supercheap compared to Dreamhost where this site is hosted (for free, thanks to the ever so wonderful Bry :) and the most important thing is, I don't need a credit card to pay for it. I've been planning to apply for a credit card for ages but I still haven't got around to it. I'm such a lazy bum. Anyway, I hope the host is reliable and won't abandon me after a couple of weeks. ♥

Online Institute for Media Diseases presents you with some case studies of the diseases, such as Drop Shadow Syndrome, Magic Wand Syndrome and Twirl Syndrome among others. I think I'm suffering from Magic Wand Syndrome. What can I say, Magic Wand is my favourite tool! :) What's yours? ♥

In case you're looking for the complete list of "Got Milk" ads, Why Milk, the folks who brought you the ads, have them. I didn't know KISS ever did the ad. I mean, KISS? Are they still being considered influential? ♥

Do you have two different size feet? Register yourself and/or search the registry and find your SoleMates! It might make your next shoe hunting more fun. I've never known anyone who has two different size feet, though. Have you? ♥

Ever wondered which mathematicians were born or dead on this day? Neither have I. But hey, it's useless! Anything useless is blogworthy in my book. Well, maybe it's not really all that useless but, you know... ♥

Which one of The Bad Movie Review Best Characters do you like the most? Mine is, of course, Howard the Duck. Not that I've ever seen it in action, but hey, it's a duck! ♥

Is Blogger messing up again? ♥

As it turned out, web.id domain is slightly more expensive than .com/.net/.org so I decided to register a .org domain instead. I'll let you know what it is when it's final :) The domain name is really stupid. So stupid that no one had thought of it before. When I did a whois, all .com/.net/.org were available! ♥

Do you have a cute baby picture of yourself? If you do, please, please, please scan it and send it my way! I'm starting a baby picture project. Why? Because I love looking at baby pictures!

My little brother is responsible for my obsession to baby pictures. Well, indirectly anyway. You see, one day, about 3 or 4 years ago, I saw his college yearbook. Instead of using recent photographs of the students, they used their baby pictures in it, accompanied by some really silly comments about what the baby might become when they grew up. It was hilarious and was definitely the yearbook with the best and most original concept I've ever come across.

I'm not going to make a yearbook out of this project. I just want to make a baby picture gallery. When you send your baby picture, please also includes your name, location, url (if you have a website), the year the picture was taken, and a short description. I'll be looking forward to your contribution! :) [For more detailed guidelines, check out the project site.] ♥

Tuesday Morning Haiku

Cold, windy morning
I'm hoping that it will rain
Back to work today.

Ack! I wish I could have a really long holiday (or "vacation", as Nik would say :) like school students are having right now. Anyway, I went splurging again yesterday after the blood test and I got everything I'd been wanting to buy for my family and friends. Bry is an exception. I still can't think of anything to get him. They don't sell kisses at the mall. And I still haven't bought anything for myself, except for Enya's new album that I bought last weekend. Before my mum retired, I always wondered why she never bought anything for herself when we went shopping. Now I understand why. Buying stuff for other people is so much more fun than buying stuff for yourself! ♥

What would you expect from a site called Live Nude Cats? That's right. Nude cats. You may not enter the site unless you're over 18 months. Yeah, I know what you think. Lame. ♥

911Audio lets you listen to or download real 911 calls. The calls are categorised into several categories, including Stupid 911 Calls, Weird Calls, and Celebrity 911 Calls. ♥

Hmmm, I wonder if Bryan has anything to do with this. ♥

Everything you ever need to know about beans can be found at Cool As Beans. There isn't much, really. ♥

So you've been dumped? It's not the end of the world. Really. Not that I have any competency to say so since I've never been dumped. And that's not because I'm a good lover or anything. That's because I've never had anyone to dump me in the first place. Yeah, I suck. ♥

Monday Morning Haiku

Monday comes so fast
No one invites it to come
But it's here today.

Just ignore the haiku. I don't really know what it's all about either. It's just that the rain hasn't fallen for days now and I'm running out of inspirations. Um, what else? Well, I don't go to work today. I take a day off. I'm getting another blood test. I hate blood test. I've never had the guts to see my own blood so while the nurse took my blood, I always looked at somewhere else. Anywhere but my arm from which the nurse was drawing some blood. Seeing blood never fails to make me feel queasy. That's why I don't really like watching blood-and-guts kind of movies (guy movies?). Does that make me a wimp? ♥

Do you live in one of The 50 Most Wired (American) Cities and Towns? If you do, I really envy you. ♥

Learn the doughnut philosophy and get some doughnut eating tips from the Call of the Doughnuts! What's the correct way to spell it anyway: doughnut or donut? I like donut better. How about you? ♥

Yet another one for the Do-We-Really-Need-This? department: Anatomy of a Moist Towelette. ♥

Read a Love Letter from a geek. ♥

RudeMountain Animated Greeting Cards are just like BlueMountain Animated Greeting Cards, only rude. Duh. This one is my favourite. ♥

Geek Love. Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Bill Gates is a one-(wo)man's attempt to rehabilitate the reputation of Bill Gates. I love geek guys but I don't think I'd have a crush on Bill Gates. He's too rich. ♥

I bought Enya's new album "A Day Without Rain" yesterday. It's beautiful. I highly recommend it. I didn't get to buy the CD, though. I just bought the tape. The CD was sold out, said the store clerk when I asked for it, and I thought, "Gee, I didn't know Enya had a lot of fans in Indonesia."

Most people seem to like "Only Time" best, but "Flora's Secret", a waltzy number, is my favourite song off that album. Every time I listen to that song, I would picture myself dancing with someone special on a grassy field when the sun is shining warmly and the sky above is blue. It gives me a mixed feeling of sadness and happiness.

...
Lying in the long grass
close beside her
giving her the name
of the one the moon loves
this will be the day she
will remember
when she knew his heart was
loving in the long grass
close beside her
whispering of love
and the way it leaves them
lying in the long grass
in the sunlight
they believe it's true love
and from all around them
flora's secret
telling them of love
and the way it breathes and
looking up from eyes of
amaranthine
they can see the sky is blue
knowing that their love is true
dreams they never knew
and the sky above is blue. ♥

Note to self: Stop using the phrase "in real life" in online conversations because when someone uses it in a conversation with you, it makes you feel like you're not real, like you're only a stupid nickname on a buddy list, a lifeless being. Others might feel the same way too. Use the word "offline" instead. ♥

I don't feel like blogging today. I think I'll just create something to add to this domain. I've got tonnes of site ideas. I just don't have the design and scripting skills. I know when something is doable with a script but I just don't know how to write the script. How frustrating is that? ♥

Some sites are so simple that they make you think "damn, why didn't I think of that?" The Palm Beach County, FL, Voter Competency Test is one of those sites. The site owner's main goal is to "get more hits than total voter turnout in this past election". I think they might just make it! ♥

The (New) Red Meat Construction Set allows you to build your own Red Meat comic in minutes with just several mouse clicks. You don't even need to know how to draw! ♥

For the Do-We-Really-Need-This? department, here's Which Backstreet Boy is Your Soul Mate? quiz. Mine is Brian Littrell. Har har. I didn't even know which one was Brian Littrell until I took the quiz. ♥

Sunday Morning Haiku

Good morning, Sunday!
Wish I could say I liked you
But I don't. Sorry.

Really, Sunday. The only good thing about you is that you're a day off. Other than that, you suck! But, in case it would make you feel better, you're still somewhat better than Monday. Monday is the bitch. I love Saturday, though. It's my favourite day. Yeah, I do play favourites. Just sue me. ♥

What do you get when you divide the circumference of a pumpkin by its radius?
Pumpkin pi.

Have some more punny Vegetable Jokes, brought to you by the University of California Vegetable Research and Information Center.

[Sorry for the short descriptions. I'm so tired and sleepy *yawns*] ♥

This is the Fart of the Day. Vote for the next Fart of the Day here. No comments. ♥

Happy birthday, Nikolai! :) ♥

Saturday Morning Haiku

Saturday morning
I'm going to go splurging
I feel like singing.

Well, that pretty much sums it up :) Boy, how I miss blogging. I still posted some entries on A Day Without Weblogs but I didn't publish it until past midnight. Big thanks go to Bryan for putting up with my silly ramblings for hours last night :) Without you, I would've fallen asleep *grins* I'll try to find you the kisses you want for Christmas at the mall, Bry! ♥

Bryan thinks CueCat is "stupid and pointless". He's going to love this: Killing your CueCat - Your Guide to Catricide. That sounds like fun. While you're there, be sure not to miss the Colostomizer. It can give your page a new look. If you want to see this page after being colostomized, click here. ♥

My favourite AIDS-related movies are The Cure (saw it about a dozen times) and Philadelphia (liked the movie, loved the music). What are yours? ♥

Hmmm, I just got a naughty idea. Let's see if it works, shall we? ;) First, type some domain names: evhead, megnut, kottke, 0sil8, powazek, harrumph, utsler, plasticbag. Second, let's wait and see which domains appear as Blogger Search/Weblogs.Com search keywords in my referrer log this evening and which one of the domain owners cared to submit something to my little project (my guess is none of them will). Fun! :)

Update: Kottke and Powazek bit the bait. They did a vanity search using the password-protected Blogger search. That proves that even internet rockstars need to know that they are loved, just like us mere mortals *grins* ♥

If you want to make my life a bit easier, please put a slash ("/") after every URL you post, unless the URL ends with an extension such as .html, .php, etc. The stupid browser on my stupid work computer simply refuses to go to URLs (with no extension) that don't end with a stupid slash. How stupid is that? ♥

Can anyone tell me what kind of band The Ramones is/was? I came across this site called Math Fun With The Ramones! and I have to admit that I don't have the slightest clue on what it's all about. But maybe it's just me and my poor English. ♥

Keanu Reeves is the Antichrist, along with Bill Gates, David Hasselhoff and some others that I can't remember right now. Is it because he played "The Devil's Advocate" or because he took "A Walk In The Clouds"? Bad pun, I know. I just couldn't resist *grins* ♥

"Corner of the Sky" from the musical Pippin has been playing inside my head for 2 days and 2 nights now. I have to blame Matt for introducing that song to me. Another song introduced to me by a weblogger that's every so often stuck in my head is "Dream" by Forest For Trees. Nikolai is the one to blame. It's not really a bad thing, though. There must be so many songs out there that I've never heard of but might like if I ever did. To say that I love music is pretty much an understatement. I simply can't live without music. Can you? ♥

Friday Morning Haiku

It's December 1
It's A Day Without Weblogs
I can't stop blogging.

I'm a blogaddict of the worst kind, but I'm sure you won't mind if I blog today. You won't be able to see what I blog until tomorrow anyway :) Hmm, it feels funny to blog without audience. I feel like I'm talking to myself. I really can't wait for today to be over. Still 8.5 hours to go. Ack! Tomorrow I'm going splurging. Yay! So it's a good thing that I blogged today because I don't think I'd be able to blog much tomorrow. Not until Saturday night anyway. Dum, dee, dee, dum, dee, dum... ♥