Weblog Wannabe

People seem to have stopped leaving comments. It makes Firda a sad, sad girl. *sobs* ♥

I'm allergic to perfume but I managed to score 6 out of 10 in the Perfume or Marvel Super Villain quiz. Go me! Except for the two perfume names that I did recognise, I guessed on all the answers. I don't think I've ever heard of any of the Marvel Super Villains mentioned in the quiz. ♥

Don't you want to know your name in Japanese? I just found this site again. My name in Japanese is rather boring: Furude Beka. I think western names get a lot more interesting results. ♥

If you read this weblog using the show comments bookmarklet, you'll see more than what you can see now. Aren't you curious? ;) ♥

According to the Pooh-Sonality Test, I am Pooh. "Bother-free is the way to be!"

"You're just like our favourite Bear, Pooh - with an uncomplicated philosophy and simple unguarded sense of wonder. Lovable, huggable Winnie the Pooh sees everything very simply, and all it takes is a walk in the woods or a "smackerel of something" to make him cheerful. Good-natured uncomplicated Winnie the Pooh lacks worldly understanding but more than makes up for it with his imagination. With his kind words and winning ways, big-hearted Pooh is the best friend anyone, of any age could ever imagine having."

Hmm. Is that really me? ♥

So Matt and I had this deal, that if he could finish the Yaysoft Weblog Directory before December 1, I would help him spread the word. Well, he did it, so I'm spreading the word, and I ask you all to help me spread the word, or I'll break your leg. If you blog about the directory, I would count it as one vote for me not to shut down my weblog. How's that? ;)

(YayDir is really neat, I promise. Just take a look around. Get an account. Add my weblog to your favourite weblog list. You'll love it.) ♥

Friday Morning Haiku

Should I shut it down
Until indefinite time?
Should I keep it up?

I hate making decisions, especially when it comes to my online life. The plan is to shut down my site at midnight until I can afford to pay my internet bill, but I dunno. I'd rather have some mean debt collectors break my knees than having to stay offline, really.

Anyway, I still haven't decided so you might still see this site tomorrow or you might not. All I can suggest you is, try to enjoy my silly posts today like there's no tomorrow :) ♥

Building the track is more than half the fun in RallyTrophy. The rally itself is way too easy. Computer is not supposed be defeatable by me! ♥

I don't really understand how this fly game works. Hence the measly 9 I managed to score. I like the background music, though. In fact, I've been playing the game over and over just to listen to it. I'm such a lousy gamer. ♥

Tempest for Eliza is a program that uses your computer monitor to send out AM radio signals. You can then hear computer generated music in your radio. Hmm. I wonder if the results are really music instead of just some funny sound of static. Anyone wanna try it for me? ;) ♥

Hunks For Habitat will show you how far Canucks will go to support habitat conservation. They'll reveal almost all. Donate $100 and make "a leaf fall away from your favourite hunk". They make it sound like the men were trees *grins* ♥

"Fragile"
(Sting)

If blood will flow when flesh and steel are one
Drying in the colour of the evening sun
Tomorrow's rain will wash the stains away
But something in our minds will always stay

Perhaps this final act was meant
To clinch a lifetime's argument
That nothing comes from violence
And nothing ever could
For all those born beneath an angry star
Lest we forget how fragile we are

On and on the rain will fall
Like tears from a star, like tears from a star
On and on the rain will say
How fragile we are, how fragile we are ♥

Thursday Afternoon Haiku

Two calls in one night,
'tis not my idea of fun,
when I'm kept awake.

Today's haiku was contributed by Chun-shek. I just couldn't come up with any myself. Luckily, Chuck was up early so I simply asked him to write one for me :)

I finally got around to picking up my paycheck from my old workplace. I bought myself a CD for this, um, accomplishment. I bought Sting's "...All This Time" album, which is a compilation of live recordings to Sting's more popular hits, such as "Fragile", "Mad About You", "When We Dance", "Fields of Gold", and "Every Breath You Take". I think it's an excellent compilation. I highly recommend it. ♥

Take The Mojo10 Personality Test by answering 40 multiple choice questions to find out if your personality match of that of a parent, adult, or child. According to the test, I'm mostly a Natural Child (180), followed by Nurturing Parent (160), Reactive Child and Controlling Parent (130), and am least of a Functional Adult (110). Why doesn't it surprise me? ♥

Envador.com showcases pictures of weird computer cases the site owner made. Among them are Toilet PC (made of a child's training toilette) and BBQ PC (made of a barbeque grill). Yeah, that weird. ♥

Banned For Life is a page devoted to run-of-the-mill expressions in English that should be banned forever from the media. I think I already blogged this ages ago, but the old address might not work anymore, plus it has since been updated. If you're a nitpicker, you're going to love this :) ♥

Wednesday Afternoon Haiku

A grey but hot day
I can still remember that
It's Wednesday. Cool!

Does "Wednesday" consist of two or three syllables? I think it's two, but it looks like three. Oh well. You know what I really need today? Snow. Lots of it. Send some snow my way, folks! Yes, I can hear the collective "but, but, but Firda, snow is icky!" Well, I don't care. I want snow and I want it NOW! Ahem.

Speaking of snow, listening to Lori Carson's "Snow Come Down" on a dark, rainy day is always enough to make me think I'm seeing snow falling outside my window. Yeah, I am that delusional. It's too bad it's neither dark nor rainy out there right now. It's more like hot and cloudy. It's my least favourite kind of weather.

Wow, am I chatty or what? I even bothered to post two entries to the Disturbing Search Requests weblog a little while ago. I'm so productive. And modest, too. ♥

Wanna see some live, ant action? Check out the ant cams. There's a rather interesting online journal by the myrmecologist (nice word!) to accompany the cams, but it hasn't been updated since March. Yes, I actually find the journal interesting. Humorous, even. But maybe it's just the easily amused little me. ♥

BumHunt offers comprehensive pictorials, profiles, interviews, and web videos of the world's wackiest bums. The purpose is not to make fun of them, but rather to give information as to their whereabouts and their personalities so that you will be able to reach out a helping hand. Nice. ♥

Are you an e-bore? Take the e-bore-ometer test to find out. I'm 70% an e-bore, sadly. This is the diagnosis: "Starting to show worrying signs of 'old-timer-itis' - either that or your family owns a few underground fashion labels." Um, it's the former, really. ♥

Translate any fish name from one language into 20 languages with the Fish Name Translator and impress your friends. Or something. This is one of those things that you know are useful but just can't think of what they would be good for. If that makes any sense. ♥

Make your Windows runs like a charm with this Windows Clean Up tip. The tip applies to all versions of Windows (95, 98, SE, Me, NT, 2000 and XP). And here I thought that the more crowded the system tray, the cooler. ♥

Internet users more chic than geek. Why am I afraid of falling into the chic category? I don't want to be chic! I want to be a geek! *stomps my feet* ♥

Some people think that cats are evil because they can smell your brains. I have to disagree. I can smell your brains, but I'm not evil. Really. Anyway, you have to see the animation. It's very cute. The cat looks kinda like Pokemon. Is Pokemon a cat? ♥

Tuesday Evening Haiku

Been a lazy day
It goes by oh so quickly
Unproductive day.

Well, not really. I managed to come up with a design for my quiz site. Now all I need is a quiz. I just can't come up with an idea for a silly but fun weblogging quiz. And I still need to finish writing the pathetic little quiz script. So little time, so much to do.

I need to write some emails, but writing emails has become more like a chore than anything lately. Sigh. ♥

I think I already blogged this How Well Can You Spell? quiz but it was when I was guest blogging at Fairvue. Anyway, I managed to score 16/16 then, and I still scored the same today. Go me! :) ♥

Kill the Space Kitten, and if you manage to kill them all without missing any (proven with a screenshot, of course), I will worship you. Heh. ♥

If you're too lazy to design your weblog from scratch, check out the designs from Open Source Web Design. You can choose from three design categories: Clean, Flashy, and Stoned. Most of the designs are Slashdot-style, but you can always alter and customise them to suit your needs. Neato! ♥

Monday Evening Haiku

What, me? A haiku?
I don't know what to do here.
Geez, writing is hard!

The haiku was contributed by Matt B. who got the honour of being today's guest haiku writer for being the only person to greet me everytime I went online today. And I went online and offline and online again plenty of times today. Isn't he nice? ;)

Hmm, let's see. What else? Well, if I haven't posted a lot lately, it would be because either I don't feel like blogging or I can't find anything blogworthy. Or I'm just too busy playing with my pathetic little PHP quiz script that would probably end up in my recycle bin very soon. I don't know if I'd be able to find anything blogworthy today but I'll try. Just keep on checking back here! :) ♥

By the way, did you know that RuPaul has a weblog? Everyone is now doing the weblog thing! Wooo! ♥

I just spent the last couple of hours playing Ten Pin Bowling. No, it's not the same with the one I posted last week. This one is Java-based and is somewhat more addicting. My best score was a measly 189. I suck. ♥

I've been playing with PHP for almost a year now but I only found out that PHP is actually a recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor today. I thought it was an acronym for Pretty Hot Page or something close to that. I am so ignorant. ♥

Sunday Morning Haiku

I haven't felt like
Blogging at all this weekend
I feel like coding.

Not that the coding is going well, mind you. The quiz script that I managed to come up with yesterday only allows me to have one correct answer. I want any answer to worth some points, but I still haven't managed to figure out how. I'm no coder. I'm just a coder wannabe.

Anyway, I think I know now why I can't become a stand-up comedian. Every time I want to tell a joke, I always burst into a fit of laughter before I get around to telling the joke. It's so annoying because when I finally manage to tell the joke, people sometimes find the way I laugh funnier than the joke itself.

It's not easy being me. ♥

Test your patience and sheep herding skill by playing the SheepGame. I think I'd make a really bad shepherd. It took me over 172 seconds just to catch 8 sheeps. ♥

What Quake Monster Are You? If you don't play Quake, I doubt you ever asked yourself that question, but I think anyone would take an online quiz just for the hell of it. According to the quiz, I'm an ogre. Must be because I consider nose picking an art. But Shrek is an ogre and he's cool so I don't really mind being an ogre :) ♥

All Your Tourist Guy Are Belong To Us. This is bound to happen, I guess. Only some of the images have been altered. The dialog and sound effects are exactly the same with the original AYBABTU flash movie. ♥

Friday Evening Haiku

Such a tiring day
I'm so beat and so sleepy
But I have to blog.

Well, this evening my brother's fiancee, her parents and cousins came over for dinner at our place so the whole family spent all day cooking. Well, except for me. Being a lousy cook, I only got to be the tester (taster?). Basically, what I did was tasting the food and then tell whomever that cooked it what was lacking from it. It was a fun and easy task.

Of course it's not Firda if I don't say anything stupid. When my brother's fiancee's mother asked me what was my share in the whole dinner preparation, all I could come up with was "Oh, you know. The usual. Creating chaos." Don't you just love me? ;) ♥

If you're looking for some good, clean festive Thanksgiving Day fun, stay away. ♥

I asked this question on last year's Thanksgiving Day, I'm going to ask it again today: does turkey taste better than chicken? ♥

It's time for SatireWire's 2nd Annual Poetry Spam Contest! Find poesy in piles of trash and win prizes! Not many things could be more fun than writing poems using actual phrases contained in spam emails. ♥

If you like Tim Burton and Tim Butonesque art check out this site. The art is kind of spooky and eerie but I like it. The site is also a work of flash wonder. The artist is showing his art at a small bar close to my house. I really should go and take a look.

If this post was any more disjointed I would swear I only woke up a half hour ago. Oh wait. I did. So that is my excuse! ♥

Enter your name to the online cheese comparator and find out your cheesy equal. If I were a cheese, I'd be Limburger, a traditional soft cheese originating in Belgium, which "tastes almost meaty, and has a legendary aroma due to enzymes breaking down proteins on the surface of the cheese." Legendary aroma? That sounds suspicious. ♥

HasciiCam allows you to have live, streaming, ascii webcam image on your web page. If you used this, you might have more chance to win the Best Webcam category in the 2002 Bloggies! Heh. Well, at least I'd vote for you 'cause your webcam would surely look different from the rest, and different, my dear, is always good. ♥

Thursday Haiku

Firda asked me to
write the haiku for today
and maybe I will

But that's all the blogging I'll have time for today, so I hope you'll all be fine without me. Remember, wrap up warm, take your medicine, close every tag, and don't ICQ with strangers. ♥

Are the brain chemicals that mean love coursing through your cardiovascular system? Who needs to look to your heart, when you can take this scientific test to discover whether or not you are in love? ♥

Have you ever wondered about your cat's purr-sonality type? Take the Online Purr-sonality Test for Cats to find out. My (imaginary) cat's purr-sonality is INFP. What's yours? ♥

TIME.com: Inventions of the Year lists the best inventions of 2001. Am I the only one who is wondering about whatever happened to Dean Kamen's IT? Has it been revealed and I missed it?

Oh. Nevermind. Just learned from here that it won't be revealed until 2002. ♥

Anyone ever heard of the Windows 3.1/95 shell program called Microsoft Bob? What About Bob? chronicles its failure. Coincidentally enough, the product manager for this program was the woman who is now known as Mrs. Bill Gates. ♥

Here's the 10 Worst Toys List which identifies toys with the potential to cause childhood injuries, or even death. It would be wise to consult this list before you go shopping for holiday gifts for any little kid. ♥

How to Dance Properly Part Deux is not quite as funny as the first one, but at least it has a cat on it. Cat is good. ♥

Pong 2002 is yet another version of the classic game Pong. There are one player and two player modes but the two player one doesn't seem to work. But maybe it's just me. ♥

As a pessimist, I have to excpect that my pessimistic expectations will be proven wrong, just like everything else.

Sigh. Do optomists have these sorts of problems too? ♥

This imaginary conversation between Britney Spears and Harry Potter is an oldie but goodie.

...
Harry Potter: (Starts beating Britney with magic wand) I can't believe you killed Dumbledorf, I mean Dumbledore!
Britney Spears: Stop hitting me!
Harry Potter: OK, sorry.
Britney Spears: Hit me baby one more time!
Harry Potter: (hits Britney again)
... ♥

How 'bout that? Not sure if I should post a random ramble or not, but I just had to mention that if I were an autobot, I'd be Prowl:
"Logical, analytical, and rational;
the geeky Autobot.
Prefers Linux to Windows ;-)"

Bloody odd. At any rate. I guess I'll have to apologize for not posting; I haven't been around a computer very much, much less out prowling (pun intended) the internet for family fun links to populate Firda's lovely lil blog with. However, I'll probably be annoying you a lot more soon, seeing as how I'm home from college for the Thanksgiving break. :) ♥

Phil's Tardy Haiku

It seems my haiku
Has been written one day late.
Can you forgive me?

Please? :) ♥

Wednesday Morning Haiku

The sun is shining
But the sky is still so grey
Wind is blowing hard.

I couldn't sleep last night. I didn't fall asleep until around 6 o'clock in the morning and was awaken two hours later by a phone call. It was the cashier from my old workplace, calling me to let me know that I still had yet another paycheck left. Once again I got myself out of debt this month. Will I get lucky again next month? God only knows. ♥

The web is such an odd place. A few hours ago, I had a friend telling me excitedly about his latest super secret web project and another friend telling me that he was killing his website and leaving the web, all at the same time, which left me emotionally confused. But I guess there is always one wish that fits all: good luck, both of you, in whatever you do! :) ♥

Have you been to the International Center for Bathroom Etiquette lately? If you haven't, you should. You don't want to miss on the latest etiquettes, don't you? (Hint: Scroll down for the good stuff.) ♥

I'm sure the network geeks among you will appreciate museum of broken packets. Unfortunately, I'm not one. But anything that sounds geeky is cool in my book. I'm a geek wannabe, remember? ♥

Another Tuesday Afternoon Haiku

why do all haikus
have limits on syllables?
I want to be free.

And now free I am! Free of the confines of those, those poetry rules!

I am free to write as I wish, free, free as a a little fish. For no longer must I write in rows, I have turned to the way of prose. ♥

Nikolai's Tuesday Morning Haiku

My Tuesday Haiku
Should be a Monday Haiku
It is Monday here ♥

The top score in Flash Arcade Bowling was 300 and I managed to score 156. Guess I wasn't doing so badly there though I still think that I could do better if I played it for real instead of on computer. Oh yeah, I used to play bowling, but it was like a million years ago when my dad and I still got along. ♥

Troy's Tuesday Morning Haiku

Dearest Queen Firda,
A haiku for you today,
I hope you like it.


I think Firda's request is well within her guest bloggers abilities, as long as she doesn't mind bad haikus. I think we could call this the Weblog Wannabe Guest Blogger Challenge. I know there are a lot of guest bloggers who I haven't post anything yet so this is a way to introduce yourself. ♥

You know what would be cool? If all my guest bloggers would post a haiku today, that would be really, really cool :) ♥

Tuesday Morning Haiku

It's so grey out there
I miss the blue sky morning
It's started to rain.

Sorry for the lack of bloggage lately. I've been ill. And I haven't been feeling very creative lately. Otherwise, I would've created yet another stupid online blogging quiz. Heh. Oh well. At least I did accomplish something yesterday. You'll find out soon :)

Anyway, I found 5 emails when I checked my email account for the first time this morning and all of them were spam:

1. "The Latest Web Technologies" from someone who claimed to be admin@aol.yahoo.com. Nice try. But I don't think that AOL could come up with the latest web technologies non-AOL users would find interesting. Have AOL and Yahoo! merged already?

2. "Got Debt? Cut Your Bills in HALF!", which is not completely inappropriate because I do have debt, but I don't really know what they're talking about. (Yes, I did bother to read it since I needed emails so badly and this was all I got.)

3. "SHY ABOUT YOUR PACAKGE? MAKE IT BIGGER!!!" is probably the most frequent spam I got. That "pacakge" bit really cracked me up. I have set Outlook to delete this from server but I always check my email for the first time in the morning from the webmail interface which has no spam protection whatsoever so I still get to read this from time to time.

4. "Pill to Increase Your Ejaculation by 581%" is one of the funniest spam I've ever got. It made me wonder why they chose 581% instead of, say, 637%. It won't make a difference anyway.

5. "We are Now Able to Reach your Web Page" was the sequel of yesterday's spam called "We are Unable to Reach your Web Page", apparently sent by the same person. The web page they meant was one of the domains that I've given up so I don't really care whether it's up or down.

And that's all the spam review for today. Have a good day (or night)! ♥

Tuesday Morning Haiku
Firda still sick, eh?
You been to the doctor yet?
I bet you haven't!

Everyone send some good vibes to Our Firda. Even if she isnt sick still sending her good vibes would be the friendly thing to do. Maybe it will help her get a shiny new job, or win the lotto or something!

Anyways. Boys, after today, if Firda cant come and play its up to you to continue the Wannabe tradition because tomorrow I am off to Europe till the 13th of December. I am gonna miss talking to Firda and the rest of the Wannabe Wannabe's. And blogging. And everything about the web. If I get into a net cafe somewhere I will come say hi to you all. ♥

Yes, I do save AIM chat logs to read when I'm bored, and sometimes even post it here when I'm doubly bored.

etathik: i'm super abd with numbers
etathik: so birthdays, all that stuff, i suck at.
Webgeek Wannabe: i remember birthdays. i don't remember phone numbers. i always have to turn a long string of numbers into one digit.
etathik: i have a trick for phone numbers:
etathik: instead of remembering numbers, you remember letters
etathik: one letter for each number.
etathik: and then you just make a word.
etathik: for instance:
etathik: my number is:
etathik: adlkgfjpghoi
etathik: so i just say that to myself.
etathik: it's really simple.
Webgeek Wannabe: if i were a klingon, that would be real easy.
etathik: heheh
etathik: you're a funny chick firda
etathik: i bet guys dig you.
etathik: i dig you.
etathik: of course, i'm in a different hemisphere.

Sigh. Why do all the guys who dig me have to be in a different hemisphere? (I know it's not true but I just feel like complaining.) ♥

According to The Horrible Affliction Test, if I were an affliction, I'd be, uh, gonorrhea. These online tests are getting worse and worse every day... ♥

From Vote.com: Deny Visas To People From Arab and Muslim Countries? The results so far are rather sad, though not quite unexpected. ♥

Pants Racing is one silly little game that made me giggle. The yellow ones are my favourite. It won me 12 grands! Wish it were for real ;) ♥

Human Training FAQ for Cats is hilarious. I wonder if I'd still find it hilarious if I had a cat (to train me) myself. ♥

Good god. I have been offline for a day or two. And with last nites blackout I was wondering if anything exciting had happened in the world when I got to work. Now I have positive proof, without reading any news sites, that the world must surely be ending. Nikolai blogged! Look at all those words!!! ♥

Monday Morning Haiku
R = θ
Spiral of Archimedes
Polar graphing lives

One of many haikus that my math geek friends wrote on the sidewalks Halloween night. ♥

YesIWill is a program that allows you to copy the look and feel of any website but lets you change the text and images. It might come in handy on April Fools' Day. You know, just in case you want to do something like what Nikolai and I did this year. ♥

The Transformers Personality Test will tell you which autobot you have the most in common with. If I were an autobot, I'd be Ironhide. "Prefers action to words. Tough, quiet exterior hides a kind heart." Hmm, never heard of of the bot, but I kinda like the description :) ♥

Finally, a free, simple, little utility to eliminate the dreaded Windows' blue screen of death! What a great idea! I bet you're dying to download it ;) ♥

Submit a message or a website/ftp/email address to The Anonymous Message Server for the visitor after you and you'll see what the visitor before you has left for you. This could get interesting. I just left a marriage proposal there. ♥

Install The Autoflingerator on your car and you will never be stuck behind a slow car ever again. ♥

Saturday Night Haiku

This Saturday is
Almost over. Yes, it is.
Two hours to go.

I wasn't going to blog at all because I just didn't feel like it. But I've already found some links to blog and I thought it would be such a waste if I didn't post them today so...

Anyway, my weekend's been really dull so far. I haven't chatted with anyone online even though I'd like to. But as always, whenever I need someone to talk, no one is around. How typical.

Well, better start blogging now before tomorrow comes. ♥

You're not a geek until you can do binary finger counting. With binary, you can count up to 1023 using only 10 fingers. Any of you can do it? ♥

Quick Count is yet another addicting game that I suck at. You have to count by clicking circles with numbers that are arranged randomly as quickly as possible (read the instructions before you play). I couldn't even pass Round 1 and the highest I could score was 12,920. I'm sure you can score better than that. ♥

I don't know how to use chopsticks. I have no chopsticks at home. When we get a pair, they always end up in my mum's garden, supporting her plants. But if you have a pair of chopsticks at home, you can participate in the Project Chopsticks. I like the idea. ♥

Are you still busy looking for the absolute truth about anything? Check out the Book of Truths, the source of all absolute truths. It is dedicated to collecting absolute truisms that have no profound meaning whatsoever. You can see, search for, or submit your truth. I was searching for the absolute truth about truth but couldn't find it there.

Anyway, here's an example of the kind of absolute truths you can find on that site: "A monkey that swings from the trees has his feet off the ground." You think it would be easy to come up with obvious things like that, right? Well, trust me, it's not really that easy. I still can't come up with anything. Can you? ♥

Top 50 Web Sites Most Frequently Linked to from Other Sites. I was expecting to see Blogger on the list, but it wasn't there. I guess it's not really as popular as I thought. But then again, Blogger is only 2 years old.

Google is only ranked 14 on the list, right after Excite. I didn't know that Excite was that popular. Anyway, here's some fun facts about Google. One of the fun facts is that there was a job title at Google called the Spiderman! Wow. It would surely look good in your resume. ♥

Friday morning haiku
Sony Mini Disc:
my brand new toy, doncha know.
Must stop spending now.

WOO! last nite i went shopping and bought some clothes, but WOOHOO! I also bought a Mini Disc Walkman!! YAY! I bought a blue one of these.

Hmm. I bet Firda is gonna feel bad now. I just wanted to share my excitement. ♥

Make Baby Jesus Laugh or Cry. I really don't know what to say about this. You just have to see it and form your own opinion. [via email from Tim] ♥

Whether you are pro- or anti-war, you are welcome to join the War 2001 Logo Design Contest. It sounds like fun. If I were any good at graphic design, I'd join. The winner will get a $15 gift certificate to Amazon.com. ♥

Take the Hemispheric Dominance Inventory Test to find out which side of your brain is more dominant. I responded as a right brained person to 2 questions, and as a left brained person to 16 questions, which obviously means I use my left brain the most. Left-brained people have little trouble expressing themselves in words. Sounds about right. ♥

How to Produce Clean, Crisp Web Design. I blogged this mostly for myself. I love clean design. ♥

Levitated.net provides you with daily Flash experimentation and source code. It's a great resource for Flash enthusiasts. SMooSH, pay attention, and give Scary Chuck a better Flash treatment, will you? ;) ♥

Anyone wanna place a micro ad on Weblog Wannabe for half the price of Blogger Micro Ads and help keep me online? ;) Didn't think so. (pyRads™? Good Lord.) ♥

Nikolai presents Southquad.org, where people are walking on the wall. Or something. (I wonder if that guy is reciting an ode to Madonna in front of Stockwell Hall.) ♥

I love little interactive toys. After the intro move your mouse over and click on the funky monkey.

I've always heard small things amuse small minds. What can I do? The monkey amused me for a long long time. Especially since he sounds like James Brown. ♥

Ever wondered what it would be like to own a computer and computer paraphernalia store? And have you ever wondered what would happen if the owner of that store was a "god" of sorts? And what if that "god"s name was Gord? Well stop wondering! Acts of Gord will answer all your questions!!!
♥

Thursday Morning Haiku -- Firda Time
Wednesday Afternoon Haiku --Troy Time

Eleven hours,
That is my time difference,
With Firda Beka!

Troy writing the haiku? Twice in one week? I wasn't planning on doing the haiku today since I know Firda loves it. All I wanted to do was post a link but alas blogging a link before the morning haiku is like peeing in the holy water at church. It's sacrilegious! So here is the haiku. I know I stated that I should never write another haiku but I did! And I will do it again. I will also use "And" at the beginning of a sentence just because I can!

Damn you English, damn you grammer, damn you spelling! ♥

If you like Fatboy Slim, you might want to mix your own Fatboy Slim song. I think I know one Fatboy Slim song, but I can't remember what it's like. Hmm. ♥

I think the /. troll HOWTO is also applicable on Metafilter. Not that I'm suggesting you to be a troll there. Trolls are bad, kids! But still, I think without trolls, community sites would be somewhat boring. No? ♥

Check out these amusing UK place names and have a giggle or two. There's actually a place called Buttock there. Must be embarrassing if you lived there and someone asked you for your address.

Speaking of amusing place names, there's a cemetery park near my aunt's place called "Bahagia", which is Indonesian for "happy". I think it's very amusing, but my brother, sister-in-law and mother don't seem to think so. ♥

I only have one word to say about the Unix Admin Horror Stories: geeks! (Actually, I'm just jealous because I have no idea what they're talking about and what's so horrorific about it.) ♥

Wanna create your own darkly gothic poem? Do it the easy way with the Goth-O-Matic Poetry Generator. Here's my "Feeling Very Sorry for Yourself Darkly Gothic Poem":

the night falls as if slain by the sun, cold and alone are we.
the light for which you lust
flares once, then dies,
taken by the all-encompassing dark.
all hope must fail.

your love is no more.
how could you cause such hurt?
lost souls surround us, crying,
we are fallen.

I depressed myself. ♥

For guys only: what 'size' are you really? If I were a guy, my size would be average. And to prove that I'm not taking too many silly online tests, I only scored 45% in this test, which makes me a Corey Feldman. Huh? [second link via the houseguru] ♥

Wednesday Morning Haiku

It's not nice again
No more colour monitor
It's one day only.

Yup, my monitor is back to being monochromatic again :( So sad. I guess the monitor fairy's spell on my monitor was not a permanent one like I thought it was.

On a happier note, my mum is cooking this morning. Mind you, my dad does the cooking 90% of the time here and that means I have to fix my own meals 90% of the time because I don't really like dad's cooking, except for his fried rice. I don't always like my mum's cooking because mum's a pepper freak. She just has to put plenty of pepper into anything she cooks, and I've never been a big fan of pepper. But I still like her cooking better than my dad's.

Anyway, yesterday I got to discuss my plan to take over the world with Matt B., who was about the only programmer that showed any interest in it. I don't think he was too impressed with it. But at least I managed to talk him into getting a Blogger account. Mwahahahaha!!! I really should become Blogger's sales representative ;) Ev, do you need one? I'm cheap, really! (Not to mention jobless and broke.) ♥

Are you a cat or a dog person? I'm, of course, a cat person, since the other option is dog and dogs always scare the hell out of me. ♥

Ninjai is yet another game that I suck at. The highest score I could ever get was a measly 6. Basically, you make the ninja hit the boxes thrown at him with his swords. It's pretty much like a baseball hitting game, only with swords and boxes instead of bat and ball. ♥

Chilling Effects of Anti-Terrorism: "National Security" Toll on Freedom of Expression is a page by the Electronic Frontier Foundation that tracks the shutdown of websites prior to the September 11 attacks. It's a pretty interesting read. ♥

Test drive a New VW Beetle by playing the Beetle Buggin' game. It's a really cool and addictive game, but as always, I could only score a measly 353. I suck. ♥

Bad Publicity chronicles the lesser-known moments in the lives of the stars from the past. There's a bunch of really amusing pictures here. ♥

"A Day Without Weblogs" is now "Link and Think". If you have a weblog, you are encouraged to participate in it. "On December 1, use your regular weblog or newspage to link to resources about HIV/AIDS -- treatment, research, survival stories, memorials, safer sex resources -- whatever piques your interest and you believe would be of interest to your readers." December 1 is the World AIDS Day. ♥

Tuesday Morning Haiku

It's so hot, hot, hot
I wish it would rain, rain, rain
This is dumb, dumb, dumb.

Guess what? I already wrote the haiku and the silly rambling to accompany it but then my computer played up and I had to close the window without having a chance to click "post and Publish" and I lost everything. Grrr.

Now where were we? Oh yeah. I was just being vain and wrote that if I could get a good designer and a good programmer to work on my ideas with, we could take over the world.

I tend to be vain when I'm in a good mood. I don't know what put me in a good mood. I just am. ♥

Play the Cursor Racing Game and see how fast can you move your mouse to follow the track. My best time is 44.79 26.39 seconds. Beat that! ♥

Can you tell if a picture is Fake or Photo? I could only answer 5 out of 10 correctly. But then again, my monitor is monochromatic. How well did you do? ♥

Sometimes I'm amazed at the amount of work someone puts into a page that people will only see if they mistype the web address or click on a dead link. I introduce you to Error 404: The Hidden Game. If anyone else has any interesting 404 Error page links post them in the comments section. I'd love to see more.

Link courtesy of the newest QoM quacker: SmOOsh. ♥

Some geeks put some computer hardware to the test by shooting it with a .45 gun and then complained that They Don't Make Them Like They Used To. People are weird. ♥

Take the Moir-Jessel Brain Sex Test to find out what sex is your brain. Apparently, you can be male but with feminine brain. I scored 100, which means my brain is "extremely female". That's surprising. If I were male, my score would be 70 and my brain would be "feminine male". What's your brain sex? ♥

Monday Morning Haiku

I got to do it!
A haiku by yours truly.
Warm and fuzzy words!

Finally I get to write the morning haiku. I know my haiku sucks. Firda is so much better at it then I am. I tried to come up with something wittier but I'm really not in the mood. All of my other haikus sounded depressing and I don't want the readers of this site to come here and be too depressed. If this is the best I can do I should never write another haiku in my life, and maybe that is just what I will do.

I imagine I should write something profound and inspirational here since Firda always does. Or maybe I can just complain about life. How about this? Have you ever wanted to just get away from it all? Go to another town/country/planet and start over? A place where people don't know you and you don't know anyone so you can just start anew? A place where you can forget about your old problems and get yourself some new problems but they won't matter as much as your old problems? It was like that for me when I went to Indianapolis for the conference. I met new people, went to new places, and didn't have to worry about "Troy" problems. When I got back home last Wednesday all of those problems which where in the background during my trip surged to the foreground again. And that is why I am in the mood I am.

How about you? Have you ever wanted to just leave it all behind and start over? ♥

The Language Barrier has a bunch actual things spoken or written by foreigners in English that weren't meant to be funny but are. It got me giggling from beginning to end. Good stuff. [link c/o Nikolai] ♥

Are you a Raver? ♥

I just got an email from Stu in which he informed me about the silly blogaholic quiz getting a mention in the printed edition of The Guardian newspaper in Britain! Woo! It's famous! I'd say I'm famous, but I wasn't mentioned there *sniff!* But I'm happy for my quiz :) Anyway, if any of you could send me a scan of the weekly web review where the quiz is mentioned, I'd be forever grateful. Anyone? Please? ♥

Sunday Morning Haiku

I don't like changes
But life is about changes
I have to like life.

I woke up at 9:15 AM this morning. That was quite a record. I've never waken up that late before, being a morning person and all. But then again, I've been pretty much a night person lately. I've been going to sleep way after midnight. My sleep schedule is thoroughly screwed up.

Have you ever experienced in your entire online life that sometimes there's a period where the people who chat with you often suddenly go all quiet on you and the folks who have been all quiet on you for months message you out of the blue and you find yourself chat with them often? That pretty much sums up the situation with me.

And, to quote Rebecca, OH THE SHAME!!!! ♥

"Galop" from "Orpheus In The Underworld" by J. Offenbach is such a great cooking music. I just fixed myself dinner at 11PM (because I'm weird that way), and some orchestra was playing it on TV. That piece of music and cooking is a match made in heaven. ♥

Did the silly blogaholic test told you that you are a blogaholic? Need help? Mike Brown of akacooties.com came up with The Five Stages of Acceptance of Blogaholism and 12 Steps of Recovery. Go check it out! :) ♥

This Jake the Rake strip is so funny :) Well, either that or I'm just easily amused. ♥

This is (supposed to be) the longest, silliest, most ridiculous, internet address in the world. Well, longest, maybe. But silliest and most ridiculous? I think I've seen sillier and more ridiculous internet addresses than that. ♥

You Have B.O. boasts itself to be the Internet's premier BO Notification service. They will send that stinky person in your life an anonymous and fun notification that he or she needs to change socks, put on some deodorant or take a shower. Anyone come to mind? ;) ♥

None of the items on my wishlist can be bought at Amazon.com:

1. A job, and the job title is "Weblogger".
2. A trip around the world.
3. A lifetime of free, unlimited internet access.
4. Parents who get along.
5. A soulmate, preferably before my younger brother's wedding.
6. Snow. Lots of it.
7. Enough money to pay the bills.
8. An offline best friend.
9. A better life.
10. World peace.

If you have any of the items on my wishlist that you don't need anymore, feel free to give it to me. ♥

Saturday Evening Haiku

burnt banana sucks
presents went off to the states
but now i'm just chilled

Well, I wasn't going to post anything about my boring weekend, but daniel, who wrote the haiku above, made me :P

I didn't do anything interesting today. I did get around to sending off my employment pass application form to Singapore (finally) and mail a birthday present to a friend in America (you know who you are). Then spent all day searching for some quiz script for my next stupid blogging quiz but couldn't find any, and when I got bored, I fried some banana fritters, and most of them were burnt. I'm such a great cook. And that's all I can tell you about my boring weekend so far.

How's your weekend? ♥

Are you one of them? Look out for them. They are everywhere, comprising more that 98% of the population of the world. There's even movie evidence of them. And there's a site about them on the internet. So they must be real. ♥

Largest fossil cockroach found. It lived 55 million years before the first dinosaurs walked the planet and was about the size of a mouse. The fossil was unearthed in Ohio. Hmm. A friend just told me that there were undead, rodent-sized roaches in Texas. I wonder if the scientists who examine the fossil are aware of that ;) One thing for sure, roaches of all sizes scare the hell out of me. ♥

Daniel is re-living his head photo project so go shoot a picture of the back of your mate's head while he's sitting in front of his/her machine and ask him/her to do the same for you and then email the pix to Daniel. If I had a digital camera, I would. Be sure to read more details about the project here before you send in your pic. ♥

From "PC911 - Friendly Computer Help In Plain English" comes an amusing guide on How to Clean Your Hard Drive using a screwdriver, a hammer, a can of compressed air, a clean cloth, a toothbrush, dental floss, soap and water, and some oil. The hard drive that's built like a German tank in the pictures look a lot like mine, which only shows how ancient my computer really is. ♥

Let me introduce you to one of my friends. His name is SCARY CHUCK! He actually is a close friend of mine. Another friend who is experimenting with flash made it just for the heck of it. I think it's really funny, though not that scary.

I've said it before and I will say it again "Computer geeks and Flash animation are a bad combination". ♥

I took the Colorgenics test yesterday with my monochromatic monitor and the results were very accurate. I wonder if the results would be as accurate if I took the test with a colour monitor. ♥

I want to write the morning haiku. One of these days I will sneak in there, write the haiku and be happy because I did. :)

For those of you that know me I'm back from Indianapolis and the conference was excellent and my presentation went spectacularly.

Now since the purpose of a weblog is to post links I found some interesting "Tips to Slam Dance Safely". I never knew that there were different styles of head banging but if I was a head banger I think I would be a New Age Head Banger :) ♥

'Fess up. Who scored 84% in the Firda Quotient (FQ) Test but wouldn't admit it? ;) Come on! I'm not serious about the marriage proposal! Well, I am, but if you don't want to marry me, that's okay... *sniff!* ♥

Friday Morning Haiku

Friday already
Time flies when you're having fun
Am I having fun?

I'm not so sure, but I must've been. I'm feeling better than ever right now. I'm happy to know that I have enough money to pay my phone bill. I'm glad that I got a haircut yesterday because now that my hair is short again, I don't look like a witch anymore. Not too happy about the fact that I don't have enough money to pay my internet bill, but I'll worry about it later.

Oh, BTW, I hate to break the news, but high Blogaholic quiz score doesn't necessarily mean that you are a good weblogger :P It only means that you're addicted to blogging. Some people are so addicted to blogging that they'd blog just about anything, quantity over quality.

And I'm amazed by the number of Matts I know from weblogging. ♥

Harry Potter Sorting Hat will sort your personality and tell you which Harry Potter character you are house you belong to. Apparently, I'm I belong to Gryffindor. I don't know if it's good or bad. ♥

Have you ever gone on a long rant to explain to someone that it's okay to eat meat because once an animal is dead it's not their flesh anymore, it's just protien matter and that everything is made of the dead flesh of other things if you want to put it that way and that the definition of "flesh" should be in terms of functionality and that a chicken's leg no longer functions as a chicken's leg once it's dead, so it is the leg of a chicken no longer, only to hear them say: "Wel, yes, but I just don't like the taste of meat"?

Well, erm. Neither have I. ♥

To celebrate the return of Mulciber, I proudly present *drum rolls* Firda Quotient (FQ) Test! Humour me. Take the test, even if you don't know me at all, and post the results! ♥

Thursday Morning Haiku

Mulciber's alive!
I'm doing a happy dance
Just for the server.

I've been pretty much a night person these last few days. I can't sleep before 3 o'clock in the morning. Since there's nothing interesting on TV in the early hours of the day, I usually end up doing spring cleaning in my room. It's somewhat therapeutic.

It's mosquito killing galore tonight in my room. Killing mosquitoes is very therapeutic, too. Every morning, my mum and I will recap the number of mosquitoes we kill last night. It's become a ritual. You have to have experienced living in Asia to really appreciate this.

*CLAP* Just killed another one. Ooooh, look at all that blood! Is that all mine? Bad mozzie! ♥

Dismal Scientist Layoff Calculator estimates the probability that you will lose your job by year end 2002. It made me wish I had a job. ♥

How to Cook an Alien. You know, just in case you ever catch some alien in your backyard. The blue ones sound yummy. Mmmm, aliens! ♥

Well, the silly Blogaholic quiz is back up again, thanks to the hosting arrangement by Matt Bean from Yaysoft.com. I think I'll just use my Catharsis.org account for projects that eat less resources. I really, really, really hope that the traffic generated by the silly quiz didn't kill Mulciber... ♥

When all is said and done, there's more that's said than done. ♥

Ack! I think I've killed Catharsis.org server with my silly blogaholic quiz. I guess getting linked at Evhead and Scripting News as well as being on top of Blogdex and Daypop Top 40 was just as overwhelming for the poor server as getting Slashdotted, if not more. Sorry, Matt! I never thought that the silly quiz would become *that* popular... ♥

Wednesday Morning Haiku

Ha ha - I haiku.
Beat you all to it, I did!
Where is my cookie?

Hello again. I have been neglecting Firda's blog. Good thing she has been here to keep the show running. :) ♥

I am the epitome of lameness. ♥

Think you are a hardcore gamer? Well, play this flash game. If you can get one penguin to the right without waking up the echidna, I will worship you. ♥

The Napkin Trick is something you might want to learn to impress any family member when you come home for the holidays. I suggest that you demonstrate it after enjoying a big family dinner. The more audience you have, the better. ♥

Microsoft Lexicon or Microspeak Made Easy chronicles the language as it is used at Microsoft. Some of the terms are pretty amusing. This site may come in handy should Microsoft decide to hire you someday. ♥

I don't know whom to laugh at more - the creator of the Carthedral, or the Idiots who ask her questions. ♥

Tuesday Morning Haiku

At 7am
Woke up with a tummyache
It's much better now.

Woo! It's been two days since the last time I posted a haiku. I missed it already. Will miss it even more when I no longer have 'net access at all, which will be either in December or January. I wish someone would hire me to blog. I mean, I'm a damn good weblogger. I'd be a great asset to any media. I'd bring the few hundreds of my loyal readers to their website. (Prospective employers: Pay attention. Others: Ignore me. I was just trying to sell myself.)

Anyway, I've said it before, I'm going to say it again: I love you :) ♥

The first of the long-awaited (ha-ha!) Firda's Incredibly Stupid Blogging Quiz Series is up: Are You A Blogaholic? I got 72%. Kind of low, huh? If the quiz wasn't "incredibly stupid", I would've scored somewhere in the 81%-100% range. I just couldn't be bothered to make it accurate. More stupidity coming up! ♥

Dave's Quick Search Deskbar will launch Google, Yahoo and other searches straight from your desktop taskbar, without requiring you to start a web browser first. Very practical and easy to install. ♥

Am I a Terrorist or a Member of Al-Qaeda or a Taliban Fighter or Not? Unlike any other AmIHotOrNot-inspired voting site, this one only has one possible answer. ♥

For the love of Firda, Quiz-a-holic: QuizYourFriends.com lets you create a slick quiz to see which of your friends knows you best. My friend Steph sent me to her quiz and I scored a pitiful 60%. Beware, though, there are a good number of ads, and it asks for you and your friends' e-mail addresses. Quiz at your own risk.

In other news, IE6 still refuses to work with Blogger's "remember me" login cookie, even though I've told it to accept all cookies. I don't have problems with any other sites.. ♥

While we're on the topic of Hawking, I just had to post Davros & Stephen Hawking in Electric Dreams. It's a rather disturbing geeky love story in Flash. I found it ages ago but didn't find it blogworthy then. Yeah, I have weird standard in blogging. ♥

Monday Morning Haiku
You forgot haiku.
And hey, who the hell are you?
Mystery blogger!

Well posting from blogger I can see who it is - but the name doesnt appear on Firda's site.
♥

Ever wondered what Stephen Hawking does when he's not mystifying all the rest of us? Check out MC Hawking. Update: You should know who I am now. ♥

Cubicolor is a really cute multiplayer Flash game. I could easily get addicted to it if my monitor wasn't being monochrome. The game interface and graphics look cool, and you can chat with your opponent while playing. ♥

The Grimacing ShatnerClock(tm) is just what the world needs in this time of trouble. Is it just me or does the picture on the clock look more like Capt. Pickard than Capt. Kirk? ♥

Are you ICQaholic? I scored 40, which makes me an ICQ-virgin. I've been an ICQ user for 4 years and yet I'm still a virgin! Wow. I impress myself ;) Not that I'm complaining. ♥

Jack-O-Linux looks really "kewl"! It's a pumpkin that runs Linux, and I think that's all there is to it. After seeing so much weirdness on the internet, nothing can make me think "how bizarre!" anymore. ♥

Gotta make self fight evil PHP again. Sigh. No, evil PHP has nothing to do with the tricks I have up my sleeves. The tricks are in Perl.

Update: Self managed to beat evil PHP! Self rocks! ♥

I dont know if it was a whole evening of sitting next to my mum waffle on or i am just going crazy, but last nite after i went to bed because the power went out (sorry for abandoning you with no explaination Firda) but i was lying there trying to fall asleep and i swear to god i could hear my mum in my head ranting about absolute CRAP. i had to sit there and consciously subdue the sound of it.

it stopped as i started properly dozing off but then i started having a weird dream...all i can remember was the end bit before i woke up. it was sort of like a movie scene where you've been watching someone and the camera pulls away from them but you know any second now when they are out of sight something bad is gonna happen to them. at that point i woke myself up and decided that was enough. i can not sleep without some sound! and then had to scrounge around in the darkness for my walkman. it was so fun.

anyways - i have no reason for sharing this with you all, just thought i would. :) ♥

Last night I dreamed that my parents arranged me a marriage with some guy that I'd never met before. I didn't see him until the day before the wedding. He was not my type at all. It was so much worse than any nightmare. I've never been so glad to wake up and find that it was only a dream.

Another reason to be happy when I woke up was to know that I have some tricks up my sleeve that I'm planning to show you today, my darling readers and friends. Aren't you curious? ;) ♥

Just across the street
Lies the gym, yet Saturday
finds me too lazy.

Hey, somebody's got to post these things. ♥

Don't forget, November is National Novel Writing Month. I think it's too late to sign up, seeing as how November has already started, but I know myself and Firda are participating in this. I've got a sort of sideblog set up to show my progress; feel free to browse that here (though, admittedly, it'll wind up being a glorified word count until I can get farther into the novel).

Is anyone else out there participating? Let me know how you're doing--maybe we could brainstorm a bit or something. Two gloriously deadline-pressed heads are better than one, after all. :) ♥

Well, I was just filling in for my guest bloggers ;) Now I'm outta here. Goodnight! ♥

Test Your GQ (Gender Quotient) by guessing if the person in the picture is male or female. It's not as easy as it sounds. I could only guess 6 out of 9 correctly. I think I've blogged this ages ago, but I'm not so sure, and I'm too lazy to search the archives for it so there you go :) ♥

Leif McCameron's Creative Criminal Series offers half a dozen humorous guides to creative criminal acts, such as lockpicking, pointless espionage, gnome theft, and picking up girls. Not sure if the latter is really a crime, though. ♥

I scored 478 playing The Way of the Exploding Stick, which is a stick kungfu game, and am rather proud of it considering how poor my keyboard manoeuvring skill is. Now show me that you can do 10 times better than me! ♥

Saturday Morning Haiku

Oooh, let me do it!
Let me do today's haiku
I kind of miss it.

So yeah, I just can't stay away. If there is one person in the world who truly loves blogging with all their heart, that person would be me. I think I will always enjoy it. That's why it's really hard for me to quit. It's easy to quit something that you think has become a chore more than a hobby, but it's hard to quit your number one hobby.

When I checked my email for the first time in the morning, there was one email with a subject that says, "Overwhelmed with debt?" and I'm ashamed to admit that I got a bit excited, thinking that someone was kind enough to give me a loan. But of course it was just a spam. I should've known better *grumbles* ♥

Yay, so the invite finally went through! I'm in class at the moment, but I just wanted to say thanks, Firda, for letting me be part of the best blog in the world! ♥

Though I don't usually condone animal abuse I must command you to play Spank The Monkey! No monkeys were harmed in the playing of this game. My fastest spanking speed was 228 miles per hour. How about yours?
♥

If you like penguins, you'll enjoy playing Polar Rescue though it doesn't guarantee that you'll score well. The game is rather tricky. But then again, any game is tricky for me. ♥

Credo Of The Web Log Writer is amusing and it rings true, but strangely enough, it doesn't remind me of any weblogger and it bugs me. Hmm. ♥

If you manage to complete the Monster College Aptitude Test, let me know, 'kay? I'd like to know how it ends. ♥

I think The Mame Song is a tribute to all gamers who ever became a top scorer. The song is "Fame", really. I don't know why they turned it into "Mame". Why not just "Game"? ♥

Guess what? This morning I received a call from the cashier in my old workplace and he told me that I still got one paycheck left! Woo! It's not much. Only about $180. But it *might* stop my dad from killing me. No, I'm not going back to blogging full time. I still can't afford it. But I think I can still do a quick blogging every other day. I might even pop in on ICQ and AIM every now and then, so if you miss talking to me, set the alert system so you know when I'm online! ;) ♥

To start off I have to thank Firda for allowing me to be a guest blogger. I am one step closer to being hyperlinkable. As I always liked to say in the past "Always the unhyperlinkable one, never the weblogger!".

Now onto the really post. The only words I can think of to describe this is:
It's a bear and he's crapping prime numbers!
It's Prime Number Bear!

♥

Friday Morning Haiku

Write a haiku, huh?
A big challenge for me, 'tis!
Can I stop now please?

Woo! I got to do todays haiku! I am so proud of my supreme lameness! Was nattering to the Firda on email last night. As she said before - she is being norti and still coming online. I hope she gets a job quick smart so the "Big debts - dad is gonna kill me" fear goes away nice and quick. I know that feeling perfectly. It sucks!

Anyways - I dont know if Firda fans care but I actually knuckled down and started my nano last nite and clocked 980 words. I feel to proud. Though I should be aiming for 2500 a day. I just have no idea where the story is going. I have this ugly fear its going to turn into a big dorky romance. But I have already decided its set in the future, so perhaps that will give it something a little more interesting.

I did say perhaps. :) ♥

Man, you guys are so lame! *ducks*

Well, I'm not supposed to be online because I really can't afford it, but I just did some job search online (oh the irony!), put up my resume in a couple of job databases, and applied for a couple of jobs and thought I'd give myself a treat for this, um, accomplishment and do some quick blogging. Okay, here goes:

So you wanna be a camgirl huh? I like satire.
What kind of cat are you? I'm a Siamese.
Poulo Le Poulpe. Is that French for frustrating goldfish soccer game?

By the way, I still check my email several times a day so if you want to email me, go ahead! Tell me about your Halloween night or something. I promise to reply since I don't have much else to do. My email address is firda at catharsis dot org. And, um, if you want to make my day, that's my mailing address on top right corner *hint, hint!*

Well, I'm outta here. Chao! ♥

Firda asked that there still be a haiku every day. Well if no one else posts them I will try to keep the tradition up....but prepare for lameness. I wrote a haiku today but I couldnt access about 60% of the sites I normally look at at work - including Blogger.
Anyways. Hey guys, where are the rest of you? ♥

Thursday Morning Haiku

Now that Firda's gone
We are left to carry on.
Big footsteps to fill.

Just thought I'd poke my head in as guest poster numero uno and keep the haiku tradition alive. :) ♥