Until yesterday, I have been checking my emails from work via web access. Today, I am no longer able to sign in as it would definitely mean my account has been terminated.
It's not much of a surprise since as of last week, I had been removed from the different mailing lists from my previous team and program. At this point, it already became pretty much useless as I was no longer receiving emails aside from the ones sent to everyone in the system which were like 2-3 in a day.
Not really a big loss as it actually frustrates me since access at home is slow freaking slow and the interface only reminds me of how fast the access was at work.
Shucks. It's barely been a month now.
So what have we been doing lately?
I never though about saying this in my life, but due to the lack of interest in video gaming these days I have been pretty much bored here at home.
Watched the complete season of Firefly plus the movie Serenity in two days. Being a browncoat, I really love this series, too bad they pulled the plug before the show even took off. Even with the feature film released, there are still a ton of questions that I would have loved to have seen answered. One simply can't stop the signal.
Eventually, I got my hands on copies of the second season of Prison Break and seasons 1-5 of 24. I learned a valuable lesson when I bought the DVDs, the sales persons do not know shit.
When asked about Prison Break Season 2, she said the DVD was complete. Popped it in and was surprised to see it only had ten episodes. Checked IMDB for more information and so far the last episode shown in the US was episode 14 with episode 15 being aired on January 29.
It's not like I got ripped as a DVD only costs so much, but I was expecting to watch the whole season until the end. Thankfully, I did not purchase a copy of Heroes which according to IMDB again is only at episode 12.
Decided to start watching 24 instead which is a show I used to ignore but as of late, have fallen in love with.
Ack! Two more months of this.
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I was browsing IMDB specifically looking at Elisha Cuthbert's profile and came across this, My Sassy Girl. I love Elisha Cuthbert for being so damn hot, sexy and beautiful but I do not know how they will make this work.
The director is new with only one movie to his name (in IMDB anyway), but the tagline lists it as France's hit comedy. Let's just wait and see as the status of My Sassy Girl as per IMDB is "filming".
Weird Dreams And Agaricus bisporus
Slept around 5 in the morning but woke up around 8 in the morning after a particularly crazy dream. Crazy since it is about someone whom I haven't talked to much in the past year but miss so dearly. I guess I should add that "miss" is a grave understatement.
I did not even see her in the dream, only her mother and I was looking for her. The only other specific thing I remember was being told she is in Portobello/Portabello.
Anyway, I could not sleep after this. Why I have to miss someone this much is a story in itself but Portobello sounded awfully familiar.
First thought it was a place in California but after a Wikipedia search, found out it is a road in London famous for it's market as well as being a mushroom.
Like most dreams, it does not make any sense but is a little annoying since I wanted to sleep more and I'm trying not to miss this person no matter how wonderful I remember she was.
I suck at relationships. There is this girl at work introduced to me ages ago and we finally got to SMS-ing each other. I was in the process of asking her out but I just backed off, she just seemed too busy. I am such a wuss.
I blame my wonderful ex for ruining me so much. In the 6 months we were a "couple", I'd always try to ask her out at least once a week. She always had an excuse why meeting would not be possible. Eventually, I became too tired of asking as I knew what her answer would most likely be. As a result, in those 6 months we got to meet a grand total of 3 freaking times, two of which where spend together, with the third being a chance for her to give materials for the book report she needed. She broke up with me right after I completed the book report which according to her scored 95 points of 100. How bloody stupid of me.
So ever since this particular relationship I had more problems asking girls out as I knew they'd most likely say no as well. This ruined me further as I was not really good in asking girls out in the first place.
This is not the only part of my being she shattered. Most of the relationship was SMS based which was quite silly. At the start of the relationship, I'd always call her up but after a few weeks she'd always reject the calls but would immediately send a message saying she could not talk right now. This happened all the time and it came to a point wherein I just stopped. Now I have this freaking feeling wherein my chest would thump so fast when I call anyone at all. I think I have yet to use my mobile phone to call anyone ever since I purchased it.
Sadly, this is not specific to mobile phone but with regular landline phones as well which would explain why I never call anyone. The last person I called was this person I miss so dearly which would be last February 13 of 2006. FTW! I do miss her but I can never find my guts to just call her and check up on her.
One more thing about the wonderful ex, despite all that has happened I still tried to be friends with her even though she would only make her presence known when she needs something. The last time she did was back in September as she was having some financial problems. She needed 4000 Php. Being rich and clueless on how to spend my money, I lent her the money which of course she promised to pay and I agreed to with nothing in exchange at all. I hardly even heard her say "Thank you" when I handed her the money.
And to this day, I still have to see the 4000 Php or even hear anything from her even via SMS. If she has no money yet, she could at least tell me or even offer something in return like sex which right now, I'd happily agree with even though it would officially make her a whore.
This has become too long already. I'll just go back and watch more of Firefly.
Slower Than A Overweight Tortoise On Downers
The days pass by so bloody slowly. It's just been 17 days since I last worked but i feel like it has been forever. This does not make any sense at all.
In the seven days, I have accomplished nothing, not that I really had things planned out to begin with, but due to this nothingness the days seem to have been stretched longer.
There haven't been any video games as of late which have really sucked me in. Sure, there are tons of games piled up here which I have tested but not really have the charm of a Final Fantasy.
Guitar Hero II was an awesome game minus the guitar controller/peripheral and was quite enjoyable using the PS2 controllers shoulder buttons (L1, L2, R1, R2), unfortunately the fifth cord on the guitar was configured on one of the face buttons, X. My thumb is dumb and has a mind of it's own. If only I had the guitar controller, I'd be rocking out to Freebird right now.
Maybe I should just log a few more hours into Valkyrie Profile 2 as it is quite visually splendid and does have an amusing combat system, the einherjar system just seems a bit too tedious. Well, I don't really need to follow this by the book.
At least, Rogue Galaxy is coming out by the end of the month and seems to be something to look forward to.
I could also do something with PC gaming as I have yet to finish games like Star Wars KOTOR II or Fable but I already spend more than enough time in front of the PC which is seriously ruining my mouse arm.
Time spent on the PC is actually used up by the crawling speed of the Internet. It takes me hours before I could finish reading the standard webcomics I have and feeds plugged in to my Google Reader account. Weekends are actually quite refreshing as most feeds and webcomics do not update on weekends.
As for going out, this is not really a good option. I do not want to waste 4 hours traveling just to spend 2-3 hours at some place, which is why I plan those days wherein I do go out for optimal results such as a movie, grabbing a new game or DVD, and drinking session all in one day.
If you are new to this blog or do not know where I live, my place is 2 hours away from anything interesting including girls. Even though we have a huge backyard (a hill almost) I rarely go out the front door.
Anyway, it's slightly more than a week until my brother and his family would be coming home from UK for a one month visit. With a baby nephew and 2-year old niece over, they should speed things up a little faster. Or give me an idea of what I'd be doing once I move to the UK by the end of March.
Step one was all about filing the resignation.
Step two was all about clearing everything up with work.
Completed my exit clearance yesterday and now I am officially not an employee of eTelecare anymore. Yey! Sadly, they had to take my ID which means I would not be able to enter the office anymore unless I fake it using the company lanyard. Bye T1 connection at work.
The whole clearance thing took about 2 hours. I did have to wait for some people to come back during lunch but the whole process was relatively quick and easy. Painless as well. The hardest part actually was moving from one floor to the other which takes so much bloody time especially during lunch break even if you have to just move one single floor.
Another hard part was having to write down my answers for the exit interview forcing my hand to painfully remember how to write long sentences and paragraphs on a piece of paper.
The day was not just spent on the work clearance.
Once I was done with the clearance, I watched Eragon and had a few drinks with former co-workers. After which we went to Bulacan for something. All in all, it was quite a complete day just the way I planned it except for the last part of course, hitting three (four ?) birds with one stone.
Seven days since the start of the year. Seven days of no work as it has been that long since my resignation has been in effect. Cool times.
So what have I accomplished in the said 7 days?
Let me think.
I drove our van into a concrete wall.
I've been intoxicated by hard liquor for two straight days (Tuesday and Wednesday) which hasn't happened before aside from the time I was finishing a bottle of Johnnie Walker at home, but I did not get drunk then.
Slept/stayed in bed until noon on almost all days.
Stayed more time in front of the PC than time spent playing video games or watching DVDs. The time in front of the PC was wasted on the stupidly slow dial-up connection plus ripping a number of audio CDs.
Some cousins are staying over so I do not have the whole place to myself just yet so no mobster weeks or sci-fi marathons just yet.
Just two more weeks until my brother and his family will be home, at which point the house would be as crazy as ever with two small kids running all over the place.
They'd be home for an entire week. Two weeks after they leave, I'd be gone as well.
What better way to start the year off by not having to go to work or school. I am on vacation mode as of January 1, 2007. Well, it's not like I am going anywhere yet as I'd just be staying in home, watching DVDs and video gaming. Eventually, I'll try to go places.
Now, to go places I need a license which I should apply for real soon. I already crashed our van into a concrete wall, so now I know how it feels which is actually quite stupid as the wall wasn't even moving.
Yes, I started the year by crashing our van into a wall. It wasn't a wreck but it ruined the flawless look the front bumper had. I would post pictures but I was a little ashamed of the whole ordeal that I did not even want to look at the damage.
It happened while I was turning a corner a block from home when all of a sudden a tricycle popped out of the said corner. Surprised the hell out of me and I got a little panicky on which buttons to push and was a little late on the brakes. Wait, not buttons but pedals. This happened in real life and not in a video game.
We were going to visit relatives for a reunion of sorts and we were just leaving home. At least, I was still able to drive from our place to Pasig unscathed and a little more cautious than before. The driver who came along kept on saying it was normal and happens to anyone but I still can't feel stupid about the whole thing.
We, meaning mom, driver and I, agreed to keep it under wraps so we spent the entire afternoon explaining a totally different story of how we just noticed the damage after it was parked in front of the school a 100 meters away from our house. Stupid hit and run.
Like people always say, there is a first time for everything. Hopefully, this would be the first and last time to crash a car period. No crashing into a light post at 100 MPH. No crashing into another moving vehicle. No crashing into a walking pedestrian (except in GTA).