Posted in November 2009

Condo rules suck

It’s my first time to live in a condo, and in these few weeks that I’ve been here, all I can say is it sucks.

In our old place, you can have stuff delivered and assembled any time we want. Here, you can’t just do that. You got to get a gate pass from the administration building and a separate working permit that has to be approved by the building engineering department. In addition, no work is allowed on Sundays and work people should wear pants and shoes. What the fuck!

Just to illustrate, I bought a closet from one of the furniture shops at Market! Market! I had to put it on hold for a week because the first schedule fell on a Sunday (They don’t allow people to work on stuff on that day). It’s arriving today, but I had to call them up to say that they better hurry because the window for delivery and installation is until 5:00 p.m.

I hate it.

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Tsokolate Batirol Discussions

Freshly bati-ed hot chocolate! on Twitpic

While drinking hot chocolate in the Loop.

Dennis: Ang lapot ‘no?

Jovan: Malungkot kasi siya doon eh! Kaunti lang ang umo-order. Kung araw-araw ‘yun pihadong ang labnaw niyan!

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Pacquiao’s Fight: The Best and Worst of the Filipino

Yesterday saw the best and worst of the Filipino.

It was a glorious moment as Manny “the Pacman” Pacquiao defeated Miguel Cotto of Puerto Rico. The fight lasted for 12 rounds, and in each of those rounds, everyone watching was glued to the screen. As he takes his seventh World Championship title, he uplifts the hope of the whole Filipino nation – a country recovering from the onslaught of several typhoons these past two months. That championship belt not only adorns the waist of the 145-pound boxer, but also each Filipino no matter what his status in life may be.

With the good comes the bad. And this is in the form of ad loading during the whole fight. I timed it and it was about seven to eight minutes of commercials per gap. That is not right. As a friend replied to my tweet, with that loading, the Filipino cannot enjoy the fight anymore.

I’m thinking (and this is my opinion), instead of putting all these ads that bores viewers to hell, why not just increase the rates? It’ll be like our own version of Superbowl, where a few seconds of ad would cost millions of pesos. It’s a win-win situation: the viewers won’t get bored, the ads get viewed attentively by people, and it lessens the spoilers.

Anyway, I’d like to congratulate Manny for a job well done. Mabuhay ang Pilipinas!

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That’s Not Right

You know something’s fishy when your Admin Officer is sporting LCD monitors while your creatives are using three year-old CRTs. While the latter is trying his best to use Photoshop in a 17″ screen, the former is loving the full glory of Mafia Wars in full digital display.

Fail.

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