I have only two comments for this book:
1. Could there be any weaker protagonist than Bella? That character is so weak to the point that I find it very disturbing. The author writes a lot of Bella's feeling in the book and I don't know if one would ever feel that... lost? All because of a teenage romance gone kaputs. I guess it wasn't just a case of infatuation for both of them.
2. I don't know if I still want to read the next book after this, but I will just have to - as I already bought book 3 and 4.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Monday, April 6, 2009
going to baguio...if...
If I can get a ticket this late.
I've been contemplating about going to Baguio for the past week to surprise Chase. He's always asked me to come to Baguio with him whenever he went there for a vacation and the last time I did was around 2 or 3 years ago? And so when he asked this last time, we even had a fight about it, with him telling me that it seemed that I really didn't want to go with him to Baguio because I always had some excuse not to come along.
So that made me think, and think real hard why I haven't really been joining him there, even though not every trip, but at least once or twice? I can't pinpoint exactly why I didn't join him all this time, but this time around, I really want to be there with him.
So later, after work, I will check out available tickets to Baguio. Hopefully I can still get one friday early morning (as I want to join my family with our annual bisita iglesia). Hopefully I'll be able to get a ticket. And hopefully he'll be happy to see me there. Haha
** update **
I was able to get tickets. I couldn't decide 4am or 5am. So I ended up buying 5 am bus.
I've been contemplating about going to Baguio for the past week to surprise Chase. He's always asked me to come to Baguio with him whenever he went there for a vacation and the last time I did was around 2 or 3 years ago? And so when he asked this last time, we even had a fight about it, with him telling me that it seemed that I really didn't want to go with him to Baguio because I always had some excuse not to come along.
So that made me think, and think real hard why I haven't really been joining him there, even though not every trip, but at least once or twice? I can't pinpoint exactly why I didn't join him all this time, but this time around, I really want to be there with him.
So later, after work, I will check out available tickets to Baguio. Hopefully I can still get one friday early morning (as I want to join my family with our annual bisita iglesia). Hopefully I'll be able to get a ticket. And hopefully he'll be happy to see me there. Haha
** update **
I was able to get tickets. I couldn't decide 4am or 5am. So I ended up buying 5 am bus.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
schedule and gym
My attempt to start going to the gym last January failed after a month long "gym-ing". For some reason, tinamad na talaga ako after that, kahit naiinis na ako na feel ko ang bigat bigat ko na. Tapos narealize ko, night shift can make you eat a lot more - isipin mo na lang, I eat breakfast, lunch, dinner and then midnight snack - habang night shift. I have no idea what's happening with me.
Good thing though, there's a new gym being constructed in our office. So once it's all up and running, I'd most likely and hopefully sign up and be a gym rat altogether. I think it's going to be a nice setup because I usually get in early anyway at work, let's say around 11 and official work actually starts around 12 midnight or 1 am. This may actually work.
On the other hand, probably in a couple of weeks, I'd be trying working on an early morning shift. See if I prefer that one over this schedule I have right now.
Good thing though, there's a new gym being constructed in our office. So once it's all up and running, I'd most likely and hopefully sign up and be a gym rat altogether. I think it's going to be a nice setup because I usually get in early anyway at work, let's say around 11 and official work actually starts around 12 midnight or 1 am. This may actually work.
On the other hand, probably in a couple of weeks, I'd be trying working on an early morning shift. See if I prefer that one over this schedule I have right now.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
book shopping
Marcy and I had an impromptu get together yesterday. She was on leave, and my work won't be starting 'till that night.
We went to Shangri La, grabbed something to eat at one of my favorite restaurants - Green Tomatoes, and then went shopping. Marcy ended up buying a couple of stuff while I ended up buying, three hard bound books! There's a Fully Booked store at Edsa Shangrila and I just couldn't resist not buying them.
What books did I buy? The 4 book Twilight series. Geeze. :)
Due to its on going popularity, I just couldn't resist not attempting to read it. Of course, I did buy the first book of the series out of curiosity when the film was released. I personally though the book obviously was better compared to the movie. So upon reading the New Moon snippet from Twilight, I was mainly intrigued at its story and so I went looking for New Moon. It has been sold out in most of the bookstores I've visited so surprisingly in this exact store, we found the three other books in the series all available both paperback and hardbound. I was just going to buy New Moon but according to Marcy, I'd probably buy the remaining two in the series so why wait when I finish book 2 and later find out how hard it is to find book 3 and 4. And so I did buy the remaining 3 of the series.
We went to Shangri La, grabbed something to eat at one of my favorite restaurants - Green Tomatoes, and then went shopping. Marcy ended up buying a couple of stuff while I ended up buying, three hard bound books! There's a Fully Booked store at Edsa Shangrila and I just couldn't resist not buying them.
What books did I buy? The 4 book Twilight series. Geeze. :)
Due to its on going popularity, I just couldn't resist not attempting to read it. Of course, I did buy the first book of the series out of curiosity when the film was released. I personally though the book obviously was better compared to the movie. So upon reading the New Moon snippet from Twilight, I was mainly intrigued at its story and so I went looking for New Moon. It has been sold out in most of the bookstores I've visited so surprisingly in this exact store, we found the three other books in the series all available both paperback and hardbound. I was just going to buy New Moon but according to Marcy, I'd probably buy the remaining two in the series so why wait when I finish book 2 and later find out how hard it is to find book 3 and 4. And so I did buy the remaining 3 of the series.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Answered prayers
This one, I really have to share.
I've been working on this module that requires an end to end testing with another team. The idea is, my module will generate a list of files, and then I have to transfer them to a specific location so that the other team's process can pick up the files and process them.
The problem is, although we were able to get the read/write access to the landing directory in Production, but don't have any account for the non-production environments. So this issue's been bugging us for quite a while. And 2-3 weeks from release, we still haven't done pre-production testing due to this limitation.
So I prayed and prayed, that somehow, hoping that the Lord can lead me to some idea that we can work out with. And truly a blessing, it suddenly occurred to me that I can request an account on those two non production environments (using another project as a reason why) but the limitation there is, I will not have a write access to the supposed directory. Obviously still a problem, but at least we can now connect to that box. And truly another blessing indeed, for some reason, they granted my account a write access to the directory we need to move our files!
Oh man, after weeks and weeks of stress over this, finally it's over. And just really proves more and more, that prayers are really powerful and that they truly are answered. :)
I've been working on this module that requires an end to end testing with another team. The idea is, my module will generate a list of files, and then I have to transfer them to a specific location so that the other team's process can pick up the files and process them.
The problem is, although we were able to get the read/write access to the landing directory in Production, but don't have any account for the non-production environments. So this issue's been bugging us for quite a while. And 2-3 weeks from release, we still haven't done pre-production testing due to this limitation.
So I prayed and prayed, that somehow, hoping that the Lord can lead me to some idea that we can work out with. And truly a blessing, it suddenly occurred to me that I can request an account on those two non production environments (using another project as a reason why) but the limitation there is, I will not have a write access to the supposed directory. Obviously still a problem, but at least we can now connect to that box. And truly another blessing indeed, for some reason, they granted my account a write access to the directory we need to move our files!
Oh man, after weeks and weeks of stress over this, finally it's over. And just really proves more and more, that prayers are really powerful and that they truly are answered. :)
Thursday, March 19, 2009
5 Reasons why I now prefer working in the office instead of working from home.
I have been working regularly in the office for a month now ever since my laptop crashed and surprisingly, I have realized that working in the office is way better.
Here are my 5 reasons:
1. Interact with your officemates, and eventually they won't be just mere acquaintances, but will become your friends.
2. Working in the office allows you to get a lot more things done (as per my opinion that is...)
3. When I am home, I relax and don't do anything for work (unlike when I had my laptop, I had to check this, and that, once in a while, etc)
4. And since I'm working night shifts, it really helps to be with other people as well.
5. Ever since we've moved to Araneta, Cubao office, travel time has been cut down by around 25%. Not bad. :) So now, my daily commute allows me to see the city again instead of just hanging around the house all day long.
Here are my 5 reasons:
1. Interact with your officemates, and eventually they won't be just mere acquaintances, but will become your friends.
2. Working in the office allows you to get a lot more things done (as per my opinion that is...)
3. When I am home, I relax and don't do anything for work (unlike when I had my laptop, I had to check this, and that, once in a while, etc)
4. And since I'm working night shifts, it really helps to be with other people as well.
5. Ever since we've moved to Araneta, Cubao office, travel time has been cut down by around 25%. Not bad. :) So now, my daily commute allows me to see the city again instead of just hanging around the house all day long.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
MER shares - sold!
Finally some good news on the financial side. We were finally able to sold off our MER shares with a nice profit at hand. Took a while to get it up to the price that we wanted it but after almost holding on it for over a year or so, and after getting a couple of stock dividends, finally we sold the shares at 106 a piece.
It's a nice profit considering the MER share was down to 60 at one point (or even lower perhaps? As I have not been monitoring the stock market ever since "recession" came into place).
Thanks to Pangilinan, Ang, Lopez and whoever's fighting over buying Meralco. This catfight was indeed advantageous to investors (well, at that point in time anyway). The stock will eventually correct after this whole issue calms down.
It's a nice profit considering the MER share was down to 60 at one point (or even lower perhaps? As I have not been monitoring the stock market ever since "recession" came into place).
Thanks to Pangilinan, Ang, Lopez and whoever's fighting over buying Meralco. This catfight was indeed advantageous to investors (well, at that point in time anyway). The stock will eventually correct after this whole issue calms down.
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