slept at 5am this morning trying to make the motion eye work, finally saw it in action but only in the default configuration of win98. i’m almost about to give up finding drivers on 2k and xp, especially since i have no time for this hobby anymore, work is piling up even on my weekends. qa is emailing me about some ip testing and more trips coming up on the next two weekends of november.

big brown box got picked up at around 10am, so i had 5 hours of sleep at least. i started the day by preparing breakfast and lunch which i didn’t really have much enthusiasm to eat because i was too engrossed with configurations and being online tech support to a friend who wanted to backup and update her ipod. by past noon i got an invitation to attend a birthday party but i got stood up by the person who was supposed to go with me, she had a good excuse though – a splitting headache. anyways, decided not to go too. was too lazy to go out on a cold day and walk by myself to some place i forgot how to reach.

discussed other career options with my aunt and uncle and had a talk with my mom. should probably find time to update my resume, it’s gathering dust somewhere.

the box i’ll be sending home is sealed at last. had a hard time with the packing tape since i’m temporarily disabled, but with my expertise, it’s now mummified, i hope it holds though.. manila cargo is picking it up tomorrow. the cost of shipping it is actually more than the total insured cost of what’s inside which is $100 – what a rip off! that’s highway robbery. now i’m having seconds thoughts on sending it..

managed to dual boot my c1x, it’s now running on win2k and xp, not surprisingly, the older win version runs faster, now if i can only find the drivers to make the motion eye work.. why can’t they make powerful laptops this small? i hope apple offers one soon, i’ll be first in line to get it.

i don’t know if its the fever meds i took or the chicken i ate earlier today but my fingers are swollen, like twice the normal size! tsk tsk i’m turning into a mutant, where’s my claritin!?

woke up today with a sickness at the back of my head so i laid in bed to keep the room from turning. called work to say i’d be missing work and work called about the orders building up in the error queue again, gave the go ahead to redeploy the application, took some meds and drowned in dreamless sleep.

when i looked out the window, i saw tiny rain drops from the endless grey clouds above and a car covered with orange leaves that has managed to invade the rest of our front lawn – the nuances of fall, that reminded me of the wilted white tulips on the table, remnants of a day that paled in comparison to all the other years. i took two pages from yesterday’s newspaper and wrapped them carefully, paying a quick homage to still life and all things ephemeral.

took another dose of pain killers wanting to numb every nerve ending, needing to be as empty as my heart right now. after a while, feeling light headed, i opened itunes and played crosby, stills, nash and young’s “our house”.

everybody is replaceable, once again that message was sent loud and clear in our company orientation this morning. it’s either you sign up or you go home. plain black and white, no greys in between. well if i were back in my hometown, i could easily say no and go find something else which appreciates me more. better yet, i would take a month’s vacation and just tour the islands. it doesn’t take much to enjoy life in our country. but i’m here, i’m stuck in the middle of nowhere, and if i say no, it would be like pulling the rug from under my feet. i’ve made no plans, no other choices lined up for the picking. should have anticipated this earlier but deliverables and commitments got in the way and shopping for a new job took a backseat. now it’s like being pushed to the corner. what kind of new company would woo their potential employees with blackmail brilliantly disguise as a contract. who in their right mind would sign something that offers less than what you currently have? it’s not like everyone’s a dime a dozen. i think i deserve a little more respect.

tip, go shove your papers up your spine. i won’t bite the bullet. i prefer to be part of an organization that makes me feel needed and appreciated. i won’t settle for anything less

sunday is rest day, so says the bible at least. but not for people with scheduled production releases, that’s what it failed to write in the disclaimer. i got called by work at past 6 this morning, that would be like 7am since we just adjusted the clock an hour early in time for fall back. apparently, messages are getting stuck somewhere up there where dreams get disrupted. i don’t know where they go really, it’s part of the myteries of life. we ended up resending the orders in manually since the automatic way turned out to be not that automatic after all.

our poor architect probably slept through most of the day and missed his daughter’s 2nd birthday party. he should have been a doctor instead if he had to work crazy hours like this – he’s been up since saturday night. maybe it would have been easier to save lives than to save the world from bugs =p

jo texted me at 11 in the morning asking if i wanted to join him and pam for hot pot at crystal mall. i slept at around 3am so i wasn’t really in the mood to get out of bed, more so when the weather is just pouring and it’s so cold to go outside. but then i didn’t want to miss the opportunity of trying out something new so i relucantly pulled my pillows away from me and took a quick shower.

we got lost looking for the restaurant, found it conveniently located near the bubble tea house. the food was ok, though everything tasted the same. it was the perfect meal for the cold weather. got home at around 4 – talk about a long lunch.

last night my colleagues and i also passed by this mall on the way to dinner at boston pizza, we found bargain iphone and nano video cases, i got a black nano jacket and screen protector for C$8.50, great deal compared to the almost 40 bucks offered at the gadget store in metrotown. at last, my red thing won’t get cold this winter hehe

heard of this naboplomo challenge from zet and i knew i had to jump in and swim in it, just to deviate from all the validation errors and plist.xml files that have been haunting me for the past few weeks.

yesterday was jake’s birthday, we had group dinner at tgif and spent the rest of the night looking for cases for my red thing. future shop didnt have anything affordable in stock so i just went home with a 97 cent case for my older nano instead.

last night was also my first halloween night in this city. i had fun looking at all the kids in their costumes running around our street carrying goodie bags. we had a basketful of miniature chocolates at home ready to be given out to anyone who would go knocking on our door. they were so cute with their awe stricken faces when my cousin would open the door and interrogate them. ^_^ hehe must have been a traumatic experience.