yet another ipod on the shelves for the holiday season, this one plays video.. check out apple.com for more details.
in the meantime, i’m crossing my fingers that the pda i’m planning to buy in sg will push through this weekend, and hopefully an ex officemate would be kind enough to bring it home by first week next month =)
arrgghhhhh, i’m running on empty, haven’t paid ri on the white case she brought home from her recent trip abroad, i should dial 911 again ang ask pa for some cash, hehe yep shameless, 24 and still getting money from my parents. when will i ever learn?
Author Archives: poeticnook
indecision
when i first learned that digital walker already sells the ipod nano silicon case for Php650, i immediately visited their park square 1 branch. the available colors are: white, light blue, dark blue, violet, pink, brown and orange.
the white one was my first choice but later realized that there were two very obvious white lines on the front, probably a manufacturing defect, so i opted for the orange to match with my phone, unfortunately it didn’t mix well with my black nano so finally i got the purple. yey! at least something to tide me over till the nano tubes arrive.
one more thing…
ok i take it back, 2gb is not enough. i just took out my dusty cds and added them to my itunes library. yargz!!! it’s more than 20gb, i haven’t even counted the ones i left in cebu: albums of matchbox twenty, staind, greenday, lighthouse family.. ost of city of angels, my best friend’s wedding, the other sister, shrek..
sheesh, now i’m left with the dilemma of weeding out songs from my playlist. no more space to include all the tracks from my anna nalick, jet, norah jones and lifehouse albums. hohum, i spent the entire night just trying to fit them in my nano and finally slept at around 3am.
there’s a rumored invite only apple affair in california on october 12, could this be the 80gb ipod launch? =)
constant gardener
rachel weisz’ character in this movie reminds me of my father’s third wife, an (she’s a belgian). and just like tessa, she’s very much into helping indigenous people in “developing countries”.
this film uses a non linear style of narration, and this can alternately confuse and draw the audience’s attention on what the plot really is.
if i were a middle class citizen of a first world country, i would say that this is exactly the movie i need to watch to wake me up from my complacency and open my eyes to the reality of poverty in other parts of the world. but as it is, i am just another expendible person in this equally impoverished nation, and all i can say about the shacks in africa is: it looks a lot like our very own smokey mountain.
where: Greenbelt 3, Cinema 3
when: Saturday, 01 October 2005. 08:30 p.m.
serenity prayer
God grant me the Serenity
to accept the things I cannot change..
Courage to change the things I can..
and Wisdom to know the difference..
Living one day at a time,
Enjoying one moment at a time,
Accepting hardship as the pathway to peace.
Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is,
not as I would have it.
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His will.
That I may be reasonably happy in this life,
And supremely happy with Him forever in the next.
Amen.
history: http://open-mind.org/Serenity.htm
1997
if there was a year in your life that you could go back to, what would it be? i would always say, 1997. it was a year of grand opportunities and missed chances. so many things i could have done and yet i chose to do otherwise. if regret was a word in my vocabulary, i could have said, without any hesitation, that i regret how that moment in time has affected the rest of my life. but regret is for losers, and no matter how bruised and bitter i may have become, i can’t just bow my head and accept defeat.
it’s not that i don’t like where i am right now, contentment has never been my best virtue so that’s not the issue, it’s just that that year is one of the biggest crossroad in my life. it’s like the choose your own adventure pocket book where you get to have different endings depending on your decisions: to fight it out with the big bad wolf or to run away and hide in the woods? i chose to hide in the woods, stay in my comfort zone, deny that i could ever be anything outside the little bubble that i invented and enclosed myself in.
now, eight years past i recall that little coin i flipped, what if i fought the wolf instead? yeah, i wouldn’t have met all those interesting creatures but hey, those kind of trees also grow in this part of the hundred acre land. i was just too much of a coward. i’ve always feared the unknown.
it’s really no fun to look back and think of all the has been and what could have been in your life, it get’s you all melodramatic and guilty but the good thing is, you get to contemplate on how you got here in the first place, that is especially helpful if you’re like me who just wakes up with a start every day and wonder: where am i? how did i get here? where am i headed?
night life
the sims is one of my all time favorites, my addiction for sim games started after playing creatures 3, it’s about artificially intelligent norns that you can train to speak, do things, build gadgets and genetically engineer. it was great but unfortunately, the developers abandoned it 4 years ago.
with the advent of sims 2, i’m once again a loyal customer of data blitz, and my recent purchase is the night life expansion pack. at last, my sim can now own a sports car and drive around down town. now if only my real life could catch up with that..
visit http://thesims.ea.com/
perfect catch
the comedy isn’t that funny and the romance is very predictable but what makes this movie bearable to watch aside from drew is the inside look on what goes on in a sports fanatic’s mind. i didn’t know box seats could cost that much.
where: Greenbelt 1, Cinema 1
when: Friday, 23 September 2005. 02:45 p.m.
age of participation
“the information age is over” this is what sun microsystems ceo scott mcnealy declared before announcing that he will be giving away their software technology for free. wow! this is the solaris operating system we’re talking about here. back when i was on bt in tamagawa, that’s a whole eon of light years ago, our workstation has dozens of sun blade servers which cost around US $2000. open sourcing solaris could lead to a lot things like the evolution of patches to make it work on intel x86 machines like the soon to be released version of mac os. this could lower production costs for software people who are depending on solaris systems, but on the other hand one can’t help but ask: what happens to the people behind solaris? will they lose their jobs? what about microsoft, do they have plans of at least slashing their current software prices to half so as to prevent piracy? speaking of microsoft, i heard from a twit podcast that they are having brain drain problems. the top people have opted to resign and join other companies, i should start updating my resume. haha! yeah right
mobile pilipinas 2006
friday, saturday and sunday were advertised as m-ph expo weekend at greenbelt 1. there were lots of booths displaying the latest gadgets of apple, archos, creative, sony and many others. i went for a peak and attended the apple ipod seminar at around 6pm saturday, too bad i didn’t ask a question, i could have won an ipod sock! there were also lots of freebies and raffle prizes, i brought home several back issues of m-ph.
i remember when m-ph was first launched 2 years ago, it was bundled free with the reviewer magazine, and while the rest of my friends were reading cosmo, i was lost in tech land. i don’t know, there’s just something in those shiny things that never fail to catch my attention.
if only i have a bottomless wallet =)