No work today.

It only takes me a day or two to sustain a mad feeling. And all of the reasons to hate fly out the window rather quickly. :P

An old high school classmate pops up in FB and says that the one conversation he remembers me by is me telling him I don't like seeing his cheekbones because they make him look skinny. This was in grade school. I do not even remember talking to him about physical appearances at all. The random things we remember. Surprising.

Yesterday was full of surprises. But they weren't all that good surprises.

Today I learned that it's very wrong to confine your knowledge of a person to only a certain extent because people change. 

I talked to someone today -- after years and years of boxing him in a single demeaning thought and then I find out he is really so much more than all my prejudices.

Glad to know I was wrong.

So, until March 9 I didn't know there were gendered nouns. I asked why, and their answers can be found here.

And oh, I'm ticking off Equatorial Guinea Ethiopia and British Antarctic Territory from my stamp wishlist which is all thanks to Finn. :) Yay!

I found out, accidentally, that if you press ALT + 1 and 3, you can generate this: ♪. 
ALT + 1 and 4 = ♫

What other keyboard shortcuts do you know? 

Today, Paolo sent me some chocolates.
Heehee. Thanks, Paolo. :P

He knows exactly what I like, since I'm not much of a chocolate lover. Maru is the only one who's got a sweet tooth in the family; everyone else would survive a chocolate drought if there was any.

I don't know why I can't appreciate a Ferrero and anything else that has almonds, peanuts, or the like inside. I don't like dark chocolates, too. 

I like my chocolates plain. Truth be told, I only like Kisses. So he sent me those in a pink-striped box. It's a great feeling he still remembers to be sweet despite the distance, although it would have been better if he just sent himself instead. (I hope you're reading this!)  

Someone left his blue umbrella on my lap yesterday night.

It was so weird that he would forget he placed it momentarily there as he went down from the jeep. It was also weird that I felt it more than a few minutes later when he was already gone. I tapped the fat guy next to me if the umbrella on my lap was his but he shook his head.

I debated with myself for a good 45 minutes if I was to keep the stranger's neatly folded umbrella that bore the weight on my lap. If this was fate's way of taking pity on me because typhoon Frank destroyed my old gray umbrella the other day, well, it sure had a creepy way of doing so.

Eventually, I decided to just leave it on the seat when the fat guy reached his stop. It wasn't mine to begin with and the jeepney driver needed it more than I did and besides, I had Daisy's umbrella with me. What a queer way of reminding me to buy my own! When I got home that night, my tita said she had something for me: a black umbrella.   

I won a small fridge today. :P 

Hmm. So yesterday it was confirmed: they appreciated the presentation I slaved over for about a week which I thought would be the death of me. (Many thanks to Helvetica Neue Lt Std Lt and Adobe Photoshop CS2).

But that's beside the point. What I wanted to take note of was: the presentation was sent to Borneo to serve as a template for future EM meetings.

Borneo ! Ohgad. Borneo. Borneo. Borneo. I was secretly laughing my head off when they muttered "Borneo". Borneo actually exists!

For such a long time I believed that Borneo is no longer part of this modern-day earth. I thought it crumbled the day the "mga tulay na lupa" were erased. Remember that in Sibika, they taught us:

"Ayon sa mga naitalang fossils ng tao sa bansa, maaaring dinayo na ng mga tao ang Pilipinas, ilang libong taon na ang nakalipas. Tumawid sa mga sinaunang tulay na lupa ang mga Negrito o Ita, ang tinatayang kauna-unahang mga nanirahan sa Pilipinas. Diumano, galing sila sa Borneo at naglakad sa mga tulay ng lupa. Nagtungo sila sa Palawan, Mindoro at sa ilang bahagi ng Mindanao."

Can they please enclose ME with the presentation?  I'd like to see Borneo for myself. 



*quote taken from Wiki