bury me in this dress

This perfectly sums up my week.

Would you have a foot facelift?

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Women in the United States are apparently going all out to make sure their feet can fit in the latest designer footwear.

Such is the desire for perfect feet, the American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society (AOFAS) has warned women to avoid so called “foot facelifts.”

Clinics such as the Beverly Hills Aesthetic Foot Surgery are among those which offer a variety of surgical procedures including the Cinderella Prodedure, a foot shaving technique which aims to prevent bunions by narrowing the sides of the foot.

Also on offer is the “Foot-Tuck Fat Pad Augmentation,” where the patient’s own body fat is injected into the balls of the feet designed to make wearing high heels more comfortable.

For toes which hang over the edge or protrude at the side of a sandal, the clinic has the answer. Second toes can be shortened so they are no longer than the big toe, and the little toe can be made skinnier to make feet easier to fit into high heels.

Toes can even be lengthened again after cosmetic surgery which may have made a toe too short.

And anyone who suffers from sweaty feet can have Botox injections which can also help prevent fungal infections.

Dr Ali Sadrieh, who founded the clinic, said that advising women to alter their footwear only falls on deaf ears.

He told the Wall Street Journal: “It’s unrealistic to tell women not to wear high heels. I came up with procedures that allow the women to function, pain-free, in the real world.”

Nigel Mercer, President of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, said the demand for foot facelifts in the UK was “minimal.” But he also warned that anyone considering this type of surgery should be fully informed of the risks. The potential complications of cosmetic foot surgery “could leave a patient unable to walk normally for the rest of their life,” he said.

YAHOO

This is exactly what I’ve been praying for. I have huge, wide ugly feet which I’ve inherited from my mom. Goddamn genes! Anyway, the bone on the sides of my feet are protruding. It’s so hard to find shoes that fit or shoes which look good on me. I’ve been telling mom that I wish there’s a surgery to fix my feet and I found out today that there is when I was browsing a thread on Makeup Talk. Most are against this procedure but not me. If I can afford to have the side of feet shaved, I will!

you wouldn't see the bones I was talking about but still ugly feet!

couldn't see it here either. bah

don't ask me why i'm barefoot during xmas eve

Oh I don’t have any shots of the damn feet. I avoid taking photos of them as much as possible. Believe me they’re wide and unsightly.

Our maid’s favorite radio station is YES FM (pera peraaaaaa pera pera lang yan!) and I often want to off myself when she’s listening to it. I can tune it out so I just let her be. While I was having lunch and reading the papers, a catchy tune caught my attention. I listened to the lyrics and it made me laugh out loud. It is made of WIN for its cheesiness. I asked our maid what the title is but she didn’t know. Good thing there’s reliable Google. This is the song I heard.

Mahal Kita Kasi
by Nicole Hyala

Bangin ka ba? Kasi
Nahuhulog na ako sa ’yo, naman kasi
Unggoy ka ba? Kasi
Sumasabit ka sa puso ko, naman kasi
Pustiso ka ba? Kasi
You know I can’t smile without you
Pagod na pagod na ako
Maghapon ka na kasing tumatakbo sa isipan ko
Kasi naman kasi

Mahal kita
Bagay tayong dalawa
Papicture nga
Para mapadevelop kita
Hindi tayo tao, hindi rin tayo hayop
Bagay tayo, bagay talaga

Papupulis kita, kasi
Ninakaw mo ang puso ko, naman kasi
Kuto ka ba? Kasi
Palagi ka sa ulo ko
Naman kasi
Apoy ka ba? Kasi
Alab-alab I love you

Magsalbabida ka nga
Kasi baka malunod ka sa pag-ibig ko
Kasi naman kasi

Mahal kita
Bagay tayong dalawa
Papicture nga
Para mapadevelop kita
Hindi tayo tao, hindi rin tayo hayop
Bagay tayo, bagay talaga

Kamukha mo si Papa P, Papa P (Ding Dong)
P Papa P, Papa P
P Papa P, Papa P (Dingdong)

Exam ka ba, kasi
Sasagutin kita agad-agad, naman kasi
Drugs ka ba? Kakaadik ka kasi, kasi, naman kasi
Kulangot ka ba? You’re really really hard to get
Posporo ka ba? E di posporo rin ako
Para match
Kasi naman kasi
Mahal kita
Bagay tayong dalawa
Papicture nga
Para mapadevelop kita

Hindi tayo tao, hindi rin tayo hayop
Bagay tayo, bagay talaga

Pustiso ka nga, kasi
I really really can’t smile without you.

Now LSS on that!

Maybe I have a dirty mind but after listening closely to this, the father sounds like a pedophile. What do you think?

I wrote this a long time ago (forgot when but prolly a year or two) but will only publish it now after I was able to transfer my company’s domain from them. I am posting this to warn potential victims. Caveat Emptor. Buyer Beware. When a deal looks too good to be true then it might not be a good deal at all.

In case you don’t know, I have another blog called Mukhang Pera which is where I blog about contests, ways to make money, promos, sales, etc. I transferred the webhosting of the blog to Kinohost early this year since it’s cheap and was recommended by a friend. At first, their service was so-so. I don’t know why I’m not getting notifications when the owner, Jon Towns, replies to my support tickets. I suspect he wasn’t able to configure the account he made for me properly. I let it pass but I should have paid attention that it’s a bad sign of Kinohost’s service.

Since I didn’t update Mukhang Pera often back then, I didn’t notice anything wrong until I saw replies to some blog posts and I never received email notifications which WordPress sends when I get comments. I submitted a support ticket. I tried to wait patiently for support’s reply. Weeks passed and I was never contacted so I emailed Jon directly. It took him weeks to reply and while waiting and getting more and more annoyed, I googled him and Kinohost. That’s when I found out how bad the situation is. According to this blog post and the replies, Jon is 15-years old and he doesn’t know shit about running a server. Besides Kinohost, he runs Parade Hosting and who knows what else. He always comes up with lame excuses when he finally gets back to his clients. What’s worse is that if a client criticizes him, Jon will ban him. I couldn’t believe what I was reading at that time! In the meantime, I tried to fix my email problems blindly. I installed some scripts and fortunately, I was able to get Mukhang Pera to send emails. I began to take my blog seriously and updated regularly.

When Jon finally replied to my email, he said that he was sick with bird flu and that it was bad so he wasn’t able to get back at me fast. I’m 99% sure that’s just an excuse but I didn’t tell him I know but I didn’t acknowledge his sickness either when I replied, telling him about the email problem. The jerk never replied back. I figured I might as well keep blogging since I don’t know how to make him attend to my needs.

A couple of days ago, I was getting CURL errors when I try posting. I configured Mukhang Pera to auto-post on Twitter and Plurk when I publish a blog post. I make scheduled blog posts and I need Twitter and Plurk to announce updates because I get most of my blog traffic from there. I submitted a support ticket about the CURL problem and just like I expected, no reply. I just got so sick and tired of Kinohost so I transferred the domain to godaddy.com and purchased web space with totalchoicehosting.com which hosts this blog. Unfortunately for me, the email Jon used as administrator contact is his email. The transfer procedure email from godaddy gets sent to the administrator email so I still need Jon to fix it. I was fuming over this and decided that I would file a lawsuit against Kinohost. I emailed Jon, telling him to keep the money but approve the domain transfer. I also told him that if I don’t hear from him within 48 hours, I will resort to more drastic measures. My friend who recommended Kinohost also messaged him. Well that worked. He changed the email to mine. Then I was finally able to transfer my website.

I was able to find a good webhost after Kino but that too turned out to be a nightmare. I’m with Host Gator now. So far so good but who knows, right?

Well the blog is back but there is still a chance that it will get DDoS attacked again. I hope not. As you might have observed, a lot of blog images are missing. I couldn’t salvage them anymore. I also lost my food blog but I am still hoping I can recover it.

I got kicked out by my former webhost, TotalChoice Hosting. I used to love their service but they hardly lifted a finger to help me when BMITD was being DDoS-ed. Not only that. They kicked me out when I have just paid for the subscription for that month. I do not recommend them at all. Shame cos I used to recommended them to friends who are looking for a reliable webhost.

I think I know who are the people behind the attacks. My message to them, karma is a bitch. Remember that.

LOLWHAT?

@thegreatest showed this to me last night. mebbe I should sell my services. hrhrhrhr

Yoohoo, Sony Ericsson! I wouldn’t mind any of these

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or the Rachael phone

Last night, I was following the “progress” of House Resolution 1109 in the Congress. I was glued to twitter, plurk, and ANC up to the time the H.R. was passed. Feelings of disgust, alarm, outrage, and helplessness consumed me the entire time but I also felt sadness. Sadness because the rest of my family didn’t seem to care. Same goes for most of my contacts in Facebook who just kept on answering quizzes and playing online games just like any other day. Were they aware of what was happening? Hardly anybody paid attention to my status updates about the H.R. Didn’t they know that their future is at stake? I wanted to shake all of them but who am I to do that? After all, I was just like them earlier. I ignored the warning signs in GMA’s regime. I do not have the right to preach because I’m just as guilty as them. I just hope that they wake up before everything is too late.

In case anybody wants to know what the passing of House Resolution 1109 entails, it means that the Congress may now propose amendments or revisions to the Constitution with just 3/4 votes of all its Members. Amendments to the constitution is fine but now is not the right time. And definitely the way the House of Representatives railroaded the passage, blatantly disrespecting the outcries of the opposition and ignoring the opinion of the populace, is deplorable. This shouldn’t happen in a democracy. Furthermore, what happened is illegal. It disregarded the Senate and the passage was done in haste. Too hasty in fact which makes it even more suspicious. Just look at these proposed Charter Amendments:

Matrix House Proposed Charter Amendments

The changes (deletion of Congress and Senate, Parliamentary system, etc) if approved will affect the lives of ALL Filipinos. It will give politicians who want to hold on to power more time to do so. Politicians who betray us citizens over and over again. So let me express my indignation.

I say no to apathy!
NO TO CON-ASS!

Other blog protestors:
Stop Gloria Forever Moves! Kick ConAss!
Please Let Me Vote on 2010
I, Filipino Citizen
The Assembly’s Statement on the Plenary Debates on Charter Change
Dear Congressman Nograles
Oppose Constituent Assembly
In the Grip of Electoralism
Lighting the Beacons for a Phoney War?
There’s A Reason We Call It CON-ASS
House Resolution 1109 and the People
Have You No Shame?
The Pronoun ITS in Con-Ass Rez

If you have a blog post against Con-Ass and want to be added to the list here, just let me know.

I’m taking my cue from Jayvee’s post, I want to express my indignation at what Espela Sales’ “palusot” regarding the taxation on the importation of books.

The treaty has provided for duty-free importation of books to guarantee the free flow of “educational, scientific, and cultural materials” between countries and declared that imported books should be duty-free.

But Sales reportedly brushed off this argument, saying novels and reading books are “not educational.”

The imposition of duties on foreign books has caused book importers to reconsider future importations due to higher importation costs for the books.

Filipino is my mother tongue. That’s the language we use in the household. Growing up, I was a lazy student who didn’t pay attention to grammar lessons. I was anti-social too and discovered the magical world of books. It was a form of escape for me and I devoted hours reading my Archie comics and young adult books instead of reading my school books. But you know what? My grammar improved immensely because of those “non-educational” books. You will just have to believe me when I say that my English was atrocious before I started reading.My view of the world broadened because of those books as well. I became familiar with the Western world, a knowledge essential to the hundreds of Filipinos working as call center agents. That knowledge is not the same as when watching foreign shows on TV.

I suspect Sales is not an avid reader. Otherwise, she wouldn’t say such things. Reading stimulates the mind. Neurons are fired up whether a person is reading a trashy romance novel, a comic book, or a 700-page dissertation on the evolution of man. Other countries are encouraging their citizens to read more instead of watching television. By imposing taxes on certain types of literate, Sales is discouraging literacy. Books are already expensive and adding more taxes will them even more unaffordable. Actually, I believe that the government should subsidize a small percent of book costs but that’s too big a dream.

Sales should put a stop to her bullshit unless she wants the Filipinos to end up using text speak as the national language. If the taxation pushes through, she deserves a place in Friendster hell.

PS

I guess I have a lot more reading to do since it’s book blockade, not book blockage *facepalms*

Just let me rant for a bit here. I feel left out that I didn’t get an invite for the “secret” Sony Ericsson thingy where almost all of Filipino bloggers I know got a free SE phone. I’m no problogger (even if I have some side projects where I’m trying to earn from blogging) but I’ve been blogging since the late 90′s. This blog alone is already 4-years old. Given I’m not popular in the Filipino blog scene and I hardly go to blog events (I seldom get invites anyway), I’m a Sony Ericsson fan since the T68i came out. Ever since then, I’ve gone through several Sony Ericsson phones. Even my current one, a P1i, is made by them. Heck, I’ve blogged about SE phones here and in my past blogs. I don’t know why I didn’t get invited but I somehow feel that it’s a confirmation that my blog is nothing to the Pinoy blogosphere. I feel bitter sometimes when I see my friends use their free SE phones. I’m human, I get gadget envy, and damn the phone looks really nice. Maybe this is what I get for having a nonsense blog. In spite of the bad feeling, I’m still a fan and I won’t let this silly thing affect my phone choice decisions but bext time I see any of my friends use the phone they got from the event, I’ll just close my eyes and try to think of more pleasant things.