bury me in this dress

I got this tip from my Plurk friend nethead, Amazon is offering over 500 free mp3s for download. It’s DRM free or so he says. I’m downloading a few tracks as I type this. Just wanted to share.

For those who know me in Plurk, I’ve been using a bunch of emoticons which highly represent me.

Jorgegee was the one who first showed them to me and said I look like them which I hated when I first saw them but Eloisa agreed that they are so me. So I made them my signature Plurk emoticons and call them dementiacons.

Well, a couple of hours ago, I discovered who the creator is. It’s MaggieMarket and I had a grand time downloading more of them dementiacons. The character is Maggie herself and she also made emoticons out of her husband and friends. Coincidentally, the hubby emoticon looks like my big Plurk crush.

Too bad I couldn’t understand the site much since it’s in Chinese. I think I would have enjoyed her blog a lot. Anyway, I’ll keep on coming back to that site for more downloadable goodies.

I know, I’ve been neglecting this blog. Well Plurk is to blame for this. For those in the dark as to what Plurk is, officially, it’s a social network cum micro blogging site. For me though, it’s more like a chatroom/forum wonderland. I joined the website because most of my twitter friends were transferring there. I was curious and it was getting lonely in Twitter. I was telling some friends that Plurk sucked but after a week, the addiction kicked in.

I’m not as addicted to it as I first was. At least I don’t think so. Plurk used to give me a natural high. It made me hyper and it felt like I was shouting whenever I posted or replied. I plurked for hours, forgetting sleep and even food that I became sick for awhile. It was that bad. Up to now my sleep pattern is fucked up because of the site. Used to be I can sleep 8 hours straight but now it looks like the most sleep I can get is 5 hours. Oh, before it sounds like I’m complaining, I’m so totally not. I love it even if I’ve neglected so many things because of the site. It’s only because my timeline is quiet right now that I am finishing this entry which I started…I forget…a week ago? But see her, I’ve benefited a lot from it. I’ve met some great people through it and they’re now my friends in real life. I discovered good films and music through recommendations by other Plurkers. There are more but the best so far is I’m *cough cough* quite taken with someone right now. I won’t give any clues as to who it is. Moving on…let me just say that Plurk makes me happy and I think that’s reason enough to justify this addiction.

Sooooo, if I’ve managed to convince any reader to join the website, please use this link because I want more smilies. Until the next time I blog!

Poor Gucci Gang. The internet is abuzz over the revelations of Brian Gorrell, a spurned lover of DJ Montano. Now he’s traumatized and heartbroken so now he’s airing the Gucci Gang’s dirty laundries especially DJ’s and Celine Lopez’s. The two must be having simultaneous panic attacks right now. If you want the sordid details, head over to Brian’s blog. He said that he’s going to write a list of nasty things about Gucci Gang. Goddess have mercy on their alleged coke-clogged souls.

I love this chika. I don’t know why. I don’t even know those people. I thought DJ Montano was deejay at first. This chika interest of mine is all Kitty Go’s fault. If it weren’t for her books, I won’t give these people any attention. I’m sure they thrive on it already so way add more juice to their ego? I can’t help it because it’s dirty and mean. It’s so Gossip Girl! Anyway, if you are also into chika, http://www.chikatime.com/ is a treasure trove.

One thing I miss about US is their hundreds of TV channels. I read that I can watch over the internet real time US shows if I know someone with a slingbox. Problem is, I don’t know anybody there who has one. Maybe someone out there is feeling generous and will give me free (or really cheap) access to their slingbox *ehem*. I could offer Philippine cable tv (Sky Cable or Destiny) but I don’t have a slingbox of my own. Any takers?

At least for a day. I want to watch the concert of My Chemical Romance this January 29 (or is it 25?). I don’t like their music but I find the lead singer hawt.

What can I say? I like guys pasty white guys with eyeliner. He also looks young (!!!) even if he’s just my age. I don’t want to waste my money for the concert though. If I can drag a friend with me, I’ll hang out outside the concert venue and buy from a scalper maybe halfway through the concert so I can get cheap front seats. Or maybe we could bully some high school kids there and steal their tickets. I doubt I could convince any of my friends to go with me though. Pfft.

Speaking of emo, my friend said I am one since I’m depressive and sometimes whiney. I was so offended when he said that but maybe he’s right. Now I find his comment funny. But I still don’t want to be emo. I associate it with angsty teeny bopper sissy mallrats. Then again, I have the maturity of one. Oh no!

Just a bonus. I found this somewhere on the net. David Bowie can kick Gerard Way’s butt anytime

I don’t think Bowie was bad in Labyrinth!!!

Yay! I have a separate links page now. Big thanks to Joiz for helping me out and also to Shabby for her advice and the comment editor plugin.

Just because.

As a bonus. The only good scene in Spiderman.

Sorry for the unexpected hiatus. I was sick last week with the flu. I was also absent from work for 3 days. A few things have changed since I last wrote here. I’ll try to them as I write this post.

I don’t think I ever mentioned this but a couple of weeks ago, I fell in love with a pink Anna Sui bag. The initial price is cheap. I think it was 800 pesos. I don’t remember if I was the first one to bid but another girl was wanted the bag too so for several days, we tried to outbid each other. I placed my maximum bid to 2,500. I don’t recall why I was sleepy. Maybe from lack of sleep or I was feeling sick. But I slept early. Like 10 PM. Can you believe that?! 10 PM!!!! So okay, when I checked my mail the next day, I found out I lost the bag. The bitch stole my bag for P2,700. Waaaah! So now I am still obsessed with that bag. In my desperation, I tried to find Ebay Japan but that doesn’t exist. There’s Yahoo Japan though but the site is in Japanese and I found out that the Japanese don’t really like selling to gaijins like me. So I googled for Japan auctions and learned that there are websites which offer bidding services for gaijins who want something from Yahoo Japan. I found a good one, japanauctioncenter.com which offers the service at a cheaper rate than their competitions. I joined the site and deposited a couple thousand of pesos. I saw bags like the one I lost in ebay.ph but they were brand new and expensive. I’ll keep on waiting for a good deal for that bag but for now, I still bid on other Anna Sui products. I actually won a nice wallet. I’m still crossing my fingers for the bag. It’s just like the bag in the photo here except it was pink.

I have 2 Anna Sui bags now which I won on ebay.ph. They’re not as nice as the one I wanted but what can I do?

I am working on a new project. It’s web-related and it’s looking good. I’ll keep that a secret for now.

I just remembered that my driver’s license is expired and I need to renew it. Gah. It expired last Nov. 26. I have to pay penalty fee for not renewing it in the proper time.

I ordered Absolutely Fabulous 1 to 3 and Degrassi Junior High the complete collection on Amazon and I got the DVDs last week. I haven’t started watching them though. Hopefully I’ll find time to watch during the short xmas holiday.

I’m so pretentious. I got myself a moleskine notebook and a large moleskine sketchbook. For those not in the know, moleskine is the brand of notebook Hemmingway, Van Gogh, Picasso, and other brilliant people used. This is what I get from hanging out in philmug.ph. Moleskine.ph overcharges those damn notebooks but I still ordered from the owner who is a philmug regular. It’s just a damn notebook but I’ll keep the illusion that I’m brilliant too because they are expensive. I just got them but I ordered last month. Damn longbeard (the seller). I’m still happy with the purchase though.

I already mentioned about the ibook I have. Well, I bought a bag for it. It’s a Samsonite laptop backpack but it’s way cheaper than the bag I saw in the Samsonite store. I bought mine from istudio in Greenhills. I also bought a…I don’t know what they’re called but they’re stands for the laptop and it’s spherical in shape. That one is expensive but it’s serving me well. I overspent my shopping that day because I also ended up buying an Edifier speaker for my ipod. It’s cheaper than the other good speakers I saw before so I took one.

Great. Most of my activities involve spending. What about me getting money? I hope I didn’t lose any of my regular readers with this update. I would also like to pass around my patented tin can with class? Funds are low once again and sprinking a few $$$ my way would cheer me up in time for the holidays :D

I’m too sleepy now. I could hardly keep my eyes open. Please be generous while I sleep. I’ll post again about the changes in my life when I find time at work.

I’ve been a blogger for more than 6 years now and I never really earned anything from doing it. Well not exactly. I got Mike to donate me a couple of dollars. Aside from that, nadda. Not a single cent. The Adsense on my sidebar is useless because nobody ever clicked on it. My Amazon Associate account never brought me revenue. And my textlink ad for RSS never got approved. With the advent of problogging and probloggers, the way I blog is probably as extinct as the Dodo bird. I can only drool as increasing number of bloggers in the interwebs receive paychecks or products for review. Hell, that bastard Darren Rowse who owns problogging.net was able to buy a house because of blogging. I wouldn’t even be able to buy a pack of chewing gum for my blog. I am hoping that would change in the future but as for now, I think I have enough credentials to give tips on how not to earn money from blogging.

1. Alienate your audience. Talk about yourself as much as possible and don’t forget to mention your elite tastes in music, film, literature, art, and the likes. Believe that you are better than most of humanity.
2. Make your posts non work-friendly. Display naked or half-naked photos. Make use of keywords such as porn, sex, bestiality, masturbation, incest and other sexual deviations you can think of.
3. Graphics overload. Never resize your graphics nor make thumbnails. Graphics should be 300 pixels or more. By doing so, users on dial-up won’t be able to access your blog.
4. Horizontal scrolling is your friend.
5. Offend. Cover taboo topics and constantly criticize religious groups, race, advocacies, etc. For best effect, contradict yourself often. You don’t want to create a following.
6. Hide your ads. Ads should not be easily seen.
7. Turn off commenting. This makes the readers feel unwelcome. Another alternative is to password protect entries.
8. Never promote your blog. It’s as if your blog doesn’t exist at all.
9. Do not link. This makes your blog self-contained. If someone links to your blog, do not link back. Too much links in posts can be effective too.
10. Sprinkle expletives often. Readers will surely love you for it.