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Ate my fair share of homemade cookies and brownies, pastas, soups, ham, and chicken roast this past week. Looking forward to New Year's. Apart from liking the slight drop in temp, there's nothing much to say except that my second year of blogging is almost at its end, and hopefully, the third year will be inspired so there'll be more to tell! dinner this evening

Nice and cool tonight. Shame it's spoiled by bites... mosquitoes attack and I'm not wearing pajamas. And no, I don't own pajamas. People bite too. And it only takes one to ruin a happy mood. What a Scrooge! Dear Santa, can I have thick skin?

Frequent network timeouts messed up how fast I worked, was causing a headache - big time! It started last week and I did not want to bear it anymore! Finally decided to tweak router settings in hopes that the problem is stemming from there. I took a screen shot of the original mtu setting - for future reference - and went with lowering its value. After a few ping tests, I put in the value that's slightly higher (the amount plus 28, in fact) of what did not show up as fragmented. After restarting the machine, I braced myself. Decided to cool down so I left, washed my face, brushed my teeth, and came back. It's been over an hour since the "restart" and so far, so good. A couple of network timeouts on mturk but refreshing quickly fixed it. So it isn't totally fixed but it's drastically minimized and refreshing works fast. Unfortunately, some damage has been done since time-constrained hits on mturk that I've accepted were rendered "abandoned" becaus...

Our town is bustling - and cramped. But for some reason, a decent computer shop is nowhere to be found. Somebody would have to go to the mall for good office equipment and supplies. Since that is something I cannot do without proper arrangements and asking for favors isn't something I particularly enjoy, I try to shop online. But looking for good shops is a chore 'cause I haven't seen any Philippine online store that has a good-quality, well-stocked inventory - to date. This item, I bought at PC Bodega, shipped yesterday and arrived this morning. Their website still needs some work so I had to make the order by calling them. After exchanging emails and text messages with a salesperson (who was very nice and helpful), I finally paid for it by depositing the money in one of their banks which happens to have a branch nearby. I feel cheated by the amount they charged me for shipping but I figure it would not have been such a loss if I ordered more than one little thing. Unfortu...

My darling nieces' Christmas gift is on its way! I think it's uncanny that it's easy and convenient for me to give my darlings gifts -- just because they're living in a country where online shopping and shipping is a breeze. It is fantastic and sad that my present circumstances allow me this, which otherwise, I believe, would not be so easy if they were here. But I wish they were here because I miss them, but it's unlikely that I'd be able to do what I want for them if they were.

Some work that I do call for complete silence for me to function. No music, door shut to keep the outside noises out. There's a foresight of boredom prior to starting them that, more often than not, has been proven wrong when I get into it. I could call it refreshing - discovering that you don't get bored with what you're doing like you anticipated you would be. Still, the brewing idea of boredom still come up - even though I know that I won't really be bored - making it tasking to begin. It's just a little cuckoo, I think.

Where's the "yum", Yumpanada? Your empanadas are closer to a sweet dessert than a savory snack. The crust is neither flaky nor crispy - it's sweet and greasy, and the shell reminds me of pandesal or tasty bread. Should I even call what you serve "empanada"? Yours are like compressed, fried siopao ! Sadly, they're not very good. Your small empanadas are just OK, I suppose. But I know to keep away from the big ones. This pictured Yumpanada empanada was from a kiosk at our plaza. I think I read a newspaper naming it one of the best, cheap snacks on-the-go and that there are kiosks of it everywhere. I seriously disagree with it being "one of the best" but it is certainly cheap!

Colloquial speech aside, I'd rather be eager than anxious. Sadly, tonight, I'm suffering the latter. I set myself up for something that, I assume, will come tomorrow. I want to sleep right away when I lie down and not think about this "something" that's out of my hands - until it comes, I think, tomorrow. But what if it doesn't come tomorrow? The thought of that is making me more anxious. My brilliant idea at the moment is to remember how "Kung Fu Panda" made me laugh yesterday or what I read earlier that was so funny! Alright, here it is, and I'll paraphrase: A woman was teaching her son how to cross the street. She held his hand, looked both ways, and asked, "OK, what is the first rule?" Her son replied, "We do not talk about fight club?"