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shakey's delivery. basket of belgian fries and solo spicy buffalo wings. what you see here is 1/3 of everything. just 1/3. oh yeah!!! of course, i shared. buffalo wings (the solo pack) has 6 pieces and dip. the basket of belgian fries... box was filled with it! has two containers of dip too. there was a lot of potato, very good! the person who took my call was confused. i was going to have the fries for the first time kasi so asked if it came with dip. Parang-ganito-ang-usap-di-word-for-word script: Me: Ung belgian fries, may kasama syang dip? Rep: Wala po. [ nag- hesitate ng konti ] Me: Ah, so ako nang bahala kung gusto kong i-ketchup o anuman ung fries? Rep: Yes. Me: Pero may lasa na sya? Rep: Yes. Me: Ah, OK. toinks! LOL If the fries were seasoned, i didn't taste it. It needed dip, and it came with dip. It wasn't like the mojos that could do without it. Shakey's basket of belgian fries + solo spicy buffalo wings + 1.5L Coke zero = 417 pesos.

... in sweet and sour sauce earlier. Pineapple and carrot bits. Y-U-M.

i've bookmarked downforeveryoneorjustme.com , this isn't a good sign. It's stressful. When someone pays for an online product, you expect that the provider's looking out for it. But when its server is down a week, you sweat. It's out of your hands, apart from emailing support - nada, zip, nothing you can do. Oh, you can pray they get it fixed on their side soon too; i can do that. Anything to keep checking it on 'downforeveryone...'

Been slow for mturk-ing. My preferred requesters haven't placed many hits up for the past 2 weeks - uncharacteristic compared to the previous months. Amazon's Mturk has been putting itself out there (they've got their own twitter, finally) and gathering more requesters. Still, there are many that are scammers - same story. [Sigh] Minefield. I have mentioned this before but, again, if you're doing mturk use the third-party forum, turker nation as a guide. As for my mturk rewards (gift certificate balance), it's down -- mostly used up last month when someone from the US said that they'll be coming to the PH for vacation. I went loco and shopped till my gc balance was single digit. I went for a few small things till I got my total purchases up (way over, actually) to get free shipping. Finally have the stuff on my wish-list. Nice.