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Recently discovered "auto scroll" on my symbian's eReader app . Wonderful feature, I must say. Set its scroll speed up to 700+ since default was too slow. Ahh... night-time reading is pleasantly lazy now, in a good way.

I give up, Asianic [dot]com[dot]ph. I asked them to remove my online order from their database. I'm canceling it and there's no way to do it from my side. I can only take so many replies that the item I want is available at my nearest SM branch and that I can purchase it there... when I chose online payment (weepay) + delivery, in the first place. See what I mean? Yeah. Frustrating. Also, they mentioned that with weepay, only the item will be paid for. In my head I was like, "Weh?" When I asked how I could pay for the delivery fee, I received no reply. A reasonable answer would've been that they aren't able to process my order, period. Another reasonable reply would've been suggesting a solution on how I can pay for both the item and delivery. Either of those two would've been fine. I got neither. So, I won't be using Asianic [dot]com[dot]ph. That's it. For perspective, here are my previous posts while this was going on: Feb 19

clockwise: kfc-inspired coleslaw, grilled pork, banana and sweet potato slices fried with brown sugar why, i do believe i'm getting the hang of my camera phone. of all the un-retouched pictures i've put up, i like this one the most. i've decided that "night mode, shutter capture" works well indoors.

a quick update about my ongoing thing with this online store that i talked about last time : - i didn't receive a reply to the last question i sent thursday last week, and - it's been 3 business days (Feb 18th Fri, 21st Mon, 22nd Tue) and this online order is still pending/awaiting approval. that's the longest time that an online store hasn't communicated with their potential customer (a.k.a. me), as far as i can remember that is. at this point, i would suggest that they get someone that's dedicated exclusively to their online presence since obviously, no one's manning their website. i sent a "follow my order up please" message through their web form tonight and hopefully, that would speed things up. if they don't reply by tomorrow, that will be 4 business days of lull.

struggled all week with an online store. i'm still getting to know their process before diving in and they haven't really given the answers i'm looking for... to think that my questions are quite clear. waiting for a reply to a hanging question is never good, and i know i'll have to wait till the weekend's over to get it. so far, their replies were "weh???" for me. it was like they didn't really read my question in the first place, and then they weren't giving me straight answers. i'm not going to mention the store name until this is through. or unless they quit talking to me all together either by choosing to ignore me or by the unfortunate possibility of them forgetting about me over the weekend.

Brunch was pale adobo , itlog na maalat , and fried rice. I say it's "pale" adobo obviously. Too much vinegar, short on the soy sauce. This was cooked in a rush. The garlic was a little raw pa. My guess is that it was intended to be like this, no mistakes really. The pork belly was cut so thinly I'm almost sure this is how they wanted it - pale and all. Typically, I take my tea with powdered milk and sweetener. But tonight called for an earthy-taste-something so I did away with the rest of the stuff. Funny that someone turned up their nose when they got a whiff of this. I didn't mind though, I just held my breath whenever I took a sip.

nokia is leaving symbian for windows . feeling strangely affected by this. i wonder how they're taking the news down at nokia hq.

Had to stop when I got this figure. Wouldn't it be awesome if it came out 12345 6.78 ? I couldn't help but go, "Cool... almost." [grins]

i have worked out 3 ways to fall asleep so far: * read ebooks i'm at the 700th+ page of the return of sherlock holmes. it's nice and long, a compilation of several cases to be exact. short stories make for good nighttime reading. * play backgammon i can't believe an easy level AI beats me. well, it wins occasionally but still... my motive is pride, you see. people at odesys did a nice job with their backgammon. if only they could work on their chess game which is so comically, pitifully predictable. * listen to music this is confusing. i have a "sleep" playlist (mostly with nick drake's songs) but i've not fallen asleep to it yet. i always sing along with it. i don't doze off until the music has stopped. strange. but i do start to feel drowsy after it's finished which is good. like i said, strange how that works for me. now, i only do one at a time cuz a combo only stimulates my mind.

Took a nap this afternoon. We had proper "nap weather" then. It was gloomy and it rained for 10 minutes. I thought about how I'd like hot cocoa after my nap but it turned out to be an at-that-moment whim. I didn't want to make hot chocolate when I woke up. I think I slept 30 minutes. I closed my eyes, opened them and I was ready to get up. It was what "had a good nap" is supposed to be.

oh my jaw. brunch was 4 strips of bacon... more like bacon jerky! my gums are sore too. should've cut them into bite-size bits with kitchen scissors before i dug in. oh...

We have a nice building in our neighborhood. This is what its main entrance looks like from the inside. Lots of natural light during the day, must save tons on electric which is very good. It has a high ceiling and a stage on the other end. But I don't think it has a loo, I mean, restroom inside. Still, it is a good-looking space.

Temp's in the 20's°C -- high 20's°C but hey... it's COOL for us! So nice. Makes me think back when the weather was warm and muggy, how bad it was then and how comfy it is at this moment. And when it gets hot again, I am going to remember how I'm feeling now. Round and round the weather does go...

Went to a wedding reception earlier. 'Twas fun. Was glad to get out of the house. Had a lovely time. Eating my souvenir now - no that's wrong. Hold on, it's a parting gift. Yup. Yummy gift.

Years. It's been years since I've had greenwich's lasagna. They've since changed almost everything - packaging, recipes... This lasagna was herby and spicy. Much better than their last one. They still drown it with too much cheese sauce though. Greenwich, lighter hand on the cheese sauce please. Oh, the serving size didn't change. It's still thin on the sides and plump in the middle. You can actually see the center layers above the river of cheese sauce. But this tasted A LOT better. It's good. I'd buy it again. The garlic stick was also herby. It was also salty and chewy. Filling. I liked it. I can still taste the herbs right now. That slice of pie is their garden special. Apart from the bites with the olives and pineapple, the rest was bland. 1 lasagna supreme solo + 1 double garden fresh pizza (6 slices) = Php 311.00 = not bad

wants to go on an errand. but i can't! so frustrating. well i can but i'd have to make arrangements for it. wishing that when i need something from a store, i could just get up, go and get it. sigh. amazon [dot] com [dot] ph -- are you in the works? or people at amazon [dot] com haven't thought about you yet? or maybe they've thought about it but scrapped the idea? ho hum.

Hi. Store-bought sushi. This was Php69, I think. The first mouthful of sushi is always the best one - slight dip in the soy sauce and into the mouth... yum. It's that first and literally, sweet bite. That is until the 4th piece. After that, it's too much. After the 4th piece of sushi, nakaka-umay na .

pldt is using new dns servers, apparently. such a headache. problems came up but i'm happy to report that they're currently solved. two days ago, devices on our wlan quit getting internet access. they were connecting to the router fine but no internet. initially, i thought the problem was with the router -- that its wifi chip or something was fried because the pc on ethernet cable was working normally. i got so anxious that i thought i'd just buy a new router just so i could calm down. fortunately, i remembered noticing a week ago that pldt gave us a new ip address. the muss of being on dynamic ip, i know. see, i use analytics on a site & noticed that my log ins were reported with a different code. SO i stopped obsessing about the router & thought about this other circumstance of the problem -- the pc that was running OK is on OpenDNS[dot]com & the problematic devices (just so happened that they're wireless) were still on automatic and was using t

Got myself a shakey's pizzanatic card -- finally realized its value. Perk for delivery orders is a free large, thin crust pizza (either hawaiian or pepperoni) for large, fam or ny pizza (neither hawaiian nor cheese) + 1.5L cola purchase. What's tricky with this is that I like pineapple on my pizza (shakey's hawaiian). So, in our house, the free pizza is finished off first and the paid-for pizza is there for seconds. Wait, I said there's value with that pizzanatic membership - for me? Oh yes. See, one large or family hawaiian pie on its own is not enough. There should always be a spare so no one is left hungry for more grub, regardless if what was paid for was the spare. Let's see how long this Php407 per pizzanatic delivery order that has been getting us two large, thin crust pies and 1.5L coke zero, will last.

Hi me! Stop uploading to flickr. You have the free account. You can only see 200 of your most recent pictures. Flickr says not to worry and that the old photos are still there -- it's just that they want you to pay $25/year to see them!

Very, very sad. We were too late to save puppy Roo. The vet said she was already very sick when she came to us a few days ago, chances were slim then & there was nothing else we could do except make her as comfy as possible. She passed today. RIP Roo, I will miss you.