Lumindol sa Senado!!!

Akala ko katapusan na ng institusyon na ito. Matagal din yung lindol, nagpanic slightly yung mga tao.

Eto yung weird: May budget deliberations sa Senate floor nung lumindol. Hindi natinag yung mga senador dun kanina sa lindol. Either mahal nila trabaho nila o manhid sila. Weh.

At least malapit kami sa fire escape. Nag-abang ako actually ng tsunami (meron kaming seaside view dito sa office). Buti nahiya sila sa akin, hindi nagpakita.

Back to work.

Dictionary.com's Word of the Day for November 22, 2007

deipnosophist \dyp-NOS-uh-fist\, noun:

Someone who is skilled in table talk.

At the age of six his future as a deipnosophist seemed certain. Guzzling filched apples he loved to prattle. Hogging the pie he invariably piped up and rattled on.
-- Ellis Sharp, "The Bloating of Nellcock"

Deipnosophist comes from the title of a work written by the Greek Athenaeus in about 228 AD, Deipnosophistai, in which a number of wise men sit at a dinner table and discuss a wide range of topics. It is derived from deipnon, "dinner" + sophistas, "a clever or wise man."

Retro Gaming

The gamer in me can't help it. I have to have new games. I'm currently thinking of buying a PSP, but most probably that would be a project for next year. For the meantime I'm thinking of putting a new game in my laptop. Nagsawa agad ako sa NFS Most Wanted, hindi ko na rin tinapos dahil hindi naman talaga ako racing gamer. I'm also contemplating in installing GTA San Andreas soon (I know I'm a late bloomer, but I was loyal to the original GTA3, but what the hey).

So for instant gratification, I downloaded emulators of old skool consoles. I went back to my first love: the Sega Genesis. Wonderful memories. I also went back to my favorite genre, an almost forgotten one these days: the beat-em-up.

My crop of games to download were obvious: Golden Axe III and the Streets of Rage series. I then followed with Shinobi and the Thunderforce series (side-scrolling shooters are a close second favorite), along with a few platformers.

First acheivement: after more than 12 years, I finally finished Golden Axe III

(A Sort of) Murder

Wala lang, share ko lang. Saw this in San Pablo City a few years ago:

Adjectives Rejected in Favor of "Kafkaesque"

From Mcsweenys.net

Adjectives Rejected in Favor of "Kafkaesque"
by Ryan Nyburg

• Kafkaish


• Kafkaey


• Kafkatle


• Kafkatronic


• Kafkalicious

Might be the reason why I feel the need for a drink

The Piscean handbook tells me I should be an alcoholic. But I am not, somehow regretfully. C'mon, I usually misspell alcohol with an 'h' after 'c'; just imagine the struggle I have just writing this post. I'm not even sure if I spelled 'misspell' right.

I have this two-bottle limit, all my friends know it. Never been stupid/dead drunk. Yes, it is uncool, and judging from the news article, very un-Filipino. I've never even puked out of drunkeness, though I've been puked on, once lovingly and another just because. Honestly, I'd rather see you people go "Cuppkeyk" all over the place, much more fun during and after the party.

From  Inquirer.net

Filipinos top tipplers in Southeast Asia--surveyAgence France-Presse
Last updated 03:06pm (Mla time) 11/05/2007

MANILA, Philippines -- Alcohol consumption in the Philippines is on the rise and affluent Filipinos out-drink their Southeast Asian counterparts, according to a new survey released Monday.

Market research firm Synovate polled wealthy respondents in 11 countries in the Asia-Pacific on their consumption of brandy, cognac, whisky, wine, champagne, and beer.

"We discovered that overall consumption levels of alcohol among affluent Filipinos have risen steadily in the country by four percent since last year," it said.

"Rising alcohol consumption levels would both indicate that more affluent Filipinos have higher levels of disposable income and more social time on their hands to indulge themselves over drinks," Synovate's Carole Sarthou said.

The firm said a higher percentage of affluent Filipinos consumed alcohol (37 percent) than in other countries such as Thailand (34 percent), Singapore (32 percent), Malaysia (28 percent) and Indonesia (eight percent). Locally brewed beer was the first choice of 30 percent of wealthy Filipinos.