the entry about possession upkeeps

if necessity is the mother of all inventions, then aesthetic pragmatism is the paternal extremities of re-inventions. still apparently harboring an insatiable appetite after color-customizing my brand new iphone (see three entries down), i decided some work on my macbook air was definitely in place. voila! comments are welcome, good or bad.

intently continuing in the fashion (no pun intended) of making all things non-chiaroscuro -- life is after all a gamut of colors -- i gamely upped the stakes and put shades of different colors to my room. i raked the originally glass-paneled walls with a lime green wallpaper one on side and another with the alphabet soup adjacent to it, schlepped a couple procurements from ikea and decked my room with spices of red and blue, and finally nailed on some tastefully bought paintings. the original room looked like this, but after a couple of touch-ups here and there, here's the outcome:

my advice to folks looking for a decadent change in their bedroom outlook with a moderate budget would be to go consult ikea. the shelf-life of their bits and pieces look decent yet affordable enough to last you till the next hovel makeover, which should be pretty soon all over again.

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the entry about glorified servantry and inedible pomes

i'd be damned if i had to pay another prodigious amount for pittance of onion slices and some miserable carrot shavings sloshed in a suspicious, viscous korean sauce. it's my maid's b-day, so i decided to pack her ass and mine and have a little us time in a cosy korean barbeque restaurant up in dempsey hill. here's the rest of the spoils that we ordered on our plate to celebrate her coming-of-age.

if the saying "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree" is anything to go by, then my room must have been the tree, figuratively speaking that is. given my propensity for recklessness and adventure, in one fell swoop, i'd decidedly replaced most of my existing peripherals, useful ones and paraphernalia alike, with new apple logo-ed devices. my hovel is now dotted with the notoriously-illuminated bitten-pome logos in the form of a desktop, a laptop, a phone and a mp3 player.

now you see it... (my old imac g5)

 now you see the newer one (with the accompanying macbook air)

my new nano in electric blue

now that i've got all my gadgetry back in working order, i can return to blogging as per normal. oh apple, apple, how do i love thee? finally, the return of some normalcy, thanks to the chanel brand of tech products. got apple?

indulging in a little cam-whoring.

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the entry that started it all

under jeremy's egging, today i decided to do something about it. i had, after months of procrastination, conjured enough momentum to start my first blog.

while i had, of late, displayed complete nonchalance towards my work, my pioneering attempt at blogging, on the other hand, was quite the opposite. i had drafted several copies mentally, brewed a pot of fresh coffee to perk myself, and bookmarked a number of blogs for reference.

however, much to my own chagrin, my endeavors has been met with utter frustration. short from tearing my hair out, i spent 90% of the time glowering over the rim of my abuse-once-more-and-it's-gonna-break glasses trying to figure out all the techno babble.

unfortunately i had fallen behind times. it didn't occur to me that blogging turned out to be quite the puzzle that "the older generation would never comprehend". Did i belong to the bracket that checked "30-and-above" on survey forms? (i am not even 30 yet!) bah, i was about to spit at the monitor.

i decided to press on, though, and applied whatever remnants of html knowledge i still had on my new project. from time to time, i managed to see some glimmer of hope, and other times, i was just staring blankly at a screen that didn't reciprocate my tries.

after the arduous task deciphering the code for (god forbid) the umpteenth time, i was left with but one task: to choose the layout of my blog. the following are the winning (read: not-so-winning) entries:

nice, but all the entries are squashed under a single column.

this resembles a forum/obituary more than a blog.

i had problems toggling the column widths, i just gave up on this one.

finally, i settled with the current one. it would be what my friend, rex, might label "chic". now, is it?

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