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last friday a friend of mine asked me if i blog. in the typical jason reply, i deflected the question back. his answer was he is getting around 40 hits per, but sounded unsatisfied when he said that another officemate gets around 90. mercifully, he didn’t ask again for mine.

during the time when i was blogging heavily (relatively), i was not really concerned on how many people get to read my posts, rather, for my reason for starting one were rather personal (as part of my gift to kyashi). and it being therapeutic and an answer to boredom contributed too. it might sound like i am writing for an audience (although i’m not sure, i’ve yet to re-read my posts), but i can say it’s more of due to writing style (or lack of creativity or talent to write better). nevertheless, i wouldn’t mind if somebody do get to stumble upon this corner, but still no one would find me advertising it away. :p

i’ve nothing against people who count the hits on their blogs. in fact, i admire them in that a lot of people reading their posts can only mean they have a lot of sense and ideas to share and that people enjoy what they are sharing. i’m taking note of this so that in the future, when i begin to look back and reread my blog and begin asking myself how come i didn’t share it with people, i will be reminded of why i originally decided to do this.

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finally found the time to blog again! after months of promising myself to write, my schedule finally gave me a chance!
hopefully this can continue for a while.

wohoo! i finally have a pic on the internet that is not uploaded by anyone i know! hehe i took a screenshot, before it gets lost into oblivion…

the picture was taken on our last outing before i go home to the philippines for good. special thanks to momo-chan for planning and reserving and doing everything to make this happen.

i don’t know why i’m smiling there, after the countless times of falling down the practice ski slope, while everyone from the group had completely traversed the course at least once. some even had the courage to try the actual 2 kilometer course, but my knowledge of my ability overcame whatever courage pride can come up with, and i stuck with the easy (?) slope the rest of the day.

it was an enjoyable experience nonetheless (maybe that’s why i was smiling in the pic!). i might have been the worst skiier here, but at least there’s still basketball to look forward to this thursday!

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for the actual picture, visit the ski resort’s site here. for the personally-taken pictures, check our multiply site, although i haven’t uploaded them yet.

toffee and jay returned from their business trip to singapore a few days ago. it got me thinking of the countries i had the fortune to visit. unfortunately though, these weren’t business trips (except for the last one), so my parents (and our relatives) had to pay for most of these triplets’ costs (triplets, little (short) trips, like piglets, got it? wahaha i’m so funny).

alas, my poor memory does not allow me to remember most of what happened to these vacation trips! to everyone who’s been wondering why i didn’t pursue medicine, now you know why!

1990 (april, may) – US (new york, new jersey, philadelphia, orlando, virginia, california, nevada)
  – Canada (ontario)
circa 1996-2003 – Hongkong (< 5 days)
  – Singapore (< 5 days)
  – Malaysia (1 day)
2003 (may) – Thailand (bangkok)
2005-2007 – Japan (inuyama, kyoto, osaka, tokyo, nagano)

hope i can add to this list sometime soon!

noticing the new hairstyle i have been sporting the last few weeks, a japanese officemate of mine asked me if i knew of a certain horikita maki. i replied no, and from the few nihongo words i could pick up i learned that i am being compared to a celebrity. i forgot about it until i heard momo-chan (another japanese friend) told me that okumura-san (the officemate above) also told her that with my hairstyle, i do look like the somewhat famous star, so i got interested enough to browse the internet for photos and judge for myself.

my search results were nothing i expected! but i can say firmly, we do not look alike at all!!!

and no, this is not kyashi speaking.

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see horikita maki in wikipedia.

i was doing an operation manual documentation for the product we’ve developed when i found the need to check on the ISO 8601 date and time standardization of week numbers. one thing led to another and i found myself reading about doomsdays.

did you know that the dates 4/4, 6/6, 8/8, 10/10, 12/12 and the last day of february all fall under the same day?

cool!

who said you don’t learn something new at work?