RED

Today at work, which is to say, around a couple of hours past midnight, i had this customer who wnated to avail of a $50 instant saving promotion off a printer. Only that she had already purchased a printer a couple of days ago on a non-promotional price. And she wants to apply the current promotion to her printer purchase. Normally, we only give her freebies and stuff to make her shut her trap about it but something in me just find it hard to do that. Because this $50 off promotion is actually a collaboration of the company i work with and Mister Big BOss Gates to raise funds for the African casualties of AIDS. So if you buy a certain product with that certain promotion the buyer gets to donate a certain amount to this noble cause. So i my solution was to have the customer return the printer back to us and re-order the promotional printer. My point was that if i give her a throw-in at that point, none of the profit from that purchase will go to the AIDS victims. It's clear as crystal that you have to buy through that promotion to be able to help out. Unfortunately, the customer was insistent and wanted only the promotional discount.

So i consulted my manager about it and his solution was to give out the freebie instead of the cutsomer availing of the promotion, although a little inconvenient, but very noble. And i argued about it with my manager for about 10 minutes. His point was the customer will buy again, the company will still profit from it. My point was, it would defeat the purpose of giving out that promotion. I ended up calling him something like "profiteering" over and over again in IM. that was a bit immature, haha! but i know i have a point. and i know my point is good. If the promotion applies for all products, then the website need not provide pictures of specific products that the customers could buy to join the cause, right?

I just hate it when people use something for their own gain. And i hate people who tolerate this madness. I hate people who are only after the profits, and not the true goal of the cause.

While i was walking down to the laundrymat today thinking about that whole incident, i kind of thought of one thing... because i kind of wonder all the time why i'm here, why bad people are still alive, yknow? but i thought maybe we're here to let other people live. maybe that's the message that Jesus was conveying when he had himself crucified? so we may live. and that we should do the same thing. live so that others may live.

otherwise, oh, what the fuck are we here for?!?

Labels: aids, red

good morning chaii! :D

i downloaded Picasa yesterday. Version 2.0. So you can edit photos and stuff. So cool. And it also scans all the photos in your HDD so you get to see those long lost pics, hehe, like that one...up. I edited it in Picasa. I also uploaded it to blogger from there. Coolness, eh? Picasa is a Photog's best friend, indeed. hehe. yeah, yeah.. i'm too lazy to open PS. my pc ish sho slow kasshhee.. haha!


OH well, what's new? uhm, i went to Nayong Pilipino today. I took pictures and rode a bike. It's been eons since i rode one so it was pretty exciting. Quite expensive though, 50 pesos/hour man. The thing that struck me the most is that,, the place is a wreck. There were still people there who brought strollers with their baby in it, there were chink kids, or maybe Korean, there were lovers and old married couples. But it hasn't been maintained so well. It was my first time to go there today, even though it's only a walking-distance from where i live. And uh, after which i ate barbeque's and chatted with neighbors. It was also my first time to do that, hehe. Ever since we lived here, me and my roommate only goes home to sleep or watch DVD's.


I also downloaded Quentin Tarantino's DeathProof OST. and I love it!


Oh, I'm excited for this coming week. Xiuxiu and me are going to Zamba, beybeh! She's going ot compete at the churva SkimBoarding Competition! Whooweee! Good Luck gurl... and i'm gonna be her personal Photog! haha! can't wait!


and oh, oh! speaking of "can't wait's," I can't wait to grab a copy of Markus Highway's new album under a Major Record Label. no more Indie stuff, hehe... Behold Rejoice, Surfernando is Here Na! is the album title + Taken By Car's Hoottttt Pandessaaalllll!!!! kidding... Endings Of A New Kind. Guess who produced it man, Mong Alcaraz! the bad boy according to Raims. If you heard Narda's Discotillion, Mong was the culprit. he produced it. One of my favorite albums, which is now still being uber-played on my mp3player. If you see me everyday at work, you would know how attached I am with my mp3player. haha! back to the "can't wait's" Sandwich is also coming out with a new one and it's their tenth year as a band! Wow, way to go! S Marks The Spot is the album title according to Shen.

Anyway, Lloyd hasn't texted. fuck you lloyd. and i just want to take this off my chest... I HATE PRETENTIOUS BLOGGERS!!!!

Labels: bike, Death Proof OST, markus highway, mong alcaraz, nayong pilipino, sandwich, xiuxiu

fan-art,,, YEAH!

mIRC, ahoy!

me and my brother were chatting the other night. he bought this laptop and he got internet connection, so he's pretty much online as much as i am. and what he love the most is music and he learns downloading on-line through *cough* me. well, that' s because at the time that the internet got so popular he was on his "struggling stage" so he never got to learn it. so i taught him to download music through MULTIPLY because that's very convenient, right? unfortunately MULTIPLY had shut off this downloading option so he came up to me with this dilemna. hence, i told him to use mIRC instead, because for me it's the second most convenient way to download. although i kind of understand it could be a bit complicated for someone my "brother"... i'm not undermining him, it's just that he's best in doing a whole lot of other things except this. but anyway, i asked him to try mIRC, i thought he'd say "what's that?" but NO! he said "i got that." so i thought, "whow, you're not the novice that i think of after all." so i asked him to go to #mp3download... and uh he said he cant connect, i said try to find a different server, go to Options>Server... he couldn't find it. So i tried to do a screen shot of my desktop to guide him through it... Here it is:



he he he he... but i didn't get to send it to him. that was my last option. he got pissed before i could send him that. told him i'll go to his place and teach him that soon. next week.

The one with the babies....

just when me, Jeff and Dindi were planning on how to spread the news about a strong suspiscion that Michelle got storked, Badeth gave birth to a baby girl named Alyssa Rosalina. Michelle and Badeth don't know each other but i just want to connect the events in my life :p The former cleverly answered "Si Jennilyn lang ang buntis, hindi ako! kuya Boy [Abunda], hindi po totoong nagpalaglag ako kaya pumunta ako'ng Amerika!" and i just dived into hysterical laughter [exaggeration, of course]. Anyhoo, at the office i still hear my officemates from another team seated right on the next block from us say "friendship" or "friend" to each other like 10 GaZillion times and it never fails to fascinate me how they could come up with all this gay lingo as if the dictionary isn't thick enough for them. And oh, back to the new born! Alyssa.. well, we're going to visit her tomorrow and i'm going to bring my fancy camera, weee! i like baby pictures! I hope she will still be able to see the pictures i will take of her when she turns 18. And oh! Tina tina tina is going to give birth on April, so... lotsa' babies this year! Yoohooo!

3 rolls, washed out

i am mourning today. this is a tragedy. i received the 3 rolls i requested to be developed in digiprint and guess what? all photos were washed out. man that's 12x3=36 fuckin' shots! kill me now~! and by the looks of my economic status at this point in time i couldn't afford to waste rolls of films; and more importantly, they were shots of the important people in my life. they were mugshots, man! some of 'em i may not see agian for along time and none of them... none... made it... i am SO going to read the manual again.

ugh. i know what i did wrong. i think i exposed the fuckin' films.

I feel so DeathCab-ish today.

Jai was nice enough to watch the Death Cab for Cutie Night with me last night. Spazzkid played. Awesome. It's the second installment of DeathCab for Cutie Night, on the first installment Eggboy played. Held in Route 196. It so happened that me and jai were starving when we got there so we got to try their Foodar! and it's yum! yuM!

The place was jam-packed!


It was Stereolala's first gig, it was also my first time to see 'em...


SPAZZKID's set...


Twin Lobster, he's good...


The Dorques, woohoo!


Jai.. Kebs! parang nasa starbucks lang a! haha


meeeeee.... mooooo.....


unfortunately, my cam's battery died on me, so.. wasn't able to take photos after The Dorques' performance. deym!

When the show was done Jai couldn't brush off the idea of missing the chance to make a move on this girl who sat accross him. Me? I was satisfied with the music. Mikey of Ciudad sang I Will Follow You Into The Dark and although he warned us not to cry, I almost did.

p.s. if you want to see the entire set, check mi multiply amigo!

blissss...

i'm back! home at last! alone at last! i'll be thinkin' about work again. it's 2008! yey! i'll be a year older 4 months from now. i am still single. ha! ha! i was gonna' post something that i stupidly titled: A Soliloquy About Last Night, but uh, i unknowingly erased it from my mobile's outbox. bummer. Anyhoo, my vacation was a blast. met up with my friends in college last night and we had an assful of cam-whoring. we ate out, sang SPICEGIRLS' ole' happy sappy songs and ran in the rain.


this is my blisssss...



a conversation from last night:

Kristin: Bai. aha na diay si JK karon? (where is JK now?)
me: Naa na siya's bag-ong uyab bai... (he has a new girlfriend)
Kristin: Bai, dile mana akong akong pangutana... (that wasn't my question)
*laughs*

BOOOO!!! hahahahah

happy new year to each and everyone of us---losers, confused, dazed, crazy, undecided, low self-esteem, chaotic, unloved, unbending, those of us with corrupted youth, heart-broken, life-broken, mind-broken, whatever-broken... may your 2008 be the way you want it to be!