Neat backronym?

I thought of it as I received another wedding invitation last Monday, the seventh invite I received in almost two years. Don’t get me wrong that I don’t like weddings, in fact I do appreciate being invited into such occasions, considering that of the few people that could be invited to attend I was chosen to be one. Add to that the fact that the couple have decided to make their union honorable. Another perk of course, is the free food!

Actually the problem is basically me, with my lack of fashion sense and my inherent allergies to anything related to dressing up and socializing. Weddings come as a yawn or a wearisome occasion to me when I need to dress up so that I wouldn’t feel out of place or at least be presentable out of respect for the hosts and the occasion. Many times I have been criticized for the way I look on such occasions – that I look sloppy or underdressed. So if I can go about not attending a wedding I do so. I guess some people can understand that not all people, even girls are born to know how to dress themselves up.

I heard that the upcoming wedding on February is a formal attire event so I thought of not attending it. But the couple personally went to the office to give the invitation and I have worked with the groom for two years on my previous company, it was too embarrassing to turn it down. I still have more than 2 weeks to kill so wish me the best so that I don’t get ire from the fashion police.

It has been a week that I got zero views on this blog. Quite depressing huh? Hehe. Anyway, I am happy to finally receive the prize I got when I joined rockerfem’s blog contest.

I like it very much. Thanks Sharlyne!
Hopefully on the next days I will have time to post about my Ilocos vacation. Keep posted!

Last Thursday the company distributed bags containing goodies. As we were going to attend a meeting after work, I left the bag in the office but Ate brought her bag home.

Inspect element feature – another reason to love Google Chrome.

The inspector is a nifty tool to inspect elements within a loaded page. What’s nice about it is if you click an element on the element tree, the corresponding element on the page is highlighted. I found it really useful in tracing wordpress codes for our project.

Google chrome inspect element feature

Here are some of my latest news finds about what’s going on that beautiful complex thing we call the World Wide Web. This post coincides with 40th anniversary of the Internet.

Past

Yahoo Geocities, the first popular personal Web-hosting site of the decade has closed.

Geocities closed

Gone are the days we hosted some of our group’s websites here and raved about them.

Present

Google Wave hopes to replace e-mail as the main way people communicate online.

Google Wave is a web-based service, computing platform, and communications protocol designed to merge e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking. It seems Google doesn’t run out of ideas ey?

Future

Multilingual addresses in the internet.

How about かわいい.コム for a domain name?

I spent my first two years in college at Nanang Maring and Ate Baby’s house in Marikina. Although away from our parents, Nanang and Ate Baby took care of us and made us feel that we are part of their family. Since Nanang was a pioneer back then, she always asks me to accompany her on days that I don’t have classes.

I think everyone in Metro Manila and nearby affected areas has their own story to tell of their plight at the onslaught of rains and flood last Saturday. My heart goes out to those who had lost their homes, possessions and most of all, loved ones. The flood we witnessed that day is so far the worst I had seen. We have been flooded before but the casualties were not this much.

I know it is exactly a month already since we left for Seoul. But the procrastinator me have only set aside the time today to write down so forgive me.

Us at NAIA2 boarding area with Ate Shelah

Anyways, a month ago at this time we were already at the boarding area at NAIA 2 Centennial terminal.

I was barely five months old when Ninoy Aquino died and was three years old when Cory led the Edsa Revolution and became our first woman president. Thus, I have only a few recollections of Cory days – the frequent brown-outs, the coup d’ etats (which was a favorite word on spelling bees back then), Gringo Honasan, Bayan Ko, color yellow and the L sign (which my officemate have to remind me to be the Laban sign). Despite that, I was saddened to hear the news that she died of her terminal illness.

Being a 1983 baby explains why I do not know much about the so-called ‘Cory magic’. Most of what I know about her came from history books and magazines. Coming from the Solid North provinces, most people in our place would tell you that Marcos is a far better leader than her. Most of the Marcos projects in our provinces have been halted and have been deprived funding when she came into power. However, the outpour of support and condolences for the bereaved family proved to me that even though she was not an excellent leader, she has a good heart for which she is respected and loved by Filipinos and the international community as well. Although she may not have delivered all what she had envisioned for the country, I think she was given these overwhelming ‘pakikiramay’ because of her integrity and determination. Her life proves this proverb from Ecclesiastes 7:1 true:

‘A name is better than good oil, and the day of death than the day of one’s being born.’

She has indeed left a good name for herself and her family, which makes her deserving of the admiration and sympathies of the people.

I was barely five months old when Ninoy Aquino died and was three years old when Cory led the Edsa Revolution and became our first woman president. Thus, I have only a few recollections of Cory days – the frequent brown-outs, the coup d’ etats (which was a favorite word on spelling bees back then), Gringo Honasan, Bayan Ko, Magkaisa,  color yellow and the L sign (which my officemate reminded me to be the Laban sign). Despite that, I was saddened to hear the news that the former president died due to her terminal illness.