Weblog Wannabe

Am I really stranger than usual? ♥

Manila Express. It sounds like either a Filipino newspaper or an express train, but it's actually EditThisPage's Blog This! kind of thing. It's probably been around for ages but I didn't find out about it until today when I found the URL in my referrer log even though there was no link to my site there. Weird. ♥

It was a really simple dream. I'm back to campus and I get to do things that I used to do back then. Things that make me happy. Walking and having picnics in the woods with my friends, singing some stupid songs out loud, laughing together, telling stories, telling ghost stories, telling jokes, worrying about the future together, telling secrets, passing notes during class and having to pretend to have a nasty cough to hide the laughter, reading my best friend's diary (he actually let me do that -- who needs online diaries when you can read the real thing), being in tug-of-war competitions, playing table tennis, playing tic-tac-toe, watching basketball games at the university gym, cheering on my friends who are playing, listening to the sound of the rain falling on the tree leaves in the woods, smelling the sweet smell of damp earth after rain... I got to do all those things last night in my dream. It was such a beautiful dream.

My university campus was built in the middle of the woods. In the middle of the campus site, there was a lake that some overjoyed graduates would jump in to on graduation day. It was a really lovely place. I miss it greatly. If I could turn back the time, I'd love to go back to my college years when I was still such a carefree girl with nothing to worry about. ♥

I really should stop grinning. My mother already gave me a suspicious look. She must think I'm on drugs. But I really feel like grinning this morning. Partly because of the voicemails and partly because of the dream I had last night. I'll tell you about the dream later. It's breakfast time now. Chicken rice porridge, here I come! ♥

Nikolai and Lasara made my morning with their voicemails. I'm still grinning :) ♥

SciFaiku is haiku with science-fiction theme. I hate sci-fi but I love haiku so the site is still cool in my book. ♥

The American Spy Cow. I wonder what the cow is supposed to be spying on. Chicken mating? Now that's kinky. I asked my little brother once (OK, he's 24 but he'll always be my little brother) about how chicken, you know, have sex, because I really didn't know, and he looked at me like I was the biggest dork in the world. But he let me know about it anyway and from his explanation I could see why chicken would never make it to XXX-rated video industry. ♥

TimmyBigHands reviewed what no one has ever reviewed before: buttocks. No less. ♥

Today is payday! Yay! But since I'm still on leave, I won't get my money until Monday. But that's OK. The bills haven't come yet so the money can wait. I miss the days when my parents still paid all the bills. Now I spend 75% of my salary just to pay the bills. And I only make like 300 bucks a month! If your parents still pay your bills, you're indeed the luckiest person in the world. ♥

Wednesday Morning Haiku

Crickets are singing
The sun is not showing yet
An early morning

The sound of the crickets at night is very comforting. I can't imagine a completely silent night. It must be really scary. It's not 4.30 AM yet right now. It's still dark out there and it's a bit cold because it was raining last night. And I'm too lazy to turn off my box fan. And guess what? I have a runny nose. I guess it's a bit more than you ever want to know *grins* ♥

Learn how to be a superhero. Be invincible. Or something. ♥

Who is Hello Kitty? Just don't expect to find the answer here. ♥

Sesame Street Song Files. Would you sing me one of these songs in a voicemail (1-800-222-6000 mailbox # 800630000), please pretty please? I love Sesame Street. But then again, who doesn't? ;) ♥

Catch Phrase Generator. "Smell the nice lavender gorillas". Go figure. ♥

Nik told me that I left a digit the last time I posted my voicemail number so here's the correct number: 1-800-222-6000 mailbox # 800630000. Call me and say "Quack!" Don't forget to mention your name! ♥

Call me a lamer, but I think reading my weblog is very addictive :) Hey, who else is going to give my weblog kudos if not myself? It's not like you're going to email me some kudos or anything. ♥

I would love to help him, Justin, but you see, I'm just as desperate for ducks as he is, though I try not to look it... ♥

Ok, so I am loved and respected and all that jazz in Bloggerville, but where are my emails, Gagne?!? I want my emails!!! *stomps her feet to the ground with rage* ♥

Watch out for another redesign of Weblog Wannabe! It's going to be red, baby! I'm bored, OK? Redesigning sounds like a way cool idea.

Oh Myrna, if you read this, the email with the batch numbers is coming up in, like, a few hours. I'm still procrastinating as always. Have fun at work, dear! ;) ♥

I've found that "Buachaill An Eirne" means "The Boy from Erne", whereas Erne is the name of a valley in Ireland. You can save your wife the trouble, Daz :) ♥

Tuesday Morning Haiku

Life can be a bully
It shows you things that you want
But could never have

I think only Lasara can understand what I'm talking about in the haiku. Thanks for your voicemails, girl! :) ♥

I bought Clannad : Greatest Hits today. It's excellent. If you love New Age/Celtic music, you'll love this album. My favourite track is track #2, Buachaill An Eirne. No idea what it means but I love it. It's an Irish traditional song, I think. ♥

If you're an indie movie fan, you might want to check this out. [Sorry, Chris, I always forgot to blog it!] ♥

Top 10 Reasons I Care So Much About My Weblog Being On The Weblog HotList and Beebo Ratings:

1. It makes me feel less invisible.
2. It gives me a reason to keep blogging.
3. It makes me feel less insecure.
4. It gives me a sense of accomplishment because it used to be my ultimate goal to get listed there when I just started blogging.
5. It gives me something to dream about, i.e. reaching the top, which is impossible, but still it's nice dreaming.
6. It gives me something to check every 15 minutes.
7. It makes me look cool even though I'm actually not.
8. I love and enjoy the competition.
9. It gives me something to blog about when I'm running out of good links even though it's actually really lame.
10. It gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling.

Why did I make this list? See Reason #9. ♥

Skippy, Barbie and the Sheep. I don't know. I really don't know. You just have to see it for yourself. ♥

Banshee's Love/Lust/Loser Note Creator. For when you care enough to send the very worst. ♥

Table of Condiments That Periodically Go Bad. I wish chemistry had been this fun back in high school *grins* I hated chemistry with a vengeance. My favourite subjects in high school were English and German. Ich heisse Firda. Ich wohne in Indonesia. Ich habe kurze haare. Ich liebe dich. Uh, nevermind. My German is really rusty now *sighs* ♥

Is it just me or is Yahoo! really looking slicker than before? ♥

Monday Morning Haiku

It's the first day
Of a whole week off from work
Miss work already

Even if I didn't take a week of from work, today would still be a holiday since I get both American and Indonesian holidays from work. That's the joy of doing a foreign service :)

All weekend I either slept or surfed or chatted with Nikolai. That was fun and the days did go by so quickly. And yes, even a nap can be fun when you're sick. At least you don't feel sick when you're sleeping.

I was going to complain that none of you ever called my voicemail number anymore but Nik already left a great voicemail message last night, so you don't have to, unless you want to.

If you ever feel so inclined to call, my toll free number is 1-800-222-600 mailbox # 800630000. You can just call and mention your weblog name and address if you want. Bonus point if you'd make up a jingle for your weblog and sing it to me. Just an idea :) ♥

Does anyone know what happened to Bud Uglly Design, formerly located at www.wwwvoice.com? Please email me if you have any information about it. I kind of miss their goofy website. ♥

I kind of miss reading Ember. I'd always thought that it was more interesting and less whiny than So There. Too bad it's still on hiatus. You can still check out the archives, though. But I've read all the stories in the archives for about a gazillion times already. I want new stories! :( ♥

Over the week, I managed to correctly guess the online crushes of three webloggers and they were all very easy ones to guess. It was so obvious that I didn't even need to think. Honestly, guys, you all need to learn to be a bit more subtle! ;) ♥

The Official Rock Paper Scissors Strategy Guide. You'll never know when you're going to need this! ♥

Oh by the way, Nikolai is going to do the Haiku the Blog redesign. Yay! :) ♥

There's something needs to be settled between me and Les and I need your help. Please go to Les' blog, check out the picture of the Chocolatey Shatner guy on the left and pay a bit more attention to his chest. Now tell me, do you think those things pointing out of his chest nipples or just some strappy-type thingy? I personally think they're nipples but Les doesn't seem to think so. ♥

Do you want to be famous? Check out Kriggity's 5 Step Plan to Fame. Very realistic! ;) ♥

There's a great diary entry at Troy's. It's about the four letter word. Love, that is, not the other four letter word that begins with an *f*! ♥

The Crazy Person's Guide To Everyday Sanity. It could've been written by me. ♥

Russ thinks I'm bitter. I think he's an android. ♥

Why can't the power-that-be at Weblogs.com make their default page look more like this? ♥

Sunday Morning Haiku

Gosh, seven more days
Of pure boredom and slacking
Will it ever end?

I don't know what I was thinking when I decided to take a week off from work. Being home all day never fails to make me feel depressed. Yet I'm taking *a week* off! Very smart move, Firda *grumbles*

Speaking of haikus, what Pat Tomek said about most haikus described my haikus the best. They are "17 syllables that lie on the page like roadkill." I couldn't have put it better :) ♥

The Silicon Valley Tarot. Here's my card reading: "A picture of a double mocha latte will not wake you up in the morning. But a picture of Bill Gates naked sure will." Blech! ♥

Adobe Create a Graphic is one nifty online graphic editor! How come no one ever told me about it? ♥

Remember my GLOAT! idea? You know, the weblogging e-zine? I'm going to try to make it work again. I'm still trying to come up with an easy-to-maintain format. If you're interested in being a contributor or have an idea for the zine format, feel free to contact me. ♥

I have so many things to do with my website(s) that I don't know where to start. I have to redesign Haiku the Blog myself since I haven't heard again from the few people who were interested in doing it, create personal and writing sections here at WannabeGirl.org, finish the duck gallery project, and design Weblog Wannabe t-shirt. So much to do, so much time, so much laziness... ♥

Famous Left-Handers. Did you know that Bart Simpson is left-handed? And that Jack the Ripper is too? And so is Kermit the Frog? ♥

Have you been getting more junkmails than usual lately? I have, and so has David. It makes me think that some spammers might be spidering Blogger-powered sites for email addresses to spam. Sigh. Time to update my email filter. If only it wasn't such a fuss... ♥

Saturday Morning Haiku

It's weekend again
I'm tempted to get cranky
But I try not to

Weekends always put me in a bad mood but I'll try to be a good girl this weekend and try to keep in a moderate mood. Not necessarily good. Just moderate. I think I'll do some projects to add to my site. I can't think of anything yet but I have a whole weekend and a week to come up with something cool. Or cool according to me anyway.

I think I'm rambling. ♥

Before I go to bed, here's my last words for today: "It's definitely, silly. Not definately!" ♥

Two things seem to remind other webloggers of me: haiku and, of course, rubberducky. Not that I mind :) ♥

Digital Destiny Machine will tell you, well, your destiny. According to the machine, I'm destined to get a haircut before the end of the month. I do need a haircut. Gee, maybe this machine really works after all! ♥

The Official Random Chicken. I blog this because of its uselessness value. Uselessness value! Heh. Sometimes I crack myself up. ♥

Virtual Beer Server. I know someone who might find it useful. Refresh the page for some other random beer brand. ♥

eDork Random Poetry is more weird than dorkish. I like the design, though. Simple and clean. ♥

cubeKandy has a good collection of fun links but the most interesting part IMHO is the Stripper Name Generator (scroll down the page a little). My stripper name is Kitty Cockrin. Heh! ♥

Nameboy will help you in your quest for domain names. Too bad I didn't know this site existed when I was looking for a domain name. Superwannabe.org sounds like a really great domain name. ♥

Shucks! Tarsh has a rubberducky and I don't. It's not fair! :( ♥

As much as I enjoy reading LanceLog2000, the word "modren" on the title graphic still bothers me. A lot. ♥

There's been yet another riot here in Jakarta, starting yesterday evening. I hope I'll be able to make it home in one piece today. ♥

The duck project hasn't been cancelled, Mads. It's only on delay. If my laziness doesn't get the better of me, I'll have it up and running sometime next week. Watch this spot for the grand announcement! :) ♥

Brian, check your email! I'm not ignoring you! ICQ is messing up again! Argh! ♥

Katy makes me feel like a real digital girl and, alas, it feels good! :) ♥

Yay! I've got a new voicemail number from eVoice! My new number is 800-222-600 Ext. 800630000. I know it's really long but it's better than nothing. Call me, please? If you want (and you know the song), you can sing me "I Wanna Be Free" ;) It'll brighten up my day! ♥

Friday Morning Haiku

I woke up smiling
I spent the morning humming
Some silly, old song

I'm in a good mood today. Must be because I went to bed smiling after having a really stupid ICQ conversation with David. It's so stupid that I don't have the heart to blog it. But if you're really curious, it has something to do with the alphabet *grins* Yes, just like "Sesame Street". Heh.

I was humming to this song as I was getting ready to go to work, "I Wanna Be Free" by the Monkees. I used to sing it all the time with my mum when I was younger. I don't know what brought it up but I found myself humming to that song this morning. Maybe it's because of the "wannabe" bit. It fits the theme of my website *grins* Yeah, I know, I'm a geek. ♥

Just in case I die before I wake, here's my last words: "It's weird, silly. Not wierd!" ♥

Dammit, I can't breathe! Just how 2000-ish is that? I can't breathe and I'm blogging it! Got to see the doctor tomorrow. If I'm still breathing, that is. If not, hasta la vista, baby! ♥

Do you want to be Elvis? You can sign up for classes at EPICS: The Elvis Presley Impersonater [sic!] Correspondence School. They might be able to teach you how to be a good Elvis Presley impersonator but they definitely need you to teach them how to spell. ♥

Visit the homepage of The Lobbyist Organization for Orbital Nullification, otherwise known as LOON, which is led by some loony that goes by the name of Prof. Fellatio Alger. It can't get any loonier than this. ♥

I don't think you can find any of these things auctioned at eBay. ♥

Using Your Triple-Nipple for Social and Career Advancement. A must read for people, either with or without a third nipple. If you don't have it, you'd probably want one after reading this. ♥

GBM Testing Zone. GBM is short for Gingerbread Men. They don't look like men to me. They have no penis! Gasp! Did I just say the P word?? ♥

I blog Russ because I can. And because he never sleeps. So there :) ♥

I just want to be me. ♥

Two things that I miss the most about #BlogIRC: poking Neale's eyes and Dan's "Connect the Dots" game show. Any other thing? Nah! ♥

David's Favourite Captain Haddock Curses. If you read Tintin, you'd know how much Captain Haddock swears and curses and how original they are. Here's a compilation of some of those curses. ♥

I get this error message everytime I try to connect to ICQ server:

Rate limit exceeded.
Please try to reconnect in a few minutes

Can anyone tell me what it means? ♥

The network administrator from work sent me this e-card. Isn't he sweet? ;) IFOS is the name of *the* database that I *hate* with a vengeance but which I have to deal with on a daily basis. The card really made my morning :) ♥

"I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and dammit, people like me." ♥

Thursday Morning Haiku

Back to work again
It feels strangely nicer than home
But still it's not home

My trainers made me promise to see the doctor soon. They remembered that I had a weird blood composition and that there was something wrong with it but even the doctors couldn't tell what it was and I was just too ignorant to have it checked further. ♥

There are two kinds of bosses: Toxic and Non-Toxic. Unfortunately, mine is a toxic kind. So toxic that he can make you physically ill. ♥

Take the Crush Quiz and find out what your crush think of you. Doesn't work on online crushes, though. Speaking of online crushes, I correctly guessed a weblogger's online crush today so I'm really happy *grins* Do you have an online crush that you'd like me to guess? Just send me your weblog URL and I'll give you my best shot ;) I get a kick out of guessing other people's crushes. I'm actually good at it. It's a skill I acquired during my crappy high school years. ♥

Tell Them Now provides an easy way for you to contact your favourite celebrities. Well, not as easy as emailing them using your own email client but still it looks kind of easy. I didn't bother sending one myself. I'm not really a celebrity junkie. ♥

How to Lay Girls Guide. Just try this and let me know if it works. I'd try it out myself if I were a heterosexual male. But then again, if I were male, I'd probably be gay. ♥

Yay, I'm back on the Beebo chart again! It almost makes me believe that I'm popular. Heh! ♥

Wednesday Morning Haiku

If you held my hand
You'd feel it's burning hot
The fever is back

And I'm on a sick leave today. Yay me! And guess what I'm going to do? I'm going to mail all the long-overdue postcards to the lucky 11 webloggers. I haven't written anything on it, though. Should I just say hi or should I write you a haiku on it? I really can't decide. Oh well, just wait until you receive yours and see what I came up with :) ♥

Still about the background colour: Jason thinks it's Indigo. Russ thinks it's Bluey Indigo. And I think I heard Nikolai saying something about it being Periwinkle yesterday. I really should change my tagline into "the weblog with an undecided colour". [Nik, I believe this is the 27th time I link to your site *grins*] ♥

Anyone interested in doing a redesign on Haiku the Blog? Let me know. ♥

The final standing of the colour fight is 10 for blue and 2 for purple. It's final because I think what Jeffrey Zeldman told me is true, that it depends on the monitor settings and operating system. You just got to believe the web guru :) But I'm glad that blue wins. I simply hate purple. In Indonesia, purple is called "the colour of widows". Just don't ask me why! ♥

A Woman�s Guide on How to Pee Standing, and not necessarily in the shower, though it is a good place to begin. ♥

Practical Manslaughter: a hobbyists guide. No kidding! ♥

The Amazing Blenderphone is a combination of blender and telephone. Why? Just read their FAQ. ♥

You've probably heard of the Washington Post, but have you ever heard of the Washington Pissed? ♥

Toilet Training: An Online Guide to Urinal Etiquette. Need I say more? ♥

The current colour score is 7 for blue and 2 for purple. Go, blue, go! ♥

From ICQ:

Wannabe: i don't really care about my work computer as much as i care about my home computer, though. my home computer is my best friend even though it betrays me all the time :)

Dr. Strangelove: it betrays you? does it keep secrets from you and make fun of you, too? sounds like a mean computer.

Wannabe: it does keep secrets from me. for instance, it won't tell me why it keeps on giving me driver error message.

Dr. Strangelove: you shouldn't take that from your computer. you should show it who's boss!

Wannabe: i can't afford to be mean to it. what if it decided to leave me? it would be too hard to bear!

Dr. Strangelove: someday you would find a new computer .. a better computer ... that would treat you right, like a computer *should* treat a woman.

You just gotta love Harlan :) ♥

Thanks, Jordan, but it's blue, really. Not purple. Or is it? Do you think it's blue or purple? [Blue] or [Purple] ♥

The Ned Flanders Realm. I just have to blog this. It has all sorts of really cool downloadable stuff, all related to the Simpsons, including the font I use in the title graphic. The font is called "Groening", after the creator of the Simpsons, Matt Groening. ♥

Yay, Harlan is back! :) ♥

Josef K. - the new design is not so bright and cheery because I didn't feel too cheery when I made it, being sick and all. I kept the duck because I knew that some of you love the duck a lot more than you love me.

Joe - I'm glad you like the new design! Thanks for the Netscape screenshot. It's nice to know that it looks pretty much the same, thanks to Nikolai who did most of the coding (because I suck very much).

Matt - Thanks for the kind words! I'm sorry that your site is down. I hope it will go up again very soon. I miss reading it already. ♥

Did you get some javascript errors when this page was loading? I didn't get any when I loaded the page using IE5 at home but at work I use IE4 and there were some javascript errors :( Either way, please let me know. ♥

Tuesday Morning Haiku

Why oh why oh why
Oh why oh why oh why oh
Why oh why oh why

There are so many whys inside my head right now. I really shouldn't have minored in Philosophy back in college. Why I minored in Philosophy? I dunno. Why I missed college? I dunno either. No, that's not true. I think I know why I missed college. I felt belong there and once I graduated I felt lost because I have no place where I belong anymore.

I'm still sick today but I decided not to call in sick. My workmates were like "What are you doing here? Why are you coming?" Well, I'm here already. I might call in sick tomorrow. I just need to finish a few things. I don't like having unfinished business. ♥

Well, as you can see, the new design is up and running, finally. Big thanks goes to Bryan and Nikolai for their help and support, and especially for telling me that I don't suck :)

This design looks okayish in IE5 but I don't know how it looks in Netscape. If you're a Netscape user, I'd love to get a screenshot so I could see how this page looks from your point of view. I would really appreciate your help.

And now it's time for you to tell me how lovely my new design is, even if you actually hate it. Humour me, please! ♥

Congratulations to Justin Delabar for being the only person to email me today! You just won yourself a haiku, Justin!

Justin Delabar
He blogs at the Delablog
He blogs for the world! ♥

How to Write a Love Letter. Better do it right, folks! ♥

Tired of the same old insults? Get some original ones from the Random Insult Generator. ♥

Download some Science Songs from the late '50s/early '60's. They're available in MP3 format. ♥

Identifying Scars and Marks. His own scars and marks, that is. And boy, has he got plenty of them! ♥

Diary of a Mad Date. Old stuff. Pretty funny read, though. ♥

NetDonut. Eat a yummy donut. For free. It's not really filling, though. Hey, one just can't have it all! ♥

This morning I only got headaches and a feeling of queasiness. Now I have those plus a bit of a fever. Yay me! I'm so good at choosing time to get sick. Only a week before I have my week off, I get sick. Isn't it great? Anyway, my mum's going to pick me up from work today, which is great. Just thinking about it makes me feel better. I love my mum. I love you, Mum! ♥

I'm always mistaking this guy for this guy and vice versa even though the first guy is called Joe and the other is Jon. Weird, huh? ♥

Movies For Busy People. It's spoilers, baby! Don't you just lurve spoilers? ;) ♥

I'm feeling really sick. I shouldn't have come to work today... ♥

I've got 31 readers now. Thanks! :) ♥

I hate being derivative but I can't not take this test as I'm still looking for my place in this world. Would you believe that the most perfect place for me to live in according to that test is San Francisco, CA? Pyra, here I come! Heh! Not that I want to work for Pyra or anything. ♥

We Love Bryan BLOG. I thought this blog was for *this* Bryan ;) ♥

Damn, he knows all about this. Bummer. Thanks so much, David! *grumbles* ♥

Oh, about the redesign, I was too drugged to finish it last night. Hopefully tonight I won't feel too sleepy and will be able to finish it once and for all because I'm not going to take the goddamned cough medicine anymore. I just hate drugs, whether prescribed or non-prescribed. I don't know how some people could get addicted to taking drugs. Yuck! ♥

Monday Morning Haiku

It's Monday morning
Work starts all over again
Can't wait for next week

One week to go and I'll be enjoying my week off. Yay! Today the boss is back from his R&R, which means I'll get to do plenty of things that's more computer-related than library-related, and I love it, so it's going to be fun, fun, fun! Well, not really, but I'm trying to be optimistic here.

Anyway, I hope my Mondayitis won't be so bad today. The only cure for Mondayitis is getting a lot of emails so why don't you email me? Please pretty please? I'll write you a haiku if you did. Please? ♥

I fell asleep just then and I actually dreamed of getting a lot of emails. In reality, I got none. But that was a lovely dream nonetheless. It's the reality that's a nightmare. ♥

Did you know that you can do a (vanity) search on both Blogger.com and Weblogs.com in one go using UberSearch? No? Well, now you know. ♥

There'll only be a few updates today because I'm in the middle of finishing up my redesign. I've got A LOT of help from my wonderful web design consultant, Nikolai :) Hopefully the new design will be up and running in a few hours. But don't hold your breath because I'm heavily drugged right now, thanks to the cough medicine, and I don't know how many hours I have left before I fall asleep. My feeling is I only have about one hour left and I don't think it'll be enough to finish the design so... But it'll be ready sooner or later. Make it later than sooner. Heh! God, I'm so sleepy... *yawn* ♥

Here's a little piece of advice: if you ever feel like bitching about other bloggers, and you want to do that just for the sake of bitching and not for getting some extra hits to your weblog, never mention names or link to the subject(s) of your bitchiness. I think it's just wise. Sure some people are clueless but, hey, at least you've got it all out of your chest, right? It will save you a lot of trouble and, most importantly, you won't sound nice, because, to quote Adam, nice is boring. And sometimes one just can't afford to be nice. ♥

LanceLog2000 gave me an idea to create a weblog called "FirdaLog2000: Observations On Living in the Third World". I really love the background image of LanceBlog2000. Would anyone be kind enough to create a similar background image for me, only with ducks instead of flowers? If you would, I promise I would love you forever. ♥

It's almost 6 AM but you can still see the moon up in the grey sky. The moon's been my only company all night. I actually talked to it. I told my problems to the moon. The moon is cool. The moon never talks back. The moon won't call you stupid. The moon is dumb.

Oh, by the way, the time at the end of each entry is an hour too early. Somehow the Blogger power that be doesn't realise that we don't have and don't need the Daylight Saving.

Bangkok Standard Time rules!!! And no, I don't live in Bangkok. Duh. ♥

Sunday Morning Haiku

I'm feeling like hell
The damned 'flu is killing me
Will it ever end?

It's kind of a sad, sad morning. I got no email at all, no one on my ICQ contact list would say hi back to me. It makes me feel invisible. It's not a very nice feeling, I can tell you. Sighs. Oh well, that's the story of my life anyway. ♥

Saturday is "Blog Weblog Wannabe Day" *hint, hint!* ♥

Guys, do you think your name is too wimpy? Get a tough-sounding name from the Instant Tough Name Generator! ♥

US Name Generator. My US name is Michele White. Heh! There's no way I'm going to trade my lovely, unusual name for such an ordinary name. ♥

Haiku Movie Reviews. I just knew I would find it sooner or later! ♥

Weird Recipe List. Not for the squeamish. Seriously. But if "Kitty Litter Cake" sounds OK to you, please go ahead. Click the link! ♥

Foreign Mistranslations. There are plenty of them in Indonesia but none of them is listed here. Maybe ours are not really all that funny. ♥

Cat Translation Dictionary. This is a must read for all cat lovers. According to the dictionary, "Mrooww" means "I love you". Hmmm...
♥

Entertainment Quizzes. A bunch of TV/movies/music quizzes you can take if you have nothing better to do. I just couldn't be bothered to take any of these quizzes because I know I wouldn't be able to answer any of the questions correctly. ♥

When I was still a Diarylander, I used to have a crush on Troy. I emailed him once, telling him that I loved reading his diary and blah blah blah, except for the fact that I had a crush on him, but he never wrote back. I think I'll start reading him again. He's still interesting after all these months. ♥

I've been reading this book, "It Could Happen to You" by Isla Dewar, a Scottish author (the book isn't sold either in Amazon.com or in Barnes and Noble so I can't provide you with a link, sorry). The heroine is so much like me, it's scary.

"She was convinced there was a place out there somewhere where she would be completely happy. She would find it. She would one day walk into some strange little town, sit down at a table in a small cafe, look round and say, 'This is it. This is where I am meant to be.'"

That's me. That's exactly how I feel. That's what I've been dreaming of. And it was written in the book! Amazing, isn't it? ♥

I'm supposed to be part of this collaborative blog, but as is the case with me when I'm among a lot of people, most of whom I don't know, and not to mention that I'm the only non-American there, I always don't know what to say. ♥

This is a brilliant idea! Jordan is a genius :) ♥

Today Bryan doesn't look as German as he was yesterday, but I think he's still wearing the same shirt as yesterday. Hmmm... Gotta love analysing Bryan's webcam shot *grins* ♥

I can't believe he actually blogged this. Oh well, at least he didn't put my name on the post so this guy has no way to know. Mwahahahaha!!! Well, at least not unless he reads my weblog, which I doubt. Heh! ♥

It's nice to know that there's at least one person who still loves me. It's even nicer because I found it without having to do a vanity search using Blogger Search which has been down for like forever. ♥

Saturday Morning Haiku

I am still breathing
But I do not feel alive
I might be zombie

It's amazing how sickness can change you. I become more emotional, more sentimental, more sensitive, more bitchy, and many other "more" followed by a negative adjective. I hate myself (and there are at least 2 people hating me right now). I want my good old self back! But I think it's not going to happen until I get rid of this 'flu. Sniffs.

It's so typical. Everytime you need to talk to somebody, there's always no one around. Sighs. ♥

I'm too tired and too sick to argue. ♥

OK, this is the last generator link for today: Fantasy Name Generator. You can use it to find an original nickname to use in IRC or something. ♥

Mark's Bitch Letter Generator for Women. No, not that Mark. Mark is a nice boy even though he is capable of slapping his... Oh, nevermind ;) ♥

Star Wars Quote Generator. Forgive my ignorance, but is "Beam me up, Scotty!" from Star Wars or Star Trek? I'm not a sci-fi fan, OK? ♥

I wonder how long Blogger Search is going to be down. Dammit Blogger, I *need* to know how many people love me today!!! ♥

Spanky's World is a lot of fun. One of my sites won her Seal of Approval ages ago. I can't remember how many sites I've had. There are too many, and most of which I can't remember the address anymore. I have at least one site in every free webspace service provider. My favourite pastime used to be signing up for multiple Geocities accounts that I never got around to use. Yeah, I was weird. I still am. ♥

I really feel like bitching now. Have I mentioned that I HATE people who don't keep their promises? I mean, if you're not going to keep your promise, don't make any promises at all. One of my biggest failings is I trust people so much. I trust that they'll keep their promises and when they don't, I get hurt. It makes me feel like the promise doesn't worth keeping because, hey, after all you're only promising it to Firda, right? No big deal! She's nothing. She's just a loser.

I'm feeling much better now. Thanks for reading! ♥

Surprisingly Smart: Hollywood's IQ Icons. Some Hollywood stars actually did well academically. Suprise, surprise! ♥

No one has emailed me today, except for Andre *sighs* You really should email Andre, the Power Blogger Master. He replies promptly, unlike some I could mention but won't (you know who you are). I've already got tonnes of junkmails, though. Want some? ♥

Ooops, spoke too soon. Apparently, the entry below made me a loser again. Isn't it ironic? ;) ♥

Damn, I still haven't made it to the Power Bloggers list today. I guess I'm not really that much of a loser after all. ♥

OK, that's it. I've had enough of RealPlayer rebuffering every 10 seconds for 20 minutes. I've got to listen to what Bryan had to say in the radio show (you do sound cool, Bry), which was the part I really wanted to listen to anyway, so that's it. Bye, bye, RealPlayer!!!

Oh, one more thing: I really love Brad's voice. ♥

Thanks to whoever it was that sent my weblog link to The Connection Blog. "... case study in blogging best practices", huh? ;) [Was that you who wrote it, Ryan?] ♥

Friday Morning Haiku

I am rise and shine
After a night of restless sleep
That came in two rounds

First round was from 8 PM to 2 AM and the second round was from 4 AM to 7 AM. In the 2 hours in between, from 2 AM to 4 AM, I was chatting on ICQ with Bryan and David instead of trying to go back to sleep. I'm an internet addict, OK? ♥

Tips for dating the emotionally crippled. Because all the good guys are already taken. ♥

Test Your SQ. Sarcastic Quotient, that is. I only have minimum level of sarcasm. I thought I had more. ♥

Psychological Studies of Men in Public Restrooms. What kind of guy are you? ;) I hope not the embarrassed type. ♥

The NecroBones EVIL-Test: "How EVIL are you?" I won't take this test. I'm worried I might be evil. I'd rather not know. ♥

Non-famous Pessimist Quotations. If you're feeling blah, don't read this. Don't say I didn't warn you! ♥

A Virtual Exhibition of the Ravages of Dust, Water, Moulds, Fungi, Bookworms and other Pests. Only the Dutch could think of creating anything like this :)
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pissedOff at yourself? Have some abuse... Enough said. ♥

One thing I hate the most about the whole online community is when people think of you as just some data in your computer that has no feelings whatsoever. ♥

Thursday Afternoon Haiku

I am wondering
What they are talking about
In #BlogIRC

I just don't get it. I really feel like an outsider *sighs* Well, I *am* an outsider but outsiders need some loving too, you know. ♥

Bryan, my friend, my wonderful host, the coolest guy in New Jersey, as well as the owner of the most entertaining webcam in the Blogland, is actually a cyborg. As you can see below, he is recharging his power to enter the 25th year of his cyborg life:

There should be a clique for webloggers that don't dig Buffy. I know this guy, this guy, this guy and this girl (so it's lame to link to yourself - just sue me) don't. Anyone else? ♥

The Wisdom of Homer Simpson. It's the second Homer Simpson link in 2 days. What does that say about me? ;) It's full of goodies, though. ♥

Pastor Disaster's Online Counseling Simulator. This is supposed to be a satire, but it's amusing nonetheless. ♥

Build your own quiz using Quiz Builder. Somebody create a Blogger Quiz, please? It's about time since we all seem to be so addicted to quizzes. ♥

The California Experience. Experience the infamous Californian earthquakes from the comfort of your home. ♥

Nerd-O-Matic. It's a random nerd generator. ♥

Jesus seeks loving woman. This is just plain weird... ♥

I've finally figured out how NOT to crash the whole network system down at work with my ICQ! Woohoo! Oh, I'm so smart! Say hi to me, please? ;) ♥

Thanks for the chicken soup, Chris! I'm feeling better already :) ♥

Wednesday Morning Haiku

I'm trying to smile
I hope it won't look too fake
I'm a bad actor

"Cry and you'll cry alone. Smile and the world will smile with you." How true. ♥

I just got some lovin' from, uh, "Josef". He's right. Love is getting email. Do you love me? My Uncle Joe does :) By the way, Uncle Joe is NOT crazy. He ain't crazy, he's my uncle. ♥

Did any of you get the following moronic junkmail?

From: Allan Mack
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 2:27 AM
Subject: Coppa

Your site looks to be out of compliance with COPPA. My company offers solutions to keep you in business and comply. I'm looking to speek to the person that handels this.

Alan Mack
1017 Post Road East
Westport, CT 06880
203.226.5853 x47
203.226.7331 fax
amack@followup.net

Well, I'll tell you what, Mr. Mack. Learn to spell before you tell me that any of my sites is out of compliance with whatever!!! I mean, speek?? Handel??? Geez... ♥

Who me? Asking for LOVE every day? Gee, I only ask for EMAIL every day, and guess what? I'm lucky if I could get one email a day :( ♥

Purity test for non-virgins. Digital sex doesn't count. Either way, I can't take the test. ♥

Wanna know what happens after 6 beers? ;) ♥

I've got another idea for redesign. I can't wait to get home so I could start working on it! I just hope that I won't hate the final product. This page is quite an inspiration, especially since it's predominantly yellow :) I just love yellow. Don't you? ♥

I'm a loser! :) Nothing new, really. ♥

I hear you, "Josef"! Heh! It is very annoying indeed. ♥

Andre likes my current design. A lot. And he doesn't want me to get rid of the duck. Sighs. What to do, what to do... ♥

Andy from iBlog.com sent me this duck joke:

A duck waddled into a grain store, walked up to the man in charge put its head on one side and said "have you got any duck food?" "No I'm sorry" said the man, "we don't do duck food".

The next day the same duck waddled into the same grain store, found the same man, put his head on one side and said "have you got any duck food?" "No, we haven't" said the man, "I told you, we don't do duck food".

The next day the same duck waddled into the same grain store, found the same man, put his head on one side and said "have you got any duck food?" "No, we damn well haven't" said the man, "I've told you twice now, we don't do duck food and if you come back in here asking for duck food again I'm going to nail both your feet to the floor. Now get out".

The next day the same duck waddled into the same grain store, found the same man, put his head on one side and said a little apprehensively "have you got any nails?" The man was beside himself. Struggling to control his fists and feet he said "what is wrong with you? We are a grain store, we don't have any nails". The duck put his head on the other side, looked at the man and said "have you got any duck food?"

And another one:

Two ducks were in a hotel room on their honeymoon. "Did you remember the condoms", asks the wife duck. "No", he replies. "Why don't you call room service and ask them to bring some to the room". When the busboy arrives with the package he asks, "Should I put them on your bill?" Mr. Duck replies, "What do I look like, a pervert?!?!"

Thanks, Andy! :) ♥

I have one thing in common with Derek Powazek and Jason Kottke: we all turn 27 this year. Webloggers who were born in 1973 rule! Yes, that includes you, David Gagne. Were you born in 1973? ♥

I was #2 Power Blogger the last time I checked yesterday but this morning I was #21. Hmmm...

I need to finish my new design once and for all. I know you're sick of hearing that already but I really mean it. The whole redesign thingy is beginning to frustrate me a lot. And when I say a lot, I mean A LOT.

You know, I think it's the fact that I feel obliged to use a rubberducky and the colour yellow in my design that frustrates me. To be honest, I'm sick of them already, but those are parts of my web identity, just like my glasses and my brown complexion are parts of me that I can't get rid of or no one would recognise me.

Well, actually, I *can* get rid of the rubberducky and use any colour I want in my new design, but if I did, would you ever forgive me? ♥

Matt thinks I'd make a great faghag. I didn't know what a faghag was until Brian told me what it means yesterday. I've always wanted to have a real-life gay friend myself, but sadly I don't know of any. I just think it would be totally cool to have a man whom you can bitch about men with and who would understand your feelings and what you're talking about.

I told Brian that if I were male, I'd probably be gay too and he laughed at me. I must've sounded like a dork :) ♥

Tuesday Morning Haiku

What a weird, weird day
Well, it's not really that weird
But I do feel weird

It's got to be the flu. I'm hungry but I don't feel like eating. I've been feeling this way since yesterday. Thank God I have a short week. My health is ruining. I need a long break. ♥

Random Homer Simpson Quote. My favourite is: "Guys are always patting my bald head for luck, pinching my belly to hear my girlish laugh..." Heh! ♥

This joke posted by David reminds me of another joke Luke sent me some time ago to cheer me up:

"A guy walks into a bar with a duck under his arm. The bartender says "I'm sorry, we don't allow pigs in here." The guy says "This is a DUCK!" The bartender says "I was TALKING to the duck!""

Cute, huh? ;) It was actually the first duck-related joke I've ever heard. Do you know of any other joke with duck in it? Send it my way! ♥

I think there's something missing from the statement below but I can't tell what it is. Hmmm... Can you tell me? ♥

If I had to love a man based on his looks, I'd choose one with short dark hair and no facial hair.

If I had to love a man based on his personality, I'd choose one who says what he means and means what he says.

If I had to choose among the two, I'd go for the latter. ♥

A Happy Birthday Haiku

Jordan is eighteen
Today is his birthday. Yay!
Happy birthday, J!

And he's not only celebrating his birthday today. There's still something else, but I'm not going to tell you *wink, wink* No, it's not his graduation. It's something else *grins* Curious? Go ask Jordan! :) ♥

B l o g s t e r s. Yet another weblog ring, but this one is only for Blogger powered weblogs. I'm still not tempted to join one. Does that make me uncool? ♥

Some of you might have known that I have the maturity of a 10 year old. This is a story to prove it.

My supervisor really pissed me off today, but being a clueless person that she was, she didn't know it. I wanted to take a break from her during lunchtime, but she wanted to come along with me. So there we were, me sulking and her bitching about everything as always, having lunch together.

When we walked back to the office after lunch, the rain started to fall. She told me to run. She said, "Run, Firda, or you'll get sick!" I told her that I was already sick anyway and that I loved the rain, and just walked like it had been a bright, sunny day. She tried all she might to make me run but to no avail.

She finally handed me her umbrella in hopes that I would come to my senses, and ran towards the office like there was tomorrow. I laughed at her and kept on walking. I didn't even bother to open the umbrella. I looked at the sky and felt the rain fall all over my face. It felt great. It made me smile.

And here I am now in the office, having a headache, thanks to the rain, in addition to the flu I've already got. But I don't care. I'm happy. "I'm only happy when it rains."

Yes, I indeed have the maturity of a 10 year old. ♥

Yay, I finally found it: Tug of War History. I was actually part of the tug of war team back in high school and college, and damn proud of it :) ♥

How Do YOU Call Someone Stupid? A list of fun ways to call someone stupid. My favourite is "I can't believe that he beat 100,000 other sperm." ♥

The Top Ten Puke Scenes as rated by E! Online. I'm sure they'll start rating some pee scenes soon. My favourite pee scene is the one from "Big Daddy". Yes, I actually saw that movie. Just sue me. ♥

Hi to Harlan too! I didn't leave you out. I just thought it would be too weird since I already knew you before you got onto my ICQ contact list :) I hope you've got the webcam problem solved! ♥

I feel like giving a shout out to two new people on my ICQ contact list (at home): Hi, Brian! Hi, Billy! It was nice talking to you! Hope to see more of you online! :) ♥

To whom it may concern: My ICQ at work somehow caused disconnections to our internet connection which drove the whole office crazy so I've decided not to use it anymore. I'll be available on ICQ again as soon as I get home from work. In case you're wondering, I found it out myself so there's no pressure. Just a guilty conscience :) But you can always email me. Please? ♥

I read this at Hari Ini, a sort of weblog by the Asia Pacific Management Forum:

"Middle America is hocked to the hilt. It's a bubble that has to burst "any time soon" as CNN talking heads are fond of saying, but are not saying yet... It may not be this time, but a financial crisis some time soon is as inevitable as GARUDA arriving late. A Western world crisis of course will curtail the Asian revival."

It really amused me. GARUDA is our (Indonesian) flag-carrier airline :) ♥

Monday Morning Haiku

Monday already
Weekend's over much too soon
I need some more sleep

It's Monday and there was no email for me when I checked my email first thing in the morning. Swell. Let me check once again... Still no email *sniff!* I think I'm going to cry now. Waaaah!!! ♥

If you asked me how the redesign is going, I would take it as an insult. Seriously. ♥

My mum told me a story about the time when I had a fractured skull some two centuries ago, when I was still a wee little girl. I didn't remember much about it. I only remembered that I was at my father's friend's house and for some reasons I fell and my head hit the floor with a thump (mind you, I was born clumsy). I didn't remember making everyone panic or being a subject of numerous examinations at the hospital. I just remembered that my head felt funny. As it turned out, since the skull was fractured, the liquid from the brain was leaking out. Surgery was one of the options but my mum wouldn't take that option. She just didn't have the heart. She lost many hours of sleep and lots of weight because of this ordeal and see what a monster I turned out to be. I'm such an ungrateful daughter. I don't deserve her *sighs* ♥

Thanks to the very few of you who cared to observe the Blog Weblog Wannabe Day yesterday. I hope there'll be more of you observing the day next Saturday. Yes, every Saturday is Blog Weblog Wannabe Day. Cool, huh? ;)

Just for your information, every Tuesday is Blog Bling Day. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday aren't taken yet. Feel free to claim a day and make it blog your blog day. That is if you're really as desperate for hits as me and David. ♥

SuperScripter. Even more cool online tools for hopeless web designer wannabes like yours truly, including the one below.

I've been posting this stuff because I'm trying to spice up my new design with javascripts which I unfortunately know absolutely nothing about. I'm hopeless at scripting. Give me HTML anytime. ♥

Style-o-Mattic is one cool online CSS making tool. Very useful for hopeless web designer wannabe like yours truly. ♥

By the way, if you happen to have me on your ICQ contact list but I've never said hi to you, it's not because I don't want to. I want to say hi to everyone but I'm worried I'll be interrupting something *really* important or you'll find me intrusive or you have someone with you to whom you're too ashamed to admit that you have an online friend. Things like that. The only person on my contact list that I feel comfortable saying hi to is only Bryan because I know that he won't mind (right, Bry? ;) So the next time you see me online, please say hi to me and I'll be one happy ducky :) ♥