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Formula One racing is not all about glory. It's also about failures. Formula One Rejects is a tribute to the heroic failures of F1, such as least successful drivers and worst ever teams. I know F1 is not all that big in America, but really, how many non-Americans ever heard anything at all about Dale Earnhardt (spelling?) before his widely publicised death? ♥

News Design for Students not only provides you with tips on how to create a killer student newspaper but also has a design that I think will be very suitable for a weblog. In its current issue, there's an article on how to create killer cutouts. Just what I was looking for :) I suck at creating cutouts. The edge of the cutouts I made was always so jaggy. ♥

I really, really want to take the Animal Blind Date test but my computer just won't load it :( It's in Flash. Could you take the test for me and then let me know the results? Please? I want to know how charming my animal blind date is! [Update: My perfect match is a Red Panda. Are you one?] ♥

MyTrophyFish.com is yet another AmIHotOrNot.com kind of site, but I think this one is pretty amusing. You rate the pictures of people with their trophy fish. You know, their biggest catch. Some of the fish are pretty impressive, others are just pathetic. It's funny that the highest rated picture only scored a 5 (out of 10). ♥

Well, just try to think of it as a spot. A very (in)appropriately placed spot. ♥

Not many things can cheer me up more than a voicemail. Thanks, Nikolai! :) ♥

Same here, Tom. Same here. Only I have it worse because my 28th birthday is coming up in 38 days. Once again, I have to experience that feeling of not having accomplished anything in my old age :( Oh well. At least I won a Bloggie... ♥

Wednesday Morning Haiku

I'm feeling random
Click the randomise button
For today's feeling

But of course there's no randomise button to be seen. I just felt like writing a stupid haiku. I think I'll take a day off on Friday instead of Tuesday. The poor, old car desperately needs some rest. There was smoke coming out of the machine this morning. Luckily, I managed to get to work in one piece. Going home is another story altogether. To top it all off, I have a runny nose. I just hate the 'flu. Blech. ♥

What does Firda do when she can't sleep at night and is feeling terminally bored? Well, she posts some moronic comments to MetaFilter in a pathetic attempt to kill the thread that she started herself. She might succeed, though. She's boring like that. ♥

Yay, I finally found the folder containing the (original) big head design! :) That really made my day. I'm going to re-use it for my Greymatter-powered journal-type thingy, which will be up as soon as the server that hosts fakegeek.org, which has been down for almost a week, goes back up again. ♥

"Phoon" is a pose where you're standing a certain way on one foot for a photo. Phoons.com has hundreds of amusing photos of people doing the "Phoon". You can also submit your own "Phoon" photo for inclusion if you happen to have one. ♥

The Lileks' Institute of Official Cheer presents The Peculiar Art of Mr. Frahm: a study on the effects of celery on loose elastic, or why women have their panties fall down in public while carrying celery. ♥

Do you have Inflatable Animal Fetish? No? Well, it doesn't matter. The page is still good for a laugh or two :) ♥

If networking is your thing, you might find this article about The Social Life of Routers very interesting. No, there's no mention about the sex life of routers there. Sorry. ♥

I don't know why anyone would want to learn how to make radiographs on Polaroid film but, well, the page is here. The author was well aware of the danger of x-ray radiation, but he went on with his experiments anyway. I wonder if he's got cancer by now. The pictures were pretty cool looking, though. He got the x-ray camera from eBay, of course. Where else can you find things like that? ♥

After OpenCola.com, comes OpenText.org. They're currently developing a series of XML annotation specifications for the encoding of papyrus texts. Note to self: do learn something about XML! ♥

Ok, I've made a mental note to deliver you links that are somewhat more intelligent than all the silly name generators I posted yesterday (though you must admit that you enjoyed them nonetheless :P).

The first link will bring you to the product overview page of OpenCola Soft Drink, which is the first consumer product released under general public licensing. Yup, you got it right. As it turned out, GNU general public licensing is not only limited to computer programs. You can download the OpenCola formula from this website and, well, try to upgrade it or something. ♥

I found Toxic Custard Guide of Australia the first year I went online and it was one of the funniest sites I ever came across. I came across it again today and was pleased to see that it was still as amusing as ever. ♥

I jumped on the bandwagon and took the Environics Survey. Apparently, I'm a New Aquarian. Sounds like me all right. I just don't get one of the "words to live by". What does "everything changed in Seattle" mean? ♥

Can I post now? ♥

Tuesday Morning Haiku

I miss my bed so
I can't keep my eyes open
Eight hours to go

I'm so, so, so sleepy. All I want right now is to go to sleep. I wish I wasn't at work today. But anyway, next Monday is a holiday and I'm going to take a day off next Tuesday so it's going to be a four day weekend. Yay! :) Maybe I'll get around to finishing my long-overdue birthday project then, but don't hold your breath. ♥

A girl decided to do The Carotene Experiment by going on a carrot diet for 30 days to find out if your skin will turn orange if you consume too many carrots. I think only your eyes will turn orange. I mean, just look at the rabbits. They have somewhat orangish eyes. Don't they? Anyway, the experiment is still in progress since it only started on February 14 and today is only February 26, but I'll be looking forward to the result. ♥

Apparently, I'm a cheeky frog and my inner frog is Pondy Crawford, which is only one step away from the top frog, Pamela Ponderson. I don't know if it's good or bad. ♥

Learn how to say goodbye in many languages. Or at least find out how to say it in my mother-tongue, Indonesian. We're going to have to say goodbye sooner or later :) ♥

Porcontrol sets out to install a switch in an Australian piggery and link it via the internet with a traffic light in Europe. Um, okay. Now the big question is: WHY? ♥

If I were a ninja, my name would be Shichiroji Chieko-san. Not sure if it's a male or female name. Get your own ninja name from the Ninja Name Generator. ♥

I was going to say something about S, but then I decided against it. I still haven't got over that feeling of being left out. I've even banned myself from any S-related website. Guess what S is! :) ♥

I haven't talked to Bryan for ages (I'm so bad at keeping in touch), but I think I know who his current web crush is. But I'm not telling :) I'm so good at this web crush guessing thingy that it scares me. ♥

I'm applying for a credit card. Once I get my card, I'm going to buy the web people I like some cool stuff off their wishlist :) That is, if they don't turn down my application. It's not that I have a bad credit. It's just that I have no credit at all, be it good or bad, to begin with. ♥

You know, sometimes I have a hard time convincing myself that I am not a bitch. Let's give it another try, shall we?

Me: Self, you are sarcastic and cynical, and sometimes you have some pretty unpopular views, but that does not make you a bitch.
Self: Nice try.

Sigh. I rest my case. ♥

If I worked for Pyra, I'd avoid Blogger Discuss like a plague. It's just too depressing. And annoying too. I mean, just look at all the whiney posts! My deepest sympathy goes to Ev, for having to deal with the thing. Alone. ♥

Can I post now? ♥

Do you remember the year you got your first computer? My mother bought me my first computer in 1986 (or was it 1987?) but I really can't tell what kind of computer it was. All I can say is that it was a PC and that it was running on DOS. And that I used to play Digger and Pacman all the time with it. If it's not an AT, it's got to be an XT. I really can't tell which one came first, XT or AT. But I'm quite sure that my first computer was the one that came first. My poor, old Pentium100 computer has got to be the 4th computer I've ever owned. ♥

At least I'm not the only one who doesn't find that "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" meme very funny. That knowledge somewhat restored my faith on humanity. There's still hope after all. ♥

Are people generally annoying or am I just having a bad case of Mondayitis? I really can't tell. ♥

Monday Morning Haiku

I'm keeping one of
My New Year's resolutions:
To bash Blogger less

Blogger didn't let me post yesterday due to error 103 (full log database or something like that), but instead of staying online and complaining, I just went offline and watched some videos. Hence the lack of posts yesterday. No, I'm not going to say I'm sorry. It wasn't my fault :P Anyway, since I have so much work to do (yes, it's Monday and I'm at work), I don't think I'll be able to post any link until tonight. I'm sure you won't mind :) Meanwhile, why don't you tell me about your favourite toy? I'd say that my favourite toy is my computer, but it's not really a toy so it's gotta be my plush polar bear that I just bought last Saturday. It's so tiny and cute. I have a big plan for it, that is to give it to my soulmate, if I ever met one, as a token of, um, I dunno. Just a token, I guess. I'm so romantic. NOT! ♥

Can I post now? ♥

Sunday Haiku Morning

A hot, hot morning
This is what Sunday should be
Sun shining brightly

I don't really like it, though. I miss the rain. We haven't had rain in 3 days! Anyway, my day started pretty well yesterday but in the evening it started sucking. My ISP was messing up and the CD player I just bought had already been broken right after I finished watching my "Riverdance" video. Michel said things would get better. I didn't believe him, and it didn't get better. Not until today anyway.

I returned the broken CD player earlier today and they gave me a new one. I hope it won't be broken until at least 2 years from now. And my ISP has stopped messing up. I'm still hoping for another thing to happen to make my day perfect. I doubt it will happen, though. No, I'm not telling what it is :) ♥

I just took The Passion Predictor test and guess what? According the test results, I'm a "Fairy Princess": dreamy, hopeful, cries at weddings, willing to kiss the right frog, and I'm most compatible with Romantic Poet and Sugar Daddy kind of guy. They've got to be kidding. Me? Cries at weddings? Hell, I can't even cry at funerals! And I just can't see myself dating either a Romantic Poet or a Sugar Daddy. Give me a geek guy anytime. I am willing to kiss the right frog, though *grins* ♥

I didn't know that English food was As Bad As All That. Well, actually, only the black pudding sounds bad. The rest is pretty common in Indonesia. We do eat tripe and intestine here. Those are my dad's specialties. They can be hard to chew. My brothers refer to tripe as "towel". It does look like towel. Old and smelly towel, that is. We also eat the cow's heart, liver, tongue, and brain. It's not half as gross as eating blood, though. ♥

Search Engine Memory Game is a simple yet addicting memory game. Try to match the search engine logos and see if you can beat the computer in it. I managed to beat the computer 7-3. Yay me! :) ♥

Sightseer's Guide to Engineering shows you places in every state of the U.S. that "help tell the engineering story". Who knows, one of those places might be just around the corner from where you live. I kind of like the site design. I'm such a sucker for bright colours :) ♥

Who would've guessed that Pi could be converted into such a beautiful music composition. The Music of Pi Project converted Pi into music and orchestrated it. The results are stunning. I especially love Part 3 which is called "Pi Seas" since it sounds like the sound of the waves in the ocean. It has a soothing effect. You must listen to it. ♥

Lift the Wings
That carry me away from here and
Fill the sail
That breaks the line to home
But when I'm miles and miles apart from you
I'm beside you when I think of you - a Stoirin
And I'm with you when I think of you - a Stoirin
And a song will bring you near to me - a Stoirin a Gra

It's a verse from the lyrics of a song called "Lift the Wings", which is one of the songs from the "Riverdance". I happen to love it. A lot. I wonder what "a Stoirin a Gra" means. Anyone know? ♥

Oh, I forgot to mention my favourite acquisition from today's shopping. It's the VCD of the famous Irish musical/dance show, "Riverdance" Live from New York City. I'm watching it as I type. Both the music and the dance are beautiful. The music is typical Irish traditional music with a lot of bag pipes and violins. It was composed by Bill Whelan. I was looking for the music CD of the show but I couldn't find it. Instead I found the VCD, which was even better. I guess today was my lucky day :) Did any of you ever see the "Riverdance" show live instead of on video? ♥

"What Were They Thinking?" is a TV Guide feature on TV shows from the past that got less than flattering reviews from the critics. My favourite one is a review for a show called "Me and the Chimp" (which I've never heard of before): "This is a show on two levels � ours and the chimp's. On the chimp's level, it's terrific." Very cruel indeed :) ♥

Ok, I just got home from the shopping spree. Not that I bought anything interesting. I only bought some CD's from artists that you've probably never heard of, some beanie babies (a duck, a sheep, a lion, and a polar bear), a CD player, and some oranges. Nothing major :)

And I'm sorry I told my brother that all those three-quarter pants were called "bitchpants", because then everytime we went to a store that sold those, he always exclaimed, "Look, sis! BITCHpants!" Ergh! ♥

The song stuck in my head right now is "Thank You" by Dido. I feel like thanking someone.

Anyway, I'm going shopping. When I return, I'll do what a typical weblogger would do: listing all the newly acquired stuff like they were the most interesting things in the world :) More later! ♥

Saturday Morning Haiku

It is Saturday
And I'm writing a haiku
It is morning too

Hence "Saturday Morning Haiku" hehe... Well, I'm feeling so uninspired this morning. I did have an interesting dream last night. In my dream, I was designing a website for this guy who was a world champion sprinter or something like that and I was following him around on his tour from one athletic event to another to get some inspirations for my design. Upon the sprinter's girlfriend's request, they always stayed at some expensive hotels, but on this one occasion, all hotels were fully-booked so they had to stay in a hall with many other people. The girlfriend wasn't too happy about it. Rather than watching him and his girlfriend arguing, I decided to see what the other people in the hall were doing. The female ones seemed to be doing laps around the hall, and the male? They were dancing. Ballet dancing. While watching them, I thought to myself, "Hey, all of them must've seen "Billy Elliot"!" I don't know why I thought of that movie since I've never seen it. They made some dancing moves that made me laugh. And then I woke up. I wonder what the dream means. ♥

If you're thinking of becoming a stalker, be sure to check out Stalkings Tips for Beginners first. They even have a U.S. map that can show you in which states you are safe to stalk. Old map, that is. From 1994. Now all states probably have implemented Stalking Laws. Still the other tips might come in handy. I've never had any stalker but I do think that stalkers are creepy. ♥

I just appraised this domain at SelfAppraise.com, and according to them, it worths $64,000. That really cracked me up :) I wonder who wants to pay that much for wannabegirl.org. Anyway, go appraise your domain there. Who knows, it might worth a lot more than mine. ♥

My Internet love is a corpse-hoarding granny. Ouch! To say that it's just a case of internet romance gone awry won't do it justice. (Link stolen from James) ♥

Friday Morning Haiku

I'm smiling alone
I'm so easily amused
You might think I'm nuts

An American friend once asked me about the difference between "sapi" and "lembu" (both of which mean "cow" in English) and I gave him this very stupid explanation about how sapi had spots and lembu only had plain colour. I suddenly thought about that when I was on my way to work this morning and it cracked me up. My brother, who gave me a ride to work today, asked me what was so funny. I told him about the difference between "sapi" and "lembu" according to silly me and he said, "You, moron! Lembu is Javanese for sapi!" So there. That's the real answer to the question. I really was a moron. And I'm still smiling :) ♥

Take the Intergalactic Explorer Personality Type Test, which is a take-off of the Myers-Briggs temperament inventory, and find out what kind of intergalactic explorer you are. I'm a QEMT (Quiet-Eyes-Mind-Trooper) Engineer. "The Engineer can fix your warp drive or build you a new one from spare parts. You can find the Engineer tearing something apart or conducting destructive testing." Heh. Sounds like me alright :) ♥

If you are or you used to be a Tetris maniac, you're going to enjoy reading The Tetris Taxonomy. You can find out the name of each Tetris piece, learn Tetraterms and slang and a whole lot more interesting as well as amusing stuff about Tetris. ♥

I'm happy to see that none of the boy bands nor Britney Spears is on the 2001 Grammy Winners List. Eminem is another story.

One of my favourite songs of 2000, "When She Loved Me" by Sarah McLachlan, won the Grammy for "Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media". For some reasons, I'm not too happy about that. I mean, they could've picked a happier song...

<sings>
When somebody loved me
everything was beautiful
every hour we spent together
lives within my heart

When she loved me...
</sings> ♥

Have you ever been lost or got separated from your parent(s) in a park or at the mall when you were a kid? I have. Once. It was in 1980's. I couldn't be 9 years old yet. The mall was one of the biggest malls in town at that time. I stepped on an escalator which was going to the ground floor. I was confident that my mum was right behind me. But when I got on the ground floor, I found that I was all alone with strangers. What a silly little girl to do but to cry from the top of her lungs? Luckily, a security guard came to comfort me and then they made a public announcement that there was a little girl lost, and then my mum came to pick me up, looking more amused than worried, and I cried again while hugging her for dear life, only this time in embarrassment, and that was the end of the story :) I went to that mall again for the first time in almost 15 years last month and wondered how this tiny mall could feel so huge back then when I was a kid. ♥

I think cat lovers around the world have been tricked into believing that this cat-mouse hybrid is "Javanese Breed" cat. I've lived on Java Island all my life. I've never seen a cat like that in my entire life. ♥

A-ha! I finally found the true meaning of nil desperandum. I kind of like it. ♥

Thursday Morning Haiku

One rainy morning
I wish I was still on bed
I am so sleepy

But on second thought, if I were home, I'd be sitting in front of my computer instead of sleeping. I rarely feel sleepy when I don't have to go to work. The thought of work always makes me sleepy. Anyway, I've decided to launch the belated birthday project this weekend because I'm always too tired and too sleepy to do anything about it when I get home from work. I only have enough energy to blog. In fact, ever since my weblog turned one year old last Tuesday, blogging has become my singular passion. Am I dorky or what? ♥

Are you happy? According to the quiz results, I am. "Nil desperandum. Some things are tough, but you're a pragmatist. You probably derive some comfort from humanist philosophies, and you have no truck with superstition or overt self-indulgence." Um, okay. Anyone know what "Nil desperandum" means? Now that I know what "Nil desperandum" means, I guess I'm not so happy after all according to the quiz results. Oh well. ♥

The Poetry of The Heart Database has more bad love poems than you can shake a stick at (God, how I love that phrase *grins*). It's good for a laugh. Plenty of "roses are red, violets are blue" kind of poems too. Don't you just love those? ;) ♥

dotDoomed.com is yet another variant of AmIHotOrNot.com, only instead of rating pictures, you rate whether a dotcom company is dotDoomed or dotCool. I've never heard of most of the companies listed there. I suggested that they add Pyra Labs to their database. Once they added it, I'll definitely rate it as dotCool :) ♥

Get information on hidden songs and unlisted tracks from all types of albums and artists from The Hidden Song Archive. I actually have some information on a hidden song not listed there, but if you already own the CD, I'm sure you've found out about it already. If you don't own the CD, I don't think the info would be useful for you, so what's the point of telling it to anyone anyway? Oh by the way, if I sound cranky, that's because I'm only half awake. Seriously. ♥

Howtocleananything.com is an online resource for cleaning tips where you can get some useful tips and tricks on cleaning just about anything, even your pets. Hmmm, this is an interesting tip: "If your cat is not using the litter box, and has a favorite wetting spot, spray that area lightly with cologne to discourage the cat from going there." Apparently, cats love the smell of their own pee better than the smell of cologne. Weird taste they have. ♥

I used to read a lot of books from the Choose Your Own Adventure series when I was younger. I usually ended up dead, but I kept on buying those books anyway. If you're feeling nostalgic, you can read the online version of the Choose Your Own Adventure books. There are two adventures you can choose from: Corporate Ladder and Fun Fun Relationship. Both are equally depressing. ♥

One of the Happiest Events and Moments of 2000 according to The Secret Society of Happy People is "Americans learned that sometimes your vote really does count." Wasn't it such a bittersweet moment? I don't usually care about who the current U.S. President is but I really don't know what you've done to deserve Dubya. ♥

Wednesday Morning Haiku

I'm a sleepyhead
Yes, I am, oh, yes, I am
I'm also hungry

I almost forgot to post a haiku. I'm just too sleepy *yawns!* I shouldn't have stayed up late last night. The plan was to finish the birthday project, but I ended up blogging like crazy and chatting with Mike, John and Rebecca instead. Yeah, I suck. Oh well, maybe I'll finish it tonight even though the moment has passed. After all, it's more than just a birthday project. It's like the realisation of a dream. The keyword is "Gloat!". If it doesn't mean anything to you, I'm sorry :) ♥

I was so frustrated I couldn't finish my birthday project that I decided to consult a horny sex therapist a.k.a. Computer:

Computer: Well, hello there. Please lie down on the leather couch. Tell me about your sexual problems or desires.
You: Do you find webloggers sexually attractive?
Computer: What are your feelings now?
You: I feel confused. I feel like you don't know what a weblogger is.
Computer: Do you often feel confused?
You: Not really. Only since I started consulting you. Consulting, ha!
Computer: Do you started consulting your mother too?
You: You mean have I started consulting my mother too?
Computer: Tell me more about your family.
You: But I don't want to talk about my family. Why don't you tell me about your family? Do you have any family at all?
Computer: Conversation is my second favorite form of intercourse.
You: Eh, I don't want to know about that.
Computer: Do you say you don't want to know about that for some special reason?
You: Yes. It's because I'm frigid.
Computer: Is the problem with you or your partner?
You: With my weblog. Today is its first birthday.
Computer: Is it important to you? Your weblog?
You: Yes. It's my pride and joy.
Computer: Why do you say your pride and joy?
You: Eh, what's wrong with saying that?
Computer: What is it you really want to know?
You: I want to know if I'm a better weblogger than Jason Kottke.
Computer: What do you know about you'm a better weblogger than Jason Kottke?
You: What do you mean?
Computer: What comes to mind when you ask that?
You: Pizza, with a lot of cheese.
Computer: Come again? Whisper it to me.
You: "Softly, whispering I love you..." Do you know that song?
Computer: If you can't be with the one you love, honey, love the one you're with.
You: Ok, I'll love my computer. Can I go now?
Computer: What do you think about machines?
You: Machines are sexy. Bye!
Computer: What do you think machines have to do with your problem?
You: Forget it. I'm leaving.
Computer: I haven't heard it laid out that way before.
You: Hmmmph!
Computer: I haven't heard it laid out that way before.

Did I get less frustrated after the "consultation"? Hell, no! ♥

Do you remember Weirdo, my Technosphere creature? Well, I just learned that it has gotten another creature named KRAKTORI pregnant and given birth to baby Weirdo, in that order. Wow. I'm still trying to picture pregnant Weirdo impregnating KRAKTORI. I didn't know Weirdo was hermaphrodite. ♥

There are so many beautiful and colourful pictures of London that you can see at Londonstills.com. Seeing those pictures makes me want to visit the city even more. Have I mentioned that my mum used to live there before she married my dad? I'm hoping to be able to visit London with my mum someday so she could show me places that she used to enjoy visiting when she was young. ♥

As if conventional guns were not deadly enough, someone had to come up with a nuclear gun. And the scary part is, for the time being, it is available for purchase on the commercial market since it hasn't been registered by any division of the U.S. Government as a "non legal product". ♥

I used to have a cute little blue budgie that looked just like Gatesey, but unlike Gatesey, mine couldn't say a thing. If you have nothing better to do, you can try to guess what Gatesey is saying. I think the bird's talking about Connecticut contributing something. What do you think? ♥

There must be a lot of people out there who like mullet enough to write poetry about it. You can read the mullet poems at Mullet Poetry Archive. Some of them are pretty funny. ♥

If you want to see all U.S. presidents dancing together, President Dance is the way to go. I don't particularly like dancing pages, but I think this one is pretty original. ♥

I don't have a middle name, but my big brother likes to make up some silly ones for me. They're usually middle names that are more suitable for a heavyweight boxing champion than a dorky girl like me. One that I could never forget was "Macho Man". Firda "Macho Man" Beka. Can't remember what I did to deserve that name. Anyway, what's your middle name? Do you like it? If you could pick your own middle name, what would it be? I'd pick Diana, after my late grandmother (not after the late princess). ♥

Why is it Asia has always been referred to as The East and Europe and America as The West? I mean, if you go to the east from anywhere in Asia, you'll eventually get to Europe or America anyway since Planet Earth is round. I dunno, I just think it's kind of silly. Don't even try to get me talking about The North and The South because it annoys me even more.

[This silly entry was inspired by the song "Go West" by Pet Shop Boys that's been stuck in my head since yesterday morning.] ♥

Tuesday Morning Haiku

Say happy birthday
To sweet Weblog Wannabe
One year old today.

And I didn't get to finish the birthday project. Bummer. But I'm not giving up yet. It's not even February 20 yet in the U.S. so there's still hope :) I'll try to finish it as soon as I get home from work. I don't really like the content (or rather, what will be the content) of the birthday project, but I happen to like the design a lot. I bet you can't wait to see it now :) Well, it's nothing compared to all those professionally designed websites but I like it because it's simple, it's colourful, and it's mine. It's my kind of website :) Can't wait to show it to you! ♥

Have you ever been on TV? I have. Once. And it was purely accidental. Well, either that or the news editor just didn't know how to get me out of the picture *grins* My brother just got back from the Asian Games where he won a bronze medal. As soon as I saw him at the airport, I went to greet him, but at the same time, the news crew was pointing the camera at us. And there I was, appearing for a few seconds in the late night news on national television, looking dorky as ever in my high school uniform. Luckily, only my family noticed it, so there was no harm done and I didn't get what you call 15 minutes of fame. It was more like 15 milliseconds of fame, if you asked me. ♥

This one is for your dog: dog horoscopes.com. Since I don't have a dog, I just pretended that I were a dog and checked my horoscope. I found my dog horoscope reading better than my human horoscope reading. Well, the last time I checked anyway, which was, like, 6 months ago. Hey, this is interesting. I happen to have the same horoscope with Thomas Jefferson's dog, Cracker! And I'll have a good romance with dogs born under Leo, Libra or Sagittarius. Hmmm. Is your dog one? ;) ♥

I'm a lousy typist. I type with 11 fingers (which means one finger from my right hand and another from my left hand). The speed is not so bad, though. Even my workmates are impressed *grins* Anyway, I just found this Self Taught Typing lessons and thought it was kind of silly, though you might find it useful. ♥

If you've lost that little loving feeling for Microsoft, you're going to enjoy the websites listed in The MSBC Superlist of Anti-Microsoft Web Sites. I was going to say "There are more Anti-Microsoft websites than you can shake a stick at listed there", but that would be redundant, wouldn't it? Speaking of stick, I still haven't found the origin of the phrase "more *something* than you can shake a stick at". Does anybody know? ♥

Hey, this is original. Someone decided to do a little experiment on AmIHotOrNot? by posting pictures of one guy wearing several different outfits. As it turned out, the outfit you wear does affect your rating. It's interesting and amusing at the same time. You really must see the pictures the writer posted at AmIHotOrNot? ♥

Hi, Cedric and Steve! Since they're betas, when will the final version be released? Ok, so that's bad pun. Just sue me, you won't get much :P ♥

Monday Morning Haiku

Monday already
It's back to work tomorrow
Oh, how lovely. NOT!

I can't wait for weekend already, and it's only Monday! Blech. Well, last weekend was pretty uneventful, but a few things did make me smile, like a voicemail from Nikolai and, uh, stuff from Andy for my Weblog Wannabe's 1st birthday project, which is not going too well. Even Jordan wasn't too impressed when I told him about it *grins* Anyway, I hope I'll be able to finish it right on time, which means today. Eeek! If I didn't post much today, that would be the reason. ♥

Before you decided to start your own internet startup, take The Dot-Com Test first. Not everyone can be a dot-commie. I don't want to be a dot-commie, but my test results show that I have a lot of potential. "Let's just say there's lots of potential here. You seem willing to embrace the energetic, chaotic, and dedicated lifestyle that a dot-com environment entails. But, you still have some hesitations." You bet I do! ♥

You won't believe how much you can find out about yourself, your life and your future from this site. I learned that I should marry someone who was born on 1, 2, 5, 7, or 9 of any month (is that you?) and that I'm going to die at the age of 79! Wow! It's like 50 years from now! I also learned that the 28th year of my life (which is this year) will be a lucky one. Hmmm. We'll see :) ♥

If you are a WinAmp user and you know more than just how to play some mp3 files with it, I need your help. You do know that you can play CD with WinAmp, right? Well, my WinAmp does load the playlist from the CD and play it, only without the sound. Any idea why? Yes, my computer has a soundcard, no, I didn't turned off the sound, and no, my computer hasn't gone mute again. I'd really appreciate your help. ♥

I wish there'd been TheSpark.com's Paper Generator back in my good, old college days. It would've saved me a lot of trouble in English Literature class. The best thing about this paper generator thing is it's not one of those lame, mad lib thing, so the paper sounds pretty convincing. I managed to "write" a paper called "Harry Potter : Political Commentary And Sexual Identity". The irony is the paper generator thinks the author of Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, is a he instead of a she. But you can still edit that before you hand it in :) ♥

Sunday Morning Haiku

It's cold and grey and
I really feel like sleeping
But that'd be a waste

The last few days of my "vacation" should be spent productively. Well, theoretically anyway. I'm sure I'm going to end up slacking around again. Oh well. I'm listening to Billy Joel right now. I bought "Billy Joel: The Ultimate Collection" yesterday. I think "Goodnight Saigon" is the saddest song. War is sad, but people don't seem to learn from history. That's sad too. ♥

How Many Would It Take? is yet another variant of Am I Hot Or Not? but instead of rating the picture, you vote on how many drinks it would take for the person in the picture to look hot. It's just getting worse and worse... ♥

Ok, it's quiz time! Now that I'm on, um, vacation (as Nikolai would say), the quiz is to find out where one should go on holiday. They think I should go to Peru. "Vietnam and Cuba are so last century. Why not try Peru? Enjoy the glories of the Andes, the sweeping Pacific coastline and the historic cities of Tiahuanaco and Cuzco. Tourism (sorry, travelling) is all about how you impress people when you get back so, go on, collect that passport stamp." Peru? Why Peru? Oh well. I might enjoy riding llama at the Andes. ♥

Just what you need to kill the time this weekend: the Britney Spears Song Generator. It's fun for, like, 2 minutes at most. After that, you'll just feel like screaming "Oh, humanity!" from the top of your lungs. ♥

Mike needs to get laid, and I take it that he needs it badly. He's specifically looking for Ohioan women age 15-30. It might be you! Honestly, nothing can get even more pathetic than this. ♥

Bitchpants are pants extending from the waist to an area above the ankle but below the knee. According to the bitchpants throughout the history page, people have started wearing bitchpants since the era of ancient Egypt! Anubis, the Egyptian God of the Underworld, looks so fine in them. But why don't I? ♥

Ok, as promised, here's my tongue-twisting action packed version of "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" and the less tongue-twisting action packed version of "Birdhouse In Your Soul", originally sung by They Might Be Giants. I can't be held responsible for any weird side-effect caused by listening to the songs, so consider yourself warned. If you really want to blame it on someone, just blame it on Jordan since he was the one who introduced me to those songs :P ♥

Saturday Morning Haiku

I am home alone
I have the house for myself
I kind of like it

My parents and big brother are off to my bro's girlfriend's place for lunch (I think). Big bro is planning to marry his girlfriend this year, and so is little bro. Soon I'll be the only member of the family who is single and free. I don't know if it's good or bad. Anyway, I've been trying to sing "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" by They Might Be Giants without getting my tongue twisted but it's so damn hard. But I'm going to make it. Just wait. I'll post the song with my next entry. Be very afraid! ♥

Well, today hasn't been a very productive blogging day. Sorry about that. The thing is I was feeling crappy all morning and then I was away almost all afternoon. The best thing about today was I got to chat with Jordan on ICQ for the first time :) Well, actually it was more like me bugging him while he was doing some "hardc0re coding", but I digress. And the most notable result of the talk with Jordan was my downloading a couple of They Might Be Giants songs, "Istanbul (Not Constantinopel)" and "Birdhouse In Your Soul", that he uploaded to his server just for me :) I like them, though. In fact, I'm going to sing "Istanbul (Not Constantinopel)" tomorrow morning and post it here so you could have a laugh. Yeah, I'm shameless :P Now I'm going to have my beauty sleep. Good night, world! ♥

If for some odd reasons you want to learn how to talk and swear like a sailor, you can check out Naval Terminology, Jargon and Slang FAQ. Some are pretty funny, others are pretty tasteless. There's no American naval slangs, unfortunately. They're all slangs used by the navy of the former British Empire, that used to rule the waves. I wonder who rules the waves nowadays. Don't tell me it's still the British! ;) ♥

If no one would sell their soul to the devil, there wouldn't be a Sell Your Soul category in Yahoo!, right? But still it bothers me a lot to see it. ♥

Friday Morning Haiku

Such a dull morning
Color Harmony Pastels
The book on my desk

So it's a crappy haiku. Just sue me. I couldn't think of any haiku to post so I kinda just took some inspirations from my messy desktop and came up with that one. Today is my big brother's birthday. He turned 29. It doesn't seem to depress him as much as it does me. I mean, sheesh, my brother is 29! In less than 2 months, I'll turn 28 myself. It's just so scary, though once I really turned 28, I don't think it would be as scary as I thought. You're only as old as you think. I think I'm still 11 years old. ♥

I'm proud to announce that I've never seen any of the films nominated for the 2001 Academy Awards. Yay me! :) Wanna predict the winners? ♥

I don't know what "yaourt" is but this site that tells you all you want to know about yogurt is located at yaourt.com. Do you know what "yaourt" is? The site is pretty interesting, even for a non-yogurt drinker like me. If you're one of those quiz takers, you can take the Yogurt Quiz and see how well you know your yogurt. ♥

I was in #BlogIRC (that I think should be renamed to #Seattle) and, as usual, I had nothing to say :) Not that I usually join the chat at all. ♥

I know it's surreal but not being a programmer, I have no idea what's so surreal about it (yeah, so I'm weird, just sue me). It's The Random Surrealism Generator - Programmer version. Can you tell me what's so surreal about "vegetarian.c:348: mouldy error before 'glove' - 'turkey' is not a pentagram", programwise? ♥

Here's a guide to show you how to shrink a head. The first few things to do are "Kill your enemy. Cut off his ( or in rare cases, her) head. Flee." Unless you're planning to become a creepy, cold-blooded murderer in the future, I don't think you'd find this very useful. ♥

Here's the deal with Poop Pals: you squeeze the furry critter's tummy and a jelly bean will poop out of its rear end. If I had a credit card, I'd buy Jordan the penguin one :) ♥

I blogged this just for the title alone: Aliens Made Crop Circles on My Chia Pet. The site itself is pretty lame, but feel free to click the link if you want :) ♥

Oh, by the way, all my readers who are interested in PHP (yes, both of you) might find these sample codes from the "PHP Essentials" book useful. Just thought I'd share :) I suck at coding but, believe it or not, I like hacking code in PHP more than anything else right now. I even like it more than HTML. Scary, huh? ♥

Thursday Morning Haiku

It's a holiday!
But I don't feel like being
Online at all. Weird

I mean, I'm an internet junkie. I should feel like being online 24/7, right? But who wants to be online when your internet connection is slower than snail and Blogger is messing up anyway. Well, my internet connection is not sucking and Blogger is not messing up now, but they were last night. That was the reason I decided to sleep the night away rather than blogging and got frustrated. Um, let's see, what else? Oh, I still owe you a song. I don't feel like singing "Say You Love Me" by Simply Red anymore. The song was only stuck in my head for a few hours. The song playing inside my head right now is Nik's Caribbean song. Wonder if I still have the song file :) But I think I'll just sing, um, well, let's just wait and see because I really can't think of any song to sing right now. ♥

I also always forgot to mention that this crappy "design" was contributed by yours truly after someone deleted the previous design, which, I must admit, was pretty cool. ♥

A neighbour's son-in-law has an old car with a license plate that says B 666 AD.

I've been wanting to blog it for ages, but always forgot. I think I won't need to wait until I'm twice my current age to get a serious case of Alzheimer. ♥

I got "Say You Love Me" by Simply Red stuck in my head right now. I think I'll sing it and post it here when I get home. Oh yeah, be really afraid! I haven't recorded any song for ages since no one's asked and no one's sent me a song lately. If you'd call my voicemail and sing me a song, I'll sing and send you a song in return :) Promise! ♥

You might have a really high IQ, but do you also have a really high EQ? Take the EQ quiz and find out how your emotional intelligence rates. I scored 29 of 48, which means that my grasp on emotional intelligence appears pretty good, but could use a little fine tuning. Huh? Anyway, I just love how I can sense other people's unspoken feelings, even over the internet :) ♥

If you want to say "I love you" to people around the world this Valentine's Day, the "I love you" in many languages page will show you how. If Valentine's Day makes you feel crappy, you can learn to say "Ouch!" in many languages instead. Life is so full of choices :) ♥

Ok, here's my review of BlogFinder, a search engine brought to you by a self-proclaimed genius named Biz Stone. Well, actually, there's really not much to review because BlogFinder is just like any other search engine (specifically Google), but it indexes only weblogs. Unlike Weblogs.Com search engine, it indexes the whole site, including the archives, instead of just the front page, so you can expect to get a lot of results if you do search for linky love (there's actually a linky love search feature there). It's no replacement for Blogger Search because it has no time-limited search feature so you can't find out who loves you today, this week, or this month like you could with Blogger Search. If I may request a feature, the time-limited search is one that I really, really want. Until then, I think I'll just keep on using Weblogs.Com search engine for all my ego surfing purposes. ♥

Have you checked out Jordan's really cute Linuxy penguin? If you haven't, you should. And do send him oodles of praise! In case you're wondering, the penguin is not pregnant. It's just nicely plump. Or so Jordan told me. Yes, I actually asked *grins* ♥

Wednesday Morning Haiku

Last work day this week
Five days off is coming up
I should be glad

But something ruined my morning. It was a reminder from SXSW. They told me that I should register now if I wanted to get the discount. I should've told them that I'm not going because my dad is not a millionaire and that they should stop bugging me because any news from them would only upset me. But then again, the reminder must've been an automated one. I don't think they'd bother to remove me from the mailing list. Oh well. ♥

I'm not a Christian, but still I think Re-Versed Lyrics is kind of cool. It's a collection of Christian lyrics that can be sung to popular tunes, such as Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Californication", Chumbawamba's "Tubthumping" and many more. ♥

My mum's going to love this Infra-red Mouse Trap, specially designed to catch smart mice. Not that the mice in our house are smart. They're dumb, but fat. Also check out the mouse trap using the parallel port. It makes me wonder if the mouse trap would work differently if you used a USB port instead. ♥

I feel like redesigning (again/already). Have you grown tired of this design or do you think this design deserves to live a little bit longer? Let me know. ♥

If you need Klingon or Romulan fonts, Non-English Font Archive is the way to go. Of course they also have "normal" non-English fonts, such as Arabic, Cherokee, Greek, Japanese, and Korean. ♥

I entered Kottke's birthday and mine into The Chinese Love Calculator and found that he and I are "well-suited couple" with 60% compability (out of 80%). Hehe. If I knew Meg's birthday, I'd enter hers. Anyway, if you want to check your compability with me, my birthday is April 7, 1973. Let me know the results! :) ♥

Anna Kournikova fans beware. There's an email worm spreading that claims to be a picture of Anna Kournikova. Hmmm. I wish someone would disguise an email worm as my picture. My life would be complete :P ♥

Tuesday Morning Haiku

I am so sleepy
The morning is so cloudy
My bread's so yummy

It's a chocolate-banana bread. If you've never tried it, you're missing something big! It's better than banana split. Well, at least in a cold morning, it is. When it's hot, I'd rather have a bowl of banana split, really. Matt told me last night that it was snowing in Silicon Valley. Hehe. It didn't amuse me then, but it does now. Sorry, Matt! :P Anyone who's had enough snow already this winter may send any amount my way anytime. I'd love to make a snowman and throw snowball at passersby :) Besides, Nik once told me that if it was snowing in Indonesia, we'd surely get a holiday! :P I *heart* holidays. And speaking of holidays, tomorrow will be my last work day for this week. I'll be on a holiday from Thursday to Monday. Woohoo! There should be enough time to come up with something special to celebrate the first anniversary of Weblog Wannabe next Tuesday. That is, if I'm not too busy slacking :) ♥

If you're easily amused like me, you're going to love Juggling Simulator. Try to play the 6 ball one in top speed. It amused me all right :) I wish I could juggle 6 balls. ♥

I just registered my chocolate preference at The ACME Chocolate Registry, so if you want to send me some, you know what to get me :) Just search for my name in the database. If you're the kind of people who get overly excited about Valentine's Day, you'll probably find it extremely useful. ♥

Do you want to get your weblog reviewed and rated a la Siskel and Ebert? Well, now you can. Just send your weblog link to Tom and Ed over at Blog You! Blog You! Blog You!, a consumer's guide to weblogs, and they will "subject it to dangerous scrutiny". Right. (Link stolen from Graham) ♥

I always wished I could emigrate to another country where I know nobody and nobody knows me and start over, but I could never decide where I would like to emigrate. That was before I took the "Where Can You Emigrate?" quiz. Now I know where to go: "G'day mate. We would like you to move to Australia! Live in the sun on this vast continent and throw another snag on the barbie." Heh. I don't think so. ♥

Monday Morning Haiku

It's back to square one
The square one that is Monday
Monday is no fun

Great. Now I've got "Square One" theme playing inside my head. "Tatatatara, tarara, SQUARE ONE! Tatatatara, tarara, SQUARE ONE!" Oh well. I didn't get to finish anything last weekend. I lost interest in the parody I was working on. It was a parody of SXSWbaby! called SXSWbye! You know, I'm not going there, being broke and all, so it's goodbye to SXSW. Got it? ;) It was meant to be an outlet for people who can't afford to go to SXSW so they could moan and groan together while enduring all the hype. It was almost done. I only needed to hack the Blogger template. But I just lost interest, thanks to XML. You see, I read something about XML yesterday and fell in love with the idea. But since Blogger was not being very friendly, I only got to do so much as uploading the prax.php file to my server. Bummer. Anyway, if you think SXSWbye! is a good idea, let me know and I'll probably pick it up and finish it. ♥

I hate how my ISP is hating the servers that host Blogger, Fairvue and MetaFilter, and Weblogs.Com. I had to reload gazillion times before Blogger let me sign in, I couldn't access Fairvue and MetaFilter, and I couldn't do vanity search on Weblogs.Com. Blech. ♥

The Presidential Palm Helper keeps Dubya on time, in the know, and majorly organatized [sic!]. One very, um, sophisticated Palm Pilot he has *grins* ♥

Thinking of getting your own domain but can't think of a catchy domain name to register? Just check out Splorp's available domain name of the week. You might find something that you like. I'm tempted to register idiotguru.com. Decision, decision... ♥

What? No weblogger among the Women.com's 10 Men of the Internet 2001? How disappointing. At least one of you has got to make it next year, guys! ;) ♥

I know a lot of geeks but most of them are coding geeks, but who knows, they might be closet gaming geeks as well. Anyway, Elementary Etiquette For Gaming Geeks was written by a gaming geek to help other gaming geeks improve relations between themselves and those around them. Hmmm. Is it really that bad? Be sure to check out the rules regarding the opposite sex. It's the funniest part. ♥

If you're thinking of getting a dog (or just love taking quizzes), take the Pooch Picker personality quiz. It will tell you the breeds of dog that best suit your personality. Apparently, I'll get along great with dogs that are consistent and friendly. No German Shepherd for me. ♥

Sunday Morning Haiku

The rain is pouring
Some nice music is playing
It's my kind of day

Some of you might not find the music by Alanis Morissette nice but I always play it when I'm feeling kind of depressed. I'm not feeling as depressed as I was yesterday so that's good news for those who care (if there's any). Anyway, I'm working on some sort of parody weblog that might make some people want to kill me if they don't get the joke. I just feel like doing something stupid. You'll be able to join the fun once I finished it. No, I'm not going to give you any spoiler. You just have to wait, though if you really want to know, you can always ask me as long as it's not on the little comment thingy. And yes, I'm still going to do that collaborative metablog I was talking about a couple of days ago. Am I productive or what? ;) ♥

Geek Boy Services, the emergency Silicon Valley fabulising service, is a service to help make geek boys appear like macho men or however they want to appear so they can get dates. It's kind of silly, though. I mean, what's wrong about being yourself? If they can't accept you the way you are then it's their loss. ♥

Having a really slow dial up intenet connection, I always find it important for a site to download quickly. That's one reason I hate sites with flashturbation on the splash page, especially the ones without "Skip Intro" link. Anyway, here's a list of Top 50 Sites That Download Quickly. The list is pretty current, updated January 23, 2001. I was surprised to see that Google wasn't listed. They listed Altavista and Yahoo! instead. They've got to be kidding. ♥

In case you want to know in which episodes of The X-Files the word "underpants" is mentioned, you can find out about it at The Underpants Archive. Yeah, some people do have too much free time. Or maybe they're just plain bored. I wonder if there's someone out there who keeps tally on how many times Scully starts a sentence with "Mulder, are you implying that [insert an appropriate X-File material here]?" ♥

Learn how to say "Whassup?!" in 36 languages, including Maori, Pig Latin, and Farsi, with Whassup?! Language Program. If that's not your thing, learn how to say "search engine" in many languages instead. Unfortunately, they don't have "Whassup?!" and "search engine" in Indonesian. In case you're wondering, "Whassup?!" in Indonesian is "Pakabar?!" (which is shorter form of "Apa kabar?") and "search engine" is, um, I dunno. Everyone calls it "search engine" here. But if you translate it word by word, it will mean "mesin pencari". ♥

Why do I feel like they rule and I suck? ♥

Saturday Morning Haiku

Cold and grey morning
The sky is covered with clouds
I'm waiting for rain

Today I learned that someone that I thought was older than me is actually younger than me. I thought he was older because he was so wise. There are so many people I know who are younger yet wiser than me. That's kind of depressing. I so wish I was wiser. Hell, I wish I could be wise. I wonder if I'd be a wise person if I got my wisdom teeth taken.

On a lighter note, I wish I could convince some people that dark-coloured text on a dark background is not readable. ♥

I really don't know what to say about The Erudite Laborer's Cries of Romance, except that it's weirdly funny. Fans of the Bard will love this :) ♥

Are you a lover or a loner? Apparently, the bitter me is a lover. Go figure. I hate Valentine's Day quizzes. No idea why I took this one. ♥

Have you ever been to any of the 20 best beaches in America? It looks like Florida has the best beaches. I can't even remember the last time I went to the beach. But then again, I've always preferred the mountain to the beach. ♥

I've noticed people using YMMV in their blog entries for so long. I had no idea what it was short for. Sometimes when I was bored to death, I liked to spend some time making up phrases that might be what YMMV short for. A few that I can recall are "You Mock My Vase", "You Make Me Vow" and "Your Mum May View". But if I used any of them to replace YMMV in some blog entry, it never clicked. Today I decided to look it up, and was a bit disappointed to learn that it's not quite as fun as I thought. ♥

I'm thinking of starting a collaborative metablog. In case you don't know what a metablog is, it's a weblog about weblogs. Anyway, if you read a lot of weblogs, know what's going on around Bloggerville, and have some snarky comments to spare, do contact me and we'll talk. As far as I know, there hasn't been any collaborative metablog since the now defunct Planet, uh, something (I'm sure Nik remembers the title *grins*) with Melanie (where are you now, Mel?), Andy and Wren. It's about time someone starts another one :)

Four hours later. Still no response, but at least someone's pleased at the prospect. Hmmm, let's put it this way. Save A Meta-Meta-Blogger! Join My Collaborative Metablog! ♥

Friday Morning Haiku

Back to work again
Thank God today is Friday
I live for weekends

I'm still not feeling too well but I need to collect my salary since I'm totally broke right now. And a workmate just informed me that it was my turn to receive "arisan". Woohoo! I don't know how to translate "arisan" into English. It's an Indonesian thing. It's like a joint saving account, only without interest, and each month one lucky member of the joint saving is given the right to withdraw all the money to do what they please with it. That means today I'll have enough money to buy a one-way ticket to the U.S. Yay! Not that I'm going there or anything. I might come to 2002 SXSW, though. You will have to come, too! :) ♥

Now you don't have to think hard to find a silly name for your AIM screen name or IRC nickname. Just pick one from the list of Names You Never Knew Existed. The names listed here are even worse than the names of Van Gogh's descendants (see below). ♥

If you're looking for a web page that shows pun at its very worst, you've got to check out Descandants of Vincent van Gogh. Apparently, Van Gogh's descendants are not very good at spelling. But don't let it stop you from visiting. It's funny, really. I'm still giggling *giggles* ♥

I really admire vegetarians because I don't think I could ever become one, no matter how hard I try. I'm too much of a carnivore. These Lettuce Ladies take vegeterianism to a new level by wearing -- you guess it -- lettuce leaves as their clothes while travelling all over the country promoting vegetarianism. I don't know what to think about it. ♥

I brought back the new template (because Jordan said he was so proud of me *grins*), only this time it's without cookies and, for the time being, the only "Pick an outfit" option that works is "randomise". To see another Random Firda, all you have to do is click the "Play" button. Play it! It's entertainment for the easily amused :) ♥

Back to the old template. The new template will be back once PHP is logical again :) ♥

I really hope that this Clix thingy, which is a rating thingy for journals and weblogs, won't catch on. I don't dare imagining seeing the annoying "Vote for me!" popups like the ones you see in many MP3 sites appearing all over Bloggerville. That would be too scary. ♥

Ooops, for some reasons the outfit and dog thingy don't seem to work. Hmmm, I wonder what's wrong. Must be because my host is still using PHP3 and the code was written in PHP4. Oh well. Nevermind. Help is on the way, and will be here in about 2 hours :P ♥

I just added the "Play" menu to the sidebar. By default, the theme will change according to the time here in Jakarta, Indonesia. From 6am to 5:59pm my time, the default will be the day theme, and from 6pm to 5:59am, it'll be the night theme. If you don't like the default, you can always change it. You can also change the outfit of Random Firda and the way the dog look using the "Play" thingy. Cool, huh? ;) Big thanks to Matt for hacking the code. If you find any bug, please let me know. ♥

Thursday Morning Haiku

I'm down with a 'flu
Thanks to the rain yesterday
That fell after lunch

I went for a lunch out with a workmate yesterday and when we were walking back to the office, the rain started to fall. She wouldn't run because her shoes were not made for running (or so she said). I wouldn't run because I loved the rain. So there we were, looking like a couple of weirdos in the rain. I knew I'd get sick the next day, but I just didn't care. As long as I could feel the rain falling on my face, I'd face all the consequences. I'm weird that way :) Anyway, I just called in sick. If I were at work, I'd wish I was still on bed. But now that I'm home, I'm sitting in front of the monitor instead. I'm such a dork. ♥

I wasn't drunk. I was just sleepy. That's why it took me 54 tries to finish the drunk memory game. And speaking of sleepy, my bedtime is in 5 minutes. Goodnight, world! :) ♥

The Guardian Unlimited's moodmatcher will guess whatever mood you're in based on your answers to the quiz and will present you with a poem that's supposed to be the poem that best suits your mood. Here's what they told me: "Oh dear, you're really down in the dumps ... But we understand; we won't tell you to look on the bright side of life, we'll offer you a poem with which to wallow in the depths of depression." The poem was Shakespeare's "Sonnet XXVIII". Blech! ♥

RepCheck.com is supposed to be a database of people's reputations, but really, who can guarantee that the information people enter into the database is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth (so help me, God)? I don't think people with bad reputation will admit that they have bad reputation. And what if someone with nothing better to do who doesn't even know you gives you a bad rating? It may ruin your reputation! I dunno, I just don't think that it's such a good idea. Reputation is such a fragile thing. It's hard to build yet so easy to ruin. ♥

BarkingNeighbors.com provides resources to both dog owners and their neighbours to assist in peacefully resolving dog barking related controversy. Don't blame the dog. Blame your neighbours. It's a pretty interesting read.

I have no problem with the dogs in my neighbourhood. They're pretty quiet. What I have a problem with is that damn bird. None of us knows the "official" name of the bird but we all know that it's the bird that's believed to be the messenger of death. Anyway, these last couple of months, the bird's been waking up the entire neighbourhood way before it's time to wake up, and it's always singing its song of death loudly over and over again for the entire morning. I so wish the bird would just give it up. Its prediction of death in the neighbourhood hasn't been very accurate lately. ♥

Have you ever wondered what your friends really think about you? I wonder about it, a lot. But not enough to make me sign up for an account at TruthAboutMe.com. I mean, if they didn't like me, they wouldn't have become my friends in the first place, right? Anyway, if you sign up for an account at TruthAboutMe.com, you'll be able to invite your friends to fill out a survey about you anonymously. Once they all filled out the survey, you'll be able to see what your friends generally think about you. ♥

Wednesday Morning Haiku

There was a rain storm
So early in the morning
It's cold, grey and wet

And I'm so sleepy. I really wish I was still in bed, wrapped in my good, old, warm, woollen blanket (a.k.a. Nyok version 2.0) instead of here at work. Anyway, I'm glad that it's Wednesday already. I guess time flies when you take the week one day at a time. Um, what else? Oh, I finally got the notification from SXSW informing me that my weblog didn't make it as a finalist. It didn't come as a surprise, of course. The $10 I paid did worth all the excitement. Now I have nothing else to be excited about webwise. How sad. Well, I can still be excited about Weblog Wannabe's first anniversary, which is in 2 weeks. But then what? Oh, I know. Redesign! :) ♥

I don't think men need A Man's Guide to Dressing (or any guide at all -- you know how men are ;) so I guess the purpose of this guide is to help women understand why men dress the way they do. ♥

If you feel like hooking up your friends with friends of your friends, Webwoo might be able to help you. The process is simple but my simple mind is not capable of handling simple things at the moment so you just have to see it for yourself :) I was going to advertise myself and ask you to hook me up with any of your wonderful friends but then decided against it at the last minute. You see, most of my readers are in the U.S. It just wouldn't be right geographically :P ♥

Take Family Wonder's Personality Test and find out your personality type as well as the movie characters you're most like. According to the test results, I'm an "Experimenter" (Dominant Introvert Abstract Thinker) like 6% of the population. Gee, a rarity! What a surprise! The movie character I'm most like is Indiana Jones. I love Indiana Jones. Also according to the results, I'm really a good person at heart. That's nice to hear :) ♥

If you happen to be interested in what's in other people's fridge, you might find look in my fridge interesting. It features pictures of fridge and its contents (what else?). You can also submit a picture of your fridge to them for inclusion. I didn't know that a fridge was also a glass storage. ♥

Save Bryan's Life! Please? ♥

The song stuck in my head right now is a rather old Indonesian song about a guy who sends a love letter to a girl he secretly loves though deep down he knows that he has no chance. No id