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How to pronounce my name correctly. Yeah, that's my voice. ♥

How To Write Good. "How to write good"? Isn't it supposed to be "How to write well"? ♥

Not only does the British Military fund Breast Implants for Some Female Soldiers, they also fund Soldiers' Sex Changes. Wow. ♥

I was having too much fun with the TechnoPagan Name Generator. I'm going to save some of you the trouble and tell you your TechnoPagan name: Nikolai is Tired Scanner, Jordan is Shimmering Windows3.1, and Matt is Reverend CPU. Me? Just call me Dusty Processor. ♥

Have you ever had a dream where you know it's you in the dream but you don't look like you at all? I had one last night. I looked like a business woman in the dream, dressed in formal clothes and all. I hate formal clothes. I always dress casually.

The dream was about a man, who was a millionaire. He fell in love with a woman. He asked him to come with him to the island where he lived, but she wouldn't go. She said she couldn't leave her house and her mother. The man couldn't take no for an answer so he ordered someone to move her house (with her and her mother in it) to his island by means of a helicopter.

That woman was not me. I was his business partner. He asked me to come along with him because he wanted to buy an engagement ring for the woman. As it turned out, all the jewellery stores were closed because they were running out of gold. Apparently, the millionaire man owned the only gold mine on the island and he had exported all the gold and left none for the local jewellery stores.

Then we went to the woman's house. The woman was angry because the man moved her house to the island without asking her first. She told him that she didn't want to see him anymore. The man was heartbroken and left.

We went for a ride along the coast. The sea looked emerald green. "Isn't the sea beautiful?" said he. "What's so beautiful about green sea? Sea is supposed to be blue!" said I. "Well, wait until you had champagne with me on a boat out in the sea," he said. "Yeah, right," I said, "I don't even drink."

So we came to visit this guy named Max who owned a floating restaurant. We were his only guests. As we sailed off to the sea with him as the skipper, Max saw someone stole his car. He jumped to the sea and swam to the shore to catch the thief. And catch the thief he did. And then I woke up. Stupid dream, eh? ;) ♥

Monday Afternoon Haiku

Monday's almost passed
Several hours to Tuesday
I'll be back to work.

I'm really going to tell my supervisor about my resignation tomorrow. There's no point keeping the job. I don't feel like I'm making any improvement with my work since I can't concentrate on what I'm doing at all. My mind is always wandering some place else. I think it would be best for everyone that I resign. I'm sure there are a lot people out there who are dying to be on my position and who will do a better job than me. I'm willing to give it to them. This job I'm having is not for me. There's got to be some other job that's suited me better and that will make me happy. I've tried for two years to enjoy this job but I just can't. I want out, badly. ♥

I'm so stupid I couldn't graduate from The Stupid Cupid Training School. Can you? ♥

After seeing paper clip porn, you'll never look at paper clips the same way again. ♥

Sunday Evening Haiku

Sunday come and gone
Monday will come very soon
No work on Monday.

Yay! :) I'm taking Monday off because of the possibility of a riot caused by the supporters of the ruling president who'll very likely be given a second memorandum/reprimand by the House of Representatives due to his unpopular policies tomorrow. He deserves it, really. Well, I hate politics so I won't elaborate more.

I didn't post any link yesterday because I fell asleep right after dinner. I tend to sleep a lot when I'm home. I've been spending all day working on the new design. The colours I use in the design are white, yellow and grey. Weird combination, don't you think? ;) But it doesn't look so bad. I might be able to finish it tonight. I just need to create some graphics and put all the PHP code and it'll all be set. Let's just hope that I won't be slacking again. ♥

Saturday Evening Haiku

It's been a long day
So untypically long
For a Saturday.

I'm working on the redesign again. I'm still trying to make the "Look Ma, No Tables!" design to work. I've uninstalled Netscape 6 since it's been giving me nothing but trouble so now I have no way to see how the design looks like in NS6. The postman delivered a package/birthday present from Nikolai today. It was such a pleasant suprise. Thanks, Nik! :) Well, I'm starving. I'll blog more after I fill my tummy. ♥

With PortaBush for Palm and Visor PDA, you can carry the U.S. President Bush wherever you go and take care of him Tamagotchi style. Kitty, fish, and monkey versions are also available. You can try it for free but to get the full featured version, you'll have to pay a fee. ♥

Learn how to build a Linux Toaster, which is a Linux server made out of a toaster oven, from a couple of high school students. Really cool! I'd love to have one. The creators think the server might end up being a chick magnet ;) ♥

RouterGod, the online magazine for Cisco professionals, is the place where you can read a number of celebrity interviews, such as Alicia Silverstone on ISDN, Gillian Anderson on LAN Switching, Anna Nicole Smith on the Cisco 1900 Series, Robert Downey Jr on Ethernet, Fabio on IGRP, and many more. Who would've guessed that all those celebrities are actually geeks. Heh. ♥

"With FinanceMyCosmeticSurgery.com, financing for your desired cosmetic surgery is only minutes away!" Um, okay. But why? You look great the way you are! ♥

Thanks, Carrie! I am a cataloger, would you believe? ;) Yes, I am resigning. I still don't have the heart to tell my supervisor about my resignation. I should've told her at lunch today but she kept on complaining about how everyone was either resigning or retiring and I just didn't have the heart. Wimp. ♥

I wish I could enter the Blogger Template Design Contest, but I'm not eligible to enter since I'm not a U.S. resident. It's funny how the prize winners are going to be drawn out of the hat. "Authors of the templates chosen for use on Blogger will then be entered into the prize drawing. Prize winners will be determined by a random drawing to be conducted by Sponsor, at its offices on or about June 15, 2001 from all eligible final template designs." I don't know about you, but in my opinion, it would make winning the prize feel somewhat less special. ♥

I don't know which one is bothering me more: Blogger getting nominated for a Webby in Personal category (I didn't know Blogger was a personal site) or Ev getting misunderstood by Zeldman regarding the concept of his other blog, The End of Free. ♥

Friday Morning Haiku

My tooth's still aching
The damn flu is here to stay
I need lots of rest.

I can't wait for this day to be over. I'm dying for the weekend. My mother has suggested me to go see the doctor again since the coughs have returned and it's not a good sign considering I just recovered from a very nasty case of bronchitis, but I'm not so crazy about the prospect of having to take lots of medicines three times a day again so I'm still hoping for some kind of miracle, that it will go after the much-needed 3-day weekend.

On a different note, today I'm going to tell my supervisor that I'm going to resign in June. I hope she won't break down and cry, or worse, get angry with me. Wish me luck! ♥

The Girl's Guide to Hong Kong Movies will help girls see why guys are so fascinated by Hong Kong movies. Well, Asian guys anyway. Are you not an Asian but enjoy watching Hong Kong movies? If you are, you must be a rare species. I've watched more Hong Kong movies on TV than I'd like to admit. Most I watched because there was nothing better to see, or I was just too lazy to find the remote control. Some of them were pretty interesting in my opinion, especially those with unhappy ending. ♥

Cold tablets don't seem to be safe for anyone's consumption anymore these days. This mock commercial of a fake cold tablet called the Anti-Cold is a humorous take on the situation. It's a one-minute streaming video. Small download compared to all those flash movies. ♥

Do you remember The Beagles? Bucky and Pepito? Gigantor? Hoppity Hooper? Well, neither do I. Otherwise, they wouldn't be called lost cartoons. Find even more lost cartoons at the Toon Tracker site. It will take you on a trip down the memory lane, way back when the cartoon characters didn't swear. ♥

I was so bored I decided to find out what was written on the border of Haiku the Blog table. I know I could've asked the designer but where's the challenge? ;) Anyway, the writing on the border says "HaikuoriginatedinJapananddevelopedfromrengalong poemsoflinkedverseoftenwrittenbygroupsofpoets" and I thought to myself, "How appropriate!" Did I say I was bored? ♥

Nikolai must have got into a blogging frenzy. Six posts already today. Wow. ♥

I don't know how people could afford to have so few shortcut icons on their desktop. Must be because they're not as big a control freak as I am. My desktop at home is so full of shortcut icons that you can hardly see the picture on the wallpaper. ♥

Thursday Morning Haiku

Painkillers do rock
But they don't solve the problem
My tooth's still aching.

Not to mention that they make me so sleepy. I took a bigger dose this morning and now I'm barely awake, which wouldn't be such a problem if I weren't at work. I'm too big of a coward to go to the dentist. I guess this is the price I have to pay for my cowardishness (is that a word?). So, two of my blogging pals are away from home and one is having a problem with his computer. I'm feeling so alone. Sniff. Loneliness makes Firda a sad girl. ♥

If you feel like learning something new, how about learning how to play a finger flute? If I didn't have a toothache, I'd try it. Why don't you try it and tell me if it works? ;) ♥

CyberParodies.com has more hilarious song parodies than you can shake a stick at, from "Will The Real Slim Shady Please Shutup" (which is a parody of you-know-what) through to "Dot Coms They Are A Closin'" (which is a parody of Bob Dylan's "The Time They Are A Changin'"). ♥

To play Who Wants to Win A..., being British is a must. That is, if you want to win the prizes. It's not that the British are the smartest or anything (well, maybe Jon P. is *grins*), but the questions are very British-oriented, which is actually nice for a change since the rest of the games on the web seems to be very American-oriented. I could only score 400, which means I answered two consecutive questions correctly. The third question was what Royal Engineers were called. How was I supposed to know that? ♥

I just realised that I had misposted (is that a word?) the below entry to someone else's weblog. It must've been there for two hours when I deleted it. Stupid me. ♥

Flu and toothache make Firda a miserable girl. ♥

If I had a portfolio, I'd apply for this job. My rates would be so low that they can't help but hiring me *grins* Oh, I stole the link from Kottke.org (that hates). ♥

Joe, I'd be happy to help you with the jobless project, since I'll be jobless myself pretty soon ;) You know, if jobless people would join forces, they could create something big. Really big. So big that I don't know what it could be. Hmm. Oh, I know. They could start their own enterprise! I mean, each of the laid-off folks should have their own skills. If all those people with various skills were united under one enterprise, anything could happen. Don't you think so? Did I leave something out? Don't tell me: venture capitalists, right? Yeah, they suck. But who needs venture capitalists when you have each other? Think about it. I am. ♥

Now that I've made a decision, I'm feeling so much better. Phew. Now I can start planning my life ahead. ♥

Wednesday Morning Haiku

Only Wednesday
But I wish it was Friday
Weekend, come here fast!

I'm seriously considering quitting my job and I need encouragement. Encourage me, please? And please don't tell me that being jobless is more depressing than having a depressing job. I'm so unhappy here. My heart is not on the job at all. Instead, it's wandering out there on the web. I think it's time for me to start following my own dreams. I've been following my parents' dreams for too long and it doesn't make me happy though it does do my parents proud. I'm going to send a personal letter to my supervisor, informing her of my resignation this Friday. June will be my last month here. Nothing can stop me now. ♥

Make your own boyband! Choose the band members, give the band a name, write the hit song and you're all set to either win a Grammy or the British Music Award. My boyband is called "No Losers" and it has a hit ballad called "Wanna Cyber?" that won a Grammy. Heh. ♥

Have you ever heard of Error 403.1415952? Well, if you haven't, all I can say is that it's much more annoying than Error 404. The rest you just have to find out for yourself. ♥

I love. ♥

I want to be not a web designer, nor a programmer, but an information architect when I grow up. (No, I'm not a big fan of Jakob Nielsen. I prefer Jeff Veen.) It's just that I suck at designing and programming but enjoy criticising other people's website interface. Anyway, it's funny how most of the websites that belong to the information architects that I've ever come across don't really have good interface, let alone good design. They must spend too much time criticising others that they have no time to pay attention to their own websites. ♥

I just found that this site looks horrible when viewed with a monitor with bigger resolutions than 800x600 (why didn't anyone tell me about this before?!). It's yet another reason to get rid of this design. ♥

Tuesday Morning Haiku

It's only Tuesday
Still three more days to weekend
A long way to go.

Sorry for not posting many links last night. Flu makes a very sleepy Firda. Thanks to everyone who posted some comments to yesterday's posts (that are really lame IMO, ie. my posts, not your comments). You made my day :) I'd write more, but I can't think of anything else to say... ♥

This conversation contains the names of all 24 Greek letters. Can you find them all? I could only find lambda. But then again, alpha, beta, gamma, kappa, lambda, sigma, and teta are about the only Greek alphabets I know. ♥

One thing just cheered me up a bit. I've come to a realisation that I look younger than I really am. I look 20. Or rather, I look exactly like this when I was 20. And no, it doesn't mean that I looked 28 when I was 20. This has been a public announcement service brought to you by the number 7 and the letter F. ♥

My aunt is nuts for noodles, according to this interview by the Sacramento Bee. It's running in the family, I guess. I live on ramen noodles. Not that I have any choice. It's either that or some greasy, fatty stuff like the cow's innards. As much as I like cow's innards, I don't really want to have it every single day of my life. ♥

I've got "Happy Together" by The Turtles stuck in my head since Friday and I can't seem to get it out. I think I'm going to sing it tonight and put it up here so you could listen and get an earache :) ♥

I bought a can of my favourite candy last Saturday. And you know what sucks? I forgot to bring some to work and now I have a craving for it. Sigh. My mother thinks it's funny that I like coffee candy but don't drink coffee at all. ♥

Does any of you remember a short-lived TV series from 1998 called "Cupid"? It's my current favourite TV show. They should be flattered because I don't watch much TV but I don't mind waiting until 11pm on Sunday night just to watch the show. ♥

By the way, if you're waiting for me to post some links, you'll have to wait until tonight (or tomorrow morning if you're in the U.S.). I've tonnes of work to do. Sorry. ♥

Monday Mornin Haiku

I am so sleepy
And I've got a bad headache
Worst Monday ever.

I had plenty of mini-naps yesterday. I was having a bad day and the last thing I want when I'm having a bad day is to be awake. At least I don't feel anything when I'm asleep. And no, I didn't take any sleeping pill. I hate taking drugs, prescribed or not. The only good thing about yesterday was to learn that Nik's new cat finally has a name :) I just feel sorry for nameless creatures. I know I'd be confused if I had no name. Not that the cat cares whether he has a name or not, but still... ♥

Sunday Night Haiku

I wasn't going
To blog at all this Sunday
But I just gave in.

It's 10:30pm now and it's so hot I can't sleep. I just had a very American dinner: donut and Coke. That is if you could call it a dinner. I'm ditching the design I've been slaving over the last couple of weeks. It just didn't work the way I wanted it to. I hope none of the 3 of you who have seen the design would be disappointed :) I know someone would be happy to know that I'm going to use tables instead of CSS layout in the next design. Anyway, I don't really know if I'll be able to find anything blogworthy tonight. I'm just going to enter some silly keywords into Google and see if there's any interesting results. Oh by the way, I'm registering firdabeka.com. I want to put my cv/resume online. I desperately need a new, web-related job. Hire me? I might be quirky, but I'm pretty creative and inventive. Not to mention cheap. What more could an employer ask for? ;) ♥

Top 10 ways to spot an alien. You'll never know, the person sitting next to you might be an alien. Even you might be an alien. I know I am. ♥

Have some fun with domain names with the Surrealist Domain Name Generator. I'm sure Jordan's going to love spatulaheadwristwatch.com. I know I love paperduckyculinary.net. Should I register it? ♥

If colloqualisms are the monosodium glutamate of the English language and I'm a native English speaker, I'd probably be dead. Well, maybe not. But I'm kind of allergic to MSG. Anyway, there are plenty of humorous colloquialisms shared by people of Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada and Aroostook County, Maine, USA collected in Carleton County Colloquialisms with sound clips. Gotta love people who pronounce Chicago "Chicargo" :) ♥

Saturday Morning Haiku

I love my new place
Yes, I love my new domain
Dum doo doo dum dum.

Happiness is finding out that the new server that hosts your new domain supports PHP4, which means loads of fun with XML! Woohoo! :) And the server is really fast since it's located here instead of somewhere in the U.S. I feel like jumping with joy. Not sure what I'm going to do with all the webspace (100MB), though. And MySQL! Gee, I don't even know how to use it BUT I will soon :) Ok, so one of the servers that host one of my domains has MySQL too, but it's slow as snail compared to this new server. The webspace is like a blank canvas waiting to be painted with a great masterpiece. Or something. God, how I love the web. So I'm a dork. Just shoot me. ♥

Take the age quiz by answering 20 questions on American pop culture and see if your knowledge reflects your age. Not being an American, I only managed to answer 9 out of the 20 questions correctly, which makes me a 12 years old. Heh. How well did you do? ♥

How come there's an oddball but there's no evenball? ♥

You know what's weird? I'm 28, but I keep on thinking that I'm 29. Weird, huh? And no, I don't want to be 29. I like 28. It's an even number. I love even numbers even though my favourite number is an odd number and I'm an oddball myself. Yeah. ♥

You know what? I'm probably the only visitor who got nauseatic upon visiting The Chopped-Off Hands of Star Wars, which is a site devoted to all the hands that get chopped off in the Star Wars saga. Even seeing the chopped-off hand of an alien made my tummy feel funny. I really should get used to seeing violence, especially since I see it every day on TV. ♥

This prank letter to a heart hospital and its reply really got me grinning *grins* If I were the one who received that letter, I'd wonder if the sender would live to read the reply. ♥

If you want to get a revenge on someone but don't have the guts to do it yourself, you can always have Revenge-R-Us do it for you. They just enjoy making the jerks in the world miserable. All you have to do is fill out the form with the address of the, um, revengee (is that a word?), submit it, and they'll do the rest. Just don't hold your breath for the effects because they only do this thing in their spare time. And what a spare time they have when they do have it. ♥

Before you start that world domination plan of yours, you'd better read
A Beginner's Guide to Taking Over the World first, just in case. Always remember that if none of the plans works, you can always hit yourself over the head with a big stick. ♥

Friday Morning Haiku

"Thank God it's Friday"
Is a haiku friendly phrase
I wish there were more.

Well, there's probably more, but I can't think of any. Can you? Anyway, I really can't wait to go home. I live for weekends. Every weekend is worth waiting 5 days for. I'm going to start the redesign all over again to make the code (or rather, the CSS) less complicated and easier to maintain. Oh, by the way, does anyone have the url to that site with a comparative table of HTML form field size in IE and Netscape? I came across it months ago but forgot to bookmark it. I just hate how IE and Netscape take form field size differently. If you could help me find that site again, I'd be forever grateful. ♥

So my mum woke me up so early in the morning. It wasn't even 5am yet.

Mum: Hey, wake up! All your fish are gone!
Me: <mumbles> They're still asleep, Mum. </mumbles> *pull up my blanket*
Mum: But they're not here at all!
Me: <mumbles> Knock the aquarium wall. It would wake them up. </mumbles>
Mum: But there's nothing in there! Did you throw them away?
Me: <mumbles> No, I didn't, Mum. They're probably dead. </mumbles>
Mum: But dead fish is supposed to float. There's nothing floating in there.
Me: Zzzzzz...
Mum: Wake up, girl! It's past 5am already!

She was lying. It was only 4:50am when I took the shower. And I think all my fish have been abducted by aliens. ♥

Ask your site, "Who do you think you are?" and discover its true character. My site seems to think it's Tony Manero. "It loves mirror sites and to overdose on flash till it crashes from its platforms. Nights are for faqs and its firewall gives it fever. Neighbouring sites hate it. Its music is too loud." It aims to become like How to Dance Properly and the Bee Gees. Hmm. Who on earth is Tony Manero? ♥

Thursday Morning Haiku

Don't want to haiku
But don't want not to either
Is this a haiku?

Didn't think so. Hmm. What to say, what to say. Funny how I'm looking forward to someone to pop in the Quack-O-Matic and talk to me yet I don't really have anything to say here. Let's see. Oh, guess what? My older brother's girlfriend's (fiancee's?) parents just disowned her because she is getting married to my brother who comes from a different ethnic and follows a different religion from her and her family. Sad, huh? I don't think I'd be able to do that to my child. I'd want him/her so much to be happy that I'd let him/her marry anyone he/she wants regardless of his/her religion or ethnicity or race, as long as it makes him/her happy. Would that make me a bad parent? ♥

Would it be redundant to say that the Ice Hotel Quebec is, well, cool? The hotel was actually made from ice! I don't think I'd want to stay there, though. I'd freeze to death! Well, unless they equip each room with a central heating system then it would be another story. ♥

Lucky Dollars Game is an ASCII Pong game. I find it tougher than the more sophisticated versions. I only managed to score 30 in, like, 6 tries. Play it and see if you can do better than me! ♥

Yay! Blogger is now smarter than last year! :) ♥

There is really such thing as Coalition for Robot Freedom. What would robots want freedom for? This is really beyond my simple mind.

Oh, by the way, if this post shows up under "Thursday", don't believe it. Blogger's lying to you. It's only 11:14 PM on Wednesday. You just got to believe me. ♥

Own this Restaurant in Phoenix, Arizona for $100! Well, actually, the $100 is only the fee you have to pay to enter an essay contest to win the above-mentioned restaurant. But if you don't want the restaurant, I won't turn down any donation that comes my way ;) ♥

Note to self: strike-struck-struck not strike-stroke-struck.

English is so confusing. ♥

I feel like redesigning the new design. Shoot me. ♥

I've heard a lot of jokes about our president (who is practically blind and hasn't been very popular lately (not because of his blindness, mind you) and has been asked to resign by everyone and his mother but still won't comply), but this one told by a workmate is by far the funniest (and no, it's not the sickest, I assure you):

A: Did you know that the president is dead and that he died smiling?
B: Really? How?
A: A lightning struck him.
B: Why was he smiling?
A: He thought the lightning was a flash light from a reporter's camera.

Yes, I'm quite sure that it's not the sickest joke I've ever heard about the president. You don't want to hear the sickest one. ♥

I'm going to have to add more details to the new design and boy, does it look crappy in IE4. I don't know how a friend could say "Very nice!" when I showed it to him and he actually viewed it in IE4 *grins* Another friend who viewed it in Netscape 6 said, "Bad Firda, using layers and all. Go use tables instead!" And yet another friend who viewed it in IE5.5 said, "I'm very jealous!" and decided to start his redesign all over again. Yeah, I have really lovely friends. I won't trade them for the world :) ♥

I am writing a new "About" page and am thinking of putting up an Infrequently Asked Question section. If you have any question at all about me (especially silly ones, but serious questions are also welcome), please post it in the little comment thingy, and if I like it, I'll include it in the InfAQ section. Humour me, please? ♥

Wednesday Morning Haiku

I am so sleepy
And I have a runny nose
Flu is killing me.

Sorry for not posting any link yesterday. I got a flu attack and all I wanted to do was to sleep. I had a night full of dreams of old college friends, birthdays, land mines, sweaters, and a murder attempt (with me as the victim). I don't really want to know what that means.

Anyway, I finally got enough space to install Netscape 6 yesterday after I deleted lots and lots of folders full of designs that I did mostly in 1999. I'm not too impressed by the intensive use of Java in Netscape 6. I can barely use it to browse. It takes like 5 minutes just to go to a certain site and another 5 minutes to load that site. I'm not going to keep it. No, Siree! I'll uninstall it as soon as I finish my new design. I could use the space it ate (around 140MB???) for more useful thing, like, um, storing some MP3 files *grins*

Anyway, I finally managed to get the new design look more or less the same in Netscape 6 as it is in IE5.5 but I still have a problem with the positioning of one of the images. I think I'm going to have to get rid of that image and change it with something that's less hard to position. Now back to work! ♥

I wish my computer had some space to spare for me to install Netscape 6. I'm dying to fix my new design. I've deleted all programs that I don't use regularly (which includes the small and lovely Paint Shop Pro 5) but there's still not enough space. Ack! ♥

Tuesday Morning Haiku

It's barely morning
But it is not noon yet so
It's still morning. Right?

So I managed to get the HTML of my new design validated again but the bad news is it looks crappy in Netscape 6 (and should look even worse in Netscape 4.7). I would hate to get rid of that design. It looks so lovely and so springy. Well, it does in IE5.5 anyway. I wish all browsers would render HTML and CSS the same way. But I guess it's not going to happen until cows have wings. Sigh. ♥

I'm currently having a dial-up connection of 49kbps. If you have a dial-up connection as well, is it faster or slower than mine? I know his is slower :P ♥

I just saw Dido's "Thank You" video today and I like the irony. The song says, "Thank you for giving me the best day of my life," and the video shows what's supposed to be Dido's house being destroyed. If there was a boyfriend character in the video, I probably wouldn't have been so impressed, but there isn't. Like I said earlier, I like the irony. ♥

Uplister is a Web-based playlist sharing community. It requires a (free beta) software download so I can't test it for you since I can't stuff any more software into my computer, but I like the idea. ♥

I asked the Cootie Catcher if my crush had a crush on me too and I was told to keep it in my trousers. What does that mean? I suck at English idioms. No, English is not my first language, in case you're wondering. ♥

Guys, if you're planning to get a new hairstyle, you should check out Barber Kent's website. He has posted a lot of pictures of his customers sorted by hairstyle. Barber Kent believes that every guy should get a mohawk and have his head shaved at least once in his lifetime. Perhaps it's time for you to either get a mohawk or a bald head? ;) ♥

I think I've blogged this about a year ago but I've been having too much fun on this site lately that I'm going to blog it again: nameboy. It's a fun domain name search. I always go there when I'm bored even though I know I can't afford to register any of the domain names that I come up with. You should check it out, even if you're not planning to register any domain name. It's pretty addicting. ♥

If you hate your job like I do, you might want to learn how to cope with co-workers or boss. It might help. ♥

Monday Evening Haiku

An evening haiku
Two days in a row. I know.
I'm inconsistent.

But I've been pretty uninspired in the morning. Not that I'm inspired now but I just feel like babbling. Anyway, I managed to make the PHP work with the new design with a really silly hack in the form of an extra closing div tag which makes the HTML doesn't validate anymore. It might not work in other browsers so I don't think I'm going to use that hack. I think I'll wait until I come up with a better solution before I have the new design up. This has been a public announcement for those who care, if any. ♥

Hey, Joe's ageless project is online! Whee! See, I told you I wasn't the oldest blogger in the community! I'd join in but I'd hate to see the screen shot of this design there. It just doesn't look my age. Think I'll wait until my new design's up :) Not that it looks my age or anything. Hell, no. But at least it's not green. I'm getting sick of green. Ugh. ♥

Noiseways Project features pictures and sound recordings from various locations in New York City. Very interesting. The sound recording is a nice touch. I wish every city in the world had something like this. Why don't you create one of your city so I could experience it without actually visiting it (which I don't think I could ever afford)? ;) ♥

I doubt that sleeping position can tell anything about one's personality, but it's an interesting read nonetheless. I'm a side sleeper with one knee bended and apparently it means my identity is lost and I'm having some sort of nervous disorder. Huh? ♥

Would you pay $10 just to get a monkey phone call from someone pretending to be a monkey? If it was from a real monkey, I probably would, but it's not! This part really cracked me up: "Our monkey phone call operators take great pride in their monkey calls. They are trained for many weeks before being allowed to do a monkeyphonecall.com monkey phone call for you. Don't forget with monkeyphonecall.com you get a professional call, not a cheap imitation!" Oh, please! Isn't imitating (a monkey) exactly what they're doing? ♥

AmeriStat, just in case you're interested in U.S. Population Data. It's more interesting than watching Pokemon. Pika pika. Does "foreign-born" equal immigrant? ♥

Was this Google's April Fools' design? Not that I remember Google having a different design last April 1. Hmm. ♥

Sunday Evening Haiku

It's dark already
The rain is still pouring and
The roof's still leaking.

I've got a headache, thanks to PHP that screws up the <DIV> tag. Does anyone know how to insert PHP into a CSS extensive HTML file without screwing up the <DIV> and the whole layout? Grr. I should've known this would happen. Everything went too smoothly. I should've kept Murphy's Law in mind, that if something can go wrong, it will. Can anyone help me, please? I'm about to lose my mind! My only consolation is that the design validates to W3C standards, both HTML-wise and CSS-wise. Surprise, surprise. ♥

Saturday Morning Haiku

I am having fun
Good, clean, geeky fun with code
Still redesigning.

So please excuse the lack of posts. I'm learning a lot of new stuff this time around. Don't expect the result to be extraordinary, though. You might regret it ;) But the most important thing is I'm having fun and learning a lot at the same time. I wish I could get paid doing this stuff. I'd be the happiest girl on earth. ♥

Magic Basket could very well be one of the reasons Clippy the Office Assistant got fired (well, maybe not, but please humour me by believing it). I haven't tried it, but it's supposed to be an Assistant for Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer. It produces an additional bar for file management as well as Filter and Favorites for folders. You can download these addons for free. If you've got this thing installed, let me know how it works! ♥

Hear and see Clippy the Office Assistant complaining and singing about his pathetic life after getting fired by Microsoft, even though he worked there without getting paid. Poor Clippy. I'd never been very fond of him myself but still... Poor Clippy. You can also cast your vote to decide what Clippy should do with all his newfound spare time. ♥

Nikolai, who is one of the few old blogging pals I have who are still talking to me, has redesigned so you have to visit his site, or else. What can I say, I'm so good at making enemies online! ;) Anyway, I should've got my new design up before he did. Now every time I look at my new design, I keep on comparing it with his which makes mine look so amateur. Sigh. ♥

Rumour has it that OtherSide version 0.91 is out, and that it really works ;) Find out where exactly is your other side of the world! ♥

I want to be a poet when I grow up. A geek poet. (Or is it a poet geek?)

I wanted to be a geek opera singer. (Or is it an opera singer geek?) But I can't sing to save my life.

Why does English have to be so confusing? ♥

PaZing is a Pong game with an Easter theme. All you have to do is move the bunny head so that the egg bounce on it. It's an addicting little Shockwave game. I scored 5269 on first try which would've put me on 76th rank had I been a registered player :) ♥

Friday Morning Haiku

Yippee, yippee, yay!
Today is a holiday!
Blogger works again!

Hmm. What I'm going to do today? Oh yeah, finishing my new design, which looks crappy in Netscape 4.7. Blech. Er. I really don't have anything to say this morning so I guess I'll just get into the blogging mode while I feel like it. Stick around! ♥

My mother told me this morning, "Honey, you smell so good. What's the perfume?"

I never use any perfume. I just smell good.

My father barked at me this morning, "When will you grow up?!?"

I don't want to grow up. Grown-ups are dull like him.

Unix the Fish died this morning. ♥

Visible Barbie Project is a parody of Visible Human Project, both of which I don't quite understand.

The Amazing Jumping Cat Experience has some video clips that show some cats jumping. What else do you expect? They're pretty amusing, though.

The Public 8 Ball is not like all those random CGI-powered 8 Balls because this 8 Ball is really being shaken with some robotic hands in real time just for you. Then you can read what the 8 Ball predicts by means of a video camera. I asked the 8 Ball, "Who loves me, baby?" and the answer was "Outlook Good". Yeah.

Greed! is one depressing Shockwave board game. Enough said.

Now I feel less guilty for not posting enough links yesterday and I can work in peace. ♥

Thursday Morning Haiku

I'm feeling crappy
But at least tomorrow is
A day off. No work!

I was going to blog more last night but I fell asleep as soon as I finished the new version of Quack-O-Matic. I didn't know developing a simple program could be so addicting. I always feel like adding a new feature every day! I think the addiction is a step (or two) towards the geekdom. I don't want to be a geek wannabe forever, you know. So far, only Matt has admitted my geek status, but one day the whole world will admit it. You're no exception :)

The latest version of Quack-O-Matic has a couple of new features: auto-refresh where you get to determine the refresh rate, and auto-hyperlink where urls are converted into hyperlinks automatically without you having to write the html tags. Please drop by the Quack-O-Matic now, even if it's only to leave a url. It's getting lonely over there. ♥

Yahoo! Internet Life's list of America's Most Wired Cities and Towns 2001 is out. Apparently, San Jose, CA is now more wired than San Francisco, CA. Is your hometown on the list? Does it deserve it? Does it not? Does it deserve a better ranking? (This is a link to last year's list, in case you'd like to compare.) ♥

Once again, I failed to submit an entry to the 5K Contest. I suck. ♥

Further to a discussion on The Other Side of the World, Jordan has written a neato script to find out where exactly is your other side of the world, which is now available for your amusement here (which is now broken, thanks to my silly idea of MetaFiltering it). And Matt has created an inverted map of the world which serves the same purpose that you can see here. Keep in mind that both guys subscribe to the same The Other Side of the World theory, which is different from mine (yes, I just have to be different :P). According to their theory, my other side of the world is somewhere far, far away in Colombia, South America, which is obviously not a place located anywhere north of Iowa. ♥

I didn't get to finish Quack-O-Matic version 1.02 last night, mainly because my PHP scripting skills plain suck. Mr. Weasel Orthographique (which is French for "PHP Master" according to Matt, though I got the feeling that Michel the French Guy would disagree of the definition) did help by giving me some coding tips but I was just too sleepy to digest it. But hopefully I'll be able to finish it tonight. The Quack-O-Matic version 1.02 will have an auto-refresh feature with user-determined refresh rate (e.g. every 30 seconds or every 15 seconds), which is a feature requested by the two Quack-O-Matic regulars (ha-ha!), Matt and Jordan. Oh, by the way, I've added a link (which also serves as a bookmarklet) to Quack-O-Matic on the sidebar under "Projects", upon Troy's request. Feel free to pop in and say hi! :) ♥

Wednesday Morning Haiku

I am so hungry
I am having my breakfast
Of bread and water.

If I have my dinner, I'll be hungry like a wolf in the morning, but if I don't have my dinner, I won't feel hungry in the morning. Weird, huh? My body must have a pretty wacky metabolism. But then again, everything about me is wacky. Otherwise, I wouldn't be such a weirdo (read: individual). My brother came home bringing something for dinner last night so I just had to have it though I knew that I'd be more starving than my goldfish in the morning. Speaking of goldfish, I think I haven't described what the goldfish I got for my birthday look like, so here it goes:

Nikolai the Fish is silvery white with a few specks of red here and there. He's the fish with the most proportional body in the tank. He's quite a loner and he has a certain way of catching the stuff I feed them. He seems to do it systematically. Needless to say, he always gets most of the food, but still he seems to be hungry all the time.

Jordan the Fish (formerly Linux the Fish but I renamed him to Jordan because he has more character) is plain orange. He's quite playful. He has a rounded body and short tail, which makes him look funny when he swims. He likes to take bubble bath (read: swimming in the air bubbles generated by the aerator). He practically grabs the food off my hand at feeding time.

Unix the Fish is also plain orange and is really dumb. He's the one that should be renamed to Windows. Yesterday I found him stuck in a corner between the water filter and the aquarium walls when I got home from work. It wasn't the first time he got stuck there. I wish he'd stay out of trouble like the rest so I didn't have to worry about him when I'm at work.

Linux the Fish is silvery white with more specks of red than Nikolai the Fish. He has a long tail but since he's terribly lazy, he always seems like he's dragging his tail when he moves. That's all I have to say about him. And that's the reason I renamed him from Jordan the Fish to Linux the Fish. He simply didn't deserve the name.

I'll post some pictures of them sooner or later. Just be patient! :) ♥

Check out the pictures of a bunch of celebrity lookalikes, from Pamela Anderson to Tiger Woods lookalike. The resemblance is frightening. ♥

Play Tetris and win an original Swiss Army knife from Victorinox! That is, if you can make it into the weekly top 10 high scorers. The Tetris itself is not extraordinary. It's just, well, Tetris. I haven't played Tetris for ages now so I only managed to score 600 something. Bummer. I used to be able to score more than 10,000 on my portable Tetris. ♥

Find out how Hilary Clinton, Dubya, Prince Charles and Bill Gates would look like if they were wearing a mullet with The Mullet Generator. You can also upload your own photo or your friend's to see how you or your friend would look like with a mullet on your/their head. It's fun for the whole family! ♥

Which one of the above theories makes more sense to you? ;) ♥

I remember now why I went to the high school prom. I didn't go voluntarily. My mum made me. I didn't dress up as a protest. Hey, I was a teenager! ♥

Do you guys get Easter Monday holiday in the US? Is it a national holiday? If you do, I should've got that too from my employer, but I don't. It sucks :( But last year I heard that you didn't even get a day off on Good Friday so I guess I should smile :) I'm so hopeless. All I do is counting the days until the next holiday. ♥

I just took the CSS Quiz Test at W3Schools.com and I scored 80%. Not bad :) I'm sure you can score better. Speaking of CSS, can anyone tell me where I can find a CSS2 color chart, i.e. the 3 digit color chart instead of the hex/6 digit one? ♥

Tuesday Morning Haiku

It's only Tuesday
Really wish it was Thursday
Weekend starts Friday.

Or rather, Thursday after work. I'm happy to see that some lovely people are actually using the Quack-O-Matic. I just read a discussion on how to determine what's exactly on the other side of the earth from your home there. If Matt's theory is valid and the other side of the world from where Jordan lives is off the West Coast of Australia, then the other side of the world from where I live has got to be somewhere near where Nikolai lives, or a little more to the East from there. Interesting :) Feel free to pop in the Quack-O-Matic and join in the discussion! ♥

Well, I just finished Quack-O-Matic version 1.01, now with timestamp. I got to chat with Troy and Jordan with it today, which was cool. So, yeah. I'm too sleepy to think so I'd better head off to bed now. Nighty night! ♥

Learn how to eat your KFC feast and how to manage your meal so you can eat more at the KFC Appreciation Website. Too bad I'm not so crazy about KFC. I prefer Indonesian fried chicken, which is a lot more tasty and spicy. Mmm, chicken! I still like beef better, though.

If you're planning to travel on a plane from Denmark to the US with two cats in tow, you'd better read Cats By Air first. You'll learn a lot, and have some laugh along the way.

Ingvar will cook anything for any number of people for free as long as you invite him to dine with you. He cooks food of all types (for all types of people): "cheap food, tomato, kamikaze food, expensive food, simple food and a lot, lot more". I'd be interested to know what kamikaze food is like. My guess is it has some poison in it.

I find it highly amusing that the tagline for wives4sale.com is "Dreams Can Come True". Is it really what every married man is dreaming of? To sell his wife?

Intelligence Quotient test is so last century. This century, all the cool kids are taking the Idiot Quotient test. I only scored 28, which means I'll have some difficulties in achieving idiothood. Hmm.

Now I'm going to have some coding fun. I sound more and more geeky every day and I'm quite happy about it. Mind you, I aspire to be an ubergeek :) ♥

I regretted going to my high school prom. It was one of the biggest waste of time and money in my entire life. I can't remember why I came at all. I didn't even bother to dress up. I just wore a t-shirt and jeans and my favourite pair of worn-out sneakers and I was set to go. I can't remember anything from it, apart from the place where the prom was held and the ride back home where I got to say goodbye to several classmates along the way, mostly for good. I was so relieved that high school was over. I just knew I'd have a blast in college. And I did. Oh yes, I did.

I miss college so much. ♥

Hey, I've actually been productive! That's scary. I'm supposed to be a slacker. Hmm. ♥

Monday Morning Haiku

I am so sleepy
Still seven hours to go
Before going home :(

Yeah. I'm sleepy. Yawn. I went to bed late last night, but I'm happy that I got to finish Quack-O-Matic Version 1.0 :) It still needs some more features like timestamp and self-refresh option. I'm working on it. Anyway, sorry for the lack of links this weekend. I promise to post some tonight. Meanwhile, you can visit MetaFirda for some meta linky love if you feel like it. I just updated it this morning. I hope it'll inspire you to start your own metablog with snarky commentaries :) ♥

Sorry, no links today. I got caught up working on a new feature and suddenly it was late already. The new feature is something called Quack-O-Matic, which is basically a very simple PHP-based chat thingy. I'm planning to make it an integrated part of the new design but you can beta-test it now if you want. I've created a bookmarklet for it. Just drag this Quack-O-Matic link to your toolbar. You will get a popup that says, "You are adding a link that may not be safe. Do you want to continue?" Just click "Yes". It's safe, I promise. Once you add it to your toolbar, whenever you feel like quacking, all you have to do is click it. The Quack-O-Matic popup window will, uh, pop up and then you can start quacking with other quackers that happen to be there. It's fun for the whole family! Try it. It'll make me happy :) ♥

Sunday Morning Haiku

It's Sunday again
And tomorrow will be Monday
How I hate Monday.

But at least next weekend is going to be a 3-day weekend. Yay! I'm happy now that my birthday is over. Thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday. It wasn't a happy one and I'm much happier on an ordinary day, but thanks anyway.

In case you're wondering about the birthday presents that I got (which I doubt, but I'm going to mention it anyway since I don't really have anything else to say), I got a blue chair from my mum, four gold fish from my little brother that I call Nikolai, Jordan, Unix and Linux, a mini carousel that plays "Moon River" from my big brother, a bed sheet from my big bro's girlfriend, and something so hideous from my dad I wouldn't even bother mentioning.

Oh, I didn't blog yesterday not because I was moping all day and night. I was working on the new design. I still am. It's beginning to take shape and I'm quite happy about it. I'm sure you're going to love it :) ♥

My birthday last year sounds so much more exciting than this year's.

One of these years, I'm going to have a perfect birthday. ♥

Thanks for the happy birthday voicemail, Matt! :) ♥

Saturday Morning Haiku

Sometimes I wish that
I lived in a nightmare that
I could wake up from.

And I would wake up to find that everything was peachy. It's my birthday and I'm feeling crappy as hell, thanks to my dad. My 26th birthday was the last of my birthday that he didn't ruin. I knew he would ruin this one as well even before he opened his mouth but still, I was hoping to have a nice birthday. It's not like my birthday wasn't already bad. I even had to buy my own birthday cake. The birthday dinner last night was awful. But not all is doomed. I love my goldfish. They love the stuff I feed them. It's a mutual love, ne c'est pas? ♥

I'll probably be too tired to blog when I get home since I'm not going straight to home from work today so I just thought I'd post some links for your enjoyment. Aren't I nice? ;) And here comes the links:

Take the Geek-O-Meter quiz and find out your level of geekiness. I scored 36 which makes me a Level 6, Standard-Issue Geek (whatever that means). I thought I'd be a Level 3, Geek Wannabe. Hmmm.

Have you ever thought that Spoons should've called Foons since it is only one part spoon but three parts fork? I haven't, but now that I think of it, it sounds just right.

Virtual Personality is a free software used to change someone's voice into somebody else's one. There are 24 different voice personalities you can choose from. I can think of so many fun things I can do with this software. Too bad my computer can't accommodate any more software due to the lack of space.

Have you seen this girl? If you have, please tell Tom Kraemer. He's madly in love with that girl even though he knows that the girl doesn't really exist. Heck, he created the girl himself with his own computer! But, you know, love is blind. Or so they say. The girl looks kind of spooky, though.

You've probably seen the "SOUL" button in someone else's website and wonder what it's all about. Well, you can find out all about it at Soul of the Web, which is the centre of the "SOUL".

It's raining and I have to walk three blocks to get to the mall where I'm supposed to meet my brother and his girlfriend (fiancee?). It's going to be fun, fun, fun! :) ♥

Joe dares you to take *drumrolls* the Ultimate Weblogger's Age Challenge! :) ♥

Friday Morning Haiku

I'm happy. Really.
Tomorrow is my birthday.
I should be happy.

I would've been happier had someone left a comment on any of the links I posted yesterday. But at least some people did leave some comments on a thread I started at MetaFilter. Anyway, I'm going to treat my big bro and his girlfriend (fiancee?) dinner this evening. It's a compulsory birthday treat (even though my birthday is not until tomorrow). Here in Indonesia, the birthday boy/girl is the one who has to treat their friends and family on his/her birthday instead of the other way around, which wouldn't be such a problem if you get some cash for your birthday. I don't. Well, I used to, but not anymore. I only have enough cash to cover the monthly bills. Ack! But I'll just think about the bills later when they're due. I'm going to stay up until 00:58am tonight, or at least a little over that time. I was born at exactly that hour and minute. And I'm going to to try to finish that design of the century (ha-ha) while waiting for my birthday :) I can't wait for tonight! ♥

I'd blog more but I suddenly got this urge to do spring cleaning. At 10pm, no less. Maybe after the spring cleaning, I'll blog some more, but don't hold your breath! :) ♥

Take a peek at animal cruelty in Slaughter House Cam. It's pretty sickening. I don't know how those people could stand working there. I still like meat, though. ♥

It's The Armageddon Watch. Someone's just got to do it. The closest in the Timeline of Doom is September 19. Let's just wait and see what happens. ♥

If you're feeling cranky and you need a release, maybe virtually murdering some innocent sheeps can help. Play Sheep Cull and do just that. Even if you're not feeling cranky, you can still play it and have fun. Just think of it as your share in fighting the foot and mouth disease :) ♥

I don't dare to imagine what the world would be like if everyone was practising freespeling (with one el). Sure it would make English easier for people with spelling problems, but what about the rest of us who get annoyed when we see a misspelled word? The world is full of misspelled words as it is without people practising freespeling (with one el)! I don't know, I just think it's very, very wrong. Must be because my mum is an English teacher. ♥

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz........................... ♥

Note to self: There are people older than you in Bloggerville. Stop feeling like the most ancient member of the community! ♥

You know what? These days I like Silkscreen better than Sevenet. It used to be the other way around. ♥

Thanks to everyone who has suggested me some names for my goldfish. After much thinking and consideration (well, for a minute anyway), I've decided to name my goldfish Nikolai and Jordan, after my good friends Nikolai and Jordan. Don't worry, guys. I'll feed your namesake well :) ♥

Thursday Morning Haiku

I am back to work
I don't want to be at work
I'm there already.

I had a really bad morning. I went online before I left for work to check my email and the comments in my weblog, as usual. My computer went so slow. It would only load the cached version of my weblog. Then Outlook Express crashed. When I opened it again, it wouldn't show the emails I got this year. Needless to say, I couldn't read any of the emails I received this morning. Then someone sent me an IM and before I could find out who it was from, AIM crashed. Then my computer took ages to shut down. When it finally shut down, it was already 6am. I left home for work at a little past 6am and there was traffic jam everywhere. I didn't get to my workplace until 7:10am. That was 10 minutes late. It was just an all around bad morning. I hope it won't be that bad for the rest of the day. I really hope so. ♥

My feel good movie for today was Wide Awake (1998), by the director of "Sixth Sense", M. Night Shyamalan. The movie is about a fifth-grader who is on a mission to find God. It's funny and touching yet simple and beautiful. I highly recommend it. You'll like it, even if you're not religious. ♥

I'm getting two goldfish from my younger brother for my birthday (couldn't think of anything else when he asked me what I wanted for my birthday). Could you suggest me some names for them? All I could come up with are Unix and Linux. And Google. I'm a dork, remember? ♥

Yes, I'm still redesigning. Yes, it is a different design from the one I was working on yesterday. Yes, you'll be surprised to see it. No, I won't give you a clue. Yes, I might hate myself if I decided to use that design. Yes, you might hate me if I decided to use that design. Yes, I like it nonetheless. Yes, I have my reasons. Yes, I've mellowed down a bit. Yes, I've found you some links:

If you want to be the centre of attention at a party, try wearing Human Bone Jewelry. Creepy.

It's the Random Pornstar Name Generator, now available for him and for her! Need I say more?

I graduated college years ago. I guess that's the reason I could never get to the end of this College Prep Quiz. I've forgotten almost everything I learned in high school.

If you just met or started dating someone, you might want to find out how much he/she worths using the worth index. Of course I'm not qualified to use it, being dateless and all.

Do you think your job is bad? Well, try submitting it to WorstJob.com. They're currently in search for the person with the worst job in America.

This design I'm working on is the fourth design I came up with this week. I don't think I'd be able to finish it today, but I promise that it'll be up sometime in the weekend. Not that you're looking forward to it or anything. Just pretend that you are. It'll make me happy :) ♥

I was bored, therefore I sang. The song is "An English Country Garden" which was the song I listened to a lot when I was a wee little girl. Please pardon the mispronounciations and the tongue-twists :) ♥

Wednesday Morning Haiku

I have two pimples
Sitting nicely on my face
Though I'm not in love.

I usually get pimples only when I'm in love. I'm not. Well, I still have the same, old crush on the same old person but it hasn't caused any pimple for months now. Thought I'd got through the pimplish period. Oh well. I used to be a pizza face back in my freshman year of junior high. Some boys often made fun of me by saying, "Hey, your pimples are running out! Running out of place, that is." Ha-ha. Very funny. But I've been pimple-free since the second year of junior high until now. It's got to be a mid-life crisis. Or second puberty. Whatever.

On a totally unrelated note, if there was an "Asian Weblog Less Read By Asians" category in the Bloggies, I think my weblog would become the winner. ♥

I felt really crappy this afternoon so I decided to watch a couple of my feel good movies, "Sleepless in Seattle" and "You've Got Mail", and I felt much better afterwards. Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan make the cutest couple :) Do you have any feel good movie? ♥

I'm still busy redesigning but thought I'd leave you with a bunch of links to keep you amused. Well, some of them are not really amusing but you know what I mean:

They told you that clicking the red button would delete the whole site. Would you click it anyway? If you would, please do so and let me know what happens next.

"That's My Bush", a show featuring George and Laura by the creators of South Park will be launched tomorrow.

I wasn't drunk. In fact, I never did, being a teetotaller and all. But when I took the memory test at hungover.net, the results told me that I only have 10 braincells left.

Are you bored enough to play the Golden Girls Role Playing Game? I hope not. Even I am not that bored.

U.S. Map of Hate Groups will show what kind of hate groups are available in your state. But please, don't join any of them!

Ok, I'm back to my redesigning fun. Hopefully, tomorrow you'll see a new design here. Aren't you excited? ;) ♥

Hmmm, I didn't know that the ¤ symbol would show up as a question mark on a Mac. (From dansays) ♥

Tuesday Morning Haiku

No work and time flies
Tuesday morning already
Be back in two days.

I'm so not looking forward to Thursday. Work never fails to depress me. Anyway, I've decided that I hate the new design (even before I finished it). The reason? It's too complicated. I want something simple. Simplicity is my middle name. Well, if I had a middle name anyway. But I'll try to come up with another design before I get back to work, which means tomorrow. Oops. ♥

Apparently (or should I say "obviously?), Zero Wing (the origin of the All Your Base meme) is not the only game with wacky translations. Whazzat?! Video Game Oddities has a collection of bad as well as amusing quotes, sound clips and other odd stuff brought to you by the gaming industry. ♥

David Crutton has written a bunch of ready-made emails that you can peruse to "improve" your business relationships. Very Dilbertisque, so if you enjoy Dilbert, you'll enjoy reading these emails. ♥

Project Human Park is a project to preserve endangered humans. They're planning to buy Atlantis (the lost continent) from the United Nations to establish Human Park. If you feel endangered, you definitely should join the tribe. I do feel endangered. I don't meet my kind every day. Not offline anyway. Maybe I should join the tribe myself. ♥

Diggit! is a weird image search engine. I searched for "duck" and I got these. Wonder what "duck" has to do with credit cards or Netscape. ♥

I like Mastercard's "priceless" ad. I don't know how many variations of that ad are there but the one we got to see here in Indonesia is the "good karma: priceless" one. Anyway, this flash animation is some kind of a parody of that ad, which is related to this hilarious dancing page I blogged last Thursday. Speaking of the dancing page, Ze Frank, i.e. the guy who created it actually got more than 2 million hits a day last week! Wow. I hope the guy has an unlimited bandwidth. ♥

Are there still goths online these days? I come across gothic websites so much less than I did 3 years ago. Anyway, gothic DIY fans or anyone who wants to try a different home decor might want to take a look at Gothic Martha Stewart, "DIY home decor for the morbidly inclined". I don't think I'd enjoy living in a house with morbid home decor, but to each his own, I guess. ♥

Project Flaunt is kind of like File Pile, only less simple. And you can't find any mp3 or movie files there. Ok, so the two sites are not really all that alike, but still Project Flaunt for some reasons reminds me of File Pile. ♥

Forget it. Photoshop's been acting weird again. Well, actually it's my computer that's running out of RAM so Photoshop simply won't let me use the Type Tool. Sigh. Anyone know how to free up some RAM? I've tried deleting stuff off my hard drive. It doesn't seem to work. ♥

If you missed Weblog Wannabe's April Fools' design, you can still find it here, or better yet, see the real thing here :) ♥

Monday Morning Haiku

Blogger is so weird
It published some posts that should
Not have been published.

And I couldn't delete them. Silly little Blogger. Well, I hope I'm not too lazy to work on the redesign all over again this morning so I could get it up once I took Fairvue's design down. There'll be no more Random Firda but there'll be a duck. A badly drawn duck. I drew it myself. God knows I can't draw to save my life but hey, it's my own duck! An odd duck, just like me. Bet you can't wait to see it :) ♥

It's a little over 1am, I can't sleep, "Happy Together" by The Turtles is playing inside my head, I can't find the mp3 anywhere (does anyone have it?), and Photoshop just crashed, which caused a really lovely image for the new Weblog Wannabe design that I'd been working on for hours going down the drain. And it's not even April 1 anymore here. Sigh.

If I should call you up, invest a dime
And you say you belong to me and ease my mind
Imagine how the world could be, so very fine
So happy together... ♥

I just got an email from a reader, thanking me for the "good works". I'm quite sure that the email should've gone to Nikolai. I mean, he said "good works". Had he said "good work", I wouldn't have felt so undeserving. But he said "good works". ♥

I'm Nikolai Nolan on crack. ♥

I need to learn to keep my big mouth shut because I've found that the less I comment on the links I posted, the more people bookmark my weblog. If I weren't such a big-mouthed girl, I'd probably have got on the A-List by now. Ha-ha. ♥

If you have $100 to spare, you might want to participate in the Adbusters' Fools Festival. Here's the drill. On April 1st, gather one hundred US $1 bills (or equivalent) and drop them onto the floor of a local stock exchange (or shopping mall). Let the local media know about it. Document the feeding frenzy with photographs and/or video. Send the documentation to them. If they find your entry worthy, you'll get your $100 back. Simple as that. ♥

Ok, so I have this fresh roll of film in my camera. I bought the film on impulse and now I don't really know what to photograph. If there's anything at all from where I live that you want to see (e.g. the view from my window, the yellow duck sitting on my pink TV, my poor old computer, my breasts anything at all), do let me know and I'll take the shot and, if you wish, I'll send the photograph to you once I