For the love of TV Shows

My shift (I feel weird saying this word) doesn’t start until 12:00 noon based on the text message from my boss, so I’m still at home, waiting for breakfast to be cooked. I stayed up until 1:00am last night, watching Heroes and waiting for my downloads to be finished. This is the only time I got to make use of torrents properly and now I am loving it. I just really need extra hard disk space. Haha. Ever since Ginger crashed, I haven’t restored all my laptop’s files in it. For one thing I do not have any backups, plus I was just too lazy to pull the stuff from Triskal to Ginger, and who knows if Ginger decides to have an episode and crash again.

Anyway, the only thing I’m intent on restoring is the Joan of Arcadia season 2 episodes I downloaded before but lost. I’m almost done with Part 1 (91.8% of 4.03GB) and Part 2 will follow right after this. So now my downloads folder is actually bigger than my documents folder. Hee. :P Other than Joan of Arcadia, I have:

• CSI: New York, Season 4, episodes 1-4
• Heroes, Season, 2, episodes 3-4 (watched episodes 1 and 2 through streaming, heh)
• Pushing Daisies, Season 1, episodes 1-3 (it is only up to episode 3 as of now, right?)
• Burn Notice, Season 1, episode 1 (I was inspired by this sponsored post I made about this show)
• Gossip Girl, Season 1 episode 1 (Just one for now, I’m looking for the torrent of episode 2)

That’s it so far. Haha. I want to download other shows (Eureka, 4400, House, Kyle XY — I’m such a cheapskate, I don’t want to buy dibidis of this…wel, not now) but I’m afraid I might run out of space. Like I said, I need an external hard drive! The only thing that would be better than this might be world series tickets, but then I’m not exactly a baseball fan, so I’d settle for my TV shows thankyouverymuch. :)

This is some kind of a useless update, hah. But if you have a TV show suggestion, post a comment and I’ll see if I like it. :D I need media exposure. Hah. :P

Bravo!

So last Friday was our company’s quarterly Townhall Meeting¹, our second one ever since we got hired. We just had a meeting with our new Operations Lead² earlier that week, and he requested us to attend the night shift meeting so we could go with the entire team. We were excited to go there, only because of the commercial that our team made for the meeting.

So the updates came and we were all laughing with the commercials and cheering with all the positive reports, while Grace and I reeled with hunger. Awarding time came, and I was planning to go out to get some food because my head was seriously hurting when the emcee started to talk about team awards and then he called us. As in our team.

Apparently, our team won a Bravo award for our being bibo, not only for our work related stuff, but also for extra curriculars. Okay, I didn’t exactly hear what the emcee said about us because we were all suddenly on spotlight and then we were all ushered onstage to get our framed certificates (picture to follow, I left the certificate at the office :D) and have our picture taken with the leadership team. I was smiling and shaking at the same time because no one really expected it, and when we went down, the other teams were congratulating us and I really don’t know what to say. Total surprise!

I suddenly felt like I was in high school again, going up the stage to receive awards and stuff. I remember remarking during our first Townhall Meeting that it felt like a quarterly reading of honors back in elementary/high school. Only, instead of all awarding, it was full of company updates (which I personally don’t mind…I’m a geek that way :p) and games and awarding on the side. And it’s a good way to get to know people from the other teams. :)

The night ended with my winning of a P500 worth of GC for Yellow Cab, which we spent immediately for a late dinner of pizza, which we shared to the people from the other teams. Good times, yes. :)

Today I should focus on the project I’m supposed to finish (Flash MX all afternoon, yeah! FOR ASLAN!)…and then find some time to plan for NaNoWriMo. I need to focus, because the TV shows I’m downloading will be available by tonight, and that’s what I will focus on then. :D I need an external hard disk.

Have a blessed and relaxed Sunday, everyone! :)

1. Townhall Meeting - company wide meeting [«]
2. There was a bunch of promotions that happened at work late last month, and for some of the people it was their second promotion for the year — talk about good succession planning [«]

Explosions

Yesterday was a mixed emotions day. I was happy it was Friday, and I was excited for our quarterly Townhall. I felt bad for someone because of something I did, was excited for receiving something totally unexpected. But what kind of disturbed me the most for myself, was how I didn’t really feel anything about what happened in Glorietta 2.

Okay, I didn’t really feel nothing. I have this defense mechanism where when something really big happens, be it positive or negative, I tend to push the emotions away for a while and then feel it when I’m ready. I store them all up somewhere inside, then digest it when I know it’s “safe” to do so. That is why it takes a while for me to feel really happy or really sad about some things, because I choose not to feel it immediately.

When I heard about the Glorietta 2 explosion yesterday, my guy teammate was more worried than I am about it. Then again, maybe I wasn’t that worried because as far as I know, there was no one I know in that area — only a few people, that is. My brother works in Galleria, I’m in Eastwood, my mom’s at home, my best friend works in Shaw, my other friend is in Bacolod, the other one is in school. So my first initial thought was, Thank God I don’t work in Makati.

But after some time (like today), I felt selfish for that thought. Here I am again, thinking about myself in a time where other people are hurt, other people lost their loved ones and other people are in trauma for having to witness such event. I am relieved that I wasn’t there, that no one I know got hurt…but I can’t help but feel like I should be feeling something else for the people affected other than sympathy.

I know that might not make any sense, but forgive me for thinking aloud. This thing made me realize again how short life can be — how a person can be alive one day and gone the next. While I still believe that a person will not die unless it’s his time to die (and God only knows when that is), I now feel sad for the people who had to go in a way like this. :(

All I can do right now is pray. My prayers are with all the people and families affected by this tragedy. Keep safe everyone.

Fridays Feast # 8

It’s Friday and our servers are down again. :( I’m supposed to be writing a document that’s somekinda overdue, as well as tinkering with Flash but I’m too lazy to do the two things. Plus I have a meeting tonight so I sort of have time for that later. Yes, I’m procrastinating…ah, it’s been a long time since I wrote those words. :)

Anyway, serving up Friday’s Feast # 8!

Appetizer
If you were a dog, what breed would you be, and why?

I’d probably be a golden retriever. Haha, I just love that dog. :) It’s big, playful and nice, and I’ve always wanted to have that kind of dog if only I have the time to take care of it. A runner up would be a schnauzer, but it’s kind of too masculine because of that moustache. :D

Soup
What does the color purple make you think of?

My favorite color! :) It also reminds me of the Unicorns, as in the Sweet Valley Unicorns, as well. My debut, grapes, ube, my favorite bag back in high school. Partner that up with pink and it’s cute.

Salad
Approximately how long does it take you to get ready each morning?

An hour? Depends on how energetic I feel. If I’m running late, I can finish getting ready in 30 minutes. One hour is just enough for me to take a shower, get dressed, fix my bags and eat breakfast. :D

Main Course
How many cousins do you have, and are you close to them?

I don’t know how many cousins I have, but we’re not really a big clan…so around 20? I think? Unfortunately, we’re not really that close — as I posted more than a year ago. I am getting better at talking to them, but we just don’t really hang out. We didn’t really grow up together, nor went to school together, save for a few. Or, my brother’s close to some of them, but we don’t really hang out. I envy people who are so close to their cousins that they have weekly playstation 3 sessions with them, just like other people do with friends who are not related to them by blood. *sigh* I’m still working on some of my cousin relations. :D

Dessert
Take your initials (first, middle, last) and come up with something else those letters could stand for. (Example: SFO = Sweet Funny Otter)

KAM. Um…King Action Matrix? Haha, where did that come from?  It’s hard to find a meaning for the letter K. :P

Happy Friday, everyone! :)

NaNoWriMo 2007 Notes

Sorry for the long nonpost. I was bombarded with lots of work, plus extra rakets here and there that I have to do (FOR ASLAN! More to this on a future post). Truth be told I really don’t have anything noteworthy to post right now so I thought I’d share to the world er, my readers (whoever you are) my upcoming NaNoWriMo 2007 novel ideas.

• The working title of the novel is Red Meets Blue, much thanks to Matt Wertz for the lovely song. This is the second time I’m using a song as a title, the first time with A Page is Turned. I chose this (for now) because the colors red and blue means a lot of different things, which is sort of how my characters are — one is red, one is blue, but not in the traditional red-is-female-blue-is-male thing. :)
• The tentative genre for now is Mainstream Fiction. It’s not exactly the chicklit and it’s not young adult either…it’s a mix of chicklit/ladlit (I think?), religious and romance…so I go for a somewhat vague genre.
• I have two main characters, one female and one male. The female is Marianne Venia and the male is David de Gracia. Ooh, both surnames end with ‘a’. Anyway, they’re around 25 to 27 years old, both of them live in the same/near each other’s condo hotels somewhere in the Metro.
• Marianne is a tough chick. Half European (which exactly is yet to be determined) and half Filipina, sings and plays the piano on random times, and no day job yet. She’s also an atheist/agnostic (not yet sure, will get back at this) and does whatever she wants to do because she wants it. Her dad left them when she was young, and her mom died soon after and she was taken by her aunts to be taken care of.
• David is your regular nice guy. He goes to church, volunteers for causes, and is someone everyone gets along with. He’s also the manager and guitarist of Chasing Daylight (tentative name), an upcoming rock band. He’s quite strict with his personal standards and hangs out with the “right crowd,” which he grew up in.
• Other characters are: April, the lead singer of Chasing Daylight and David’s close friend (see the emphasis), Nathan, David’s best friend and Chasing Daylight’s drummer, a yet to be determined famous band who will be having a concert which Chasing Daylight will be the front act, Marianne’s sort-of-boyfriend/fling…and so far…that’s it. Oh, some people will also be making a cameo appearance in the novel. ;)
• The main plot is: band gets signed to play front act for a really popular band but female vocalist leaves for an emergency. Band could not back out, so they have to find a female vocalist. Nathan finds Marianne, who everyone loves but David dislikes because (although he doesn’t admit it) he think she’s not worth his attention because she doesn’t believe in God. Personalities clash and in the process, Marianne and David learns about God’s love, forgiveness and grace. Like what I told Grace earlier: This is what cheesy stories are made of. Hah.

And that’s it for now. For more NaNoWriMo 2007 goodness (tips, news and whatnot), hop over to More than Bitesized Fiction, my newly opened NaNoWriMo blog. :)