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Was distracted as usual by Facebook, and stumbled upon a friend's note which pointed me to this website that generates random slogans. Go on, have a good laugh, just type in a word and ...
My lazy Saturday morning started with me wolfing down a fresh "momo" for breakfast, doing the laundry and checking my Facebook news feed. Looked like most people had an eventful Friday night, as posts were quite sparse; there was even a casualty from last night's reverie, courtesy of Jack Daniels!
And at the bottom of the news feed, were a succession of statuses posted as: ALERT: Facebook has agreed to let third party advertisers use your posted pictures without your permission. Click on "Settings" up at the top where you see the "Logout" link. Select "Privacy". Then select "News Feed and Wall". Next, select the tab that reads "Facebook Ads". In the drop down box, select "No One". Then save your changes. Do it now. Help your friends...cut and paste this into your status.
No wonder there are applications, like this "Birthday Gift" that has card samples with pictures that looked randomly picked out from someone's album and then splashed on the cover! And I thought my settings were all fine until I went to check "Facebook Ads" as instructed, and behold, it was set to "Only friends"! Now how did I miss that?!
I experienced this random pic posting, done by a previous "friend" at Facebook. The person knows that I take privacy matters seriously but "Boffo" (not real name) still posted my pic with a caption to entice others to take note and reply. I asked "Boffo" why was my pic posted without my permission and told "Boffo" to take it down.
No reply, no action for days until one chimed in... "I knew you'd react this way when we posted this..." "Sorry we'll take it down." "By the way, (to Boffo) post other pics of our childhood days." Oh well, I know a taunt from a sincere apology but I just kept my cool and did not reply. Besides, I also received some messages from other friends expressing their disgust at what's happening.
The "controversial" pic was eventually taken down, but soon, other pics, mostly group pictures were posted with my image rubbed out or obviously cut out of our group pictures. No apologies from "Boffo" at all.
So I simply deleted "Boffo" off all my lists then.
I remember that the only reason I keep my tooth under my pillow is because I anxiously try to dislodge a loose one with my tongue at bedtime. I keep it under my pillow so I can take a pretty good look at it, first thing in the morning.
Fished out of my Facebook wall, from a friend... nakaka-aliw panoorin!
The director says: "This is my senior project at Savannah College of Art and Design. Where my idea comes from is that every time when I am busy, I feel that I am not fighting with my works, I am fighting with those post-it notes and deadline. I manipulating the post-it notes to do pixel-like stop motion and there are some interactions between real actor and post-its. Here is the making of : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArJYva...
Directed by Bang-yao Liu Music by Röyksopp (http://royksopp.com) Sound design by Shaun Burdick"
Blogger's off for maintenance and I am still on holiday, mouth still wired shut but will definitely recover from laryngitis or else I will be stuck with a voice that would be great at karaoke singing AH LUV ROK N ROL! Tomorrow's the Dream Jumbo Lotto Draw, and I sure did buy a couple of tickets. I would not be winning this one, re the odds considering Japan's population of about 127,000,000 and considering the aging population of about 25% and the current economic situation, expect a lot of ticket holders!
What to do with the prize money? Would you change your FB status to.. "I JUST WON 2M US$!" or quietly disappear and just suddenly post in FB photos of yourself on a yacht (yours of course) somewhere?
Here's the breakdown: (the whole bloody lot is tax-free!)
100,000,000 PHP X 1 lucky bastard 25M PHP X 2 instant millionaires who'd have instant friends as well 49,000 PHP X 199 who'd host a Baranggay party, but would not be responsible for any llives lost... 49,000,000 PHP X 3 who'd fear for their lives, yes you would if you live in Manila and word breaks out! 4,900,000 PHP X 10 who'd be the next Baranggay Captain, or heck... the ALL HAIL THE Congressperson in the upcoming elections! 5,000 PHP X 10,000 mall invaders 1,500 PHP X 100,000 who'd pay some petty dues 150 PHP X 1M happy texters
The lottery's real here and some of the big time winners have published self-help books on how to cope with one's sudden change of fortune. Someone told me recently, "better get a new job"... which makes perfect sense too, huh?!
Oh well then, I'll be sending out my resume soon but will be checking tomorrow's results as well.
My Nihongo lessons are taking a 3-week break as my sensei is on a long vacation. I just loove my sensei, I do feel so guilty when I show up without my homework so I've really made it a point to put time in studying Nihonggo.
Considering that three weeks off is a pretty looong break, I've slacked-off at study. Alas, something from sensei was in the mail! It was a blank diary and on a really cool Foujita postcard she wrote, " How's your condition now? I'd like to give you this for the three-week break... Please write a diary if you have time during my holiday. See you on the 20th."
I've got 3 entries so far and today I'll work on the "backlog". I'll be writing about this manga series I've been into lately. I've ditched the "Death Note" series since it was quite depressing to read about people dying all the time in this season. I'll reserve this one for wintertime.
Meet Kinoshita Beckham, a penguin! This is a surreal trip to an elementary school, with a penguin (Beckham) and a boy (Naoto). There's already a TV anime and now a movie in the works! This manga is really funny and it got me giggling to myself at a cafe lately... C was so curious and started reading a bit, and said this was definitely what elementary grade-schoolers would enjoy reading!
Malalaman mong nasa Japan ka na kapag ang pinalalabas sa sinehan ay full-length movies ng One Piece, Doraemon, Pokemon, Gundam, Tamagotchi at ito!
