RPG characters horoscope for the day

Magic Emperor Ghaleon
Change your title, heroes don't find it very intimidating. You're bad guy speech also needs much improvement. Work on new taunts, or else white dragons might just laugh at your face. Try sticking to (Kuja) because you'll look good in comparison. Those guys are the worst dressers and taunters. Your lucky color is black.

Kuja
Although people have no problems with your homosexuality, try hiding it when facing the heroes. Wearing thongs is not appropriate when appearing in public. Think of all the kids. And enough with the canary bit. You will find out your reason of existence today, which sounds suspiciously like an anime you we're watching.

Tifa
Beware of waldrobe malfunction, especially during victory poses after random encounters. Buy a good book, this will be especially useful when your summons take an awfully long time to smite the enemies, especially the knights. When you obtain the W-summon materia, buy another good book. Your lucky number is 7.

Mcdohl
A new quest awaits you today. Although it has no connection to you whatsoever, you will have to accept it because it's your destiny to do so. During your journeys, talk to all odd colored large animals you may encounter. They are most probably going to join your cause. Your lucky number is 108.

Squal
You will meet your childhood friends today. All of them at once. Write it down. You might forget it. Saving the world is not as important as playing cards, remember to challenge everyone you see, especially the person who sends you on a quest to save the world.

Quina
Ask your friends why you are always excluded in the party. You deserve to know. You may be wondering what they are talking about behind your back while you were eating frogs. I'll tell you. You are the lamest character in the entire rpg world.Your friends are trying to sell you to the black market for some gil.

Cloud
Despite an incoming meteor that will probably end all life in your world, you will still find time to goof around in the local carnival. More psychobabble to come this week, soon you will confront all those voices in your head. A person very close to you will die, don't level her up.

Sabin
Believe in yourself and your potential. Despite looking like a muscle bound clod, you can learn how to perform the most powerful, mind draining magicks. Soon you'll be using that instead of the martial arts move thought to you by your master. Fight those brontosaurs to cast magic at 1mp only!

Crono
Your future is murky, probably because of all your time traveling. As of now, there is 18 possible predictions of your destiny. Visit the local haunted house. It will probably save your life. Improving your skills is always a good idea. Take up some communication classes, you need help in speaking up.

Fei
Control your Id. You won't want to have your Id physically manifest itself and blow up the village and all the people you grew up with. But then again, you life journey starts there. A very deep and philosophical journey, filled with various concepts of eternal recurrence, religious babble, psychoanalysis, etc. Chances are you won't understand it so I suggest you get a Purpose
Driven™ walkthrough.

Mog
Despite being a moogle, you will still be able to learn magic. Just be sure to visit the various places and dance.

Flimflamed, mostly because of myself

OK... after countless excuses, most of which i'm pretty sure were just made up, the guy i paid to do my drawings FINALLY showed me a sample today. He said he'll show me TEN drawings today (yeah right), but still, he showed me a couple of drawings. What can i say....

IT SUCKS! Holy shit! Apparently, he's insulting my knowledge of anime characters, claiming that the one's he drew were "original". They're friggin ripoffs of Chaos and Loki from the Ragnarok Manwa. Actually, they're more of extremely low quality, cheap imitations of the two characters. It was drawn in fuggin pentel pen and said that he wants to be sure that the picture will still be visible even if it were minimized (which i told him i will do). Screw your fuggin excuses asshole. You did a half baked rushed semblance of a drawing. I swear, i would've ripped your head off and fed it to the crows. Lucky for you there were no crows in the vicinity.

So, after going home, I called them up and asked them to just keep 500 bucks for the trouble and return the rest of my money. Yes, I had to call them up to tell them. I'm a pushover. I don't have the guts to tell them face to face that their art sucks and i want my damn money back.

Oh by the way, you might be confused why i suddenly used the pronoun "them". There's two of them actually. One is a guy, the artist, Mang Paul, also referred to as "him" in the previous paragraphs. The other is his wife, Ate Irene, who is a part of "them". There you go, Mang Paul and Ate Irene.

Anyway, back to the story. I asked them to keep 500 bucks for the trouble (generous huh?), and just return the rest of my money because there's no use in doing business with a bunch of sorry-ass lazy bums like them. Apparently, they had spent the money already.. then mentioned more elaborate excuses that i didn't bother remembering. I'm pretty sure they added some fictitious incidents that happened to fictitious characters to their explanations.... and said that, if i wanted to, they'll pay me in a "hulugan" basis. I asked them how long will it take to pay back the 3250 bucks. The reply "d ko masasabi eh". F*CK!

Bah! Damnit... What really irritates me is the fact that it is entirely my fault why I am in this predicament. First of, I should've explored my options on who I can hire/pay to make the illustrations. But no... I had to go to the first person I see. Pfft. Oh well. That's one of my bad habits. No patience whatsoever. Even in RO, when I need sumthing, say mufflers[1], I go to the first pub with S>muff[1] and usually buy it even if the price is slightly higher than the fair price. My rationale? Premium paid for convinience. Lolz. That's why I sold my pasana card at 1m when apparently, the going price was around 8m.

Secondly, I'm a pushover. I don't have the guts to say no to others. When ate Irene asked for 1k for the tech pens... I said yes. Then when she said that one of the additional artist that she was supposed to hire need money for a birthday party.. Again I said yes. ><;; Pfft. Oh well.. I'll just treat this as a learning experience, something that is necessary to be a better man in the future. It'll help me sleep better at night LOL.

But damnit! How can I be so stupid ><;; /pif
I'm putting some points into Int on my next lvl up.

2 paragraphs. Non sequiter.

Currently playing Seiken Densetsu 3 (secret of mana 3). I'm in this place called... The Desert of SCORCHING HEAT. Wtf. All deserts are deserts of scorching heat. Won't be much of a desert withoutthe heat, and of course sand. SNES emulator is sooo cheap. Fast forward button = insane leveling up! *Sigh* I want a PS2. But then again, after thinking about the hassle of actually buying it and all.. nah.

I went to SM manila earlier today. Good news: Tekken 5, 2 tokens only! Bad news: Jam Packed. There is only 1 tekken 5 unit in the arcade sooo there's quite a lot of people waiting to play. There was literally a crowd watching each of the players, and most of the guys playing there are reaally good >< They make the G4 players look like a bunch of pansies. Throw escapes, low blocks, great juggles.. These guys know it all. Cheap parlor tricks won't work aginst them. At last, after watching for about 20 minutes or so, i decided to play. Result: Completely Massacred. I can't believe he blocked all of my snake edges. Bah! Oh well... at least mura.

fight fight blue and white!

Wow. What a massacre ><;; ADMU as down by 20+ points pretty much the whole game. It's funny, you'd expect me to be sad while watching the game, but the fact is, I'm not. Amused, even. Sad is when you're watching a close game, then on the dying seconds Robert Horry hits a fuggin 3 pointer, then gives his smug "i-knew-that-was-going-in" look (Horry, if by any chance you're reading this, SCREW YOU!) Yes, I am brave in cyberspace XD. But when you're team is down by 20 the whole game, it's not really that depressing since you know your team going to lose anyway.

So anyway, for the first three quarters, "shooting" the ball is an overstatement for Ateneo. It's proper term should be "randomly throwing the ball into the air and hoping for the best". Assuming of course they don't turn the ball over (I think they had nearly 20 in the game). The only player worth watching is Tenorio, although Aguilar is a pretty good defender and Membrere this season is a big improvement over the benchwarmer membrere in the previous seasons. Crappy offense, Crappy defense, Turnovers galore... *sigh* Intal has no offensive skills whatsoever aside from the dunk (or the attempted-dunk that got a lucky foul call), I don't see why everybody is sooo hyped up when talking about this guy ><

But then again, it's really pretty hard to fill the shoes of the graduate players of the 2002 Ateneo team. Villanueva+Alvarez= excellent front court. Tenorio+Fonacier+Gonazales= excellent back court. That kind of line up is very hard to come by. We also had decent substitutes back then too. Compare it with this season... Aguilar < Villanueva, Kramer < Alvarez, Intal < Fonacier, and nobody in the league is better than Wesley Gonzales (ung magandang gising na wesley). As for the substitutes, there is no one worth a damn save for Escalona and Jai Reyes (i think).

Lastly, my props to Kramer. Wow, he really improved this season. Grabbed lots of rebounds, solid D, surprisingly good hands, and he lost his tendency to dunk the ball every time he gets it (thank god). But then again, he was tossed around like a rag doll by Arwind Santos, but he's still pretty good. I just hope his performance isn't a one game fluke. The Ateneo team did a really great job in the 4th quarter, managing to cut down the lead to 9 (from a high of 27 in the 4th quarter ata). Of course, this happened because of Tenorio, the heart and soul of the team (as stated by the commentators EVERY TIME TENORIO GETS THE BALL, tenorio, the heart and soul of the ateneo desperately trying to rally his team, loop). So, anyway, despite losing by 12, a game well played especially by tenorio and kramer. We claim moral victory, like we always do XD

an incomplete post

I was in the MRT the other day, and i saw a guy standing beside me wearing a Nike shirt that said: "definition: 1.) The last sound you'll hear and the last thing you'll see as you come in second place" or something to that effect.

Underneath that, written in a much smaller font, it said: "Result guaranteed only if used with performance enhancing drugs". Now that's some honest advertising.

Ooops. work. gtg.

Still more politics!

Wow! How many rallies were held in Makati in the past week? 3? 4?

Q> Of all the places to have rallies, why the hell do they have to do it in ayala avenue? Do they find satisfaction in giving inconvinience to the productive people of society? Pissing off multinationals and foreign investors in ayala ave.. what a smart thing to do to boost our very robust and healthy economy. Hold your rallies somewhere else damnit!

Q> How many attended the rallies? 10k? 15k? Anyway, don't they have to work or something? I mean, they complain about how prices are so high right now and how it is really difficult to earn enough to support they're families but they have the time to participate in rallies? O.O *cough* *bribed* *cough*

Q> Does anybody have a picture or something of the same person attending both pro and anti GMA rallies? That'd be great to put in the papers.

In the US, a judge in the supreme court retired and they are currently looking for someone to replace that guy. This apparently, is causing much ruckus among americans. Some guy replacing some supreme court judge? BORING! In the Philippines, we got wiretapping incidents. Lots of em! We got a new one now from Chavit (ata), who alledgedly have a wiretapped conversation of Erap!

All this wiretapping incident is hurting the country's image. Know what we should do? Turn this situation around! Let's use proper marketing to turn the current political scenario in the Phillipines into a positive thing. Here are some ideas:

1.) Concentrate on the entertainment value of the political turmoil. Reality TV is sooo in nowadays. You've got survivor, contender, apprentice, etc etc. We can turn this into the first ever politics-oriented reality TV show! Let's see who gets voted off in the final episode! If we thought of this earlier, this could've been the second season already. First of course was the Erap incident.

2.) Make it a tourist attraction! Go to Makati Shangrila and watch the rally unfold from your window! Extra 100 bucks if you want to throw stink bombs, water ballons, anvils, anything you want to the crowd below! Special rates if you reserve today. Reserve now while the president is still in power.

3.) Vegas betting baby! Will GMA be kicked out? How many days till GMA gets impeached?

Damn you PLDT! (>_<#)

Fuggin PLDT. My DSL was busted from monday night to friday! >< And as usual, tech support gave plenty of oh so useful advice.
"you have reached PLDT blahblahblah, all operators are busy right now please hold.... (wait for 5 min)... sorry, all operators are busy. Please EMAIL us at so-and-so for any concerns, have a good day."
WTF?!? I can't connect to the friggin internet! How the hell am i supposed to email you? O.o

Anyway, i started calling tech support at around 10am wednesday. I was able to get through at around 8pm >< Apparently, they are having technical difficulties in the tondo area (oooh, like i didn't know that), and they claim to be "working on it". How very informative.

Thus spoke Zarathustra

Today had been an uneventful day. Just went to podium to look for stuff, and to megamall to play a little tekken. The national bookstore in podium has tons of stuff. If you're trying to find a multi-book series (with the exception of LoTR) like the Dark Elf Trilogy, Dark Tower Series, Dragon Lance novels in a normal national bookstore , chances are, for some reason, the first book will be missing. Stupid bookstores. Haven't you heard about inventory control ><;; If you're planning to sell em, sell the entire series. I'm not jumping into book 2 without reading book 1. But the national in podium was different. Sooo many books there. I need to go back there and find one that i really like. Its been a while since I last read a good book (Last one was hitchhiker's guide).

Da Vinci Code was featured in Discovery channel last night. Hella boring. I watched it for around 5 min, then went back to my room and watched some anime instead. Dan Brown intentionally writes Da Vinci Code in the most controversial way he can, in order to generate more sales. The stuff he writes in the book are "true" in a sense, but is supported by high circumstancial evidence. The veracity of the Gnostic gospels which he keeps talking about is still being debated to this day, and add in the fact that most of them are in a pretty bad shape. I have to give props to Dan Brown though, he writes what his audience wants to hear, which is essential in most of the bestsellers today. Another example: Alchemist. People want something scandalous about Christianity and Dan Brown gave it to them.

After reading DVC, people were like "See? Christianity isn't so great after all" Please remember that the author is biased towards the scandal and thus the material is presented in such a way. Read what other experts have to say for and against Dan Brown. Or perhaps you just have a weak faith and jealous of others that you use this opportunity to justify your own lack of faith? Either way, I don't care. I didn't really like DVC that much.

Frankly, the story of DVC sucked. Albino assassins? WTF. If i wanted all of your juicy trivias about the Gnostic Gospels and stuff, i'd surf the net.

Watch Bleach instead XD

Bamboozled

Damn drawings. I initially coughed up 1k for the downpayment. This was last errrm thursday, I think. After a few days, Ate Irene asked for another 1k because the artist needed to buy some sort of "tech pen" thing which, she claims, was very expensive. Soooo fine. I paid another 1k. So my remaining balance is 1750. Yesterday, Ate Irene called again, and this time she was asking for the rest of the payment. The reason she gave was very vague. Something about hiring more artists because 50 pictures will take a long time to draw, then something about one of the artist having a birthday party and there'll be beers and stuff. So there, I paid the full 3750 bucks and haven't received a single drawing yet. This better be worth it ><;;

Another stupid mistake: Ate Irene asked me.. how much was 50 pictures multiplied by 75php per picture? I calculated it in my head then said... 4750! FFFffffuuuuuuu.... how can i be so stupid ><;; There it was written on the receipt... 4750 >< Good thing when I gave her the additional 1k for the tech pen, i complained about the total, saying it should only be 3750. She said it was her fault, that she didn't hear what i said properly. *whew* Ooooh, my HS math teacher is gonna kill me if she hears about this lolz. She always tells me not to be so damn careless XD

Lastly, its nearly 1am now and I'm listening to Inner Universe. Makes me reminiscence about the good ol college dorm days. Playing till 1am, grabbing a bite at Red Panda before going back to my dorm(if i have money left that is, if i'm already broke, there are always bananas.), then watching some GITSAC. XD

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now i wonder who Ishida is...

Rewind

I watched 18 episodes of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex last sunday. Astig! This is one of the best anime I have watched. I love the setting, great (albeit too wordy at times) story, cool action scenes, great art.. I'm thinking of DL'ing the second season.. Hmmm... Neo Gothic / Gothic Punk rocks!

Monday, received a purchase order from our customer. A rather big one, which means I got enought work to tide me till thursday or so. Boring! But oh well, when money is involved, might as well take it.

Currently DL'ing Bleach. Damn 4 gig files... Takes forever to download. Bah!

More politics!

Well, since wiretapping is the fad nowadays, here is an excerpt of a chat between Kim jong Il and JFK (really).



http://www.livejournal.com/users/kim_jong_il__/ for more kim jong il stuff

Id quo maius cogitary nequit

That which is greater than what can be thought. Or something like that. Correct me pls lolz. After mentioning this line to me (yes, by you kabo), I've been all philo-ish and in a contemplative mood lately. However, since I only got a C in philo, i'm no good at this. So, here are some lines copy pasted from the net:

You spoke your words as though you denied the very existence of shadows or of evil. Think, now: where would your good be if there were no evil and what would the world look like without shadows? Shadows are thrown by people and living things. Do you want to strip the whole globe by removing every tree and every creature to satisfy your fantasy of a bare world? -- Woland to Matthew the Levite in Mikhail Bulgakov's Master and Margarita

Now what's this got to do with IQMCN? Absolutely nothing. XD I just find the above paragraph really interesting O.O