If you haven’t done so yet, register now for the Third Philippine Blogging Summit and attend. It will be held on April 13 to 14 at the School of Economics Auditorium in UP Diliman. I am plugging this event because I shall be giving a talk on the Do’s and Don’ts of Personal Blogging on the 13th at 10 a.m. So go! Go! 
Speaking of which, I haven’t quite gotten around to preparing for tomorrow. I just downloaded the first season of this wicked awesome show called Masters of Horror and I am unbelievably hooked. It’s been a long long time since anything has come close to satisfying my appetite for the gruesome and the violent so right now, watching people receive various forms of torture seems more important than making my presentation. But yes, I shall get it done today. Eventually. Procrastinators unite!
I bugged my mom to get me a broadband internet connection for my PC so I could download everything I want at the speed of light, and generally spend my spare time wasting away on cyberspace. Perhaps it’s to my advantage that the slowness of my Smart WiFi connection is preventing me from doing the latter. But damnit, give me my downloads at least!
You see, I’m the kind of person who’s too cheap to buy pirated games when I can just rip them off the ‘net. Why spend 90 bucks on a burned game CD when I can get them online for free? Take note that PC games usually have more than 1 CDs. So that’s at least 180 pesos spent on discs that I will only use once to install, and then never again. Currently I’m downloading 4 gigs of a PC game that I really really want to play - if you can call a transfer speed of 0.0 kb as “downloading”. It’s been on my TorrentStorm for a few days now, and with only 30% to go, you can imagine how frustrated I am that the progress bar is not moving at all.
Aside from my download problems, I can barely load websites and check my e-mail. Every now and then, there would be bursts of speed where the site would actually load. However, most of my surfing time is spent clicking on the “try again” button when Firefox can’t locate the server.
I did call customer service to complain but the problem won’t be remedied until 24 hours from now. So I guess I’ll have to contend with the dial-up speed of Smart Wifi for the rest of the day. Yargh. With the way I’m crawling through the intarnets right now, it’s amazing I was even able to get this entry up.
Little known fact about me: I’m the first blogger in the Philippines. Well, to the people who have been visiting this site since God-knows-when, I suppose it isn’t such a little known fact. Not all of my friends know that, though. Anyway, my blog got featured in the Manila Bulletin today and needless to say, that will probably be the last interview about my blog that I will grant.
When I first heard that someone wants to do an article on me, instead of the other way around as it normally is, my first reaction was, “OMG yay!” I mean, come on. It’s an article about me. I like talking about me. Then I learned what the article would be about, and my ego was deflated a little. It’s anti-climactic to hear that the article will be about your blog and not some other achievement that you’ve accomplished. Not that I have made any noteworthy achievements in my life. But really, my being the first blogger isn’t something I count as an achievement, or something I can really brag about. It’s about as cool as being caught in one of those gag reality shows. Not everyone can get into those, but it’d be kind of pathetic if you considered that a major milestone in your life. Same thing with my being the first blogger. It’s not the same as saying, “Look at me, I won a Palanca! I kick your writer’s ass.”
I’m not sure how effective the analogy is, but I hope you get what I mean. Being the first at doing something doesn’t necessarily require skill or talent. In my case, I just happened to be there at the right time and place: the Internet was just new and I had access to it. So there. I made a blog. The first entry I wrote was so hideous, I feel the urge to hurl my body against a wall repeatedly every time I think about it. And everybody thought it was cute. Pfft. (Oh wow. I really do hate kids. I even hate me when I was ten years old.)
Don’t get me wrong; I am glad I got the chance to be interviewed again. In the first place, it was a good chance for me to pimp KATIPUNAN to the public. Most importantly, however, it sets the record straight about an ex-boyfriend of mine. It’s no news flash that many women out there take advantage of men or ex-boyfriends who think that the way to win a girl’s heart is to keep buying her stuff. But I’m not that kind of girl (well, not anymore). Girls who are like that are no better off than whores. Think about it. You’re sticking around some guy you don’t even like because he wants to get you free shit. Mahiya ka naman sa sarili mo. Every time I remember that, I feel like throwing up; it’s such a fucking disgusting thing to do. I feel so horrible about it that sometimes I even feel guilty when Pat gets me stuff. But yeah, that’s all water under the bridge. I hate having to bring that up and telling the whole world about what I did, but you gotta do what you gotta do. At the very least, I can forgive myself for my honesty.
My only complaint about the article itself is this. I just gave my website a makeover yesterday. Why couldn’t they have taken a screen shot of that? I thought the news was supposed to be current. ;p
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