Wednesday, August 29, 2001
Welcome to Earth, Stacey!
Nanganak na si Chegay! It's a human! HAHAHAHAHAHA! Just kidding. It's a 7.9-pound baby girl and they've decided to call her Stacey. She's now at the Maternity Hospital in Malolos, Bulacan.
Congratulations to Alvin and Chegay Cruz!
8:19 PM
Remember this song?
Can you imagine
What will happen
If people keep on Increasing?
How to feed all of them
Is the biggest of all problems.
With God's merciful hands
We can never lose.
Come feed the world
Come feed the world!
1:00 PM
I didn't go to work today because my tummy's acting up. I'm actually quite OK except for the liquid I discharge every now and then. Enough about that. I'm probably grossing you out.
Despite being absent, my whole team, myself included, are chatting with my boss, who's now in New York. What a bummer.
11:01 AM
Tuesday, August 28, 2001
I need coffee!
4:17 PM
E-mail na hindi mo magamit!
Anong susunod -- hindi ka na makaka-publish?!
4:01 PM
Tip of the day:
Never ever drink more than one Taro Ice from Quickly unless your stomach can handle it.
Now I have something that looks like Chocolate Milk Tea with pudding!
10:06 AM
Monday, August 27, 2001
Ang kapal ng mukha
(with apologies to mcg)
Pa-hug-hug ka pa
'Tang ina ka!
4:25 PM
Quote of the day:
Only in the third world will you find an IT company with employees having no access to their e-mail.
What a wonderful world! What do we do now?
9:27 AM
Sunday, August 26, 2001
BMB Online
I redesigned the BMB website. Right now, it looks like this, while I work on the second version. Here's a glimpse of that second version.
It's not yet through, but I'm sure it's faster to load compared to the graphics-heavy first version. Yun nga lang ang baduy. Siguro I'll get to learn how to do those neat stuff the people in the office do. No more image maps nor pictures of me in this version. hehehehehe.
By the way, It has chat!
12:46 AM
Thursday, August 23, 2001
I can’t sleep. I just had to put this in my blog.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, after a year and seven months in the office, I am proud to say that there is now someone who hates my guts. And it’s not just anyone. She’s the person whom everyone hates!
(Well, technically, not everyone. You have to exclude the outcasts from the picture. Man, am I evil or what?)
Here’s the story.
Moby’s on leave so I had to fill in on moderating the chat. It just so happened that Romina Urra, our guest, is a former buddy/officemate of this person. And so she popped everyone in the office informing them of the event.
Wait a minute. There’s something wrong here. Now I know that’s not legal by the great boss’ standards. Man, we have chats where only the guest and I were talking, but I don’t even dare try pop the masses knowing clearly that this is only for official use.
Now, let me explain that all our chats are moderated, unless the guest wants it otherwise. When you say that a chat is moderated, there’s a room moderator who screens and queues all the messages for the guest. There are good reasons for this. First, it prevents the screen from scrolling too fast and making the room virtually “unchattable”, if there’s such a term. Second, it prevents any untoward event that might put the guest in an awkward position. Lastly, it values the first-come, first-served rule.
In a moderated chatroom, only those given operator or voice status can skip the screening process. Therefore, this is only awarded to the guest, the moderator, chat jocks and respective producer and/or writer. It is the chatroom’s host’s decision as to whom he will grant this.
Back to the story.
The chat started at around 6:00 p.m. and everyone was there, including this person. I placed the room into moderated status and did our SOP’s before I introduced the guest to the chatters.
First, she was posted a message to dear Romina, saying who she is and how she missed her. Like a moderator that I am, I copied the message from the moderator’s room, cleaned it out first, and published it in the public room.
Her next messages went like this:
Bakit wala akong ops?
Ang bagal-bagal naman ng lolo.
Makaalis na nga. Nakakairita ang moderator dito.
I wasn’t surprised with the next messages knowing her personality, but it’s something I’ve never heard from an officemate before.
And she logged out of the chatroom, but she didn’t stop there. She sent IM’s to her buddies telling them how irritated she was.
How did I know? It’s simple, really. First, Dan, who was also in the chatroom, asked if I could please give her an operator status. I said no. Next, William, who just logged in the room, asked me who invited the guest. I told him I don’t know. Then he logged out and left.
Hmmm. Frankly, I don’t give a fuck who invited the guest. Teri told me that she has a chat, so I moderated, plain and simple. From what I remember, it wasn’t even Teri who booked the guest. I got the chat mail from the great boss himself! He forwarded the e-mails of the Chalk people to me. What the fuck is William blabbering about?
Next issue: Mabagal. This dear officemate hasn’t even tried moderating a chat. She wouldn’t be speaking of this if she did. Cutting and pasting is task in itself. Reading it and making it relevant to the conversation makes it harder. And I’m not just cutting and pasting the usual way, like this:
-#College-> question
I turn it into something more edible to the guest:
an interesting question from officemate. She asks….
So there’s the scoop. I guess this is one of the rare occasions when someone refused to give the brat what she wants. Let’s see her try to login to the chatroom again. I’ll kick her ass from here to Timbuktu.
In the end, I’m just doing my job. I think she should start with hers, too.
(What the fuck is she doing in my chatroom, anyway?)
11:15 PM
Wednesday, August 22, 2001
You probably noticed it. I'm playing with the templates. Which one should I get? Please let me know. E-mail me at dakila@pinoycentral.com.
1:37 PM
Saturday, August 18, 2001
Still running high on Drixine.
Good luck Urban Jungleers and Junglebelles!
11:08 AM
Tuesday, August 14, 2001
TIST - 'Tang Inang Sipon 'To!
Matindi na naman ang sipon ko, nangangati at namamaga ang aking lalamunan, at kung minamalas pa'y lalagnatin pa. Huwag naman sana.
7:03 PM
Sunday, August 12, 2001
I finally got Diablo II to work in my PC!
Should I praise God for it?
Next in line is installing the expansion pack. Those pesky people at Greenhills told me the cd keys are included. When I opened it, lo and behold, there were none. Good thing my friend has an original copy of Diablo II, so he texted me his key. What I have to do now is bug my officemates for their expansion pack key. Maybe I'll have it running by tomorrow. I can't wait to introduce Fluid the druid to the world!
2:17 AM
Friday, August 10, 2001
Laugh at his face when he offers you less workload.
2:26 PM
Wednesday, August 08, 2001
Rumor has it that December is really critical in terms of the survival of this company. After we've bloated our manpower to a whopping 160+ employees, we're now streamlining. We're left with a humongous number of sites with no people to maintain them. The development and production rate of our sites are so fast that we failed to stop and think about it. And now it's too late.
Top management is questioning why we can't beat the other sites. A factor may well be our image to the local IT industry. From their perspective, we're the bullies. They're comparing us to big bad Microsoft. So instead of the the opposite, the brand is pulling us down.
On another note, the exodus isn't over yet. A number of people have already left, and I know some who've plans of leaving as well. Who'll be the next ones voted out... er... booted out, rather? Your guess is as good as mine.
5:24 PM
Saturday, August 04, 2001
The chat's through. There's another one tomorrow with Donita and her friends. Hope we're still alive by then.
Got a new computer at home. It's a Pentium 4 1.4GHz with 128MB Ram, 64MB Video Card, 20 GB Hard Disk, Sony DVD player, Sony CDR, and an HP scanner. Oks na ba? It's time na kasi to put the old one to rest.
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