Early this morning, cable thieves struck again in our area to steal the recently repaired cable. It was stolen right when I was playing Warcraft, so I noticed it immediately. Unfortunately, I rushed out too late to catch them. I wasn’t too keen on rushing inside the local squatter colony alone.
Discussing [...]
February 23, 2008
Categories: society . Tags: cable theft, crime, criminals, death penalty, poverty, prison, society, warcraft . Author: counterflow . Comments: Leave a Comment
It is often said that you only find out how much something means to you after you’ve lost it. And in the case of my Internet connection, I found out how much it meant to me last weekend. I didn’t have a dial tone or Internet connection until Monday afternoon.
Staggering home at around 5.30am Saturday, [...]
February 20, 2008
Categories: computers, society . Tags: bureaucracy, cable theft, consumer rights, customer service, elvis, miriam, pldt, telephone problems . Author: counterflow . Comments: 1 Comment
“A committee is a group of the unwilling chosen form the unfit, to do the unnecessary.”
- Author unknown.
I’ve been fascinated with the revelations in the Senate hearings on the NBN deal. Abalos has been revealed as one greedy bastard who was willing to have the government spend millions of dollars to get $132 million [...]
February 11, 2008
Categories: politics . Tags: abalos, atutubo, committee, corruption, enrile, escudero, hearing, joker, lozada, miriam, nbn, pgma, pnp, politics, scandal, senate . Author: counterflow . Comments: Leave a Comment
Browsing through the Internet, I managed to find a roster update for NBA Live 08. After the trade that brought Gasol to the Lakers, I wanted to enjoy playing Dynasty Mode using this particular team. I managed to find Realistic Roster 08 v3 (Get it here). It’s not for the faint of [...]
February 10, 2008
Categories: computers . Tags: computer games, ea, gasol, lakers, nba, patches . Author: counterflow . Comments: 13 Comments
Jose de Venecia is about to be ousted from his post of Speaker of the House. That is, if we believe the news. But I don’t think that JdV will be able to pull a miracle bunny from the hat this time around. The President herself is calling for his departure, along [...]
February 5, 2008
Categories: politics . Tags: de venecia, house of representatives, pgma, politics, speaker of the house . Author: counterflow . Comments: Leave a Comment
In the Philippines, there is this phenomenon where the NBA champion is always the favorite team. LA Lakers in the 80’s, the Bulls in the 90’s, etc. But for me, there has only been one team ever since I was a kid (who barely knew anything about basketball) and saw Magic Johnson play. I collected [...]
February 3, 2008
Categories: sports . Tags: basketball, gasol, kobe, lakers, nba, trade . Author: counterflow . Comments: 1 Comment