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Another Juno song that I love…

If I was a flower growing wild and free
All I’d want is you to be my sweet honey bee.
And if I was a tree growing tall and greeen
All I’d want is you to shade me and be my leaves

If I was a flower growing wild and free
All I’d want is you to be my sweet honey bee.
And if I was a tree growing tall and greeen
All I’d want is you to shade me and be my leaves

All I want is you, will you be my bride
Take me by the hand and stand by my side
All I want is you, will you stay with me?
Hold me in your arms and sway me like the sea.

If you were a river in the mountains tall,
The rumble of your water would be my call.
If you were the winter, I know I’d be the snow
Just as long as you were with me, let the cold winds blow

All I want is you, will you be my bride
Take me by the hand and stand by my side
All I want is you, will you stay with me?
Hold me in your arms and sway me like the sea.

If you were a wink, I’d be a nod
If you were a seed, well I’d be a pod.
If you were the floor, I’d wanna be the rug
And if you were a kiss, I know I’d be a hug

All I want is you, will you be my bride
Take me by the hand and stand by my side
All I want is you, will you stay with me?
Hold me in your arms and sway me like the sea.

If you were the wood, I’d be the fire.
If you were the love, I’d be the desire.
If you were a castle, I’d be your moat,
And if you were an ocean, I’d learn to float.

All I want is you, will you be my bride
Take me by the hand and stand by my side
All I want is you, will you stay with me?
Hold me in your arms and sway me like the sea.

An iPod for a short post, very tempting. The peeps over at FuelMyBlog together with TSheets are sponsoring a contest where I might win an iPod. Very tempting, indeed.

I am quite wary of contests, as contests go most of them are just scams trying to get a free review for nothing (its just the pessimist in me talking). But people are gullible, why else would people line up in lotto outlets, pay PHP 10 for 6 numbers with an impossible probability of winning? Why else am I writing this post? Because like everyone else, I would like to have a shot, a chance, maybe by some fluke of fate I might get lucky.

So, I did what the contest entails. I went over to TSheets, signed up for a personal account and I am now the lucky owner of a Tsheets account found at https://jpalmes.tsheets.com/. First impressions lasts, but such is not always the case when it comes to website, so I did what every designer does, I checked out the site, analyzed how it will appeal to the general public, particularly to, shall I say, “technology-challenged” people. So far, I am impressed, the way they present their frontpage is particularly appealing and very user friendly. I love their color scheme, the way everything compliment each other.

I logged in to my account and checked out the features, they offer free accounts for personal use. Business accounts go for $9.95/month. Not bad for the features they are offering. I like the ajaxy feel of the admin panel, the draggable elements and the way everything is presented upfront. I am currently using a freshbooks account, but if TSheets offer me the same if not more functionalities, I just might consider transferring. I’ll try it out for some projects and will let you know how it goes.

There goes my answer for question letter a. For question letter b: What do you do in the first 5 minutes of your working day?

The precious first five minutes of my working day, which I guess is everyday… I wake up when I wake up and the first thing I do is check if my two babies are up, usually they are and most often than not they are trying to wake me up asking for their morning bottle of milk. Xanth will say “Meme, wub yu,” then kiss me then demand for his milk. Khleomi will do the same, she will kiss me, hug me and ask for her milk. It usually takes around 2-3 minutes for them to down their milk and then stand up and demand to open the door so that they can go out of our room. I then spend a few moments to thank the Lord for another wonderful day, turn my laptop on, wash my face and make coffee in that order. And I am set for work. Such is my daily routine and thus the most precious minutes of my entire day. A single “wub yu” from my babies are more than enough to help me get through any challenge for the day.

So there you have it folks, my entry for the contest. To learn more about it, click here.

With a busy schedule, I hardly get the chance to watch a movie. In fact, it has been almost two years since I last saw a real live movie in a movie theater!

Anyway, there’s this movie sitting in my desktop for almost a month. I did not pay attention to it, I just did not have the time. I have projects to start, deadlines to meet, and kids to play with. But somehow today, I kept running into that movie file so I finally got the guts to stop work for a while and watch it. I planned to just watch the first 10 minutes and turn it off. But I ended up watching the whole movie and I even researched on the soundtrack of the movie!

The movie is called Juno, spearheaded by Ellen Page and Michael Cera. It is a fun quirky movie with a great dialogue. The verbal exchange between the characters are mind bending, I just love it! The script deviates from the “girl got pregnant - girl got abortion but chickened out - contemplated adoption - baby got adopted - girl found another love” plot. The soundtrack is not for sissies either, I just love the movie and its been a long time since I got this worked up for a particular movie. I plan on seeing it again and again whenever I get the chance to.

Below is the lyrics for “Anyone Else But You” from the movie, you can listen to it by clicking the play button.

I just mentioned that I am planning to buy an external hard drive, I forgot until a moment ago, when my laptop started acting up again, that I also need to upgrade the ram. I had photoshop cs3, dreamweaver cs3, thunderbird, firefox and smartftp open and my system suddenly went into stand still. I figure there might be some other problem but a ram upgrade is definitely in line. I have 1gb ram installed but it is never enough, my laptop can handle up to 4gb of ram, I might consider an additional 2gb upgrade if I have enough budget left over from the external hdd or might settle for an additional 1gb ram. Anything is better than 1gb, even a 512mb upgrade is looking great as of the moment.

I am a voracious reader and proud of it. I read everything, from medicine brochures, pamphlets, roadside posters, children books, ebooks, practically anything I could get my hands into. I can read an entire novel in a day, in one sitting if the plot is really good. I remembered when I had all the time in my life and I would spend it meeting people, monsters, aliens, animals and whatnot. I talked with monsters, heroes, princes and princesses, magical creatures, famous people and long lost friends.

My love of reading and books started at a very young age. If I can remember it right, the first book I read when I first learned how is The Bible. I would memorize verses and whole chapters, my memory retention back then was superb :). I won a lot of Bible contest back when I was young. I got to know Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys really well. I then found suspense novels and they retained my attention for quite awhile, I hoarded them, I read them voraciously, I dream about them. Stephen King, John Saul are my best friends. They entertained me and I spent most of my allowance buying their books.

I read romance novels every now and then but they just don’t have enough content to keep me entertained. I do love the idea of a knight in shining armor but too much of it is just, well, too much. I then found the world of fantasy and it got me, hook, line and sinker. I am a very practical(?) person, but the idea of a fantasy land where magic is abundant and happy endings can happen (but not always) appeals to the child in me. I got to know JRR Tolkien, JK Rowlings, David Eddings and Piers Anthony among others. They were my constant companion, and they still are.

Although, I do not have enough free time to read books the way I did before, I still can squeeze in a chapter or two in between work. I fell in love with Piers Anthony’s Xanth series and I even named my son “Xanth Reign” in honor of this magical land and its people. I have most of the collection in ebooks which I download into my phone to read once in awhile. Although not as fulfilling as holding a real book in your hands and manually flipping the pages, reading books in my ebook reader can still give me the satisfaction that only books can give me.

So, am I addicted to books? Nah…