Tag: Thoughts and Musings

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On behalf of my dog Hondo, I would like to greet everyone a very Merry Christmas!

Though I didn’t win the Philips 5.1 home theatre system or a shopping spree in any Ayala Mall, Monday night was one of the more memorable evenings I’ve ever experienced.

And if I tell you the reason, you’re going to laugh at me. Real loud.

You see, last night was the very first time I got drunk. My 25 years of gallyvanting has been limited to caffeine shots in coffee places and bottomless iced tea in restaurants. Add the few shots of hard liquor here and there to cap the pinnacle of my wild life.

Of all places to get drunk, it was at the year-end Microsoft party at Fiesta San Miguel over at The Dusit Hotel. Now any bar with the words Fiesta and San Miguel put together leaves you with but an obvious clue as to what people do there.

Apparently, Fiesta San Miguel serves their draft straight from the brewery into your glass. They brew their own beer! Damn, no wonder it was like water. I had eight.. or was that nine huge mugs. With bottomless bibingka and puto bumbong.

My Mac is in the shop, waiting for a new logic board to be shipped in seven days. In the meantime, I have resigned myself to reading more, carrying less on my shoulders and enjoying the rest of the Christmas season gadget-less.

It’s not bad. 🙂

Speaking of Macs, I’m in dire need of name suggestions for a blog about all things Apple – more like an objective look at Apple products including the iPod and the Macintosh. This is a co-authored blog written by myself and another friend I will reveal later on set to launch before Christmas (hopefully!) under b5media‘s hood.

One thing I learned from domain searching is that the more popular the topic, the harder it is to find the perfect .com nomenclature you absolutely want. Some of these gems we thought of included The InCider (incider.com) as in apple cider, The Apple Gate, Macintalk, and other less popular yet catchy domains such as therealitydistortionfield.com.

I’m so MacUlit. Help.

Did you know…

That in spite of its life-threatening properties, freshly fried Chicharon Bulaklak when consumed, provides the most sensational sensory experience known to man?

It’s to die for!

I’m significantly poorer but loads happier that I was able to buy gifts for people today. I have officially finished my Christmas shopping. Places I went to include a small bazaar in the Petron gas station on the way to Mt. Makiling, the Ayala Alabang Cuenca bazaar as well as the Alabang Town Center.

I was planning to be a bit Scrooge-ey this Christmas but as Tyke said, “It’s Christmas, everyone deserves a gift, no matter how small!”

Now I’m going to apply my amateur gift wrapping skills. I sucked at arts and crafts back in grade school.

Speaking of gifts, one of the nicer ones I’ve received was from the Nokia people – they usually give next-year planners + something else. Last year, I got a really elegant Nokia bag that was a perfect fit for my iBook.

Now this year, the something else proved to be a 128MB Nokia USB thumb drive:

Here’s the Nokia bag I was talking about: