when i first learned that digital walker already sells the ipod nano silicon case for Php650, i immediately visited their park square 1 branch. the available colors are: white, light blue, dark blue, violet, pink, brown and orange.

the white one was my first choice but later realized that there were two very obvious white lines on the front, probably a manufacturing defect, so i opted for the orange to match with my phone, unfortunately it didn’t mix well with my black nano so finally i got the purple. yey! at least something to tide me over till the nano tubes arrive.

ok i take it back, 2gb is not enough. i just took out my dusty cds and added them to my itunes library. yargz!!! it’s more than 20gb, i haven’t even counted the ones i left in cebu: albums of matchbox twenty, staind, greenday, lighthouse family.. ost of city of angels, my best friend’s wedding, the other sister, shrek..

sheesh, now i’m left with the dilemma of weeding out songs from my playlist. no more space to include all the tracks from my anna nalick, jet, norah jones and lifehouse albums. hohum, i spent the entire night just trying to fit them in my nano and finally slept at around 3am.

there’s a rumored invite only apple affair in california on october 12, could this be the 80gb ipod launch? =)

the sims is one of my all time favorites, my addiction for sim games started after playing creatures 3, it’s about artificially intelligent norns that you can train to speak, do things, build gadgets and genetically engineer. it was great but unfortunately, the developers abandoned it 4 years ago.

with the advent of sims 2, i’m once again a loyal customer of data blitz, and my recent purchase is the night life expansion pack. at last, my sim can now own a sports car and drive around down town. now if only my real life could catch up with that..

visit http://thesims.ea.com/

“the information age is over” this is what sun microsystems ceo scott mcnealy declared before announcing that he will be giving away their software technology for free. wow! this is the solaris operating system we’re talking about here. back when i was on bt in tamagawa, that’s a whole eon of light years ago, our workstation has dozens of sun blade servers which cost around US $2000. open sourcing solaris could lead to a lot things like the evolution of patches to make it work on intel x86 machines like the soon to be released version of mac os. this could lower production costs for software people who are depending on solaris systems, but on the other hand one can’t help but ask: what happens to the people behind solaris? will they lose their jobs? what about microsoft, do they have plans of at least slashing their current software prices to half so as to prevent piracy? speaking of microsoft, i heard from a twit podcast that they are having brain drain problems. the top people have opted to resign and join other companies, i should start updating my resume. haha! yeah right

friday, saturday and sunday were advertised as m-ph expo weekend at greenbelt 1. there were lots of booths displaying the latest gadgets of apple, archos, creative, sony and many others. i went for a peak and attended the apple ipod seminar at around 6pm saturday, too bad i didn’t ask a question, i could have won an ipod sock! there were also lots of freebies and raffle prizes, i brought home several back issues of m-ph.

i remember when m-ph was first launched 2 years ago, it was bundled free with the reviewer magazine, and while the rest of my friends were reading cosmo, i was lost in tech land. i don’t know, there’s just something in those shiny things that never fail to catch my attention.

if only i have a bottomless wallet =)

podcastalley is my favorite web destination these days eventhough i currently don’t own an ipod, sold it off months ago because i got tired of the 20 gig worth of memory with nothing to put on it and the grayscale display just made me miss my sony clie t650c even more. maybe i just got used to the miniscule ram on those prehistoric palm os pda’s that’s why i can’t fill up this huge space, the 512mb memstick duo on my w800i isn’t even half full yet, or perhaps i just don’t have enough songs to put on it.

anyways, after i discovered these podcasts, i now have a lot of content to load onto my memstick, and if i get crazy again, i just might get me a black ipod nano before the week ends =)

i finally found the one. =) got my w800i last sunday after our 2 hour badminton game. the fatigue messed up with my logical and frugal self until i finally gave in to the dark side. at last, my dream phone, yey!!

last weekend i finished watching season 1 of desperate housewives, thanks to jules for the dvd copy =) the viewing marathon gave me a headache but the hilarious episodes were worth the while, i hope there’s still a next season to look forward to.

today, i had lunch at racks with my former classmate in malate catholic school. it’s been a long time since we last saw each other – 13 years to be exact. time flies so fast, where do all the years go?

got an aoc lm721a for babs =) i like the minimalistic all black design. im thinking of swapping monitors hehe.

last night was hectic. i met up with 4 guys at around 6pm, 8pm, 10pm and 11:30pm. nah, its not what you think. it wasn’t speed dating. i purchased some tech items online and yesterday was the delivery date of four of them. my room mate was saying: “this one looks better than the last”, and no she wasn’t talking about the gadgets. hahaha! i hope she doesn’t get to read this, she’ll kill me. literally. hehe.

ma closed a big deal in cebu last night. i hope she meets her targets this year. and i hope we can spend the holidays together.

still on the pochero quest, we had dinner at max’s last night. the nilagang baka doesn’t quite fit the bill. i will probably go to cebu next month just to satisfy this craving =)

slept at 2am today. i reinstalled all the apps and drivers on my sotec afina pc. i bought this three years ago in fukuoka when i was on aots. it still works fine, i just need an antenna to see which channels the tv tuner can receive. good thing ri lent me one today =)

hohum, i really want to get rid of old stuff in my room. i hope i can find a home for this real soon. babsy doesn’t want a desktop pc, he prefers something portable like his current laptop. =( i’m going to miss my silver blue setup.

yuck gave me another teddy bear last night, eww! i hate stuffed toys. they are totally useless, they remind me of this one time… ooppss, i want it to stay forgotten. rm -rf *

last night i was craving for cebu’s pochero so yuck and i ended up having bulalo at dencio’s. it’s blech! it doesn’t even come close to what i expected. i’ll probably just cook my own version when i visit LB again next month.

boohoo i’m still not finished with hp, what with all these distractions called life. hehe

i’m torn between buying the mac mini 1.42 or the powerbook g4. ok, i know, no one’s really pressuring me to buy any of those, especially now that the number of electronic items in my room already outnumber the people actually living there. i don’t know, maybe i’m just OC in getting all these stuff, they make me happy for a while. then i get tired of them and dispose them just as fast.

i just got my dvi-vga connector and the board tune up came out fine, at last i’ll be able to check if the tv tuner on my other cpu is still ok. hmm, that reminds me, i need to purchase an antenna. too bad most of the sockets in the pad are not working because of the burnt fuse, this will limit my *experiments*.

im halfway through HBP, it annoyed me that when i logged on to ym, i saw my friends’ status message: “— is dead, — the half blood prince killed him”. grrr! that ruined it all for me hehe =) oh well, i think rowling is killing off her characters one by one, who could be next?

yuck is coming to treat me out to dinner tonight, i wonder what stories he would tell.

di sent me a copy of her latest poem: ode to the moon, i am without words =)