Thursday, September 30, 2004

My sincere appreciation goes to Arvind Satyanarayan, the wizard kid of BlogShares, for the nomination of ladylaila.net/blog/ as Phillipine Blog entry into Annual Philippine Blog Awards and this blog made it to the Semi-Finals.

There were 365 interesting entries nominated and 142 Blog Sites were selected as Semi-Finalists. After a month they will present the finalists for this year Philippine Blog Awards.

Whether I will make it to the Finals or not, let's keep our fingers crossed!

Wednesday, September 29, 2004

Ploghost's bot sent this last week: "The domain ladylaila.net has reached 80% of its bandwidth limit. Please contact the system admin as soon as possible." Just last month, I have upgraded my webhosting plan because in the past three consecutive months, my site was inaccessible when it exceeded its bandwidth limit.

Here is ladylaila.net's monthly visits history for this year:

I'd thought only 5 people are visiting my blog everyday... and, it's been a long time I neglected visiting my site's control panel.

And here is an interesting stats I found, the top 25 unique visitors of my site for the month of September 2004:

Tuesday, September 28, 2004

My daughter sought my assistance in her College Algebra homework. If you know the solution to this motion problem, I will appreciate it. I have less than eight hours to find out the answer. I was good in Algebra before, but my memory isn't working well...

Anyone?

Distance = (rate)(time), or d = rt

From this equation we can derive the associated relationships:

r = d / t , t = d / r

PROBLEM: Two men are 10 mi apart. If they start walking at noon on one straight road at the rate of 3 km/hr and 2 km/hr, find the time they will be 2 miles apart.

ANSWER: 1:36PM, 2:24PM

My daughter wanted me to provide the solution but my mind and memory are not working... can you help?

Sunday, September 26, 2004

Today is my father's 70th Birthday. Happy Birthday, Papa! Sorry if Pacette and Bhoie were not able to make it. Pacette was very ill and she didn't liked us all to get sick from her and Bhoie was on his flight back to Jeddah.

As usual, Papa was stubborn enough not to invite his friends after he found out Bhoie will not cancel his flight to attend Papa's birthday. I know Papa's acting strange these days but, I prefer not to elaborate further why. Enough that we did our best and pushed through with the celebration.

The wife of Junjun, Tintin, was with me along with her two sisters. We arrived late because I ran short of cash and it wasn't easy to look for Allied Bank ATM near us. Pacette caused the delay also when we waited for her until 1:00 o'clock in the afternoon but she didn't showed up. Pacette, please get well soon...

It feels good my father was giving me importance by waiting for me before they started the celebration. Why I said this? Because he cares about his sons more than his daughters!

Guess what? I brought my digital camera but, I forgot to take some photos when I got involved with my sister's visitors about politics issues. We both didn't liked the two women presidents. The interesting conversation lasted for 2 hours.

We need to go home as my daughter sent SMS to buy her urgently ink cartridge for Epson stylus c32sx or HP deskjet 820Cxi. Epson black and colored ink cost me Php1,150.00! Shopping was not in my priority list for this week because I used my budget for my father's birthday celebration but, anyway, I got some grocery items for two weeks consumptions and sent Int'l Roaming eLoad to Junjun! There were many shoppers and strollers at SM North Edsa and looking at those people who bought many things, I couldn't help but asked, how many among them are like us who were forced to sell the property in order to survive....

Sometimes, special occasions brought sad memories and family disputes but, I did my part to control my temper in honor of Papa's birthday. My mother and Ate Neth knew very well the real story and whatever my youngest sister was gossiping against me, may God help her be enlightened.

I love my siblings, yet, I wonder why jealousy in her heart should be a burden to a better relationship. I prayed for them everyday and I wish Beh will remember that she already asked for forgiveness few years back. There's no need to repeat the same mistakes over and over again just to make her believe she's doing better than me.

Beh, please appreciate that I'm your elder sister and in my own special way, I played my part very well and helped our parents according to my means. If you are reading this, please release that hatred in your heart. There is no way you can put me down by telling evil things (you made) about me. You have three daughters and I didn't liked you to pass unto them your sins.

Windows XP is infected with spyware virus and we cannot use internet explorer anymore nor run windows update. The malicious virus redirected all URLs to download spyware and ad aware softwares.

I suspected Paul Denise got this virus when he downloaded some ringing tunes two weeks ago.

I had difficulty running any programs, like Yahoo! messenger for example, that's associated with internet explorer because three popup windows launched uncontrollably each time someone sent me a message.

Glad I am using Mozilla browser for surfing and Trillian messenger to communicate!

Useful sites to visit:
What you should know about spyware and other unwanted software
Cleaning out your PC - Part I
Cleaning out your PC - Part II
Working With Internet Explorer 6 Security Settings

Saturday, September 25, 2004

Today, Randy paid US$15.00 to Jay Campbell, owner of BlogShares Fantasy Stock Market, for my BlogShares bandwidth usage. Earlier, Jay gifted me a premium membership and that's how I easily reached BlogShares' 4th Richest Player.

To Jay and Randy, thank you very much!

I notified my mail server on Fri, 24 Sep 2004 02:10:54 +0800 that their pop mail is not working and my outgoing mails kept undelivered:

"Please improve your e-mail service features. It's causing me so much inconvenience and my mails were delayed like Philippine Airlines flights*... what's going on?"

*Disclaimer: Philippine Airlines has no right to file libel case against me for posting the above comments about their service. It's the impression of many of PAL's pax, not only mine...

And here's the reply I received:

Dear Ms. Laila*:

Thank you for your email.

We regret to inform you that we had an inadvertent technical problem with our Incoming (POP) Mail Server the other day which caused queuing and delayed in your incoming and outgoing mails and we sincerely apologize for the inconvenience that it caused you. We would also like to apologize if we have not immediately informed you about this issue as the problem was intermittent and was not part of our scheduled down times. Please be assured, however, that the cause of the problem has already been identified and necessary steps to rectify the problem has already been implemented. Our Network Administrators are continuously monitoring our Mail Servers to avoid recurrence of the problem.

We recommend also that you use our Webmail Service, located at https://webmail.epldt.biz/pldtdsl Please be reminded to enter your whole email address and its working password to avoid authentication error.

Should you wish to get in touch with our 24-hour Customer Service Hotline, you may dial 859-8000 (for Metro Manila subscribers) or 1-800-10-INFOCOM (for outside Metro Manila subscribers).

Thank you and we apologize for the inconvenience that this has caused you.

Respectfully yours,

Joel A. Bernardo
Technical Support Group
Customer Management Division
INFOCOM Technologies, Inc.
T: 859.8000 F: 867.3997
www.info.com.ph

Friday, September 24, 2004

I had a very busy Friday afternoon running here and there, not to mention that Junjun, my son, was also online on Yahoo! messenger. Junjun wants me to send him some blankets and jackets to Riyadh before the change of season. He doesn't have time to go around the city to buy some stuffs.

My brother, Bhoie, and his children visited us this afternoon. He will be leaving to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Sunday and he brought his children with him to show them where we reside. His sons, Elijah and Ericson, are taller than me now, in fact, even taller than Paul Denise, and they are only less than 15 years old!

It's unfortunate that Bhoie cannot make it on Papa's birthday, which is the same day of his flight, September 26th. Papa was upset two weeks ago that Nasser and Bhoie won't be there on his birthday and he wanted us to cancel his birthday party. Papa is planning to invite some new friends to his party and wish to introduce his sons. He blatantly commented that if his boys won't be there, he didn't like a party celebration anymore. In Chinese family, they only give importance to the boys, and this matter sometimes made me feel bad. Papa cared so much about his boys but, when it comes to his basic needs, we (his daughters), were quick enough to provide help and assistance.

Anyway, good luck Bhoie and have a safe journey. We love you even Papa loves you more than us...

Angelito Songco sent me e-mail on 9/24/2004 8:09 PM and informed me of his interest to solicit support on his Sampung Mga Daliri Project next month, October. He said they are planning to film a documentary video featuring the rights of Filipino children.

I still have to verify the authenticity of this project and in case this plan will push through, I'm going to make a new blog about this...

im angelito l. songco since i decided to comeback in the philippines from my long journey to United States,i felt something unusual feeling in my heart when it comes to the rigths of a child here in the philippines.so on that point i saw myself advocating the rigths of the child.mayron kaming project dito sa pilipinas tungkol sa karapatan ng bata sa darating na oktubre at mangangailangan kami ng suporta sa katulad mong nakakaintindi ng ipinaglalaban ko.magkakaroon kami ng info-docu-drive production para maisadula sa pamamagitan ng video ang nasabibg proyekto na pinamagatang "Sampung mga Daliri" alam kong hulog ka ng langit sa akin upang mabawasan ang pag iisip ko kung papaanong magkakaroon ng katuparan ang proyektong ito.umaasa ako bibigyan mo ng pansin ang aking kahilingan.alam kong hindi mo ako kakilala,pero naniniwala ako na hindi ito mangyayaring sulatan ka kung hindi ka pinadala ng maykapal para matulungan mo ang batang narririto sa pilipinas.pls.help us !

GOD bless and more Power

Direk Angel Songco.

Thursday, September 23, 2004

My son, Paul Denise arrived late this evening once again. He's not drunk this time and my daughter believes he had fun with the company of his girl friend. He brought with him a dozen of chocolate coated Mister Donuts for me and Sweety Pearl, sort of bribery???

This is not the first time I stayed home the whole day alone but what's killing me, I told him I need him immediately after class dismissal because I was bored seeing my bed facing north and my computer table facing east. Since I was serious moving my bed and PC, I did it all by myself late this afternoon. Yes, why not? I was doing that since they were young and I should not expect they will do it for me now that they are grownups. I know things would have been easier for me if my eldest son, Junjun, is with us. Junjun is on his own now working in Saudi Arabia since 5 months ago.

My son, Junjun, wherever you are right now, whatever you are doing, may God keep you safe and well always. We are missing you a lot. Paul Denise is not attending to us just like the way you used to but, the sweets your brother brought home made me realized he cares about us, too, and expresses it in a different manner I least expected.

Somehow, there's so many reasons to thank God for having you all in my life. Now that you're all grownups now... I'm sure you can take good care of yourselves!

Wednesday, September 22, 2004

My sister, Pacette, and her daughter, Mary Grace, arrived at noon today from SSS. They sought legal assistance from Public Attorneys' Office (PAO) in Quezon City Hall against illegal dismissal of her husband by his abusive employer and for failure to give the separation pay.

Mary Grace, my niece, fortunately was accepted as cashier in a known fast food outlet and needs some financial assistance to complete her certification requirements. Pacette's son, Mark, was robbed few days ago of his hard-earned 15 days salary, his work uniform and cellphone were inside his bag when bad guys snatched his belongings while waiting for a bus to go home. After few days, they were calling the mobile's number and begging the 'current owner' of Mark's cellphone to return, at least, his uniform and company ID so that they do not have to pay for lawyer's fee for the execution of Affidavit of Loss. But the holder of his cellphone warned them not to call her 'number' as it does not belong to Mark anymore. Shocked, this kind of news made me feel very, very angry with those unkind people. Cellphone theft should be stopped and something must be done to prosecute these snatchers whose victimizing poor people like my nephew.

I feel sorry for my nephew's fate, really. My sister told me they just borrowed the money for the deposit of her son's uniform only to be robbed off by people who prefer to steal someone else' money instead of working hard and earn a living fairly.

May God bless those who are suffering right now from their losses and return to them what they have lost a thousand fold. Amen.

Monday, September 20, 2004

If you are added on my list or at least, have tried to send me instant message either on Yahoo! or ICQ, you know about my auto-reply message. Most incoming messages never get a secondary reply from me unless someone says something interesting.

I believe it's in my discretion whether I will reply to any messages sent to me or not. Although my profile is for public viewing which is provided to friends and families, it does not mean, I am a public property nor must I share with anyone my precious time. So what if my life is like an open book? Informations are there because I must save time telling people the same story over and over again. Why some people just cannot understand that?

To jerryicu: No Filipina will bother to chat with you, you're rude and a TURN OFF!!! Besides, I do not entertain online dating inquiries...

ANNOYING CHAT HISTORY:

Session Start (Yahoo! - lady_laila:jerryicu): Mon Sep 20 12:38:43 2004
[12:38] jerryicu: To Be Friends My name is Jerry, I live in USA, Near Portland Oregon I was surfing and saw you ID at yahoo, I would like to make new friends and learn about your place I work in the Medical field and would like to travel to manila, if you have time will you please email me your pictures and tell me about you I like good values and also strong for family values, I seek a nice lady email me Tell me about your life and your job so i can know you better please Email at Jerryicu@yahoo.com
[12:38] *** Auto-response sent to jerryicu: Hello :-)
I'm busy attending to my duties and away from my PC. Please feel free to visit my blog at http://www.ladylaila.net/blog/ to know the latest news about me or check out this site, http://blogshares.com/?referer=13413 where I hang out online most of the time. Thank you and wishing you a happy life. May God bless us all. ~ Laila*
[14:25] lady_laila: if you wish to meet someone, try this site http://filipinofriendfinder.com/
Session Close (jerryicu): Mon Sep 20 14:25:04 2004

Session Start (Yahoo! - lady_laila:jerryicu): Mon Sep 20 20:22:16 2004
[20:22] jerryicu: thank you and you how are you doing
[20:22] *** Auto-response sent to jerryicu: Hello :-)
I'm busy attending to my duties and away from my PC. Please feel free to visit my blog at http://www.ladylaila.net/blog/ to know the latest news about me or check out this site, http://blogshares.com/?referer=13413 where I hang out online most of the time. Thank you and wishing you a happy life. May God bless us all. ~ Laila*
[20:24] jerryicu: i am sorry you are to public for me
[20:25] jerryicu: it seems you hangs out your guts for all to see, do you really need that kind of attention
[20:25] jerryicu: i dont see conservative people doing this that are very intelligent
[20:25] jerryicu: no thank you
[20:50] lady_laila: these are all what you're saying while I was busy doing my chores in the kitchen? Well, I don't care whatever impression you had about me. With the kind of messages you just gave me, I don't think you have a space in my busy world.

You are ignored!
[20:50] *** jerryicu has been ignored.
Session Close (jerryicu): Mon Sep 20 20:50:21 2004

Sunday, September 19, 2004

Bilal al Basit had been forwarding useful informations through e-mails but, the latest one he sent me looks spam to me and suspicious. After googling about Tommy Hilfiger, I found out the e-mail circulating was a chain letter against this fashion designer. What I did, I copied some articles, hit reply to Bilal's e-mail and pasted something about the chain letter correction then sent it to him. I hope he got my message clear not to forward damaging contents against anyone without verifying the credibility of the message.

Here are related articles about Tommy Hilfiger:

• About.Com: Hilfiger 'Racist' Rumor Is Fashionable Again
• BreakTheChain.Org's "Say It Ain't So, Tommy"
• Tommy Hilfiger's website

If you are reading this and you made it a habit to forward mails you received from friends without thinking or verifying its content, it's about time you stop spreading chain letters... may this post serves as a reminder.

Below is the copy of his message:

*** Start of chain letter ***

YEAH FOR OPRAH

Good for Oprah !!!! I'm sure many of you watched the recent taping of The Oprah Winfrey show where her guest was "Tommy Hilfiger".

On the show, she asked him if the statements about race he was accused of saying were true.

Statements like : "... if I'd known African Americans, Hispanics, Jews and Asians would buy my clothes, I would not have made them so nice.. I wish these people would *NOT* buy my clothes, as they are made for upper class white people."

His answer to Oprah was a simple "YES". Where after she immediately asked him to leave her show.

My suggestion ? Don't buy your next shirt or Perfume from Tommy Hilfiger. Let's give him what he asked for. Let's not buy his clothes. Let's put him in a financial state where he himself will not be able to afford the ridiculous prices he puts on his clothes.

BOYCOTT PLEASE, & SEND THIS MESSAGE TO ANYONE YOU KNOW !!!!!

*** End of chain letter ***

Friday, September 17, 2004

Today is my sister's birthday, Happy 41st Birthday, Beh!

We called your house but, Madonna told us you went out in a picnic with Sarah and Ziad! Enjoy your day, sis, pero nasaan ang handa?

Wednesday, September 15, 2004

My brother, Bhoie, the oldest among the boys, visited me with his daughter, Alex Andrea. He needed informations from his Encarta CD some facts about Canada but, his PC had technical problems.

They arrived at lunch time, meat wasn't ready so we had Chow King Lauriat instead. It's been many years since I last saw Bhoie when he came to visit us in Parañaque City. He looks matured now and had lost that baby face looks. Ah! We're all getting older while our children are fast growing...

When Sweety Pearl arrived home, she installed the CD, summarize the document file, saved, and printed them while I was busy cooking dinner. The research paper was for his wife, Tess, who is currently attending a Care-Giving class and the paper has to be submitted tomorrow as part of her requirements.

Tuesday, September 14, 2004

Happy 43rd Birthday, Pacette!

Bhoie told me that you won in a jueteng bet on Saturday. How come you never told me about this when we were together on Sunday? Anyway, our planned party for Papa's birthday should be finalized one day ahead of time.

Sana, next time, sa Lotto ka naman manalo, para may balato kaming lahat...

Monday, September 13, 2004

RWO and I would like to extend our sincerest gratitude to the following bidders at RWO's recently held eBay auction:

beralvis - US $22.62
jaolx - US $20.50
overlord_q - US $16.50
pdgweb - US $23.65

for which we received the total amount of US $83.27 for items:
B$ 1T + 40K chips + 400K artefact ideas + 4 GMail invites

RWO will donate US $15.00 to Jay Campbell for my bandwidth usage since I already have premium membership given to me by Jay earlier this year.

Many thanks to those bidders who participated but unable to win any of the above items.  Looking forward to providing you more items next time with our fast and quality service.

Lastly, we are planning to donate some chips and have it auctioned at eBay to benefit less fortunate children. Kindly wait for further announcement as we are still looking for a child to support.

RWO and Laila*

(NOTE:) This message was posted at BlogShares Forum on September 13, 2004, 09:20:40 pm

Sunday, September 12, 2004

Pacette, my sister, had lunch with us this Sunday and she's the one who cooked adobo Chicken and I cooked my specialty, a KFC-like fried chicken. We seldom cook vegetables as Paul Denise didn't like to eat them.

Since the kids were busy, Pacette accompanied me first to Smart Wireless Center to buy international roaming load for Junjun and later went to SM supermarket. I was careful with my budget and limited the goods we bought based on their importance but still, I paid too much with one cart of grocery items!

On our way home, Junjun sent a message thanking me for the load I sent him. He's fine in general in spite of the fact he's having problems dealing with his foreign co-workers.

Saturday, September 11, 2004

Wish I have a bot
One, to do my household chores
Two, to blog for me

So that I can play
Concentrate well on game play
Twenty hours a day

If I have a bot
Why expected ideas
Bought by someone else?

Mostly by Stan
Or by Linn Skinner at
Ideas Market

I kept reloading
Waiting for rare ideas
But, lost it to them

Recent experience
Prompted me to change style
Testing my speed

That's my story
If I can't get those rare ones
I will get the rest!

Thursday, September 09, 2004

While hanging our clothes to dry in the balcony, I received a text message from my son asking me to pass him a load. And I had thought to take a photo of the balcony since the sun is shining well this morning.

This is the front view of the Balcony (open hallway) while I was standing at the main door of our occupied unit. Whenever I was bored waiting for the kids to arrive home, I wait for them patiently here in the balcony.

This is where I dry our clothes. The unfinished building with a white painted roof is where we hear the Sunday mass. This church is still under construction until now.

This is the right portion of the balcony. The hallway is spacious and I have two chairs and table here where I sometimes had my breakfast. This is where I sent the kids, too, whenever I was moody and I didn't like them to smoke inside the house.

Wednesday, September 08, 2004

Got no luck updating this blog this afternoon as a transformer in a nearby area exploded and I have lost my entry. I had been offline for 5 hours!

I was sickly these past few days and they advised me to fall in love soon. Well, it was a joke and I know my sickness is weather related. Although it's currently a rainy season in the Philippines, humidity is higher. Also, since I have high metabolism, I sweat a lot while doing household chores. Guess I have to cut my hair short until to my shoulder level? Nah, the truth is, I was lazy to take vitamins... whatever!

There is a need to improve not only the categories of this blog but it's skin and layout. However, I am not sure if I am ready to shift to the latest version of MT. Afonso suggested Expression engine but, I need more time and dedication in learning any software.

Anyway, this is a warm message just to let my faithful readers that I am online most of the day but, got addicted with BlogShares practicing my typing skills...

Sunday, September 05, 2004

I posted this in Blogshares Forum, time stamped on September 04, 2004, 08:18:36 am:

I received a PM from one of the players whose fast enough to buy rare ideas which I patiently waited would appear at Ideas Market. And this was the content of his message:

"Just checked out some people's transactions as I was getting bored with looking at a blank ideas screen, and guess what I found:"

"User: Laila*, 44 ideas transactions between 08:04:23 and 08:06:46. I think that's roughly one every three seconds."

"I guess you're a really fast typist, huh?"

In case you're also monitoring my profile, or simply just want to know what I told him, please PM me. I couldn't post my trade secret in public but, willing to share to those who are interested.

Humans are definitely better than bots...

After barely 30 minutes of submitted post, I received PM from BlogShares moderators, Alan Dean and Just James and I told them my trade secrets. After probably exchange of talks between the two, Alan Dean posted this message, forum time stamped on September 04, 2004, 11:19:14 am:

"We've had a look at Laila's account and seen no cause for concern. The trading on this account has the hallmarks of a normal, aggressive player."

Wednesday, September 01, 2004

Last July 2004, I was at rank no. 8th on BlogShares' Top 100 Richest Player and my addiction to this game placed me at 4th place beginning the month of September! I am currently the top chips holder with 364,657 chips and second best on karma with 5643 points!

What's the catch? Some smart players auctioned BlogShares Dollars (B$) and BlogShares Chips for real money at eBay! It's not a rumor, it's for real! Instead of spending time building up wealth, anyone can be an instant trillionaire with instant chips and B$ cash to play the game - no sweat and kiss those red eyes goodbye...

Find out what made most of us addicted to this game. Try BlogShares now!

TOP CHIPS HOLDERS:

1. 364657 Laila* (5643 karma) [User Profile]
2. 361515 Borland Rocks! (951 karma) [User Profile]
3. 117315 Jay Campbell (1003 karma) [User Profile]
4. 107855 Aine MacDermot (2975 karma) [User Profile]
5. 74126 MLT (2809 karma) [User Profile]
6. 60149 Island Dave (3547 karma) [User Profile]
7. 59455 mars/iris Securities (2437 karma) [User Profile]
8. 57890 RWO (2246 karma) [User Profile]
9. 56415 Proud to be considered eccentric ! (2247 karma) [User Profile]
10. 50965 Cupid Stunt (4726 karma) [User Profile]
11. 39030 V4NY (2586 karma) [User Profile]
12. 35473 Wryen Luveau (1827 karma) [User Profile]
13. 31110 Seyed Razavi (1243 karma) [User Profile]
14. 26210 Nexy (1052 karma) [User Profile]
15. 25671 kucinichworldpeace (1698 karma) [User Profile]
16. 25625 King Gucci Armani (662 karma) [User Profile]
17. 24125 Mad Trollie (1116 karma) [User Profile]
18. 23305 Gijsbrecht (Dodo) van Teysterbant (10 karma) [User Profile]
19. 22646 Alan Dean (569 karma) [User Profile]
20. 21345 Herbert (922 karma) [User Profile]

Total held by top 20: 1584882

PLAYERS WITH BEST KARMA:

1. 6052: skh.
2. 5643: Laila*
3. 4726: Cupid Stunt
4. 3830: Semidi Securities PLC
5. 3547: Island Dave
6. 3012: Linn Skinner
7. 2975: Aine MacDermot
8. 2809: MLT
9. 2586: V4NY
10. 2455: Jacco Spinhoven

I received this from Bilal Basit. Thank you Bilal for keeping in touch and sending nice stuffs to me. Because of Bilal's initiative, I'd like to share this to all of you:

Jack, a smart businessman, talks to his son.

Jack: "I want you to marry a girl of my choice."
Son: "I will choose my own bride!"
Jack: "But the girl is Bill Gates's daughter."
Son: "Well, in that case..."

Next, Jack approaches Bill Gates.

Jack: "I have a husband for your daughter."
Bill Gates: "But my daughter is too young to marry!"
Jack: "But this young man is a vice-president of the World Bank."
Bill Gates: "Ah, in that case..."

Finally, Jack goes to see the president of the World Bank.

Jack: "I have a young man to recommend as a vice-president."
President: "But I already have more vice- presidents than I need!"
Jack: "But this young man is Bill Gates's son-in-law."
President: "Ah, in that case..."