Tuesday, January 30, 2007

After Junjun scanned Paul Denise's PC yesterday and disinfected 59 viruses, he scanned my PC this evening using Kaspersky Lab and he found five (5) malicious trojan spies in my inbox:

• Three (3) Trojan-Spy.HTML.Fraud.gen
• One (1) Worm.Win32.RJump.a
• One (1) Trojan-Spy.HTML.Bayfraud.dq

Since we changed our D-Link Router to Wireless-G Linksys Broadband Router, we had difficulty with our Firefox browser whenever Paul Denise turned on his PC, browser's internet connection resets all the time. This had been going on for the past couple of days now and it's kind of annoying closing all open windows and reconnect back to Unification Wars. This game is browser based and missing my turns was not very nice at all.

Anyway, the above viruses were modified and had been sending out confidential emails to an unnamed hacker. This email was the one I sent to spoof@paypal.com due to the email's malicious site pretending to be from Paypal. Whether they know all my login account and passwords, I just leave it in the hands of God and whoever this hacker who sent me the malicious trojan spies, may God bless you something you deserve.

Meanwhile, I'm very happy that FEDEX delivered Randy's roundtrip ticket SAN DIEGO-SFO-MNL-SFO-SAN DIEGO today. In my excitement, I set my timer countdown to monitor the number of days, hours, minutes, and seconds of his arrival in Manila.

Sunday, January 28, 2007

Randy and I are definitely addicted now to the new game, Unification Wars, we've been playing for almost three weeks now. Getting ready for church seemed not easy for me but, I still have to do some things after mass as I delayed it for couple of days now.

Paul Denise, Pearl, and Shiela accompanied me to hear the 5 pm mass. Junjun has a school project to finish and Tintin was busy with their laundry. Anyway, as expected, we arrived a bit late and Rev. Fr. Jun Pascual was almost done with his homily when we got our seat at the mezzanine. Today was the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time. The first reading was Jeremiah 1:4-5, 17-19. The second reading was 1 Corinthians 12:31-13:13. The gospel was Luke 4:21-30.

We bought a new 3-in-1 printer, HP Photosmart C3180 from Silicon Valley - Cyberzone, SM-North EDSA after the mass. This copier/printer/scanner is compatible with Vivera ink cartridge 92, 93, 95, and 99. In my mind, I'd like to buy 3-in-1 EPSON STYLUS CX3900 or the 4-in-1 EPSON STYLUS CX5900. Both copier/printer/scanner are using DuraBrite ink cartridge that's waterproof and long-lasting. However, my kids and Randy prefer HP over EPSON. I'd like the handsome look of EPSON but, its printer head, according to the kids, will wear out in due time and quality printing will suffer at the end while HP printer head comes in every ink cartridge to ensure quality printing.

Anyway, the new printer and extra ink cartridge cost us Php 7,835.00! SM-North Edsa Shopping Mall will have a 3-day sale on February 3, 4, and 5 and I was wondering whether I made the right decision in buying the printer early. Kids have school projects to print out and delaying the purchase and have them print outside their school projects will cost me just the same.

We had dinner at Mangan before going home. We're looking for something different to eat as the kids got bored from my cooking. Unfortunately, the Tanguige fish in Miso soup made me feel sick. I postponed doing some grocery shopping and paying the Meralco bill.

At home, the browser reset thingy gave me hard time again. This new router made us feel uncomfortable. For some reasons, it disconnected Firefox browser and I had to reset modem and router to be able to get another connection. What's worse, I had to close open windows so I can get internet connection. Junjun made a thorough viirus scanning on Denise's PC and found 59 viruses.

When Randy logged in and we prayed the rosary, I realized I couldn't stay online any longer even I wanted to. I vomitted twice and called it a night. Going to bed scares me though but, maybe I was just tired going around to look for printer to buy. Pearl installed the printer on her laptop and printed her project but, I told her to install the printer in my hard drive tomorrow morning.

The kids are happy that I bought HP printer instead of Epson and I wish I made the right decision.

Saturday, January 27, 2007

Randy told me that he already purchased airline ticket through Yahoo! Travel and sent me his itinerary. He's going to visit us in February!

Saturday, January 20, 2007

Randy and I are somewhat ill. He catch a bad cold. It's very cold in his place, San Diego, while it's hot and humid here in Quezon City. He has to use heater and I have to run a/c most of the time to avoid coughing when exposed to warm air.

Anyway, our voice chat early today was also interrupted by network reset. When Randy logged out early to sleep, Junjun fixed our network connections. So far, while I'm waiting for Randy to come online this evening, my browser has not been reset yet since my son did something with our local assigned IP addresses.

It appears that whenever one of us login, any active connections are reset. And the only way we could get back the browser running is to shut it down and turn off the modem and router. Well, I hope we don't have to send the router back to Tommy.

Meanwhile, Paul Denise bought me Robitussin for my cough. I sent him to get me a Vicks Formula 44 cough syrup but it's not available in Mercury Drug, kind of out of stock. I'm waiting for Randy to come online before taking the medication, or I might fall asleep and won't be able to recite the rosary. I was just upset, knowing he's sick and I couldn't do anything to make him feel better.

Please get well soon, Randy!

Friday, January 19, 2007

Since we had our new phone last Sunday, our SKYDSL's broadband internet had been often reset by system network, which could be the router...

I called Bayantel Hotline 4112000 several times at past 1 in the morning and she made a report ticket. Their tech support is better than PLDT myDSL. They seemed to know what I was talking about and they sent me their technician late this morning as promised but, we told the guy to come back next time. I was wondering whether the problem is our 15 month old D-Link Broadband Router. Paul Denise's assigned port was blinking even though his PC was off. To be sure, I disconnected the cable both from his PC and router but, it's blinking in spite of unplugged port.

When I woke up this morning, I immediately called Tommy of Starapple Computers. He sent Alex and he installed Wireless - G Linksys Broadband Router and configured our PCs. Pearl can now enjoy a wireless internet connection using her Dell Notebook.

It cost me Php 4,760.00 for the router and installation service but, at least, voice chatting with Randy won't be interrupted again due to router problem which caused us inconvenience for couple of days.

Monday, January 15, 2007

Ela called me this morning and congratulate me for the new telephone line. She also asked me whether Marissa return the money already. I told her about the SMS message I received from Marissa this morning. Marissa kept mentioning the name of Mike while in fact, Mike dropped by here yesterday with Ela to prove to me that he doesn't receive any thing from Marissa.

So, I had thought to visit Bayantel office in Roosevelt Branch to inform them that their agent might be using their company to attract people to subscribe to their service and yet, something like my experience might happened with others, too. But, early in the afternoon, Marissa came over and handed me the money. It's just a small amount really but, I told her it wasn't nice to waste our time and tell us tall tales.

Anyway, glad it's Monday and kids will be busy in school until Friday. Sometimes, I feel that this household is too small for all of us. I feel it's unfair that they always feel bad whenever I protect one of them from the other. How they will understand me and how's my feelings right now unless they become parents too?

Thanks, God, that there are couple of games that I can play with Randy online. I restarted Unification Wars this afternoon when I realized it will take me a week to make a profit what Randy could make in a day. All ministers in the game could be level up to 999 and each minister has 4 skills. So, from Terran Race, I switched to Aspha Miner temporarily until I level up all ministers. Researching and upgrading were very tiring. Waiting for the 45 turns to end seemed quite long. The game server isn't that bad today compared yesterday.

It's 9 mins before midnight and Randy will be online soon. I better post this one before I close the browser by mistake. Several times it happened to my entries. I'd thought I published it only to find out it wasn't publish nor save yet.

Now that I got my money back, I really thanked God that I don't have to file a complaint against Marissa. Am sure she needs her job and hurting someone just because of small amount isn't fair with her kids...

Sunday, January 14, 2007

Bayantel technician came early this morning and installed our new telephone line. They had difficulty with the wiring but after an hour of dedication, they hooked up a new telephone line for us.

While the Bayantel men are working, my kids embarassed me not only to those people but to all the neighbors who reside in the building. They had heated argument over the house keys of Junjun and Denise which accidentally were thrown to the garage of our neighbor. Pearl arrived at past 2 am and needed a key to open the gate. Both Junjun and Tintin were playing a local network game, they hurriedly throw the key from the balcony but they miscalculated it and it landed in our neighbor's garage downstairs.

Because of misunderstandings between my kids, only Paul Denise joined me to hear the 5 PM mass at Lady of Hope Parish. Rev. Fr. Jun Pascual said the mass and assisted by a deacon, Rev. Fr. Bong Turingan. It's the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time. The First Reading was Is 62:1-5 and the Second Reading was 1 Cor 12:4-11. The Gospel was Jn 2:1-11. Rev. Fr. reminded us about the importance of family and marriage in God's eyes.

After the mass, Denise and I did some grocery shopping at SM - North EDSA. Pearl followed us later and helped us with the shopping. When I was almost done with the shopping, Ate Neth met us inside the grocery section and handed me Flora's Christmas gift. A Victoria's Secret cream and an umbrella with her recruitment agency logo. Flora worked for my EX as Liaison Officer in Saudi Embassy for several years. Whatever made her remember me, I didn't call her even Ate Neth gave me her cellphone number.

The annulment case is on-going and I didn't liked to have any connections with the EX and his employees. Calling her would reveal my contact details and being quiet about the gift is better than losing my privacy.

Now that we have a new phone line, it only proves one thing, I must forget about the past contacts and must move on. I thanked God I have Randy...

Friday, January 12, 2007

Ela of Bayantel was looking for me early this morning.

She said someone from Bayantel told her about me regarding new phone line application. We were all surprised about what she told us. I told her we already gave our payment with Marissa on Jan 6th and we're just waiting for our new phone line to be installed.

I found out from Ela, too, that Marissa is connected with SKY DSL internet and has nothing to do with telephone lines in our area. Besides, Marissa didn't give me any OR but, she received Php 750 from me six days ago. Then, I called Marissa couple of times but she didn't answer my calls. I sent her SMS and told her to answer her cellphone because it's urgent. Ela furnished me a new Bayantel PhonePlus Application Form (Ref No 125126) and OR 890773 with a guarantee that we could have a phone line by tomorrow or the next day. Marissa then replied to my SMS. I talked to her, let her talked with Ela and then, Marissa promised that she will give the payment with Mike tomorrow so we could have the telephone line the next day.

At times like this, I couldn't blame my daughter for doubting Marissa. Roella introduced Marissa to us in August 2006. I applied for telephone line with DSL 2 mbps package but after I paid Php 2,000 for line application, they told me that there's no available line but, a DSL could be installed even without phone line. Due to serious problems with PLDT myDSL's unreliable internet service, I was forced to grab the offer. Payment has been made, and there is no refund.

Now, the kids blamed me for trusting too much Marissa, my Bayantel contact, as referred by Roella to me. Roella is my sister's contact agent in Bayantel.

Anyway, Randy was late again tonight logging online and I prayed the rosary alone. According to him, it's hard to wake up in a cold weather and besides, he's so tired from playing online games with me. Both Randy and I are hooked up playing [SFU] Unification Wars since he arrived in San Diego.

The game is giving away a bounty Donation Points (DP) for linking their site to any online games. Although I didn't earn any DP for adding [SFU] Unification Wars link to this blog, the UC admin gave me a link to a their CPA Referral Program wherein I could earn DP for every succesful registration. So, to those who wish to beat me in the game, you are welcome to join [SFU] Unification Wars game.

Back to my telphone line application, with my fingers crossed, wish we could have a phone line by tomorrow.

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Randy and I had been more addicted today playing [SFU] Unification Wars. We both feel that our time is too short to play this game.

To play the game, we have to wait for a full 45 turn to initiate next game move, fill rate is about 5 mins and 10 sec. It's 45 turn for paid (RT +1) player, 30 turn for free account.

We could barely dedicate some of our time watching our favorite TV shows in San Diego due to this new addiction. So far, I am still analyzing the game through Randy's guidance. I hate wars and wish not to attack other players but sometimes, I have to protect the systems under my control. I can only play peacefully once my account is placed under DP (Damage Protection) for over 24 hours.

Randy restarted his game for a better distribution of his Science Research and Projects while it was too late for me to do the same because I already did my research before building up my wealth. The game is based in Singapore and the Taiwan earthquake in December 2006 slows down most of our internet activities until now. Hundreds of players are playing this game around the world and the lag annoyed us!

However, the article written by Erwin Oliva in inquirer.net, Internet remains slow for many Philippine users that says something about PLDT: "PLDT said it was almost done restoring Internet and telephone services by re-routing Internet traffic" made us laugh. PLDT myDSL provided slow DSL internet way back in March 2006 and has ripped off lots of their subscribers, including me, for charging us for the service they couldn't provide anymore. Until to this date, I still have rebates for the months of May, June, July, and August from myDSL broadband service I already paid but they didn't give me the rebates due me. So far, my phone was illegally disconnected and in spite of payments made to reconnect it, they still failed to reconnect my phone line. Whether this is strategy not to return my money, well, it's not funny to see a giant telephone company victimizing a low income family like mine.

Anyway, what made me addicted to [SFU] Unification Wars is their market. Randy and I both ended up trading the minerals the systems produce for game $$$ to purchase ships and other minerals my systems do not produce.

Many thanks to Danny87, our game Lord, who donated $24.384 Billion credits and 4.064 Billion Food credits into my game account. I sold 3B for $45B. Whether a game Lord would be beneficial for me and Randy or not, I realized that we couldn't declare independence until we gain a million honor points from the game!

Saturday, January 06, 2007

Happy 50th Birthday to my elder sister, AT, who is currently working in Hong Kong.

I spoke with her over mother's cellphone when Mama called my sister to greet her. Mama had been bugging me so early in the morning why she couldn't send text or get her voice call through. Maybe this is one reason why I woke up so late...

Anyway, speaking of phones, I paid Php 750.00 to Marissa for a new residential telephone line application with Bayantel (PhonePlus, Ref 125126). She dropped by to pickup my payment to Bayantel, who is my current DSL internet provider (since August 2006) and thanks God, I didn't encounter serious internet problems, so far, compared with PLDT myDSL.

PLDT kept ripping me off with a promise of restoration of phone line if I will settle the blah blah amount, only to end up waiting for three months already without phone line. We had lost valued contacts and potential income from online auctions due to incompetent and unreliable PLDT service beginning April 2006 through this blogging moment.

Oh! Randy sent me videoclips and photo images which we had taken on our way to the airport. Here is one copy:

Randy is late again this evening and I guess I would take a nap while waiting for him to come online so we can recite the rosary together via Skype... he went to bed past 2 am and he's still adjusting himself to San Diego time. Besides, he started playing Unification Wars which to my surprise, I can hardly understand how to play.

Friday, January 05, 2007

Randy sent payment to PlogHost XOOM account, for ladylaila.net's Custom Plan 1G webhosting package (PlogHost Invoice #4185) from 01/13/2007 thru 01/13/2008, in the amount of US$ 186.00 (US$11.00 service fee included). That's US$ 175.00, a total of Php 8,400.00: Php 7,500 for one year site webhosting plus Php 900.00 (12% TAX)!

Three years ago, I just started with Plan 75 but in less than a month, my site had been inaccessible due to bandwidth overload. Next thing I did, I upgraded my plan to the next level but, the site suffered the same inconveniences until I ended up with a Custom Plan 1G to meet bandwidth and server load needs.

Less than two months ago, I paid the amount of Php 2,016.00 (PlogHost Invoice #4022) on Nov. 20, 2006, for ladylaila.net's Domain Renewal Fee for 3 years, covering the period 12/13/2006 thru 12/12/2009.

Meanwhile, the internet is so bad today that I couldn't watch Judge Judy, two episodes of NCIS, and Shark via Skype due to intermittent internet connection caused by Taiwan earthquake.

However, the slow connection didn't stopped us from voice chatting on Skype and we even played some of our favorite online games together. I gained some picture pieces from the World Challenge and converted 4 picture gallery which I collected from Moon Rock Rampage, Toybox Escape, Typing Terror, and Web of Vernax. The latter game didn't award me any picture pieces even if I won a picture piece. According to The Neopets Team (TNT) custom message: "It looks you have collected all the pieces for the picture(s) in the world that this game is set in or have not converted the completed picture yet, so no piece has been awarded." So, I had thought to convert all the 4 picture gallery, that's a total of 80 picture pieces and each one could be sold in my neoshop for 25,000 NP each, that's approximately about 2 Million Neopoints. Upon converting the pictures, I got 8,000 NP plus Striped Paint Brush, Brown Paint Brush, Usuki Paint Brush, and Mutant Petpet Paint Brush, which would give me a total of less than a million NP if I want to auction them.

Anyway, in spite of our enjoyment playing online games, I was wondering how much ladylaila.net webhosting package (and domain fee, too) would cost us in the next five years... many thanks to Randy for his continuous support to this blog, otherwise, I probably shut this down and/or move this blog to a public server.

Thursday, January 04, 2007

Today is such a boring and idle day... the smell of brewed coffee in the morning reminded me of Randy. The kids are back to school and it's very quiet here at home.

Randy's back in San Diego and went online at past 4 pm (12 MN PST). I didn't know where he got all his energies as he was able to check some news online, read his favorite blogs, then, posted his blog's entry.

In the evening, he woke up early and we prayed the rosary before he left for work. I knew he didn't get enough rest but he assured me that he's fine and well.

Anyway, now that he's back at home in San Diego, we're also back voice chatting (wearing our headsets) in spite of slow internet connection.

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Today is Day 19 and last day of Randy's fourth visit in Manila.

As I arrived home this evening after I dropped Randy at Ninoy Aquino International Airport Centennial Terminal 2 (NAIACT2), I was so tired and idle. Traffic was terrible and I got home via Manila, instead of the usual EDSA route.

After couple of minutes, Randy called me from Public Pay Phone 028796132 at 6:39 pm. He has the Boarding Pass ready and just waiting for boarding time. He's going to Los Angeles [LAX] via PAL PR112 departed at 2125H and will arrive at 0420H* (Airbus 343). He has about 4 hours transit time at LAX Int'l Airport with connecting flight to San Diego but, he would try the earlier flight home, if he's lucky to get one.

Earlier today, we served big breakfast for the kids before packing all his things while we're voice chatting with his kids (in San Diego) via Skype. After he posted his blog's entry and read some online news, we watched the last two episodes of HOUSE - Season 2: "Who's your Daddy?" and "No Reason". We have seen most of the episodes online in Season 2 few weeks back but, what's funny, we could hardly tell how the episode ended. He wanted to leave DEAD LIKE ME, HOUSE - Season 2, and MEDIUM DVD but, I told him the kids would love to watch the first one while I prefer to watch those episodes with him online. So, the two complete season of DEAD LIKE ME will be my kids' favorite DVD to watch for couple of weeks.

Back to Randy, we had Taco at past 3 pm for lunch. While eating, Pearl handed him a souvenir photo in a native motif frame:

We tried to shoot a YouTube movie clip but the server wasn't working until it's time for me and Randy to leave. On our way to the airport, we continued recording some movie clips using his Sony Digital Camera and he promised to send me the copies once he arrive home and upload them on YouTube.

Anyway, it's late in the evening here and I have to go to sleep soon but, without Randy around... the plane has departed and I wish Randy a safe, peaceful (no kids crying on board), happy trip...

Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Today is Day 18 of Randy's fourth visit in Manila.

After doing the morning routines, Randy and I went to SM Shopping Mall - North EDSA. He bought tools for household use and to make Junjun's project easier. We got also some stuffs for his kids in San Diego, an adjustable garment rack for me, and some more grocery items.

We're suppposed to eat out and treat Mama to celebrate her 70th birthday but she's suffering from Diarrhea again and couldn't make it so we decided to stay home instead. Randy and I watched couple episodes of HOUSE today while he's assisting Junjun on my son's amplifier project. The kids have high respect for Randy and I'm happy they get along well.

Anyway, the big dinner we're planning for tonight has been cancelled and we'll treat Mama on Randy's next visit instead. Afterall, we had enough from the recent holidays and we ended up having light dinner. Pearl brought home some sandwiches from McDonalds and Jollibee this evening.

To Mama, Happy 70th Birthday! We love you and get well soon...