May 7th, 2009

Top Ten Things on Thy Thought on Thursday 5/7/09

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The Blogger just got his salary deducted due to his company’s policy on cost variance, where items missing in your monthly inventory is deducted in your wage.

 

Basically the blogger is hungry and pissed-off

 

 

Top Ten Things on Thy Thoughts This Thursday

 

 

10. Zombie Apocalypse is good for bonding

 

Have you played LEFT 4 DEAD? It’s the biggest hit of the videogame maker VALVE (Half-Life and Counterstrike)

 

Most of you know this but its game where you kinda participate in a four man team in one of four scenarios, which is like a movie. Its simple really: from point A go to point B. You just have to shoot through a seemingly endless barrage of zombies. Take note that these Zombies run like the ones in the movies 28 days and somewhere along the horde you have a variety of enhanced monsters that stalks your team through the stage.

 

Its so F***ing cool when you got 4 of your closest buddies travelling in the most eeriest places on earth with no sign of life during night time. Helping out each other on a quest for survival. Its so unlike other games where you just be the star player or high scorer. This game is all about team work, communication, coordination, sharing, caring…

 

Thank you for the Zombie the ones were shooting

 

9. Pacquiao should have lost…

 

Before you react. Read further

 

Yes I said it pacquiao should have lost the fight. Why? Because it will mean more money for him in a rematch with Hatton. Manny needs a new nemesis he already beaten Barera and Morales. He needs a new arch-villain in the ring.

 

But more importantly a rematch woulod definitely keep Manny busy enough not to go to politics. Ho doesn’t need to be a politician. If he really wants to helps he should make a foundation, give scholarships, do fundraisers, do charity not involving the press. I do not now much about banking but by using his interest money (that’s 1% of his total winnings) he could help a lot of our countrymen. 1% of his winnigs is more than enough. Hell! Why not give he gives his Mcdonald’s outlet’s profit to charity that would be great right?

 

To quote from Forrest Gump:

Momma said there's only so much fortune a man really needs and the rest is just for showing off.

 

 

This just came in…

 

My store’s door wont lock, not that the locking mechanisms is broken but I could not get the two sliding doors to meet each other and lock it. Last night I stayed up in the store until dawn to watch over the repairs being done as per company standard. It should have been fixed… Now I have to stay until the Opening Manager comes in…

 

 

8. I like listening to stand-up comedians they make a lot of sense in the world… Im Paraphrasing it

 

Kat Williams said in his “Its Pimpin Pimpin” DVD that we should have focused on our

Star Player, the one we see in the mirror everyday. We always go out and please other people but how about your Star Player. Problem is you are not selfish enough and forgot about your Star Player. You should go and talk to your Star Player and say, “How are you doing today?”

 

(On friends)

 

You should have 4-5 friends that got your back and block the BS in this world. Whenever BS comes your friends should be there throw themselves in front you and block BS off.

 

(On relationships)

 

Some of you Star Players have a franchise player but you always have your Franchise Players on the bench. You forgot your Franchise Players because you are to busy on who’s trading who, who coming from the draft…

 

 

7. I’m depressed… My salary got deducted… Got no money saved because I bring in my share for the bills

 

And tomorrow is the 5th anniversary of my girlfriend.

 

This really sucks.

 

 

6. Do you know the DC superhero Green Lantern? Well apparently there are other  “Lanterns” that existed in space (The Green Lanterns are like an Intergalactic Police that gets their powers for being Courageous)

 

Each Lantern is symbolized by a color which corresponds to a specific emotion

Green - Courage

Yellow – Fear

Red – Rage, Anger

Blue – Hope

Indigo – Compassion

Violet – Love

Black --- Death

 

 

5. On Windows XP

 

I read it on Wikipedia.com that WinXP stop selling to give to Vista and Windows 8. But support for the XP is until 2010, then they announced it that due to the number of UMPC and netbooks using XP they extended it to 2014

 

I’m using Windows 2000. Its 2009. I still got programs that support Win2000 and it seems it can go further. How long after 2014 would XP really be obsolete like Windows 98 and Windows ME?

 

 

4. Anime and Escapism

 

Although anime seems harmless to the viewer I think too much of it is alarming. On my opinion some types of Anime offers escapism to people who are having trouble with their lives. An example would be Harem

 

Harem is the type of Manga or Anime where the protagonist is the sole male character in the story or a male character surrounded by women of different kinds. The viewer could his favorite or crush from the cast of women in the story. Sometimes the male is the crush or would be the crush of all the female characters in the development of the story. It is easy to picture yourself as the Main Character of the story. Most of the time the male character is a weak, unimpressive, passive, shy, pushover, bad luck magnet, always gets to be beat up, and has trouble with girls. But at the same the male character is Chivalric and Sagacious, kind-hearted, man with principles, never give up, ever-loving under-dog. On the list given above you would probably picture yourself as the Main Character already.

 

With great fortune and luck the Main Character becomes the hero, a knight in shining armor if the occasion calls for it and in the end impresses the female cast. Sometime thru the course of the story he beginning to wisen up and becomes a man.

 

Who would not want to be the Man in this type of anime. Right? It is so ROMANTIC right? It is too ROMANTIC. Its unbelievable! C’mon a guy surrounded by girls that are cute, voluptuous, in Japanese high school uniforms, who has the hots for you and sometimes with alien superpowers, killer ancient pass to generation to generation martial arts who wields a big-ass bastard sword and drives a robot from Outer Space from another dimension.

 

I’ll make another blog regarding more on the topic but I hope you get the picture.

 

 

 

3. Question..

 

Do you have an On-line Degree?

Did it help you get a job?

Did it actually help you become a better professional?

 

2. What if one day all of the coffee shops have the same prices of coffees, cakes, frozen beverages and other items commonly found in a typical coffee shop.

 

Where would you go and why?

 

1. Again, using the #2 scenario above. Would you go FIGARO (or your country’s own coffeeshop) and buy your coffee and cakes in that place knowing all other coffee shops have the prices for their products? Would you pay their prices despite that most of their supplies came from your country, that the owner doesnt need to pay license fee for running their international brand in your country, basically would you pay an "international price" for a "local home grown concept"?

Currently listening to: Matisyahu - King without a Crown
Currently reading: Dean Koontz's The Good Husband
Currently watching: Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs
Currently feeling: discontent
Posted by ChasingtheHorizon at 09:52 PM | 4 comments
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Comment posted on May 16th, 2009 at 08:36 PM
Interesting.

firstly, manny does have his own philanthropic projects. I agree that he should never run, despite his genuine desire to help people. But I disagree that he should have lost. There is no need for him to lose to be able to see the light. Boxing, which he knows is his job, is completely unrelated to his politics. And people know it.

re: lanterns: so.. green lantern is just one alien from a faction of green lanterns from a bigger faction of intergalactic police with other colors? I never knew that. then again, I don't read DC.

re: anime: of course it's escapism. Most media are. -_-

re: coffee shops: I happen to go to bos. The reason is that it's about 10 PHP cheaper than starbucks, and I taste less sugar in their coffee. :p Bos is also local.

about your question in my blog, I actually currently read about 35-40 manga titles >.<. If I should include those that I have already finished or dropped, I wouldn't know.

PS: interesting read, btw. ^^
Comment posted on May 18th, 2009 at 04:12 PM
Thanks for comment, appreciate much =), keep blogging!
Comment posted on May 8th, 2009 at 02:29 AM
I agree on your thought bout Manny.
Comment posted on May 7th, 2009 at 10:23 PM
I agree with you on figaro! I patronize their products because of the same reason. Their quality is competitive naman and I just love the thought of helping out a fellow Filipino.