i have much to learn

good news: i was really angry about broadband days ago but now we're okay. i said sorry to the modem (literally) and we reconciliated. now he's running at 100mbps -- according to the LAN properties --- which is really fast, but i still can't figure out how it is being distributed to the browser windows i open, but it's fast now... yey

i want to have red hair

-- right now, i'm trying to figure my hands on capturing flash videos and converting them to avi or mpeg or any windows supported video format. i reinstalled my VLC player because the FLV player i got from applian doesn't play (for some retarded reason) the flv files i downloaded from keepvid. damn and i even made a tutorial on it... pardon my incredibility. when i finally figure out the right things (and freewares to use), i will get back on that.

for now, let's just say i'm still 'experimenting'. :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JULY!!!!

live junk for the bitter soul

hello everyone, i'm using broadband internet access and it sucks. yeah, i was right when i said dial-up is still the best. the problem is we couldn't get a good signal in the basement (duh) and that's practically where our computers live so to get a good reach of that f*cking globelines network we have to adjust the position of their "highspeed" modem. which is why my dad brought this laptop to my room (here on the 2nd floor), to see if there'll be any progress if you put their f*cking modem at a higher place. yes, there's progress but it still didn't reach my standards. my idea of "broadband" is to be able to watch streaming videos without those annoying buffer pauses but i guess i'm bound not to achieve that anymore.

now i want DSL.
fuck their fraudaulent marketing strategies.

transformers!

it was really unexpected. our parents fetched me and my sister at megamall and from there decided to watch a movie. we watched transformers. actually, i'm not really hyped up on watching it since robots barely have a hormonal effect on me or on any of my nerves but still, we decided to watch it since it's the newest in the list.

oh my god, transformers is so well done! it's both humorous and sad. sad. sad. yeah, i cried a couple of times. i have really shallow tears. and then you know, i thought i was gonna die of boredom because as i have said, i'm not really into robots and i haven't watched a single episode of transformers cartoons. but really, this movie got me interested big time! maybe because it's a steven speilberg (sp?) i'm not sure but mehn! the animation is superb! and the whole classified military files being hacked in less than 10 seconds?? that's just whoa! and the cars mehn! the cars! hot wheels i tell ya!

now go watch it before i spill everything everything off!! i tell you it's a must watch!!! why else would sm megamall allot 7 cinemas for it?

on the boo side of it all: in the middle of the movie, the film skrewed off! the screen went white and showed flashes of pictures which are obviously not part of the movie! then everyone in the cinema went "boo! boo! pirated!!!" but after a few seconds it returned back to normal so i guess it's ok. haha but still, they should fix that -_-

next in line:
:: Blades of Glory - the trailer is so funny!
:: Harry Potter - of course!

art in line: because a lot of things inspire me this season... i plan to do
:: an oil pastel work
:: the usual doodle stuff (remember the heart and star shaped pieces? --- see artworks) but this time using different shapes and motifs... i'm planning on doing
.lips
.butterfly
.transformers!!! (i need of a lot of photo reference) and hopefully
.statue of oblation (now if this comes out good enough, i might as well consider
it my proudest artwork. yeah right)
:: i also want to work on t-shirt designs but i'm still afraid because i tend to overdo and exagerrate with the details, it might be too hard to paint. -_-;

all i really need to accomplish those is time and money!

you're my sweetest downfall

i happen to hear that phrase somewhere and i happen to like it. i really like that phrase, maybe it's from a song... i'm not sure but i just love the irony. it makes me want to turn it into a novel title! title lang! hahaha

wuhoo! how was this day? uhh, fine! tiring! tiring! tiring! in fact, i'm not feeling good right now. >_> i was supposed to attend VCF's Youth Jam with july today but i excused myself because i feel sick and tired.

so why am i online?
------> guilty pleasures.

we had our first experiment in chem40 awhile ago and guess what the title is? Isolating Caffeine from Tea Leaves!!!! the title really caught the best of my interest because you know i'm a coffee addict but when we went through the experiment, i realized it's not something i want to do for fun or for the mere enjoyment of extracting my favorite drug from it's organic source. no. it was too technical, the procedure i mean. >_> we have to prepare a lot of setups involving these never heard apparatus. seriously, and we had a prelab quiz about it. >_> our instructor asked us to draw the distillation setup. wtf. i didn't even look at my lab manual the day before! grrrr... but then i noticed the person across me glancing every once in a while to my back... i followed her look and found the answer!!! hahahaha the distillation setup was just sitting on the fumehood behind me! and so i guess... that's how i passed the quiz. lol

mehn. you know what, if mao and kat weren't my groupmates... i'll probably be dead of boredom. it helps a lot to have your friends as your groupmates. :)

and since it's already past 7, i think i should go now.

come on astra!

life's pretty good! astra is now my favorite internet cafe! hahaha e kasi ganun ulit, cute yung kuya. pero hindi lang yon! malamig pa! oha. hahahaha they're going to transfer locations soon and i don't mind since they're transfering somewhere nearer our dorm hahaha and they're going to make membership cards already! i'm gonna have one soon! hahahaha okok.

we had our first LTS1 meeting awhile ago.. 4-7pm. i must say it's a very promising sem for our section. it's really fun. it's like the comic relief of my suicidal life. >_>

whew. it's mannie's 18th birthday yesterday!

BELATED HAPPY BIRTHDAY MANNIE!!!!

yehey! we've been bestfriends since grade 2!!!! :)

meme?

tagged by rica :)

What makes your blog unique?
the URL

When did you start blogging?
i moved to blogger july 4, 2004 but i started blogging may 2004

Is this your first meme?
no

What do you hope to accomplish with your blog?
i just want this to be a creative outlet

What are your feelings on the "blog popularity" issue?
of course i want a million hits! but i value layout more than popularity.. hehe

What's your favorite childhood memory?
my grade one teacher jokingly said to me and my crush that we should get married already coz we're so noisy

If you were stranded on a deserted island what three things would you want to have with you?
food, clothes, and a knife to get me through the wilderness

Are you a spiritual person?
i believe so

What is the weirdest thing that ever happened to you?
a series of dejavus, the same scene happened to me thrice and that's weird >_>

What is your best quality?
i'm pretty nice
to animals

What is your worst quality?
i can be really selfish a times

to kill a death god

i'm back to watching death note! yey! so while i'm doing a mini marathon (coz i don't have all day... have to go back to elbi.. >_>) i'm also surfing the net and doing stuff i always do like bloghopping, friendster profile hopping, a little bit of stalking, picture grabbing, account checking, mailbox cleaning and all those junk. heck, i barely have time to play online games!!! but you see, if by next week we get to use broadband already then everything i do in the world wide web will be a breeze!

i can download death note episodes 20-35 (or whatever's more recent), burn it on a CD and go marathon-ing all day!! i'm so excited! i can finally, FINALLY watch my favorite series without the hassle of a slow internet connection!! i can download everything! but of course i have to be extra cautious of those ill-natured bugs pestering the motherboard. >_>

grrr. and now my desire of acquiring my OWN laptop is becoming unbearable! i need to have a laptop already!!!! gosh, i have so many files on this laptop! and to add to that, my dad also has his share of the mountainous bulk of files and folders. and we don't have a high-end processor. i'm afraid this unit will crash down. >_>

okok. mom cut off our allowance. BIG DEAL? YEAH OF COURSE! aside from Fridays, that's another thing keeping me from going AWOL and becoming an OSY! >_> but then there's a good side of it, the 1/4 of our usual allowance that she's cutting off (effective now) will be accumulated and put in the bank to prevent us from spending it. yeah, it's for my own good. my savings hardly ever grew since the last time i deposited money in it. hehehe

kk, death note mode for now! :)

how to download streaming videos

:) yey! finally!!! to start this off, i'll define what streaming video is. you watch it on youtube, google video, ifilm, metacafe... blah blah. ok. gets? so those are streaming videos, videos that you can readily watch as it is being delivered to you. the difference of streaming media to non-streaming media is that with non-streaming media, you first have to download the file completely before you can view it. an example of this would be mp3s we download from the net and zipped files. clear?

so yeah, to download streaming videos, or simply put... for you to save your favorite youtube videos on your hard-disk.... do this

1. first and foremost: secure an FLV (flash video) player because the video you're going to translate into downloadable format and download will be saved with a file extension of .flv

>>> you can download a free FLV Player HERE

2. open youtube (or any streaming video site you know) and load your preferred video

3. open http://www.keepvid.com and there you'll see a field where you must type the URL of the page where the video plays. actually, all the other necessary directions can be found on that site. JUST make sure that the video you're planning to download has loaded COMPLETELY on youtube (or any other) before you type in its URL

4. and voila! keepvid will take care of the rest. which means that once you've submitted the URL on the text field, keepvid will generate a DOWNLOAD LINK where you can finally download the video as an .flv file and save it on your harddisk.

waaah. it's very easy... for those who have highspeed internet connection. :\ naaah. i don't have that... for now... but we'll see... hehehe

anyhow. as of late, keepvid is the only site i know who offers such services but i'm sure there are lots of them already, i'm just not well-aware of them. :)

NOTE: sadly, you can only download streaming videos as FLV files. if you want to convert it to mp3 or any other type of media, you have to secure a separate converter for that...

yey! alright. that's it.

questions? clarifications? anything you find incomprehensible or vague? you can ask me on this one if you don't understand it. ^_^;;

THANKS A BUNCH TO KEEPVID and to my dormmate who shared this info to me. :)