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today i was working in Danville and after i got off work i had some time to kill before picking up Jessica at the Dublin/Pleasanton BART station. it was actually about three and a half hours to be exact. so before i left work, i found a place near the BART station that had free wireless access in case i needed to do important things like catching up on my blogging and all that good stuff. actually the place was on the other side of the freeway where there was a stores, a theater, and Best Buy. well, i didn’t intend to go to Best Buy but i know that time seems to go rather quickly when i’m in there. other stores that effect me this way are Fry’s Electronics, bookstores (Borders and Barnes and Noble), and stores with clothes (although i don’t frequent them as much as i do electronics and book stores). so an hour magically disappeared when i left Best Buy to seek out my wireless hotspot… Q-Cup! Continue reading

last monday my cousin Jessica, Ruben, and Dan went to Yoshi’s for dinner and a concert by Jake Shimabukuro. i saw him featured on StirTV and witnessed his amazing ukelele skills. i mean, he makes the ukelele do things i never knew a ukelele could do. after his segment i went online to find out more about him and to my delight found out that he’s having a concert right here in the Bay Area. so i got a couple of friends together and headed to Oakland.

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i love tech toys. if it weren’t for the limited supply of money, i think it would be very difficult for me to refrain from obtaining all the “cool” gadgets that are released. however limited resources definitely helps me become more sensible and critical as to how necessary an item is and how often i “upgrade” older toys for newer models. there are technologies that, even though they are old, still work and performs its function for the most part. take my 10 year old HP DeskJet 870Cxi for example. okay, it may not have the best color resolution compared with today’s color printers but for documents and printing internet directions or confirmations it does its job. the only other thing besides the color resolution that may show its age would be the paper catch. over the past couple of years its system of catching the paper and feeding it from the tray to the print head has been sketchy. most of the time it catches 2-3 sheets of paper at a time and every once and a while as it catches the paper it wouldn’t feed it properly thus jamming the paper into itself. to avoid this misfeed i would have to take out all the paper out of the tray except for the quantity that i intend to print… and even doing that it’ll do the opposite and not catch at all so i’d have to tap the papers so they’ll eventually catch. but aside from the catching-thing, the printing results were exceptable to my needs.

about two years ago Canon released a large format photo printer (i9900) that received a Kick Ass Award from Maximum PC and that definitely caught my eye. however in light of the inexpensive yet superior photo printers compared my HP 870Cxi, spending $499 to be able to print photo quality and at 13″x19″ if i so choose didn’t seem justified at the time. but knew that this would be the next printer for me, i was just waiting for the right circumstances to fully warrant the purchase.

well, a year later i was at Staples to pick up some ink cartridges for my HP 870Cxi because my backup supply and the one currently being used ran out. to my surprise Staples no longer carried the cartridges so i went to Best Buy and Office Max and learned that they too were no longer carrying the cartridge models for my printer. this forced me to search for them online which i was able to find a good deal at www.redtagtoner.com where they basically receive all the leftover stock that brick-and-mortar stores have when they decide to pull it from the shelves. as i placed my online order, i faintly heard taps being played for my HP. Continue reading

last sunday i decided to get highlights in my hair again. perhaps its a little indulgent of me to spend my hard-earned cash on something that may appear vain and attention-getting but its not like i’m always spending money on myself to make myself look good. i think i look good regardless of what my hair is doing. now let me explain my statement before you conclude that i’m full of myself. on the scale of appearances, i rate myself as “good” which, on my scale is neither horribly ugly nor incredibly gorgeous (though i wouldn’t use “gorgeous” to describe males, i’ve heard girls use it to describe guys so that’s why i’m referencing it on this scale). had i self-proclaimed myself as incredibly gorgeous, we would both agree that i was full of myself… or maybe just you would agree since being so full of myself i would be under the delusionment of my gorgeous appearance. Continue reading

i’m almost done watching this TLC channel special program called “My Skin Could Kill Me” and i want to blog this while the thoughts are still fresh in my mind.

the special documents two families of two sets of sisters with Harlequin type Ichthyosis. i feel for the parents. i feel for the children. the girls are beautiful even though their skin has been ravaged by this disorder. i don’t know if i could carry the same composure as Lucy Betts if i had it. the Bible reminds me that God will transform our bodies into new, glorified, and perfect ones. i can’t imagine how much more desireable this promise is for those who have to live with disfigurement day in and day out. but in the meantime, these girls are brave. these girls are determined. these girls are already beautiful because they are daughters of the living God… regardless if their skin says otherwise.