Cureless

As much as I would want to add to the series of rants about the hot weather, I now feel compelled to already shut up. The weather had really dampened my blogging spirit and had shut off my mind from wandering farther on things to ponder. But now that the re-wiring was completed and our air cons in the office are working, I have somehow regained part of whatever evaporated during the “hot” days.

Movie marathon weekend

Kasal, Kasalo, Kasali. Casino Royale. The Departed. Consecutively. Although I enjoyed all three, I can’t help but submit them to my personal criticisms.

• There are scenes in Kasal, Kasali, Kasalo where I need not look at who delivers the dialogs. I’m already so used to the exchange of words that I would rather be convinced if I was listening to a radio drama.
• The seemingly endless chases in Casino Royale would most likely fit the taste of action movie fans like my Dad. I enjoyed the movie and I was aware it wasn’t like many of the magical, mythological and fantasy action films I’ve seen. (Hey, it also made me realize that I haven’t watched a purely action movie in years!) But my lack of knowledge in poker (or whatever is it they’re battling in the casino) made me feel a little alienated.
• I love The Departed. Although the film narrates the story of the law enforcers and the mafia, it seemed more like a drama than an action movie to me. No wonder it bagged some of the most prestigious awards given last year by award giving bodies like the Oscars. I didn’t know Mark Wahlberg stars as the foul-mouthed police sergeant in the movie until I saw the end credits, although I had an inkling that he was that actor who looks like Matt Damon. And I’m just not sure what made me love Leonardo DiCaprio there.

Getting out is harder than getting in

We will be leaving the service in 3 months time. July 26 to be exact, if there was no mistake in the computation of our leave records. And so, we began processing the requirements for our terminal leave, which include a pile of paperworks and several buckets of sweat. I wish we could just leave our resignation letters to the boss outrightly, like how similar concerns are processed in the private sector.

Funny enough, I was already too whiny during our medical exam when we were about to enter the service around three years ago. I couldn’t believe the process we’re about to undergo will be worse if not as bad.

What to do and how to plan our careers is the next dilemma.

Work PC

I think it’s now time that I say something about this matter I’ve kept mum for a while now. My office PC broke down last December. That’s around the time I planned on reviewing for the SCJP exam. I thought it would be ok since the bosses would be demanding less work from me if I wouldn’t have a computer to work on for a while.

I took the PC to the technicians. At first, they diagnosed the power supply to be broken. I waited around a month for the replacement. But when the new power supply was installed, it was again the motherboard that failed to function. That time, however, the procurement process was revised and so it became harder for the finance sergeant to acquire funds for a new motherboard. I thought it was again ok since I was still busy studying for the exam.

When my exam was over, impending works went harassing me. It’s a good thing that Toshi, my 3-year old laptop, comes handy and ready to rescue me whenever I need to configure and upload things on the server or edit a few graphics here and there.

April came, it’s already the start of the 2nd quarter of 2007 so the bosses began solidifying their plans to create new systems and/or upgrade existing ones and harvest more project loots. I’m a part of this big project that is like the core and soul of our office (org) and plans of upgrading it began surfacing. But hey I’m working on a non-existing computer and they might as well throw me out of it if I won’t have a PC to work on.

My hardly mercy-me attitude worked and here, I have a PC. It’s not new. But it’ll probably serve the purpose.

Site, web, upgrades, etc.

Lately, I’ve been really bugged by the amount of bandwidth the site transfers. I have already upgraded to 8GB (which has recently been generously upgraded by my host to 10GB) but I’ve always been receiving messages of nearing bandwidth limit.

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I’ve been meaning to return all of the comments posted on my entries for the past days and I wish I could do them sooner.

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Finally, Cureless is now on CSSPinoy, a gallery of CSS-designed Filipino sites.