I.Love.You.

You broke the trend. Now, I am ready to tread unknown territories with you~

it's been a year since i started plurking. i had been aware of it's existence as early as June last year through Shabby. not sure of the exact reason why it was only on October that i decided to sign up... in any case, i've been hooked eversince!

for those of you who are unaware of what plurk is, here is a short post in what it is all about. [image was also copied from the said post]

anyway, plurk, like blogging, has become an outlet for me to express what i felt or what i was thinking about at the time. but unlike blogging, this is more "real-time". i had also found a lot of new friends through plurk.. and more importantly, plurk is where i met my girlfriend. hee~

hope i can give ya one of these real soon~

padangat ko ikang maray~

The GOOD:

• September 5 and the days that followed.. [Sobrang Okay Pare~]
• The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
• new DVD-writer for my compie
• billiard sessions wif QA friends
• MOA gimik wif Mom and kuya's fam
• September 20
• September 24
• Skype!
• perf bonus!

The BAD:

• still some rainy and gloomy day/s
• Typhoon Ondoy! ['namo!]
• dead DVD-writer

The HMMM:

• unnecessary expenses vs. immediate wants/needs
• honesty

[words fail me right now, so lemme just steal it from Edwin McCain - I Could Not Ask For More. ]

Lying here with you
Listening to the rain
Smiling just to see the smile upon your face
These are the moments I thank God that I'm alive
These are the moments I'll remember all my life
I found all I've waited for
And I could not ask for more

Looking in your eyes
Seeing all I need
Everything you are is everything to me
These are the moments
I know heaven must exist
These are the moments I know all I need is this
I have all I've waited for
And I could not ask for more

Chorus
I could not ask for more than this time together
I could not ask for more than this time with you
Every prayer has been answered
Every dream I have's come true
And right here in this moment is right where I'm meant to be
Here with you here with me

These are the moments I thank God that I'm alive
These are the moments I'll remember all my life
I've got all I've waited for
And I could not ask for more

Chorus

I could not ask for more than the love you give me
'Coz it's all I've waited for
And I could not ask for more
I could not ask for more

last Sunday, before leaving for MOA with Mom and Kuya's fam, i thought of burning a dvd to free up some space. i pressed the eject button on my trusty LG GSA4163B, and it won't budge. it had happened before, so i thought nothing of it, and just manually ejected the tray using the pinhole trick.

so i pulled on the tray, and placed a blank dvd, and slided it back. light indicator was flashing, but Windows would not read the disc.  so i repeated the process about two times, when i smelled something burning.. (uh-oh!) fearing the worst, i shut off my compie. removed the drive, and the burning smell indeed came from it's innards.

*a moment of silence please*

anyways, long story short: my 4+ year old dvd-writer has finally died. it has served me well for those past 4+ years, burned Gigs and Gigs of stuff ("educational" or otherwise ), and read Gigs and Gigs of animes, movies, mp3's from several cd's and dvd's.

meet the newest component for my compie: the LG GH22LP20! it's a few cm's shorter than my previous writer, so it doesn't hit the PSU on my micro ATX setup. burning is a breeze with this baby (22x max!), although i've only test-burned one dvd at 16x.. plus, the black finish complements my piano black micro ATX case..

i can only hope that it will exceed the lifespan of my previous writer, and perform as well as it's predecessor did..

"time flies." it's been said by almost everyone once [or twice] in their lives. i'm no exception. just a few of days ago,  my girlfriend and i celebrated our first month as a couple. sure, we've had our share of hard times, especially that ours is a long-distance one. but we're trying really hard to make it work.

as requested, i would like to give thanks to our main sponsors for helping us:

SmarTalk - for their "unlimited" calls that tremendously helped us bridge the long distance.
Yahoo Messenger & Skype - for the chats and emoticons.
LG Viewty/ Sony Ericsson K530i - essential to our relationship. (calls, texts, MMS)

and of course, to Plurk, for bringing us together.

Therese, thank you for bearing with me. Padangat ko ikang maray~ >:-*<