Missing the online world.

Okay, I haven’t updated my Plurk account for weeks. Here’s what I think about Plurk: it’s addictive to the point where it seeks attention from you every single day (by the concept of Karma and the attainment of Nirvana). If you’re way down the social hierarchy and your Internet surfing goes exceedingly poor, your Karma flops down to its lowest level. That’s what happened to my account. I’m a college student trying to catch up with his delayed academic standing and I’m trying hard to be thrifty. So there goes my Plurk.

With Twitter, even if its GUI is just nothing but primitive, it’s still okay for losers like me.

And then I miss my chatmates at Yahoo! Messenger. Especially my blogger friends, my Mom and my sisters, Internet friends and everyone in between. I also miss my Deviantart account and my Flickr account as well, though my DA’s the one who suffered a lot since I swore to myself not to update it that much. (My Friendster account’s bullshit. I don’t even give a damn about it for no valid reason or whatsoever.)

I don’t know why but I keep on switching themes since I can’t find a neat and masculine two-column Wordpress theme. Argh. This theme requires you a 593×225 and a 293×150 photo for each post, and the fact that I post blogposts almost daily - that’s just a grueling task for me. I can’t just dig my folders to find a suitable picture for my posts!

Though I think it’s worth it since it completes the look of the entire blog. It adds color and gives life to it.

This entry was written by Kevin, posted on August 24, 2008 at 7:15 pm, filed under IRLs and tagged Deviantart, Flickr, Friendster, Plurk, Twitter, Wordpress Theme, Yahoo! Messenger. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Drift, drift, drift.

Passion. If there’s something that separates Paul Walker’s version of ‘NFS (Need for Speed): Too Fast Too Furious’ with that of Lucas Black’s ‘NFS: Tokyo Drift’, that’s passion. I love that time where Lucas defended his side, that he should clean his mess up and not just run away from it, that he loves racing and cars and even if you give him plane tickets to Bangladesh or wherever, he’d still manage to find something that’s close to an automobile.

When you don’t know what you want to do in your life, you’ll end up living with a lot of things you hate.

Ah, I have to watch Superman Returns around 9.

This entry was written by Kevin, posted on August 23, 2008 at 8:45 pm, filed under Films, Pensive shits and tagged Lucas Black, Need For Speed, Paul Walker, Superman Returns, Tokyo Drift, Too Fast Too Furious. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

What’s up, Penshoppe?

I’m not really a fan of Taken by Cars but their newest single, ‘December 2 Chapter VII’ is simply astounding (and way better than their ‘Uh-Oh’). The vocals are just instrumentally enchanting, though their kind of music is somewhat Wickermoss-like (Wickermoss is also an OPM band with female vocals and I think they both indulge the same beats and the same music. However, this is purely opinionated). And the video - just wow. I like the weirdness of it. The Lomo-ish effect throughout the video is just captivating enough to make me watch the video for three times (the first time I saw it on MTV, I literally stared at the video, very much enchanted). Though I think Lomography’s becoming mainstream nowadays, or I guess I’m just bitter that I can’t make one, but whatever. :D

I think I’m buying their CD next week. Oh wait, I’ll buy Paramita’s new album first!

By the way, this has to be my first time to insert a Youtube video in any of my blog posts - ever.

What’s with the primary colors nowadays? I’ve seen ten people yesterday wearing red hoodies, yellow leggings (is it called leggings or stockings?) and blue skirts. It looked neat, yes, and I have nothing against the use of those colors but it’s becoming more of an icon/stereotype than a fashion statement or preference. Like you really have to force yourself to wear those colors just to get the attention. Great.

And yes, the video exhibited that kind of fashion. What’s up, Penshoppe and their big, big billboards?

YOU’RE PROBABLY WONDERING why I was using a Kubrick theme for my Wordpress rather than the stylish-looking The Unstandard by Derek Punsalan, well… let’s just say I’m lacking the time to crop photos and upload them on Flickr. I’m not really running out of photos (though I’m running out of good photos - I’m such a pretentious amateur-sounding photographer but yes, I don’t have any photos to share as of the moment).

I’m really bored. I’m still reading Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis and my camera’s manual. Believe it or not, it’s only today that I’ve learned how to use its Image Stabilizer capability. I hate reading instructions and manuals and I’m terribly sorry if it sounded so dumb but it just gets on my nerves. I’ve been using the camera for four months and it’s only TODAY that I’ve enabled its Image Stabilizer. HOW STUPID.

And another stupid thing: Dad sliced frankfurters and simmered it for our Menudo instead of the usual chorizos. Depressing. Frankfurters are for sauerkrauts and hotdog buns, not for menudo. Geez.

Post header courtesy of Flickr.

This entry was written by Kevin, posted on at 9:40 am, filed under 2in1, Books, books, books, Gastrorgasmic, Last song syndromes, Opinion, Slang and random and tagged Canon SX100 IS, Frankfurters, Image Stabilizer, Kubrick, Lomography, Menudo, Metamorphosis, Paramita, Penshoppe, Shoot You, Taken by Cars, Wickermoss, Wordpress, Youtube. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.