My memories has always been hazy. I always tell Luci this, that I never remember everything we’ve done together or anything in my life for that matter. Even when some trivial thing in the past I’ve done, I wouldn’t remember some of it.
It’s not like I have Alzheimer’s. I don’t think I have that disease. But sometimes, just little things like making origami for a friend back in college, or singing Little Mermaid’s Part of Your World in my own Tagalog version, I don’t remember any of those until someone in my life tells me or reminds me about it. “Remember when….?” Gah, why can’t I remember those things? They are so special to me, yet why?
I do think I tend to block out some things to make room for newer memories. However, there are times, I would tell myself, “Oh, this is something I need to remember! It was so fun this day!” but then, that memory fades away like it was never there. Well, it could be there, but it would be in the back of my mind.
That’s why I like taking pictures and videos as much as I can. It’s my basis for my memories. I would look at one picture and say, “Oh yeah! That happened that day! I’m so glad I remembered.”
Yet, there are things I will always remember. My firsts. My lasts. My heartaches. My loves. Those things, I cannot forget. Those things, I will always treasure.
What memory, do you think, we had together that you will always remember? Maybe you can help me remember them again?
P.S. And I hope my friend Jamie is happy that I updated this blog. I know it’s been a while. :)
Yes, I was violated. I have been given a violation notice from NTTA of not paying toll when I have a toll tag. For $1 worth for each toll I went through, I was charged $25 administration fee each, totaling almost up to $350 which I have to pay. And I have a toll tag. I was violated, all right.
I later learned TxTag didn’t replenish my toll tag account, thus I had these bogus charges. I had to call TxTag and wonder why they didn’t replenish it, and they said they had trouble charging the CC I had in my account. I told them to try again because I was sure that I had money in there. Sure enough, it went through. Grr.
So now, I’m still communicating with NTTA through email and it’s been almost a month. And it turns out that NTTA and TxTag are two separate entities, because NTTA asked me to “ask for account verification” from TxTag. And I am sure they will still want me to pay this ridiculous amount just because of that part where they didn’t replenish my account. *sigh*
We’ll see what happens. I’m really fed up in talking to them, even through email.
Man, that sucked. When I tried to get into my blog to write about a dream I had, all I saw was “THIS SITE HAS BEEN HACKED!” Ugh! Was I mad. And here I had to check which area in my website was hacked into and scrambled to update my passwords and such, only to find out that it was only my theme that was hacked into and not the others. Kind of a relief but still annoying. So now, I changed themes, with a little bubbly stuff on it.
So, about the dream. It was weird than most. It felt like a nightmare of sorts.
I felt like I was playing this game, a virtual reality RPG-style type, where I wandered around with a few friends in a house and I had the ability to fly and conjure some spirits to help me combat evil. We got to this house right, and for some reason I was alone (the others were somewhere else inside the house). I happened to turn a corner and saw this zombie-like guy (shaved head, had a big trenchcoat on) and I ran for it because he saw me.
He chased me around the house, then the house turned into a cave-like structure. I couldn’t seem to fly away from him since I have forgotten all reason as I was so scared. Then, he finally caught me and I fell on the floor, screaming for my life, and he bit on my leg and started sucking my life-force. Somehow, the pain I thought I was going to feel was nothing more but a little touch on the leg, and I went limp, then suddenly felt my body pucker up like a prune as my life-force was leaving me. Then nothing but black.
My game seems to have reset. I’m back at the house, and I turned around the corner again and there’s the zombie. This time, I try to be smart and conjured one of my spirits to deter him from catching me. I reach a bedroom and went under the bed, while conjuring up another warrior-like spirit. The zombie came in the bedroom in the meantime and he started looking around the room. He almost checked under the bed and then my warrior spirit appeared and killed him on the spot. I then woke up.
I still don’t know why I didn’t fly.
The rice and Spam were easy enough to make, but the spinach greens was a first for me.
I fried some bacon bits on the skillet, took the bits off after they were cooked, sauteed some minced garlic and chopped onions on the bacon fat.
I put a half a bag of baby spinach after the onions were glassy-looking, added some parsley flakes and oregano, and then turned the spinach over the other ingredients till it wilted a bit. Take the spinach out and put the bacon bits on top.
Voila! My first creation without following a recipe. I got the idea from watching a lot of “30 Minute Meals with Rachel Ray” so I figured I’d give it a go.
The taste wasn’t so bad, either. Although it comes out tasting bland on its own, the saltiness of the bacon bits and Spam complimented it and the rice just made the picture complete.
I’m just so blah today. I want to hide in my own little world. Turn off the lights. Curl fetus-like in my covers. Sleep the day away. Are these signs of depression? Or is my body telling me the time of my daughter’s birth is getting nearer and nearer? I don’t know. Even playing my regular online games isn’t amusing me. All I managed today was read a book. I don’t even know if I want to fire up my laptop right now. I might just continue reading the manga I was reading yesterday.
Speaking of books, I just found out that the 3rd book of the Inheritance trilogy written by Christopher Paolini is out. That’s on my list of books to get. I’m torn between getting the e-book version for my iPhone or just getting the hardcover. I think I might do the latter, since I have the first 2 books.
Looking forward to the Inkheart movie, and I love how they casted Brendan Fraser as the dad. I read the book once and I thought it was good. I should read it again soon.
Anyways, that’s all for now. At least I feel a little better now that I wrote stuff down. Toodles.
My guild has moved on to Order side for now. I’m in Volkmar server. I will miss my Zealot, though I might hop in on her once in a while. On the other hand, I’m enjoying the Runepriest a lot. It’s the mirror of Zealot so I don’t mind it so much. Also trying out the Swordmaster – I think I’m a tank at heart, since I like to charge at people. I’m so torn between the two now. We’ll see. I know the guild needs a healer more than a tank, though. We have enough tanks in the guild.
Nothing much else to say. See ya.
Well, I guess I should post on what I like about WarHammer Online so far. I spent like maybe 5 hours last night playing it after I got off work.
Public Quests or PQ. You can just join in this part of the map and will prompt you to do quests with others. In return, you get some good lootz from it, as well as influential rewards. You don’t even have to join a party to participate! Just kill, get lootz, and collect other rewards.
RvR Scenarios. Don’t like open PvP (people vs. people) or RvR (realm vs. realm) but like to do it every once in a while? Join a scenario, which takes you to an instance that primarily lets you kill people from the opposite realm without causing grief from other people who try to avoid it. This makes it balanced for people who love RvR and those who don’t.
No more repairing equipment. The only thing I know that will let you repair are some goody equipment you might like to use later on.
Zealots are awesome. Nuff said.
That’s it for now. I am definitely going to have trouble balancing Lord of the Rings Online and WarHammer Online. Oh no, there’s Stargate Worlds coming up, too! Whatever will I do?!
WarHammer Online is going live in a few minutes. Are you ready for it? :) WAGGHHHHH!
Seriously. We haven’t even been affected by Ike or anything. People have been asking if we’re okay and such. There was little rain and winds weren’t that bad, either, though we had a wind advisory. In fact, it’s actually sunny today.
Galveston didn’t have it so lucky, though. There has been alertness all around our workplace because we might get some transfers from other children’s hospitals from Houston/Galveston.
Thanks for your concern for us. We’re really okay.
So, I was feeling bored with doing my little quests here and there, and I saw that Margaret from Preying Mantis (PM) was looking for hunters for a Rift raid run, so I jumped to the chance, since I never really played with them before other than Helegrod.
Boy, I’m really mighty impressed with the way they ran this. No nonsense, a few explanations, kill the boss, split the loot, and on to the next boss. We did the locks 3 through 8 in a matter of two hours, compared to where it will usually last 5-6 hours from 3 through 7 on some raids I’ve joined. It was awesome. Another plus was that most of them already had Rift gear so it was easy to roll for whatever I needed for my hunter (I got the chest piece gem).
It’s easy to tag along if you know what you’re doing, and a good thing that I did. We didn’t have the +3 hope buff, they only had one LM (lore-master), who did a mighty job of keeping us powered up, wound/disease control, and stun immunity. Hardly anyone died, except for the Balrog boss, where only 2 died but was brought back up with efficiency. I hope they were impressed with me as well, hardly questioning what to do and such. I would love to do another run with them, if only just to do a quick one to get what I need.
I just wish this was the same for all the raids I’ve ever been in. Although, it’s also fun to just talk and chat while doing the run, however long it takes. But when you’re in a time crunch like I was at the time, this run was really ideal for me.
Thanks, PM, hope to do more Rift runs again with you in the future. If you’ll let me.
