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Happy New Year, Resolutions

31 Dec

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Oh, wow. Look at this. The new year is a few minutes away and we’re all busy and shit preparing for it. But I’m taking a break from the revelries to take the time and greet you all a happy new year!

I’m curious. Do you still make new year’s resolutions? I, for one, stopped making them years ago because, well, who the heck was able to keep even one? Like me, for the last few years my one resolution was “I will exercise more regularly and lose weight.” By January 2, I’d be lying face down on the floor, wheezing from the fifth push-up and saying “Fuck it, I give up!”

This year I decided to make things a bit easier for me. I’ll be  making new year’s resolutions I can keep. Instead of beating myself up silly for broken promises, I’ll be able to pat myself on the back for a job well done. (more…)

The World has Always Been Crazy, We Just Don’t Notice It: Mayor Beats Up 56 Year Old Man and 14 Year Old Boy

27 Dec

I interrupt the retardery to bring you guys something really appaling. This is certainly something not everybody should go through, especially not during the Christmas season.

18 year-old Bambee dela Paz, student athlete, had gone through a horrible experience involving her family and some men in power.

I’ll let these snippets from her blog entry speak for itself.

So, I just had the worst day of my life.

At around 1:30 PM today, at Valley Golf and Country Club, Antipolo City, Mayor Nasser Pangandaman, Jr., Mayor of Masiu City, Lanao del Sur, his father, Secretary Nasser Pangandaman of the Department of Agrarian Reform, and company, beat my defenseless 56-year-old dad and my 14-year-old brother to a pulp because of some stupid misunderstanding on the golf course.

Things get heated up. Voices were raised. But never, in my wildest dreams, did I ever imagine that someone would pull out a punch. Apparently not. He attacks my father. His flightmates, maybe 2 or 3 of them, rush to his aid and beat up my father.

My 56-year-old father. My younger brother and I could not just watch. We rushed to break the fight. My younger brother pleads to the mayor to please stop it. To not hurt my dad. To just stop. His words still ring through my head…”Sorry na po, sorry na po…tama na…tama na po…” With his hands in front of his chest in a praying position. PLEADING. The mayor socks him in the face.

My brother defended himself. My dad is still on the ground getting clobbered. My brother is the same way. I try to stop the fight, but all I can do is stop one person. There were 4 or 5 of them attacking now.

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Merry Christmas!

25 Dec

Hey there guys! I’m taking a break from the retardery to wish you all a wonderful Christmas. May your holidays be filled with goodness and cheer and alcohol and sex and all that other Christmassy shit.

Anyway, here’s a video of Achmed the dead terrorist singing a small Christmas ditty for all of you.

Merry Christmas!

Re: Dear Santa

22 Dec

Dear Ade,

I’m sorry if it took me two years to reply to that last letter you sent me. Thanks for asking about Rudolph, though. He got out of his coma quite quickly. In fact, he’s having great progress with his therapist. He now cries himself to sleep only intermittently. And his tic isn’t all that noticeable anymore.

As for me and the elves, we’re buried up to the neck making cheap rip-offs of this season’s latest toy. For kids. Get it? I exist for KIDS. Not for overweight internet writers in their mid-20s who specialize in “The Art of Dick Jokes.” Be thankful I even got to read your email in the first place. Stop resending the damn thing. You do realize that you’ve been sending the same email in triplicate for the last two years, haven’t you?

Honestly though, I’m at a loss as to what to give for these damn kids. Back then it was “Santa gimme a Tickle-Me-Elmo” or “Santa gimme a pony” or “Santa I want the Immature Radioactive Kung-Fu Warthog special super-action edition” or “Santa gimme a rainbow unicorn.” (more…)

The Tale Of The Guy Who Tried to Outsmart Everyone in the Elevator

15 Dec

The scenario

Lunchtime was just about over, and hordes of office drones are rushing to the elevator to get back to work (and by “work” I mean “surfing Friendster all day, looking for hot chicks to stalk”). People just want to go back and stalk that hot half-naked chick who looks like she’s been in a scandal which they saw on iyottube.com work. Elevators are sometimes amazingly slow. Oh wait, I mean “all the time.” Tempers are rising as people impatiently tap their feet on the ground floor.

Then

After a long and excruciating wait, an elevator opens, and everyone is stoked to see only one guy inside. The twenty people who have been waiting for an elevator quickly move in.

crowd

This pretty much happened

Somehow, nobody realized that the sole person inside the lift is an asshole. (more…)

WebSapient rips off ENTIRE portfolio of Pinoy web designer

11 Dec

You know how much I hate it when people rip off my work and pass it off as their own. You see, it’s just not right. Also, it’s not so hard to open up an account on i.ph and start writing your own pointless blog on the interwebs. It’s also kind of creepy when somebody tries to pass off my experiences as their own.

websapientSo imagine how incensed I was when WebSapient, a supposedly “experienced and well established web design company specializing in website design and e-commerce development,” rips off the entire portfolio of one of my friends and fellow TMB monkey, Marco Palinar. It’s so not cool.

I know this kind of thing happens all the time, but come on, it doesn’t mean we have to let this slide. Want proof that they ripped off Marco? Check out his awesome, jaw-dropping, rock-and-rollin’ portfolio:

Marco Palinar portfolio

Now I won’t link WebSapient, but you can check out their portfolio by checking this screencap out:

Credit for the screencaps goes to Liz.

See?! They blatantly ripped off Marco’s ENTIRE portfolio. This isn’t as simple as somebody copying my blog entries, this is Marco’s bread and butter. They are getting paid for somebody else’s hard work. Also, those guys are in for a world of pain: as Baddie said, Marco isn’t just “the site guy”, he’s also “The World’s Angriest Web Designer.”

Now you can help us spread the word and help us stop WebSapient’s bullshit by doing three things. You can either:

  • Write a blog entry about WebSapient ripping off Marco,
  • You can Digg Liz’s blog entry, or bookmark it on Delicious,
  • Or you can talk about it on Twitter, Plurk, Friendfeed, or wherever you kids go off to on the interwebs

You can read more about this on these other blogs:

UPDATE: It looks like WebSapient took down their portfolio page. Yay! But will they rip off somebody else?

Notes on “Eva Fonda”

9 Dec

I interrupt my blogging hiatus to write an entry about Eva Fonda. And I think I’ve sunk to an all-time low with this blog, ladies and gentlemen.

The new teleserye from ABS-CBN has opened up so much discussion on Plurk that I just had to go and watch it. Besides, I don’t think I have anything better to do with my time. Iyottube.com can get old if you’ve been surfing it for two weeks in a row, really. And seriously, how could you resist watching this?

Oh hai thar Cristine Reyes. ‘Sup? Also, OGC.

Just look at Cristine Reyes there. How could you not get entranced by her lovely face, and those eyes, and- wait, you reading this? Fuck.

DON’T JUDGE ME. (more…)