Quest for the True North

The world according to a traveler and beach bum.

Archive for June, 2008

Jun
3

The long overdue birthday post

Filed under celebrations, personal

My birthday started with a bang, and this is not a tall tale. There was noise in the house so loud I was awakened from my sleep, considering that I don’t even hear two alarm clocks ringing simultaneously on normal days.

I thought it was very sweet of my housemates to throw me a surprise party at 7 a.m., so I dragged myself out of bed at that ungodly hour and went downstairs to tell them I appreciate their efforts but would rather just sleep.

It turned out there was an uproar in the house. One of my housemates, who was about to be married this month, was crying her eyes out while her boyfriend (and his balls) shrunk in front of very angry women. The boyfriend had come to the house so early in the morning after finding out that my housemate was breaking up with him. The guy, who was so used to hitting her he forgot that he wasn’t in his territory, hit her for all the neighbors to see.

When the queen mother of the Order of the Old House on Kamuning Street found out, the guy saw the end to his machismo. I’m sure he would never again come within 100 meters from our street.

After the guy was out the door and all was settled, I went back to my room to continue my beauty sleep. That was when I saw this little thing sitting on my study table.

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She was all wrapped in pretty paper, of course. She came with a note that said her name should be Cluckee. Why my abnormal (above-normal) housemate Cathleen chose to give a stuffed clock to a sleepyhead is beyond me. :P Read the rest of this entry »

Jun
2

My blog is back!

Filed under blogging

I am so relieved. :D

I thought I would have to reinstall the blog and start all over again, because it seemed no one knew what the problem was. I messed up my database configurations while trying to install a photo publisher on this site. It was just my stupidity, really, and I had no updated backup of my files and databases. The last backup I made was last month. That was when I only had two short entries and this blog was as barren as a desert.

No thanks to my webhost who did not even respond to my trouble ticket to say they are working on it (they never do), this blog is up and running again. I’ve been pretty much on my own since the beginning, doing the trial-and-error thing.

Lesson: Always back up everything. I would have wanted to switch to a more responsive host, but mine is the cheapest around, so I guess I am stuck with them.