I’m Still Alive! Comment Allez Vous?

The report of this blog’s death has been exaggerated.

There are reasons why I haven’t been posting, and this time they aren’t comprised of "I was bored" and "I was sick" and "I had this block" and "I got laid". All right, I know this is a awful way to start my post, but I’m not yet in the writing frame of mind, because today is unusual. Today, I’ve spent two hours getting reacquainted with the internet; I think I have forgotten how to use it. And why? Our district’s phone lines have been tapped, and we’ve been living four days with dysfunctional phone lines, and that also means we have been living without internet connections, since we connect to the internet by the DSL. PLDT’s not doing anything to expedite their repair job. I hate PLDT. They should call themselves "Philippines Long Delay Telephone Company" instead.

That covers the why I haven’t been posting. As to how I’ve been doing: for once, my life doesn’t suck (omg?). It’s more of vacillating, meaning it has its ups and downs. Beginning with the blue note, one of my female officemates resigned last friday, something I was pretty bummed at. Out of 6 girls who work in the same office as I, she was the only one I show that iota of emotion resembling "care". The rests bore me - yeah, maybe 2 of them aren’t that dull, but they don’t share as many similar interests as the girl-who-left with me. As for the remaining 3? They’re the most gelid and vapid mouth breathers conceived, and they talk about the most commonplace fads and listen to the most obnoxious R&B music, and that’s when they’re not talking about bikinis as though their wearing them would incite the jizzing from puberty-struck passers-by. Collective puking is the likelier reaction. Anyway, now that the office is without this girl-who-left, I feel more languid here than before.

Compared to 1 pining and 1 sorry plight, my life’s upsides may seem a tad trifling, but to me it’s being content with the little things that defines a person’s happiness, and I can’t believe that for once I sounded like a self-help book. So, I ate Halo Halo last thursday and that alone was enough to put a stupid grin on my face. It so happened that I also treated a girl the same kind of Halo Halo, and nothing delights me more than sparkly conversations over scrumptious desserts. We conversed for one hour, though it was mostly her who was doing the talking. She was fun, and it’s good for me to be in touch with people again after being a recluse for, like, 50 years?

And as you can see, this blog has a new look. I drew a new header. It’s Chang E, an important figure of Chinese folklores and poems. I like the result of this drawing, which look like this (click the pic to enlarge):

[the first draft?]

[the modified version, because one of my female friends complained that this girl’s breasts are too small? Haha! That’s just one of the weirdest thing I’ve heard. Women are now complaining that their breasts are depicted too small?] 

… but when I used the colored version as the header I felt that it has too much empty spaces. So I changed the header image to the "sketched lines" version of the artwork, which is actually just a photoshop filter of the original artwork. I am still working on making the colored version more embellished, and I am still fiddling with the blog’s settings. I relished from drawing her that I now have a renewed interest in drawing, and I intend to train hard on drawing when I have the free time.

[And this is to i.ph team, but is there a way for me to change the CSS settings of my blog?]

Lastly, I’m done reading Odyssey. I liked it, but that’s mostly because I read the verse translation of it, which  surpasses its prose translation. Otherwise, Odyssey is just a standard tale of heroism (with a few suspect outdated beliefs), but the versing makes it beautifully told.

Next up on my reading list: Ulysses. Gulp.

And that about wraps my post for today. Comment Allez Vous? It means "How are you", and I’m directing that question to you.