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Your Personality is Very Rare (INTP)

Your personality type is goofy, imaginative, relaxed, and brilliant. Only about 4% of all people have your personality, including 2% of all women and 6% of all men.

You are Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, and Perceiving.

INTP ba talaga ako??? Howell…

Just can’t believe that we are very few in numbers whereas I have a lot of friends who share the same characteristics as me… weird…

When people say upgrade, what do you often think about? Here are some that come to mind: bigger, better, more… This week, I’ve been thinking about my goals as a musician. Is it to be able to boast of a wide array of instruments or of impressive skills? Am I trully going to spend more than what I spent for tuition fees for a bunch of stuff which will merely complement my playing style? Thinking about the musicians which have had  a role in my  building up as a musician shows me my flaws. Jimi Hendrix just had a Fuzz Face, a Vox wah, and Univibe. Eric Clapton used to use only a treble boost. Jordan Rudess only uses 1 full-sized keyboard with a bunch of rackmounts, but most of the sounds were made by him through sampling and editing. John Myung sticks to his use of a 6-string Yamaha custom bass. The Edge gets his tone from the amount of delays and effects he has, but as it is, without his imagination, none of it would be of any use.

Anyway, my outlook has changed from "better gear, better sound" to "better skills, better sound." And with this I’ve been going for longer times in practicing rudiments (1 hour guitar practice, 1 hour keyboard practice, 1 hour listening to lineup). Hearing myself now and comparing it to last week (when I had a lot more set-up), I like the way I play now.

Of course this is not to say that I’m not going to buy some stuff (which will still cost me around 30-40k). But now I’m not going to focus on drooling for gear, but on looking for ways to improve my playing. I’ve been in a lull for too long. It’s time for a change.

Name:
Allan Michael

Reason Behind the Name:
First names were given to me by my parents because I was born in the morning (or was it after midnight) ergo, AM. The funny thing here is that my sister is named the same way (Aileen Mae) for the same reason.

Given Name Breakdown:

Allan (variant of Alan) - The meaning of this name is not known for certain, though it possibly
means either "little rock" or "handsome" in Breton. Alternatively, it
may derive from the tribal name of the Alans, an Iranian people who
migrated into Europe in the 4th and 5th centuries. This was the name of
several dukes of Brittany, and was introduced to England by Bretons
after the Norman invasion. Famous modern bearers include Alan Shepard,
the first American in space and the fifth man to walk on the moon, and
Alan Turing, a British mathematician and computer scientist.
(author’s note: looks like I got the little rock definition for the name)

Michael -
From the Hebrew name מִיכָאֵל (Mika’el)
which meant "who is like God?". This is the name of one of the seven
archangels in Hebrew tradition and the only one identified as an
archangel in the Bible. In the Book of Revelation in the New Testament
he is portrayed as the leader of heaven’s armies, and thus is
considered the patron saint of soldiers. This was also the name of nine
Byzantine emperors and a czar of Russia. Other more modern bearers of
this name include the 19th-century chemist/physicist Michael Faraday
and basketball player Michael Jordan.

Cute little project here Sa.
http://journal.sarahcada.com/2007/05/name-project.html

(ganda pang pampataas ng search engine ranking)

by Steven Curtis Chapman

I know you’ve heard the stories
But they all sound too good to be true
You’ve heard about a place called home
But there doesn’t seem to be one for you
So one more night you cry yourself to sleep
And drift off to a distant dream

Where love takes you in and everything changes
A miracle starts with the beat of a heart
When love takes you home and says you belong here
The loneliness ends and a new life begins
When love takes you in

And somewhere while you’re sleeping
Someone else is dreaming too
Counting down the days until
They hold you close and say I love you
And like the rain that falls into the sea
In a moment what has been is lost in what will be

When love takes you in everything changes
A miracle starts with the beat of a heart

And this love will never let you go
There is nothing that could ever cause this love to lose its hold

When love takes you in everything changes
A miracle starts with the beat of a heart
When love takes you home and says you belong here
The loneliness ends and a new life begins
When love takes you in it takes you in for good
When love takes you in

I’ve been playing guitar fairly long now and I simply can’t go far without a good set of effects. So without further ado, here’s my *updated yet again..* stompbox *wish* list:

Electro Harmonics Big Muff Pi (7,000 php) - I love it’s great fuzz sound. Although I would have preffered a
Fuzz Face, I can’t seem to find any local distributor selling it. Sayang, may nagbebenta ng Jimi Hendrix Fuzz Face at Bad Monkey for 6k T_T.

Visual Sound Jekyll and Hyde ($139.99 or roughly 7,000 php) - An overdrive/distortion pedal which sounds impressive and looks quite nice. Great natural-sounding overdrive sounds and DS-1 like sounds from this one pedal.

Electro Harmonics Small Clone (6,800 php)  - The EH Small Clone is of Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain fame. It’s an incredible chorus pedal great for alternative rock.

Korg 301dl Dynamic Echo (3,300) - A delay pedal. Can’t get that U2/Delirious/Hillsong sound without em.

Btw, if there are any guitarists out there reading this. Can you give me suggestions?

I’ll be posting updates as to how far I am into this project :-P.
This makes me wonder, just how many people are reading my stuff???
Please post a comment for me to know.

All in all it’s a whopping sum of… teka magkano nga ba??? … and that’s still not finished. I still need patch cables and a carrying case. Next thing I’ll be in need of is an EQ, a pitch shifter, and I really, really, really want a Boss Blues Drive… I still wonder if I can get my hands on a Proco Rat II, a Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face, an EH Memory Man Deluxe, a Route 66… *sigh…

This is gonna take long…

Btw, if there are any guitarists out there reading this. Can you give me suggestions?

I’ll be posting updates as to how far I am into this project :-P.
This makes me wonder, just how many people are reading my stuff???
Please post a comment for me to know.

Updates:

Big Muff down (gotten at 4,800 php)

Sold DOD for 2,300

Next Target: Korg Dynamic Echo

The following are actual incidents reported by members of the tipidpc website.

Case #1:
Customer: I want to talk to your supervisor!!!now! (Galit talaga..)

Agent: Sir…I…

Customer: I dont want to talk to you! Give me your supervisor. Now!

Agent: Ok sir. (medyo nangangatal pa sa takot)

*Sabay dumaan sa likod nya yung supervisor at hindi siya napansin dahil may tumawag sa kanya.

Agent: Sir, Im sorry but my supervisor just passed away and will be coming back later..

Case #2
a caller from guam

Customer: Where are you located?

Agent: Philippines

Customer: ****** ***!!! Kanina pa ko nabubulol dito pinoy ka rin pala
san probinsya mo?

Agent: Maam where not allowed to disclose that information

Customer: Ah. **** pala to kanina pa ko nababarok dito pinoy pala tong kausap ko (talking with someone in the background)

Case #3
Agent: Click Start -> Run -> when your see the white box with the blinking cursor.. type in C-M-D, Charlie - Mary - Delta

Customer: Ok I typed it in.

Agent: Ok the press the OK button

Customer: windows cannot find ‘charliemarydelta’ Make sure you type the name correctly, and try again…

Case #4
Agent: ok were going to reset a jumper on your motherboard, the jumper is near the battery..at was-

Customer: Oh i know that what your talking about (leaves for a while)

Customer: Ok got it removed already.

Agent: Can your describe me the jumper that you removed near the battery?…

Customer: Its a small black round thing, with a white stripe on it. Its near the battery right?

Agent: Nope, and now were going to replace your motherboard!

Case #5

Agent: Thank you for calling XBOX Live my name is ******. So, how may i help you today?

Customer: My console has a funny smell…

Agent: How funny?

Customer: WHAT?!

Agent: How funny is the smell?

Customer: (customer now sounds irate) Its hilarious!!! What the h*ll do you
mean how funny?!?! I think my console just shorted itself out

Case #6

Agent: Would you like to set your own password or would you like me to give you a generic password?

Customer: Uhmm.. just give me a generic one…

Agent: Alright.. I have reset your password. Your new password will
be… let me spell it out for you… That’s K as in Kilo… A as in
Apple… M as in Mama… O as in October… T as in tango… and E as
in Echo…

Customer: "Kamowt?" (American accent)… That’s a cool password!!! I’ll
never forget this!!! All right!!!Everything is working!!!…

Final thoughts…
K-A-M-O-T-E… panalo ^_^

I know I’ve posted this before, kaso nung nabasa ko natuwa uli ako e.
Anyway here it is:

The Use of Computers in Movies

• Word processors never display a cursor.

     

• You never have to use the space-bar when typing long sentences.
• All monitors display inch-high letters.
• The most relevant information is displayed in a separate window right in the middle of the screen, but there’s never an Ok button to other way to close it.
• High-tech computers, such as those used by NASA, the CIA, or some such governmental institution, will have easy to understand graphical interfaces. Those that don’t, have incredibly powerful text-based command shells that can correctly understand and execute commands typed in plain English.
• Corollary: you can gain access to any information you want by simply typing "ACCESS ALL OF THE SECRET FILES" on any keyboard.
• Likewise, you can infect a computer with a destructive virus by simply typing "UPLOAD VIRUS" (see Fortress).
• All computers are connected. You can access the information on the villain’s desktop computer, even if it’s turned off.
• Powerful computers beep whenever you press a key or whenever the screen changes. Some computers also slow down the output on the screen so that it doesn’t go faster than you can read.
• The really advanced ones also emulate the sound of a dot-matrix printer. (See The Hunt For Red October or Alien)
• All computer panels have thousands of volts and flash pots just underneath the surface. Malfunctions are indicated by a bright flash, a puff of smoke, a shower of sparks, and an explosion that forces you backwards.
  • Corollary: sending data to a modem/tape drive/printer faster than expected causes it to explode.
  • Additional side note: There really is a Windows virus that increases refresh rate of the monitor to values higher than the value the monitor can handle. This causes the monitor to literally fry. (this, however was addressed by Microsoft on the advent of Windows XP… I think/hope)
• People typing away on a computer will turn it off without saving the data. (See the opening credits for The Hunt For Red October)
• A hacker can get into the most sensitive computer in the world before intermission and guess the secret password in two tries.
• Any PERMISSION DENIED error has an OVERRIDE function (see Demolition Man and countless others).
• Complex calculations and loading of huge amounts of data will be accomplished in under three seconds. Movie modems (especially the wireless ones they must be using when they’re in the car) usually appear to transmit data at the speed of two gigabytes per second.
• When the power plant/missile-site/whatever overheats, all the control panels will explode, as will the entire building.
• If a disk has got encrypted files, you are automatically asked for a password when you try to access them.
• No matter what kind of computer disk it is, it’ll be readable by any system you put it into. All application software is usable by all computer platforms.
• The more high-tech the equipment, the more buttons it has (Aliens). However, everyone must have been highly trained, because none of the buttons are labelled.
• Most computers, no matter how small, are able to produce reality-defying three-dimensional, active animation, photo-realistic graphics, with little or no detailed input from the user.
• Laptops, for some strange reason, always seem to have amazing real-time video phone capabilities and the performance of a CRAY Supercomputer.
• Whenever a character looks at a VDU, the image is so bright that it projects itself onto his/her face (see Alien, 2001, Jurassic Park).
• Either a Jacob’s Ladder or a Van Der Graaf Generator is absolutely necessary for the operation of new, experimental computers (especially when built by brilliant scientists), although in real life, these devices do absolutely nothing.
• One can issue any complex set of commands in a few keystokes (see Star Trek).
• The internet connects to everything in the movies. You can edit credit records, search hotel registries, lookup police criminal files, search (and edit) drivers license databases, edit social security files and more just using the internet! (see The Net)
• Smashing the VDU prevents the whole system from working (see Speed).
• You can launch nuclear missles from any bedroom using an analog modem, but only if you know a single secret password (see War Games).

A junkie (or junky) is a heroin addict. The word has also come to be used to describe addicts in general.
People enthusiastic about a given thing sometimes call themselves
junkies (as in the term "science fiction junkie" or "political junkie").  - Wikipedia (Junkie)

Ever been addicted? Have you ever been so into something that nothing this world can offer will make you let it go?

I’ve been addicted to many things. Some of them include comics, Tekken, Magic cards, DoTA, Warcraft, TV, etc… but right now, I’m addicted to something far worse… something which removes me from my physical plane of existence and places me above all these things… I’m addicted to God

Chasing the impossible.
Believing the unbelievable.

Receiving the inconceivable.
Seeing beyond my wildest imagination.

Such is the promise for all those who would call themselves addicted to the One who made the heavens and the earth. Who actively chase after God with the aim of being closer to Him. Who are so in love with Jesus that all this world can offer seems dim, bland, and dull. Such is the excitement of the person who says: "I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection, the fellowship of sharing in His suffering, becoming like Him in His death so that somehow I may attain the resurrection of the dead."

What can this world offer me that is more than what God has promised? What can a world of death offer a man given life? What can imperfection offer to one who is chasing perfection?

It’s like offering a can of sardines when a net bursting with fish is available. Like offering a loaf of bread to someone who has been given 12 basketfuls.

So bring it on, all the world’s joys, desires, longings, dreams, and aspirations. They can never compare to the joy of chasing God.

I want to know Christ.

Ey found a site where you can create and enter discussions, and get paid in the process (check the last part of this post for the link).

Odd thing coming from me… If you know me, you know that I usually don’t go for these stuff especially when there’s the term ‘money’ or ‘credit card’ involved (for one thing, I don’t have much money and I don’t have a credit card). Also I’m not a get-quick-free-cash type. Even during Christmas, I’d rather let everyone line up in front of the one giving the Aguinaldo (it’s a Filipino tradition of giving out money during Christmas as a gift either for everyone or for godchildren) and make sure that everyone else gets something before me (in our family’s case, it’s for everyone).

I’d rather work and see the fruits of my labor. Come to think of it, I’m not really one who accepts gifts without thinking of how to repay them… Is that a character trait or a character flaw???

Is always thinking of how I can get even (in a good way) hindering me from being truly thankful??? With people, it’s alright to do what I do (heck it’s even encouraged). "This shirt would be great for him, he gave me the cool watch I’m wearing now," or "A surprise birthday party… payback for the one she threw for my friend," or even "I’m going to donate 10% of my salary for this couple. They helped me so much when I was an immature kid, now I’m gonna help them raising their own." But with God… how the heck can you repay what He gave???

… The Lord is my rock and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life, of whom shall I be afraid?… Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for You are with me, Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me… surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever…to them who believe, He gave the right to become children of God… He came to preach the good news to the poor, proclaim freedom to the captives, to restore sight to the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor… He came so that we might have life and have it to the full… should I go on?

Sins forgiven, conscience cleansed, death defeated and life without end…

So how do I repay??? What can I do to return such favors??? Would my good works be able to affect eternity? Would singing the best songs of earth be able to drown the chorus of heaven? Giving it my all would not be enough. Nothing I could do would even come close to making me able to even it out with God.

What can you give to a father that gave His only son for someone like me?

The inadequacy of man… the immenseness of God.

Thanks God.

Hahaha, strayed from the topic again… can’t help it… out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh (and sometimes, the hands typeth)…

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