Haven't been updating my blog lately and for good reason.

1. I went to Manila last weekend (for a day). I was supposed to see my Dad but I wasn't able to catch him as their ship set sail earlier than expected. The flight was also delayed for an hour and a half. When I got to Manila at 9pm, I wasn't able to get a taxi right away since I had to fight off other passengers and deal with the drivers who do not want to use the meter. It's 250 for a ride to Malate from NAIA 2!! But the good thing was, I got to visit the bead shops in Quiapo and had a spree! =)

2. When I did get back to Cebu, I was sleepless and tired and I had to go to work in a few hours so I had to catch some zzzs.

3. It was my bestfriend's birthday and couldn't miss that one out (even if my muscles were aching from fatigue!).

4. Had to reformat my laptop coz the DVD drive wasn't working. Installed XP but it didn't work out well so had to reinstall Vista. Note: this isn't an easy feat for me as I have no experience whatsoever with hardware stuff and OS installations. I did it all by myself (mainly) and had some help with an Angel over the phone. *wink*

5. When I did get some free time, I was beading! LOL. Also got my hands on a Wirework magazine which showed very interesting projects and all the things you can do with a piece of wire! =)

Seems I had a busy busy week. Soon, I'll be updating with pics from my Manila trip, foodtrips after work and my new bead work! =)

While all the other "normal" people with "normal" work schedules (with office hours 8 to 5, Mondays to Fridays) were enjoying the extremely long weekend holiday -- it's Holy Week, the "losers", like me, were at work. Hospitals don't have holidays but we do get to enjoy additional incentives during these occasions. :) Another good thing about working on a holiday is that it's less busy as well. It was in 2C anyway.

As it was Holy Week, there was a scarcity of food shops opening to feed the hungry hospital employees like me. Choices were also limited as Catholics are bound to eat only veggies as a symbol of sacrifice and repentance, blablablablahhh.. -- as if having to work in this particular time of the year isn't sacrifice enough! Anyhow it was lunch time and my stomach was begging to be fed so I had to eat something or risk having stomach ulcers and other problems.

With a fellow nurse, we went to a local fast food nearby, Orange Brutus. There was Jollibee but she already ate there the other day and didn't like the Bangus meal coz it had a fishy aftertaste. So there we were lining up at the cashier giving our orders. It turned out that they only served tuna sandwich and veggie roll, for the day. I chose the latter. 

The food was served in about five minutes. Along with the veggie roll came the sweet and sour sauce that looked AND tasted more like water with red food coloring and bits and pieces of chili seeds. I should have told the waitress, or anyone responsible for the consistency of the sauce, to go easy with mixing water to it but I was too hungry to care. 

I wolfed down my food and it just so happened I ran out of sauce. So, I got up and asked the woman behind the cash register if I could have some more and to my utter disbelief, she said I had to pay for it. What?? Pay for a sauce refill?? That's unheard of! What food chain would charge their customers extra for sauce?? Apparently Orange Brutus does. They charge extra for a refill of their watery, tasteless red thing with chili seeds. Can it even be called a "sauce"?? I don't think so.

Since it was Black Saturday, I didn't give much thought of the incident. I did keep it in my mind though. It's a nice idea for a blog too. Too bad, I wasn't able to bring my phone with me. I could've taken a picture of what I was talking about.

Anyway, the shift ended and I went home. So much for having clean thoughts and words on a Holy Day.

Here I am on my day off sitting in front of the laptop while American Idol's on TV. Why am I here instead of watching my favorite show? Because it's the only time I have to finally fix my DVD drive. The effing thing isn't working! 

Ok. Here's what happened. I was burning some stuff on a DVD-R a week ago and it did the job just fine. When I was done, I shutdown as usual and went on with the other things I had to do. Later, I wanted to burn some more data but I couldn't find the DVD drive icon on My Computer nor was computer detecting the DVD (or any CD for that matter) I placed inside it. What went wrong??

I googled it up and found out that it's a really common problem. I saw some solutions like deleting some "filters" thing on the registry and installing a registry "fix it" thing but nothing works! Oh, please excuse (my utter lack of) computer lingo. I'm a blogger not a computer technician. =P

I've been restarting so many times. Uninstalling drivers and reinstalling them again and then restarting again. I'm losing patience and hope especially now that I 'm missing American Idol. Argh! Why'd this have to happen?

Oh well. I hope this can be fixed soon. I need to burn some data so badly. The total space of my hard drive is nearly full!

I'm giving up for now, I'm watching American Idol! Yey!