jellybeanz. wishing for an iPod too. :p

before i go on and talk my fingers off, let me say that i thought i was going deaf because the curtain flapped on my right ear. haha.

now back to the intended "programming." :p

i just downed around 50 jellybeans i think. i was eyeing them, and really setting my heart on them when i found them on the shelf in the kitchen earlier today. they were my cousin jaeka's.

i finally got my wish when i bade merriam to ask jaeka if i could have some. i finally got to taste the famed buttered popcorn jellybeanz! yay! but now the sugar overload is making me sleepy. too sleepy for work! argh!

will someone link me up please? i need the high google rank. urgh. :p

which brings me to this thought. i need an iPod because i wanna stuff it with sermons to listen to as i walk around the metro. i need exercise. heheh.

gah, my blog-city blog isn't loading my lime "embroidery"! wah!

i am so totally procrastinating and being incoherent here. lorie needs nicotine, trying so hard not to get it, but i need focus, haven't been able to focus for the past two nights eh. wah.

wish i had the guts to walk these streets at this hour and get me a stick of nicorette. ugh.

later, people!

monetize your past papers

If you got excellent grades in your high school and university papers and you want to take advantage of that, then this is for you. I had signed up with Academon.com before and it was only today that I had learned that I had actually sold a paper. True, it was just an excess of $15 for it, but hey, at least I got $15. :p And you do get a $10 bonus when your first paper gets accepted. :) Either way, it's a good way to make a bit of money from your A+ papers back in college. What are you waiting for? Head on over to Academon.com now!

work work work.

The good part about working online is that you hold your time, so when you want to go take a nap once in a while, you can. The bad part is having to tear yourself away from the PC/Mac. :p

taking a break.

I'm back at work, and it amazes me that I can actually live on dial-up. Heheh. Anyhow, there are a few targets for me this week: earn, earn, earn, and optimize my blogs. Heheh. I wanna make money and I wanna make em majorly. Heheh.

Target for today: ponder on topic for a Froodee post, finish the last of the reviews for Mike (only four more to go, for the Product Section and three for the Niche Websites Section). I'll just take a break, have coffee, then go back to work. I need to finish Owen's articles, too, so I can stick him up for money so I can buy my Internet card. Heheh. Anyhoo, I gotta go. I wanna have coffee, while this thing goes on virus scan. Heheh. :p

tori amos: there is none like you.

I had fallen in love with Music in 1995, when my family first had cable TV and I had my first taste of MTV. That was my musical awakening, and my ears had fluttered open to the sound of Tori Amos, The Cranberries, Alanis Morissette and Paula Cole. Though my taste for The Cranberries and Alanis have waned somewhat, I had treasured the melody and lyrics to the Tori Amos and Paula Cole songs I had grown up on.

What I loved about these two artists was that they had depth, the kind that no other artist had ever been able to approach. While I love Paula Cole because her music had become more spiritual than angsty, I love Tori Amos for the cryptic lyrics and the haunting melodies.

Sounds of Tori's music takes me to a rainy day, the kind where I feel like I am lying in the bottom of an aquarium, looking up at the world through hazy eyes. And yet, in that murky world, my vision is at its clearest.

That's what Tori's music is like, to me. She is the most cryptic, most soulful, most perceptive poet with a voice in our era. I believe that no other artist could ever hold a candle to her.