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So Long Sweet Summer

by Dashboard Confessional

So long sweet summer
I stumbled upon you and gratefully basked in your rays
So long sweet summer
I fell into you
Now you’re gracefully falling away

Hey thanks
Thanks for that summer
It’s cold where you’re going
I hope that your heart’s always warm
I gave you the best
I gave you the best that I had
You passed on the letters and passed on the best that I had

So long sweet summer
I stumbled upon you and gratefully basked in your rays
So long sweet summer
I fell into you
Now you’re gracefully falling away

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Cat O’ Nine Lives

Saw a car in front of me pass right over a kitten. Thankfully by some miracle it didn’t get hurt. And it immediately scampered to the side of the road. Lucky kitten. Must have been quite a scare though.

UPDATE: My brother has a stranger experience, he saw kittens dropping off from under a van in front of him every hundred meters or so. Each kitten, after hitting the pavement, safely scampered off to the side of the road. They must have nestled in the spare tire well or something.

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Langues, Langues, Langues

Yesterday evening, I started French lessons at Alliance Francaise de Manille. I’ve had an on and off relationship with French. Tried studying it on my own through the years. A few years ago, I took the exact same course but I didn’t push through with it so it all sort of went to waste. But I’m thinking, if I persist this time around, I just might succeed and become conversant. I think so because now I can practice it more with Aby who is also taking up French and maybe even with my French bosses. I think so because I’ve learned English, Tagalog, Cebuano, some Hiligaynon, and even a bit of Maranao. And I probably would have learned Arabic had I more time. My teacher in that language was said to have been amazed by my progress. So I’m thinking this should just be a matter of seeing it through to the end. As with all things.

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Notebook Malfunction Redux

And my Thinkpad T60 is at it again. When I got to work this morning, I plugged it in, opened the lid, swiped my finger on the fingerprint scanner, and tried connecting to the office network. Nothing. I “repaired” the network interface. Nothing. I disabled and enabled it. Nothing. So I rebooted. And I get a BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death). I tried Safe Mode. Works. I tried Safe Mode with Networking. BSOD. So I know now that the problem is networking related. I was not in the mood to fix it myself so I asked Jon if he can fix it. After an hour or so, I checked on it. It’s been fixed. The solution? A simple restore to a previously known good configuration. Still it was irritating.

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Wander Girl

As I mentioned in my High Fidelity movie review, I read Wander Girl by Tweet Sering, a passing acquaintance in college. It chronicles the journey of the lead character Hilda through her tumultuous twenties. Her changing relationship with her parents and sisters, her search for a job and a career, her search for the right guy, etc. It culminates in her finding her calling and the right guy. It’s pretty entertaining enough, even quite amusing in some parts. But I read it mainly because it was written by Tweet. So, no, I don’t think I’ll be reading any other book in the series.