Encountered a malfunction with my new Thinkpad T60. When I got to work this morning, I plugged it in and opened the lid. Normally, this should wake it up from standby mode. Nothing. So I pressed on the power button to power it down. Nothing. I unplugged it, removed and reinstalled the battery, plugged it back in and pressed the power button. It started up and started making beeping sounds. Not good. Jon and I thought it’s a memory issue, so I opened the notebook up, removed and reinstalled the memory but to no avail. I called up the supplier and they, to their credit, immediately sent in a technician to fix it. Apparently I didn’t try hard enough, because it turned out that a loose memory module was indeed the culprit. How it got loose (bumps? vibrations?) I don’t know. I certainly expected more robustness from a notebook and a Thinkpad to boot. Is this a deterioration of quality due to the handover by IBM to Lenovo? I certainly hope not.
Casablanca is one of those classic movies everybody loves. It is essentially about a love triangle. Rick was living a perhaps discontented but relatively peaceful life running a bar in Casablanca. That tranquility was shattered when Ilsa, a women he hoped to never see again, walked in his bar along with her husband Viktor. They need a way to get away from the Nazis and Rick has the means to make that happen. Torn between conflicting emotions he must make a decision. In the end, he makes a decision that reveals his true nature. It is no happy ending. But that’s fine since it’s how things go in real life anyway.
Rating: 5/5
Let’s walk away together
Away from this madness
Brought not about by us
Let’s walk away together
Into the distant horizon
Where the sun sets
Let’s walk away together
Leave everything behind
Just you and I
It’s definitely the daing na bangus. Less than a month after getting downed by either food poisoning or allergy reaction, I get downed again. This time after again eating daing na bangus for lunch. The same symptoms appeared: my pulse started racing, then the throbbing headache, then the fever, and finally red splotches showed up all over my torso, legs, arms, and face. Again I had to make an emergency exit from work to recover at home. But looking at the bright side, at least I’m now sure what causes it. No more of that crap from now on.
UPDATE: It looks like food poisoning since one of the officemates I had lunch with had exactly the same symptoms. I looked up the symptoms my officemate and I suffered from and I got this: scombroid fish poisoning.
I went to CCP with my sis to watch the screening of Tribu, an entry to the Cinemalaya film festival. She was the Production Manager for the film so she had to be there. I, on the other hand, wanted to see her work as well as maybe rub shoulders with the artsy fartsy filmmaking crowd.
Tribu is about Tondo and its street gang culture. Interestingly, the gang culture as portrayed in the film seem to have mirrored US gang culture with rap and hip-hop occupying a big part. This is, according to my sister, actually the reality. In fact, the production team really tried to portray Tondo as accurately as possible. Though I felt that some dialog seem contrived, I suppose it is to establish the fact that the characters have dreams… dreams that are being shattered by poverty and gang violence. Of course, it could have been done more implicitly and less explicitly. Quite a problem with many films. But overall, it is relatively good.
After the screening, I walked around the lobby taking a few photos. It’s just a month since I took a break from playing with my DSLR and man do my photos tonight suck (more than the usual)! I need to go do more shoots.
UPDATE: Tribu won Best Film, Best Actor (Ensemble) and Best Sound. Congratulations sis!