Just a few hours more. =D (Grabbed from Ray's Multiply.)

This is it guys. We're gonna win this!

ONE BIG FIGHT!!!!

Paul Potts in Manila

Paul Potts will be performing at the PICC on October 8. I sooooooooooo want to watch, but I haven't figured out who to bully into going with me. For one thing, not many people know him. Second, a lot of people drop dead at the thought of sitting through opera. And third, I am not willing to pay for my bully-ee's ticket. (And ticket prices range from 750 to 4500.)

I'm not much of an opera fan. Never been to the opera. I just like Paul Potts. (Check the videos section of this multiply account, I posted all of Paul Potts' and Connie Talbot's Britain's Got Talent performances.) His journey is just so impressive. Phenomenal, even. And that voice. Wow. Words cannot describe how a song I do not understand would drive me to tears.

So anyway, I'll spend my self-imposed breaktime watching my Paul Potts clips. Maybe viruses are scared of opera. Who knows, maybe Paul Potts can cure me of this dreaded cold-mutating-into-the-flu thing. Arrrgggghhh. I think I'm dying.

Just read it.

(This is a forwarded text message. Just skip the grammatical errors and forego proper sentence construction crap.)

When the unfaithfulness of the wife became known, they quarelled.

And that guy killed his wife.

The 5-year-old kid was still sleeping, and the neighbors never did find out.

So it was a perfect crime.

The weird thing was, the kid didn't notice that his mother was missing even afer a day or two later.

So the father told his son, "Do you have anything to ask me?"

The kid said, "Nothing... It's just that...

HOW COME MOM IS ALWAYS AT YOUR BACK?"

Bwahahahahahahaha!!! Happy Halloween in advance! =p

My fine is... (from Troy)

This is fun to do. Just read the "offense" and if you' ve done it, you owe that fine. Keep going until you' ve read each "offense" and added up your total fine. When you are done, tell me your fine below and make the same entry. You don' t have to confess your answers, just the amount of your fine. Make sure you have a calculator with you before taking this test.

> Smoker -- $10
> Ever had sex at church -- $25
> Woke up in the morning and did not know the person who was next to you -- $40
> Had sex with someone on an internet site-- $25
> Had sex for money -- $100
> Ever had sex in the bushes -- $20
> Vandalized something -- $20
> Had sex on your parents ' bed -- $10
> Beat up someone -- $20
> Been jumped -- $10
> Crossed dressed -- $10
> Given money to stripper -- $25
> Been in love with a stripper -- $20
> Kissed some one who ' s name you didn ' t know -- $0.10
> Hit on some one of the same sex while at work -- $15
> Ever drive drunk -- $20
> Ever got drunk at work, or went to work while still drunk -- $50
> Used toys while having sex -- $30
> Got drunk, passed out and don ' t remember the night before -- $20
> Went skinny dipping -- $5
> Had sex in a pool -- $20
> Kissed someone of the same sex -- $10
> Had sex with someone of the same sex -- $20
> Cheated on your significant other -- $10
> Masturbated -- $10
> Cheated on your significant other with their relative or closeriend -- $20
> Done oral -- $5
> Got oral -- $5
> Done / got oral in a car while it was moving -- $25
> Stole something -- $10
> Had sex with someone in jail -- $25
> Made a nasty home video -- $15
> Had a threesome -- $50
> Had sex in the wild -- $20
> Been in the same room while someone was having sex -- $25
> Stole something worth over more than a hundred dollars -- $20
> Had sex with someone 10 years older -- $20
> Had sex with someone under 21 and you are over 27 -- $25
> Been in love with two people or more at the same time -- $50
> Said you love someone but didn ' t mean it -- $25
> Went streaking -- $5
> Went streaking in broad daylight -- $15
> Been arrested -- $5
> Spent time in jail -- $15
> Peed in the pool -- $0.50
> Played spin the bottle -- $5
> Done something you regret -- $20
> Had sex with your best friend -- $20
> Had sex with someone you work with at work -- $25
> Had anal sex -- $80
> Lied to your mate -- $5
> Lied to your mate about the sex being good -- $25

Tally it up and Title it ... "My Fine Is..."

'Google phone' in stores in October

'Google phone' in stores in October

by Charlotte Raab Tue Sep 23, 1:27 PM ET

NEW YORK (AFP) - Internet search leader Google took a giant leap into the mobile phone market on Tuesday, unveiling a handset developed with telecom carrier T-Mobile to compete with Apple's hot-selling iPhone.

The T-Mobile G1, the first mobile device powered by Google's open-source Android software, will be available in stores in the United States on October 22 and will cost 179 dollars.

Cole Brodman, T-Mobile chief technology and innovation officer, called the G1, built by the Taiwanese firm HTC, a "game-changing" device which will "power a new mobile Internet of the future."

The G1, which is a bit thicker but slightly narrower than an iPhone, will go on sale in Britain in early November and in other European countries served by T-Mobile, a subsidiary of Germany's Deutsche Telekom AG, in early 2009.

The G1 offers many of the features of the iPhone and Research in Motion's popular BlackBerry including a touch screen similar to that of the iPhone, a trackball for navigation, high-speed Internet browsing, Wi-Fi, e-mail, instant messaging and SMS texting.

It has a 3.0-megapixel camera with photo-sharing capability and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a feature lacking on the iPhone.

Internet retail giant Amazon.com announced shortly before the G1 release, in a direct challenge to Apple's iTunes, that the entire catalog of the Amazon MP3 music store would be available on the new phone.

The new phone has, unsurprisingly, been closely integrated with Google applications such as Google Maps and G-Mail and can display videos from YouTube, the video-sharing site purchased by Google in 2006.

"Google's strategy is all about broad reach for their services," said Charles Golvin, an analyst at Forrester Research. "It's just the first step in a long strategic voyage for Google."

Carolina Milanesi, research director at Gartner Consulting, agreed.

"Google is moving into the mobile devices market not to become yet another mobile phone manufacturer but to enable a large addressable market for its services and applications," she said.

"The G1 is the first of a series of devices that will come to market and will be optimized to offer consumers a superior experience when using Google services and applications."

Google hopes the open-source Android software powering the G1 will eventually become the dominant operating system for mobile phones and make handsets compatible with the networks of multiple carriers.

"A developer will be able to use it as a platform," said Andy Rubin, senior director of mobile platforms for Google. "A developer will be able to modify the platform and make it better."

"It's very exciting for me as a computer geek to have a phone that I can play with and modify," said Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who made a surprise appearance at the launch event.

The phone, Google's first foray into the highly competitive mobile phone market, also will allow users to access the Android Market, where they can download software applications from developers around the world.

Google announced the formation in November 2007 of a 34-member group called the "Open Handset Alliance" to develop Android, including China Mobile, HTC, Intel, Motorola, Qualcomm, T-Mobile, Telefonica, LG and eBay.

Google's share price rose by 4.62 percent in New York to 434.76 dollars shortly after the unveiling of the G1.

Thought/s for the day

Some people are just so predictable. And not in a good way.

Enough said.

Life explained (from Troy)

On the first day, God created the dog and said:

'Sit all day by the door of your house and bark at anyone who comes in
or walks past. For this, I will give you a life span of twenty years.'

The dog said: 'That's a long time to be barking. How about only ten
years and I'll give you back the other ten?'

So God agreed.

On the second day, God created the monkey and said:

'Entertain people, do tricks, and make them laugh. For this, I'll give
you a twenty-year life span.'

The monkey said: 'Monkey tricks for twenty years? That's a pretty long
time to perform. How about I give you back ten like the Dog did?'

And God agreed.

On the third day, God created the cow and said:

'You must go into the field with the farmer all day long and suffer
under the sun, have calves and give milk to support the farmer's family.
For this, I will give you a life span of sixty years.'

The cow said: 'That's kind of a tough life you want me to live for sixty
years. How about twenty and I'll give back the other forty?'

And God agreed again.

On the fourth day, God created man and said:

'Eat, sleep, play, marry and enjoy your life. For this, I'll give you
twenty years.'

But man said: 'Only twenty yea rs? Could you possibly give me my twenty,
the forty the cow gave back, the ten the monkey gave back, and the ten the
dog gave back; that makes eighty, okay?'

'Okay,' said God, 'You asked for it.'

So that is why for our first twenty years we eat, sleep, play and enjoy
ourselves. For the next forty years we slave in the sun to support our
family. For the next ten years we do monkey tricks to entertain the
grandchildren. And for the last ten years we sit on the front porch and
bark at everyone.

Life has now been explained to you.

(copied from forwarded email)

Troy's advice on how to achieve a state of inner peace

I am passing this on to you because it definitely worked for me and we
all could use more calm in our lives. By following the simple advice I heard on a Medical TV show, I have finally found inner peace.

A Doctor proclaimed the way to achieve inner
peace is to finish all the things you have started.

So I looked around my house to see things I'd started and hadn't
finished and, before leaving the house this morning, I finished off a
bottle of scotch, a bottle of wine, a bodle of tequila, a butle
of vocka, a pockage of Prunglies , tha mainder of bot Prozic and Valum
scriptins, the res of the Chesescke an a box a chocolets.

Yu haf no idr who fkin gud I fel. Peas sen dis orn to dem yu fee ar in
ned ov inr pece.