Goodbye Multiply

Tomorrow, Multiply will cease to be a social networking site and will instead become a marketplace. 

During my creative phase, Multiply was the site where I usually posted my blogs and travel photos. I didn't care about Facebook back then and I even customized the design of my own site, learning CSS and other tools for site customization. 

Lately, I had ceased to post anything in that site as I have also caught the FB bug, but learning about Multiply's demise as a social networking site saddens me. When I visited my site to backup the site contents, I can't help but feel nostalgic at the blogs I posted, especially the comments of some of my contacts--ranging from friends, office mates, netizens I've become familiar with in the site through mutual interests, and even the occasional well-known people from the internet and daily broadsheets.

Back then, blogging was something I took seriously, even to the point of doing "semi-professional" reviews of some of the places I've been to or just an anime I liked. Posting the most "professional" photos of sceneries was also a must, so some people's comments would really make my day, like Manila Bulletin's photographer Mr. Ross Capili's comments on my Ilocos Sunset album.

So on the eve of Multiply's transformation into a marketing site, I would like to blog in my Multiply site one last time as a way of showing my appreciation to the site for motivating me to squeeze out my creative juices and share to the rest of the worldwide web some of my thoughts and life experiences.

Thank you and Goodbye and I wish you success in your next endeavor.

As to the people I've met through Multiply, see you around in cyberspace. :)

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Postscript: You can visit my new blog site at: www.ryabianca.blogspot.com

Quote: On the Road

"...the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue center light pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'" --Jack Kerouac

Facebook Timeline a Stalker's Paradise: Mass exodus on the way?

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/facebook-timeline-a-stalkers-paradise-mass-exodus-on-the-way/12931

Just when you thought they were fixing their privacy settings, FB introduces another privacy nightmare. tsk... tsk... That threat by Anonymous doesn't seem to be that far behind... Should I switch to Google+?

Witty Acronyms

I found this one on a tri-wheeler I was riding on the way to work:

I -Ikaw
S -Sila
T -Tayo
A -Ang
M -Mga
B -Batang
A -Ayaw
Y -Yumaman

Makes perfect sense. =)

Nosebleed

Earlier, I received a call from a client asking about the requirements for the conduct of a Sales Promotion. While I was explaining all the requirements to her, she suddenly, out of nowhere, said the following:

Client: Kapampangan ka?
Me: Hindi po, tagalog. Pero nakakaintindi po ako ng Kapampangan.
Client: Pwede bang mag-Kapampangan?
Me: Ok lang po.
Client: Dumudugo kasi yung ilong ko.

Image courtesy of www.geektwins.com

A Tale of Two Papers

In a school supplies store somewhere in Angeles City, I was scouting for butcher paper which I wanted to use as lining for the bottom of my drawers. Failing to find one by myself, my sister and I decided to consult the sales clerk who assisted us in the direction of the requested item.

Along a line of shelves of receipts and pads he went as we followed, and after a few paces, he confidently pointed a sheaf of papers with these words printed at the top:

After a few seconds of stifling our laughter, we explained to the sales clerk that we were looking for something else which is spelled as B-U-T-C-H-E-R. Not knowing the Tagalog version of the paper, we thought the item we were looking for may have a different term in their store so we described it to him.

And, just when we thought matters could not get any worse (or funnier) than it is, he referred us to their security guard.

WTF!

I wanted to laugh out loud.

We thought he'd refer us to another sales clerk or the manager, instead he directed us to the security guard who was, on a positive note, very helpful and tried his best to picture what kind of paper we were looking for. The clerk just gave us the impression that their security guard knows the products in the store better than anyone else.

In the end, we left the store empty-handed. And my plan to dress up my drawers just got butchered.

Quote: Arctic Monkeys

"Assuming that all things are equal, who wants to be men of the people when there's people like you?" -From Teddy Picker by Arctic Monkeys