On Hiatus

We’re living at this small temp house at the moment because our house if=s being renovated. The past few days was so stressful. We had to transport all our stuff to the temporary house.

And it’s rather small, there aren’t any real rooms, it’s kinda like a studio type apartment. So we all had to sleep on the floor. The worst part is, i work at night, and get to seep at around 4am. Under normal circumstances, i’d easily sleep and wake up at 2pm, fresh as a daisy. But with the current situation, when everyone is up, i have no choice but to get up also. It gets really warm and i start itching all over.

I also cant get to have a proper talk with my girlfriend because there is constantly a lot of people around. Privacy is a forgotten concept. Whew! I hate this situation. This is the one time in my life that i wish for 2 months to go by really fast (that’s how long the renovation will take, and how long we’ll be living here).

Oh, well.

Evil Plans

Found this really cool and funny website that offers tips and tricks on how to become “evil”. Mostly for those who are new in this evil doing business, but still a good place to hang out even when you’re already a certified evil, uh, person. 

One of the “fun evil” things to do there was to hatch an evil plan. I thought, hey, this is cool, great for us busy evildoers who barely have time in our hands to do such evil plans. So i gave it a try. All you’d need to do is fill up a form, and in a matter of minutes, your evil plan is born. Here’s the result of my evil plan testing:

Stage One

 To begin your plan, you must first assassinate a town mascot. This will cause the world to sit up and take notice, amazed by your arrival. Who is this Evil Genius? Where did they come from? And why do they look so good in Classic Black?

Stage Two

Next, you must sabotage the Moon (ooh, tides!). This will all be done from a fake mountain, a mysterious place of unrivaled dark glory. Upon seeing this, the world will wet their pants, as countless hordes of ninjas hasten to do your every bidding.

Stage Three

Finally, you must activate your needlessly big weather machine, bringing about Pain, suffering, the usual. Your name shall become synonymous with horror, and no man will ever again dare make you clean your room. Everyone will bow before your Overwhelming Evil, and the world will have no choice but to give you control of the planet. 

 

 

Well, not exactly as skin-crawling scary as i thought it would be but, hey, that’s what you get when you succumb to this new trend called “instant everything”. Of course, the old-school ways of planning evil things will always be more horrible. And successful.

Sunday Happenings

I met up with Chris Ian today. After around 11 years, we finally got to reconnect and meet up to catch up and reminisce about the good old times. He was one of my closest friends in high school, but after some not-so-good experiences (which I didn’t really ask for more details about, I wanted to wait until he’s comfortable enough to tell me about that, so I didn’t push), he decided not to return and transfer to a new school. It was quite sad when he didn’t come back the next year. We were quite close and we felt some cosmic connection, being “different”.

Chris Ian!

What made it sadder and confusing for me was that he never really said good bye to us. Me and some of my group of friends were left wondering. But that’s was 11 years ago, and a lot of things have changed, including my waistline. The growth was evident, both horizontally and vertically.

We actually started communicating a few months ago, when I saw his Facebook account listed in one of my friend’s friend list. When I saw the name and profile picture, I knew right then and there that it was him. So I added him up, and we started communicating through BBM. It was only last week when we decided to meet up and do some catching up over pizza or whatever food we could get our hands on. LOL.

Moi!

Anyway, so this afternoon was a well-spent one, with an old villain friend, talks about past evil escapades over pizza and ice cream, and of course, about future world domination meet-ups and keeping in touch. A good day for planning mass destruction world peace.

 

 

 

Dessert

Water Displacement and Why I Don’t Want Ice in My Drink

Fastfood chains are fond of using “value meals” to attract customers. And I admit, I often eat at fastfood chains ’cause they serve cheap food. It’s not everyday that I can afford the rather expensive restaurants that offer real food. I probably eat fastfood at least three times a week. Not really because I’m a big fan, but mostly because their so-called value meals are quite addictive when the funds are scarce (allows me to eat greasy comfort food at a very affordable price).

I don’t really know what business strategies they use to lure customers in for the seemingly cheap value meal and still get ultra-rich. But the one thing i notice is how they cheat us on the dispenser soda (or any other iced drink they offer). Is it just me or are the servers trained to add loads of ice to the soda cups before adding the actual soda? I find this to be a great and unsuspicious way that they cheat on the customers.

Let me explain. Customers pay around 12-15php per 8oz of cup of dispenser soda. When you think about it, you should be paying for 8oz of soda, give or take a few milligrams for human error and the price of the plastic cup. That’s how it should be, ideally. But if you have noticed, before the servers and cashiers put your cup under the dispenser, they stuff loads of ice into it. And when they serve it to you, it does look like it’s full, but there’s plenty of ice floating around, so you don’t exactly get 8oz of soda, you only get just half or so. Here’s an illustration to make it clearer.

Regular cup of dispenser drink

 

Remember elementary physics’ water displacement? Let’s apply that here. This is a regular 8oz cup at a certain fastfood chain. This is a full cup of dispenser soda (well, pineapple juice, actually, I ordered pineapple juice) that the servers give you at the counter. The cup, the soda (juice) and some ice.

 

 

Ice ice baby!

 

So the picture above is a typical cup of dispenser drink in a fastfood restaurant. In this picture, I’ve removed the ice. That’s the approximate amount of ice cubes they stuff to the cup before putting in the dispenser drink.

Actual amount

 

So what happened here? Water displacement, that’s what happened. Water displacement is simply the rising of water level when something (ice) is placed into it. This is because the ice is taking up space, and the water has to move somewhere, and the only place to go is up. The ice tricked us into thinking that the server is actually giving us 8oz of dispenser drink when in fact, we are only getting just half a cup. It’s all just ice. So we are actually paying for 8oz of dispenser drink when what we actually have is just (give or take) 4oz and a lot of ice.

Minutes of the Bonifacio Day EvilCon

Finally, after a looooooooooooooong wait, this year’s ultimate year-end EvilCon happened. We met at a secure location (the mall), and went on to fill our evil bellies with evil food. LOL. Here are some of the pictures from the so-called convention of Evildoers. Take a look at the Evilness of it all!

Gambit's Child

The Monkey Keeper

The Deranged Palmist

 Remember fellow Villains: Keep your evil mask on at all times and do not be distracted by cute-looking-kittens-pretending-to-be-nothing-but-kittens. Or whatever.