My Mahorela

14 January 2011

Ophiuchus, The 13th Zodiac

Actually, since the ancient times, there had been 13 zodiac signs instead of the 12 you know about today. But, the Babylonians abandoned the 13th sign cause apparantly, "13" is not a very auspicious number.

However, modern astronomers have added it back to the zodiac signs cause of some "gradual tilt of the Earth". Yeah, right. As though the Gaia had not been tilting for the past millenniums.

Anyways, I present you, the Ophiuchus:

Looks like a Dark Mark.

I wonder who's the man and who's the serpent in this ominous looking constellation symbol.

Of all times, they chose this year to include in the 13th sign. And next year, it would be 2012, the end-date of the Mayan Long Count calendar. Sweet.

So if you're born between November 29 and December 17, congratulations, you're now a Death Eater. And to most of the people out there, my condolences, cause WE WILL BE CHANGING OUR STAR SIGNS!

Either way, looks like we're all doomed.

FYI, the following are your newly updated zodiac dates:

Capricorn: Jan. 20 - Feb. 16

Aquarius: Feb. 16 - March 11

Pisces: March 11- April 18

Aries: April 18- May 13

Taurus: May 13- June 21

Gemini: June 21- July 20

Cancer: July 20- Aug. 10

Leo: Aug. 10- Sept. 16

Virgo: Sept. 16- Oct. 30

Libra: Oct. 30- Nov. 23

Scorpio: Nov. 23- Nov. 29

Ophiuchus: Nov. 29- Dec. 17

Sagittarius: Dec. 17- Jan. 20

28 December 2010

2010 Recollection

As far as I could recall, the first half of 2010 was really uneventful. Whenever I tried to recall this half of the year, practically nothing much will surface to my head.

Only recollection was of a flashback which many people were singing to me under the balcony with the music of a Ukulele in the background, a cake, a lighter and alot of noise, more singings.

Thank you, my friends.

As for the next half of the year, what I could remember looked something like this:

If I tried thinking harder, they will look like these:

And that's exactly how I spent my 2010.

Good job.

23 December 2010

Worst Decision 2010

Dear Mahorela

Like every other year, you've made both good and bad decisions, also, the really stupid decisions which are so stupid that they cannot be classified under either of the categories.

But I digressed, cause we're gonna talk about the bad decisions today. Or to be precise, the worst one I made this year.

The worst decision you've made this year is not, to pin your hopes on a one-sided love affiar.

The worst decision you've made this year is not, to enter a rebound relationship right after that failed one-sided love pursuit.

The worst decision you've made this year is also, not the night when you chose to hit Supper Club.

The worst decision you've made this year is to get an iPhone 4.

This palm-sized monster is nothing but trouble. And StarHub is NOT helping at all.

When I first got it, I went back home and synced it with my desktop. I tried to update it to the latest 4.2 firmware and the next thing that happened was this:

iPhone 4 recovery mode.

So, I went back to StarHub the very next day. 2 hours queue, 1 hour of repair attempt, another 45 minutes of queue, repair attempt and "new" phone replacememt, it all happened accordingly and you do the math on how long did it took. During the "new" phone replacement, they had to replace me with 3 different "new" phones before they got it right.

That very moment, I know I'm screwed.

True indeed, exactly 5 days later when I synced it again, POOF! Back to recovery mode again!!!

Was there again yesterday, slight improvement, took 2.5 hours to get it all done. Only took them 1 "new" phone replacement.

But guess what today? Well, people, you don't even need to try. You should know. And I'm stuck with him for this monster for the next 2 years.

FML.

ps. Why is it a "new" phone you ask? Cause they ain't new at all, they are faulty old iPhones which people sent back to StarHub and StarHub sent them back to somewhere which in turn, that somewhere repair it and send it back as "new" iPhones to us.