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and it’s just our 9th month anniversary

I just bought a 5-month old laptop i found at bongthom.com (which as of the posting is DOWN and unavailable). It’s a very popular portal here in Cambodia with packed information about the country. Jobs, Classifieds, Maps, Restaurants, Tourist Guide, Places To Stay. etc. Anyway, it’s been a week that I’m bongthom’ing the “classified” page for nothing. Jobs, IT/Computer and General are my favorite. Until last night, there’s this “Hewlett Packard Laptop for sale $300″ posting which i contacted immediately as i’ve thought is a best buy. Luckily and coincidently he’s Filipino, Born Again Christian - and living in Cavite as well (Dasmarinas that is). Small world huh? Thanks to  Mr. Jun G. , I again have my own laptop to play and mess around with.

It’s an HP 520 Notebook. I named it Ally, Maggie’s sister. Yes, i named my PSP Slim Maggie :P. MAGGIE , ALLY - Does it ring a bell ? haha… I got the name from my current company Mag Alliance.

It may not be a power-pc on the go like those 1k$ worth laptop we’ve been drooling for, but this one’s not bad for a base laptop to upgrade. Productivity-wise, it will sure help me a lot

If there’s something i did not do that i should have done before is this - BLOGGING about IT! (Yeah, the laptop).

You never know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone. When i lost bench (that’s my 2-week old Acer laptop which was stolen 45 minutes after i arrived Ho Chi Minh late July last year) only then than i realized its presence. Not that i take her for granted, but it was only that instance that i realized that i could have spent more time with it, and not just USING it. It may sound weird but yes, I kinda exploited Bench that time. When i was still in Cavite, almost EVERY little thing I buy, received, eat, picked, etc. I BLOGGED about it. Key chain, post card, gift wrapper, anything. But with Bench, that ACER thing - she received NONE. No photo nor a blog entry.

There you have it, my short and sweet welcome to Ally. It may not keep this laptop 100% safe from those crooked burglars, but with prayers and this post - it could at least give a good omen

It’s our 8th month today

Love u jivy!

xoxo

She’s been gone for like 10 hours (only) and i miss her already… for real…

Yeah, it’s only just now that the thought of joyce going home in PI is sinking in. Add up the fact that im literally home alone as everybody went out of the city except me! Big boss ashley is bound for sydney, australia this sunday, jojo is going home to manila as well. nico, nina & jean (my appt. mates!) left phnom penh this morning for Sihanouk ville, and is scheduled to hit Siem Reap tomorrow. The rest are going for a beach break tomorrow at 10am. The country’s celebrating the Khmer New Year in a few days and it’s an official holiday for most offices — thats why everybody’s going places.

Recap:
- Breakfast with jivy at a Vietnamese Resto infront our building.
- ‘Hammered’ our ISP to fixed the internet which was down since late afternoon yesterday. Symptoms: Unstable connection. Cause:Interference. Solution: They increased the ‘cute’ 1M pole to a tall 6M pole.
- Went to lucky at around 1:20 to buy some ‘baon’ for joyce. Also bought the same sandwich for my lunch. Jojo and a friend came to pick her up at around 1:30.
- Did the artwork for InterContinental Hotel Phnom Penh advertisement on their Green Globe campaign/award.
- Finally got the Linksys WRT54G to work! A ‘hard reset’ solved the problem
- Stayed in the office until 10pm. Organizing files, downloading stuff, fixing and tweaking both our blogs. (well for your information, http://jivy.technoville.net has officially moved to www.joyceira.net)

Not only that i replaced my old Freshy 1 template to the latest Fresh 2 theme, i also upgraded my old 2.3 Wordpress to the latest WP 2.5 version. Thanks to InstantUpgrade plugin for a less-than-3-minute, hassle-free, automatice wordpress update.

Cheers everyone! All for now…

It is with with pride that I congratulate my sister Hershey “Nica” Lagaya on her graduation, April 2, 2008 - Cavite National High School. God bless and keep up the good work!