The Legend of DOm

At work still limping.

2011-12-09T08:34:00.003-06:00

My leg still kills me when I walk on it... the pain is little by little each day subsiding but recovery is a bitch and I think it's taking way too long. My days consists of me waking up an hour early so I can limp around and get ready for work, and instead of catching the bus to the terminal then another to Belmopan I've had my youngest brother drive me in my Lexus to the terminal to take the bus to Belmopan. He picks me up as well when I arrive to take me home as I try to avoid walking as much as possible. The doctor says I really need to stay off the foot but I really need to work too. I've been taking muscle relaxers and ibuprofen to keep the swelling and pain to a minimum. I've weened myself off the pain killers. Everyday when I come home I go straight to my bed and relax my foot on a pillow, of course I get no rest because my room seems to be the gaming hub of the house. My brothers are always in there until 3-4 am playing modern warfare 3. Last night however I kicked em out around 2 am to get some quiet sleep time.

On a brighter note, all my xmas present orders I made online have arrived. Now all I have to do is wrap them up. My new iphone 4S came in the mail as well. I don't know if I mentioned it but my old iphone 3GS' antenna got damaged about a month back and I've been without a cellphone since then, its been an experience, fun because work can't surprise me with a call to do work somewhere haha and at the same time it sucks because I've been out of touch with friends. So I decided to upgrade to the 4S I bought the factory unlocked version from apple so I don't have to worry about jail breaking or unlocking and I got the cheapest model as I intend to upgrade to the 5 next year. I got video games for my brothers, Elder scrolls: Skyrim for Gian and Battlefield 3 for Mick. uhh I bought my dad a new cellphone cuz his one was giving trouble too, this cool water/shock proof phone, he is very clumsy and prone to accidents so this phone will last longer than the rest. His last touch screen phone didn't even last a year. My mom I got a necklace with a locket and a laptop bag as she has none for her mini. Erika... my brother's girlfriend of almost 9 years now, whom I consider almost my sister I have not gotten anything yet for! I however am thinking of getting her an itunes gift card because she just got her iphone too as a xmas present from her dad. If not that I will buy a shit load of books for her kindle which Mick bought for her for xmas, but shhhh she doesn't know any of this yet. I ordered the phone for her dad and the kindle for mick too, she will be surprised!

I like Christmas. In my home its always spent with family, great food and me and my brothers enjoying the latest video games... ha. kids at heart really.

till next time.

Excruciating Pain

2011-12-05T14:35:00.003-06:00

I've never truly known what pain was until these past two weeks. I'm not talking about the emotional pain you get when your dumped by your girlfriend or something, none of that emo crap. I'm talking about raw physical pain. A couple weeks ago I was in the shower and I slipped on the tiles, due to them being wet, I did not slip down, I was about to but I manage to get back my footing, but in the process I twist my left leg and I felt a popping sensation in my lower thigh. Immediately it felt like a mild sprain. I limped a little after, I thought nothing of it because I have twisted my foot before and sprained it and it'll last a couple hours or a day the most. This was a Monday, I went to work after, limped my way to the bus and sat. On the commute to Belmopan however I noticed my leg started to hurt and the sensation started to spread throughout the entire leg, the only thing that would alleviate the pain was sitting with all my weight on that one leg.

I made it to work, for some reason when I'm seated it doesn't hurt as much but as soon as I stand or try to walk all hell breaks loose. I tried to stretch my leg, I went into the back lab where no one could see me, I sat on the desk and tried to lay down on my back, it was painful to keep my leg straight. Instantly I knew something was wrong. I couldn't even get up on my own. I think I yelled a bit from the pain of just getting back up. By the time it was time to go back home my whole leg was just pulsating from pain. Like I said sitting on the leg itself would alleviate the pain somewhat, to where it was at least bearable. I sat on one of the seats on the bus alone took the whole chair up with my leg. I called my brother to come pick me up in my car I didn't think I could manage to walk. I got home, sat on my bed and rested. I still couldn't lay down without it hurting like hell and I couldn't fall asleep sitting down on the corner of my bed with my feet hanging as it was the only position that made me feel good. I limped my ass down the stairs and into my car and sat in the driver seat and called it my bed for the night. I woke up around 4 am and Jesus Christ it hurt even more. I decided this needed to be looked at by a professional and this was no mere leg sprain.

I went to the emergency room that morning, found out I tore a ligament. Got some heavy duty pain injections to the leg, and It was enough for me to finally have a good night's rest. I was given two weeks off work, and enough pain meds to keep a hippo groggy. This is my third week, I'm back to work, still limping, still on pain meds but it doesn't hurt like it did that first week. I never want to feel that sort of pain again. My left foot is so swollen it doesn't fit in my shoe anymore... ha. I hope everything is fine in time for Christmas. Once in a while a shocking pain will shoot up my leg just to remind me its still there.

Online Training

2011-09-27T09:55:00.002-06:00

I'm currently doing an online training on Deploying, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Lync Server 2010. Usually the Ministry would pay for us to go to the training facilities in the USA but this year we are experimenting with online training. Why? because its cheaper, and with it being cheaper we can essentially pay for more training courses maybe three sessions a year. Training began this Monday, it was planned months in advance so I had to give up "George Price" day and still attend. Funny enough I'm doing the training in our computer Lab that located right next to National Assembly in Belmopan, so I was able to see a few minutes of the funeral and hear some of the hymns being sung.

Due to the different time zones training begins in Belize at 7am but at 9am in Miami where its sourced. So due to the fact that I commute on a daily basis and the early start time the Ministry was kinda enough to accommodate a room at the bullfrog for me. I Drove down on Sunday and I've been staying there since. Gotta say, I'm loving sleeping in Air conditioning and having a 2mb internet connection.

All in all I have to say the online training is really good, we have video and audio, and I can perform all labs as if I was there. Sure we have a dedicated 4mb link and no filtering from BTL so we can use VOIP and video conferencing....without that I think it would be shit. ha!

Anyhow my 15 minute break is up... back to work.

Friends? I don't know

2011-07-28T15:15:00.002-06:00

Lately I've been put in positions that cause me to question my friendship with certain people. I think of friends as people who are there for you through thick and thin and people that genuinely enjoy your company and seek it. Lately I've noticed that some of the people that consider me a friend only call upon me when they need help or a favor. Being in the field of work that I do I get called a lot to fix this for me or fix that... or help me with this, why isn't this working, how to do this.

Bah its never ending. And at first I don't mind because hey I thought we were friends. But when I notice you never want to hang out, you always have some lame excuse and the only time you seek me out is when you need a favor or help then, your not really much of a friend, and a lowsy one at that.

anyhow. I wont divulge into this topic anymore as it makes me mad. You do so much for someone, and in the end they don't appreciate anything and just drop you like yesterdays news. Screw you though, I won't miss you calling me just for help.

You study computers? well you know everything!

2011-07-14T16:38:00.002-06:00

NOT SO! I hate that stereotype that exists here in Belize. Just because I studied anything remotely to do with computers I suppose to be this computer genius in everything! You study computers? can you fix my Nintendo DS, its not charging anymore? wtF?

Anyhow just so you know I mainly work in hardware and network engineering. My hardware background I got from working many years as a computer technician and getting the chance to work with some great computer geeks, like Daisuke Inoue, Shinsuke Inoue, Joshua Richards, Carlson Bradley, Marco Cheng... the list goes on. I've learned quite a lot from my experiences and my peers. I never pretend to know everything because there is always something to learn and someone that knows more!

So yeah my dad wants a website for his company because he thinks its about time he started to advertise and get his business out in the open more. Naturally he asked me if I could help. These professionals out there want to charge you an arm and a leg... so anyway during working hours between breaks and spare time I will research on webpage designing etc etc... I've come across some helpful sites. With my background in programming and PHP it shouldn't be too hard, however the artistic side of things like logos etc is not my forte... I will probably get help there.

Wish me luck.

ps: it's nostalgic writing another blog entry.

Been a long while

2010-09-13T10:52:00.002-06:00

It's been a long frigging while since I've updated my blog. To be honest, I just ended up getting really busy with life. Also I kind have substituted other things for it. I started tweeting sadly. I tend to tweet at least once a day about what I'm doing, I find it quite therapeutic actually. Of course I don't have followers but its nice to like log your day sorta.

Updates?
There are a few things that have changed since I disappeared. The most notable is my love life is in shambles at the moment. I was kinda dating this girl for a while and we were getting serious and without revealing too much details everything went down the drain. I'm a bit bummed about it all, I think I've reached the age where I want to find someone to share my life with, I want to settle down, start my own family... cheesy I know. I get jealous seeing all my friends beginning new adventures, starting new lives with their families, getting married... etc. I wish it were me, but of course with someone I love. I think that's the problem though, everyone I love or loved, never loves me back. I must be cursed.

Anyhow I am in love again... but things aren't looking too bright. It's someone very special to me though...Raisa!

What else...

I've kind of actually stopped playing video games :O! shocker I know. I hardly touch my console anymore, actually I just got some new games and I didn't even have the ganas to play them. I was like why did I even buy it? I think I'm either always too tired and busy now or I've grown out of it....

I'm trying to lose weight, seriously this time. I've gained significant weight since my early college days. It's embarrassing, my goal is to go back to the weight I had when I had just moved back to Belize from Guatemala some 7 years ago. Who know's maybe it helps with the love life.. I hope!

I've been trying to be more outgoing lately. I try to hang out with friends as much as possible, I go on trips... and I've started to visit family and go to the reunions. I feel weird, sometimes... I usually always just rather stay at home done go out but I realize if I put myself out there, I have more chances of life throwing my a pleasant curve ball.

I want to start a business of my own, I don't want to just have a job and live off my pay check. I want something of my own...I'm trying to start something on my own and I hope it works out. What is life without ambition. Actually my friend's fiance inspired me a bit to get out there. He is pretty young and quite successful. I wanna be like him when I grow up, ha.

I think I might be writing more blogs. maybe.

maybe not.

Should I text her? I miss you.

Its been a while...

2010-03-03T22:28:00.002-06:00

Quick updates:

Knight died... tragic. We were all saddened by his untimely death, taken away from us really. I wish I could catch the guy.

I was planning on buying a dog for my dad's birthday but things changed when that happened and I ended up going to get a dog for myself. I ended up bring back two adorable huskies. Male and female. The male is brown with blue eyes and the female black like knight was. Their names are Kodiak and Zelda.

The job has been getting better, its been a year now since Ive started...

er i ended up getting a windows laptop by the way. I couldn't justify the price mac wanted for their low specs. its pretty neato too I have no complaints, major improvement over my last.

Quad processor 1.8 Ghz , 8GB memory 1TB HD, 1GB Nvidia video card.... it goes on... fucked up thing is the first day i got it i noticed an annoying squeak from the keyboard. Naturally being the guy I am, I popped that sucker open and went at solving the problem. PS: Pencil dust is a good lubricant for squeaks...

Xmass?

2009-12-09T10:23:00.002-06:00

This year the Fabro family clan decided not to exchange xmass presents anymore. Thank god for that! Fabros have been growing exponentially... baby making season I suppose. Now each family will only be buying for their immediate family. I guess I can invest on better presents for my siblings and parents now. Anyhow Xmas is all bout the food and family gatherings. Its the one family reunion I always attend. Not for the really great turkey dinner and gravy but because its always held at my parents house. haha.

Xmas shopping has been a bit complicated this year. Heather is coming back down to Belize in February. I've asked her to move in with me... big step I know. We'll see how it goes, but for now it seems fine... I sent her a kindle for xmas and she already opened it! But luckily she loved it so that means I will be rewarded with smooches come February mwahaha!

I'm thinking of getting a DSi and game for my wee brother, Mikhail I'm thinking of getting an xbox live gold subscription and my parents... well they are always up in the air. Most likely dad will get some fancy power tool and mom jewelry. Crap I almost forgot Erika... why does my brother have to have a girlfriend that's practically like my sister?.. damn her!

I wish you all a merry xmass out there... and if your hungry for turkey and ham dinner with the best gravy in town, hit me up on xmass day!

Glorious Games!

2009-11-25T10:59:00.002-06:00

I ordered 4 new games on amazon and they are arriving this Friday.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Assassin's Creed 2
Left 4 Dead 2
Fifa 10

I foresee sleepless nights and calling in sick for work. Already bought my eye drops.

Huzzah!

Slashed tires!

2009-11-25T10:56:00.002-06:00

Woke up Monday morning to find that all 4 tires of my pickup were slashed. Awesome right? Seems the night before when I loaned it to my brother he had the bright idea of parking it in front of a no parking zone of a business. Seems to me the owner got pissed and asked him to move it and my brother was a bit rude and one thing led to another... I think the guy got mad and slashed the tires. Anyhow... I need 4 new tires...I guess this is why we have savings.

I BESEECH YOU!

2009-10-25T15:36:00.004-06:00

I need help, my laptop is on its last hinge, literally! A few weeks ago my brother was borrowing it and it had a nasty fall, luckily it landed right on one of the hinges and it snapped clean from the rotators. I've been fixing laptops and computers for some years now and I can easily tell there ain't no fix from this. I'd need a new monitor completely due to the way the hinge was broken.

A hinge that has seen better days

Not so bad though because I've had this laptop since 2004 and it was in need of being replaced anyway, seriously who still uses AMD turions. Here is my dilemma now. I want to get a mac book pro, but I've never had a mac before, I am vaguely familiar with the OS when I came across a couple here and there in my old computer repair technician job. Why a mac? first because its different and I want to get to know it, and it should come in handy when I do support for my mac clients. Secondly that damn uni body and almost indestructible hinges has me sold, not to mention the supposed battery life!

I've always been a PC fellow, heck I do all my work under windows... and the only mac that meet my standards, just barely I might add, is very expensive. With the money I'd shell out for that I could get a dell laptop with a quad core and double the memory (8GB) for way less. I do a lot of network work with my laptop so I remotely connect to PCs all the time with the windows built in remote desktop connection or software I've been paying for like RealVNC and LOGMEIN. I wonder if the mac can remotely connect to PCs on a windows network? I have a big network at home too that I provide support via the same method, my home alone has over 7 PCs and this doesn't count the PCs in my dad's office on the first floor which makes about 9 more.

So I beseech you, I need help from someone that has lived on both sides, is the mac worth it? its damn sexy i admit that, and the battery life, gah... what scares me the most tho is whether I'd have to be legitimately buying software from now on too lol. You can get anything cracked for windows...

any input would be appreciated. I have to decide in the next couple days because I am ordering a new laptop no matter what.

Mobile update

2009-10-20T01:40:00.001-06:00

My job has me very busy. Here's a look see at my desk ... picture and update are complements of my phone. Ignore the post time, my phone's time zone is set to Magadan Russia... long story!

Transition

2009-08-24T08:15:00.002-06:00

I am in a transition period... my life at the moment is trying to balance itself on a beach ball in the water. I have been secretly applying to scholarships and colleges to pursue my studies further. I say secretly because I've recently, early this year started this new job and they wanted someone on a long term basis... but to be fair I told them that I wanted to continue studying during my interview back in February.

So yes, I was getting tired of commuting daily to Belmopan everyday and decided I was gonna rent an apartment here... sure enough I find one.... and then with the luck I have I get an email saying, your being considered for this scholarship... so I'm like ok? If I get it, I would leave sometime January, so now it makes no sense to relocate and make commitments to an apartment I might not even have time to use.

I've been waiting for the past month for an official decision, but alas I might not hear anything till October. I already have the job I would have if I had a masters... I don't know if I should leave and go or stay, I don't even know if I'll get to go... things are confusing.

I download a shitload of tv shows and stuff and finally got around watching them for my lunch breaks and weekend... I started this show Heroes, and I have to say its a bit interesting...

The annoying supervisor is on two weeks vacation, therefore I am on a two weeks vacation...

My right nostril is itching and makes me sneeze every so often I might be catching a cold...

Elba's birthday is coming up and I am thinking about buying her a PS3 for her bday, she just broke up with her boyfriend of 4 years and is missing Little Big Planet dearly... yes she is my bff.

UB is back in session so lately its been a pain in the ass to get a seat on the 6:30 a.m. Express...

Some days I just want to shave my head bald and be done with it, its so long now all I can do is tie it back like a pirate....

There are physical changes that have begun to arise that have prompted me to take action, I hate what I've become...

Pancho went back to Tampa this past Friday and does not have a working console, no zombie slaying for him in a while...

My birthday recently passed and I don't like to tell people my birthday but its fun to see who out of the few that do know remembers... as per tradition my dad cooked around 4 large pizzas and we ravaged that sommabich!

Someone asked me to fix a laptop that was not broken...

My brother's girlfriend is back from working at Disney for her internship, we've begun our weekend anime binging routines we use to do. She is way behind in Bleach but surprisingly up to date in Naruto, she had been converted a long time ago...

Sometimes I dwell in the past and imagine what could have been...

I have an alter ego that has a robotic arm for some reason...

I own both an iphone and an ipod touch, idiotic i know...

www.Surfthechannel.com has almost every episode of a show you'll need, just in case you were in chetumal and missed your favorite show...

Family went to chetumal this weekend over night to celebrate my birthday, I didn't go...

My dad's blood type is O- and routinely donates blood, I still don't know my own blood type...

I have to go now, I'm getting a lot of support calls.

Rejoice!

2009-07-20T09:07:00.002-06:00

My new xbox has finally arrived... along with my pal Pancho. So yes safe to assume, I was jammin' all weekend. My iPhone arrived too but... it's not what I expected. It'll take some time to get use to, but I think I prefer my Sony Ericsson over it.

What's new?... did I tell anyone that there was a new addition to my family about six months back? Yeah... his name is Mojo. If you haven't already figured it out by now, he's a dog. A male golden brown Chihuahua to be exact. He's a feisty lil one too. Very playful but doesn't know his own strength, he keeps wanting to make a big scene with Duke and Knight, dogs that can just step over him.

Although I just started this new job here in pan, I've been looking into opportunities for a scholarship to hopefully resume my studies and get a Masters Degree. I've been a bachelor's graduate since December of last year but my official ceremony was last month. I chose not to attend. Sick and tired of getting dressed up like a monkey for a piece of paper. I went to pick up my diploma last week, almost a good month after the graduation... I'm so spaced out. They still gave my my purple tinsel to symbolize my summa cum laude which I didn't expect, since I thought you had to march up to receive it. Freeze's sister Anna saved one of the schedules they gave out at the ceremony with the list of graduates and stuff. Why am I collecting these things? For my mom, unlike me she was sad that I didn't walk up. She's so far collected all the tinsels I've been given in life for my honors level since high school, all the schedules, all the invitations, you name it she's saved it.

So I've promised to march up for my Master's ... if I get the opportunity that is.

I hate this guy I work with.... he is such a fucking asshole and Mr think i know everything. He's not even my boss and he keeps watching over my shoulders in everything I do and ask how's my progress going bla bla, mind your own fucking business. And he keeps asking for a network admin meeting every week to talk about what we've done over the week. He obviously wishes he was the director so he tried to play that roll on us... since I'm new I play along for now. And he is such a hypocrite. He something hardly ever does any fucking work but when me or one of the other guys try to take a lil break he's like oh so you guys have free time maybe you could do this do that... suck my nuts!

Anyhow he's asking me to help him setup exchange through a proxy I have to go...GAH!

Fix Xbox

2009-05-11T07:53:00.004-06:00

Dunno if I had mentioned earlier, but my Xbox 360 had died. It was dead for over a month almost. I was forced, FORCED I SAY, to play wii again. Crap I don't know what I saw in that system. Oh well I think I've been spoiled with next gen graphics. So anyhow I was playing Resident Evil 5 one day when all of a sudden a whole pile of black pixels appeared on the screen. I rebooted the xbox and it seemed to go away but then it came up again so I decided to rest it.

Week later I was playing left 4 dead online with Pancho when it did the sama MADARASS but then this time when I tried to reboot, I got the dreaded red rings! Eventually an error message would appear on the screen and when I googled the error code it seemed to be related to overheating. CRAP! I have warranty but what good is that shit when you live in Belize.

I didn't have the time or the patience to deal with that shit. I was close to buying a new system when I just decided what the hey, lets open this mofo. A quick clean of the heat sinks and reapplication of silver arctic thermal paste did the trick. Boo and Microsoft for their shabby designs! Crap these systems are failing like computers! Why can't they make a Nintendo sturdy console. You never heard of the Super NES crashing! did ya!?

Wisdom be gone!

2009-04-16T08:28:00.003-06:00

I took my wisdom tooth out last Thursday right before the big Easter weekend. I was hoping that would be more than enough time for me to recover, HA! No doubt around Sunday midday when all the lovely pain medication started to wear off, KAZAM! Oh glorious pain. The messed up thing was it was Easter Sunday and no where was open, and no freaking doctors!

I end up luckily finding a chiney man open and I bought some, well a lot of Advil.. and being an ex med student I know what I was doing was dangerous but I said fuck it all! Gulped down around 4 pills per every 6 hours which is double the prescribed.

Anyhow, Tuesday morning bright and early I went to the dentist and she prescribed stronger stuff, and here I am today not feeling any pain, but I still have the hole where the tooth use to be so I have to be wary as to not let food get it... I find myself fucking the hole with my tongue subconsciously.... ha ha.

My tongue got stupid with the lost of it's wisdom.

Belizean Entrepreneurs

2009-03-30T12:29:00.001-06:00

My lil brother can hook you up if you need any... lmao

New job = New lifestyle

2009-03-24T07:41:00.002-06:00

I was recently offered a job with the government to work with the Ministry of Finance as one of 3 NSA they have to administer the entire Government WAN network. At first I was a bit wary to take the job because I didn't have much experience with VPNs, CISCO routers and such. Also the fact that the job was way in Belmopan... and I had gotten use to my Belize job.

So I weighed the options, and just when I was dead sure I was gonna turn the job down. I talked myself outta it. I was like....I'll be learning new things... I wanna get a Masters in Networking anyway....then I left. I've been working here close to a month now and I've got to say I've been learning new shit daily. I wont get into the details cuz apparantly I can go to jail for it... LMAO!

NO lie... policy strict here. Anyhow, I've been waking up 4 in the faking morning! Since I took this job to get ready, iron clothes, bathe etc... drive to terminal and catch bus. SO now I have to spend money on commuting and food, gah! Thankfully the job paid more than the last, but with a price, I lost a lot of the freedom I had before and gained a whole pile of new responsibilities. Derek tells me after I settle down everything will be cheesy and gravy. For now I am not so sure I am happy with the decision.

OH I haven't been paid yet!!!!! Leave it to GOB to mooch up pan pay! Something about me being new so it'll take a while for me to get in the system, funds the run LOW son! Bus no free!

Locked

2009-02-28T23:37:00.002-06:00

I've had my blogged locked off to only invited guests due to the fact that I've had somewhat of a stalker going through my blog and leaving random inappropriate comments and emailing me. It just got so annoying and I think it solves the issue at hand.

Now if only I knew everyone's email so I could add 'em....

maybe I didn't think this through enough.

I am out of shape

2009-01-15T12:22:00.005-06:00

I started not two days ago exercising... and I realized how badly out of shape I was. 25 Sit up and pull ups and I feel like a train ran over me. No exaggeration intended. There was a time when I use to go to the gym every single day and was fit, but alas.. I got lazy.

I am embarrassed at how easily fatigued my muscles get now. I bet you would be surprised at yourself too if you took the time to do a lil exercise yourself. Do push ups or sit ups till you reach a breaking point. I'm not saying do ten or twenty, I'm saying to do it till you can't go any further. You'll see how much you ache the next day. Then you do it all over, while still aching. Eventually the pain will subside and your limit will rise, and as the day goes by you will be able to do more and more before you start aching again.

Exercising is fun, when you have the time. The results of it aren't to shabby either! I have been neglecting the healthy life... ironically after I quit smoking.

Let's see how long I last this way.

On a side note, I am finished with schooling. I am working full time to pay for my gaming expenses of course! I applied for the GRE examination this February, I have hopes of pursuing a Masters degree in something fun.

Christmas Draws Near

2008-12-22T15:15:00.005-06:00

I never know what to get people on Christmas, well it has only been recently since I've start working that I've been giving, but I had always found myself able to save enough even from before to buy something for my parents.

My Mom is always jewellery and my dad is always something that he desperately needs, like a watch or something. Now I'm buying stuff for my brothers too, but I ain't going farther than there... cousins, aunts, uncles, friends... tough luck! Especially now when "tings haaad".

Last year I had bought a whole heap load of shit for myself too. This time I just got like 5 Xbox 360 games and some gaming accessories.... you can't go without having a wireless headset to chat while your shooting down some bastard Nazis. For everyone else I got real lazy this year. I just bought everyone a 16GB flash drive and something else according to personality. My dad got his flash and a wallet, the one he has is so decrepit and old. My mom really loves sun flowers so I got her a necklace with a sunflower pendant. My middle brother likes football games and football like monkey likes throwing shit. So I got him his flash and fifa 09 for the xbox 360. My youngest brother is obsessed with role playing games, so I got him a flash drive and Animal crossing Wii.

My Rendition of killing Nazis on Call of duty 5 Xbox360

Every one's flash drive was different too, by color, brand and design. Now that we got presents out of the way... the best part about xmass..... FOOD! I wonder what it will be this year. Well of course besides the turkey and ham. Mmmm I can't wait.

You know what I really hate?.... when people you didn't plan for give you presents. I overheard my brother's girlfriend getting me one. WTF man! You're my brothers girlfriend!!! Only get him something, gah! Now I have to go get her something so I don't feel guilty about it.. then again I'll be soo busy shooting zombies for xmass that I might just forget. Yeah you guessed it! I got Left 4 Dead and they'll be a whole bunch of zombie slaying going on xmass day.

I hope all you guys have a merry xmass, hopefully there will be iPods.

PS: I shall be updating frequently again...would you believe I wasn't updating because I broke my typing hand while masturbating?...yeah sounds like a good enough excuse.

I've been drawing

2008-12-20T08:54:00.005-06:00

a lot....

it's addicting

It burns!

2008-07-29T10:55:00.002-06:00

I think I might need glasses soon. I've been playing my xbox 360 non stop on my HDTV through HDMI ports and the graphics are insane, but at the same time it hurts my eyes after extended play. I guess there not that use to the high resolution and horizontal and vertical frame rates. Go figure. Suffice to say that the first week of owning it I would come to work with bloodshot eyes, from bleaching till 5 am playing call of duty or assassin's creed. What's really addictive is the online play, being able to connect online and play a total stranger or friend on a game you really like. fifa is pretty cool online but those bloody bastards keep disconnecting right before they lose. COWARDS!

Anyhow, I've been using eye drops a lot lately. Yesterday I said screw it and returned to the old 720p resolution and it doesn't hurt my eyes one bit, but .... its not smooth and sexy like 1080i/p [cries].

So people if you see me online on messenger and my personal message has x box 360 followed by the name of a game its because I'm online playing games, so don't feel bad if I don't respond to you... typing with a game controller is just too hectic to bother. Sometimes I'll respond in really bad broken up creole to save time with typing on a remote control. Maybe I'll get a wireless keyboard who knows.

Till then... Game Over.

Plagued

2008-07-10T08:29:00.002-06:00

I've not been blogging as much as I use to, but I don't feel too guilty because by the looks of things... neither have you guys been. To simply put it, I've been busy with my life. A lot has changed for me and my family in just this short time. For one my dad is now a retired man! So no more flashy government rides etc.

The biggest change so far has been the start of his new company. A couple months before he was retiring he had planned on starting his own company, and by god it's happening. This past month we have been building his new offices, I think they spent like 40k in just 3 weeks building that place and its not half done yet.

I've become a pedestrian! I've graciously loan my pickup to my father since he use to always drive his government issued Hilux with free diesel, there was no need for him to actually own a car.. till now. He would have used my brother's Volkswagen, but the pickup is more... uh... manly... and it has space to haul lumber and cement the kinda thing he needs while he's building his office. Yeah leave it to my dad to get involved in construction. He always likes to not just supervise but do stuff himself too. I could always remember the summers helping him make our own repairs on the house, he is pretty good at it too, no doubt he got an A in woodwork back in primary school.

I've been doing a website for his business as well, and also designing the logo that will represent it. Thanks to Pancho bringing me back a wacom it might not be so difficult as before.

so why plagued? I've been plagued with stress, worrying and work. I just like last week bought an xbox 360 elite at amazon and it should reach this Sunday. Now after reading so many comment and reviews I've noticed it has a very high rate of crapping out on me. So I'm worried and I hope that almost a month's pay don't go down the toilet. I'm stress with the extra work from my work and doing work for my dad. I can't wait till his new car gets shipped so I can get mine back!

Let's just hope this xbox reaches intact, no scratches no bruises, working fine and with no friggin red rings of death!

It should be one busy weekend too:

Games I ordered along with it:
Fifa '08
Marvel Ultimate Alliance
Forza 2
Call of Duty 4
Mass Effect
Assassin's Creed
Grand Theft Auto 4

You're welcome to come over so I can whoop ur ass on any of these games, heck if you want I'll whip out the nintendo wii and whip you on that too!

Till next time...

Regrets

2008-05-21T01:33:00.003-06:00

I really think now after seeing the effects it has had on me... that I shouldn't have stopped smoking and started to sleep normal. Those have got to be the two worse things that I've done to myself.

But sleeping every night, when you should be and early... feel so darn good.

I regret a couple other things...

Clone Wars

2008-04-29T10:28:00.006-06:00

It's no secret to any of my friends that I'm a very big Star Wars fan, been that way since I was wee high and able to mumble "Darth Vader". I blame my uncle for the addiction, he got me into it back in the 80's.

So here's the deal. George Lucas the creator of the Star Wars franchise is kicking of the new era of Star Wars, yep there's another movie coming out this year! Before you go any further, I should only be fair to warn you that its going to be completely CGI. The movie will take place between episode II: Attack of the clones and episode III: Revenge of the Sith.

It will delve more into the battles that progressed between the two movies, how Anakin Skywalker went from padawan learner to Jedi Knight. If you noticed, in the movie before he had short hair from being a padawan learner and in the next he had long hair because being a knight now allowed him to and he had a distinctive scar over his eye, which he got from all the battle's he has been. He became so well known in the republic that he was given the nickname "the hero who does not know fear". Clone Wars will fill in this gap, so most naturally you'll see familiar faces like:

Obi-wan Kenobi

Anakin Skywalker

Clone Troopers

Of course it'll have new elements to the drama, for instance Lucas has decided to give the last person you would expect to give, a padawan apprentice. That's right Anakin Skywalker will have his own padawan whom hell be training amidst the clone wars, and shes a girl no less!

Anakin and his Padawan

The movie premiers August 15th 2008, it will kick of a TV animated series of the same style to be aired on Cartoon Network. It should run enough seasons to last 3 to 5 years. There will also be a live action TV series, but that's not scheduled until 2010 and it'll have no Jedi's in it, time period will be after revenge of the Sith but before a new hope. It involve the lives of others in the galaxy that are affected by the new empire. Lucas has confirmed that there might be cameos of main characters like Darth Vader, Obi-wan Kenobi and the emperor for whom all the original casted actors express interest in performing should they get the opportunity.

May the force be with you....

Can you learn?

2008-04-03T16:14:00.003-06:00

I always wonder sometimes, can people learn to do things that seem only capable in the hands of a savant. Can you learn to paint a mona lisa, can you learn to draw. Sometimes when I look at other people's artwork compared to my own I get blown into reality and realize I am but a young grasshopper. Makes me wonder if I'd ever reach those levels of expertise.

Sometimes I find myself unable to decide what I'll do or become in life, sure I have a good education to fall on etc. but WHAT DO I WANT TO DO!?

I'm pretty sure I'll be a bank teller with a masters degree, just because I find the job simplistic and its enough to get by. Maybe that's my problem, no ambition or motivation. In reality all I really want in life is a cozy apartment, not a house, the necessities (i.e. video games) and food.

We'll see how it goes though because if there is one thing I'm sure of, its that whatever we do with our lives, it'll lead us somewhere we were meant to go, and I'm gonna enjoy the ride there.

Blood thirsty as usual

2008-03-25T11:21:00.006-06:00

for what you might ask? ha!

Anyhow, I've been entangled with my life these past few months, busy here, busy there, busy everywhere. Apart from holding down two jobs, one for my internship and one to feed my thirst for electronics and video games, I've been drawing a lot of new concept art, I plan to build a website soon to showcase my talents, but meh who am I kidding... I'll probably end up using it to just upload anime for my fellow addicts.

What did you do for easter? I planned on nothing, I intended to just mass home and continue coding for this program I'm currently doing for a library database. I ended up going to Chetumal though, couldn't resist the chance to go to Sam's Club and take a dump in their bathroom facilities and text one of my buddies to tell them I was doing that ahaha, I like to push their buttons. He told me about it this morning at work "bwai fabro u dah wha ass! LOL".

I ended up buying a couple video games and some wii accesories too. I also went to pick up my pre-ordered Smash Bros. Brawl. I spent the remainder of my holiday jamming games, mostly "no more heroes",... suda51 make some awesome games. Any game that involves a lightsaber and assassinations is A-OK in my book.

I recently bought a 42 inch screen HDtv to play video games and watch my anime on, since it can basically work like a computer monitor, and we've been using it to watch anime almost every night. We being Gian and myself, but every now and again Mikhail watches and the last time he did he got so addicted he blew of his date with his girlfriend and stayed to watch the remainder of death note. We'd spend like 3 full days watching nonstop just to complete one Anime series. Full Metal Alchemist took 5.

Anyhow I've set up a match with my old high school friend Carlo, one on one on Brawl. We've competed in every single incarnation of the game from N64, the cube and now the wii. It's funny though because I haven't seen carlo since we graduated high school back in '02. Hopefully I get to face him face to face and not online.

Anyhow this is it for me, and for your viewing pleasure I leave behind this drawing. I ordered some new software called Manga Studio Extreme and a wacom, that way I wont need to depend on my uncle. I intend to scanlate all my drawing and then color em... oh joy.

Her features are based on my girlfriend heather...

"Dream Girl"

Bad Hair Day

2008-02-15T13:02:00.007-06:00

So, yeah... I came home today and noticed that Knight was blowing out his coat. Its a term we Siberian Husky owners know all too well. Siberian Huskies don't shed hair all year around like normal dogs, instead once a year they shed their coats and it happens all at once and lasts for about a week or two.

When I came home I could hardly notice the dog under all the fur, he looked liked a pin cushion, no lie... it was so funny. Almost like a sheep....

Anyway, I spent the whole afternoon trying to sort him out so he could feel a wee bit better. Must be a pain in the ass to have hair all about even in your mouth, I could tell he liked the shearing and the bath. Well I couldn't get all of it off since its an ongoing process at the moment.

Duke was jealous, had to kick him to shoo him off about twice... no worries he's a big Rotweiler a kick is a love tap for him, hehe.

Here are a couple of videos and a pic, the whole processing of taking off the fur felt like picking cotton, and its sooo soft....

Cotton Picking

Cotton (ignore date... I'm lazy)

Giancarlo, Duke, Knight

Update

2008-02-01T21:11:00.000-06:00

As I sit here taking a dump... I am reflecting on the past couple of days. This week was my first week of my internship semester. Guess what I do? Yep computer stuff. I've had plenty of fun, between tending to customers, programming and doing field work it has been a blast so far. I notice a lot of my fellow classmates too are working here in the city. The city is my home, so it's second nature to me, it can be pretty funny to hear how they think its all soo confusing and easy to get lost, haha.

I can remember the weekend before our internship began I had to show Freeze how to get to work from where he would be staying, Freeze uses western dairies as a focal point on how to get to places in the city from. "so if I wanted to go there,.. how would I get there from WD?" haha. I just know in one month he will be a city bwai and know the streets and stuff like the back of his hand. If he can only pick cheaper spots to dine now! We went to have dinner one night together at a place where you had to pay 7 bucks for a bugger and 6 more for just fries... madness I say!

On my way to work every morning I pass the street Freeze is parked on, so I get to see the green bean of sunroof nostalgia... I've been quite tempted too to get out and leave a note on his car saying "if you park on my spot again, I'll stab your tires!" lmao... a sort of welcoming =D. Heck tomorrow I might just do that!

Anyway, just a lil update, time to wipe my ass now.

I wish

2008-01-16T03:01:00.000-06:00

I were sleeping...

Rachelle says:

2008-01-12T23:59:00.001-06:00

I was rummaging through my memorial archives and remembered something from last night that made me laugh my arse off. We were having conversation amidst the loud reggae songs playing, which we argued over whether or not it was live or not. So we spent most of the convo leaning into each others ears to just to hear.

Rachelle says:
So why don't you sleep dom?
Domanick says:
drugs...
Rachelle says:
*stares*
Domanick says:
haha, I'm serious. I took some meds to stay up to study and....
Rachelle says:
and what?
Domanick says:
I quit med school, and it never wore off.
Rachelle says:
I think you should sue!
Domanick says:
HAHAHAHAHAHA

A night out

2008-01-12T04:55:00.000-06:00

Instead of routinely watching X-file episodes till dawn broke, I went out and well,... clubbed for the first time. Rachelle was driving, and smoking some Phillies, yum. We spent most of our time gawking at people instinctively grinding over each others crutches and calling it dancing, it was hilarious, there was this wan weee girl that looked 12 my god that woman can grind. If I had known dry humping was what people meant when they said lets go out tonight, I might have considered it a bit longer before saying no.

Had my first beer too, shit was disgusting. Whomever says they drink for the taste is talking crap! Crap I say! It was wonderful morning I have to admit, it was the most fun I'd had at 3 am in the morning. I have to admit though upon first venturing in and seeing all the people crowded and half drunk and pushing themselves onto each other and stuff, I really felt outside my comfort zone. Luckily I was with someone whose company I enjoy.

I took a snap shot with my camera phone while we were drinking and talking and pointing and laughing but, well she's a shy one.

The result?... a blurred middle finger

Did I mention I had fun?

I've been busy...

2008-01-10T03:59:00.000-06:00

Fun while it lasted...

My Christmas vacation I would have to say was... something else. I haven't been updating mah blog much on account I've been busy with countless things. Holding three jobs, yes you heard me right...THREE!!..! Two full time and one part time. Why? This was my first Christmas as a giver and not a receiver. I ended up spending on the people that mean something to me.

Logically it came at an expense, but I must say seeing the astonished faces on them when they realized I got them something was all worth it. I bought my mom jewelery, what else can you buy a mom? a cook book? HA! My dad I got him a nice Fossil Tri fold wallet. Mikhail (the lost brother) I got him a PC game, and Giancarlo, the youngest, I got him a DS game with strategy guide. As you can see above, the most expensive person to shop for was myself, haha. Paying the online bills and duty came out pretty pricey too, almost double what I had to pay for the actual items...crap!

I splurged a lot of my money on video games, my one true love! Sadly I've beaten them all with the exception of the Zelda one. I was crushed when after 5 days of playing, on my lunch breaks and non-sleep filled nights, I came 2 dungeons away from beating it. So I decided to abstain, and I wont play it anymore until the new school semester starts, that way I have something to procrastinate on. I do however reap the benefits of its online play, and pillage away with that. The resident evils games, were so fun, and awesome! I beat 4 in one day and the chronicles in a morning. I wasn't the only one that got video games, my brother got Avatar the last air bender burning earth and ultimate alliance, both I've beaten before him, on the Christmas weekend. They should really make games that last more than just a couple of days, I guess thats why I love the Zelda series so much.

Enough of that, I could go on and on about video games. I must say over the holidays lots and I mean lots of shit have changed. I think one of the biggest is that me and my brother are no longer as hostile as we were to each other anymore. I loan him my truck almost every other day for him to go visit his girlfriend, with the promise of him paying his own fuel, we've socialized on occasion, and we've began to play video games together again. To tell you the truth, I think he's been turning over a new leaf, and I think on account he is blood related I can go ahead and give him a fourth chance. I was amazed at the 3.75 GPA he brought home, I think an all time high in his career, still shy of beating my GPA for this semester tho, but for the first time in my life he gave me a run for my money.

So yes, what have I done for Christmas? mmm, mainly working and making money and playing games. Couldn't have put it any simpler. I managed to even work on Christmas day itself, that way I could be excused from all the family reunions and such, something I hate attending. I did however get nice pics from all the occasions... those being the Family Christmas opening of presents and new years bash. Christmas I spent fixing a server and New years I spent bar tending.. long story. I spent boxing day with Rachelle, we ended up driving through the city which was dead, trying to go into any shop that was open and just talking rass and touching stuff without buying, haha. I ended up going with her to a lingerie shop too, embarrassing I might add.

I also remember spending a weekend in Christmas watching 15 gigs worth of dragon ball episodes. Try doing that with one good eye, the headache you get after is insane. mmm, Mikhail's birthday is ~~tomorrow~~ today, and his girlfriend got him fifa 08 and splinter cell on Wii, we've been playing it since yesterday... yeah he is a early opener. The fifa 08... I've never had a fancy for sports games but I can play them, this one is a lot more funner than the others I've played though with all the motion gimmicks you have to employ to play the game, for instance you actually have to motion to through the ball to do a throw in etc. I'm seeing whether or not I can beat splinter cell before the weekend is up. I have a shit load of anime to burn onto DVDs for Rachelle too...we've been exchanging.

Family news:

My grandfather that has been visiting for spain for like 6 months now, has returned. We now finally have the house to ourselves... so yes girls can sneak over again without having to worry about dogging gramps, ha.
My brother is on the Dean's List
me and Mikhail are bonding, to the point where we are sneaking into princess with old tickets to watch I am Legend twice.
Dad has to work in orange walk for elections, hahahaha!
I was being forced by my father to register to vote, but I refuted.
My dad got Mikhail a Volkswagen, pretty nice one too, I'm a bit jealous then I remember it runs on gas.

This week I've been resting, I've resigned from two of my jobs to prepare for the upcoming internship semester. I've been using my free time to read and rest. Also I think Mr. Sandman has found me again, I've been getting sleep on occasion now, but during the day instead of the night, I'll have to sort that out, small steps.. small steps.

Er, as you can read life is a lil bit more better in my end of the world, I hope it is in yours too.

I leave with some pics of my family enjoying themselves for Xmass.

The wee ones opening up presents

Elvis presely fabro booging...badly I might add.

Mikhail and his wife

Xmass Cleaning

2007-12-16T11:38:00.001-06:00

I have to clean up my room by the end of the day, and it has like a years worth of trash laying on the floor, under the bed, on the bed, on the desks on the walls.... everywhere. I don't use the room at all, especially not to sleep, cause when I do sleep it's not on a bed, can't stand those contraptions!

Anyhow I step in and out of my room every morning to just upload videos to youtube from my desktop because I take my laptop with me always... and today although I've done it so many times, when I stepped in to embark on my journey of cleaning this filth.. I felt defeated lol. I'm glad that my room is the smallest in the house though, since I don't use a room I took the guest room and gave my original room to be used for a GAME/STUDY room ...awesomeness.

Don't have time for a long entry, here are some pics:

Notice I don't even have bed sheets~!

Wall of Past

Left corner, should really get that window fixed

Right corner

Door corner

some angle, no your not seeing double, i have 3 putters in mah room...

TOTTI!

God bless the internet

2007-12-12T19:42:00.000-06:00

Just finish downloading the season finale for Showtime's Dexter. All I can say is holy shit, it ended AWESOMELY!

Anyone that wants it, ask. Or you can wait Sunday, I couldn't....

be bringing it to school Friday for Derek.

EXams were super easy, I guess studying a day before the exam does pay off =D.

I studied almost the whole day right before the exam date for digital logics and signal processing... I thought it would have been so hard. It was a lot easier than I anticipated.

Communication skills, the one that had the most content to read... ha. It was a good thing I did the chapter review questions for each chapter and read each chapter for class. I didn't bother studying again, just briefly reviewed my question sheets, test paper and personal notes on the day of the exam... a couple hours before it too, I kid you not! Some people were reading the whole chapters over, studying days in advance, all kinda crap, hahaha. I guess some people study and some don't need to, like Derek. Missed almost 7 weeks of classes, studied on the day with me and still Aced it. Well, needless to say that exam was a joke. Looks like all As this semester... yay.

Sleep

2007-12-07T04:18:00.000-06:00

Its 3:19 am... do you know where Mr. Sandman is?

I can't sleep, so I've been doing countless things online to kill the time:

chatting with family from London
ordering Xmas presents for myself
playing with my new cellphone and sending text messages to ppl this hour to piss em off =D
watching Hitman and Beowulf on my laptop

I decided not to do the usual routine of laying down on the living room couch with my eyes closed waiting for sun break... I'm having fun believe it or not.

This is what I ended up ordering online:

tennis:
black and grey sketchers MENS URBANTRACK- WYNN (Style 60375)
Size: 10.5 (ten and a half)
Qty: 1 pair
Price: $70 USD
Total: $70 USD

memory:
Centon 1GB PC-2700 333 mhz DDR SODIMM Laptop Memory
Qty: 2
Price: $59.99 USD
Total: $119.98 USD

scratch remover:
Displex Display Scratch Remover & 10 100% Pure Cotton Application Patches
Qty: 1
Price: $8.20 USD
Total: $9 USD

Headphones:
Premium Sound Earphones / Headphones compatible with 3rd Generation iPod Nano,
New iPod Classic, iPod Touch, iPod Video, Stereo Sound 3rd Generation
Color: BLACK
Qty: 1 pair
Price: $4.50 USD
Total: $5 USD

Headphone Attachment:
Griffin Technology 4039-EJAM EarJam Earbud Sound Enhancing Covers
Qty: 1 pair
Price: $8.22 USD
Total: $9 USD

Protection screen:
Apple Ipod Touch Premium Ultra- Clear Reusable LCD Screen & Body Protector
with Lint Cleaning Cloth By Ikross
Qty: 3
Price: $3.99 USD
Total: $12 USD

ezview case for ipod touch with earphone combo:
ezView Touch - Onyx Black & earPod Combo
Qty: 1 combo set
Price: $45.99 USD

control charger:
Wii control with charing stand
Qty: 2
Price $50 USD
Total $100USD

When I look at it, its not much, just a few electronic accessories here and there but, gosh its still a bit pricey.

To all in exams...I wish you luck

To all who enjoy the Xmas atmosphere... to show how I feel here's a quick lil' sketch I did in paint with just a mouse:

hahahaha....

mmm on a good note, ~~tomorrow~~ today instead of going to class, I'm tagging along with my Fajha to Chetumal to see if corrective eye surgery is a possibility. So you know what that means? COFFEE AT THE MALL!!!!!!

Take notes Freeze and Derek. Make sure to ask what kind of encryption they use LMAO.
(inside joke)

Bai

Laptop

2007-12-03T20:11:00.000-06:00

I use my laptop for more than just chatting or writing a blog, oh yes siree!

Everywhere I am, my laptop is. I back it around like its a darn cell phone.

These are other stuff I do with my laptop:

Eat tamales with lotta peppa and some V8 juice

draw a self portrait

chat and do research papers

it's never ending, talk about use and abuse hehe.

I've had it for 4 years now, I think I've kept it in good condition, then again I keep all my belongings looking like new. I guess a perk of being obsessive compulsive.

I will buy a mac book for graduation, I've decided. I just hope I will be able to handle the jump from windows to mac.

(insert ominous sound) dun..dun....DUN

I mirror myself

2007-11-29T19:03:00.001-06:00

DOm

I'm Allergic to:
Milk
Phenolphthalein (aka Mint)
Oil paint
Stuff toys
Penises other than my own
Bee venom (more than 1 sting fatal)

I enjoy:
playing video games
drawing in my notebooks and not pay attention in class
Draw stick figures of friends in comics
drawing on the pc
watching movies (horror)
my jobs
staying at home

My habits:
I am a perfectionist to the extreme...
I look for details
I play with my own hair all the time
minute flaws aggravate me
I am vane
I have to count to 3 before making decisions
I am spiteful and vengeful
I hardly ever sleep =(
I procrastinate like its an extreme sport
I daydream and fantasize at least 3 times a day...

I don't like:
my big nose
losing at games I own
my puffy purplish eye bags
my curly hair
ochoro (veggie)
getting GPAs less than 3.8
chicken soup
Caviar
driving
Christmas
family reunions
my birthday
my scars from my days of being a Glass cutter
the scar over my left eye
closing my left eye to see something better
my huge lips
my vanity

Etcha Sketch

2007-11-23T11:48:00.000-06:00

Avatar Aang

I should really be doing presentations and research papers but... well I took a pause for inspiration and I manage to do a quick lil sketch.

Character: Aang
Time: 1hr maybe
Aggravations: no colors

P.S. : I've been trying to design a signature to place on all my drawings but I can't decide on one. I want to either incorporate my initials (D.F.) into something or maybe do some fancy squiggly lines or maybe even a small logo I don't know. Suggestions would be nice. Or maybe I'll just post a few of my ideas and I can get some feedback... oh shit I have to go start this research paper.

Bai

-DOm

***UPDATE***

I was walking to my father's office here in Belmopan like I normally do after class to kill some time and do my job; but on the way over at the pedestrian ramp there was this crazy driver that almost ran me over. These blasted Belmopanese people, bloody ingrates. It came very close to taking out my knees ... I got a good look at the car and driver too. It was a green "Camry looking" type of car with a sunroof that looks like it's never been opened before. The dude driving was wearing shades although the vehicle was tinted and was on the cellphone no less... wait till I tell Mr. Freeze about this, he gets real riled up at stories of bad drivers.

Busy, busy, busy..... BUSY!

2007-11-22T12:14:00.000-06:00

Oiy the last days are always daunting. I have a lot of projects due, but I know I'll get through them even with this enormous amount of, "pauses for inspiration" -freeze, procrastination. Right now I'm avoiding that research paper but doing this presentation for yes, you named it.. Communication Skills. The topic is how local music can be used as a communicative tool. Pretty much have everything done but if you have additional ideas on how you think local music is used as a means of a communicative tool I would be more than happy to read...

I remember once PUP using that song from "las ketchup" I don't recall the name but it was very popular at the time and they went and revamped it, to something more "Belizean" and used it in their campaign and before you know it they had an additional 4 years to steal. I guess music was used as a means of advertising and influence, I could be wrong.

so, any ideas?

Reliving the GLORY days

2007-11-17T17:24:00.000-06:00

Have you ever noticed how inanimate objects are forever tied to a memory? I do, almost always. I am a collector and destroyer of memories. I've been rummaging through my room and I came across a cupboard, I have that holds things I never use. Note blanks from primary school, books I've read, games I've beaten or that are obsolete, pictures...they all reel back in a memory as clear as day.

Sometimes memories are as sharp as daggers that pierce into the thoughts of today. Some bring back bad, bad feelings... but I keep them because it makes me feel alive; and sometimes they are just worth remembering.

Memories Sharp as daggers

The eye patch - I remember thinking I was dead, when I saw that cane truck coming at me head on. God I hate drunks... and it happening in O-Walk just made it all the more pleasant.
The watch - primary school graduation present from my uncle.
Cop shades - she looked so goofy in them. She forgot it and I haven't been able to give it back yet.
The lighter - my sweet smelling cancer sticks. I gave this to her since we were both chimneys. However on that faithful day she had to give it back, they didn't allow them on airplanes anymore. I remember the airport, and the goodbyes
The earrings - my very first pair. 1.5cm in diameter.. 0.25cm thick. The hole is still embedded in my ear from it being so thick.
Game boy SP game - The legend of Zelda: Minish cap. Funnest game boy game I've played... it was a present from her. I remember her being ticked off at me because I was beating the game at a very fast pace and it took her longer, haha.
The pendant - I was very much in turmoil and anguish at the exact moment in my life when I came across this thing glowing on the floor. It reminds me of what I've been through.
Rings - I had a ring for every finger back in my adolescence. I'll admit I was very eccentric then. I remember how different and darker I was. Believe it or not I am peppy now.
The tag that says SID - I remember the raccoon looking ferret i bought for Eli. He was ecstatic, I never got a chance to get the tag itself to him. Things went sour.

Off course this was just a tiny example, I have many habits. I collect all tickets I get either from watching movies at the theater, football matches for Juventus (team my family owns), stubs etc. I keep em in a tiny pocket in my wallet. The movie tickets are in abundance, and from all over. Its funny too, which objects bring back that specific memory. I guess its the mind that choses it, "hey buddy, from now on your gonna remind me of ..". haha, I think I remember too much, way too much, too much on my mind, too much in my life but I can't get enough of it. FEED ME!

The most fun about these things are when you rediscover them, all the thoughts and feeling rushing back into you like a cold chill down your spine that triggers a involuntary flinch in your body. We are bounded to our past, no matter what and its with these lil' tokens that we make remembering the worthy all the more easier.

My beautiful collection, I will never part with them. Oh how it grows...

I NEED SPACE!!!

2007-11-14T19:07:00.000-06:00

Gah! I'm running out of Hard Disk space... way too much things on it. Yes, yes... I knew all those countless hours of downloading were gonna bite me in the arse! I find myself 12GB away from filling up two 880GB Hard Drives I have set up in my server at home. Hard drives I got at a good deal from dilapidated computers retired from the "Republic".

How, you might ask, have I accomplished this?... Easy, shit loads of Anime, Televison series, Movies, Programs, Softwares, ISOs, pictures, music, videos.... you name it I have it.

I think though that the majority share holder ("the culprit") of taking up all my space has got to be the anime and tv series.

Here's a list of some of the Anime series and Tv series I have :

those are only some, and that doesn't even count the movies I have. Yep..., anyhow I'm really tempted to buy a 1TB external HD to continue my collection. The bills are piling up on me though, I just ordered online 2GB of memory for my laptop, some more iPod touch accessories and The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass for my Nintendo DS and a couple more RPGs for my Wii.

I might need a third job... ha.

Biometrics

2007-11-11T19:02:00.000-06:00

I decided on a topic for my research paper, kinda like a thesis for bachelors sorta thing? Anyhow its on Biometrics.

Biometrics is the study of physical identification, such as fingerprints, iris scanning, palm vein identification, voice verification, etc.

We were suppose to pick something that IT could influence and in Belize. I think Freeze is doing something with GPS tracking for business' vehicles; a very good idea to implement in Belize for corporations too I might add. Need to know where this Rasta man driving your car.

So yes Biometrics is a very broad topic so my hypothesis is narrowed down to, me thinking it would be feasible for Belize to implement a AFIS or CODIS system. AFIS deals with fingerprints (automated fingerprint identification system) and CODIS with DNA (Combined DNA identification system). I think that Belize's justice system would greatly improve with such a system in placed. Yes I know, its pretty expensive but if we could just launch with a AFIS system, we don't need to go high tech into DNA just yet.

From what I understand, although to be convicted of a crime you must have "undeniable proof", here in Belize people are convicted purely on eye witness and hearsay and I just think that is a load of crap! I mean what the $%#, seriously. We cant even read fingerprints... if we had something like this that bitch from Mirab wouldn't have gotten away with murder because he's rich, as someone once told me ... " a lil' proof goes a long way".

Anyhow, I could be going about this all the wrong way and end up with a resounding F, ha. Hopefully I can work something up.

All I know about biometrics for the time being is the lil fingerprint scanner I have for my desktop to login haha. I bought it ages ago to block my brother out, I have passwords for everything on my system, login... websites.... internet access... you name it and that lil' sucker makes my life easier because instead of having to type up passwords every so often I just have to swipe mah fingah!

Imagine how safer Belize would be if something so simple was in place.

Song or Suicide

2007-11-08T06:17:00.000-06:00

Sorrow rebuild me as I step out of the light

Misery strengthen me as I say my goodbyes

I heal my wounds with grief
And dream of you
And weep myself alive

Drawing done by a friend (Neko)

Pending jobs

2007-11-07T16:26:00.000-06:00

Not to mention that next week I have Tests for Communication skills, Digital logic & Signal processing, Advanced Web Technologies and an upcoming networking test... GAH! Someone PLEASE SHOOOOT ME!

Anyways I'm too busy not doing any of these assignments. Let me go and do what DOm does best. Procrastinate.....

You would think with the lack of sleep I'd have all the time in the world to do these, haha.

P.S. Derek may think my lack of sleep might be due to the fact that I could possibly be bi-polar. Huzzah.

I'm a RAT!

2007-11-06T22:15:00.000-06:00

We chatted from 1 a.m to around 6 a.m. when it was just about time for me to take a bath and go to Belmopan. I'm glad someone was there to keep me company, and I'm glad it was her because we haven't spoken in ages. It was fun to catch up on stuff. So yes in the hours of chatting because we both seem to can't find sleep, we end up talking about astrological signs etc.

Now I'm not one for those sorta crap and to be honest I thought it was just a load of crap. But damn man after she introduced me to the chinese astrological readings GAH! It was so unbelievably on the money. They are by far better than the western ones (leo, virgo etc)

So yes I'm a RAT, and darn proud of it!
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RAT
1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996

Rat people are born under the sign of charm and aggressiveness. They are expressive and can be talkative sometimes. They like to go to parties and spend quiet times chatting with their friends. Although the Rat can be quiet sometimes, it is rare to catch a Rat sitting quietly.

Rat people usually have more acquaintances than real friends and they revere and cherish those close to them. Once you become their real friends, they will treat you as their family. Rats are self-contained and keep problems to themselves. And even though they can be talkative sometimes, they never confide in anyone.

Sometimes mean, narrow-minded and suburban in outlook, Rat people are nevertheless honest. They can always make a success of their lives as long as they manage to master their perpetual discontent and their insistence on living for the present moment.

The Rat is quick-witted. Most rats get more accomplished in 24 hours than the rest of us do in as many days. They are confident and usually have good instinct. Stubborn as they are, they prefer to live by their own rules rather others. It won't be an easy task to work with Rat people, why? Simple, because they are also 100% perfectionists.

They are very organized and talented, perhaps that is why the Rat makes a good businessman or politician. Unfortunately, as soon as the Rat earns money, he spends it. Maybe that explains why the Rat is so careful when he lends money to others. If you ever borrow money from the Rat, don't be surprised by the high-interests.

The Rat is not romantic, but he is sensual and loving. Rat people could be hard to see through at first glance, because they are also very protective, but even though they are not easy but they are worth it - ask anyone who has a Rat for a lover, parent, child or friend. They are very loyal and devoting to their families.

Loyalty is their trademark. People know they are a genuine friend that are always ready to lend a hand. Even if they can’t help someone with their specific problem, rats still manage to send out a warm and reassuring vibration that makes them feel better.

The Chinese astrological cycle begins with the year of the Rat; consequently those born within this category like to be first, pioneers, at the forefront of the action. Because of this, they tend to see themselves as a cut above the others. Restless and inquisitive, those born under the influence of the Rat are active, both physically and mentally, and tend to lead busy lives. Challenge is essential to them for they love the thrill of living dangerously. With clairvoyance, intuition, perspicacity and an eye for detail, Rats are formidable problem solvers, finding workable solutions to the knottiest problems. Travelling is one of their favorite pastimes.

The Rat possesses attributes ranging from charming and humorous to honest and meticulous. The Chinese say those born in these years make good and wise advisors, yet they can never decide for themselves and change direction constantly. However, Rats at times hunger for power and money, leading some to be gamblers and others to be manipulative or petty. Their greed can lead them into a destructive trap.

Rats are best known for their charm. Blessed with a sharp wit, they possess a marvelous sense of humor, which makes them stimulating and amusing company to have around. Generally extroverted, they may well be described as opportunists for they prefer to live off their wits rather than labor long and hard to earn their daily bread.

Rats should have a happy childhood and a carefree youth. However, the second part of their lives may be stormy and problematical. They may be prone to lose money in a bad business deal or their happiness in an unfortunate love affair. The third part of their lives will be comfortable, and their old age as peaceful as could be wished.

It is important to note whether the Rat was born in the summer or the winter of the year. In summer the lofts and granaries are full, but in winter the Rat will be obliged to go out and forage for food, and must watch out for the traps set along the way. In human terms, this could mean the risk of prison or an accidental death.

The Passionate Rat

Rats are able to control their feelings and will generally present a cool facade to the outside world, regardless of whatever volcanic emotions they may be feeling inside. But these are passionate creatures whose feelings can be deeply stirred and though able to control them as a rule, when the volcano does erupt, watch out! Perhaps one of their faults is their inability to actually talk about their feelings to those they love, and consequently they tend to repress them -- thus adding to the volcanic pressure. As well as being deeply passionate they are sensual creatures who simply exude sexuality and who greatly enjoy all forms of physical stimulation.

Rats' romantic life is very quiet, provided that they take care not to interact with the Horse or Rooster. In particular, it is catastrophic for a male Rat to marry a female Fire Horse. They should be wary of those born in the Year of the Rabbit. Rats have excellent relations with the Dragon, Monkey, Ox and Tiger.

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I think its pretty awesome I am destined to date "Dragons" haha....

Care to find out about yourself?

Listen!

2007-11-02T18:13:00.000-06:00

I'll give you a dollar if you can guess the background music.

Halloween!

2007-11-01T21:57:00.000-06:00

This Halloween was hilarious! I had chucky in my front veranda! Chuky! hahaha....

Jeez, I can't recall ever laughing so hard before... I myself didn't dress up for Halloween or go to any costume party like my brother and his girlfriend. Although lately the whole family has been referring to me as an apostle or calling me Jesus, because of the hair and beard... so I guess I could have just thrown some old curtains over my shoulders and I would have been a dead ringer.

I've been invited to Galen's costume party which is tonight.... I don't want to go. I hate going out. ...

ps. ignore the date on the pic, I never have time to fix it on the camera. Go figure.

HIM

2007-10-31T11:23:00.000-06:00

Venus Doom on iPod Touch

I've been a HIM fan since '96 when my dad brought me one of their albums from Finland...

I not too long ago ordered the new album Venus Doom with my iPod and damn, shit is amazing. I love the way how they went back to a more harder and darker style of metal. Not the soft metal crap they did in Dark Light. It feels almost like were back in the Greatest Love Songs Vol. 666 days.

Domanick Fabro

All in all I am in love with this new album.

Go buy it!

Ill just have to add this album to my collection....

The collection

And just because were in the picture giving mood haha....

ME again

I'm an Arteest

2007-10-30T10:38:00.000-06:00

Link and Navi

Time: 3 hours

Application: Jasc. Paint Shop Pro 8

Instruments: Keyboard, Mouse and Wacom© Tablet

Description: Link playing Nintendo DS Lite with his fairy Navi tailing. Done in the same shade cell design implemented in The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker. I was quite fond of Link being demonstrated in this design. Very simple but elegant. Not to mention the game was soo fun!

Aggravations: I forgot about his eyebrows and remembered until I was in almost the final layers, so you can see how its above the other layers. Copy and pasted Navi from a previous drawing I did for my computer display pic in the welcome screen, so it doesn't blend all too well.

Sir Knight

2007-10-28T16:53:00.000-06:00

Man's best friend... you may have read before or know that I own a dog, his name is Sir Knight, but we just call him plain ole Knight. I bought him on a visit to Guatemala, with my own cash, thank you! He was the runt of the litter, since he had defective eyes. One blue the other green, no one wanted him. They all wanted the perfect blue eyed pair. I loved him for that deformity, and we've been inseparable ever since the day we met.

The other dog is Duke my dad's rotweiler. He is like 3 years old. Beautiful dog, very fucking smart my god. Makes Knight look like a dumb ass.

Anyhow....everyone has pets. I've had many... I'll show you some.

Ragamuffin my pet ferret. She lives with Elba in Guatemala now.

Sir Knight

Duke

Our dogs have the whole English Royal theme naming going on I know... weird... Well this is a video of them playing. What pets do you have?

Anyone can quit smoking, but it takes a real man to face cancer!

2007-10-27T07:30:00.000-06:00

"Very distubing, how old are you?" ....Those were the words the doctor told me after looking at an X-ray of my chest, and the reason I tried to quit smoking.

My eyes are now twitching...no its not cancer. I've experienced this one before... they are breaking down on me once more. Once again not sleeping is having an effect on my eyes. They twitch on their own without me even feeling or knowing. I only find out when people are like "Whoa, cool how'd you do that?!" ..."Do what?"..."make your eye move like that".

There is a simple remedy, the doctor gave me it. Sleep. I've been off lunesta for months... I can't afford another addiction. This all happened because of crap like that. Back in med school I had to STUDY. I mean STUDY.... Friesen times ten studying. Everything was spanish, everything was new... imagine studying molecular biology, or physiology in a language you didn't even know for the first time. Spent countless nights translating, soaking in info, etc. No time for sleep, but the body craved it and claimed what was rightfully his regardless. I had to find a solution, another med student in my apartment complex had that. "sin suenos, este cabrones te va a dejar despierto por dias ...ahuevo va" They did just that, and I had the time I needed.

I think they were caffeine pills?.. at least thats what I hope. Nevertheless when I gave up the lifestyle and I could once again allow my best friend the sandman to visit, he didn't come. My body had been screwed beyond repair over the years of torture, both from those pills and the changes I had endured mentally. My mind is sooo, and tooo, active now.I'm just glad I got out before I jumped off a building like my friend Rishi Cummins. I find myself thinking about him... for those of you that seem stumped. Rishi graduated my year from SJC. Brilliant kid, he was terribly young too. He took 11 CXCs and faack almost all grade ones... he set a new record in the Caribbean and received so many awards. That kid was going places. Cut a year forward... he commit suicide by jumping off a building on his campus. Something about not hacking it anymore...always studying since he was born. I felt sorry for him. His mother didn't even allow simple pleasures like watching WWF, or playing games, he had to study when everyone else was being a kid. I'm glad I got out when I did.

My poor eyes, they've suffered the most in my journey. From the scar and partial blindness in my left eye from the car accident, to the things I've seen, and now to the lack of sleep.

My eyes are twitching... I wonder if I will need to close my eyes every night like before, to rest my eyes, yet being wide awake under my lids. At least I'll be alone. Wide awake under my eye lids, thinking, thinking, thinking.... my mind wont let me rest.

I need a cigarette. Bai

You Tube

2007-10-23T16:31:00.000-06:00

The countless hours are beginning to pay off! I'm now rated on the top 100 most viewed pages on YouTube. You wouldn't believe how much hours of uploading I've spent. Too much free time on my hands? hahaha, quite possible. I enjoy it though.

My YouTube page.. www.youtube.com/ddomanickk

I think I have well over a hundred videos uploaded each approximately ten minutes, each take up to 4-6 hours to upload with my shitty 128kbps BTL dsl. Can't wait till I'm in England where the net will be super fast. Till now I will just have to settle for the satellite internet I get to induldge myself with every weekend at work. This past weekend I downloaded Creed's entire collected in a matter of ten minutes on the satellite internet. It was nostalgic haha... This weekend I think I will download every season of Scrubs! and the new dexter episodes too.... YUM!...oh and maybe HOUSE M.D. God the possibilities... *shiver*

Lets just hope the bestest most coolest super hero in the world doesn't catch up to my youtube page... who do you ask? (CIM) Copyright Infringement man of course!

Love in cold blood

2007-10-21T13:57:00.002-06:00

I gave up long ago.....
painting love with crimson flow,
ran out of blood and hope,
so I paint you no more.

From my personal experience, and Mr. Rabbani's (haha) I have to come to the conclusion that you just can't trust girls, no matter how sweet or honest they might be. You just can't trust them, every last one. Funny enough you can't live without 'em, or at least that's what they say.

You invest so much time, for nothing, and let's not forget time is money. Maybe I just over react about the situations I've been in? I don't know.

Let's see I've had uh, two real relationships, and a couple that never took off. The first one cheated on me without a doubt so I don't have to even entertain that one. The second, well we grew apart when she went abroad and she got a boy yonder but at least she was honest about that, she didn't cheat but she lied....

Then there were a couple that never took off because after those experiences you put precautions in place so the same things never happen again, and frankly they didn't pass the filter. Some complain about how I over react over small thing, or that my expectations are too high and its unfair that they have to pay for the mistakes of others but, what can you do? You have to have some form of insurance.

I won't go into any more details but I'll leave with a question. How far does it have to go, before you put that force field up? How far does it go before you consider it cheating. For example I go as far as the mind... You just think of it and that's enough for me.

I'll elaborate on what I mean "think of it". For example: your in a relationship with someone. Somewhere in there you get kinda busy, and don't have so much time for the person, you explain yourself, she says she understand, you love her, she says she loves you... but deep down she doesn't... she's straying... she's thinking to herself I wonder if I should be with him, or that cute guy that keeps flirting with me nowadays. To me that is just as good as cheating. You can't leave them alone for a minute and already they ... if every wife left their husband because they were away to work, ha! You have to be able to have that trust... you just can't not have it. Complete and utter loyalty regardless of the situation. Nowadays it seems like you blink and they find someone else. I end the line there because if it is starting there only a fool will continue so that it can happen later down the road where the consequences are ten fold. All that is left to do is sever all ties and never think about it again. Remember the lesson, forget the person.

How about you?

Sometimes there's just that one person you can never forget...

The Republic

2007-10-17T20:16:00.000-06:00

Anakin Skywalker, Palpatine, Padme, Kit Fisto

I have a second job.... and its not being an artist hahaha...

gah, and its turning out to be more work than I wanted, why can't you get paid for nothing. So apart from being a computer technician at GScom I am now the network administrator for the department of environment in Belmopan. Yay... more money for me to spend on games and not girls!

However "the republic" that exists within the department is pissing me off. Apparently they had one of their employees that know a little about computers running the network since no one else was competent enough. He was very power militant though, like he denied access to internet to some people etc etc just because he could and wanted you to depend on him, absurd. Since I came in he's been very hostile. Kind of like this was my job asshole move out!, kinda attitude. So yes guess what he did to me? He changed the server password so I couldn't get in and do my work and then he's like gah I wont even divulge into that... just know I had to hack into the server change it and he got pissed and I was happy hehe.

Apart from the dilemma I have this other computer on the network that has a corrupted TCP/IP protocol and I've been spending two days on it so far trying to fix it, well not two entire days, mind you I am a full time student and I try to fix it in between classes etc, but I've been so busy with studying for tests and doing programs I'm packed.

Finally decided I'm just gonna say fuck it all and reformat it. Anyhow...

I have way too much work right now... either i quit a job or drop some class.

Asian chick

2007-10-10T23:53:00.000-06:00

I remember drawing this one in the cafeteria of our apartment complex whilst not studying for molecular biology....

Yes I know she has no eyes, I intended for her hair to be covering it... besides I didn't have time to draw eyes I was too preoccupied with her breasteses.

Those were the days... young, bored, and running on empty. I honestly do miss those times although I hated what I was doing for a living at the time. I miss the place, I miss the people but most of all I miss me.

Imperfections

2007-10-07T18:43:00.000-06:00

Well, well, well not much to say. So I thought I'd do an entry about what I did over this weekend. So let's see, I actually started early in doing homework, for some odd reason, and I don't know why I didn't realize this before... but when you do your homework early it feels very rewarding. haha. So yes, lately I've been doing all my homework and studying early like a "model" student... *coughs* mennonite, and it feels great.

I spent the entire weekend doing a program for my Advance web technology class in PHP. It wasn't really hard, but it would have been way easier if the teacher didn't move so fast and actually slowed down and teach something. I had to do a lot of research on the language and shit before I could even begin to code. So I would think that was why it took my around 3 days to do.

Other than that I did manage to finally go see the new resident evil movie out. I think it was great compared to the previous two, but fucking way off compared to the game. I guess the movie franchise is all on its own now, but it was still a very good plot and story line. So I would still recommend you watching it.

I got my Mitsubishi pickup back finally! I've been without a mode of transportation since april when I had my accident that cost me my perfect 20/20 vision. Wearing the pirate eye patch was very cool still though I must say haha. So, yes where was I, uh.. I get my car back and being the person I am, meticulous to fuck. I find sooo much things I don't like about it.

The AC gives off a faint lil whistling noise when its one level below the highest, the passenger door seems to like droplets of water when its raining, the steering wheel makes a noise like plastic rubbing on plastic when I make turns, when I drive fast on the highway I can like hear the wind blowing making me believe the cab isn't totally air tight, when I go really fast I notice the steering is a lil shaky... gah I know... I have OCD.

I always do this though, I look for imperfections in everything and find even if there's none. I ordered a flash drive from the internet, kinda like the one I had stolen from me *coughs*. It came today but I've yet to go pick it up, oh well the night is young. My itouch wont be coming in until the 15th so I'm waiting anxiously to get it so I can eyeball all its imperfections and bitch about it later. tee hee.

Anyhow, I'll be back when I have something more interesting to say.

Crap, crap, crap, CRAP!

2007-09-29T11:02:00.001-06:00

GOD! RAWR! I'm so mad at myself right now. This has got to be the most fucked up week I've ever had at school. First off I had like two big assignments due on the same day for the same class, one was a lab report the other an assignment. This woman just keeps loading us with tons of work weekly, and hers is not the only class I'm taking damn it! And on top of that I had to prepare for three different tests all on the same week.

But oh no, that was not all, there had to have icing do go along with this cake of doom.... Whilst doing my lab report (group members were worthless in helping) and assignment for that wretched class... I used my flash drive to transfer some of my work over to a friend that wanted to copy from me and in all the rush of things to get my work done and get to class on time, I forgot it at the computer lab. I realized like ten minutes after I left but the time I got back it was GONE~!... GONE! All my works, assignments everything... everything. GAH! I loved that lil flash drive too, sooo small and sexy. GRRRR!

Bad fucking week man. And this upcoming one is no easier... I have two presentations to do on Monday and one is like fucking MAJOR. Have to have a program built that runs over a network, an ATM bank program does transactions etc. So now I have to build that rass by the end of today and get presentation for it ready for Monday and one of my group members have been in an accident and stopped school for this semester due to it and the other one well, ha he is just to complacent and not give a damn about anything. And the other presentation I've done my part but my group members have not submitted their parts yet and shit is due Monday man! and I don't even know how we're gonna get a projector for that if we even do!

FUCK, CRAP!
I HATE SCHOOL AND I HATE PEOPLE!

Resident Evil : Extinction

2007-09-21T20:42:00.001-06:00

I'm so pissed right now man! They were advertising all over how they were going to premiere the new RE movie too and boom, when I go to buy the tickets the woman at the booth says they have just been informed that the movie didn't make it. GOD DAMNIT! They should be sued for false advertisement!

sooo mad right now...

Backbone

2007-09-12T12:38:00.000-06:00

It's amazing how much a little cruelty can change a person. I don't know but people might consider me to be a "meanie"? I more think I'm just frank and blunt, I tend to speak my feelings and my mind whatever intentions or thoughts might linger on them at the time. So I can be very blunt and shocking for people that don't know me, and at the same time very humorous for the ones that do. I think most of my friends find me entertaining because of that same attitude I have towards everyone and everything and they take it as joke, and laugh about it. Heck I'm glad they take it that way haha?

Anyhow, there are the other type of people that are always, super friendly, sociable, overachieving gah.... this annoys me beyond all reason. I myself don't know why, but it doesn't annoy me when they are that way with others but rather when they try to bring that persona my way. And their stupid personality most naturally conflicts with mine and boom! A whole heap of shit.

Rather recently I had a person annoying me with the whole "true love" dilemma. It turned me off more than anything the persistence of this person, and saying crap that were SO mushy. Gah! Don't get me wrong, when I like someone I can warm up a bit but deep down, I think I'm always gonna be a bit of an asshole. And I feel sorry for the people that warm up to my more sensitive side because then they are not prepared for "me". After totally being turned of by this person I guess the real me seeped out and I kinda bombarded the person. So yes I was a bit cruel to her, but it was never my intention just, its who I am? I can't help it that I piss people off, although I must say its rather amusing.... meh I don't know what wrong with me, but I wont change, and I like the person I am... it works for me.

So yes, its amazing how a bit of cruelty can change a person. As I have changed, with the same experience I had bestowed on this person to become the person I am today, so has she changed. Finally some backbone, finally not so annoying. I'm proud. Sadly we all change with the things that are thrown our way in life. That I guess is the sucky part. No matter how hard you try, life experiences just changes someone and you'll never be the person you were 3 years ago, or even 2.

I had a person I have to admit I was very much in love with. I think I still am, ...might be the source of my bitterness? ha who knows. I know for sure that whatever I had, its over with; no matter how long it took me to accept this. But after what I went through there, I was never the same. It made me who I am today, and I have to believe it was meant to be? Heck even she in just one short year abroad changed, after coming back she was such a different person. From the eccentric, sociable, lovable girl I fell in love with to a total depressive, antisocial bitch.

ha. Oh how wonderful the seasons of changes are. Like a tear in the ripple of time....

Microsoft Office 2007

2007-09-10T11:26:00.001-06:00

Hey guys, just here, testing Microsoft office 2007. There's a feature on the new Word 2007 that allows you to write your blog from it and it should post it up to whatever blog site you're registered with. So I took the liberty to see if this shit will actually work.

Mmm, well if this gets post that means blogging will be all the more easier, yahoo!

-DOm

The Artist

2007-09-07T23:58:00.000-06:00

Damn, I really want a tablet for my pc. Why? Easy to draw and color of course! I've been lately trying to at least color stuff on the computer, such as black and white comics etc. Even doing a lil bit of my own. It's so hard however to draw on a pc with just a mouse so a tablet would drop just fine.

Now if I can only find a way to get paid for this kinda stuff. I know online there are many groups and forums where people take manga (black and white japanese comics) and scan them clean 'em up a little then color them in with photoshop etc. It's really fun. Instead of joining a club or some shit like that at school I think I'm gonna just do that with my spare time... haha. And as soon as I get this damn tablet the obsession begins!

Today was boring. Went to Belmopan (capital) for one stupid class. It's the first semester I have a class everyday of the week. It's a bit frustrating and for some messed up reason this is another class that has research and projects involved. When will this madness end? I already have a lab report due, Gah!

Ah I remember mentioning that I post Naruto episodes on YouTube. For those interested here is the link http://www.YouTube.com/ddomanickk . Subscribe if you want to be updated on when I post new episodes etc. I think I'm gonna start posting up the episodes of the animated star wars clone wars series soon. Yep uploading is a slow and frustrating process from where I am. So I tend to only post an episode a day, if I get the chance that is. Also I mainly do it between 1am - 4am, this being the time I'm up not sleeping because I'm watching X-files. I don't like to upload during the day when I'm using the net or my laptop because it slows everything up, like whats happening now.

I'm using what lil bandwith I have now to just post a entry. Oh well, some good came out of it eh? Well I think I'll call it a entry for tonight. Until next time..... seacrest out! Bahaha.

I'm Back!

2007-09-05T09:34:00.000-06:00

It's been a while, I know. Anyhow not much has changed since the last time. My life is in a certain slump so to speak but as all slumps, they eventually pass. I've been noticing that I've increasingly been spending more and more time alone, and in front of this laptop no less. I have to find some sort of hobbie to pry me away from my mundane predictable routine of a life.

This semester of classes look like it'll be an interesting one, at first glance I though it would be easy, but with the assignments and upcoming projects I'm pretty sure it will only get harder. I can't wait 'till I reach my internship semester this January then it'll all be over! So what have I been doing lately? I've gotten very into a new anime I've known for some time about but not taken the time to bother myself with it. Now that I have however I can't get enough. Yep, Naruto... I've been downloading videos by the masses, and I've also been uploading at YouTube too. I have all the episodes in Japanese with English subtitles, and I have quite a few (probably the first 104 episodes) in English. I've only been uploading the English versions on YouTube but its been a pain, to first splice them in halves because YouTube only allows 10 mins per clip and also because my freaking Belizean internet is soooo slow it takes forever to upload them.

I've also been downloading the Manga too because the episodes even in Japanese aren't as far into the series as the Manga. Manga for you newbies is basically japanese comics.

My dog Knight is pretty much big now, my eye has a scar over it... which I've been applying medicinal stuff too so it'll fade eventually. Uh, I might have gained wait over the summer by mooching around... I'm gonna go on a diet very soon to rectify that though. Let's see what else? Uh for those that keep asking my hair is long again, prolly just as long before I shaved it, which makes me just want to shave it again too, haha.

My wardrobe has been extended to have an additional two pairs of pants, which I don't use I might add. Yep, I'm the type of guy that uses maybe one or two pants and own 7-8 dress shirts. That is about as big as my wardrobe gets. I can actually count every single piece of clothing I own with my fingers, and maybe a lil help from my toes.

These hurricanes that have been threatening to hit Belize these past weeks have been pissing me off but at the same time pleasing me?... See I like the holiday I get from school because of it, but I hate the cleaning that comes after in having to put everything you've packed back together etc. and I also hate the fact that my Xmass holidays are diminishing everytime we miss classes. I think they will no doubt remove two weeks from my vacation due to this crap. A short vacation it was already to begin with!

Hehe well I just got another message in YouTube to please post up another episode of Naruto, Gah... If only had super fast internet like in the USA. Fucking americans, they have everything easy.

P.S.- Gaara of the Desert (Kazekage) is my HERO!

Summer is out!

2007-05-24T09:29:00.000-06:00

Yes indeed, the school year is over. It's been a week now since my final exams and I'm free of university responsibilities. The air is fresh, my mind is calm, my soul is soothed. No home works, no tests to study for, nothing to study, zip, zilch.... Nada! There is of course the anxiety of wanting to know how well the year went. Oh well who cares, I never collect my report card when its distributed, always wait until the next semester. Serves as a buffer to guarantee a splendid summer, I mean a tarnished report would only serve to ruin your vacation so why get it now? haha.

It's been a week I've said.... and I've found myself playing video games day in and out. I beat the last game I was actively submerged in a couple of days ago. Actually I had beaten it months ago, Zelda twilight princess, but I hadn't collected all heart pieces, Poe soul, side missions. So I spent some while after doing that for a complete 100% win. God I love Zelda games. I truly wish they'd bring out another on the Wii console. The whole motion sensor thing just had me all orgasmic. yum!

So no games, pooo! None to beat that is, and funny enough I just got another pair of wiimotes... so now I can serve up some multi player mayhem. I only need a really good game now to indulge my time.... and there in lies the problem. No job.... at least I haven't gone to get one this summer.... I feel like a bum. Oh what a wonderful feeling it is, waking up late, watching television all day, sleeping. Bumming it out!

The parents are the wiser tho, they've caught on to my diabolical scheme, and now leave chores to keep my time occupied. Well it started today, yesterday I spent the entire day watching batman cartoon episodes I had downloaded a long time ago but never had the time to watch. Today they've left me to full the aquarium and spread dirt in the back yard, how exhilarating?

Games need money, Dom need game, therefore Dom needs money. We'll have to see how long it'll last before I go back to fixing computers for game money.

The Results

2007-05-05T16:37:00.000-06:00

Well I got back the test from that day, and yes it was a astounding F. Gah, it is quite able to ruin my chances of getting an A in that course, in fact I'd have to say it did. The most I can hope for now is an A-, anyway.

We had another test after that, for the same class and this time I made sure I studied. Did a study guide and all.... it was like the first time in a long time I can ever recall myself sitting down and actually "studying". Even Pancho began to beg me for my study guide since he himself didn't study. The material covered for the class was so much that I had done eleven pages in word to study from. I didn't finish the guide until eleven that same night too. So I had Pancho believing I wouldn't give him shit, and he was begging AND begging! ha ha. I'm so bad.

Anyhow it's pretty much safe to say that I aced that one. Exams is next week and after that I'm free until September so, yep we get long ass holidays! So cool.

I'm out.

Fucked up day!

2007-04-13T15:48:00.000-06:00

Alright, I've been absent for my final week of classes due to the accident. Final week of classes before spring break that is. So I had 3 tests on that particular week so I had to reschedule all of them. One of them I have the professor for once a week and the week we came back to classes his class was cancelled so him I have to reschedule for an even later time, probably next week monday.

Now I managed to get the remainding two tests scheduled for today. Calculus III and System Administration were the lucky two, being the procrastinator that I am, I studied a lil the night before... fell asleep. And I spent the morning of the two tests studying for them. So I spent my time studying way more for calculus naturally because its harder, and I had study a lil before for System Admin. I hardly studies for Sys Admin, but I made sure I studied the hard pieces of the notes.

I decided to go take Sys Admin first, I could take any of the two at any time before 5pm. So its 2pm and I'm thinking let me get this one outta the way so I have plenty of time for Calculus III, and knowing I didn't study much for it I said meh, I know the hard stuff right? I enter and bang! The test is so easy I don't know shit! FUCK FUCK FUCK! I spent the whole time trying to remember the material because most of what he gave I just siffed over and had a vague recollection of. I was so pissed, I even considered cheating since I had my note blank with me and the professor stepped outta the office for 10 mins but I didn't. DAMN MY MORALITY TO HELL!

So I'm all dissappointed, I just want to go take calculus so I can get this shitty day out and go play some Zelda. Now I go to my Calc professor and he says if I want I can take it monday. So naturally I said Monday, gives me more time to prepare so I can get a very good grade since I fucked this one up. But... what hurts me is that, if I had gone and done Calculus first he would have told me and I would have known that I could take the whole day to study for System Administration and I would have definitely aced it.

All in all I think I probably got a very low B like 80% or something. I just hope my GPA this year competes with last.

GRRR! I'm so pissed.... at myself.

Days after...

2007-03-28T16:33:00.000-06:00

Well its been some days after my accident and I feel a lot better. Two day after it all happened the wickedest cramps settled into my body from the whip lash I suppose of the seat belt. My eye is, well its an eye. I got this cool pirate-ish eye patch from the doctor's. It suits me I think, and under the circumstances its a bit neat I get to wear one.

So all and all life is ok.. and if the scar is way too disfiguring I'll just commit suicide, yay!

Chetumal Trip to remember

2007-03-26T18:45:00.000-06:00

Well I must say this was one chetumal trip that will not leave my mind one iota. Well for those of you who don't know Chetumal is a city in Mexico. So I'm from Belize and we neighbor Mexico. Me and a couple of friends decided to have a road trip to mexico to go to the malls, drink coffee, eat sea food on the sea side, check out the new flicks that are out etc. We go every now and again.

I had just recently overhauled my entire truck before I went though, due to the last trip where the engine got overheated and blargh. So it's preactically new, new engine, new seats, new paint job etc. The trip was doomed from the start. When we arrived we went to a restaurant called Pollo Brujo for some smoked chicken and the waitress practically scolded my friend rabbani like a child haha. That was hillarious I have to admit and he got pissed off. So after that we went to the mall that's there.... and upon driving into the parking lot a police officer stopped me because I was going 30 km/h and he says that's speeding. SPEEDING! He told me the speed limit is 10km/h you know what that is!? Thats like less than 5 MPH fuck yeah! He was just picking on me because I was a foreigner with foreign licence plate, the asshole. Every other fucking mexican was going way faster than I.

So he wanted to give me a ticket but I explained my plight and the fact that I don't live here, so he gave me a warning. We watched the movie 300 and that bombed out. Thanks a lot pancho! The asshole kept saying how good of a movie it was and how we had to go see it and boom a big flop. No one really enjoyed it, the shit was too over exaggerated.

So after that we went to the sea side for a ceviche which is like a sea food salad. Has shrimp, conch, octupus etc chopped up with veggies seasoning etc. Before rabbani even started he bit a pepper and his tongue was burning up haha, another hillarious rabbani moment. After we go to fill up on diesel for my truck for the ride back home.

I ask the stinking lady at the gas station for 160 pesos worth of diesel and the bitch puts gasoline into my tank!!! FUCK! DAMNIT TO HELL! You know what else? she didn't want to accept responsibility for her blunder either. She basically washed her hands clean of the dilema and told us screw you basically. So I can't fucking move an inche cuz the minute i start my car and gasoline gets into my engine its fucked. We had to push it to the side then with a wrench go underneat and unloose the gas tank and bleed it out. It took almost 2 hours for all the gasoline mixed with diesel to bleed out cuz the aperture for the hole in which it pours out is small. It's night, we're all pissed at the gast station for this, and furthermore we have to repay for diesel. This time i eyeballed the bitch the whole time to make sure she didn't fuck something as simple as putting diesel into a diesel pickup hat has a tank valve saying DIESEL on the top. I mean even if she heard wrong the tank on the side even says DIESEL!

So we went back to the mall to have some pizza and coffee before we head out, no not the hot kind, the cold ice cream type coffee. Before I left I went to the pet store to get a gerbil for my Wee brother Giancarlo because it was his birthday. So I sumgled the gerbil over the border and rabbani wanted to pet it and like vintage rabbani moments, the gerbil bit his ass, and he's all startled, complaining, and bleeding. haha. This guy is too hillarious. It's five of us, driving back, me being the driver... my truck. I live in belize city the only one too! Rabbani is from belmopan the capital which is a hour away after you reach belize. and pancho and jarrel are from orange walk which is an hour before you reach belize. So i dropped off pancho and jarrel first. and on my way heading out of orange walk and on my way to belize... this huge ass truck was heading in the opposite direction. we were on a curve. i thought he was gonna pass by me, so i lowered my headlights from the high beam to not blind him. Before I could react this truck is somehow now on my lane on a head on collision to me. I hit the brake as hard as I can, the car begins to slide. All i can see is his head lights due to the fact that his truck is soo massive, i'd have to bend my neck up to just see his windshield. His head lights get closer, oh no.. I'm dead....

Domanick's Theorem

2007-03-08T15:25:00.000-06:00

Well today was the day, day of days, do or die. I had my first Algorithms test. For those of you that I've not already informed, Algorithms is like my hardest class this semester. What's worse is that I skip every class I get the chance to, to do non sense, and I don't pay attention when I do attend. Instead... I surf the web, mainly wikipedia and read other things I am WAAY more interested in.

So yup, last week he gave us the test outline and when I saw it I nearly flipped out, it was so freaking hard... I for sure thought I would fail this test for sure, for sure. So I'm studying like crazy this morning, haha yeah I chose to study the morning of the test, and I notice all my friends are like experts in the class, how? I don't know because none of us understood much really. I guess they were experts in bullshit.

Test was uh, I'd say 15 minutes ago. Funny thing I think I did extremely well....

a lil bit too easy if you ask me.

My Hypothesis :

I can fuck around all I want and I will always do good.

Today I aced the test... QED "quod erat demonstrandum"

I am an IDIOT!

2007-03-06T04:18:00.000-06:00

Ok, ok, so I think I'm pretty sure I'm a clutz. See I had the biggest doozy ever tonight or last night rather. I was checking out my pickup/truck/vehicle whatever you call the bastard. It's a mitsubishi L200 pickup and well I overhauled it basically. New engine parts, new seats in the inside, different design in the inside, new paint job, new windshield etc... So yeah I was checking it out because it had just been painted.

The fnishing touches so to speak.... It was the only thing left to do. So Yeah I'm mumbling now; so the truck was on a ramp right and you know there is a big gap between the ramps under the wheels where the mechanics can push their head and stand under. So it's pitch black at the mechanics and my car is up the ramp and i climb up and because I couldn't see clear and it was so dark and the fact i was totally oblivious to the fact I was on the ramp because I was so into checking out the car i stepped into the gap and POOF!

I fell... hard! Luckily I didn't fall sideways hitting my head or anything, I just bruised my back and right calf really bad and I got bad burns from the concrete rubbing the skins of my bone. The part that hurts the most is me right calf, back of my right lef? you know the spot! It burns!!! I threw hydrogen peroxide and some other ointments on it and it just foams hahaha! And second in pain is my back, its the only spot that had deep cuts, and there is an abrasion in the middle of my back but its not a cut, why? It's an ABRASION and it BURNS!!!! Thirdly this spot doesnt hurt as much, just a slight sting but, it right on top of my fucking tattoo man! I hope it doesn't fuck it up and I have to redo it CRAP!

anyhow some pics maybe?

..... i somehow can't figure how to get pics in a specific location of a blog entry i can only get it on the top... this sucks, I hope there is the option to put it anywhere between text; if you know how, comment on it eh?

Blargh

2007-02-17T07:43:00.000-06:00

Let's see what's going on right about now....

Hmn well last night I had to repair my operating system on my laptop and because I was only gonna repair it, I didn't bother backing up any data because you don't need to if its a simple repair. So somewhere in the repair it fucks up because the windows xp CD I had was damaged. So instead of installing the regular windows xp professional I had to install windows UE, and to do that I needed to reformat...NOOO!!!

Yep all my data was lost. Luckily its just my laptop, I don't really use it for much but chatting, school work, and music; since its so portable. So I have all my music backed up on my desktop. The only real thing of value I lost were the promethius and bob cartoons and my zelda wallpapers....gah!

Now I've just gotten up for the day and I'm typing this blog while that boring ass movie king kong is playing in the background in the living room, and I have work like in an hour. I think I'm just gonna wing it and show up with my sleeping clothes and throw on a pants. haha. I'm so lazy right now.

bai

First

2007-02-13T10:44:00.000-06:00

I've had many blogs sadly. I can't remember which this is.... maybe my 9th? Hopefully I keep up with this one.

Blogs are nice, stress relievers.

Nothing to say for this entry really.

I'm early at school in the library just wasting time on my laptop.... my classes begin in the next uh.... 5 hours? So yes I have lots and loads of time to waste.

bai