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My desire in updating my homepage is lost again. For more than 2 weeks I never made any changes here except for adding the NoXQz page (my college group). By that span of time, I was pretty busy hacking my Linux boxes. I was pissed off with my Slackware due to lack of available documentations and support, so I tried to use my old-buddy Redhat. Now, I’m running RHL 6.2 using kernel 2.2.16 and applying latest security patches in my 3 toy servers. I installed the minimum program to run the box and manually installed other specific needed program using latest tarballs (not rpm). It rocks with maximum optimization for Pentium III processor and 128MB RAM. Security-wise this is really secured using SSH in replacement of Telnet for my remote administration and closing all unused ports plus using a strict firewall rule “Everything not specifically permitted are all denied” for each server.

I’ll never say goodbye to my very reliable Slackware, I just tried Redhat for fun.

Happy fiesta to all Pandananon. Barayle kita, basta maing araway! Don’t forget to attend mass.

This weekend I spend almost all my time playing Play Station. Yesterday from 2:30pm to 9:30pm and today 1:00pm to 6:00pm. ‘Twas cool and fun. I really enjoyed it. I guess, this will be my new past time.

To all my ICQ friends, I want to say goodbye to all of you. You will not find me online again. As I observed my time was not properly invested in chatting in ICQ. The original purpose of my ICQ is to communicate to my family and real-life friends and ex-colleagues but as time goes, I collected couple of tens of unknown friends out there. I care for all our friendship but its just my time is very limited. Please find time to email me if you still want communication, but I bet you’ll not, coz your thinking I’m sucker. Peace be with you all! If I were you, I’ll not waste my time doing social stuffs here on the net, there’s lot of information you can find here. Your brain is Hungry!

Whatta night… first we went to church to attend evening mass… then go around the city until we felt the hunger. But we want a place we never been… and that’s Chinese restaurant in Oasis Hotel. Is that a Hotel? I dunno, seems it’s an Entertainment Club. The place is kinda weird, it looks like a Temple House outside but once you go in… hehehe.. it’s like a shoddy night spot in PH. There’s one girl dressed in Chinese in the entrance and asked us “Are you sure you are not a military and you’re above 25?” I felt little nerve since I’m only 24 and maybe she will ask for my Residence Permit and it will show there my real age. Good thing, some other guests arrived and made her busy. When we enter another door, I hear a song of Jessa Zaragoza that bring fellow Filipps inside wild (personally it sucks, i hate those kind of song ehhh)… Oh boy this place is unimaginable existing in this place…

The band playing looks familiar to me - when I had an opportunity talking w/ the band members, I found that they’re “Moon Shadow Band” performing before in Pizza House(s) (chain) in Olongapo, and Hard Rock Subic in PH – my hangout place while working in Acer. They’re great specially the keyboard and lead guitarist. Well the female vocalist, should be consider as a dancer not a singer.

I drink couple of fresh fruit juice and big bottle of mineral water, while my friend finished 5 beer cans. I’m not feeling well last night – having slight fever and I’m pretty worried who will gonna drive - I nominated myself.

Went home 1am, shower to freshen myself, and say good night (morning) to our company’s server by checking and clearing logs remotely – when I found my sister in UK is online in ICQ. I greet her, but she’s not my sister! “Hey this is Neth, I’m using your sister’s PC”. We chat for a while until maybe she felt bored talking with me, she pass it to Daisy. They are beautiful and young nurses making money in UK. I met Daisy last time I went for vacation in PH, while Neth is a new friend to me. Stay cool gals, talk to you next time.

Finally, my bed scream at almost 3am.

Expect new section in my homepage dedicated to my college group NoXQz. Vivian our muse in this group (please no objection to Johanna, Jesila and Lalaine, I just want to motivate Vivian) suggested to add this section for us to have one page in the web. Hey Babes, plan for it and contact Jhun our president and we can post here anything including our CVs for possible job hunting. Let me know of any developments.

This weekend will be just a resting day for me. I still have slight fever and I’ll slow down myself. How fascinating our body reminds us how vulnerable we are, and we should take care of it to stay us sane. If tomorrow I’m still not feeling well, Manoy please gimme prescription.

After posting and uploaded my new (look) web page with only one uncool page, it’s amazing that one netizen happened to visit my old website, send me an email and according to him… ”I was surprised when I return back to your home page – different page opened! I thought your home page was hacked…“

Bwahaha… (lol). C’mon friend get real, who the hell will gonna find interest hacking this site. But yah ur right, I hacked this site.

Well, he mentioned that I should include (back) my old sections ‘coz according to him ’twas cool. That’s great! For a long time this homepage sleeping here and I guess no one visiting or finding interest - no wonder since even me don’t want to visit my own hp. I was really surprised when I received that email requesting to bring back my old stuffs… I’m flattered. hik hik!

Last night, I went out for a great dinner, farewell party of my colleague Ayesha our Systems Analyst. She will move to US and find her fortune to an icy place. Good luck Ayesha, wish you all the luck. Virtually we can still be together…

I saw two movies today. I saw Matrix (this was my x3) and Mission Impossible 2. I was somewhat disappointed with MI2…it had a certain Scooby Doo quality to it. But the John Woo stuff outweighed that.

I’m still struggling in my Linux firewall script setup. It seems all rules are properly set but when I’m testing in real time, still it sucks. Bad day today, hope something good will happened at least before the weekend here over.