oh hi i'm back as kmja. lolwat.

i filed an LJ customer support ticket earlier today because i was worried that my rename token might expire or something. i got a response a couple of hours ago that they manually changed my account name, instead of making me wait for 30 days. the one who contacted me assured me, though, that i would have been able to use the rename token after 30 days, but she just changed it manually in any case.

great service. ^^ shout-out to Erica of LJ Community Care for the prompt response. ^^


previous entries regarding the whole mishap:

• name revert
• name change

ROFL! i'm back to being losethesmog. XD

( the whole hilarious story! )

oh hi.

in case you were wondering how the hell i got into your flists, i used to be losethesmog. XD

i just wanted a shorter username, that's all. i wanted to have my full first name as a username, but someone took it and I DON'T REALLY KNOW WHY.

but a 4-letter username is fine by me.

i used my younger brother abram's (ILUSM ♥) paypal account to buy the rename token. i convinced him to apply for a paypal account for his credit card because it's safer for online purchases, and recently he's been buying more on ebay and amazon. i helped him with his paypal registration and he went directly to ebay afterwards to look at more stuff. XD

i tried to save face (BECAUSE I SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF MYSELF BEING THE OLDER SIBLING HAVING TO USE MY YOUNGER BRO'S CREDIT CARD) and did the sisterly thing: warn him from getting too tempted to buy lots of stuff online.

..a warning which i'm not really listening to myself, going and buying a rename token, of all things. =_=

addendum: abram's also buying a hardcover copy of the graveyard book for us, in time to put into a balikbayan box they're sending next week. he should be sainted, really. ♥

i am ridiculously pleased with the fact that my 3-year-old daughter now knows how to manipulate a mouse and play dress-up flash games on the PC.

but now she wants to always play on my laptop, and is exercising another newfound skill: using emotional blackmail. O_O

she's past the stage of throwing tantrums when she doesn't get what she wants, now she'll just look at you and say, "mommy.. laro ako mouse sa computer.. (let me play with mouse on the computer..) pwease.. *sniff*"

hahahaha ..huhu. T_T

i have mixed feelings about 2009.

i am not too pleased that the first thing i hear is that year of the ox is bad for both year of the pig (me) and year of the sheep (aru), so for us it's like, prepare for double whammy. >.>

i want to feel optimistic, because 2008 had its lows, but they're definitely outweighed by the blessings.

yeah, okay, it doesn't hurt to be extra careful and save as much as we can and just amble along 2009 with a steady mind and steady heart, etc. etc., but damn it's disheartening to hear bad things right off the bat.

anyway.

on to a more important matter: my 2009 planner. XD

i got a starbucks planner (red, of course) late last december for the sheer sake of getting one, but i found that it still has day-view pages, and i want my month-view planner. and not just any month-view planner - it has to have hard covers and it must fit my bag. >.>

i was about to give up and use the starbucks planner, but i finally found a month-view planner similar to my planner last year, only this time it's red and not black, which is fine by me. took me a long time scouring four different bookstores for it. >.>

so, having found my ideal planner, i don't need the starbucks one anymore. and in light of the so-called "hard times" that are coming for us pigs and sheep, it would be a shame for the starbucks planner to go to complete waste.

tl;dr: S> 1 Starbucks Planner 2009 (Red), php 1000. ^^;;;; price is negotiable. payment/delivery depends on how you want it, but i would suggest a meet-up somewhere.

best gift this christmas: time with my family.

can't get over the feeling of bone-deep satisfaction - being able to play for a long time with kaida, and cooking noche buena with aru (without help from anyone!), and exchanging gifts with aru and kuya mox while drinking red wine/rhumcoke. haha! it was amazing.

first thing on my agenda list for the christmas break: sleep. yes.

happy christmas, from our house to yours. ^^

a couple of guys came knocking on our front door yesterday afternoon. i was taking a nap and looked rather disheveled when i opened the door, and hastily put on a jacket before hearing what reason they had for disturbing my siesta (and it had better be good).

they were marketing a product, apparently. i'm inclined to turn salesmen down right at the outset, but they were talking about saving on our electricity bill. i'm always keen to listen to ways to save on bills, so i guess they got my attention. XD

i woke up aru as well and asked him to accompany me and listen to what they had to say.

they started by informing us that most appliances in the philippines were on 220V, but electricity usually spikes up to 240V to 250V during power surges or after a blackout when power suddenly comes back on. this is meralco's fault, they said. they pointed me towards our meralco meter, which had "240V" written on it. they said meralco allows surges like that to happen, so that electricity generated is greater, meaning more money for them.

their product, called starpower, corrects the flow of electricity so that it is maintained at 220V. they demonstrated by making me look at the electricity meter while they turned their machine on. there really was a noticeable slowdown in the revolution of the disc in the meter. they assured me this was because the electricity flow was corrected, regulating electricity generation at the right flow.

their machine looked like a small AVR, and you only had to plug it into one socket and it will work for the whole house. they were offering a lifetime guarantee and product support in case of problems.

the price? it was originally php 13,000 but they're offering 50% off - php 7,500. i'm thinking it's a good deal since they're promising it will reduce our php 5,000 monthly electricity bill to around php 3,000. o__o

but of course, i have my qualms. can't be too careful of scams. i asked if it was legal, they said it was. they said that if they messed with the meter or electricity line directly, that was illegal. but their product was plugged into a socket, and that it wasn't interfering with the provision of service by meralco. and it doesn't heat up or anything.

in principle, benta na sa akin. XD i just want to make sure that it's legal and safe and won't destroy my house or otherwise cause me more trouble than its worth.

i wanted to know if you guys have heard of this offer before? any known issues or what? i got their number, should i call them back and reserve a unit for our house?

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on a lighter note, while those two were speaking with us, aru strangely wouldn't get up from his seat. he told me to be the one to check the meter during the product demonstration and all.

when the salesmen were gone and we went to the kitchen to talk about the product, he pulled out a HUGE pair of scissors from his back pocket.

kimi: O__O
aru: (rubbing his back) it was poking at my butt.
kimi: but why have scissors inside your pocket??
aru: (nonchalantly) so that i have a weapon in case they turn out to be robbers or murderers, you know?
kimi: ...
aru: and one of them was a pervert, i caught him sneak a look down the gap of your jacket. he saw me looking at him and i think he sweated a little.
kimi: ......

this, i think, is primarily the reason why i should probably not live alone. i can be totally oblivious to such hazards. =__=

so last night on the way home from enchanted kingdom, dizzy from the rides and dizzy from the bus zigzagging along EDSA 11:30 pm, the song "Ulan" came up on the radio.

the only thing that my tired mind could come up, as aru and i held on tight to the seat handles, was: "pucha, ayaw kong mamatay na Cueshe ang tumutugtog sa background."

i'd start a plurk because microblogging's probably just about what i have time for right now, but i love LJ and its content too much; if i start plurking it would feel like i'm giving up on reading, too. D:

things are looking up.