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For a change, I went to Konica Digital at Glorieta. It was right in front of the right side of SM. I wanted to know if they were scanning negatives as high as the scans at Konica Digital in Greenbelt. Second, I wanted to find out if the fee was cheaper.

Here is a table for comparison:

So, here’s the catch. That P150 fee was supposed to be a package called “Scan to CD” – meaning, the developing fee of a roll of film is already included, the scanning, and the CD.. all for P150; and an additional smaller amount for succeeding rolls.

But that night, I chanced upon the cousin of the owner. She was a fair Chinese lady and we got along very well because she wasn’t snotty or anything. So, I asked her if their fee was the same with KD Greenbelt, she wasn’t sure. One of the saleslady was telling me about the original fee but of course, she wouldn’t argue with Ms. Chinese.. so she scrammed out of the situation.

I had two rolls of film to be developed, a 36 and a 24.. and to fill up the 40 frames for the 24, I had another 24 negative frames to include. She agreed when I offered to pay the same fee I pay at the other store.. and she even asked me if I have other negatives I’d like to be scanned because she will make it “unlimited” for me (that’s the word she used). I had the nicest smile in my head because I have a room full of unscanned negatives. I just hope that she is there when I come back.

Another thing that made me want to switch here was that the job is done in an hour or so.. unlike at Greenbelt, it would take 3 days or more.

Even if the scans here at KD Glorieta is 25% less in resolution than in KD Greenbelt, it’s still not that bad.. considering everything. Plus, it’s closer from MRT Ayala Ave. So far, KD has the cheapest fee for these kinds of services.

I wouldn’t talk about KD Market! Maket!

What could beat a chemical formula?

The longest official word ever (1,913 letters) is the term for the formula C₁₂₈₉H₂₀₅₁N₃₄₃O₃₇₅S₈. Source

Why does it feel cool when you’re sporting some band-aid on your face? Even taking medications is like a stage play.. spotlight on you. It feels popular to be assisted by crutches.

It doesn’t matter if it was a motocross accident or just a banana peel that got you. If you survived and getting better, you feel you’re one of those people living on the edge. Tough bastard.

For the second time after I can’t remember how long my head became dizzy. I fell down the track as the train’s headlight flashed before my eyes. If this wasn’t just my imagination, it would have been my whole life that flashed.

I spent the whole night at MRT Shaw Blvd. station. One. Two. Three. Four.. trains have passed me by. People flowed inwards every train stop and still I chose not to push along. I was waiting for a less crowded car; and finally, after almost thirty minutes my ride home arrived.

Next to Diana Krall, I was hooked with Eva Cassidy’s voice. Sometimes you can’t describe why you like something. At first sight, you just do.

What A Wonderful World (Live at Blues Alley) suits the subdued weather today.

I took a drug the whole day yesterday. I found my hands and legs moving on their own. No breakfast, no lunch. My tummy was qualmish way past noon and I just remembered bribing it. Before nine in the evening, I wanted to take off and buy some dinner.

I wasn’t relieved that the sky had stopped weeping. I prefer the coldness of rain.

So here I was at Van Lloyd’s (cousin of Jim Bob) carinderia. It is the ultimate one-stop stomach stuff (at least for commoners like me).

Anyway, I should be babbling about the drug. All the while, it looked like a stimulant as I was staring at it. I wished it answered me back and said that it was going to munch me, then swallow me in gloom.

The first symptom was shoulder blade ache then drowsiness. Followed by some quirky people making sounds by clearing their throats.

The best thing it did was it thought me how to convert this page to XHTML 1.0 Transitional. So there are tons of slashes and quotation marks underneath this page.

Ironically, the day ended when I slept the day after.

I’ll be retreating back to our province for remorse.

The [words enclosed in quotation marks] were from my friends, acquaintances, and some people I personally know by their names.

I was digging some journal entries and letters and found some useful insights I could share with myself. I prefer withholding their names for security reasons (my own).

I had so much trouble fixing the conflict between the JavaScript code in the gallery page and this DTD line in the same document.

In IE 6, the gallery had a bottom scrollbar which looked well off.. yes, well off. Firefox 1 displayed everything fine.

CSS and HTML code editing were futile. At first I thought it was the padding in CSS that was buggering me off but it wasn’t.

To solve it, I created a smaller problem. I made the DTD a comment tag. I got rid of the annoying bottom scroll bar in IE 6 but the gallery page wouldn’t validate correctly in XHTML. Who cares?

In this situation, I discovered a lot of differences between IE 6 and Firefox 1 when it comes to displaying the same document. I must not enumerate them in a 410px width such as this. I’d rather get used to using Firefox.

Just speak

until your mouth froths with flowers

and butterflies.

As elusive as the one I’m trying to touch,

your eyes have the same flutter.

We eat with eagerness of what is on our table.

The butterflies, the flowers, they disappear.

And finally, I have your eyes.

It is sudden sadness that illuminates them.

It is the tingle of your spoon that fills the marble floor.

I feel them – the fall

and the realization that this dinner

is a banquet for two.

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Originally published in happyobituary.blogspot.com.