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Wednesday, June 20, 2007
friendster, myspace, multiply, hi5, now facebook?
my roommate and my brother both use my accounts on these websites because they don’t wanna get their own… and i understand why. i’m not really into these find-your-friend websites. yet… i do have a friendster account cuz it was the first one and i thought it’d be nice to say hi to my friends that way.
then myspace turned out to be the better way to keep in touch with what my students were doing. plus i found so many old friends and classmates through it. i don’t even use my friendster account anymore.
then i joined multiply cuz my multiply was the easiest way to share photo albums.
then i found out all my friends from ecuador were on hi5, so of course i had to join that. i found my “hermanas” and my “primas” there - found out that one of them had kids, while the younger sisters are now done with high school. was it really that long ago?
now i’m getting requests from wrm (who remembers me?) and facebook.
but i really would rather have my friends find me by googling my name - i mean, this blog should be the first thing that shows up when you do that. plus, if i’m on myspace and multiply and hi5 then how much trouble can any one person have finding me?
but even though i’ve held off for this long and ignore the multiple requests form wrm and facebook, and as much as i don’t really like the entire genre of websites, i’m still grateful for all the friends i’ve lost throughout time that i’ve reconnected with thru these websites.
cuz let’s face it - i’m not the best person to keep in touch. in fact, i’m the person that gathers everyone’s email address then never emails anyone! i lose phone numbers, i don’t call many people and i was never good at being pen pals. brandy has called ecuador so many times and has even gone back to visit and i… well, i’m just happy i found their pages on hi5 so that i can see what my ecuadorian family is doing =)
so even though i don’t really wanna be part of those web communities, i’m so ever grateful for being able to find my friends again.
Sunday, June 11, 2006
new favorite comics
i’ve been checking comics online at united media since… hmm… since i graduated college in 2001! but while i was bored last night, i found some real gems that i’d never read before. wow… i’ve missed out on 5 years of sarcastic humor and just general dorkiness =) you can bet they’ll be on my list of stuff to check everyday from now on.
here are some good ones…
f minus
this one was pretty good, too, and while i probably -shouldn’t- be laughing at some of them cuz i’m a teacher, they’re just so refreshingly irreverent =) hahahahaha....
moderately confused
this is -SO- me
and off the mark.
kudos to you if you get this one
hope you enjoy ‘em as much as i did!
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
how many words can you find?
last night we had tuesday night dinner and poker night. so many people showed up this week! it was really awesome… kat and jayson came over early to help me cook and kat made some ginger chicken and jayson sauteed the bakchoy with tomatoes and onions. but what was really cool was that kat, rita, shelia, and marlene were all there, in addition to jayson, mark schatzschneider, gwyn, chad, chris, marc rolle, and ron. it was the first large gathering in a long time…
at the end of dinner shelia and i thought it’d be fun to join forces and play boggle online as a team, trying to improve our score and possibly get first place. in a few minutes it ended being the whole group crowded around my small 12” laptop with me at the helm, kat on my left, shelia on my right, chad, ron, marlene, and the rest behind me as i typed the words that people were shouting out at me. our score improved and we were getting within the top 10 fairly often, but we never got first place....
later that night when perry showed up he ate a late dinner and i sat next to him, playing sudoku online while keeping him company. we finished all the games for the day and then i opened up boggle again, and for our second game we broke 100! i think we got 105 points and the winner had 110? ok, so then the next time, our score was 66, and the winner was 69! it was pretty impressive that perry could match the crowds of people around me =) he’s just so smart! =) yesh, he is… =)
anyways, we played a couple more games till we got this one:
i know, it’s a low score, but we got first place! that’s the actual board that we got all our words on.
you get 1 point for 4-letter words
2 pts for 5-letter words
3 pts for 6-letter words
5 pts for 7-letter words
11 pts for 8-letter words and larger
how many can you get?
Sunday, March 12, 2006
weird visitors
i’ve been amused by what brings people to my friends’ blogs, since “italian haircut fetish” searches bring readers to BRY, and i know that camacho.tv has had their share of weird search results… but until recently, i only noticed that people would google “kimi puen” to find the link to my page, and someone even searches for “kimi puen net” to find my page. as if it would be that hard to remember/type in “kimi.puen.net” into the location bar… but some people just prefer to google my name instead.
however, recently, i’ve been noticing weird searches resulting in what i would think would be disappointed visitors. i mean, someone who searched for “xanga basketball “fouled out”“ wouldn’t have found a xanga site but just my blog with a couple entries about basketball. i briefly mentioned that i had run into ed CABANATAN last week, and some time ago i had written “eewwwwww” which was apparently what someone was searching for. the weirdest one so far, though, has been someone who looked for “baby kimi needs her diaper change photos” and somehow came to my website. i’m sure i’ve said all those words at one time or another, but not in that particular order.... and so i have no idea what this person is looking for… but i’m pretty sure it’s not my site!
weird, ain’t it?
EDIT: so apparently i’m also #91 in the yahoo search for “meg ryan’s apartment in the movie you’ve got mail". what possesses someone to google that string of words and then browse all the way to the 91st entry barely related to that?
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
yummmm....
http://epicureandebauchery.blogspot.com
oh my gulay! this lady loves food just as much as i do! all of her posts are about food.... including pictures. yehey!!! makes me hungry… (i guess that’s not -that- hard to do! hahahha)
isn’t her site yummy?
Monday, December 05, 2005
similar minds
yesterday perry and i spent alotta time just browsing online and taking personality quizzes and surveys like the one that mandy took. we just answered that one out loud to each other, but this particular website had a bunch of personality tests and intelligence tests that we ‘competed’ on. and yeah… according to the Number Pattern Intelligence Test, he’s more intelligent than me. =( he scored in the 88th percentile or something like that, while i was only in the 46th. =) that’s ok, i took the Visual Pattern Intelligence Test, and i scored in the 90’s.
another interesting test is the compatibility test on that same website, where you answer 45 questions about your personality and then it tells you how similar the two of you are, and then it tells you how compatible you two are together (no, those aren’t the same things. we could be 100% similar but not compatible with each other). you can check your compatibility as friends, relationships, or both… anyways, here are our results - 2/3 similar, 2/3 compatible:
| SimilarMinds.com Compatibility Test |
Your match with you are 67% similar you are 66% complementary |
if you click on that link, you can take the test and see how similar/compatible you are to me. but hey, if you take the test, make sure you post your results, ok? or at least email me and let me know how we did =)
i have a PhD
apparently gregiskhan is a student of men, while i have apparently logged in enough hours with the guys in my life to earn my PhD.
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You Have Your PhD in Men |
 You understand men almost better than anyone. You accept that guys are very different, and you read signals well. Work what you know about men, and your relationships will be blissful. |
i think this is awesome… look, all my relationships will be blissful! =) i just need to work it! =) hahahahah… so… how well’d you do?
Sunday, October 30, 2005
lego of me
thanks to this lego generator, i’ve created a mini-me in lego form!
thanks to laura for the link!