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Jeepney Workers and Beggars
6:10 a.m. 7-11 in Cebu
Got an awesome night of sleep last night. I woke up fully refreshed and feeling great, but I still have ghost images in my left eye. Who knows? It might be a permanent part of my life now. It doesn’t affect distance vision all that much. A very annoying side-effect is that my prescription glasses are now all wonky for my …
A New Internet Cafe in Cebu
There is a crazy homeless dude outside the 7-11 window this morning. He’s got dirty rasta-style locks of hair going down to his waist. Black skin from the layers of dirt. Wearing one flip-flop on his right foot. Holding two flip-flops in his hands. I haven’t seen this guy too often. I saw him yesterday, and he nearly ran right into me. That’s one thing …
A Neighborhood in Downtown Cebu
This morning, I came into the 7-11 to find the place almost completely empty. Unfortunately, there were four customers in line at the counter – worse, they were 4 senior citizen customers! Oh, man, did the 7-11 clerks take a long time to finish dealing with them. They used not only ID to get the senior citizen discount but also some special 7-11 discount card. …
Thoughts from a 7-11 in Cebu
It’s 7 in the morning and I’m sitting at one of many neighborhood 7-11’s in Cebu City. It’s like I’m back in Taiwan. But not really. In fact, being at a 7-11 tends to heighten some local characteristics, as I can compare it to the 7-11s in Taiwan. As you can probably guess, in every comparison, the Filipino version comes up short.
My biggest complaint (as …
Double Vision and a Trip to the Hospital
Seemingly out of nowhere, I’ve started to have trouble with my eyes. It was probably a gradual process that I just didn’t notice, but it doesn’t feel that way. It feels like I woke up one morning and suddenly couldn’t see very well. The problem was mainly in my left eye, where I was experiencing double vision or ghost images. It was pretty bad and …
Fire Sweeps Through Neighborhood in Cebu City
A fire broke out on Tuesday evening (March 18, 2014) in a tightly-packed residential area in Barangay Lorega in Cebu City in the Philippines. According to newspaper reports, 500 homes were destroyed, leaving as many as 7,000 people homeless. Not surprisingly, despite staying just a few blocks from this area, I was completely unaware of the calamity until a couple of days later. Disasters seem …
“WordPress Popular Posts” Plugin Returning Unrealistically High Numbers
(Note: I found a solution to this problem. Skip to the update at the bottom of this post to see what I did to fix it.)
A long time ago, I installed the plugin WordPress Popular Posts on this blog. Then I totally forgot it was there. But over the last few days, I’ve been going over the tech side of this blog (with varying rates …
Time to Rant: WordPress
In my WordPress theme, there is a Widget that allows me to put posts from certain categories into the sidebar. I decided I had a use for this widget, and I installed it. The result? The darn thing doesn’t work properly. Of course it doesn’t. Nothing I do ever seems to work when it comes to WordPress.
The intriguing and maddening aspect to this trend is …