2008-01-29

unpublished work

I was sorting thru my Outlook Drafts folder (my scratch pad), and noticed this (I believe) unpublished "words". It doesn't look like I finished this, and I probably won't -- so I will just post it:

two feet apart, they've been gazing at each other's face for hours,

he's sitting in front of her with his hands touching her skin.

but today is different, he would give signals and take them back before she could even react.

she knows his mind is somewhere else but she can't do anything but wait.

their relationship had been developed in a way that she can't question his intention.

she submits to everything he wants, and provide him anything he asks,

slaved in a partnership that no one could claim to be fair.

she's born to be with him for life, but he could always ditch her in seconds

in exchange for a more adorable, and more capable one...

dated Sept 23, 2004, I have titled this "marriage between man and machine", but don't want to spoil your reading so I decided to mention it at the end of this post

2008-01-11

Parental Control - the one reason so far why I love Vista

I'm always a late adapter when it comes to Operating Systems (specifically Windows). To prove, I was still using Windows 2000 on my main machine until it broke down last November. So last Boxing day, I was forced to buy a new desktop -- and of course, all PC's now come with Vista installed. I bought a C2D 4400 w/ Vista Premium and to my surprise the set-up has been painless so far. And the Parental Control, which you won't miss during the initial OS configuration steps, has been a blessing! Before, there is no way for us to limit our two kids on using the computer and they fight over who should be using it (I know, this is more of a shortcoming on our end), but now they have their own sched and they get booted out automatically once their time is up. I was painful for them at the first few days but now they've gotten used to it. That alone is worth the bucks that I paid for the PC =) Now if only Microsoft would patch this feature soon so that I could schedule a different time for different days...