Archive for February, 2006


Server Maintenance + DDoS

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006
The blog has been down intermittently over the past few days as my host was undergoing some maintenance on the 18th. Following that, it was facing a DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) attack, and this is the announcement that has been made by my hosting provider:

"The attack may take a little while to peter out (up to [...]

K.I.S.S.

Sunday, February 19th, 2006
Keep it simple, stupid.

Last night I was chatting with my best friend and he said something which really made me sit up and think, and re-evaluate a lot of things.

The older you get, the more complicated things become. Is it really that way? Or do we complicate things ourselves?

"Nat, you think too much. Why don't [...]

The Retired Actor

Friday, February 17th, 2006
Writing has always been cathartic for me, be it fact or fiction. Since my writing of "fictional" prose started with the post, "Writings in the air", future entries like this shall be classified under a category of the same name. And so now I present another tale of mine, another yarn I spin, another page [...]

Valentine’s Day

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006
I woke up this morning amidst bleepin' incoming texts on my mobile wishing me "Happy Valentine's Day". I was grouchy and irritable and Grinch-like because, as usual, that damned Cupid missed me again.

I don't know if it was deliberate, or whether my Cupid is so pa-chiao (cock-eyed) that his arrow keeps on missing.

I think I [...]