One Big Five

Congratulations to the Ateneo Blue Eagles for winning the UAAP Season 75 Basketball championships!

I only got to watch one game this year and only on TV (not live *sad face*). All the other times I was out busy doing something or in the office "watching" through Twitter while working. Nonetheless, I have always been a supporter of the team. Good job guys! Ang sarap maging Atenista! One big fight! One big five!

Semi-rant Post

Stress levels are like woah since last week. I have two weeks left until my leave starts for the wedding and both weeks are already full of stuff for work. I am not as worried on the wedding stuff since we're more or less set already (I think) with only some details to finalize.

Funny, though, both Jex and I will be paneling for project defenses a week before our wedding. It's, honestly, a welcome break from real world work. I look forward to telling students that their problems can be solved by the all powerful MS Excel.

Quiznos at the Fort - Now Open!

Quiznos at Bonifacio High Street is finally open! I only found out because I saw it when I was walking around BHS while waiting for my sister last night.

I will, hopefully, be posting my full review later tonight.

Scammers Galore

The Free GC

A week ago or so I got a call from an unknown number on my mobile phone. I answered it despite the unknown number because sometimes they're valid calls from people I do know.

So a woman answers and introduces herself (but I can't remember her name now) and says that I've qualified to win a GC for a stay at the Crown Regency hotels. She goes on to explain the details and says that she just needs me to answer several questions. I can't remember all the questions she asked because it all sounded normal to me. I just remember her asking when my last vacation was (both local and international) and where I went as well as my income (which I declined to give). I asked how they got a hold of my contact details and she just said that "maybe" one of my friends referred me. I honestly don't remember any other details aside from that. I was most probably very busy that day and was dealing with a lot of stuff at work so I didn't think much of it. I also didn't sense anything fishy that time because I knew Crown Regency and we went there for the Sky Adventure a few years ago in Cebu. I forgot about the call.

Earlier this afternoon I got another call from another woman who introduced herself as "Andy". She reminded me of the first call from "Daisy" and told me that I had won the GC for a stay at any of their Crown Regency hotels. She rambles on about the details of the prize, saying that it has no expiry date, that I can use it to stay in Crown Regency Cebu or Davao, and that I just need to claim it from their office. So easy! She tells me where their office is and what time I can claim it. She also told me there was going to be a free buffet dinner for us. She also told me I need to claim it by tomorrow. Why? *shrugs* I just told her I'll see if I can make it and told her to text me the details. My spider senses were tingling.

I Googled around and found a bunch of blog entries about them. Then I got the text from "Andy" and confirmed that it was indeed the same scheme being described in the different blogs.

Anticipating

I have never finished Torchlight. Yes, I'm lame. I've spent hours and hours playing the game and I haven't finished it. But it is an awesome game.

In 9 hours Torchlight 2 unlocks on Steam. New character classes and multiplayer! I AM SO EXCITED. I'll probably make my first character an Outlander. I just love 'em pistols and daggers, plus magic!

9 hours from now, though, it will be around 2 a.m. in Manila, so I probably won't be able to play just yet. Hopefully the weekend will allow me to, at least, open it up and create a character.