Getting Cyber geeky... once again!

I almost did nothing for today. My day started by going to my volunteer work. I biked all my way amidst the strong snowfall. I forgot to bring my bonnet; neither could I use my umbrella while riding the bike as it would be very dangerous to drive it with only one hand as the road was very slippery. But thanks heavens that I was able to come to the place safely. I taught Japanese today to a Filipina child. We had a simple lesson for today, but it seemed that she was ahving a hard time answering the exercises. The child looks smart. But according to her, as there are lots of lessons being pushed into her head, she can barely remember everything. While we were discussing the lesson, a group of media people came and interviewed me and the child for their documentary program. We were both shy and nervous as the interview was in Japanese.

By 12 o'clock, we finished our lesson and I just had lunch in an affordable fast food stop. After going back to my place, I checked my mails and chatted with some friends. By 3:30 pm, I hurried to catch the free shuttle bus to the supermarket and I did my grocery for the week.

Going back to my room, I immediately tried my new webcam and microphone. To my surprise, the microphone was working but the camera was not. It seemed like it was not compatible to Yahoo! Messenger. But I could use it with MSN Messenger.

Late at night I remembered my Obando website. I created a website about my hometown a long time ago and I thought of putting English, Spanish and Japanese versions on the web. At least those are the languages that I pretty understand aside from my mother tongue. While I was searching for my webpage (I already forgot the URL.), I saw another webpage containing the exact material as mine. I want to mention it here that a person copied my web pages and claimed that he redesigned it. Poor boy, by just changing the background picture, he was taking part of the credit. He mentioned that the original design was mine but he never informed me that he would be using my webpages for his own homepage. Oh well, here is the URL of the perpetrator: http://www.geocities.com/albinoski/obando.html.

Mine is http://www.geocities.com/obando81.

Now launching my English to Japanese/Japanese to English translator software, and AltaVista’s Babel fish translator as my aids, I am painstakingly translating the Tagalog material about Obando to English, then to Spanish and lastly to Japanese. Let us see if the cyber thief will still rob my work.

I am getting serious into making my Obando web pages a nice one. I am also thinking of going back to the Philippines to take more pictures of the Obando church. I also want to make more research about the Obando fertility dance. I am also hoping that I can find video clips featuring the dance. Aside from this, I am also planning to include church information regarding our church here in Yamagata. I hope to upload the developments soon. My a-few-years old HTML genes are now getting in action again. I first learned HTML in the UP Math Department when we were supposed to build the department's website but due to unexpected circumstances, the project did not pushed through. Anyway, the little training I had led to the creation of my own webpage.

January 23, 2005
Yamagata City, Japan