ONAT LOPERA

Tomorrow’s the big day! I’ll undergo another eye operation and this time to get rid of the cataract on my left eye.

Yep, I have a cataract. Wasn’t it the eye problem associated with old age? Yes, but I, or my eye, developed it after I had a Vitrectomy (where 3 tubes pierced my left eye) a few years back to fix my blood, fats and protein laced vitreous humor (liquid inside the eye).

As what we were told, my case is a perfect candidate for the procedure due to my age. Heals fast and high success rate. Before, cataract removal involves slices and scrapping of some sort. But thank goodness to modern technology, it is now as less invasive requiring a really short recovery time. The procedure is called Phacoemulsification; it is the removal, in my case, of the cloudy lens to be followed by an intraocular lens implant (IOL) to replace what is to be taken out. The procedure is to be performed under local anesthesia and often with mild sedation. It’s an out-patient procedure that would last about 15-30 minutes as per my doctor. The procedure would take place at the Quezon City Eye Center, using the Alcon Infiniti Vision System (as what I was told). I hope I would be the first one to be under the knife sort of speak because I won’t be the only one scheduled tomorrow and I don’t enjoy waiting. I was curious about the operation so I sought and found a video of the procedure using the same system and it was quite a watch; popcorn optional.

Everything is ready; my papers, the transportation (arranged by the clinic) and yours truly, I just hope they put a lot of anesthesia on my eye. Hehe I hate pain.

If all goes well, I’ll be back at work by Thursday.

PS.
I’ll be posting updates through my Twitter account so I put my recent tweets on the spotlight temporarily on top. And If you’re on Facebook and you’re my friend, you’ll get a taste of the action also. LOL

Wish me luck.

Globe Broadband hates me when I’m using P2P. Don’t know how they did it but it is the case now. I read on a tech blog regarding the same issue. There were mentions of an ISP caps which “could” probably be applied. Almost the same time I read that, I started noticing that my connection drastically slowed down also.

I have my uTorrent on auto-launch since I bought this computer and there were no issues whatsoever with my connection. It was on the background leeching and seeding at the same time. But then pages started to load really really slow. Even the main Google site took 20 seconds to load on an “up to” 1MBPS connection. So I investigated on it. I disabled the auto-launch of my torrent client, closed it and boom, surfing was zippy again. The result was instant.

I wondered how the heck they did it. I even thought of maybe installing their remote app, Click Fix, would solve the problem. But I couldn’t even install the damn thing; it says that it cannot detect my modem which I previously selected on a list earlier on the program setup. Stupid app.

On a different note: I setup a Globe Tattoo on my neighbor’s house and the Tattoo app has a lot of grammatical errors. Someone forgot to check the alert dialogs. Fail.

Back to P2P, I also tried Limewire. Downloaded, installed and searched for some music. As soon as it was downloading the file, browsing became abysmal. By then I’m convinced.

I need to get the stuff I need somewhere else, but that’s already in the bag, sort of speak. I just can’t do torrent and surf anymore, I could still do them separately.

So how’s your Globe Broadband connection lately?

I tweeted it as soon as we got our of the theaters, the movie sucked a lot.
So where the heck did it went wrong? In almost everything.

The movie did look it was made for IMAX and because of that, most CG stuff do float in front. Not 3D but more like a bad composition with live action shots. It looks carnoonish, looks cheap. Sound was kind of overdone, most of the score was insignificant. Story was the most stupid, the first one was better than this.

A lot of what the movie have were unnecessary. It is definitely a potboiler. Sucky sucky potboiler. blah!

A while back (probably late last year), I created a list of movies that I had watched; to keep track of them and if time permits, write a review. The list grew and grew and delay after delay, the list grew longer. They’re populating my list and so to scratch them all off, here’s the bunch (in alphabetical order) on a long overdue post.

Ladies and gents, brace yourselves for an avalanche.

1. 10 MPH - US cross-country on a Segway. Great documentary.
2. American Teen - Another documentary about American high school teens.
3. Baby Mama
4. Bolt
5. The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
6. Dark Knight
7. Departures (Okuribito) - Great movie from Japan. Highly Recommended.
8. Half Nelson - Good drama.
9. Happy Go Lucky - This will lighten up anyone who watches this. Great lead performance also.
10. Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
11. House Bunny - Funny.
12. Kung Fu Panda
13. La Vie En Rose - Amazing performance by Marion Cotillard. Great classic french music all throughout the movie.
14. Lars and The Real Girl - This one is good. Wow, this is the second Ryan Gosling movie on this list. Do you know the other one?
15. The Last House on the Left - Nice remake. Brutal.
16. The Legend of 1900 - A Giuseppe Tornatore movie with an Ennio Morricone score, need I say more?
17. Loner (Hikikomori) - Korean horror, so-so.
18. Meet Dave
19. Miss March - Crazy crazy. LOL
20. Nick And Nora’s Infinite Playlist - Sweet and predictable.
21. Paris, Je T’aime - A movie with 22 directors in all, each have about 6 minutes or so per segment; each one different from the other with only one underlying theme, love. It was concluded wonderfully with the last segment, my favorite of all. It’s perfect.
22. Pineapple Express
23. Ploning - Beautiful yet predictable. IMHO, the Philippines could have had a bigger chance on the Oscars with Caregiver.
24. Rachel Getting Married - Anne Hathaway was amazing on this movie.
25. Terminator Salvation - Who would have thought McG did this?! LOL Well made, OK plot.
26. Trainspotting - Early Danny Boyle. Great movie!
27. The Unborn
28. The Uninvited - Predictable.
29. Yes Man

I linked only a few, only the not-so-mainstream ones for those who are unfamiliar.

Phew! That was a lot! Now on with their tags. LOL

I’ve been wanting to shoot Tanker for a while now. Had the time last weekend so here’s a B&W vintage FED 3B camera porn.

Prepare for some bokeh overload.

View more of the ‘Tanker - My Vintage FED 3B’ photoset

Google Philippines commemorates Philippines’ Independence Day. Google Philippines FTW!