Online Addictions

It's no secret, I am completely obsessed with the Internet. Everything that you can find I probably have seen it or at least heard about it. I'm on MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, etc. I subscribe to many YouTubers famous Youtubers such as Smosh, sXePhil, HappySlip, iJustine, KevJumba, NigaHiga, WhatTheBuck, HotForWords, EsmeeDenters... just to name a few. I think my obsession started with following iJustine around. I was starting to really get into Apple Products and everytime I Googled anything or searched anything she would somehow appear on the search. This chick is obsessed with Apple and Steve Jobs and anything that has to do with Apple. She's interesting and everything she advertises or recommend I'll take her word for it...

The craziest Internet Craze for me is the website Twitter. It's completely ridiculous, it's seriously just a stalker website that YOU allow for people to stalk you, you broadcast "what you're doing" and people if they choose will get your updates via their website or even on their mobile phone...

What I've been doing thanks to Twitter is BLOGTV crazy website that people would broadcast live of themselves just answering questions or anything they want to do for an hour or however long they decide to stay on... A lot of the people I watch on YouTube also broadcast live there and I just get a little more out of these people instead of seeing them recorded and edited footage they post on YouTube... It's more personal and just fun to just know that at exactly what they're doing while I'm bored at home they're just talking to the world. It's creepy I actually want to buy a webcam to perhaps do that in the future... I don't know if I'm brave enough to do that I'll probably get my cousin to join with me and see what we can do with the show...

Here's a video from OlgaKay that she made about her online Addiction... I totally feel her dude! I am on the same exact boat and seat with her...

David Cook won American Idol 7!

Congrats to David Cook winning American Idol this year! I was rooting for him from the start (check my past blog entries) while everyone kept saying how "cute" little David Archuleta was. Yeah David Archuleta had a great voice and probably could have ran with that cute image for a while David Cook was the real talent and was different than your pop singers that they usually have on the show. Here's a video he sang on the night before he won singing U2's 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For'


This video will probably be removed from YouTube soon, so if you can't play it you missed out!

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This is her latest video

Bill O'Reilly "Fucking Thing SUCKS!"

Oh man this guy is such an asshole and it's fun to watch him lose his cool haha oh man...

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Mexico Trip (Part Five): Beach

I don't really feel like typing but here's a small video of the beach we were at on the Friday (05/02/08). I'll do more blogging but today I'm not into it

OH MY F*CK... NO I shouldn't censor myself FUCK!

So uhmmm... You know how I told you all about my lost phone in Mexico trip the first night I was there? Well I got my phone bill and guess how much my bill came out to be... I'll just show you some screenshots of my bill... click the image to get the full image! FUCK YOU AT&T!



586.77!!!! 586.77!!! That is completely ridiculous, I know I was suppose to call them right as I lost the phone, but I was in Mexico on a trip and I didn't want to deal with that and it really wasn't easy getting the number to AT&T to suspend my phone when I'm on a Sprint Business Trip. So I lost my phone like on 04/30/08 around 8-9ish and here are the changes on my bill... Oh and I'm going to show you the numbers dialed, beside my numbers because who the hell am I going to call in Mexico and San Diego... I have no one I know living in those areas!





The line on the last one is where it's about the time I lost the phone... I think it might be a little lower too... Like seriously how the hell does this dude put close to 8MB of downloading on one session of browsing on my phone? I don't think I do that regularly! I'm annoyed I know I know I shouldn't called AT&T right as I lost it but I wasn't thinking correctly the whole trip... I just thought it could be returned back to the hotel and everything will be fine... NOPE didn't show up (of course) That's why I'm usually never optimistic I hate thinking that way, the world screws you over and good things usually don't always happen to good people.

When I got back from Mexico, the next day Monday (05/05/08) I called to report it stolen... They suspended my account, that was easy yeah whatever... I called again I think Tuesday to activate an old phone I had laying around said they're not able to use my old sim because once it's deactivated it's deactivated and I'll have to go to an AT&T store to get one for free... I just thought whatever I rather just wait to get my stimulas check to get me another iPhone because really... I love that phone that has been part of me so long and it's just great. Wednesday I got my money and reactivated the phone and purchased the iPhone for 599.99 (less than what I paid for, for my 8gb phone because I purchased that on the first day) and activate it through iTunes that I have done previously with my last phone. Got an email saying my AT&T bill is ready... didn't check it til tonight (05/12/08) or midnight I guess... I was SHOCKED~!! SHOCKED!!! How much my bill was it's higher than what I paid the damn phone for!

I called AT&T just a little bit ago and explain my issue and the agent (Sheila) was saying that she can only credit me 200 bucks for courtesy... yeah right, that's ridiculous, that's still almost 400 bucks I have to still pay them and the charges are even more than that... I really didn't want to escalate the call to the supervisor but I need help I can't pay this bill, I waited probably 10 minutes for the supervisor (Louis) to come on, I explained the issue all he said that he can do is send some kind of investigation ticket to the "lost and stolen" department or whatever and they'll get back to me usually within 30 days... 30 days? But my payment is due on the 28th... I have great credit ya'll I have never paid any of my bills late ever. I hope they get back to me before that date... This sucks! I shouldn've asked for some kind of retentions department, they know they got me locked on a contract... and I can't threaten to go somewhere else if I have this damn iPhone because no other service provider has it... I better get my way when they contact me again!

R&B Artists Are Changing It Up To A Techno-Vibe

Has anyone else noticed this? I mean it's always been kind of moving into this direction since Timbaland became more and more popular with the Pop Artists. It's even more recently after Timbaland released his album 'Shock Value,' where a lot of his singles would be played at a more club party scene. It seems it's open a gate now we have a lot of artists out there that you're not familiar hearing this kind of sound from them like Rihanna with 'Please Don't Stop The Music' to Chris Brown's 'Forever' and Ne-Yo's 'Closer' even Kanye West with his sampling from Daft Punk's 'Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.'

I don't mind it at all, I guess it's like an evolution of this genre of music, I appreciate this kind of sound way more than what's coming from the South such as 'Lil Wayne or the shit music Soulja Boy is coming out with... I swear there doesn't seem to be any kind of effort when they write or produce their songs. It's like one main beat and a the catchy 2 lines of the songs that's repeated all throughout the song, oh and it'll be way over played if they have some kind of steps to it... Soulja Boy that 'Crank That' song is just as bad as the Macarena.

Mexico Trip (Part Four): Award Ceremony & Club Chocolate? (05/01/08)

So there's Semi-Formal dinner in the evening and I came to Mexico dreading about wearing something "formal" but what I planned out wearing is "formal" but on a younger kind of cool perspective. I had a pink striped button down from Express that I unbutton pretty low, a dark navy blazer and pants from The Gap that I left the blazer unbuttoned, Some chucks and sunglasses. I thought hey I look pretty good so whatever I'm not going to conform to their terms. We all took group pictures before the dinner in "The Garden" it was so hot out, It's not fair to all the guys that are wearing the suit jackets we're probably all sweating standing on risers.

After the picture session, there was an open bar in the hallway in front of the Ballroom where we had dinner. I tried taking advantage of that kept going up there for Rum and Cokes and Margaritas. There was some Mexican drummers or whatever that was keeping us entertained before the dinner and some of us thought it'd be cool to take pictures and drum with them... I wasn't one of them...

The odd thing about dinner is that we didn't select our seats, they assigned our seats and none of the Des Moines people sat next to each other we all sat with people from other parts of Sprint. It was kind of cool because it's a way to get to know who and what goes on in Sprint. Another thing which kind of made me realize is that it's different because we're outsourced we're not really internal Sprint we don't get their benefits or their pay or a lot of their "insider information"... I felt a little out of place, like I wasn't actually good enough almost... I don't know... They served wine there so I kept drinking up that's pretty much the best thing to do. While we were sitting though we did have a little Award Ceremony for the people that has won the Crown Club twice or more. They all went up on stage and took a picture with an award that I guess we all had once we came back home. Funny thing about the winners... My boy Dan King had some fun going up there, he actually didn't win twice there was a mix up, there's actually more than one Dan King which really screwed up a lot of their trip as well with the rooms and activities. So I guess when they had the 2x winners someone tapped him on the shoulder and asked if he was Dan King, of course yeah he is, they told him he should be going up... I did not understand what was going on when he was up there. I thought our call center was the first time to qualify for this trip and he won twice? After that event I got what happened LOL. They had some more speakers... blah blah blah, and showed up where next year's destination would be for the Crown Club Trip it will be in the Dominican Republic.

Dinner was nice, it started out with some kind of weird wanton looking thing and salad. I'm so glad they served Fillet Minon, I really wanted some steak so that just came right on time! I don't know much to say about dinner just some conversation and eating not much a do there... Afterwards though it was time for the "Club Chocolate" night. It's interesting time, it's out in the courtyard area of the Hotel there were comfortable seating around and they were offering cigars. See I'm not a smoker at all, I actually hate smoking plenty but what I thought was we're in Mexico Bitch...It's time to look cool with a cigar and drink in my hand dressing all fancy. I don't know about that night we talked with some people but it wasn't really all great and it ended at 11pm. Towards the end though there was another higher person above MM that wanted to take us all out, I was down but it doesn't seem anyone else was so we kind of just stood that group up. I thought the night was just going to end right there but actually we found our hotel neighbors from North Carolina asking if we wanted to go out with them... Yes of course it's a whole new crowd non Des Moines and Winchester so it's a new experience...

We all rode cabs downtown. I think we ended at a club called Helio. For some odd reason we had VIP access there and had a seat next to the DJ and got completely Crunked up there. It was actually a real fun night just hanging out with strangers at a foreign country just partying. Taking shots there from the bar ladies is interesting, they have these girls with whistles that throw down 3-5 shots down your throat and spin your head in circles sometimes they put your head in their clevage or in this case they took your shirt off and put hot wax on your nipples... I don't know... Mexicans? We chilled there and then went down to the dance floor and did a little 1, 2, step, Girls are ridiculous if I remembered correctly this chick that was all over the bar with fake breast was showing off everything and even took another girl with her on the bar and just going "Girls Gone Wild." It's MAJOR I tell ya. I was pretty intoxicated after a while so I'm going to end most of it there... We went back to the hotel and passed out, tomorrow we had to do snorkling.

HAHA Check out these Bar Pictures we took, MAN it was funnier when I saw them the next day!







Where the HELL did this balloon hat come from?

Yeah... That's something huh?

~Fin

So Today's Blog is...

NOT GOING TO BE ABOUT MEXICO...

Today I just don't feel like typing a story out today so wait for tomorrow for that... Anyway, update on iPhone! Yes I bought a new iPhone I didn't get my old one back unfortunately... I got the 16gb one this time around so it's somewhat like an upgrade! YEY! I'm syncing up right now and it's taking forever to get all my media on this... I think my computer is not connecting the full USB 2 speed it should be going at. I was afraid that I wouldn't get my pictures back from my old phone but the backup did bring it back I'm happy for that but I'm still missing pictures that I took a little during Mexico, oh well. Also I don't have many pictures from Mexico because of an incident I had down there that I'll fill you all in later, I'm waiting for the pictures my cousin and Israel is going to send to me... So sorry for not continuing on with Mexico story but come back tomorrow to get it all...

Mexico Trip (Part Three): Missed Meeting... Oops! (05/01/08)

NOTE: This is actually kind of a boring entry... It's more like a journal entry of exactly what's up the morning and some of afternoon, oh well I can remember that the most because I was under the influence!

So after a nights all drinking night, the next day we're suppose to attend this "Business Session" where they tell us about Sprint and all this Tax information and stuff... I get a call from one of my co-workers like around 8 waking me up asking if we're suppose to attend. Our Agenda we had "Mandatory for all honorees" on there but I answer the phone...

"Hello?"
"Hey Otis, are we suppose to go down to the meeting?"
"I don't know, but I'm sleeping"
"Uhhh... ok bye"
"bye"
...then I went back to bed

So I did missed most of the business meeting but what do you expect? MM took us out last night drinking and the next day we're suppose to make it on time to this "mandatory business session?" ... Yeah we are oh well. Anyway around 11:00pm I finally woken up and taken a shower and headed down to the Ballroom where it was suppose to be in progress. Everyone was in the hallway getting coffee and some snacks, I guess it was break or something? I saw my crew together so walked over to them.

"Otis! Where were you?"
I know I was late but I was like...
"Uhh... What are you talking about I was here all along?" ... haha

Yeah I couldn't lie I just came out and said I was sleeping, oh well I'm here now. The meeting was more relaxed than I thought, I thought it was just going to be a lame event that I'll be struggling keeping my head up or nodding off to sleep, but the host guy was a comedian that kind of kept us entertained. I don't remember much of the talker but I think it was about getting motivated or something for work... Why are we getting motivated to do our job? Isn't being here proves that we are the best in our center? Anyway, I think the reason for it all is that Sprint can make this trip marked as a "Business Trip" for tax reasons... They also had another speaker later that did "speed painting" where they played U2 'Beautiful Day' and he painted really quickly Bono. It was pretty impressive that he can do that, that quickly within 4 minutes but when he talked it was boring... He also did a painting of Albert Einstein upside down. Everyone cheered when they finally realized what it was when he painted his hair.

Later that day after the meeting, we all had lunch nothing great just some things you can throw together into a tortilla... there were drinks served though so that's always a plus. After lunch we had nothing on the agenda we needed to attend it was just a completely free evening until our "Reception, Dinner and Awards Ceremony" We hung out by the pool, that was plenty relaxing. I didn't get into the pool I just don't really like to be in the water so much but I did enjoy the sun and took all I could of that. After a while Tina went downtown with a couple that was from EDS-Winchester to check out a parade they were having and to do a little shopping down there. I really didn't feel like going out I just wanted to chill so I didn't go with them.

After a while after hanging around the poolside, I went to concierge to talk about my missing iPhone, they didn't find anything in the Lost and Found area but they asked if I wanted to report it so if they can find it they'll get back to me... To be honest I knew that wasn't getting it back but I went ahead and filed the report. After filing the report I went back to the pool and saw that Israel was sleeping on one of the chairs they had by the poolside and woke him up telling I'm going upstairs for a little bit that I'll be back, while leaving I saw Jess and Brandy walking down to take a dip in the pool also, (that's cool so someone can keep Israel company) Went upstairs to the room and grabbed my cousin's Blackberry and made a call to my phone possibly someone would answer... I didn't expect anyone to pick up at all but they did! I don't think they actually intended to answer the phone because they were speaking into the phone I heard some voices IN SPANISH and then the call was disconnected, tried again and no answer... I'm upset so I know it's in Mexico with a stranger. Just chillin' in the hotel room watching some shows and reading magazines until Dan called the room asking if he can charge his iPod... (Sure why not? I don't have any use for it now!) Geez... I keep going back to my iPhone but it's a big loss to me and it seriously was a part of me I relied on that. Dan and Marty came over to my room and just kind of chilled for a while since there wasn't anything else better to do.

Later on Tina came in and talked about downtown and all that and we went back down to the pool to hangout again. Not much really new we did down there we had some pina coladas and then later we had to get ready for our dinner so we head back to the hotel room and got ready for that...
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Sorry for the long blog entry of boring-ness but it's a read on what I did, it was very "chill-ax"

...Also CelebrAsian is getting closer ya'll (May 17, 2008) click the image to go to the website for more information!



To read up some additional information go back to my blog entry about the CelebrAsian happening May 17th! Click Here

Mexico Trip (Part Two): Welcome Reception... and the Biggest Mishap! (04/30/08)

Before we went down the to reception we walked a little on the beach and had a few drinks at the bar in the hotel, just wanted to chill before what Sprint had planned for us.



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The reception Sprint had for us is this nice dinner out in the Hotel's Garden. It's a really pretty site, flowers blooming, all the tables and chairs were white, had hanging piñatas also those hanging tissue paper banners. It was great setting for our first night in Puerto Vallarta (I did not take any pictures of this event, and I'm so pissed that I didn't.) As we got our food and drinks situated their was a speaker giving the "Thanks for all of your hard work now enjoy!" speech and we did just that. The only thing I was looking forward to that night was just the endless supply of alcohol as much as we can drink... I kind of don't remember what I drank really I most likely started our with "cervezas" and made my way to heavier drinks. We sat with the other folks from Des Moines but some has left a little ways after and also had a little chat with some ladies from California (they were older...)


After eating we just kind of hung out around the hotel. We went to the beach a little that's when Marty was most excited it seems, because he stripped his clothes and jumped into the ocean (there's pictures somewhere but not on my camera) It was a pretty sunset that evening and we were at the beach to enjoy it even a little under the influence. A little later we found the Des Moines group again (This time only a few of them) they were just drinking at a table asking if we want to go out tonight downtown to some bars and clubs. In my head while intoxicated was like HELL YEAH! and seriously we're in Mexico first night gotta do something big you know? So we were going out with the higher up guy that connects EDS to Sprint (I don't want to mention names because if they were to "Google" their name I don't want it to find this blog) Since I'm already drunk I just said yeah no problem.


We all met at the front lobby and took a couple cabs to this bar (I completely forgot the name of the bar) anyway it was not that big of a bar or anything but there were bathroom attendants there, I tipped him a dollar for handing me a paper towel haha. When I was about to twitter then about that, I dug in my pockets and realized my phone is gone. I was tripping out a little I just wanted to keep it to myself until someone had to make it a deal. So then the "head guy" we'll call him MM had called the phone and there was no answer I was freaking! My $600 iPhone is missing in a country I'm not familiar with UGH!! I was so upset I can't believe I could be so irresponsible for my stuff. I do believe I left my iPhone on the table we were sitting at in the Garden of the hotel but I might as well lost it anywhere because I didn't end up getting it back before our trip back. I just didn't want it to hinder our outing so I just kept moving right along... We walked a little down the street just being our drunk selves in public while trying to enjoy the night with my lost phone. Later that night I believe MM wanted to still go out and shoot some pool and drink some more, no one else went except one guy, we all went back to the hotel. That night for me had to end I hopped in bed and just passed out not even under the covers.


That's why all you people that were going to follow me on twitter, didn't get any updates from me the rest of trip 'til I got back into the states and first thing I said was I lost my phone! I'm very upset to this day about losing it and Apple's insurrance do not cover lost phones so I'm screwed, I can buy a whole new phone full price to not effect my contract or buy another iPhone that would also extend my contract again with AT&T this sucks.

Mexico Trip (Part One): Arrival (04/30/08)

NOTE: Pictures will have to come later I just wanted something for the record as it's fresh.

As I was freaking out major about not having enough stuff I finally got all things packing the day before and had little sleep being having to wake up at 4 to take a shower and make sure I get on the flight on time... Tina and her mom picked me up and we headed to the Des Moines Intl' (funny how they say International when they don't have any flights straight out "Internationally") So we got our luggage checked, showed our passports, and received our boarding passes.

As we headed up to the gate it looks like we're the last ones in EDS to make it there oh well at least we weren't late I said a small "Hi" to one of them and we headed into the plane. Not much really exciting about the plane ride just the same stuff... got some soda and just slept the ride there, then arrived to Houston, Texas. It's always funny going to another city's Airport it's always much more hectic and more massive then the one we have in Des Moines, like their parking garage is as big as our airport... it's sad but whatever. So there we got some lunch and boarded our next plane. This plane was the plane that was going to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico W00T! We had 3 seats to ourselves so that's always a plus, I was just listening to music on my iPhone the entire way there and reading some magazines I purchased from the Des Moines airport, but once again nothing new plane rides are always the same...

Then it happened, we have reached to our destination, PUERTO VALLARTA BABY!!! When we first left the plane we walked into the airport and it was kind of not the nicest airport I've been through it kind of reminds me of almost a jail, we had to go through customs they just stamped our paperwork and gestured to move forward... He didn't speak any English to me so I just uhh kept going... We got our luggage from baggage claim and just didn't know where to go... luckily they knew that Sprint are coming down so we saw a big crowd and they gave us bottled water and lead us into the bus. It was hot and even more on the bus and I still had my sweatshirt on that I was wearing through the trip, but finally I took that off and we have reached to our hotel, Marriott CasaMagna.


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Oh man the moment you step in, the scenery is just breathtaking there were flowers all over so much greenery with almost no walls. It just seemed to be so open you can straight through the back and spot the swimming pool and yes the ocean right behind it. We went to were all the Sprint folks were checking in and right from the bat they were offering free margaritas so I was like Hell Yes I'll take one... or three. Anyway we checked in got our key card, changed our activity for Friday to do snorkeling, got some food and headed into the room and waited for our later activity Sprint had planned.

Updated 5/5/08 7:10pm - Added picture