EJ Padero dot Com: Volume 1

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Set against the fall of Rome and its last emperor, The Last Legion recounts the story of 12 year-old Romulus Augustus. On the day of his coronation, barbarians took over the Roman Empire, captured Romulus and exiled him to the island of Capri. With the help two dear friends, Aurelius and Ambrosinus, Romulus escapes from the island fortress and travels to Britannia in search of the last Roman legion – Rome’s last chance for freedom. [Clickthecity.com]

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The Fast: San Juan Police

The WTF?: Manila’s Finest

Starting some time after 6:07 A. M. last Friday, EJPadero.com went offline due to having reached its current web hosting plan’s maximum monthly bandwidth of 1 GB. Great news! More hits, more exposure! All the more momentum in achieving my plans of WWW domination!

So anyway, although I was already expecting this website to exceed its monthly bandwidth limit soon (after viewing log files like any competent webmaster should), I didn’t get any warning or alert from my web host when the limit was reached and it was already after banking hours on Friday that I discovered this website had already gone offline.

At least my web host’s round the clock technical support was still reliable as ever and I was able to coordinate on how to upgrade my web hosting plan. It being a long weekend with Monday being a bank holiday and I being the old man that I am by being too tired to go pay for the upgrade yesterday (after a 30-minute weight workout and a 30-minute jog) – it was only today that I was able to haul my fat ass to the bank.

So now, we’re back online and packed with double the punch as before to accomodate more hits, more friends, more fiends. Yay.

From the same city that brought us “Erection in progress”…

Some construction (erection?) site in Makati: What’s PPE?

The landlord has finally gotten ’round to sending a couple of men to repair what seems to be the perennially leaky roof over the garage and kitchen. Makeshift repairs were already done on the same spot last year and that was by a crew of like 12 neandertaals who obviously didn’t know what they were doing since the roof is STILL leaking big time this year.

Then perhaps they were cutting costs since there were so many of them. Like, “screw this, let’s just slap on some inferior paper-thin sheeting over the old shite sheets and be done with it.”

So a month and a half after letting the landlord know the roof is leaking a second year in a row, a motley crew of two show up after a couple of botched attempts last week and finally begin their version of repairs.

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