pinakamaganda

I got a panic attack when upon changing and experimenting themes, this error message appeared in front of mah face:

“Fatal Error on blah blah blah /xxx/xxx/themes/whatever/functions.php”

I immediately refreshed my site, and I still got the same error. Then upon navigating my admin page, the same error appeared!! Now both my site and my admin pages are going to php hell!!! I was almost crying coz I thought I’m gonna install Wordpress from scratch again (my last backup was… 6 months ago?!?!? hell!).

… Or I could go back my php days (which was like, how many years ago? ..uhmm, never mind), and check the code, which I did. And just commenting four lines, I was on! Wheww!!

The themes will constantly change because my mind is always changing And I’m trying to learn Web layouts slowly (as in suuuper slow)… Y’all know that Java is my thing. But I’m getting the hang of this. I am really aiming for my own web design someday. It’s two years overdued already.

Almost..

Well.. I just upgraded to Wordpress 2.9. I did stumble on a lot of problems, it’s still messy as you may notice..

And I installed a new theme, but since my messy upgrade is too obvious, I could not activate the new theme yet… Hopefully, I will have time to fix things up.

UPDATE: New theme successfully installed! *hopefully*

Happy New Year again!!

This is the content. Not the stripteaser (excerpt)…

I’m testing the excerpts functionality which isn’t working yet… I have no temporary site for testing stuffs so I’ll be posting some of these for a while…

I was successful with the migration of my blogs from my blogger account to wordpress (right here). But out of the over 184 entries I have at blogger, I only selected the lucky few to be posted here (but not at all few). I was such such a sick person because most of my entries at blogger are all dramas! All my life’s dramas. While selecting which posts to migrate, I run through the posts and then skip one when I find it so so sad. Those entries are so juvenile, it was  a pity for me seeing life that way, at those times. Some of the chosen ones are too sad as well, that’s why I had to protect them with a password (I love wordpress for that). But these password-protected posts mark some sort of a milestone in my life so I had to include them still.

I couldn’t blame myself before because perhaps I found it too exciting and soothing to write it all in the web with the confidence that only a few friends read them. And maybe I was imagining while writing, that I was just having coffee with the few friends, talking about life’s so-so miseries. Now I feel embarrassed even to those few friends.. And to top it all, it was the main reason why I started blogging – sadness. And I learned that spreading the sadness in the whole wide world is not a good thing. Even if it’s my personal space.

So that’s all folks for the April 2005-July 2007 blogging galore. I buried my blogger site, together with all the blue devils that it houses, somewhere in cyberspace where no one could ever get to it.

I’m 25… and slowly moving towards becoming a ”twenty-something”… No more dramas (unless super duper unavoidable). Just enjoy life.

Now the missing August 2007-April 2009 lines are yet to be filled up… And the pretty little archive lines right there hissing in the side bar will be complete. So from now on, I’m doing the posts-migration selectively, since I’m doing them manually anyway. (Yes it was such a wrong timing for me to decide to migrate to wordpresss a little late because almost all import utilities are not working. And google, even the wordpress forums, wasn’t at all helpful).

And oh, did you notice… the chat box is back too!

In case somebody asks me, why I decided to switch my former tagline, “Vaks and the City” to “beauty: in the stunning eyes of the sexy beholder”, I came with a simple explanation that is based also from my former blog.

This explanation is supposed to be in my “about” page but unfortunately, I have to delete it temporarily because some a**hole or a group of a**holes spammed my about page with 300+ comments about viagra, sex toys, webcams, scams and other nonsense stuffs that don’t interest me. Ok, maybe slightly :lol: but I won’t waste my time browsing those stupid links. Besides, I’m trying to be wholesome from now on.

“Vaks and the City” has just finished its chapter, I guess. The girls of Sex and the City and its show as a whole have truly became my best friends for the past years. I will forever be their fan. And I will always keep all the serious and not-so-serious/crazy “wisdom” I got from them. I’m never tired with the show but the use of it as my site’s theme has to end.  Nevertheless, I’m still the same Vaks to my friends (in other words, I will still be your happy friendly gay friend no matter what). I’m not sure if it will end, I tried to change it, you know, like turn into someone serious (since 2nd year high school, I’d been trying to do that). But the gayness in me doesn’t really get tired.

I changed to “beauty: in the stunning eyes of the sexy beholder” to be consistent with my domain name – www.pinakamaganda.net. Pinakamaganda in Filipino means “most beautiful”. I am not in any way grabbing the title of Ms. Universe or assuming the role of the most beautiful creature in the planet because I know it will cause another world war. However, this is how I wanted it to be… seeing the beauty around me, expressing my thoughts in a way that even though something turns out unpleasant to me, I can still turn it into something worth enjoying, or worth reading maybe… into something positive and beautiful.  

Well, the “stunning” and the “sexy” are included in the tagline because I feel that I have both characteristics. Don’t kill me!

Vanity posts will always be there, whatever tagline I have. Any thoughts I have in mind that excites me to write. Any topics under the sun.

Perhaps you can still imagine the emotions and the heart behind each entries. Although I’m trying to keep it low now, like minimize the heart a little, this is still the same me, talking.

Still with the blog migration.

I am currently doing a sick sick job!

My iWeb to Wordpress import didn’t work so I resorted to the bloody task of doing it manually.. As in copy-paste all my iWeb entries to Wordpress! Yes, I have to go back my first entry in iWeb dated December 2007. That alone was enough to make me cry the whole month. I still wanted to include my past blog entries in my revamped website for a very shallow reason of seeing the good old archive lines. Maybe someday I’ll realize one nice thing about why I am exhausting a lot of effort for this migration.

I am taking this migration seriously. As a matter of fact, I have listed down my to-dos, aside from the actual copy-paste of the text, here are the other stuffs:

• Images – My previous posts got a lot of images with them so I still need to find time to squeeze these fancy images in.

• Categories – Need to decide the post categories. I have actually an idea of just categorizing those past blog entries as “iWeb” but that’s not quite nice to see.

• Photo gallery – Of course I need to upload my photos! What are websites for? I know Social Networking sites are there for that purpose (or the other photo sites), but I don’t want to double/triple/n-ple-upload to Friendster, then Multiply, then Facebook, then MySpace. These sites come and go. So I want to post updates about me in a one-stop place only, in my very own cyberspot!

• Videos – Well my past videos are just crazy. Hahaha!

• Links – May not be migrated, if I still have the power to do it, I will still put the links in the entries.

• Comments – Haay. Friends’ comments are fun to read. Makes me feel that I’m important. Hehehe.

• Embedded Stuffs – Music. Life.

But wait there’s more! And I almost died.

I didn’t bother to count all my entries from December 2007 because I know it’ll just make me produce blood-tears more. Must be hundreds already. It’s just an estimate but I hope it didn’t reach that much. I must be loving iWeb too much the first time I used it because in January 2008, I have entries everyday! 30 in January. Plus there are even days where I have 2 or more entries. I’m such a blog addict!

So yesterday I bravely started the migration (a.k.a. copy-paste my entries). It was taking me forever to load my January 08 entries. I was like… “what!? still January..?!” When I got tired, I rested, cleaned my room, did the laundry, took a shower, watched some videos, read gossips, etc.. I just left my Wordpress in that state. I didn’t log out. When it was time to resume the bloody migration, I was surprised to see that I have “0 posts” in my dashboard!

I couldn’t believe what I saw and thought of it as some wordpress problem so I logged out. Then I visited my site, and it was showing me a “not found” page. I checked my webhost if it’s still working, it is still working. I checked the blogs of my friends that are wordpress-powered, and others hosted in 000webhost… they seem to be working fine. But what’s happening to my site??!

I blinked twice thrice. Counted 1 to 100 to go back again. But they’re all gone!!! WTF?!?! :’(

Waaaahhhh!!

I prayed and hoped that everything will go back to normal the next day. On a second thought, I sort of revised my prayers a little:

“Dear Papa God, it’s OK. This is OK. I can deal with this. I can repeat copying-pasting my entries again. It’s OK if Wordpress or 000webhost or whatever online force made all the entries, that took me ten thousand years to copy-paste, mysteriously go away.. As long as You still protect me from swine flu (since it has arrived in Japan!). I can bear it all… even if it took me 3 hours to do the initial migration… I can do more hours of it, even the whole day… As long as You keep me and my family and my friends from swine flu. Please please!! Thank You!”

I’m quite paranoid about this pandemic because I’ve been coughing, like what, ages ago?! They’re gone after I had a check up last month. But there are still remnants. My boss joked that I started the swine flu because I was coughing since March. The only thing missing is the fever, which never reached me. I hope my prayer is effective!

So this is how I’m dealing with this “sudden deletion” of my entries. I need to keep my cool! So I won’t get hot and fever-ish. No no no!!!

Update:

Apparently, it’s just my database. Now it’s OK!!! On with my life…