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May 15, 2006

New Layout! *~Waterworks~*
Posted at 06:42 PM

Yay! After a few weeks of working ( a majority of which was filled with procrastination), I finally have a new layout. The name of my new layout is called Waterworks. Why waterworks do you say? Actually, related siya sa season - rainy season kasi in the past spring di ba? This layout was inspired by the song Tears and Rain by James Blunt. Super ganda ng song so I really had to translate it to a layout. And besides, (hopefully) the rains that we are having signals the end of the summer season and the start of the rainy season.. yay!

Anyway, ang daming nangyari these past few weeks. Some things worth talking about, some hardly worth remembering. Gusto ko sana ikuwento yung mga nangyari pero kakatamad. I wanted to type it directly after it happened, pero I promised myself that before I post a new entry, I should have a new layout. So ayun, medyo anticlimactic na kung isulat ko pa ngayon. I guess they will just be my memories. haha

Off to Randomness!

1.Kanina, I did something that I have never actually done since the beginning of time : I watched the via satellite showing of the end of Survivor 12 together with the Reunion show. Actually, this is something that frustrated me for the longest time. Ang babaw no? Pero true.. never pa akong nakakapanood ng via satellite screening ng survivor. There would always be a reason for me to miss it.

About survivor, Aras won - the golden boy. Deserving naman siya kahit papaano pero feel ko meron pang mas deserving sa kanya. Pero that is not what I want to talk about. I want to talk about the final four. Kasi the final four were composed of Aras (younger man), Danielle (younger woman), Cirie (older woman) and Terry (older man). The amazing thing about this is that during the start of survivor, they were divided into these four groups - young men, young women, older men, older women - and each group had a representative in the final four! Wala lang. amazing di ba?

I watched 7th heaven na rin nung saturday! waaaah... its like I was back nung high school days wherein I would watch 7th Heaven, then Gilmore Girls and then F during saturday evenings! Sayang at sa tatlong yun, 7th Heaven na lang ang natitira.

2. Now, thankfully, I am having a Jewel in the Palace marathon. If you have been hiding under a rock for almost a year now (i think), Jewel in the Palace is a koreanovela that is so addicting, so much so that I have spent so many late nights watching episode after episode. Super ganda niya, I am only on the 25th episode and yet i am like so hooked! haha... the best si madam han, si madam jung and si jang geunn (sp?) Para kasi siyang "Mara at Clara" meets "Cooking Master Boy" - forgive my outdated analogy pero super engaging siya kasi may drama, pagmamalupit and cooking as well! wahaha. Natatawa lang ako sa combination.

3.There is something I really want to talk about. Its not really something na parang concrete pero there is one topic that I would like to dwell on : change. Ang daming nangyayari these days. Minsan, iniisip ko kung bakit kailangan kong pagdaanan ang ilang mga bagay-bagay pero may mga pagkakataong din na tunay akong nagagalak na pagdadaanan ko siya. Take note that these are things that I have no direct power over. Ewan. Parang if ever meron tayong power over things, the least we could do is make decisions that we think are the best.

I guess ang pinupunto ko lang dito ay, if ever we want something - we have to fight for it and if we dont - then we have to let it go and see what happens. I guess there is no use hanging on to things that harm us. Tama naman di ba? Why take care of something that bites back? Actually, this is no new-found-discovery. Matagal ko na rin naman alam ang paraang ito pero now, I guess ngayon ko lang talaga naisip na parang it makes a whole lot of sense.

Ang galing no? hahaha *nagbuhat na naman ng bangko* Ika nga ng favorite quotation ko of all time (From Ginger Faultley) , Never let go too soon and hold on for too long. Sa isang banda, I am holding on to you - tighter than you will ever know and on the other hand, I am letting go, faster than you can say "pickled peppers". I just think na yung mga nangyari put a lot of things in perspective - parang kahit papaano i realized what i have, what i need and more importantly - what i do not need.

Enough na nga. I dont want to talk about it anymore. After all, naresolve naman siya eh. All is good on my side. I just hope everybody would do likewise.

4. There was something that happened a week ago that really made my day. Wala lang. First time kasi siya nangyari and diyos ko.. wahaha... flattered ako to the maximum level! hahahah La lang. Just sharing kahit papano. I just did not expect it pero it happened. I was waiting for it for the longest time - actually di naman siya maituturing na waiting.. pero wahaha... ekek! Wala lang. Di pa rin ako makapaniwala eh. kainis. next topic na nga.

5. Nga pala, my dog - the cutest dog in the world - Goblet (yun ang name niya) was confined for about 7 days. Nagkaroon kasi siya ng Parvo. Parvo is aka parvovirus - a disease that threatens the digestive and immune system of puppies as well as adult dogs. From what i researched, kinakain yata yung intestines tapos if ever tapos na yun, the virus moves on to the blood and then to the rest of the body - so nagresult yun to bloody poop, loss of appetite, vomiting and high temperature.

Scary talaga - i kept on coming back to the vet to check up on Goblet and what was frustrating is that the vet could not assure me that my dog would survive. Literal na gulay yung aso ko. Buti na lang, the seventh day.. bumalik yung pagka oink oink niya wahahaha Grabe... libo din ang inabot nun.. pwedeng pambili ng magandang cellphone or bagong monitor, or pandagdag para sa PS2 .. but no.. wala na! shetas.. balik na naman ako sa zero.

Pero it was all worth it - every cent. Goblet beats any technological advancement (well... maybe not TiVo ) any day... wahaha joke lang! Heaven yung 8 days na yun na naconfine si Goblet para kay Mitten (yung cat ko) kasi for 8 straight days, he could roam around the house without fear of harrassment... wahahaha Ngayon, back to normal na sila.

6. Puraz Puraz Puraz waaaah di ako makaalis ng bahay kasi walang allowance! kakainis. All time low ang funds ngaun and I hope may pasok na.. para at least may "income" ako. anyway.. mageend na naman ang may so before I know it, pasukan na naman.

7. I was flipping through channels a while ago and there was this bible-oriented show - and the quote that they had was:

"Let the one without sin cast the first stone."

In fairness, nakarelate ako. Ewankohlangha. For the lack of a better term, i think talagang "palaban" si Jesus nung panahong ito. haha... blasphemy na ba ito.. pero i liked the way he defended that girl. it puts a lot of things in perspective.

8. Dont look for things that arent even there. There isnt always something in between the lines. Some things are really really sincere but then again, you only encounter them once in a while. I guess we live in a world where everyone pretends - we get so used to it that it comes to a point wherein we can not distinguish between what is real and what is make believe. Haha saan naman nanggaling yun?

9. I got accepted sa Regcom! yay! actually, akala ko talaga i failed again. pero i recieved the text and e-mail thingy kanina eh. Ewan, i guess people would be happy for me. Pero instead na happiness ang unang bumati sa akin, i got the feeling na parang there were other concerns that were supposedly more important. Quite honestly, that is not the kind of reaction anyone would want. I don't know, parang kasi I expected better. But that is what I got. I guess sa isang banda kasalanan ko rin yun di ba... pero at least try to be happy for me di ba? Kahit first five or ten minutes lang naman. Hindi ko lang talaga nagustuhan yung paraan kung paano siya sinabi. Aaanyway, all water under the bridge ikaw nga. Nga pala, I have one person to thank - he gave me tips and advice just when I needed it. Maraming Salamat. I look forward to the early mornings and the late evenings. Muchas Gracias.

10. At least di na masyadong mainit these days. Kanina, I had an early meeting for DARS - as usual late na naman ako... kainis... nahiya tuloy ako kasi first time namin magmimeet tapos nalate pa ako. I have plans for the website and the promo board.. sana maganda ang kalalabasan... co curriculars to the max na talaga. Amazed din ako sa alarm powers ng phone ko... as in... sa una.. demure pa siya.. pero hanggang di mo siya pinapatay... palakas ng palakas ito hanggang sa maximum level na... wahahah.. effective siya kahit papaano. pero after turning it off, bumalik din ako matulog for 5 mins, na naging 15, na naging 20.. in the end.. nalate! wahahah

Anyway, ayun. Just typing away. Actually, masaya ako ngayon. Kahit papaano, ang dami kong blessings. Marami pong salamat. Ngayon, buhay na naman ang blog ko. yay! ^___^ To whoever finished reading this entry, ang galeng mo naman! wahahah

Til next time! ciao!

Reading: Time Magazine Articles
Hearing: Hilary Duff - Someone's Watching Over Me
Feelin' satisfied

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May 20, 2006

Angela's Ashes
Posted at 03:35 PM

Hay! Ano ba ang nangyari today... hmm... basta ang dami kong nagastos... pero di ko naman pera yun eh... pera ni mommy... hahaha

Birthday ni mama ngayon so i had to wake up early ( mga 9 am) to greet her and then i went back to bed. Haha I woke up (as in awake na talaga) at around 11, just in time to take a shower and dress up for lunch. I ate lunch tapos I had to leave kasi medyo maraming errands ngayon. Haha So, I prepared the money na, dressed up na, and just as I opened the door, biglang buhos ang ulan. With my umbrella, kala ko talaga kaya ko.. wahaha.. but by the time that i got to my first destination, i was soaking wet!

So, the first thing i did was buy a new aquarium filter thingy - the one that pumps air into the water kasi bigla nalang tumigil yung luma kong filter thingy. Natempt ako bumili ng Goldfish kanina kasi ang cute cute nila... colorful tapos ang hahaba ng tail pero hassle kasi magdala ng malalaking plastic bags na may mga isda. And feel ko, if ever magdadagdag pa ako ng isda, puputok na yung aquarium sa dami nila.

Afterwards, I went to Books for Less - the book shop beside Robinsons. Actually, ang tagal ko na ring hindi bumabalik dun. Medyo malayo din siya sa pet shop pero i really wanted a book. I was hoping na hindi pa siya nabibili and when i arrived there.. haha.. nakadisplay pa siya sa harap ng bookstore. *sigh* Buti na lang. The book is actually a memoir - Angela's Ashes by Frank Mccourt (i think, di ako sure eh - katamad kunin nung libro). Napanood ko yung movie a long, long, long time ago sa Star Movies and na intrigue ako.

After that, I went to buy Mama's cake. haha.. dito ang natagalan. Nahirap ako pumili kasi ang daming pagpipilian and since ako rin naman ang kakain ng majority ng bibilhing cake.. might as well decide wisely di ba? After buying it, i went back na. Marami pa sanang gagawin pero ang lakas ng ulan and may cake na akong dala.

So after that, ayun. I ate a lot. Need I say more. Kakainis. Walang diet diet. Kelan kaya ako magsisimulang magpapapayat muli. Nafefeel ko nang sumisikip ang mga damit ko! wahahha... soon enough, i wont be able to blame the washing machine for shrinking my clothes.

Anyway, have to cut this entry short kasi tatapusin ko na ang Jewel in the Palace Marathon ko! haha parang ayaw ko siyang tapusin. sinasariwa ko pa ang mga nangyari kay madam cui at gun-ying! haha

as of now, do i like the series? crom yo.

Reading: Frank Mccourt - Angela's Ashes
Hearing: James Blunt - High
Feelin' stressed

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May 21, 2006

Dae Jang Geum
Posted at 07:57 PM

I actually just finished my Jewel in the Palace marathon! Yes, i have watched all 70+ episodes of Jewel in the Palace. Who would have thought that I would have the patience to watch that many episodes? Certainly not me. But i did.

Before anything else, share ko muna yung experience ko watching it. haha.. actually parang nagkakalapse sa life ang mga taong nanonood ng Jewel in the Palace - each disc has around 4 episodes - roughly 4 hours worth of watching. Considering na 19 na disk yun.. haha.. you do tha math. bakit ko naman nasabing nagkakalapse? Kasi for those four hours - you have to DEAW - Drop Everything and Watch, honestly, nadisrupt talaga ang buhay ko dito... hindi na regular ang eating, internet, reading and telephone habits ko!

Tapos after each disk, you have to fight the urge to eject the old disc and play a new one! haha kainis talaga! Sometimes you have the will power to stop putting the disc in and then sometimes something strong gets the hold of you and before you know it you end up sleeping at 5 am! haha Pero tapos na yun lahat! Natapos ko na ang buong series!

Ang masasabi ko lang : amazing! Ang ganda ganda ganda ganda ganda ganda ng series na ito! Actually, kudos to the koreans! ( o di ba! alliteration!) Who would have thought that their culture was so rich? Pero what strikes me the most was that instead of looking into the future and the present to find the next big thing for television, the koreans looked back on their past. Galeng galeng naman. I was reading some articles kanina about it and the writers actually spent a year researching on the food and medicine stuff just to make sure that it is accurate. Such determination!

In fact, Dae Jang Geumm achieved 50 % of all south korean viewers! Amazing di ba? Pero this is dwarfed by its success in the south east asian region! Grabe.. pati china, taiwan and hong kong hindi pinalampas! Totoo naman kasing maganda siya and deserving talaga siya sa success niya. I heard may travel and tour pa nga to South Korea to visit the set - as in mapupuntahan mo yung imperial kitchen, yung central palace, yung royal hospital... haha kung may pera lang talaga ako!

This series has such subtlety, such grace and depth so much so that it can't help but touch your heart. Hanggang ngayon, naaliw pa rin ako kung gaano ako naapektuhan ng series na ito - lalo na nung namatay si Madam Jung and si Madam Han. Actually, this series is so effective in painting images and expressing emotion so much so that you yourself are troubled by each difficulty that Jang Geumm has to face and more importantly, you yourself also experience the euphoria each and every time she overcomes them - parang ikaw na rin yung nanalo sa cooking contest against Madam Cui, nakasave ng Royal Family, nakafind ng cure against smallpox atbp. Ganon na rin ang saya ko nang mamatay si Madam Cui at maparusahan ang lahat ng may kasalanan! wahahaha Wala lang... ang saya kasi talagang napakaganda ng buhay ni Jang Geumm, lubhang makulay ang kanyang mga karanasan AT tunay ngang marami siyang nagawa para sa maraming tao. San ka ba naman kasi nakakita ng babae na naging palace girl, naging government slave, naging female doctor, naging lofty madam, naging royal doctor, nagkaroon ng sariling title sa government at minahal pa ng king! wahaha *in FM cliche manner* The best ka talaga!

Jang Geum

Jang Geumm
The Epitome of Discipline, Hard Work and Determination

*sigh* now, back to the real world.

Reading: Frank McCourt - Angela's Ashes
Hearing: James Blunt - You're Beautiful
Feelin' peaceful

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May 24, 2006

Future European Language
Posted at 03:30 PM

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where! more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as
replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.

If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl

Reading: Frank McCourt - Angela's Ashes
Hearing: Mandy Moore - A Walk to Remember
Feelin' numb

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May 25, 2006

American Idol winner is...
Posted at 09:33 PM

Its another so-so summer day. I just checked the calendar - May 25 na pala! In a few days, may pasok na naman. Actually, i dont know what to feel. Sa isang banda, may pasok na naman - mababaliw na naman ako sa napakaraming gagawin, sleepless nights, blemishes, stress, groupings ekek. Pero sa isang banda naman, allowance, friends, aircon ng rizal lib, i get to leave the house and more importantly - going to school this june would mean na i have passed what anyone would call the "halfway" point of college. Imagine, after two years, i am gonna be done with school na - at least that would be my ideal plan. Haha two years na lang!!!

Well, today i finished the book that I bought a few days ago - Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt. This is actually partly a habit of mine reading the book after watching the movie. Parang ganito rin ang ginawa ko sa Lord of the Rings. Pero delayed na nga siya for a few years kasi i watched this movie sa Star Movies mga 2 to 3 years ago tapos ngayon ko lang nabasa yung libro. Anyway, around mga 5 days ko siya binasa. Medyo mabagal kasi ayaw ko siya matapos. Ang ganda ganda ng book. Wala lang, parang after you read it, you get a whole new perspective, a whole new possibility of growing up - one that you can place alongside your own childhood experiences to compare and contrast.

Tapos nasa likod ng book yung picture ni Frank McCourt. Its a memoir kasi so it is about him and his family, poverty in a place called Limerick in Ireland. Just when you think that poverty is exclusive to our part of the world, here comes a book like this. It is so rich with memories and naamaze ako sa kanya kasi kahit yung mga scenes na mga 5 years old siya, he can still recall pero ako, i can recall only one that involves jelly ace and bermuda grass. wahaha * i dont want to elaborate any further* Is this book worth reading? 'Tis.

I left the house today pero i went home din kaagad. Yun naman ang panay ginagawa ko these days eh - errands to the max. Kaninis. Gusto ko sana manood ng Xmen - the last stand and the da vinci code pero wala pang plans. One thing about the da vinci code issue - attempting to ban it only added more interest on the side of the viewers. Hay nako, can they wake up and check what century we are in right now? They even want to abolish the MTRCB and replace it with a commission for censorship. haha

I arrived in time to watch the American idol finale. And the winner is :

And i thought America would not make any more mistakes.
I HATE him. Can you say coo coo?

'Til next time. Adios.

Reading: Online Articles
Hearing: Des'ree - Life
Feelin' okay

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May 29, 2006

The Last Stand
Posted at 10:45 PM

Dami kong pinuntahan today. Haha actually, di naman siya madami as in madami pero madami siya in essence kasi ang dami kong nilakad. kainis. Ang init pa naman ngayon. Hay nako... minsan talaga ang hirap tumira sa isang tropical country - not that i have had any experience to compare it with.

I watched X Men 3 : The Last Stand kanina. Actually, may plan dapat na sabay sabay naming panonoorin siya with some friends.. but no.. haha hindi nila napigilang mapanood ito bago ang napagusapang panahon. Anyway, the movie was great. Buti na lang buhay si Storm uptil the end. Ewan, since bata pa lang ako, i really loved that character. Actually, silang dalawa - si storm and si jean gray pero jean gray is sooo unstable so si storm na lang. Si Gambit din sana pero wala naman siya sa XMEN movies eh. I wonder why. Pero about Storm... bakit ko siya favorite... Why? Ang gusto ko lang naman sa kanya ay ang kanyang powers of the weather! haha who would not want to be able to control the weather di ba? Tapos ang ganda pa ng effect ng pamumuti ng kanyang mga mata habang nagcocontrol siya ng clouds and whatnots.

Anyway, maganda siya. Super intense ng story tapos ang ganda din ng effects. Ewan... naaawa nga ako sa mga special effects directors kasi pataas nang pataas ang expectations ng mga tao. Actually, mahirap din yang ganyang mentality ng general public eh... yung madali ka madisappoint sa mga bagay dahil hindi narereach ang standards mo. Personally, i believe na people have the perfect right to be disappointed IF they can do better pero kung hindi, you can just appreciate it kasi they did better than what you would have done.

Moving on, ang daming namatay... waaaah kawawa naman sila. Tapos, someone informed me to wait till the credits finish to see a scene. You have to see it. Haha.. would that mean na may X Men 4? Ewan, ano ba ang susunod after The Last Stand?

After that, may meeting sa DARS and then I had to buy the stuff I need for Regcom sa wednesday. I saw a blockmate kanina pero di ko naman siya nakausap.. hanggang wave lang. Tapos i saw an English blockmate kanina. I was able to talk to him for a while. Haha after that i just kept on smiling on my way to National Bookstore. Haha feel ko isip ng mga tao na nakakita sa akin dun na parang baliw ako kanina... haha tumatawa magisa. Ewan.. for some reason mas close ako sa mga English Blockmates compared to some people in my own block. Maybe its because 2 semesters kaming magkaklase for 6 hours every week. Wala lang, it just made me miss lectures of Mr. Veric and his frustrations because we can not understand and comprehend what he wants us to learn and Ma'am Naya's secret power... wahahaha... LoL *snicker*

Regcom prep day starts on wednesday. Scared talaga ako... haha.. medyo matagal na rin kasi akong hindi nagigising ng 4:30 am. The last time i did that consistently was way back in grade 2 because my school bus picked me up at 5:30. Ewan, kaya ko pa kaya? Prayers people, prayers!

Nga pala, napaisip ako kanina. Ewan ko. Parang nalabuan na naman ako. Napuno na naman ako ng if only-s.

If only I was more ______. If only I was less of a ______.
If only I had more _____. If only I had less ______.

But then again, that would make me less of me and more of somebody else. Whoah! haha biglang lumalim. Hopefully, di ka naman nalunod. Ang lost ko na naman these days, especially today.

Anyway, eto mababaw lang. May napapansin ako these days. It took one incident last last week to make me ... hmm... aware. Wala lang, i guess have much more awareness these days. Actually.. di ko pa naman sure kung tama ang mga kutob ko... hopefully tama wahahahaha pero wala lang... di ko lang alam kung bakit hindi ko siya napapansin dati pa. Baka naman i am way over my head here... pero i hope not.. God i hope not.. wag naman sana. ekek!

That is all for now folks.

Reading: new e-mails.
Hearing: Black Eyed Peas - Don't Lie
Feelin' sleepy

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May 30, 2006

Se-gah-duh pics
Posted at 04:18 PM

Kanina, i slept at 3 am. Ewan. I was lying there for around 3 hours. Tapos di pa rin ako makatulog. The aircon was on. I had my pillows. But then, i just was not able to drift off to sleep. After playing with Goblet for a while, I decided to give it one more try and thankfully, i fell asleep. Pero i had this weird dream.

I was in a car pero i wasn't the one who was driving. Haha pati ba naman sa dreams ko di pa rin ako marunong magdrive. Tapos, i was passing by these people - para siyang line. There were a few people that i recognized. Two high school teachers and a few people that i know by face but not by name. Ang weird kasi i never actually remember my dreams. Could this be a sign? Emergence na ba ito ng pagiging Oracle ko? wahahaha natawa ako sa idea na yun.

I finally had the time to resize the Sagada pictures. Wala lang. Hanggang ngayon naamaze pa rin ako sa mga nagawa ko this summer. Wahahah in fairness, Region 5 na lang ang hindi ko pa napupuntahan sa Luzon! wahaha Who would have thought di ba?

Iuupload ko sana sa photobucket pero ang bagal ng internet connection. Just settle for these two na muna. Scenic shots yan.