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My Pet Hamster Drank the Potion

jynxypanda — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:47:09 +0000

//Will probably bury this post after a day or 2

Thank you to the commenters who shared their views on religion! It really cheered me up that people do think about religion critically and that people still have faith! Watch my last post if you’re interested.

I’ve been becoming depressed after the… news about this hemorrhoids business because of the uncertainty of things, whether this cream will work or not, will I live or die, will this change me from what I am now, will I be ready for both good and bad news? It was comforting to know that I wasn’t alone and that people have experienced the same things, what scares is what the people experienced after the initial “calm” finding. After watching an incredibly underrated movie called 50/50 starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt,

I can say that I’ll get through anything, any news whatsoever but before that come the stages. When I thought that I was cured finally after 2 days of not experiencing anything, I then to my horror found out that it wasn’t over. I couldn’t help but do a dramatic scene of sobbing in the loo, in the shower, thinking and contemplating and just thinking again… what if, what if, what if. I couldn’t get the thought out of my mind and I was seriously frightened and scared. Most frightening moment of my life.

But afterwards, after the sobbing, the mourning and the denial, you gradually accept and become ready for anything to hit you. You look for your inspiration and you find them in the littlest things. You try to act noble and do the most honorable thing. You try to keep your act together for the sake of others and for the sake of yourself. Suddenly you had a purpose in life. Live while you can.

This weekend started with a kaleidoscopic myriad of colors, music, body movements and aroma but it all turned black and white as I again was saying goodbye to my brother for the 3rd time as he ventures off to a better land for better opportunities somewhere above the Atlantic. I cried once again as I would not hear us screaming at each other anymore for a year and laugh at how relationships work. At how you think you hate someone but after everything, you still love them to bits. I WISH HIM WELL AND ALL THE BEST! CHEERS BROTHER AND BON VOYAGE!

So yeah, the title… LOL I actually wanted to write this post because of my dream. I’ve been feeling SO GROGGY AND SLEEPY the past few days and I just want to sleep it off ALL THE TIME. I practically slept in all the car rides the past days too. Thing is I’ve been dreaming every single time and this dream stuck like a gum under a shoe. That sort of disturbing thing.

I dreamt that I had a pet hamster the SIZE of a small bean/seed/nut.

Imagine that, it was only a few centimeters or even millimeters long but I had it somehow. It looked like my favorite hamster when I was young and I took care of it. But then, I suddenly lost it somehow and got another one. I would play with it as it scurry along the palm of my hand but then I would eventually find this “first” hamster. This “first” hamster now though grew to be an inch longer and I was surprised! At my surprise, I lost again my “second” hamster and got another little hamster. It kept on repeating until I had a lot of hamsters now. But then they would also grow and grow…

Senseless dreams right?

*toasts to whiskey – hoping it would cure my cough and colds -_-*

Questions:
1. What’s the first dream that you had in 2012? Or what’s the latest dream you remembered?

Till We Have Faces

jynxypanda — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:52:38 +0000

Quick Site Updates! Added links, pages to my Europhotoblog, fixed Project 365 (now my instagram blog, having an iPhone can be handy dandy!), Project Filmography 2012, Project 50 Leaves 2012 (I FINALLY FINISHED 50 BOOKS LAST YEAR!! WOOT GONNA DO IT AGAIN!), added my old poem (will be making new ones soon!) and also added some Meme Questions that I got from Jess (do ask me questions! Would love to hear from you guys :D). So was able to spring clean my blog just in time for the first day of the year!

I got a story to tell though! Something happened right before the start of 2012. Remember my last post when I talked about the alien conspiracy theories and how people think that another reason why the Mayans predicted that December 21, 2012 is the end of the world is because the Mayans MET the aliens. Actually not only the Mayans but including ancient civilizations such as the Greeks (EVEN PLATO THOUGHT THERE WERE ALIENS, well the Earth is a made of grids and this is related to aliens coming here) and Egyptians (how were they able to build the pyramids with no pulleys and other forms of equipment in just a few years?) were visited by them too. Well the creepy thing is that at around 3am in our room, I saw two small dwarf-like creatures that had alien shapes with blinking eyes(????) were kinda moving at the 2 corners of the room beside the air-conditioner and on top of my cabinet. I WAS SERIOUSLY FREAKED OUT BUT I KINDA SUPPRESSED MY SCREAMS. I ran and opened the light but nothing was there O_O I decided not to look at the corners again and just sleep well. Oh gosh that was creepy and I think I hallucinated it because I haven’t been sleeping early the past nights and my brother has been bugging me with all this alien talk so maybe that’s it….

That has to be it right?

Oh and we kinda mistook a flying lantern on New Year’s eve as a U.F.O. Oh flying lanterns are the craze now! The Philippines by the way is always fun on New Year’s Eve since people LOVE to make a lot of noise and lights. Our family was treated to a free fireworks show as usual because our neighbors were kinda competing against each other on who had the best show. Well all of them were awesome! Here are some photos I took

Shower of Lights

Little Piper Boy and the Fountain of Youth

Scarlet Fever

Well back to the alien part… I’m not gonna deny that there might be other beings in the INFINITE universe. Maybe there’s an alternate reality or something and we might never know. But I am still a Catholic Christian at heart (though the Church is another matter, oh gosh) and just wanna share this amazing book by C.S. Lewis called Till We Have Faces. Religion is all about creating a way of life and this is how I choose to be and in Lewis’ book, which he claims to be his masterpiece, he tackles it in such a profound way by retelling the myth of Psyche and Cupid in the point of view of Psyche’s sister. It’s such a beautiful philosophical and theological book but requires a bit of deep reading (need to read it again! don’t worry it’s not too deep as reading Ricoeur or other German/French philosophers. Still enjoyable!). Like what a reviewer said, tt basically tackles the psychological honesty about the human sense of injustice by the gods. Who has not been tempted to say to God, “It’s not fair”?

The ending is one of the best endings I’ve read. I teared up just because of the honesty and revelation of it. It’s quite an experience reading it, nothing like I’ve felt before. LOL this is turning to be a love story by the way I’m talking about it. But seriously I loved it.

Just some favorite quotes

“I have seen something like it happen in battle. A man was coming at me, I at him, to kill. Then came a sudden great gust of wind that wrapped out cloaks over our swords and almost over our eyes, so that we could do nothing to one another but must fight the wind itself. And that ridiculous contention, so foreign to the business we were on, set us both laughing, face to face – friends for a moment – and then at once enemies again and forever.”

“I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?”

I have this in PDF (I thought that it would be boring so I didn’t bother buying it, now I NEED to get a paperback copy!) and am willing to email it to those who want it.

Now I’m going to end this post with something light. All Asian girls have to relate to this video in some way or another. THIS IS FREAKING HILARIOUS! Been playing this every night before I go to sleep just to make me smile again What made this funny for me was the guy in the video dressing up as a girl and everyone keeping a straight face about it And the way he played the girl was kind of funny too. I’m not saying all asians girl do this but it’s funny how some do (like me! I do the starting today no fast food bit and break that promise after a few days or something XD) and how it’s portrayed her. Hope nobody takes offense (I’m asian and a girl too btw)

and I GOT THE SLATE PLANNER! (My other post talked about my planner dilemma but I solved it!) Am liking it so far especially the art, quotes, and there’s even a space for a Bucket list! I have my own list in my blog but I think I’ll make a list of things to do in 2012 (sort of a new year’s resolution, but nah, no deadlines or constraints for me Check out their site to order or you can go to any Fullybooked branch near you.

Toodles peepz!

Questions
1. What’s the first thing you did after you woke up on January 1, 2012?
2. Do you think you’ll read this book? What’s the most thought-provoking book you’ve read? If you don’t really like to read, what’s the most thought-provoking thing that happened to you last?
3. LOL Do you do any of the things that Asian girls do? (Doesn’t have to be Asian really, most girls do those too!)

Happy Christmas, Joyeux Noël!

jynxypanda — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:05:58 +0000

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HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE!!!

Have I ever mentioned that I love this holiday? Haha and I took this opportune moment to herald the total revamp of my site! I’ve finally updated my rotting pages (heck my bio hasn’t been updated in 2 years!) and fixed some broken links (still open to link exchange!) and also do you notice anything? Anything different at all? Nah you probably don’t…

BUT IF YOU DO……. It’s all thanks to my dearest and most awesome artist friend Liza! Please head on over to her site and give her some loving while you oooh and aah at her other works. I didn’t think a Harry Potter Panda theme was possible but she made it all happen. So what do you think? I decided to shake things up a bit here because I thought that I needed an “identity” and I felt lost amidst all the other blogs there and I needed a look that would scream me.

Man I can’t believe that 2011 is ending…
SOME PERSONAL CRAP. Read on only if you want to ▼

and (the end of the world OMG haha naah) 2012 is just right around the corner. Honestly for me, 2011 hasn’t been one of my best years. I’ve always thought that Senior Year would have been awesome because of what my friends have gone through but I absolutely feel NO SENTIMENTALITY at all. :/ It’s kinda crazy but I just want 2011 to be over and done with. I may sound like a cruel person (or maybe I am…) but this is just another phase that I will get through. Maybe because 2010 has been so awesome that 2011 is left behind the shadows but I doubt that this is the case. I’ll stick to the reason that I’m just not a sentimental person.

I won’t deny that 2011 has given me a LOT OF FIRSTS. Check out my about me page coz I added a few things there! I’ve started to bake, climbed a mountain, got drunk, blacked out, first time to go to Palawan, first k… okay so a lot of things happened but I seriously can’t wait for 2012 just because I have this bubbling optimism for it. I’m finally, FINALLY going to be able to work and make a difference with my life. I think that’s the biggest step anyone can achieve. To finally be able to plant a flag and say “I DID THIS ON MY OWN AND I CAN SUPPORT MYSELF”. Well to that effect anyway. I want to help my family and myself so much and I think that this is one of the only ways to do it. And really, working entails meeting new people and creating a new life, wherever I may go to. I don’t want to divulge anything yet but I’ve been applying here and there. Let’s just see how it goes.

So my only Christmas wish this year is for everything to fall in place. Vague but it stands true for me. I don’t want any material things (okay who am I kidding, if anyone can give me Steve Jobs’ biography or the Harry Potter Page to Screen book or any of the books in my shelfari, or a book shelf, or a trip to HK, etc. I’D LOVE YOU FOREVER!) so no Christmas lists for this year. Being stable is the most important thing for me now.

In my last post, I blogged about making Butterbeers and here’s one of the recipes I’ve used (Please add whipped cream). There are actually a lot of versions online and I didn’t even get to try this flaming butterbeer (do tell me if you do!) because Schnapps are hell expensive! And so are the other ingredients.

I did get to try butterbeer latte and my friend and I loved this! Better than the Cream Soda one I think but seriously, only drink small amounts because of the buttery-ness! For those who are health conscious… I’m not sure if Butterbeer is the best bet for you

Oh! And for your Christmas movie list, please PLEASE include Les Choristes (The Chorus in French) in your list. It may seem dark and depressing at first but I assure you that you’ll have tears in your eyes. Or at least a few drops! haha! We watched this for our European film class and so far this is the most heartwarming one. Good thing for youtube, the full movie can be seen online! Watch the trailer then hit the spoiler for it

On 15 January 1949, the former music teacher Clément Mathieu arrives in “Fond de l’ Etang” (“Bottom of the Well”), a boarding school for orphans and problematic boys, to work as an inspector. The place is administrated with iron fist by the cruel director Rachin, and most of the boys have severe punishments for their faults. Clément decides to teach the boys to sing in a choir in their spare time, and identify the musical potential of the rebel Pierre Morhange, the son of a beautiful single mother for whom he feels a crush. He also has a special feeling for the young Pépinot, a boy that expects the visit of his father every Saturday near the gate, but indeed lost his parents in the war. With his methods, Clément changes the lives of the boys, of the other employees and his own.

Taken from IMDB.

The beautiful angelic voices shall serenade you this Christmas eve

Watch the WHOLE thing ▼

Another reason why I like this film ▼

Oh by the way, this friendly doggy also wants to say Merry Christmas!

Watch some feel good movies such as It’s a Wonderful life or Les Choristes and enjoy it with your family! Or read a book or something. Or just do something joyous! Oh and another crazy thing to think about this Christmas (got this from a friend, not sure if he composed it himself XD)

Is there a Santa Claus? – a physicist view

Consider the following:

1) No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.

2) There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. BUT since Santa doesn’t (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total – 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that’s 91.8 million homes. One presumes there’s at least one good child in each.

3) Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75-1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding and etc. This means that Santa’s sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man- made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second – a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.

4) The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that ‘flying reindeer’ (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal amount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload – not even counting the weight of the sleigh – to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison – this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth.

5) 353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance – this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecraft re-entering the earth’s atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per second. Each. In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force. In conclusion – If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he’s dead now. Say what?..

Hope you all have a merry holiday! *dance*dance*dance*

Questions are back!
1. Any Christmas 2011 plans?
2. What’s your Christmas wish?
3. If you could change anything in your Christmas tradition (or have one if you don’t), what would it be?

People, Places and Possesions (boring title)

jynxypanda — Sat, 09 May 2009 13:03:47 +0000

**WARNING UBER LONG POST!!**

EUREEKKAA!! I’ve finally added spacing to wordpress without adding html codes such as these < p > ; < / p> or < b / >. I’ve been dwelling on this problem since day one but wordpress support was giving no solutions until I googled this blog. Thank you so much! I wasn’t able to comment because of some error but I really do thank you whoever you are!

I’ve also added some nifty new pages (well not that nifty… no visitors page yet! I still have to calculate and solve the probability of the number of users who will view the page, etc… okay i’m kidding:D) like the Mini-Bio and History pages in the About me section up there *click it if you guys wanna go :D* More updates will happen in the coming weeks so just stay tuned for updates! hehee Am now currently working on the comment limit shown, custom smilies and commenter’s plug in each post (does anybody know the plugin for this? hehe will be searchinngg.. :D)

I’ve also visited new friends such as Sofie! I’m very glad to have visited ya and thanks for exchanging links with me. From now on though, all those requesting for link exhanges would have to message me using the contact form here. The tagboard will just be a snippet of messages that you want to share and announce.

Speaking of Sofie, she has this nifty meme of listing down the top 5 places in the world that you are dying to visit. My dream is no doubt to travel the whole world before I become so frail and old that I can’t even run anymore. I mean they keep on saying, work hard now and have fun later or reap your harvest when you’ve finally retired at 70 ot 60 but come on, would you still appreciate the Eiffel tower or the Great Wall of China when you can’t climb them anymore? *Even if you’re a strong 70 year old* So goal is to at least visit these 5 places before 70.

What 5 places? ▼

1. Denmark/Austria/Europe nalang in general
My uncle has raved so much about Denmark since he has lived there for almost 7 years (he’s now in Shanghai hehe, oh my trip to Shanghai last April pushed through my blog friends! This was one of the reasons why I didn’t blog for soo long! Plurkmates know this though hehe) and I’m sooo curious as to how the view is. And plus they have Legoland (gosh I’m such a kid). I’m sure that there will be tons of castles and greenery.

Plus Austria! The first time I watched Sound of Music and the opening scene unfolds with Maria running down the mountains! Such a beautiful scenery. I dream to be able to do just that someday.

2. Madagascar/Africa
I haven’t thought much about Madagascar because it was such a low profile island. Even after the Madagascar movie came out, I really had no clue if it were just some African country but thank goodness TIME magazine did a feature on endangered species including the exclusive animals that could only be found in Madagascar. See the baobabs(upside down trees), the most ferocious little mammal the size of a squirrel! Gosh, so much beauty in that island. I hope those poachers and killers STOP what they’re doing. They should be educated and be told off that there are only a few of these animals left.

3. Japan
No brainer. I’ve been bitten by the anime bug ever since I watched Akazukin Chacha when I was around 5-6 years old and it has been amplified because of Fushigi Yuugi, Samurai X, Ayashi no Ceres (omg CRUSH KO SI TOOYA!! lolz) noong elementary days and now it has become an unstoppable force because of my Otaku blockmates and friends. I just can’t imagine what the real Japan would be like. I mean the country that is. Would there really be wacky people? I wanna go to Hello Kitty/Sanrio Land! Gooshh! *hyperventilates*

4. New York
THE ultimate city of the USA. Broadway, shopping (horribly expensive so I guess only window shopping would suffice), crazy people, amusement, gosh NEW YORK HAS IT ALL! hahaa. and plus all you need is to go to one state of the US and you’ll be able to travel everywhere now! Really cool The Big Apple is definitely on my list!

5. Sichuan China!
For a panda lover, I have NEVER seen a real panda. Our zoos don’t have them. Singapore doesn’t either. So I am going the the LAND of the pandas when I get back to China! Plus the scenery is surreal. HuangZhou included too! hehe. I think there’s just soo many things you can do in China too.

To be able to see a preview of my China trip, pls go here (for Chingrish HILARIOUS I TELL YA!), here, here, and here. More photos if you view my whole Multiply site. Hope you can visit! I tag whoever comments in this post to also do this meme. Please provide pics for the top 5 places! hehe

As an avid bloghopper, I’ve discovered many cool things through the net. I was actually itching to blog about these during my hiatus but my blogging mojo wasn’t present. Now that I think I’ve found it, I’d like to share more about a similar “talent competition” like American Idol but it’s actually worth watching to those who despise AI. haha. Heard of Susan Boyle? Yah you got that right, I’m talking about BGT (Britain’s Got Talent)

OKAY FOR SOME REASON YOUTUBE DISABLED THE EMBEDDING FUNCTION of some BGT videos so I’ll just provide a link. SUCKS! WHY OH WHY?

Anyway here’s Susan Boyle. Man, have you ever heard such intense emotions in the song? I know everyone’s tired of talking about her but she’s just inspirational character. And she has been hiding that BIG VOICE for such a long time! I’m a sucker for broadway musicals, their songs, and classical music so I pardon to those who hate them. I absolutely love them and you can’t change that. hehe. This is the reason why I also played her video for about 30x now since the video appeared. I HOPE SHE WINS!! There’s this Flawless act, a group of dancers, who people think might win too but I was more attached to Susan. So GO GIRL!

Okay here’s another vid!

Haha who here has twitter/plurk? I guarantee that whoever watches this will suddenly have second thoughts on continuing their account or they might feel a bit of a trouble bug that’s creeping behind their backs. Is plurking/twittering really WORTH your time? hehe. Watch and ponder.

On the contrary my brother even made a twitter account because of this. Beats me why his logic is so different. He says he’s fond of satires so ergo, make a twitter account. lOLZ

Am hiding this one. Reader is advised to be older than 17 when reading the next segment. Thanks!
I am above 17 yey ▼

Okay here’s a personal problem I’d like to share (even though it’s my blog, I don’t usually banter about family stuffs, love life-nonexistency of it, whatever personal stuffs). You see my dad has been addicted to smoking ever since… well he tried it when he was young. He has also tried soo many times to stop and even told my mom that he’ll stop as soon as they got married. Well they’ve been married for 22 years and it’s still happening. He has toned down a bit but come on, no kid wants their parents to keep on making themselves sick right? So when someone dropped by my blog yesterday, I checked out his site and it opened my eyes to electronic cigarettes and their possibility of helping addicts stop smoking. As quoted from their site in the Philippines,

“Electronic Cigarette is the product of tomorrow, it is the future of smoking without compromising your health. E-Cigarette looks like a real cigarette, the taste and the feel is undeniably the same as your favorite brand and it saves you money since it is way cheaper than traditional cigarettes by as much as eighty percent (80%).

Do you find it hard to quit smoking? Are you looking for a healthy alternative to tobacco smoking? Do you want to live a longer life and prevent lung cancer? You have come to the right place! The Electronic Cigarette is the ultimate solution for smokers who value their lives as well as the people around them. It is a product made specifically for smokers who are finding it really tough to stop the habit as well as the smokers who don�t want to have diseases that can be acquired from smoking traditional cigarettes.

Unlike the usual cigarette, E-Cigarettes can be smoked anywhere since it does not contain Tobacco nor Tar. It does not produce Carbon Monoxide that is not only offensive to others but also pose danger to their wellness. The vapor-like smoke that is produced is totally harmless yet feels like the real thing. The revolution of healthy and safe smoking has begun, don�t be left behind. Its time to change for the better. A clean and cancer-free environment for all of us. Save money, more importantly, save your life!”

But skeptic old me isn’t buying into anything that sounds this good so I googled some facts and I found out that the World Health Organization doesn’t say anything about this as a legitimate therapy for addicts. There COULD be side effects like nicotine poisoning and such. So my thoughts of buying it for my dad for Father’s day suddenly evaporated.

I do hope they conduct further studies on this because this could really help the people and the world. First of all, it could help a person stop smoking altogether. Second, people around that person smoking wouldn’t be harmed as people puffing real cigarettes do. Pls pls let there be a better way.

So guys, PLEASE DON’T SMOKE. Save yourself the trouble of finding a way to stop an addiction. Just a friendly warning from Tiff K

One of my other favorite finds this week is this CLOUD SOFA. The instant that this gets out in the market, I’M GONNA BUY IT (depends on the price though)! It has always been my dream to sleep on such puffiness. Have I ever told ya guys that I once dreamed of being locked inside a stuff toy store and sleeping on top of all their toys? Sighs.. really like puffy things. haha How do you get on the Cloud Sofa though? Sighs too bad that this is just a concept design.

Well I guess I’ve blogged long enough. Sorry for the uber long posts! I guess I’m just talkative. You do like it when you get long comments right? hehe I’ll try to shorten my blog posts a bit though. Sorry!! Hehe I have something in store with my next post though! Haha I’ll share something hilarious.

Well updates when I update! Oyasuminasai minna san

Questions:
1. Would you do the tag/meme I posted? If not, what’s the place that you would surely go to if you were given a hundred thousand dollars now?
2. Will you still twitter after watching the twitter video? What were your thoughts on it?
3. Do you like long blog posts? Long comments? Was this post very long?
4. Is a 4th question a bother? hahaa Do you also want to buy the cloud sofa if it were out in the market?