Helping mah friend sell her HD POCKET VIDEO CAMERA, Rockband 1 PS3 Game, FFXIII Japanese version PS3 game. Do check them out!
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CRAP.

I’ve really disregarded my blogging friends… I’ve let you all down for not visiting you guys… I AM SO SORRY!!! I am really forced to take a hiatus because I am in a major PICKLE RIGHT NOW! No make that, I’m in a HUGE WATERMELON RIGHT NOW (or gourd or whatever big fruit you can think of). I’ve got only a month and a half left of school and I’m hanging by a thread in the dean’s list this semester because it’s so darn hard. I don’t want to talk about academics anymore and I don’t really want a hiatus. So now am not sure what to post about either because my mind is such a mess. I want to share a lot of things though… maybe I’ll just treat this month and a half as tumblr posts. I’ll only post little snippets and blog posts but I won’t be able to return comments at once. Maybe I’ll reply in a week or two so please forgive me!

Maybe I’ll just talk about my very unique birthday last week. I celebrated the night before with my best friends and then I was left alone inside the house. My mother went to Cebu to attend a dog show, my dad went to Baguio because of a meeting so there they actually gave me freedom on my 20th birthday. To tell you the truth, it wasn’t much fun really because I really was alone so i woke up to my birthday alone. Maybe it’s a foreshadowing and a preparation because I will be leaving my family for 4 months and this will give me courage and independence. I was glad that I had 5 doggies with me in the room though. I then attended my organization’s formation seminar and actually is the first time I really went out with people aside from my family on my birthday. I didn’t want a fuss so I was uncomfortable spending it with friends because I was used to spending my birthday with my family (my birthday usually doesn’t coincide with school classes so there :D). But this was a new experience, it was fun to be around people! I was actually piggy-backed for almost 5 MINUTES! man I won’t explain why but all I can say, it hurt for the both of us XD (guy carrying me and myself XD)

I’m so glad too that our balikbayan box from the US (it took 45 days of shipping time!) finally arrived! I got my Sandman#8-10 and Fables#1-3 graphic novels and I really can’t wait to read them all!! hahahaa Other stuffs were bought by mum and her friends so shipping fee wasn’t that expensive.

OH AND I FORGOT! I finally have pictures of my netbook with the gelaskins I ordered! I’ll be selling the other two. XD hahaa I do need money for my France trip!

Well there guys, I’ll really try to go visit your blogs. I’m really sorry if I can’t… If you need questions or anything just drop by my formspring or tumblr. I’ll definitely answer you all somehow or e-mail

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ON OTHER NEWS…. MY NETBOOKY (hahaa netbook-y XD sorry laughed at my own joke.. *feels like a loser* XD) HAS A NAME!! AND THE NAME I’VE CHOSEN…. IS….. WHIPPY!!! XD XD hhahaaa Thank you to my namesake and twin-like friend Tiffany K for the name! i love the name whippy because… since my netbook’s gelaskin is a whale and I do love names that end with -y so… whippy tis is!!

Runner up goes to Georgina for Banana (LOL XD XD and Pandie actually)! XD ahahaa i love the randomness XD And maybe because I like Abed so much, I’d nickname the netbook’s alter ego as Abed. XD hahaa! Thank you guyyss!! >:D<
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Something to make you laugh too, Filipino comedian Michael V just did a HILARIOUS PARODY of Lady Gaga's Bad Romance. Basically instead of Bad Romance, it's now BATHROOM DANCE where the video revolves around this dude who needs to go the bathroom because of eating all sorts of concoction XD It's way funnier in Filipino and pardon for the weird English translation. XD hahaa you know how translating some things in English just sound... awful XD

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Yey am so glad that everyone enjoyed the egg house in the last post! You guys are awesome you know? For telling me it’s okay to update only once a week or when I only feel like it… but I do have this urge of blogging every after 4 days and it pains me I can’t do it. I’ve now got a midterm and long exam next week and I really can’t wait until History (Philippine History & Rizal) IS OVER! It’s ruining my life!

Oh by the way guys! Posts marked with *POST TITLE* are BLOG REVIEWS and don’t really make any sense and are MADE UP 99% of the time. So if I said I talked to a friend or have a strange opinion, it’s not me. It’s just the ingenuity or lack thereof that’s acting there, so hopefully I didn’t offend anyone here…

I’ve been studiously learning French with Rosetta Stone *cough cough* and I just bought Berlitz’s Phrase Book and Dictionary as my friend Cheryl suggested. I would really recommend it because it has tips on pronunciation and categorized in particular situations such as shopping etc! Rosetta Stone is AWESOME too because it’s really VERY INTERACTIVE. Heck they don’t even have translations! They’ll only show pictures and their corresponding French word and now it’s up to you to remember and associate them. Rosetta Stone aims to boost your intuition and I’d recommend it for ANY LANGUAGE. I’m planning to get *cough cough* one for Spanish, Korean and Japanese again sometime. Maybe German too.

My phrase book wee

Again nothing is going on with my life except my friends and I just ate a GODZILLA BURRITO (it was around 2.5kg!!) and we finally watched IRONMAN 2!! *Robert Downey Jr. HOTNESS!! Scarlett Johansson HOTNESS ZOMG!!!* I just fainted I think.... XD Ironman 2 ROCKED the whole theatre but... I don't know... I felt something missing... but RDJ DID SUPERB AS USUAL ahahhaa!!

Big-Ass Burrito!

Nothing happened again this week… I mean we just built a paper tower during Software Engineering class (it’s for team building! Our prof says! and it patterns the management system of projects and stuff) and I found this idea on the net of using the accordion style for great balance but it was very vulnerable to the wind. Good thing it rained and we built in down the steps so that we’d escape the harsh winds! Man did you know that that day was probably the first time it rained after weeks of drought? GAWD!

First Tower Before it Fell minutes before judging

2nd Tower and More stable! WOOT WE WON! XD

This is still going to be a short post, just want to share with you guys this AMAZING architect in Hong Kong! Imagine yourself living in just say… 330 square feet! In an APARTMENT! This dude has just found a way to transform it into 24 different kinds of rooms! It’s really amazing! Remember the egg house that I shared in my last post? It’s something like this too but more amazing in my opinion Too bad you can’t install this in the egg room XD

Or…. can you?? Watch it guys! Just 4 minutes

Before I go, just want to share with you guys my lists! I’ve finally updated my Shelfari library though it’s still incomplete! I’ve added my lists of tv shows including anime (movies and music are still on the way!) in Listal so if you guys have any of these accounts, ADD ME!!

Thanks again guys for not laughing at me in my last video XD

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Questions
1. Do you live in a house, apartment, up in a tree, etc? Do you like it there?
2. What languages can you speak?
3. When was the last meal that you really felt FULL?
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Aww crap, after looking at my horrible sched in my last post, I knew that I couldn’t (but I WILL STILL TRY!) post every other 4 days like I used to. I can’t even blogskip or return comments as usual huhuhu… urgh the PRESSURE! I was able to go out with my best buds yesterday and commuted all over the place! Also finally went to Enderun Colleges (they had such a SCRUMPTIOUS MEAL!! MY GOSH O_O and it’ll definitely make you feel REALLY full. It’s not a culinary arts or hotel administration school for nothing!) to visit Danelle who studies there. I missed these gals!

My brother is in Perth, Australia already by the way! He’s experiencing 10 degree weather while we’re boiling here at 36 degrees. Luuckky him! T_T Funny instance in his stopover at Malaysia, he guided an Iranian family to their flight XD Man it was weird that they approached him, bro went all paranoid XD He’s enjoying so far and starts work tomorrow!

Urgh because of the lack of stories and anything new, I’d just post this nifty EGG-HOUSE that my mum e-mailed me (she e-mails me a LOT OF things. She’s the mum who’s always on facebook XD lOL) and I thought, hey I’d want this as a portable house. Just add some wheels and it’s A OKAY. It’s way more creative than your typical trailer park right? HAHAHHAA XD What do you think? And you could probably scare your neighbors that you’re an alien from outer space or something. I COME IN PEACE IN DA FORM OF AN EGG.

Anyway here’s that EGGSTACSTIC home!

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This house looking like a hard boiled egg is made by the Belgian architectural firm “dmvA”. It was actually meant to be a an extension for the “Xfactoragencies” office, but was rejected several times by local building regulations, so instead “dmvA” made a mobile office that didn’t look anything like the old “Xfactoragencies” offices.

The whole “egg house” is made of polyester, and it took 18 months to build it. Inside you can find a bathroom, a kitchen, interior lighting, a bed and several niches for storage, and like that wasn’t enough the nose can be opened automatically and is serving as a kind of porch. It can also be used as an office, guestroom or garden house

Awesome isn’t it? Anyway I’m pooped, sleepy and I still have to read “What Is Philosophy” and understand that being is in Being so being is Being. Yes indeedy! OH I MADE A SHORT(EST) video but it’s NOT the surprise, it’s completely random. PLEASE WATCH AT YOUR OWN RISK.

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Questions
1. Do you receive any weird e-mails? What’s the weirdest e-mail?
2. If you could design your house, what would it look like?
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So I’ve been missing for about 6 days? Not responding to any of you *a liiee!! I have your blog tabs open right now! Just… i haven’t read them yet TEEHEEE* and why is that? Well same reason as Nigahiga’s reason here *WATCH IT!*

Okay I was KIDDING there. But if you didn’t watch the video, then you’d have no idea what I’m talking about. Nigahiga actually reminds me of someone I knooooww and z XD if I’m going to make a youtube video, then maybe it’ll sound as wacky as his. I don’t know… Those who’ve watched my previous vlogs should know! I tried to do the “surprise” video but my experiment FAILED MISERABLY yesterday so… it’s still a work in progress. You’ll all probably hit me in the head when you see it and go “This is ALL that she’s worked weeks for? TOTAL CRAP!” (hope you guys don’t say it though…)

Thanks guys for the lovely comments in the last post! Can you guys read better now? It seems like the font was too small for some and the width of the entry too constricted. Sorry guys! I know I write long, guess I’ll just have to write shorter or at least spoiler most of the youtube videos because they really take up space!

Gashh but things are just about to get worse. Add to my heavy heavy History load (but of course no match to the load of Law/Medicine majors :D), I’d be getting late afternoon classes. Gadd urgh really now. Look at my sched. But I am thankful that I at least have mornings off after May. I just really hope I can survive it.

I would really like to tackle culture and environment and money in today’s post. It’s about time to have another one of those posts with tips to help you guys save money. Usually all I post all about the environment and maybe you’ve all read my food rant in the previous posts so now i’ll take a different direction and head on to the other green thing we’re all obsessed about. We need help and sometimes even professional help when dealing with money because face it, it’s the thing that makes the world go round. Throw in a little love but basically it’s the green stuff that ALMOST DETERMINES EVERYTHING. So I’m going to help you guys save a little with this tip

Tip for the day would be… TO CHANGE FONTS WHEN PRINTING. Yes you, dear reader shouldn’t be too ink-happy when printing because not only will it save you ink, it would probably be able to help you save a few dollah dollah bills too since ink is REALLY EXPENSIVE. So according to yahoo news,

The school of 6,500 students spends about $100,000 per year on ink and toner cartridges. Although students and staff can change the default font to something more ink-intensive, Blohowiak said the university expects to save $5,000 to $10,000 per year with the font switch.

When Printer.com tested popular fonts for their ink-friendly ways, Century Gothic and Times New Roman topped the list. Calibri, Verdana, Arial and Sans Serif were next, followed by Trebuchet, Tahoma and Franklin Gothic Medium. Century Gothic uses about 30 percent less ink than Arial.

The amount of ink a font drains is mainly driven by the thickness of its lines. A font with “narrow” or “light” in its name is usually better than its “bold” or “black” counterpart, said Thom Brown, an ink researcher at Hewlett-Packard Co., the world’s top maker of printers.

Also, serif fonts — those with short horizontal lines at the top and bottom of characters — tend to use thinner lines and thus less ink than a “sans serif” counterpart.

NOTE READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE. This doesn’t necessarily mean it’ll completely save the environment because it’s really the number of paper we try to save that really counts.

As for culture, I’ve found this nifty video that talks about Japan. For me this isn’t really racist though the video does make use of humor and exaggeration to explain its point, and that’s the strangeness and wonder of Japan. This video is made by a Japanese so I guess it’s really not racist. I was just very amused and it’ll take 10 minutes of your life but it’s a good 10 minutes. Kudos to the guy who made this! Graphics are awesome!

I also love exploring old houses and museums (I just went to the Ayala Museum and it’s AWESOME! over 1000 gold pieces of our ancestors and they have an awesome diorama of the WHOLE history of the Philippines (around 2000 years ago? kinda forgot)) and I came from my childhood home, my grandparents’ house, yesterday and found A SHOCKING FIND!! My grandparents’ actually have a collection of the writings of GREAT MASTERS OF LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY OUT THERE! Man they probably had this collection around the 1960s. I always knew that there was a set of books on top of that shelf as a kid but I didn’t bother looking at it until now XD

List of the great authors.

This will be EXTREMELY useful for my philosophy and maybe theology classes because heck, we even have the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine! I didn’t even need to go buy books of Shakespeare because I had them all in 2 books. Plus reading Plutarch would have been great for my Western History class. Man… the things you find… I took pics of my grandparents’ house too but I didn’t want to upload them… maybe next time hhehehee

PS. Thank you soo much to Hanae for sharing the movie rating plugin (well found it thru her site) and now you my Project filmography is MORE ORGANIZED! Man I never knew there was a movie rating plugin. It’s a godsend!

Well Tata! Off to my readings Gyurck

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Question
1. Any interesting stories concerning your childhood home? Or have you found anything peculiar there?
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I have to go all nerd mode and read a TON of readings. Once I get them, I’ll show you a picture of it. I was so excited at first when I found out that I was going to take History 165: Rizal under Ambeth Ocampo (he’s a famous historian and has a column in the Philippine Daily Inquirer) and I’ve been getting good reviews of his class and how fun and whacked out his tests and classes are (imagine, one question in his test: Recount the Battle of Mactan in a FISH’S point of view. Guess who got an A? The guy who answered GLUB GLUB GLUB GLUB GLUB back to back) or maybe Ma’am Espena who gives out CRAZY bonus points despite tough long exams. Well instead, 2 days before summer classes, we were informed that we would be taking Ma’am Garilao’s class! And to my horror my brother laughed at me and told me that I was DOOMED. DOOMED BECAUSE OF THE MT. EVEREST-SIZED READINGS. I was already feeling so bad but I still had hope. Maybe I can still transfer sections but it turns out that all their classes were full. And today, just the 2nd day of summer classes, I have already read 12 chapters of Noli Me Tangere (in English) and read the first reading. I have 3 inches of readings AND THAT’S JUST THE HALF OF IT. I wanted to tell ma’am, WE AREN’T LAWYERS! We’re not supposed to read this much IN A MONTH!

But of course we must strive for greatness, MAGIS as Ateneans would say. We have to be MORE and maybe I just might survive her class. I’m determined to finish at least more than 1/4 of her readings this week because I have 4 MORE CLASSES NEXT WEEK. 3 Computer subjects plus PHILOSOPHY which has a TON OF READINGS (i think?) too. Howell, I must concentrate on that POT OF GOLD at the end of the rainbow!

Hopefully you know, after all this hard work, after college, I’ll be part of something big. Like this guy who created a DIGITAL PERSONAL ASSISTANT like the one you see in Ironman (I CAN’T WAIT FOR IRONMAN 2! RDJ!! ). Crap, he can even talk, text and interact with Jarvis. Jarvis even reminds him of things he has to do and tracks the occupants of his apartment (including the dogXD). How...COOL....IS....THAT??!

Imagine the possibilities of his creation, would there soon be a Jarvis PA that will be sold to consumers sometime in the near future (like in 10 years? I think it’s possible!)? What would you like your Digital Personal Assistant to do? Check his youtube channel for more updates!

Can I just say for the 100000000+++ time that it’s insanely hot here? T_T Here’s a pic around 5:30pm. More personal pics to be posted in my project 365!

To calm myself down, I’d usually listen to classical music. Classical music is probably my favorite genre because… I don’t know… it’s sort of an escape from our worries and stresses in the world. The notes, the melody and the tone… it would soothe your soul and it doesn’t matter if you can’t sing… i mean just go on with the melody… I don’t know. It really just gets me . When my friend showed me this video of this awesome guy who turns pop music into classicalized popular music. I think what he’s doing is just… AMAZING and I honestly some of these more than the original ones. I’m not that much into electronic sounds so the violin, viola etc all sound more pleasing for me. I’m now into Harmonica too because of Bob Dylan! Anyway guys, I blabber too much, just listen to his version of KE$HA’s Tik Tok

Or good news of course cheer me up. I don’t know why… but when payperpost emailed me for sponsored posts that match, one offer had a $5,000 BOUNTY ON IT!! ZOMG ! I instantly clicked I’m Interested but I doubt that it’ll be give to me XD But it just shows that there is a possibility! A possibility anyway. hahaa or I watch WACKY VIDEOS LIKE THIS. PLEASE GUYS WATCH. YOU’LL NEVER STOP LAUGHING! (This kid reminds me of someone I KNOW PERSONALLY XD goshh!)

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Question
1. Who’s your favorite professor? Why?
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And thank you all who noticed something VERY DIFFERENT with my blog. Something pink, something… BIG!! hhahaha Yeah I’ve changed layouts after EONS guys! Man, I was sick and tired of looking at green for almost a year (bloggie’s birthday is coming up in May! Guess which date? *clue: it’s in the blog somewhere…*) and I found this awesome pink theme (well, pink would be different for me, what I would really love is a red theme :D) from Anne and fell in love with it. I might change the header sometime though but can't promise it. I want to retain some panda things here too hhehee Or maybe it won't necessarily be a panda, let's just see. Dang, still no surprise video of mine, well... you know as they say... just be surprised someday!

And I AM SOO HAPPY BECAUSE... I'm in the Dean's List for 3 semesters already thus making me a DL for one year! It's an awesome feeling because... I don't know... this semester was very interesting and different. I worked hard for 2 As in Science and History because you really needed to study there (or cram real hard!) and I had the best professors there. Anyway... here's my grade! (highest grade point average here is 4) I am really skipping for joy! I hope that I'll be able to maintain it in my junior term abroad! It's so scary since we're just so few this semester. I'll be flying to France in Septemmberr omg only 5 months left!! April-July, JTA sem, YOU'RE GOING DOWN!

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All this health talk especially promising myself to lose weight this year is motivating me really to eat well and lose some weight! I’m really quite determined since I started my food blog around end of February. I haven’t really told anyone about this yet because… I don’t want to call it I’m “dieting”. I was inspired by one of my best friends to just “EAT HEALTHY”. The secret of losing weight is not starving yourself nor is it going to the gym 10 hours a day or what. It’s just about making HEALTHY CHOICES. Go eat a burger once in a while (but once you watch Food Inc, you might even try to NEVER eat burgers again) and have some sweets but it’s all about balance. I think it’s time to share just a little bit of “wellness” – a term coined by me and my friends when we were kidding and having fun last Tuesday at Shangrila Mall. XD

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With a little wellness, you just have to have a little Guylian chocolate seashells.

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and maybe some Krispy kreme goodies too… XD

I’ve updated my bucket list (crossed out some things finally!) and added movies and books to my Project Filmography and Project 50 Leaves! Do join if you want guys! I’ve watched 30+ movies so far this year! Hoping to reach two hundred or more! BWAAHAHAA XD (man I sound insane). Also stay tuned for my Movie Blog because it’s going to be REVAMPED like you’ve never seen it before! I’m going to ask for some link exchanges soon too.

Oh and I am soo happy that you guys have helped my blog reach PR3 again! Man I lost my PR3 after holding the contest (so does that mean contests are bad? not sure…) but I might hold another one some time this year. Not on my blog anniversary though. hhehee maybe December

AND BEFORE I END THIS POST… I just recently joined (2 days after making this post) Gisele’s Win a Stackable Mug Set Contest!

I have always loved her designs and I plan to add mugs to my collection now. I collect animal accessories but now I’m venturing forth to mugs. I just found out that I really do love mugs plus they are practical too. I just wish for more space to put them in XD

If you want to enter, just follow these four easy steps:

1. Post about this giveaway in your blog or your facebook, adding a link to this post!!
2. Leave me a comment in this post with the link to your blog post or your facebook profile!!
3. To duplicate your chances tweet about the contest using the TWEET button on this post!! (Please don’t forget to leave me your twitter username on the comment aswell!)
4. Deadline is April 16th at midnight in Norway (+1 / CET time)!! Good luck everyone!!

Just go to her site and join guys!

Tata for now!

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Question
1. What’s your favorite vegetable? Fruit?
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Hope you guys have a Blessed Easter!! I just celebrated at home…

BUT HERE’S TO MORE ADORABLE PICS OF ZIGGSTER/ZIGGY BEAR

Tsk tsk!! No one got the age of my friend correctly!!

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YES SHE’S ONLY 12 YEARS OLD OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

Shocked aren’t you all? We were quite shocked too because she looked older than that! Hahaha. And sadly, no ZOMG vlog yet, I haven’t found the perfect time to do it. I’ll really try and post it next time! I still have a week of vacation left!

And I’ve been dreaming off adventures again, don’t you wish you can explore your country first before going anywhere? I’d love to explore the whole Philippines first because really, there’s SO MUCH TO SEE! Being in the city all the time sucks and I still want to get away from it all. I’ve only been to Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, Quezon, Batangas, Tagaytay, Baguio, Pampanga. Everything is in Luzon! I need to go south and see Cebu, Davao, Mindoro, Iloilo, and of course… PALAWAN! Gosh international friends, please click on the links and look at the pics, it’s really beautiful here. Who wants to go with me to palawan??

I’ve even been searching online for flight rates and all. It’s not that expensive (for locals) but if you include the hotel accomodation, the works, it’s DARN EXPENSIVE! So how about let’s be girl scouts and boy scouts and just put up a tent? XD hhahahaa! XD I really really want to go to Palawan someday! *thank you google for the pics!*

I do miss family vacations, it’s been a long time since my family went abroad. Last time it was only me and my brother and grandmother who went to visit my uncle in Shanghai. And now with dad’s gout acting up, it’s even more unlikely Do you guys have any relatives or friends with gout? Do you know any treatment of it? Dang I do wish I won’t get it when I grow old. It ain’t pretty…

Okay let’s go to HARRY POTTER NEWS ZOMG!!! If you guys live in the states and you watch Ellen’s show, then you must have heard of her offer to two SUPER HARRY POTTER FANS a chance to go to Florida and take the first sneak peek to THE HARRY POTTER THEME PARK! I’ve been going crazy over this and crying when I heard it in twitter because I’m not a US citizen so… I can’t participate. And then Ellen chooses these 2 cutest little kids to go with her! Here’s the video!

I found it so funny when she asked the kids, “How’d you like that?” and then a cut scene sound XD Man they must have not perfected butter beer yet because it is supposed to be awesome! I really have imagined how butterbeer will taste like. Blame me and my Harry Potter fandom XD

My fingers are itching to press the CHECKOUT CART button in online stores because I’m having this shopping cravings again! Now it’s for The Sandman, cute panda stuffs and BB creams maybe. I’ve bought this cute panda mug from Gel already and I’m wishing that my friend in Korea can bring me home some Sandman novels (in Amazon.com, they have it for 13++$ but in Korea, ONLY 9-10$!! WHOOT!! Every little dollar saved counts Call me little miss stingy!). Now for BB creams.. i have to think about it… but man! I must remember to save up for my netbook and my junior term abroad! Must must SAVEEE!!

I think I’ll leave you guys with this pic now, so I’m not the only one who wants to have it! XD

Now I want one too. T_T Okay…. must stop looking at cute things!

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1. What’s the cutest thing in your closet now?
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I was supposed to make an entry yesterday to add a post at least to March (man I post so few! Sorry guys, but posting for me really takes up time as it takes HOURS to just make an entry. I’m such a slowpoke *gives d’oh face of Homer Simpson*) but March 31 was SUCH an emotional rollercoaster. I was soo happy at the first few weeks because finally FINALLY our new doggy Ziggy arrived!

ISN’T HE THE CUTEST THING EVER??? AWWWW!!!

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He’s a HUGE BEAR of a Golden retriever that my mom bought from this famous golden breeder judge in Detroit (well don’t ask me why my mom wanted to buy a dog in the US, how she met this person – well anything is possible with facebook now and all that because it’ll be a long story. I don’t understand it as well but let’s just accept the fact that the dog is here to stay :P) and he arrived last March 29! Man it was a busy day. Everyone was out somewhere, we woke up at 3am just to bring my parents to the airport (they’ll be going to Cebu, a province here for business things), then brother went out to have his medical checkup, I went to Celadon (my organizations’) Ball and had a blast with everybody. Look at uzz!!

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Guess the age of the girl beside me wearing the white shades. Will feature you if you get it right!!

and then I waited up to 2:30am because Ziggy came here at 1:30am. Man it was such a long day and I was operating with only 4 hours of sleep. I can’t CANNOT sleep. I need at least 2-3 hours to function well or else I’d probably sludge around like some beast from the underbelly of doom or something. It’s not a pretty sight.

I’m really so fascinated with dreams! I know I’ve blogged about it before but I really do get weird morbid dreams. It pains me to see what my subconscious is talking about when for the past month I’ve had 2 end of the world dreams, dreams of underwater transparent mazes, battling off monsters, chasing for somebody I don’t even know along with some lab-coated professors and one of them had a name Professor Victa. I want to look what’s inside my subconscious. This is why Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman series (the graphic novels) appealed to me soo much that while I was at Eastwood (after watching HOW TO TRAIN A DRAGON. I SWEAR GUYS WATCH IT!! IT’S DREAMWORKS’ BEST! BETTER THAN SHREK! I SWEAR!! I want a pet dragon now too… actually I’ve always wanted one…) I decided to buy the first volume and now.. i’m HOOKED. I have now searched at Amazon and figured that it would be cheaper to buy abroad. Too bad though that free shipping is only available to the US and that my cousin will be leaving soon so I can’t let them buy it. Is anybody in the US coming to the Philippines? Aww man… It’s just so expensive but it’s worth it… There’s even the Absolute Sandman edition where 3 volumes are packed into one and it also includes never before seen illustrations. It’s waay more expensive though and am happy with my normal copy. Am going to try Fables too after Sandman.

Here’s a short summary of what the series are about:

“Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman was launched in 1989. This extremely popular series was bound into ten collections. Following Dream of the Endless, also known as Morpheus, Onieros and many other names, we explore a magical world filled with stories both horrific and beautiful.

What do you need to know to enjoy the series? Only that there are seven brothers and sisters who have been since the beginning of time, the Endless. They are Destiny, Death, Dream, Desire, Despair, Delirium who was once Delight, and Destruction who turned his back on his duties. Their names describe their function and the realms that they are in charge of. Several years ago, a coven of wizards attempted to end death by taking Death captive, but captured Dream instead. When he finally escapes he must face the changes that have gone on in his realm, and the changes in himself.

Preludes and Nocturnes begins the series. In it, Dream, escapes his prison. He must go on a quest to find the tools of his office: his helm, pouch and ruby. The journey will take him – and us – through the gates of hell itself. It will also teach Dream an important lesson about relying on tools, and introduce us to the other star of the series, Death.”

And then suddenly emotions came crashing down yesterday during the release of grades (April 1 midnight) and since it was April Fool’s today, we thought that, yeah, our math professor WON’T EVEN SUBMIT OUR GRADES and we laughed it of. Well it turns out HE DID NOT SUBMIT OUR GRADES so we see a BIG FAT “I” (incomplete) in our current grade. ARGH!! I don’t want to assume anything ye so am just going to keep mum and show you this video OF WHAT I’M FEELING RIGHT NOW. Good thing I watched “Catch Me if You Can” last night. It cheered me up LOADS.

Wicked fans should know this song XD

Sighs… I’m getting that other feeling again… the feeling of wanting to JUST GO OUUTT AND DO SOMETHING! I was so disappointed that we’re not going anywhere this Holy Week. Unlike other families here in the Philippines who would usually go to to their provinces or somewhere, my family is just staying home. Wish we could go to Tagaytay, or Subic, or Quezon or Bicol but nooo. There are soo many awesome places in the Philippines that I wanna go explorin’! I feel so much like Ellie here. Hopefully you guys have seen Up and know this scene. It’s such a cute and… honest scene.

ADVENTURE IS OUT THERE! *i’ll be posting AN INTERESTING vlog (maybe? maybe vlog?) in my next post! I’ve always wanted to try it out. To give you guys a clue, check our what Natalie Tran’s video *subscribe to her plsss* and guess what I’m going to do! – NO NOT GONNA DO A CHASE SCENE XD*

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1. Had any dreams lately? Care to share?
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We celebrated his graduation yesterday at Balducci’s (i think that’s the name XD) located at Serendra (awesome food place here in the Philippines! If you ever go to Manila, do go here!) and the food was awesome! Since am still on my diet, I ordered grilled prawns and the food was delish! Though I liked Chelsea’s better.

By the way here’s a picture of me and my bro at his graduation. I can’t believe we were late and didn’t see him go up the stage!! Blame family business, darn, some people just HAD to drop by our house at 4:30pm urgh. But howell, we’ll see it on video anyway and plus my gash ADMU, why hold graduation in the covered courts? Sighs… I hope my graduation will be held in someplace cool! I saw Chris Tiu too by the way! XD (famous basketball player here)

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Does anybody know what my title is all about? XD Well since it’s almost the elections time already in the Philippines, jokes and comics regarding presidents came to my mind and which president suffered more jokes than anyone? Well certainly that’s ex-President/ex-convict Erap Joseph Estrada. My gasshhh I even have a joke book about him and there’s this one about Erap being asked to translate “A rolling stone gathers no moss” in Spanish by his teacher. And if you understand Filipino/Tagalog + little Spanish, you’d get the joke XD Well this is my own plea to my countrymen, please please,

- VOTE WISELY. Don’t vote for someone who’s ALREADY LOST OUT TRUST
- VOTE FOR SOMEONE WHO DOESN’T CAPITALIZE ON THE POOR
- RESEARCH INFORMATION REGARDING EACH CANDIDATE. Know their mistakes, their achievements. Make sure that they HAVE DONE SOMETHING IN THEIR LIVES
- JUDGE THEM AS AN INDIVIDUAL PERSON. Not based on their family background. Not based on their parents’ achievements
- Take note: CORRUPTION CANNOT BE DISPLACED BY ONE PERSON ALONE. So if someone promises to take away corruption, let him put up surveillance cameras in EVERY POLITICIANS’ HOMES. Of course that will never happen so you CAN’T.

Anyway I won’t turn this into a politics post, I dislike politics anyway.

I’m encouraging EVERYONE to join this forum of Georgina’s and Tiffany’s because… it’s simply an awesome place filled with plenty of awesome people. Everyone is so nice and approachable. Been talking a lot to Cozza, Jess and Jas! Lotsa fun and games too! Plus I like this nifty idea of a ‘shop’ where you can buy actresses, actors, etc! Of course I bought Johnny Depp already XD HAHAHA Plus you can change the forums’ themes too So guys do join SKELETONS! See you there :P

So today, I’m going to concentrate on food! Yes, oh that stuff that everyone loves? They come in all shapes, colors and sizes and it’s essential for every human being (who wants to live anyway) and it’s a fun delicious subject! But what are your thoughts on THE GOLDEN ARCHES?? The catalyst for what we know as FASTFOOD?

After watching this year’s Ho-hum oscars, the Best Documentary and Best Shorts caught my eye especially this nominated best documentary film of Robert Kenner called FOOD INC. I did wonder, where the heck does our food come from? How on earth do we feed 6 billion people EVERYDAY?? That’s about killing millions of cows, chickens EVERYDAY. How the heck do we keep up? Well food inc especially explores that in American society. Even tough I’m not American, I can feel the filmakers’ anger, the LIES that you guys have been presented. And I sure hope that it isn’t done in the Philippines (because I don’t think our country is capable of such big factories, I may be wrong) or any other place. It’s just sad to see the HORRORS that happen behind their food industry. It’s so scary… this is why I think that I’m going to STOP EATING FASTFOOD altogether. This will be a big deal for me because I LOVE FOOD. Heck I’m a burger-pizza person too. I eat just about anything but after watching the film, I can’t help stop to think too. I’m also on this diet (actually it’s just, eat less, eat only 3x a day, absolutely NO SUGAR/JUNKFOOD and more fruits) so I don’t eat as much junk anymore and it’s going well. Lost 3 pounds and lost about 1 inc of my waist Took 3 weeks!

Well anyway, I want to stop eating fastfood and God help me. This film also inspired me to pursue my dream of building a farm too. The food industry is one that will STAY FOREVER. I promise you that. It’s not like fashion where style changes every season but food will always be here and farms are ALWAYS needed. I want to have my own farm, a good farm using traditional style of breeding and planting. And maybe add some principles on vermiculture (I blogged about it here regarding fattening up the soil with nutrients with the help of earthworms). I want to help change the world at least with one footprint of mine. I too am inspired to make a documentary, it’s so… meaningful and exciting! Let’s just see what happens. Hope that it stays.

Here’s the trailer by the way! I have a copy of the film so if you want one, do comment! I’ll give you the link :P Talk about in the forum too.

But for good food, my friends are looking to eat at Ristra’s and some dessert place like Peanut Butter Company for my kabarkada’s Chair’s 20th birthday OMAGADYOU’RESOOLDLAH XD XD Kidding dear! Ristra’s is this awesome Burrito place where you can make your own burrito, participate in the burrito eating contest and more! I loved the ambience! And then my friend who loves PB&J and gave me the link to PBC and now I wanna try!! Can’t wait for Chair’s birthday! :P

Ristra’s

Peanut Butter Company

I’m now officially on SUMMER BREAK because I just had my last finals of my sophomore year (crap, I’m NOW A JUNIOR!) and I’m soo happy that we finally got this needed break after the headaches, arguments, frustrations and everything this past week. I swear I thought I was going to get sick because of the pressure but everything went well including our computer project defense! Only thing that let me down was the Science 10 finals because it was soo darn hard! But I’ve really grown to appreciate science because of it. I mean now I can appreciate this article, you know, the world’s probably ONLY IMMORTAL BEING ON EARTH??

It’s amazing that there actually is an immortal being here. AWESOME!!

Well I leave you with these peepz!

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Questions
1. Will you join the forum? What forums did you join way back?
2. What’s your fave food and restaurant? A link would be good!
3. Do you like to eat fastfood?
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I want to give a shout out to my BRAVEST READER (the reader who watched all the videos in my last post, watch the others if you still haven’t! :D) GENEVE!! Thank you so much for watching them all but I want to give a shoutout to Georgina for commenting for most of the content in my last post! *hugz* It’s so wonderful to see visitors who can read and comment (maybe not about everything) a lot and share also their experiences with you when they’ve read your post. It’s a wonderful feeling for me so I really thank you to everyone (even those who don’t comment!) who take the time to read, listen and watch through everything. I appreciate it very much!

I’m not saying that I get hurt when nobody reads my blog, it’s just that… this blog isn’t supposed to be kept a secret. This little site of mine is meant to be read by people because of this love I have for sharing things. There are only very few personal topics here in my site because I’ve reserved that for my other blog. So I really appreciate those who take the time and effort to go here. YOU ROCK AND KEEP THIS SITE ON LIVING!

Oh and nobody got what my title signifies! It’s referring to LADY GAGA + BEYONCE’S MUSIC VIDEO TELEPHONE! OMG IF YOU GUYS HAVEN’T SEEN THIS YET… MY GADD…. I won’t comment anymore XD XD

I was going to make another video-enhanced post but thought, one post is enough and maybe I’ll do that again next time XD I’m going to post some vids though! TEEHEE

Congratulations to my brother by the way because he got the AUSTRALIAN GIG! He’s an AIESEC-er (do tell me if you guys are a part of AIESEC or if your university has AIESEC) and was one of the few chosen to apply for internships abroad! He’s applied from India to Norway but he finally sealed a deal with an Australian University that pays well! Not gonna reveal how much, just gonna say that it’s kinda big for an intern and an employee! So happy for him! He’s going to be leaving soon though, NEXT MONTH! I’m so gonna be sad though because I’ll be left alone again at home and I’ve got nobody to bug at home anymore It’s so sad…

He’ll be off eating Fairy bread (yes, YOU’VE READ THAT RIGHT!) like this

Holy crapping crap, I can’t believe this really. My brother is actually going to work now and I’ll be working soon in 2 years (well that’s the plan XD and I’m glad that I’m earning even before I have a real job, :P was an assistant teacher too last summer for Chinese :P)!

SCARY but EXCITING at the same time! I can’t wait to be free from the struggles of college! NEXT WEEK IS OUR FINALS! WISH ME LUCK GUYS!! I am soo happy that everything will be over (at least for 2 weeks) and I get to rest now! PHEW!

WELCOME THOUGH TO HARD-FRIGGING-WORK/REAL LIFE SOON! XD But hopefully I’ll be able to get a gig in Pixar or anywhere that I love, so it won’t feel like work too much

Remember my last post about music? Like how it was the universal language for all of us? It’s true that mathematics can arguably be also our universal language but I’m in music’s side. I just didn’t realize, never knew… that MUSIC IS RESTRICTED IN SOME COUNTRIES. Especially in Islamic countries where they think that music actually makes you lazy and should only be used to glorify Allah. I’m not saying it’s a bad rule but to the point where people actually say that say that contestants in their Pop Idol contest SHOULD BE KILLED… is saying something else. I mean these people aren’t even SINGING RAP/METAL. They’re just singing and this means freedom to them. This is an expression of themselves and it is sad that it should be restricted so! I want to watch this documentary that follows the journey of the top four contestants. Anyway here’s a better summary from TheMovieBlog,

“After 30 years of war and Taliban-rule, pop culture has returned to Afghanistan. Afghan Star – a Pop Idol-style TV series – is searching the country for the next generation of music stars. Over 2000 people are auditioning and even three women have come forward to try their luck. The organizers, Tolo TV, believe with this programme they can ‘move people from guns to music’.

But in a troubled country like Afghanistan, even music is controversial. Considered sacrilegious by the Mujahiddeen and outright banned by the Taliban (1996-2001), music has come to symbolize freedom for the youth. While the conflict still rages many of those taking part are literally risking their lives.”

I hope that there might be some slight changes in Islam but that is so unlikely… or I mean, people should have this freedom there. I really don’t see anything wrong in singing with all your heart. We sing not just for ourselves anyway, we sing for our loved ones and probably for them, definitely for their Allah. This is certainly such a controversial topic! What are your views on this my friends? Here’s a good article too.

Haha on a more cheery note, my brother has stumbled upon this CRAAZZYYY SIITEE!! It’s lamebook. It’s facebook but with lame on it. XD

Sorry, pathetic joke. But that’s what’s lamebook is all about. It shows you the craziest things people have EVER written in their facebook (sometimes I wish these are just lies but I think that these are actually genuine, i am really losing faith in humanity. xD)

Some soup-y examples:

Not exactly from lamebook but still funny XD

Okay well some aren’t that funny but if you find something that’s note worthy, do share it with us! I didn’t find this in lamebook, but it’s probably the BEST FACEBOOK COMIC EVER. Because it’s…. World War: FACEBOOK VERSION! Because of the length, I have to spoiler it for you guys

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Anyway ciao dudes!!

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Questions
1. Why do you blog?
2. What’s your opinion on music being “restricted” and on the documentary trailer?
3. Have you ever had a facebook moment? Or twitter moment?
4. Did/Do you watch Pokemon
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