I think my past 3 consecutive posts have started with me apologizing for not updating that frequently but I think I’ll just stop saying it because then my posts will have become redundant. And I don’t want to read the same thing over and over again (unless of course it’s Harry Potter or a good read heeehee) too so I’ll save you guys the trouble. I’ve just come to accept the fact that I won’t be posting like crazy like the past months. I actually can’t believe that I always post so few during June. *check my past archive XD* I guess it’s because it’s always the start of a new school year but this year it’s different. Actually this whole later half of the year will be different, I’ll be going out of the country in August and I can’t imagine being able to maintain my site for four months. Hell, I just realized this problem… I hope that I’ll still be able to update though!

It’s still a miracle that I still get comments THANK YOU SO MUCH!! And I’ve been getting 100 spam comments now a week and some I don’t even want to erase because of these *but of course you know they’re spam coz… uh why would a guy name “buy new home” say all those?*

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LOL really I’ve been really amused at the new spam comments! But of course then I’m starting to get pron comments too, UGH. A word from a spammer to you spammers:

“I truly pray spammers peruse these articles and take a look at how simple and easy it has been to be human and respect knowledge.”

Seriously, that’s what Sheri Rusboldt with i.p. address 173.234.122.5 said. So yeah spammers, BE HUMAN XD

I’ve been feeling so… I don’t know, weird (well I’m always weird…), desolate, emo and all that crap the past few weeks. In philosophy, I’ve learned that desorbitation causes these kinds of feelings and I think I am experiencing desorbitation. It’s the loss of not of something, but of SOMEPLACE, of the WHOLE thing/being actually. I mean think about it. If you lost for example a car key, you’d definitely be able to find it, because it’s tangible and all. But what if you *knock on wood* failed the biggest exam that would determine your future? What did you lose really? The test score? The feeling? What? You’ve probably lost the reason for living or something. Well… I think I’ve lost something… I’m just not sure on what.

For this post, I’m going to keep it short and let you guys do the talking. A friend of mine asked this question recently….

“If money wasn’t an issue, nor expectations from peers and family, what would your job be? What do you want do?”

Well I’d answer: founder of a wildlife preserve in Africa, South America and maybe China. I’d want to help in the environment. I’d also want to be a food taster, be in broadway, be a voice actress. How about you guys?

And some random links around the Web-iverse:
1. RACIST CASTING OF THE LAST AIRBENDER AND HOW IT’LL SUCK (AND IT DID SUCK WITH 8% IN ROTTENTOMATOES)
- I have a lot to say about this. I don’t understand why M. Night Shyamalan (who’s Indian)could not cast an Asian-American in the roles of Aang, or an Indian American for the good guys. They even chose Patel as Zuko who’s an Indian and he’s part of the bad guys. Really, read the article. It explains everything more thoroughly. Check out the Casting Call poster for Aang and tell me if it’s not racist at all. Man, I thought they learned their lesson from that HORRIBLE Dragonball movie.

2. Paranormal Activity#2 Trailer anyone?

- who’s in it for another ride? If you look carefully, there’s actually something wrong in the trailer XD

3. Cute music video starring Emma Watson (and her boyfriend! funny there’s more focus on Emma than the actual band). Say You Don’t Want It by One Night Only

I actually really like the music video Well cheerio guys!!!

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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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My martian year is 10.6 years old! XD XD haahaa cheerio!! Pls comment post below thankk yoou!!!

To those who read my PHILIPPINE ELECTIONS 2010: Food For Thought post, thank you very much! I’d appreciate it if you guys still read it, TOMORROW IS FINALLY THE ELECTIONS! For those undecided, you still have a few hours until you decide. Research well!

And for those asking if I bought the insanely expensive Rosetta Stone, think carefully when I said *cough cough**pirated** cough cough*. It’s not exactly a good thing but I can’t afford the original one T_T Sighs… If I only had money, everything I own would be original but no can do…

Okay so that was initially the introduction of my “latest entry” but I backed out and I went on hiatus and I’ll be actually going on another hiatus next week because of long exams and midterms. This semester is darn hard and I am trying to really fix it up. I’m so glad History 165 (Philippine History) is over because it’s the subject that tortured my soul out during summer class. It ate up all my free time and urgh, I’m just so happy that everything’s over and done with. I’m so glad that I actually edited a video again and it came out pretty good. That video saved me from my quizzes. Was able to scrape a B+ but an A would have been good… Should have done better in my midterms darn!

Now my only problems are Philosophy (it’s actually my favorite subject now despite all the headaches I’m getting from it. It really opens you up to a new way of thinking. I’d recommend anybody to take it up if it’s not in your core curriculum. Just get a good professor, one of the most important parts in class-picking XD), Software Engineering and Computer Organization. Computer Organization is kinda darn difficult but hopefully I’d manage!

I didn’t make an outline or list-of-things-to-blog-about again for this post so pardon me if my post is all over the place. xD I’m so grateful that you guys are really still visiting especially hello to my new blogger pals! I’ve been getting an alarmingly amount of AD-SPAM comments. Have you ever gotten those comments that suddenly talk about home loans or anything? Sorry those who try to advertise on my blog by COMMENTING, it’s just so weird to be getting those… I delete them right away XD

So I’ve had more free time this week so I was able to finish a new series (and it’s my new love, way better than Glee in my opinion :P) called Community. It’s about this lawyer who has to retake a 4-year college degree because of some problems with his previous degree so he decided to take the easy way out by attending the Community College of his friend, a psychology professor, but after trying to woo the first hot girl he sees, he suddenly “forms” a study group and then all hell breaks loose! This show introduces a new favorite character of mine who I’d like to call the next “Sheldon”. If you watch The Big Bang Theory then Abed of Community will definitely remind you of him but in a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT MANNER. Watch below if you want to watch a preview! I swear you have to watch this!

It’s so sad that most series have already released their season finale this week It’s so darn sad especially when it’s summer here and then you’d have to wait for a long time (November right?) for a new season. Darn! Good thing am now starting with True Blood and Flash Forward. Maybe finish the seasons of House and Ugly Betty too once I have enough time. Howell….

I’ve progressed a lot with my project 50 leaves and I’ve read 12 books already! WOOT! (okay so 4 of them are graphic novels… XD it’s still a form of a book :D) Am now reading my 13th one and hopefully I can finish it this weekend OR next next week Anybody with a Shelfari account? Add me pls? My project filmography is down in the dumps though.. I haven’t watched a movie in a while…

I FINALLY BOUGHT A NETBOOK GUYS!! Remember my predicament in the past regarding netbooks and how I wanted to so much for a Disney netbook? Well it never happened but I was able to get an ASUS Eee PC 1005HA for just 14,500php!! Woot! Upgraded memory (RAM) and all so it’s just 16,500php. A bargain if I should say since most netbooks here start at 19,000 I even bought Gelaskins for my netbook (still has no name ) and got 1 free since my friend and I availed the buy 3 get 1 free promo. Haha Will share it all once it arrives

My birthday’s coming up next week and I’m just not feeling it again. I’m going to our organization’s formsem (a weekend activity to get to know the new executive board and managers) on my birthday and I just don’t want to go to any activities on my birthday… I don’t like big celebrations since I’m more of a solitary person and I just want to celebrate it with either family or close friends. This is the reason why I chose to not tell my blockmates that it was my birthday on our first meeting (in our freshman’s orientation activity). XD What can I say, I’m a boring person and I don’t want people to fuss XD

But if there are generous people out there who are willing to make me happy, check out my Shelfari wish list? HAHHAA I do like getting books! XD But maybe I’ll feature stuff next week… HMM…

Anyway just to close off this post, Imma share you guys the 9 CIRCLES OF COSPLAY HELL! LOL XD XD this really made me laugh so much!

Poor guys as Tetrises XD They’re in Circle 5 at River Styx. XD Just read this post to find out more XD

Watch my doggy in the previous post by the way! Just scroll down if you still haven’t seen it

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Questions:
1. What name can you suggest for my netbook?
P.S. CRYSTAL BOWERSOX IS STILL MY AMERICAN IDOL! I was right in not watching most of the Top12 in this season. I’ve watched my original bet for Top 2 and that’s all that matters. I do like Lee, he’s my favorite in the guys but… COME ON CRYSTAL IS WAY BETTER.

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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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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Everything has a beginning and everything has an end. Whoever said that matter is neither created nor destroyed is BULL because there is the creation of the universe and unless everything was just like instant noodles, then we’d assume that the universe was here all along. There is then no concept of time or anything because a human being just can’t fathom such vast knowledge. Remember that scene in Indiana Jones (the latest one, the one that didn’t live up to its predecessors actually) when Cate Blanchett’s character was absorbing all the knowledge of the universe from *TOOOT* (no spoilers here! XD) and she couldn’t take it and was blown to smithereens? Well I imagine that that would happen to me if I know everything. I believe that God created all so matter did have a creation. sort of Haha And as for the end… will the universe end? Well go back to Indiana Jones story and you’ll know my answer. I think that if it is meant to be known, we’ll know then or probably after life.

Sorry for such an “emo” introduction but I can’t help thinking about the past, the present and the future now. It all connects to saying goodbyes. I hate saying goodbyes especially to the people I love. I really disagree with Elton John and I think that somtimes, Sorry isn’t the hardest word. Goodbye is. Sometimes you can’t even say it. You can’t even look at the person (okay maybe sometimes sorry is really hard to say coz you also get these symptoms) and you can’t help but look away or don’t even attend the departure of that person anymore. I’m not good at adapting, this is why I sucked when we changed sections in grade four. And it also sucked when I had to say goodbye to 2 of my best friends because they were changing schools. I thought that nothing would change even after that but… OF COURSE IT DID. I had even MORE trouble saying goodbye to my dogs (when they passed away) and then saying goodbye to my brother when he went to Portugal for his Junior Term Abroad a year ago and I did shed a tear

And now one of my closest blockmates is going to Korea for 9 months for this sponsored exchange program and I am genuinely happy for her because this is such a BIG opportunity and plus she’ll be going to her dream country and probably meet up with Korean boy bands and get a Korean boyfriend and I am so happy for her! This is a dream come true! But to see one of the closest person in the block, one of the nicest persons you’ve ever met just go away for 9 months, you suddenly imagine all sorts of things like what would happen to you when you get left behind. Things would definitely change.

And I think of my own sojourn to France this September – December. I’ll be pondering on how I’ll be taking this, and how my parents would be taking this too and how everything would change. There must be a beginning to everything but it means the ending of a phase. Of a stage. Of something important but it’s the beginning of an opportunity also!

HOW CRUEL LIFE IS!

*pauses and contemplates…meditates…*

Okay I feel a little better now

I just attended my first Kpop concert, F.T. Island’s, ever with Gie (she’s the one going to Korea!) and I was even HESITANT of going! Well one thing, I wasn’t a true fan (heck I didn’t even know the names of the members, their songs except for one, the theme song of You Are Beautiful <- AWESOME telenovela for my international friends who love these kinds of things. WATCH IT) but it was the first event that my aunt organized and I decided to support her(plus it was discounted)! And plus Gie really wanted to go so it'll be a bonding moment for us! It was also her first concert EVER. I was soo thankful that it was in an enclosed area. I swear, concerts in the Philippines SHOULD BE ENCLOSED. Even if open-grounds concerts are fun, IT'S JUST TOO BLASTED EFFING CRAPPING F$%^$^(&$&& HOT HUMID HOT HOT HOT!!!! Really, it's just the first week of March and EVERYTHING IS SCORCHING. I SWEAR IT'S CLIMATE CHANGE AND I'M GONNA MELT. I'LL MAKE MY REFRIGERATOR MY NEW HOME! Swear.... ARGH!!

Okay where was I? Oh yeah. CONCERT! IT WAS SOO MUCH FUN!! Because the singers talked to the audience (with the help of an interpreter host, haha XD IT WAS FUNNY!) and plus... I never realized that some of them LOOK GOOD IN PERSON. I actually didn't think of them cute in the posters but when you see them in person... you'd want to melt! And I liked 2 of the guys there, the one at the leftmost and at the rightmost. We were at the leftmost side but had a good view as we all shifted to the right too. XD And the thing was... I couldn't help but...ASSUME (but remember kiddos, assuming is BBAADDD) that Jaejin (leftmost dude) was looking at somebody at our side because... he KEPT LOOKING AT US!!! Swear, and I don't know, he'd even WAVE AT US. I don't know if I should assume that there was 1 second of eye contact between us.. HAHAHAA Okay I'm assuming too much but it would have been nice to say, "HEY I was able to make eye contact with a star, even for just 1 SECOND!" XD Haha am desperate much. Sorry guys! Didn't know the name of rightmost guy but he was the cutest!

Show was AWESOME but it was too short in my opinion aww man...

So some pics!

Gie and Me

The boys + their drummer not in picture XD haha!!

And for the last parting words… WATCH THIS CUTE LITTLE CHUBBY CAAT! One of the biggest cats I’ve seen!

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Questions
1. What are your opinions on the creation of the universe? Big Bang? Creation Theory?
2. What’s the hardest word to say?
3. Have you ever been to a concert? If not whose concert would you DEFINITELY give up an arm or leg to go to?
4. Did you watch the fat cat?
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And keeping a private journal is soo refreshing! After writing down 1000 words a day, it really makes you feel relaxed and everything. You are able to sort out your deepest thoughts and actually contemplate if you were right or wrong. And the topic for today is chivalry. Well not exactly that, it’s more on being selfless and being gentlemanly. Yes, this is directed to guys. Because of something that happened today… I have come to believe that gentlemen are becoming rarer and rare by the MINUTE. What they did was just OUTRAGEOUS. Simple OUTRAGEOUS! I want to whack them in the heads to force some sense into them. Really…

Do you guys know the song We Are The World? It was originally composed by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie and produced by Quincy Jones for the benefit of Africa last Februaru 28, 1985 (holy cow, 25 years ago?? Imagine that!). I super love love the original because it was sung with such emotion and I loved the story behind how about 40++ famous artists recorded this over in just one night! It’s simply inspiring and awe-striking. Plus Bruce Springsteen was there, Kenny Rogers, Cyndi Lauper, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross and all these wonderful artists were there! And now because of what happened to Haiti (God Bless their souls… let’s help them recover friends!), a remake with Haiti-influenced vocals were added. It’s a really nice remake but still not as better as the original and you can view it here

But what is more extraordinary than that is this YOUTUBE version of We Are The World sung by 57 famous Youtube singers and artists (Nick Pitera is there! But no Sam Tsui?? Awww) and it sounds AS GOOD as the remake. I swear, and to think most of these people are not professional singers so they are even more inspiring! I would have wanted to contribute to something like this, oh if I only knew how to sing well! How about you guys, would you join in something like this? Some of the singers have GREAT VOCAL CHOPS. Swear, they could even battle with the current batch of American Idol singers (I really DON’T LIKE THE CURRENT BATCH. Gosh, HORRIBLE HORRIBLE first two nights. The girls outdid the guys in my opinion though but still.. I see some potential greats BUT THEY’RE NOT SHOWING it yet, some are too shy. I do like that they are pretty diverse, especially the girls, they have interesting tones and voices) and win American Idol. Lisa Lavie (the one who posted this video) sings EXTREMELY WELL. Oh I better stop gushing and just post the vid XD

Hope you guys could hear these 2 versions, if you’re not at home now, rush back to your home and put on earphones (or even not) and listen to it. It’s worth the wait guys

And now guys, I need some help on selecting the most bad-ass netbook (okay kidding, actually am really on a tight budget) because I’m thinking of buying one for my junior term abroad this coming September to December! I don’t want to lug my 15 inch laptop around plus I need to update it into a Linux software because we need that for coding and all wherever I’m going. So I need your opninion guys, a 10 inch screen would do, 250gb hardrive hopefully, 1gb ram and of course a webcam is needed. After a few deliberations with friends, I’ve canceled out HP (my friends say it’s breaks easily) and Acer (i’ve had bad experience with Acer too). My choices now would be Dell, ASUS, or Toshiba (but am hesitant with Toshiba because they say it’s heavy). Can you guys help me?

I really wanted this Disney ASUS laptop but… xD it’s only for kids and there aren’t even specs listed on the site! LOLZZ

Now I don’t really like politics but I acknowledge its importance because… hello, this determines the fate of one country and we must be responsible for selecting our leaders (seeing that we are a democratic country, well our history professor contests our meaning of “democracy” now) so I attended the presidential forum of presidentiable Dick Gordon and vp-candidate Bayani Fernando yesterday and gained a lot of insights. Dick Gordon in my opinion has a very strong presence and he can handle the job. And I got something from Bayani yesterday, he was right in saying that he has never seen a president who was in the workforce before (Bayani was an engineer you see) and I hope to see someone like that someday too.

Well if you are going to ask me who are my options for president, I’ll really have to say Teodoro or Gordon. I hope that you can respect my decision and I respect yours too. You may defend your answer though and I’ll be adding this in the questions later on I’m leaning towards Gibo though but I really hope that Ateneo indeed conducts more forums (even if they’re not a debate, but a debate would be better, a GOOD DEBATE WITH PANELISTS THAT IS) and invite the other presidential candidates to our school. THE YOUTH NEEDS INSIGHTS.

So I end this post on a light note

Are you up to a very crazy and ADDICTING GAME?? Well then why don’t you play ROBOT UNICORN ATTACK? Don’t forget to put it on full volume! XD haha You’d probably sing along to it too. Great game for those who are boredXD

OH!! Join me in Onioning?? It’s like Formspring but it’s better because you actually comment with your friends on some answers. It’s loads of fun! Go here if you’re ready to join me LOLZ

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Questions
1. Which version of We Are The World did you like better?
2. Do you know any good netbooks? Do you own one?
3. Who are you going to vote for President & Vice President? Why? For my international friends, if you have already voted in the past, did you think you selected a capable president? If not, do you think being aware on who your leaders are important or not?
4. Did you play the Robot Unicorn Attack game? XD XD
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