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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Wizarding World of Harry Potter FINALLY OPENS TO THE PUBLIC!

Even if you’re not a Harry Potter fan, you must at least be excited for the fact now you can go in castles, DRINK BUTTERBEER (this will be the first thing I’ll do), ride dragons, ride broomsticks, go to Zonko’s joke shop, candy shop and I’m sure a WHOLE LOADS MORE after a few years of more construction and renovation. Good thing I’ll probably be able to go there after uh.. 5 years? Well that’s an estimate anyway and it could change but I gotta save meself some money first!

The cast of Harry Potter were there on the grand opening and it was simply magical! It’s best to check out the videos here and just be WOW-ED!

Does anybody plan to go there anytime soon this year? All I can say is that good luck with the early LINES (and to think that picture was cut, making the line even LONGER)!! I wish there was a floo powder system too or at least even a broomstick system! Too bad there’s no technology for that yet XD

I’VE FINALLY WATCHED FRIGGING TOY STORY 3!
I’m a Pixar baby through and through and I can recite all the films in chronological order and even directors to what films and also some trivia about them though I’ve still got a LOT to learn. So watching Toy Story is a treat! Toy Story isn’t exactly my favorite Disney or Pixar film but as a franchise, it’s the best there is! Check out the rottentomatoes link above and you’ll see all 3 Toy Storys with 100% rating each (except for Toy Story 3 at 99% because some douchebags “critics – 2 of them actually – like Armond White gave it a rotten rating. I swear that guy is insane because he also rottened Up, An Education while freshed Jonah Hex and then compared Transformers 2 to Toy Story 3…. you get the idea of my hate) and they frigging DESERVE IT. Toy Story 3 was such a compelling and moving film. I didn’t know that a franchise could build up to become better and better. We didn’t get this feeling watching Star Wars. Heck we didn’t even get this feeling in 99% of the trilogies (well am biased to my Lord of the Rings fandom so I say it’s equal to that) but Toy Story stands out.

Its marketing strategy calls it the GREAT ESCAPE but it’s more than that. It’s about moving on, dealing with friendship, growing up, making more friends and living on. It incorporates good humor and some slapstick comedy too but that’s what adds the charm to it. It was just too bad that some new toys were only given a few screen time. I would have loved to know more about the toys in Sunnydale. Ken and Barbie are HILARIOUS and you’ll be missing a few characters too.

All I can say is that you WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED. I had super high expectations from this and again Pixar has exceeded the bar they set up. Unlike The Karate Kid remake (Kung Fu Kid) which was also awesome, I had super low expectations so going over the bar was of no problem. But Toy Story is another class of its own. There are flaws, some things that you may not like but that’s probably only 0.001% of the film. Mr. Potato Head by the way creates one of the most hilarious moments in CINEMA HISTORY. Okay that’s pushing it but it’s just me. I’d watch this film again and again.

OH!! 3D does nothing for it by the way. I suggest watching it in 2D where you can watch in peace. Watch Step Up 3 in 3D but NOT TOY STORY 3. Save yourselves some few bucks. The trailers had more use of 3D. And Woody and Buzz will be appearing in a short right before Cars 2 next year! We’ll still see them!

Watch the cast and crew talk about what’s in store for you guys

I don’t even want to comment about this anymore. I really don’t know what to expect. I remember watching smurfs and playing it on the video game and I can’t imagine them having a plot where they actually go to the REAL WORLD. And it doesn’t help that Neil Patrick Harris will be voicing one of the leads. How about you guys? What are your thoughts? I’m just… uh another popcorn flick?

California Dorks

Have you guys watched Katy Perry’s California Gurls official music video? It’s… um.. unusual and doesn’t really portray California (just a lot of girls and skin XD) at all but you’re in Candyland. So is that a metaphor of California? O_O Howell.

I definitely loved this parody video better though because maybe… I’m a nerd, a geek (am not sure if dork is the right term for the people he’s mentioning in the video) or whatever so it’s definitely a music video you can “get”. haha! Anyway I really liked it! I’d love to make a parody of something too.

For those wo want to sing-along, here are the lyrics!
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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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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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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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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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Question
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

WORLD WAR FACEBOOK VERSION CLICK ME ▼

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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CORRECTION: It was actually Seunghyun in my last post who I had 1 second eye contact with and had me going <3 and not Jaejin, want to read my giddy/kilig moment? Read my last post!

Hey guys!!! Long overdue post in my opinion because gaack… if there were such thing as the BEST BUM award, I’d be it this week because I didn’t blog or bloghop because I didn’t have the time nor because I was busy, I was actually kinda free but I just didn’t have the energy to do anything…. sorry guys! Now I am quite and now because I have SOO MANY things to do in the final 2 weeks AS A SOPHOMORE. Crappity crap, I really can’t believe that time flies so fast! I am soo doomed because I still have to do my Database project, Math project (thank heavens we’re done with our ELECTRONICS project!) History finals, 2 Science Long exams (this subject is quite useless they say but I really find it fascinating!), Database finals, project presentation, Math finals GAACKKK

I AM SERIOUSLY DEAD. And the approaching semester (I’d be going to school right after my 2 weeks of vacation for my advance semester before Junior term abroad) requires about 7 SUBJECTS (well 2 subjects will only last for about a month but meeting is EVERDAY). SAY GOODBYE TO TIFF K NOW. SAY GOODBYYE FOR SHE WILL DIE BEFORE SHE IS ABLE TO LEAVE IN AUGUST/SEPTEMBER!

Sighs… Sad fate. Well onto other news…

GOT A NEW HAIRCUT hahaha! Nothing changed much, Just trimmed it up to my shoulders. It doesn’t always look like this though, usually it’s still messy and fly away GAACKK HATE MY HAIR
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This will be a sort of random post, please excuse my scrambled thoughts.

Have you ever experienced getting giddy because of a very romantic line in a movie? To the point that you feel your heart melting when you hear it? (for me it could be the line of Mr. Darcy in the 2006 Pride and Prejudice when he says, “One word from you will silence me forever” HOLY COW I MELTED THERE <3 <3) Or maybe you'd really feel the adrenaline once the hero says something? Well these could probably called the best lines but the more interesting ones are the worst lines EVER SAID. Come on, we'd had that moment of CRINGING. I'd like to hear from you though what are the worst quotes you've heard in a movie, but I'd like to broaden that and say what is the worst quote for you OF ALL TIME! (so it can be something that your brother, a stranger, etc has said). Here are a list of THE WORST MOVIE QUOTES.

For me Worst quote in a movie, definitely STORM’S IN X-MEN. Will you just READ it.

“You know what happens when a toad gets struck by lightning?

The same thing that happens to everything else.”

WHAT THE CRAP WAS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?? It had me at first and then I wanted to barf at HOW BAD THAT WAS. What the crap… XD XD It had me doubling in laughter too. Wanted to press this NOOOO BUTTON (try it guys! It’s so much fun especially it has Darth Vader’s voice!)

Reminds me of the episodes in Cracked.com’s that are soo hilarious!! You have to browse through them! Here’s a sample XD This actually scared me a little because I can’t believe HOW MAD the world is XD

Another fun video for you guys is THIS! Gosh, do you guys know Lonely Island? It’s comprised of two hilarious rappers who sing the WEIRDEST things such as my favorites, “I’m On A Boat” & “We Like Sportz”. Seriously youtube them guys! But now I’d like to share with you a segment of SNL where the lead rapper actually sings “ON THE GROUND” It’ll really make you go WTF and laugh. I can’t stop laughing!! XD XD It’s so senseless and OUTRAGEOUS!

“This isn’t my dad, IT’S A CEL PHONE!”

You won’t get that if you don’t watch it XD promise XD

Oh I’ve also picked this up from a friend, AN INTERACTIVE HORROR MOVIE??? WHAT THE CRAP?? Would you guys go see this?

I’d definitely would and it’d be soo exciting because it’d probably either bore you or scare you out of your minds. I think that I’d be just interested in it and not be really scared. I do like Horror movies! Man what the Germans can think up eh?

Okay… now on to something… I’ve also been avoiding the net because I’m again feeling down No it’s not of the same sentiments as my last post but I can’t explain it. So I’ll just let music do the talking. I thank Clairessa again for sharing such wonderful music, I think she and I have the same tastes!! I am now officially a FAN of Florence + The Machine and I think that Florence is a GENIUS. If you think Lady Gaga is a genius, then you have someone who is more brilliant and who is able to dress normally to boot! This is again my opinion I’m going to buy her CD (yes guys, NOT DOWNLOADED FOR ONCE!) and that really says something. I am converted and I do love her songs! Favorites include “Dog Days Are Over”, “Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)” and “Drumming Song”.

So here’s what I’m feeling… “Between Two Lungs” can you guess what it means? I’m so excited to see your interpretations of this song!

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Oh yeah my good friend Ate Laine is selling some of her books for just 30-50php!! Check it out at her multiply!

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Questions
1. Did you watch all four vids?
2. What’s the worst dialogue/quote you’ve heard?
3. Have you watched any of the youtube users mentioned in the cracked video?
4. Would you watch the interactive horror movie?
5. What’s your interpretation of the last song?
6. My post title is linking to a VERY FAMOUS SINGER MENTIONED HERE’s newest music video, do you know what it is?
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P.S. I am hating America (those who are voting on American Idol anyways… sorry sorry sorry! I am just so frustrated!) because THEY FRIGGING BOOTED OUT THE WRONG PEOPLE ARGHHFHG HATE HATE HATE!! I AM SERIOUSLY CONSIDERING TO STOP WATCHING!! I thought that it’d be next year when I’d stop watching because SIMON IS FRIGGING GONE. NOW THEY DO THIS, AM GONNA BOYCOTT A-IDOL!!