I’m giving away a ticket to Philippine Fashion Week Holiday 2012! Pls scroll down or go to my post here.

Do any of you guys have Pinterest? Oh I can hear you guys grumbling “Not another social network, AGAIN.” Actually it does seem like Tumblr but in a more organized manner. Pinterest is somewhat like a corkboard and shelf all rolled into one. For example, you were looking for a particular style to redecorate your home but there are so many. So what you do is you “pin” it on a particularly board in Pinterest and then you’ll be able to review them all at a later time. What I love about is it’s graphical user interface and it’s just so easy on the eyes. It’s bookmarking WITH STYLE. I’ve already made 12 boards and I’ve also indicated my dream camera there too, just so I won’t forget it or anything. I will get a DSLR someday and after hours of research, I do know what camera and lens to get. I just need… you know, moolah. So if you’re on Pinterest already, ADD MEE! Or if you want an invite (you can easily log in using twitter or facebook), I can easily give ya one. Just comment away

One of my favorite boards there is of course, that dream house “Welcome to My Abode” board. Ever since I was young and had to move away from my grandparents, I knew I wanted my own room just like what other “normal” people had. Why am I still sleeping in the same room with my parents EVEN up to now? Why can’t I tear down these walls and decorate to my own liking? Well of course money money money is the problem and the fact that we’re just renting our house. So if ever the owners decided to boot us out, I’ll be homeless. So I don’t really have a permanent home, this is why I love the phrase, “Home is where the heart is” because I can make ANY PLACE my home. And thus the dreamer in me continues to dream. I’ve grown out of my pre-teen and teenage phase so unfortunately I can’t decorate my room like one anymore (well WHO SAYS SO… I still can! haha) but I have a vision of what my dream house would be like. It’s got to be big, and spacious! Check out my dream house board.

Seems though I LOVE to incorporate nature and books in my future home.

Maybe live inside a mountain or a hill

Or float around in my lazy river inside the house

Or yeah again in a cave

But then something revolutionary happened last week that threatened me to jump off my dream precipice. I watched a documentary on Youtube called “We The Tiny House People” and it featured the tumbleweed houses and various other people who were able to build extraordinary homes in such a limited space. It wasn’t actually my first time to see this particular house

which looked like a cabin compartment on wheels more than anything else. Somehow it wasn’t able to change my perception of my dream house but after watching this documentary and to find out how living less doesn’t always mean living more, but it doesn’t mean that LESS CANNOT BE MORE. Why can’t it? A lot would disagree with that statement at how having less things mean more things. But I believe that we can make it more. You got to work to achieve and if you check out my favorites in the documentary, such as this amazing 400-square feet boat home by Heather Wilcoxon who ditched the Hollywood glamour to live on a boat.(no I am not a hippie or bohemian-ish really… i would change the interior design but the concept is amazing)

My favorite apartment though has got to be Christian Schallert’s apartment in Barcelona. They call it the “lego-style apartment” because of how everything is connected and hidden. It’s perfectly functional too.

This space-saving idea is so practical and wonderful but might be turned off by those with kids. Of course you can’t raise kids in these kinds of quarters but it doesn’t have to be such a big difference right? People who have built tiny homes state that one of the reasons why they love building these is because of “being lazy” and “no dusting required” statement. Actually that’s a perk but I think the reason goes beyond that. Less cleaning is always helpful but let’s not forget that it’s great for sanitation purposes, it helps with countries’ density problem. Building these kinds of tiny houses is more economical and cheaper they say because of lower rent rates and of course less land needed and I do agree.

I look at the problems here in the big city of Metro Manila and look at the squatters and shanties around and I can’t help feel a nudge somewhere… that this might be a solution to their problem. I don’t know how it’s going to be implemented or not but applying these kinds of concepts could help with the environmental waste problem and also the squatter situation. I want to pitch this idea to somebody but I feel like I lack the needed knowledge (i am not an interior designer or an architect) but this is an important idea that must be shared. What do you think?

Please take the time to watch this documentary, it might be long (1 hour and a half) but it’s really worth it. You don’t have to watch it all now but it would be great if you take the time to watch this too. This has affected me so much that wherever I turn to in my home, I’d see “WASTED SPACE!!!” and say “TOO MUCH SPACE FOR 3 PEOPLE!!” and I want to take out everything. But it’s not yet my home… wait till I get my own. Nature will definitely be a part of my future home though.

If you just want to watch the trailer, you could do so here It’s only 10 minutes I think?

Check out the Tumbleweed blog or Faircompanies for videos and photos of more tiny houses. They also give you tips on how to “save space” from your homes.

Jay Shafer is also the founder and owner and architect and… well he built the first “tiny house” like this. Check out his tour. Thought that I should mention him here because he’s kind of the “pioneer” in the States.

Updates when I update!

You Realize there’s a cockroach-like bug in your car. On the seat beside you…

Or when a humongous spider lands on the wall IN FRONT OF YOU inside YOUR ROOM…

Or when a flying cockroach suddenly whizzes past by you and a FLYING CAT follows and flies by you to…

WHAT DO YOU DO?

Well do what I do and choose among these options a) Run like a sissy girl or boy b) Whack and miss it c) Whack and kill it d) Scream and panic

So I kinda did d for the first one, b and c for the 2nd one (I had to wait for the next night to find it still inside the room, I woke up with a bite mark…) and a for the third one. Well I didn’t exactly run like a sissy girl, maybe run with dignity but I was more surprised with Kitty flying past me chasing the flying cockroach rather than anything else. And I thought it was my chance to escape too! And for the bug inside the car, it disappeared once I got out of the car :/

So that’s how I open my post after a month. LOL! haha and I was hoping that it was going to be a dramatic post about graduation or job hunting, but no guys, I think bugs following me everywhere must be top news!

Haha hello again guys! But seriously I was planning a post-graduation story. I had it all figured out, I was going to make a playlist of my graduation songs and explain that but then immediately after graduation, I went to Hong Kong (after 6 years my friends!) with my blockmates and then went to the beach, Boracay (international friends, you seriously have to COME TO THE PHILIPPINES AND GO TO OUR BEACHES! PLEASE!!! especially THIS ONE!!) with my groupie and then I was all over for job applications that… I almost forgot I had a blog. Holy crap I wish I could be more concentrated on this. I’ll still go ahead and give you a recap of everything though as soon as I can! But also trying to keep my posts less than a thousand words, really I have to learn how to write less :/

It’s been amazing, the 4 year adventures in Ateneo. I felt like I died, was reborn and changed in so many ways. It’s a bit dramatic if you would say, actually maybe some who meet me would have told me I didn’t change at all. But there’s this new perspective you gain when compared to your high school self or 14 year old self. There’s definitely a change in the pattern and way of life. Problem is just living my dreams now. Finding them for that matter.

My Hong Kong and Boracay adventures will have to be written sometime this week! This is basically just an update telling you guys I’m still alive, being chased around by bugs. Also, I’m on a reading streak! On to my 12th book now! Wish me luck on reaching 50 again!

Some picture teasers:

Making the Rents Proud (ooohh medal!)

Hanging out at Ocean Park, Hong Kong

Fooling around Boracay, Philippines

I wanted this post title to be about the most important subject in this entry (in short not Joseph Kony, but Uganda itself). Just wanna explain

Everyone must have already heard about the Kony 2012 video that has become viral in a matter of days which basically is a

film and campaign by Invisible Children (organization) that aims to make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice. – Youtube video description

Jason Russel, the director, spearheaded this organization when he and his friends went to Uganda, straight out of film school, and noticed the plight of many children under Joseph Kony and decided to do something about it. One might say that it is commendable and brave with what they are doing: trying to bring down a most wanted man and trying to raise awareness with this huge amount of publicity and charitable donations.

Here’s the video if you haven’t seen it yet

But if one actually sits through the entire 30-minute film, Russel actually talks about more on selling promotional kits, vying for Oscar nominations according to an article on New York Times and disregards the real issue of the Ugandans. (WTF SERIOUSLY, NOBODY EXPECTS FOR AN OSCAR, WTF)

There have been reports of the distribution of the donations with regards to where does the bulk of the money go to and most of the percentage go to promotional awareness programs such as this film, kits, staff and others. Through research, people have found out that the footage in the film was actually taken five years ago and that Joseph Kony’s army is weakening and has moved to Congo. The film simplifies the problem and constrains it inside a box and objectifies Ugandans.

One Ugandan blogger and activist spoke out (and actually countless others in Africa, they are now promoting to spread #WhatILoveAboutAfrica hashtag on twitter) and it would be worthwhile to watch this most honest, heartfelt opinion and video blog of Rosebelle.

Take note everyone that Joseph Kony ISN’T the main problem and you can’t just simplify Ugandans like what the Kony 2012 video has done. Please read her points on the role of America (should they be pictured like the Messiah always?) and on the stress and importance of local initiatives. I am not saying that The Invisible Children organization is a bad organization, it’s just the mission-vision of their organization is questionable and makes us wonder, do we really want to participate in this? We can’t just blindly watch the video and be moved with pity and then jump in the bandwagon. Everybody has to get their facts straight.

I’m sorry guys for not posting for more than 10 days now! Man am in a blogging slump but it’ll pick up! My classes have officially ended and I am just reveling in my freedom. I’ve been going to the gym for a week already attending Zumba, Bellydancing, Yoga, Body Combat classes and basically using the gym equipment too. Got this voucher with Chair for a bargain price using one of those coupon sites (we now made sure that it’s a dependable store, Gold’s Gym must certainly be!). One month free unlimited gym for just 750php! That’s only 17.5USD! haha Cool isn’t it? Loving everything so far and there are some quirky characters but I’ll reserve that for my next post. And of course wait for my ultimate graduation post and Steve Jobs biography review It’s time for reflection people!

Questions:
1. What are your thoughts on Kony2012 video? Do you agree?

APPRECIATE!

Okay I just wanted something to rhyme so pardon for the corny title. I just can’t get this thought out of my head so my pre-prepared posts just have to wait a little while longer to see the light of day.

You all know about the concept of Karma right? Or how about this quotes…

“You can run but you can’t hide
“Never bite off more than what you can chew”
“He who seeks vengeance must dig two graves: one for his enemy and one for himself”

Well I added the running part just because this person has already been THREATENED a lot of times. I won’t even divulge here the nickname of that… that… PERSON (oh do I wish I could use words of HATE but remember the title of this post XD) who has been actively cyber-bullying FELLOW college students, PROFESSORS, and even graduate students (she POSED as a graduate student but dearie we can sense that you’re an undergraduate here). So how again do you define cyber-bullying?

According to Wikipedia (yeah you can use it here in a blog but not in papers XD)

Cyberbullying is the use of the Internet and related technologies to harm other people, in a deliberate, repeated, and hostile manner.

And if you read her blog my friends, it is FULL OF HOSTILITIES and what even disgusts me the most is that the commenters ARE THE SAME. They keep suggesting PEOPLE to bring down. Think of this girl as a Gossip Girl-wannabe. Seriously she “tries” to dig up dirt about them and uses baseless rumours to shoot them down. But evidently her research is just bogus and she makes FALLACIOUS claims such as how she branded this certain student to be a USER just on how nice she is in the pictures. WTF was that? She even bashed professors which is incredibly DUMB for her if she is a student who has no respect at all. Have your own opinions but if it leads to bullying and hate, you’ve crossed the borderline my friend.

I can’t believe that she thought that what she was doing is “for the greater good” because then it would lead my fellow schoolmates to have a voice. A VOICE OF WHAT MAY I ASK? A voice full of crap if you ask me. She’s not rallying for a good cause, she’s rallying for a lost one. Oh this girl has TRIED to hide her tracks and be anonymous but she wasn’t able to do a FULL research on hacking. She didn’t realize that she was creating enemies (DAHELL) by the hundreds and that one of her enemies could be a best friend of someone she bashed, who happens to be a Compute whiz (if you know what I mean).

So she opened a pdf file by somebody she doesn’t know (WRONG MOVE FOR ANY USER. WRONG MOVE. NOW THIS IS A WARNING TO ALL. DO NOT OPEN FILES WHICH WERE SENT TO YOU BY SOMEBODY YOU DON’T KNOW/DON’T TRUST. GAHD THAT IS A STUPID THING TO DO.) and it so happens that it was a pdf file within a pdf file containing you-know-what and KABOOM! Guy knows her identity and emails her about shutting down her blog or HER DAYS AS A STUDENT ARE NUMBERED.

Seriously, she was indeed an undergraduate student. HECK MAYBE EVEN A SENIOR AND WE ONLY GOT ONE WEEK LEFT. Smart move my friend. Smart move!

So now the whole community is applauding this guy for bringing her down in a peaceful manner. But of course ethics and principles come to mind and I would like to leave a question to my readers, was it the right thing to do? I meant the thing when he decided to keep this girl’s identity a secret AND HACKING (which is unethical but what about that hacking group called ANONYMOUS (they hack to CREATE BUZZ FOR HUMAN RIGHTS/RIGHT CAUSES and I applaud them for this)?. The professor involved wanted him to divulge her identity because she has just crossed the line too much and must be reported to the administration. Or should the guy keep his word, his agreement with this girl? How about the statement THE ENDS JUSTIFIES THE MEANS? So hacking was okay because we were able to bring this down?

Something to ponder on

AGAIN NO TO CYBER BULLYING OR BULLYING OF ANY KIND!

This my dears is why you shouldn’t open A HATE BLOG and expect to be anonymous forever and get away with it :>

And here I go again! My post for some reason on Philosophy DISAPPEARED for some reason. It’s as if the Internet is conspiring against me and they Kouldn’t take the post anymore either. Is talking about Philosophy that bad? But kidding aside I should probably enable a feature here on WordPress where it e-mails me my post every time I write a new one so if ever I do lose a post or two (it’s not the first time it’s happened -__- Silly of me not to back up after every new post), I wouldn’t be that horrified.

I’m going to try to rewrite everything again just because I did enjoy writing it. I wonder how I’ll sound like the second time around

For those in college or Uni or have taken Philosophy in high school, do/did you guys enjoy it? Before entering college, I never knew the reason why people had to study Philosophy. I mean why ponder on life when you could be just living it. You know Carpe Diem, JUST DO IT. Don’t stop to think or smell the roses and bees (okay maybe not the bees), color ze roses or pluck the roses if you grew your own roses or found them from a place that allows people to pluck roses. Don’t think about the existence of the rose anymore or what its purpose may be or why did you suddenly have an encounter with this rose.

Or should I? The only influence that I’ve had on Philosophy is the Filipino “term” pilosopo. Actually maybe it’s only in the Philippine language when being called a philosopher is actually a bad thing. It practically means being a smart aleck or an ass or being sarcastic or something. It’s also a term for a “joker” too.

Por Examplo (it’s a bit green):

Teacher: Bobits, magbigay ka ng halimbawa ng hayup? (Bobits, give an example of an animal)
Bobits: Dog Mam!
Teacher: Very good! Give me another example.
Bobits: Another Dog mam!
Teacher: Abay pilosopo kang bata ka ah! Sige, subukan ko ang galing mo. Use “2 dogs” in a sentence. (Ay kid, you’re such a pilosopo! Okay, let’s see how smart you are.)
Bobits: mmmmmmm.. Yesterday, I saw a dog..
Teacher: O, sabi ko dalawang dog ah! (Hey I said 2 dogs!)
Bobits: E mam teka muna di pa nga tapos e. Yesterday, I saw a dog.. connected to another dog. (Eh Ma’am wait I’m not yet finished!)

AND BAM, you’re branded as a pilosopo. The person talking to a Pilosopo would usually roll his/her eyes or smack his/her head after speaking to one. But hey, this isn’t what Philosophy is about.

This isn’t the Philosophy that Socrates taught Plato at all or any of the Greek/German/French/Chinese philosophers have argued and debated for thousands of years. If you have read Heidegger’s What is Philosophy, he doesn’t exactly ANSWER the question straightforwardly (for that matter, do any philosopher?) and just goes about that philosophy is the act of philosophizing itself! The moment you question philosophy, that’s the moment that philosophy arises from. The moment you notice that a chair isn’t really a chair but simply the essence of a “true’ chair, the chairing-ness or the chair-ness of the chair, that is philosophy. Actually Philosophy is so broad, that after studying a few philosophers, I STILL DON’T HAVE A DARN ANSWER. Maybe just a form of one but it isn’t really the answer because nobody has ever answered the question yet. But philosophy deals with a way of life (though it is confused with religion because religion too is a way of life). It’s a set of beliefs I think anyway, I mean philosophy talks about ethics. The last philosopher that we talked about was Kant, and it was actually my professor whose name is Ice and looks like Jesus Christ (hey that sorta rhymes XD) who said this quote because he couldn’t take how Kant GOES ON AND ON and then says his point only at the end so you’ve got garble and hifalutin words (WHY KAN’T PHILOSOPHERS JUST SIMPLY SAY WHAT THEY WANT IN SIMPLE TERMS? Don’t they want to be heard? But I guess that’s the difficulty of language. They have to be written that way to be fully understood. It’s the reader’s problem then to interpret what it means) at the beginning and you wanna smack Kant in the face.

Kant deals with the kind of ethics where he sees that in a moral dilemma for example, a murderer walks in and demands for the location of your kids or loved ones, for Kant it is the right thing to tell him the location because YOU DON’T CONTROL THE CONSEQUENCES. YOU DON’T CONTROL OTHER PEOPLE’S ACTIONS SO YOU DID WHAT WAS MORALLY RIGHT EVEN THOUGH THE CONSEQUENCE MAY BE THE DEATH OF YOUR LOVED ONES. It’s all about the Categorical Imperative, in short if you have a maxim or a belief that can be applied TO ALL (NO EXCEPTIONS, THAT’S THE POINT OF KANT) then that is the thing you must do. HE’S CRAZY if you ask me. I mean wouldn’t you? He says that you must tell the truth ALL THE TIME. No exceptions.

I wanted to write about this because I found this nifty youtube video that explains Kant as much as possible in 3 minutes AND IT’S QUITE EFFECTIVE. Please do try to watch, it’s humorous and the drawings are also funny. You won’t get bored at all. One commenter even said that he learned more in 3 minutes than in 3 months. Haha!

This is why talking about Philosophy or reading it is important because this actually defines how we live. I mean would you follow Kant or go with Aristotle who judges people by moral character and virtue? I love my class now because my professor dares to ask the right and difficult questions and it’s a training that we must all have. We must learn how to question properly and rightfully so to help the situation for example of your country, or maybe even just your home. He questions those who don’t like Kant, who think that Kant is too idealistic or optimistic because he has a set of rules already. He’s not imposing though, he just says that a man can choose what is right for himself and doesn’t need external influences. I mean WOULD THERE BE POVERTY IF EVERYONE FOLLOWED THIS RULE of Kant? Wouldn’t everyone be all equal since you can’t lie, you can’t kill or anything like that (so yeah he doesn’t include cultural relativism so Eskimos killing their babies and old people is considered a wrong practice). But what do you think?

I suggest reading some of Plato’s works or Aristotle or Marcel (so that you’d get the Empricist side of Philosophy, based on experience and shiz) to get you started in Philosophy. Thomas Aquinas is good too for starters. I wanted to smash Heidegger when I read his paper but maybe it’s because he was discussing the difficulty of language AND BOY WAS IT DIFFICULT. Here’s one of Aristotle, quite funny really! AND I FORGOT ABOUT DESCARTES!

I guess this is long enough hahaha! By the way, I just received Krystal’s AWESOME letter last month! Doesn’t she draw well? Man thank you really so much for sending me a letter. Receiving letters is a joy of the past

Awesome isn’t it? I’d probably write more letters once school is finished

Questions:
1. What is Philosophy for you?
2. Do you agree with Kant?
P.S. Oh gosh my first academic related post in years

Thank you guys for reading my article on SOPA. I know it’s not the best explanation but it’s sort of a brief intro on it. I really want people to become aware of THIS HUGE ISSUE that’s going to affect the whole INTERNET. Call it communism or socialism but they are trying to hold a monopolistic power over your Internet freedom. Please read as much as you can about it even though it has been TEMPORARILY SHELVED at the moment because the FBI isn’t waiting for some bill to pass. They’ve already killed Megaupload and Megvideo and what’s stopping them from taking Dropbox (aww sh*t I have some files in there! I better back it up…). If you haven’t read it yet, I hope that you do read it if you have time!

Imagine that, Timothy Brown after 4 years of an innovative procedure… suddenly has no more trace of AIDS in his system… this is groundbreaking news! I hope that this year, I’d be able to blog more responsibly and spread news such as this more. I do like sharing information with people, information that I care about too. Maybe this is one reason why I’ve thought of being a journalist… but it isn’t one of my top career goals. I just really like sharing information with people… is there a name for such person?

If you were able to read about my very depressing post (the one about hamsters), I dreamt a very weird dream that night and I have been dreaming and have recalled EVERY DREAM THE PAST TWO WEEKS. Is this normal? Do you dream and then remember your dream every night? I was able to do some research online and every article says that EVERYBODY dreams except you probably don’t remember it since you woke up too far from R.E.M. stage or you didn’t have an R.E.M. stage. It’s so strange that ever since I internalized and thought about death and was frightened and shocked at the possibilities because of my sickness, I’ve been dreaming EVERY night constantly and sometimes I dream more than one dream. Sometimes I feel like the dream has been going on for a LONG TIME and once I even dreamt of the dream TWICE in a row but in a different manner. And just the other night, my dream felt SO REAL, I thought I was having a lucid dream. I somehow knew in my dream that I was dreaming…. and swimming in the ocean under the bright blue sky and I thought to myself, “Wow this is so realistic” inside my dream. Usually though I have weird dark and morbid dreams (i just had my Zombie Apocalypse dream, also me getting sliced by a meat cleaver at my back, don’t worry I wasn’t frightened of these dreams since they’re so common and I probably got used to it :/) so the wonderful dream about swimming in the ocean was such a respite from the past days.

Maybe it’s my subconscious telling me that graduation is nearing…

In one month I’m about to enter the real world…

and my subconscious is saying…

Not yet.

Questions

1. Did you hear about the medical breakthrough?

2. Have you every dreamt and recalled your dreams EVERYDAY for more than 2 weeks? Just hope that I’m not alone…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love Jesus.

Check out the poem that this guy wrote about religion and Christianity. You don’t have to be a Christian or even a theist to understand this. I want to hear everyone’s opinion!

Sorry guys if I can’t blog about personal stuffs now, currently sick (with hemorrhoids ONLY hopefully so I just change my diet) and dying with Academics, so please ponder on this!

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

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

That has to be it right?

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

Shower of Lights

Little Piper Boy and the Fountain of Youth

Scarlet Fever

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

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

Just some favorite quotes

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

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

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

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

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

Toodles peepz!

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

and Satisfaction Brought It Back.

So which do you believe? The first phrase or the whole sentence? I kinda believe both and context is always important!

So when Discovery Channel started its Curiosity series, I was intrigued. Heck and they keep on showing the commerial for its episode on female orgasm and what it’s for narrated by maggie gylenhall. But what really interested me was their segment for….WAIT FOR IT….

WHAT IF U COULD LIVE FOREVER?

Yeah what would you do? Would u avail these medical treatments if it were possible? Andrew Sage (guy from myth busters) tries to explore this world and yep, freakily (is there such a word?) the technology we have today seems to be telling us that it is possible in the near 50 or so years. THEORY OF SINGULARITY GUYS! (try googling what it is. XD) I really liked the segment except for a few farfetched parts (a flying brain… Seriously? but…) anyway i’ll stop yapping and you can check it out now. Thank you Youtube for full videos and movies!

FOR MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY ▼

So it’s the New Year tomorrow. Besides asking a lot of questions, I do want 2012 to be a fresh start. So many thins will change and i am optimistic at saying that 2012 be an awesome year for me. I swear that today will be the last day of procrastination. I have to fix my life and find le reason! LE REASON! I even thought of a new tradition of writing down this year’s failures and achievements and burning it afterwards. Or maybe i should only burn the failures… Maybe oh dear i only have a few hours to decide xD.

So before I say goodbye and welcome the new year, a little plugging for my offline friends’ new spaces in the cyberworld!

1. Randz’ Randzomeness! I swear he has a knack for blogging and of course mixing and matching clothes! He even did a stint at Topman! So go scurry ahead please

2. Mariel’s Indeemand dot com! She’s a very curious girl who likes to snap pics at everything and anything! Also if she’s bored, she does these.

3. Nicole’s Fashion Blog! She’s an investigative journalist and writes well and is addicted to lashes, pink and SHOES! Man you should see this girl! Please head over to her blog!

4. JV’s Sociologist Chemist Chinese Blog! hahaha I hosted JV before but he’s on his own now with a new perspective in life especially shifting to BS Sociology. Go for what you want guys! But he’s still a Chemist at heart methinks!

5. Chair’s dreams and realities! One of my best friends and she has a lot of stuff to talk about especially gaming! She just recently returned to blogging (like me!) so please show her some lve. She also featured Inotia 3, A SUPER ADDICTIVE ANDROID AND IPHONE RPG GAME! I slept at 3 and 4am for this. And in 3 days am now a level 47 archmage. So yeah, TODAY IS MY LAST DAY OF PROCRASTINATION!

6. GEORGIE’S FREE WORDPRESS THEMES! Hahah I haven’t really met Georgina personally but I loved her themes so much and have been a follower of her blog for YEARS now, I think that it’s just right to promote it. PLEASE DO CHECK HER FREE THEMES OUT

7. Oh this is just shameless plugging but do visit my Europe photoblog and instagram blog! Currently updating them. Can’t believe I left it alone for months now. Again 2012 WILL BE A NEW YEAR.

LOTS OF LOVE!

Thank you so much for the new visitors of my blog! Hallo and hope you guys don’t get bored here Sorry if I annoy some people but heck, you’re still here hahaha

I WISH YOU ALL A HAPPY FANTASTIC AND YES NOT THE LAST HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012 (UNLESS YOU BELIEVE ANOTHER THEORY LIKE ALIENS– CHECKTHISVIDEOSERIES :alien: :alien: ) TO YOU!!!
(stop 9gagging! XD)

Lol I forgot to put the…
Questions:
1. So would you want to live forever if you could?
2. Please visit one of my friend’s blogs and tell me what you think
3. 2012 will be… I will…