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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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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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.

WHAT CHOCOLATE SEASHELLS? ▼

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and maybe some Krispy kreme goodies too… XD

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

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

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

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

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

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

Just go to her site and join guys!

Tata for now!

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

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

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

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YES SHE’S ONLY 12 YEARS OLD OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Question
1. What’s the cutest thing in your closet now?
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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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It is healthy to let out all the negative energy and I found that out during my guidance interview. Would you believe that this is my first? I don’t count my high school ones because… they’re really useless. It’s cool to talk to a stranger about things and without him/her being biased about your problems right? But still I’m apprehensive, I don’t trust easily so no way will I spill my deepest secrets to somebody. So Anne Frank gave me an idea (am reading Diary of Anne Frank now, hope to finish it and cross off another book in my project 50 Leaves!) and I will be writing a “personal diary” now. I have written before but due to… constraints I stopped. It could be tangible and intangible but am sure that people will only be able to read it once I’m gone (a.k.a. not alive) Hope that it will help me with my problems

I noticed in the last comments that only a few of you watched the movies I mentioned, come on guys, YOU NEED TO WATCH IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE!! I SWEAR!! It probably won’t make you cry, but I GUARANTEE THAT YOU’LL LOVE IT. And thanks to youtube, you don’t have to download it (and it’s in TECHNICOLOR! I first watched this in Black and White but now there’s technicolor version for free, you lucky dogs. And I even bought a DVD of it teehee, I wanna watch the special features plus it was on sale) Here’s the 1st part of 14. Watch it if you guys have good internet connection or download it I’ll give you demonoid codes even so you guys can download it online

My spirits have been lifted because of the STRESS this week. Okay that didn’t sound right… but at least it took my mind on other things and concentrated on our History Class Project: Our Medieval Fair. Don’t think that’s like the medieval fairs in the US or Europe (nothing like that!) It’s a program by the girls in the class where we have to have a Medieval song, play and dance. How do we Asians know what to do? Well google and some racking of the brains! haha Merce (our singing head) took a medieval poem and compose a melody for it. I helped with the play and threw in some suggestions, in the end we took Macbeth but concentrated on Act 1 Scene 5. Dance was choreographed by Rana and she took inspiration from cotillion. We also had to find a way to collate and integrate everything so we had to interpret and add these little things. All in all, IT WENT WELL!!! I do wish we had something like the ones in the US though, like real costumes (we only took our prom long gowns and debut gowns XD but the others rented. Am saving money so no rent for me )though. Next time then!

And of course, the culmination and the 25% of our grade… THE BATTLE AT BELLARMINE FIELD!! Haha It was the most awaited event for Western history students and it was my first time watch AND PARTICIPATE!! haha The guys will do their demonstration and performance of battle forms and then there will be a BATTLE USING BALLOON CLAPPERS!! haha XD We French and English armies had to battle it out with the HUGE MACEDONIAN army. Point of the game was to remove the cups stuck from the chest of the person using the clapper and guess what?

WE WON!! hahaa!!!! SOO COOL!! Even if we girls lost in our battle, the guys managed to pull it through and TAKE VICTORY!!! The other army was even unfair because they STUCK PACKAGING TAPE to their cups to the point that they even TAPED THE WHOLE CUP while we only stuck 4 pcs of Masking tape. DESERVING WIN!! WHOOT!! hahaa

I’ll let the pictures do the rest of the talking

Cast and crew of Histo18-J Lady Macbeth play

Our Choir. I wanted to join but I had classes during the practices T_T huhu

Our AWESOME play! I was also part of the logistics team and we had the brilliant idea of using Christmas lights. It was really 630pm at this time so it had a beautiful effect

That’s me there standing with head bowed XD hahaa
All us girls agreed that the girls dressed up as boys made a more romantic scene rather than real boys XD

AND NOW FOR THE BATTLE LAST SATURDAY

Other class under Sir Manaois had TANK WARS instead of the battle. Look at that HUGE TANK ramming the guys XD
Awesome Army Tank

Prayer and inspirational speech before the battle

With Ladies in Waiting + Sir

Large Macedonian army (class under de Jesus)

Them Knights, Squires and Men at Arms of France and England

THE BATTLE!!
Chair and Me

3 Professors in one picture. Sir Lozada (with back turned) fighting Sir de Jesus and Sir Manaois as referee XD

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As promised, SHOUT OUTS to Nadine for guessing the right age (6 years old!! Actually I was 5.9 years old, we went to US for the whole month of May back in 1996) and Szarina (pls visit her, she’s Stephie’s little sister and she just revived her blog! She got the place right, Splash Mountain at Magic Kingdom, Disneyland, Florida) and Beng (i am the kid in the middle at the front row XD was with my dad and bro! XD)

Sad that a few of you didn’t know where I was sitting… i was the cute kid! XD haha KIDDING.

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Finally finally my package from Threadless has arrived last week! It took almost 2 months for it to ship. Reckon it was stuck in customs? So weird, because the panda hat I bought later also from the US came before these 2 shirts.

What you think about the shirts? I wanted this one but it is STILL OUT OF STOCK. Bummer !

I do want to promote their shirt for Haiti. I know I haven’t talked about Haiti and I feel quite guilty because I was all out for Ondoy. I tried to help though. I donated to Phil Red Cross for their Haiti relief operations and I’m still spreading the news on twitter and facebook. I really can’t imagine how Haiti is coping. They are less fortunate than us Philippines and have fewer resources so I am quite concerned with their manpower. And I’ve been hearing about the violence that they experiencing. An earthquake is quite different from the flood because buildings collapsed here. More damage has been done. People in Haiti must really be frightened. If I only can go there, I would to! If any brave soul with the capability to go there, please do try since airline tickets have dropped for easy access to Haiti. I will still keep on praying for them… oh here’s their shirt by the way!

I also received Sis Tricia’s package OMG WHOOT!! MY VERY FIRST CONTACT LENS! She even gave me a small pouch and a keychain from Singapore! h thank you sis!! So happy! your letter! I still haven't successfully put the contacts. It's soo dang hard. XD I will definitely post a pic once I am able to do it. I'll try it later in the evening. I'll need some help XD haha!!

Now to the gist of the post! I’ve been really wanting to talk about how innovation is affecting our lives. I’ve been enjoying the past few classes of PS140 Electronics and it is WEIRD for me because I normally scrunch my face when I hear of electronics because I just don’t understand it at times. But good thing Sir showed us how cool electronics is and how technology is changing. He introduced us to TED and in their site I quote,

TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with the annual TED Conference in Long Beach, California, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK, TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Program, the new TEDx community program, this year’s TEDIndia Conference and the annual TED Prize.

People in TED hold a lot of conferences and forums and if you just watch some of them, you’d be amazed how man has traveled so far and how going to the moon now is just a cinch. I mean imagine a world like the one in Ironman, where Tony Stark is just manipulating and staring at an invisible screen but yet he is able to move windows, resize them and input calculations. It’s awesome isn’t it? I was actually able to watch the video where I saw this almost happening. You can take pictures WITH JUST YOUR FINGERS. Get information of a book from Amazon by just screening the pages/title cover. AMAZING. Are you ready to watch this SIXTH SENSE?

But I realized… if this device can just point at a person’s face and identify him immediately, isn’t it… a bit stalker-ish? This device gives a whole lot of knowledge and in our society today, KNOWLEDGE is INDEED POWER. It’s crazy and scary at the same time how technology is advancing so quickly. I really do think that the movie I Robot may actually be possible now.

For me, technology shouldn’t be selfish. This device is a bit selfish in a sense that you want everything at once and anything. If you invent something that saves lives, then that’s something really marvelous. My favorite innovation that sir showed us was the lifesaver bottle. He was inspired by Hurricane Katrina when he saw that after the devastation, people were cloistered and were getting sick everywhere. Access to food and most importantly water is almost non-existent. People were still dying. Michael Pritchard then researched and after a few prototypes (you can just imagine how many times he must have gotten sick himself), he was able to invent a water bottle that even if you put the MOST POLLUTED RIVER WATER (case in point: pasig river or yangtze river), you’d be able to filter out DRINKING WATER.

Again. AMAZING.

Did you know that the size of a bacteria/virus is 25 NANOMETERS and the size of the pores of the filtering systems of our water filtering centers is around A MICRON? Food for thought. GET THIS, they actually have a website already *just saw it, silly me XD* HELP HAITI BY DONATING 25$ and give them a water bottle! Pls go this site for more information.

I can’t believe I haven’t seen these water bottles before, I really want to invest in this and bring it here in the Philippines. GOSH REALLY AMAZING.

And more doggie news! I went to my mum’s friend’s place (the on you know, who I talked about had a pool just for her doggies?) but too bad I didn’t see the oldie golden retrievers swimming about! XD Good thing Tita (aunt in Filipino, you call your mum’s friends aunt too :D) was able to capture these moments!

Ever since my alarm clock broke… well i haven’t had anything to wake me up except mum’s screams. XD And am lusting over this. T_T It’s soo cool and it’s an ipod speaker to boot! Anybody wanna give this as an advance birthday present? haha it’d be good when I go to Junior Term Abroad too! Oh yeah, which brings me that the list of schools being offered will be released NEXT WEEK! It’s finally happening!

A Run-and-Catch clock? XD

Talking alarm clock maybe?

Or a flying alarm clock?

Well hope ya learned something in my scrambled post. Cheerio!

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Was your New Year as loud as this in the Philippines? I swear I think I’ve gone DEAF-er *if that’s possible* but there was less fireworks and revelry. but wait.. it’s still a lot XD

I’ve had a rough and good time with 2009. So many firsts, so many letdowns and heartaches. It was a great mix of a year but somehow I feel that 2010 will be more memorable. It’s the year I finally (AND HOPEFULLY) will live abroad, leave my teen years (really, I’m just going to be 12 years old! XD), hopefully find a part of me somewhere and I don’t know what else. I hope for more opportunities. I feel like shattering into a million pieces because of this excitement in me. I want to just feel everything…

Okay a bit emotional here… But really I am so hopeful. I want a lot of things on my bucket list be fulfilled. I’ve joined again some projects and made some on my own. Do check out my Project 365, Project “Filmography”, Project50: Leaves. I’ve updated my About me page a lot so check it out. You can ask me some questions and I’ll happily answer all of them. Ask me anything

Hopefully I’ll be able to get through everything by the end of the year. Isn’t it amazing how life changes in such a short time? I am quite frightened and excited over the possibilities of technology and human capability. Will robots *think Jetsons style* really come out in THIS decade? And holy frigging hell, i’m going to turn 30 in 2020 FRIGGING HELL. Oh please decade, don’t… don’t move so fast… Now I’m becoming anxious. Oh dear me…

Sorry, being carried away here. I’m so sorry guys for not visiting you lately, I’ve become sort of “unattached” again with the online world so even though I’m online, I’m doing something else and not exactly concentrating on my blog. I have needed the break. I feel like I can do more now, hopefully be less distracted *except for Tumblr, Tumblr’s a bit addicting still and I do upload my Project 365*. If you really want to know what has happened, check my project 365. It has become my sort of daily diary. PLUS THERE’S A TWIST HERE! XD

Well I’ll leave you with my thoughts and this awesome STRIP *hey it’s really useful XD*

and some UP-lifting sounds

Okay I changed it from “Upular” (it’s pretty awesome and cute! Music video made up of sounds from Up! Plus Russel “singing” XD you can still watch it here) to Defying Gravity sung by Idina Menzel on Wicked (HOLY CRAPPING COW I WANNA WATCH THIS LIVE T_T too bad they don’t do them anymore.. i mean Idina and Kristin Chenoweth don’t sing in it anymore…) because of its related theme in my post. I want this to resonate in my whole 2010, I will DEFY GRAVITY!

AND THE BEST YET, JACOB BLACK’S VERSION OF YOU BELONG WITH ME. *no I am NOT a twilight fan, and i really hate how Stephenie Meyer conjured up a girl like Bella and the weird “glittering” version of her vampires, BUT THIS IS JUST TOO GOOD NOT TO SHARE!*

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For those who don’t know… I present you our past little Sugar Gliders! Haha they’re always called Joe for us XD haha! Jojo or Joe XD We’re very unimaginative you see XD Sorry for the jologs and kiddy Pokemon border on the pic, this was taken when I was around 12-13 years old and apparently, I had a Pikachu camera that creates Pokemon borders for every pic. I did love that camera, it was shaped and looked like Pikachu XD

I’ve also received some things today!! Bwahaha, MORE LOOT!

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So I’ve officially started to buy Christmas gifts for my friends ONLINE. Yes dears, because of the insufficient time I have, I had to explore and find ways to get gifts without hassling anybody, well I found the answer online! I have already received 2 packages and just waiting for 20 more packages *don’t worry, they come from 2 sources only XD* and then I’m ready! But gifts for my barkada (best friends) will be bought by me personally! haha!

I have just picked up today the shirt I won in Kym’s AWESOME RAFFLE! I am so loving the shirt because the cloth feels great, the fit is good and the color is so lovely! Plus it’s my first statement tee and it’s free, THANK YOU SO MUCH LOVE YA KYM! Thank you so much for the candies too! So guys and gals, do drop by her shop and see her latest designs!

Me wearing the shirt and Pucca holding Kym’s message for me! Love the Panda caricature

Mum and I also bought a new golden retriever puppy! Too bad I don’t really have a picture of him yet.. His name is Chico in honor of his grandad who passed away. Chico actually looks like him when he was young, so his breeder in the US says. Here’s something to show you what Chico *the grandaddy can do!* Hope to train little Chico someday too!

So now I just give you Rocky’s little boy! Aww the mom only had one single pup but we sure know that it’s going to be a big and healthy puppy! Aww isn’t he the cutest? He reminds me of Rocky when he was just a little pup! Don’t you wish you could just hug him?

Someday I’m going to make a history of our kennel or pet history. We’ve raised over 100 dogs I can boldly say haha!

Sorry if I looked weird in the pics by the way, I’m really not photogenic gaah

I’ve always wanted to put something like this in my site, but since I can’t integrate it in wordpress yet… I think… so I’ve used formspring and joined the bandwagon! So got something to ask me that you’re too shy to ask? You can ask anonymously haha Just ask away! One person asked me about 7 questions STRAIGHT and full of “this or that” questions, haha and mostly about food. That made me laugh XD

But what’s with the title now Tiff? I’ve become suddenly addicted to Super Junior(Suju) and SNSD (Girl’s Generation)! Because again of Stephie (SHE’S BACK TO BLOGGING!!) and Gie. I’m not really a fan of Kpop because I don’t really “feel” their language *gets killed by Korean fans* but now after hearing this promotional song for Korean tourism that features SNSD and Suju, I think I’m beginning to change my mind. I LOOVEE the song! I love it enough to download SNSD’s albums (yes, I found a way to download them even though it’s frigging hard!) and got the Suju albums from my blockmate Gie. I’m officially a fan of these two groups. I still prefer C-pop and J-pop though so I asked Gie for some Suju M (Chinese singers of Suju) songs too Just watch this, please and you’ll convert like me too!

Music is universal, whether I listen to European songs or Asian songs and even if I don’t understand it, somehow the melody brings you along to the core of the message. I mean think about instrumental music. Even without lyrics, one is able to convey a feeling so PROFOUND and so INTENSE. Music just amazes me. I’ve been a fan of music ever since… I don’t know, when I can start talking. I watched tons of music videos of Gloria Estefan as a kid, with Madonna, some Chinese songs and joined singing contests and choirs too. Man, music is a part of my life I do sing everyday!

So I leave you with these 2 awesome songs, Colbie Caillat’s Begin Again and my new love (a selected few only though), Reggae! Here’s Matisyahu’s One Day.

Promise, these 2 are worth your time, play it on the background while you’re commenting or something. They’re really nice! Sofi has mentioned Matisyahu before in her blog but it’s only now when I was able to hear it entirely because of my brother! haha!

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