coffee_junkie_etc.

marimite...

2012-01-26T02:40:00.006+08:00

squeeeee! i finally (finally! after 2 years!) watched the live action Maria-sama ga Miteru yesterday! and in raw format, too. good thing i already knew the story, otherwise i'd just be watching the eye-candy. but anywayz, my version of movie review/critic:

first of all, great casting! from all the online blurbs, the actresses were chosen for characteristics specific to the manga/anime characters. let me say, live-action yumi, sei, eriko, youko and tsutako rulez!

and the setting & location! it's almost like Lillian Jogakuen, albeit with slight differences. imho, the differences just make it better than the anime/manga because it lends a "real" feel to the place.

the storyline. well, it's taken from volume 1 of the manga (season 1 of the anime version). honestly i haven't read the manga, only the summary posted by Erica Freidman. i did watch the anime version though, and with (still) slight differences, it did follow the anime storyline albeit abbreviated, so i have no complaints. i'm sure it's hard to pack 13 episodes on an hour-or-less movie.

the acting. i think Akiyama Nana and Hirata Kaoru just aces Torii Eriko and Mizuno Youko, respectively. Takizawa-san is sooo Satou Sei down to her voice, but her acting is cringe-worthy! eh, i'll just have to remember that most of the talents here are models and not certified actresses. they did choose character specifics over acting ability. Honoka Miki is sooo cute as Yumi, i just wanna glomp her! her acting's not bad, either. same can be said for Haru, though at times she can be so expressionless. the other actresses came out as minor characters since the focus in this movie was the development of Yumi and Sachiko's soeur relationship, but they did okay, otherwise. weeelll...

i'm hoping they continue the live action with Kibara Kakumei and Ibara no Mori arcs in the future. i'd like the current actresses to play the same characters but hopefully, they'll get some acting lessons. i'm sure some acting experience in between movies would go a long, long way.

meowow...

2011-12-02T21:54:00.003+08:00

nuthin', just that my BOBBY cat is repeatedly pawing my face asking for treats, and generally disrupting my surfing, the ol' spoiled brat...

and my "hot mama" friend just sent me 100 cellphone credits. i'm still overwhelmed by the unexpected generosity... guess it's gonna be my early christmas present, since she lives in another island entirely, and we won't be seeing each other for the holidays...

here comes Bob again stepping on the keyboard... so this ends here, for now.

panata...

2011-11-10T02:05:00.003+08:00

it took me a year to find the full version of this song... all the blood, sweat, tears, etc., not to mention the time and effort... aw, jeez! anywayz, here it is:

Sugarfree - Panata sa Bayan

imogen heap, just for now...

2011-04-17T23:13:00.005+08:00

google video's gonna shut down at the end of the month, so i was offered the choice to download my previously uploaded vids, or lose them forever. good thing i only had 3...

one of the vids was a clip of imogen heap doing "just for now" live on indie 103. live. acapella. with only a synthesizer/recorder/watchamathingy for sounds. did i say "live"? i remembered downloading this vid from a spashley forum because it had a lot of rave reviews there; and i didn't regret it one bit. i've already heard of - and liked - imogen heap years ago via "breathe in", but this vid made me a FANgirl for life. note the all-caps FAN. IMOGEN HEAP is INCREDIBLE, AWESOME, AMAZING, TALENTED. believe me, you just have to see it to believe it.

anywayz, i noticed i uploaded this vid on google last 5 Oct. 2006, so yeah, it's been almost 5 years now... so, i've re-uploaded it, this time to youtube, even though there are others like it... i just want a copy of my own, i guess... well , here it is:

Imogen Heap - Just For Now (live on Indie 103)

beer haze...

2011-02-21T14:45:00.005+08:00

lazing around on a monday afternoon drinking ice-cold frost-brewed™ Coors...

what a way to start my posts for 2011... yeah, bring it on, homies! {burp!}

bobby...

2010-11-27T12:50:00.004+08:00

introducing bobby, our newest cat, born 6 Sept. 2010...

who, for some reason, likes to chew on my headphones...
on any available fingers... on slippers... etc.

multiplyed...

2010-11-14T17:01:00.004+08:00

my multiply account is stagnating. well, i started losing interest when they took out the option to download music, and not many of my friends have accounts there, anyway.

but anywayz highwayz, i finally - finally! - reconfigured the theme i'm currently using to adapt to the pesky marketplace ad on top of the page. it was bothering me for more than a year now, and i didn't want to find the time to do any css customizing, until now.

and 'sides, i don't think i was supposed to make any changes to the theme since it isn't mine... it was just a couple numbers, really, not anything world-shaking... heh.

hard reset blues...

2010-11-11T01:32:00.004+08:00

i performed a hard reset on my treo680 yesterday afternoon... T_T

i didn't wanna do it, but i had a recent issue with the treo freezing whenever i try to access applications stored in the card using LaunchAnywhere. (repeat that 10x.. heh)

reinstalling all my data was easy, but lemme tell ya, reconfiguring all my prefs and inputting all the regcodes are a royal pain in the derriere. grrrrh... o_0

just saying.

cattleya...

2010-10-12T17:38:00.004+08:00

we miss you, cattley...

Cattleya
11 April 2010 - 24 September 2010

blue stahli

2010-09-21T00:35:00.004+08:00

hah! blue is my theme these days.

i just found this really kewl artist, blue stahli, on youtube indirectly. a fan posted his music there. i'm not sure how to categorize his music... it's like electronica/metal/trance. sorta like hardcore linkin park. wiki sez it's electronic rock. so there.

whatever, it's a combination of genres that i like. it makes me feel like watching a cool action/sci-fi movie; i can envision fight moves just listening to these kinda music.

Blue Stahli - ULTRAnumb

blue...

2010-09-20T21:15:00.002+08:00

another day older, but as always, none the wiser... and still, still in love with the memories...

definitely not productive. tsk.

lost and found... and lost.

2010-09-01T22:24:00.003+08:00

i finally tracked down GC, somebody i knew from way back when, on facebook. somebody i knew from my kid years, who was, i suppose, one of the people instrumental to me finding out several different aspects about me, myself and i.

but people really do grow up and change, don't they. the GC now is so different from the GC i knew before. i'm glad though, that the changing done was for the good, where i had thought otherwise.

on this note, i already did find YP (on facebook, where else?) some time ago, the first person who made me think... about me.

some of my ‘instrumental people’ had been gone from my life, literally and figuratively, over the years...

the ‘lost again’ part... well... so now that i've found them, i'm once again letting them go their own directions, without me in it. and hoping that maybe, sometimes, they'll remember happy thoughts of me.

requiem for my tsinelas...

2010-08-29T20:05:00.008+08:00

tsinelas. or in classy-speak (pa-social): flip-flops. but really, it's just the plain ol' rubber slippers.

i'm mourning my birkenstock slippers (of course it's not really THE birkenstock, but the brand name WAS birkenstock, though it looked like one of the islander sandals line). i had these slippers since april/may 2002, so that makes it 8 years old! i usually wore them at home, or the occasional beach forays. they've been everywhere i'd been: cdo, cebu, bantayan, bohol, etc. i had an islander slipper before that, and it only lasted a couple of years. tsk. anywayz, i wore them until the strap was literally hanging by a thread (or mebbe several fine threads), and then finally broke.

i need to replace them and fast. i originally thought of buying a new islander slipper, but then i remember i had several slippers that are barely being used. and now the dilemma. should i use the crocs , or one of the havaianas?? woooh!

since these are expensive slippers (averaging 800-900 php or around 18-20 usd), i only use them when going out to the mall, with friends, or such. heck, they're too expensive to wear to the beach. yeah, they really defeat the purpose of primarily being beach flip-flops.

so, the crocs or the havaianas?

wicked!

2010-08-15T19:22:00.016+08:00

i'm so late! i am sooo late!! how come i've never heard these songs before??? jeez! these were released circa 2003!!!... i did hear about wicked, but still.... oh yeah, i remember. i was working for Big-R as a department head, and i mean seriously working. i remember being in the store for more than 9 hours a day, 6 days a week; and going home to eat and then sleep. and repeat the whole process the next day, again. i had no life! plus, i'm in the philippines, people! broadway musicals are so far out of reach!

(♫ i'm limited, just look at me, i'm limited... ♪) well, better late than never, as useless... story of my life.

anywayz, i'm talking about Defying Gravity & For Good, songs from the Broadway Musical, Wicked. words cannot express how i feel about these songs, so i better stop here and just put in some youtube vid links for a more effective visual and aural experience.

Kristin Chenoweth & Idina Menzel - Defying Gravity (Wicked Broadway Musical)

note: video taken from a pro-shot of the musical.

Kristin Chenoweth & Idina Menzel - For Good (Wicked Broadway Musical)

note: from Kristin's last performance; video definitely not a pro-shot.

spinning around under blue skies...

2010-07-27T12:33:00.008+08:00

boy have i a found a new song for zoning-out... not technically new, it's circa 2008, from an indie (doncha just lurve those indies?) pop band The Hush Now. i'm so loving this song, i'm checking out their other stuff now.

The Hush Now - Vancouver

note: video not officially from the band, but made for their video contest.

what's new!

2010-07-21T20:32:00.008+08:00

so, obviously i did some renovations on the blog. changed the template, fonts, etc.; added some what-nots; did some tweaking here and there... and shazam! here it is.

from the previous green nature theme to this classic black look.

it's not easy being green, after all.

~~(but i did incorporate some blue_green here and there to appease the nature gods.)~~

grrrrh0wwl...

2010-07-19T18:05:00.004+08:00

i have a lot of stuff going on in my head i'd love to blog about, but when it comes to the actual time to write it down, how come it disappears like smoke?? it's sort of like dreaming, everything's so vivid but when you wake up, the scenes just fade away...

so frustrating!

mebbe i should revert back to the ol' paper-and-pen method, and actually write down stuff before posting them online... like, keeping a notebook handy so i can jot down my thoughts. but i feel really DORKY thinking 'bout that...

but i oughta look into that idea. mehh.

yay!

2010-06-22T23:47:00.008+08:00

breakin' you out through your bedroom window
sneakin' you into my parents' house
stayin' out all night into the morning, into the morning
breakin' you out through your bedroom window
sneakin' you into my parents' house
stayin' out all night into the morning until the sun comes up and ruins it all

after days & days of trolling the net, i finally found a decent copy of The Weekend's "Into The Morning" a couple days ago... and to top it all off, the whole DEBS soundtrack!

talk about time & effort spent that is well-rewarded... yay!

jennifer beals...

2010-06-21T11:55:00.007+08:00

i'm so girl-crushing on Jennifer Beals!

then mebbe it's just her power suits...

facebook-ed...

2009-09-06T01:13:00.006+08:00

finally relented and got myself a account... [sigh!] been toying with it for a couple of months now (mebbe less), and so far, it's been nice... well, more than nice, coz i'm addicted to Mafia Wars... heh.

just a heads-up, i guess... =)

waiting...

2009-07-23T12:21:00.007+08:00

how appropriate... just fits with my life status these days... i need some improvement, please!...

(btw, got the pic from a tumblr account... if you ever get to see this, thanks much...)

today i will be happier...

2009-06-16T16:20:00.006+08:00

woosha!

a future note to self...

2009-04-20T22:32:00.004+08:00

i received a FutureMe email from me on my Gmail account... turns out i sent an email last April 2006 to myself to be delivered after 3 years... nothing much in it except me raving about my "crush" on that year... which fizzled out after several months... just me being me, i guess, losing interest after a while of being OCD about some-'thing' or 'body'... whichever... so, i don't retain my feelings, so shoot me... tsk!

'neweiz, i sent another email to myself informing my FutureMe about my state of the moment, and then reminding myself (in a nutshell) of my supposed goals for the future...

so, here's the link for sending yourself or someone like you a message to be delivered on a future date: http://futureme.org/

after 48 years...

2009-04-01T02:20:00.002+08:00

nah, only 4 months, more like it...

nuthin' new here, just lazing around (though not voluntary, mind you...)

i'm kinda depressed, too... and feeling a lotta 'negative' stuff... including foolish...which just fits right in with today being the 1st day of April...

sux to be me nowadays...

i added tags to my blog, oh boy!

2008-11-29T00:10:00.002+08:00

i had been wanting to add tags to my entries for some time now... at first i didn't want to, since i wanted to keep it clean & simple... however, after trolling around other pipz' blogs, i noticed tagging has its perks...

so after 40 years (hehe), i finally found the time to add tags to all (!) my entries, and find a nice tag widget for the sidebar... after searching and comparing widgets, the best one i found so far was posted by Raymond on his website: www.compender.com. simple but cool.

kudos & thanks, Raymond May!

bGurl does teh Twilight... (in lolcatz speak)

2008-11-28T15:56:00.004+08:00

wana c me do teh twilight??

i gotz d fangz jus lyk teh cutie vamp Edward...

ei focus teh cam on mah sweet fangz, wil'ya...

der... dats bettah.

updates on the kits...

2008-11-27T22:00:00.004+08:00

after 1 month, i thought i'd post an update on the new kittens... they're a bit on the thin side but still frisky as all-get-go...

the tortie is Kuki, while the two lil guys are Bobby (mostly white) and Teddy (orange & white).

new kittens!

2008-10-16T00:12:00.007+08:00

our bGurl gave birth to 3 kittens last Monday 13 Oct 2008...

one is a surefire gurl (a tortie), while the other two remains to be seen...

A Prayer for Common Sense

2008-10-15T19:24:00.005+08:00

Dear God, help me learn that things cannot always be done in the best way, that the sorry scheme of things cannot be shattered to bits and then rebuilt; that I am surrounded by others who, like myself, have their own ideas and limitations; that the best intentions may be opposed, and the worst condoned, when the greater good of the greater number requires it.

Let me realize that charity is often better than zeal and sacrifice; that it is ill quarreling in a small boat on a long voyage, that I must take from others what they have, and not demand from them what they lack; that many things are healed by time.

Help me, if I am ever given charge of things to realize that I cannot escape from the limitations of my medium; that it is in and with and for the group that I must work; that neither head nor hand could exist without the body; that I am either the head or the hand (the direction or the instrument) of this definite body, and I must not leave it behind or tear it into pieces or transmute it into something strange.

For every action done in this world, a spirit must move behind the scenes. The human tendency is to let the human, frail spirit move. May thy spirit given to me in all the Sacraments, be my First Mover, my Director in the way, and my Goal in all my actions. Amen.

---
Fr. Daniel M. Dougherty
Diocesan of New York

grilling al fresco...

2008-07-02T21:40:00.008+08:00

my mom visited liloan, cebu for the death anniversary of her father last 18 June... when she came down to the city, we ate at Kanyoen, a japanese resto in mabolo... we thought it was like the usual commercial japanese resto with the bento, okonomiyaki, etc. but no! customers had to grill their own food!!

my mom says she's never going back to this resto again...

for me, i have mixed feelings... especially since i was hoping to get okonomiyaki =P... but then, it's always good to try new stuff once in a while...

so all in all, it was an interesting experience.

delete cookies?!?

2008-06-13T10:55:00.008+08:00

for lack of things to say, here's a thought-provoking pic:

can you imagine Cookie Monster's dilemma??heheh...

i carry your heart with me...

2008-04-24T10:11:00.001+08:00

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)

i fear
no fate(for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

~e.e. cummings / i carry your heart with me~

acceptance vs. tolerance...

2008-04-23T17:00:00.010+08:00

once in a while, you encounter a statement that stands out and challenges your perceived notions about something or other.... well, here's one for me:

"But here’s what I think: It’s hard enough for anyone to find love, you know? And though my knowledge of Christianity is limited, common sense and decency suggest that the last place you’d expect to be throwing up obstacles toward happiness is the goddamn church. Wouldn’t you think? How can the Christian church create so many outcasts, when the religion was founded on the teachings of history’s greatest outcast? It’s a remarkable paradox, isn’t it?"

~Dustin Rowles / For The Bible Tells Me So~

click this link to view the full commentary: Pajiba.com: For The Bible Tells Me So

undecided...

2008-04-22T10:46:00.001+08:00

my heart is confused, aching...
try as I might, I cannot make things work
like I want them to.

for what reason am I put here on earth
except to suffer at my own helplessness,
bought about by forces I cannot control
which in return controls my own indecisions.

horse-carriage....

2008-01-24T17:03:00.001+08:00

the horse-carriage @ the Club Ultima (Tower 1) lobby, Jones Ave., Cebu City...

ivyJay's "one night only" Umbrella song...

2008-01-21T12:24:00.003+08:00

ivyJay with her Dazzle Forever event in SG...

sinulog 2008, atimanah!

2008-01-21T02:15:00.001+08:00

ivyJay came from SG to visit & celebrate sinulog...

19 jan: dinner @ inday_misa's house with ivyJay, Carrie, Apple, Kaloi, Kiking, Kakang etc... the woman CAN cook! i lurv her already... (hope she adopts me...hehehe)

20 jan: woke up late, went to meet ivyJay, Carrie, Kakang, AC, Lyla for sinulog... got caught up in sinulog traffic in colon & fuente (i did this last year, when will i ever learn?? tsktsk...), before catching up with the guys @ Gimik (Mango Square) for videoke... had dinner @ one of the numerous chicken houses near Chong Hua... it rained early in the evening... then went to Ayala to see the fireworks (we were late!...) where i felt quite out sorts so we chilled out @ Bigby's... Tita Cecilia, one of the Misa's relatives took us home, where i promptly spewed my dinner during the trip to the Misa's house... good thing there was a plastic bag handy... so friggin' embarassing! but Kiking & Kakang got stomach-sick too, after we reached their house, so mebbe i was contagious, or what??hehe

21 jan (early morning... like 12:00 friggin AM!!): Kakang took us to the hill behind their house to see the city lights... and do an impromptu photoshoot (actions choreographed by none other than ivyJay)... and posted this using Kakang's desktop PC...

take that!

2008-01-18T14:25:00.002+08:00

take that, u snatcher u!!!... hah!

take that, u terrorist u!!!... hah!

OpenCourseWare...

2008-01-16T16:16:00.002+08:00

you CAN teach an old dog new tricks... and what better way to learn by going OpenCourseWare, where you can get quality education for free.

i'm currently trying out MIT's Writing & Humanistic Studies... of course, i'll try my damndest to find the time to follow the curriculum. i hope to learn as much from it as i can, even if i will not get a diploma when i finish the course.

i'll also be checking other courses available from MIT and other universities. i might be able to use these newly acquired knowledge in the future... who knows, right?

happy new year 2008...

2008-01-03T16:30:00.002+08:00

to start the new year, i got a cool background pix from Kardz's Friendster page... Makes me wanna go introspective with how my life went the past year, and some such mopey stuff...

here, concentrate on it:
makes ya wanna think, ryt??

anyways, updates: went home to CDO last 23 December in time for my mama's natal day, spent Christmas with the family and also with bro-in-law Jake's family... got back here in Cebu to spend a dreary new year's eve & day (just went binge-eating, is all...). and same old, same old new year, back-to-werk-pipol life...<sigh!>

happy new year everyone!

a lesson from Logan...

2007-12-20T10:03:00.002+08:00

here's something i got from a friend (it's also posted on youtube)... an inspiring thought for Christmas, and a lesson we should always remember and never forget:

merry Christmas, everyone! happy holidays!

employee rants...

2007-12-06T11:13:00.001+08:00

november rain...

2007-11-27T14:55:00.001+08:00

nope, nothing earth-shattering for this month...

my mom was here for a week to check on papers related to land titles, that the good ol' relatives are fighting on... not to mention one really stoopeed third party person trying to butt in where she's not needed... what an ass!

i'm constantly on "tumbling" mode... filing "SLs" and being late to work... not proud of it coz it's been 2 years since i had been late to work... =(

and blame it on Lando for the rain part... heavy rains and strong winds like you can only imagine... jeez!

yeah, the annual physical examination... the queue is as endless as the calls waiting... hmmph! =P

yep... that's about it i guess...

my sister's wedding...

2007-10-31T13:13:00.001+08:00

my bigSis Mae got married to Jake last 22 October 2007... wedding rites at the Fatima Chapel in A. Velez Street and reception at the Country Village Hotel in Carmen... here's some pix taken with the t650:

my mom & lil'bro gave my sis away at the altar and i was the maid of honor (howzat for kicks, huh?? =P)...

the barney song...

2007-10-12T13:56:00.001+08:00

my fwen Ric sent me this song by email a year and two months ago to the day:

Good morning peepz!! lets all sing together (y'll know the barney song right?)

I love you, you love me.. Lets get together and kill Barney, with a shotgun (bang! bang!) Barney on the floor, no more happy dinosaur...

(clap! clap! clap!)

Very good, now get on with our work..

cheered me up a lot, too... hehehe =D

the one...

2007-10-07T11:55:00.001+08:00

picked up this quote while trawling the 'net:

At this moment there are six billion four hundred seventy million eight hundred eighteen thousand six hundred seventy one people in the world. Some are running scared. Some are coming home. Some tell lies to make it through the day. Others are just now facing the truth. Some are evil men at war with good. And some are good, struggling with evil. Six billion people in the world, six billion souls. And sometimes... all you need is one. ~ P. Sawyer

after some research, found it was from Peyton Sawyer, a character from One Tree Hill... i've heard of the series but i don't watch it though...

sometimes, i wonder if our supposed to be "soulmate" is the same person as "the one"... ya know, "the one" person who at first glance (first sight?) you get this sudden frisson of recognition, you feel an electricity between you, and then for some unknown reason you think, you KNOW, that this is the ONE. the one person you are attracted to, the one person you belong to, the one person you love... and even then you feel, you KNOW, that love doesn't even begin to describe the wholeness that you feel with this person. you know that what you have between you surpasses love, the feeling is more than just love.

does feelings like this even happen???

if anything, i'd like to feel this way even for just once in my life... and still, i dread it because by then, i'd die of wanting more if i only get to feel it once with this person... this feeling has to last forever.

freedom = no labels...

2007-10-03T16:32:00.004+08:00

i was checking out my VisualDNA and saw the FREEDOM portion... "to express emotions without fear"... what a noble thought!!... 0_o (yep, it is a noble thought.)

if everyone can just get along together [sigh!] and not waste time stereotyping and discriminating others [another sigh!]...

say NO to LABELS!!!

current soda addiction...

2007-09-25T15:27:00.001+08:00

got addicted again to the empty calories... but am sticking to the diet/light varieties like Pepsi Max, Coke Light, Diet Pepsi, Diet 7-Up, etc... if i can't get any, i throw away my calorie-inhibition and slug down Jazz or Sparkle at the nearby bakeshop...

havta kick this habit! i need to jump-start my willpower... urggh!...

and now, for a little entertainment break:

changes, changes...

2007-09-09T13:25:00.001+08:00

i just heard that the supervisors are finally disbanding the team that i was previously (and initially) part of... or what's left of the team. for the past couple of years the pipz had been finding better companies or getting better offers. they're moving on. good for them. not much can be said for me. pity...

somebody kick my behind for motivation, please!...

bored...

2007-08-17T17:07:00.001+08:00

i think am gonna quit the ASP class... i have no definite interest in programming, i can't make myself enjoy it... it seems easy enough to learn by myself... if i really put my head into it. which i just can't seem to do anywayz...

guess i'll just do a recap on my basic Nihon-go in my foreseeable free time... if i don't get caught up as useless on my newly-found ebooks. which is what i'm currently obsessing on. and talk about me major-OCDing on them...jeez!

july 2007 events...

2007-08-01T13:34:00.003+08:00

hiya! after 43 years of silence, i'm back here again. nope, actually it's just a month. i hadn't the chance to update all of july for a lotta reasons... eneweiz, here's some of my events last month worth mentioning:

** 06 July: NA Email teambuilding @ Hidden Paradise Mountain Resort

I tagged along again with my former teammates' teambuilding and we went to Hidden Paradise Mountain Resort, a really outta-the-way resort somewhere up the mountains South of Cebu. it does live up to its name: Hidden Paradise. it's definitely a great resort, and it's virtually inaccessible unless you have a personal ride or rent the resort van (demmit!)!!!ahahah =D

anyway, check out their website for contact info and resort pictures: http://hiddenparadiseresort.multiply.com/

** 14 July: DekkaBelle's wedding

D finally got married! who'd ever thought that will happen?!? (ok D, stop throwin' the punches, will ya...) =P her wedding was held in our parish church in CDO, but sadly I wasn't there to attend, me being in another island and all...

it seemed like a lifetime ago when we were agreeing that John Mayer's "Love Song for No One" is a fitting theme song for us... and now she has someone... (sigh!) I'm so happy for you, D! =)

** 21 July: ASP class double with Catching the Elusive JackPurcells

enrolled in basic ASP (E-Commerce) class. impressions: It's really kinda basic; if I had a book (and the drive.!.) I'm sure I can learn it on my own. but I just re-affirmed that I really have no remarkable interest in computer programming. I dunno if I'll stick it out on this one, but the certification, sounds good. it'll look good on the CV, if nothing else...

about the JackPurcells... since I suddenly had extra cash plus I found out they were on sale, I decided to give in and buy a pair of JackPurcell Converse sneakers. I really wanted the one with straps instead of with laces but it's not available anymore (I think that was last year's model), so I bought the classic edition instead.

it should have been easy except that I had to go to four different malls and to different shops inside these malls just to get the right pair. here's the gist: I went to Ayala, saw the red pair, loved it BUT my shoe size wasn't available. tried the navy pair but still no compatible shoe size. went to Gaisano Metro Colon, still no go. went to E-Mall but the Converse shop was temporarily closed. went to SM (and I swore this is gonna be my last stop!) and finally(!), finally I found a pair that fit. Never mind that it's the navy model when i wanted the red pair. JackPurcells are still cool! =D me happy!

that's it for July... ja ne!...

update??...

2007-06-30T09:04:00.001+08:00

my last entry for the month of june.

nope, nothing new as useless... i just arrived this morning from Cebu to have a few days of bumming around the ol' homefront. should be back to work on the 4th of july (reporting for duty, SIR! gah, i don't wish...).

currently eating chinese grass jelly (odd, i can't detect any trace of grass taste in it. and yes, i've tasted grass. honestly.)... and listening to a sappy lurve song by Alistair Griffin: You & Me (Tonight). yeah, i have my sappy moments.

hmm... what else? oh yeah, yesterday was our last day in Basic Japanese Conversation. i still can't make heads or tails of the whole language if served to me outright. but am proud to say that i can formulate half-coherent sentences now, as long as it's something simple. like: dare to kyokai de ikimasu ka, or tomodachi to kyokai de ikimasu. and all that shyte... ahaha XD

end of post. Ü

hanging-out at Portofino...

2007-06-13T16:30:00.002+08:00

last Saturday, our team went to Portofino Beach Resort in Lapulapu for team-building... some games, much food, goofing around, and just hanging out in general... to the right is a view of the beach with the yacht in the background.

some finer points of the day (eye-openers?): Uly being the typical chauvinistic guy T_T, Grace getting sea-sick just by looking at the beach front =P, and a relaxed Tony 0_o...

i didn't take a lot of pix, just some beach front scenes and one of the resort huts (with Chaos & Inda & Crystal & Michelle's back in the foreground)...

i went to the airport afterwards to see ivyJay off to Singapore... her sis Carrie & Kaloi's mom, Tita Inday was there, too. didn't take pictures coz didn't wanna show off the Treo & didn't wanna appear like a noob, too... =P wish i was also flying to SG that day... T_T anywayz, Tita Inday suggested we all go to SG for a short larag-larag this coming October... i really wanna go, even with the on-going personal financial crisis...ehehehe XD

ah well whatever...

another long one...

2007-06-07T18:52:00.001+08:00

to start this post off, here's another pic of the condo behind Castle Peak hotel that i took while walking to the jeep-stop on the way to work... i noticed the clouds overhead looking suspiciously scenic and decided to get a shot.. i guess the result is not that bad, considering i used a crappy camera phone, VGA resolution to boot... although i wouldn't say that a treo650 is that crappy... but i can tell you some things about it hehehe (insert evuhhl laugh here XD)...

hmm, what else??... me and my mom went to Bohol last 26 May to go visit her mom's grave and make a follow-up on land transfers and such... didn't do anything much.. only took some shots of the Tubigon Cathedral ceiling art and one definitely NOT noteworthy subject: a pile of rocks. yep, rocks. i know, i am so not creative as i want to think i am. it's a fact. but i refuse to accept it =P. about the rocks... the cross-sectioning looked a bit interesting. found it at the back of one of my relatives' house. i guess it was being used for construction or some stuff like that... end the rocks topic...hehehe

so, nothing much about the Cathedral ceiling art. it's quite old i guess.. i never really asked my mom about it but it was there when she was young, and then the Cathedral looked like it belonged to the Spanish era. i tried picturing Bohol in colonial times and imagining the people in Spanish costume and such but can't. well, i suppose it must have been hard work, painting murals in ceilings... it all makes me want to go see the Sistine Chapel and all of Vatican. hope i get to travel the world sooner than later o_O...

and on a lighter note, here are a couple of pics of the stuff ivyJay bought back to me from Singapore! (and from Malaysia, too...) nothing much, just a shirt from her visit to Malaysia, a Petronas keychain, a lil memopad from Melaka and a Singapore keychain but i'm so happy(!).. luv ya lots, ivyJay!

wish i can be in Singapore awready so i can get to make "rampa" the Orchard road wit u!! and hang out in Sentosa... and pahrt-ay in Ministry of Sound and Chimes!! T_T

just u wait, Singapore!...!

on new languages and old churches...

2007-05-23T15:38:00.002+08:00

last monday evening i started classes for basic nihongo with Ross, eJrome and Tessa. no kana & kanji yet, just conversational japanese so we're still using romaji. our sensei is Kato-san, "pure Japanese" as Ross described him...hehe

so what made us do this "learn Japanese" thingy? me thinks i started the whole ball rolling. i think i mentioned to Ross i wanted to learn Japanese so i can understand my animés without subtitles (what a lofty ideal!). she said she always wanted to learn Japanese and Korean and enhance her Mandarin. besides, to make the idea more "credible", the additional language proficiency will look good on our resumés o_0... and since this is basically a "buddy" system, in due time word spread and eJrome & Tessa (animé buffs, too got caught up in it, too.

earlier that afternoon, i decided to use my 1-hour break to go to the bank and deposit money for my mom. since i was cost-cutting for real, taking the taxi was SO not in the books so i had to use public transports (aka jeepneys), which means going to specific (or almost specific) places where the jeeps traveling the routes will pass by. it was a really hot afternoon, and i had to walk for a bit. in doing so i passed by the Cebu Cathedral, and i thought it was a perfect opportunity to take a couple of pix of the old church.

it's a bit of a clash, the rain clouds and the bright sun. i didn't notice the that there were rain clouds until i inadvertently looked up when framing the bell tower for a shot. i think the bell tower shot is kind of dramatic, dont'cha think? quite classic...

well, i have to go and attend my nihongo class. ciao!

after 40 thousand years!!!

2007-05-15T15:37:00.002+08:00

I'M BACK!...with a vengeance!!! eheheh =D

well, anywayz i wanted to post a lot of stuff from before but for lack of opportunity and access, i didn't get to. nothing important, just glimpses of my boring life.

sooo, to do a recap, this is about me in my rented room. to the right is a shot of tEddy and me on the side. tEddy was given to me 2 years ago as a goodbye present by my Nestlé IceCream 'diser... she's a bit older than me, and a nice person. and i am definitely NOT a nice gurrl since i forgot her name...ehehe XD oh, and tEddy was christened "tEddy" roughly a year ago by Rigel. me being me neglected to name the scruffy lil guy... ahahaha =P

this is another shot of tEddy and me, a part of my face a bit clearer, if you can call it that. watching a movie on the T5.

Now this is a shot of the T5. i was watching a movie on it using TCPMP, a totally cool PalmOS software (free plug!!!).

i just decided to take a pic of it for lack of something better to do. well, mebbe i just wanna show off one of the cool things a mobile device can do...hehe.

here are some pix of the lil advice book i gave to aneth-chan as a farewell present, all wrapped up and ready to go:

the light is focused on the presento in the first pic... an attempt on creating drama but quite amateurish, though.

the second pic has more (better?) lighting. the light is still centered on the presento but i guess it has diffused a bit.

the T5, Sony headphones, tEddy and wallet on the background, not to mention the pillows...eheheh

a couple of scenes i see when walking on the way to Panagdait road:

a shot of the lil street i walk almost everyday to get to jeepney stop so i can ride and reach Synergis. the condo behind CastlePeak Hotel in the background. it's a mostly affluent neighborhood me thinks coz most of the houses i pass by are large and nice. there are also some pricey apartment type houses.

and this is the first Peugeot i saw live and in real-time...so i had to go take a pic of it to commemorate the event... hahaha XD i feel really cheesy. it's parked outside one of the pricey apartments, most days. it has a sun-roof, btw. not an eye-candy kind of car but it has a certain cute appeal to it. or mebbe it's just the fact that it's a classic european car and it's rare to see these vehicles in cebu... makes me think of Français and gay Paris.

whoah, this is quite a long post. and Way Back Into Love (Hugh Grant/Drew Barrymore version) is my last song syndrome. it's looping in my head like crazy. ciao!

blahh...

2007-04-26T19:33:00.001+08:00

i want to go home... i want to see my mom, bigsis, lilbro and the cats...
i am not functioning well anymore... damn this life.

the other blog...

2007-03-25T16:10:00.003+08:00

this day's second entry.

since i can't find a way to import the post i made in multiply into this blogger thingy, might as well just post the link here.

nothing really, just some musings about the half-day i spent at Cordova, Lapulapu. me doing some relaxing for a change...

uhhmm, clickie moi =D

tizzy up the girl...

2007-03-25T13:53:00.002+08:00

tadaima!

i'm feeling like a spaz today... sort of like this:

(now you get the idea...)

nothing really... no reason at all... i've just about given up on analyzing why i feel and act the way that i do.

heee =D

the day after...

2007-03-11T21:07:00.002+08:00

it's sunday, the day after my birthday. mom, big_sis, lil_bro and me went to noon mass, and then we hit the beach! (yay!) and it was great! the waves were extra big, i mean it's the first time i've encountered waves those big and hard-hitting... well, there's no comparison for siargao and hawaii (i guess) but for our place, those were WAVES...hehehe lil_bro and me went body-boarding and it was cool! the minus part is having to drink gallons of seawater from being thrown off the body-board and getting under the waves... here's a view of the beachfront.

and actually, there were several surfers (or wannabe/"as-if" surfers) present with real surf-boards... around 3 or 4 of them... the skim-boarders had to sit it out for once... the waves are not conducive to skimming, i guess... here's an obstructed view of the beachfront. i wanted to take a pic of the bodyboard but the leaves got in the way. i didn't notice, what with the treo650's screen being so shitty with sunlight all around...hmmfffp.

and here is a sample of my sand graffitti. i wanted to show my friend Ross how the beach sand on our area is grey, compared to the beaches in Cebu (white... or just plain rocky..ehehe) frankly i don't dig the beaches in Cebu... either they're commercialized (like Maribago, Cebu Beach Club, etc.) or they're so rocky you can't take a decent swim without putting flipflops on. of course, Bantayan is the goddess of beaches! and mebbe Boracay is too, 'cept i haven't been there yet... soon!

feeling old...

2007-03-09T20:41:00.002+08:00

today is the eve of my birthday. another year older, and i actually feel it. i'm not depressed about it, just a little overwhelmed, though... at least that's the closest description i can give, if there is really a need to put a word to it...

for now i'll just relax, chill out, and spend time with my mom, big_sis, lil_bro and the catz... no worrying about templates, output, stats and job-related stuff.. and bGurrl is dozing on my lap right now while i'm typing this. tv has not been "in" with me for the last couple of years; i'm mostly into movies & films now... i love these times when i get to surf whenever i want to, far from the restrictions of the office, although the office connection is 100x much faster than at home... =( well, i can't have everything , i guess...

it's gonna be my happy birthday in a few hours...

and well, this is my first post so: yoroshiku onegaishimasu! Ü