thursday, august 31, 2000
dream blog: me and my brothers and sister were being chased by a car... we were riding in our van... we had no way out.. my brother had an idea... he asked me to leave the driver seat, sit at the back and let the van fall off the bridge.. so it did... the van was floating and it brought us to the other side of the river and we all got off and continued to run.. then i woke up...what was that about?
wednesday, august 30, 2000
i'm very curious about one of my new co-workers.
went bowling tonite with co-workers.. it was fun. i managed to be in the second place in the second match, funny because i play bowling only once in a blue moon... the bowling alleys are part of a polish cultural centre. it's right beside a polish community-run church. imagine playing bowling right after mass. kewl :-)
tuesday, august 29, 2000
what was i thinking? why am i listening to faithno more? speaking of that stupid-hate-metal-group [which i used to listen backin the ol' days], i gave ralphie an advice regarding love life: beaggressive... b-e aggressive... b-e-a-g-g-r-e-s-s-i-v-e!.
monday, august 28, 2000
i told karol why i can't date her friend kim. i hope you understand.
dream blog: my grandpa was smiling at me.. he had a big smile... he died last year... i woke up and realized he was already dead. my lights were turned on the whole night.
sunday, august 27, 2000
gee.. i'm getting addicted to this blog in filipino.
11:38 PM
are you satisfied with your penis size?. LOL.
hey look, somebodylooks exactly like you... i still wonder up to this day why you didn't give me a chance... we could've been so perfect for each other... i know you were still hurt from your past lover back then and so i waited 'till you're over him... i guess i waited too long i found out you were already with somebody else... i was disappointed out of selfishness but if you're happy with him, that's fine... it was my fault, i already asked you once and i didn't want to ask you again for fear of rejection... i got hurt the first time, i didn't want to get hurt the second time... i've left everything to fate... but i still miss you.
ach... i'm back... 7.5 hrs sleep... i thought i could watch a video first before i go to bed but i fell asleep as soon as i lied down.... the movie by the way is the whole nine yards... a hundred yards, sheez, where did i get that?
it's 4:27 am.. i'm suppose to be in bed by now... instead i'm gonna watch a video: a hundred yards... then i'll sleep in tomorrow...
TheAdvertising Graveyard: Real Ads That Almost Ranis a collection of hilarious ads that were rejected by clients because... well, check out the site and i'm sure you'll laff yer ass off...
e.m.f., teen electronic rock group from u.k.,what has happened to them? i'm listening to their stigma album which i won from a radio show contest nu 107's not radioback in manila in 92. the contest was to guess which artist play the next song and i guessed it right: the sundays. i used to be a hardline alternative rock fan in those days, that was before the explosion of alternative rock groups in the air waves, thanks to mtv asia which i used to get through the u.h.f. tv band. cable was very new in the philippines back then and only the super-rich could afford to get one installed. the first cable satellite dish by skycable was built on the field at the back of our old house.
i'm an alien.. you're an alien... it's abeautiful brain
for some strange reason, i'm kinda missing jerwin already... well, him and his fresh blogs=) i must have been checking it every hour or so... or maybe i'm just really anxious to know what he and jeff are up to down in the sunny state...
saturday, august 26, 2000
i'm now officially a susmariosep! blager... a blog in filipino.
ok, forget about the macarena-dancing-britney...i asked her to scream like alanis instead.
online discoveries: the other pinoy "blager" out there i visited today:
- kind of faded but ifeel alright... [princessa]
- annoyed [yash] chronicles a girl's story of going through the first stage of college life.. she likes garfield.
- | stuntbox | invasion of color | [matt] nice puppa da rappa (don't know if this isproper spelling) images.. cute
i've given you a chance to continue what we've left off but you blew it. you came to me only now that you're no longer with him. we will always be friends... this ship has sailed...
salad without the vegetables is good too:vegetable-seasoned-croutons + triple cheese salad dressing... yum.
i didn't want to leave you yet... i always enjoy your company, our talks... you're so beautiful... i wanted to tell you how i feel but i was so afraid of rejection...
i saw the celllast night and wow, the graphics effects and artistic renditions in the movie were awesome... it was like the colours and the lights play with your eyes and mind... some of the scenes were quite disturbing but what would you expect to see in the mind of a serial killer? it's about a psychologist (jennifer lópez) who was asked by the FBI to enter into the mind of the serial killer (vincent d'onofrio) through a state-of-the-art machine in order to find the killer's last victim who within 40 somewhat hours would die (i won't tell much)... the killer fell into a comma just before he was captured.. he was suffering from a rare type of schizophrenia... i like the whole idea of a therapy session by entering into the mind of a patient and interact with the patient's subconscious ego... this would be the way of the future! i'm also very fascinated by the artistic talent of the director, tarsem singh... he also made the music video losing my religion by r.e.m. by the way which won the mtv music video of the year i think in 92 or 93.
thursday, august 24, 2000
i'm a 21st century digital boy.
to be my digital sister, you have to dress up as Britney Spears and dance the macarena. so far i've presented this to one person and the feedback was not good... in fact i was threatened i will be disowned if i insist... hehe.
tuesday, august 22, 2000
i wish i could erase memory of a specific personor event.
i think that excessive blogging may turn you into an anti-social person... making the person lose touch of the outside world.. it decreases actual personal contact... imagine,telling your friends: hey, i'm gonna blog ya later, 'k?.. or i'm not gonna call you anymore... just read my blog!
i was gonna have another plate of tinola& rice but i told myself no, gari, no... my favourite dish.
an idea came up to my head. i'm thinking of inserting myself to the internet... just like in the matrix... orthe ghost in the machine in johnny mnemonic... digital ego. i'm thinking of disconnecting myself from the real world, become purely digital, virtual. it's getting boring in the real world. silly idea.
i think i'm gonna get a cold... i keep sneezing.
so compaq came up with a new brand of pc, eh? iPaq..what an iMac copy-cat...guess what? it's a joint venture with microsoft, another big-time Mac copy-cat...
strict diet starts today... well, not too-strict breakfast: coffee and apple cheese danish lunch: tuna sandwich and water exercise: 30 minutes (ongoing.. not new)pre-dinner (i'm starving everytime i come home from work): tomatoes and caesar salad dressing evening coffee dinner: tinola & rice.
monday, august 21, 2000
I don't know why but for the whole day themuscles just beside my right eyebrow jittered involuntarily. It is so annoying! It's doing it right now as I type this... My co-worker told me it's just muscle spasms.
sunday, august 20, 2000
I had a busy Saturday. I was in my cousin's wedding the whole day and the whole night. I was one of his ushers. I got to wear this nice tux... it was my first time wearing one. It was a very formal event. After the church ceremony, we went to a park called James Gardens in Etobicoke for picture taking. It is a popular park for wedding pictures apparently. We saw a bunch of guys and girls wearing wedding attires when we got there. After that we went to Four Points Hotel in Mississauga for the reception. At the end I got so drunk... well, what would you expect in an open bar? ;-) -- lots of drunk people.. hehe... I really love that drink my cousin introduced me to: Sex on the Beach - vodka, cranberry and orange juice... I had 4 glasses of that I think, or more. I also had Bloody Caesarwhich was nasty but I still managed to finish it.. before that I had 2or 3 glasses of wine and a glass of champagne. My partner, one of the bridesmaids, was very very shy. I only met her that day... she didn't attend the practice for the church ceremony.When we did the formal dance, her hands barely touched my shoulders...She was very nervous. I really wanted to say don't worry, I don't date girls to ease her nervousness a bit.. hehe.. but I only uttered 3 words to her while we danced: are you okay?hehe.. silly girl. I felt sorry for her too at the same time. She had that really worried face on her. Maybe her boyfriend was around? She's about 19 or 20 I think. I really had a good time with my family, relatives and their friends that night... My family got to see me dance for the first time - both the traditional dance and the modern la club-kid dance. They were very convinced I was drunk because of that. Whether I was drunk or not, I would still have a good time. I don't have to be drunk just to have fun. I came home around 2:30 AM. I fell asleep while watching TV in a matter of minutes. I woke up the next morning with the remote in my hand, my glasses on,TV and lights on. I wanted to sleep in but I had to get up to return the nice tux I rented for the wedding. I wonder when I'll wear one again.
saturday, august 19, 2000
Oops! I did it again. I left a voice message to Jerwin wishing him bonvoyagefor his trip tomorrow. I found out he's not leaving until next week. What's happening to me? Ha ha! You know what? It must be those damn voicemails I get everytime I call people up.. I find that I talk to voicemail more than I talk to actual live body. Take this - I don't call people often from home (I spend 99% of my day at work on the phone, ok?) and when I do, I get voicemails! Naah, I was just joking. I shouldn't blame technology for this. I should blame myself for lack of listening skills lately. I've got so much things in my head right nowthat I'm running out of space... I'm coping and I'm winning... thanks to a newly found inspiration in life.
friday, august 18, 2000
We had a diversity celebration at work yesterday. It was to celebrate the workplace's cultural diversity. Idid a Philippine exhibit and gave my co-workers sample of my Mom's cassava cake.Don't ask what it is because I was asked a hundred times at work what it was. Some interesting Filipino facts I put on my exhibits are:
- The Philippines is the only Christian nation in Asia:majority are Catholics
- Filipinos use their mother's maiden last name as middlename
- You call a woman Filipina and a man Filipino
- There are 7,107 islands in the Philippines
- There are more than 80 dialects in the Philippines.Filipino (Tagalog) and English are the official languages.
- The English word boondock was derived from theFilipino word bundok for mountain
- The Philippines was named after King Philip II (Felipe II) of Spain. Filipinas is the Spanish name of the country.
- Famous stars of Filipino descent: Tia Carrere; Lea Salonga (Miss Saigon); Rob Schneider; Enrique Iglesias
Canada is a multicultural country unlike the US which is a melting potof cultures. There is difference between the two in that multiculturalism promotes its people to retain their ethnic cultures from countries where they originally came from and freely practise them and at the same time stay united as Canadians whereas a melting potis a collection of different people from different culture who would eventually lose their distinct cultural identity and fuse with the almighty American culture...
You're probably wondering why I'm blogging this early... well that's because I woke up too early - 7:15 AM, and I only start working at 10:00... I notice that I have been losing track of time more often nowadays... In fact I even thought it's Thursday today. Jerwin even has a proof that I did lose track of time [check your voicemail Jerwin... hehe]. I'm quite disappointed because we ran out of coffee at home today so I have to grab my coffee on my way to work which is about half an hour... I want my coffee now!
Actually the newsand the pictures were published on the front pages of newspapers (TheToronto Star and The Toronto Sun to name two) yesterday. I feel sorry for Mr. Chrétien. I think a person who would throw pie at people out of anguish has a mental disorder.
tuesday, august 15, 2000
okay, i just had two cups of coffee and i'm going to bed in about 15 minutes... i want to know if my body is really invincible to caffeine.
you go girl!i'm so proud of you! you're an inspiration... one of these days, i would do the same thing... oh hold on, i forgot, i got nobody to bring:-) so i guess that would be a reality for me in about... say... 2years? 5 years? when robots rule the world?
CONGRATULATIONS TO JOEY & ELIZA a.k.a.MR. & MRS. JOEY COTENG ! ! !this was certainly a great news for me! i'm so happy for you guys...[joey & eliza are my high school friends and the most popular high school sweethearts who finally after 10 years tied the knot last month... i only found out today and i'm so excited like crazy!...geez!].
can you guess who these x-men characters are? [arts by my 5-year old brother]
monday, august 14, 2000
eek... she responded to my post ... she's not human after all. She's the empress of a rival galaxy. Below was her response: You must be mistaken, mere emissary,but i have already laid claim to the domination of Planet Earth.Obviously my human disguise fooled even Andromeda's silly agents. You were sorely mistaken. I am no human. I am the Empress of the SirauloGalaxy. Thank you for visiting, but if you stay too long, understand that Andromeda will face retaliation from my celestial armed forces...Consider yourself warned...and have a nice day:).i must invoke the omnipotent one, god most high of all andromedas,to empower us and overcome you, mortal enemies of my kind. our forces will be mobilized immediately.
dream blog: okay, this is really gross. in my dream my nose hair grew so long that it became so much like a moustache. i also dreamed that fingernails were all over my carpet. i also dreamed that i had this prescription that's been waiting for pick up for the longest time.. the pharmacist called me at 11:30pm! weird, huh? i have a big issue with people who don't trim their nose hair and who cut their fingernails right before my eye, not to mention the ones you see on the floor... they gross me out totally...now their haunting me in my dreams!
sunday, august 13, 2000
my computer has a new name. everyone, meet Mr.Flower.
i'm such a geek.
geez, why did they make cyclops' sunglass sotiny. i had to look really really hard to find it everytime P losesit.
i did a major clean up of my desktop today. lookhow tidy it is!:
new online discovery: Cosmic Developments is a site by a cool filipina from the great nyc. anyway, here is mycomment:
Greetings, human. My name is Mr. Flower. I am Andromeda's emissary to your planet. I am impressed by your site. Quite ironic because I was not programmed to show emotions to humans. My people have found out that you, humans,have successfully started shifting your life online and therefore we oversee possibilities of unsuccessful invasion of your planet. We have plans to conquer your planet however, we have to find ways to stop the shift to the online world. We need your physical body as slaves to work in our mines. If the shift of your entire population would be successful, we would have nothing but your online presence. We do not know how powerful you would be in your online form. We would prevail.
Mr. Flower.
(awesome site! ;-)i just thought i'd post it here 'coz it was kinda kewl.
dream blog: there was a dormant volcano on lake ontario. i could see the volcano from my house. its peak was capped by snow. it was raining one night... rain became ashes.the volcano erupted! it was so scary. people were panicking. i remember asking my dad to flee somewhere north and i suggested brampton (city north of where i live) at my grandma's place. traffic was not moving,roads were so packed. oh no. then i woke up. thank god it was just a dream!
just for the record. before i signed off ipeeked at the power blogger list again and i was number 2! that's f*$%pathetic. see, that happens when i don't get out on a saturday night.
signing off... it's about f*@#$ time!
oh my god, take me away from my computer now![look, i was no. 4 in the power blogger list!]
i wish i were a monk so i can live a life ofcelibacy.. yeah, right.
i don't wanna be crazy or anything... but i notice that i've been spending so much time in front of a computer in the past week, suffering from insomnia, bad appetite and discomfort...maybe because i'm really looking for an answer... the answer to the question... maybe i'm really looking for him... do you think i am the one?
you are listening to mellow music... who is it?
don't think about it too much. i know how youfeel. it's been a while. clear your mind.
saturday, august 12, 2000
dream blog: in my dream last night,my co-worker gave me a typewriter to type a complaint and i can't remember exactly what complaint i was suppose to type. in the dream,my family and i visited my aunt in the philippines and when i got there i forgot that i was suppose to meet somebody in toronto so i had to drive back to canada in our van.
A sourceindicated that a grande moccha frappuccino in the Philippines costs 100 pesos which is equivalent to about $3 (Canadian), which is about right.It actually costs more in Canada - at least $4. But 100 pesos is a lot of money for a nice frappuccino!
friday, august 11, 2000
no worries... i'm great :-) got good supply of coping resources: computer, blog, ice cream, x-men video games, showcase, zen, music & most of all, friends who care,like you. salamat.
thursday, august 10, 2000
my goldfish goldie died. i'm so sad.
should i have ice-cream or should i not?self-deprivation can be sweet.
don't you hate it when you can't get rid of a song stuck in your head? song currently stuck in my head: a song with the line set me freesung over and over again... from the matrix soundtrack. could it be a mystical sign? everything's zen (gavin rosdale didn't think so). most of the ideas in the matrixmovie are parallel to zen. the matrix is like digital zen. free your mind. the mind is the key. the body cannot live without the mind.you mean this chair doesn't exist? do you think it's air you're breathing? don't think, know. it is you that bend, not the spoon. know thyself. stop trying to hit me and hit me! [not the exact words in the movie]. go figure. don't know zen? read about it.
my hip-hop brother likes the same group I like - rage against the machine. find it weird. he digs black hip-hop.he's unique though compared to his other pinoy hip-hop friends in that he doesn't wear baggy, lose, i-see-your-underwear type of jeans, black stockings stuck on the head and all... we used to call him gothic hip-hopbecause he used to wear black all the time, doc's boots, not-so-tight& not-so-baggy black jeans - but he's hip-hop... i swear his english is jamaican!
wednesday, august 9, 2000
Eu me sent mutz popur cid?. Sole cinq eu nu potdonar.
Only two cups of coffee for the day... that's arecord breaker!
If I just concentrate enough, I can lift apiece of toilet paper using my telepathic power. - a thought whileI was in the toilet.
12:01 AMtuesday, august 8, 2000
My site has a new look - reflects the mood I have right now.
monday, august 7, 2000
WTF is wrong with Yahoo! Mail! I've been trying to access my mailbox for the last 4 hours now unsuccessfully.
I went on a Filipino site-hopping today. So farI've visitedthe following:
- Alvin Aldrich Abrogena Like the colourful bubbly buttons on the site. Fonts are too colourful and I'm getting page errors although I'm using MSIE 5.0. But overall, the site kicks ass!
- Tina Matanguihan This site is filled with cute angels... the colour scheme reminds me so much of baby stuff. It also has a little touch of Jesus to it.
- Nick Fuentes Very creative, poetic, "dark" but sweet --gothic.
- Ian Carlo Ricohermoso Great graphics design and presentation. I like the way he did his photo albums - pics coming out when you hover your mouse over the numbers and all. Lots of colour blue on the site -luv it! Guestbook form is neat too. I gave the guy an advice though:eat more, play more and most especially SLEEP more. You'll find out whywhen you visit the site.
I was the 666th visitor of my own site atexactly 15:11 ET. Spooky!
sunday, august 6, 2000
I woke up furious and mad at two of myfriends because in my dream they said I couldn't have the person Ireally really like because the person is too cute for me.
Are you kidding?! Australian accent is horrible... horrible! -- quote from Tracy, Mostafa's Australian friend.
Mr. Hand, Mr. Book, Mr. Sleep and Mr. Hurt are characters of which movie?
Look... I still know how to recite TheLord's Prayer and Hail Maryin Latin, right from memory!... Honestly, no cheating! I wanted to become a Benedictine monk in my mid-teens. Now look at me, I'm a slut:-)
Pater noster
Qui est in caelis
Sanctificetur nomen tuum
Adveniat regnum tuum
Fiat voluntas tua
Sicut in caelo et in terra
Panem nostrum
Quotidianum da nobis hodie
Demitte nobis debita nostra
Sicut et nos demittemus debitoribus nostris
Et ne nos inducas in tentationem
Sed libera nos a malo.
Ave Maria
Gratia plena
Dominus tecum
Benedicta tu in mulieribus
Et benedictus fructus ventris tui Iesus.
Sancta Maria
Mater Dei
Ora pro nobis peccatoribus
Nunc et in hora mortis nostrae.
Nymphaea caerulea, also known as the bluelotus, is not really a lotus but a type of lily. Thisis what it looks like. Click here to learnmore about lotuses.
1:38 AMAfter five years, my old black venetian blinds have been put to rest. These blinds carry many memories - both happy and sad. It has witnessed parts of my life my family has never seen. Good-bye, my old friend!
saturday, august 5, 2000
Peoplez... Puh-leez... If you visit my site, I urge you to sign my guestbook. I see the hits counter rising but nobody is leaving their marks... Say something like: I love yer site, or I hate yer site, it's full of crap! or I'm watching you..... ugh!
thursday, august 3, 2000
The testresults are out: I've got high cholesterol level!I thought only older people and usually overweight people get it [I only weigh 120 lbs and I'm slim!]. I guess that just disproves that idea. The worst part is most of the food I have to avoid are the ones I really like: fat, fat, fat, and fat. I also have to do 30 minutes exercise everyday. Well, I'm still relieved that the result was nothing really serious like liver problem, psychosis or positive pregnancy.
wednesday, august 2, 2000
I had a stupid lie today. I told my co-worker I don't speak Spanish. We had a Spanish-only-speaking caller from Puerto Rico today at work. She was trying so hard speaking Spanish [it wasn't even Spanish she was speaking, but French with a Spanish accent!]. I pitied her and took the call.
tuesday, august 1, 2000
My hands are so sore right now from playing X-MenMutant Academy. My favourite character is Magneto. Your powersare weak!
