eNdiNg tHe yEaR riGhT.

how does one "end the year right"? do we follow feng shui stuff, do we right the wrongs done, do we remember things past or forget about them?

i did get a massage at the spa today.. does it follow that i'll have a stress free year? :) and i am spending the new year at the studio 23 party on the rooftop of powerplant.. does it follow that i'll be "up there" in 2004? and that jumping at midnight thing.. does it really make you grow taller? does wearing polka dots really get you more money?

and about new years resolutions.. i've never really had any, and from what i've heard, they're never resolved anyway.

aHh.. bOrAcAy.

hhhay. i was "home" again. i spent friday til sunday in one of my most favorite places in the world, boracay. its a sin to stay that short a time there though! (argh!) i've never been to boracay during this time of the year.. as opposed to the warm, humid summer days, i had cool, windy december nights. it is such a beautiful place.



top twenty reasons why i love bora.

1 - jonah's mocha rum shake!!!!!

2 - longga burger at aling merly's bbq (outside cocomangas)

3 - cafe 1920's napoletana pizza

4 - k.o chicken

5 - masahe with manang outside jony's

6 - sunset sessions at station one (unfortunately it was so cloudy when i was there, you couldn't see the sunset :/ )

7 - ceasar salad at cafe breizh

8 - lamb and couscous at true food

9 - isaw ng manok (which wasn't available when i was there.. i was devastated!)

10 - you get to wear bikinis the whole time (its so hard to have to wear jeans again, ugh.)

11 - sunset sailing (which was too cold to do when we were there.)

12 - night swimming and floating looking at the stars (which was impossible to do when we were there.)

13 - the smell of hawaiian tropic mixed with the sand and salt water.. wow.

14 - seeing janet, mika, itos, and all the other bora residents

15 - enjoying the walk (as my friend evan always says)

16 - having super steady days and super party nights

17 - you can take your pick to enjoy whatever music you want: reggae at bombom, hiphop at moondogs, live bands at pier one, and club at hey jude

18 - you can get a great tan (which was also not possible when we were there, too cloudy!)

19 - shopping at d' mall and talipapa

20 - getting to live beach life :)

a hApPy, fUnNy, niCe cHriStMaS tO mE!

the 24th.

10:15AM
i woke up to the sound of my mom belting out "honesty".. apparently she had just bought a magic mic. dream kasi yun ng nanay ko dati pa. she's always wanted to buy a videoke machine, but the thing is, no one else in the house sings, so we always discourage her from doing so. siguro this christmas, napuno na siya, she thought 'hey if i give it to my kids as a christmas gift, they have no choice but to accept it!' so there. she went on to singing "paper roses", "killing me softly", and "oh, carol".. as in she put a mark na in the catalog of the songs she liked. sabi pa niya, "o, you make your own mark of the songs you like!"

12:10PM
"aaaaah!! help me!! help!!" i suddenly heard my brother screaming a few meters away from me. "why what's wrong?!" i said as i rushed to his aid, expecting to see blood gushing out from somewhere. instead, he shows me a cotton bud with one cotton tip gone. apparently he just got out of the shower and decided to clean his ears. sa sobrang intense siguro ng pagdidiin niya, natanggal yung bud sa cotton bud. i looked in his ear.. "i can't see it!" i told him. we were both panicking, i was telling him not to move, i was running around looking for tweezers, shouting out for help.. i finally found tweezers, and finally got the cotton out. wow, parang rescue 911 ang feeling ko. "thank you! you saved my life!" haha. pangit.

4:30PM
i was scrambling around the house, trying to finish wrapping up gifts, while our neighbors were blasting out christmas hits. i'm not really a christmas person (i think this happened the day i found out santa didn't exist and the magic was lost, or it might have happened after a series of horribly sad christmas seasons) so i don't really like christmas carols. but there are just some that are really sad. here are, in my opinion, the top three saddest christmas songs:

1 - "pasko na, sinta ko.. hanap hanap kita.." (hay naku, ba't pa nagawa ito, nakaka-depress ha..)

2 - "chestnuts roasting on an open fire.." (cue video of a guy alone in a new york apartment with snow outside.)

3 - "have yourself.. a merry, little christmas.." (tama ba namang ganto kalungkot yung tono nito?!)

8:15PM
my tito just called and said they had to be fetched cause they got into an accident on the way to our house. :'s some dark road where they hit this kind of road block or sign.. hay. but they were safe and fine, thank goodness.

9:00PM
i was shocked to hear my brother singing on the magic mic. apparently, there's a mode where you can make your voice chipmunk-ish or barry white-ish.

10:45PM
oh GoD. i already scored two 97's, four 95's and a lotta other 90+'s. good GoD, i fell into the trap. there was no turning back. i was the entertainer of the night and mic-hog as well. hey, but in all fairness to me, i really aced all the beatles songs. i did good with olivia newton john and elvis and sting too.. yikes. who would have thought. hay.

11:00PM
i haven't been getting texts at all but this time, i got 18 messages in a row. hassle pa cause i lost my phone and i don't have numbers.. so i had to ask most of the people who texted me, "who's this?" plus to add to that, my sim card is full and the phone i'm using has no phone memory, so i have an extremely cluttered inbox right now. hay, i wanna buy a phone na!

the 25th.

12:30AM
justin had just arrived in my house as my abuelito was finishing the mass. right after that, the party started. we had to rush to give our nanay (that's what we call our maid of 10 years) and her son gerald their christmas gift. it was justin who supplied us with the baby rabbit to give them, and it was transported from pasig to paranaque in a paper bag, so we really had to take it out. it was nice, fluffy gray, a little car sick, but cute nonetheless. justin also gave gifts to my family, and even gave me this nice disc that he made! (back story: a disc he burned around the time we met each other pa lang.) all this, with some titas singing music "from their time" on the magic mic, a pamangkin dancing the ocho-ocho over and over, plus some people serving themselves food to eat. i finally felt christmas.

3:00AM
i love opening gifts. :)

2:00PM
i just finished lunch with my family and decided to go on the internet. i was so happy to find messages that really made me smile!

1 - this guy named christian apparently got a copy of this short film i made last semester for my quark class, it was called "stoplight". he sent me a friendster message just to say how much he really loved it and how he thinks i have a bright future in filmmaking. naks! nakakataba naman ng puso yun. now if i can only get back my copy of the film from some schoolmates who borrowed it before.. hay.

2 - i had a classmate in journ class last sem, her name is rachelle, and one of our homeworks was to write a profile for a partner. she was my partner, and she posted a testimonial today for me, with excerpts from what she wrote. she's such a sweetheart and not to mention, a great writer too.

3 - its nice to see people introduce themselves to you on friendster saying "i met you when blah blah blah", or "i'm the ganyan of ganito".. then you get to hear from people you haven't heard of in the looongest time. friendster is really great for keeping in touch.

aLL i wAnT fOr cHriStMaS..

i've been praying to get certain things this christmas, but i didn't get them. i feel bad about it, but its a fact of life right? you don't always get what you want. GoD probably answered me in a different way, giving me other things i don't think i want but i need pala. something like that. :)

i'm excited to leave for boracay tomorrow, we're finally pushing through. :)

happy christmas everyone! :)

keLaN bA mAgiGiNg "mErRy" iTo?!

hay, kelan ba magiging "merry" and christmas ko? its december 23 and i'm working!! we're all being rushed to meet deadlines. hay!

aRoUnD 24 hOuRs LaTeR..

i gave the boss a kick ass presentation folder last night, complete with outlines, plus a christmas card! i hope it finally passes. :) it'll be a pretty merry christmas naman siguro. people may not have been ganado to buy gifts, nor fix parties, but that doesn't matter right. i'm slowly feeling though that christmas is really something for kids to enjoy. as you grow older, you still enjoy christmas, but not in the same way! i wonder what it is..

anyway, happy christmas to all! enjoy noche buena!

mGa kWeNtOnG mRt.

i recently discovered a great love for the mrt. :)

before this week, the only times i've taken an mrt was to get to araneta to watch uaap games (cause parking is impossible) and i would always be with friends (go mrt surfing* with either pepel or sila miko). i don't know why, but i've always had this fear of riding the mrt alone. fear that i might end up going southbound instead of northbound or vice versa. (weird.) but last wednesday, i had to face my fears and take the mrt alone.. alone! "i can hack thesis defense and major presentations, i can hack this," i said to myself. (haha pangit, kala mo naman ang hirap ng gagawin. a-sus.)

there's this thing with me in an mrt. i almost feel like i came from the movie "what a girl wants" starring mel gibson. in the movie, he hears everything women think. me in an mrt is kinda that way. its sensory overload for me! when i go in and look at the faces of the people around me, its almost as if i can hear what they're thinking then i can actually see scenes in my head. i go crazy! i mean, i love it, i'm an observer by nature and i enjoy watching people, but the mrt is something else. i look at one guy seated with a hopeful look in his face as if on his way to propose to his girlfriend, i look at another side and see this woman with this look of despair as if she had just lost her job and is on her way to nowhere, and on another side is a delivery man barely awake as if just fighting his tired body just to get the job done. i make up all these stories based on one look at them! boy, you can just imagine my mind spin and go wild in an mrt during rush hour. phew! but what takes the cake is my trip from quezon ave to ayala last wednesday.

it was around 530PM and i had just gotten in the backmost train of the mrt. i find my spot and lean on the window. the door bleeps as a final warning, then i suddenly hear this kid scream to the top of his lungs. i quickly looked back and wondered if his hand or foot was caught in the door. apparently, the crowd was so packed that when the kid just stepped into the mrt, the doors closed on the mom and dad, separating them. the kid was banging on the door crying, "mama, mama," as the train pulled away and the mom cried from outside "anak ko! anak ko!" man. it was like i was watching a scene from a teleserye!! i couldn't believe what i was seeing! the mom ran with the mrt as it ran faster, shouting "anak ko!" with the security guard outside trying to talk on the radio while running with her. inside the mrt, we were all panicking, "yung emergency button!", "kunin niyo yung bata!", "itigil niyo to!!" but it was too late. the train had pulled away, which left the kid crying like anything. the man who stepped in the mrt just before him tried to talk to him, he put his arm around the kid to comfort him. "taga-saan ka?", he asked. "sa pumbao po.." (hmm, wherever that is.) "ayun, taga-pumbao din ako! intayin na lang natin mama mo dun." (its nice to see good samaritans still existing in the world.) a couple other passengers and i started talking to the kid to stop him from crying. i looked down at his feet and saw he was missing one slipper. apparently, it was left too. the moment i saw that, my mind cut to a scene where as the train pulled away, the mom lovingly held the slipper in her hand, crying. hay. really. i never thought i'd see the day that a real-life teleserye scene would happen before my very eyes. hay. that was something.

tRaFfiC, tOo bAd nAkAkA-BaD tRiP..

"..have a beer have an smb, five thirsty.." well, in my case, i don't drink beer. and it was more of six thirsty, seven thirsty, eight thirsty. and i was literally thirsty!! damn the traffic this christmas season. okay, here's the deal. it usually takes two minutes to get from my house to town center and vice versa. yesterday, it took me two hours. two hours!?!??!!?! hhhay!! traffic was literally a stand-still, and literally bumper to bumper! hassledeck!!

i left town at 630, and the phrase "inching your way through traffic" never meant more to me than then. i was listening to urbandub, and before i knew it i was on the last track. i was so bored and so pissed, i decided to play this hiphop disc my friend carlo burned, and danced. (yes, dance. i was THAT bored. thank GoD my tint is dark!) one song after another.. i noticed the clock read 730, and i saw people from jeeps and fx's go down to just walk. now, it was rem's "everybody hurts" playing in my head. it was exactly like the video where hoards of people were just weaving through the traffic jam. the difference here was the treatment. it looked more like the maze game that mtb starts with, the game with mahal, mura, and dagul in bumblebee outfits making their way through the maze? that's what it looked like to me. people moving through cars, looking where they'd fit and where there's space. medyo laughtrip. but i so wanted to do the same thing! i could have literally left my car there, walk home to have dinner, come back with everything in the same place. but i realized that with all the things going on in my head, (or is it stuff i put in my head?) it wasn't as stressful a situation as i thought it would be. it was actually pretty funny.

aNtiCiPaTiNg BoRaCaY.

yey. everything's almost set for my boracay trip with justin and friends after christmas. i'm so excited. i've been needing a break from school and work, plus justin and i (even my friends and i) haven't been seeing each other much, so this is a well-deserved and long overdue vacation. :)


*mrt surfing - noun. a game to play while passing the time in an mrt, the only rule is no holding onto anything. (okay, its not really a great, exciting game, its just fun to do. may payabangan factor din ng konti. konti lang.)

rEtUrN oF tHe KiNg.

wow.

yun lang talaga ang pwedeng sabihin about the movie.

i just got home from the gentxt premiere of lord of the rings, and it was grrreat. :) even the pre-program was great too! usually, the games wouldn't really be great, plus the prizes wouldn't be that enticing, and the crowd wouldn't be as ganado. but for some reason, everything ended up great kanina. i actually had to let people go back to their seats cause so many people wanted to join! they gave away posters, caps, cards, jackets, toys.. hay sana akin na lang yun. hehe.

amazing how much people wanted these tickets! the gentxt booth allows the first 400 people who sign up to get in the cinema. the premiere was set to start at 7PM (but you know pinoy time, it started at 8PM) and people were already lining up as early as 2PM! goodness!

so then the movie started, and ayun na. wow lang talaga. don't worry, i won't be a spoiler or anything, i just wanna list down the key words of my favorite scenes.

- pippin and the battle
- aragorn and the dead
- legolas and the elephants
- the hobbits and aragorn

hay, ang galing.

LaSt miNuTe.

we pinoys are super mahilig sa mga "last minute". last minute decisions, last minute changes, last minute revisions.. i mean, we even pronounce it so fast that it sounds like "lasmini". i've had lotsa these the past days,no make that hours, its driving me nuts!

1 - last tuesday night, three shows to be launched by studio 23 were to be presented to our over-all-in-charge-of-production guy. the meeting was supposed to be 7PM, but was delayed til 1AM. how about that for a "hassledeck".

2 - just this afternoon, i found out about a grid we had to finish by later noon. but of course i already had plans for the premier and work tomorrow, so i have no time to do it at all! guess i gotta do it now. "hassleduck" lang naman..

3 - i found out that i have something for work tomorrow and i quickly had to change my philosophy long exam date from tomorrow to next year na. hay!

what is it with these "last minutes"?! it totally throws you off at times.

dAmN sAdDaM.

finally.



i absolutely love cnn coverages.. i'm so glued to it right now. boy, did saddam age or what. it all happened saturday, 830PM baghdad time, at a hiding home near the tigris river. there are now explosions in baghdad, but they don't know who's doing it. saddam seems to be cooperating with his interrogators, confirming his identity and revealing information. president bush just declared in his speech that justice will now be served to the millions saddam denied justice to.



this is an underground so-called "spider hole" where saddam was found. the hole was camouflaged with bricks and dirt with a depth of about 2 meters. a ventilation pipe enabled saddam to breathe while in hiding. (got that from cnn.com! puchang saddam yan, yan ang hasslefeck!!)

oh, osama.. please do not do anything utterly stupid. (isa ka pang hasslefeck ka!)

kUriMaO LiSt.

gusto ko mang isipin na walang mga kurimao sa mundo, (mga walang kwenta, walang silbi, at walang naidudulot na maganda) may mga tao na pilit talagang nangungurimao. dahil sa mga nangyari sa nakaraang ilang linggo, nais kong gumawa ng isang listahan ng mga kurimao.

1 - saddam hussein (mukha din siyang kurimao.)
2 - osama bin laden (di ko alam alin sa 1 at 2 ang mas mukhang kurimao.)
3 - fernando poe, jr. (sa contexto lang ng pagtakbo niya bilang pangulo, magaling naman siyang aksyon star.)
4 - people who steal cellphones (oo, masama pa rin ang loob ko.)
5 - joseph estrada and mike arroyo (pareho lang kayo.)
6 -

hmm.. wala pa akong maisip na iba sa ngayon. mukhang napaka-pulitikal naman ng listahang ito. mag-iisip pa ako ng idadagdag. kung mayroon kayong naiisip na kurimao, bukas ang aking comment box para diyan. salamat po.

i hAvE LOTR3 pReMiErE tiCkEtS!

waaaaah!! :) i'm so happy!! i'm going to globe's premiere of return of the king on wednesday, december 17, with justin, my brother jc, and my sister aissa. to think just the other day i was praying i get tickets to the premiere! hay, wow! the LoRd loves me indeed!

LiTtLe LeSsOnS LeArNeD..

1 - getting stuck in traffic during your drive home alone need not be a hassle.. it can actually be a peaceful experience! all this as long as: (a) you choose to not let stupid or kups drivers bug you down, that you just learn to let it go, (b) if you have good, steady music in the car like massive attack's "protection" album, and (c) if you don't have any appointments to rush to, obviously.

2 - if bianca forgets to eat, bianca will get a terrible migraine.

3 - i have to teach justin how to shop. :p believe it or not, i've never been in an ukay to my life! (not because i don't want to.. on the contrary, i've been dying to! i just don't ever get to plan it. :s) and justin is now in baguio and i have no idea how to describe to him the things to buy! hmm..

tHe oB-vAn eXpeRiEnCe.

last night was the bantay bata christmas special of abs-cbn in meralco theatre, and i had my seat not in the theatre, but in the ob-van outside the theater. (the ob-van! the portable control room.) i told myself, i'll look at all the monitors and see which shots i think should come next, and see if they match direk alco's choices.. then i wanted to see if i could keep intensely focused for the two and a half hour program.. then i would find out whether this is really what i want to do with my life or not.

the event had nine cameras.. nine!! two crane cams, six dolly cams, and one backpack.. in the ob-van, there was a total of thirteen monitors used for the christmas special, and you have to learn to pay attention to all at the same time. all the tech, eng, and prod people had headsets to communicate, and you hear all of them talking at the same time, and you have to learn how to tune in to one sound when you need to tune in to it. there is the executive producer beside you, cueing you how many lines there are left in a certain song number, who artist will enter and exit from where, what gimmick will come up next. you also have to take into account technical problems like cameramen not finding the shot you want, audio problems, mistakes by the performers themselves. and you have to be thinking of all these things, all at once.

my multi-tasking skills were put to the test like never before.

wow, it was one of the most exciting two and a half hours of my life. being a director is one extremely tough job.. i hope i can hack it in the future. :)

cHriStMaS uPdAtE.

well, i still have 2/3 of my christmas list unchecked, meaning no gift yet. its too nakakatamad to go out and battle with countless other consumers.. its too expensive to buy exactly what you want for every single person in your list.. its too depressing for me in general, the christmas season i mean.

cUriOsiTy kiLLeD tHe CaT.

why and how was the cat killed by curiosity? i tried looking it up on google, askgeeves, altavista, but i found no answer. will curiosity kill me too?

the past few days i've been so, so restless. i'm in a weird mood today cause malabo and sad things happened to me today, maybe that's why i'm like this. aaack! anyway. i've been thinking about certain things i did last week that are awaiting results. its like, i did my part, now i'm waiting for the ones on the other side to do their part. should i just sit and wait, or do i follow up on them? if i follow up on them, i'd be too much of a nagging eager beaver. but if i don't, i'll have to stay in this limbo-like phase. and how about false hope? if people give you something to hope for, but then nothing happens, is it okay to be upset cause you were given false hope? hay. hmm.. i wanna know why curiosity killed that darn cat.

mY sEx aNd tHe ciTy mOmEnT.

saturday night, after a job for a magazine, i hung out with three of the most fabulous gays in manila at the coffee shop of westin philippine plaza. they were ricci chan, make up artist and actor, ronnie salvacion, photographer, and luis espiritu, editor in chief and stylist. usually in my group of friends, i'm the carrie (either cause of the way i talk, the way i dress, or feeling ko lang ako si carrie), but last night, my goodness! i was the charlotte! i was just so fascinated, listening to their kwentos and chikas. well, i may be biased. you see, i love gay people. there's this charm and honesty that just absolutely draws me in. well, there are those really annoying ones that pry into your life and stuff, but then god bless them na lang because they have their reasons right.

we had to catch the sunset but it was so traffic everywhere that night, and ricci was making kwento that it was 4:45 (and so late) so he checked his smart zed service.. it said, "sunrise was at 5:35AM and sunset will be at 5:29PM," and he panicked to death daw! super late na siya, bababaan pa siya ng araw! (that was the fastest make up job done ever i swear.) haha! they were also talking about dating, and how ronnie and luis plan to be nuns na lang and put up an ala-pink sisters convent, but then ricci argued he can never survive there cause they have a vow of silence.. then ronnie said they do talk naman siguro, and he knows that they are allowed to sing.. ricci goes, if he's there and he had chismis, he'd just go, "mother.. alam mo ba ang latest..!" (in a high pitched voice). goodness gracious i couldn't stop laughing the whole time! then at the same time, there was a wedding, and the couple was having their photo shoot with this photographer by the grand staircase. we just kept on assessing and thinking what the hell the photographer was taking. as in behind the stairs was a buffet, then people were passing pa, plus lighting was horrible and their faces were full of shadows, but the photographer was just clicking away! haha! we really couldn't figure out what their wedding album will look like. i found their remarks quite mean and frank, but if you think about it, its really true! hhhay that was quite enjoyable. :)

wOrK..

well after that, justin picked me up and we were supposed to go to the dinner of our friend alvin, then head on to follow our friends at our friend ponce's house.. well. i thought i had a totally free day but i was wrong! i got called for work. and it was at the oddest of places! it was at the parks and wildlife center near qc circle.. game k n b? was taping there and our boss was there so we had to all meet there. hay! there goes my night out. we ended at 4AM. eck. :s

cHriStMaS sHoPpiNg.

i just got home from my first christmas shopping session for this christmas! for some weird reason, i don't know anyone who is ganado to go shopping this year. everyone either doesn't wanna give gifts or just wanna make something to give as gifts. wala kasing pera mga tao!

(bianca's theory on why her phone and many other phones have been stolen the past week: namumulubi na mga tao, kailangan ng mga celphone para isangla!! mga leche ang mga kurimao* na yan.)

i was able to buy a good number of gifts naman, and thank GoD my list is shorter.. i am the ultimate promotor of the exchange gift program among all my friends. i really organize it cause it makes things easier (and cheaper!) for everyone. :) so there. i went to the annual st. james bazaar and it was pretty cool, lots of nice things, but even if i vow not to buy anything for myself until i finished shopping for everyone else, i just couldn't resist! i bought a top, earrings, a bracelet, a bag.. oh no. hay!

merry christmas. :)


kurimao - noun. refers to anyone who is a useless entity on earth, people who are just a waste of space, time, flesh, air, and water. (learned that term from people at work!)

aBoUt mE (part n).

little things about me.. i call this "part n" cause its one of many posts about me! yey for quizilla (thanks to tiepee). :)

1 - what movie do i belong in?



2 - what personality disorder do i have?



3 - what swear word am i?



just tripping. :p

PiNoYs aBrOaD.

why i consider pinoys abroad lucky:

1 - i've always wanted to study abroad.. well, more specifically, i've always wanted to graduate here and take up masters in film either in london or la. that's really my dream. but dreams can only take you so far cause you won't get anywhere if you don't have the money for it. studying abroad is so expensive! it'd be easier if i had a close family member somewhere, but i don't. its really a grrreat opportunity cause if and when you come back here to the philippines, you have some kind of an edge over other graduates. (really, its a very superficial world and the university on your resume does matter.) this is what i always remind my best friend pepel about. you may miss your family and friends back here, but when you're 40 and you'll look back, four years of your young life without them would be nothing compared to what you would gain.

2 - shopping is fabulous. case in point, you can never buy chucks like this here.



3 - they don't have to battle with horrific traffic that gets worse every single day. buses that were made to stay in the yellow lane but bully everyone else in the normal lane, three cars running at 40 kilometres per hour on a highway but they're on three different lanes, selfish drivers who can't seem to get the simple logic of the alternating rule. oh my, i can just go on and on..

4 - they do not have to deal with the threat that a certain fernando poe, jr. poses. (ugh.)

there may be a lot of things they miss here, but they also have a lot to enjoy there.

hAzEd: cHiLL oUt PaRtY.

the eternal tandem of dustin reyes and bianca gonzalez goofed off on stage once again during the collegiate society of advertisers' chill out party last saturday in capones restaurant on valero street, makati. hey, its always fun, plus we got free drinks the whole night, so why not. :)

this band called hairy dawgs was the first band to play. that is of course after the set of dj ian simpao of groovenation. (whoa, eceeeh*! dati, dj ian lang yan, now, its gotta be complete. dj ian simpao of groovenation, naks. i'm so proud. :p) anyway, so hairy dawgs came in with huge drums ala-michael jackson's "they don't really care about us". the spiel said to introduce them as a group that plays brazilian samba, and that there's no way to describe their music, you just gotta hear them. and whoa! were we in for a treat! i really can't explain the kind of music they play but it was wild!! all you needed to do was close your eyes, feel the beats, and you'd go straight to the exotic beaches of south america.

then there was artstrong that sang an awesome version of musiq's "just friends", blue note funk that played all these steady old songs, and paolo toledo that spun, to but i didn't get to catch him. that's because we all left to check out the new restaurant of my friend mig blanco, blanvil along that street parallel to valero.

then we all got msg overload as we mixed salted fish rice, salted garlic squid, fried beancurd skin in oyster sauce, pinsec frito, and broth that i have no idea where its from. all of course from north park, the absolute must-stop-at place after a gimmick.

eY pHiLo miNoR, hOw'S iT gOiNg?

i had an intensely fun time during my three hours of philo kanina!

first up was my intro to logic class. i was so scared to go to class cause i cut both classes last week - reason being i didn't wake up. our professor's a semi-scary but really funny guy. also, he looks exactly like raul roco and he knows it. our lessong today was about the function of language and he read to us the politically correct version of "little red riding hood" and i couldn't stop laughing! (hay naku, i sit alone pa naman at the back of the classroom since i was just inserted with a sophomore block. gosh i must've looked autistic.) then he read to us this hilarious article "english is a terrible language" that really took the cake for me, i was so teary eyed it looked sad. does anyone have a copy of either or know where i can get one?! grabe! it had lines like "there isn't even a pine in pineapple, nor is there an apple," "if the plural of tooth is teeth, then why not the plural of phone booth phone beeth?" and even "do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?" hahaha! hay naku. my sister said its an uber old article on email but i haven't heard of it til today.

oh! and did you know the new politically correct way of spelling the word "woman" is "wommon"? i thought my professor was kidding but he wasn't! and the plural of "wommon"? its "womyn". weird.

next was philosophy of ethics and today, we were introduced to plato. apparently, tolkien's "lord of the rings" is very much influenced or as my professor dared to say, borrowed from plato! there is this story in "the republic" entitled "the ring of gyges" and its about this guy named gyges who found a ring that made him disappear and reappear when he turned the ring. there are more similarities between gyges and frodo, but basically that's it. then we went on to how plato influenced the wachowsky brothers and their idea of "the matrix". cause plato has the idea of the sensible world, which is the world that appeals to our senses, and the world of ideas, which is what he says is the "real" world. everything i heard made complete sense to me and i was like a sponge taking in every single idea i learned! it was great! i love fulfilling philo sessions, although i'm not about to go into a whole philosophical discussion now. (reader: woohoo! yeah!)

tHe CuRiOuS miNd.

have you ever been in that mood where all you wanna do is sit somewhere, stare into space, and think? think of how you're doing now, what you're gonna be, what you have to do, what you want to do, what the hell you're doing..? ahh, the curious mind. the human mind.. it will never be satisfied.


eceeeh - noun, adjective, either. a way to pronounce, and spell, the word "easy". an alternative to the expression "easy lang". its more like, "eceeeeeeh!" origin is my brother jc and his friends.

cHriStMaS iS iN tHe aiR.

its december one, and finally, christmas has kicked in. :)

usually once the -ber months start, you feel a certain "christmas vibe". along with it, we pinoys have our houses fully clothed in christmas garb and have our christmas lists rolling down to the ground! i didn't seem to feel that vibe this year.. it has been unbelievably-overly-even-more-than-summer hot the past days, our house just got decorated last week and there are zero gifts under the tree, and people haven't been stressing out much to save money for christmas shopping or haven't been planning parties.

but today, i got home from a looong day at work (yes, work, on a sunday, and a holiday pa! that'll be a ranting post all its own next time.) and i actually smelled christmas in the air the moment i stepped out of the car. mmm! the air was icy cold, our front door had nice white lights around it, and i all of a sudden felt like making my christmas list (but, er, i am the ultimate promotor of exchange gifts among my groups of friends!). hhhay, i haven't started christmas shopping at all. pero patayan na to kapag pinatawag ako sa trabaho sa sabado.. its the st. james bazaar and i will not miss that for anything!!



i really wish may snow dito sa pilipinas.. dream ko talaga gumawa ng snowman.