Thursday, June 29, 2006

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cast aways...

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mataya-taya...

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showing off...

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the beach after the beach..

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too bad i can't afford to get soaked... why did i wear my blue jeans today?!?

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cool compo..

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so, at this point, everybody was thinking, "to swim or not to swim'. it's so tempting...

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ate mariam with her mom

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beach bums

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tree of life. again.

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Wednesday, June 28, 2006

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asleep at 10


the weirdest thing happened last night. for the first time in 3 years, i felt sleepy at 10. i usually fall asleep at 2, sometimes not even close, i came close to thinking i have partial insomnia, though i know it's just stress-related.

weird.



one guy came from the philippines this morning, so im eating corn bits right now. mmmm.




i've found this funny thing in mimi's friendster blog sometime ago.. totally cute posts she got there! the only friendster blog i visit aside from my brother and sisters. anyways, here's a funny one...



The International Rules of Manhood

1: Under no circumstances may two men share an umbrella.

2: It is OK for a man to cry ONLY under the following circumstances:

(a) When a heroic dog dies to save its master.
(b) The moment Angelina Jolie starts unbuttoning her blouse.
(c) After wrecking your boss' car.
(d) When she is using her teeth.

3: Any Man who brings a camera to a bachelor party may be legally killed and eaten by his buddies.

4: Unless he murdered someone in your family, you must bail a friend out of jail within 12 hours.

5: If you've known a guy for more than 24 hours, his sister is off limits forever unless you actually marry her.

6: Moaning about the brand of free beer in a buddy's fridge is forbidden. However complain at will if the temperature is unsuitable.

7: No man shall ever be required to buy a birthday present for another man. In fact, even remembering your buddy's birthday is strictly optional. At that point, you must celebrate at a strip bar of the birthday boy's choice.

8: On a road trip, the strongest bladder determines pit stops, not the weakest.

9: When stumbling upon other guys watching a sporting event, you may ask the score of the game in progress, but you may never ask who's playing.

10: You may flatulate in front of a woman only after you have brought her to climax. If you trap her head under the covers for the purpose of flatulent entertainment, she's officially your girlfriend.

11: It is permissible to drink a fruity alcohol drink only when you're sunning on a tropical beach... and it's delivered by a topless model and only when it's free.

12: Only in situations of moral and/or physical peril are you allowed to kick another guy in the nuts.

13: Unless you're in prison, never fight naked.

14: Friends don't let friends wear Speedos. Ever. Issue closed.

15: If a man's fly is down, that's his problem, you didn't see anything.

16: Women who claim they "love to watch sports" must be treated as spies until they demonstrate knowledge of the game and the ability to drink as much as the other sports watchers.

17: A man in the company of a hot, suggestively dressed woman must remain sober enough to fight.

18: Never hesitate to reach for the last beer or the last slice of pizza, but not both, that's just greedy.

19: If you compliment a guy on his six-pack, you'd better be talking about his choice of beer.

20: Never join your girlfriend or wife in discussing a friend of yours, except if she's withholding sex pending your response.

21: Phrases that may NOT be uttered to another man while lifting weights:
(a) Yeah, Baby, Push it!
(b) C'mon, give me one more! Harder!
(c) Another set and we can hit the showers!

22: Never talk to a man in a bathroom unless you are on equal footing: i.e., both urinating, both waiting in line, etc. For all other situations, an almost imperceptible nod is all the conversation you need.

23: Never allow a telephone conversation with a woman to go on longer than you are able to have sex with her. Keep a stopwatch by the phone. Hang up if necessary.

24: The morning after you and a girl who was formerly "just a friend" have carnal, drunken monkey sex, the fact that you're feeling weird and guilty is no reason for you not to nail each other again before the discussion about what a big mistake it was occurs.

25: It is acceptable for you to drive her car. It is not acceptable for her to drive yours.

26: Thou shalt not buy a car in the colors of brown, pink, lime green, orange or sky blue.

27: The girl who replies to the question "What do you want for Christmas?" with "If you loved me, you'd know what I want!" gets an Xbox. End of story.

28: There is no reason for guys to watch Ice Skating or Men's Gymnastics. Ever.

We've all heard about people having guts or balls. But do you really know the difference between them? In an effort to keep you informed, the definition of each is listed below.

"GUTS" is arriving home late after a night out with the guys, being assaulted by your wife with a broom, and having the guts to say, "are you still cleaning or are you flying somewhere?"

"BALLS" is coming home late after a night out with the guys smelling of perfume and beer, lipstick on your collar, slapping your wife on the ass and having the balls to say, "You're next!"




* haha!*

*excerpts from my pretty mixed-up life*|6:20 PM|

Sunday, June 25, 2006

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those days



you know those days when you just want to get over the whole day and just lie on your bed. it's so early to feel lazy, but im really not in the mood for work today.

but i don't really have a choice.

this job is starting to bore me. after the crazy schedule i had for the first two weeks of june i suddenly got tired of everything. i just want to sleep.


bambi and i, well, we're not on the best of terms right now. aside from the fact that we didn't have enough time to talk, we are either too tired or too busy, he just gets irritated so easily these days.

it's not like him to get mad at a joke, being a joker himself.. but this week every joke that i throw at him gets him even angrier.

it's like, i can't see bambi anymore. he is starting to be more 'francis' than 'bambi' as days go by.

and so he told me he doesn't know who is at fault. my being uncooperative for the event that we are planning, or he's being irritated at everything i do. i can understand if he's stressed, but he's not the only one who's bummed by everything.

why does he have to throw every fault at me? every little thing that i do turns into an argument. i am slowly getting tired of it. i know he is, too.


so what did i do about it?

pretty much the same thing that i did most of my life. ignore, ignore, ignore.

like i ignored the fact that we don't have our parents while we were growing up.

like i ignored that longing to have everybody at christmas, or just on a single day, any single day that i can have everyone in my family, all of us under one roof.

like i ignored the hostility of living without anyone to protect you, or to cherish you or to cover you while you are sleeping.

pretty simple, really.


but how can i ignore someone that i love, to keep ignoring me?

every fight that we have, no matter how angry i am, i still give in. why? because he is the only one who loves me. who cherishes me. who makes me feel that i am somebody who is special to somebody.

i am not a humanitarian. i am not a social worker. but i am special to somebody. and that feeling, no matter how hard it is to keep it alive, im pushing it til the edge of reality.

because this is one thing that is better than any daydream.

because he is worth it.

because i love him so much.






great. i can't post this. it's too dramatic...



but then, what is the sense of blogging?

if we'll all just write simple posts, nobody would read it. nobody would visit our blog. nobody would understand. nobody would notice...

*excerpts from my pretty mixed-up life*|9:22 AM|

Thursday, June 22, 2006

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so you think you can dance is totally rocking my world!


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ryan rocked the house again last night!

(----last night's episode post by rickey, complete with videos and comments!---)

he was so lucky to be paired up with melissa because she is the best dancer ever!

i have to say, he has real talent, considering he has no formal training! imagine a breakdancer kicking ass with this week's salsa number with melissa! she carried them both to the bad-ass level that dan was walking about!


i have found thousands of blog applauding this pinoy talent who materialized that famous anime hair. yes, he is pinoy, according to nationmaster.com. and melody, too!

and i guess, from what i picked up from numerous blogs, (you'll be shocked) so is jonnis and allan frias! they're both half-pinoys. isn't that great!?!


and was i totally floored when jonnis had that song again! it's totally screaming "filipino!"

and melody's solo number was nice, too! had the audience screaming...

more infos at:
rickey.org

clickmomukhamo.com

tvgasm.com

blogcritics.org

sunshine girl

ryan's dance group's site, sickstep.com

the day they hated ryan


you should go the linked site, they have loads of other stuff i can't post here! especially rickey.org, awesome videos! *drool*




ryan's quote this week:
“The only thing that worries me about the routine is lifting Melissa. That would be the worst thing to happen is if I dropped her. I don’t wanna drop her. I’d rather fall myself than drop her.”

entertainment weekly' s quote:

"That said, two of the duos — Blake-Destini and Ryan-Melissa — were so seamless and strong that they almost defied separate critiques. The former pair is probably the more technically proficient, but it's the latter, Ryan with his gravity-defying hair, Melissa with her Sandy Duncan-grin, who know how to win over an audience. A couple of their salsa moves lacked the necessary heat, but as delightfully loopy choreographer-judge Mia Michaels likes to point out, when you're on that stage, it's really about being a person, not a dancer. And so while my mind recognizes Blake and Destini as the most likely to score professional contracts, my heart chimes in that it's Ryan and Melissa who I'd shell out money to watch."

read the full review here.


apparently it's already the second season of the show in the us, but from what i've been seeing in most blogs, the first season dancers are still the best!

and ryan supported his sickstep mate, who got into the second season, when sickstep performed on 'so you think you can dance', and ryan is cuter than ever! watch the video from rickey.org.

this is ryan's archive in rickey's site, *sad* sort of like a tribute.

*excerpts from my pretty mixed-up life*|8:36 AM|

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

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on a lighter note,



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had a bad day. i was one hour late this morning.. bambi and i talked about manila until 3 am.

(oops... did i just blew my excuse?) i told biju a wicked one this morning...

anyways as i've always reasoned out - even if im time-deficient, at least my workload isn't jeopardized. would they rather have **** who comes so early just to chat?





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last night as i was chasing sleep and playing super mario. ...


even though i have the 3rd one im still loving the old 2d version. its so much easier to control.
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anyways, i saw this cat in the news. i suddenly missed my kitten in manila...


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this is what my kitten looked like when i left her last november

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this is what he might look like if my sister will not stop feeding him her excess food.



it's 'so you think you can dance' night! too bad bambi's b-shift.


ps. 5 posts in 1 day! i must be depressed...

*excerpts from my pretty mixed-up life*|6:32 PM|

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we are in the brink of war... and i don't even know it


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our accountant, who is a constant source of infos, told me about my boss's hesitation about that dubai plan i was blogging about a while ago. (found it!)

he said there's an issue about a disagreement between iran and us about the former's nuclear issues.

and here we are in bahrain smacked in the middle of an 80% iranian society and a us naval base. *scared*


hey... so does that mean that we get to go home?
(talk about seeing the bright side of things, huh?)



i know God will never leave us.

*excerpts from my pretty mixed-up life*|6:14 PM|

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the day my ibook crashed


it has been a shock to me when my hard drive failed.

so i totally cleaned up my ibook last weekend. and even literally today.

and, as a blessing in disguise, organized my pathetically messed up files.


ok, maybe others may still have that misconception that macs don't fail. they do.

(*what?*)

yes, they do. maybe not from viruses, but for the past two mac i handled it has been solely because of the hard drive.

so i made a mental note to back up my files every month.

and since saturday i began to appreciate my new phone. i was blaming it for ruining my creative files but since everything's ok now i started to check what's to love with this one.





survival of the richest ended last night, i was so relieved that johanna didn't win, mainly because she didn't want to share her loot with the rest, but it made me feel sad knowing that she doesn't have anything for her daughter.

don't they have a consolation prize or somethin'?





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i have edited my friendster profile this morning. yay! what a waste. i think i'll get back to the same old lay-out i had since i can't tweak their CSS the way i wanted to.

i've found bambi there. and other peeps, too. cool.






*drool* sleep is a word i have begun to anticipate again. after the last two weeks of crazy schedule and rushed projects i have started to sleep normally...

and when i say normal it's like 6 hours at night and a 1-hour siesta in the afternoon. bahrain is like a paradise for lazy bums like me. still, dubai is more inviting.

*excerpts from my pretty mixed-up life*|6:12 PM|

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happier times



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on a much happier times..

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waiting for me.

*excerpts from my pretty mixed-up life*|6:12 PM|

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talk about your worst day!


my boss's wife, the deputy managing director, just called. she has this authority that radiates 20 kilometers away...

God, it's such a stressful moment everytime she does that...

anyways, i passed with flying colors this time. she even said thanks. i almost recorded that fateful phone call.

to remind me of happier times...

although my happiness didn't last for 5 minutes.


on my way to our accountant's office, on my habit of telling him how nervous i always have been after talking to her, i found him talking on the phone. so i talked with some sales agent for a while and ranted about how freaked out i have been about that phone call. then our accountant put the phone down and told me it was her on the line.


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i screamed...





and how unlucky was i when i realized the line was not dead, the receiver was just on the table, waiting to be picked up again after our accountant reached our for some box files.

i almost died.

now im waiting for that phone call. waiting for her to scold me. please let it be quick. let it be shallow. let it be painless.


i just want to get this over with.


{----*update: she didn't call me. hooray!!!*-----}



mr ghulam's paint thinner gave me a headache. why the hell does he have to paint inside the office???

*excerpts from my pretty mixed-up life*|5:48 PM|

Thursday, June 15, 2006

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so you think you can dance?
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mbc2 broadcasted "so you think you can dance?" this month and we're lovin' it!

we watched the first studio competition last night and bambi and i loved it so much we skipped the myth (we were originally watching it) and we were laughing all the time!

especially when we saw ryan conferido dancing the mambo! what a make-over from this

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to this!

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he is originally a breakdancer (see top photo), so it was really amazing how he transformed himself. watch the video here!

we also picked melody (of course),
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and ryan's partner, melissa vella. but he's our favorite so far... i even got his myspace blog!

excerpts from their site:
ryan:
If you couldn't dance, which talent would you most like to have?
I'd wish I were able to REALLY sing great. then I could put that together with my piano playing, composition skills, odd personality, weird image, and we've got a superstar! or at least a one-hit wonder.

melody:
Do you have any formal dance training?
10 years of ballet, 10 years of jazz, 12 years of tap, 6 years of modern, 11 years of lyrical
What other talents do you have?
I pretty much suck at everything else

melissa:
What has been your proudest moment in life so far?
It was a comment at a dance studio. One of the mothers of a dance student told me she hopes her daughter grows up to be like me.

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*excerpts from my pretty mixed-up life*|12:24 PM|

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

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i got a new phone!



but lost my ibook...

it's every designer's worst fear in the flesh.. or in silicon, at least. all your files and all your designs.. gone with the wires.

i think i got a virus from a file i transferred from my phone.

talk about irony...

*excerpts from my pretty mixed-up life*|5:47 PM|

Monday, June 12, 2006

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my judgment day


major day obstacles

1. appointment with Ministry of Interior for a new logo proposal

2. magazine publishing

3. website publishing

i wonder what my boss will do to me if i screwed...

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*excerpts from my pretty mixed-up life*|9:37 AM|

Saturday, June 10, 2006

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everybody is somebody else's weirdo



Original artwork by Unkymoods.com, Image hosted by Photobucket.comthe concept of a parallel universe has always fascinated me. ever since i imagined what the other people might be doing on the other side of the world, or just in the next door neighbor has mysteriously captivated me, i keep wondering that at this exact moment, what could the backpackers in europe might be doing, or the surfers at miami, or the nightlife in manila...

i have always wondered how it would be like in atc right now, or in los banos, even in bicutan, as the streetlights brighten the court, how the people are talking or walking or watching their tv...

when i looked down from a mountaintop in antipolo and see those houses below, or look outside a vehicle in alabang and see the scurry of people passing by, i keep thinking that each of them is living their life, keeping their own pace, minding their own problems, experiencing the same strange feeling of seeing their crush, i keep asking myself why it makes me feel strange...

everyone of us has our own world revolving around us and unaware we might be of other people's world we are all intermingling with each other. don't you think it's mystical?

that's why i love our drive trips...

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their new fountain. whoopsedoo...



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at the manama park. pretty safe (if you have someone to defend you...)



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see the sale come, see the sale go... every other month.


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i'd still go for smb's sale... doesn't that get you excited?

*excerpts from my pretty mixed-up life*|8:55 AM|

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whoever said life should be fair?



Original artwork by Unkymoods.com, Image hosted by Photobucket.comi hated everything today. my boss ordered everything he can think of when it's about time to go home. i, of course, didn't complain. i couldn't complain. he has been so kind to me ever since.

normally he'd tell me to go home. but today he didn't.

should he apologize? no. im a secretary. he can order anything. could i blame him? no. he's the boss. he has every right to do so.

should i write it here? yes, coz that's what blogs are all about. and i have every right to do so.

just one letter, our accountant said, can have all the difference in the world. being an employee has it's perks, we are all responsible for ourselves. our employers however, has the responsibility of making his company work. he has his perks, yes, but judging from the height of the ladder i've managed to hang on so far, right now i am not ambitious enough to dream of a higher position. i have enough stress to make me long for my crib every day.

up until last month i didn't know instrumentals and candles can do wonders. you should try it. i only had the opportunity to enjoy it this week because bambi is b-shift, and he arrives at 11, so i have the whole time to myself. and im lovin it coz i get to de-stress.

i could never turn up the volume for instrumentals if he's there. nor could i turn off the light and just have candles and incenses.

he hates those stuff. he'd rather watch tv.



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the last time i had a free time in the office was ages ago... i took this shot when i was doin' nothin' and nobody was lookin', hehehe!

*excerpts from my pretty mixed-up life*|8:34 AM|

Wednesday, June 07, 2006

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catch me if you can




i thought my homesickness would never catch up with me again.

after almost 6 months for the first time since i came back here i had that longing last night to walk through smb's connnection bridge, you know, the one that connects bldg a to b. i felt like, for 5 minutes, i would like to just stand there and watch the cars passing by below and catch the afternoon sun while the passers by around me goes on with their life not knowing that with all the abundance and hardship combined in living in another country, every person out here simply and secretly wishes that if we could just earn what we are earning here in manila, we would never ever leave our home... it's so sad..

so i had time to think last night because for the first time in 3 weeks, i had a full sleep and didn't worry about any artwork that's going to be pending tomorrow. but it's still not enough! this morning i had to be dragged out of bed again...

then when i came to work it was so frustrating because they said im delaying the printing jobs.

hello? the last time i remember it was pending on the management's side... a magazine, a flyer, a poster plus a secretarial job to boot and saurabh gave me 4 loads as well, what kind of cyborg can finish all those work in 8 hours?

plus my phone is constantly ringing, countless winners bother my chores, i am not eating, i haven't been sleeping for more than 5 hours for the past 3 weeks, and my sibling responsibility has zooomed into proportions when we got their report cards last week...

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i am so tired...












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jacket on a summer night? must be the flu...

*excerpts from my pretty mixed-up life*|7:17 PM|

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female + leo + brown eyes + black hair + lover + fighter + listener + whiner extraordinaire + clumsy + emotional + private + quiet + fickle + wanderer + big dreamer + loner + reader + writer + graphic designer + artist - charcoal, watercolor, pencil, illustrator & photoshop + scribble freak + anti-procrastinator + unpredictable + reliable

[[ mY LifE ]]

has a very baaad memory + a big scaredy-cat + creatively inclined, but terribly unmotivated at times + efficient whenever passionate + skeptical sometimes + want to learn how to drive + college dropout (hahaha!) + most of the time confused + angsty + believes in karma + thinks bambi is yummy + blaring headphones when working resulted to inability to hear people sometimes + laid back + forget faces, remember names + has mild oc tendencies + trying to escape reality at most times + still looking for inner peace + terribly afraid to see supernatural things

[[ mY mEss ]]

shopping + sleeping + drawing + hp + green tea + cold pizza + pasta + fries + jackie chan + fight club + hale + pucca + r&b, soul & acoustic - not a music-lover, but a sound-tripper + candles + photography + guitar + painting + charmed + itunes

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