Saturday, May 29, 2004

...Masochistic Entry

System Time: 12:34 PM
i really, really like Reason by Hoobastank.. i still don't get tired listening to it.. it's sort of a love song and i'm a sucker of rock love songs..

/me ehem ehem

I've found a reason for me,
To change who I used to be,
A reason to start over new,
and the reason is you.

I've found a reason to show,
A side of me you didn't know,
A reason for all that I do,
And the reason is you.


awwww. how sweet. lol.

System Time: 12:38 PM
Errata: i said in my previous post that Amy Evans is the singer of Evanescense.. bwahahaha.. Amy Lee nga pala.. Amy Evans is an American Idol finalist (i think.. or am i wrong again? lol) .. was watching AI last night and i just saw the Evans girl and i recalled writing her name here.. lol.. *wapaks sarili*

System Time:12:44 PM
ei i've got another website project! (as if the first one is finished already) Ate ging referred me to her Boss and i'm making a site for their company.. had the breakfast meeting yesterday morning (7:30 am! gaaah i was still so sleepy) at UCC cafe.. He's Brit by the way so i felt i needed an English-Tagalog dictionary while talking to him.. (these are the times when i envy my ever-fluent call center friends) anyway, that basically says goodbye to all my weekend plans.. but still, it's okay 'cause at least i'm earning a little on the side and at the same, it's sort of fulfilling my dream job as a web developer.. it's all about your contacts.. you don't have to be the best, you just have to know the right people.. (in my case, my sister! lol!)

Greg (his name) is actually pretty funny.. when i told him i'm currently assigned to Prumerica, he started picking on the Prumericans.. told you they're weird.. it's just not me, other people observe it too! lol! i told him it's a happy office.. just the environment for people who sell insurance.. he just called the previous Prumerica President as "wacko" (with matching hand gesture.. lamnyo yun, loko²) and then of course, there's Lope.. the gay boss.. hehehe.. he told me.."is he gay? of course he is" LOL! i said that i knew he was gay the first time i heard Lope's voice.. being a semi-homophobic person, i couldn't believe they have a gay boss... how could they muster a straight face when Lope is giving them orders.. (this is just my opinion, ok? i don't want to start getting hate mail from gay people) ..anyway, just enforces my idea that Brits have the best sense of humor in the world.. (just look at their movies...About A Boy, Bridget Jones Diary, Full Monty, etc)

System Time: 1:27 PM
Fantasia's the New American Idol..I don't like them both (Diana and Fantasia) but I guess Fantasia deserves it more... had a boo² yesterday.. dex texted this to me :"mi, na2lo yung bet m na c fantasia".. ako naman eengot engot ang basa ko eh "NATALO" hahaha.. pinagkalat ko tuloy sa mga fellow AI enthusiasts ko dito sa prumerica na nanalo si Diana.. wahaha leche... kakatawa.. (Wow Mali! *wapaks sarili*) kasi naman di ko tlga gets mga short cuts ni momi sa text.. paminsan yung "k" pwedeng Ko or Ka.. yung "m" pwedeng Me or Mo.. alang consistency tlga yun, pa iba iba meaning.. tsaka pag nakatext na ganon syempre babasahin mo ang nakasulat.. yung 2 ginagamit lang sa "na2log" or "2mulong" grrr.. lol! i'm fretting bout nothing.. haayy..

System Time: 2:02 PM
waah i can't seem to make myself get into the "programming mood" (read: tinatamad) *wapaks sarili* i wanna get out of this office and watch a movie, or start making the site.. anything, just to get out of here.. 4 hours pa.. how sad.. i'm gonna watch Shrek later with dex.. or maybe The Day After Tomorrow..

System Time: 4:17 PM
just remembered that i logged in around 8 a.m... that means i could go home as early as 5 pm! woohoo.. plus Powerbooks is on sale so i'll probably go there and buy a better Dreamweaver MX book (hope it's discounted.. if it's not, err.. i don't think i'll buy one..'cause sometimes they don't include computer books on the discounts)..

isn't it weird when people buy discounted stuff on their credit cards and then when their statement of account arrives, they don't pay the full balance.. and so it gets interest on the next month, so actually they're paying for something more expensive than the original price..really sucks right? grrr.. that's exactly what I do. *wapaks sarili again*

System Time:5:01 PM
alis na kooo...babayy!

Monday, May 24, 2004

...Favorites

System Time: 12:58 PM

so sleepyy.. even with Chicosci's music blasting in my headphones.. i'm not a big fan of local rock music.. call me unnationalistic but i just don't dig it.. i like a bit of slapshock.. but then all the other local bands sound like them.. (you know, shouting.. lol).. i could also listen to Bamboo.. that's 'cause i like his voice.. i'm not a solid fan of any of the local bands.. just some of their songs.. like Sandwich' Butterfly Carnival.. most are like a date with your HS crush.. sweet, but forgettable.. i didn't even like ChicoSci's Paris the first time i heard it.. think it just grew into me 'cause NU kept on playing it..not a single local song is included in my "all-time favorite songs" list.. (i can't decide on just 1)
here they are, in random order:
1. Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye
2. Matthew Sweet - Sick of Myself
3. The Damnbuilders - Drive by Kiss
4. Dave Matthews Band - Crash into Me
5. Guster - Demons
6. Chevelle - The Red
7. Die Trying - Oxygen's gone
8. Incubus - Are you In

..think there's a whole lot more but that's all i could remember now.. I even have, like a favorite song for every band/singer.. like for The Calling, Could It be any Harder just rocks.. or I'm With You by Avril Lavigne (nominated in the Best Song category in the Grammys).. i just don't get tired listening to these songs, they're like the fastest anti-depressant drugs for me..

System Time: 1:38 PM
yesterday my dad and i went to taytay to get our cousin's basketball goal.. they're migrating to Canada and so they gave the goal to us.. (it's fiberglass with a 10-feet post).. i really wanted to go with him 'cause i was hoping to see my cousin, Ian, before they leave the country. He's my favorite cousin in Dad's side.. simply because he's a rocker like me and he's always interesting to talk to.. i'm like 4 years (or more, i think?) older than him but i don't feel the difference..i don't know if he's the mature one or i'm the childish one.. whatever it is, i will be missing him. :~(
good luck, Tito Ardi and Tita Cindy! pakabait ka Ian! *wapaks*

System Time: 1:54 PM
..finished reading Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown.. if you're a semi-catholic like me, (meaning not a fully devoted one,..just one that goes to mass, prays once a day and tries to be "good" but not necessarily does good deeds for others) i suggest that you don't read it, 'cause it might falter your already faltering faith to the roman catholic church.. but i guess if you want to test your faith, you could go ahead and read it.. what's so controversial with it? it just says that Jesus is not a God and is simply a man.. (okay, it's what jews believe, but hey, I'M a catholic and so is 70% of the Filipino people!) i've heard this theory before from my muslim friends (they believe Jesus is just a prophet) but i've never really heard why or how they could believe he is human.. the key of course, is the title of the book, Da Vinci Code.. i don't want to get into the details of the book but it simply tries to unlock the hidden messages in Da Vinci's paintings about the Church.. i don't know if i've just been living such a sheltered life but this was the first time i heard of the theory that the Holy Grail, which was taught in my catholic school as the Chalice which was used by Jesus in the last supper, is actually not a thing but a person. Mary Magdalene to be exact. Try checking out Da Vinci's Last Supper on the internet and look closely to the person seated on Jesus' right.. (your left if your facing the monitor).. look closely and you'll see that it's not a He.. but a She.. Da Vinci portrayed a Last Supper with Mary Magdalene seated on Jesus' right.. (the person has boobs!) the hands are clasped together too, such a feminine position, right? and if in fact, the Holy Grail is about the Chalice, how come there isn't a single Chalice portrayed in Da Vinci's fresco? there are 13 cups on the table, unlike what i've seen on other Last Supper paintings, where there was only 1 cup, held by Jesus, and was passed to the disciples to drink.. why Mary Magdalene? 'cause (get this) she's Jesus' spouse.. the fact is, Jesus IS a jew and at that time, it's next to impossible to have an unmarried jew at 30 years old. And so, the theory gets complicated.. after Jesus' death, Constantine needed a religion that would unite everyone.. from pagans to christians.. since Jesus was so popular at that time he decided to make Jesus a God, not a man or simply a prophet of God, but God himself and Divine. He sought out and destroyed all writings that connects any human aspects to Jesus, including his spouse, Mary Magdalene. Constantine was believed to be behind the black propaganda against MM, calling her a prostitute and reducing her role in Jesus' life as simply a sinner whom Jesus showed mercy upon.. she (as theorized) is actually royalty.. (forgot the family).. since Jesus is a descendant of King Solomon and King David, he also has royal blood and so their marriage makes perfect sense.. the unification of 2 royal families.. Since Constantine could not allow Jesus' divinity become destroyed by a mere woman, he then proceeded to remove any "feminine" aspect of God.. making God a "He".. that's still very much how the Catholic church is today.. no female priests, no female Popes.. Peter was believed to be so jealous of Mary Magdalene that Da Vinci portrayed this on the Last Supper.. just look at Peter's menacing claw-like hand that points to Mary.. there's much more in the theory, like how nothing in the Catholic traditions are original.. all are taken from other religions.. (like a god being born under a star, or mass being celebrated on a Sunday.. which is actually a tribute to the "Sun God".. Sun Day) or how their's a group called Priory of Sion whose purpose is to keep the "Goddess" alive and to keep the location of the Holy Grail a secret.. for the Church will destroy the Grail once they found bones in it instead of the famed Chalice..
..read it, Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown.. research it (it's ALL OVER the net).. and put your faith into the test.. personally, i do believe that Jesus was married.. he walked with men and so it seems logical that he would try to fit in.. but i also believe that no mere man can endure the suffering he experienced.. and what about the accounts on His resurrection.. there was nothing about that in the book.. because it is inexplainable.. a miracle, only a God could do.. Amen!!!

besides, the book has some boring parts, unlike his other book, Angels and Demons which is my favorite.

System Time: 3:28 PM
will be going home early..sabay ako keh Ate Ging.. around 5:30 pm.. just making the final designs in these forms.. not yet programming.. last night i was searching some jobs posted at Jobstreet.com ('cause my bond's gonna be ending in July, diba..) i can't help but feel that my skills are becoming obsolete.. let's face it.. i'm just a VB programmer.. i don't even know .NET's framework! most of the jobs posted there have requirements like c#, c++, ASP.NET, VB.net, Java.. waah! even if i did handle vc++ here in prumerica i have no plans of making that a career.. di ko kakayaniiin!.. c++ is just beyond me..i cried with relief when i graduated from that stupid vc++ program.. anyway, it just made me want to finish the site i've been trying to make for Tita Estela's company.. good news is that my kada, Ria, is also beginning to learn Dreamweaver MX so i might be getting some help from her (hurrah!)

System Time: 4:17 PM
still listening to NU107.. Zach (the dj..dunno the spelling) says that he didn't like Troy.. such a travesty, really.. it's a GREAT film.. i've never watched a Troy film with Achilles as the focus and i haven't realized 'til that movie how interesting his character was.. i mean, previous Troy movies (like Helen of Troy) focused on the war, on Agamemmnon and his desire to conquer Troy.. i just loved this version.. (though they did change Homer's Iliad.. In the Iliad, Achilles was killed by Paris.. He shot Achilles with an arrow on the heel ('cause he knew this was Achilles' weak spot, the famous Achilles' heel) while Achilles was parading Hector's body in front of them) it brought out Achilles' emotions and made the audience feel his rage over his cousin's death.. i also liked the fight scenes.. where Achilles was jumping to strike Hector with a spear.. plus my goooshhh.. the katawan of Brad Pitt uh.. no wonder guys hate the movie, they feel inferior to his godly body har har har..

System Time: 5:31 PM
gtg now.. bye all! have a good one!

Friday, May 21, 2004

...TGIF!

System Time: 8:44 AM
Jasmine got booted out of 'American Idol',..awww. i don't know if you've been following the contest as unfailingly as i have but i'm sure you've heard of the 2 Fil-Ams who joined the show.. Camille Velasco (my favorite) got voted out earlier and now it's Jasmine.. at least she's in the Top 3... and i'm pretty sure we haven't seen the last of her..

Ate Ging received shocking news from her bosses last night.. her boss resigned and so did her boss' boss.. so that pretty much left their Manila office in the pits.. they still don't know what the management's going to do with them.. but she's expecting the worst, meaning, she might lose her job.. (her 40k job! waah!) just goes to see how life is full of fuckingly screwed up surprises that come up when you least expect it.. it scares the shit out of me... 'cause i know it'll only take one little joke played by the world to me that could make my present contented life into radical blackness.. .it's a good thing i read a forwarded message in my email (sent to me by my good friend, Kate) that made me look things in perspective.. it's a quote from Ally Mcbeal..
"If you think back and replay your year, and it doesn't bring out tears of joy or sadness, consider it wasted."
well , if tears are the scale, i've lived a full life then.. lol! (though i haven't cried for sometime now, perhaps i'll cry later just for the heck of it... i'll cry for Jasmine's loss, lol!)

will be meeting my ISM kada tonight.. Harbie's back from the states and i'm psyched to see her and the rest of the kada.. it's so weird to have a married friend who isn't pregnant (or didn't get someone pregnant).. LOL! 23-24's still pretty young to get hitched, especially in this generation where people are generally more career oriented.. (plus both of my older sisters are still single so, it's not on my mind) not that i don't want to get married, far from it.. it'll just take a few more years for me to get prepared for something as monumental as marriage..

ei, i borrowed ate Chary's discman and it has a radio so i'm really happy to be hearing NU107 again.. waah they're playing one of my fave songs.. Drive by Kiss by The Damnbuilders..

heard something really funny.. David Hasselhoff's going to have a Hip-Hop album.. har har har.. that is just beyond my imagination.

System Time: 10:51 AM
everyday, i have an early lunch with my friendster friends (that's what Sir Joel calls us) around 11 am.. so that's 9 minutes away.. there are loads of advantages when you eat early here in Prumerica...
1. the Pantry's not yet crowded
2. no one's standing behind you, pressuring you to eat faster so they could take your seat
3. when you finish an hour after (12 pm), everybody's out to lunch so you have the department by yourself
4. you can take advantage of your solitude for more creative tasks.. such as sleeping, talking on the phone..
5. if you go back late (say around 1 pm), it'll just appear normal to any other employee.. it's not that obvious that you took a 2-hour lunch break 'cause everybody goes back to their desk around 1 pm too.

with that said, i'm off to lunch. bRb.

System Time: 11:49 AM
shiiiit ang lakas ng ulan. demmit. sleep muna.

System Time:12:33 PM
..currently listening to Check it Out by Beastie Boys.. it's a new single by the band... they're last album was.. hmm.. when i was in highschool? (yeah, it's been awhile, lol!) it's good to hear their music again.. *chh,chh,chh,check it out! wha,wha,wha,what's it all about!*
hehehe. too bad i can't jump up and down.

System Time: 3:26 PM
ei erlyn! glad you like the new layout.. but in defense of my previous layout, my blog wasn't supposed to be seen through the "gewi.blogspot.com" link.... twas part of a page inside my web site that's why it was black and white and not centered.. anyway, since my site's been deleted in brinkster's stupid server, decided to change it. didn't have time to create my own so i just picked up a template in blogger.. just picked something simple and would load fast.. yoko kasi yung maraming ka-ek-ekan sa blog, ang bagal tuloy mag load.. (hahaha touche` erlyn! :p)

System Time: 5:47 PM
uy alis na ko. yehey! bye all, have a stress-free weekend.

p.s. just received a text message from ate ging
"Hay naku naglayas na naman c mom. Dis s such a dysfunctional family!"
i told my sister, "tungkol sa mangga yan, ano?".. she said, "I'm sure"

/me tawa na lang. it's a long story.. i'll tell you another time..bye again!

Monday, May 17, 2004

...Dindo the Bagyo

System Time: 6:30 PM
summer is officially over and it's signal no. 1 on most parts of the country.. good news is it's not scorching hot anymore, although this kind of weather makes up a very dreary monday.. at least i saw Erlyn this morning...it's always nice to see a friend..

i'm all alone here in the IT dept.. don't know where they are.. there's a new guy again (another radix contractor), the one who replaced Glin.. still dunno if he's any better...hmm.. wonder where everybody is..maybe they went home already.. i went down at the fudpark with Ate Pretz to eat dinner and when i came back up, nobody was around. (hurrah for me!)
i could blog all night.. as if i've got something interesting to write, lol.. well anything's better than debugging this stupid VC++ program.. yeah, i'm back in this god forsaken language again 'cause they discovered a runtime error upon entering a certain date.. it's soo weird.. it only causes an error when i enter a birthday with a year = 1950-1952..i mean, when i enter any other year it works fine..grrr... kakainis.

...still got some traces of indelible (err, tama ba?) ink on my finger.. although it's almost invisible.. my first indelible-ink-stained-finger.. makes me feel patriotic, haha.. i belong to the 10% who voted for Ping.. looks like GMA will win.. anyway, anyone's better than FPJ... just hope they stop all these nonsense talk of carrying their electoral fraud complaints on the streets.. they're so stuuuuupid, thinking that everything can be solved by doing a People power thing...

System Time:7:00 PM
i'll be going now, bye all!


Saturday, May 15, 2004

...keeps getting better and better

just got home.. watched van helsing.. then went shopping also for his clothes.. he bought 1 slacks, 2 t-shirts and 3 pairs of socks .. ( i didn't buy anything.. my cc bill's almost 6k already.. *wahahah*)

hmm.. but you know what's really on my mind? momi has become this awesome kisser.. lol.. i mean, i'm not a big fan of kissing 'cause i find errrr other things much more pleasurable.. but lately, i've been really enjoying his kisses, lol! especially tonight.. after he left, i couldn't help but do a little dance as i entered our house hahaha.. twas a good thing nobody saw me when i did it but i was dancing all the way to my room.. lol!

actually, the day didn't start out as great 'cause first of all, dex was in the wrong MALL... i called him and asked where he was.. he said he was in the cinema level.. so i went to the cinema level, but he wasn't there.. yun pala he was in sta.lucia and i was in robinson.. kala nya robinson din yung lumang sta.lucia.. it was an honest mistake but syempre kakafrustrate parin diba hehe..pero yun, at this point in our relationship.. it's easy for me to let these petty stuff go.. what's important is that we were together for half a day and had a great time.. twas the shopping part that i really enjoyed.. 'cause it's fun to shop for other people! and just being near him all day,..it makes my heart beat a little faster...we were totally PDA! lol! i'm sooo not a PDA person but dex... waah.. i just love dex. *momiiiiiiiii miss na kitaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa*

if PC suddenly materialized in front of me right this moment, i wouldn't give him a second glance. i hope that really explains how i feel about dex these past months. sometimes i feel that it's too good to be true, but then again, i'd hate to ponder on things and create problems when everything is just fine. live by the moment, right? and at this moment, it's just me and my momi.

gudnite everyone!

...making credit card companies richer

okay, it's a great MONTH for credit cards... i've used mine again.. (as my sister said, it's gonna be my downfall)... but still, it's instant gratification and the guilty feeling of not saving my money greatly outweighs the feel of clinique make-up on a newly washed face by sekkisei soap. har har har.

bought a great 3 in 1 makeup stick from maybelline.. the new sun block by clinique (oil free!) blistex lipbalm and this great mask by fasio.. oh, and yeah.. my sekkisei soap and neutrogena deep clean (it's on sale, okay!)

shiiit. momi's at sta. lu already.. ndi kasi nagtext, ndi pa ako naliligo.. babay na!

have a happy weekend!

Sunday, May 09, 2004

...the weekend-feeling is finally back

My blog last May 7, 2004:

System Time: 4:32 PM
i will be going home on 5 pm! yeheyyyy! and i won't be coming to work tomorrow... yeheyyy! i've finished every module assigned to me and i'll be having a stress free weekend at last.. *whew* ms. marivic said she'll just assign a new module on tuesday.. yeheyy againn!! saya pala na walang iniisip na trabaho pag weekend..

it's the presidential election this monday.. who are you going to vote for? survey says that GMA has a good lead against FPJ.. that means i can vote for someone that i really like, not someone whom i feel is the lesser evil... i'm going to vote for Ping! hehe.. i don't care that he doesn't have a chance at winning.. at least i voted for someone whose principles i like.. (patay kung patay haha).. besides, i hate GMA 'cause she uses MY taxes in her campaign fund.. and Roco seems like he doesn't want to win with his half-hearted campaigning.. (and he's sick for goodness, sake) .. i would have voted for Bro. Eddie but i simply hate his infomercial.. "Bangon, pilipinas.. Bangon.." (bwiset!) ... Ping's platform is the best.. and we Filipinos need someone with strong political will (walang may utang na loob!) and who can discipline us.. that's how other Asian countries got their economies back in track.. leaders with a no-nonsense way of running the country.. so, this coming election, kay Ping tayo! hehe!

finished reading Angels and Demons.. malufet, pare! .. ganda ganda.. never really liked reading science fiction books but this one, i really liked. maybe because it's not that science fiction-y.. most of the stuff written their are factual.. the places, the artifacts.. the setting was in Vatican.. i learned so much 'bout the difference churches and museums there just by reading the book! hehe

System Time 5:00 PM
babayyyyyyyyyyyyyy!System Time: 4:32 PM
i will be going home on 5 pm! yeheyyyy! and i won't be coming to work tomorrow... yeheyyy! i've finished every module assigned to me and i'll be having a stress free weekend at last.. *whew* ms. marivic said she'll just assign a new module on tuesday.. yeheyy againn!! saya pala na walang iniisip na trabaho pag weekend..

it's the presidential election this monday.. who are you going to vote for? survey says that GMA has a good lead against FPJ.. that means i can vote for someone that i really like, not someone whom i feel is the lesser evil... i'm going to vote for Ping! hehe.. i don't care that he doesn't have a chance at winning.. at least i voted for someone whose principles i like.. (patay kung patay haha).. besides, i hate GMA 'cause she uses MY taxes in her campaign fund.. and Roco seems like he doesn't want to win with his half-hearted campaigning.. (and he's sick for goodness, sake) .. i would have voted for Bro. Eddie but i simply hate his infomercial.. "Bangon, pilipinas.. Bangon.." (bwiset!) ... Ping's platform is the best.. and we Filipinos need someone with strong political will (walang may utang na loob!) and who can discipline us.. that's how other Asian countries got their economies back in track.. leaders with a no-nonsense way of running the country.. so, this coming election, kay Ping tayo! hehe!

finished reading Angels and Demons.. malufet, pare! .. ganda ganda.. never really liked reading science fiction books but this one, i really liked. maybe because it's not that science fiction-y.. most of the stuff written their are factual.. the places, the artifacts.. the setting was in Vatican.. i learned so much 'bout the difference churches and museums there just by reading the book! hehe

System Time 5:00 PM
babayyyyyyyyyyyyyy! vote wisely!