1. "unfortunate things happen[ed] to you"... as in malapit ka na ngang bumaba, nasiraan pa yung fx. tapos pangit pa yung lasa ng palabok na nabili mo...
2. depressed ang mga tao sa paligid mo... na ang dapat na masayang birthday blow-out ay puno ng awkward pauses, tapos iniirapan ka pa nung waitress (pero baka nga yun yung tunay niyang mukha! hahaha)
3. aside from depressed, sensitive din yung people... sabihan ka ba namang ume-epal... :D
4. yung mga ayaw mong gawin, KAILANGAN mong gawin, as in no choice...
5. ayaw mong bumangon sa kama (more so than usual, not counting the fact na nag-cancel yung in-appoint mong patient nung umaga... AND nung in-appoint mo ng hapon... tapos... i'll stop now. :P)
kung napa-"parang-yun-yung-feeling-ko-kahapon/nung monday/basta nung 19jan09", wag kang magtaka! kasi according to experts, that day is "blue monday", which is the most depressing day in history (exag... :D)
dahil sad nga yung araw ko, pagdating sa apartment, i craved "happy" things. the vid below made me laugh out loud
when the friendships ate an early dinner at mcdo last friday (sidetrip: mangolekta nga ulit tayo nung discount coupons! hahaha :D), we got talking about the possibility of an ORIGINAL love story, amidst all those cliched-super-gasgas-you-could-predict-the-ending movies.
shane dared me to name a unique love story plotline... let's just say for every plot i tried to think off, they bombarded me with movie with titles i couldn't now remember, starring rico yan and claudine (the one with the playgirl falling in love with a boy that didn't fall for her), aga and maricel soriano (guy falling in love but he's already married), etc.
then i remembered an article i read before in the philippine star, wherein the author states that ALL stories basically come/ is derived from/ is a combination of 8 ancient stories: namely cinderella, circe, candide, orpheus, romeo and juliet, faust, tristan and iseult, and achilles.
i found that said article in the internet (buti na lang! hehehe). read it here! it is quite an interesting read.
i laughed out loud when i saw this at perezhilton. i really thought this news of filipino version of twilight (starring rayver cruz and shaina magdayao, directed by cathy garcia molina :P) was a complicated hoax on the unsuspecting rabid twilight-ers and the international media.
i related this to my elder brother who, with disbelief etched on his face, decided to google it. guess what?
heard this first on perezhilton. it's from a european artist named Milow; it was such a hit na gumawa pa sila ng video for it. natuwa na naman ako. i really like inter-genre covers, kakaiba. :P
if this is the first time you've heard it, try to guess! (shane bawal ka na. si juany rin, kahit hindi niya alam kahit yung original version. hahaha. :P) dapat before the minute mark kasi halata na sa chorus.
this is the commencement address given by j.k. rowling at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association.
i really liked and identified with this speech... sana kasing inspiring and applicable-in-real-life yung commencement address in my own graduation, whenever that may be :P it's kinda long, but it's worth reading.
i deliberated whether to paste the speech here, but since i'm now avoiding posting novel-length blog entries like i did in the past (and because it IS copyrighted and J.K. Rowling is sue-happy this days)... i will just give you guys the link :P
i included in this post the passages that were, to me, memorable... the ones that can be labeled the "quotable quotes"
"There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you."
"What I feared most for myself at your age was not poverty, but failure."
"So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."
"You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default."
"Given a time machine or a Time Turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone’s total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes."
"...Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared."
"...And many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know."
"What is more, those who choose not to empathise may enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy."
ang cool ng end, wherein she quotes Seneca: "As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters."
to tell the truth, i've had this pic in my cam for the past 2 weeks.... what i didn't have is the knowledge needed to edit it in photoshop (i am still at chapter 2 of photoshop cs3 for dummies haha :P i'm procrastinating. intro pa lang kasi naborga na ako. whole heck of a different world. give me nosebleed-inducing medical terms any day!)
i really am not kidding when i say i know next to nothing regarding photoshop. (i do know how to open files and the like. haha) you might say i'm (a lot!) intimidated. ang dami kasing mga buttons and options... it's a whole bunch of different programs with different uses and actions bundled together (adobe bridge + adobe photoshop + camera raw + kung anu-ano pang tabs at palettes + patitay = WAAAH!). it's way complex for a "paint"-person like me. :P
but yesterday i just stopped reading, put on my "i-can-do-this" face and explored PS CS3! baka kasi agiwin na yung mga pics hindi ko pa ine-edit. tiningnan ko kung anong mangyayari kung ginawa ko ito... or if in-increase ko ito... nagpakasaya (at nasiyahan naman) ako :P
i'm still scared of photoshop. and i still have to finish the dummies book and experiment a lot to achieve even a semblance of kinship with the program. but i am feeling positive. i mean, if all else fails, at talagang hindi ko kinaya, there's still paint! :P ahaha. :P
The internet is not only for porn, as opposed to a song in a musical previously mentioned a few entries back. (sidetrip: avenue q is scheduled to have another run in june! highly recommended! :P)
the internet can also be used to watch movies that you would have otherwise spent money on (horrifying thought!! ahehe :P) whether you chose to watch it at a moviehouse or buy/rent a video at your local store.
yesterday, i was browsing the list of movies under the genre "musical" (as that is my choice of entertainment lately) and chose to watch a movie called "crybaby", mainly because of its positive, glowing, "it's a great movie" comments.
it was the kind of movie that was so SO bad it was actually kinda, weirdly good.
imagine dialogue that could have been lifted from a class skit you did in elementary (only with some pg-13 scenes). imagine a plot even MORE improbable than our local telenovelas. imagine super cliched leads taken to a whole new level (redneck, trashy boy with a motorcycle and a guitar who only cries a single tear and the beautiful, rich girl who wants to wants to experience "being bad"). what you imagine won't come close to what i watched.
i have now committed myself to the nikon dslr system... and in the process made my bank account and wallet lighter :P
experimenting with slow shutter speeds.... haha. walang magawa
i finally bought a nikon d40 last friday! yey! :P why that particular brand and model? well, i liked the feel of nikon dslrs more than canon ones, and it's highly recommended in forums and reviews. i really don't need a 10mp camera, and i don't think my laptop can handle the memory load that will bring. most importantly, it fits my budget :P
i am still mostly using the point and shoot modes to familiarize myself (i am loving the auto mode with no flash as that in particular isn't in our old canon powershot). i am still un-learning some habits i have, like relying on the LCD screen to gauge exposure and for composition. i know it'll be hard and there's a steep learning curve, but hopefully, with lots of practice and luck, in the coming weeks the manual modes and i will be best friends. :P
oh, and i have to brush up on my nearly-non-existent photoshop skills :P ahehe
wish me luck!! heres to (hopefully and most of the time) good pictures!!!
P.S. super thanks to marius and ate sherie for bearing with my "kakulitan" and giving me great advice.
i was intrigued when i heard the song "almost lover" by an artist called "a fine frenzy" on the radio, just because it was depressing and heart-breakingly good. when i listened to the whole album "one cell in the sea", another song called out to me on my "first hearing" (you know, the songs that don't need to grow on you to make an impression)
i liked the fact that it has a different topic; it's not the usual love song. and like "almost lover", it tugs at the heart strings and makes you empathize with the singer whether you like it or not.
i was reading the twilight series by stephenie meyer when i was doing a third hearing and i immediately connected it to "new moon", which is the second book. haha. theme song ni bella and jacob. (BTW, if you are the type of person who opens a book now and again for recreational purposes, read this series!!! you won't be disappointed :P i'm gonna do a review one of this days when my inherent laziness lets up. ahehe) ***edit: haha. may nakita akong vid sa youtube na clips ni edward and bella yung ginamit sa song :P***
lyrics (para ma-feel mo pa :P)!!!
He and I had somethin' beautiful But so dysfunctional, it couldn't last Loved him so but I let him go ‘Cause I knew he'd never love me back
Such pain as this Shouldn't have to be experienced I'm still reeling from the loss Still a little bit delirious, yeah
Near to you, I am healin' But it is takin' so long ‘Cause though he's gone and you are wonderful It's hard to move on Yeah, I'm better near to you
Well, you and I, it's somethin' different And I'm enjoyin' it as cautiously I'm battle scarred, I am workin' oh so hard To get back to who I used to be
He's disappearin' Fadin' steadily When I'm so close to bein' yours Won't you stay with me, please?
‘Cause near to you, I am healin' But it is takin' so long ‘Cause though he's gone and you are wonderful It's hard to move on Yet I'm better near to you Yeah, I'm better near to you
I only know that I am better where you are I only know that I am better where you are I only know that I belong where you are
Near to you, I am healin' But it’s takin' so long Though he's gone and you are wonderful It's hard to move on
Near to you, I am healin' But it’s takin' so long ‘Cause though he's gone and you are wonderful It's hard to move on Yeah, I'm better near to you Yeah, I'm better near to you
***the vid i just snagged from youtube. thanks and sorry nickleeckerbee.***
hay titay!!!! super miss na kita!!! grabe...just read your last blog entry...congratulations to you!!! (though i had a hard time absorbing the basics of your condition given that you used a lot of...hmmm...med terms..haha! made my nose bleed..haha, just kidding ;-P) Hope you'll forever be ok...i'm just here praying for you. =P new number again: 09065021383. Text me ok? Missing you a lot, Rich.
of course! hehehe grade school days pa! pero tanda ko pa rin hanggang ngayon! :D nakakamiss nga... =) thanks sa add! its good hearing from you again =)
titay!!!!! i miss you grabe!!! it's good to see you here in multiply, this is mostly where I do my catching up on friends! :D thank god for oragon ini bwahahaha :D hope to see you soon!!!
sweetlilac16 wrote on Jan 3, '08, edited on Jan 3, '08
anak, advance happy birthday!hahaha.. patitay, ang tanda mo na!!!hehehe.. awwwww.. can still remember the day wen i went to cavite to celebrate ur debut!!! whew! take note ilang beses kame naligaw!anlayo din nun ah..hahaha..parang kelan lng..i soooo miss you dear! 1 year in college spent with you is one of the best memories i will always cherish. you are one of the few people who made my college life "ROCK"!!!will always remember that once in my life im an F4 girl..nyork corny!!! (which namana ko rin syo, kahit anak na kita ngayon..hahahaha) love you dear..wish you all the best (focus tayo sa love of your life!nyahaha..*peace*)mwaaaaahhh
aba! may multiply ka na pala.. di mo man lang ako ininvite.. hmp!! (i wonder kung kelan mo mababasa ang msg kong ito.. today is dec 30, 2007..hmmm... =)
titay!!! wow, kaw ba yan?!?hahahaha.. baka sa start lang yan!bka ma-gaya na nmn sa YM na di man lang kita maabutan!wahahaha..(*peace*) i sooooo misss you!super bitin ang ating pagkikita! namiss tlga kita as in!!! grabe, hope we cud have a dinner sometime with the F4 girls..wehehehe... love you anak!wahahaha..mwah mwah.. =p
this is one of my favorite pictures i have ever taken. wala lang. i really like to shoot inanimate objects more than people. hahahaha.
