Know Your Fuckin' Boundaries Parte Due

Magra-rant ulit ako.

My sis-in-law, thought I was sleeping when she arrived in our house from I dunno which hell she went. She was talking to her mum in her "normal" loud voice. Assuming from the one-sided conversation I heard, inadvertently of course, her mum wants her to go back to her mum's wings.

SIL: wag na, ayos na nga.
her mum over the other line saying something.
SIL: nasa storage yung ibang gamit.
her mum.
SIL: eh dyan ka na sa kwarto, ayos na nga eh.

WTF?!

Ano'ng "ayos na" ang pinagsasabi nya? Why can't she just go back home eh pinapauwi naman na sya? Ipinagsisiksikan nya sarili nya dito for the same reason I've mentioned in my earlier rant. She just doesn't wanna go there kase ayaw nya magatatabi nanay nya and her stepdad aside from the fact that she can't go "clubbing" anymore if she stays there.

I asked her once, a week ago I guess, if I can stay in her room in her mum's place if ever I get hired in this fortune 500 company I was applying at since her mum's place is nearer to the company compared to ours. And she told me off. Ampota! Ang tigas ng karakas ng walanghiya!

Next Level

When I first saw these movements, I thought it was easy to do, but when I started doing the aerobic striptease by Carmen Electra for my workout, I found out it was not as easy as I thought it would be. I sweat a lot and I felt my muscles get strained on the first routine.

I find it funny how the composers for the girl group Pussy Cat Dolls incorporate the sound and/or beat of the girl group's songs to their dance routines, which is the striptease. Maybe that's the reason why I keep on watching PCD videos, drooling over the girls. Oh, how juvenile of me.

Toccara

America's Next Top Model Cycle 3 contestant Toccara Jones just recently graced the cover of Italian Vogue. I heart this spunky girl from Ohio during ANTM cycle 3. She's the first plus-size contestant to reach top 6 of the TV show. Her name was from an Avon perfume.

I chose this picture of hers because she kinda looks like a good friend of mine in this pic. Chocobun dearly calls her "Mother Lou".

Gotta love that swan neck despite being full-figured. And I don't wanna start talkin' 'bout her gajunggas, with a capital G, yes G.

Sold House

A house was sold for $1.75 in eBay, although the buyer will be paying additional $850 for back taxes and all, still, it's an $851.75 house! Where the fuck can you buy a house for that price. I know it's a fixer-upper, but, owning a house gives a different feeling. ^_^ Wish I was the buyer. Neh, mina?

Know Your Fuckin' Boundaries Parte Una

This gal and I were pals before she became my elder brother's girlfriend and started acting like the prima donna that she is. Now that my brother married her, and she's my sis-in-law, she got worst. She would just open my room's door and yell at me like she's the owner of the house, then fucking slam it afterwards. And my list of unluckiness grew longer when my younger brother asked our mum if he could have a room of his own. Being a single-family home my mum owns, there were only two extra rooms apart from the master's suite in our house, so I have to share the room with sis-in-law. Sharing a room with her is very inconvenient for me. She's almost shouting whenever she talks on the phone, I can hear it from my soon to be former room, just like her alarm clock which doesn't even serve its purpose since she would still wake up late coz she's been clubbin and partyin te night before. I can't actually see any reason why she doesn't wanna go back to her mom's place and live there for a while until everything's settled, besides it isn't that far from her work like she claims it is, she has her own car and she drives the freeway for fuckin cryin out loud. She has her own room in her mom's place, the only problem is, her mom's way too strict. Lights out at a specific time, and she can't go out partying late at night. Additional reason why she doesn't wanna stay to her mom's place was because she doesn't want her mom and stepdad to sleep in the same bed. WTF! Ultimo ba naman pakikipagkantutan ng nanay nya sa asawa gusto pa nyang pakelaman?! Putambabae! Tama bang ako ang makisama sa kanya eh ako ang anak ng may-ari ng bahay? Kung sing-kapal ng mukha ko ang mukha nya, ako ang tutuloy sa bahay ng nanay nya at gagamit ng cuarto nya!

Okay, Sue.. Calm down.. You've already lashed out, now breathe in.. Breathe out..

My Favorite Geeks

Matthew Gray Gubler known as Dr. Spencer Reid in the hit primetime drama series Criminal Minds.

He is actually an NYU film directing major grad. He directed the "Don't Shoot Me, Santa" mv by The Killers.

I know he doesn't look like a geek in this pic, he looks like a model, and in fact he is. He modelled for Louis Vuitton, Tommy Hilfiger, and other famous designers.

He's really smart, you can tell by his forehead. Lol. I mean, he has tact, and his "intern journal" won't be featured in the special DVD of Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou in which he played a very short role as an intern, if he wasn't, duh..



Jim Parsons who portrays the character of a physicist with two PhD's and a Master's Degree, Sheldon Cooper, PhD, D, M.Sc. in the hit sitcom, The Big Bang Theory.

He appeared in Garden State and other cameo roles in TV. Nothing much about this actor's bio can be found in the www.











Eric Szmanda, the Polish descent American actor known as "the DNA dude" during the first season of another hit primetime drama series, CSI. We later found out his character's name was Greg Sanders. Just like Jim Parsons, I can't find any other info about this actor other than the fact that he supports the US Campaign for Burma.


Sean Murray, Donald Bellisarius', producer of military dramas JAG (Judge Advocate General) and NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Servies), stepson. And since he was the producer's stepson, he got some acting part on JAG as Danny Walden. But he really was known as MIT grad Special Agent Timothy McGee of NCIS, who is often called "probie" by his senior officer, womanizer, Anthony "Tony" DiNozzo.











And the newest addition to my geek list, Fred Weller. He plays as a 5th generation US Marshall named Marsahall in the new primetime drama series, In Plain Sight. He's Mary Shannon's partner. He seems to know a little about everything: what Mary calls "useless information".

Frederick Weller was initially successful as a stage actor, which is still his biggest passion. He performed in Neil LaBute and David Mamet plays and films. He also played the ambitious, jerk of a boyfriend of Neve Campbell in the movie When Will I Be Loved.

He's RoboCop's cousin.



With these men, smart is really the new sexy!

Harvard Class Day Speech '06: "Go Nads!"

The Square Root of Three

I fear that I will always be
A lonely number like root three
A three is all that's good and right,
Why must my three keep out of sight
Beneath a vicious square root sign
I wish instead I were a nine
For nine could thwart this evil trick,
with just some quick arithmetic
I know I'll never see the sun, as 1.7321
Such is my reality, a sad irrationality
When hark! What is this I see,
Another square root of a three
Has quietly come waltzing by,>
Together now we multiply
To form a number we prefer,
Rejoicing as an integer
We break free from our mortal bonds
And with a wave of magic wands
Our square root signs become unglued
And love for me has been renewed.

--- Kumar Patel, Harold and Kumar:
Escape from Guantanamo Bay, 2008

My Fall '08 Must-Have

At first glance, you'll think their footwear were ordinary gladiator sandals, but the truth was, those were ordinary slippers with a Posso the Spat shoe cover.

A very clever idea to sass up ordinary slippers, flats, or pumps into something else, like say, a boot..


Now I'm wearing an ordinary thong slipper, just attach a Posso the Spat shoe (or shin, perhaps is the right term) cover and, voila! instant leg hair cover! Whoops, typo! And voila! a pretty pair of ninja footwear akin to that of Sakura's of Naruto manga/anime. ^_^


*naga-adik ako, meh reklmao?!

these boots are made for schleppin'

where can i find 'em boots?! me wants one pair!

Greatest Romantic Movies Of All Time

"Whether you're generally sappy or cynical, devoted or dubious, once in a while, everyone needs a little romance. Some of the films on this eclectic list will send you scrambling for a Kleenex, while others will lift you up (where you belong); the best may do both. Lose yourself in these love stories, but remember: a kiss is never just a kiss."

According to AFI, the top ten movies are:

1. Casablanca
2. Gone With The Wind
3. West Side Story
4. Roman Holiday
5. An Affair To Remember
6. The Way We Were
7. Dr. Zhivago
8. It's A Wonderful Life
9. Love Story, and
10. City Lights

from Digital Dream Door:

1. Romeo and Juliet - (1968, Franco Zeffirelli) (Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey)
2. From Here to Eternity - (1953, Fred Zinnemann) (Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr)
3. Casablanca - (1942, Michael Curtiz) (Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman)
4. Camille - (1937, George Cukor) (Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor)
5. Splendor in the Grass - (1961, Elia Kazan) (Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty)
6. Brief Encounter - (1945, David Lean) (Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard)
7. A Place in the Sun - (1951, George Stevens) (Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor)
8. Gone With the Wind - (1939, Victor Fleming) (Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh)
9. To Have and Have Not - (1944, Howard Hawks) (Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall)
10. Somewhere in Time - (1980, Jeannot Szwarc) (Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour)

Mine would be:

- Shakespeare In Love, 1998
- An Affair To Remember, 1957
- A Walk to Remember, 2002
- The Notebook, 2004
- Message In A Bottle, 1999
- Two Weeks Notice, 2002
- Eternal Sunshine Of A Spotless Mind, 2004
- that classic movie which involves an angel falling in love with a human similar to,
- City of Angels, 1998

runners-up:

- Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks movies, Sleepless In Seattle and You've Got Mail
- John Cusack movies, Serendipity, Must Love Dogs, and America's Sweetheart
- animations, Beauty and the Beast

Remembering the Royalties

Diana Frances Spencer and John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.

Pro Re Nata

Theirs was a love sprung from professional teaming up. Both of them were fond of each other; unfortunately, they never act on it.

Casablanca

From Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem In Memoriam:27, 1850:

I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

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Naglalakad ako sa may aplaya. Natatanaw ko ang mga mangingisda't kani-kanilang mga pamilyang tulong-tulong sa paghila ng fishing net. Mainit ang sikat ng araw, bagama't hindi naman nakakapaso. Masarap ang simoy ng hanging nagmumula sa dagat. Kasabay ng alon ay nalalasahan ko ang alat..Kaysarap pumikit at mag-relax..

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Naliligaw ako sa mala-labyrinth na palenke. Hindi ako pamilyar sa lugar, ngunit hindi naman ako nakaramdam ng takot kahit pa ilang ulo ng tupa na ang nadaanan ko. Wala namang manginginom sa paligid. Nawawala ako.

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Nasa loob ako ng isang bar. Merong jazz music sa background. May mga nagsusugal sa isang sulok. Mayroon namang simpleng nagdi-dinner date lamang sa isang banda. Ako, nagi-isa sa sulok ng lamesa. Sinasamyo, sinisimsim baso ng vodka, sapagkat wala raw silang tequila.. Napansin kita't tinanguan, here's looking at you, kid!

nota bene: an unpolished writing attempt.

Purple Proses

I'm thinking of going back to writing inane things that have nothing to do with my day-to-day life and activity, if I have one that is..

I realized the way your eyes deceived me with tender looks that I mistook for love
So take away the flowers that you gave me, and send the kind that you remind me of

Paper Roses
Paper Roses
Oh how real those roses seem to be
But they're only imitation,
Like you imitation love for me

I thought that you would be a perfect lover
You seemed so full of sweetness at the start, but like a big red rose that's made of paper
There isn't any sweetness in your heart

Paper Roses
Paper Roses
Oh how real those roses seem to be
But they're only imitation
Like you imitation love for me

Cheese, wine..My First Time..

I woke up as early as 4am last Saturday kase pupunta kame ni ina sa tiangge.. Well, so far, yun yung lam kong plano nyang gawin. So, nag-swap meet kame, namili ng gulay ilokano ni ina, saluyot, patola, talong na parang hinliliit (sabe kase ng tindera, mas maliit mas mahal), ampalayang maliliit din, bunga't bulaklak ng kalabasa (alang gaano sa likod-bahay namin eh!), at ang di galing sa kanal na kangkong. Tas bigla sya nagyaya magpunta ng Saks 5th at Neiman Marcus.

Goodness! 65% off sale sa Saks pero sky high pa rin ang prices! Biruin mo, nasa $900-something pa rin yung napaka-simpleng D&G bag?! Meaning, nasa $2000-something original price ng lecheng bag na yun. Nagustuhan ko yung Hobo na evening clutch bag, kaso ala akong anda..sale na rin yun sa $80-something.

Then we went to Neiman Marcus, meh invitation pala si ina for a private showroom sale! Pucha! First time ko ma-experience yung kame lang ang nandun at nagtitingin ng merchandises na preview collection pa ng fall, tas meh sini-serve pa yung mga associates na cheap wine and/or champagne, cheese, crackers, fruits (grapes & strawberries), tsaka pepperoni. Buti na lang hapon na kame pumunta kase coffee, juice, doughnuts, and bagels yung ni-serve nila from 10am 'til 1pm. Syempre, ala akong binili. Ang mamahal kaya ng paninda nila!

Ganito Sila Noon..

Mga awiting nilimot ng panahon na kaysarap pakinggan at paulit-ulit balikan. Nasaan na ang pagiging malikhain mo, Juan dela Cruz..? Maaari pa bang ibalik ang dati mong pagiging makata at busilak?

"Sinisinta kita, 'di ka kumikibo; Akala mo yata ako'y nagbibiro.
Saksi ko ang langit, sampu ng kanduro; Kundi ka mahal, puputok yaring puso."

"Kataka-takang mahibang ang tulad ko sa'yo.
Biru-biro ang simula, ang wakas pala ay ano?
Aayaw-ayaw pa ako, ngunit 'yan ay 'di totoo.
Dahil sa iyo puso kong ito'y binihag mo."

"Sa piling mo sinta ko napapawi ang lungkot;
Napaparam, nagbabago ang lahat ng himutok.
At sa tuwi kong hahagkan ang pisngi mong mabango,
Ay tuluyang napaparam ang hirap ko."

"Akala mo yata kita'y nililimot; alaala kita sa gabing pagtulog.
Ang inuunan ko luhang umaagos; ang binabanig ko ay sama ng loob.
'Di ka na nahabag, di ka na naawa. Lusak na ang lupa sa patak ng luha."

"Tumataghoy sa gabing mapanglaw ang abang lagay ko, o mutyang hirang
Sana'y dinggin ang hibik at daing, waring malalagot na ang buhay na angkin."

"Sa bawat sandali tayo ay magkapiling, sa bawat lunggati pakinggan ang hiling;
Ang puso ko't budhi ay hindi sinungaling, sana ay ulinigin damdamin ko, giliw-- Asahan, pangarap nitong buhay, lahat ng araw kita'y mamahalin.
Iwasan ang iyong alinlangan, lahat ng araw kita'y mamahalin.
Sa labi ng imbing kamatayan itangi yaring pagmamahal.
Tulutang magtapat sa 'yo hirang lahat ng araw kita'y mamahalin."

"Malayo man, malapit din pilit kong mararating; 'wag lamang masabi mong 'di kita ginigiliw."

"Nasaan ka irog, at dagling naparam ang iyong paggiliw?
'Di ba 'ga sumpa mong ako'y mamahalin, iyong itatangi magpahanggang libing?"

Easy Fifty

My mum and I went to her uncle's place in Camarillo the other day so we could go to the outlet center and do some Independence Day shopping spree. Mum's uncle's wife was kinda paranoid. I dunno guys if you'd believe me or not but here goes..

One night we spent in their house, my mum and I did not sleep in the guest room as usual, we were assigned to sleep in the master's bedroom since mum's aunt went to the Philippines and her uncle used his son's room. Guest room were occupied by my two brothers and my mum's cousin and his maternal cousins stayed in the media room. I went to bed late, about 3:30am-ish, coz my elder brother and I stayed late that night chatting as usual about nothing in particular, he was staying with mum's uncle that time helping mum's uncle with their "home improvement project". I had this dream about this gay guy in 70's red hippie outfit, plain tunic-like top and floral printed pyjama-like bottom, complete with the long hair. He came in through the bathroom door and there was suddenly a stairs that appeared going up the ceiling. I followed him. He went inside this room with green carpet and had a lot of wall shelvings filled with jars of pickled penis. He knew I was following him that he turned around and walked closer to me, opened his pants' garter strings and showed me his cut-off penis! Of course I was horrified I didn't know how I was able to woke up, I woke my mum up and asked her to speed our way back home which she did for she had to work anyways and she told me we were going to leave by 4am. It was only 3:45am, meaning I hadn't slept that long.

On our way home, I told my mum about my dream and she told me that her uncle's house had an attic and it has a room. She also told me not to take my dream seriously because maybe my mind was just too filled with dragon and other mythical creatures' tales, my mum's cousin was only 15 y/o and he and his cousins found the folklores interesting we talked about it during dinner. I did calm down after our talk, but my mum was such a blabbermouth that she told my dream to her uncle, and his youngest brother along with his wife and gawd knows who else, who in turn told his paranoid wife about it. Since mum's paranoid aunt was a paranoid, she had the house blessed and feng shui'ed to drive away the spirits from her house.

Fast-forward yesterday. My mum's aunt brought me to her brother's house who also had his house blessed and feng shui'ed not that long time ago. She asked me to feel the house, and I did. I had goosebumps on my right arm and neck, but not on the other parts of my body. I found the house dark, but they justified it by saying because the sun had already set. Our house doesn't go as dark as that house even when the sun already set, duh..? Even the facade of that house was dark, hullo..?! I told the homeowner to change his son's bed arrangement and to throw away this specifically "dark" painting which wasn't there when the feng shui expert came to their house. For my mum's aunt's house, I didn't tell her to alter anything, so for my "services" she gave me 50 bucks. I should have told her I saw this teenage girl wandering around her receiving room by her grand piano, for an additional 50 bucks! Pffft!

x's: I went up the attic via the garage coz the ladder to go up there was in the garage. It was a long walk going to that room I saw in my dream that I asked my mum's uncle if there was any other door to get to the attic, and he told me there was a trap door in their bedroom closet near the bathroom. The room was exactly how I saw it in my dream, minus the carpet that my mum's uncle removed earlier this month because it was moldy and smelly.

V2O the Venue

My sis-in-law and I were invited by my mum's business associate to join them clubbin at Long Beach. The club was the best one I went in so far! There was a contest on who "dances" best in their lingerie and they were being auctioned afterwards. Good thing the sisters who invited us weren't too drunk during the auction, or else thay would have joined it too. Anyhoo, the sisters got too drunk because they knew the bartender there, his name's Mark, so we had to stop by Denny's to sober them up by having them throw up in the toilet and had them drank coffee.

Aside from the sisters getting drunk, the only thing that made me extremely uncomfortable was this old fart, he's a sexagenarian I guess, he kept on following me! And then whenever I looked his way he would wink and smile at me.

The Mix

We spent the weekend at Las Vegas, on the same hotel where Manny Pacquiao had his match with David Diaz. Mandalay Bay Hotel, as expected was crowded with FIlipinos, Mexicans, and other boxing enthusiasts. Mum, and her friends got tickets for the match, and since I wasn't a Pacman fan, I didn't watch it with them; however, it was very unforutnate for my younger brother because he wants to see the match lve as well, but my mum didn't get him a ticket assuming he wanted to go to the arcades instead. My mum also happened to forgot about my brother going to the arcade after the match was done and she started playing pai gow and blackjack at the hotel's casino. My poor brother just stayed in the hotel room and watched iCarly until mum's bf joined him and watched World Poker Tour.

I was invited by my aunt on my father's side to go up to the 64th floor of the hotel. It took me 2 hours to figure out how to get to the said floor, because first, I got directed to ride this lift that's supposed to take me up the penthouse, unfortunately, I don't have the key to activate said lift. Went back to fall in line in the front desk and the lady there gave me a map. In the vast hotel and casino, I lost my way a couple of times, until I saw The Mix, or the long line forming outside of it. Good thing my aunt got me in the guest list, I only fell in line for about an hour and so. I saw Bella Flores and Robert Jaworski got in before me, but it still didn't give me the slightest idea that I was about to go to Pacquiao's victory party. So imagine my shock when I got in that master's suite-like place and saw Chavit Singson and the Bello-ized wife of Manny looking like one of those Mexican hos I saw everyday in the mall, with this almost midget guy with bandages on his hand, yup, it was Pacman himself, alright..saw them when I was about to leave because that wasn't my crowd in that place. People there were to old and too political for me, I felt suffocated! Besides, I was wearing one of my clubbin' dresses and sexy heels, what if one of those ecchi/hentai politicians saw me and thought with their inferior head? Baka makapagtaray at mapa-away lang ako nang wala sa oras. My aunt's guestlist, Bella Flores, and Robert Jaworski should have given me a clue already what to expect.

I went back to the casino and played slots and drunk cocktails to drown my frustration. I wasn't able to take a dip in that raging water pool, and I wasn't able to get into a "decent" club since my friend from Vegas had an emergency, a gf emergency. At least luck smiled upon me and I won ten bucks playing slut, ahermn..slots.