Monday, September 27, 2004

buffalo

say buffalo

My new favorite, completely grammatical sentence is "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." Let me break it down for you- a similar sentence would be something like "The tiny animals that tigers eat often eat other tiny animals." American bison from Buffalo, New York can be called “Buffalo buffalo.” (adjective, noun) So, replacing every noun (and adjective) in the sentence with “Buffalo buffalo,” then “The Buffalo buffalo that Buffalo buffalo eat often eat other Buffalo buffalo.” Now, “buffalo” can also be a verb (“to overwhelm, to intimidate”). So, replacing the verbs with buffalo, “The Buffalo buffalo that Buffalo buffalo buffalo often buffalo other Buffalo buffalo.” Now, removing unnecessary words (like in “Tiny animals tigers eat eat tiny animals”) we have “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.”

For more amusing language tricks, consult “The Language Instinct,” by Steven Pinker.

Saturday, September 25, 2004

Joseph... dream on

Joseph... dream on

just last thursday, i have auditioned for a part in a musical, Joseph the Dreamer. i never really thought about what i was doing but i know for sure that i have long dreamed of playing a part in a musical. just when i thought of dropping the thought (or Dream!) about that, my friend told me that the company that he is in is looking for talented people to play a part in their musical. and boy, am i talented! wahahaha.. so i auditioned. i never really thought that i was going to sing. i know, i know that its a musical so one is expected to sing. maybe i just wasnt well aware of what i am doing. so i sang. and they told me to sing something MORE theatrical. and i did. it wasnt theatrical, though, but i just thought that they want to hear a more "theater friendly" voice - something that is loud and audible, crisp and clear. and i sang "lead me lord."bragging aside, i never really tried that hard but they got me. and they said that if i have the commitment to practice four times a week, then im sure to bag one of the lead roles. :)

ok.. ive done one of my wishes. and it feels SO GREAT!
ciao!

taft: ang pagmamasid

taft: ang pagmamasid

habang naglalakad ako sa taft pauwi, nakakita ako ng isang nanlilimos na babae. mukha siyang may sakit. kalunos lunos ang hitsura niya. nanghihingi siya ng barya sakin. karaniwan, hindi ko pinapansin ang mga ganitong eksena kapag nasa taft ako. bahagi na kasi sa lugar na ito ang mga ganitong pangitain - mga batang nanghihingi ng barya at mga taong grasa, mga taong hindi raw makauwi sa probinsya at nanghihingi ng konting tulong, mga taong namimigay ng mga stickers na "LOVE GOD" at pagkuha mo, sabay ang singil sa iyo ng pera, si jenny na matandang lalaking nanghihngi lagi ng barya, mga taong nakahandusay sa tabi at may maliit na basong plastik mula sa mcdonalds na katapat nito. at sa araw araw na paglalakad mo dito, hindi mo na ito mapapansin.
ngunit sa araw na ito, iba ang tingin ng lola sa akinl. para bang nangungusap sa akin ang kanyang mga mata - "iho, konting tulong lang"di ko namalayang dumudukot na ko sa aking bulsa at naibigay ko na ang bente na sanay pamasahe ko pauwi. di ko nalang ito pinansin. diretso nalang ako sa hagdan paakyat ng LRT (na pinamumugaran din ng mga taong nabanggit ko) sa pag akyat ko, napaisip ako - "ano kaya ang pakiramdam ng mamuhay sa lansangan? ang gumising araw araw nang hindi alam kung paano ito matatapos, kung pano ako kakain. paano kung nagkasakit ako? paano kung sa isang araw ng paggising ko sa mga eskinita ng lansangan, nalaman kong mamatay na pala ako?"

maraming mga eksena ang naglaro sa isip ko. isang araw - paano ko ito gagamitin?kaya naman mula sa pag akyat ko sa LRT hanggang sa pag bili ko ng tiket at pag hihintay sa LRT, gumawa ako ng mga dapat kong gawin bago ako mamatay. marami ito. at pinagisipan ko talagang mabuti ito. mula vito cruz hanggang sa gil puyat at sa libertad, nagiisip ako. halos di ko na maramdaman ang mga taong bumabangga sa akin. siguro pag mamatay ka na, magiging parang isang panaginip ang mga pangyayari. parang ang buong paligid mo ay gumagalaw at ikaw ang nasa gitna, nagmamasid; parang mga isda sa akwaryum. lahat lumalaki at nagiiba ang hugis. at sabay ng ilusyong ito ang mga pangarap na parang natutunaw sa bawat paggalaw ng mga bagay sa paligid.

sa pagdating ng oras na ito:

1. tell my loved ones especially my siblings and
my mother how i love them as much as i could
2. to play a major part in a
musical
3. sing in front of a live audience
4. bungee jump
5. climb a
mountain and reach the summit
6. watch the sun set on manila bay
7. scuba
dive in any reef
8. go to italy and the vatican
9. go to france
10. go
to brazil
11. scream to the top of my lungs on top of eiffel tower
12. eat
buckets of ice cream
13. ride the longest and scariest roller coaster in the
world, but if worse comes to worst, ill be happy in enchanted's space
shuttle
14. watch a catterpillar spin its coccoon and wait for it to
emerge
15. catch a butterfly
16. teach a myna or a parrot to talk
17.
color my dog, honeybunch, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet at
the same time
18. ...

marami rami pa ang mga kasunod. ngunit siguro, hihinto muna ako sa mga ito..

Wednesday, September 22, 2004

the thing with long breaks

the thing with long breaks

my god. its been two long weeks since the start of my very long breaks. i hate it.
this is the time when we all think about things. and hell, have i been thinking up things. big things. too big for me to divulge.
ill post someday if i have the guts. but for now, lets just leave this at this.

Friday, September 17, 2004

sleepy

sleepy

im sleepy.. *yawn*
and im still here in school
what to do
i have a play to watch at 7
and its just 5
two hours
seems forever
but, heck, im stuck
im here
so i have to deal with it
pardon me

i should have gone home
but instead i stayed here
i should have slept
but instead i kept talking with friends
no complaints though
im just sleepy
and tired
and bored
and really hot
damn its hot in here..

Tuesday, September 14, 2004

gym rat

gym rat

its almost 1 am and i just came from the gym.. tama na tawa. basta yun, nag gym ako.. pero syempre right after kumain agad ako. kapagod no. try mo mag bench press, incline dumbell press at iba pang press sa katawan ko, tignan ko kung di kayo mapagod at magutom.
so we went straight to jollibee, and o, 24 hours na ang jollibee evangelista. so yun order galore ako. isang regular yum, coke, fries, pancit palabok pati yung bago nilang pocket pie na chicken something. basta masarap. ayun ubos ko lahat. at ubos din ang pagod ko sa kaka workout.
for today yun lang muna.. actually second ko to today.
pero may dag dag pa ko, nangaway pala ako ng employee ng GLOBAL CABLE kasi ba naman pinutulan kami ng cable. haller di naman sila nagpapadala ng mga bills and notices sakin. kapal. eh maraming beses ko na rin silang sinabihan ng schedule ko pra nasa bahay ako at ako mismo ang makatanggap ng bill. ewan ko ba sa mga tangan yon at hanggang ngayon, magdadalawang taon na akong naka subscribe sa kanila, 2 bills pa lang ang nakukuha ko, yung isa disconnection notice pa.. mga leche. binarurot ko tuloy siya ng english at di siya makasagot. dinagdagan ko pa ng mga hyfalluting words (tama ba spelling?). tapos tuwing magsasalita siya, bigla akong magsasalita na "EH ANO NAMAN NGAYON? DI YUN YUNG ISSUE, MALI ANG SAGOT MO!"syempre di niya na-carry at nag sorry nalang. ayan lumabas tuloy ang pagka RICARDO ko.. pero aanhin ko ang sorry? aanhin nga naman ng kabayo ang patay kung damo na siya. labo. malabo na utak ko.

sige na pwede na kayo mag comment sa tag board. sabihin niyo na lahat ng gusto niyong sabihin. otay? aight!
ciao!

Monday, September 13, 2004

dead bored


dead.bored




its the start of my second term today. just finished my 7 am accounting class. i got nothing to do so here i am in the lab doing this bored blog. there i said it. im bored. got nothin to do. and to think that i am going through the same routine every monday, wednesday and friday for the whole 3 months of my term. coolness. NOH?!

Sunday, September 12, 2004

one day.isang araw

one day. isang araw

saturday: woke up at exactly 1:30 in the afternoon and still my eyes still feel like sleeping. but my mind told me that i should wake up or miss lunch. i woke up. i didnt feel like myself. well for the past week, i havent been feeling myself. maybe because i lack sleep or maybe because of the fact that classes are beginning this monday. back to reality.rewind.yesterday i woke up at exactly 5:30 in the morning. i was supposed to go to la salle to adjust my subjects. adjustments start at 8 but im there early because i want to be in a class that has only 5 slots left. so i left at 6 and was there by 6:20. i even ran after the taxi because i left my wallet inside. imagine running instantly from 0 kph to 40 kph. dont ask me, i just estimated. and yes i did get my wallet back. when i reached the conservatory where i am supposed to adjust, i was surprised that i was the first one in my college and the only person there was this girl from the college of liberal arts. di ko alam kung anong iisipin ko by that time pero natatawa ako sa babae kasi parang feeling ko wala naman dapat binabagsak sa CLA.. im not saying anything ah.. o well, so uupo dapat ako sa bench pero may naglilinis na janitor. i asked myself: "am i really THAT early??" so umupo ako sa may stairs malapit sa bench.. 6:30, still no people. kaya minabuti ko nalang na bumili ng kape sa mcdo at nagyosi sa tabi.. pampagising. pagbalik ko, surprise surprise.. ako pa rin ang tao. 6:45 may mga dumadating nang tao at mostly sa college ko. kaya di na ko umalis sa linya ko. i was still waiting for jd to come, magaadjust din kasi siya. dumating siya ng 8 am. from 7-8 nakaupo lang ako sa hagdan at nag iisip. sakit na nga ng puwet ko. at nagsisimula na ring sumikat ang araw. direkta sa inuupuan ko yung araw. bad trip. pero andun pa rin ako nakaupo kahit tagaktak ang pawis ko sa katutulo. i hate adjustments. feeling ko tuloy ng panahong yun, natatae ako na hindi. tinatamad na ko mag type kaya bibilisan ko na. so nakaadjust kami ng 9 tapos i got all the section that i wanted. whew. at least hindi nasayang yung gising ko. tapos sinamahan ko si jd sa casino tapos dumaan kami ng bahay tapos umalis ulit papuntang Avon para sa bra ni jd tapos pumunta sa building ng smart sa makati kasi kukunin ko yung book at ibibigya ko yung birth certificate ko sa tita ko for my passport. tapos umuwi kami para sunduin si yuri tapos punta kami ulit sa Avon para i claim yung bra. tapos punta kami ng Capt K sa bandang Manila domestic airport. hindi siya girly bar or anything, sinugba lang siya.. tapos umuwi kami tapos dapat punta kami sa wake ng lola ni patty, pero nailibing na pala nung isang araw. aanhin pa nga naman ang damo kung patay na ang kabayo? in our case, aanhin pa ang dalaw kung nailibing na pala ang patay? anyway so umuwi nalang kami. pagod na pagod ako.


fast rewind: last tuesday, nag gym ako.. oo seneryoso ko yung director sa agency na magpalaki ako ng katawan. sige tumawa kayo, pag lumaki katawan ko iuuntog ko kayo sa muscle ko. pramis yan. and masyado kong syang seneryoso at nanakit ang mga masel ko sa buong katawan na hindi ko man lang alam na meron pala. o well.. sige tawa pa. eto mas nakakatawa: kasabay ko yung vaseline boy sa gym, warren yata pangalan nun. labo. naisip ko, sikat na pala ang gym na pinupuntahan ko. taray.


fast forward: bukas punta kami sa bahay ni jd kasi may gagawin kami. secret nga lang. pero sa gagawin namin bukas, yung mga inimbita namin, di pa siguradong pupunta. patawa. ayun lang gusto ko lang sabihin. pati si ungga mag fo-floorwax sakin bukas. salamat. di na mukhang sahig yung sahig ko eh.
ayan. tapos na.
there.. shoo fly, dont bother me.. SHOO!

Friday, September 10, 2004

stupid la salle

stupid my.lasalle

ive just been from g4 to watch THE NOTEBOOK.. it was a sad story, but i knew it anyway coz i read it before.. spent 300 today.. thats too much for me..

and now its almost 2 and im freaking over my.lasalle here coz it is UBER SLOW!!! damn! i have to know the subjects which im adjusting tomorrow.. yes yes adjustments.. they make my college life a living hell.. well, apart from accounting ofcourse..

and now im still stuck in the first page of the freakin website.. damn, they put so many things here that our lowly computer cant do easily.. talk about a 33.4Kbps connection.. YAY! not...

im still waiting

and waiting...

wow.. it uploaded at last. only it says 'page cannot be displayed'

very nice..

i have to wake up at 6 am pa tomorrow .. damn..

Tuesday, September 7, 2004

summer lovin, happenned so fast...

first and foremost, i am not ranting, complaining or anything. lets just get that clear. its been exactly a week and 3 days of vacation, and still, i havent got anything accomplished. i havent cleaned the house, or even hired someone to clean it. i havent gone for a good break, i mean, a REAL vacation like go to somewhere where i can unwind and relax. i havent done anything to myself that excites me or at least that made me interested. all i ever did this 2 week long vacation is spend, spend and spend more. i cant believe that a thousand pesos couldnt last me a full 4-5 days. i dunno whats happenning (and they dont have a clue, theyll fall in love and heres the bottom line, our trios down to two, HEHEHEHE youre singing eh?!) but i just cant control my expenditures. now my academic life: i was able to get my coursecards last week and the grades made me happy, spare the commercial law and accounting. YEAH YEAH accounting again. i just hate that course and i dunno what im doing there - literally. dont you just hate it when everything, as in EVERYTHING is happenning just how you expect it to be except ONE DAMN THING that you cant control? dont tell me to study, been there, done that. and i dont like to sing my shoulda, woulda, coulda's now. accounting and bryan is just so wrong. i think whoever's reading this already KNOWS what happenned.. hihihihi.. but im not telling anyone.
and o, ill soon be a ninong! yay! first time ko eh.. on september 25. however, there are now 3 FERNAN's in the reyes' household. first is MOIR.. then some 16 years later, there is Louis Fernan.. then 4 years after there's FERNAN.. im still waiting for another Fernan though.. but i hope that next Fernan will exist long after I die, well maybe at least after i loose my social life.. as if i still have one! LOL..
o by the way, im so enjoying this revamping of my blog. and it kept me online for almost 5 hours just editing and looking for layouts that would fit me. i just hope that you enjoy the sights and sounds here..(" its like a total experience! " - ac girl)anyway im posting some more pics right now coz ive been trying to post pics since forever (if you read my past blogs, you would know), its just now that im able to... :) but i promise tthis will just be one pic.. or a couple.. or picSSS.. hehe.. (:


my mom and tita marita in cali



my stupid brother(right)


and this is the best one!


me and my cuz enzo!


hehe so thats it! shoo!


Monday, September 6, 2004



just trying out the pics.. well.. here it is..

Friday, September 3, 2004

i dont wanna put a title coz its title-less or maybe untitled, but i put that in already so its this

sheesh!
its been so long since i last posted here and things, both good and bad have happenned to me, countless if i might say. and it will be tiring for both you and me to put it all here for you to read.

HOWEVER, i can always just run through it. my finals for accounting and commercial law is over. i got my course cards yesterday. i started my 2week long vacation already and i got myself into an agency last saturday and had my very first casting last monday. yes yes yes. its so hilarious its pathetic, but i swear its true. *laughs really hard* and i firmly believe that i didnt get it. but whats more pathetic than that is that the director(i dont know how to call him/her) told me to beef up so he could enter me to the bodyshots. *laughs really harder* i swear i could have almost fallen off my seat when he said that. ok enough, im puking all over the place with what im saying here.

ANYWAY, vacation for me is really boring.(yeah listen to me rant again) but i like this better than not knowing what to do next for deadlines and quizzes and reports. just yesterday, after the coursecards, yuri and i met our friend rr and elisa in smb. we just went there and did nothing but at least i was able to see my friends again. we met them at a videoke booth and after that just sat and talked in a coffee shop. we bought a new keyboard and mouse and a mic. and oh, by the way, im so proud of yuri coz he passed all of his subjects! *YAY* then we got home. its friday night here and i sorta like to go out again, even if its just me, myself and i. but i chose to stay here in the house and just RELAX. however i cant. theres just too many things to do here. we havent cleaned the house since, ummm, december?! sheesh.. i mean i clean up every now and then but i really need to CLEAN the house - a general cleaning. stop.
one achievement i was able to reach was to read the da vinci code for just 1 and a half days. hehe.. now i regret doing that coz i have nothing more to read during my before-sleep and nothing-to-do-time.
ok this is it for me. ciao!