of seas, winds and pirates

of seas, winds and... o, pirates

after much planning, delaying and cancelling, we've finally found ourselves in the center of vast open spaces with a sea of people.
we've made it through quiapo and back, without lost items such as wallets, cellphones and other semi-important stuff like... our flip-flops.

we took a jeep going to the LRT and from the station, we got down Carriedo Station. it was the first time since a very, very, very long time since i found myself amidst all different kinds of people. some were smelly, some wore this really really foul perfumes, and some wore flip-flops, a ragged shirt and torn jeans. the latter description was us.

we had to wrestle about a thousand people along narrow, stinky and ukay-ukay infested alleys before we could even see the quiapo church. when we got there, we had to go down to the underpass which was relatively new (but was looking realy old, or really old but looking relatively new) and go up again at hidalgo street. from there we were greeted by porn videos on the sidewalks, hair straightening and curling irons, hair scrungies, hair lice removers, whitening creams and all those unrelated merchandise (well maybe you could watch porn while curling or straightening your hair and applying whitening creams all over your face. and don't forget that the dog could gnaw on the hair lice remover, which by now, grosses me out).

so we made it through the same looking streets and pass by same looking merchandise and found the mecca of piracy. well, sort of.
i went there to buy the lord of the rings trilogy and maybe harry potter. but insistent comments from yuri to wait for the whole installment to be released or at least wait until 5, made me really not to buy it then.

man: "boss, porn, xrated!"
me: "hinde hinde, salamat."
man: "ano bang hinahanap niyo?"
me: "meron kayong lord of the rings trilogy?"
man: "ay meron, sandali lang... eto sir"
me: "magkano po to?"
man: "500 lang boss... original po yan eh!"
me: ULUL! don't you have any idea where you're peddling your merchandise?"
well, i didn't say the last one. macky and i just looked at each other and tried to give the least possible hint of a super-mega-overly-sarcastic laughter.

we then turned to manang (same store)
macky: "ang mahal naman manang! 45 lang dapat per CD to eh."
manang: " o sige na nga, 45 nalang."
me: "magkano yun? dali dali math yan"
macky: " 270!"
manang: "o sige, 270 nalang."
me: "o sige manang, pabile!"

i was amused to see macky as if a child inside a candy store. he was all starry eyed. yeah macky you were. and he can't get over the boxes that contain the same thing! after i got my lotr trilogy, i said i was done. i just scanned the whole place to see if i can give something like a cartoon dvd collection to my cousin. i did, and i bought the 5-in-1 dvd of dreamworks. with antz, shrek, shrek2, a shark's tale, and madagascar. what's great is it's only 50 pesos.

we rummaged through other stalls and buildlings to see what's different. well, there's none. it's actually all the same - just different places. and before we knew it, we were back where we started. so we charted back again to our homebase, the LRT station. but wait. macky still had other plans. he went inside robinson's mall.

me: "robinson's ba talaga to o pirated din na robinson's?"
macky: "haha gago"

so we finished our little pirate adventure and headed home around 6 in the evening.

o, i haven't eaten during the whole adventure and right before going home, i tagged yuri with me to chowking. i ordered lots. ended up in the toilet.

so, until the next post then.

ciao!

first entry 2006

first entry this 2006

so what have i been doing lately aside from sleeping at 5 in the morning and waking up at 3 in the afternoon and watch tv and eat only once a day and once every now and then clean the house with clutter and dust? well, do my resume.

yeah. i've already applied to companies i like to work with online. i just hope they call after my graduation so i can still spend my long vacation. hehe.

in other news, i now have an active internet connection with special thanks to destiny cable internet! and for some weird reason, the connection right now is just like the time when i was paying my bills. haha.

now, let's go to our new segment, I'VE HEARD.

i've heard that daryll was sent to california. so what are you gonna do there daryll? behave yourself ok. and oh, you've gotta tell how to get limewire pro again. the limewire i'm using sucks.

i've heard that they are not talking anymore. i'm not falling for that anymore. i still hate her anymore. lol.

i've heard that mommy will arrive here on the 27th. but i've also heard that her passport is still expired and she's still waiting for it.

i've heard that im getting rich effective tomorrow. ok i just made that up.

i've heard myself tell myself i'm hearing nothing now so i have to say my last word now.

ciao!

oh, happy new year! i hate new year resolutions so i scrapped it out this year.

christmas update

christmas update(late)

oh my gulay, i have no internet! my computer decided to not open any programs so i had to re-install my windows. i still don't know when my internet's gonna be back so prepare yourself for a long post. i typed on notepad so that i won't miss anything for a blog.
moving on.

this is a funny thing i heard when i bought my cigarettes the other day.

lady: "miss, may gift wrapper po kayo?"
storekeeper: " meron... marami... para saan?"
lady: "pang regalo.."(DUH!)

i was there beside the lady and i couldn't keep myself from smiling and eventually laughing, so i just stood there and bit my lips.

23rd. so last friday, my barkada got together for a christmas party. everyone was there. including tracy's cousin...(i'm trying to supress a laugh now) jd was also there. and funny thing is, he spent more for food than all of us. haha. it was fun becuase nobody went home early! they all went home early. haha. jd was the first to go at around 2 in the morning. then peter and karen at 5. then elisa, grace and tracy at 5:30, then macky and nolan at 7. quite a night! i just hate the fact that i had to throw about 5 more servings of pancit malabon becuase it was already spoiled. and the pichi pichi too! darn. so anyway, like i said, everyone was there and we were happy.

24th. yuri and i got up almost 3pm because we only got to sleep when everyone else left already. well. yuri slept from 11pm-3am the other night i guess. anyway we went to market market to buy some gifts. oh, we're just the typical last minute shoppers. last year was the same story. and last last year was special because pres was here. and we spent the 23rd and the 24th together. that was my most special and memorable 23rd and 24th haha!

speaking of memorable, it is official. for the first time, i spent the christmas alone hehe. i am now the scrooge, a grinch. i dunno, christmas really doesn't make me excited anymore. bah humbug. i went home at around 9ish on the 24th and i was supposed to eat noche buena househopping through my relatives' houses. but i decided to just sleep for a while. the sleep that's supposed to take only a few minutes turned to be a long one. i woke up at 3 in the morning and celebrated christmas morning eating left overs from the barkada christmas party, drinking the wine that i bought together with the chocolate cake i bought and another chocolate cake that was given to us by jd. i thought: "so... this IS christmas..." i slept at 6ish.

woke up on the 25th 3pm.haha! talk about sleeping through the whole christmas. i wanted to go out but i'm so not in the mood. macky texted me if i wanted to go with him to makati, i politely declined. he called me scrooge again. haha.
this christmas thing is really funny!
and in a matter of 3 hours, christmas will be over. yes! i'm kinda looking forward to the new year. so. until next year i guess!


27th so yesterday we watched exodus. i now know why the title is such. people should go into an exodus... out of the theaters. the movie was such a bore. the story is taken out of the lord of the rings. imagine the fellowship of the rings battling witht the uruk-hai's with aragorn leading the pack. now, imagine bong revilla leading the men into the battle with i-don't-know-whats. think of the tower of mordor. and try to guess what the tower of jay-ar (who was funnily named bagulbol) looks like. imagine frodo trying to escape mordor as it collapses in the end. again, imagine bong revilla trying to escape the tower of jay-ar also. and this just gets better. remember the legions of dwarfs, hobbits, fairies, elves and wizards battling the dark forces of mordor? now think bong revilla, aubrey miles, iya, benjie paras and mura-look alike, tolits battling jay-ar's dark forces. oh my god. i should have just watched lord of the rings!even the cinematography is like lifted straight from the lord of the rings. while frodo is going into the tower of mordor to destroy the one ring, the fellowship also is waging war against the uruk-hais, and bong revilla is trying to fight off jay-ar, and the rest of the tao's are fighting their battles, too. wow.the story does not really explain each of the person's motives. there are times when you just go "huh?! why?!" i'll cite iya having to change wardrobe when tolits was bitten by a weird frog. why?
these being said, i have to give the production, visual effects and the costume designers two thumbs up. great job. if their creativity was put into a better and original story and better actors, i guess the movie will be something we, filipinos, can be very proud of. but that's not the case.

christmas wishlist

christmas wish list

if i'll be materialistic, i want these for christmas.

clinique happy for men

hugo boss dark blue

digicams. uhmm, these are listed according to priorities haha.

sony Cyber-shot^® DSC-T5/Red Digital Camera DSC-T5/R

sony Cyber-shot^® DSC-T9 Digital Camera DSC-T91

sony Cyber-shot^® DSC-P200/R Digital Camera DSC-P200/R

i'm not really into having my ears always blasting with music, but i just like having it. it's so freaking small!

iPod nano

yep, yep. i'm making parinig to all those friends, foes, families and all those reading this.haha.

ciao!

read if youre bored, dont if youre not

read if you're bored, don't if you're not

my day starter

yesterday, my day started late. i woke up at 3 in the afternoon. i am supposed to go to school to submit the CD of my thesis. i was too cranky so i decided to read friends' blogs. then i got bored then hit the showers and i was all ready to go. i went to school and arrived almost 5. the department should be closing at 5:30. but i made it.

the cd cover i made looked like this!


front back

after the bittersweet moments of walking through the corridors of my university - the place where i used to study (stress on the tense) and practically built my world in - i went inside the chapel. i had my very own baccalaureate prayer. hehe. i just sat there and thought about what i have gone through, even in pre-school, elementary and high school, what i am going through and what i will go through. *sigh*

i then went back to UM. where, again, i usually hang out with friends. together wiht my friends, we played card for 3 and a half hours. i literally almost dropped because i was so exhausted both from thinking of my cards and standing up. i was so hungry i hadn't eaten since i woke up. the only thing in my stomach is the cold coffee i had at 3. then someone brought carbonarra. yay! haha. it was really not for me but the one who was offered it didn't like carbonarra. so i just helped myself to a really generous serving of it. i think i ate almost 3/4 of what isn't mine. haha.

casino filipino

the friends whom i was playing with, brenda and mea, were all so giddy to go already. we're going to the casino with abner and yuri. i don't play but i just go there with them. apparently, i enjoy watching their facial expression when they win or lose. i think i went with them enough to make a conclusion that when abner loses he smokes frequently on the table, eyes and shoulders drooped, all quiet and has this really serious potanginang-yan-ang-laki-ng-talo-ko-pero-babawi-ako look on his face. yuri on the other hand, is all fake-smiles and all sabi-ko-na-eh-dapat-tinaya-ko-na-yung-500-ko-eh. hay funny. but there's one common thing about these two funny gamblers: all the gamblers in table will be irritated by their banter when they're winning. haha. one will look at them wryly and the other will try make them see that they are too loud.

i played. hahahahahahahahaha. i was just watching yuri play pontoon and i immediately got the hang of it. i was betting on my mind and all my bets were just winning. so i told yuri to bet me 200 on his. i lost. i think i really have this ill luck on gambling haha. last time i bet, which was my first time, beginner's luck turned into beginner's bad luck. anyway i was not to make myself owe yuri 200 so i sat down on the table and bet 100 just to be sure. i won. then i bet 200 again and i won again. i don't exactly remember the whole thing but my highest earnings were 450. yeah yeah, it's JUST 450 but like i said, i don't gamble. anyway, yuri told me to bet my extra 50 pesos to the tie where winning is 1:10. i thought so, too. but i just let it slip away. but wuddya know, i had a double jack! fuck it! i should have won 500 from that ugly 5 P10 chips!
anyway so abner had 8 grand. yuri had 2. mea had 1. hundred hahahaha. and brenda lost 1,200.

mr. kabab and abs-cbn

we then ate at mr. kabab again. oh my god. that has to be my most satisfying meal. i only had keema and one a half rice and a yoghurt shake but i was so full! you gotta try the yoghurt shake! i'm craving for one right now. too bad i don't have a digicam to take pictures of it. boohoo.

brenda lives literally beside abs-cbn, just a kilometer away from mr. kebab. so we went to her house after. but her ex boyfriend was there so we took off right away. abner and brenda were ex's too. lol.

to marikina and antipolo.

abner decided that we should do misa de gallo - in taytay. since we have nothing to do and to worry about, yuri and i decided why not. so we did. we first went to abner's friend's house in marikina. for about thirty minutes, i was just laying there on the car seat trying to get my forty winks. i couldn't of course, my inarte body just wouldn't. after a while, abner got inside the car again, with yuri snoring at the backseat. we drove straight to antipolo city. tried to sleep again in abner's house but again to no avail. yuri of course easily dozed off. i was in one bed and the two were in another. i was just there laying trying to scare myself thinking there was just a ghost that grabbed my leg.
abner started for the bathroom while i was just there staring at the ceiling, yuri snoring. we went to krizka's house at about 3 am. imagine the length the roads between antipolo and taytay - we were in krizka's house in 7 minutes.

father and his homily

we went to san juan bautista cathedral in taytay, rizal for the simbang gabi. The cathedral was packed with people. I think that was the most attended mass i've ever been to. it was filled to the gardens and people are sprawled outside. anyway, the highlight of the mass was father's homily. it just went on and on and on and on...
after 20 minutes of going around the bushes and adding some commentaries on the social injustices that infect society, add to that the economic woes of the country during the year, he said "mga kapatid, ito ang pagnilaynilayan natin.." you can literally hear other people gasp for relief. but no. father went on, " sapagkat ang kapaskuhan ay panahon ng pagmamahalan, panahon ng paglimot sa kasalanan ng iba at..." then the crowd was quiet again. between father's patriotic speech about loving the philippines, and i think i heard him ask me if i've already fed my dog, the crowd grew restless. i think what father should understand is people in general have very short attention span, add to it the fact that it is 430 in the morning and the cathedral is packed. then we heard him say again "at mga kapatid, ito ang pagnilaynilayan natin sa araw na ito..." then everybody gasped again. but father was in his mood to talk, mind you. he just kept going. he's like the energizer bunny priest, the only thing lacking is the big drum.
by this time, the people were already talking to one another. abner, krizka and i even laughed at the choir who seem to be having their own sermon. we were trying to guess what they were speaking. according to me, one choir member said to her co-member "anong ulam niyo mamaya?" then the co-member replied "ay di ko pa alam. di pa ko namamalengke. baka pagkatapos nitong misa" the people in front of us who were also standing during the whole mass started to sit on the ground. time passed and it was already 5 am. after a few minutes, again, the priest said again " at iyan mga kapatid ang ating pagnilaynilayan natin sa araw na ito..." the people didn't mind him. "sa ngalan ng ama, ng anak..." then one amazing thing happenned.
the whole cathedral clapped their hands. the three of us were all laughing our asses off! we even forgot that we were inside the cathedral.
what's worse is, the only thing that is somehow connected to the gospel in his sermon was about two minutes after he started the sermon. everything else was just "what?!"
it's funny how all the readers and songs were hurried. the offertory was a breeze. after the communion, the three of us decided to go to the entrance of the cathedral so we won't be lost in the crowd when the mass is over.
after mass, we went back to the car to wake yuri, who was still sleeping. we went to the nearby jollibee for our 6 o'clock breakfast. then off to the tabi-tabi of the cathedral to buy bibingka.

after 40 minutes of waiting for the bibingka to cook, we went back to krizka's house. there we stayed until until 9am. abner slept, yuri slept, i watched the tv. no matter how hard i try to sleep, i just can't.

so that was what happened yesterday and today in a hurried, lengthy blog. i have no sleep. we got home at 11 and slept and woke up again at 3 and slept again until 630. damn.

i just wish i have my normal sleeping habit again. now.

ciao!

the wednesday group

the wednesday group

so we still continued the wednesday ritual last night. with abner, jen and yuri, we flocked to G4 to see what's on. we already watched harry potter, in her shoes and prime. the choice was narrowed to king kong and kiss, kiss, bang, bang. we decided we watch king kong.

we ate at wendy's, which by the way i have ben craving for since early this week, and ordered burger and fries biggie size. it was heaven for my palate but hell for my tummy. after the meal, i rushed to the lounge only to find out that the three cubicles were occupied. darn it. then the most disgusting thing happened. "BBHOOOOT, PLOP, BBHHOOOOOT, PROOOOOOOP, PLOP"
it was like a chorale of shit. all three. a trio: a bass, a tenor and an alto. shet kung shet. after hearing (and smelling) it, my "bad feeling" suddenly went away. yay. now i had to endure a three hour movie trying not to feel the feeling anymore. i had to go back to g4 anymore.

got back, usual routine which consists of smoking, talking and virtual tennis. when we got inside the movie house, i regretted doing all that. the movie was jampacked and we had to stand and wait for a seat to be vacant. dammit.



king kong was a visual treat. jackson made sure that in all those three hours, you won't get bored and think about if you left your house door open or if you already fed your pet dog. each part of the movie was wow. there was only one time when we were at a loss. we got inside the cinema a little late so we didn't see the opening credits. and we wondered, "is this really king kong?"

those freakish natives were so disgusting. they like to bash tourist's heads for fun. gross.and they like to bathe themselves in sunlight that they all turned black. just kidding. i dunno why they were all so black. it was never explained. and their human trophies were all over the place. in the middle and the end of the movie, you think: "where are these people now?"

so king kong was supposed to paint fear in each person's faces. but he did not. i don't know but i haven't watched king kong movies before so i found him a little adorable. it's as if i want him as a pet. king kong is such a braggart he's cute. and you feel so much sympathy for him especially in the end.
i just don't understand why anne's bones were not crushed, dislocated and broken after king kong's run and many battles. imagine being hoisted up then thrown back down, they grabbed again, then suddenly shift right, then left. i was literally feeling the pain in her bones. but she doesn't seem to mind. it's may be nice to at least make her a little human. especially in the end when she has to climb the empire state building's zenith.
back to king kong. his antics were funny and half the movie, the audience were all laughing.

that shallow hal guy is still irritating. you still want to crush every part of his body for his arrogance, stupidity and.. well.. luck. if you hated him in that chick flick shallow hal, i guess you'll hate him more here. he's just the character you love to hate - MORE. he turned to be the villain in the movie, which was a surprise because i thought king kong was the villain.

brody was a little freaky though. and baldwin - a little lackluster performance. but wait, this is not a movie critique.

so anyway, king kong was a visual treat and a heart wrencher movie. haha, you just get to fall in love with an ape that in the end, you feel sorry for this big poor ape.

it was the longest time i've ever stood up for a movie. we didn't get a seat. we were standing for three hours! but it was worth it. i'll end with a quote from the movie "... and beauty killed the beast"

ciao!

post secret

post secret

wala lang

wala lang

wala lang.

games on

well if that's the case, too

then the GAME'S ON bitch!

prepare yourself.

to there and back

to there and back

breathe.

i just came home and it's almost 3. we were all around metro manila. first, makati, then pasig, then quezon city, then back to pasig, then makati.

i guess i haven't mentioned it here but we watch a movie every wednesday. a good boys' night out. it started last month and i don't know how long it's gonna go on. anyway we watched the fog tonight.

so how was it?
it was a wreck. the movie started out good with all those scary but not so in-your-face-gory-bloody-so-scream-your-lungs-out kind of a thing. the build up was actually good. from the moment tom welling was shown on the boat up to the time when.. well... ghosts actually started appearing. i just thought it's so wrong. ghosts should be ghosts. i mean, they should not be always seen except for some special reason. so seeing ghosts for almost half of the movie isn't scary anymore. you just get used to it. the ending was very ho-hum. what's with all those reincarnating people anyway? it's just so overused.
you might want to scare yourself very much at the beginning because it's gonna be a bore from the middle to the end.
damn this is a bad critique.

we then went to the infamous mr. kebab. abner and yuri and jen all kept talking about it. i just don't know what the fuss was all about. well, when i got there, it's a quaint place. it's open air and that's plus points for us smokers. abner said that an iranian owns it. everything on the menu was so foreign to me. tell me please, what's a burnyayi?
abner was so hyped up to let me try his (and supposedly, theirs) favorite, keema. when i first saw it, it was like your usual sisig complete with calamansi. abner immediately fixed mine. he literally made the ground beef swim in this what seemed like shawarma sauce to me (looks like mayonnaise) and a little of hot sauce. the rice (which also swam in the shawarma sauce) came with butter topping which i thought was, "uh-huh, so when did iranians learn how to use butter?" anyway, i think it's good. the beef was tender and the flavors were awesome. i guess i just didn't let them know that i liked it so they were all disappointed with my reaction. haha. hello, i ate like 2 cups of rice with mashed potato as side dish, chicken steak and a large soda. i was so full! i couldn't even finish my favorite yoghurt shake. in the middle of eating (and disappointment from them haha) i really felt like barfing all over the place already. good thing it was open air so i got to smoke 2 sticks right after. haay. pig. and the best part is it's very, very affordable!
ok, i really feel writing this shit so i made up these grades.

interior - 2 stars out of five. it was a bit messy and crowded. no iranian theme at all.
staff - 3 stars. they were nice but they were a bit slow. i asked for a plastic cup and they gave me plastic bag. how nice.
food - 4 spoons. i only tried one thing. but i guess all the other are as great. i just don't think i'll try the ox's brain anytime soon.
parking - 2 stars. the place was small so parking was also small. fit for 10 cars i think.
price - 5 stars. very. very. affordable. you can do a full meal complete with yoghurt shake for just 80 pesos.
over all - 3.2 stars

haay. now i'm tired. thinking about the stars made me sleepy hehe.

ciao for now!