daily ramblings of a 20-something yuppie who wants to be a bum. nonsense babbles about working, missing college, basketball, the seattle storm and life in general.

10/30/2005

40 year old what?

last night, lowla and i watched 40 year old virgin in gateway. it felt weird. coz you see, i haven't really watched that much (or anything at all) during the past couple of months.

anyway, what's weirder is that this guy that usually checks the tickets before you go in, he literally asked me what my age is! haller, i mean, is the movie even for those 18 and above? lowla told me it's rated pg-13. don't i look 13? gaaad.

but then again, i always get those kinds of questions. like when i went to the university infirmary (infirmatay daw) when i was in my 5th year in college and the lady there told me it wasn't yet time for the incoming freshman checkups. like hello, fine, my mom was with me that time but that was only because i was too freaked of the blood that appeared in my left eye.

anyway, back to the movie - well, yeah, i got asked about my age again. and i told lowla that if that happened to me, say, around freshman or sophomore year, i'd have been pissed. but no, not now. we laughed when the guy asked me that.

guy : anong age na po nila?
me (looking at him weirdly) : uh, uh, 23?


hehe. at least natatanong ako ng ganun. eh si jumyr, never pa. hehehe.



spent the day lying down and sleeping. ah, this is the good life.

cara and i's movie list during the long weekend includes the following:
  • stitch has a glitch
  • mulan 2
  • school of rock (again, sheesh, when will she ever stop watching that movie?)
  • mean girls
  • finding neverland


bought myself a creative muvo. yayness!

Currently Watching: School of Rock
Currently Reading: Terry Goodkind : Naked Empire
Currently Listening: Heart : Alone

10/28/2005

deepest pit

...well almost.

things started going downhill the moment i woke up. and i'm still sliding down the endless oblivion.

i'm irritated, and angry, and confused and i don't know wtf is happening to me.

can something rescue me from this horrible day?



This Is My Life, Rated
Life:

4.7
Mind:

4.8
Body:

6
Spirit:

4.2
Friends/Family:

4.7
Love:

5.4
Finance:

4.8
Take the Rate My Life Quiz

10/27/2005

yebah

wala kaming pasok ng oct 31, nov1 and nov4. that will make only nov 2 (wed) and nov 3 (thurs) the days that we have to wake up and slouch our way towards the office.



proclamation



yayness!

46.

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10/26/2005

erg oldies

wondering what happened to kuya marc's blog. hmmmm. liked his photography pa naman. ano kaya nangyari dun?



bwiset di ko mainstall yung nba live. bwiset.

en por dat, inaasar ako ni dodi. wimpy sport daw ang basketball. bwiset. blech. sa yo na yan football mo. palibhasa nanalo na naman ata ang new england at ang storm ko ay natanggal sa first round ng playoffs (here comes the bitterness again...drat!).



been chatting with elai over chikka and ym. nakabili na ng laftaf ang lola mo. astig. sana maayos lang siya doon. di bale magaling naman mag-nihongo yun eh.



just found out from fez that joey's in his team daw. astig naman yun.



mangjoy is out of town - meaning nasa singapore ang lola mo. grabe nagulat ako nung wi-nay-em ko siya at sumagot siya nasa airport daw siya ng singapore. wirdo.



ngayon ko lang narealize, ang babata na pala ng mga tao sa erg. pfft. wala na ko halos kilala, maliban dun sa mga naabutan ko pa. sheesh. at malapit na ang december. enggweek na itow.

i better cut this short. baka kung saang reminiscing na naman mapunta tong entry na to. hehehehe.

10/24/2005

welcome to the planet

...welcome to existence.
...everyone's here...everyone's here...
...everybodys watching you now...
everybody waits for you now...
what happens next? what happens next?

- Switchfoot, Dare You To Move

i'm so tired. whoever said i should get so little sleep over the weekend? stayed up til 2 sunday morning, slept about a couple of hours and went on with the blasted reformatting. bagal talaga ng installation. blech.

i was supposed to go somewhere yesterday pero di natuloy. oh well. next time i guess. but i swear, if it gets postponed one more time, grrrr na talaga. :x peace tayo lowla! :D

so yun, di nga natuloy so i forced my sleepy behind to go to sm and buy those damned NiCad batteries for the phone sa bahay. para na kasing tanga yung phone. hanggang 5 mins na lang ang tawag - nitong isang araw nga 10 secs na lang - at mamamatay na lang siya. astig di ba? parang tanga eh.

anyway, so pagpunta ko sa sm, i was able to find those rechargeable batteries pero generic na lang, wala na yung Uniden talaga. olats. oh well. eh basta maayos na yung phone, halleluiah!

after some chitchats over the phone, i finally convinced myself to take a much-needed and long-awaited nap (oo, nap lang, tsssshh). was able to sleep for 2 hours because cara was telling me to stop wailing and banging my guitar and to doze off instead. buti na lang.



anyway, so bangenge ang drama ko ngayon. ang sakit sa ulo. was half-asleep while in the mrt and in the prc-mantrade jeep. uber-bangenge talaga. di pa ata gumagana ang utak ko ngayon. ampanget. blech.

oh well.



somebody screams and i'm gushing my load
everyone knows the score
dropped from a dream i don't know what i know
getting my feet to the floor

i'm tired of dying here alone
but you can set me free
i'm wired and lying here too stoned
to know what i could be

dropped from a dream with a head full of love
nowhere to give it away
one magazine and a head full of love
hate every beautiful day

i'm tired of dying here alone
but you can set me free
i'm wired and lying here too stoned
to know what i could be

- Superdrag, Garmonbozia

10/22/2005

bwiset.

Til now I always got by on my own
I never really cared until I met you

- Heart, Alone



Thursday night I thought I could go to the ERG TS/Sem-ender party in Bustos, Bulacan. I even talked with Lolo Lau regarding our trip. But boohoo, I couldn't go coz I've been sick for the past two weeks and I desperately need all the bed rest that I can get.

Lo and behold. I'm at the office at 915. Saturday morning. I should still be sleeping and resting. I hate this life. Pfft.



During one of the very rare times that I get to use the PC at home, the very same PC that I managed to maintain for a year without any major incidents (normal worms and whatnots that xp is known for), nag-hang pa siya. Anak ng tipaklong talaga.

Demon is so...argh...Parang tanga. Can somebody hit him in the head and tell him that his games are making my system haywire? Punyemas nakikigamit na nga lang eh. As if naman siya namumrublema pag nasisira.



So the itenerary for this weekend must include the dreary reformatting the PC and reinstalling whatever it is that's needed to be installed.

Maybe I shouldn't reinstall XP anymore. Maybe I should just let RedHat be the OS. That way, they wouldn't know how to install whatever games they want to install.

Nyemas.



Been starting on that book (The SandMan Book of Dreams) MangJoy gave me last Christmas. Yeah, yeah, my MRT reading isn't light anymore. Nauubusan na kasi ako ng mababasa eh. Sawa na ko sa Harry Potter and my Terry Goodkind paperbacks are worn out (kasalanan ni Cara to eh). Eh tas kinuha pa ni Chris (or ni Art-Art) yung Paboritong Libro ni Hudas ko. Yun pa naman yung pangtanggal ko ng boredom sa mala-impyernong 30-minute travel from Buendia to North Avenue.



Storm Update

LJ sits out indefinitely and could possibly miss the remainder of the WNBL season after just two games with the Canberra Caps. The stress fracture in her left shin is the culprit.

Sue celebrated her birthday last October 16. Belated Happy Birthday Birdy!



We were supposed to do some testing last night. Minor testing though, only those stuff that had been submitted by me, my seatmate Stan, Morris up front and Tito Art-Art.

I was brushing my teeth inside the CR before we proceed with the testing and then the lights slowly died out. I grabbed my toothbrush and toothpaste and walked in the darkness of the hallway.

Pakshet katakot.

I got to the lobby and Art-Art and the Blast ThirdParty peeps are chatting with the ExportBank Business Center staff. We were chatting when I remembered I forgot my toothbrush cap. Hehe. So I dragged KatFaus to the CR to get it, eh sobrang dilim, para kaming tanga, tili nang tili.

Buti nagkailaw din agad. Whew.

We couldn't start the testing though. Kasi namatay yung mga servers nung nagbrown-out and hindi naman ako back-end so di ko alam pano i-start-up yun or something. Atsaka lumayas na si Tito Art-Art magbabasketball daw siya.

Called up Lowla and after some coaxing from her I eventually decided to go home at 8 and break my routine of getting out of the office at 930pm.

KatFaus and I were praying while in the elevator na sana wag namang magbrownout, utang na loob. Claustrophobic pa naman ako. Shet. Buti na lang mabilis yung elevator. It took us about 5 -7 seconds til we got down to the Ground Floor from 24th.

Eyun. Mamya na lang ulit. Baka may kababalaghan pang mangyari.



And I say baby, yes I feel stupid to call you, but I'm lonely
And I don't think you meant it when you said you couldn't love me
And I thought maybe if I kissed the way you do, you'd feel it too
He said I'm sorry

- Maria Mena, Sorry

10/21/2005

forgot something...

...aside from my college buddy elai, marvs (ambin to the batang rf cage kids) also celebrated his birthday yesterday. ahaha. loser ako.

Currently Reading: Sandman Book of Dreams
Currently Listening: LifeHouse - Breathing

10/20/2005

of solmux, ventolin and other things

during the previous saturday, i had the misfortune to find out the weird effects of ventolin on my system. see i had this stupid won't-go-away sickness that i've been so sick of since last week, and momsie shoved ventolin to me. everybody in my family had used that medicine before and i can even remember i used those when i was in grade school.

lo and behold, my heart started to beat faster than normal, my shoulders sagged and my hands shook. weird. i slept through it during friday night. i ignored it and took another capsule while at work (o.t. na naman pakshet), nanginig na ko. ayaw na.

so last night, i arrived at home with this stupid cough na naman and i was asking carabelles to give some something - just whatever but something to make the stupid cough go away, eh tas ayaw na niya ako bigyan nung ventolin. hehehe. kulit ko eh.

jake wanted me to try his asthma medicine. eh...ano ba yun?

now i'm taking solmux, and so far, wala naman nang malalang spell of cough. whew. sana tuloy-tuloy na to. di parang kagabi para akong hinihika.

and pag di pa umayos tong tinginingining na ubo na to bukas eh susugod na naman akong doctor. blah. i've gone to the doctor twice already since i've started working. the first trip was due to pharyngitis and after that was some weird aching spot sa likod na akala ni momsie ay may UTI ako pero wala, muscle pain lang pala.

argh. yoko na pumunta dun. pfft.


HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELAI!

10/13/2005

Musical Baton

This was passed on to me by MissYosiGirl last June and mejo lang di ko na siya napagtuunan ng pansin. So kinalkal ko ulit yung blog niya to find this. So here goes:

Total volume of music files in my computer:

4.65 GB. I know. Pretty lame considering I've got almost 50GB to fill in my office PC but activating LimeWire in this *makeshift* office (for the duration of the project) causes chaos among the creatures here (read: nawiwindang si bandwidth). Watch out when we get back to the main office. Dadagdagan ko pa ang mga Basil Valdez, Nonoy Zuñiga at Sharon Cuneta ni Athan.

Last CD I bought:

I don't really buy CDs, if what you meant by CDs would be those containing about 10 to 15 songs written by artists and produced legally. No. I only buy CDs if I need them to burn stuff on and if I will get get from CDR-King.

I can't remember the last time I bought one though but I think it was a Lea Salonga CD as a gift for lowla. Idol nun si Lea Salonga eh. Hehe.

Song playing right now:

Five Years by Sugar Hiccup

A song from those turbulent high school years (turbulent daw eh). Eto yung song na walang lyrics kundi hum at eee-eee-eee at but-he-will-never-be-back sabay tili forever. astig!


Five songs I listen to a lot, or that mean a lot to me:

What the heck? Five songs? Lang? Sige na nga.

You Were Meant For Me - Jewel Kilcher

This song will always be present sa lahat ng lists na ganto-ganto. It's the only song na halos (read: halos) matapos ko na tugtugin, eh pero umiiral talaga ang pagkaGoldFish memory ko at parati kong nakakalimutan ang chord progression sa bridge. ayun lang naman.

Dreams last for so long
Even after you're gone
I know you love me
And soon you will see
You were meant for me
And I was meant for you


Naka naman...Pero this is the song and album that I liked Jewel the most. Parang ewan na kasi yung mga sumunod na album niya eh. Poppish. Pfft.

Don't Wanna Miss A Thing - Aerosmith

Steven Tyler's vocals impress me much more than Regine Velasquez's wailings (better not let this get to Elai, baka sakalin ako nun) but the real reason why I dig this song is the lyrics. A tad overdramatic but what the heck, we are all closet dramatics anyway.

I don't wanna close my eyes
I don't wanna fall asleep
Cause I'd miss you, baby
And I don't wanna miss a thing


Love Is Only A Feeling - The Darkness.

Ah. Glam Rock. Amusing falsettos done by the vocalist oftentimes causes me to laugh but then I would always find myself singing along this. It was a hard choice between this and that other song, I Believe In A Thing Called Love. But I guess I like this one better.

Oh the first flush of youth was upon you when our eyes first met
And I knew that to you and into your life I had to get
I felt light-headed at the touch of this stranger's hand
An assault my defenses systematically failed to withstand


Kulit pa ng lyrics. And amazing guitar solo. Nothing more to ask for.

With Or Without You - U2

Anthem of my defunct slash disbanded high school band, Pastel Tulips (ang kulit ng pangalan, so high school). My friend Bloss managed to arrange (and made kapa the chords, guitar solos, bass notes and drums whatever - one (wo)man band) it that our performance was almost okay. Do this with a female vocalist. Kakaiba. Astig.

See the stone set in your eyes
See the thorn twist in your side
I wait for you


And all the waiting must end, too, you know. Things always have their limits.

Linger - The Cranberries

Isa to sa mga *sapul* na kanta. A painful memory is always triggered by this song. But I had learned to take those things in stride. :) And besides, matagal na yun no. Magaling lang talaga ang Cranberries. At in fairness, mahirap gayahin ang vocals ni Dolores O'Riordan.

But I’m in so deep
You know I’m such a fool for you
You got me wrapped around your finger
Do you have to let it linger
Do you have to, do you have to
Do you have to let it linger?


arrrgggh baket 5 lang? ang dami ko pang gustong kanta eh...

Five people I'm passing this to:

er. wag na. kung sino na lang gustong magsurvey at walang magawa sa buhay nila. :)

10/12/2005

batang rf cage

galing ni maggi! astig! astig! astig!


back - ed, fofi, beng, jop, elai, dasco, teng, madam, toti, eliza, toots
front - docM, maggi, carnic, janice, edgy, paul, athan, marvs, ako, erol , ann, lea

sinus ramblings

after a one day hiatus due to this blasted sinusitis i am back, alive yet not kicking. i'm still feeling the after-effects of that weird cold tablet that carabelles made me take yesterday. my nasal passages are still clogged, my eyes are still watery, and heaven forbid, my forehead still hurts like hell.

one day spent lying down was bad for mindset about work. now that i again tasted what it feels to be just home and with nothing to do but watch madeline, lilo and stitch, etc, i feel such an unquenchable (?) longing for my bed, my pillows and well, sleeping in general. it's bad enough that the kids don't have classes anymore, seeing it's finals week. inggit ako. pffft.

it's jayson and joey's birthday today. texted joey when i got here earlier and found out he's on training in the petron tower (daw...pacific star ang pagkakaalam ko dun). i emailed jayson because he left for singapore last monday. and today is the first day of athan's month-long leave. waah. wala akong maasar. not enough vitamins tuloy ang drama ng lola mo.

eyun. nabangag ata kasama ng sinus ko ang utak ko. sa uulitin na lang.

10/06/2005

anong petsa na?

...ewan ko. sabi sa pc ko oct 6 na daw. nakaligtaan ko pang batiin ng hababerdey si jemme nung berdey niya. bad tina.

ano ba ito? ang haba-haba-haba nung pinapadocu sa kin at nakakahilo na siya. at hindi ko na maintindihan bakit ko ginagawa ito. mukha na kong SQL ah. buti na lang pinabreak muna ko dun sa docu-chenes na iyun yesterday para magmake-way sa testing. anak ng kaeklatan naman, naging QA na ang drama ng lola mo.

ano ba ito? sa dinami-dami ng laman ng utak ko ngayon wala naman akong masabing matino. ay eto pala, meron naman pala akong sasabihin:
salamat. kilala mo na kung sino ka.

hanggang kelan na lang ba ako sasagipin? hanggang kailan kaya ito? matatapos pa kaya? masama namang ipagpasa-Diyos ito kahit na hindi ko alam kung papano at kung bakit nangyayari to.

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how much longer can she keep that smile
pasted on that forlorn face?
how much longer can she keep standing
when the ground beneath her keeps crumbling?

how many more jokes can she laugh at now
when she's nothing more but a hollow shell?
how much longer can she keep smiling?
how much longer can she keep pretending?


- october 6, 2005, 1134h

10/03/2005

south park yourself

got this from kuya marc's blog. ang kyut!



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