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Fast Food Fanatic… Plus On Getting Stranded

Posted on May 10, 2008 at 9:20 pm | 8 Comments
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Fast Food Fanatic

In the Million Insect Storm, the Constellations Form Since the fourteenth of last month, I’ve already eaten once in Tokyo Tokyo (I love their Ebi Tempura), three times in McDonald’s (I’m a cheeseburger fan), and four times in Jollibee. Maybe, there is something that they add in their meals they prepare which makes me and their other patrons come back for more, be it their specialties and even their desserts. I guess it’s Monosodium Glutamate (or betsin in the vernacular)… But MSG in desserts? That’s weird.

This all began back in the start of the second term when I met my friends who just can’t get enough of Jollibee and McDo (and when we get extremely long breaks, we even go to the mall to try other fast food chains). Prior to that, the only place where I frequently ate my lunch was in the school’s cafeteria. I’ve grown I’mune to the food they serve. Every vials that they prepare seemed to taste like with what I call generic foods (fried chicken, pork chop, etc.). But since those people I was with were fast food fanatics. I was forced to eat either in Jollibee or McDonald’s almost everyday.

I know, it’s not healthy, we can’t be exactly sure what are the ingredients of the foods that they prepare. Besides, we know for a fact that foods that were deep fried (like fried chicken and French fries) are rich in saturated fats. Seriously, I need to stop and control from eating such food1.

The only benefit you get is that there is only a small possibility that you’ll get contract diseases due to spoiled food. And in the event that you get such, you can sue someone and get compensation.

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On Getting Stranded

Because of my high school friends’ persuasions, I decided to turn up to the meeting they’ve set a few days ago. I was hesitant at first because the previous week was another he’ll week. But yeah, in the end I met my HS friends. And we decided to watch a movie… guess what we watched? Due to unfortunate circumstances we watched Iron Man. I’ve already watched it last Tuesday and I didn’t imagine that I would watch it again. I had fun though. The last flick I watched twice in the big screen was Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

After the credits were rolled (where we saw weird credits, there was a chef and even caterer, drivers) and the bonus snippet, it was time for me to go. This time, I had to transfer to another jeep to get home from SM Pampanga. It was drizzling when we left the mall. But when I got off the first jeep, the drizzle turned into a massive pouring of rain. I was stranded. Everyone in the street looked for a shed where they could stay for a few minutes, and that included me. With this, I’m grateful to the Burger Machine stall where I stayed for a few minutes to wait for a jeep. I was only stranded for ten minutes or less. I even posted a tweet while I was waiting. I was like calling every single saint known to man for the rain to stop, but it didn’t.

By the time I got home. I was totally wet. My pants especially the bottom part was wet. The back of my shirt was wet. My handkerchief was wet. My hair was wet. My Chucks were wet (my socks were spared though). It was as if I had a bath on the road! I’m fine now. I got home safe and sound, and as what I’ve posted in Twitter, I’m dry now.

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After other people blaming so many bloggers, this time, it’s my turn to blame Jmar.

NAME 10 THINGS THAT STARTS WITH THE LETTER “M”

  1. Moo MiniCards: After getting 10 free MiniCards, I ordered more to give to my friends.
  2. Mitch Albom: One of my favorite authors. He’s a great author!
  3. Multiply: I have a Multiply account, but I don’t update it frequently.
  4. Moleskine Notebook: I want one but they’re expensive!
  5. Microsoft Office: Do I really have to explain this?
  6. Maroon 5: One of the bands that I like
  7. Mega Series: NGC’s Mega Series makes me go wow always.
  8. McDonald’s: Just refer to the first part of this post. XD
  9. MacBook Pro: I want one, but at this point, it’s very impossible that I’ll have one.
  10. Music: <3

I don’t want to be blamed so I’m not tagging anyone. Haha.

  1. But I still don’t know why I’m not gaining weight. [↩]

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Messing With my Schedule

Posted on May 7, 2008 at 8:55 am | 8 Comments
Filed under Daily Dose • Featured Flicks

I hate make-up classes, especially if they’re announced only a day before (worse, on the same day). I don’t like to compensate for such thing especially if I’ve already scheduled something for that time and day like making a draft or returning comments. I believe that time is gold so I’m really strict with my schedule (of course, except for school related things). I hate wasting time, that’s not in my vocabulary. As a matter of fact, I say “You’re wasting my time!” to my friends whenever they’re delaying something or whenever they keeping me from going for something that is useless.

Yesterday, I should have only taken my midterm examination in one of my major subjects and I was free to go home. It took me about an hour and a half to finish answering 100 brain damaging questions. But because my instructor had set for a make-up class which was originally from 1-3PM but was later moved to 3-5PM, I was forced not to go home. Sorry, I’m not that type of student who skives classes. It was really annoying. Good thing, I didn’t planned to go out with my high school friends on that day, or else, they would have killed me by now.

I finished answering my examination by 11:00. All-in-all, I had four hours to kill. Going back home and return to school three hours later was never an option to me on how I wanted to kill my four-hour break because it’s uneconomical and I didn’t want to spend an additional of at least 1.5 hours in a jeep. That left me with two choices: either go to the library to continue reading Life of Pi by Yann Martel and abuse the Internet service or go to the mall and watch a flick. I chose the latter and I was able to tag two friends to go with me.

Because it was unplanned (yet another on the spot decision), I didn’t bring any street clothes. You see, we’re not allowed to go to the malls — worse, to the movie house — wearing our uniform. But I had no options left. Besides, my two friends told me that they’re doing that (going to the cinemas while wearing their uniform) always and were never caught.

We bought deluxe tickets for Iron Man but instead of heading to the deluxe seats we went to the premier seats. Lol. Bad. Bad. Bad. There was no one who was guarding the entrance to the premier seats so we climbed the stairs and we had an instant savings of Php 20.00! Lol.

Well, Iron Man is a good movie, it’s based on the Marvel Comics of the same title. The acting skills of the cast was superb. And of course, the special effects was really good. The only downside was that I was able to predict correctly a few things.

After watching Iron Man, we rushed back to school for our make-up class. Nevertheless, I had fun. XD

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Birthday Bash

Posted on May 3, 2008 at 2:21 pm | 12 Comments
Filed under Random Realities • Site Stuff

chocolate-coffee cupcake with mocha ganache and mascarpone cream Okay, my birthday is more than seven months away and I haven’t attended a birthday party recently but this post is about a party… a party that I want to have. This may sound really absurd to anyone who reads it: I want to have a children’s birthday party! Yeah, lol. I know, it’s weird. As a matter of fact, thinking of it makes me laugh like a person who lost his sanity (or have I lost my sanity already?). But I’m dead serious about this one.

I want to celebrate one of my birthdays in a local branch of McDonald’s or Jollibee where I and my friends can fill our hungry tummies with delicious cheeseburgers, spaghetti, fatty French fries, deep-fried chickens, and sundaes. Of course, there will be party hats in assorted colors, a banner that says “Happy Birthday, Christian!” with Ronald McDonald or Jollibee and their respective friends as its background.

There will also be an emcee who will host parlor games but the games will be uh, adult-ish. Lol. We’ll play an edited version of Trip to Jerusalem. The guys will hold bananas just in front of their pants and these bananas will serve as the “chairs.” The contestants will be either females or gays (to make the game more exciting and funnier). The contestants will circle around the guys sporting bananas in front of their jeans while dancing like a GRO in a far-flung cabaret in the tune of a novelty song composed by Lito Camo (God, how gross is that?). Once the music stops, the contestants will try to grab one of the bananas. The one who will not be able to get a banana is out of the game. The process will go on until a winner will be declared. Okay, I’m exaggerating. Loot bags will be given to the participants. These loot bags will contain but not limited to chocolates and candies.

Of course, there will be a special appearance of a mascot (I really feel sorry to those people wearing those stupid costumes) who will give entertainment to everyone who is in the party. Either Jollibee or Ronald will dance like there’s no tomorrow. And we’ll see if we can make Jollibee dance a folk dance (preferably Pandanggo sa Ilaw) or make Ronald sing.

I’m sure everyone will enjoy the party even though every bit of it is very childish! Haha.

So… will you join my party? Haha. Magpapa-cheeseburger ako!

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Yeah. I have a new layout! Woot! It’s been a while since I last used a dark theme. I really like this one. I love its simplicity and the semi-transparent columns. But I’m not sure if this will work with older versions of the effing and the most ridiculous browser to me: IE. Expect to see some minor changes to this new layout in the coming days. A credit is due to this simple CSS trick to make semi-transparents columns and to imjustincognito’s amazing photo that I used as my header.

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Pentium 1

Posted on April 26, 2008 at 3:06 pm | 10 Comments
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It’s inevitable, isn’t? There will come a time when the disk drive that we have will be in critical level, in other words, there will be scarcity with the available disk space that we have. That only means that we have to add more space, or delete a few programs and files, or move them to an external disk. And in my case, the unused space that I have is starting to deplete. To make matters worst, I don’t know which files and programs that I have to throw to the recycle bin. I also don’t own any external devices that I can use. The only means to backup the data that I can do is by burning files in CDs or DVDs and you know how unstable they are.

Moreover, I’m starting to feel that the physical memory that I have is not enough. Even though my physical memory that i have is a whooping 1 GB, I can feel that my computer is acting sluggish sometimes. During simple tests, I still have to wait for a few seconds or even minutes before my computer will respond.

I also have to upgrade a lot of things. Not only hardwares but also the programs that are currently installed in my computer which also contribute to the sluggishness of it.

Oh, it’s not my laptop that I am referring to but my brain. For more than 18 years, my brain has been abused, damaged, and over-used especially nowadays where I have to memorize a lot of things. Seriously, I badly need to shut down or just even hibernate it for a while. My brain hasn’t rested for almost a year now from school work. My brain cells are dying. And if I were to sell my brain, I’m sure, I would only earn a few cents because no one would like it and it’s overused!

A couple of weeks ago, I had to subtract something. Yeah, simple Math. God, I wasn’t able to get the right answer. The thing is, it took me five minutes before I realized my mistake: I used the minuend as the subtrahend, and the subtrahend as the minuend. How stupid is that?

All I want now is a very long vacation in a quite place far from civilization where I can rest for weeks, I don’t have to think about school related work, annoying blockmates, read unreliable text books, incompetent instructors, and avoid eating in fast food chains1 so that my brain could have all the rest it needs.

Of course, if someone out there is willing to lend me his or her brain, I would really appreciate it!

BTW, I’m now hosting Kathrin’s blog. She’s one of my oldest friends in the Internet.

  1. Since last semester, I eat in a fast food chain at least once or twice a week. God, they should abolish the branches of McDonald’s and Jollibee near our school. [↩]

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The Pinoy Tube

Posted on April 21, 2008 at 8:15 pm | 17 Comments
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I’m not really a fan of Philippine TV shows. And oh, this is not a post about the feud between ABS-CBN and GMA, the two giant networks in the country. This entry’s content will center on my thoughts about the programs made by the Filipinos for the Filipinos and pirated by the Filipinos. Well, actually, I’ll be very biased in this entry because most of what I’ll write here are negative comments about the stupid and useless TV shows.

Pinoy Big Brother

I’ve mentioned in this blog numerous times how much I loath this show (I’m too lazy to look for the posts that I am referring to, just use the search box found on my sidebar). Lately I was able to catch a few episodes of this show and I have to confess that it’s somehow entertaining. Yeah, I’m contradicting my own words. But then, there is something in this show that makes me hate it. What’s the right term? Ah, sensationalizing. Everything about this show is being sensationalized… talking about making a mountain out of a mole hill. Yeah, whatever. Another thing is that even though this is a reality based show I still think that it is scripted. Just take Alex in the current teen edition as an example. I bet the production team of PBB picked him because he wasn’t circumcised yet at the time he auditioned. And so, they casted him as one of the teen housemates and planned to have him circumcised while he is in Big Brother’s house. Just two weeks ago, they successfully had the operation inside Big Brother’s house while all of the male housemates were watching the procedure. Presto! Instant high ratings. Boo. And now, what is this thing that I heard that there is still one more housemate who is still uncircumcised? Seriously, I’ll not be shocked that by the end of this season, either Toni or Mariel would reveal that all of the male housemates are still uncut. This proves what I’ve read in Carolyn Parkhurst’s Lost and Found1: “Reality is boring; no one wants to watch someone brushing their teeth or paying their phone bills. It’s all in the editing, they’ve got hundreds of hours of footage, and they’ve got to chop it down to into something worth watching. What they’re looking for is stories; you have to give them a story, or zip, they’re moving to someone else.”

MariMar

Okay, first of all, I want to tell the whole blogosphere that I’m neither a MariMar nor Marian Rivera fan. I was able to get a glimpse of this show a few times and I heard lots of negative comments about it. According to my friends who were able to watch it, the first half of it was good. They said that it gave justice to the original Mexican soap opera. And because many Filipinos loved the remake, GMA extended it. But that’s where it became hell and transformed into what Filipinos call “fantaserye”2. God, I even heard that the ending was really stupid. Angelica (the antagonist) fell from the helicopter where MariMar was in and landed in a riverbank and she was devoured by crocodiles living in the river. How possible is that, seriously?!

Pinoy Idol

What I really hate with this show is that they are advertising it as the “first” franchise of the Idol series in the country. Come on guys, don’t tell me that it’s the first one because you changed “Philippine Idol” into “Pinoy Idol.” Technically speaking, it’s the second season of the Idol series here in the Philippines. Moving on, please forgive me, but for me, the judges are less competent than the previous judges. Jolina Magdangal? Ogie Alcasid? And who is this Wyngard Tracy? Why did they not put Marian Rivera and Dingdong Dantes as the judges instead? Lol. If you know how, uh, shall I say incompetent, the judges during the Binibining Pilipinas 2008, I’m sure, you know what I’m talking about. And come on, Raymond Gutierrez as the host… are you kidding me?

Joaquin Bordado

Just the title of this show makes me ROFL. GMA, or rather the whole Philippines hasn’t get over with fantaseryes yet. Since the first fantaserye that aired back in early 2004, Marina (ABS-CBN) which brought Marinara (GMA) to life, a big number of fantasy dramas were aired. I wonder when ABS-CBN and GMA will stop filming and airing such stupid soaps. And please, stop using weird titles such as this, Kamandag (translation: Venom), Bakekang, and Zaido: Pulis Pangkalawakan. I know, these shows are based on graphic novels, original series and the like and it’s proper to use the real titles but they are really bizarre and they sound funny.

Wheel of Fortune

I don’t really enjoy watching this show. During the time when it was still in ABC and it was Rustom Padilla who hosted the show, I’m definitely sure that I liked it. But now, I don’t know. Is it because of Kris Aquino? Or is it because the game play is not really exciting unlike Deal or No Deal? I hate it when Kris says “Wheel of Fortune” with the matching stupid choreography. Bring back Banker, puhlease?!

Astigs

This is one of the worst TV Shows I ever heard of (I haven’t watched any of its episodes as a matter of fact). I think ABS-CBS has so many talents and they don’t know in which programs they need to put their actors and actresses especially the new ones. As a last resort, they made a TV show where they put all of their talents who don’t have any project at the moment. And I think they are trying to make experiments on new love teams out of these talents that they have. Just seeing the commercial of this show makes me want to break the screen of our TV.

Okay, I should stop now. I might get sued because of my opinions. Lol. Whatever. But only one thing is for sure, I’m not enjoying most of the Philippine TV shows. Well, what do you think is the worst Philippine TV show?

  1. It’s a good book, BTW. [↩]
  2. A soap opera with a twist of fantasy. [↩]

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