Past times

My summer’s getting boring as days slowly passes by. Obviously, there’s nothing remarkable in my life lately to blog about. Well, except for the things you’ll read below. Half of the summer’s already gone, and soon, my college life will officially start.

In the light of this boring summer holidays, I was too desperate to find a good read. It’s been a while since I last read a book with a good plot. I’ve been searching the internet for an interesting book and scanning the shelves of NBS for ages. Mind you, I’m a bit choosy on what book to read. If I don’t like the book, I’ll just keep it in our shelves here at home. I don’t like those books of Paulo Coelho and the likes… I don’t like his style. And as much as possible I only buy those international bestseller books and/or written by a respected author. While searching the internet for good books, I found this interesting title: “Miracle in the Andes”, a true-to-life story of a survivor from a plane crash. It’s not yet released so I have to find other suitable books for me. Well, I saw an interesting book after days and days of scanning the dusty (only a little) books on NBS . The book’s called “Bee Season”… it’s about a child who does not have any talents at all but during her fifth grade, she was able to discover a new talent — spelling. Actually, I already saw that book ages ago but I was not reading the synopsis of the book until yesterday. Well, I can somehow relate to the protagonist so I decided to buy it.

But what I really want to read is a love story that has nothing to do with married couples, widowers, a divorcee and the likes. It just makes me go “yuck” and “eeew” when I read novels like that. I want something like “A Walk to Remember”, well, except for the girl dying. Can you recommend me a good one?

Another way I found out to fight boredom is to watch TV. No, I’m not speaking of the teleseryes, asianovelas or PBB. I’m currently enjoying (once again) NGC’s programs like:

The Gospel of Judas. I already watched it and I don’t believe it. The NGS’s claiming that the codex they are holding is authentic. Yeah, I can say that the codex was written ages ago. I don’t question the steps that the NGS did to authenticate the codex if it’s from the ancient world or not. But what’s flooding my mind is if those accounts written in that codex are correct and accurate. What if that gospel was written by a person who really loathes Christianity so there can be chaos to uprise after discovering it.

Be the Creature’s (literally) a funny show. Those two hosts are really stupid. Lol. They’re mimicking whatever the animals that they were featuring did. And if I’m not mistaken, they even tried eating the food that the animals they’re featuring are feeding on in one of their episodes. Lol. Gross.

Lastly, Air Crash Investigation’s the best. I really like it. Even though I watch it, I have not inquired aviophobia or the fear of flying. Well, at least, I already know a little about the things that might happen during a plane disaster.

PS: It looks like that our PBB housemates’s favorite past time is crying. Lol. A lot of them had already shed buckets of tears. Lol. And I might as well develop a Ephebiphobia because of them. Lol! I can’t help but laugh at them. No offense to PBB fanatics out there!

And yes, new layout.

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Hmm…

It looks like there are some who found where I’m hidding my main blog, IÂ’m receiving useless comments again. WhatÂ’s the point of hiding my main blog if somebody can still track where it is, right? So IÂ’m putting my main blog back here again. But this is not the end of my fight against spam! This is just the start. Lol.

All of the entries (and even comments) that were made in my second blog site were already coppied here in my main blog.

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The thirteenth housemate

EDITOR’S NOTE: This entry was written days before the announcement that there is indeed a real thirteenth housemate who’ll enter the PBB house. This post has nothing to do with Joaqui. And as you can see, I don’t have any plans to change the title of this post.

Please, If youÂ’ll read this entry, make sure youÂ’ll read my note.

I shall call for a hiatus effectively this Wednesday. It can be as fast as some couple of days or as long as forever. You see, I have to enter one of the intriguing houses in the country, and there, I have to interact with other 12 teenagers with different personalities known as housemates.

Even if I will be the first evictee, I canÂ’t guarantee that I can go back blogging here. One reason IÂ’m pondering is that the bandwidth usage of this site will be for sure skyrocketing.

Ladies and gentlemenÂ… the thirteenth PBB Teen housemateÂ… the one who will ruin KuyaÂ’s house and even the whole show. Ang blogger ng PamapangaÂ…

Me!

Happy to say, this is only a hoax. (Well, except for the last part because IÂ’ll try to ruin PBB).

MY NOTE: ThatÂ’s just the introduction and thereÂ’s no reason for you to believe any single word from it. And I donÂ’t have any plans to enter the PBB house no matter how intriguing it is. You see, during the other editions, I canÂ’t stand the show itself because of the contestants, what more if IÂ’m inside it? This is the way how I like to open this entry.

And now, let me criticize the show.

Season One: Urgh, I donÂ’t really like it because for obvious reasons: some housemates are too liberated. Enough.

Celebrity Edition: This is better than the first one. And I donÂ’t find the housemates too liberated. But they might be hiding their true personalities. Knowing that they have big names to protect.

Teen Edition: I think we will know more about the meaning of the word “liberated”, now that the guests of Kuya are teenagers.

Two days ago, I stumbled upon the official PBB site and found an article about the new installment of PBB. And I have this to quote:

Â…Pwede nilang basagin ang konsepto na ang Philippine youth ay estudyante lang na go to school lang ang ginagawa. (Â…They can break the concept that a Philippine youth is a student that the thing he/she only do is going to school.)

I donÂ’t think the new contestants have still something to break. Because that conceptÂ’s is already broken. Why? The answerÂ’s already in front of your eyesÂ… the 13 housemates (yeah, including me). LetÂ’s have the Teenage Mom ng Laguna: If the Philippine Youth only goes to school, how come she had premarital sex and alas, she has already now a baby. WhatÂ’s worst is that the father of the child left them.

There are so many people who wants to join this reality based show. Some will answer “I want to prove something.” to the question Why do you want to join PBB. And that answer is good. But I think most of the times the answer that the PBB-housemates-wannabe is “It’s because I want to be an actor/actress”. Urgh. I hope it’s not the latter our new housemates answered when they were asked by somebody. Now, what they have to prove is that:

Ang kabataan ang pagasa ng bayan.

PS: I like the new look of the PBB house!

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Plugging in

Since I can’t think of anything to blog about, I’ll just discuss here some of theWP plugins that I’m using. BTW, if you cannot relate with this post, head over to the entry below.

If you don’t have any idea what are these plugins head over to WP.org or to the codex (documentation) of WP. If you still don’t know, there are so many things that you can do with your WP: it’s not just a mere blog. Just read and explore!

Akismet
This one will automatically detect spam comments. Akismet is so smart: it learns from its mistakes. If you’ll mark a comment as not spam (that was caught by Akismet), in the future it will not mark those comments as spam anymore.

Paged Comment Editing
This will make managing comments easier. That’s it!

runPHP
This will make your php statements work on your entries and WP pages. Handy!

Sidebar Widgets
I have not yet told you, my sidebar is now widgetized. Of course I edited it with my own liking. It took me a day before I learned everything! Now, I can reorganize, edit, remove or add contents to my sidebar with just only a few clicks with my mouse without editing the sidebar.php! Genius!

WordPress Database Backup
I think this is the most important WP plugins. With just a few clicks I can have a backup of my database without logging to my cpanel or downloading it to my computer: all of my backups are sent to my e-mail. Well, you can also download your backups: which ever you prefer.

To those WP users that are looking for plugins I hope you had some idea what plugin/s to install. You can dig WP-plugins for more plugins that will suit your taste.

I encourage everybody to have their own RSS feeds! And Google Reader is a good feed catcher!

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