Facts ‘Bout Me

Posted on April 13, 2008 at 12:01 pm | 16 Comments
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I decided to rewrite my “About Me” page. I started from scratch again and I come up with an seven-paragraph introduction to myself. I decided to post it here so that it’ll get the attention that it will need. The front page is always the best part where you can put stories that you want your audience to notice.

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During the year I started blogging, my answer to the question “What’s your ASL?” was 14/M/Pampanga. Now that almost four years have passed since I first encountered that question, my answer is still the same, except for the age part which you have to add to four (that’s equal to 18). But of course, giving you a two-digit number, a letter that stands for “male”, and the name of a province here in the Philippines is not enough for you to know me. So the purpose of rewriting my short description of myself is for you to visualize me better on your head. Feel free to make your own image of myself. I’ve also provided links to my previous posts, that you can freely read (minus those password protected entries) which can help you know more about myself.

I was born three days after Christmas in the year of 1989. December 28, 1989 was the start of my journey here on earth. Eighteen years later, I’m already 18 years old, obviously. Kidding aside, I think, I’ve achieved a lot of things but there are still many things to conquer. Currently, I’m a college student but I still have to learn how to love my course and I still think that college is synonymous to hell.

Reading books has been my main source of entertainment since sixth grade when I first read JK Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Since then, I have read more than 50 books which include the whole Harry Potter series, two of Dan Brown’s controversial books, reads by Mitch Albom which are all talking about death, and even books that are more disturbing like Ian McEwan’s Atonement and Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner which is my most favorite book, by the way.

Other forms of entertainment that I enjoy include watching American TV shows especially Grey’s Anatomy, Heroes and The Amazing Race, ridiculing incompetent teachers, sleeping, surfing the Internet, and most recently, listening to indie music by Feist, Death Cab for Cutie, Snow Patrol, The Postal Service, Hellogoodbye, Jack Johnson, and many more. As a matter of fact, because of my obsession to indie music, I named my iPod touch as Gibbard, in honor of Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service’s singer: Ben Gibbard. Just visit my Last.fm account to know my listening patterns.

Oh, I forgot to mention that I also love writing. I was actually the news editor of our official student publication for two consecutive years back in high school. But until now, I still don’t know how I was able to get that position because of my faulty grammar. I know, my grammar sucks. And if it were not because of Firefox’s spell checker feature, I would have committed lots of misspelled words. I need an editor, really. Haha. But despite all of those reasons I’ve mentioned, I’m really thankful for my adviser who trusted me. Writing news never gave me pleasure. You have to be specific with the facts and you can’t give your own points and using adjectives is a big no-no.

Now, I want to tell you what I’m not: I’m neither a singer nor a dancer (I suck at both). I’m not also a cellphone and SMS addict, I can leave even without a phone. I hate PE classes (I’m just glad that I will not wear my PE uniform ever). And oh as some of you might already know, I don’t have the ideal body weight (take a guess if I’m overweight or underweight) and I don’t look like an 18 year old student (I look younger… lol).

I’ve got more things to tell you but I guess, I’m already boring you. Just watch out for the next version of this introduction to myself to know more about me. But if you need something or you just want to leave your two cents, feel free to contact me.

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DanHellbound and Dre tagged me to post facts about myself. BTW, Mr. DanHellbound tagged me way back in December of last year. Dan says I should post seven facts, and Dre says that I should post eight. But obviously, I broke the rules. Lol. And oh, I didn’t make this post because of these memes. It’s just coincidental. Of course, everyone is invited to post random facts. Yeah, I’m tagging you everyone!

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Excessive Marathons

Posted on May 11, 2007 at 11:42 am | 22 Comments
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Look! An update, but this does not mean that I’m not in hiatus mode anymore, unless I’ll have other things to say in the coming days.

Two days ago, I and some friends (from high school and grade school) played badminton at a local court. As usual, I’m the one who waited for the others to arrive. No matter how I procrastinate, I still end up waiting. And that’s frustrating me!

By noon, we were all at a local branch of McDonald’s and as most of us haven’t ate lunch, we decided to eat first. After an hour, we we’re already playing. The entrance fee was cheap: PHP 50.00, until you drop. The thing is, I’m neither a badminton enthusiast nor a sports aficionado. I’m no good at any sports. It’s just so ironic to me that I was there. Still, I played: I won in some games, I lost in most games. Lol! Nevertheless, I had a great time.

While catching our breath, we ridiculed our teachers back in high school, here are a few examples that made us laugh once again.

  • Pagtrabayuhin
  • Kumbintu
  • “Is zero an odd number?”
  • *Teacher tries to spell the word ‘ghost’* G-O-S-T “Kulang po ng ‘H’.” G-O-S-H. Gosh! Wooohoo!
  • “Okay, I’ll call you in random.” (I thought to myself: “Cool! He knows the word ‘random’!”) Well, our teacher called us alphabetically. Do you call that random?
  • One of our teachers mispronounced “gauge” as “goose.” He gave us a weak alibi: “Sorry, malabo yung photocopy ko.” All of our copies were clear!

Two days after our badminton session, my body still aches. I’m having a hard time moving. But I’m still looking forward to our next badminton session next week.

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I’m also having Heroes and Grey’s Anatomy marathons. These two programs are great. Way to go, Tim Kring and Shonda Rhimes!

As for Amazing Race, I didn’t expect that Eric and Danielle will win. As usual, the last roadblock was hard. Nevertheless, congratulations to them!

Sorry for this lame entry.

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Stinks and Sells

Posted on April 18, 2007 at 9:18 pm | 23 Comments
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Sorry, I neglected this blog for the past four days. I wasn’t visiting it much within that period. Why? I got some problems with my PC and I troubleshooted it alone. Thank God it’s normally working again. And oh, I got addicted to O2Jam. Haha.

So lets go to the topic. Back in high school, in our official publication, the Chimes, we have this write-up in our features section called “Ins and Outs.” I was one of those few people who contributed in that item. You might think that doing it is easy, but I tell you, thinking of what is “in” and what is “out” can be really time consuming.

And since my life is not that interesting lately because I’m just stuck at home (okay, I’m not saying that I’m bored) and I miss doing “Ins and Outs,” I’m gonna do one… my own version. And I’m calling it “Stinks and Sells.”

Dora the Explorer (negrang lakwatsera) stinks
Dora the Exploited1 (negrang GRO) sells?! Eek! Yeah, she sells her body.
Political ads stink
Makisig’s Lucky Me ad sells
Yahoo! stinks?
Google sells!
Summer sells
But because of the hot weather, I take my word back, it stinks!
School will stink forever
Rejoice for vacation sells!
O2Jam sells
But Audition sells better
“Pichay, itanim sa senado” stinks
“Pichay, itanim sa semento” sells
Amazing Race All-Stars really sells
But I still don’t know which team I’ll root for
Harry Potter sells
But does nude Daniel Radcliffe sells either?
Spams and spoiled hams2 stink
Hams sell
Ball pen stinks
Mechanical Pencil sells
Dial-up connection3 sells
But DSL4 sells even more
Maria Flordeluna stinks
Will Rounin sell or stink?
Robinson stinks
SM5 sells
WP 2.1.3 will stink soon
WP 2.2 will for sure sell

I want this to go on, but I’ve ran out of things to include in here. Oh, well, I’m off to read your blogs.

  1. It was one of my high school classmates who created this. [↩]
  2. Spam comments from legitimate users [↩]
  3. As long as the pages that I want to view load in a reasonable amount of time, it’s tolerable to me [↩]
  4. I’m just waiting for the activation of my DSL. Thank you, God! [↩]
  5. They’re constructing another annex in SM City Pampanga. It’s the third annex. [↩]

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The Most Amazing Frog

Posted on March 6, 2007 at 8:12 pm | 14 Comments
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The most amazing…

…Race

Yes, the Amazing Race! The current season (all-stars) is the most amazing season that I’ve watched. It’s just saddening that David and Mary (the Kentuckies) had to say goodbye in yesterday’s episode. If Mary wasn’t not stupid not to read the road sign, they would still be in the race. After seeing them struggling and finished sixth place in the 10th season, I really hoped that they would last long enough in this season. Urgh.

What really makes the race exciting is because of Charla and Mirna! They are so war freaks! Last week, they had a row with the beauty queens (Dustin and Kandice). In yesterday’s episode, they argued with Teri and Ian, and in next week’s episode, we’ll see them confronting Rob and Amber. But still, I like them. They are really funny, especially yesterday. To quote Mirna, “I’m sorry I’m wearing a bathing suit; it is very weird, I know.”

Who am I rooting for this season? Of course, the ever competitive Rob and Amber! They’re amazing! They are the first team to win the first three consecutive legs of a race. And now, they have will have a trip to the Whistler Lodge in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, two off-road motorcycles, and two home gyms which they can enjoy after the race. Isn’t that cool? For the past three seasons, my prediction who will win the Amazing Race is correct. I just hope, my guess will still be correct this time. Lol.

And I hope that beauty queens will be eliminated next. Even though they are war freaks like Charla and Mirna, and their tactics are excellent.

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Frog…

That’s it, frog. This is not about Crazy Frog. We started dissecting frogs in school last week. I though every meeting there would be a new frog for us to dissect. I was wrong, the frog that we skinned last week is still the frog that we study this week and for the rest of the weeks this March. When we don’t study them, they are put in a sealed container with formaldehye, also known as formalin. So when we get them every meeting, the whole laboratory would smell formalin. Cases of feeling pain in the eyes is normal because of it (it’s as if you peeled the skin of an onion).

Frogie (from Fergie), the name of our frog — suggested by my dissecting mate — had to die so we can learn every single muscle he have. Talamasca is right, memorizing the names of the muscles of the frog is a lot harder than memorizing the names of the bones of the frog. But, I’m only having a hard time in memorizing the muscles in the dorsal part of the frog (like ilio-lumbaris and latissimus dorsi). I’ve already memorized the muscles in ventral part (like sacro-radialis and sartorius). And that reminded me that I need to go now and memorize all the muscles of the frog for our test tomorrow. Great!

PS: Will somebody dissect Crazy Frog for me? He’s annoying. Really.

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Where is my gift?

Posted on December 11, 2006 at 3:15 pm | 10 Comments
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When I was a kid, my parents would bring us (I and my younger sister) to Manila. There were no malls here in San Fernando, Pampanga back then. All we had were the stores in the down town.

Of course, when we go to Manila, they would buy us clothes to wear on Christmas and not to forget our presents. Actually, it was us who choose what presents we would like to get. The only gift that I can remember that my parents bought for me on Christmas (luckily, it’s still working) was a talking toucan, no, it’s not a pet; it’s a toy (that’s why I used the word working instead of alive).

Every time that it has batteries, I would bring it along with me especially when we would go to a relative. I would show it to my cousins, and make them awed and amazed.

But now, gone are those days that I would want something for Christmas. Gone are those days where I have something to show to my cousins. Gone are those days where my parents would ask me “What do you like for Christmas?”.

I’m not complaining or something. It’s okay for me even though they would not ask me that question anymore or buy something for me. I’m already used to it. It’s not a big deal to me. As the commercial goes, “We have a mommy. We have a daddy. What more can we wish for?”

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Back in March of this year, I graduated in high school as First Honorable Mention. I’ll be lying if I would tell you that I did not expect something from my parents. My father even said to me that he has a surprise for me. All I had was a party here at home (there were tons of people whom I don’t know, mostly were office mates of my parents), no that was not the surprise. It was a tarpaulin (the one that they use for billboards. It’s not as big as what you think) bearing my graduation picture and my awards. Well, I expected them to buy me something more fabulous than a tarpaulin.

But now, I’m already okay. I don’t expect them to buy me something because it’s Christmas or my birthday or I got good grades. Besides, having good grades is not a reason for our parents to buy something for us. In the very first place, it’s them who send us to school. Isn’t that one of the greatest things our parents can give to us? Sending us to a (good) school.

To proof to you that I’m already okay, whenever my high school classmates go to our place, in my room to be exactly, they would say, “What’s this? Wow… this is so cool, how I wish I have one like that.” for they had seen my billboard. And I feel so proud that my parents hired somebody to do that.

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As a conclusion, let me redefine Christmas: Christmas is not only a season for the kids… it’s for everyone! And it’s the season of sharing our love to others, not tangible things.

PS: Please read the second page of this post. It has nothing to do with this page. But you’ll like to read it, I reckon.

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