Meet Gibbard

Posted on March 14, 2008 at 7:44 pm | 21 Comments
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I’ve actually planned to make this post’s main point somewhat like indirect. But since my tight schedule doesn’t permit me1 (I don’t have the time to make this post full of figures of speech), I decided to rewrite it. So what’s the main topic of this entry, eh? Well, I bought an iPod Touch and I named it “Gibbard.” I got the name “Gibbard” from the lead singer of Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service. I actually typed the first version of this post on my iPod. It took me some time before I got used to typing on my iPod.

I bought my iPod Touch last Saturday. Thanks to my earnings from the Internet, I was able to buy it. During that night, I almost didn’t sleep. Lol. I was really excited. Haha. The user interface of the iPod Touch is really cool… very sleek indeed. And the features of it are pretty cool. Its screen is scratch proof, but then, the back part of it is not.

Currently, it holds all of my songs, most are indie music. Some music videos that I have downloaded from YouTube, a few videos of HappySlip, the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix movie and my favorite photos.

Touch It!
Viewing this site on my iPod Touch.

What I really like about it is that I can surf the Internet using it! It’s got a built-in wireless adapter so that means I can connect to a wireless network. And if you’re following me on Twitter, I’m sure you have read this and this. And if you haven’t noticed, I’ve been updating my Twitter account for the past week using iTweet. Its other features like the “Mail” and “Notes” are really helpful for me.

Well, I really love my iPod Touch! Lol.

I guess that’s all for now. Sorry for this lame post. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to update this blog this coming week again. I will be very busy this coming week (my final exams aren’t over yet, and we also have this movie to shoot for our Lit class) so before it’s too late, I want to say that I hope all of you will have a very fruitful and meaningful Holy Week!

See you soon!

PS: I’ll try to add more decent photos of my iPod Touch tomorrow.

  1. We have this class project that was supposed to be passed yesterday. This afternoon, we were still in the process of finalizing it. I don’t know if my blockmates were able to pass it today but it looks like they did. [↩]

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Catching Up

Posted on November 25, 2007 at 11:30 am | 18 Comments
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Sixteen days after my last update, at last, I have a new entry! Sorry for the unannounced hiatus. My blog went to hibernation because of school work. Only three weeks have passed since the second semester had started and I’m already tired. It seems that my professors’ favorite pastime is to give their students loads of assignments, researches, projects, reports and tests. So many deadlines, procrastination is my best friend. My only consolation is that I have a better schedule now, by dusk, I’m already home (except for Tuesdays) and I’ve got loads of break time (two and a half hours of break every Tuesdays and Thursdays and another extra hour every Tuesdays).

Yesterday, I had to go to the mall to get my invitation for the debut party that I’m going to attend on the very first day of December. The debutant is a grade school friend. Yeah, that’s how long I’ve known her. Some of my grade school friends (most are also my high school friends) were there to get their invitations. I didn’t expect that most of us are invited because we haven’t got in touch with her all these years, and if there is, only a little. The biggest surprise of all surprises is that the guy who we constantly linked with the debutant during our grade school days is also invited.

We’ve talked about so many things. We talked about the photo of the debutant in her invitation, we reacted that the photo was Photoshopped. And as my friends really love rumors (actually, most are facts but we still call them rumors), I knew that Friend A is now dating Previous Schoolmate-slash-Previous Classmate A (who’s studying aeronautics) again, Friend C had to stop studying, Friend D is now wearing braces whereas Friend E would have his braces removed sometime this week, Friend F shifted to another course, Friend G lost weight (whom I didn’t recognize until Friend D told me her name), Friend H’s suitor four years ago will be back here in the Philippines soon (he’s somewhere in North America right now, and from what I’ve heard, he’s in the military), and Previous Schoolmate B fathered a child. Ah, time flies so fast, and so many things happen in just a snap. I really miss my friends. I miss laughing hard just because of a small thing that others would not recognize as laughable. Laughing with my grade and high school friends is really different from laughing with my college friends.

As for me, aside from the fact that I’m busy with school, one of my blockmates had wet my clothes last Thursday (long story, and I don’t want to elaborate it), I’m reading “The Thirteenth Tale” by Diane Setterfield, enjoying my Statistics class, my Internet connection is not working (I’m on dial-up right now), Google Reader reports that I have 175 blog posts to read, hating my Literature subject because of my professor who talks very slow (we just finished the introduction), opened a new blog (I’ll be giving the link to a few selected ones), my cellphone started to show signs and symptoms that it’s going to die pretty soon, managed to lost my umbrella in school, and I now strongly believe that the weather reports here in the Philippines are not accurate.

Well, we spent our time mostly in talking (and laughing), we wanted to catch up with our latest experiences, and we’re craving to fill up the spaces that are still missing. But we had to stop because it was getting dark, one of us had other things to attend, while the others wanted to watch “One More Chance.” And because I don’t like watching Filipino movies (I think I have only seen three Filipino movies in the big screen during my 17 years of existence here on earth), I decided to go home1. I would rather pick a boring English movie than watch a corny Filipino flick.

I just hope during the debut of my friend, more spaces would be filled, that we’ll laugh so hard that we would look like rocking chairs, and we could plan an overnight party sometime during our Christmas vacation.

And if you’ve been following me in Twitter, you might perfectly know that one of my college friends is also inviting me to her debut party on the last day of November. Hell, two debut parties in two consecutive days! Euri says that I should attend both because debut parties = free food but debut parties = clothes + gifts to buy. And as of the moment, Christian = broke. Eek!

  1. Corny na kung corny pero corny talaga. Magulo ba? Sorry, pero nakokornihan at nababaduyan talaga ako sa mga Filipino movies, no offense [↩]

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Boo!

Posted on October 31, 2006 at 1:04 pm | 13 Comments
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First of all, I want to greet everyone a Happy Creepy Hallowe’en!

Let’s talk something scary or shall I say anything that is supposed to be spooky?

First on the list is a costume party. I want to go back to my childhood years and throw a hallowe’en party! No, not the typical of party where boys have to go on a Dracula costume with red lipstick on the sides of their mouth and girls have to go on a Cinderella (make sure you’re only wearing a shoe or Snow White (with matching twelve dwarfs) costume. You see, I was able to read an article in the 2BU section of the Philippine Daily Inquirer last week that suggested some ideas for a hallowe’en party. The one that I liked most was the vegetable-themed party! Lol. I would be in a pumpkin costume! Just don’t go in a carrot costume, I’m afraid Bug’s Bunny would also attend the party! Lol!

I can still remember those old days where we had hallowe’en party in school. A hallowe’en party won’t be complete if there was no Mummy Relay, it’s a game where a person covers another person with tissue. This one is best played on one-ply tissue paper! There were even non-hallowe’en related games like the kissing card game (suck and blow game) which I really hate! There’s a tendency that you could kiss straight to the lips the previous and/or next person to you! (What if the previous and/or next person to you comes from the same gender as you?). And there was this one hallowe’en party that I and some of my classmates did not attend! Where were we at that time? We were in the computer room of our school, doing our school publication and playing some computer games! Call us KJ if you want. We don’t like to mingle with some of the students in our school!

Second, I don’t really like watching horror movies! They make my blood vessels numb! The last one which I was able to see was “Mortuary”, good thing it was not that scary. Actually, there was this one point in the movie where I and my friends laughed. Isn’t it weird that the zombies in the movie are afraid of NaCl

Third on my list is the Horror Train, were you able to ride one? Well, I was able to ride one on my junior year. It was really hilarious and ridiculous! I was really laughing hard during the ride. It did not even send the creeps out of me! How will I get scared? The sun was up (I think that was in the afternoon) when I had my first try on it. And there was also somebody throwing talcum powder to the person who was supposed to be scaring us to death!

The last one is about a Horror House. During my grade school days, there was one in school. It was not scary at all, it was only dark. And I was able to get a bump on my head because there were chairs scattered around the room.

Oh, I just had lungs for lunch! Yummy!

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Let’s make a deal with Superman

Posted on July 21, 2006 at 9:01 pm | 11 Comments
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Superman said deal!Yeah… I know, this one is out of date. The Pirates of Caribbean have already killed Superman! But never mind… if you don’t want to read this entry, it’s okay, besides, this is my site, I can do whatever I want to do with it. Oh, spoilers alert!

Yeah… I’m sure you already know about it… he was in the front page of Daily Planet a few weeks ago. Superman has returned! I watched the movie in the second Saturday after its release. Everyone I know who have seen it said that it’s a good movie.

So I decided to go to the movie house and see for myself if it’s indeed a good movie: if I’m to rate it, I will give it seven stars out of ten. The love story of Superman and the award-winning Lois Lane sucks! That makes me rate the movie not that high. More so, the plot is not that interesting, the suit Superman is wearing is not the one that I had on my mind when I was still a kid, and if you have not noticed, there’s something wrong with the movie…

What we know just by watching the movie:

  • Kryptonite is fatal to Superman
  • Lex Luthor stole Superman’s crystals in the Fortress of Solitude that can be used to “grow” anything… it only needs water.
  • The new continent is made up of kryptonite.
  • Since Superman has landed in the new continent, he started to lose power.
  • Luthor stabbed Superman with kryptonite making him weaker.
  • After Superman was saved by Lois, Richard and Jason, Lois removed the shard of kryptonite that was stocked in his torso but there was still a small amount of kryptonite that wasn’t remove. Superman gained consciousness and he decided finish his mission.
  • He dived under the sea and from there, he lifted the new continent and threw it in space.

This suggests that Superman should be dead by now… but how come he’s still alive? Did he still have reserved energy when he crashed from space?

Three days ago, I decided that it’s time to buy a new book to read. And guess what I bought… a novelization of the movie Superman Returns by Marv Wolfman. I’m already halfway through the book and I found out that there are many scenes that did not make it into the final cut of the movie counterpart. The book’s better, but still, the love story of Loise and Superman still sucks… it’s just more dramatic. Lol. I just hope I’ll find an answer to the question: why Superman is still alive and most important of all…

Why Superman (and all of the western heroes) does not know how to wear his underwear?

Can you answer that question for me? Eh?

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Do you think that there will be a grand prize winner in Kris’ “Kapamilya: Deal or No Deal”? I don’t think so… there’s only barely 4% chance that you will choose the right briefcase! Or if there will be one, we have to wait for at least a couple of months to go.

Whenever the contestant and whoever is with him/her shout the amount of the lowest prize the contestant can get, I shout and hope for the briefcase that holds the highest amount of money to be opened!

All I can say is that If I’m given the chance to be the contestant, I will choose briefcase number seven and say deal when the banker’s offer reached PHP100,000.00. But of course, I will not be the chosen because as what I can see, most contestants stick with their chosen briefcase until there are only three or two left briefcases to open. Well, this is just a theory because all of the contestants undergone some interviews.

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The so-called tall, dark & handsome boy

Posted on May 29, 2006 at 8:32 pm | 18 Comments
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As far as I can remember, the first book that I bought was “Oh Bother, Someone is Jelaous”. No, it’s not a love story, actually it’s a children’s book featuring Winnie the Pooh and his (he’s not a girl) friends. The book was only 20 pages or so: I think the story can fit in a couple yellow papers (back and forth) and the rest were colored drawings.

The next book I bought (again, as far as I can remember) was the Lion King. The book was also thin and if you’ll scan it, you will see that there are lots of illustrations compared to the text which can fit in half a dozen of yellow paper (back and forth).

But as I grew older the books that I read have only limited illustrations some don’t have illustration even just a doodle.

I can still remember some of my classmates half a decade ago asking me if I can stick to reading “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” because it has only one illustration for every chapter. I told them that I can! On the other hand, they said to me that it’s very impossible for them to read such book with only a few numbers of illustrations.

During my childhood days, I thought I will never read a book that has no illustrations. Apparently, I was wrong. A book does not need illustrations to be a bestselling book. It’s all in the contents and gist of the book. Just like in a blog site, it’s not really necessary to have a fancy layout; it’s the thought that counts. Most of you already know about this: I don’t read useless blogs (most blogs written in Tagalog are like this) even though their layouts make me go “wow”.

Okay, back to my point… I don’t know if you’ll agree with me but I think illustrations are another kind of spoilers. I know, they’ll useless and you’ll not get too much information from them unless you read the book. They only give you some ideas what is going to happen. I don’t know if this one is only true for me: they also somehow affect your imagination: Let’s pretend that you’re reading a book called “The Tall, Dark and Handsome Boy” (okay, you’ll never see a book bearing this title because I’m the one who thought of it. If it happened that you searched amazon or somewhere or you know that there’s indeed a book with the same title, please notify me so I can change it) and it has no illustrations in it (or the illustrations are not that good), is it not wonderful to imagine how that tall, dark and handsome boy looks like? But if it has good illustrations in it, you might be imagining that tall, dark and handsome boy with the face and body of that boy in the illustration.

Watching the movie first before reading the book is the same with the situation above. I watched Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone in the big screens first before reading the book so I thought the movie was really great. But after reading the book, I was somehow dissatisfied; there were some spectacular scenes and characters that did not make it to the movie.

Books indeed bring us to a new world, to the world of imagination where things can only exist in our ingenious minds. Sometimes I get shocked because the characters that reside in my brain were almost the same with the actors that portray them in the movies. Isn’t that cool?

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