Monday, January 31, 2005

monsterrific

can you obtain all the platinum medals for blast corps in the littlest amount of time?

can you finish super mario 64 in twenty minutes using only sixteen stars?

can you finish metal gear solid 3: snake eater in less than two hours with a fox hound rank?

can you finish super mario bros. 3 in eleven plus minutes? (i was quite disappointed when i found out that the previous speed run that i saw for smb3 was emulated. (state save galore... bleh!) but this one is legit.Ü)

i sure can't. but these freaks sure can...

how i envy freaks.

Thursday, January 27, 2005

i can feel it!

the next alice dixon(?)Ü

Wednesday, January 26, 2005

shikashi


i don't love my job. but i do like it. but here comes another but...

but i'm starting not to like it. in fact i think i'm starting to hate it. but hate is such a strong word...

initially i was planning on resigning by the end of april, after i receive my mid-year bonus. hehehe.Ü but with the way things are going now, i think my quiting would be much earlier... much much earlier.

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my life is relatively tranquil but thoroughly bland.

Tuesday, January 25, 2005

i see...


a red door and i want it painted black...

Monday, January 24, 2005

abs

bandang october ata nun nang makatanggap ako ng text galing kay allen. naka-confine daw si zsazsa sa makati med at nangangailangan ng dugo. kung sa rotc nga nagbibigay ako para makalibre ng isang training day, kaya wala namang problema sa akin ang mag-donate ng dugo.

nadatnan namin ni allen yung dalawang officemates ni zsa na nakapagdonate na ng dugo at pauwi na. nandun din si doy na katatapos lang kuhanan ng sample. konting kamustahan muna bago kami bumaba para magpa-test kung pwede ang mga dugo namin. gulat lang namin nang makita namin si vistan at si abing habang nagaabang kami ng elevator. bibisita din pala sila. walang tao dun sa blood bank pagdating namin. di tuloy kami nakuhanan ng sample kasi nag break yung mga tao. (siguro kumain kain ng puto at... kutsinta.)

bumalik na lang kami sa kwarto ni zsa para magpalipas ng oras habang hinihintay na magbukas ang banko.syempre tuloy ang asaran at kwentuhan. niloloko pa nga nila si abing kung magdodonate din sya. inaalala rin nila yung time na si abing yung nangailangan ng dugo. pagkakaalala ko direct blood transfussion pa daw yung nangyari. maya-maya pa'y bumaba na kami nila allen para magpakuha ng dugo. na-reject kami ni allen. may sipon kasi si allen. ako naman, puyat kaya di rin pwede. buti na lang may mga kamag-anak si zsa na dumating. sila na lang ata yung nag-proxy sa amin.

di na namin naabutan si doy, vistan at abing pagbalik namin sa room ni zsa. sumibat na pala sila. 'di ko alam na yun na pala yung last time na makikita ko si marvin.

di kami close ni marvin. di ko sya naging classmate nung high school. at minsan minsan lang ako nagro-room hop sa kwarto nila sa dorm. pero madalas akong mapatawa nito dahil sa mga hirit nya. kasi tatahimik-himik din 'to tapos bigla na lang pa-punch line. at syempre di ko makakalimutan ang "sha-la-la-la" ni marvin. da best talaga!

marvs, kahit na sandali lang ang itinagal mo dito marami ka namang napasya at napamahagian ng iyong kabaitan. nadagdagan na naman kami ng kakampi dyan sa 'taas.



Friday, January 21, 2005

jumble


flickr is closed for maintenance. guess you'll have to wait for my pic post next week. :Þ

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hmmm... i'm very much tempted to "cut" work today...

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my cousins are going back to australia today. wishing them a comfortable ride and a safe trip. see you next christmas!

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tryx, i have a song for you:

happy birthday to you
you belong to the zoo
with the monkey and the donkey
the gorilla is you!

hahaha!Ü jok lang!

happy birthday trixie. sana tumaba ka na...(imposible! hehe.)Ü

Thursday, January 20, 2005

topak day #34: nanliligaw, naliligaw


naalala mo pa ba 'to?

jollibee commercial:

mahirap talgang umakyat ng ligaw,
baka walang hagdan

parang gusto ko nang magtago at matunaw,
taguan? kandila?

ang tatay, ang nanay, lahat nagbabantay,
ano sila, guard?

ni hindi mo mahipo ang dulo ng kamay.
baka putol

sa jollibee? sigurado ka bang sa jollibee lang?

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anong magandang ibigay sa nililigawan mo?

syempre siomai at hopia. pag i-aabot mo na yung siomai ito dapat ang sasabihin mo:

this is to siomai (show my) love for you...

sabay follow up ka habang binibigay naman ang hopia:

hopia (hope yah) like it too.

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nyahahahaha!

Tuesday, January 18, 2005

goodbye gabby

a bit of a sad but unconfirmed news. gabriel garcia marquez, one of my favorite and definitely one of the best authors of all time, is retiring due to health reasons.

the following is his farewell epistle.

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if for an instant god were to forget that i am a rag doll and gifted me with a piece of life,

possibly i wouldn't say all that i think, but rather i would think of all that i say.

i would value things, not for their worth but for what they mean.

i would sleep little, dream more, understanding that for each minute we close our eyes we lose sixty seconds of light.

i would walk when others hold back, i would wake when others sleep.

i would listen when others talk, and how i would enjoy a good chocolate ice cream!

if god were to give me a piece of life, i would dress simply, throw myself face first in the sun, baring not only my body but also my soul.

my god, if i had a heart, i would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show.

over the stars i would paint with a van gogh, dream a benedetti poem, and a serrat song would be the serenade i'd offer to the moon.

with my tears i would water roses, to feel the pain of their thorns, and the red kiss of their petals!

my god, if i had a piece of life, i wouldn't let a single day pass without telling people i love that i love them.

i would convince each woman and each man that they are my favorites, and i would live in love with love.

i would show men how very wrong they are to think that they cease to be in love when they grow old, not knowing that they grow old when they cease to be in love!

to a child i shall give wings, but i shall let him learn to fly on his own.

i would teach the old that death does not come with old age, but with forgetting.

so much have i learned from you, oh men!

i have learned that everyone wants to live on the peak of the mountain, without knowing that real happiness is in how it is scaled.

i have learned that when a newborn child squeezes for the first time with his tiny fist his father's finger, he has him trapped forever.

i have learned that a man has the right to look down on another only when he has to help the other get to his feet.

from you i have learned so many things, but in truth they won't be of much use, for when i keep them within this suitcase,

unhappily shall i be dying.

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[sob] [sob] [sob]

Monday, January 17, 2005

delightful!

i decided to treat myself last saturday. the treat? umm... er... shopping.Ü

here's what i bought:

a new polo - i do need one considering that i only have about ten polos.

magazines:
latest issue of fhm and games master - i've been religously collecting these magazines since first they came out. but i've missed two issues of each mag. (fhm issue number 2 & 3, gm issue 5(?) & 6(?))

audio cds:
exodus by utada hikaru - ALL of her songs in this album are in english. what's with the image change?

dear catastrophe waitress by belle & sebastian - indie geek pop at its finest!

thanks to the moons gravitational pull by sandwich - gosu! gewd! subarashi! ayus!

food:
prosperity meal from mcdo - if it weren't for the twister fries and the lucky chum (mankey: saru2-chan.^^) this meal would've sucked, big time.

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finished red dead revolver. what to play next? ffx? onimusha? devil may cry? prince of persia? viewtiful joe? mgs2? star ocean? splinter cell? xiii? hmmm... hmmm...

Friday, January 14, 2005

ee ikwals em si iskwerd


what can be cooler than traveling at the speed of light?

traveling at the speed of thought... that'd be the c00l357!

Thursday, January 13, 2005

quickster

seeing someone slip on a banana is very very funny.Ü

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such a stressful week this is...

Wednesday, January 12, 2005

hack-tion!



taken on set with a 6610.

Tuesday, January 11, 2005

done i'm done on to the next one


remember this? well, 'tis the season to do it again.

fourteen thousand plus lines to go. sigh...

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i've finished a total of five games in a span of one and a half months. but i feel that my passion for gaming has dwindled a li'l bit. a sure sign of this is my lack of enthusiasm to unlock all the unlockables in the game. malamang kasi ang dami dami dami dami dami ko pang nakapilang mga laro. hehehe.Ü

tekken tag

status: finished, unlocked all characters and endings. (except for wang. my TTT hangs whenever his ending sequence plays.) played tekken bowl once just to show my cousin. no time attack and survival records yet. most used character: law.

wwe: raw vs. smackdown

status: still playing but finished season mode with rey mysterio. no unlocks yet. still in my second season with rey mysterio, maxing out his stats. will move to another char soon, probably john cena.

need for speed underground 2

status: finished, with all unlockables unlocked.(me thinks) i don't know but i was quite bored midway finishing the game. finished the game for the sake of just finishing.

metal gear solid 3

status: finished once, in the third(?) area in my second run. will try to get unlockables this time. (but will need to faq in order to do so. bleh!)

lord of the rings: the third age

status: finished the game. also finished it's evil mode. had fun playing but the ending was a let down.

red dead revolver

status: currently playing. now in chapter sixteen. third person shooting mayhem with a cowboy twist. yihaaa!

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home alone again...

Monday, January 10, 2005

the good, the bad, & the ugly


pending band name

the good: lazy sundays (reminds me of the sundays. not that good.)
the bad: cash cow
the ugly: dandruff shop

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tekken

the good: T5 will finally hit the shores of the philippines come next month.Ü
the bad: have to wait two more months before the release of T5 for the ps2. bleh!
the ugly: no heihachi mishima (unconfirmed and not that ugly , only old. ehe.)

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tech tv

the good: free tech tv. shown by net 25. (yes i am *somewhat* of a geek, obviously.)
tha bad: month/s late episodes.
the ugly: seeing kat in call for help reminds me of a certain *thumbnail*. hehehe.Ü

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noontime shows

the good: eat bulaga
the bad: mtb ang saya-saya!
the ugly: chowtime

Friday, January 07, 2005

tama?

erning, handa mo ang auto.

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alam mong mali sya. bakit 'di mo pagsabihan?

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sya: ang bait bait bait nya sa akin.
ako: natural. nanliligaw e.

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mahirap magalit sa taong mahal mo.

Thursday, January 06, 2005

ideal mind block

i've been a fan of ideal minds shows for quite a while. shows like on-air, the misadventures of maverick and ariel, ang boyfriend ko, single, and wazzup wazzup eto ka!. but the number of shows dwindled down to two when on-air's time slot was changed which eventually led to its cancellation, ang boyfriend ko ended with two seasons and single stopped with season four. so i was quite surprised and excited when i saw ibc 13's wednesday primetime line up which were all ideal minds show.

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on-air tambayan

a reincarnated on-air? definetly not. except for half of the name, on-air tambayan is a totally different show. no more on-air booth were you could do and say anything you want and text messages from viewers praising jm's hosting prowess and making a mockery of his big nostrils. (but we'll see in future episodes if this segments will be included in the show.)

on-air tambayan is like a gag show now, minus the gags. like normal gag shows, o-at is partitioned into several sketches.

cooking monster - this portion features jm *trying* to talk to a maangas and enraged man in a monkey costume who was talking gibberish while "cooking." and because cooking monster was talking incoherently, which was more like grumbling like cookie monster on drugs, subtitles were included to understand the cook-meister. last night chef man-key teached the proper way to cook maling.

laugh-o-meter rating: 1/5

boy gising - boy gising is a gray sock puppet with red dreadlocked hair, rounded jumpy eyes, red felt paper tounge and one hell of an annoying voice. here supposed callers can ask boy any question. i can't recall now the questions and boy's answers to them, probably because they were not worth remembering.

laugh-o-meter rating: 1/5

corny kami - here a corny joke is delivered by jm and two guys in between the beat box efforts of jm's sidekicks and jm chanting "corny kami." and yes they were indeed corny. i was mildly amused by their attempt at being funny and their admission that they were corny. but the punchlines to their jokes were predictable which is baaaaad. (or maybe it was easy for me to forsee the climax of the jokes because i am corny too.Ü)

laugh-o-meter rating: 2/5

grabe sa grabe(?) - i'm not sure of the title of this segment, it escapes me now. this portion featured two extreme guys being jackasses. (i recognize one of the guys as the loco who went to the on-air booth to break paso shards on his head) hmmm... yet another toned down imitation of mister knoxville's hit show. last night they offered their faces to be slapped for a buck. mister paso was getting hit the hardest betweem the two. hehe. had a few good laughs with this one.

laugh-o-meter rating: 3/5

yeah boy - probably the best bit of the show (for me.Ü). here a gwapings reporter searches the streets for a yeah boy! girl, a yeah boy! girl is a very very pretty girl, gives her a rose, asks her questions about her eligibilty, try to convince her to give him a kiss and finally poses for the cameras. for his first assignment mister gwapings was unleashed at the university belt.

yeah boy! girl number one was a definetly a winner. she had a face and a figure of a model and single to boot. (she recently ended her relationship with her bf.) yeah boy! girls number two, three, and four were so-so. gurl number five if i'm not mistaken is from pisay batch '99. remember the sister of angel of batch '97? sya yun! girl number six is panalo! too. although she is too young for me. she's just sixteen. jail bait! jail bait!

out of the six yeah boy! girls our gwapings reporter only scored two kisses which came from yeah boy! girl who already had a boyfriend and a nursing student.

laugh-o-meter rating: n/a (not ment to be laughed at, i think. although i snickered whenever our correspondent couldn't coax a kiss from the chosen yeah boy! girl.)

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direk

the star of this show is former child star, ('di ko alam na child star pala 'to dati.) gabe mercado. showcased here is his supposed life after showbiz, how he dreams of a come back in the industry although he admits that he is already laos and how he would achieve this dream trough an inherited b type production company from a deceased uncle. didn't watched it fully though because i had to use the facilities, if you know what i mean.

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juniorreyesreports

only had a few glimpse of the scenes from this show because mother was watching lovers in paris. this is a mockumentary. last nights topic was about legalizing prostition. there were several bogus interviews with "prostitutes", "political analysts" and "reliable sources." not to be taken seriously. but it seems to be a fun watch only if i could watch it entirely.

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besfriends

this show stars william of single season 3 and his sometimes-cute-sometimes-not-so-cute bestfriend errr... i forgot her name. this show feels like a scripted reality tv show. hmmm... that sounds bad but it building up to be quite nice. last night bestpren set up a blind date for william which he was late for. william didn't know that he was coming to a blind date. so was the other girl, i think. it was all downhill after bestbud, william's security blanket, left the two alone. to cut the story short the date went terribly.

next scene: bestpren is asking william how'd the date go. william answers, "i don't know. i don't know what i did that made the date so... akward." to that bestpren had no retort. but vows that she ain't giving up on william no matter what.

hmmm... i can smell some sexual tension in the air.

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clebrity single

dale villar, once a matinee idol(?), is the lead in the newest season of single. dale will try to find love in three months. i think there are five categories how he can choose a date which is, (1)through the internet, (2)a blind date, (3)someone of his own choice, (4)from his friends screening test and (5)ummm... i forgot the last one. i've been a fan of the single series and i'm actually curious how would a "celebrity" fair in this. but i already forsee something that might turn off dale's potential dates. he talks too much. by how much? let's just say that i think he is more talkative than the average woman.

next weeks episode will feature dale going out for the first time finding a date with the cameras dogging him. in the teaser dale sees aliya parcs and a friend seated at the temple bar and proceeds to talk her. hmmm... maka-iskor kaya ang mokong?

Wednesday, January 05, 2005

terrible

demmet! i should get me a haircut.

kaso lang... nakakatamad e. sobra...Ü

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i'll bleed for you like a new tattoo
in my heart you'll stay... permanent.


==new tattoo by urbandub==

Tuesday, January 04, 2005

no punchline

yesterday while i was in an elavator going down i was wondering what would happen if the cables that were holding the elevator sudddenly snapped and severed apart from the elevator. we'd probably plummet to the ground immediately but the emergency breaks would save us a grizzly death. but what if, what if the emergency breaks malfunctioned? ha! i was thinking if a timed jump could save me. (but i read somewhere that the best way to survive an elevator crash is to lay flat on the elevator's floor. don't ask me why.)

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this particular idea of a small skit has been buried in my mind for sometime now. (about two years... i think) well the sketch is composed of four people in a telephone conversation, person A is talking with person B and person 1 is talking with person 2. their dialogues would be the same throughout the skit. i don't know how to sequence the scenes but there should be an indrotuctory scene of person A and B's conversation and person 1 and 2's conversion. the following scenes thereafter involve person A's "conversation" with person 1 and 2 and person B's "conversation" with person 1 and 2. of course their exchanges should somewhat resemble an actual dialogue with the other person, must be coherent and should make sense. problem is i don't know how to go about it.

hey, feel free to use my idea. just be sure to give me *some* credit.Ü

Monday, January 03, 2005

my desktop



this is how my current "working" environment looks. yes, no desktop icons.Ü

go here if you want to see additional comments made by me.Ü

wb!

been a while...

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didn't get to blog last week because i didn't go to work due to an intestinal flu. had to stay alone at the house (the rest of the family went shopping with my balikbayan relatives sa greenhills. sucks...) and recuperate.

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finally finished mgs3 while trying to get better.Ü (20++ hours of playing time) this game rocks! if you liked mgs1 you'd probably like this even better. the camouflage system is fun fun fun. and sneaking is more exciting because of the lack of the radar. will definetlty play this game but for now on to the next game...Ü

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now in the final chapter of the lord of the rings: the third age game. unlike the previous lotr games realeased, lotr:tta is an rpg. but unlike most rpg's there is no world map exploration for this game. (but you could go back to previous chapters to complete unfinished quests and explore the area once again.) think of this game as a continuous dungeon. but it is still as fun as your typical rpg, albeit fun-ner.Ü if you want an rpg that's full of action less the diddling around lotr:tta is the game for you.

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i never thought that a personal greeting could be so... impersonal.

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got so much things to say but more work to do. bleh!

jaa ne!