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Thursday, 26 November 2009
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The Generic Christmas Wish List =)
Did any of you ever notice the scarcity of Christmas decors in your neighbourhood lately? Well i did and it’s just too sad to think that Christmas is less than a month away but I can hardly feel it.
When I was a kid I remember it being a festive season starting from the month of September. Yes, you read that right. Filipinos have this habit of putting up Christmas decors as early as September. I clearly recall watching the C.O.D. display in Cubao, that moving presentation of weird looking figures that amused everyone, from kids to adults alike. What an awkward way to entertain oneself, standing in front of that mall and watching the presentation happening at the 2nd level of the building along with what might look like a horde of ignorant peasants while jeepneys passed right in front of us. The hotdogs on stick I was wolfing down made the experience even more awesome.
Every street glowed from Christmas lights. Every house had a Parol or Queso de Bola or the famous [and inedible] Fruit Cake - a sign that christmas is drawing near. Ornaments created a festive air and made everybody want to spend on something. Lol. But it was so much fun then. I think the series of bad events that occurred during the past few months made this season bleaker than it should be. The typhoons, flash floods, landslides and the death of so many people, the Maguindanao massacre that just happened recently. Sigh.
On a lighter note, I am making my generic Christmas Wish List. Sometimes I get the stuff that I write on here, sometimes I don’t. But really, WHO CARES!?! Lol..
1) Sunglasses. I have always wanted to wear them but how the H can I do that when I’m wearing eye glasses? My cousin once had eyeglasses that she can strap dark lenses on so voila, dark eyeglasses.
2) Running shoes. Even if I argue with my boyfriend all the time he has influenced me to exert effort in keeping myself fit and that’s one thing I don’t really hate him for. I realized I would love to stay fit although I’m pretty much of a bum and I’m kinda lazy to get up and run in the morning. A good pair of running shoes would probably be enough motivation.
3) Nokia 5730 XpressMusic Phone. No need to elaborate. I just want a new phone. My Samsung phone is broken again and I’m currently using the classic (and by classic I mean OLD) Nokia 3220. I laugh at myself when I see me using it in public because I know everybody else is laughing at me so I just go along and I feel less humiliated in using a cellular phone as ancient as mine.
4) Last but not the least, a small comfortable Couch for my home. I have long wanted to buy a couch for my living room but I just can’t find the right design that I like. When I see a really nice couch, it may seem too big for my apartment or too pricey. Sheesh.
Okay. I have to go work on something. I need to earn a little and hope I’d have enough for even just one item on that wish list.*sighs.Merry christmas everyone!
What’s on your Christmas wish list?
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Do These Eyes Belong to the Devil or God?
I found this video on youtube through my nephews. Gah! These kids are searching for stuff at youtube all the time.. Anyway, so they say this video was taken last September 26 from somewhere in Mindanao, while Typhoon Ondoy was slashing through most parts of NCR, mostly in Metro Manila.
The background sound made it all the more creepy for me, no offense meant here to my Muslim brothers, maybe I just got scared because that's how people normally react about things that they do not understand. But I'm pretty sure the background music is a chant or something. Sorry. Correct me if I'm wrong.
What do you think? Well whatever these are, I believe that Typhoon was the wrath of God. Actually, just a taste of it. And it is an eye opener that the most unexpected things can happen and it has, because people continue to neglect the environment and the world that they live in.
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
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Me and my Math.
I won’t keep you guessing. As much as I loved my English and History classes, I hated Math. Polynomials, Quadratic Equations, Algebra Word Problems, Right Angles, Tangent, Square Root, Root of all Evil. Okay, I’m going crazy. I just have too many bad memories about the said subject. These include solving Math Problems in front of the class (and do I need to tell you that I cannot solve the problem? Lol), reporting about topics that I do not understand myself and did I already say scores in tests that I dare not show my mother?
I never had a tutor. I just didn’t think I needed one. And so I had no one to ask for Algebra Help or assistance with Math Word Problems nor did anyone tutor me in dealing with the Square root of Cosine whatever. Tutors were hard to get by when I was a kid. I had advance lessons though at school where students from higher levels taught us some stuff. I think that helped some =]
Fortunately, times have changed and online tutoring is now available. The best part is you can get it anywhere at any time you want it. And what do you know there’s also college tutoring available because I’d bet that’s the hardest part of your academic Math life. Lol. Dealing with Linear Equations or factorization? You might need Algebra 2 Help. Just talking about this is making me queasy. But believe me this is way better than your tutor who lives right next door who tells on you when you did not do your homework and who is entitled to scold you as authorized by your mom had you failed on your test.
There are online tutors that provide intensive tutoring and not just the robotic type that would provide a couple of problems then log off as soon you’ve solved everything. These online tutors would prep you for exams, help you with your homework and also provide any extra help that you may need to improve your grades in the subject. Yey! A free demo is offered for first time users who might want to try the service but are a bit hesitant about how this whole thing works. They probably have all the Math Answers to every problem I was never capable of solving. Hmm...
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
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I think you soooo have your mouth FULL, you just can't help but let it out eh?
When I feel terribly upset, I keep to myself and stay quiet with earphones stuck on my ears. I just draw myself from the rest of the world. Like when I argue with my boyfriend over something and I feel really pissed I'd want to strangle him [okay I'm kidding], I'd stay quiet and calm myself down. Can I let this go or do I tell him about it? I don't b*tch and whine like some people do because I know I might say something I might regret later on. Me being pissed doesn't mean I have to piss him off too.
But I take it that some people might do the exact opposite thing when they’re upset, they probably resolve to being loud and maybe being obnoxious too.
Please just let me tell you that I have issues with people who cannot stop talking even if they have nothing better to say. I am really patient. I understand that some people can be real jerks sometimes. Even if this something or someone pisses me off, I can keep mum and act as if I don’t care because I probably don’t anyway and I understand that people have reasons for acting the way they do [as in being a jerk or b*tch or whatever]. Maybe you’ve had a bad childhood, you don’t feel loved, you’ve never had any real friends, or you’re just having a really bad day. I understand that. I really do.
But please, if you don’t have anything good or better to say, why is it so hard for you to just SHUT UP!?
I remember this guy from work who keeps posting comments on facebook that are really off. It ticks a lot of people but he keeps doing it anyway. Why make that extra effort of annoying people? -- It is so goddamn annoying.
If you can sense that you're no longer the funny man but more on being the prick in the picture, then stop it. It's so easy to stop trying to be funny when no one's laughing with you anymore. You don't even have to say sorry for offending people, JUST STOP. Why do you have to ruin it for everybody else? Damn.
I'm sorry but I am really pissed today.
Monday, 09 November 2009
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Ahhh -- My Reading, How I have Taken You Forgranted...
I have always been a geek. Maybe even an anti-social to some. I walk around with my earphones on and believe me I can do that for hours -- that state of not giving a care about what the rest of the world is fussing about. meh..
I’d usually hang out at bookstores and read on some books that are not wrapped in plastic cover [which means private reading is allowed, thank you.
] I’d sit carelessly on the floor [usually of national bookstore.lol.] with my legs crossed and run through pages of books that are usually about interior designs, food, weird and far off characters from novels, and so on and so worth. Whichever is at sale [because I’m such a cheapskate] I will buy, those that are not I’d cherish until I get up the floor and leave.For the past few months I haven’t gotten around to reading some of the books that I’ve bought. I have my hands full of things that are yet to be accomplished and after the storm that washed my apartment [How nice. Take note of the sarcasm.] everything just piled up to a stack of to-do’s.
One of them is my reading. Here are a couple of books that I bought sometime around September of last year. Take note that I came back to Manila from my stay in Cebu around November.
I got around to reading some of the ones on this photo. I'd say around 5 to 6 of them.. Jessica Zafra's included and also the crime suspense ones.. For some reason, reading J. Zafra makes me see the rest of the populace as a bunch of idiotic people but then again I am easily persuaded into believing weird stuff. She has very good points though. I'm halfway through The Unbearable Lightness of Being. I really don't know but the more I read on this book the more I feel as if the author is only nagging me.. But I'm not really sure if I just have that psycho thing going on in my head..
I managed to reorganize my books on their shelves the other day -- I think I have all the time in the world , thank you to my being an official bum right now. lol.. I don't know but I kinda miss being a loner every now and then, like right now.... I swear to go back to my reading.. If only I could take my hands off this stupid laptop and keep myself from playing facebook applications..
lol..I don't have the pictures yet of my trip to Baguio with my boyfriend which explains why I haven't blogged about it yet.. Gah! Sa aking source, post the pictures already!!! Hehehe..
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