the things a scandal can do

such as:

turning the morning shift staff, even a handful of patients, into instant spectators upon hitting play on some mainstream scandal issue.

proof you ask?

evangelion movie 2.0

I dunno if they're gonna show this on Philippine Cinemas this June but I hope they would. If they won't, then I hope some kindred soul would post a vid of it on the world wide web.

i badly WANT

Eventhough I hate Japanese Cafe Chain UCC coffee for:
1. Being so bloody expensive,
2. Quite frankly, I don't like how their coffee tastes.

However, UCC Coffee is re-releasing their Limited Edition Neon Genesis Evangelion Milk and Coffee in cans in line with the release of Evangelion Movie 2.0 [due June 27 this year]. I am already ranting inside of me for I want BOTH the coffee cans AND the movie. Take a look at these eye-candies. Sadly though, these will only be available from May 18-July 31, 2009.


I am unsure whether these would be available to the Philippine Market since they are often sold at vending machines in Japan. They also sell these babies at e-bay for roughly $10 a can. Talk about profit! But gawd, I really want one.--scratch that, make that ALL of them.

Since Japan is such an advanced country in terms of Techno-Gizmo, the cans come with a bar code that can be scanned with your mobile phone. [Eff! I really want to go there someday.] If you're lucky, you get to win an Asuka figure doll.




This was one of the Ad Campaigns that UCC did back in 2007. >>>





I hate how my compulsions leave me restless and agitated.
And if by some miracle I do end up owning one, they'll be surely on top of my desk, happily standing beside the rare Starbucks Vanilla Frappuccino Bottle that Jona gave me back in college.


Badly wanting the Shinji and Asuka cans.

shocker

I hate how time is often a traitor.

A few months ago, Vicapot texted me that she would want to meet up before she leaves the country. Without any hesitation, I gave her my yes.

Earlier tonight, I learned that she is bound to leave for L.A. tomorrow at 10 PM. Whoa. Afterwards, she would be staying in Seattle. Someone needs to invent a time machine. Srsly.

Vicapot asked me to do her a favor which I cannot resist. Though I truly lack some serious creativity, I couldn't turn her down since this is the least I can do for her before her presence leaves this forsaken land.

Armed with CS3 and bits of inspiration, I ended up with this. It's not much, but I guarantee you that it's made with fervent dedication.


To Vicapot, I shall miss you dearly.

i wish there'd be more of this

There was a time when I said that I rather have a few good friends than have a bazillion friends. And now, I say that again with more conviction for I indeed have a few GREAT friends.

Tonight's dinner wouldn't be possible if not for the willful and determined mind of Moja who stuck with her text vigils to Madz in order to get her out of her hiding place. Lo and behold for Madz did show up; thus I bow unto Moja for her effective tactics which I might replicate come next get together. Too bad Eskimo Baby didn't get to attend. But am hopeful that there will be a next time when everyone would be there.

Anyhow, Moja and Mon went ahead to save us a table at Congo Grille and pre-ordered our meals for us. Madz arrived around 5 minutes before I did [curse the stoooopid traffic]. When I got there, it was like all inhibitions lost. For when I am with people I love and trust, I can just let myself go and worry not of what goes around or how I should act accordingly. We multitasked by chitchatting and spooning stuffs into our mouths at the same time. Madz kept piling sisig on my plate which I had to moticulously separate the onions. I didn't get to finish my rice coz the chicken fingers was filling up on me. Afterwards, Mon was designated as the photographer, allowing ourselves to indulge in camwhoring.
We were saving the dessert part for later while we went around Landmark so I could show Moja em booties. She loffed them. Unfortunately, no more sizes. WTF. In grief, we headed to the cinemas to see Angels and Demons. But gawd, Sold Out Tickets for 3 Cinemas! Tsk. Tsk. Am giving a mental applause to Dan Brown already. Anyway, the cookie store near Anson's was already closed when we got there. Another tsk tsk. We were suppose to stick around further but every store was closing down and Madz had to fetch her folks who were arriving from Lucena. I did a last few shots with Moja before I bid the Monalisa couple goodbye.

Till the next blogspam!

Special thanks to: Monalisa [ = Mon + Melissa]
Especially Moja for smuggling this for moi: I <3.

shameless plug

I promised Andi I'll be promoting her da. I posted it up in moi multiply however, I just realized that I haven't plugged it in here yet.

Here is a sample of Andi's work:

(Click on photo to be directed to her da)

She recently experimented with watercolors and has concocted her own methods of shading. Her current dream is to own a tablet pc so she can venture into digital art. So if you're filthy wealthy and have a knack of helping others, then please do give her a tablet pc.

overjoyed

Shameless confession but come on, I am entitled to wallow in tangible happiness right now.
I still get bits of flutter with the realization that my booties are stashed underneath my bed. But the thing is, I have not a single frame of it on me.-or me in it. For hormonal reasons, my bipolar state sometimes hit the creativity nerve in me; which makes me dive through my closet (which i painstakingly arranged and rearranged over the last weeks) and put together some pieces that I thought would go well with the current object that would equal as a teddy bear to some kid.

I grabbed Greg, setup the tripod, and struggled with autofocus and the lack of burst shots on a self timer setting. And add the absence of a plain white wall as a background as another difficulty. Several hours later, I've fed my id and drained myself of the remaining energy there is. And this is the one of the many outcomes:


Note to self:
Work on your photography and PPE.-what for is dps if you're not gonna apply it?

today i had

saikoro and rice @ pepper steak trinoma. though in my opinion, the beef needs more marinating. the rice reminds me of bagel days in college.


for dessert, new york cheesecake which somehow tastes like sour cheese. made me miss oreo cheesecake from the pit which used to be along pedro gil. now they're at the seaside at moa.

for it's worth the wait

after months and months(5 months to be exact) of waiting, supressing and self control, me and andy finally bought ourselves our much wanted booties. we were window shopping at trinoma after our uerm interview when our impulses kicked in and prevailed over material procastination. they were several balloons all over landmark with words: 'mother's day sale - until may 17.' we knew exactly where to go. upon first glance, we thought the 729 tag on the boot indicated its new price. which is a huge bargain considering it's original price is 1,700. but it turns out, it was the stock number. but id prevailed over super ego which is why we ended up purchasing it despite our penniless state. i had mine in black velvet. andz originally wanted the brown leather which resembles a maison martin margiela. but since they had no size, she ended up buying the brown velvet which is surprisingly comfortable. they're lovely and they make me happy. and andz is happy too.

i didn't get to take a self portrait since i didn't have greg with me. here's a photo of andz though. crappy phone cam.

and oh, magic cards are magical!

blob. blob. blob.

am running out of names to baptize the new fishies.
the lobsters turned into cannibals. they killed, disemboweled and ate 3 little fishies today. their actions made us separate them from the aquatic club and they are now demoted to a yellow laundry basin. we are yet to decide where to contain them as their life sentence. should they live up to be big lobsters then they would suit as dinner for the seafood loving people.

project scarf accomplished

after nearly 2 weeks of cts-inducing crochets, i am finally done with andz's scarf. it's bright yellow green and yellow which reminds me of both the flag of brazil and oddly enough, bananas.

this occassion offers me a temporary feeling of accomplishment.

(pardon for the photo quality. phonecam shot.)

pissed and paralyzed

a few hours ago, i posted that i shall reformat mi old laptop. i did. and i failed.
i was way into about a third of the entire process but the darn thing won't read the 2nd disc. and after hours of watching myself becoming more frustrated with every failed attempt, i gave in to the surrending team.

i hope god would instantly fix it.
for now, i shall resort to mobile blogging.

wifi'd

Today, God put an end to my sinful days of feeding over the neighbor's not so generous wifi signal.
He sent us a box of a wifi router. hahahaha.
But the path to wirelessness was not so easy. In fact, it was hellish.
What ought to be a simple and fool proof task sent me over the edge of my patience since the "Quick Setup" took me hours to deal with. Not to mention bugging some agents at the PLDT customer care line only to hear from them that they can't find anything wrong with our account or the way I set up the gizmos here.
Turns out, the phone line tita handed me is bogus. Good thing I tried using the line from my room and viola!-hello world wide web. So yeah, I can indulge in generous, generous signals from now on and I can save on my penniless state by prefering to email over my phone instead of texting. [Yes, I am THAT broke.]

But before I could finally jump around with the yehey look on my face, I have to, yet again, REFORMAT mi old and rugged Toshiba laptop. He's been suffering from chronic AIDS and Cancer. Not only that, he's really physically retiring. I decided to stick with the swinging screen since I'm sure that getting it fixed would really cost some moolah.--which I have none of. The CD drive still needs some tricks for it to work which means I can get to reformat it. The reformatting discs have resurfaced [thank God!] and a few minutes after I publish this post, I shall go through hours, if not DAYS, of constantly waiting on updates and sluggish installations to take place.

Lord, grant me more patience.

possibly my last summer

summer. and despite its notorious sunny skies and scorching temperatures, this season is partly sparing us from the catastrophic effects of global warming by sending us frequent drizzles and almost daily doses of grey skies. and i'm loving it.

it's the 1st day of May and all I want to do is indulge in slumbers in the summer that is most likely to be my last. come june, I shall send myself to educational hell aka med school. god knows how old and old I am once I earn the MD title and actually start earning some moolah.

on some random angst babbles...

dear horoscopes and animal years,
I didn't ask for another pathetic tragedy to preoccupy my already disheveled thoughts. I was kind of saving the crisis management abilities for heaven knows what hell med school will cause me. so please, spare me from more crap.