On gunning them down, more often than usual.

So over the past few weeks (month?) I've sort of become a fixture at Time Crisis 3 in Timezone Trinoma. It's my new therapy game of preference, partly because the House of the Dead almost always has broken guns and I suck at that samurai sword game. (And I don't play Time Crisis 4 because I almost always die at the multi-screen... battle... whatdoyoucallit.) @_@ It's all fun except I might be developing an addiction, you know? Like there are those days... when I just HAVE to have a go at it. Like yesterday. And last Thursday. And... yeah. <_<;

Having said all this I have to admit that I still FAIL!!! T____T Can't even make it past Stage 2 (hey Stage 2, not Area 2).

So that, AND I've gotten hooked on Mafia Wars. Me and everyone else in the office. If you haven't heard about it, it's this strategy game on Facebook that's extremely easy to get hooked on. I guess it's kind of my replacement for Warbook xD except I was A LOT more hooked on Warbook back then.

The thing is, I'm sort of noticing a trend in my areas of interests.

...WHICH ISN'T TO SAY IT CONCERNS ME. X'D Ahahaha. I don't think I'll be switching to playing UFO Catcher anytime soon.

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As some of you guys may have heard by now, my mom came back from her vacation to Japan last Monday. She brought me two magazines filled with JE-boyband goodness (and she knows who Johnny Kitagawa is now, moohahaha xDDD), rice crackers (!), and a whole bunch of clothes from my sister. But special attention must be given to the two pairs of knee-high boots that my sister already sent me. xDDD After much consideration, I've decided that I LIKE THEM and I don't care if they are completely not appropriate for the climate, I am going to find a way to wear them. So hopefully it stays cold until February. xD

Pictures to follow. :D

Things to read, and stuff.

Friday was awesome. The company let us take half the day off for [company sponsored!] book shopping. We were given an allowance of 1,500 Php per employee/month, on the condition that we choose books that will help us with our writing. Sweet deal.

I'm not even halfway through my allowance yet. I only got this:

Nyaarrr. xDDD It's a parody book of the everyday written crap that we read (ads, missives, etc). It's hilarious. But wish me luck explaining the title when the big boss sees it. But hey, it's valid, I think I can get a lot of ideas from the books. Besides: 'The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof shit detector. " (Ernest Hemingway). Hah. xD

And on the subject of my writing, I wonder if I should be worried. My writing/creative process has been very... I don't know how to describe it, free-spirited(?) lately. xD It's a good thing company policy tolerates me going up to the office loft, and lying down to write. Sometimes even taking a nap. My concern is that I may be going a little too far with taking the path of least resistance? :P Ohoho.

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Meg just got a DSLR. And while just a month ago, I was all like, "Meh, I won't get one until I really know how to take pictures", now my SLR lust has come to the forefront. @___@ I hope I can stave it off until January. December is not a good month for taking a vow of poverty.

Besides, my need for a new computer is a lot more pressing. I figure the old clunker only has a few months of survival left in it. So... it's a matter of need vs. want. Let's see how well the (hard-earned! I worked hard~) resources flow in toward the end of the year. xD

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I didn't previously know there was an Advanced Photoshop magazine. I got one last Friday. It's pretty kickass, it even comes with a CD of brushes, shapes, and textures. And the tutorials are pretty wicked, I'll be glad to learn half of them.

Update.

Two things:

Point #1 - My mom's in Japan. She'll be there till January. I'm glad she finally got to go, but... I miss her already. And timing, really--would've been nice to have her around considering all the crap that's been going on lately.

Which by the way brings us to Point #2 - A lot of crap has been going on lately. None of which I plan to explain here. This blog is not for drama.

Moving on--if you're not on my Multiply, you probably don't know that I've been doing Project 365. Basically, it's a commitment to take one photo a day for 365 days--to basically document your life for a year. It's a healthy exercise in forcing yourself to do something interesting (trans: photo op worthy xD) every single day. Or at least be creative with the usual things around you.

Here's a sampling of what I have so far. As you can see I am not that good a photographer nor that interesting a person xDDD but I'm having fun with it. Hopefully I fulfill the commitment for an entire year (LOLLLLL).

You can check out my Flickr photo set here.

On other matters of net-whoring, I'm on PLURK! Add me plskthxbai. :D

The geek shall inherit the earth.

I've been dorking out a lot these past few days. Turns out not even taking dance lessons from the country's baddest hip-hop crew can pull me out of my oddball roots. Oh well. At least I'm comfortable with myself. xD

For one thing, I can't stop watching YouTube vids of Kevin Smith. He's a director, but he kills with the stories that he tells. The guy's just fucking hilarious. Not to mention completely irreverent and sacriligious. Check him out here, talking about Superman. (And if you're not morally and religiously sensitive, there's another one that I want to show you, so just ask me for the link plskthx. LOLOLOLLL)

Moving on. Payday is tomorrow, which means I can afford comic books again (!!!). *spazzdance* I hope the shops have Atomic Robo, cause I want to get either that or my next volume of Y. :D I'll try to hold out until Komikon, but I'll probably allow myself a one or two.

And... speaking of cons, I'll probably be checking out the UP AME convention this November 8th. There's gonna be a speed dating booth, which... intrigues me. xDDD Wahaha. Anyway, so, if anyone wants to come with (although I doubt it), you know the drill.

I even like how new comic books smell now.

My addiction to Y: the Last Man is careening out of control--which I guess is good since that's pretty much the only sure indicator that I'm really into something. I bought two trade volumes this week alone. IT'S ONLY WEDNESDAY. D:

But I can't help it, it's too f***ing awesome.


Why does Komik Kon have to be so long away. Why. ;~;

Anyway. I've posted this everywhere else, but since we're on the subject of awesome, look--Taken at Cosmania (fine, outside Cosmania. Tickets were sold out by the time we got there.) last Sunday. I think I remember having seen a Ryuk costume in a previous con, but it was nowhere near this good.

And, as I always do when I go to one of these events, I'm left with a case of cosplay-envy. xD Except I still haven't the slightest on who to go as. Bah, I can't even think of what to dress up as for Halloween. :P (If you have ideas, contact me. :P)

I'm... off to gleefully open my new comic book now. Later. ♥ :3

So how long overdue is this.

The lame thing about me as a blogger is that whenever blog-worthy things have been happening, I usually end up too lazy to write about it. So my more interesting days are usually met with a semi-hiatus, which sucks. That's gotta change.

Anyway, a few things:
I bought the multicolored Holga. :D I'd been in love with it since I first saw it on the cover of Speed... so it wasn't entirely an impulse purchase. LOL. Anyway it's partly an early birthday gift to myself, and partly out of the fact that I've really needed a new hobby for a while now. I haven't had much practice with it yet. I'll take it out for a spin tomorrow. (Does anyone know where to buy expired 120mm film?)

The L plushie was a present from our editor, Jordan. :D

In other news, I finally found volume 1 of Y: the Last Man, and so far it's been pretty kickass. I've been wanting to start reading comics for a long time but for the most part I couldn't afford it. *sheepish* xD; Now I can't wait for this year's Komikon, so I can buy more. (Nov. 22. Let me know if you wanna come with.)

That's pretty much it for the amusements, unless you'd like to hear about my sudden interest in going to bars and listening to reggae music, which has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with last Tuesday's night out at Xaymaca, when I got to talk to the totally cute guitarist of the reggae band that was playing. ♥ :3 (What?) Haha.

To be honest, I've been working and playing hard over the past two weeks so I'm just kinda glad to have caught a break. That said, I can only chill for so long before I get bored so if anyone wants to hang out tomorrow (or hit a bar sometime next week), let me know? :D

Oh hi I sort of forgot I had this.

Back when I was unemployed I told myself that the first thing I'd do, as soon as I get a decent-paying job, was buy my own domain back. Now that I can actually afford it again, I'm like, "Meh." Hot damn I'm such a nerd the only thing I really miss from having a paid host isn't the glamor of having my own domain name, but the beautiful convenience of FTP-ing files to the server. @_@

Blogging here is losing its charm. Maybe I need a new audience. :/ I should try add-whoring on MySpace. Wait no. The guys there won't even read the damn profile page.

In other news, I've been taking random photos again. I think I'm bad at it, but my excuse is that's not the point? I'm just trying to distract myself from my own loneliness. xD I want to look at things a different way again, to notice colors again, to be amused by the silliest things again. Besides, if I understand correctly, the fact that I'm only using my crappy cameraphone shouldn't matter as long as I'm truly honest with myself. xD Ohoho. I don't even know what that means.

Gotta go, meeting in a few. Later, folks.

These?

--are REALLY GOOD. Really good. In fact, beyond good. Just. GENIUS. :3

Anyhoo.

Yesterday the boss mentioned something about dancing, and it got me wondering if maybe one of the reasons I've been so sickly is because... I haven't been dancing enough? Ok I KNOW it sounds stupid, but I'm not my body isn't exactly the most logical thing in the world so I figure it's worth a shot. Dance has always been therapeutic for me anyway. So... I broke out the Luis Fonsi mp3s (aaaand the Brian Friedman video, haha) a little earlier. xDDD It's probably just the endorphins, but hey I feel a little better already.

At the very least, I know it won't try to kill me like Neozep did last last night*. My head was hurting so much I decided to take one before bed. About half an hour later, I COULDN'T BREATHE PROPERLY. D: And not even because my nose was stuffy or anything. My breath was just really really short, and I felt really thirsty even though I had a glass of water with me. It was like... my body couldn't take in oxygen properly or something. It went on for about an hour. I WAS SO SCARED. ;~;

I hate being sick.

*An exaggeration. I'm probably just allergic to something in it. No rawsuits prease.

Thoughts on Gabby and Manny. LAWL.

I'd say 'anachronistic' would be a good word to describe Gabby Concepcion in his recent attempts to... snatch fame from the jaws of obsolescence. ifail@metaphors.lol

I think I was on my second beer last Saturday night, when a plug of his movie (or TV movie?) came on, and I remarked that he looked like he'd been CUT AND PASTED from the 1970s into 2008. My brother totally cracked up and was like "Exactly!" LOL I thought I was the only one who'd noticed.

Fine, I don't want to risk getting slapped for libel be unfair here; let's give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe it's not his fault he seems a little out of sync with the... grand scheme of things. Maybe it's because he was out of circulation for such a long time. Maybe it's his awkwardly noticeably rosy cheeks. Or maybe it's because his bangs just scream "last vestige of 80s matinee idol glory." Look:

What point was I trying to make now? Oh right, I wasn't.

Moving on to more current things (OOH C WUT I DID THAR!). The Pacquiao-Diaz match, you see it? Hot damn. Manny Pacquiao is just ASASFALKJHLamazing. Diaz had to be one of his toughest opponents yet. That guy just kept taking punches TO THE FACE and wouldn't go down!!!... until the 9th. :D That was a pretty sweet KO.

Late night fangirling.

Here's blogging for the heck of it. I was gonna go to bed, but someone posted a scanlation of a Daijiro Yonemura article on the Question? comms, so now I'm all awake and giddy like the fangirl that I am. Just when I thought I was starting to like Yoshi-kun and his smexy drummer arms. Now it's back to Yonemuu♥. And his hairy legs.

Fine, none of you care about that.

Still... all this has me realizing that I've been fangirling on the internet for about a decade now. O_O Hot damn. *flashback mode* I remember when I first got into it, back in 1998. The internet looked like crap, and HTML looked so intimidating. LOL. I made my first webpages on gURLpages, and with MS frigging WORD. I spent my limited and then-very expensive internet hours browsing a seemingly endless string of 'N Sync fansites (webrings were still the shiznits back then), and laughing at the, uh... 'nside jokes. Such as the recurring Lance/Joey love pairing in fanfics (because even back then, even though we kinda wanted to have his babies, us loyal fangirls kinda knew that Lance Bass was, you know...)

So now, 10 years later, I think it's quite obvious that I've moved on... to other groups. *facepalm*

Unrelated matter: this personality test, which I got from Paolo, puts me in the "Spontaneous Idealist" category. The description makes me LOL, nonetheless I think it's spot on.

Alright, that's it. This entry was contrived from the very beginning. XD Must go to sleep now, I promised myself I'd at least try to sleep earlier than 4AM today. Oyasumi nasai~.

Weird celebrity psychic, candy, and TV.

I've been trying to come up with a blog entry for the past two days. It's just that when you're trying to write about a close encounter with Madame Auring (Really happened. Monday. It was so weird. I still haven't gotten the image of her hot pink leggings out of my head.), you tend to run out of non-slanderous words.

Moving on to more palatable things... READ PLSKTHX: If anyone out there knows where Milky Way bars are still being sold. Please please prease. Let me know. They're my favorite, and I haven't had them in ages. I can't seem to find them. :(

I was going to comment on certain issues, but it's almost 3 am and I'm starving and can't think straight. But just so you didn't come here for nothing (apart from me whining about a candy bar), here's some random-but-ultimately-related stuff.
1.) I am crushing on Jon Stewart all over again. ♥
2.) Maxxx has been switching up the time slots for The Daily Show and the Colbert Report for the past couple of days. Dunno why. Dun really care either. I watch 'em both.
3.) Someone needs to tell the voiceover lady for Maxxx that's it's more like, coal-bare. LULZ.
4.) I wonder if it might be a good idea to switch to Destiny cable from Sky. The leaflet (which I've of course misplaced) says they have Discovery Travel and Living and TWO NHKs. My only qualm is that all (ok, both) of the cable companies around always have that "lineup subject to change without prior notice" clause, which roughly translates to "we have made a virtue of dropping the channels you want as soon as you sign up with us". (Still... TWO NHKs?)