Title:	The 2K deal
Topics:	rants
Date:	Monday, November 16, 2009 @ 11:15 PM
Security:	public
Today, I am in:	bedroom
Today, I am feeling:	aggravated

How can a person forget to enlist herself for next term of school, I ask you.


How the freakin' way?

Title:	See that water go!
Date:	Friday, September 25, 2009 @ 10:31 PM
Security:	public
Today, I am feeling:	shocked

Since Friday night until the late afternoon of Saturday, the rain was strong and continuous. Our area became flooded, a rare thing. And then the creek in front of our house became swollen and rose above the walls where it was contained. The floods rose to water levels I have never seen before, entering our elevated house and submerging two of our vehicles parked in the garage. The two SUVs are now out of commission until my dad can have the two vehicles towed and taken apart (even the engines) to be cleaned of mud and water.

Our family was frightened that the water might enter our house. We were lucky it didn't. The garage (situated on ground level) took the brunt of the water, leaving the first floor of our house safe. We had no electricity so we had to make do with canned food. It was a good thing that our stove was a gas range. We cooked rice and heated the food there, and we brought out candles on tin trays so we could see in the dark. The only advantage of heavy rains was that the ground and air was cool, so even though we had no aircon, we were OK.

The flood waters in our area drained fast. An hour after the rains weakened to a shower, our streets could already be passable--slippery with a thick coat of mud--but passable. Other areas were not so lucky. One day later, floods in Marikina, Rizal, Cainta and Pasig and selected parts of Manila were still high. Classes were postponed until Tuesday because there were a lot of debris and cars piled on top of each other after the floods subsided.

In all my life I have never seen a disaster this great of magnitude. The elders said this was the worst storm they had seen in 20 years. I hope this does not happen again.

Title:	Alive and still kickin', baby
Topics:	cats, daddy, life news, rants
Date:	Sunday, September 13, 2009 @ 03:37 AM
Security:	public
Today, I am feeling:	cold

When was the last time I posted something worthwhile over here? Hmm. Long time.

Dad and I are on tentative speaking terms again. Tentative meaning nice-weather-we're-having kind-of talk. (BTW, it is not nice weather. I haven't seen the sun brightly for more than half a day.) We started off with frozen atmosphere to stiff, awkward silences to this. I believe this is a vast improvement, wouldn't you say so? Eh, or maybe it's because it's near enrollment for second term, which he would insist I take, which I would insist that I would not, excuse me for sounding ungrateful.

I've decided I like digital/multimedia/graphic arts more than advertising. It's that rush of adrenaline and excitement I get when doing art in front of the computer. I'm addicted to it (like drug but otherwise safe). OK, the fact that I wasted a year of my life is big, but I believe I'll stick to this decision. And if I ever get to study digital/multimedia/graphic art, I'll finish it.

Moving on...we three sisters shared over a laptop for a span of three weeks after our monitor died. Poor thing, maybe because I tormented it so much, what with it working more than 18 hours a day. Probably it simply couldn't keep up. So it goes, we were bereft of a monitor and we were fighting over computer rights with my laptop until my mom finally got pissed, gave up and went to the nearest computer store and bought a 19" LCD monitor. Yum! Good thing that she did, because now we are fighting over computer rights with this computer after my laptop crashed.

Ah, life. It happens.

Once again, moving on...I've become extra active in the NGO animal welfare society I became a member to, especially after I read our group's president and how she worked to save all those animal lives even if she was in constant pain because of her spinal cord. Apparently there's something wrong with it, and she already had three major surgeries. On the third surgery, the doctors told her to have complete bed rest for two weeks. Three days later, she was up and about and attending a meeting with the other members. God, I admired her so much after that I felt ashamed that I, lazying away my days, was doing nothing. So I began participating in the adoption events, the design team and other things I can help with. Now that our design team head is migrating to Australia, she's temporarily handing the job of arranging the layout of the Animal Scene articles to me for a number of months until she's set-up and adjusting with her new life in Australia. (Although I absolutely have no idea what goes on with those stuff, at least I have three other older members who could mentor me.)

Also, surprisingly, I noted that most of the members of our group is comprised of foreigners and immigrants. Only a handful of us are actually local citizens. It got me thinking, are Filipinos really without care about animals and their plight, or is it generally common in society's people? After all, I've read the foreign news of an 18-year-old girl who threw a kitten in an oven and left it to roast alive, and a teenage boy who enjoyed torturing and killing cats, and another teenage boy who shot an arrow through a kitten. Such cruelty is totally unnecessary.

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I think watching House M.D. is influencing how I speak, big time. I like how twisted and warped his mind works, all the while people around him are trying to make him feel humanity. Dr. House, I am a big admirer, haha! I've only finished the 1st season and half the 2nd season for now, and I'm loving it.

I need to get a life, seriously.

 

Title:	Guess that movie!
Topics:	tests
Date:	Monday, August 10, 2009 @ 02:09 AM
Security:	public
Today, I am in:	bedroom
Today, I am listening to:	Two Worlds, One Family -- Phil Collins, Disney's Tarzan OST
Today, I am feeling:	artistic

Completely self-explanatory. Saw this on Joan's Multiply site, and I had loads of fun doing this. Hopefully somebody tries! :D

Constantine 1. "Angels and Demons can't cross over onto our plane. So, instead we get what I call half-breeds. The influence peddlers. They can only whisper in our ears. But a single word can give you courage, or turn your favorite pleasure into your worst nightmare. Those with the demon's touch like those part angel, living alongside us. They call it the balance. I call it hypocritical bullshit."

2. "If they ever tell my story let them say that I walked with giants. Men rise and fall like the winter wheat, but these names will never die. Let them say I lived in the time of Hector, tamer of horses. Let them say I lived in the time of Achilles."

Anastasia 3. "Princesses don't marry kitchen boys." 

4. "Vampires pretending to be humans, pretending to be vampires."
    "How avant-garde."

The Mummy 5. "It's just a book. No harm ever came from reading a book."

6. "How do a bunch of guys with hand tools build all this?"
    "Same way they built the pyramids - and the Great Wall of China."
    "Yeah...the aliens helped them."

7. "I don't know if you remember but, we saw each other. That is, I saw you. You never told me... how beautiful you were."
    "Well, maybe you saw someone else. That was a bad hair year for me."
    "Long brown hair, gentle unguarded eyes..."
    "OK, OK. You saw me. But I still don't know what you look like."

8. "Dreams die hard and you hold them in your hands long after they've turned to dust."

9. "And when I shall die, take him and cut him up in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will fall in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun."

10. "God made alcohol as a social lubricant. To make men brave, and to make women loose."

11. "Option A: You talk, we listen, no pain. Option B: You don't talk, I remove your thumbs with my pliers, it will hurt. Option C: I like to vary the details a bit but the punchline is... you die."

12. "I told you I'm different. I could have dropped you with the sharks."

13. "What's this?"
      "Oh, it's a baseball glove. You can catch things with it, take hot things out of the oven, or you can even hit your sister with it."

14. "There are many different kinds of bravery. There's the bravery of thinking of others before one's self. Now, your father has never brandished a sword nor fired a pistol, thank heavens. But he has made many sacrifices for his family, and put away many dreams...He put them in a drawer. And sometimes, late at night, we take them out and admire them. But it gets harder and harder to close the drawer...and he does. And that is why he is brave."

15. "McQueen and Sally parked beneath a tree. K-I-S-somethin'-somethin'-somethin'-T."

16. "Oh my, this is a twist in our story! It's the brave little princess coming to the rescue. I guess this makes you the damsel in distress, huh, handsome?"

17. "What's sex?"
      "Wait. You're a virgin? You've been kicking around with *her* and you're a... a v-v-virgin? Well, I won't spoil the surprise. Boy, are you in for a treat." 

Disney's Tarzan 18. "Mom! Are you sure this water's sanitary? It looks questionable to me!"

Title:	The ones who've gone
Topics:	cats, dogs, pets, r.i.p.
Date:	Saturday, August 1, 2009 @ 02:30 AM
Security:	public
Today, I am listening to:	Even Now -- Barry Manilow
Today, I am feeling:	sorrowful

I was reading through the animal welfare site I'm a member in, and I saw our vice-president's blog and read about the cats she saved. And I remember my own cats, especially the ones who've passed away. There are some pets, when they leave my family, never disappear in our hearts. Even now, three years later, I still miss my very first cat, because he was really special.

Title:	Bad to worse
Topics:	cats, r.i.p.
Date:	Tuesday, July 28, 2009 @ 12:44 PM
Security:	public
Today, I am in:	bedroom
Today, I am listening to:	Now and Forever -- Richard Marx
Today, I am feeling:	crushed

Internet's back. That's the only thing I'm happy about.

BinBin died yesterday evening. It was terrible to watch her as she suffered seizures and eventually died a horrible death. She did try to fight her sickness. We could see that in the way she tried to stand up but couldn't, and how she eventually decided to crawl to move. It was painful to see all that.

I would have liked to put her to sleep to end her suffering, but my mom believed in the stupid old wives' tale that when a pet is dying, it means that someone close to the family is suppose to die and that the pet decided to "catch" the death meant for that person. She says that if we put her to sleep, BinBin's sacrifice is negated, and that the person would really die. She says this because our aunt is having a surgery that's taking out her ovaries on the same week.

This is why I dislike looking at my mom right now. It would be a while before I not think of how BinBin's little body twitched and contracted in my hands as I comforted her, and my mom says no in ending her suffering.

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+ Sabina "BinBin"
Nov 2006 - July 27, 2009
Rest in peace, Mistress. We love you.