Saturday, December 23, 2006
Boy, this vacation is WAY too short!Things I've done the past week:
1. Watched the entire season of the 2003 revival of The Twilight Zone
2. Bought The Office (UK version) on DVD
3. Bought OK Go's "Oh No" (it's a steal! CD + VCD DualDisc for the price of one!)
4. Created inventory list for all my music albums on Microsoft Excel, in alphabetical order by artist, and with columns for: Artist/Band, Title, Genre, and whether or not I uploaded it to iTunes
5. In the process of making the inventory list, realized that I need another CD rack
6. Also created inventory lists for my Rolling Stone magazines, Harlequin Mills-Boon romance novels, fiction books, coffee table books, and autobiographies
7. Grew my nails long for the first time in my life
8. Had them painted
9. Watched the American remake of L'Ultimo Bacio (The Last Kiss), liked it only because it stars Zach Braff (well, Rachel Bilson was kinda good too)
10. Developed a crush on Dave Grohl (yes, that's him in my "rock on" avatar), fed this crush by watching YouTube videos and visiting FooArchive.net, and realized that I want ALL the Foo Fighters albums
In short, I did NOTHING on my To-Do list. By the way, I spent most of my time on that last one. =P
Hella fun for me, no doubt, but I feel like the montage in The 40-Year-Old Virgin after Steve Carrell yells "I have a very fulfilling life!" to Paul Rudd.* Consider me the Queen of Anti-Productivity.
*For those who haven't seen the movie (and you damn well should), what Carrell means by "fulfilling" is: being home alone, repainting his action figures, playing a Tony Hawk videogame, singing karaoke all by his lonesome...you get the gist.
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Christmas To-Do List
Reading all your blog posts makes me feel like I'm the only one who isn't bored with the vacation yet. =PThings to accomplish before vacation ends.
2. Read all Rolling Stone magazines (9 issues) and Pulp magazines (3 issues) I bought.
3. Start a music/movie/TV/book review blog on Blogspot.
4. Write at least 5 new reviews in addition to Borat, The White Stripes' "Get Behind Me Satan", "The Devil Wears Prada" by Lauren Weisberger, and "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov
5. Review my most recently purchased albums: Prince's "3121," Panic! At The Disco's "A Fever You Can't Sweat Out," The Dixie Chicks' "Taking the Long Way," The Raconteurs' "Broken Boy Soldiers," Foo Fighters' "In Your Honor," OK Go's "Oh No"
6. Watch the second season of Desperate Housewives.
7. Finally finish Annie Hall, Brokeback Mountain and Capote
8. Find albums of Stone Temple Pilots, Tenacious D and Fiona Apple SOMEWHERE in the damn country (because Music One doesn't have them)
9. Watch at least three cornball romantic comedy DVDs here (I'm thinking Cake, The Lake House, and John Tucker Must Die)
10. Watch the last two seasons of Six Feet Under.
11. Listen to all the songs on the Greatest Hits albums my uncle lent me: Paula Abdul, Seal, and David Bowie.
12. Watch Adaptation and Proof.
13. Finish my Christmas shopping.
14. Go on at least three dinner dates.
15. Brush up on my French (so that I'm less dependent on FreeTranslation.com, hahaha).
17. Having discovered the term for the genre I'm into right now (post-grunge), listen to music from lesser-known bands of the genre, like Cake, Better Than Ezra, and Tonic.
18. Watch all the seasons of CSI: NY.
19. Try wall-climbing. (Hahaha!)
20. Make a New Year's resolution that I'm actually going to stick to. :P
All efforts to help me will be much appreciated! =D (For instance, if you happen to know where I can get STP/Tenacious D/Fiona Apple CDs other than Amazon, that'd be great).
Testriffic! Perhaps I was taken by how much better the Testriffic graphics are compared to the crappy HTML Blogthings produces, but I took this test (got it from
If there's anyone who influenced this kind of personality in me, it's definitely Bill Maher.
Sunday, December 17, 2006
I know the sun's still shining when I close my eyes
[Backdated diary entry: December 13, 2006]Today is my birthday. I had today pictured perfectly in my mind: wake up bright and early at 6am, try out the Freeman foot scrub that I bought yesterday on Sarah's recommendation (Iced Teaberry and Mint!) and the accompanying facial scrub, take a bath but not touch the hair since I just had it hot oiled the day prior and it still smells awesome, throw on the dress I also bought yesterday at People Are People, get my birthday money and head on out the door by 8am so I can get to Shangri-La EDSA by 10am to meet the Ilang-ilang peeps. Today was the day! I was finally free to meet up with Ilang for the first time in a long time, since I had other events during the previous Ilang gimiks. I actually had one planned today (drop by Zobel, sit in class and make libre Yellow Cab) but this time, I decided to move it. I would show up at the Ilang gimik and make libre Super Bowl, because damn it, today was the day.
The night of December 12, I set my Hello Kitty alarm clock to 6am. Everything was going to be just peachy.
Of course, things never turn out the way I plan them to.
December 13, I wake up groggily after a night of watching more Scrubs episodes. And online greetings! And participating in an insult contest with Jimpo, which I won. Suck it, beeyotch! >:)
"God, what time is it?" I wonder. A glimpse at the alarm clock shows that it is officially...8am. I was supposed to be out the front door by 8am. "Shit!"
I end up teeter-tottering on whether or not I would still go to this thing, provided I'd be 2 hours late at best, while watching more Scrubs with my mom. Charge my cellphone, skim through the numerous Happy Birthday texts pouring in, but not without a big smile.
Mom asked me if I wanted to just hang out with her at Alabang Town Center and get a foot spa and pedicure at The Spa. Now here was a dilemma. Although I barely get to go malling with friends on such a tight schedule, I spend much less time bonding with Mom.
"Maybe."
I thought about it while trying out the Freeman foot scrub, and Sarah, you are totally right, it does make your feet 3 shades lighter! Blah blah blah, and by 11 I'm in my dress and my favorite stilettos. I know I would be late again, but whatever, right? After all, these gimiks don't come every day. Perhaps another day, Mom.
As Mom handed me the money for making libre and the gift money for my birthday and told me to take care, there was a split-second where I caught the slight dejection in her eyes. She attempted a half-smile, but I knew better. That moment, I knew what the right choice was.
"I'll just go with you, Mom."
We watched a few more episodes of Season 5 before leaving for a super-relaxing foot spa and pedicure. Damn, I love The Spa. It smells like peppermint everywhere and you can see the trees gently moving to the wind outside. And now my toenails are all glittery and I love it!
Afterwards, we met up with my brother at Rustan's and went to Music One where I used a little bit of my birthday money to buy the Raconteurs album I'd been pining for.
We had dinner in my grandma's house where I complained to my Tito Tito (yeah, he's my tito and his name is Tito) about the unavailability of classic albums in Tower Records/Music One. I mean, seriously, they've got tons of obscure artists but no Stone Temple Pilots? No Fiona Apple? Nirvana (except for a recently released greatest hits album)? Prince (save for "3121," which I already have)? For god's sake.
I went home with my gifts, my new Raconteurs CD, and some CDs I borrowed from Tito Tito: Seal, David Bowie, and...Paula Abdul. Yep. I ended the day by going online to more birthday greetings and then finally finished season five of Scrubs a little after 12.
Today was a good day. I still have the money for making libre, so I'll most probably spend it on you guys next year. :D
Saturday, December 09, 2006
Music geeks
Kwento to follow, but first, a picture!
I know, I know, I have no eyebrows, but forget about that. (I overplucked them.) Look at our shirts! They've got old rock bands on them!
I luv Potassium. ♥ ♥ ♥
Saturday, December 02, 2006
Typhoon? What typhoon?
"I'm bigger and badder than Milenyo, so charge your cellphones, iPods and laptops, stock your fridges and prepare for a ride because I'm gonna uproot the trees, rip billboards apart, and wipe the country clean! It's gonna be armageddon, baby...PSYCHE!"Good one, Reming! But thanks for the suspension, I've been freed of my Bio and EngJourn long tests, even for a little while.
Forgive the glibness, I just found it funny to read everyone blogging on how they're charging everything and not taking any chances this time around. Reming came and went...or did it? And nothing happened. FYI, I spent half the time with my cellphone out of battery. Yeah, I was too lazy to charge anything. As long as my brother has his guitar, we'll be fine.
As I've told a number of people, the thing I hate the most about SM Mall of Asia is that for such a ginormous mall, it sure is FUCKING CROWDED. Good Lord. We went there anyway and fell in love with Tokyo Cafe ♥ Then we headed to Fully Booked and I finally got that PostSecret book I always wanted. PostSecret is a great site; I'll do a feature on it sometime over Christmas break.
On a final note, YAY POTASSIUM. :) Go Desdes!
I wish I could write more but time won't permit. Exams to study for, you know.
