Thursday, June 22, 2006

6 degrees of kevin bacon

browsing over belle's URL, friendster told me that "belle is your friend" i went "hwatdafak? we're related by blood you idiot, she's my cousin!"

but that was on friendster after all so a can't really complain. if there only was a cousinster.com where we find out that we're all cousins separated by several degrees, that would be swell!

"belle is your first degree cousin"
"saddam is your distant cousin,
you are connected to him through his cousin jamal who is the cousin of ahmed..."
"you married your cousin you idot!"

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

someone in yahoo hates heat

hurry before somebody fixes it!

under the "top headlines" in the yahoo sports spage, clicking the NBA link to the article "Heat Beat Mavericks to Win NBA Title" would lead you to an old yahoo sports story on the Feb 09, 2006 36 point game loss of the Miami Heat to the Dallas Mavericks during the regular season titled "Dallas 112, Miami 76"

para kay bingboy at sa kanyang pamilya

nakikiramay ako sa inyong pagdalamhati ngayong araw ng libing ni nanay.

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Sunday, June 18, 2006

when you feel trapped and can't move on

i often wonder what is worse for me, being left behind or arriving too early. that friday afternoon in tangil, with two and a half hours until the next ferry i thought not making the last trip would have been better because that would force me to move on after a few slaps to the forehead.

arriving early leaves me with no other options but to fucking wait and kill time, this always brings on long spells of staring blankly into space, into bright midday humid rural port area space filled with brown dust and blue sea and white sky. i could imagine myself already on the other side being invited to carnivorous visayan fiestas, promised banana cakes and fed with native goodies with hot chocolate in dark and smoky joints like opium dens frequented for their quick sweet thick dreamy fix.

i was jolted out of my reverie by fergie telling me through the videoke machine that i don't want no drama. curious thing was that it really was fergie's voice coming out of the videoke machine and not some irksome falsetto singing about humps and lady lumps. i was drawn towards this amazing machine and saw the rest of the BEPs in concert telling the audience that she's got them spending.

turns out that someone somewhere thought of a gift to bequeath music lovers who can't sing or won't sing in public and can't stand other people's singing, the mtv videoke! for five pesos you could watch and listen to two music videos or concert cuts of songs of your choice. like a music video jukebox!

ha!! let the ferry arrive late, push those buttons for me mate!
  • layla unplugged - eric clapton
  • underneath it all - no doubt
  • my immortal - evanescence
  • some like it hot - power station
  • scar tissue - red hot chilli peppers
  • smells like teen spirit - nirvana

Monday, June 12, 2006

critique of sentimentality

"Heartlessness masked by a style overflowing with feeling."

Kafka on Dickens's novels

Saturday, June 10, 2006

heat vs. mavs

an interesting nba finals trivia i've read is that given the number of nba teams there are, one would think that there is an even chance for any team to win the finals but this is not so. from 1979 till 2005 only seven teams have become nba champions:

  1. los angeles lakers (80, 82, 87, 88, 00, 01, 02)
  2. boston celtics (81, 84, 86)
  3. philadelphia 76ers (83)
  4. detroit pistons (89, 90, 04)
  5. chicago bulls (91, 92, 93, 96, 97, 98)
  6. houston rockets (94, 95)
  7. san antonio spurs (99, 03, 05)

this has been the only time since 1971 that two teams who have not been to the finals before are battling for the larry o'brien trophy. so to whoever wins, you've truly come a long way baby!

Friday, June 09, 2006

teknolohika fantastika!

current raves:

  1. the i-max theater at the new mall of asia
  2. google earth
  3. wikipedia on dc and marvel universe
  4. trekearth and treklens
  5. lesbian batwoman

Wednesday, June 07, 2006

roam


bato
boracay

maria

calatagan

intramuros

kawasan

san carlos

pagsanjan

Sunday, June 04, 2006

a series of unfortunate events

  1. papunta ako ng airport para sa flight papuntang cebu at P400 lang pala laman ng wallet ko
  2. kinain ng atm machine ang aking atm card dahil sa 3x wrong pin
  3. naubos oras ko sa proseso ng pag-retrieve ng atm card kaya hindi na ako umabot sa flight ko
  4. dahil hindi ako naka-withdraw ay hindi ako makapag-rebook ng flight
  5. naisipan kong mag fund transfer sa isa pang atm account pero ayaw tanggapin sa machine ang atm card dahil sa magnetic strip problem
  6. takbo ako sa isa pang expressnet machine na tumatanggap sa aking flip na atm card pero 2x nag-wrong pin
  7. nag fund transfer na lang ako sa e-cash card ni ayi pero hindi ko siya ma-text o matawagan dahil biglang ayaw gumana ng asterisk key sa aking cellphone na kailangan para ma-unlock ang keypad
  8. kinailangan kong puntahan sa muntinlupa si ayi at gisingin sa pagtulog at biglain sa landline na nasa labas na ako ng kanilang subdivision at kinakailangan ko siyang dalhin sa festival mall para magamit ang e-cash card niya
  9. pagkatapos ma-withdraw ay kailangan ko pang magbayad ng P350 para lang maayos ang keypad ng cellphone para makapagtext sa nasa cebu na hindi ako makakarating sa araw na iyon
  10. umasa pa akong maaalala ko ang pin ng aking atm card kaya hindi ko pa linabas lahat ng laman ng account, ang pagkakamaling ito ay nagdulot ng isa pang serye ng mga malas na pangyayari apat na araw pagkatapos nito