Sunday, October 31, 2004
Happy Halloween!!!
My Halloween is not a happy one. I'm stuck here at home because no one wants to go out; Leny is tinatamad, Kartika is in Zambales, Connie can't make it because Veco's still recovering. So that leaves me with CK who's currently ignoring my text messages. Jas is broke and refuses to leave the house. Red is his usual self who just wants to stay at home and play his computer games. The Saturday Night Out Gang is doing their own thing.
So I'm left here at home and I have no choice but to download mp3s from WinMX. From my MP3s to Download List, I've successfully downloaded two songs: Daydream Believer by The Monkees and When The Stars Go Blue by The Corrs and Bono. Below are the lyrics of the latter:
When The Stars Go Blue
The Corrs and Bono
Dancin' where the stars go blue
Dancin' where the evening fell
Dancin' in your wooden shoes
In a wedding gown
Dancin' out on 7th street
Dancin' through the underground
Dancin' little marionette
Are you happy now?
Yeah(Bono)
Where do you go when you're lonely
Where do you go when you're blue
Where do you go when you're lonely
I'll follow you
When the stars go blue, blue
When the stars go blue, blue
When the stars go blue, blue
When the stars go blue
Laughing with your pretty mouth
Laughing with your broken eyes
Laughing with your lover's tongue
In a lullaby
Where do you go when you're lonely
Where do you go when you're blue
Where do you go when you're lonely
I'll follow you
When the stars go blue, blue
When the stars go blue, blue
When the stars, when the stars go blue, blue
When the stars go blue
When the stars go blue, blue, blue
Stars go blue
When the stars go blue
Where do you go when you're lonely
Where do you go when you're blue, yeah
Where do you go when you're lonely
I'll follow you, I'll follow you, I'll follow you
I'll follow you, I'll follow you, yeah
Where do you go, yeah
Where do you go, Where do you go
I hope that this year's Halloween won't be another so-so day. Halloween is my favorite holiday of all. You don't need to be with someone special to enjoy it, you don't need to receive gifts, flowers, or chocolates. Halloween is just fun because it's that one day in a year where everyone is allowed to be someone or something they want to be and just be silly and be given candies for it.
I'm going back to downloading mp3s and hope that someone will text or call me and invite me to go out and celebrate Halloween.
Happy Halloween!!!
Maan @ 11:01 AM
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Saturday, October 23, 2004
Happy Birthday Kapatid!!!
Manila: 23 October 2004, 1:31 PM
San Francisco: 22 October 2004, 10:30 PM
Today is the 21st Birthday of Michael who is my one and only Kapatid. He's in San Francisco right now and I just finished talking to him over the cellphone. Yan na ang birthday gift ko sa kanya. Mahal ang overseas call ha! Hehe!
For the record, when my brother was here, there was never a day that we wouldn't argue about something - petty things most of the time. Such as fighting over the remote and control of the TV (which is in the room of my mom), the radio (which is in his room), the use of MY PC (which is in the computer room and I would like to stress that it is MINE), him borrowing my things without asking for permission, him losing the things which he borrowed, and so and and so forth.
We also fought about real issues such as his low grades, his vices, his B.I. friends, his extravagant lifestyle, his inability to inform Mama or me where he is through text or phone call, his cellphone which is always "unattended" thus we cannot contact him most of the time, and other really irritating stuff which makes me really pissed off.
But at the end of the day, he is still my brother. Now that he's a gazillion miles away, there are actually some irritating and not-so-irritating things that he does which I miss. When I'm home alone, I realize that our small house gets very lonely especially during weekends and I'm the only one watching TV. Here are some of the normal scenes which my brother and I participate in regularly:
The Coke-and-V-Cut Scene
A regular weekend scene in our house which happens only when my mom isn't home.
My brother and I loooovvveeee watching TV and we loooovveeeeee it if we have something to eat and drink while watching TV. Our favorite junkfood is V-cut paired with Coke in plastic.
Maan: Wow! V-cut! Pahinge! Painom na rin ng Coke.
Michael: Ano ka ba! Bumili ka nga ng sarili mo.
Maan: Alam mo ang damot mo! Bibili talaga ako noh. Wag kang hihingi ah!
After 5 minutes...
Michael: Pahingi!
Maan: Ayoko nga!
Michael: Ang damot mo ah!
Maan: Ang kapal mo! Ikaw ang madamot!
Michael: Pahingi na kasi. Konti lang!
Maan: O sige! Basta lipat mo yung channel.
The Early-Morning-TV-Watching Scene
Happens on a weekend usually around 9AM.
Maan: Ano ba! Natutulog pa ako. Mamaya ka na manuod ng TV!
Michael: Ang hina-hina na kaya.
Maan: Well hinaan mo pa!
Michael: Wala na akong marinig.
Maan screaming: Patayin mo nalang kaya! Mamaya ka na manuod!!! Mama!!!
The Who's-Going-Out-Who's-Staying-Home-With-Mama Scene
Maan: May gimmick ako bukas. Wag kang aalis. Samahan mo si Mama.
Michael: Ano ka! May gimmick din ako.
Maan: OK ka lang! Matagal ko ng plano to noh at kaka-gimmick mo lang kagabi. Bahala ka!
Michael: Bahala ka rin!
There are a lot more scenes which my brother and I are really fond of but the three scenarios above are the usual and regular ones.
Since it's his birthday today, allow me to be a little sentimental:
Kapatid! Nakakalungkot din pala pag wala ka. Wala na akong makaaway or makulit kapag bored ako. Wala ng humihingi ng V-cut and Coke and wala na akong kaagaw sa remote control. Yung radyo walang gumagamit kasi tinatamad akong ilabas sa kwarto mo and wala namang AM stations yun so ayaw ni Mama. Yung ibang CDs mo nga pala pinagtatapon ko na. Ang ref walang laman lagi since ikaw lang naman ang kumakain sa bahay. BTW, pag uwi mo rito gimmick tayo sa Greenbelt. Sanay na naman si Mama na walang kasama sa bahay pag weekends since every weekend eh gumi-gimmick ako. Wag mo rin kalimutan ang mga pasalubong. Mag-ingat ka dyan sa San Francisco. Sana nandyan din ako. Siguro masaya kung tayong dalawa nandyan... o baka mag-away lang tayo araw-araw? Kung may pera ka na and may time and mas stable ka na dyan, mag-enroll ka and mag-aral ka ulit. I'm telling you, importante yun. Kung kumikita ka ng pera ngayon, mas malaki ang magiging sweldo mo and mas maganda ang magiging trabaho mo kung college grad ka. O sya! Yan na muna. Love you!
- Ate Maan
Kulit with Kapatid
Maan @ 1:53 PM
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Thursday, October 21, 2004
Geeky me!
I have a tag board!
I have comments!
I am such a geek!
My friends are probably thinking, "Maan ang geeky mo talaga!"
The real geeks are thinking, "Sus! Comments and tag board lang feeling nya part na sya of the Geek World."
To my friends: Yes, I am a geek. Pero cool pa rin!
To the real geeks: Yes, I am a geek. But I'm cooler than you and I'm gonna join the Philippine Blog Awards next year and WIN! So you better watch out and pray that one of you win the awards this year because you won't have a chance to win next year. Ha!
*God, I hope I win para di ako mapahiya next year.*
Markie, Karla, Tina, Vikkicar & Joe, your comments are 'hidden' because I got Tagboard instead of Blogger for my comments.
Maan @ 1:23 AM
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Saturday, October 16, 2004
Pseudo-relationships and the like
I recently received an article titled Parang kayo, pero hindi by Noringai in my e-mail regarding pseudo-relationships. If you haven't received this article yet, you may read it here. Since I liked this article so much, I searched for Noringai in Google and I found out that she has written lots of articles for the Peyups website.
An excerpt from the article:
The "parang kayo, pero hindi" stage. Others call it MU or mutual understanding. Pseudo-relationships. Pseudo-boyfriends. Flings. Almost like a relationship, but not quite. It is a phase where the persons involved are more than friends, but not quite lovers. Puwedeng may verbal agreement, puwedeng wala. One or both of you may have admitted your feelings, possible ding hindi. You just let your gestures do the talking for you. Walang pormal na ligawan na nangyari. Hindi kayo mag-dyowa. Pero sa kilos niyo, sa mga sinasabi niyo, parang kayo, pero hindi.
I also read some of Noringai's articles in her Peyups Column This Side Up and another article of hers which I liked because I can relate to it is Mr. Could-Have-Been.
Here's a sample of the article:
Isang araw, I confronted him. Tinanong ko siya kung bakit niya ako tinatawagan gabi-gabi. Sinabi ko pa na tawag siya ng tawag, wala naman nangyayari. Pinupuyat niya lang ako. Hindi siya nakasagot agad. Natakot ako bigla sa sasabihin niya kaya binawi ko. Sinabi ko na siguro wala siyang ibang kaibigan at naghahanap siya kausap kaya niya ako tinatawagan. Sabi niya marami daw siya kaibigan. Pero kung gusto ko, dare ko daw siya na hindi tumawag sa akin ng one week. Dinare ko nga. Kinabukasan, tumawag siya uli. Hindi ako natiis ng mokong!
It seems like pseudo-relationships are such a popular topic. Maybe it's because everyone has gone through this kind of relationship in one point of their lives. In fact, there are two OPM songs (Suntok sa Buwan by Session Road and Wag na Wag mong Sasabihin by Kitchie Nadal) which are currently being played in RX 93.1 and other radio stations. Here's the lyrics to one of those songs:
Suntok sa Buwan by Session Road
Hindi mo ba alam
Damdamin ko'y pinagtakpan
Makasama ka'y suntok sa buwan
'Di mo nga alam
Mundo mo nga'y iyong tignan
Kung ganyan, walang pupuntahan
Hindi ko 'to gusto
Pero 'wag kang lalayo
Itanong mo sa akin
At tatanungin ko rin
Kung ika'y aamin
Lahat ay gagawin
'Di mo napapansin
Kailangan mo akong dinggin
'Di habang buhay ika'y aantayin
Ito'y aking hiling
At sana naman ay tanggapin
Ng puso ko'y 'di nabibitin
So if you're currently in a pseudo-relationship right now and feeling quite depressed, don't be - dahil ginusto mo yan! Haha! Just kidding. Isipin mo nalang na hindi ka nag-iisa and maraming katulad mo na nagpapakatanga at malamang-lamang ay umaasa sa wala. So if you're a girl and you're currently in a pseudo-relationship and want to get out of it but you just lack the will power, I hope the points listed below will bring you the enlightment that you need:
1. If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.
2. Stop making excuses for a man and his behavior.
3. Allow your intuition (or spirit) to save you from heartache.
4. Stop trying to change yourselves for a relationship that's not meant to be.
5 . Slower is better.
6. Never live your life for a man before you find what makes you truly happy.
7. If a relationship ends because the man was not treating you as you deserve then heck no you can't "be friends." A friend wouldn't mistreat a friend.
8. Don't settle.
9. If you feel like he is stringing you along, then he probably is.
10. Don't stay because you think "it will get better." You'll be mad at yourself a year later for staying when things are not better.
11. The only person you can control in a relationship is you.
12. Avoid men who've got a bunch of children by a bunch of different women. He didn't marry them when he got them pregnant, why would he treat you any differently?
13. Always have your own set of friends separate from his.
14. Maintain boundaries in how a guy treats you. If something bothers you, speak up.
15. Never let a man know everything. He will use it against you later.
16. You cannot change a man's behaviors. Change comes from within.
17. Don't EVER make him feel he is more important than you are...even if he has more education or in a better job.
18. Do not make him into a quasi-god. He is a man, nothing more nothing less.
19. Never let a man define who you are.
20. Never borrow someone else's man.
21. If he cheated with you, he'll cheat on you.
22. A man will only treat you the way you ALLOW him to treat you.
23 . All men are NOT dogs.
24. You should not be the one doing all the bending...compromise is a two way street.
25. You need time to heal between relationships...there is nothing cute about baggage...deal with your issues before pursuing a new relationship.
26. You should never look for someone to COMPLETE you...a relationship consists of two WHOLE individuals...look for someone complimentary...not supplementary.
27. Dating is fun...even if he doesn't turn out to be Mr. Right.
28. Make him miss you sometimes...when a man always know where you are, and your always readily available to him- he takes it for granted.
29. Never move into his mother's house.
30. Never co-sign for a man. (Hallelujah, thank you Jesus!)
31. Don't fully commit to a man who doesn't give you everything that you need. Keep him in your radar but get to know others.
Maan @ 10:54 AM
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Friday, October 15, 2004
What Kind of Girl Am I
Maan @ 7:17 PM
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Thursday, October 14, 2004
The Internet, My Life
I cannot get enough of the internet! I am hooked! I am addicted!
The internet is actually the only thing I can get addicted to without me getting allergies or getting fat. So I guess it's quite OK.
Truth is, I am an Internet Pusher. I push/force/influence my officemates to log into the internet when they get home so we can chat. Yes, chat. After talking to each other in the office for more than 8 hours, I am still not content. I still want to chat with them and use our webcams and microphones so we can see and hear each other.
Let me tell you about one of my officemates/friends I've successfully turned from a gimmick girl to a cyber freak. Leny is a 100% gimmick girl just before she met Alvin. But now, Oh Man! Look at Leny now. When I ask her out to watch a movie or just hang out, she's tamad na and would rather stay home and chat! Damn! Ako yun dati ah - the girl who would rather connect to the internet than go on a gimmick with friends.
So Leny and I chat with each other almost every night. We also got CK and Kartika into this chatting thing. CK will actually buy a webcam and a microphone for her PC; nainggit coz Leny and I have mics and we do voice chats. CK can hear us, but she can't talk! Haha!
Anyway, while I was surfing and reading the messages at Grabeh, I found out that there is already such a thing as Philippine Blog Awards. I saw Karla in the list of semi-finalists so I visited her blog, Rocker's World, and it was so cool! Yan ang produkto ng MEM ng DLSU! I also clicked on the links of the other semi-finalists and one blog caught my eye: are you in the mood for some dude? I loved the blog because the lay-out is so simple and easy to navigate. The Dude Radio also added a lot of pogi points to the blog since the songs being
played are the songs played by the band of the blog owner.
I'm hoping that either Karla or the Dude Blog wins the blog awards. This year is their chance. Baka next year sumali ako dyan at tuluyan na silang mawalan ng pag-asa. Haha! In my dreams!
Maan @ 11:30 PM
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Tuesday, October 12, 2004
How to procrastinate
Goal for today: Start and finish reaction paper for Ethics Class which is due the next day
What I did today before starting my paper:
1. Went to work.
2. Gave advice, which came from my Mom, to an officemate whose husband she thinks is cheating.
3. Actually worked during the morning.
4. Had lunch with Leny and Connie at Timpla, Paseo Center (the four cheese pizza tastes good and is cheap).
5. Bought two ponytails.
6. Did some long overdue work aka cramming.
7. Took a break - which meant exchanging a couple of instant messages with Jas, checking my Yahoo Mail, Gmail and Friendster.
8. Paid Smart Cellphone Bill and bought Dream Satellite Prepaid. On my way there, I bought Body Shop's Lip and Cheek Stain which was on sale - 50% off!!!
9. Went home.
10. Switched on TV to check if satellite dish is indeed working.
11. Watched TV (hey! it's already on so sayang naman) - Extra Challenge (never knew that Wendell Ramos and Joyce Jimenez are an item), The Making of Usher's Confessions Music Video, parts of Sleeping with an enemy, and Sex and the City.
12. Connected to the internet to check my e-mail and say 'hi' to Leny through YM.
13. Logged off because thought Red was going to call.
14. Started on my reaction paper - I am now finished with the first page and still thinking of what BS to put on the second page. In reality, here is what I want to write.
I've seen Two Weeks Notice two years ago. To be more specific, I saw it with Red in Festival Mall during my birthday. The movie was OK but nothing spectacular. In fact, it's being shown in HBO but I skip HBO when it's on. Truth is, I had to spend P15 to rent the vcd and watch it again because I can't really remember the whole story in detail. But I remember that Norah Jones was in that movie and she sang beautifully and I could have cried during the first time I watched it. The formal dress that Sandra Bullock looked really great and I would love to have a dress like that if only I were as tall as Sandra Bullock. I still don't like Hugh Grant and I can't remember any movie I liked which starred Hugh Grant.
If I could have just written that small piece above and submit it to my prof without flunking the course, I could be sleeping right now. But since I have to write 2 pages worth of reaction using Arial Size 12, I am still not finished.
Well, I gotta go and finish my paper. I have to get some sleep because I can't be late. I have to be out of the house by the time Ogie Diaz and Nina Corpuz finish their showbiz balita in Magandang Umaga Bayan.
Big, big day tomorrow!
Maan @ 11:47 PM
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Monday, October 11, 2004
Food, food, food!
After stuffing myself with food last friday at Dencio's with my officemates (masarap talaga pag libre) and last friday at IO with my classmates, I felt guilty and promised myself and announced to the whole Fleet Customer Service Team that I will definitely be on a strict diet. Specifically, the South Beach Diet! This means I am allowed to eat pork, beef, chicken, eggs but I have to stay away from bread, rice, pasta, anything sweet (Good bye Coke and chocolates - See you guys soon!).
As fast as I promised myself this, I immediately broke this promise by eating two chocolate cookies early this morning partnered with brewed coffee mixed with brown sugar. Then for lunch I ordered KFC's Hotshots Meal which came with a regular Coke. So much for my South Beach Diet.
By 6PM my stomach is already screaming from hunger. I attempted to taste Kartika's salad from KFC but she totally denied me this little piece of heaven. Sana tumaba ka! Damot!
I was so tempted to buy a yogurt drink in Mercury Drug but decided not to because the 180 calories it contains would be so hard to burn. I figured that I won't be able to burn all those extra calories just by lying in bed and watching TV or just by surfing the internet and being the cyber freak that I am.
By the time I got home I really cannot take it anymore so I ate scrambled eggs and 2 loaves of whole weat bread. Ha! Eggs are part of the South Beach Diet and according to Leny, I can eat bread as long as it's Whole Wheat.
Tomorrow, instead of buying food, I'll just psyche myself that the money would be better spent if I go to CANS and have my nails done rather than eat at Bento Box. Papayat na ako, maganda pa mga kuko ko!
Maan @ 11:13 PM
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Monday, October 04, 2004
Loserville!
I regret asking Kartika to read my blog. She has made me realize that I, along with her, am in Loserville.
Loserville
Population: 3
Citizens: Maan, Kartika, Leny
The moment our landline got connected, I had this sinking feeling that I am headed towards Loserville.
Signs that you are in Loserville:
1. Rather than going out on a weekend, you spend the weekend at home.
2. Aside from just spending the weekend at home, you do something very unproductive like watch TV for almost 24 hours and getting excited that there are actually a lot of good shows on TV. Take note: When you were not in Loserville, those shows were considered a waste of time. Perfect example would be Leny. About a year ago, she RARELY watched TV. During the hype of Smallville and Charmed, she had NO IDEA who Clark, Lana, Chloe and the Charmed Ones are. But look at her now! She religiously watches Queer Eye for The Straight Guy and was quite pissed when she missed an episode of The Amazing Race.
3. When you get a text from a friend inviting you to go out, you tell him/her that you're too tired to go out and you'd rather spend the day with your PC just playing computer games, chatting or surfing the net.
4. You get really excited when you're chatting with someone with a Webcam and you make that person wave at you or do something crazy in front of the Webcam.
5. When you find yourself still chatting with an officemate you spend most of your time with for 5 days a week until 12MN and both of you have a hard time saying good bye through chat when you know that you're going to see each other again after less than 9 hours.
6. When you log into Yahoo Messenger and send a message to your officemate who is at the office and you ask how things are in the office when you yourself will be going there after a short while.
7. When your weekend gimmicks mean having lunch or dinner with parents, movie with parents, and the word 'boyfriend' or 'date' depresses you.
8. When your composing an entry to your blog rather than sleep or watch Oprah.
If you have more to add to the list, please feel free to post a comment.
Maan @ 10:57 PM
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Saturday, October 02, 2004
Older and Wiser?
When we get older, does this mean we also get wiser?
Last friday, we (my fleet officemates and I) went to Tiananmen to have dinner and to celebrate Leny's 25th birthday. Tiananmen is a lot like North Park (I think they are managed by the same person) but the ambiance is a whole lot different from North Park. We reserved a place where we sat on the floor which is covered with pillows and we had to sit indian-style. The place is so cozy and the food is really masarap so after we finished eating, Connie, CK and I felt so sleepy.
After having dinner at Tiananmen, we went to Cena in Greenbelt to drink. They drank Gin Pomelo and I took a sip out of everybody's glass. I swore never to get overwhelmed with alcohol because I am allergic to it. I am actually allergic to a lot of things such as: excessive dust and painkillers (midol, ponstan) to name a few. So I just sat there, took sips from glasses without knowing and caring whose glass it was and endured the cigarette smoke of the people around me. At around 1AM, Leny is sooooo tipsy (I dare not say she's drunk because she said she isn't even if I think she is coz she acts as if she's drunk and she barely can't remember half of the things she said and did the next day and she slept with her face hanging from the side of the bed because she feels she's going to puke any minute) so Connie and I decided to go home to Leny's place while CK, Kartika and Chavz decided to go to Ortigas. They wanted me to go with them but I was in a crappy mood and I don't want to spoil their fun and be this big killjoy who ruined their party mood so I declined and decided to just go to Leny's place with Leny and Connie.
When we got to Leny's place, Leny is so 'tipsy' that she wanted to make pasta or salad for us. Not the one to say no to food, I told her to make us pasta with white sauce and olives. Yummy! But when she asked me to help her cook it, I said, "Wag nalang. Iba nalang."
Leny and Connie slept at around 1:30AM and I watched TV and tried to sleep but I can't so I text Kartika and CK after every 30 minutes asking them what time they're coming home and to hurry up (parang nanay!). They got home by 4AM bringing breakfast from Mcdo. We ate greasy food and just talked and analyzed the events which happened that day. I have to say that we are thankful to Chavz for enlightening us and giving us his opinion if a guy is an asshole, a jerk or both. CK slept at around 6AM while Kartika and I watched TV because we can't sleep. Connie was supposed to be fetched by Joven at around 8AM which stretched to 9:30AM and I'm telling you that Connie was so pissed (thinking about it, was there a time that Connie isn't pissed?. Bottomline, Kartika and I didn't sleep at all. CK woke up at around 11AM to get ready for her shift while I got ready for my afternoon class.
To wrap this entry up, what have we learned so far?
1. Leny will always get drunk during her birthday celebrations...
2. ...and she will always deny that she got drunk
3. That men are assholes and/or losers.
4. Even if you want to be someone's hero and help that person to change for the better, you will just fail because you cannot change a person.
5. Married life is hard. A lot of changes will take place, a lot of sacrifices have to be made, a lot of understanding must be done.
6. Love cannot conquer all.
7. The past will come back to haunt you and bite you on the ass!
Maan @ 3:22 PM
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