The Fifth Marauder

why is it that when you do not need a certain thing, say for example scissors or staplers or whatever, they are just lying around, and when the time comes that you do need those things, they seemed to have vanished without a trace? life is such a bitch sometimes.

good lord i think i have fallen in love with my ipod again. i discovered this nifty little software called ipod library which enables me to view ebooks in my ipod a few months ago but i wasn't really feeling it. it would have been a different story if i was using a palm pilot. and then the summer session ended, i was bored and i didn't have money. so i have succumbed to ipod library and i found out that it wasn't that bad once i got used to it. i realized that it is indeed practical. i can read in the dark. i know i am being such a cheapo, but what can i do? i don't have money for new books. thank you technology. but of course nothing still beats reading from a real book.

 anyway i was up until 2 am last night, reading digital fortress. i liked it. dan brown basically uses the same structure for every book, but i fall for it everytime because i am a sucker. those books of his are clearly meant to be turned into movies. because it has cheesy love/sex scenes (well except for da vinci code) and the villain is not always whom you thought at first. but the real star for each story is of course the art work/technology mentioned. digital fortress was mainly about an agency in the united states that can read everyone's email. apparently terrorists communicate with other terrorists through email now. it's kind of a long story. but i liked it. i loved all 4 books and i really can't decide which i like best.

 

*i was bored out of my mind this morning. so i watched dahil mahal na mahal kita on cinema one. yes it is a claudine and rico starrer with diether thrown into the mix. i was laughing at the clothes. when did high waists become obsolete anyway? and claudine really looked way different back then. her eyebrows were thick, and the boobs were noticeably smaller. it was a typical pinoy movie. as in cheesy dialogue, even cheesier theme song, and impossible storyline, but it was ok. maybe it's because i actually like rico yan. i kept on shouting out "i love you papa rico!!! ako na lang kasi wag na yang bitch na yan". he's cute. only this guy can pull off that hairsytle. i guess one would have to have to have those killer dimples and that nose to do so. too bad he croaked early. diether looked different too. and eventhough he did not get as much airtime as rico did, i still felt sorry for him when rico got the girl in the end. this movie was ok, but i definitely liked got to believe better

*love story by erich segal is depressing. i had to lock myself in the bathroom (the only place in this house where i can guarantee privacy) when i was reading the ebook because i was crying. i was a little bit shy crying in front of my cousin (who has read the book already) because she said it was not a good story, that reading it was just a waste of her time. i dunno. my horoscope did say that i was feeling a wee bit emotional yesterday, that must be it. anyway, i like the story because even if it is duh, a love story, it had severe shortage of sweet mushy lines.

*well i won't be updating for a long time, not because i will be busy with school, but because my honey is sick. the power cord is busted and i don't have money to buy a new one. yet. well i guess it's ok that way coz i can concentrate on other things like my reading list, beating bowser at super mario world, finding those damned special shops in need for speed, and of course, school.

*i got my nurse uniform today. as i was looking at myself in the mirror while wearing it, i could only think of one word: YUCK. the pay's gotta be good to compensate for wearing this ugly thing for a long time.

*i want to go back to my rebonded self again. i do not give a damn if curly hair is in fashion right now, i just want my straight hair back. because back then, i was spared from having to look for elastics, combs, and brushes. i can dry my hair the natural way without having the fear of it resembling leftover spaghetti noodles.

*i want to kill the skinny girl that i saw at the gym this afternoon. i cannot see an ounce of fat in her body (i can tell because she was wearing pek-pek shorts and a tanktop), and yet she is there with me, working out. if i was that skinny, i would be somewhere else because honestly i have better things to do with the time i spend at the gym. oh and her skin is perfect too, and she can pass for that-girl-in-so-close's  (the one who died, sorry can't remember her name) younger sister.

*i hate that person who gave my tita a huge bag of mini pretzels dipped in chocolate. why is it that good food comes when a person is finally sticking to her diet?

*and lastly, i love my sweetie. i just have to say that because since honey would be resting for a period of time, sweetie is my only companion. the question is how many days can i last without internet? it is a good thing i have phone already otherwise i might as well live in a cave, not having a connection to the outside world

Things you enjoy, even when no one around you wants to go out and play. What lowers your stress/blood pressure/anxiety level? Make a list, post it to your journal... and then tag 5 friends and ask them to post it to theirs.

-my sweetie

-my honey

-spider solitaire (ung 2 suits na!!)

-chocolate calcium chews (only 20 calories per cube)

-c2 peach flavor

-watching unwrapped (because i'm a masochist)

-mp3s and ebooks

-csi on axn every wednesday

-watching movies alone

-money. lots of it 

YOU'RE NEXT:

anyone who hasn't been tagged yet

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Musical Baton

... was passed to me by kristen


Total volume of music in my computer
* 3.66 GB

The last CD I bought was
* a blank cd. i'm so jologs

Song playing right now
* scotty doesn't know - lustra

Five songs I listen to lately or mean a lot to me
* sleeps with butterflies - tori amos
* we belong together - mariah carey
* fly like a bird - mariah carey
* no rain - blind melon
* flying high - jem

5 people to whom I'm passing the baton:
* norbelle
* faye
* alex
* mio
* alvin

Keep the baton passing!

 

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i know i know i said in my previous entry that i won't be updating for a while but my cousin's pc is just lying around so... anyway, i just wanted to share my reading list, the stuff that will keep me away from my pc:

• artemis fowl 1, 2, and 3
• deception point - dan brown
• lord of the flies - william golding.
  
• life of pi - yann martel
• the time traveller's wife -  audrey niffenegger
• a great and terrible beauty - libba bray
• confessions of an ugly stepsister - gregory maguire
• wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the west - gregory maguire
• lost - gregory maguire
• chronicles of narnia - cs lewis
• war of the worlds - hg wells

my cousin and i watched mr and mrs smith at greenbelt 3 yesterday. it was funny coz i had to call cha and ask how to go there. thankfully we didn't get lost. but the gb3 cinema was nice!! it's only accessible by the elevator, and when the doors opened, i felt like i was transported to another world. another country really. it was way different from the g4 cinemas. and there were less people.

well the movie was ok. actually i was not really looking forward to seeing it coz i dunno maybe i am a brad/jen shipper. hehe. angelina jolie was hot hot hot. brad pitt looked old, but for me he's like fine wine, the older he gets, the hotter he is hehe they don't make them like that here in the philippines. anyway, the movie for me was.. bleh. for some reason i liked madagascar and house of wax better. but then again that's me.   

i tried changing my tabulas template, but one look at those html codes and i felt my attention span shrink to the size of a year old baby's. i am definitely not in com sci anymore.

so anyway, i was supposed to have a dentist appointment at 6, but my last class ends at 2, and since there is no point of going home coz the clinic is just 10 minutes away from school, i have decided to watch a movie in sm sucat. i didn't feel like watching batman begins because of katie holmes (damn that girl for snagging tom!!) and i have already seen mr and mrs smith, so i ended up with nasaan ka man. i was actually planning to watch this movie because one, i like tagalog movies (especially the ones from star cinema), and two, because i have a crush on jericho. anyway, it was way different from the other star cinema movies i  have seen. it was kinda indsecribable. i don't know whether i am just shallow or the story is truly unexpected. i kept on yawning and looking at my watch  on the 1st part of the movie because it was kinda boring, but the ending made up for it. i still can't decide however if i liked it or not. but jericho was hot. he can fertilize my uterus anytime. hahaha.

i went over at faye's yesterday because my last class was cancelled and i didn't want to go home yet. i was planning not to stay too long because she had to work on her thesis, but i ended up staying for 3 hours without even noticing it. maybe it's because time flies when you're having fan!!! hahaha. oh and she made me listen to the chuchubelles cover of these dreams which left me in awe because it's so good!! the vocalist's little booboo there (hehe) didn't even butcher the song or anything. i loved the song, i was singing it the whole day today. i wanted a copy, but too bad i didn't have my usb cord with me. they should really pursue their band thing so i can be the president of their fan club, the chicago chapter. and i am not just sucking up for them to autograph my left boob. haha. weird.

my powercord really chose this moment to die, the time when expenses siginificantly exceed the amount earned. taking up nursing is expensive. sure my tuition fee is significantly less than what i have wasted in dlsu, but man it compensated for the stuff i have to buy, like uniforms, shoes, paraphernalia, etc. the books are expensive too. my cousin told me to buy them as opposed to just photocopying coz they are a great investment especially when the time comes that i will be reviewing for the board exams. and it is not a waste to buy those books because we will be reading them from cover to cover.

 anyway, i am sorry for the people who liked it, but i think batman begins was bleh. or maybe i am just biased because i am hating katie holmes at the moment. or maybe i am just shallow because for me the movie was a bit, uh... philosophical? i dunno. however i couldn't help but squeal "go papa qui gon!!!" when liam neeson was kicking christian bale's  ass at the first part of the movie, and when bruce wayne woke up half-naked. he's hot, but he's not really my type.

 i am missing my computer already

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wrong grammar!!!

i threw a teeny hissy fit awhile ago. well it's because my cousin broke the electric fan and then it seemed that the only working one is broken too. i can't understand because it was working perfectly yesterday and when i tried plugging it after i got out from the bathroom, its blades stayed still. the carpenter must have heard me yakking in a shrill irritating voice that he took pity on me (but then again maybe he just wanted me to shut up)and fixed the fan for me. of course i felt bad for being such a baby. after all, it is just a friggin electric fan! it is frustrating that my usually short temper is even more shorter in this weather, combined with the fact that i can't find any of my clothes and other crap because the helpers just carelessly and randomly placed them in garbage bags because my tita had new cabinets installed in our room.

 on the plus side though, i am going to see my hot philosophy professor today. he makes me want to brave the heat and exhaustion to go look for my copy of sophie's world in those garbage bags so i can be an annoying know-it-all in his class so he would notice me. hahaha.

that was me doing a bad imitation of master yoda.

 last thursday, i woke up feeling like i wanted the whole world to end and blow up ala hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. i was just so sick and tired of everything, of school, of dieting, of working out, so i decided to rebel. i got up at 8:30 am, looked for my cousin's dvds of the star wars trilogy, buttered 2 pieces of pan de sal (ha! carbs! butter!!! mwahahahaha) and popped star wars IV: a new hope into the dvd player.  and then i watched dvd after another, only stopping for an hour when i had to watch the csi: rerun.

 anyway, damn george lucas. i loved all three movies. carrie fisher is so beautiful when she is not wearing her hair in the trademark ensaymada hairstyle. and when jabba the hutt kidnapped leia and made her his slave, she was wearing this 2-piece number that's just wow. i know it's corny but i loved leia and han solo's bickering coz they're so cute.

 i didn't like luke skywalker that much however coz he seemed so whiny during a new hope and then he got ugly come empire strikes back. but harrison ford was hot. and i like chewbacca too. i just wonder how he and han solo can understand each other because chewie just growls and roars.

i know that i am supposed to hate darth vader because he's so evil, but i dunno i just can't. maybe it's because he used to look like hayden christiansen. hehe. but we gotta give him and padme some credit though coz their kids looked older than they are. in fairness to leia, her mother is cute while she is beautiful.

i am just wondering, if the force is strong within anakin/darth vader, how can he not sense that leia is his daughter when he is torturing her into admitting where the rebel base is? 

 and lastly, i love r2d2. he's so cute.

 

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 everyone's off to boracay next week and i asked to be left behind because i don't have money. i would much rather use the 14k for my fare and accommodations on the other crap i had to buy than use it to see greenbelt with sand and saltwater. no i'm not bitter. i would hate to get dark anyway because i look more terrible than usual when i am nognog.  hehe