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06/10/09--00:23: Ooh. Just like Plurk. Hum. (chan 1871125)




07/15/09--03:38: Euphemisms, Movies, Thinking time (chan 1871125)

I get this uncomfortable feeling when things are called differently for them to sound better like when people call problems "challenges". I have a problem with this. It is as if something is lost when things are translated into "nicer" words. It's like subtitles to foreign films. Meanings are lost when words are translated same goes for euphemisms.
Pet Society was under maintainance and I am still undecided if "of" is a preposition. I went over You Tube to watch trailers and vowed to watch the following movies:

1. December Boys
2. 500 Days of Summer
3. Smart People
4. Stone Angel

I don't know how I would be able to watch them but I know someday they will be available in the pirated DVD store near Robinson's.
I'm practicing how to write informally and I found out that I sound like a bothered teenager with nothing to do but air her thoughts online. This bothers me.


07/21/09--00:19: Addiciton (chan 1871125)

I have to pull myself together and stop spending my time online playing games in


07/24/09--09:53: On Crayola and Disney Channel (chan 1871125)

Recently, I have been getting in touch with my visual artist side by taking DEVC 141. So far so good. Pish and I have been talking about the colors in the Crayola pack and I had to conclude that the colors on that box of crayons is what I'd like to call "perception colors." Most of the colors in the Crayola set is the exact shade of colors when I think of them. Like when I say green, the idea of green that comes into my mind matches the green in the box. Same goes for blue, red, yellow, and orange but not violet. There is just too much blue in the Crayola violet.

Since I have been thinking about crayons a lot these days, I also incidentally thought about Miley Cyrus and Disney Channel. My future children would not be watching Disney Channel. I really don't get the point of introducing romantic love to six-year old children by showing 15-year olds on television having a bad day because of their boyfriends. That's just sick. Six-year old children should be  differentiating green fr...


07/28/09--18:21: Aftermath (chan 1871125)

Hindi ko pa naaayos ang mga ideya ko pero iniisip ko talaga kung paano, paano natin mamamaxemize ang Participatory Development paradigm.


07/31/09--02:58: Click and then Gone (chan 1871125)

I am emotionally attached to chickens and how unhappy they are once I eat them. My question is this: Would it be better if we let chickens be happy while they are alive or just leave them with the impression that life is miserable because in the end, we are just going to eat them anyway?
And my favorite button in Facebook is the "Ignore all" button.


08/23/09--06:02: Photographs are pieces of lies. (chan 1871125)

Photographs are pieces of lies. They give a sense of permanence to life and being. It concretises the unchanging. It makes it a bit more real when in reality, in the context of the world, it does not exist. Photography is a con-art that tricks time in such treachery that utilizes everything natural, light, being the most natural of all these, to create something unnatural, something that in the first place must not be made real. It freezes the living/non-living/pseudo-living when everything moves in paces that no one can catch up to--a pace that makes everyone who attempts to imbibe it, failures, forcing them to live what is left with their pseudo-lives miserably.


08/23/09--06:03: Out of Context (chan 1871125)

Communication occurs on context. So as people and the moments they create. A shift of context could be so painful that even the physical becomes unimportant. Seeing the same person on a context so different (from anticipation to dread) is like missing someone who is there right in front of you.
I have never tried describing in great lenghts how it is to lose him. I didn't find it necessary except for a few friends and myself. Almost everyone in my circle knew something happened, they just don't know what exactly. These past few days, I constantly catch myself explaining to myself what happened, squeezing out all understanding left, trying to make sense from parts I haven't found sense yet, to no avail.
Discussing him and what happened to other people wears me out. And as time passes by, people become uninterested. To them, it was a failed schoolgirl crush. To me, it was a death of a friendship I could have kept for a lifetime if only I have been wiser--if only I have stopped reading th...


09/01/09--18:05: She & Him (chan 1871125)

she him mp3 | lyricsfree music downloads | music videos | pictures

Boredom finally got me somewhere. I was reading Preview magazine a few nights ago and they ran an article about musical duos like The Carpenters and The White Stripes. They Featured The TingTings and another band I can't recall but what got my attention was She&Him mainly because I recognized the girl from Yes Man and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. (OC-ness kicked in and I just have to italicize all those band names and movie titles)

I went around the internet to listen to their songs and I liked them. I was never a fan of country but their sound and the words in their songs made me happy.



09/02/09--22:38: The Lost Art (chan 1871125)

Two weekends ago Sydne and I went to the mall to bring her phone to the shop and get it fixed. The fixing took hours and we decided to go to National Bookstore, the only shop I like in the mall. We were browsing classics and saw that the prices were marked down and since both of us were suckers for contemporary classics (I love my sister for being sucky that way), we both took our pick. We only had one problem. We don't have cash so before we went to the counter and spend all the money Mama gave us, we stopped ourselves and went to the sale rack. I found a compilation of Truman Capote's (the guy who wrote Breakfast at Tiffany's) letters and decided to buy the book for the following reasons: 1) it was cheap, from P795 it was marked down to P30 and 2) I was genuinely interested in the art of writing letters.

I was never a fan of writing letters. I like a number of people and love to talk to them but I just can't get myself into writing letters. Letter writing is sacred for me. It's re...


09/03/09--21:15: Ang The Lovely Bones at Ang Pagdiriwang ng Pagiging Babae (chan 1871125)

Binasa ko ang the The Lovely Bones ilang linggo na rin ang nakakaraan at naisip ko, kung magkapitbahay kami ni Alice Sebold, siguro magkumare kami 'yung tipong imiinom ng kape nang magkasama at nagkukwentuhan tungkol sa mga bagay na kapag sinabi mo sa ibang tao, tititigan ka lang nila at aakalaing baliw ka.

Kung masipag ako, gagawan ko ng feminist critique ang libro kaso lang hindi ako masipag at mas marami akong dapat isulat. Interesante ang iba't-ibang pagtingin sa mga babae sa libro. May babaeng malakas at kinayang gawin ang mga nais niya sa buhay sa kabila ng pagkamatay ng kapatid, may babaeng mahina na matapos pagsamantalahan ay pinatay nang hindi man lang nakalaban, may nanay na hindi maiwan ang pamilya, may nanay na nang-iwan ng pamilya, may lolang pinalitan ang lugar ng anak na babaeng umalis.

Maraming klase ng babae at marami ding klase ng pagiging babae at hanggang sa puntong ito, hindi ko pa rin alam ang gusto kong patunguhan ng post na ito. Simple lang siguro ang gust...


09/05/09--05:15: JJ (chan 1871125)

Ang JJs ang anti-thesis ng lahat: sa kanilang mga magulang, sila ang nagpapariwarang mga anak; sa kanilang komunidad, ang mga hindi dapat tularang kabataan; sa labas ng kanilang komunidad, ang mga sigalot ng lipunan; at sa piling ng mga aktibista, skolar ng bayan at wanna-be bureaucrats, ang disenfranstisadong out-of-school youth na tanging sa fair lamang magkakaroon ng karanasan sa “premier national university.”
-Rolando Tolentino, http://www.bulatlat.com/main/2009/02/21/jj/

Noong nakaraang Lunes, nagkaroon ng libreng concert ang Myx sa Baker Hall. Bagamat libre ang nasabing concert, may mga nag-alok sa akin na bumili ng VIP tickets  para hindi daw makasama ang mga JJ sa general admission. At doon ko na naman narinig ang katagang "jumping jologs."

Hindi ako kumportableng tawagin ang sinuman na JJ. Para kasing ang tumatawag ng JJ sa mga taong nasa general admission ay mayayaman, mga elitista, mga intelektwal, etc. Sa konteksto kasi ng UP, pakiramdam ko'y nawalan ako ng karapatang t...


09/06/09--23:20: The Art of the Title Sequence (chan 1871125)




09/13/09--06:17: The here and the now (chan 1871125)

I never had a grasp of what jealousy is, until now
And it sucks big time.



09/14/09--20:07: Michael Cera, make me smile today. (chan 1871125)




10/03/09--06:00: Science Magazine Cover Template (chan 1871125)

Sanda, here you go. Tell me what you


10/03/09--23:59: New SV Shirt Design! :D (chan 1871125)

Yahey!


10/04/09--00:01: Leaflet on Child Cybersafety (chan 1871125)

All work and no play makes me a UP student. Acads, I love.


10/13/09--10:47: Living (chan 1871125)

So much is happening: acad work is almost over, things are being redefined everyday, Sunnyboy.

Having a lot of material doesn't really guarantee making the creative process of writing easier.
Having a lot of material just means that I am living life, and sometimes, even if it is not documented in paper, it is worthwhile.

I bask in freedom tonight.



10/14/09--09:48: Friends for Sale (chan 1871125)

What is it with me and shopping?
Am I too frustrated that I can't shop right now that I start buying my friends in Friends for Sale?
Maybe Friends for Sale can stop human trafficking.