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The Chocolate Factory$BlogItemTitle$> I'm such a Chocoholic that it is a must to have a constant supply of chocolate or any choco-flavored whatever at home. Any chocolate may do. However, here is the list of my favorite chocolate based products. (In no particular order).
Hmph..ano pa ba? Basta marami pang ibang! Hindi nga lang ako mashado fan ng Hershey's chocolate at saka nung mga chocolate bars like Mars, 3 Muskeeters etc. One of my immediate goals is to eat at the Chocolate Buffet in Manila Peninsula! ***** Success Story!!!! Ang sarap pesto-cheese dip na ginawa ko! Perfect for crackers, veggie sticks etc. etc. Yummm!!!
Waiting in Vain$BlogItemTitle$> I had a supposed 10 AM interview this morning. Because of the unusual and uncalculated traffic in Ortigas Ave., I arrived at 10:15. Okay, I'm a bit late. I was asked to wait. I waited. 10 minutes. 30 minutes. 1 hour. After an hour and a half of waiting, I was called in. Interviewer: Sorry for keeping you waiting Me: It's alright. Then after, 3 questions and 3 minutes or so. I'm done. An hour and a half of waiting for a 3-minute interview. The interview did not go well either. I was asked what was the last book I read. I said Catcher in the Rye, which is true. Then I was asked what did I learned from it. Goddam, I didn't quite understand the book. JD Salinger is a man very hard to understand.To make matters worse, the interviewer have read the book. Goddamit, I should have said another book since I finished quite a lot of books during my extended Christmas break. Why should Catcher in the Rye be the very last one that I have finished? Why oh why? I hate it when job interviews go wrong. Because I feel stupid as I know I have said the wrong thing and I know I could have said something more intelligent. I hate it when job interviews go well. Because then I will expect something. Yet, after days, weeks and months of waiting, I will realize that I did not get it. I just hate job interviews. And I hate waiting. I guess I am one of the most impatient person there is. My relatively short attention span calls things to be fast fast fast. I am a very impatient driver--the root cause of all my driving accidents. I am a very impatient passenger, which consequently irritates whoever is driving. I'll be asked, "ano bang pinagmamadli mo". I'll reply, "Wala". I just don't like to wait. My impatience caused me to do rash decisions and to make freak mistakes. Slowly, I am trying to learn from them. Slowly, I'm trying to stretch the little patience that I have. That someday, I will learn how to wait. To relax and wait.
Walang Transition$BlogItemTitle$> Nesly: Nel, ano ka ba!!! hanggang ngayon ba di ka marunong mag-transition!!! So apparently, habang tumatawa bigla nanaman akong sumimangot! --Yun yung sinasabi nilang di ako marunong magtransition--sudden shift of facial reaction. So, tawa nanaman kami... tapos shempre mas-nakakaconscious na mag-stop tumawa kase sasabihan nanaman akong walang transition. Ah ewan! What if ganun rin ako during job interviews? Shet, baka nababaliwan na sakin yung mga interviewers!! kaya wala akong work! hehehehe ************************* Gustong-gusto ko nanonood ng redecorating shows. Ewan, it might be the frustrated architect slash interior decorator in me. So yun, napanood ko yung "Clean House" sa Lifestyle Network, basta yun yung may nakakairitang maarteng host. Diba expected mo after the "revelation" part, yung home owner will go ga-ga, magsisigaw ng "Wow! This is amazing!!! I can't believe this is my house" Basta, uber excited and everything. Or if di nila mejo feel yung house, kunwari sasabihin na lang nila na "wow! this is great!", pero kita mo rin sa expressions nila na di nila mashado feel! Anyways, yung last week's episode ng "Clean House" ibang level! Pagpasok nung homeowner (some old lady), umiyak sha! Tapos sabi niya "I hate it! I hate it! I want my house back! The wall color is ugly. This couch, it's ugly! I just want my house back!". Sincere yung pagka-ayaw niya sa pag-make-over ng house niya! As in tawa ako ng tawa habang nanonood!!! Hehehe! So kino-comfort na lang sha ng decorator at nung host nung show. It was supposed to be a sad episode, pero super nakakatawa!!! ************************** Naglilipat ako ng channel kahapon tapos nadaanan ko yung SCQ reload. Read this with a "conying" accent..kunwari shala-shala/sosyal ang mga characters! Artista wannabee 1: What took you so long. We're gonna be late. Let's go. Artista wannabee 2: I have to check my Friendster pa eh. You know the guy that I liked, he private-messaged me. So I have to reply, diba? Artista wannabee 1: Friendster? That is so 2004. Blog is the new Friendster. Nel has no comment! Bwahahha! ************************* Eto, medyo serious topic (para kunwari profound kahit hindi naman) "When you badly want something, the whole universe conspires to help you get it"...or something to that effect. This phrase, at least for me, is a load full of crap. There are just things, though how much we desire it, we just can't get it. On small prayers. My mom has this "special prayer" which helps us get good parking spaces in malls and in public places. Kahit puno na yung parking space, we instantly get a good space. She always boasts about this special parking prayer! Kung maka-park na kami, sasabihin niya sakin "o see, sabi sayo helpful yung prayer ko!". Tapos sasabihin ko, 'di ko naman sinasabing di nag-wowork yung prayer mo. I'm just saying na sayang lang yung prayer para sa parking space'. It's just that I think that a parking space is a very menial thing to pray about. I mean, with all the poverty, war, calamities etc., it seems that praying for a parking space is quite unecessary. God has a lot on his hands already. I remember during college, I'm not sure though, whether if it was an academic or org related situation, I said something like "ayoko kase distorbohin si God". Basta, it was a small problem, I don't remember it na... I happen to read an article in a book called "Did God answered your prayers?" I'm not really a fan of inspirational books and self-help books, pero when I flipped its pages, nakita ko yung chapter about small prayers. Same premise, we think that our requests are small enough to even pray it to God. But it is in this small prayers that we feel closer to God's presence.
Just need to get this out of my system$BlogItemTitle$> Ok, I watched "The Classic" for the third time this week and my sister and I plan to watch it again tomorrow. Actually, we planned to watch it this afternoon, but my brother got the DVD and watched it with his friends. Basta, it is sooooo nice. The story was simple but well executed. Ang ganda ng setting. The musical scoring was incredible (gusto ko bumili ng OST!). Though medyo emotionally manipulative sha lalo na sa ending part, overall, it gives the audience a nice "awwww" feeling. Of course there are flaws, but at the end of it all, I am satisfied with it. (Siguro if they correct all the flaws, it will not have the same impact as it has. Beauty in imperfection, kumbaga.) Wala lang. Just can't get the movie out of my mind... Windstuck and My Sassy Girl Correction, hindi po prequel ng My Sassy Girl yung Windstuck! Same director/writer, pero it is 2 different stories from different set of characters. Song Lyrics... Sinong may alam ng song title, lyrics, or may copy ng song na ito. Tell me naman please! It goes something like... Am I out of my head Am I out of my mind How can I ever been so blind Am I waiting for an indication that is hard to find Di ko mahanap sa google search!!!!!!!! Waaahhhhhhhh!!!!!! Blah-blahs Maling CD yung nasa case ng Friends Season 10, Disc 5 ko! Disc 2 yung laman. SO dalawa yung disc 2 ko! Yan, kelangan ko tuloy bumalik sa Quiapo! bwahahha...excuses! Sasamahan ako ni Alej! Napansin ko lang, puro movie stuff yung laman ng blog ko for the past few days! Hay, I should get a life na talaga--a life worth blogging! Basta, I'll try to write something more profound or more interesting next time. Gutom na naman ako...shet, mag-fo-four am na pala...zzzzzzzzzzzz
Meet my Dick$BlogItemTitle$> (I ate too much biscocho!! Gosh...sugar rush!!!!)...uuy rhyming! bwahahha..isa pa, Gosh sugar rush! hehehhe So what's with the name? Hmmph, it's a long story... Wait, actually, it is a short one. Bryan, my blockmate said "amoy-sex" raw yung loob ng kotse ko, kung ano man amoy nun, I wouldn't really know. Henceforth, the name Dick. Wait, the "amoy-sex" comment refers to the Newport New Car California Scent Air Freshener I have. Just as you know, I don't use that air freshener anymore. But if anyone asks, the name Dick is a shortcut for Honda Civic. Get the D from Honda and the Ick from Civic... Ok.. Anyways, Dick and I had come along way. We purchased it December of 2001 and I started driving it summer before 3rd year college. It already travelled 40,000 km with our family, and I believe I drove more than half of that distance. Dick had carried a lot of people already. Mostly my friends. But sometimes friends of my friends, my sibs' friends. Hmmpph, I actually have driven a lot of people that I don't know. Come to think of it, I can be a taxi driver!!! Yehey, I have another career option!!! Anyways, here are some of the highlights of my relationship with Dick. I'll try my best to arrange them in chronological order. Incident #1 When I was learning how to drive, my instructor made me go rounds in the unpaved open parking lot of Sta. Lucia. It was afternoon, so there were no vehicles parked. Anyways, while making a turn, I "might" have come into contact with one of the railings. No major damage. Nothing rubbing can clean up... Incident #2 When I was learning how to drive, I backed on a tricycle that was on my rear. No major damage to the car, but something cracked on the tricycle that we have to pay. When I say we, it means my mom. Incident #3 I turned right coming from Marcos Highway to A. Rodriguez Ave. Then an MMDA officer stopped me. Apparently, I should have used that little right turn slot, but I didn't. Being the anti-corruption citizen that I am, I was given a traffic violation ticket. Violation: Reckless Driving!!! This is just a foreshadowing of the the things to come. So, to recover my captured license, I have to go to the MMDA Office, pay the fine, and answer a "so-called" written test wherein you have to identify the different road signs and stuff. Except for the examiner, I was the only girl in a room filled with men--jeepney drivers, truck drivers, all sorts of drivers with all sorts of traffic violations. My dad, being overprotective and all (didn't want me to be the only girl in the room), also went inside the testing room. My dad answered the exams too, and told me that I should just submit his answered test. Hehehhe...anyways, I submitted my own. Incident #4 We were going to Xaymaca for Aisa's party. We were on EDSA. I was supposed to be on the outer lane because we were turning right to Timog. But I was on the middle lane, over-speeding. To make the story short, I swerved. Fatima, who was convoy-ing with us, also swereved. So, the eagle-eyed MMDA officers visciously looking out for motorists make the littlest mistake, stopped and approached us. Yaddi-Yadda-Yadda...I pretended to cry but it didnt work. I am a terrible actress! Aisa gave P500. There were 5 MMDA guys..go figure. Then, we're off... (The Yaddi-Yadda-Yadda part was the actual dialogue...I'm just not in the mood right now to tell it...) Incident #5 On the way to Cavite for MEcO's planning seminar, my "tambutso" almost fell-off. Why? because my idea of "over-taking" was to use the shoulder. Malay ko ba na mas mataas yung paved higway kay sa sa right shoulder na lubak-lubak. So pag-baba ko, sumabit yung tambutso. Incident #6 For some reason, there was a crack on the bumper. Maybe I hit it on something. Maybe my dad hit it on something. I don't know but there was a crack. So imagine a cracked bumper simply held up by a wide scotch tape (or was it a packaging tape?) Then, imagine the rubber on that bumper is full of teeth mark bitings! Seifer, our beloved dog, chew the rubber on the bumper. Then he chew the mud-guard. What a pathetic looking car. Incident #7 I didn't braked immediately so I hit a motorcycle in front of me. Nothing serious, I was moving at like 5 kmph (It was traffic). Something cracked on the bike. We have to pay. (When I say we, I mean my mom.) Incident #8 In North Avenue, I cut in front of a delivery truck. We almost got into a fight. All my passengers (My Malabon groupmates) were scared. Boom offered to drive. Onry sweared never to ride in my car again. Onry called me the"scariest driver"--he even wrote it on the grad pic he gave to me. Onry developed a phobia on my driving. Post script: During Fatima's despidida, Onry was terribly drunk, he rode on my car and slept! Incident # 9 Dick was quietly parked in the North parking lot, near a tree. I am in Tagaytay with my blockamates/LS groupmates. When we returned, my front plate number was dangling, and the front bumper was severely scratched. On my windshield was a note..."sorry I bumped your car, call me at blah blah blah" Weeks after, in Ortigas, an owner type jeep was in front of me. Again, I didn't hit the brakes on time. It is a good thing that the car wasn't repaired yet. Incident #10 Kinayod ko yung jeep sa Commonwealth! Nag-swerve sha bigla, di ako naka-iwas...CRRRRRRRK---tunog ng collision...I have a previous entry about this! ---- So, here are just some of the most memorable incidents! Believe me, there are so much more. Parking stupidity. Car Flying. Horn-honking for humps and leaves. We almost got rid off of Dick last year. We bought an Civic SIR series. However, there was something wrong with its brakes, so we have to return it. It was one beautiful car. Almost too fragile to drive. Dapat maingat. Thank God we got Dick back! bwahahha!!! Dick is also known as the "fun car" and the "battle car". 4x4 si Dick!
When the Idiot Box Speaks$BlogItemTitle$> Boob-Tube Boo-Boos A normal bum day for me is spent in front of the television, incessantly shifting from one channel to another. Those who will attempt to watch TV with me, let say, my mother for instance, will get irritated because she couldn't understand what I am trying to watch. She'll complain she's dizzy trying to keep up with my constant channel changes. I myself cannot focus on a particular channel because there are hardly any shows being aired that is worth sticking for. I call myself the "TV Nomad"--a wanderer in the television air waves who perpetually channel surfs. What suck in local TV nowadays... 1. Noontime shows that disgrace starlet guests and ridicule ordinary contestants from their game segments 2. Directionless plots and overly-used cliches in prime time telenovelas 3. Too much telenovelas 4. Rip-offs or attempted rip-offs of western or Hollywood shows- for example: Rip-offs of Punk'd and World's Scariest Places 5. Plotless sitcoms 6. In addition to number 5, actors/comedians in sitcoms who keep on adding irelevant adlibs such as divulging information about his co-actor's personal life- (If that's your idea of comedy...IT IS NOT FUNNY!!! Hardly anyone cares about their personal life. If audience want to hear about it, then we'll watch showbiz magazine shows) 7. Stupid schedule programming- Good shows are aired very late at night, err early morning..Just before TV stations sign-off! When almost everyone is sleeping!Also, The prime time block is filled mostly with crappy shows like those I mentioned 8. Schedule Programming does not even have an actual time on it- They just announce it as "This show follows this show..." Though you dont even know what time the previous show is aired. Thank God for Cable! (hahha, Bourgeois!!!)Well, if only local TV producers produce worthwhile programs in an effecient program scheduling , then, maybe I can patronize some of them. Maybe, just maybe, I can learn to stick around and finish an entire local program.
Movie Galore I love watching movies--any type of movies. Though I am honestly a fan of streamline Hollywood films (can't blame me for being a product of pop culture), I can proudly say that I am exposed to different genres of movies from different countries.
2. The Classic
Other flicks that I have watched and will watch (which you might consider watching)...
Endings$BlogItemTitle$> How a movie ends dictates how great the movie is or how good it can become. Sometimes, a bad movie can be quite acceptable because of its great ending. On the other hand, a good movie can be spoiled because of how it terribly ends. Though of course, nothing beats a movie which is consistently amazing all through-out (oops, redundant). Admitedly I am a sucker for happy-endings. One of my personal favorites was that of Notting Hill--the last shot wherein Julia, who is pregnant, is lying on Hugh Grant's lap on a park bench. Hugh was reading a book and they were holding hands. Perfect, isn't it? Call me cheesy, shallow, dreamy or whatever you want. This shot stirs up my imagination on what shall happen next after this 'they live happliy ever after' scenario. Anyways, I just watched the Japanese Animated feature Spirited Away. It's an animated feature which targets mature audience rather than children. (It's mature not in the sense of Sailormoon looking characters of animated porns which my brother has. Sidetrack story: My brother had a stack of animated 'porns' on the bookshelf in the attic-bedroom. One time, I was looking for a book then I stumble upon his stack of VCDs. I shouted, 'mom, ang daming porn ni Kian'. Then, Junnel ran towards the room and said...'Corn! Gusto ko ng Corn'. I said, 'Porn hindi corn'. He just replied, 'ano yun?'. I don't know why I am sharing this, Kian might kill me if he sees this post... anyways back to my point). Spirited Away is a Japanese animation. Disney bought its rights and dubbed it in English. I happened to watch both the Japanese and the English-dubbed version and it's suprising how much difference there was. It was the same film but very different. The subtitled version was way better. There is no way that the dubbed version can actually grasped the emotions the characters must be feeling. The emotions were different. The humor was different. (Wait, am I segueing off my point?) Spirited Away is a terrific film. It presents an idea of "another world" just like other great stories such as Narnia Chronicles, Alice in Wonderland, Abarat, and Wizard of Oz. Basic plot: A girl named Chihiro and her parents are on there way to their new home. They got lost, entered a tunnel then transported into a different universe (which they did not know that it was at that time) then wandered around . Chihiro's parents gobbled the food they saw which turned them into pigs. If the wicked creatures find Chihiro, they might kill her or turn her into an animal, so she has to save herself. A boy named Haku, helped her. Chihiro got a job at the Bath house run by Yubaba, an evil powerful old lady. Yubaba named her Sen. Chihiro should never forget her real name; she should cling on to her identity. She has to save her parents and go back to her own universe. I was awed when I saw this film. It was amazing. It was beautiful. The character presentation was almost real. The film seems to transport you to its actual setting. Though how great it is, I was quite disappointed by the way it ended. There was nothing wrong on how it ended, it actually gave closure and everything, but it just seemed that it ended abruptly. The great build up of the story seemed to speedily falter because of its hurried ending. All questions were answered and all problems solved in a matter of like, I don't know, 5 minutes. It was a great flight with a bad landing. It seems that the writer just got bored of writing so he ended it already. Or was it intentionally written that way? Was its anti-climax, like the rest of the story, structured like a dream sequence? Think about this: When we dream, we lose track of time and space. We are transported into a relatively different universe. Then it just suddenly ends because we are awaken. Sometimes, there are no conclusions. We ask ourselves, what could have happened next in my dream? You get my point? Was it a flawed story telling technique? Or was it deliberatley structured that way? If it's the latter, then it makes the movie more amazing. Or am I just overanalyzing it which causes me to lose the natural enjoyment I should have in watching a great film? One should have watched the film to understand what I am talking about.
Free Flow plus some other semi-structured stories$BlogItemTitle$> --Singit lang..si melanie marquez may book entitled, "dont judge me, Im not a book". Basta collection ng mga ka-barokan niya at kasablayan niya. parang ERAPtion ni deposed president joseph estrada. what if magsulat rin ako ng collection of my nelisms, of my quotable-quotes? hmmph....magpapasikat muna ako para may bumili. Let's translate my warning in Filipino Babala: Walang kwenta ang salaysay kong ito. Hindi ako magtataka kung hindi niyo maiintindihan dahil umaatake nanaman ang kabaliwan ko! Bwahahahha (evil laugh!) Hehehe...Iba yung translation. Right now, I am into watching subtitled Asian films. What if pinag-tritripan tayo nung nag-sulat ng subtitles tapos iba pala talaga yung meaning? So, mali yung intindi natin? So paano na yun? Hmmpphhh...wala lang, naisip ko lang. Raves of the Day!!! Nag-promise si Vega na gagawan niya ako ng bagong layout ng Blog!!! Woohoo!!! Thanks Vega! Bums for life!!! I had free dinner at Tia Marias! Despidida ni Golda! Thanks Golda. Ingat sa mga Ilonggo! To shed off excess pounds that I gained this holiday season (like what my previous entry saysI am a Goldfish nga diba!!!), I decided to go to the gym a while ago. Guess who was 2 feet away from me? Uhmm...first, si bugia (o well, lagi ko na man sha nakikita sa bench before and i see him sa church rin, so kebs). Then later he was joined by larry fonacier (forever ko rin sha nakikita sa moro). then someone who might be cris tiu (di ako sure, kse peripheral ang vision ko eh nasa bandang likod ko sha), basta secreto ng mga gwapo! and then, si Gec Chia!!!! waaahhh! he's the cutest chinese guy ever. next to jerry yan, of course. wait, chinese ba si chia? o well... Yey..sulit mag-Moro! Shet ang baliw ko! Hmmph, may ikwekwento pa ako pero nakalimutan ko na... Diba may saying na "If God shuts the door, he opens a window"..or something to that effect. I went to Greenhills the other day, and to my dismay, Virramall was close! I cant buy DVDs! So that's when I planned to go to Quiapo. Then I went. Grabe, its DVD heaven! As in, para akong bata sa toy store na di makapakali kasi hindi ko alam kung anong una kung dadamputin. Pero, hindi lahat ng hinahanap ko andoon like the GTO anime series. Anyways, medyo marami pa rin akong nakuhang DVDs!!! Woohoo!!! Sige I'll end this post na...I have other topics in mind that I will compose in a while. Mag-YYM muna ako.. Muwahh... Basta, I am planning to write something about Dick the Civic and "My Driving Experiences". The latter was a title for my first philo paper. My second philo paper was entitled "My Driving Experience II". Bwahahaha...how creative! Then I'll write about movies and endings. magpapaka-feeling critic nanaman ako. yun lang muna... I lied...i used my backspace!
I am a goldfish$BlogItemTitle$> I'm so excited and I just can't hide it.... Why so? Kase galing akong Quiapo, tapos ang dami kong biniling DVDs!!!! WOohoo!!! DVD Marathon to the max. To add to my list of pirated DVD collection are the following: - FRIENDS Final Season (5 cds) - Entire Season 2 of South Park (3 cds) - My Crazy Love (some Korean romantic comedy) - Ocean's 12 - The Incredibles - Spirited Away, Finding Nemo, Monster's Inc. I don't know where to start!!!!!! Actually naghahanap ako ng anime version ng GTO kaso wala. O well... Ang daming Series na gusto ko bilhin like The OC, Will and Grace, Sex and the City, The Simpsons, kso wala na akong money! Anyways, sabi ko I'll work again if: 1. I'm bored to death -But as of now di pa ako bored. Kse katatapos lang ng holidays and I have my daily rituals like watching 6 hours of TV, dvd marathon, or maghanap ng kung anong lakad na pwede 2. I am pressured by the people around me to work - I asked my mom kung kelangan ko na mag-work. Sabi niya kung ayaw ko pa, e di wag muna... hehehe - Offtrack pero related kwento: Yung opthalmologist ko happens to do plastic surgery rin. Nagpatingin ako ng eyes last Monday. My mom consulted about having her nose fixed-- mag-papatangos raw sha ng ilong. SO sabi nya, if I have work na, I'll pay for her cosmetic operation. I don't see any urgency in that. So, wala pang pressure mag-work. 3. I'm broke - Eto, malapit na to mangyari. Give me a few more weeks to drain my savings account, then I'll look for work na. Wala rin akong magustohang work. Ayoko ng sales, ayoko sa bank, ayoko ng may uniform. Gusto ko pwedeng casual clothes, pwedeng mag-YM, at sana may gwapo sa work area. Hahha...Walang ka-kwenta-kwentang criteria. Some of the crappy offers or crappy pending applications that I have: 1. New Business Development Assistant para sa manufacturer/importer distributor ng school supplies and stuff - Pros: room for growth, seemingly exciting yung job - Cons: May Saturday work, may uniform, asa kadulu-duluhan ng Quezon City, Walang cute 2. Marketing Assistant para sa isang Magazine Distrubutors -Pros: Atenean Crowd, May Cute, Malapit sa house!!!! -Cons: Hmmphhh..boring 3. Event Manager para sa mga high tech AV systems...basta, taga launch ng products. - it will be boring in a while etc. etc. etc. Hay...waiting for the perfect opportunity... Lalalala... Manonood na ako ng SImpsons!
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