How long has it been since I last actually updated this thing? 8DDDD /finally poked at this darned thing again. I've actually thought about deleting this (and some of my other accounts) but, hmm, I guess I'll still keep it. Lawl.

Anyhoot. I'm running on mostly Coke and braindeath atm, so I'll just give you random tabs of what I feel like updating you/this blog about:

• KUNG FU PANDA ON HBO. YEAAAAH. /totally random, sry. ;;;;
• BUSY BUSY BUSY lately, lawl. If it isn't work, it's friends, or family, or well, you get the point. It's a love-hate relationship, really. Haha. I mean, yeah, I like the rush of being busy and all but I want more free time because----
• I MISS PAINTING. AND DRAWING. AND WELL, YES AGAIN YOU GET THE POINT.
• I also wanna pursue that freelancing on the side thing. Hmm. .-. I should really get that multiply account up. And look for connections. (Feel free to poke me if you're interested to help team up? 8D) Although I don't really know how to do that without that much extra time. Lolol. ;;;; AH. BUT IT'S OKAY. IF THERE'S A WILL, THERE'S A WAY, RIGHT? RIGHT! OHOHOHOHOHO.
• I told you I'm running on Coke and braindeath, didn't I?
• Oh yeah, I've been staying in Taguig for more than a month now. :'D Around two months? Not my own place, no. Still far away from that goal, sad to say. My sister, her friend Karen, and I are basically house-sitting for my godmother while they're in Syria.
• Which reminds me, I need a place to crash once they come home for the holidays. o_o ;;;;;; Unless we find some way around it
• And on a last random note - I find it a bit amusing how I'm in this contemplative/reflective mood these days, in time for the year's end. Lawl. I think it's actually ozm because at least this way I don't have to kinda remind myself to look back, reflect on things and then make a whole new plan for the coming year. This statement could be shorter, I know. But have I mentioned I'm running on Coke? /bricked

Well, I don't know if that was informative, but I'm going blank now although I have a huge feeling I left out a bunch of stuff that I actually wanted to jot down. 8D; Lawl. Anyhoot to wrap things off here's a picture of me, with Dee and Ais on UP AME (Ame no Jidai) last weekend. Picture's courtesy of Kirby. Lawl. It's been a while since I've actually gone to an AME con. XD; Had lotsa fun though. I BOUGHT A KITTY BONNET. XDDDDDD


OFF TO WATCH KUNG FU PANDA NAO. 8Db ~~~~~~~

... Man am I gonna be wasted at work later or what. ;;;

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Hm. Interesting morning, so far. o: Lessee now:

•NO SLEEP FOR THE WICKED! Downed a cup of coffee in one go. Lolol. /feels the need for more later. =w=;
•So I just have to leave home between 6 and 6:30 if I wanna get to work on time. 3 hours travel time, huh? Ah well. At least I don't have to endure it everyday.
•With that said - to those who actually go home to Sucat daily, I envy your patience. Or feel for your pain.
•Traffic was so bad at Sucat Road I actually caught the jeepney driver sleeping in between stops. LAWL. XD
•Listening to Green Day when commuting's getting awful actually helps me calm down. ._.;
•Accidentally smashed my bag onto some guy's face in the bus - on purpose.
• ... I'm THIS POSITIVE that the guy standing beside me had a hard-on. -_-;
•In my (or his?) defense, I gave him the benefit of the doubt that he may be wearing jeans or something. But, well, he was wearing slacks. So ---- yeahlet'smoveon.

And that's just the commute to work. Lawl. Oh. And yeah - they saw rat footprints on my officemate's chair that could pass as a kitten's or a cat's. We--- better be moving to QC soon. >_>;

And speaking of work/office - I never really mentioned that I finally got a job here, did I? Haha. XD UBER LATE ANNOUNCEMENT IS UBER LATE. But everyone who gets to read this prolly knows already. I haven't been blogging lately, mostly because most of what I have to blog goes on plurk. orz Anyway, I got this job March and--- and actually I should be under consideration for regularization this month. o_o Eep. @_@

Aaaaanyway. Past 9 already. I better get started on work. [insert second cup of coffee here] 8D Lates!

XDDDDDD

Rest in Peace, Lola.


Meh. At Boni/Antarc right now. My sister called me earlier, which woke me up. So. Meh. *still a bit disoriented*

I'm thinking if I should skip work, or at least go for half a day. But I've already been absent twice this month because I was sick. And workload is BLAH-hueg. But, meh. Mrr.

Later.

Last night, my 4-year-old niece got seriously scared of one of my paintings in my room, she couldn't come inside. o_o

First off, it's weird because she's been in my room countless times but this is the first time she ever reacted to any of my paintings like that. She literally panicked and flailed. I couldn't even get her inside so she can pinpoint which painting was scaring her exactly.



I guess there are a few paintings on my wall that *might* scare some kids, like the ones above, but, as far as I know she's seen them already. And she even liked the unfinished dragon--- She drew on it. >_>; When I asked her to describe the painting to me, she said it's the one with the scary green face.

The thing is --- I haven't done anything like that. ._.;

She calmed down when my mom carried and accompanied her to the room. Turns out, the "scary green face" painting is this:



... It's a sketch I did back in college. orz It was lying down sideways, along with my old canvases and stuff that kinda gets in the way. So she more or less saw it like this:



I'm still trying to see the scary green face. >_>;

To be honest I am both amused and worried as to how active my niece's imagination is. Maybe because I can see myself in her a bit? And, ah, hm. An active imagination is like a double-edged sword for kids, imho. D: I remember having bloody nightmares just because of CALVENTO FILES - the kind that leaves me short of breath, running to my parents' room. It was because of that that my parents banned me from watching the show or anything similar, no matter how interesting I find it. Ahaha. Now that I think about it, my mother commented about that - How I actually ended up liking scary things, considering how much troubled it caused me (or them XD) when I was young.

Speaking of troubles it caused me, I can name two specific incidents as to how my imagination (or great tendency to dream) got me in trouble as a kid. o_o

First - remember that Chop-chop lady incident back in the 90's? They made a movie about that, right? I'm not sure which version I saw, but I saw a COMMERCIAL of it on TV. Or I think it was just the news talking about it? Either way I just caught a good few seconds of it on TV (although it may have been repeatedly, what with the way things are advertised here) and I ended up dreaming about it. Basically I made my own bloodier version of the movie, and it even has effing Ruffa Guttierez in it. Wat. Although in my dream it was more like "minced" lady. >_>; I can't remember much of the details of the dream now, but man that dream haunted me for a while. o_o



Lastly, The Cranberries' song Zombie. I was actually batshit scared of that song as a kid. Ahaha. I would literally run away from the radio or cover my ears and make loud noises so I could drown it away everytime it's being played. Just my luck that around that time it was my eldest sister's favorite song. OTL It was actually because of her that I became afraid of the song. o_o See, one time, I was about to sleep, my sister was holding a song hits/lyrics book, singing that song, I think? Or memorizing the lyrics. She was in the pull out bed so it was easy for me to take a glimpse of it, and the line "Another head hangs lowly." got stuck in my head as I fell asleep. That caused me to have a nightmare about a ghost town with tall buildings. I was walking along the roads and these tall buildings have loads of amputated heads hanging from the side via flagpoles. You know, the kind that sticks out of buildings. o_o *having trouble choosing her words right now*

So there. After that, every single time I hear the song I'm reminded of my dream and I freak out. It stayed for quite some time too. You should've seen how much I panicked when I hear that song in public. XD Like, I want to run away but I don't want it to be so obvious that I'm just too damned scared of the song. Ahaha. Man that was an embarrassing phase. XD I do realize that these two dreams aren't that scary when I think about it, but, this was between the ages of 6-10 okay? XD I don't think kids should even be dreaming about stuff like that.

Anyh00t! I better get going now or I'll be super late. o_o Ahaha. I was supposed to post this last night, but, ahem. I got distracted. x_X

Lates yo!

/EDIT

I think I just saw the green scary face! Awesome. o_o

... Okay. Bye now for realz.

Hm. Just got home from church. A little something happened during communion. It kinda annoyed me, actually.

See, during communion there was this mentally challenged kid, although he's gotta be at LEAST 16, who went in line to get communion bread. Even though I was parallel to him in line (you know how it goes in Catholic churches usually, right? Two lines per minister.) I really didn't actually noticed him until when he was about to get the bread. Mostly because that's the only time I actually pay attention to the people around me. Anyway, from what I noticed - he seemed to be very excited about getting communion bread, bouncing in place while waiting for the person in front of him to finish. He had a handkerchief out and placed it over his cupped hands. When it was finally his turn, he asked the minister to just place the bread on the handkerchief. I kinda stopped paying attention again after that.

What made me pay attention again the scene after. On my way back to my place this church lady LITERALLY grabbed the kid by the sleeve of his shirt, and started questioning him. The kid looked startled and just kept nodding and inching away from her. Apparently he didn't eat the bread after all? And kept it in the handkerchief, which he kept firmly between his hands while the lady kept pestering him about it. -_-; IMO, she was practically harassing him. It was annoying. When the kid tried to get away from the lady hanged onto his shirt, causing it to be unbuttoned. A few more seconds of struggling and the kid managed to get away from the church lady, and ran like mad out.

Basically, I just got pissed about the whole thing. Do they really have to make a big deal out of someone wanting to keep the bread instead of eating it on the spot? Okay so I guess there are rules about it or something, but, meh, to cause a scene like that? It was even handled so tactlessly. The entire scenario happened DURING COMMUNION. IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CHURCH. As in for everyone to see. -_-; To top it all off it's not even the kid that caused the scene, it's the effing church lady. >_>; Sure they're there to maintain order during mass but, as if the kid did anything to disrupt mass. =_=

Also, I don't know. I think it was very insensitive of them. The kid looked really happy when he got the bread. It's like he wanted to treasure it that's why he didn't eat it. He was *beaming* at the minister that the minister actually looked like, "uh, okay. here you go. o_o;" So, I don't know. Meh. *frustrated at her failure to express herself properly* =_=

Anyway, Milk asked me to eat dinner at her place tonight, so, later guys!

P.S.
Image and bandwidth stolen from Wiki. Will re-upload later. I promise. Lol. XD

Oh. Right. Yesterday I saw Ate Elyu at Starbucks in SM Sucat. :'D Hi Ate Elyu~ Hiiiii.

Anyway - You know that show Kids Say the Darndest Things, right? Well yesterday I was at my godchild's 1st Birthday party in Batangas, and I couldn't stop laughing. XDDD It was like Pinoy version of that show. See, see, here's what I remember from yesterday:

*Note: None of these kids are actually "joking." These are their serious answers. x__X

Clown: O anong sasabihin mo kay Kuya CJ (The celebrant)
kid 1: ...
Clown: Thank you ... ?
kid 1: Wowowee.

Clown: O, dali, anong sasabihin mo sa birthday celebrant? Thank you ---?
kid 2: ... ... ... Eat Bulaga.

Clown: May nurse na tayo, ano naman gusto mo maging paglaki?
kid 3: Teacher!
Clown: Anong ginagawa ng teacher?
kid 3: Nagtuturo!
Clown: O ano pa?
kid 3: Nagtitinda!
Clown: ... Ah, eh. Mawalang galang na lang po sa mga teachers dito. Hindi po namin alam na sasabihin niya yun. >____>;;;

Clown: Ikaw naman anong gusto mo paglaki mo?
kid 4: Doktor.
Clown: Wow. Anong klaseng doktor? Doktor ng---?
kid 4: *incoherent*.
Clown: Ano daw? >_>; Ulit, ulit.
kid 4: Bus.
Clown: Bus? o_O AH. Kondoktor ng bus. >____>;;;

Clown: Ikaw kuya, anong gusto mo paglaki mo?
kid 5: Doktor!
Clown: Meron na tayong doktor eh. Iba naman iba naman. Ano?
kid 5: *pauses to think* Pasyente!

XDDDDDDDDD Srsly. I couldn't stop laughing. And I couldn't even share the antics they did during the party. Uwa~ XD Who knew children's birthday parties can be that fun. 8D

03.15.04

"-- Although like the moon, it waxes and wanes, not always apparent but it is there. The new moon is invisible, but it's still there, isn't it? It will always be with the earth, constant in its love.

However, I love you more than the moon does the earth."

-- You know how some things feel like they are either, perfectly awesome. Or perfectly stupid? >_>;

There's an idea forming in my head right now, a theme for an exhibit. And even though admittedly, doing this may not be exactly in my best interest (srsly), I don't want to let it go? The idea I mean, which is kind of ironic actually, but *ahem* anyway--- My friend and I have always been thinking of doing a two-man exhibit but, aside from the fact that we're n00bs, the themes we come up with, even though they really pique our interests, they always come up half-baked. I'm just thinking that maybe this one could actually work.

Although between job hunting and CCP and Metrobank, I think the last thing I should be doing is thinking of working on another exhibit. Let alone one that we have to work on from scratch. But, man, do I want to do this. Besides I've already told myself that in no way this is a short term goal. More like mid-term to long-term... Okay hopefully just midterm. But anyway you get my point, right? I mean, yeah. ---- Why I'm getting worked up. >_>; =_=; OTL

I'll try to write the concept paper and write up later. ASAP. Basta. I am hoping that since this is my idea and the fact that I'll be working on material that is really personal to me I wouldn't allow myself to slack off way too much. Also hoping that my friend would be able to relate to the idea. I think she will be. I sure as well hope I'm right.

Also. I'm hungry. And finally sleepy. Kinda.

Lates.

First and foremost - YES, I am obsessing. So excuse the craziness and all and just shut it and help me with this. LOL. 8D With that said, the [HELP THIS IDJIT LADY GET A NEW GHEI HAIRSTYLE] line is now open~ \o/

I was just planning on plurking the images so you guys can help me choose but I realized I have way too much side comments. >_>; So I'll just post `em here instead. The main point of this haircut is to get ghei hair THAT would look good on me. 8D But not too ghei that I actually look like a guy no matter what I wear. >_____>;;

Although, actually, I've already decided that, given my hair's current style, Imma get a longback layered (tom)boyish hair with a bit of bangs (mostly, because, I currently have one. -_-;) I just need to show a picture that would make the best reference for said hairstyle? o.o; SO HELP ME CHOOSE. ... Please? 8D

Might be useful info: My hair isn't wavy, but, it tends to wave to the left or go in all sorts of directions went unkempt. And it usually is. >_>;;;;

Anyhoot~

( LOTSA PICTURES OF HAIR HERE. XD )

... Okay, okay. Maybe I just added that last one because I think he looks kinda cute there. *ahem* XDDD

Suggestions, comments, reactions (and not so much violent reactions of not wanting me to cut my hair >_>) will be appreciated here, at plurk, or over at y!m~ :'D (Although I'd prolly reply a bit later because I'll be eating dinner after this.)

OKAY THEN~ DINNER NAO~ 8DDDD

P.S.
+ Incoherence and possibly wrong grammar! I can has eet! (I'm too lazy to doublecheck. x__x)
+ Yes, I know. Half of the pics there are Matsujun's. Only proves that the bastid likes girly hairstyles! 8D
+ ---- And, that I have a lot of Arashi pictures in hand. orz *grabbing shurvel nao*
+ Also, Aiba's hair in my icon looks okay too, doesn't it? 8D *adds it to choices*

I had another dream again. This time, I was in college. >_>; Anyway, enough about that. Here's the second dream I had the other night. This time it involves the woods, sorcery, and, some kind of rivalry. o_o

( Ah, I'm actually a bit embarrassed about this one. =_=; )

Two points I want to take note regarding the dream:
1. Somehow, for the most part of the dream, I felt very calm and collected, despite of what's going on. Y'know, steady, or level-headed or something. Like I'm not one to panic. (i.e. when one of the members snapped at me, the others were the one who reacted while I remained calm. o.o) Maybe it's because in the dream, it kinda felt like I was the leader. But, I may have been the leader because I was being like that. Mrr. Either way, it was a nice feeling.
2. In the dream, my character's sister was being accused of killing one of her comrades, right? But, I noticed that no one really has an idea where everyone from that mission is. Except maybe for the one who supposedly got killed. There's this feeling that everyone from that mission died, and my character's sister - either dead or missing. But since there was no mention of it in the dream I'm not sure how true that feeling was. Also, my character seemed undeterred by all of this, like even though there's all this drama and unknown things around her, she remains calm and steady.

Oh, and also, I swear I have been nowhere near Fate/Stay Night in the past 2-3 weeks. =_=;

Last night, I had 3 rather interesting dreams. I wrote down notes as soon as I woke up so I wouldn't forget them. The first was in a high school/library. The second, a camp of sorts. And the third--- seemed like a Sentai movie. And I was Pink. WTF. >_>; Never in my life have I thought I'd be Pink. Not even in my dre--- well, I guess it already happened in my dreams so, =____=;;

Chi said it might be because of the half moon, because he had an adventure-filled dream too. And then there's Ate Tin and her runaway bride-esque dream. XD Hm. I never really bothered checking the moon's phase everytime I get interesting dreams. Now I'm somehow interested, haha. Thanks, Chi! XD

For now, I'll just share the first dream. I wanted to share all three dreams but this one seems long enough as is. >_>; I'll post the other two, maybe tomorrow. (Or later, since I kinda feel like it.)



( Ah. This one may have this prelude-to-a-mystery-or-something feel to it. c_c; )

Lol. During the dream, I didn't realize that the reason why I just kept nodding at what everyone tells me, or brushing them off was because - I don't really remember much, except for my supposed flashbacks. Like I had selective amnesia or something? Also, I never really saw the connections, but as I typed this down it felt like there's a connection between my "memory loss," the breakdown, and the old library/books. Lol. XDDD

Anyway. Dinner. x_x Kanina pa `ko tinawag eh.

P.S.
Please not to be minding the Irish stuff on the books. I just---- can't find a better image. =w=

...Wala lang. >_>;

I wonder if there's anything about my room. o.o This isn't the first time I saw one, like the one mentioned in my plurk. Although this is the whitest/albino-est I've seen so far. Also, is it really albino, or--- it just didn't see the sun for too long. >.>; Ah, I want to experiment! 8D Kinda like what they do in Odoroki SP's. X333 Only, they do it with fruits, vegetables and inanimate objects. >.>; Also, this would actually require me to, cultivate cockroaches. >.>;;;; Ee.

For some reason seeing an albino cockroach made me think of a weird, quote. I'm blaming Ate Elea's plurk post for this. 8D Oh, and click that link at your own risk. I believe we hit 200++ comments on that thread. XDDD

Anyway, the quote goes something like this:

"MY LOVE FOR YOU IS LIKE A COCKROACH. IT WILL NOT DIE!"

--- Now if someone confessed to me in that manner, I wouldn't know whether I'd find it romantic, funny, or just stupid. >.>; Hm. Maybe if I actually like the guy I'd think it's all of the above. 8D That, and I'd probably start feeling like my (non-existent) love life is using cockroaches as a symbolism of sorts. >_>;;;;

Ah. Right now I'm tripping on Asian Kung-Fu Generation. 8D Later Imma prolly listen to Fujifabric, Unchain and uh, INO hidefumi? The one that Adzhu demanded me to download. XD Although I should sleep before 12 mn. ._.; I need to be healthy~ XDD

I'm having a hard time writing a year-end post. ._. Rather, a year-of-the-rat-end post. I'd prolly get to it sooner or later. Well, hopefully sooner. >_>; I've been really lazy when it comes to updating lately, haven't I? XD Having plurk catching all my random thoughts doesn't help too. Haha. XD It's funny how a weird albino roach picture is actually the reason why I ended up posting tonight. Ahaha. XD

And I'm totally being incoherent now. 8D

Iunno, Iunno. But--- ahaha. 8D

A.K.: O_o
A.K.: wow.
Edd: tayo lang active?
Edd: lulz
A.K.: ang dami natin. XD
Zae: ehe
Zae: oo nga eh
Zae: amp
A.K.: :))
Edd: i see a pole and a duck
Edd: ihihihi
Zae: LOL
Zae: I see a Rocket and a duck...
Zae: =))
Edd: oh u
Zae: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/o/
A.K.: I see----
A.K.: infinity
A.K.: and beyooooond.
Zae: LOL
A.K.: ... wait. that can't be right. >_>
A.K.: ... then again pwede.
Zae: AAAAMMMMPPP
A.K.: toy story.
A.K.: si buzz may rocket.
Zae: NAGETS KO YUN~!
A.K.: tapos si woody. 8D
A.K.: =))
A.K.: ay sorry.
Edd: o_O
Zae: *kicks Duck*
Edd: ampf
A.K.: hindi ko sinasadya kaya. 8DDDD

BWAHAHAHA... Ha. >.>;

SPRING CLEANIIIING~!


And it's a good thing I did, too. Apparently ants turned one of the boxes under my hueg table into their home. @_@; No wonder ants kept coming out of there no matter how many times I've swept. Well, in before Chinese New Year? XD Athough as far as Chinese traditions go, I don't really know if cleaning/throwing things out before new year is considered good luck or bad luck. Ah, well. I'll just consider this as Tanuki's traditions. LOL. XD

Also--- the picture. I took that, because if any of you were paying attention to my background when I post random webcam images, then you'd notice I moved ZERO. :3 See, see?



Ahaha. XD Although it didn't change much? You can't see my bed anymore. (Although for "revenge" purposes, I can easily move ZERO. 8D *cough*) Instead, my lamp/coatrack can be seen. o.o Hm. I thought that was always seen last time. >_>; I guess I was always in its way before? o_o Oh, and you can see the unfinished dragon painting on my wall better! --- I should finish that. >.>;

And of course, the mongoose head. Yeah, I suppose that's always going to be there no matter where I move the laptop. >_>; Haha.

Ah, well. I should go back to cleaning.



--- I did say I was bored, right?

Wala lang. LOL. =_= /random

This is totally bumping my other supposed blog entries. Bahahaha. Other topics? What other topics? *gets bricked* 8D

W-irls. - I swear if you don't get that in joke I'm trying to pull here I am going to bite all of your heads off. Ahahahaha. XDDD

Anyway, just a short post - Happy New Year, everyone! Our family's celebration isn't as different as previous celebrations, but somehow I feel that I am enjoying it far better. Ah, I think that's how I feel about the entire holiday season - Christmas and New Year. It's different from our traditional celebrations, but I enjoyed it, and the company much better. Plus the fact that I was sick for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day definitely made it different for me. LOL. >_>;

I'm still calming down from all the excitement so, um, I'll just point out random things in no specific order. 8D

Basically, I feel really happy right now. There's just, something, I don't know, with the way I am or, am celebrating right now I guess? Aa, let's not poke at it. Baka ma-jinx pa. XD Basta I feel warm and fuzzy and happy - and that's always good. XD(This here, is actually or supposed to be some sort of deep reflection or recollection but, yeah. I'll try to explain myself better when I'm actually less--- hyper. Lol. >.>; XDDD)

Also, I thought I wouldn't do much more enjoy fireworks tonight, but - I actually enjoyed it a lot too. See, I've always told how much I love fireworks, but lately they were kinda losing their appeal to me so I thought I wouldn't enjoy it as much tonight, but I was proven wrong. 8D I actually feel like my love for them has been rekindled and strengthened. Ahaha. Eeee. X3

Ah, what else? Right! It's only been an hour but I already have so many 4-koma-able moments - courtesy of my sister and my dad. --- Oh, and the kwitis. Yeah. >.>; There was another incident regarding it aside from the one I plurked about. I'd share them now so at least you'll know in case I forget to make 4-koma's out of `em, but, I'll just swear to them instead! DX

Mm. I still have a lot of thoughts in my head but I'll cut this for now. Obviously too incoherent and all over the place (but in a good way) to blog. 8D Again, Happy New Year guys! X3

Earlier this happened. If you're too lazy to click the link, it's basically me writing my new year's to do list and my pen suddenly running out of ink.

And then:

A.K.: wtf.
A.K.: >_> my pens keep dying on me.
Edd: .. nvm
Zae: ....lolwhut~!
Edd: buy a new one
A.K.: oh hey.
A.K.: >_> blowing on the end of it actually works. >_>;
A.K.: nagkatinta ulit.
Edd: orz
Edd: that really sounded wrong now
A.K.: WAT.
A.K.: >_>;
Edd: nvm it
Edd: >_>
A.K.: ...... it does, doesn't it.
A.K.: .................
Edd: yes it does
A.K.: BUT I DIDN'T DO THAT ON PURPOSE.
A.K.: >_>;
Erv: .....
Edd: yeah, so nvm it >_>
Erv: o_o
Jen: ... you guys.
Edd: *kicks chii
Zae: kaya hindi na ako nagsalita eh
Edd: stay out of it
Edd: ihihihihi
Erv: inner mind theatre
Jen: You seem especially green today, or I'm losing it.
Erv: (rofl)
Edd: who's green?
Erv: TREES
Jen: I didn't realize the greenness of it until I read it twice.
Jen: o:
A.K.: .......... coincidentally.
A.K.: my pen's color IS green. >_>
Jen: .... LOL.
Erv: *facepalm*
Erv: it iss fate
Jen: Puns IRL
Edd: ihihihi
Zae: TURBO PUNS~!
Zae: KA-PUN-YARIHAN~!
A.K.: *blogging this* >_>

Uber random. But, hey. I think it's worth sharing. XD Posting directly on LJ, so I hope my other post/draft on Semagic doesn't get deleted. >_>;

P.S.
NaBloPoMo's theme for January - I am much interested. I don't know if I can participate well though. Hrm. I guess there's no harm on trying? o:

Fuah. Had a bad dream of sorts. The ending was kinda nice though, although I was starting to become conscious by then. Haha. Maa, it'd be nice to do that in real life at least once.

Lately, my dreams have been reflecting real life, or rather, my waking life. In contrast to my usual weird fantasy/alternate universe-esque dreams that's a big change. Maybe that's why recently I don't even feel that they're worth mentioning. Like, there isn't any element in them that feels off, or that I'd have no idea what would mean or something like that.

The dream I had just now is kinda like that, I guess. Only, I was able to pinpoint a scene which I can prolly poke at. I was in the kitchen with a few people (two of them I'd rather not be with, actually, especially together --- Anyway) and I opened the faucet but as soon as I tried to turn it, the knob broke, so water kind of started spraying all over the place. H-henry, or at least I think it was him, of all people >_>;, was beside me at the time (I think he was going to use the faucet too?) and helped me fix the faucet immediately, so I didn't really get wet. The sink was made of concrete though, and that got wet. I ended up having that mud-like thing you get when you wet dusty concrete on my fingertips, so again I was looking for water to wash it off. By then Hen and I were laughing at what happened. One of the househelp, I assume, handed me a hose with running water to wash my hands with. But I accidentally left it running because Hen was goofing off and almost fell in a creek via an open space part of the kitchen, which, apparently is on top of a creek. He was joking about falling on purpose, and when he was about to fall for real I yelled that the creek's dirty, which made him go back. XD Thinking about it, there's really no way for me to know if the creek was dirty or not. I've never been to that place (although it did feel familiar) and it was nighttime, so all I can see is-- black. And a bit of vegetation? Maybe I just yelled that because as far as I'm concerned, creeks that are near houses/villages are always dirty. The one near our place is anyway. ._.;

Anyway, I was laughing at Hen for almost falling when the maid called my attention and told me that the water in the hose is still running. I went, "Ah! Sorry!" sort of softly, then placed my right hand against the running water - after that the scene just, faded to white and moved on to the next scene.

I just felt that part was actually worth mentioning because of the abundance of water/running water in that scene. I've no real reason to dream about something like that anyway. I mean, there's no incident in my waking life that happened recently with regards to water accidents/incidents so, yeah.

Checked on what water/running water is supposed to mean in dreams, and although it varies because it's a little vague, I really don't have any complaints on what it's supposed to mean generally, particularly the running water meaning. I'll prolly read up a bit more, I don't know. Some of them actually starts contrasting the other once they go into detail, so I'll just stick to the general idea. Lol.

On other things, in the same dream my sister found the dvd Mike gave me. >_> Now I want THAT to happen. LOL. Mai PV's ;o;

Ah, I think I haven't been blogging lately that this entire post feels very incoherent, but, anyway XD ----

This is a VERY random incident last week with Adzhu and Kel. See, I just got back from DFA after working on my passport application, and was playing with Kel's necktie, wearing it and stuff XD and out of boredom I took a picture of myself, see:

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And here's what followed:

Me: --- Shet, mukha akong lalaki. >_>; *don't know whether to be happy or sad about it* Tignan mo. *shows it to Adz* (I look like a guy. >_>; Look.)
Adz: ... Bakit iba naaalala ko? (Why am I reminded of something else?)
Me: What? >_>
Adz: Kel, halika. *shows picture to Kel then whispers something* (Kel, come here.)
Me: What? What? @_@
Kel: LOL.*walks away*
Me: WHAAAAT? @___@

Apparently, Adzhu was reminded of Nino. LOL. WHUT. 8D I think he was referring to this picture in particular, which I used as my cellphone wallpaper a few weeks ago.



I'm still not entirely sure why he was reminded of Nino, but aslkdjsdlfkjdlfkjdsl LOL. 8D I'm guessing it's the outfit? It's not shown in that photo, but during that shoot, Nino was also actually wearing a dark-colored necktie, which made me LOL harder when I realized it. Honestly, I wasn't even thinking anywhere near Nino when I took that photo. Hahaha. XD Okay, a lot of you don't prolly think that's really funny, but it made me laugh, okay? Nyaha. >__>; *more incoherence before grabbing a shurvel and burying self alive*

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This isn't even what I wanted to blog about, haha. But I wanted to share this anyway, so, might as well? As for what I did want to post, well--- See, I've been telling myself I'm going to try this "more open to people" thing by blogging what I think about more without being too conscious about what people might think, but I still kinda back out when I'm just about to do it, haha. Maybe, it's mostly because of the fact that words escape me once I actually try to sit down and type. Also, there's something about seeing my thoughts in my own handwriting that makes me feel that I've expressed myself better. Y'know, let my thoughts out better. Maybe because I can doodle beside them? XD Haha. So even though blogging is actually more convenient, I guess I'll be doing that more often. I guess. --- Eh. I think this probably means I should bring my doodle journaling back. I've actually prepared a notebook already, so I can start the year with one, or something like that. Lol. Blogging about it is just my way of making it official to myself, I suppose. I used to always have a doodle journal with me, and I actually fill up at least one notebook a year. But sometime during my thesis year I somewhat stopped, and I wasn't able to fill that journal until, either last year or this year. It took, almost three years, I think? Which was a first for me. It kinda makes me feel sad actually, when I think about it. I mean, considering how fast I used to filll one up. Not in the emo kind of way but more of a, looking-back-and-realizing-the-stupid-things-you-did-and-generally-feeling-that-you're-getting-old kind of way, if that made any sense. XD --- I'm being totally erratic now, ain't I? Haha.

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Sorry for the crappy image. >_> I was definitely in no creative mood whatsoever, but I wanna blog about this, and, well, I want to keep this blog as an image blog. *cough-excuses-cough* Anyway---

I got a link from Noe earlier. It was the Dove Self-Esteem Campaign Commercial. I, and prolly a lot of people on my f-list, have already seen it before, but I watched it anyway. It shows how a model is heavily made up, and then her image being heavily (and I mean, heavily) Photoshopped before it reaches the billboards or any other promotional materials, which girls, particularly teenagers(?) would look at, and perhaps in a moment of low self-confidence, would wish, want, and/or start striving to look just like that. The message was, "No wonder our perception of beauty is distorted." IMO, the campaign's very effective.

Anyway, watching that video made me search for a bunch of other video with a similar message, and I got this.



It's a documentary of sorts, or at least a part of it, by Diet.com. (which I find a little ironic, but, Iunno. I haven't checked their website yet. XD) It's about the controversy over the heavily edited images that is widely used in media/advertising industry today. I guess it's more of a continuation of Dove's campaign. It's pointing out what the heavily edited images can do to the unaware, and what can we, as part of the said industry and society, can do about it.

Basically I agree to the clip's bottom line - People should become (more) well informed about just how much heavily edited these images that they're trying to imitate are. I suppose TVC's and campaigns like this work as it kinda did for me, (Honestly, even though I knew it could be done, I didn't know it was being done THAT much and to THAT extent until I saw the Dove campaign.) but, maybe they're looking for a more effective (and less expensive XD) way to do it? The disclaimer box thing could work, and is a good idea actually, but I'm not sure if the big bosses of companies would bite into it. XD It does kinda cramp their image.

Ah. I'm becoming incoherent now. So, I'll stop here. If I can think of additional stuff. I'll just edit.

Anyway, I think this issue isn't as big in this country right now---- I think.

/abrupt end. [again.]