If Men Could Menstruate
July 13, 2006Gloria Steinem wrote a humurous article discussing various issues that might have transpired if men could menstruate.
What would happen, for instance, if suddenly, magically, men could menstruate and women could not? The answer is clear - menstruation would become an enviable, boast-worthy, masculine event:
Men would brag about how long and how much.
Boys would mark the onset of menses, that longed-for proof of manhood, with religious ritual and stag parties. Congress would fund a National Institute of Dysmenorrhea to help stamp out monthly discomforts.
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Do you like PORN?
July 4, 2006I mean Wheelchair Porn? Then, you’re gonna love this.
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Moved to a new location
May 5, 2006My stay in i.ph has been amazing, and I am hoping that those who have linked me up through this site will continue to do so, but with this new url:
http://highdenzity.blogsome.com
See you guys there!
ciao c",)
Eating with spoon and fork is eating like a PIG?
April 29, 2006“My teacher is telling me that eating with a spoon and fork is yucky and disgusting.”
Word of Mouth
April 27, 2006Pimentel on the heckle issue:
Embarrassing the President is not a crime.
There and Back Again
April 17, 2006Just got back from Davao. I spent the lent vacation hangin’ out with my friends. Nothing much to talk about except for the movie I saw last Saturday. Now, I’m back in CDO for work.
Looking forward to have a nice day today. Especially, that today is payday hehehehe. Got so many plans for this week. Just hope I would be able to realize those plans. I have this bad habit of being good at planning but not in implementing.
Now is the time for that bad habit to be dealt with. I’m going to create a PLAN to do just that. [Here we go again.]
I hope everyone had a refreshing holy week. Ciao.
Ultraviolet
March 24, 2006I saw a portion of the trailer of Ultraviolet. It was very cool. Milla Jovovich looks tough and sexy, and the way she kicks ass is impressive. I would have compared her to Charlize Theron if only I was able to watch Aeon Flux. Too bad, I wasn’t. Fortunately, I will have possessed enough budget by the time Ultra comes in local cinemas. I cannot afford to miss yet another good movie. [Hmm, I guess I am sending the impression that I am broke. Well, whatever. I really am. Wawa no?]
Though I saw not-so-good reviews about it, I am still aching to watch. Huh, no amount of bad reviews can stop me now. I was already devastated when I missed Aeon.
To hell with those critics. I had enough of their wet-blanket attitudes. I was fooled by them once when I watched Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), because of their excellent reviews. I nearly walked out of the cinema if not because I was concerned about the money I paid. I don’t wanna be fooled again. As Leann Rimes’ song puts it, "Shame on you if you fooled me once, Shame on me if you fooled me twice."
I think that’s enough explanation.
Wanna earn some huge bucks?
March 22, 2006It is very interesting to know how people get huge bucks through sheer acts of creativity. Take for example, a 21-year-old English guy named Alex Tew. An idea came to him one summer night while thinking about a way to support his college education. That idea brought him no less than one million dollars!
Surviving Boredom
March 20, 2006Moving in to a new place really does have a lot of drawbacks. It se
Living alone sure is hard. I have done this before, during college. But it was different back then because I was living with my childhood friends, so it really wasn’t that hard. I was even enjoying every moment of it. But right now, I am living with people I do not really know. They are friendly and all, but relationships are not established by mere hi’s and hello’s. I understand that this takes time, but my impatience just insists that it would have been better if my friends are here.
On getting a nose job
March 18, 2006Nah! I am not planning to have one. I am happy with my nose of course. Besides, where would I get the money for such an expensive procedure. Plastic surgery is the thing of the wealthy, after all.
Then why the heck is a nose job included in this blog entry?
Well, I have just finished a blog regarding rhinoplasty - more commonly known as nose job. As a blogger, you get to know a lot of things. After a gruelling period of research and lots of reading, I finally finished the blog entry. I feel accomplished. That was my first blog entry as a professional blogger (?) after all. And since my boss kinda likes it, I am beaming with glee.
In case you wanna know more about rhinoplasty, you can check this, and this.
That’s all for now. Ciao.
Little things are BIG things.
March 16, 2006I have been learning about search engine optimization these days. I never thought keywords I entered in the Google search bar, do matter. And never in my wildest imagination would I be caring about search keywords, until the concept of SEO stared me in the eye. Indeed, Information Technology really has become this big that even seemingly minute details of the World Wide Web are not really minute things after all. In fact, they can be used to accumulate gigantic monetary benefits.
I think SEO is here to stay, and is going to get big. It is already, in the US. And it will be, sooner or later, here in the Philippines.
Nah! Just a random thought…c",)
Open Letter To Our Leaders: Why We Are Not Out In The Streets
March 15, 2006I am angry. And I know that there are many out there who are angrier than I am for the same reason. And that reason is simple. I am sick and tired of all you guys claiming to speak for me and many Filipinos. I feel like screaming every time you mouth words about fighting for my freedom and my rights, when you obviously are just thinking about yours. You tell me that the essence of democracy is providing every citizen the right to speak his or her mind and make his or her own informed judgments, but you yourselves do not respect my silence and the choices I and many others have made. In other words, your con cept of democracy is limited to having your rights and your freedoms respected, at the expense of ours.
Sit down and READ…
March 13, 2006
Well, that was me back then. It has been 3 to 5 years that I haven’t done such a thing. Honestly, I missed it. I want to get a hold of a book once again and devour it for days. I remembered missing a meal or two just for me to finish off a certain thrilling chapter. I was really crazy that time.
Silly Saturday
March 11, 2006Thank God It’s Saturday!
I said that not because something great is going to happen today, I just felt like saying that. No big deal. You must have known now how silly I can get.
Whether Osama’s relative gets it right on reality TV, or the winners of reality show The Bachelor can still patch up their relationship, this silliness of mine sometimes snaps me back to reality. I just said those to establish some sort of connection. Nah, don’t fret. I told you it’s a silly saturday.
How about watching Scary Movie 4 and Date Movie to bring this silliness a notch higher? They are not in theaters yet. Silly.
Okay, got it. Before this silliness gets into someones’ nerves, I better end it right here, right now. I’ll just get back soon, when my head clears up.
…..
But wait, before I go, I just can’t let this moment pass by without showing this video clip. It’s not silly. Promise.
Dreaming of bad things?
March 10, 2006
I once shared a certain dream that I happen to remember to a dear friend of mine. I was practically having a good time telling him about it, anticipating that he would be either amused or amazed about the silliness of that dream. Surprisingly, it turned out that his reaction was far from what I expected him to have. His face expressed terror and danger. I was shocked myself. I didn’t expect that a dream like this could scare him off. So, I asked him if something is wrong, and he said it’s my dream. Well, what’s with the dream? I only dreamed about losing all my teeth in broad daylight, just before going to work. And he said that, dreams like that have a very bad meaning.
I have given up being superstitious and all, so I wanted to know if there is a scientific explanation to dreams like this. It turns out that losing one’s teeth is one of the 12 universal dreams. Knowing that people around the world have dreamt of such dream eased me out. Some even had more terrible dreams than that like death dreams. But they have an entirely different meaning in reality according to this source.
Well, a dream is a dream. Let’s just take it that way. Say it as it is.
I would have been an American
Am I just weird or you also share the same feeling?
The political turmoil going on in our country makes me really sick to the bones. I hate it when I see PGMA, the opposition, the rallyist, the soldiers, or the police, being interviewed on TV. As usual, they express opposing views. And as usual, they make things worse.
With all that is happening, I think Phillipines would have been better if it were run by Americans. Our country would have been well-off, just like Hawaii. If our beloved heroes didn’t meddle with the Americans’ governance, there would have been no Filipinos wanting to be Americans. There would have been no Filipinos, in the first place.
Everyone would have been happy as Americans. There is no need to go abroad, and find work in the US anymore. Philippines is a another US state itself; the 52nd, if I’m not mistaken. So, everyone would have been happy.
Am I just being weird or you also share the same feeling?
Are you afraid of chain letters?
March 9, 2006I don’t know why people still believe in this big piece of junk. It really pisses me off everytime I receive a supposed-to-be inspiring message, and find out towards the end, that there is an associated ‘threat’ of damnation, mishaps, or even death of a certain loved one, if I fail to comply this specific demand: Pass this letter to 10 or 20 people in your address book. How disgusting!
I receive these letters at least twice a week. They may take several forms. Some are spiritual in nature. Others are simply encouraging. But all of them point out the same thing - they want me to pass the letters to at least 10 of my contacts.
Sharing encouraging emails to my friends is not what I am against. It is the disgusting ‘threat’ that these letters are constantly stressing out that really gets me mad. And what infuriates me more, is that people actually believe all of these, and so they forward these emails to everyone in their address book.
The emails speak for themselves. These type of emails have long lists of blocks of addresses indicating that these emails have been forwarded many times already before it came to my inbox. Certainly, the people who actually obeyed the letters’ orders probably believed. And most probably, they were also personally threatened.
It’s saddening to note, that despite the huge leaps we have made in understanding the world we are in through scientific breakthroughs and modern technology, still, the human person entertains concepts that stray far from what is rational. And this chain letter thingy, is a huge manifestation of such scenario.
But why do people still believe in chain letters? Perhaps the experts on human behavior can answer that. Or perhaps, you may want to share your own insights.
FEARLESS
March 8, 2006I have just watched Jet Li’s FEARLESS. As always, Jet Li’s fight scenes are nothing but amazing. Whew! Staged in early 1900’s, the story revolves around the significance of Wushu in the Chinese culture, and the remarkable courage and repentance of a Chinese fighter, who brought back the pride of the Chinese race against seemingly insurmountable period of depression and shame.
My take on the movie? It’s simple, but riveting. I’d say you should watch this flick.
Though, I watched the movie because I just wanted to check on the astounding stunts and wirework, I just couldn’t brush off the idea that in certain aspects of my life, I am confronted with situations where my being ‘fearless’ is required. I never thought that a Jet Li film could make me think like this, but I sure am glad that at least, I got something beyond what my eyes wanted to see. Being fearless is never easy, provided, there really is such a totally fearless individual. Even the most courageous, or bravest man in the whole world, must have something that he is scared of, be it concrete or abstract, living or non-living. If that’s the case, ‘nearly fearless’ or ‘ almost fearless’ might be the right terms to use to describe the attitude that I must possess as I am confronted with these life-changing decisions.
As fas as I know, I have just done a ‘nearly fearless’ act just hours ago. At first, it was hard. But, when I got into it, it wasn’t that difficult anymore. I must bear in mind that certain things have to end, in order for other things to begin. And I am glad I have witnessed the realization of such notion through the actions that I just did.
Now, I am looking forward to begin a new chapter of my life. It seems that, a new and fresh page has been prepared for me to write on and continue my life story. The world is waiting for me to write something; and I, myself can’t wait to write my first word, my first line, my first verse on that very page.
A new path is laid down, and the uncertainty of where that path leads to threatens me. However, just like an adventurous traveller, I need to be prepared to face my greatest fears and conquer them. There are so many things to do still, so many hurdles to jump over. If life is this unpredictable, and complicated, I think no one can afford to be totally fearless. It’s life’s fears that make life interesting and worth living after all. c",)
