Monday, July 31, 2006
17:56: unflushable. it's a jeffism i picked up from coupling, one of my favorite shows off the bbc.
Jeff: Steve, you know what I call this type of women? You know, the type you can’t get rid of.
Steve: Is this going to be really tasteless? Am I going to be ashamed to be your friend?
Jeff: (he laughs) There’s a technical term. Just a harmless expression.
Steve: Alright, hit me.
Jeff: Bah, unflushable 'cos they keep bobbing around.
i was with my friends yesterday and we were faced with a situation concerning an unflushable. i had to feel sorry for our friend because i know how difficult it can be to get rid of an unflushable. in fact, i'm trying to get rid of my own unflushable right this very moment. (oh, wow, i just realised that our unflushables have the same nickname! i am seriously allergic to that name.)
i've tried being honest. i've tried being frank. i've tried being cold. this creep does not want to go away. he says he has questions. i should probably be more sympathetic, considering i have unanswered questions of my own.
you got questions? then ask. maybe once i've answered everything, the flush will work.
hmm. there's a thought. closure in flushing.
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Friday, July 28, 2006
16:58: my friend, chez kerr (shaker), needs some help for her midterms. by 20th august, they need 4000 unique hits on their website to get a perfect grade for their midterms. at the moment, they have a little over 3000. so, if it's not too much to ask, have a lookee here. nice site, even if i don't really like the band. =P or my other brother, for that matter. hahah.
wev will be playing tomorrow at 6 underground, but i still don't know if i'll be going. i'm not too comfortable in that place. if jan isn't watching, i'll probably skip it and go to martin's instead.
i've not been myself lately. i've taken to reading some of my sister's old books, stuff i used to read in 6th grade. yikes. what i need is a dose of good old atlantis. but seeing as how that's not gonna happen any time soon, alcohol this weekend might do the trick.
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Monday, July 24, 2006
22:37: there's this text message that's been going around about cadbury bars being pulled off the european market for salmonella. i decided to have a look at bbc (i love the bbc!) and see if there was any truth in it. turns out there is. but the text message says that the products are to be sold in third world countries for cheaper prices. dunno if there's any truth in that. so before we go boycotting cadbury altogether (can you tell that i love chocolate?), have a look at the article here. they list only seven particular candy bars, and only a couple of these are even seen here in our local markets. so, if you want to be cautious, stay away from these seven:
250g dairy milk turkish
dairy milk caramel
dairy milk mint (that sounds yum)
dairy milk 8 chunk
1kg dairy milk bar
105g dairy milk buttons easter egg
freddo bar (wonder what's in the freddo?)
that's all. i still think that 24-hour chocolate delivery is a brilliant idea.
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Sunday, July 23, 2006
03:17: the benefit show didn't have much of an audience. disappointing, really. wev's pretty bummed out by it. pretty good music, though. there were a couple of bands that i hadn't heard of, but liked.
razorback played without tirso. if you're used to the 2-guitar set-up, then you'd have missed him, specially with manuel's style so different from both tirso and dave. but then he had this really sweet solo when they did ikot ng mundo (on an aside, manoy said goodbye to me before he left. *siiiigh* he's still so hot.) i know louie and brian well enough to expect good things from them, and they did not disappoint. oh, louie stripped the frets from his 6-string bass. very nice! the whole set was like an improv jam. and i have to admit, wev was damn good. i haven't heard him since the wolfgang tribute gig and i don't know what the hell he's done since then, but man, i was not expecting him to be that good. he frickin' kicked ass. i mean, they all did, but wev truly surprised me. i remember this one time, years back, when wev was really down because he heard that someone said he was holding the band back. whoever said that, i wish he had been there tonight.
isler, lex, frank and the other ryan (friends from my old job) were all there. it was a huge, very pleasant surprise. funny, too, coz i had just been thinking about isler a couple of days before. i wish my friends could have been there to watch. i think wev wants to do another gig, hopefully a more successful one. it's for family, after all, and a very wonderful one at that.
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Saturday, July 22, 2006
02:25: take away
take away my eyes
sometimes i'd rather be blind
---i'll never cry by alice cooper
on something completely unrelated to the song quote, i wish i could go and watch p.o.t's reunion gig at freedom, but i've promised wev i'd help out at the benefit show tonight. i'll probably have to be there right after my class. that means i'll be dead tired by ... oh, i don't know, after the first band plays.
it's been a pretty weird week. endings and beginnings, mistakes and missed opportunities. i hope next week brings better luck.
plugging time.
what: rock for a cause vol. 22 - 06
where: music museum, greenhills shopping center
when: 22 july 2006, 9pm
who: razorback, drt, mayonnaise, crayola, sunflower day camp, and out of body special
damage: PhP300 per ticket
it's a benefit show for my sister in-law's cousin who was recently diagnosed with cervical spondylosis. cervical spondylosis is a chronic degeneration of the bones (vertebrae) of the neck (cervical spine) and the cushions between the vertebrae (disks). also known as cervical osteoarthritis. if you're interested, call/text 0917*******. you can also get tickets at the venue, but please buy from the people that will be INSIDE the venue (right at the entrance), not from the ticket booth, so that the funds will go to the beneficiary.
what: p.o.t. reunion gig
where: freedom bar, anonas, qc
when: 22 july 2006, dunno what time
who: p.o.t. (with all 4 original members)
damage: er... sorry, don't know
harley has been out of the country for some time now. he's back for a coule of weeks or so, so they wanna have fun. should be great.
what: screamo ii
where: a-venue, scout tuazon (timog), qc
when: 22 july 2006, 8pm
who: saydie, valley of chrome, sultans of snap, arms of the few, peste, tabetha, mothballs, dreadknotz, mahasa, my wounded letters, farplane, little asia, and battlecity
damage: PhP110 w/ 1 beer
as the event's name suggests, this is bound to be noisy. some good bands in there, though.
what: wednesday mid-week riot
where: freedom bar, anonas, qc
when: every wednesday, 9pm-ish
who: pin-up girls, cybelle's robe, tsunami, and mahasa
damage: FREE!!!
freedom bar just re-opened last tuesday. the set-up is better, the place has better lighting now... beers at PhP25 and rice meals at PhP40. expect me to be there every week. if i can. heheh.
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Saturday, July 15, 2006
23:12: my uncle passed away early this morning. which is weird, because a few hours before he died, i actually thought of him and wondered how he was doing. we had been expecting it for some time now. it doesn't really make it any easier, though. i feel terrible for my cousin. for someone so young (just about half a year older than myself), he's had to go through so much. my cousin lost his older brother and only sibling when he was 13, has had to help take care of my aunt who had a stroke and is partially paralyzed, and has now lost his dad to cancer, as well. i honestly don't know what i'd do if i were him. i don't even know what to do to help him right now. i haven't been to the wake. i guess i'll go tomorrow with one or more of my brothers.
on a somewhat lighter note, toonic says that f1 qualifying today was really interesting and that i should watch it. i dunno... i've kind of lost interest in f1, specially now that montoya's gone. i guess it's still worth it to watch, since montoya wasn't really the only driver i cheered for. besides, there's no football to watch and there isn't really anything else on tv that i watch anymore.
kendo today. that instructor is a slave driver. it will be a miracle if i can use my arms at all when i get up tomorrow. honestly, if i had known they used their left so much, i'd have given this much more thought. shoulda stuck to fencing. i'd love to go back to it, actually. but i still think i'd choose gumdo in a heartbeat if only i could find a damn school.
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Tuesday, July 11, 2006
03:03: zidane, you broke my heart.
why, oh why, oh why did you do that? why, on that game, of all games? why, when there was so much at stake? why, when you were 10 minutes away from going into penalties? why, when you know that there was a 95% chance that you would have scored in penalties? and most importantly, why, when you knew it would have been the last move you would ever do on the pitch?
the frickin' world cup finals! the last game of your career!! whyyyyyyyyy???
whether or not france would have won, i was content in knowing that the french drew first blood with zidane's penalty kick. personally, i think that italy needed the win more than the french did, what with all this crap going on and the possible relegations from the serie a. i didn't even mind that trezeguet missed his penalty. i still think he's a good player and was under-used in this world cup. but for my hero to give a solid headbutt like that from out of nowhere... to be sent-off for a nasty headbutt on the last game of your career... *sigh* the public will never forget that. he will be remembered for it the same way maradonna is remembered for his "hand of god" and his drug scandal.
he won the golden ball, though. to me, the headbutt changes little. did his actions merit a red card? yes. i was absolutely appalled and completely dumbfounded by what he did. does that make him any less better as a player? no, it doesn't. some think that he retaliated because he was called a terrorist.
now, really.
on principle, there is absolutely no excuse for headbutting anyone, no matter what they say to you. but personally, calling an algerian a terrorist is really low, and if i were zidane, i'd have slugged the bastard, too.
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Tuesday, July 04, 2006
16:06: kamalasan naman talaga, o. i get assigned to start my regular shift just as the world cup semi-finals and finals are coming up. geddemit. guess i'll have to rely on replays. AND PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD... DON'T TALK TO ME, TEXT ME, OR SEND ME ANY SORT OF MESSAGE WITH GAME RESULTS AND SPOILERS. don't even mention football at all when you're communicating with me in any way, at least not until i get to see the final match.
no one really thought that france would be a serious threat to spain. but they beat them. no one ever expects brazil to lose. but they did (again). france has taken out two of my top three teams. germany has taken out the other. i've got no one left to cheer for, except for portugal.
am i ever going to root for france?
yes and no. i've been secretly cheering for france this whole time, mainly because i just want to keep seeing zidane play. i'll keep cheering for them in secret, because now i don't want to jinx them.
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