hello 2010! >XD

just got back from a drinking/videoke session with the neighbors. IN FACT, it's the first time in the 10 years we stayed here, that i celebrated with people other than my family, and it's also the first time in 10 years that i held fireworks. ever since we transferred here, uhh 10 years ago, we never bought fireworks for new year. just food, yeah and the awesome view at our rooftop. the fireworks are definitely more awesome upclose. i was damn stupefied when they handed me lusis, like... "uhhm, which part do i light? and what happens when i do so? uhh, and what do you call this again? sorry."  

but right now, our new neighbor (uhm, like 1 year) is really a fun pack. they have loads of fireworks, and an an awesome videoke system loaded with recent songs. the coolness. hehehe

it also feels weird that my cellphone's display date now reads 1/1/10 (in binary that's 14, lol sorry can't help it). it feels like i reset my phone cos everytime i do, the date reverts to 1/1/00 (in binary, 12, sorry again) so yeah, pretty nostalgic. whatever haha.

december 31 was a busy busy day. our maid went on vacation so i'm left to tend to the entire house, i cooked and cleaned and blah blah blah, good thing dinner isn't a big hassle to me cos right before i could chop the garlic for the spaghetti sauce, our neighbor chimed in and delivered a plateful of spaghetti! yehey! saved! >XD hours later they bought us kare-kare naman! and earlier this morning, our other neighbor gave us lots of vegetables! a kilo of mustasa, a string of pechay, loads of talong... i almost thought mom asked them to go to the wet market for her. and mustasa thrills me cos whenever there's a pack of it, there always has to be burong mustasa. so i made one, and was delighted and at the same time anxious for 1 week to pass. it needs to ferment, yep. >8D i love to cook, but sometimes i'm too lazy. but weirdly this day, i was quiet enthusiastic with the household. oooooh, '10 vibes?

maybe the only thing that sucks is that my cellphone balance reads 0.46 so i couldn't send a single message to my beloved friends, then again, i thank facebook for being here. >:D

tomorrow HAS TO BE A GREAT DAY. my sister has free movie passes enough for the family so i'm really excited!

my wrist watch stopped working haha after 1 year and a lot of strap changes. i need a new one, and something's telling me that a BINARY WATCH would be the most awesome replacement for it, but it's too expensive. =___=;

anyway, it's 3am. must sleep now! goodnight and Happy New Year Guys! >XD

congrats kuya michael && ate myla!! >XD

it's my cousin's wedding today yeheeey! congrats kuya michael! welcome to the family ate myla. both of them look so stunning that it sucks cos i don't have a decent picture of them. grr, my dad is such a candid freak, he wants everyone's unguarded moments to laugh at in the future hahaha.

i caught the bouquet (my freaking second time, now i have 2 garters in my drawer haha)! it was probably the dumbest moment of my life, when i was looking so careless and unassuming, that the bouquet found its way on my hands. LOL my cousin recorded it on video so you could see how it fatefully rejected everyone at first, then just flew right at me, i was even shocked. i never thought it was funny until i watched the video. wahahaha!

i also caught the bouquet on the last wedding i attended. and it was sheer luck, just a matter of pulling the right string where the bride's bouquet is tied to. hahaha

let's try lotto wahahaha

wahahaha it my first time to participate in a wedding ceremony, as cord sponsor. yehey! >XD hahahha

everyone's got one, and i don't. why is superstition so depressing? hahaha i could only think that catching a bouquet means you're bound to catch next one... and the next one, and never be able to throw one yourself. HAHAHA

whew!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARTHA && CARLA!!!! >XD

today was both fun and exhausting LOL, my first time to host a house party. sobrang nakaka haggard pala yon? HAHAHA we're supposed to hold it at KA's house pero may party pala sila ngayon so we had to look for a different place, i offered mine... mostly to save money and to put up for not being able to host 2 years ago cos i was confined in the hospital hehehehe.

it's really really amazing to be with my friends. my highschool friends. my ever legitimate and original barkada. it stays that way right? highschool friends are the most solid people you'll ever get in your entire life. nothing could ever replace that awwwwww.

AND MY BED BROKE. hahaha ang bigat ba natin??? haha japanese style nanaman ako ulit! well i actually prefer no bed cos the underside gets dusty and it's hard to sweep wahahaha.

ok, it's 1:30am. i'm dead tired and i have to sleep well because i'll be attending a wedding tomorrow, in 9 hours. i forgot to fast for it, deeeym. =____=; i need a push-up strapless bra, a binder and a girdle to create an illusion that i'm thinner that i actually am. whew. hard task. :)

i love BTS.

quantum pendant faaaaiiil.

LOL it's not too bad, it's just that i didn't feel particularly stronger when i was doing my workout awhile ago at the gym. and i did try the weights (i quit doing weights for a month now cos i'm afraid of becoming too muscular LOL i just need to slim down, and tone a bit but not too much muscles please T_T) and uhm... it's still the same. i can't get past 15lbs in any of the machines in there. haha anyway, at least i did more in the gym today than i usually do! i walked at the treadmill, did weights, and had sauna. usually it's just the treadmil and the sauna. hahaha aaah yes, and coffee!

^ was supposed to publish that yesterday but the connection died on me hehe.

so today: went to celebrate mika's birthday at banapple katipunan! hehehehe yummy yummy pancakes but daaamn they're too big @_@ wasn't able to finish all 3 of them hahaha XD

rode the taxi til tandang sora... no jeepneys... faaaaiiiil. that's 70 pesos! haha

oks! now i shall wait for my friends to arrive! were holding the barkada christmas party here at home!! yeheeey i ♥ BTS.

// there's still hope for me to become a registered voter! haha til the 31st i guess? ok. will research now. k bye! >XD

the quantum pendant and that freakin scalar energy thing, bogus or what?

after church we did a bit of shopping (not really) then went to commonwealth market to buy a sack of rice. mom called me for this demo thing she wants me to witness. mr demo-er is demonstrating how his product works! cool huh? like, duh? and his product is something like an anting-anting or an agimat --stuff ramon revilla passes on as heirlooms to his children and grandchildren-- only, it's backed up with quite a scientific research and various experimentations. the cost, 9000 pesos.

so the the product is called Quantum Pendant (yes, you can click on it, it's not advertised text) and it claims to energize you (give you super strength!) and reduce health risks using Scalar Energy Field (SEF). well, SEF, as it is now is not a even a fact and many people (well, intelligent sounding forum users) are contesting its being a theory. it claims to get energy from NOTHING, so we're kind of dealing with extreme physical impossibilities here (actually when i read that, i felt oddly stupid. so many fckn scientific jargons i could only think is meant to confuse me and make the article sound smart and credulous), though researches are (probably) ongoing.... but as far as my googling took me, i never read anything saying it has been proven... which sucks because my parents already bought two of them. that's a depressing 18,000 for something that is based on unproven Science. i'm not skeptic about the SEF part (in fact, i am supportive of it -- the people behind this are our modern Einsteins and Newtons), but i am about the pendant producing SEF.

anyway. mr. demo-er says the pendant gives you extra strength, i believed him easily because he had me on this 'body balance test' and i failed miserably, but when i held thy-mightly-SEF-powered-pendant, he wasn't able to topple my balance at all! that amazed me, thought i could use it to show off at the gym LOL.

until i read about Placebo Effect just now (using search strings 'quantum pendant scam')... you know, asking someone with a headache to drink this tablet saying it can cure all sorts of head problems haha, then the sick person expectedly gets fine afterwards and thanks you for it. then you tell him the truth, that the tablet is just a piece of candy. hehehe and the now-fine person gets sicker thinking how stupid he is to fall for such a psych trick. yessss, that's the freakin Placebo Effect. it's all in the brain. in the brain. in the mighty brain. you can even convince yourself that you're decapitated just by concentrating on it (though what's the point?), yeah, but that's a different story hahahaha

and so, i'm left with a huge amount of disbelief, but i'm not completely losing faith in it because the whole Scalar Energy research thing is entirely new and interesting to me (i read something about time and space warp, so that tickled a geek nerve in me), so might as well be assertive about it. so far, my short google trips didn't give me anything concrete. some people say it's real, some don't

i think...


it's expensive.
damn expensive for a piece of cooled-down lava from some Japanese volcano.

any suggestions on this is greatly appreciated. i like how the pendant looks, it looks...uhm, tribal and very agimat-ish. and it also gives me hope, though it could be a false one, that i could be stronger. i mean, as long as i strongly and firmly believe in that, i could hold on to any piece of odd looking jewelry and be as strong right?

when it comes down to it, it's all in the mind.
as long as SEF has not been proven yet, the pendant is just an object you put your faith into. kind of like religion, yes.

and so we were sold an occult item for 9000 each. one for my mom, one for my dad, hey that's 18 freakin thousand pesos. should i use the placebo effect to calm me down?
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no quantum pendants nor scalar energy junk needed: 5 Superpowers You Didn't Know Your Body Was Hiding From You

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i promise to finish The Graveyard Book before tuesday which is Mika's birthday, because i feel guilty not being able to give time to read it! i figured that in a week, if i actually spent my facebook hours reading instead, i'd be able to finish 2 books. which is sad because, as much as i love books, it's hardly ever as addictive as facebook. and i'm maarte when i read, i want to be in a really comfortable position with instrumental music in the background. in this house, i can only read peacefully on one specific couch, and that couch is on the basement so nevermind. i'll convince mom to transfer it to my room wahaha. ang arte!

i'm thinking of ways to cut off on expenses without missing out on barkada activities. you always need money for that, money for fare (the tricycle sucks up most of my fare budget) or for dinner outside. which is why i think it's better to just spend it at someone's place than go malling for movies, food and arcade. same fun for a lesser cost. LOL and it's 2010 already! i need to get serious with saving.

oh, i was typing a paragraph about how i'm confused with the YEAR you enter when you input your college, cos basically there are two significant Years in your college life, the year you entered, and the year you graduated. so which is which?

uhm, and while typing that i also came into a conclusion. when you're asked for Class Year (like in facebook), you're asked for the year you graduated. when you're asked for batch, it's the year you entered. i mean, Class of 2010 means the batch of people graduating on 2010. Batch 2006 is the batch of students who entered on 2006. then again it could mean the same thing. i'm confused again. but i see Class as the graduating year more often so i guess i have to stick with my conclusion... or hypothesis since i'm still unsure. so what if i come across an input field that asks for just YEAR (not Class Year, not Batch)? damn, i'll keep it blank.

right, in real life or when you're finally out of school, who cares on when you entered college? class year is more significant right? you only need your batch year to meet old friends.

lol, why do trivial things sap my braincells out?

I Love You, Goodbye - Juris

Wish I could be the one
The one who could give you love
The kind of love you really need
Wish I could say to you
That I’ll always stay with you
But baby that’s not me

You need someone willing to give their heart and soul to you
Promise you forever, baby that’s something I can’t do
Oh I could say that I’ll be all you need
But that would be a lie
I know I’d only hurt you
I know I’d only make you cry
I’m not the one you’re needing
I love you, goodbye

I hope someday you can
Find some way to understand I’m only doing this for you
I don’t really wanna go
But deep in my heart I know this is the kindest thing to do
You’ll need someone who’ll be the one that I could never be
Who’ll give you something better
Than the love you’ll find with me
Oh I could say that I’ll be all you need
But that would be a crime
I know I’d only hurt you
I know I’d only make you cry
I’m not the one you’re needing
I love you, goodbye

Leaving someone when you love someone
Is the hardest thing to do
When you love someone as much as I love you
Oh I don’t wanna leave you
Baby it tears me up inside
But I’ll never be the one you’re needing
I love you, goodbye
Baby, its never gonna work out
I love you, goodbye
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saddest OPM lyrics i've ever heard so far. >:"(