[mood] anxious
[opening song title that fits the mood] Cemetery Drive - My Chemical Romance
Some hours from now, the team will be handing over the CD containing the .INDD and .PDF files of our fourth issue.
I’m hoping against hope that we submit it before the “expected time” strikes. I really want to make it to the deadline.
I’m not in the mood to contemplate a dreaded “what if…”
[closing song title that fits the mood] Harder to Breathe – Maroon 5
[status] dizzy
Breathe in for luck,
breathe in so deep,
this air is blessed,
you share with me.
This night is wild,
so calm and dull,
these hearts they race,
from self control.
Your legs are smooth,
as they graze mine,
we’re doing fine,
we’re doing nothing at all.
My hopes are so high, that your kiss might kill me.
So won’t you kill me, so I die happy.
My heart is yours to fill or burst,
to break or bury, or wear as jewelery,
which ever you prefer.
For all people who blog, maintain a MySpace, Friendster, or Multiply, don’t you ever wonder why this thing called virtual socializing clicks?
I did when I stumbled on this post.
I was tagsurfing and found The Politics of MySpace (Or What Social Networks are Really About) by Chartreuse (BETA).
This is a real gem–a short and an insightful entry on virtual socializing.
[mood] tired
[music] Haruka Kanata – Asian Kung Fu Generation
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“At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.”
- Alanis Morissette
________ … continue reading this entry.
[mood] contented
[opening song] Here Comes the Sun – Beatles
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I am still wondering what kind of wind I sniffed in Batangas that December 2005 that had long since changed my body clock. For some reason, I would not be able to sleep unless it’s already 5a.m. The moment I notice the first weak rays of the morning sun creeping in our curtained windows, I’d immediately feel sleepy. What the?
I feel like a vampire.
But then again, I wake up at 8a.m. And vampires surely don’t get up at that hour.
Maybe I’ve turned into a zombie.
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Where’s the evil Maleficent when you need her? I need the spindle!
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[closing song] Afternoon Delight – Starland Vocal Band
[status] not even a wee bit sleepy
[mood] optimistic
[opening music video] I Will Follow You Into the Dark – Death Cab for Cutie
A while ago, my highschool barkada Eric Bautista caught me on YM and asked if I had been busy lately.
Ooh. I had a hard time constructing my sentence then. … continue reading this entry.
At sa aking pagkubli
hampas ng araw pagdamdam ng gabi
tulog ang iyong mga kamay
di nako makapag-antay
Di mo lang alam naiisip kita
Baka sakali lang maisip mo ako
Di mo lang alam hanggang sa gabi
Inaasam makita kang muli
You are a getaway car
– a rush of blood to the head
But me, I’m just the covers
on top of your bed
You steer away in a rear view mirror
– you make my head swim
I keep you warm and won’t ask you
where you’ve been
With your backless black dress
soaked to the skin
When it’s said and done
they’re all scrambling
And we’re friends, yeah we’re friends
Just because we move units
Strike us like matches, cause everyone deserves the flames
My friend Stacey asked if I could help her on how to blog pictures in WordPress. We are both newbies with this blogsite and I’ve also encountered the same thing when I started blogging in WordPress. Then I’ve managed to kill enough time to tinker around with my Dashboard and found out a little about posting photos in WordPress.
First things first
Have a PhoBlog or a Photo Blog. Multiply.com and Flickr.com offers options for photo blogging. I’m not a Multiply user (yet) so I would do a “how to blog an image at WordPress” using Flickr; I’m more familiar with Flickr since that’s the one I’m currently using that for this site.
Step 1. Go to your Dashboard > Presentation > Several Widgets.
Drag the Flickr widget to the list of widgets that will appear on your blog.
Intense is the only adjective that I could think of as I remember Up dharma Down (UdD) perform live last August 5 at Burn Magazine’s mall tour. The event was hosted by Burn Magazine’s Production Coordinator Denise Mallabo and Events Manager of Hinge Inquirer Publications, Juno Limjap.
It was the first time that I saw them on stage and it took a great ounce of effort not to squeal like a rabid fan girl during their performance. Especially when they played Pag-Agos, Oo, Maybe, and Lazy Daisy. If you haven’t heard any of their songs yet (segue: why???), you can listen to them online at Pure Volume. Let’s support Pinoy music and the Pinoy magazine that supports them! Therefore, buy BURN! Hehe. >:)
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Pictures, pictures…
Here’s a quick post! 
I prayed that I would not be sick today, just so I could watch Up dharma Down at Megamall–an event by BURN Magazine, the music mag from Hinge Inquirer Publications. I had a slight fever yesterday and I woke up this morning still feeling a little off. But no, sick or not, I’m off to Megamall to finally hear them perform live. >:) I shall post the lryics of Pag-Agos, Maybe, and Oo soon.
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Hmm. I finally found a name for this character who has been lingering on my mind since summer of last year: Markus. I’ve thought about this story when the office of the company I am working for was still in Cityland Herrera Tower. The walls of our office is painted bright orange. Yes, bright orange. I don’t think I’ve ever managed to nod my head off while working.
After I’ve posted Stella: Version 1.1, Markus’ character grunted at me and poked me with a walking stick, saying it was now his turn. So tomorrow, I’ll be posting another new story: Markus and the Electric Fan Boy.
Prologue preview: Markus is a newly-grad who just got hired at a publishing company as a graphic artist. He’s often silent, speaking only when needed. But when he has something to say–it was brutally honest that people veer away from his serious demeanor. But then he senses something odd about his workplace: he always felt watched–extremely watched–by none other than a vintage electric fan. Seriousness will be a far-fetched notion thereafter.
Note: The post title is not meant to be Tattooed on My Mind (a song title). Yes, I know, bad pun.
Mico’s last comment at my entry The Ghost of You – My Chemical Romance reminded me of my little tattoo story.
My barkada and I went to Intramuros one time when we were still in college. We decided to get henna tattoos on our wrists. I had mine at the right. When I got home, my dad saw it and freaked out. And I, being the obedient and guilt-striken teen that I was, decided to get rid of the henna in the fastest way possible: Scotch Brite.
Yup, Scotch Brite.
I used alcohol first in trying to remove the henna, then soap, then something else–but all to no avail. And then there was the Scotch Brite. It had seemed like a “brite” and sterling idea then to “clean the mess I got into”–so to speak.
So yeah, I Scotch Brite-d the henna tattoo on my wrist the same night I had it.
Yes, it was a big ouch. My wrist was stinging with little needle-prickling-the-skin-like pain–it was as if I scraped my wrist on the cement upon tripping. Ironically, the wound took after a very familiar pattern: that of my former henna tattoo. >:) Hehe.
Moral lesson of the story? Yes, we all do some stupid things sometimes on impulse. In the end, the only good thing about the consequences of the stupidity is that they make good anecdotes (either to remind yourself about the stupidity thus pushing yourself to grow up; or, to warn others of your stupidity).
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Since we’re on the subject, I have seriously considered that if ever I’d have tattoo, the top three spots on my body would be:
(1) where the base of the neck meets the shoulder, right side
Design: the shape of a heart formed by having two cobras face each other (head to head, belly to belly). That, or this one.
(2) along the spine of my back
Design: preferably a skeleton of a thin snake
(3) around my upper arm, like a permanent armlet or around my leg near the ankle, like a permanent anklet
Design: three guesses about the design I have in mind. Heh.
So. Given tattooes any thought lately?
The “god of pens” commented on the introduction video in his journal and said:
I should warn people, very silly, at a level that made me expect to look up and see Graham Chapman in Army uniform cautioning us about how silly it had become. Also funny.
Had a really good laugh. Credits go to Jason Tan, who is one of the editors/animators of the intro video; Camille and Edzel for the dubbing; Lyle for directing and animating parts of the video. Pretty neat!
I heard about the contest a tad bit too late. *Ehem* Okay, I concede. I learned about the graphic/fiction contest some three weeks before the deadline for work submission. But as luck would have it, the contest deadline is this|close to Game! Magazine’s deadline. And in between finishing a long-awaited premier issue and a story-yet-to-be-written-and-drawn, I’d have to choose the former. I have no intention of getting fired for incompetency. Nope. Not yet.
I contented myself, though, with being a part of Fully Booked’s mailing list re contest. Tough competition, I thought, when I saw some 12-paged comic entries for the contest. Apart from the winning entry A Sad, Mad, Incredible But True Adventures of Hika Girl and other entries nominated for the People’s Choice award, I’ve only seen Why I Wake Up Late (which is astig, to put it succintly) and Some Things Are Better Left for Themselves. I intend to check them all.
Grabe. These short-listed comics would have swallowed my entry alive. *gulp*
Oh well.
Will wait for the second round. Must not miss it. And to end this post is another still from the video. Go Super Gaiman! Go!
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