is it just me or does j.k. rowling just love killing off her characters. especially the ones getting too close to harry. i hate the love teams that formed in this book, and all the snoggling. this will soon be a pg-13 book hehe.

it was a great read, but that long for a sequel doesn't make magic anymore. i hope the next one will come soon. im definitely going to enjoy the movie version of this,


title: harry potter and the half blood prince
author: j.k. rowling

got an aoc lm721a for babs =) i like the minimalistic all black design. im thinking of swapping monitors hehe.

last night was hectic. i met up with 4 guys at around 6pm, 8pm, 10pm and 11:30pm. nah, its not what you think. it wasn't speed dating. i purchased some tech items online and yesterday was the delivery date of four of them. my room mate was saying: "this one looks better than the last", and no she wasn't talking about the gadgets. hahaha! i hope she doesn't get to read this, she'll kill me. literally. hehe.

ma closed a big deal in cebu last night. i hope she meets her targets this year. and i hope we can spend the holidays together.

still on the pochero quest, we had dinner at max's last night. the nilagang baka doesn't quite fit the bill. i will probably go to cebu next month just to satisfy this craving =)

after you've watched the trailer of this movie, you won't be surprised anymore by its plot. i wish film teasers wouldn't divulge the rest of the story, otherwise what is left for us to look forward to?

humans were never really meant to live a simple life. they easily get bored with climate controlled environments where all they do is eat, sleep, exercise and wear white tracksuits and puma shoes. they need to be chased around by helicopters and men with big guns in order to have more meaning in their lives.. more importantly, they prefer black matrix like costumes.


where: Glorietta 1 Cinema 2
when: Thursday, 22 July 2005. 10:10 p.m.

"i wish i could write better, but somehow along my past i have lost all the eloquence i thought i possesed. i can't write a single poem even if my life depended on it... i can't even remember any that i ever wrote...

life is funny, i am funny, and beyond that i know nothing else..

whenever i allow myself to wallow in emotions i just end up hurting myself or others..

and i don't want to hurt you anymore... " - Sunday, March 02, 2003 8:40 PM

slept at 2am today. i reinstalled all the apps and drivers on my sotec afina pc. i bought this three years ago in fukuoka when i was on aots. it still works fine, i just need an antenna to see which channels the tv tuner can receive. good thing ri lent me one today =)

hohum, i really want to get rid of old stuff in my room. i hope i can find a home for this real soon. babsy doesn't want a desktop pc, he prefers something portable like his current laptop. =( i'm going to miss my silver blue setup.

yuck gave me another teddy bear last night, eww! i hate stuffed toys. they are totally useless, they remind me of this one time... ooppss, i want it to stay forgotten. rm -rf *

last night i was craving for cebu's pochero so yuck and i ended up having bulalo at dencio's. it's blech! it doesn't even come close to what i expected. i'll probably just cook my own version when i visit LB again next month.

boohoo i'm still not finished with hp, what with all these distractions called life. hehe

i'm torn between buying the mac mini 1.42 or the powerbook g4. ok, i know, no one's really pressuring me to buy any of those, especially now that the number of electronic items in my room already outnumber the people actually living there. i don't know, maybe i'm just OC in getting all these stuff, they make me happy for a while. then i get tired of them and dispose them just as fast.

i just got my dvi-vga connector and the board tune up came out fine, at last i'll be able to check if the tv tuner on my other cpu is still ok. hmm, that reminds me, i need to purchase an antenna. too bad most of the sockets in the pad are not working because of the burnt fuse, this will limit my *experiments*.

im halfway through HBP, it annoyed me that when i logged on to ym, i saw my friends' status message: "--- is dead, --- the half blood prince killed him". grrr! that ruined it all for me hehe =) oh well, i think rowling is killing off her characters one by one, who could be next?

yuck is coming to treat me out to dinner tonight, i wonder what stories he would tell.

di sent me a copy of her latest poem: ode to the moon, i am without words =)

yes, i am one of them. just got my copy today and i'm still halfway through chapter four so this blog will be abandoned until i finish the book hehe.

went to LB last weekend to visit babsy. his room looks and smells like a tropical jungle, so many things scattered here and there, i wouldn't be surprised if i found a snake under his bed. i could vaguely recall how i survived my room back in college which was twice as disorganized as his. after clearing up the mess formerly called his pad, we visited the rice fields of UP and bought ice cream at the AH dairy store.

i miss college. why did it end all too soon? i didn't even say a proper goodbye.

ysilona posted some nice rhymes on her site, i wish i too could find my pen soon.

is it true that no matter which choices we take, some things are just bound to happen? well that's a comforting thought (i think), at least you wouldn't have to go on and on about what you did wrong or what you could have done. just live the moment, live each day as if it were your last, and let the people who matter to you know how much you care for them. this is the message of this film. "if only she had taken the bus" =p


where: Greenbelt 3 Cinema 5
when: Wednesday, 13 July 2005. 7:20 p.m.

once again, the rest of the nation has taken to the streets to topple a leader. it gets old really. i would been one of them if not for the fact that there is no likely successor who is fit to take the job. so that's what we do really, let the lesser evil reign, it's always the choice between the devil and the deep blue sea. the devil always wins.

i don't think it will be any different a decade from now. we are a crumbling society, we don't even have our own culture. i'm not even speaking in my own tongue. i am doomed. we all are.

in an effort to declutter my desk at home, i disposed my 17 inch crt monitor and bought a viewsonic ve700 instead =) i just had it delivered last night and so far i'm loving its crisp displays when playing nfsu2, gta and sims 2. i also tested it with my dvd collection and it's been doing really well. i love its wide viewing angle, i could almost see myself motivated into studying for the scjp, nyahaha, yeah right =p

on other news, the anti-GMA rallies have converged along ayala avenue again, for the nth time. it looks like a street party everyday. all intersections are blocked and every underpass is closed. when i asked a friend about thoughts on our nation's current political turmoil, i was greeted with this reply: "i'm practicing apathy". i hope the rest of the nation won't turn into stone and be like that.

this is a movie about reluctant heroes.. coming to terms with their new found powers. basically they didn't save the world from any evil conqueror or invading aliens. they saved the world from themselves =)


where: Greenbelt 3 Cinema 1
when: Friday, 8 July 2005. 10:30 p.m.

once upon a time i used to work at the 39th floor of a tall building along paseo de roxas. it was a structured place of security cards and coat and ties. i sat in a room with big windows looking out across ayala avenue. it was my dream workplace.

when i was young i told my mom that someday i would work in one of the tallest buildings in makati, it doesn't matter if i was only a window washer or a satellite cleaner, as long as i could stand up there and look at the rest of the city like little toys in my kuya's lego collection.
my wish came true last year. i was happy for a while. but i doubt if we human beings were really meant to be happy and contented with the little dreams we used to strive for back when we were kids. maybe we are designed to be a little bit discontented with everything. discontentment after all is the forerunner of innovation. yada yada!

anyway, i left my dream three months ago. and not once did i look back. up to now people from up there are calling me to go back, to give it another chance, to make things work. but i don't want to make ends meet anymore. i have to concede, being a window washer is lots of fun, i enjoyed the view, it was good while it lasted. but maybe i'm just not meant to be in high places. perhaps for once, i should put both my feet on the ground.. and stay there.

this rhyme is for the silver bench that still sits on that building's lobby, waiting for more guests to share their stories.

"this silver bench, a solemn thing
of empty promises and broken wings
of tears we cry and joys we sing
and mournful sighs that heart break brings"
04.08.2004.7:03.p.m.

today is my mom's birthday. i wish we could spend the day together as a family but that has become a big impossibility these days. my younger brother is in college at uplb, my older brother is staying with my pop somewhere out there, and i'm here stuck in the city of spires. well, these are the things we do to make things work for all of us. and it's been the best setup for now.

i remember reading about fractured families and throw away society back in college. alvin toffler's future shock said it all: (the family is) "the giant shock absorber of society - the place to which the bruised and battered individual returns after doing battle with the world, the one stable point in an increasingly flux-filled environment”

i hope to have something to come home to someday.

to fill up my weekly dose of buttered popcorn, i had to endure this movie. =) and it was actually fun. the leading man couldn't be anymore perfect - a rich, kind, good looking surgeon, and he's not gay (movie insider joke). what more could you ask for? you can forget reality under your seats in this film..


where: Glorietta 1 Cinema 4
when: Sunday, 3 July 2005. 05:20 p.m.

met up with the newly weds maian and jmox at mylk gb3. they just finished their philippine tour and on the way back to hometown cebu =). we had fun shuffling from powerbooks live to capezio, taking about old friends and moving on in between books and ballet shoes. they looked so happy together.

later that day i had my hair cut. too much happiness is intoxicating hehe.