I work in an office of 3. There's my boss, our messenger, and me. Dude, our messenger, has only been in the office for six months. Before him was my boss' girlfriend, lady boss, who was our legal researcher, and before her was my Sempai, The Flash. Lady Boss and The Flash both left for greener pastures but lady boss still has lunch in our office.
Yesterday, Lady Boss told Dude and me to come to the office on Saturday. 'We're eating out' she said. After our boss and LadyBoss left, Dude asked me what was happening on Saturday but we were equally oblivious to the situation. It is not normal for them to be asking us out to eat, 'just because' so that's out of the question. And then Dude forwarded a strange idea, 'Are they getting married?'
I didn't know what to say to this because they weren't really saying anything about it and we certainly didn't know anything about their opinion about the topic. But apparently, they are.
Dude isn't at work today because he was sent to an errand. This afternoon, my Boss suddenly said to a 'customer', I can't buy that today I'm getting married on Saturday. My eyebrows shot in the air but I didn't say anything. What do you say to people who get married? Congratulations? Isn't that word a bit worn out? Hmm...
Anyway, so the wedding and reception is on Saturday. I wonder if something interesting will happen...
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Eye Candies
While I was looking for sites about Ikuta Toma, which are not that many, I sort of stumbled upon a boyband from Japan that had taken more than the usual amount of interest that I care to grant for by bands these days. The name: Arashi.
Honestly, I thought boybands were musically dead. There’s just too much of R&B and Emo music going around for them to squeeze in and the former boybands that I know had already disbanded so imagine my surprise when I found out that Arashi is actually still alive in Japan.
Arashi consists of five members: Satoshi Ohno, Sho Sakurai, Mazaki Aiba, Kazunari Ninomiya, and Matsumoto Jun.
I’m too tired to describe them one by one. I’ll only say that they’re ‘interesting’. Usually when you come across boy bands, all they do is look cute and sing. Arashi, or I think all the boybands in Japan, does that and more… much, much more.
All of them have starred in a lot of movies, tv series, and stage plays. Matsumoto Jun is famous here in the Phils for his portrayal of Domyouji Tsukasa of Hana Yori Dango. Sho Sakurai actually graduated with an Economics Degree from Keio University (an Ivy League University in Japan) and is hosting a news program at night. Kazunari Ninomiya starred in Clint Eastwood’s Letters from Iwo Jima; and their Leader (Riidaa) has recently held an Art exhibit called “Freestyle” featuring his countless sculpted figures, artwork, and photographs.
It’s weird, isn’t it? To have boy band members be that accomplished in their field. Maybe if the Backstreet Boys did more than just look cute they’d still be alive today.
BTW: I like Satoshi Ohno (top left of the pic above) coz he’s weird. If you have new news about him, let me know.
Honestly, I thought boybands were musically dead. There’s just too much of R&B and Emo music going around for them to squeeze in and the former boybands that I know had already disbanded so imagine my surprise when I found out that Arashi is actually still alive in Japan.
Arashi consists of five members: Satoshi Ohno, Sho Sakurai, Mazaki Aiba, Kazunari Ninomiya, and Matsumoto Jun.
I’m too tired to describe them one by one. I’ll only say that they’re ‘interesting’. Usually when you come across boy bands, all they do is look cute and sing. Arashi, or I think all the boybands in Japan, does that and more… much, much more.
All of them have starred in a lot of movies, tv series, and stage plays. Matsumoto Jun is famous here in the Phils for his portrayal of Domyouji Tsukasa of Hana Yori Dango. Sho Sakurai actually graduated with an Economics Degree from Keio University (an Ivy League University in Japan) and is hosting a news program at night. Kazunari Ninomiya starred in Clint Eastwood’s Letters from Iwo Jima; and their Leader (Riidaa) has recently held an Art exhibit called “Freestyle” featuring his countless sculpted figures, artwork, and photographs.
It’s weird, isn’t it? To have boy band members be that accomplished in their field. Maybe if the Backstreet Boys did more than just look cute they’d still be alive today.
BTW: I like Satoshi Ohno (top left of the pic above) coz he’s weird. If you have new news about him, let me know.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Meet Yukina
None of my family can drive including me; we can’t afford gas, we hardly have enough money to buy rice (barring NFA rice, the lowest price is at around P35 per kilo) but for some strange reason my dad suddenly had an urge to buy me a car (My dad had one of the neighbors test drive it before he bought it.)
I name almost everything I own so Grrr and I named the car Yukina, after the ice princess, Hiei’s sister, in Yu Yu Hakusho. It looks like a boy but because of the color and I think the rule is that every vehicle is naturally female we gave it a girl name.
Anyway, I can’t drive it and for days I have failed to find anyone who could teach me to drive and I’m afraid to learn by myself because our street isn’t exactly wide and I would most likely crash. So there it sits in front of our house like a dead carabao gathering flies. My dad treats it like a toy. He gets people to drive it for him to wherever he wants to go.
Last night though was different. Being Labor Day and having nothing to do Grrr and I went to the computer shop so Grrr could go internet surfing and so I could play Perfect World (Hello to Dragon’s Aryashiki Clan) and then we went to the mall because we didn’t want to go home. When I got back, the car was about five houses down parked in front of a neighbor’s house.
I didn’t mind it and I didn’t say anything when dad came home and the car was still there because I could still see it from the house. At about 11:00 or 12:00 in the evening I heard the car revving from the outside. I opened the door and I saw some dude driving it to and fro in front of the house. I could hear the car start and then stop and then start and then stop and some crunching sounds so it was either the driver was dead drunk or he doesn’t know how to drive. I hate drunks; it’s a trauma from my childhood; so I stayed inside the house and said nothing.
This morning when I got out of the house the crushed part of Yukina’s rear bumper greeted me. The light at the right (or is it left?) hand side was partly broken and the bumper below it was slightly crushed. I didn’t have the time to inspect Yukina because I was late but my dad said the front bumper had fallen down as well as the right side mirror and the right side was also crushed.
Apparently one of the drunken drunks outside had a brain blast deep into the night, ‘Hey! Why don’t we take the car to a beer house?’ So they took it into a beer house and promptly crashed into some resort’s flower box on the way back.
I was irritated when I saw the rear bumper but now I’m angry. This has been one of the most infuriatingly surreal weeks I’ve ever had and the last thing I need is a damaged property. I haven’t even sat inside the freaking car let alone drive it and it’s already damaged. It’s partly my dad’s fault he gave the dude the keys to the car but if he knew he was drunk why did he have to drive it? Why couldn’t he have just left it there?
Last week one of the stupid neighbors wanted to borrow it for his business. I think he wanted to load some stuff in it and use it a service car. What the hell is with my neighbors?
So now Yukina’s wounded. It’s bad enough that she doesn’t get to go anywhere, now she’s got scratches on her everywhere. My car’s social life is getting to be as horrible as mine.
Will put Yukina's pictures some other time...
I name almost everything I own so Grrr and I named the car Yukina, after the ice princess, Hiei’s sister, in Yu Yu Hakusho. It looks like a boy but because of the color and I think the rule is that every vehicle is naturally female we gave it a girl name.
Anyway, I can’t drive it and for days I have failed to find anyone who could teach me to drive and I’m afraid to learn by myself because our street isn’t exactly wide and I would most likely crash. So there it sits in front of our house like a dead carabao gathering flies. My dad treats it like a toy. He gets people to drive it for him to wherever he wants to go.
Last night though was different. Being Labor Day and having nothing to do Grrr and I went to the computer shop so Grrr could go internet surfing and so I could play Perfect World (Hello to Dragon’s Aryashiki Clan) and then we went to the mall because we didn’t want to go home. When I got back, the car was about five houses down parked in front of a neighbor’s house.
I didn’t mind it and I didn’t say anything when dad came home and the car was still there because I could still see it from the house. At about 11:00 or 12:00 in the evening I heard the car revving from the outside. I opened the door and I saw some dude driving it to and fro in front of the house. I could hear the car start and then stop and then start and then stop and some crunching sounds so it was either the driver was dead drunk or he doesn’t know how to drive. I hate drunks; it’s a trauma from my childhood; so I stayed inside the house and said nothing.
This morning when I got out of the house the crushed part of Yukina’s rear bumper greeted me. The light at the right (or is it left?) hand side was partly broken and the bumper below it was slightly crushed. I didn’t have the time to inspect Yukina because I was late but my dad said the front bumper had fallen down as well as the right side mirror and the right side was also crushed.
Apparently one of the drunken drunks outside had a brain blast deep into the night, ‘Hey! Why don’t we take the car to a beer house?’ So they took it into a beer house and promptly crashed into some resort’s flower box on the way back.
I was irritated when I saw the rear bumper but now I’m angry. This has been one of the most infuriatingly surreal weeks I’ve ever had and the last thing I need is a damaged property. I haven’t even sat inside the freaking car let alone drive it and it’s already damaged. It’s partly my dad’s fault he gave the dude the keys to the car but if he knew he was drunk why did he have to drive it? Why couldn’t he have just left it there?
Last week one of the stupid neighbors wanted to borrow it for his business. I think he wanted to load some stuff in it and use it a service car. What the hell is with my neighbors?
So now Yukina’s wounded. It’s bad enough that she doesn’t get to go anywhere, now she’s got scratches on her everywhere. My car’s social life is getting to be as horrible as mine.
Will put Yukina's pictures some other time...
Monday, April 21, 2008
Merging Genders
My addiction to television series', be it cartoons or real live humans, started with Meteor Garden and my aunt's DVD copy of the series. TV series, reduces life matters into the simplest things, and as I am constantly being thrown in the middle of complex issues of life and such, I welcome the addiction with arms wide open. I don't watch tagalog tv series. Sorry for being "unpatrionistic" but I'm surrounded by Filipinos everyday seeing them in television when I want to rest is just a bit too much. Besides, most series from this country are Drama, if I want to cry I would only need to contemplate the direction of my life.
Anyway, I've noticed that lately there've been a number of series' (cartoons and live humans) with girls pretending to be boys. One is Korea's "Coffee Prince" where a girl, Go Eun Chan (Yoon Eun Hye), pretended to be a boy to get a job and ended up seducing and falling in love with her boss, Choi Han Kyul (Gong Yoo who is currently serving his two year mandatory military service).The "girl getting away with pretending to be a boy" concept was a hit in Korea and also here in the Phils which is probably the reason why there's another one of them being aired on Primetime TV: "Hanazakari no Kimitachi e" of Japan and "Hana Kimi" of Taiwan (sorry, not sure whether the Taiwanese title really is "Hana Kimi").
I haven't watched the Taiwanese
version but I was hooked on "Hanazakari no Kimitachi e," which is based on a Manga called Hana Kimi, mainly because the guy playing Nakatsu Shuichi (Ikuta Toma) is cute. Horikita Maki plays the lead Ashiya Mizuki, a girl who went to an all boys school just to see her crush Sano Izumi played by Oguri Shun. Ikuta Toma plays the Nakatsu Shuichi, the dude who also fell for Ashiya even though he knew she was a boy. If you've watched Hanayori Dango Season 2 (Episode 1), you'll remember him playing Oribe Junpei, the guy who used Makino Tsukushi to get to Doumyouji Tsukasa. The series is slightly different from the Manga but it was 'cute' as well.
I haven't watched the Taiwanese
version but I was hooked on "Hanazakari no Kimitachi e," which is based on a Manga called Hana Kimi, mainly because the guy playing Nakatsu Shuichi (Ikuta Toma) is cute. Horikita Maki plays the lead Ashiya Mizuki, a girl who went to an all boys school just to see her crush Sano Izumi played by Oguri Shun. Ikuta Toma plays the Nakatsu Shuichi, the dude who also fell for Ashiya even though he knew she was a boy. If you've watched Hanayori Dango Season 2 (Episode 1), you'll remember him playing Oribe Junpei, the guy who used Makino Tsukushi to get to Doumyouji Tsukasa. The series is slightly different from the Manga but it was 'cute' as well.What is it with these stories with girls pretending to be boys? Does this have anything to do with the number of gay people coming out of the closet? I mean, technically, these boys who fall in love with the girl who is only "pretending" to be a boy is gay right?. But then again, maybe it's can serve us more than just entertainment. Years ago, if shows like these turned up it probably wouldn't be this much of a hit but now that people are finally accepting gays... maybe it'll help more people adjust to the fact that gays are a part of our society too.
Anyway, as long as they're making show like this here's another one with a girl pretending to be a boy: the cartoon series Ouran Academy by Bisco Hatori. Haruhi Fujioka was mistaken for a boy when she entered the school's "Host Club." She accidentally knocks over an 8 million yen worth vase and was immediately put to work as their 'errand boy' by the Host club president or "King," Tamaki (sorry, I forgot his full name). When Tamaki found out that Haruhi actually looked good under her messy hair, he promotes her to host. Her real gender was eventually found out by the whole club but because of her debt, she stayed as a host and hid her gender from the customers and the rest of the school. I bet this one will be a hit too. Producers, what do you say?** pic for Hanazakari no Kimitachi e was from http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa228/scizor_star/HanazakarinoKimitachie.jpg
**pic for Coffee Prince was from
http://www.coffee-prince.com/** pic for Ouran High was from
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Meet GRRR
I don’t get celphone clans. I think the concept is that you you’re your own chatroom and sign all your friends in it so that when you send a message to one person, everyone receives it and has the chance to respond. My sister, Grrr (when she's mad she literally says "GRRR"), is addicted to it. She said her clanmates are working together in some company or something in Makati so when one of them calls her she can hear the others in the background. My other sister, Friday, is also in her clan. So they speak to each other frequently.Grrr’s last clan broke up because of her. She had apparently triggered a fight between the members and they ended up abolishing the thing all together. Her new clan is with the ones who sided with her in her argument. Now Grrr stays up until four in the morning talking to her clan. What do they talk about? Nothing really or at least I don’t really hear them talking about anything that’s worth discussing. It’s more like they’re all flirting with each other on the celphone; like having tons of textmates all at once. It’s so adolescent.
Grrr wants me to switch to suncel so I could join them. I would be receiving text messages from her clanmates on a regular basis… and then what? At least give me a goal, like a free celphone if I send out one thousand text messages. Give me that and even if I have to squeeze my brain for something to say to these people I don’t give a bleep to, I’ll participate.
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You are now reading the work of a proud owner of a brand new Student Driver’s License! Tat-ta-dada!!
I got it two days ago after falling in line and waiting for my name to be broadcasted repeatedly world wide in humongous speakers for three hours. I would’ve applied for a license but I think you need a student’s license first before you get a real license then there’s that one month waiting for you to get a Non-Professional Driver’s License.
Now, do I know how to drive? No. Do I own a car? No. Then why in the hell would I apply for a driver’s license?! Well, that is a very good question and someday I will get to answer it but right now I still have to wait 28 days before I get a real License and the clock is ticking very slowly.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Late news...
I had a look at the PW site. So the 'banning' of Accounts is actually caused by 'technical difficulties'. The Account Advisory was dated yesterday, March 31, 2008 so that means my account is safe from being suspended?
Where is everybody?
I had a hard time logging into 'Perfect World' yesterday. Apparently, the new server ‘Serpent’ is up and patches need to be updated. Unfortunately, the computers I was using won’t update properly so it took almost an hour before I could log in.
Oh, to Filipino non-geeks out there, ‘Perfect World’ is an MMORPG (Massive Multi-Player Online Role Playing Game) by Level Up Games (Philippines). I used to play Ragnarok but it costs too much and the graphics for Perfect World is nice. There were two Servers (now three including the new Serpent): Dragon and Tiger. I used to play Tiger but GIR had one character in Dragon and she gave it to me now I use that one. If you ever get to play in Dragon, look me up “Ootoro” is my handle.
Anyway, when I finally got to log into the Dragon server almost no one was there (most had moved to Serpent) and those who were there were ‘loud-speaking’ themselves hoarse, complaining about the GM’s banning their characters from entering PW without any apparent reason.
There have been a lot of complaints with PW especially about the events and I never paid no-never mind to it but the ‘banning’ issue sort of concerned me. PW is my new therapy, the reason why I haven’t been suicidal for more than a month now, and if I get banned for no apparent reason (not that I’m doing anything illegal in PW) what’ll I do? What’s going to be my new therapist?
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On the lighter note…
I ran into my Sempai, The Flash, this morning. The Flash used to be my topic in my previous blog, the one I erased before I started this one. I know him like the back of my hand but this morning I noticed something I know should’ve noticed before… his ears sort of stick out from his head.
Oh, to Filipino non-geeks out there, ‘Perfect World’ is an MMORPG (Massive Multi-Player Online Role Playing Game) by Level Up Games (Philippines). I used to play Ragnarok but it costs too much and the graphics for Perfect World is nice. There were two Servers (now three including the new Serpent): Dragon and Tiger. I used to play Tiger but GIR had one character in Dragon and she gave it to me now I use that one. If you ever get to play in Dragon, look me up “Ootoro” is my handle.
Anyway, when I finally got to log into the Dragon server almost no one was there (most had moved to Serpent) and those who were there were ‘loud-speaking’ themselves hoarse, complaining about the GM’s banning their characters from entering PW without any apparent reason.
There have been a lot of complaints with PW especially about the events and I never paid no-never mind to it but the ‘banning’ issue sort of concerned me. PW is my new therapy, the reason why I haven’t been suicidal for more than a month now, and if I get banned for no apparent reason (not that I’m doing anything illegal in PW) what’ll I do? What’s going to be my new therapist?
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On the lighter note…
I ran into my Sempai, The Flash, this morning. The Flash used to be my topic in my previous blog, the one I erased before I started this one. I know him like the back of my hand but this morning I noticed something I know should’ve noticed before… his ears sort of stick out from his head.
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