Mini-Internet Hiatus

I never realized how much I missed on the internet until I went to Jessica Zafra's Site and saw that there were two pages of posts that I haven't read. It's not even helping that my cp~pc net connection is slow--slower-- than usual and I have to squeeze into a net cafe full of hollering teenagers just to get my internet fix.

Haven't played Perfect World in a while too~ I hope my clan doesn't kick me out. Aryashiki~ gambatte ne!! ^ ^

Anyway, since I'm already here...

My Arashi fix~~

Ohno getting whipped~



~So cool, so cool!!



Chibi Sakurai-kun~



Scary Jun, adorable Ohno~



Pic credit goes to MegamaLovesSatoshi, Pnudang, (photobucket)

~~I'll steal more pics next time, and maybe some new news... heh!!

Meet Friday

There are four of us in my family, not counting my mom who God called away years ago and my dad’s children with his mistress. So, there’s my dad, Grrr, me, and our other sister Friday.

Friday lives in Manila, we live in Pampanga. Due to certain similarities in character, my dad and Friday could not live with each other. They like two north poles of magnets, doomed to perpetually push each other away. That’s why Friday is in Manila and not with us. It’s not like we didn’t try but there’s really nothing we can do.

We sent Friday to our aunt’s house in Manila after she pulled a stunt that had added to my countless sleepless nights. But now apparently, she’s done it again. She moved out of our aunt's house to God knows where.

Grrr told me Friday is in some boarding house somewhere near her school. Grrr speaks with Friday all the time, as they’re clanmates (celphone clan… don’t ask me to explain) so I think she’s fine. I suppose I should make sure, except that I already know what Friday is going to tell me—she needs money, which I don’t have and can’t give her.

If only Friday lived with us, it would be easy. Free rent, I split the electric bill with dad, our water bill is almost nothing, and food is easy to get. The only problem is that Dad-Sama and Friday cannot possibly co-exist in one small area. If Friday moved back, only two things may happen (1) they kill each other, or (2) I go nuts-o and poison everyone in the house. Tethering in the precipice of my sanity as I am, I don’t really need anymore aggravation. The problems that I cause on my own are destructive enough.

Selfish, aren’t I? But it’s not like we haven’t tried. Friday went home last Christmas vacation and I almost hung myself from the stairs. That day I wanted to grab a knife from the kitchen and kill everyone and the fear I felt for feeling that way was worse. I don’t need the same feeling again.

Meanwhile, I’m trying to find a way to tell dad. I haven’t told him, he’s kind of sick. So first, I’ll need cash for Friday. So the ‘Back to School’ plans I had have come to nothing. I may need a part-time job.

Happily Ever After (Part 2)

My two Bosses, Atty. Edwin M. Calica and Divina Jane C. Valbuena, were married last May 31, 2008. I didn't get to go, unfortunately, but my dad did and he made this video.



If the video won't play, try this link: Calica-Valbuena Nuptials it'll lead you to YouTube.

My Bosses are very fun people. You won't get bored when you're with them, I assure you. Anyway, I heard they wanted the video uploaded for their relatives abroad or something, so I hope this works.

Congrats Big Boss and Mrs. Big Boss!!

Poor Prince Monogatari

I planned to post my Boss' wedding today but it's taking a loooong time for YouTube to upload the freaking video so now I'm topicless. What have I been doing since last time... I'm currently addicted to Yamada Tarou Monogatari (is the title right?) where Kazunari Nino of Arashi is the lead with Sho Sakurai starring as Yamada's best friend.

The only reason I watched Yamada Tarou is because of Nino and Sakurai. I completely ignored the fact that the cover made it seem that the series is a tear jerker and I don't watch dramas (I tried to watch Gong Yoo's One Fine day and ended up giving myself a headache.) But after the first episode I realized that Yamada Tarou is the Japanese version of Taiwan's Poor Prince, the one with Vic Zhou in it. The only difference between the two is that Yamada Tarou Monogatari is more logical than Poor Prince. He makes you think that even though he's poor at present, with his abilities, he'll someday end up being rich so it really doesn't matter while Vic Zhou's character (for teh life of me I can't remember his name) is just funny. *Picture of yamada tarou cast credit goes to vampyr_tenshiko of Flickr.com

I'm not going to launch into a complete review of Yamada because my head is tired. I'll just say that I liked the series so much my sister Grr is probably mad at me already because I've watched the whole thing probably seven times already.

Arashi is my new favorite band... I don't know if I've already said that already. I like Ohno but I don't think he has a tv series that I could watch so I content myself by watching uploads from YouTube and Crunchyroll. I don't even want to think of his new series Maou (spelling correct?) because I don't know if I'll be able to find a copy here in the Phils. (sigh)

Oh, here's for Maou(?) I love Ohno... and Toma... *found these pictures here: dw9lives Weblog

Aaaaargh!! I have to watch this series!! I have to!! Aaargh!!

Happily Ever After

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...

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.

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...