Life is... Stranger than Fiction

If Will Ferrell gets nominated for an Oscar......eh.

Read some article he's good. I'm waiting for the movie to be shown. There seems to be Oscar buzz for comedian Will Ferrell for his role as the IRS man who is the subject of novelist trying to complete her book and narrating and he hears her voice which affects his life, work, love and yes, even death. It's comedy but serious comedy.

Jim Carrey probably mumbling. Hmm, I should've had that role. Hah.

Stranger than Fiction

For your political fantasies...

How about joining Fantasy Congress. A web site created by four students at Claremont McKenna College in Southern California. Now think of it as the fantasy football or baseball of the politicians and the whole congress. Read more from NYTimes article

And in the words of it's Website owner, Andrew Lee ... “Everyone knows about football, but more people need to know about Congress,” Mr. Lee said. “If as many people knew about Congress as knew about football, baseball and basketball, we’d all be more educated.”

Okay. Amen to that. Oh hey, I'm thinking maybe I should start something like that here. Heh.

In another blog blahs... browsing to tech page of the times and hihihi to one of the headlines We're Google. So sue us. Great title. Uh huh, they are Google indeed. Big company! Internet giant is facing plenty of legal battles most issues of copyrighted materials. They are the "government of internet" as one said. It'll be very hard to fight them and win a lawsuit.

Friday, I am skint

I hate Mondays and Tuesdays sucks and Wednesday was crap while Thursday was long uncertain blah blah day. And now Friday, I am skint.

You know, for somebody who's got what it takes.....I'm nothing.

Here's hoping the rest of the weekend will bring forth something good.

Rumors abound through cell technology!

So I was recipient of a forwarded text message about a supposed bombings that will simultaneously happen this weekend in a mall has prompted the military to be on heightenwd alert. The text still spreading like wildfires and seems everybody has been getting the same sms. Well at least this is not like Iraq or Afghanistan. No bombings here in the Metro.

Let's have some food porn

This girl is hungry! I'm craving for some broccoli(sp) cheese soup. I want to devour delicious swiss mocha cake (white frosting..yum!), taste a cup of choco cookie mint ice cream. A half a serving of chicken barbeque salad (that's from CPK), couple of shrimp dumplings, and katsudon, gindara with butter sauce. Oooh lalala!Yummness! Am I hungry or what, huh? Hehe. I'll probably look bloated after eating all that! Yayness! Haha! Oh but it's just all in the mind..the food. I think I'll just have some strawberry pocky sticks!

And models looks like stick figures! heh!and I'm neither! Wahehehe :)

Religious discrimination at work

An employee is suing British Airways for religious discrimination and suspending her just because they said she violated dress code by wearing necklace with christian cross! Damn! who the hell makes the rules at British Airways? Corporate fucktards, apparently! So what if she's wearing necklace or chain or whatever with crucifix symbol? That is not a damn crime! what gives? I don't think it's wrong to display such things of faithness. C'mon it's only necklace with cross for crying out loud! What a discrimination!

Here in my country almost everyone brings a rosary, wear's a scupular, has cross necklace and other symbols of their faith and religion and it's perfectly fine at the workplace. Of course here 70 percent are Catholics (and the rest are Muslims and of other religious sect).

You can bet your damn life if such a thing happened here like being suspended(at work, or shool or anything) for wearing symbols of faith, the Catholics will revolt!

Fashion press at the White House garden

President Bush complimented Kevin Corke' s suit.

"If I might say, that is a beautiful suit," he told NBC News correspondent Kevin Corke at yesterday's news conference in the Rose Garden. "My tailor appreciates that," replied Corke, wearing a $1,500 custom pinstripe number by Tom James with bright-red tie and pocket square. (Washington Post)

How insane! $1500 for a suit? For a correspondent? My goodness, that's like 55,000 pesos! That could be the earnings of our reporters/journalists even soldiers, policemen for a whole year. Maybe half (I guess, if they have sidejobs. Heh) but really, I find it to be too much. I mean of course one needs to dress nicely and be presentable but really.... c'mon! Uhm okay, if it's freebie or paid by the company, well, how lucky to get suited up fashionably. Hah.

Okay.. so the whole article actually is all about Bush making small talk because news is not so great especially for the republicans (being mid term elections and all) and other foreign policy matters. But hey even with small fashion talk, he can't get way with reporters questions.

Mulling GoogleTube and condemning North Korea

GoogleTube? Haha.

You knew it was only a matter time before big company buys one of the web's rising star for the moment. Of course if you're still clueless, Google bought Youtube. Geez, what will happen next they're gonna put videos and incorporate that here in blogger (Google owns Blogger) oh puhleeze! Nah ah! No fucking way! I'm getting enough dose of crap from my idiot box offline so I hope they don't put video thingy here. Ugh!

Gosh, these deals are everywhere. First, Myspace bought by Murdoch, then Flickr bought by Yahoo. I wonder what's the next hottest aquisition. Hah!

And now for some concerned piece of what's happening in the world...

North fucking Korea condemned and rightly so for testing yet again their nuclear weapons shit. They tested long range missiles. That is damn scary! Why? Because damn, we're talking testing of nuclear arsenals of that communist reclusive country! The Phils is nearby you know. God, the weapons of mass destructions probably and most likely in North fucked up Korea. Scary!

Blah. It's early morning and guess what? I'm hungry.

Does Windows still matter?

According to this Is Windows still relevant article, yes, Windows still does matter.

Looks like "yesterday's product" still has a few more tomorrows left. The reality is that Windows remains as important as ever. Web-based AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) applications may be the tech world's future, but there's a long transition between now and then.

That to their arch rivals and nemesis, Windows make or break their products. In the long ago years since windows became synonymous with our computer life, we feel lost without it guiding our path to geeky techlife. But with the web 2.0-Flickr-Youtube-Google-iMac- iTunes-Myspace age we live in, of course new technology will certainly overrun the old one and will likely slam the doors to the ageing ones. Like Windows.

Years has passed. Past is not the present anymore, and with Microsoft having had to endure gazillions of viruses, many antitrust and monopoly and other strings business malpractice and course court hearings and so on, generation web 2.0 people probably could care less about the Windows of their geeky life! But to the older ones ( hehe..moi?), Windows still is has the drive-hard and soft- and the Vista to change and compete and still there to lead the rest of the generation to a happier social networking geeky fashion tech life.

Cassettes has come and gone, the Atari has been replaced by sophisticated and expensive consoles (and companies trying to outdo each other is only upping up the competition), IBM now with Lenovo China, and guess what Windows still around. They better improve and make it more appealing to the new geekazoids and old (still loyal, I guess) consumers who still has faith with Windows.

He said, she said

In an exclusive interview, Lance Corporal Daniel Smith, 21, from Thibodaux, Louisiana, told GMA News that he was confident the Philippine court handling the case would acquit him and three other Marines of the rape charges. "Even if there was an attempt to settle, I wouldn't want to because this is my life here and I'm being accused of what I feel is the worst thing anybody can be accused of," he said. Click the link above if you want t see the video.

For the complainant's part, click this link

And as he speaks, new batches of US servicemen just arrived from...I forgot (Japan probably). They're now in Subic for a military exercise. There's more coming. R and R for these servicemen are not allowed most likely due to what happened last year. Eh, the Subic rape case scandal, as it ends. The court's decision and verdict next month. I think.

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Silent water runs deep with treatment from the damned

It's raining here and the mood elevates my nonsense thinking to a new low. I feel neurotically fucked up! But I don't give a flying fuck. Because for fuck's sake I don't even fucking think. I maybe numb but I'm not dumb. Haha. The problem with me... if it doesn't matter then I wouldn't think about it so much. Fool! Skyefool! more like Skyeflakes! Oh crap! Dyslexia of confusion! I sigh.

Damn. Life is weird. I am vaguely weirder. Slightly bordering on the illusions of grandeur desire. Skylark squaloring skintness of feelings. I don't want t be in depth of ruins. Where is the missing piece? I want to feel. But maybe, the piece doesn't want to. Fuck.

The mind talks to nobody

So much to say but can't even say a word. Isn't it funny how we have a lot of things to say and we feel so much but yet can't even say it. I always check my feelings. Some days, I am such a dead giveaway. It's always nice to be fortright and just be blunt about whatever's ailing the mind and troubling the feelings, but I get embarassed. When I don't feel like feeling is when I feel a lot. I have so much inside this mind. I do say a lot when it matters and when I need to but often, I would just shut up. Shrugs to that.

For some unknown reason, I've been humming to Light and shade.

*edit. Late afternoon already. I went to "corporate America" had blah blah blah, did a blah blah for a blah blah. I'm quite tired. I feel hollow. Empty feelings sinks deeper into my emotions. As always.

Yahoo's gift and political gayness

Some are criticizing it. Yahoo's $1million gifting and granting foreign journalists for a a mid career fellowship program at Stanford University. It's not without controversy like the 'ethics of accepting the money.'

Doesn't all accept something as a form of thank you for nice write up. Money or something. I don't know. Or maybe it's just a practice here. Ach. Maybe not the hardnosed journos.

Political gayness yet again!

Scandal in the (US) house as more ickey dickey Foley newsies make the rounds. Gosh them freaky politicians! If they're not gayness, they're perverts. Former Rep. Mark Foley (resigned because he's el shitty perverty dudey) checked himself to a rehab for alcoholism and behavioral problems. Yeah, like sending sexually implicit emails to young boys. Geez, and you thought priests were bad lots! (news link via St. Petersburg Times)

*edit. The former Rep. said he was molested between ages 13 and 15 by a clergyman. So is that supposed to justify his acts of malice?! Lawyer for Foley said no, and inapropriate behavior has nothing to do with the congressman being traumatized. Uh huh so what gives!? Oh and he acknowledges he's gay! Yes, just like ex Gov. Mc. Greevey. Gayness as well! I recently saw an interview done by Larry King, he was promoting a book or something along with his 'partner.'

So when will out local politicians here come out of the closet? Hmm, there's quite a few of them. Hah! Jack off Jill....come out, come out!

Light at the end of the vision tunnel

Yes. Back. Poor Meralco (Manila Elec. Company), if voices and complaints could kill, everybody would be charged with murder! Can you even say murder is such sweet power sorrow?! Hah.

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I'm still around. Solitary musings. It's like dark confinement of third kind. So fuck. What's wrong with my attitude, huh?! Read a statement of fact (it seems) and I wanted to retort back. I didn't. But I mean hey, if attitude like mine makes people want to avoid me, so be it. As long as I haven't done anything wrong and/or stepped on anybody's shit, I'm fucking fine! I know I am a good person! I'm always grateful for whatever small mercies comes my way.

I'll blagh and blog later as I gather my thoughtful spot.

Cinderella bleeds

She once had a life. She felt the glow. A beacon of hope it was. As the horizon appeared, blue became grey, yellow was not to be. Black became imminent. The beginning was fairytale. The middle was rockyroad. The end, a slow painful death of Cinderella. I read and wept.

As she read and re read, she felt sad and bitter. Mostly for the poignancy of everything

She has always been grateful and thankful. Never complaining. Always giving. As the chapter of life ends and book seemingly closes, I want a fairytale.

The politics of peace and religion

So much politicking going on around the globe. So much carnage and deaths and bombings and killings. It's draining to the brain. The eyes wants to see but most people don't even care! They try not to give a damn, but ultimately, everything hinges on us. How we are to them matters. The politicians, the military, the church. Religionism and lack of understanding about different ideologies and the lack of respect for each beliefs puts us all in dangerous situation. Troops deployed in war torn countries are suffering so much. Death and casualties of war ignites passion for call to peace. But how can we have peace when most (of us) doesn't really understand what is the root cause of all the hatred. For most Muslims, they think the west is an evil empire taking away the sanctity of their own faith. And for that, people suffer. Iraq and Afghanistan- these two nations can't seem to move on because of that very problem that exist. The hatred for the west. Extremist has planted in the minds of radicals, that to gain back their existence, the west must be wiped out. And they do these by bombings. They are stilled by hatred. To them, the west is the mighty God, dictating the future of everyone. To understand is to learn. Maybe through learning we'll gain peace. But peace is hard fought. People are out there forsaking their lives for us. Defending the very nature of bringing peace. The least we could do is to understand! We are shackled by our own religionism which prevents us from gaining that elusive peace. Holy ramadan month starting and bombings and killings doesn't solve anything. With many suicide bombing and terror and all that triggering battle, Muslims killing each other as result. Peace still nowhere in sight.

I know I didn't make any sense. I wanted to post about things inside my mind. Whatever really! It's raining now. I'll blog out. Maybe I'll delete this. Yes.

So who's brain is better, huh?

Reading now this article from WashPost. Got me laughing. I don't know. Good stuff there. Heck, female brains has" juice?!" Uh huh. "Males and females may perform similar calculations, but they use different "circuits." Woman is Mac. Man is PC. Blame the brain".

So, the Brain of the woman is well more equipt to handle everything, in softer kinder way, and men, they tend to shut the crap up. Well pardon, obviously I'm female and think some aspects of the men's brain is really much more better than women. They excel more (though now there are more bums than ever. Heh) and sure they "think about sex every 52 seconds, while a woman does only once a day, while a woman does only once a day." Baloney! There are a lot of nymphos out there who always think about (having) sex every 52 seconds! (oh not fricking me, I belong to nunnery once a day..or week perhaps..swear not lying, hehe). But I think this right here "a woman knows what people are feeling, while a man can't spot an emotion unless somebody cries or threatens bodily harm" is not really true, I mean, yes, it is right but not all right is true. There are men who are sensitive who can spot feelings. But maybe most of them are just defensive to readily admit that they do feel. Wimpy willow! Heh.

So the consensus: men are good, but women are better? Uhm, I don't how to use mac! Er, cos I don't have one!

Hounding barks, frightening dream

Damn it. I dozed off while laying down in bed and I dreamnt about a pouring rain, an unknown man, darkness and big dogs. The rain, the man,the dogs barking (advancing and sniffing) scared the mind. Vivid vision of the dogs with fangs got me the chills. The dream lasted five minutes. Creepy. I have dog phobia. Getting sleepy. I'm rambling babbling scary crap hence not making sense.

*edit.. Siesta time. Boredom blog. Bad me! I didn't go to the blah blah for some blah bah. I let it pass..yet again! Had a bit of white lie (we all make white lies from time to time!). I reason upset stomach. And earlier, I just didn't feel like it again.

Too fast too furious

Get well soon Richard Hammond! The 36-year-old was thought to be driving at about 300mph on an airfield near York when he crashed on Wednesday. Hammond was driving a jet-powered dragster similar to the Vampire - used by Colin Fallows to set the British land speed record. It is thought Hammond was attempting to break Fallows' record of 300.3mph (BBC)

If you don't know who he is, you don't obviously watch BBC's Top Gear motor show and you probably wouldn't give a shit. But I watch the show, the presenters are charming, plus cars are awesome! Richard is one of three presenters (along with Jeremy Clarkson and James May)

And this according to Clarkson "I would just like to say how heartened Richard will be when I tell him just how many motorists and truck drivers on my way here wound down their windows to say they were rooting for him."

Aww, sweet really. Hope the " Hammond " recovers and be back presenting.

New word to hate: "Repurposing"

That's according to Judy Muller. Link via Romenesko. Article here

Yeouch! Got me thinking now. Hmm, I wonder if I'm guilty of"repurposing?" Eh, I don't think I am so but anyhow, my blog is just amateur wannabe trying hard to be professional but failing by long long standards plus it's personal crap hardly newsies but when I blog a certain news item from other newsources- like many online news sites- (yahoo and others, I give credit and links). I don't post anything as my own 'cept my personal dramatics and nonsensical social commentary only I would bother to blog about.

And yes, plagiarism definitely sucks and is evil. Heck one blog entry I made was plagiarized before.

On a sunday morning, hunting high and low

I'm hungry. I remember breakfast before but not anymore. It leaves a bitter pill of thought inside and I want to rage but I'm devoid of anger. I know when to stop and look. But I still hunger.

So what's for breakfast right? My thoughts and they are good. Freeflowing with richnesss only I could I taste. I'll share it but, it's contagious. Either it'll bring one to madness or I get slammed but whichever, I'll still share...the hunger.

*edit. But I eat breakfast alone.

Late pm: I'm redundant. Thesame blog for now (minus breakfast whine).

Fuck. I'm grinning! Stoooooop it! to feel a feel is but wonderful, even as I'm the only one who feels. I don't care. It's stupid really(on my part) but as long as I feel, I'm fucking alive! And thelark still grins! changes mood. I feel solitary desolation. *sigh*