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Number 1 - Yahoo! It made me smile and feel good and warm inside. My site is finally number 1 in Yahoo Search. You might think it is a little shallow but it is a small triumph for me. Bakit ba?! Mababaw kaligayahan ko pagdating sa website ko. I rank 4th in Google... pero ok lang. May oras ka. Maghintay ka lang. Hehehe! You might ask, why the obsession with being number 1 in ranking. I guess

I think I have everything prepared for finals later except myself. I know the drainage system, but I don’t know about the water supply. Shiet. I was busy talking to whoever’s beside me, texting, or reading about other topics in our notes. ;

As soon as everything’s over, I’ll get back to anime and manga blogging. Even editing PoT doujinshi. Anyway, I have to get ready. I just got the torrent for Inu Yasha which, sadly, I haven’t finished downloading all the episodes. I need episodes 112+. I also need to finish the Ghost Rider megapack from Demonoid, so I could burn it already.

Stomp the Yard

Hostel 2 — Nothing much in the trailer, but I’ll definitely watch this. It will be released on June 8 in the US and July 4 in the Philippines. That’s more than a month difference.

Spiderman 3 — I can’t wait to see Topher Grace

Action News Indeed — The rapist looks like the newscaster. Do you think it’s him? XD

Mom and Daughter Banned for Life from Disneyland

Vimobot — I’d like, at least, one of these just for display. XD Only having something like its USB flashdrives would be more useful.



I’ve been updating my VOX more than this blog. ; I only do short posts because I’m still very busy. It’s already finals week in our school, so it’s expected to be suddenly swamped with school work. So far, we’re done with passing our thesis proposal. We’ll continue it in the next term. The only subjects I worry now are EnSE Laboratory and Plumbing System. In EnSE Lab, I have to pass pictures of the compost here at my home (that my mom makes). Plus, data of test results in the treatment of water and wastewater. In Plumbing, I still have 3 assignments and a group workout to do. The workout would be easy if it’s just the same as the first one. The first is only a 2-storey house layout. The group workout is a building layout. We have to do the West Building of MIT which is 5-storeys high + a basement. The canteen and septic tank are located in that bulding. Ours seem to be the easiest among the rest. The north and south buildings of the school have laboratory rooms; each having a number of fixtures. That means additional vents and drain pipes for them to draw. XD I only have to fix my drawing materials for later afternoon’s finals in Plumbing. Our finals is to design a house or a building. I have no idea. We were just told to bring drawing materials. Damn, man. I’m slow with drawing layouts because I’m a neat freak. A little mistake is already a big problem for me. Wish me luck.

While I was working on our workouts, I downloaded a lot of K-pop videos. I’m not a K-pop fan again, but I’m just catching up on the artists I liked a lot back then. Like 1TYM. Wow, I didn’t know Danny (Taebin as a solo artist) went solo. He looks thinner. He went to Paris for his mv shooting. I saw the video in YouTube (and linked to my VOX). I wish he spoke in english. I almost squealed when he said, “Bonjour!” XD What’s up with him and Se7en, btw?

My gums would bleed whenever I toothbrush. This never happened on my first time I got braces. My mom said it’s fine as long as I don’t brush too hard. Anyway, I’m able to eat better now. But I can’t bite with my front teeth. I tried, but it feels like my teeth were going to fall off. The usual food in my diet are now Bread Pan and rice. Bread Pan’s the hardest I can eat.

Maru’s vacation to US and Canada is almost near! I have to list down my want list. XD I shouldn’t forget to order tongue rings. Anyone care give me tongue rings as a gift? XDDD The lock/s of my black tongue ring crushed into pieces. Boo~ I bought that from Claire’s. I didn’t know whereelse to look for cheap tongue rings.

Last March 9, Mac had a tooth extraction. His tooth’s big. My mom removed it. I was in the clinic too, but watched the local news instead of his “operation.” XD You guys should take care of your teeth… Or else you’ll have all your tooth extracted! *rofl* J/k!

To finish this uber long post, here’s a short survey I copied from koolasa:
1. what do you consider a summer must-have?
shades, sunblock lotion

2. two-piece or one-piece swimsuit?
none of the above. I don’t like revealing a lot of skin… But I’ll probably wear something real short. XD My legs need color than my upper body.

3. favorite swimsuit/bikini cover-up?
huge shirt

4. favorite summer place?
mall

5. favorite summer activity?
playing PS2 games, sleeping (it’s the only break I get)

6. favorite summer outfit?
shorts

7. natural or fake tan?
natural

8. 5 things from your kikay kit that you will take with you in a deserted island:
sunblock, comb, powder with spf, lipgloss, hairband/clips

9. what activities do you wish to experience this summer?
big time gigs XD

10. what plans do you have this summer?
work on music compositions

Siyempre may sagot si Dawn Zulueta sa sinabi ni Gretchen Barreto sa The Buzz. Ang video nagpapakita pa kung bakit kahit malabo ang mata mo hindi mo pwedeng hindi makita si Dawn Zulueta.



Ruffa Gutierrez,Dawn Zulueta,Gretchen Barreto

First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me. Pastor Martin Niemöller Not content with Crispin “Ka Bel” Beltran’s house arrest a duly elected party list representative, now they are running for Satur Ocampo another Party List Representative. Military operatives raiding his house like a common criminal for a “crime supposedly committed” 20 years ago make no sense at all. Is this a case of a snail paced Justice Philippine style or another one of those highly questionable dispensation of justice that typifies this administration and others before her? Looking at Satur Ocampo’s counsel Romeo...

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I know. You're probably thinking - for someone who says she loves Vox, it sure did take her a while to post her love letter. Guilty as charged. And my reason is pretty lame. I've been setting up my Wordpress blog. (Setting it up and creating a post on why I don't heart Wikipedia that I asked my boss to approve.) Ha! So much for the love!

Truth be told, my Wordpress is meant to be my 'serious' blog. The one where I attempt to actually call myself a 'blogger' and not just someone who is having... fun.. and ranting about my day... or sharing... more personal thoughts. Make sense? Here on Vox, I feel free to unleash... me. While on Wordpress, I am attempting to be more.. polished? Pretentious? Hahaha! Profound?!

I guess what I'm figuring out is that Vox and Wordpress have different audiences. At least that's how I see it. And what I've experienced... so far. Vox is friendlier and has more of a neighborly feel while Wordpress is less friendly but more specific. At least in terms of defining who you are and hoping to be found and linked to and from.

Am I making sense...?

I found Vox through Debbie Weil's The Corporate Blogging Book. Mena Trott, the founder of SixApart (and Vox), is one of the featured bloggers in the book. I had to read it for work. So while reading, I would check out all the blogs that Debbie wrote about. When I looked at Mena's, she makes mention of how she's been blogging privately on mena.vox.com. I was intrigued. I clicked. I found. I didn't sign up... yet. A week went by and there was an influx on Multiply, where I've been active for two years. Suddenly, almost everyone I knew was on Multiply. So I peeked around Vox and did what any sane person would do. I had my daughter sign up. One look at all the templates and she was hooked. One look at all the fun my kid was having and I had to get in on the action.

So sign up I did and hog the computer I did more of.

2AM on Day One. Kyera: "Are you still  Vox-ing?! You've been online since this afternoon, Mom!"

10AM on Day Two. Kyera: "What time did you sleep last night?! I can't believe you're Vox-ing again...."

4PM on Day Three. Kyera: "Seriously, Mom, you need to stand up from the computer. You're Vox-addicted. You need to go brush your teeth."

I reluctantly stood up and let her use our poor overworked desktop. And I really needed a bath.

I don't know what got into me. Was it the QotD's that I wanted to answer?  Or the VoxHunts that needed finding?  Or the books and audio and photos I just had to upload?! Or the interesting people I just had to Add to My Neighborhood?! Or the Groups?!

I overdid it. Like eating too much chocolate chip cookies, or grilled burgers, or vanilla ice cream in one sitting, I had to stop myself and breathe. Or so I had hoped. The blogging bug had bit me hard - Debbie's book and Vox and Multiply - and I just had to get... one... more. A... serious... commercial... one... and... then... I... would... stop.

Give me six months and we'll see who's still standing. Or who else has joined the fray. I hear Blogger's another good free service...

There’s an e-mail going around complete with pictures and allegations regarding the Pidal brouhaha on hidden wealth and sexual misconduct. This is just one of the very interesting and very serious allegations on the so-called " Court Petition Document" found on the internet against Mr. Mike Arroyo. “9. In many instances, what the petitioner and Respondent did, instead of working, was to engage in drinking sessions every night. They would have this drinking sessions with Respondent’s partners and cousins. Respondent would broadcast to them that petitioner was her “favorita” and would call GMA an “igorota”.” Hmmmmmnnnn, If this is true , I wonder how the bitter half errrrr the better half no less of the FG who is the present cheating errrr seating president of the Philippine reacted...

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AN OPEN LETTER FOR THE DEBATE First of all, congratulations! This letter comes with our deepest anticipation for the forthcoming debate billed as "2007 Senatorial Debate — Moving the Economy Forward," in the forum organized by Philippines Inc. together with the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Employers Confederation of the Philippines, the Philippine Exporters Confederation, and the Filipino-Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry this coming March 14, 2007. We are elated at the prospect of our future senators tackling the issues crucial to our survival as a nation and hopefully an opportunity to have a glimpse of their platform in moving our economy forward. We understand that the topics for the debate will include social issues such as management-labor...

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It’s about time we see initiatives formed to address electoral spending gone awry in their mad dash for power squandering hundreds of millions of pesos as if ton loads of money is going out of fashion when the poor majority of our people don’t even enough to afford 3 square meals a day. Yes, kudos to the formation of NGO Para’t Pulitika, coming from the groups of Consortium on Electoral Reforms, Transparency and Accountability Network, Philippine Political Science Association, the lawyers’ group Libertad, and the Access to Information Network. The initial unverified figures they have gathered so far are mind boggling huge sums of money, if only they can channel all these squandered resources on infra structures we sorely lack in creating the environment for job generating...

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Ting-Ting Originally uploaded by Litratista. Cats A few years ago, I found this dirty ugly kitten on the street who was meowing like crazy, probably hungry out of his wits. I adopted him and named him Mang-mang. He’s now a grown up cat who has a live-in partner (lives with us). I named her Keng-keng. Filipinos have a fondness for repeating syllables and turning them into names. Also, I admit

The cheese-headed one has a decision to make that affects our relationship. I don't want to reveal too much, but I will say that one outcome sees me moving cross-continent in the immediate future to be with him full time, and the other sees us goi...

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The cheese-headed one has a decision to make that affects our relationship. I don't want to reveal too much, but I will say that one outcome sees me moving cross-continent in the immediate future to be with him full time, and the other sees us going our separate ways.

Strangely, that we have come to this is a comfort to me. Ours is a relationship that was never intended to last, never intended to transcend the post-coital secrets confessed in the dark. But it did. And now what was supposed to be temporary has turned into a two-year-old fairy tale. This decision is the next step. It was always going to come to this.

Of course it scares me. Until very recently I've been paralyzed by the mere possibility that we have already gone through our lasts. The last kiss. The last dinner. The last morning I would spend waking up to those hands. I've been so distraught imagining (or struggling to) a life that does not find me sitting on the floor by his feet with my head resting against his thigh. He has been more than lover, more than boyfriend. He's been my dominant, and he's done it well.

I spent most of my weekend observing the train wreck that is Nadine. She is going through a break-up and to say that she isn't taking it well is an understatement. She is an intense creature, and she always has been. She is one of those girls who loves well and fiercely, but the flip side of that is that she responds to despair and depression just as fiercely. I spent hours with her at the terrace of a church (an ironic refuge for two such as us) at two in the morning, lying down next to her on the cement and the grass and wondering what to say, what to do. How to react when someone you care about shows up bearing two vertical scars from her elbow to her wrist as witness to her grief.

What shook me was how much of myself I could see in her. I have never cut myself like that, but I know that fire. What she does to her body I do to my emotions, spurred by that same pained desire to be consumed in the hurting. So I understand her, I have been her, I would have been her, but as I watched her that night I decided something has to change. I don't want to be that utterly lost.

And I've decided that I won't be. If he does choose the path which leads away from me, so be it. I will cry and whine and scream but I will get over it. Sometimes, I think deciding you'll be okay is enough.

Still, I am excited. It is true that I could end up with nothing but if he chooses otherwise... if he chooses to pursue this... it could be the beginning of something entirely new. A relationship engineered to last, instead of one whose expiry date is simply constantly postponed. This could mean everything I have wanted it to mean. This could be everything it was never allowed to be.

I know that I shouldn't get my hopes up, but it is hard not to. Already I am imagining just the flight to Oz, because if he chooses the way I think he will choose there will certainly be a flight. Already I am imagining the restless waiting on the plane, the landing, how he'll meet me at the train station the way he did that first time. How the next time I kiss him it will have a certainty to it that all the previous kisses lacked. How when he undresses me next, literally and otherwise, it might be the last time he ever has to.

Cross your fingers for me. I will find out in ten weeks.

A few years ago, I found this dirty ugly kitten on the street who was meowing like crazy, probably hungry out of his wits. I adopted him and named him Mang-mang. He’s now a grown up cat who has a live-in partner (lives with us). I named her Keng-keng. Filipinos have a fondness for repeating syllables and turning them into names. Also, I admit I don’t have the talent when it comes to naming my pets hehe... 

Mang-mang and Keng-keng just had a child who’s scrawny but looks cute nonetheless – I named him Ting-ting. She likes sleeping outdoors on top of anything she can reach. Silly cat!

Here are their photos. From the left to right: Keng-keng (she loves to sit on my lap), Mang-mang (super lazy, always sleeping) and the scrawnily cute Ting-ting.

I had a dog once but she was run over by a car when she suddenly ran outside our gate. I went home from school and she was lying dead on our doorstep. A neighbor found her on the street. I was seven years old then and it was such a sad traumatic experience. From then on I decided to have cats as pets instead.

Cats are more independent, more agile. My friend’s cat fell from the 8^th floor of her condo and walked away without any broken bones. It takes less effort to take care of cats. We once went off to vacation for one week and forgot to leave food for our cats – well they were still alive when we returned. I wondered what they managed to eat. Then we heard complains from our neighbors that pieces of their fried fish vanished from their tables. Our cats stole them lol!