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|  I love people who give out practical gifts. Like my dad's officemate, who gives us really unique ones. Last year for Christmas, he gave my dad a plant (a guy giving another guy a plant is unique) and he gave my mom bawang (that according to my mom is the best bawang in the world... ) And now, he gave my dad a rechargeable electronic mosquito racket...which is like heaven-sent for me! For months the mosquito problem has been my issue, being the "security guard" of the house. For some reason, insect sprays don't work on those pesky little creatures anymore (have they developed some kind of resiliency to insecticides? scary...) and buying Off lotions all the time is just too expensive. But now, i'm armed with their worst nightmare. I just have to turn it on, swat away at the blood-thirsty monsters and they die a most shocking death (evil laugh).
So cool how people come up with these inventions. | | |
| -- Got this from another blog, so funny  YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2007 when... 1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.
2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years. -- oo nga no!
3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.
4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you. -- hehe i do this!
5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don't have e-mail addresses. -- or blogs for that matter 
6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries. -- hehe i use my cellphone to call somebody inside the house pag sarado na gate namin
7. Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the screen.
8. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it. -- oo nga kainis!
10. You get up in the morning and go on line before getting your coffee.
11. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. : )
12. You're reading this and nodding and laughing.
13. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this message.
14. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.
15. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a #9 on this list
AND NOW YOU ARE LAUGHING at yourself. -- haha! and i also want to add: 16. You avoid greeting the person walking towards you by getting your phone and pretending you're checking a message or talking to someone 17. You have a new super power: being "invisible" 18. You don't buy cds anymore but you still have all the songs you want 19. You don't go into movie houses anymore but you've watched the latest movies anyway 20. You get into fights more because people misunderstand your text messages, forum comments or e-mails 21. You run or bike 5 kilometers inside an air-conditioned room 22. Your cellphone is the umbilical cord that binds you to your boss. 23. You have 500 "friends," 100 of them you've met only once, 300 of them you haven't seen in years, 50 of them you've never met in your entire life 24. You don't say this line anymore: "Pahiram naman ng negatives, magpapa-develop din ako." 25. Laughing by yourself while facing a computer monitor is considered normal and ordinary | | |
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Even though i had a deadline, pinilit ko talagang pumunta dito (actually tumakas ako), and maannn... I'm so glad I did. Being in a huge room full of diverse christian artists felt so much like home. It was encouraging just watching people -- you can distinguish groups by their clothes -- production people (the directors, writers, editors, stage managers etc.) were mostly dressed in black... musicians were the ones with the colored hair and rock/punk outfits... dancers had the hiphop/layered get-ups, and so on and so forth. Just looking at the diverse crowd reminded me how cool God was, making people so different and unique from each other. Panalo ang preachings... nakaka-convict talaga, especially for arts and media practitioners. It talked about standing up for your convictions, and just basically said na sakit ng christians in arts and media ang manahimik... to just watch, go with the flow and do nothing. Ouch. It even had a quote from a movie, yung "the only way for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing." Favorite ko rin yung bible verse na sinabi sa book of Esther: "When Esther's words were reported to Mordecai, he sent back this answer: 'Do not think that because you are in the king's house you alone of all the Jews will escape. For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father's family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this?"  Buhay ka pa talaga... I'm so getting a cd copy of the sessions... I have to hear this over and over again... Nakaka-encourage... panalo. Kahit na hindi ko pa rin napa-pass ang dapat kong ipasa sa work...(buti na lang may favor pa rin), I'm really glad I came. It refreshed in me the reason why i'm in arts and media in the first place.
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| I recently acquired the fabulous Starbucks planner (so fabulous that I seldom bring it anywhere ‘cause it’s just so bulky), and the excited person I was, I immediately wrote down birthdays and scheduled events. Scheduled events normally just take up tiny spaces, because if there’s one word that can sum up my work it’s unpredictability. Sometimes, there’s no point in writing down scheduled meetings because it’s bound to be crossed out anyway, and it would just ruin a fabulous planner. So my “planner” becomes a journal… a notebook of things I’ve done that day, so I won’t forget, especially during days that requires you to stay awake for so long, you’d really forget what day it was. I’m not really a forgetful person, the type who looks for shades placed on her own head or looks for a phone she is actually using, but when I do forget, it often spells out disaster. I once forgot that I placed my cellphone on the food tray, which we returned to the service crew after eating. So, parang inihain ko lang talaga yung phone ko sa iba. Good thing they were kind enough to give it back to me, (maybe since they saw that I lost my breath running back for it). I once forgot my bag in a comfort room in Bohol -- I went out of the café and just thought it was weird that I felt light. Thankfully I raced back in time to see that my bag was still untouched. In both these instances, I was absent-minded because my things-to-do were wrestling each other inside my head. That’s why now I write down things I’ve done or yet to do, to free my brain from the clutter that makes one forgetful. One of the lists I really love making is my list of faith goals for the year. More than making it, the fun is in putting a check next to the faith goal accomplished. Whenever I want to be encouraged, I look on that list. Whenever I write a new list and seem afraid or doubtful, I look back on last year’s list. Whenever i forget about the things God did for me, i look on that list and remember that God is really faithful. And usually things don’t work out according to my plans, but that’s the amazing thing about it. In my case, some examples of them would be: n I wished for an iPod mini. BUT I got an iPod video It lasted for a month UNTIL it got stolen  BUT because of that, I got published in a newspaper. So major okay na rin. (a byline is priceless ) n I wanted to travel to different places in the Philippines. I went to Cebu, Bohol and Dumaguete. But my experience there was like being in the middle of two warring countries... (and that is still an understatement) But in hindsight, I still got to go there, so okay lang n I wrote in my list, I wanted to experience a foot spa. And I did but because of that, my foot got an infection and I got operated BUT ALSO because of that, I got my long wished for two-week rest from work (which i totally loved! Coz i got to read two novels and everything...pero ayoko na ma-operahan ulit) So... I did get the things that I wanted, but not exactly in the way I imagined I would be getting them. Maybe God wanted me to REALLY not forget about it. But even though the road to those faith goals range from the tragic to downright morbid (I wanted to faint everytime I dressed my wound), I'm still thankful the past year was a RICH one… a well of experiences I know I can go draw from, once I decide to fully embrace the familiar yet new challenge of being a scriptwriter (if and when I do muster up enough courage this year, haha). I remember in one ancient Ally Mcbeal episode, someone said "If you look back this year and it didn't bring you tears, either of joy or sadness, then consider the year wasted." Thank you Lord, for my year wasn't a wasted one. | | |
| meron akong sobrang blunder... i was supposed to interview a world champion tapos na late ako ng 30 minutes. Umalis siya 15 minutes after ng pinag-usapan naming time. mali ko, of course i was late, kasi i assumed na naglalaro lang siya dun sa place na yun the whole night, i thought dun lang siya. (when we last met kasi, we arrived early tapos we waited for him to finish playing). mali naman ng camp niya, hindi efficient yung manager niya kasi hindi nagfo-follow up, he's not organized and doesn't keep a planner (kumbaga, sabog, anything goes). Pero syempre mali pa rin ako, kasi i was late and I assumed wrong, hindi ako nag-check. Siguro nasanay rin kasi ako na no matter how early I am, late naman lagi yung kausap ko. Tapos biglang there's this person pala who valued time so much. I learned na kahit gaano ka-sabog yung ka-deal mo, important pa rin na ikaw mismo you have internal government. So ending, hinabol namin siya and through charm and saying sorry, I still got my interview. gosh buti na lang. Imagine pinaghintay ko yung world champion... ayoko na ma-late ever again. scary | | |
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