Takipsilim???

Rayver: "Wala na akong lakas na lisanin ka."
Shaina: "Di wag."

Rayver: "Ang iyong amoy ay parang bawal na gamot." (whuat??)

Rayver: "Ikaw na ang buhay ko ngayon..."

Can't wait to see how this is gonna turn out. Haha. What do you think?

Looks like Christmas...I think.

Will this Christmas actually be a nightmare?

40% of my day (8:30AM-6PM) is spent at the office, 40% at my dorm and the remaining 20% can be equally distributed between eateries, shoot locations, malls, etc. The 80% part of my day that is spent at the office and the dorm comprises a big factor of my day to day life, right? Ok, so just where am I getting at?

Will Santa miss Christmas because of a hangover?

Again, the time I spend at the office and at home is more or less homologous (learning? hehehe). And its supposed to be Christmas Season already right? But in the 40% time that I spend at the office, and the other 40% at the dorm, I am not reminded that Christmas indeed is coming. This year, I am sad because we weren't given a Christmas tree to decorate the office para bisan gamay lang ta spirit of Christmas ba...wala gyud (*hint*hint*). And then at the dorm, they haven't started decorating yet. I doubt if they will though, I really don't know.

"Finally, I'm no longer JUST the red-nosed reindeer anymore! Bwuahahaha"

So this morning, I decided that I would put matters into my own hand. I gathered some Christmas RNB carols and played it on my music player for everyone to hear. I don't care if it loops around 40 million times today just as long as we could AT LEAST feel that it is indeed the season to be merry.

A sweet Christmas would be nice. :)

And then I decided to change my desktop wallpaper so there would be some sort of visual support to my attempts at letting them "hear" Christmas through my carols. Hehe.

Feels like home to me. :)

The pictures that I spread all over this post are my choices for the Christmas wallpaper. Can you guess what I picked? Hehe.

When will I ever experience a white Christmas?

Say what???

This week, I finally paid attention to my lack of grasp of certain vocabulary words. In my line of work, I always have to feed myself with information so that I would not stagnate to just using the very limited jargon I have in my mind.

When I was still a student, I had this weird "hobby" of reading the dictionary and highlighting some words that I thought would be useful to me someday. I'd write them on my yellow pad with their corresponding definitions and then I'd try to write sentences using those words. I know, I was such a geek before. Haha. But you know what they say, when you graduate, you only retain a small percentage of what you learned from school in your mind.


Then they said that because there's no pressure to learn as much as when you were in school (tests, prelims, finals--helloo??), your brain starts to stop working as much as it did. Its not as alert anymore.

So now, instead of just going through my uber dusty dictionary (yeah its still alive, barely breathing but definitely alive...haha), I've upgrading my "hobby" to checking out the Word of the Day portion at www.dictionary.com.

Today, their word of the day is HOMOLOGOUS. \huh-MOL-uh-guhs; hoh-\, adjective:
1. corresponding in position, proportion, structure, value, or other property
2. in biology, corresponding in type of structure and in origin but not necessarily in appearance or function
3. in chemistry, belonging to a series where successive members differ regularly in formula, especially a series of organic compounds differing by multiples of CH2, such as the alcohols and aldehydes

A human hand, a bird's wing and a whale's flipper are all homologous structures, she explains, in that each represents an evolutionary modification of the same ancestral limb structure.
-- John Noble Wilford, But Will It Fly?" review of Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight, by Pat Shipman, New York Times, 1/25/1998

But I think I know what you're probably thinking now. How the hell can this word be useful to your everyday life? Its not as if you talk about chemistry or biology all the time.



Well, that is my challenge. And here is how I can use it in my everyday life. I think.

1. Two years after graduation, I can probably say that my intelligence is homologous to that of a grade 3 student already.

or

2. Grabeha bai, akong kwarta ron ug ang kwarta sa lata nga gigunitan sa batang garugby homologous na!

Whatever.

How about you? Can you cite ways on how to incorporate the word "homologous" into your everyday life?

Friday night blues...

I couldn't go out tonight (just like I normally do on Fridays) because there's just not enough cash. So I decide to go to the nearest internet cafe just to pass away the time and probably forget the fact that I'm just bummin' around on a Friday night.

But something's wrong with their internet connection so I couldn't really enjoy surfing the net. I decided that I'd just play Canyon Defense on miniclip but their connection is just to slow for me to even play a decent game.

So I decided to blog about my Friday night blues and I couldn't even type well because the letters in the keyboard are simply gone plus you have to press each key with a certain amount of pressure just so that I'd be sure that I do not get a typo tonight.

To top all that, I just loaded my sun after months of not loading it and the network is currently busted.

But its only 10PM. Who knows...My 11th hour savior might come and my Friday night won't be that bad.

And yeah, unsa kaha ako buhaton ugma? Mehn.

Twilight: My Verdict

Before I was able to watch the movie, I already heard a lot of reactions from random friends about Twilight. Most of them were disappointed because it wasn't as good as the book. Well, for someone who has never read the book yet and for someone who's addicted to vampires, I decided to watch it anyway.

I think that it has been proven time and time again that the book will always be better than the movie...and I guess what people don't get is that the movie will only be the best compressed version of a novel. I mean imagine compressing 2-5 days worth of reading material into a 2-hour movie? Ofcourse it won't have all the meaty details that the book has to offer! So, it was in this thought that I consoled myself about watching the movie first before reading the book. For a change.

I had Gwen check the movie schedule on the newspaper because I really wanted to watch it from the beginning. I picked the time, 3:45PM, Cinema 8 at SM. When we got there at around 3PM there was such a long line at the ticket booth that I was afraid that we couldn't watch it.



Good thing Gwen brought our interns so atleast they got a head start on the line. (Our interns are from Surigao, imagine that! We just love them. :) )

They even bought this large popcorn to share with everyone. Awww... Very nice. :)

Ok so now, MY personal verdict. MY opinion.

I actually liked it. I'm not crazy about it, I don't super love it but I liked it. I like how Bella Swan was put into life in the movie. In the first chapters of the book I found her to be a bit weak (I haven't finished reading the book yet though), but in the movie, she seemed tougher and she did not cry a lot. Actually I did not think she ever cried in the movie.

I did not like how they did the make up for the Cullens though because although I get the idea that they should look pale white, they just ended up looking like they had too much foundation on. I don't know why...but hey this is just my opinion.

And then I expected MORE gore. Mehn. It was 95% love story and 5% gore only. I think there were only two biting scenes. So no vampires were in action most of the time. I don't know if its a refreshing thought or not...but you know, I'm a big fan of Underworld 1 & 2 and Van Helsing...I kinda expected something like that, but you know it wasn't so...It kinda is refreshing.

I love the lines...I don't know if majority of the lines were lifted from the book, because as of press time I'm still on Chapter 3. (I know...I'm only reading it in my PC --ebook-- at the office so I don't get to read it as often).

One thing for sure though, I like it enough for me to look forward to the sequel.

But maybe I'll change my mind after I read the book. Haha. We'll see. :)