(s)mall observation

The most shameless thing to do while inside the mall “shopping” is to try on every item you can, exhaust the clerk to the point of paralysis by asking different sizes and different colors and different styles of that particular item (in this case, the clerk still has to do a circumferential detour all through the whole mall before getting to the stock room).

Then when you finally have this item with you, you check and inspect and examine it without giving a damn about the time or somehow the least bit of consideration that you might not be the only customer that needs attending. So, after ten years of your scrutiny and the clerk, at last, asks you so kindly if you are going to buy that thing, what you do is to smile your sweetest yet fakest, and with the most sugary, syrupy, patronizing konyo voice you can muster, you say, “No, thank you, it’s not that good.” while you stalk on your heels, stomach in, bulging chest out, full-of-yourself flair of the hair, without so much as a second glance as if you are the most majestic, important, perfect life form to grace the face of the earth.


Duh.

Ça va? Sabaw!‏

Sabaw ang exam. Ang exam ay sabaw.

stupid dates

Of all the rotten luck. Midterm examinations had to coincide with the release of Breaking Dawn.

However, I'm afraid that it's a matter of sanity and insanity if I do or don't get to read Breaking Dawn, stat.

So for the sake of that said saneness or whatever that's still left of it, BD should really have to come first before study or anything else for that matter.

Unless you are my parent and you are reading this right now, then of course midterm is the priority!

I couldn't possibly condone myself to academic negligence. Nope.

[Yeah right.]

The best things in the world are free

I couldn't agree more. :]

Seven deadly sins (accdg to wiki)

Gluttony (Latin, gula)

Derived from the Latin gluttire, meaning to gulp down or swallow, gluttony is the over-indulgence and over-consumption of anything to the point of waste.

Lust (Latin, luxuria)

Lust (or lechery) is usually thought of as involving obsessive or excessive thoughts or desires of a sexual nature.

Greed (Latin, avaritia)

Greed (or avarice, covetousness) is, like lust and gluttony, a sin of excess. However, greed is applied to the acquisition of wealth in particular.

Wrath (Latin, ira)

Wrath (or anger) may be described as inordinate and uncontrolled feelings of hatred and anger, generally wishing to do evil or harm to others.

Sloth (Latin, acedia)

Portrayed as a sin of laziness or indifference, of an unwillingness to act, an unwillingness to care.

Envy (Latin, invidia)

Like greed, envy may be characterized by an insatiable desire; those who commit the sin of envy resent that another person has something they perceive themselves as lacking, and wish the other person to be deprived of it.

Pride (Latin, superbia)

It is considered the original and most serious of the seven deadly sins, and indeed the ultimate source from which the others arise. It is identified as a desire to be more important or attractive than others, failing to give compliments to others though they may be deserving of them.

From V to L

I just got done reading Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts. I loved it. I admired the story’s play within a play concept, non fiction and fiction. The drama of the real-life audience in Pointz Hall and the drama of the stage artists of the play were both equally absorbing and intriguing.

A while ago I was surfing the net for a little bit of the author’s background. Before I read this novel, all I knew of Woolf was that she committed suicide. But after some browsing, I learned a handful of things that had my ears perking up in curiosity. Like I never would have suspected that she was sexually abused by her half brothers…Then there’s the Hogarth Press and Bloomsbury Group among others. But if truth were told, it’s actually the suicide note for the husband that did it for me:

'Dearest, I feel certain I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier till this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that - everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer.
I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.
V.'

Naturally, I was intrigued. I wanted to learn more of the writer’s existence. Seriously, (so far) she’s the only person I know who could make a suicide note sound so romantic…and angsty at the same time, though if you’d think about it angsty was already a given since she’s then heading for suicide, right? So yeah, there’s supposed to be angst there somewhere. At any rate, I read more and found some titles of biographical works about her done by numerous authors of different decades after her death. They were all seemingly appealing so I had that recognizable urge to go buy all of them at once and start a reading marathon. But damn that reality check for bursting my ImSoFuckingFilthyRichIcanhaveEverythingIwant-bubble. I just bought four books last week so I’m pretty much broke for the moment. Nevertheless, I vowed to buy and read at least one of those biographies sometime in the hopefully not-so-far future, or at least see the university library to try if they have the book I need somewhere on its grimy old shelves, hiding.

Antuking bata 'to

Magtanong ka na sa lasing, 'wag lang sa bagong gising.

(kaliwa) Axl - anim na taong gulang
(kanan) Annel - ???/immortal

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Annel: O sino ang pambansang bayani ng Pilipinas?

Axl: SI HORE RISAL!!!

++

Annel: Sige nga, anong ginawa kay Jose Rizal?

Axl: BINARIL!

Annel: Saan siya binaril?

Axl: SA ‘TERESES! (rice terraces)

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Annel: O e bakit siya binaril?

Axl: Kasi gumawa siya ng masama.

Annel: Anong masama ang ginawa niya?

Axl: Nakipaglaban siya

Annel: Kanino siya nakipaglaban?

Axl: Sa espanyol.

Annel: E sino ba yung espanyol na yon?

Axl: Yung lalaki

Annel: Sinong lalaki?

Axl: E HINDI KO NGA ALAM! HINDI NAMAN YUN TINUTURO SA'MIN EH!!!

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Annel: Sige iba na lang. Anong pinakamataas na bundok sa Pilipinas?

Axl: bundok?

Annel: Oo, bundok. Yung pinakamataas ha…

Axl: MOUNTAIN!!!

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Annel: Oy Axl, bakit kayo walang pasok ngayon?

Axl: Kasi may SONA

Annel: Ano ba yung ibig sabihin ng SONA?

Axl: E di may bagyo.

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Tita Mae: Nako, nakalimutan kong bumili ng head & shoulders

Axl: para walang dandruff, mommy?

Tita Mae: Oo. Nakalimutan ko naman… (tsk tsk tsk sounds)

Annel (nakikisabat): Sige nga Axl, anu sa tagalog ang dandruff?

Axl: E di para maalis yung mga kuto kuto

Annel: -wah, kill me now-