July 18th, 2008
Wow
Posted by machiavelli03 at 08:05 PM on July 18, 2008.
Wow. I guess it's been forever since I last wrote on this thing, but it's not because I've been slacking off blogging. Actually, I've still been blogging religiously, except I have a different blog now. Tabulas is a somewhat dying community.
Anyway, Starcraft 2 is finally coming out after a decade, and I thought that was worth a mention.
And The Happening is actually a rather cool movie. Surprisingly.
There you have it. My life is very cool right now so that's about all the news I have, other than I sold my old iPhone and now I have to wait 2 months for the new one. ARGH.
April 3rd, 2008
Mental Notes
Posted by machiavelli03 at 07:24 PM on April 3, 2008.
It's been a kinda weird week for me. I've been sick on and off, but on for the most part and school has been wiping me out. I've been slacking off at PSU, and I'm trying to compensate by doing better with my 3 other classes. Magic, Myth and Ritual is turning out to be a rather fun class, although there are minor annoying elements involved. My two business classes are pissing me off, though, because my teacher has this AWFUL voice that makes me want to hang myself every three seconds.
Parking is a pain in the ass, and usually I have great parking karma and don't have to worry about that nonsense, but last week for instance, it took me 45 minutes to find a parking spot AND I got a parking warning (meaning that spot was illegal... ho ho ho). I was really quite annoyed by the end of the day and was about ready to set a fire somewhere.
Oh, and not to mention that this... I don't know if it was a beast or a dog driving the vehicle, but someTHING nearly backed into my car while I was totally stopped. I mean, who the hell starts going into reverse in the middle of the street?
This all happened yesterday and I was just so exhausted that by the time I got home from work, I popped Coffee and Cigarettes in my player to watch it before bed and fell asleep within the first five minutes. Then I woke up this morning, didn't go to school since my throat was on fire, and instead ended up going to the PSU bookstore and Petsmart, then sleeping the whole day before work.
I still feel terrible (my head feels like it's being held in place by a steel clamp) and on top of all this nonsense FIREFOX WON'T WORK. Not even beta 3. I'm mad.
Oh well. I'm not really that mad. I mean, I don't really care much for anything, I just wish I didn't feel so ill. Good things have happened to me this week too, though, such as:
1. Finally finishing one of the chapters in RE4, which I've been playing on and off for a little less than a year now. It's a little embarassing that I should be playing a game this long and not be done with it yet, at least knowing that back in the old days I finished both Diablos, BG2 and most of the TRs in record time. Tsk.
2. Doing all my homework on time. This is a first for me, and I'm crossing all fifty of my fingers that I keep it up.
3. Playing with my puppy still makes me happy (I'm always afraid that my happiness will go away one day when I get used to him being around all the time).
4. I have The Darjeeling Limited, Shaun of the Dead, Across the Universe, No Country For Old Men, and Coffee and Cigarettes. I'm excited for almost all of them, especially the Jarmusch. I liked Dead Man a lot, and so I'm looking forward to this one. Shaun of the Dead is automatically great because it has zombies in it. Oh, I love zombies.
5. Coyote's beard has messed all of mankind up! That still makes me laugh.
6. I'm happy and I'm happy I'm happy.
March 2nd, 2008
What a stud
Posted by machiavelli03 at 06:30 PM on March 2, 2008.
My baby's workin' the strut
March 1st, 2008
Say Hi to Boomi
Posted by machiavelli03 at 08:19 PM on March 1, 2008.
This is my little baby Boomi, an 8-week old male Shih Tzu whose favorite toy is a furry stuffed cat. He likes to run around and slide across the tiles to then skid to a halt, then go run around again. He's still a little baby and sometimes cries a little so we pick him up and wrap him in his nice, warm towel and have him fall asleep in our laps.
Yes, he's adorable.
February 29th, 2008
Mutherfuther
Posted by machiavelli03 at 06:32 PM on February 29, 2008.
Hello Mutherfuthers. It's been a while, and that's because I've had a weird, hard to describe experience regarding how my life is going.
I am doing very well, though. I am very happy, almost content (which is how I always am) and am very drunk with life. I'm on a high, I guess, as those lame people say.
First things first: I'm botching this semester, but I seem to be doing okay enough. My religious studies class is AWESOME but some days I feel like spacing out and not taking notes which always ends up coming back to bite me in the ass.
My art class is a pain in more than two ass cheeks, and my ENV class is a BORE. Literature, on the other hand, was a disappointment =( I am very very depressed at the fact that I didn't get to take Dr. Diken's class this semester because I didn't really know I would get to have the car by then. Awfulness. I want to cry. This class was made for people who a) love to type and b) love to regurgitate information as though it wasn't masticated at all.
So yeah, um, this semester kinda sucks but I guess it's okay. I have better classes next sem.
Shinjuku (which you all remember is my sexy red beast) is doing fine, I have had to scrape snow/ice off him already, and we fared very well in the snow-paved streets of Wyomissing. Mazdas are awesome.
I haven't seen too many cool movies lately except I FINALLY got to see 'Howl's Moving Castle' and 'Spirited Away' by Hayao Miyazaki and those were grrrreat. I loved 'Princess Mononoke' and for sure the other two I saw were cooool beans, too. I saw 'Paprika' which is by Satoshi Kon and that was fantastic. It took the concept of 'The Cell' and just ran with it, turning it into a much better platform. Also, '3:10 to Yuma'. Fantastic acting, although, um, everyone knows I drool over the mere thought of Christian Bale, so yeah.
I read some great graphic novels, two of them by Alan Moore. I read 'Watchmen' which is probably the only thing that I would say rivals 'The Dark Knight Returns' by Frank Miller. And we all know I love Frank Miller. Like for serious though, 'Watchmen' has a very distinct quality about it. I especially LOVE chapter 4, the one dedicated to physics, philosophy and religion. I suspect it was based off the watchmaker argument, but we'll see. I need to reread it. Oh and chapter 6 has the most fantastic psychological foundation.
Right, um, what else. Oh, I think we're getting a puppy tomorrow (Yay) and we don't know what to name it. On the top of MY list, though is: Panda (short for Pandavas), Kaurava, Ninja, Momo, Mirko, Ube, Wandy, and Platzchen.
Yes, I know. They're all slightly weird names. The first two you may recognize from The Mahabharata.
Will update in a few hours. Bad tummyache.
February 2nd, 2008
Stomp the Yardstick
Posted by machiavelli03 at 07:23 PM on February 2, 2008.
Every weekend, I have this one big thing that I attend to, and everything else is just a minor notch in my planner. This weekend, it's driving up to Allentown to look at my sister's painting in some museum/gallery, and it's exciting. I have to wake up early tomorrow to work out, and go see it before I start doing actual work (eating through 20something pages of useless nonsense about mediterranean art this time).
My weekend's been a fairly relaxing one so far. Yesterday was fun, although pretty hectic (but I did accomplish what I sought to do, and that's get burgundy highlights). Today was spent mostly on the couch eating cereal and just trying to get some rest before doing stuff that tires me out for the rest of the week again. I can't believe I did it, but I watched 'Step Up' for breakfast and then 'Stomp the Yard' for lunch. I didn't take the pains to rent the movies, they were just on Starz and that was kind of funny that they were showing all these dance movies. 'Step Up' was okay, I wouldn't watch it again, but 'Stomp the Yard' I might, just because it was actually pretty fun. It was a nice break from watching all that artsy fartsy nonsense I'm sometimes forced to endure... I won't even mention the last one I had to sit through and pretend I appreciated. Yuck. Actually wait, I think I passed out the last time someone tried to force me to watch an 'art' piece.
But yeah, watching those movies made me feel like dancing again. I loooove to dance. I think this is because I love movement in general, and I get so absorbed in how beautiful and primitive dance can be. From the days of our ancestors where they used dance to communicate to the gods to present day expression of strong feeling, dance is simply a language in itself.
I miss hanging out with my favorite people and dancing to whatever, being free enough to just relax and listen to some music and just... move. Ahhh. I want to go dancing again so bad. Last year I was in San Francisco watching some people breakdancing and that was exhilarating. I have yet to try breaking, and when I get strong enough (like not faint everytime I do something strenous) I'll try it out.
So tonight I'm staying home and watching Pollock with Roux, hopefully it doesn't kill me with boredom. I've taken up some ground with 'Of Love and Other Demons' and I'm crossing my toes that I finish it. I really want to finish something and break out of this weird incapacity to focus on anything.
But yes, that's all there is. Tomorrow's going to be fun and I hope I finish all the useless crap I have to write. Urgh. Not to mention color in this giant map of Africa and label all the countries... Why couldn't we do Asia instead?
I'm off to play The Sims, now. Toodles.
P.S. I was driving around in the Ford today and I realized how different handling on cars can be. That was kind of unnerving.
Yuck
Posted by machiavelli03 at 06:33 AM on February 2, 2008.
I'm in bed, it's 9:30 in the morning and I haven't hit the gym yet. I have nothing to say except that last night was cool, except I was passing out. Which wasn't too bad. It was still okay.
My hair's got burgundy highlights in it now, and it's the shiz. I love it. It's so anime, but whatev.
I should get up, get breakfast, shred some confidential crap, and then write my awful homework up.
I hate to say this, but I feel so good I think I just want to lay in bed and relish the awesomeness of this feeling.
Oh dear oh dear oh dear, this feeling is so familiar but I just NEVER learn.
January 30th, 2008
Minsan
Posted by machiavelli03 at 09:13 PM on January 30, 2008.
Di ko naalala kelan yung last time na nag-blog ako in Tagalog, or at least in some part. Ganito naman ang stream of consciousness ko eh. I never fully think in English or Tagalog lang. Minsan nga pictures lang mga naiisip ko na may voice over. So kung English/Tagalog nazi kayo, eh... wag na lang.
Wala lang. Minsan iniisip ko, ano na ba ginagawa ko sa buhay ko? Because of the fact na ang dami kong sagot sa sarili kong tanong, I guess the real answer is: I don't know.
Kanina pa ako dito sa bed, nakahiga lang, nag-iisip.
Nakatanong na siguro ako ng 20 questions sa sarili ko at nakaisip ng 100 scenarios at nag-reminisce ng about 30 fond memories. Bakit ganun, parang ang lonely ng pakiramdam ng ang dami mong tanong tungkol sa mga bagay na nakaraan na, na parang nahihilo ka kasi bakit ganun, ang labo bigla nung mga nangyari.
Tapos yun, naalala ko lang na kasi, ever since sumakit yung dibdib ko ng sobra, naisip ko ok lang yan, sige lang.
Kung gagawan ko pa ng analogy:
Ganito yun. Diba mahilig ako mag-gym? Minsan nasa treadmill ako or some work out station tapos makikita ko na 164 strides per minute ako. So ang gagawin ko, tatakbo ako ng hanggang 180 strides per minute kahit masakit sa dibdib ko. Pero ok lang, sige lang. And ganun lang ako hanggang matapos. 180 strides per minute for 30 minutes.
Ay alam niyo, wag na lang. Narealize ko na sad talaga ako, pero ayoko na magkwento kasi... basta. Nadedepress ako. Hormones.
