"We've spent so much time and effort searching for the things that bring us happiness, and yet nothing seems enough.
Now, why is it so hard to be happy?
It's because we refuse to let go of the things that make us sad."
The sky is a perfect blue color, bright against the vivid green of the trees outside. I've just woken up from a wonderfully refreshing nap. The air is calm, the last hours of sunshine seeping through my window.
It's a beautiful Saturday afternoon.
Except for the atrocity happening in the small park in front of our house.
There is some sort of party, like a program or something. They've given a microphone to a chipmunk. And the music - the LOUD music - they're playing... That must be the soundtrack from HELL.
I ABHOR FILIPINO NOVELTY SONGS!!!!!!!!
I am not against Filipino music. On the contrary, I love Pinoy rock. We have a lot of bands with so much talent it's a shame they don't have the means to go worldwide, unlike some pesky generic boybands. But these novelty songs... The one "popular" now, Boom Tarat-Tarat, is just so f@&$^#&^ s@*$(&(@$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hate it! I absolutely hate it! It's a stupid stupid song. They should ban songs like that because I can actually feel my IQ dropping to a negative every time I hear it. It's everywhere! There's like, no escaping it.
These songs, they say, are for the "masa", the masses. Okay, I get that. That's a huge market. But that's like, underestimating the intelligence of the masses. Sure, they are not up there when it comes to economic status, but I am sure there are a lot of intelligent people amongst them. And these people who make and sing these stupid stupid novelty songs degrade that intelligence. I mean, the songs have no meaning at all!
Meaning of importance, I mean.
There was this one some time back called Spaghetti. It was so popular especially with kids. It even has its own dance move, and adults even encourage kids to dance it on programs and stuff! My goodness! If only I could find a clip on YouTube of that dance move... It is so disgusting. It's like a move of when you're having sex. It's just awful and demeaning to have children do that. We can't blame the kids because they don't understand the lyrics and the moves. It's shrouded in that "double meaning" cover - sounds innocent, but really isn't. And they wonder why there's still child prostitution and incest and sexual abuse happening especially in impoverished communities. Because they feel the people in those communities this crap. They are not stupid. Money does not equate to brains. If we give them better quality stuff, then maybe this country wouldn't be going to the dogs.
Quotes about love from movies/shows...
"If you love someone, you say it right then out loud or the moment just passes you by..."
"When you find that person you want to spend the rest of your life with, you want the rest of your life to begin right away."
"If two people are meant for each other, it doesn't mean that they are meant for each other now."
"The only feeling of loss is when you love someone more than you love yourself."
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I love this show mainly because I love supernatural stuff. You know, like witches and stuff, hence my addiction to Harry Potter. I think that it's a really good show, not at all cheesy or cliched. Although there were some episodes that made me go like, "What were they thinking?!" But mostly it's a thrill to watch. Supernatural is in the middle of its second season now. I loved the first season - it's full of action. This second season has been pretty okay, but I still kind of have to get to the emotional stuff. They're really concentrating on the two boys' emotions.2.
Of course, Jared Padalecki is so so so adorable!
Ah, the show with the most number of seasons I've completed. I enjoyed every minute of it though. This show started when I was in first year high school. I loved it because it's about a superhero, not another teen drama. Although this can be considered as one of those (it's Superman in his teens!) , it's a hundred times more exciting because here we see the struggle of someone so unique, an alien from outer space, but the most human of all. Of course, there's the allure of the superpowers, too! Especially in the fifth season, I really felt the pain of being torn - should he tell Lana, or shouldn't he? He is the strongest guy in the world, and ironically, the weakest because of his heart. The song of Five for Fighting is really true: it's not easy to be Superman.
At first, I really didn't want to watch this show. Then one day I had nothing to do so I sat on for one episode... and it got me totally hooked. It's a unique story, a guy who got himself imprisoned by will in order to get his brother out. It's crazy, but really touching at the same time. I mean, loving your brother that much that you're willing to get yourself in that situation. I've said in previous posts, the plot of this show, the execution of the plans, the plans themselves... it's plain genius. I don't know how the writers came up with it. It's so intricate and meticulously planned out. it's like nothing I've seen before. Although season two is starting to bore me, I can't wait after their hiatus. The last episode showed a great deal of promise.
Save the cheerleader. Save the world.
This is by far the coolest show I've ever seen. It's kind of like X-Men, ordinary people suddenly manifesting superhuman abilities. But what makes it great is that it's not just some ordinary rip-off. The characters are all connected somehow, not just because of their commonality of having "powers", but they are connected and are somehow brought together to serve one purpose (not to join the X-Men, no). They don't go around in uniforms and fly in jets. They really are ordinary people, and that's the beauty of it. You really have to see it to get what I mean.
Started watching this at around the start of its second season. I used to not fancy medical drama... or any heavy drama. (That's why the OC and One Tree Hill isn't in this list...but I plan to watch those, just to see what they've got) With House, the drama isn't that suffocating because Dr. House has got an adorable sarcastic humor. Without that, this show would be nothing. He's the best doctor there is. The only challenge is putting up with him. And the characters' personalities are very different and very strong. You can really see their uniqueness, unlike in other dramas where the characters are almost identical. Summary: Dr. House is the person you'll love to hate because he's arrogant but he's always (99% of the time at least) right.
Perfect example for my Sociology-anthropology class. The stranded formed a society and some sort of government to survive. There are leaders who protect the followers.
Okay, enough of the lecture. Exciting. The first word that comes up when asked to describe Lost. There's that question people with nothing to do love to ask, "If you were stranded on an island, who would you want to be with?" Well, the people in Lost would say, "not with a polar bear on a tropical island that feasts on human flesh!" This is a great show, very attention grabbing. I get an adrenaline rush while watching this. Season three is a tad annoying already. Hopefully their hiatus will bring better results.
It's like the stereotype of "ugly", with glasses and braces. But I don't think Betty is ugly. She just needs a makeover and a wardrobe update. I really want to be like her, you know, working in a top magazine. That has always been my dream. She's really talented and creative and responsible and confident and intelligent and kind. I would love to be all that than be plastic anorexic barbie without a brain. I mean, all that can be achieved by plastic surgery. All the others, you have to be born with. And of course, I love Cinderella stories. :)
As I said, I love supernatural stories. This is so cool and unique because the TAPS team tries to debunk and disprove the claim of "hauntings". Although I loved the show Scariest Places on Earth, in hindsight, they tried too hard to make the show appear scary with that eerie voice of that announcer dude/kid (I never really found out)... What I like about Ghost Hunters is their scientific approach to the supernatural. They really want proof if there's really a haunting or something. They show all the technical stuff - the set up, the recordings, all that. Unlike in S.P.O.N., the camera would just be there in the room, and they claim the participants are alone. Ghost Hunters is really honest with their work. I can't wait 'til the next season. I'm kind of disappointed that the third season only had 10 episodes and a live one.9.
Amanda Bynes is just hilarious. She's my favorite female actress among the "teens" (although she's already 20). She's just natural and laid back and oh so funny. In this show, she's a bit annoying. She wants everything to go her way and bails out when everything's not perfect anymore. But it's a lovely show about sisterhood and friendship and relationships. And did I say it's hilarious?
Another one to make you fart due to nonstop laughing. It's about a dad who's telling his kids about how he met their mother. The thing is, he started from the very very very beginning. It's already the second season and still we haven't met the mother! But it's worth the watch, every episode is.
I was really curious about this one. Everywhere I go on the net, there's just so much hype about this program. Even on TV. So I tried watching it, and I liked it. It's different. The concept of a perfect looking street which is inhabited by people with dark secrets and shady pasts is marvelous. The acting is superb, and each episode just leaves you wanting to know what's next. Also, the voice-over thingy always manages to summarize everything in really beautiful and witty words.
This is a Taiwanese show. It's pretty popular even in the west. It's about this group of four guys who are from very rich and very influential families. They're called F4 and they're actually a singing group (which is uh...whatever). So anyway, their "leader"'s family owned their school and then he encountered this girl who went against him and so the story starts. At first he wanted to bash her head in but then they fell in love but the girl is poor so his mom didn't approve blah blah blah... It's the usual Cinderella story, but this one is just...good.
A Korean comedy! It's so cute and so funny! It's about this poor girl (again. easterners just love this kind of story, don't we?) who was hired by this rich guy to be his "long lost cousin" or something just so his grandpa won't die. It's kind of weird, but the girl is really really funny! Of course there's heavy drama towards the end which I didn't like much, but still it's worth a watch.
I've got to fix mine.
Or maybe I should just change my sleep patterns.
Here I am again, after vowing to be asleep by midnight, typing away at one in the morning. I've got a 7:30am class later which I'd probably be too sleepy to digest. Then I've got an hour to sleep before the next class. Before I know it, I'd be home again, and glad to be, so I'd catch the sleep that I'm missing right now. Then I'd be wide awake again this time of night tomorrow, and it just goes on and on...
I was supposed to do some research tonight, but I didn't, 'coz I woke up at 9pm.
I am such an oversleeper.
I really need to stop sleeping and get some work done!
Now I understand what my previous professor said about sleeping for the sake of sleeping not because you need to sleep.
"We choose how we see people. When we want to like someone, we can be so tolerant. When we want to be irritated by people, we focus on their faults. it's not other people's behavior that determines how we feel about them - it's our attitude."
Okay, I planned to be asleep by 2Am which was an hour and fifteen minutes ago. At around 1:30, as I was joyfully breezing through Issue #8 of Superman & Batman comics, there were several disturbances. One was the noticeably slow speed of the computer. When I tried to go to the next page, the computer would seize up for a few seconds. I thought it was because I was transferring files to another disk.
But then windows of Internet Explorer started popping up. That's when I knew there was trouble.
I then saw at the bottom right corner, a toolbar? Whatever that's called, there was a big red X mark. I right-clicked it and it said that my computer was infected. Great. There was this BraveSentry anti-virus software working on it so I wasn't that panicked. But when I clicked the button to remove the infected files, it asked me to buy a license.
Great. At the time of crisis, all it does is ask you to buy a license.
So I found this AVG thing which is also some sort of anti-virus. It worked well. I managed to delete the infected files. But my desktop background remained white. I clicked on its properties and tried to change it back to the Christmas tree but it wouldn't budge! I tried several times, even refreshed it several times but it stayed the same. So I thought I'd just reboot it and it would all go back to normal.
I learned that I was wrong.
I restarted the computer and it did spring back to life, only to restart again when it got to the point where the desktop can be seen already. So it just kept on restarting and restarting and restarting...
Goodness.
Why did they even invent computer viruses?! It's bad enough to have them in the atmosphere or wherever in the physical world. Why let them invade cyber space?!
I so wish we have a superhero for that.
Thank goodness for Google and Gmail or else I would lose all the pictures I have in Drive C.
My brother told me that I'm a late bloomer. I should have been reading comic books when my age was still a single digit number, but I didn't. I was busy reading Sweet Valley Kids and Goosebumps back then.
Add ten years to that and here I am, browsing through the issues of Superman&Batman like a little kid. It's awesome. I don't know why I've never done this before.
I also plan to sort through my brother's comic book collection, once I have lots of free time.
Right now I'm just procrastinating.
So, another ordinary day is about to end. I actually understood something in S.A. which is quite a breakthrough for me. Again, I sucked at volleyball. Nothing new there. I just hope against hope that I don't fail Physical Ed. That would suck like a wormhole. History, as usual, was fun. There's nothing like dousing a really boring topic with a little bit of my prof's anecdotes. I don't really know how he gets all those funny stuff. I don't really know how he can make a fool of himself so many times.
Well, okay, I can imagine that. Just awhile ago, as I was going back to mainland from P.E., this guy was staring at me and kind of...almost smiling. You get that look? I was thinking, what the hell is your promblem?! Then I thought, maybe there's dirt on my shirt. I looked down, and saw the problem.
There's a gaping hole on my shorts brought to you by my faulty zipper which broke again.
Why do I even wear that pair of shorts?!
This is the second time. It's sooo embarrassing! Lucky have a long t-shirt so I just pulled it over the atrocity. Still, I wanted to smack the look off of that guy's face.
I realized that I dressed like John Cena awhile ago. I was wearing the Hustle Loyalty Respect t-shirt, long shorts like his (only mine are brownish), and low-cut white sneakers. Throw in the Chain Gaing cap, a couple of wristbands and the WWE Championship belt and the look's complete.
I should've done the You Can't See Me thing awhile ago to that guy.
'Cause I really wished he didn't see me and that zipper accident.
As I sit here stuck in heavy traffic, I came up with five big reasons why I'm so thankful that my professor lost her voice half an hour before the end of class so she let us go early.
1. Saved from the quiz!
2. Need to use toilet real bad.
3. Sooo sooo hungry...
4. Brain malfunction due to no sleep.
5. No sleep due to current X-Men obssession.
I so can't wait to get home.
I have planned to spend my weekend researching and writing a paper. Of course, there's a relax period set somewhere too. I wanted to finally finish watching X-Men: Evolution yesterday so that I can finally move on to work.
I did. It was wonderful! I never knew I'd find a cartoon character hot. After the finale, I craved for more. So I searched for other X-Men animations. I found out about X-Men the Animated Series. It's the one where they're all grown up. It really interested me a lot, because the stories of the movies, of Evolution, and of the animated series all vary from the original story of the comics. That's what lead me to my new conquest: to read all the X-Men comics that was ever published.
Due to the supposed earthquake in Taiwan that sent all Internet connections to drop in speed, downloading and uploading these days is trully hell. So since yesterday, I've been downloading X-Men stuff, until today. It takes so damn long! But I know it'll be worth it.
This summer break I'm going to spend about two weeks just raeding every issue of X-Men. I wanna know everything. You know, just in case they decided to put out a fourth movie, then I can point at the screen and say, "That's bullcrap! It's not how the comics went!" Because during the third movie, my friend was doing the same thing and I kept on asking her why and how it really happened.
So now, 45 minutes left on this day, I'm finally starting on my research. Teehee.
