Joy needs (those tagging things).

Here's another one:

Type your name into Google with the word needs in quotes. For example: "(your name here) needs". Write the first 10 results in a note and tag friends.

1. Joy needs tragedy. (No, thank you)
2. Joy needs a better understanding of the nature of evil. (Oh, believe me, I know it already.)
3. Joy needs to take a lesson and step to the back of the line. (probably)
4. Joy needs prayers. (Don't we all?)
5. Joy needs no translator of Flickr.
6. Joy needs a new storyline in general. (Agree.)
7. Joy needs new ingredients.
8. Joy needs jokes. (Yes. I need to have some fun.)
9. Joy needs 11th hour help. (Yes to that again.)
10. (If) Joy needs to apologize for a single facetious adjective, then I think you need to apologize for the baby-eating jokes... (haha)

Here's one from me:

1. Joy needs something new. She has a lot of things to do but yet, she's bored.
   

Hypnotise

1. Put your music player on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button (ONLY ONCE!!!) to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS - even if it is incredibly embarrassing.
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1) IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY...
Breakdown by Mariah Carey (what a pity)

2) WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
Blister in the Sun by Violent Femmes

3) WHAT DO YOU LOOK FOR IN A GUY/GIRL?
Underneath it All - No Doubt (Real beauty is on the inside!)

4) HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
I Need You Bad - Jasmine Sullivan (dedicated to Miguel... as in San Miguel Light)

5) WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
Glitter in the Air - Pink

6) WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Love and Peace or Else - U2 (exactly.)

7) WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Jigsaw Falling Into Pieces - Radiohead (oh that's nice)

8) WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
The Saints Are Coming - U2 (yeah yeah... help is on the way! haha)

9) WHAT IS 2+2?
Metanoia - MGMT

10) WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Use Somebody - Kings of Leon (haha)

11) WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Better than Me - Hinder (sana... ;p)

12) WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Girl from the Gutter - Kina (actually, no.)

13) WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
King for a Day - Greenday (Yeah!)

14) WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Ang Huling El Bimbo - Eraserheads (hahahahaha)

15) WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Leech - Incubus (hahahaha! hanggang ngayon, PAL parin. Palamunin!)

16) WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Lights Out - Santogold (Yeah, I probably wouldn't slow dance)

17) WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Name - Goo Goo Dolls (aaaaw. puede)

18) WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Videotape - Radiohead (puede... in relation to films)

19) WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Alkohol - Eraserheads (hahahahahahaha anobah)

20) WHAT'S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
Pretend That You're Alone - Keane (nooooooooooh)

21) HOW WILL YOU DIE?
Rehab - Rihanna (aaaah, Good Girl Gone Bad)

22) WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - U2 (ba't parang sakto halos lahat)

23) WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
The World That We Live In - The Killers

24) WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
Everybody's Changing - Keane

25) WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
Who's Going Home With You Tonight - Trapt (I guess, whirlwind)

26) WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
Straight Lines - Silverchair (Pang Final Destination)

27) DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
Still - 98 Degrees (still... wala!)

28) IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
Whatever it Takes - Leona Lewis (hmmm... I would've wanted my brother to live longer)

29) WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
You and Me - Lifehouse (yaiks)

30) WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
Hypnotise - Bjork & Paul Oakenfold

WHERE I've been spending my time online

So it's been a while since my last blog post and clearly, I haven't gotten over the Twilight mania then. Well, I have now! Thank God! And after reading the books again and again, I realized that they weren't written that well. Not just grammar and style-wise but the whole thing like character establishment and what not. The only thing that probably got me hooked was (yeah you guessed it) Edward Cullen's character. He's such a dream. I can't wait for the next two movies (make them better, please!).

I'm online most of the time either via mobile or computer but the reason I haven't been blogging the past month is because... I didn't feel like writing. There's enough stuff online that kept me preoccuppied like surfthechannel (thank you to whever thought of this), justjared / perezhilton, and facebook. Most of the time was spent on surfthechannel because I was catching up on episodes of TV shows that I missed.

Now that I'm done catching up, I'm back here wasting my time. My blogs are not so much for whoever is interested to read them. They're actually for me. I like looking back, reading previous posts and remembering that time of my life when the posts were written.

I used to keep a journal when I was younger, only they didn't contain chronicles of my life but essays on whatever I was thinking of during that time. I just found the one I had in 1999 when I was cleaning up my stuff in the attic. I realized I used the word WHY in a lot of the titles. I had entries there titled, "Why I think Erap Wouldn't Make It," followed by, "Why Kevin is the Best Backstreet Boy." The last entry in that journal was an essay I submitted with the ACET application in response to a question included in the forms. The title: "What I can contribute to the Ateneo." Hahahahahaa! I didn't fulfill my promises. I didn't contribute anything! The society is not in a better state now, even when I'm already done with my Ateneo education.

It's not over yet, though, until my last breath. Who knows, I might do something really life-changing for myself and for others in the future... then again I could be too lazy to even bother. Hahaha

OMFG. Guuuuuuuuuh.

1. Shooting Twilight (around April - June 2008)















2. Promoting Twilight (around November 2008)

3. DECEMBER 2008

Ohmygush (gush talaga!) Love the new hair! :-)

Because I'm Ms. Brightside

I know I promised that I'll try to be a positive thinker for the most part and find fulfillment in whatever I have now but I can't help recognizing a similar sentiment in this book I'm reading (and it isn't Twilight!).

The waitress brings his coffee. Takashi adds cream, clanks his spoon around in the cup, and drinks.

Then he says, "To tell you the truth, this is the first time in my life I've ever wanted to study something seriously. I've never had bad grades. They weren't especially good, but they weren't bad, either. I could always get the point of things where it really mattered, so I could always manage with the grades. I'm good at that. Which is why I got into a pretty good school, and if I keep up what I'm doing now, I can probably get a job at a pretty good company. So then I'll probably make a good marriage and have a pretty good home... you see? But now I'm sick of the whole thing. All of a sudden."

After Dark, Haruki Murakami

Well, I look at life as if it's a really long road trip. At one point it becomes tiring, wearying and discomforting but it's a whole lotta fun when you're surrounded by the people you love. Maybe it'll be helpful for me to forget about the destination for a while, and just enjoy the ride. I'll get there when I get there. But get where exactly? I don't know.

If people ask me how I see myself 5, 10, 20 years from now, I'll probably be able to give a rather good answer because I'm good at coming up with answers to anticipated questions (haha). 5 years from now I'll be 30, living independently, enjoying a successful career, about to start a family with a good blah blah blah

Truthfully, though, this is the only answer I can come up with right now: I don't really know where I'll be XX years from now but I'm pretty sure my life won't suck because I won't allow it.

How's that for positivism? :-)

Love Hurts

It's 2 a.m. and I'm not even sleepy at all. anyway, don't be fooled by the title. this post has nothing to do with love.


just learned that Incubus' song Love Hurts is somewhere in the top 10 of billboard's modern rock chart this week. HELLO! That song is from the Light Grenades album and it's 2 years old.

It's also one of the band's suckiest songs in my opinion. Having that song out makes them compare more with bands like the click five or boys like girls rather than the foo fighters or audioslave. Having that song also makes them unfit to play european rock festivals (which they've been playing every year). As if the crowd needs more reasons to throw stuff and boo them. they should leave the whiny, cheeseball songs to the new bands.

How can you play right before Metallica or Rage with a song that goes "Love hurts but sometimes it's a good hurt and if feels like I'm alive... without love i won't survive".

Heck, I'm finding it hard to believe that this songwriter is the same one who wrote Megalomaniac.


Brandon, may I have a word with you?

haha ang hindi makatulog, nag-rant. I just hate to see my favorite bands deviate from the very reasons i liked them in the first place.

although there's really nothing we fans can do if the band we like wants to take another direction. they're going to find new listeners that will appreciate their music and we can turn attention to other bands as well.

crap crap crappy!!!

PLDT DSL sucks! I swear! in the morning, up until mid afternoon, connection is perfect... fast and then come night time, it just stops. so what if I'm this close to finishing my downloads? i'll try apain tomorrow?

i need my internet in the evening!!! it just doesnt make sense, lalo na pag weekdays because nobody's home during daytime to use the Internet. Wtf naman kasi. ugh.

(via mobile)

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Anyway, here's another something from Pareng Chuck:

"When you go out with a drunk, you'll notice how a drunk fills your glass so he can empty his own. As long as you're drinking, drinking is okay. Two's company. Drinking is fun. If there's a bottle, even if your glass isn't empty, a drunk, he'll pour a little in your glass before he fills his own.

This only looks like generosity."

--------> haha may kilala kong ganyan! and I'm not referring to myself :-)

Hysteria is just impossible without an audience.

I imagine myself being photographed in a studio.

The photographer in my head says: Give me patience.

Flash.

Give me control.

Flash.

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Let me tell you a story of a girl who cried a river and drowned the whole world... well, not really.

*9 deleted paragraphs later*

I actually went out of my way to see how she was and asked if there's anything we should improve on to make things more efficient. She went to say her piece and I offered my perspective, too.

Afterwhich, I said, "I hope you understand where I'm coming from." And this girl I was talking to said, "No. I know where you are."

So now there's an issue? Well, I think I'm too old for your issues. Save the drama (for your mama).

This is on Multiply but not in Facebook.

Last week, we had the privilege of meeting (and sharing a drink with) Anthony Bourdain -- chef, writer, host and rockstar of the culinary world.

Extremely good-looking, charming, nice, smart and really funny. This didn't come up in the interviews he did here but have any of you seen the Romania episode yet? Freaky! He and his friend went to this creepy dracula-themed resto and they couldn't find anything good to eat. They also went to a cemetery where they write (and illustrate) the cause of death in the tombstones. Anobuzz. He also said that people there weren't friendly at all.

Talking about Lechon: "Pigs... they have a really sad life... The saddest lives. They're just ready to die!"

Hahahaha!

I gotta know what you think, so I can get you to think what I think.

The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.


Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters