The power of the sun, in the palm of my hand
What do you do when you're bored at work, Megamall is only a couple of blocks away from your office, and your boss scoots off after lunch? Why, be the first in line to see
the new Spider-Man movie of course!
So I saw
Spider-Man 2 during my lunch break (which took almost four hours). To borrow the term we used in high school for sneaking out, nag-ninja ako. (I don't know what I love more about the term, the way it uses 'ninja' as a verb, or just because I think the word 'ninja' is inherently funny. Ninja! Ninja! Ninja!)
I thought I was off scot-free when, on the way back, the torrents came down and drenched me all over. Back at the office, everyone probably just assumed that I was stuck in the rains which was why it took me so long to get back. Still doesn't explain the presence of my new Spidey tumbler.
As for the movie, I thought it was really amazing. I wasn't blown away like I was with the first movie, but that's only because I already saw the first movie and I had some idea of what to expect. To borrow a term from
Ten Things I Hate About You, I was just whelmed.
But it was a flawless movie, and I really don't have anything bad to say about it. Sam Raimi even threw in a Kirsten-Dunst-in-a-wet-dress scene to keep guys like me happy. The only big distraction for me was Mary Jane's hair; Kirsten Dunst should have kept the wig, that had a better color than her hair in this movie, which looked like a cheesy spaghetti sauce shade of orange.
Just watch out for the amazing sequence on the elevated train. And the final battle against Doc Ock *and* the Goblin, that shit was crazy. Oh, and the hints of Venom for the third movie...
So we really are invading the web...
And I didn't expect it to happen this soon. Only four days after
Mr. Web Presence himself announced the presence of Pisay98 blog, 15 members are now part of the blog and there are now six posts. Yes, six post; I know it's small, and maybe the rate of posting is dwarfed by
nikki's. But the invasion is happening at the back of Pisay98's main blog. Our batchmates are slowly being pulled to the dark side of the blog world. (cue background music:
The Empire music). Tseri just started her
sakura mind speaks (whoops), and Jem may have found another
place to put his legendary WTF List.
Got a blog, and you want to add it to our blog roll? Just email
me or
jaemark. Your blog is on our blog roll, and you want it taken out? do the same!
Php5.50 worth of hell
I have a big problem with the Php5.50 jeepney fare.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for the jeepney fare increase. I think it's only fair. I had always thought that by not increasing the fare earlier, we're not getting as much out of it as much as what is being lost by the jeepney drivers. And I always had a problem with oil deregulation; you could find a bunch of arguments about the topic, but to me it's a matter of the government letting jeepney drivers shoulder losses that oil companies are not willing to take.
But all of that's beside the point. Here's my beef with the jeepney fare being Php5.50:
IT'S FRICKING 5.50!!!
There have been many theories about why the the prices have been increased to Php5.50, the most popular being that the President was playing politics with the jeepney drivers and throwing them a bone in exchange for their support. But why Php5.50?
Personally, I think the higher-ups are screwing with the jeepney drivers. Could you imagine being a jeepney driver at 6 in the afternoon, rush hour in Cubao? Your jeep is packed tighter than Diana Zubiri's tube top, the MMDA officer is leering at you like you're Joyce Jimenez, the dude beside you has worse B.O. than your favorite Bumbay, it looks like it's going to rain, and everyone else around you is driving like a maniac (it's always their fault). You're handed a twenty and a fifty, one's for three fares and the other's for five. Quick, how much do you give back to each? No calculators or pens, and no counting with fingers, either. And you still have to *actually* drive and get the people to where they're going safely, remember?
I'm thinking about it, and it makes *my* head hurt. And I used to go out with a physicist.
I really hope the prices for oil don't increase anymore, for the sake of the poor drivers. If they ask for another price increase, the government could really fuck them up for good. Like, peg the fare at Php6.75.
Videoke this Saturday (07/03/04)
videoke tayo this saturday. :)
gusto ko sana sa may megamall, yung encore encore. dati kasi, nag-videoke kami dun. 12nn-5p, P200 lang binayaran namin. may kasama na yung lunch at merienda. baka yung malapit lang sa megamall jan, check nyo naman. hehe! :)
pero kung ang trip nyong videoke ay yung mejo gabi na, dito na lang tayo sa may IO sa makati. hehe! o ano?
jem, we should sing endless love again. haha! :)
The WTF List Invades the Pisay98 Blog!
hark. this is jem, bringing you yet another dose of the web weirdness that is the WTF List -- this time in the Pisay98 blog site!
Friendster's boards aren't fit enough to showcase dose after dose of the dreck found on the web, so why don't we try for a shot here on the blogs? After all, the Pisay 98 dudes most of all should be entitled to a little anti-productivity now and then -- or, well, at least they ought to share in mine.
So without further adieu, i bring you the first edition of the WTF List on the Blogs -- your RDA-approved dose of insanity!
bananaphone! - watch this for an hour,
email me and i will send you a prize.
more bananaphone! - awesome flash story, paean to the bananaphone mania.
hadley's mathulator - attention chico. i think you'll like this.
trogdor, the burninator - burrrrninating the countryside!
P-P-P-Powerbook! - the most amazing prank ever. Long reading, but worth it.
bullet time fighting - matrix-style fight simulator. cool to the max.
somethingawful - living proof that the internet makes us stupid.
you must choose - no hedging. just a or b.
dubya's desktop - what? ol' dubya has a computer?
i like bukkake - in nagasaki! they like bukkake!
deep thoughts by jack handy - real deep.
so you've decided to be evil. - a step-by-step guide to joining the forces of darkness.
windows noises - sndrec32 rules!
ah, yes. another hour successfully dodging that thesis, or balance sheet, or business report, or whatever it is that you don't really want done. Dun dun dun, another one bites the dust! See y'all next week if I ain't dead!
My Excuses
My curiosity to try out new things made me sign up for a blogger account.
The Gmail craze kept me writing. (Ah, the things i did for a gmail). And now Pisay98 adds another line to my expanding list of excuses for blogging.
Pisay98 is about to invade the web, and It's good to be here when it happens. Now if only you could remember the password to our
domain, Jem Bunao.
This is Gamis. Blogging ON.
Invites
Blogger is still experiencing problems delivering invitations for blog memberships. I've sent invitations to the following people already:
- Aidz Angeles
- Mark Gamis
- Franklin
- Hannah
- Dale
- Aidz Angeles
- Celsus
- Jam
Let me know if you still haven't received the emails by tomorrow, so I could send them again.
Update The email thing seems to work better now... invites sent to Gmail still haven't been received though.
Shed a tear 'cuz I'm missin' you, I'm still alright to smile
I don't watch much MTV anymore, (only on Sundays for Newlyweds, Dismissed, and The Osbournes), so I was surprised the other day to see VJ Cindy Kurleto hawking a Guns N' Roses Greatest Hits collection.
I dunno, I love GNR and "November Rain" is probably my favorite music video of all time, but it just made me a little sad, not because they're old enough to have a greatest hits CD, but because fewer and fewer young people today know who they are. Remember a couple of years ago during the MTV Video Music Awards when Jimmy Fallon kept dropping GNR hints (even whistling "Patience") and nobody got it?
Today, we're more likely to witness this exchange:
"Wow, a Guns N' Roses Greatest Hits CD!"
"Guns N' Who?"
"Guns N' Roses. They were this greeaat heavy metal band from the '80s with a lunatic front man who flew around the stage during concerts and wore catsuits and bandanas. The rest of the band were just as outrageous. Some of their lyrics were profane and controversial, but their songs were really riot, man, with monster guitar solos and lots of screaming."
"Ooh. So they're like The Darkness?"
