Myths about dreams and PLDT sevice

I've read this thing about dreams somewhere, that if you died in your dreams, you die in real life.

WRONG!

As of today, i can recall 3 dreams where I died. One when I was I kid, I had this kung fu dream thingamajig. I used to watch chinese martial arts series in betamax every night with my mom. I think I was killed by a wooden mukojin-ish creature in that dream.

The second instance was when I drowned in a dream. For those of you who don't know, I don't swim very well XD. Probably because I have so much muscles in my body that I find it very difficult to float nyahaha. Thank god for life vests. It doesn't look macho but it's a lot better than screaming for dear life in the waters.

The third instance was when I was shot lolz. It was a weird counterstrike-ish dream. Couldn't help it. I was playing CS every night back in my second year in college so I was bound to have one of those dreams. That was a cool dream though. It felt so Tom Clancy-ish. XD Although crouch-jumping around as you fire away with your H&K MP5 isn't so realistic...

If dying in real life is like one of those dreams I had, well it's not so bad. There's this deep sense of peace and tranquility as everything fades to black and the complete silence just surrounds you... Sounds like an episode from the twilight zone O.O *insert creepy music... turututu turututu... ching ching ching*

On a brighter note: The PLDT guys arrived today to repair my phone! Wow! That was pretty fast! I reported it just this monday. Kudos! *clap clap*

No internet again

The phoneline is busted again. So, no internet ><;;

Sunday Post, for the lack of a better title...

Holy shit! That yearbook is fuggin heavy! ><;; How many batchmates do we have anyway? Man, and to make it worse, i have to carry it around as i commute. Where's a transdimentional gateway (kafra) when you need one? Good thing I didn't meet one of my enemies yesterday, kilala nyo na kung sino yan mwhahaha, or i'd have a 20 pound book with his name on it, somewhere. I wonder why they named it Aegis? And on a related note, what does Aegis mean? O.o I guess it's one of the more cool sounding 5 letter words so it was used.

Yesterday was a pretty good day. Really had fun. Shanghai Bistro is one of the better Chinese restaurants out there. Affordable and delicious. Or maybe I was just hungry that time.. But then again, since when did my opinions on restaurants matter? I keep on suggesting Monaco for dinner but noooo... XD There's this place in GB3 called Fusion and they got really cozy seats. They got like a mattress on the floor that the group can sit on, got to take your shoes off though so better wear your good socks. Then.. Karaoke night at Red Box!

Sunday was pretty damn lazy. Woke up at 1030 or so, had lunch, then slept again till 4. Wow, the day sure went by pretty fast. After that, I went to SM San Lazaro to buy some pants. Great mall (since it just opened), but crappy arcade. They got posters of Tekken 5 but there's no tekken 5 machine. Bah.

Finally watched Van Helsing earlier tonight. What can i say.. the whole movie was a series of very fortunate events. I mean, the frakenstein just HAD to crash on the vampire attacking Kate Beckinsale, and Kate catched a vial thrown to her while she was swinging at high speed 30 feet in the air, etc etc. Action was pretty good so I'm satisfied.

Oh and I finished the Book 6 of Harry Potter too.

You don't know paranoid...

...until you rode in a car with my dad. (edit: muntik na magkamali, orignally "rode on a car with my dad" eh. tsk tsk. babanat ako ni kabo nyan, prang un "hair is on my way" ni mike =P)

Man! There i was, riding reasonably slow, (as in mabagal). But still, my dad has things to say. ><;; But this time, I'm more amused than irritated at his hirits. Medyo pilit na eh. Like when i was turning, he told me I should've slowed down (which I did), and when this bus was cutting me, he told me I should've stopped (which I also did). There was also an instance that he told me not to turn so wide (because I ended up in the 2-3rd lane when i turned). I was tempted to tell him that running over the pedestrians that are blocking the first few lanes isn't a good idea but decided to keep my mouth shut. Anyway, I drove at night so traffic wasn't too heavy. Charles, your suggestions worked lolz. My props to you! XD

last 5 books i've read

Here are the last 5 books i've read and my opinions about them, if by any chance you disagree, you're probably wrong.

1. Good Omens
This is one of the best books I've read. In fact, it is so good that I refused to finish it because I won't have anything this good to read anymore. This is just so damn funny and entertaining. It is about an angel and a demon who are best friends, the end of the world just around the corner, and a hellhound called "dog".

2. Life of Pi
Avoid this shit at all cost. I don't care if this is critically acclaimed or something, this is just downright sucky. Apparently, this book has some really deep philosphical insights in it, but the story is just waaaay crappy. IMO, the story always comes first. It should be entertaining and imaginative to keep me interested. This is why I also hated Da Vinci Code. Sigh, and I had such high hopes for this book. Crap Crap Crap.

3. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Again, one of the best books i've read. This one probably joins my top 3 books of all time, together with Good Omens and Solitaire Mystery. And again, this is just so damn funny. Great story, light reading, and very thick! Weeee! I'm not really a big fan of Isaac Asimov-ish Sci Fi, but this one is an exception. For those of you who watched the sucky h2g2 movie, don't worry. The book rocks!

4. Soul Forge
This is the story of the most badass wizard in the entire fantasy world, Raistlin Majere. Now Raistlin is a cool wizard, unlike the bunch of sissies in Hogwarts. Soulfroge is... ok. When it comes to Ad&d books (forgotten realms, dragonlance, ravenloft etc), I prefer to read R.A. Salvatore's books, the author of numerous Drizzt du Urden stories. Margaret Weis, the author of soulforge, is not very good in making fight scenes.

5. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
How many of you know this one? Anyway, I was really curious about this book, but I didn't buy it because it costs 600 bucks and is only around 200-300 pages. After a while, my sister bought it so yey, i get to read it. It was.. rather disappointing. I finished it, but mainly because I already started it. It's like watching a crappy movie begin, getting hooked up with the plot, wondering how it'll end, then realizing you wasted 2 hours of your life. It's about a genius mathematician kid who tries to find out who killed his neighbor's dog. Sucked.

PS> seven, peram naman ng clan novels! :D

Borrowing one from Charles's Blog, A math puzzle!

The Monty Hall Problem

You are on a game show on TV (yey!). On this game show, the idea is to win a car as a prize. The game show host shows you 3 doors. He says that there is a car behind one of the doors and there are goats behind the other 2 doors. He asks you to pick a door. You pick a door but the door is not opened. Then the game show host opens one of the doors you didn't pick to show a goat (because he knows what is behind the doors). THen he says you have one final chance to change your mind before the doors are opened and you get a car or a goat. So he asks you if you want to change your mind and pick the other unopened door instead. What would you do?

This question appeared in a column where readers ask a question to Marilyn vos Savant (the person with the highest IQ in the world accdg to the Guiness Book of World Records). 92% of the letters she got about the problem said that she was wrong, and these letters came from mathematicians and scientists worldwide.

But of course, she was right. She IS the smartest person in the world you know..

Nakz! Atenista nga!

Spongecola's new song "Gemini" is my current LSS, actually there's just one line in that song that keeps playing in my head over and over again:

This vacuous night steps aside to give meaning to Gemini's dreaming

Wowee! Deep! Albeit totally unnecessary. Maganda lang pakinggan kaya nilagay dyan ung "vacuous". Atenistang atenista nga, hilig maglagay ng mga big words XD

haaay, landline still broken ><

Disconnected

Landline is dead. No dialtone. So, no internet for me ><;;

Anyway, here i am, in an internet cafe in Masangkay, watching some noobs playing quake3. I would've whooped their asses but the server is already full. What a bunch of sissies. The other guy beside me is playing RO, whacking agriopes using his thief (whopdeedoo fun!).

Bah I'm bored.

I wonder when the PLDT repair guys will come fix our damn phone. The automated answering machine of the PLDT customer service informed me that a report has already been "filed" and service will be restored "as soon as possible". Very relative terms huh?

Hulk Smash Puny Wannabe's! (>_<#)

My cousin was browising through the friendster network and came across some guys who work out at the gym and upload half naked pictures of themselves.

So here is what I want to say to these "body builders" who upload their pix on Friendster.

Unless you're this guy:


Keep your damn shirt on you narcissitic prick! Are you so insecure of yourself that you have to upload some lame picture of you and your massels (which is how I assume you will spell muscles, you moron) to boost your self esteem? OK, so you have bulging massels. Good for you. But what is the point of uploading it aside from the fact that you are an egotistical bastard and doing so fuels your pride? Jeez. In lay-bodybuilder's terms "yabang mo tol".

Clarifications: I have nothing against gym enthusiasts / body builders who do not upload halfnaked pictures of themselves. Good job! /no1

Now reasons why only hulk can upload half naked pictures in friendster:
1.) He's kickass
2.) He can lift tanks
3.) No shirt fits him

So unless you can lift tanks, keep that shirt on.

The real world is not like NBA live 2005

Saturday. No good movie to watch, unless you want to pay 130php to watch Yao Ming's "success" story (hey, reaching the playoffs is quite a feat after all *snicker*). Well actually, there's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which is quite decent (daw). Anyway, what did we do? Well, being the athletic jocks that we are, we went to Rockwell to shoot some hoops.

Ahh, charles, kabo, tops, mike, and me. Time for some 2 on 3 action! Odd numbers suck LOL.

Wow. It's been ages since we last touched a basketball lolz. It took, i dunno, ten minutes at least before one of us can shoot the fuggin ball. Talk about skills. I really don't know what's wrong. I released the ball at the peak of my jump but still, it won't go in. Hmm, I guess i don't have the "3 point" icon on my feet ><;; Instead i have this "stinking pile of manure" icon. After at last getting our shooting rhythm (or should i say, each of us made at least 1 shot), these high school boys from the other court came to ask us if we want to play 5 on 5. Since we don't want to obliterate them with our obviously elite basketball skills, we humbly declined, told them to go home and eat more rice. To cut the long story short, after around 30 minutes of playing, we were forced out of the court because it was apparently "reserved", although no documents or identifications were shown. No big deal, being the elite basketball players that we are, we need no further practice.

MVP = tops. shooter amp LOL.

After that exercise, we went to Saisaki to pig out, gaining back any calories we might have burned, and left the restaurant a good 5 pounds heavier that when we came in. Artificial crab meat wrapped in bacon rox!

Filler entry

All I Ever Learned, I Learned from Anime

1. smart people wear glasses
2. music foreshadows plot
3. When you die, make a long speech, and don't finish the last sentence.
4. The best teams come in fives.
5. In space, you can hear everything.
6. The good guy always has the BLUE glow.
7. Speak quietly, pilot a big mech.
8. Vengeance with a mallet is the sweetest revenge of all.
9. The coolest weapon is still the sword.
10. School uniforms are cool only when the collar is open.
11. Never trust a huge corporation.
12. Sweating is a sure sign of stress.
13. The cute, fuzzy creature isn't what it seems
14. You can never have too many subplots.
15. All demons/monsters have enormous genitalia.

For the complete list, visit http://www.abcb.com/misc/latt_03.htm

Magdridrive ako hanggang... QC sports complex

Ok, last sunday was the first time I drove without my dad. My sister had to attend a children's party in QC sports complex. It'd be a hassle if she were to ask my dad to drive her to the venue because he had to hang around somewhere else till the party ends then return to fetch her. Actually, I didn't want to go to the children's party myself, so I dared her to ask if I can drive the car with my sister to the party. And to my surprise, my parents agreed. O.o

Not that I have anything against my parents, but it makes me pretty pissed off sometimes when they think of me as an incompetent fool who's going to crash the car on the first lamp post i see. They are also a believer of people materializing out of thin air and standing in front of your car. But then again, it doesn't hurt to be on the safe side. XD

The things I hate most on the road are bicycles, and any variations thereof. This includes but are not limited to, tricycles, pedicabs, motorcycles, unicycles, etc. Damn these contraptions and the person(s) riding them. They are especially irritating in narrow roads with lots of people. Damnit! Moving so abysmally slow.. >< Then when you blow your horns, they have the nerve to give you that look. Screw you asshole. Unless you can pedal at 40kph, get off the damn road.

And lastly, I'm no expert driver, I admit that. A question to "veteran" drivers out there, or to anyone who has an opinion: How the hell do you see those holes and badly designed humps on the road? Do you avoid every hole that you see regardless of its depth? Do you check your side mirrors before making ilag the hole? How close is the hole when you see it? And btw, I hate those damn humps that come out of nowhere >< After the bicycles, holes and humps come in second ><