Similar to what I've done in previous weeks, I'm elaborating on my tweets for the week of May 4, 2008 through May 10, 2008. I have to say, Twitter has enabled my obsessive need to keep track of even the most inane detail of my life. It's super-fun and useful for me, but probably less fun for anyone who reads this. Haha.
On May 4, 2008, at 248pm:
I'm
using the laptop I bought for my grampa. I have a feeling that, when
the time comes, it will be difficult for me to part with it. :-/
Because I am a dutiful first-born, I have already begun to buy things
for the relatives back home in the Philippines. The first and most
major purchase is a laptop (which I'm still using right now) for my
grampa and his girlfriend; I don't even want to think about how sad I
will be to give it up. Hopefully, I'll have enough money saved up to
get a new one for me after my trip.
Still on the list:
- Girly lotions and hair products (for my grampa, because he's vain like that).
- My grampa's vitamins and health supplements.
- A BlackBerry Pearl for the boyfriend.
- Other laptop stuff - a webcam, spare flash drives, etc.
- Books for my (sort of) brother-in-law. He's hard to shop for.
- Toblerone bars, which I hate, but it's one of the first things that Filipinos will expect from the relatives they pick up at the airport. What is that about, really? I used to get bricks of that stuff every time somebody came home from overseas and I never liked it. Why ruin perfectly good chocolate with nasty nougat?
1. If you knew that you had only one day left to live, what would you do for the 24 hours?
2. Do you think that life has meaning?
3. What was your favourite childhood toy/object, or some of your favourites?
(Remember childhood according to the United Nations is anywhere from 0-18 years, so this is a fairly broad span of time).
4. When you clasp your hands, do you put your right thumb over your left thumb, or your left thumb over your right thumb?
5. If you had to teach the most ignorant person on earth the most difficult thing you have ever learned, how would you go about doing it?
As I have said before, there are certain people - let's call him Leech, shall we? - who don't deserve their ginormous salary, seeing as how their performance consists mostly of delegating all most tasks and making deeply unfunny jokes to try to get out of any tight situations brought about by their inefficiency. Given the educational budget cuts the state has had to impose, now would have been the perfect time to make a clean break from that certain person and all other such usurpers.
Leech, enemy of He-Man and a prime example of a usurper
Other usurpers include professional houseguest Kato Kaelin and, well, actual leeches
Image from Wikipedia
1. What's one of the nicest things a friend has ever done for you?
2. What's one of the nicest things a stranger has ever done for you?
3. What is a trait in another person that you instantly admire, and that draws you to them?
4. What is a trait in another person that instantly repels you, and prevents you from forming a close relationship with them?
5. Time to vent: tell us about something rotten someone has done to you.
Only 50 days until I'm back in the Philippines, which means:
Hello, favorite family members!
Ate Buena, my grandfather, and yours truly
Similar to what I did last week, I'm attempting to remedy blog-laziness by microblogging.
On April 21, 2008, at 720pm:
Heading home. It was a good day. Kind of.
Negatives:
- You know when you know something horrible that could really hurt someone? Are you obligated to tell the person that secret, effectively ruining his/her life, or do you allow the person to continue to be blissfully ignorant? That was, and continues to be, my dilemma. I'm inclined to stay silent just to preserve the peace, but there is a little sour ball in my stomach that makes me question if that's the right decision. Oh, and the sour ball swimming around in my tummy? It's called guilt.
Positives:
- I passed my accounting class, but just barely. Still, though, passing grade is a passing grade, damn it. At the very least, I won’t have to retake the class, and that was enough to get me through the day’s challenges.
Ok, why not? It’s a sunny Saturday (one of the few that I don’t have to spend at work) and I’d like to waste my time while I can. =)
Friday Five for April 25, 2008
1. What's harder to live without, chocolate or alcohol?
2. Does the colour yellow remind you of anything?
3. Who most annoyed you last week?
4. Do you have a cutesy romantic nickname for your partner (or previous partners)?
5. What is your favourite Stephen King movie?
I hardly ever have time to write entries of any significance (actually, that should be rephrased to I hardly ever have time to do anything of significance), but writing the sentence-length update is manageable, so I've been updating my Pownce obsessively regularly. The problem with updates that are only a sentence long, however, is that I eventually forget what I wrote about. So, this is me trying to elaborate on what I pownce (is that a word?) during the week.
Here's a sample from yesterday:
On April 19, 2008, at 8:06pm:
Kermit just got neutered. =(
Still adorable, but tired and cranky and, I suspect, high as a kite. He's not a fan of the cone or, I'm sure, his now nutless state. You'd be in a bad mood, too, if your junk just got cut off.
I started out the semester with high hopes, taking sixteen units with the brazen thinking that I could hack the classes (all of which are crammed into sessions shorter than the usual sixteen-week semester) while working six-day weeks and twelve-hour days. I mean, how hard could it be?
Although the VHS tape is now slowly going the way of the dinosaur, Johnny still has not gotten around to updating his mid-90s video collection to DVDs. Because of that, we ended up watching Citizen Ruth on VHS, which is a shame, as I would have been interested in the special features that we've come to expect from even the most underbudgeted DVD.
Anyway, Citizen Ruth is a comedy about Ruth, a belligerent drug addict, and the trials and tribulations she has to go through in order to get an abortion. Much hilarity ensues, and the film has some nifty one-liners that I must find a way to incorporate into my day-to-day dealings with random assholery. Below is a sampling of Ruth's wisdom:
Upon realizing that she is being used as a political pawn by the local anti-choice faction -
You wanna send a message? I ain't no fucking telegram, bitch!Upon watching an anti-abortion film -
I slept in some dumpsters. Maybe I slept on some babies.Upon being asked by her mother, "What if I'd aborted you?" -
Well, at least I wouldn't have had to suck your boyfriend's cock!Upon coming across the boyfriend who threw her out and whose car she subsequently destroyed with a piece of piping -
Suck the shit out of my ass, you fucker!
I laughed so hard at the last line that milk nearly came out of my nose. So, go see it! But I think it goes without saying that Citizen Ruth shouldn't be a pick for family night.
The same night as Ruth night, Johnny and I baked chocolate croissant bread pudding. Read more of this entry>>
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