UAAP 2003

I stayed up until 3 am to catch the Ateneo-La Salle game live. Last week kasi, I taped it and then watched Breakfast before I watched the tape. It was a big mistake since Bam Aquino and Ryan Agoncillo gave all the details away before I could find the remote. Nawala tuloy yung suspense. Anywhoobers, what an exciting game! I was all alone in the middle of the night, covering my mouth while swearing and screaming at the TV. Katawa talaga. I was very impressed with Larry Fonacier. He's cool, calm, and consistent. When he's on the court, he just means business and I think the other players (as well as the alumni!) could learn a thing or two from this guy. What I didn't get was why Ateneo was giving up the baseline in the second half of the game. It gave Joseph "F4" Yeo to do his acrobatic shots tuloy and allowed La Salle to get back into the game (and consequently, almost gave me a heart attack). I also didn't understand why Wesley Gonzales was even put in the last quarter. Naging panggulo lang and almost took away the team's concentration again like what happened last Thursday. If he were put in there to psych Joseph Yeo out, I think it was already evident during the first half that no trash-talking could ruin Yeo's focus. The more you talk to him, the more he was determined to show you that your talk is trash lang nga. I am looking forward to more no-sleep nights to catch the rest of the games. Ang saya-saya!

Gaydars

How to test if your gaydar is malfunctioning:

1. After logging on to Friendster, click on one of your very own friendsters.
2. Click on his/her list of friendsters.
3. Select a guy that you're interested in and tell your friendster about it.

As Kai found out last night, my gaydar is definitely mahina. Out of her 100+ friendsters, the only guy that caught my eye happened to be a gay guy. Kainis, di ba? Napipikon na talaga ako! LoL.

Something Is Wrong, Body

If anyone is selling an immune system, please contact me. I would very much be interested in buying one. Since Sunday, I've been immobile because of the flu. Although, I shouldn't really be blaming my immune system. I probably got sick from not watching what I ate on Saturday. I think that's what's great about getting old: your body speaks up ASAP if you've done something wrong to it. You don't have to wait 10 years to figure out that you shouldn't have eaten that donut or that you should've bent your knees more when you were lifting that 10-pound box in the basement earlier. It's a beautiful thing really.

And It's New Again

I can honestly say now that I am a safe driver. Actually, I always have been, but now, I'm a safe driver using a safe car. I got brand spankin' new tires and I'm very giddy about it! Yes, after seven years, I parted with the original tires that my car came with. It wasn't easy, but it was for the best. HeHe.

Motivated by the "new feeling" of the car, I also did an "overhaul cleaning" after two years of not doing so. Calm down, I'm not a messy individual so the inside of my car wasn't that bad. *cough* As another gift for my car, I bought it new floor mats (again, after 7 years). I didn't realize how yellowy my previous then-clear floor mats were until I took them out. Sorry to my previous passengers.

What's left to do...Let's see, wheel alignment and front brake replacement for sure. And as if the car gods have taken over my brain, I'm even contemplating about buying a CD player. I know! How crazy is that?! Anyway, someone lead me to the tree that's sprouting money right now to make this all possible.

Data vs. Music

I swear you learn something new everyday. I was reading the Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 help topics earlier and found a wealth of information! No wonder someone took the time to write them and include them with my computer! Wow!

So apparently there's a huge difference between a Data CD-R and a Music CD-R. If you record music on a Data CD-R, it will not play on a regular cd player/stereo. No wonder Justin won't sing in my bedroom! I've been wondering why that was so! I also found out the difference between WAV, MP3, and WMA files. Ooh la la.

The bad news to all of this is that I have 100 blank Data CD-Rs and no Music CD-Rs. Note to self: find out first what you need then get it, instead of the other way around. Note to self #2: the same should be applied when looking for a man. *cough*

Ala Emeril

Today was yet another unsuccessful attempt to have a healthy lifestyle. Actually, it was more of my inability to create something edible in the kitchen, but why blame myself when I can blame the diet industry that is depriving me of food worth eating? Instead of driving to pick-up something from the drive-thru window, I opted to cook lunch myself. I got three pieces of chicken strips out of the freezer and put it in the oven. Since I haven't eaten vegetables this past week, I decided to change that. I found a can of baby corn in the pantry, as well as a can of green beans. I put some canola oil in the sauce pan and a few drops of sesame oil (because the smell of sesame oil makes everything worth eating, you know). I dumped the two kinds of vegetables in and proceeded to stir fry. I added some black pepper and a sprinkle of seasoning salt...because I can hear Emeril Lagasse telling me to make those vegetables happy (Bam!). After three minutes, I transferred the contents into a casserole dish. While waiting for the chicken to finish, I decided to start on the vegetables...only to find myself spitting them out. As far as I'm concerned green beans in a can should not be sold in stores! Those are nastaaaaaay. Not nasty, but nastaaaaaay. They were THAT bad! Who eats these things?! The can said it was an easy way to add vegetables to any meal. I guess they didn't really say that they tasted good. Dang, so why is the Jolly Green Giant jolly then?! Anyway, I ended up separating the green beans from the baby corn and throwing away the green beans (yes, those poor starving children of the world are going to kick my butt). After lunch was over, I could still smell the stench of those green beans lingering upstairs. Blah.

The Library Is My Friend

My most visited website in the past week has been my library's web catalog. I've said before that after I graduate, I'll re-discover the things that I've put off in the last four years, which includes "reading for fun." I've finished two books in the last three days and I'm loving it (I think that sentence is in the running for the geekiest thing I have said in the past year!). Anyway, I also discovered that the public libraries "are down with it." I never knew they had contemporary stuff until today. I just borrowed "You've Got Mail" and Aaliyah's last two albums from the library. Who needs Kazaa when you have a library card! (If you read between the lines, you would find out that this effort is simply to save me some money for the Philippines 2003 trip. HeHe.)

Early Winter Blues

I'm sitting here in front of the computer wearing my pajamas, my old UCLA sweatshirt, and thick socks on my feet. One look at me and you would think that it's the middle of winter. But that's just it, the past three days have felt exactly like winter. Can the weather change be any more abrupt?! I can already feel my Seasonal Affective Disorder genes getting excited and waiting for the right time to strike. Goodbye beautiful summer, hello 10 months of rain. =/