In the Mood for Love (2000)

...you knew it, but you don't want it...

Phlegm. Danger.
Death. Love.
L.

Ciao!
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GRILLED: BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN

GRILLED: BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
recent controversial DVD acquisitions

Critics, like the pompous Roger Ebert, hailed it. It is the most controversial film both of its art and its content. It is one of the most important film of twenty first century. It's accented to be a subtext of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet or the recent Titatnic (1997) about two star-crossed lovers' journey to eternal love.






It was my first time to watch this three-Academy award winning film.

Yes, i hesitated it to watch it at first. It's too controversial, too publicized, yet it became a household title, as everyone would know. I was just enamored by the power of this film, and in general, the power of a film to stir up a massive tour-de-force in history.

I also hesitated because of the content. Homosexuality specifically homosexual love, a nuisance topic as i generally speak of it, is a little inappropriate and a sad thing to talk about with friends during high school days. High school, where sexuality was such a taboo, is the end of the world for such topics. The questions of sex is a dark churn in the mind. The fruits of tertiary education enabled me to understand the aspects of such topics and the importance of such aspects. Aspects of homosexuality are often attacked by stereotypes. The level of stigma is high, as one homosexual friend would admit. My teacher in Panitakang Pilipino 19 (Panitikan at Sekswalidad) devoted the entire semester last summer explaining the roots, consequences, and allegory of the controversial premises of homosexuality. Madam Glecy Atienza drawn us to look at the modes of expression of homosexual love as parts of literature and the art which requires semantical critical viewpoint and commentary. Criticism always originates from viewpoint on the modes of expression of a concept. This is even more helpful in understanding the spectrum of society at large.

So "Art for art's sake" and for a wider scope of my critical eye, i should watch this important film.

Here is the trailer:

Ciao!

Godbless!

"Art for art's sake!"

BLINDED ITEMS! WHO ART THOU?

BLINDED ITEMED! WHO ART THOU?
{ON FART}

Sino tong mokong na toh?
na allegedly has a lot of issues at the back door? (as in berry berry back door like his whole past life as back door!)
ahuh! na eyebag hanging like hell? or malaki lang tlg ang balls nya?
BOYOT3: malaki ang BALLS???
BOY1: baka naman eye balls? ahuh!
BOY1: galit nanaman ba?
TABBOY2: ewan ko dun? wala akong pakialam sa kanya!
BOYOT3: inutil! mga ganyang tao inutil!

a usual F to F talk at some place, at tlgang topic of the year tong boy mokong na to!
every year, ahuh!

BOYOT3: bakit naman?
TABOY2: ewan! tanungin mo yan oh?
BOY1: oh bakit ako?
TABOY2: may past kayo diba?
BOY1: asa! at hindi ako bading! etong si boyot3 ata ang may past dyan! ahuh!
BOYOT3: i like balls! you know?
BOY1: bayot ka tlg boyot3

hay like a usual F to F talk, topic nanaman cya.
and recently.... recently.... recently>>> haha!

BOY1: hoy! alam nyo ba na si mokong boy ay farted na farted na?
BOYOT3: farted na farted na?
TABOY2: huh? tlg lang ha! anung ka-farted nya?
BOY1: yung mga sig-sig dyan sa tbi tbi...? alam nyo ba yun?
BOYOT3: hmmmp! inferior people! they deserve to diiiieeeeee!
BOY1: wait wait! alam nyo ba yun? hay! sayang! kung nagmath lang kayo malalaman nyo!
TABOY2: ahuh! alam ko na yan! yan ba yung "ammmppp siiighHHHH"
BOY1: hoy! wag mong ipagkalat! wag kang magingay maririnig tayo!

so kung kilala nyo tong mokong na toh, ahuh! beware! hahaah!

so long ! ciao!

Night and a Very Suave Situation

Night and a Very Suave Situation
a post about another sleepless night at room 213

i am sitting again in front of my laptop with my right eye half closed. I don't know what kind of sleeping disorder i have one right now, with my right eye tingling involuntarily. it is just so weird, i feel so weak yet my mind is so happy and outgoing, willing to do anything, but my body ( or my half body) is not keeping up so well.

I need Stresstabs. God, i need them!

my schedule for tonight is pretty heavy:

1.) Research critical review paper on EnE 31
2.) Sagot Probset ChE 32
3.) Aral Chem 31
4.) Aral GE 1


So as for my night this is the remnant of my table after the grueling Chem 153 probset, i almost tried to cool off by praising myself over and over again for finishing the probset on time. Although i spend 4 hours from 9PM to 1AM answering 5 moderately difficult questions.

TABLED!
My cluttered table. i am so disorganized.

An this is the remnant of my bed, a sleeping creature that i almost did not notice because i was pretty engaged in my problem set in chem. May God save his soul!

SPOTTED!
Manuel Portento Jr! getting comfortable with
my pillow. is he 'room'less? why? wanna find out?
haha! (Some interpersonal issues i
suppose, i could never tell. i'm only a witness)

I was glad, to think that my week is running like all hell broke loose, i still found time to do some personal reading and light research on the things i am most interested in: PSYCHOLOGY.

BOOKED!
Personality and Psychopathology:
Building a Clinical Science by
Theodore Millon, a well-known psychiatrist
in the States. He collected groundbreaking
papers on personality and phenomenology
of personality disorders.

My current interest now i probably a bit out of the box. I once tried to understand politics and governance and international law, but i just couldn't hang unto it. The topic is pretty foreign to me, unlike psychology and physics. I just lost my interest to some topics after reading a book or two about international law. But after watching this video in Youtube i was again reawakened to continue my venture towards personally studying international law and governance. I am practically interested in cross-cultural analysis. For example, what could be the trend in our present rice crisis as compared to the recent humanitarian crisis in Somalia. The two nations has two different cultures, but what links them up? is there a cross-cultural factor on moral, socio-ethical systems that may have been similar to both of them? if there is so, how do we solve such humanitarian or fiscal problems like hunger and rice crises?

CAPTURED!
Somalia is undergoing a lot of challenges as nation!
Aren't we glad that we still have a government to
provide us with some answers to recent problems?
Did you know that Somalia is stateless since 1991?

So long...

Ciao!

RAIN and Blogging

RAIN and Blogging
A blog about my unblogged two-day rest period



A clear sky at Casiguran last summer!
It makes a lot of difference.




Ipil Kiosk July 25, 2008. Before the rain!

It was raining outside. I thought it would be the time for me to blog about the past few days. i still want to find a distinguishing character for my blog. If this would be permanent and irrevocable, then i would consider a singular monochrome of color that would suit my idea of blogging. Food, Fitness, University Life, Engineering frenzy, study tips, photoblogging, daily journal, i couldn't think of an specific idea for my blog. It should be something distinct and original.

Any way i'll just continue this blog after watching dark knight this evening.

.......

sO I'M BACK AGAIN FROM THE DARK KNIGHT with my friend Keith. And this blog?

Well Keith says that i should write about it three days after watching it because i get so fuzzy with the details and i do not know where to start. That means this blog will not be about the Dark Knight, this will still be about the two-day rest period that i hAD.

Some junk mail updates from U.P. people:

1.) A Forum at Malcolm Hall with Law students to grind Arroyo's SONA this Comming July 28, 2008. Here's the invitation so i want you all to come to interact... Maybe i would be there, depending on my schedule. Of course i have a class and a quiz on EnE 31. But then if youre are really, really free on the said schedule, this is a must as social citizens of our country (and i do sound like a politician)!

UP Law Student Government

invites you to

"SO[ano]NA?"

a post-SONA assessment forum

July 29 (Tues), 9AM-12NN

Malcolm Theater

With guest speaker:

Ms KARINA DAVID

Former Civil Service Commissioner

Dr. LEOCITO GABO

CSWCD Faculty

JILLIANE JOYCE R. DE DUMO

University of the Philippines - Diliman

Mobile: +63917 887 58 40

Alternate Email: jrdedumo@yahoo. com

2.) Namets movie! it will be on JULY 30, I guess.... I don't know the whole story but it's about a love story over Negrenese Cuisine, food and falling in love kinda stuff! Which i don't normally watch. Practically because it's boring. Not that I hate the movie "NO RESERVATIONS" of Zeta-Jones and Aaron Eckhart (who is also a main character in the DARK KNIGHT). But the fact that it's something that i never tasted before (No offense to some people!) is quite unsentimental! But then if you want to watch, then so be it.

3.) IBON Midyear Birdtalk: The Philippine Economic & Political situation from the People's Point of View. THursday 1-4 PM @ UP School of Economics auditorium (student reg fee 50 PhP, inclusive of snacks hmmm..) Get the hard facts of current crises and Learn the Logical Solutions. See pic bellow :

or follow the link (https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg_WxSiySK12TjKzgUEwiejPfau_pGyYanafjeQCQRjq2q_tT02CUr8jJsTkkQ1dYGa2vu5OHtMPpNENCYbboDkEGKDHSegMp3BBuL3vZZFQsatUa-_7UoQG_sim4NXB-2ShlJqxBJaHCh/s1600-h/ibon.jpg)

4.) RALLY! sa SONA

Don't worry mama i won't go there!
So anyone interested in the Universiy Student Council's stride towards mendiola, join this rally.

Brutal! Patalsikin si Gloria ritual doesn't work either!

MY TABLE SETTING!

My current table setting right now is hell. Let me take a pic:

Two things: magulo at SB!

I still drink starbucks and eat a bacon twist oblivious of my weight gain for a couple of days now. So what happened for the last two days?

1.) Eating so much JUNK in Front of Physics Pav.
2.) Engineering Power Speakers Session 1
3.) Molave elections and some interesting surveys.
4.) UP College of Engineering UPCAT Frenzy
5.) Gossips from Molave (my old dorm)

Apparently, if i have time, i could spend a whole post about this stuff. But anyway, let's begin.

EATING SO MUCH JUNK IN FRONT OF PHYSICS Pav

I had this great idea, before my lab i should eat Pancit Canton in front of Physics pav. So i went there and ate my lunch. This is primarily the consequence of not having a canteen inside the dorm, you eat junk on street sides. And the most credible excuse from that is that i had a gym session a day before. What a lame excuse i have! I ate it anyway.

Preparing my pancit canton meal in a three step process:
1 Cut and Open
2 Boil
3 Filter
And that would be an hour!



Ate looking for my C2 Apple. I still couldn't believe that it's
27php this time.

Eating Junk food with my planner --- i plan things a week ahead
but food? it's an impulsive treat!



I bet i do have a flowery bookmark for my planner!
HAHA



Rooster at Physics pav: "I'm hungry, hey, is that a worm?"
reffering to the pancit canton noodle!

ENGINEERING POWER SPEAKERS 2008

I just talk there as usual. Haha! Yes, Mr. Jamandre of CAL lectured us about ETHOS, whatever that is, and 5 Steps of Public Speaking. I don't even remember each one. i'm so dumb! We had this activity where we talk infront of a group of people and each one of them would constructively critize the content of my speech and the method of dilivery. Unfortunately, this is what they think of me and it's pretty brutal!

I arrived early at Geo. eng'g Theater. Anybody here?



The comment sheet: My content was an applause but
i lost eye contact with my

MOLAVE ELECTIONS

Molave hit it! A few weeks after Ipil Elections i'm pretty excited on Molave elections, who's-who and da-whos appeared before everyone in front of molave lobby. too bad, the hotties are also posted. Check this out:

Hunks and Babes: Keisha Halili (alleged cousin of celeb hottie
Katrina Halili) topped the Babes... Pia Ubalde
(a sorsoganon) is also here.
Adrian Macrol? Who are you! not worthy!
Dapat si Pogi (former Kalay
floormate) nalang yung number one! waha

Lopez? what are you! Chairpersons are overrated!
Cainghog, sinuka! i mean sino ka?



Facilities Committee wants Keith Hernandez Cipriano!
may arrow pa tlg pababa! Obvious ba?
Si keith ang panalo sa appointee for Faci.



Blur but comphrehensive view of Molave elections tally!

UP COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING OvErPrEps for UPCAT

I mean what's the fuzz with engineering painting the walls before upcat.? It's overpreparation to the max, but gladly it's a simple validation: Engineering people have this sense of self, an inner egotistical persona who tries to prove that they have money, or more importantly we have money to boast our ass off for UPCAT takers. And hell i'm proud of it! We can manage to do this and other colleges don't even bother to clean the corridors i.e. CAL, AS, others! what does it implicates? We rule! A sorry ass for CAL (hehe this message is intended for keith)! There are only two colleges in UP: Engineering and other low-ass colleges wahaha!

Melchor hall at it's pristine!



A banner tag for engineering building!

Overpreps for eng'g: workers dutifully removes
corroded paint off the wall.




Working 3 storeys high. Do they have gears and ropes
for all these?



Hope noone dies here!



Engineering RULES!

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ISSUES, People of special interest

BLINDED ITEM:

Sino tong isang mokong?

Na alledgedly nagkaroon ng madugong tunggalian with CH[u]M?
Dahil ba sa toot! nung nag welc (as in welcga? mali, tanga!) toot! sa RH[u]M? i'm getting sum vibes pare na dis pearly guy pare is a menace optimized! bangag! haha! but i don't hate him! sorry! but i don't hate him personally! just concern with my RHUM friends' concern, okay! (redundant ba?) Mga RHUM friends, hi! So itong si pearlyguy or (sumtin) na fall guy or (sumtin) naman ng Reyna ng mga POSHangI (PoshangI nga ba? haha... What does posh mean by the way? any cono out there who can decode for me?) ay Hari din ng isang bery bery prestigious-democratic-contradicting-so-many-membered-1.75 league under the sea of captain nemo! Na Yakie din, wherein sa yakie nag welc toot sila a day after na macancel ang welc ng RH[u]M. THat would be so unfair Pearly Guy! Yakie ka pa naman, you know how this things goes! youre so concern with your palpitating-kayakie! Magsama nalang kaya kayo! No offense! Isama mo na si palpitating-kayakie na gumugulong sa takot ng SShit ng RHUM! No OFFENSE! PEACE!

Siya ay walang iba kundi si pearly as in THE-PEARLY-NOT-CURLY GUY!

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SWIMMING CWTS ON A SUNDAY

We had our first swimming lessons for CWTS Surivival program at Amoranto Stadium along Pantranco, Quezon Ave. It was exciting, fun and tiring. My face is white-spotted after being soaked for three hours at a 70% Chlorinated Pool. We made bubbles and some water exercises, it's tiring that's all!

inside U.P. Pantranco Jeepney!

my teammates! Excited!



other teammates looking forward for Bikini Babes!
Haha!

The pool! this is just a third of the pool's lenght.
It's an olympic size pool. We are tasked to
cross the pool for our practicals.
it doesn't look easy!




All women wear bikinis, all men wear trunks!
Cool huh!




Funny Add along the Amoranto Stadium! Weigh[t]less
Center. THey happen to have an anti-gravity room in here!
Cool huh!

Ciao avid readers!

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G. Apacible Street corner Magsaysay Avenue: Corners of my mind

G. Apacible Street corner Magsaysay Avenue:
Corners of my mind
A blog about some thoughts

In my journey towards the dormitory, i scurried on some of my thoughts. i wanted to go somewhere. Somewhere fine and calm. I wondered, Starbucks again. I'll go there. i have to escape.

Apparently, i need money: one of the moments that i usually hate. Knowing that everything is restricted by money.

it's 1:55 AM. and my roommate, Kuya Glenn is sleep-talking again. Manuel is not around to bother me. I am all alone and i should be sleeping this time. GOd, im such an insomniac. I fear that most of my memories would suddenly start to be cast off from my head because of sleep deprivation. A couple of hour from now, two exam results will be given, one is from my exam last monday in Chemistry 153 and the other would be my exam in GE 1. Hopefully none of these exams would be lower than 60%. If it's not, then i should have no reason not to go to Starbucks. I also have an exam tomorrow on my major Chem Eng'g 32. I still haven't mastered yet the craft of chemical engineering calculations.

I also will be emailing Kuya Rattyyyy the deliverables.

I wondered how my day would go today. I still have to sleep... i need to!

and by saturday i have to buy an orange BiC high lighter to put color when i study. I love studying with an BiC orange and yellow highlighter. They make the readings stand out.

I am still thinking of joining another organization this semester. Manuel invited me to join U.P. RCY. What do you think? i am still gettign text messages from officers telling some stuffs for the application. I am also having trouble on putting the GYM sessions every month now i have a registration fee for the months of July and August.

i need to slim down. it for my health's sake. I am becoming slouchy and slow, though i got a high mark on my rapelling practicals last monday, i still need to focus on staying healthy and robust. by fats are building up.

Do you think i should resort to anorexic activities?

My short and pants are tightening, and i still don't have a motivation on applying for membership at the gym. I still need to think about it.

and i really need to sleep...

Nyt! ya all.

On Alcohols: A head start for the week

On Alcohols: A head start for the week
A blog on organic chemistry and the like

2:50 AM. Thursday morning, and i have just woken up by my cellular phone with 4 pertinent text messages on it.

MESSAGES:

1st Message: "Guys, may deliverables kau sa akin.. I need list of MAGAZINES, WEBSITEs, NEWSPAPERS at NGO na nagcacater sa YOUTH, SCIENCE, VOLUNTEERISM etc.. basta may kinalaman sa P(toot)SC... hehe.. I need the list by FRI.. email to: rattty.(churva)@gmail.com. Thanks :)" Sender: Kuya Rattttty 23715+++++++. Sent: 16-July-2008 11:45:46 PM.
And that time i was snorring and dreaming of my friends being eaten by a wild crocodilean species on th coast of Africa. YEah! It was neurotic of me to think of them that way! this particular message is one of the things that i usually consider as another escape plan --- Kill my cellphone with an ax and pretend not to recieve the message. Though i have written and sent emails on top broadsheets and magazines in metro manila like PDA and PS, becuase i am well aware that these top broadsheets are a waste of time, i still consider the escape plan. Which would intolerably make me an irreponsible member of the organization. But since there could be an effort to endulge on this certain aspects, i am still not quite sure about my whole week being completely perfect.

2nd Message: "Pnta ka b welcome nyt? Ngstart n b?" Sender: Iscel
3rd Message: "Gud pm ad, welcome nyt n 2nyt, pnta k!" Sender: Keith
4th Message: "Molave welcome nyt m2ya 7:30" Sender: RJ

I didn't attend that welcome night in Molave because i am dead by 6:30 PM after arriving from U.P. Sorso(chooot)'s GA. it appeared that my body needs to sleep so i invariably replied: "Sory, may 2 probsets ako due bukas." Another escape. I escape, to sleep, for myself --- would make me a self-conceited ass(toot!) But considering the importance of such things, i am uterly good at my decision to dedicate my time on my health and wellness above fun and exhaustion.

BUDGETING: too much food in mind!

After receiving my weekly budget, a picture of me driking another Frappaucino on Starbucks suddenly popped in my head. Last tuesday, i was having a debate with my shit self about spending the 4XXX.00 pesos for the next 6 days. Yes! That would be a lot. And it happened that all of my options are food choices. i have jsut realized this twelve minutes ago after eating my Growers peanuts like a pig. Imagine that! THis could be the primary reason why i got fat!

SHIT SELF: "Hell no! You consider spending 1XXX.oo for your gym sessions over FOOOOOD! what kind of monster are you?"

SELF: "It just a option. i have to weigh the consequences.... i just need to clear my head. Can you shut up please?"

SHIT SELF: "You are a total neurotic! Did you even think that you get into something like going to the gym and buffing up? Hell no! You're just wasting your time and money for that shit stuff. THis is not a good thing! If that money would be spend of Cake and coffee, you could be saving millions of lives out of POVERTY."

SELF: "How am i suppose to do that?"

SHIT SELF: "Try Starbucks! they have a tie-up with UNICEF!"

SELF: "DUH!"

it all no brianer! trust me! a trash-monolougue like this is overated.

POST DELUSIONS

Chem 153: Monday night is the night! First exam of Chem 153 finished off with a blast. I am so happy that it had just happened. And the grueling and grilling 2-hour sitting on an exam chair has finally ended. Thank God. now i can sleep

Kyle XY First and Seond Season: Gladly after my Chem 153 exam, i watched the last two episodes of Kyle XY season two on my laptop. And yes, i finished the DVD. it was okay! it was hanged like most series i watched. Kyle and Jessie finally had a connection. And jessie jumped of the cliff after knowing that she stole information about ZyZZx on Kyle's mind. Amanda was having some trust issues about kyle. And the Tregger family finally understand the deeper meaning about Kyle or Jessie's existence..

ALCOHOLS:

I woke up becuase i need to finish my Formal Report in Organic Chemistry and my Post lab in Alcohols, Phenols, and Ethers experiment. For my readers, who constatly read my collumns, chemistry is what i am right now. I am taking up two courses in Chemistry: one is Organic Chemistry (Chem 31) and the other is Physical Chemistry (Chem 153---much harder that the former). THis is my semester life. And if want to learn about University Life, it is relevant to understand the basic thing about chemistry: Le Chatelier's Principle (See wikipedia).

Alcohols are weird substances, i tell you. It makes people mad, even when he's not drunk!