purpose and direction

there was one email going around sometime after 9/11 about how some people escaped death because they woke up late, or had to run an errand, or fell sick, or some other shit like that. the moral was that wherever you are, be you stuck in traffic or taking a test or grounded even, you're exactly where god [or fate or lady luck or whatever you believe in] wants you to be.

i tend to lean towards this premise, my exact words being that there is always a purpose to my being somewhere. therefore i try to make the most of whatever hole i dig myself into. take this afternoon, for example. i would be lying if i said that i enjoyed playing bodyguard, but i'd be lying as well if i said that i didn't learn anything new from the experience. cases in point:

john grisham has finally written a book whose title is not preceeded by the article "the" [the book's title is bleachers].

there exists a talking dora the explorer doll such that for all persons, person runs away. fast. [this would look better in fopl, but for some reason neither existential nor universal quantifier symbols are present in the ascii character map]

the street behind zobel's gate 3 is also named agno. many thanks to izzy [with whom, in hindsight, we should've talked longer] for pointing that out.

since my post is entitled purpose and direction i might as well bullshit something about receiving direction: my ninang paid me 500 pesos to teach her nephews to play the guitar [i would've refused but then she gave me the look equivalent to asking me "juk ul le!?"]. at least now i know what i'll do if i get kicked out of dlsu.

sige ingat.ü 
posted by stani at 7:43 PM
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longhard

self: tsaka ba't lagi kang nakacap?
self: is that a jason mraz thing?

pb: my hair is embarassingly long...m gonna have it cut later.

self: di yan.
self: asteeg kaya sa yo longhard.
self: ^hair.

freud's got nothing on me.

sige ingat.ü 
posted by stani at 9:50 AM
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comorga

this is the second hour i'm stuck here in the goxlobby waiting to enroll in this blasted subject. first i was locked out because i hadn't taken compasm, then digilab, and now digital. no duh. they're not on my course flowchart.

argh.

sige ingat.ü

edit: finished enrolling around 4.30. i just hope that the professors don't shuffle. and that i pass anmath2.

on the way home i noticed a billboard along the skyway proclaiming haloa brush gently!

and i thought have a great day smarte ahit! ahit! was bad. 
posted by stani at 3:36 PM
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endings and beginnings

i totally bombed my math test. if i get anything higher than 20%, i'll sponsor a mass. but on the other hand, i got a 79 on my introdb midterm so i guess yin and yang are still one.

went to zobel with chudor and paco. apples and oranges indeed. the food in the canteen was refreshing, especially the koolee. tastes exactly like christmas morning. hung out with ms padua, of all people. but i'm not saying it was time wasted. the perfect ending? hitching a ride home with mang bong and his magical schoolbus [the one paco and i rode to and from school every day for four or so years].

owel back to battle realms rels.

sige ingat.ü 
posted by stani at 7:16 PM
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burnout

college sucks again. i have a quiz in anmath that i'm sure to fail [plus, my midterm average is currently a 1.0]. the other two subjects i'm worst at [judging from how i think i fared during the departmental|midterm] are both 70% passing. i have a ten-page rels paper due tomorrow and a powerpoint presentation plus reporting the day after. there's a problem set for theocom posted online supposedly due tomorrow that ms limoanco didn't tell us about. i haven't made time to start on the second draft of my story. the serpent storyline of kenji's journey bites. karlo.mine.nu is down. i'm actually missing people. people i'd considered close friends, even. it's 11pm and i'm blogging instead of doing anything productive.

i give up. college sucks again. 
posted by stani at 10:55 PM
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diaspora

losing to ateneo was bad enough but losing to adamson? wtf!?

download this music video. believe me, it's worth the wait.

sige ingat.ü 
posted by stani at 7:53 PM
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ignorance is bliss

i never realized how prophetic the lyrics to michael jackson's bad really are.

videoke is dangerous to your health.

sige ingat.ü 
posted by stani at 2:50 AM
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serendipity

traffic was bad today. or to be more accurate, traffic was bad around the bicutan area, which meant that all the jeeps southbound relative to the pasay rotonda were still on the road. this translates into me walking up and down edsa for 30 minutes waiting for a ride. somehow or the other i bumped into carl, a batchmate from both gox and the computer camp two years ago. we got to talking and it turns out he was headed south too.

didn't see that one coming.

sige ingat.ü 
posted by stani at 11:42 PM
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flotsam and jetsam

just a few thoughts that've been floating around since last week:

i. e-thug.com

wtf is up with this site? i don't know which is worse, the graphics or the sounds. and what the hell do you call that creature in the colored gif? catbread!?

ii. widowing

i finally found the correct english translation of kapâ [thanks to renz]. and realized that just having a guitar at arm's length already drastically increases the instrumental abilities of the owner.

iii. marathons

i'm currently finishing both the kenji's journey missions and the episodes of naruto that weren't subject to crc errors. more proof of my obsessive-compulsive tendencies.

iv. red ribbon chocolate cake

goes very well with bailey's irish cream and dan-eric's chocofi ice cream. yes even at three in the morning, or the next afternoon, or even three days after. leftovers are the best part of birthday celebrations.

v. my sassy girl

watch it. ahora mismo.

sige ingat.ü 
posted by stani at 4:54 PM
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by 'popular' demand

stani614.friendtest.com.

sige ingat.ü 
posted by stani at 1:06 AM
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we play out our last scene

friday, i had band practice with renz and company, then watched mean girls with paco, carmen, and trish. the movie was funny, but a little too close to jawbreaker for comfort. i'm starting to really like the feel of makati, especially around the midnight hour.

yesterday, i took the opportunity to watch as good as it gets in its entirety, even if i had to put up with ads every five minutes. strangely enough, it may very well be the movie of my life.

as usual i've gone 48 hours without doing anything even semiproductive. owel.

always look on the bright side of life.

sige ingat.ü 
posted by stani at 12:54 AM
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omfg

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posted by stani at 3:41 PM
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chocolate salty nuts

that, methinks, is the secret of the baby ruth chocolate bar. there is simply nothing like it.

no wait, there's sex.

i bought a guitar for my sister's audition on thursday. evidently there's some new club in zobel called the "zobel jammers" wherein members just sit around and play various musical instruments. wtf. in any case it was a pretty good buy for a fernando nylon string [around 2k].

i would've posted this pic here but it seems trish is on the warpath so never mind.

sige ingat.ü 
posted by stani at 7:13 PM
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"you weren't there, man!"

went to carmen's bash. had an ube or two. witnessed the destruction of a boombox, paco's dignity [or so he claims], and one salcedo place's poolside women's comfort room. mixed up my best pitcher of lalabu to date. heard a crap story. initiated a long-overdue jam session. arrived home at two in the morning.

accompanied jendee to the ateneo-la salle basketball game. witnessed gigatactics in the mrt. stepped in someone's ice tea after the game [adding insult to injury]. was mesmerized by a bus driver's otherworldly maniobras.

there's really no substitute for first-hand experience.

sige ingat.ü 
posted by stani at 8:50 PM
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minsan

minsan ay hindi mo na alam ang nangyayari
kahit na anong gawin lahat ng bagay ay mayro'ng hangganan
dahil ngayon tayo ay nilimot ng kahapon
'di na mapipigilang buhayin ang ating pinagsamahan

ngunit kung sakaling mapadaan
baka ikaw ay aking tawagan
dahil minsan tayo ay naging tunay na
magkaibigan 
posted by stani at 7:58 AM
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life's a dick

submitted the asmprog mp this morning [thanks largely to paco, without whose code i surely would've copped out]. the introai deptest was meh. the only surprise was the water jugs logic puzzle straight out of the last level of tomb raider: the last revelation. so there is a point to lara croft after all. introdb deptest tomorrow night and asmprog the night after. as jonat says, life's a dick - if it gets hard, fuck it.

sige ingat.ü 
posted by stani at 9:30 PM
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untitled. so sue me.

i woke up late this morning. that doesn't usually happen so i thought that there must be something special i had to see today. if that special thing was in school, i would've woken up earlier than needed to attend the history of malate talk, so that couldn't be it. since my conclusion was whatever i needed to see was on the way to school, i took a jeep instead of the usual fx. the something special turned out to be a middle-aged woman eating hershey's kisses on the jeep and dropping the foil onto the floor.

how do we expect the future to be any better if we set such bad examples in the here and now? i thought of picking up after her and handing her back her trash when we'd gotten off the jeep but someone stepped in them already. sayang.

anyway, the hour i cost myself by going off the beaten track was the last hour of the talk as well, so all i was able to attend was the malate lunch at the red spoon. their breakfast meals at least aren't half-bad; it's the slow service that gets you.

band practice was ok, but the fact that i have yet to buy an electric guitar is becoming painfully obvious. i'm willing to go second-hand, for the right price. any takers?

before i sign off, i really must link you to this game. it's one of the few game i know that will make you smarter and more stupid at the same time.

sige ingat.ü 
posted by stani at 11:18 PM
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i'm a golden god. wtf.

You are a WRCL--Wacky Rational Constructive Leader. This makes you a golden god. People gravitate to you, and you make them feel good. You are smart, charismatic, and interesting. You may be too sensitive to others reactions, especially criticism. Your self-opinion and mood depends greatly on those around you.

You think fast and have a smart mouth, are a hoot to your friends and razorwire to your enemies. You hold a grudge like a brass ring. You crackle.

Although you have a leader's personality, you often choose not to lead, as leaders stray too far from their audience. You probably weren't very popular in high school--the joke's on them!

You may be a rock star.

[take the test here]

cool.

in other news, i've switched to firefox. i don't know which is better, the download manager or the complete lack of error pop-ups [which reminds me, the pop-up killer's quite handy as well].

i haven't yet started on the asmprog mp due monday. bathala na.

sige ingat.ü 
posted by stani at 9:23 PM
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pure genius

arnold arre did a great job on the cover too.

the virtual cd driver i downloaded a month ago expired even with a supposed full version key. what a rip. now i'm locked out of my games [as usual]. can anyone suggest a permanent alternative?

the painting of bro. s. miguel flores cordero, hung between the first and second floors of the sps building, looks exactly like squidward [of spongebob fame] would've, had he been human.

i got over the seven-day 'flu in four and a half. there's the trimestral system for you.

sige ingat.ü 
posted by stani at 4:14 AM
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