11 posts from 2006
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Happy 41st Birthday to Athanasios Demetrios Maroulis -- the big brother of Constantine and incredible singer/performer!
Miss you, man!
What's your favorite foreign accent?
Hmmmm...... I have two. Tied in first place.
- English Accent - I have spent three Lord of the Rings movies and two Harry Potter movies *on loop* for about a year to master this art. And now, I have met NO ONE who could pull it off as I can. Unless you're born and raise or just raised there, your accent is as good as or worse for wear than mine. i dare you. Hahahahahahahah!
- New York Accent - I won't take just anyone's NY accent. I want Eddie Cahill's and Carmine Giovinazzo's. 'Don Flack, Jr.' and 'Danny Messer' from CSI:NY, if you want a sample. Their accents drive me oh so crazy! I wish I could acquire them, too. soon.
What's up?
Whee! LEGAL -- finally legal!
I can vote (bleah), I can have a Yahoo360 account (not that I want another online profile), technically -- I can have a legit Friendster/MySpace profile, but most important of all: I can have access to the Betty Basement and CSI's BrokeBack CrimeLab! Bwahahahahahahahahah!
Jiyan -- you won't raise your eyebrow then on me if you see me reading (and writing) slash/het fics then. Hahahahah... pareho na tayo, girl!
Leesa -- Carmine's mine today ha! My turn on the guy hhahahah!
Danix -- thanks sa bati!
Teentalk people -- thanks din.
At in fairness, maaga pa ha. Lol -- I won't have a party for my 18th. Imma spend the money on something else. I busted PhP500 yesterday in a book (and a bag) in National Bookstore Cubao yesterday. That's my gift to myself. Actually, I had about PhP1500 worth of sale books on my shelf since August13 until yesterday. Iyun na lang ang gift ko sa sarili ko -- may debut gown na ako nun kung tutuusin hahahah. Natatawa nga ako nung tinignan ko kanina yung "collection" ko.
*Where the Boys Are (Lesbian and Gay Lit)
*Gay Blades (LGBT Lit)
*How to Make a Porn Star (Jenna Jameson Memoir)
*Star (Pamela Anderson as the author)
*Rosario is Dead
*Orosa-Nakpil... Malate
^ano yahn? signs of maturity? ashus! they're GREAT books btw. Especially the first and last ones.
*Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl (na hanggang ngayon ay hindi ko matapos-tapos dahil hindi ko type)
Hay, I'll be posting my serious and proper birthday post later. After all, 830am pa lang naman. May ek-ek pa akong kailangang gawin sa J101 at Geog1.
Byesies muna!
And thank you! *hugs*
Last September 9, 2006 -- our Geography1 class MHV1 together with some other classes went on a field trip to Bataan. We went to all these historical/educational places and such... climbed up Mt. Samat and up the Dambana ng Kagitingan:
It was a long way up, steps of hella slippery blood stones (I think they're called) and up an elevator for 57seconds (yes, there is an elevator inside the cross structure atop the mountain). Here is a view from the top:
Imagine that without 8x optical zoom.
There's also an altar/courtyard of sorts below the cross about midway up the mountain where we took our unofficial class picture, the first of many:
Anyway, it was so exhausting that we opted to eat first before heading over to the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant. Yep, a real nuclear power plant. But here's the catch...
Tell me what enters your head when you hear the words (or brand) water front? The hotel and recreation site? Nah, this time... take it literally. In front of the water. Don't believe me?
I took this picture with the dining table (aka cottage) touching my back. It's that close! Hahaha... think again when you hear "water front".
Our class was the ONLY ONE who had fun... well, yeah the other classes had their own fun. But not on the beach! I mean, sure, you can eat and all that but c'mon -- it's the beach, man. Almost 12 months in a year (hahahah) we're in the city and just for this hour and a half we're in a beach... FOR FREE! I'd be damned if we didn't make the most of it. MHV1 sure did.
Next stop was the power plant and then after that, the Bataan TechnoPark. There's not much to see there, though. It's a technology park without the actual technology. Another irony.
Last stop... is beach #2. The Pawikan Conservation Center. There's not much to say there... but the main thing is once again, we were the only ones who had fun on the beach. The whole beach locations thing became like a photoshoot of sorts for all of us.
We got back to UP very late but it was all worth it. Two beaches in one day...not bad.
For crap loads more pics of the trip: http://tonzkee08.multiply.com/ under Geography1 MHV1
If you could watch any movie on the big screen right at this moment, what would it be?
If you personally know me, which is highly unlikely (hahaha!), you would know my answer to this. You can choose between just two epic movies of the same genre. It is a part of a classic book-to-movie trilogy which launched and/or relit the careers of a lot of actors. The whole thing has just three main female characters and several guys who look like women with their long hair and astonishing beautiful faces.
Although I know these movies (read: trilogy) like the back of my hand, I don't mind watching them on bigscreen once again. After all, a 51" projection TV is not a full-sized silver screen. The benefit of watching it at home however is the knowledge that I am watching the movies' extended versions.
I'm talking about Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers or Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. If you're watching it with me, take your pick.
But I don't mind watching it alone.
No long post for today.
Just.... silence.
This post is not of the QotD thing. I don't like the question posted. It's very cliche -- very Miss Universe-ish question. Plus, don't make me choose. I'd rather go to hell than to choose ONE thing out of a million.
So, I wasn't around yesterday. Thus, no VOX post as well as no LJ post from moi yesterday. I was out... of the city... of the region even. Left at 430am and got back home at 1230am. Visited two beaches in one day, waded in high tide, collected a coral fragment, took 60+ pictures using two cameras, went inside a REAL nuclear power plant (that is not working), trudged up a mountain, and being one with the clouds. It was a vacation...without the actual vacation. School field trip for Geography1.
I have yet to upload the picturessss -- and lazy me, I still don't feel like it. The pictures don't remind me much of the trip. They remind me more of the project that entailed the trip... a photo essay. Hay, good luck!
What's your middle name? Is there a story or history behind it?
Maritoni. That's my middle name. And I like it.
They call me 'toni' from that name of mine. And I like it.
There is a story behind that. My parents took that name from a Filipina beauty queen Maritoni Daya. I honestly do not know who she is and how she looks like. But I hope the 'beauty queen' in her rubbed off to me via her name.
Lol!
What was the last game you played?
Physical game? Sport? PC game? Online RPG? Video game? Which console?
Hahahah...it's impolite to answer a question with another question -- let alone six. Okay, I'll answer the question then.
The last game that I have played -- on PlayStation2 to be specific is *drum roll please* The Da Vinci Code. And I'm proud to say that I finished it 100% all by myself. Do you want a review? Aw... I don't think you want to read me rave (much less rant). Alright then...
The game is not 100% a tie-in with the book and movie. You don't need to watch the movie or read the book to play the game. A teensy bit of knowledge in History would help but other than that, you can play this blind. It plays out pretty much the in the same venues and timelines as the book/movie - Louvre, Swiss Bank, Chateau Villette, airport, Roslin Chapel. All the same characters and their roles are there: Langdon, Neveu, Teabing, Remy, Silas, the nuns. But there are extra characters that either help you or hinder your from succeeding in your mission. Some of the organizations, affliations, words, art and such are changed in this game.
The main thing to watch out here is the placement of clues. One must be observant when playing this game. In some of the puzzles, a higher level of IQ and that History knowledge comes in handy. Even in the Easy level, the puzzles are enough to make you pull all your nose hair! Some are so simple, you will miss the sheer simplicity of it. It does make you feel stupid, yeah.
What else? Oh! Silas. There is one sequence/game stretch in the whole thing where he's coming at you and you have to unlock four locks in order to escape him. Not to mention, he's shooting at you while he's slowly looming over you. The thought of a huge, stark white, red-eyed man coming at you with a Revolver in his hand is enough to make your hair stand.
Overall, I recommend this game. Maybe not to all though. Make your life easier. Read up on History first and go join Mensa hahahahah!
Alrighty, day two. More appropriately: post two. And still, I do not know what to do with his VOX blog. I can make this a secondary blog to my LJ - probably having almost the same content as the latter. Or I can mix it up: x-post and exclusive posts. Maybe I'll go mixed. Sometimes there are some things on my mind (and life) that are so unrelated to each other that it's not healthy to post them all at once on my LJ. Every moment is special. I don't want to flood my LJ with unrelated nothingness -- then the readers (if there are any) won't be able to focus on a particular topic. (Reading it back, that statement didn't make any sense. You're smart people, right? Figure it out.)
What are my possible options? Erm... x-post, secondary blog, review blog, literary blog, photo blog, random crap blog... endless! Those not and never will be on that list of options will be: primary blog and a dead blog. In fact, I might not be MIA much over here. I will try to treat LJ and VOX the same. After all, both services are fun.
But before I end this post, some things I want to remind y'all:
CRS is now open. Freshies aka anak ng dios, as well as upper classmen aka less fortunate ones can now pre-enlist online.
Bataan field trip for Geog1 this Saturday. Excited! Two digital cameras are better than one, they say. Yay me!
I will be 18 in exactly 10 days. 'Nuff said.
