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yesterday's party was something quite unexpected. i digested massive amounts of food and drink - think about it, capitalizing on two mcdonald's drumsticks - but i never got to touch the gonuts. i think i was too busy with the main course to bother with dessert.

i won't be able to attend friday's outing because of the s-b party. so many gatherings, so little left of two weeks.

after said party, jules, bea, johann, and i went to town to watch she's the man (we had four free movie passes courtesy of jules and we wanted to laugh. we couldn't use it on nanny mcphee, so we had no choice.) i like the movie - amanda is really mature, although i have to say that she is sort of treading the anne hathaway road, but that's really just fine with me. :D

you can take that statement from me as a 'you should really watch this movie'. i mean, you really should. it's white chicks, switching roles.

after one school year...

...i get myself a new layout!

it's not as complicated as the old one, because there's only one div layer here, and you're basically reading it.

sorry if i happen to offend anyone [who is linked] by removing the links. :) whoever you are, i still love you :)

theatre etiquette / the last friday of my life

what's with juicyfruiter.blogspot.com? it looks rather innocent but it's so suspicious to me. i mean, why do spammers spam links to a forest ranger's blog?

anyway.

i'm guessing everyone who was present at the turnover ceremonies witnessed sweet spot's performance and were aware of the bit of controversy surrounding it. let me just say that ms. telen had no right to interrupt agi that time, specifically in the middle of his performance.

i'm not saying that she had no right to get angry at him (though i believe it was not reason enough; it's just agi's traditional showmanship, for god's sake) - but she should've waited until after the song or the performance itself to tell him off. you don't see a stage manager going onstage and reprimanding the actor because he forgot his lines in the middle of the show.

i have to say that i actually thought better of ms. telen until now. her act has offended the stage performer in me.

anyway, i heard agi was actually suspended?

really shameless plugs

i was watching the news while eating dinner when they showed a news report about a tsunami scare over in nasugbu, batangas. my thoughts were, "how could people be so gullible and stupid?", as the report went on.

but that's not the good part.

it was learned that the mass scare came after they heard arnold clavio, who is that fat guy with his very own puppet over at the rival station, report that the said tsunami was supposedly going to happen today. seeing the chance, i guess good old ABS-CBN went for the upper hand and went for a little self-promotion as they got the townspeople to say on camera that they were all kapamilya, and proud of it.

such good journalism.

sacrifice is a state of mind

lately people have been making 'sacrifices'. sacrifice meat, sacrifice dota, sacrifice chocolate or whatever. you may have purely good intentions or whatever, but all these sacrifices strike me suspicious. i, for one, am not going to sacrifice anything, because my view of religion is rather 'free' - i don't bind myself to the exact written law, but i have full sense of what is right and what is wrong.

i can sense now that you're thinking, "not sacrificing something for lent is wrong, you dotard."

yeah, maybe. i mean, it is pretty unfair for me not to sacrifice something in repayment for christ's death. but lately, with the last few sacrifice declarations i've seen, it seems that this is slowly becoming a trend.

maybe i'm speaking too soon here, but please spare me my ego. let me refer to the parable of the pharisee and the tax collector. wasn't it that the tax collector who kept quiet and prayed the simple prayer got the favor from God, over the pharisee who was praying as loud and as eloquently as martin luther king, jr.? it might sound cynical to you, but that's sort of what i'm seeing now. one person declares that they're sacrificing whatever (out of sincere expression, probably) and then another person declares their sacrifice, until one by one the pharisees emerge.

maybe i'm thinking way too much outside the box or my method of thinking is just plain warped. maybe it's because i'm not the strictest catholic in the drawer. i believe that sacrifice and abstinence are just a state of mind.

with that, i now let the flames rain, the flak shoot, and the stones thrown.

but then we grew old

yesterday i was busy doing classwork when these two kids, a boy and a girl, were busy arguing with each other. eventually their topic came around to "girl conversations", which the boy described as "plans to destroy us". with that, i laughed.

i guess it's not surprising to say that almost everyone my age went through this as a child. "girls" and "cooties" or "germs" would be mentioned in the same breath, and same goes for "boys". touching someone of the opposite gender seems to be the only way of transferring a imaginary disease, and it would be some kind of mad leprosy that not one of your friends would want to make contact with you from then on. such wars would be represented in kids' games such as tag, cops and robbers, or whatnot.

for some reason, i miss those days.

of course that's not to say that i miss feuding with the opposite sex. it's just that i want to go back to the time of childhood games and nonsense. life is too stressful as a teenager (as much as i hate referring to myself as one). it is funny how we wish to be old while we're young and wish to be young when we're old. life is crazy, ain't it?