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Saturday, January 2, 2010

2010 Year Goals in Infinitives

Hello, dear readers (to three people, I suppose LOL). It is another year again and apparently, this blog's fourth year. I haven't been writing lately BUT I plan to do so more this year. Writing is always finding its way back to me no matter how hard my schedule tries to get rid of it. So, for 2010, I'd like to write down just FIVE goals, so I would come back next year and write the same shit all over again. LOL.

1. TO LOVE

I know a lot of people who are scared to love unconditionally, whether it'd be filial or romantic, and I admit that I'm one of them. So, for 2010, I plan to conquer one of my biggest scare - to love and express love without reproach or condition. As I wrote in my microblogging sites, (hit me up on Facebook or Twitter), love is the greatest beauty product. Everyone wants to give the best of themselves to that one person (five, maybe, if you're into Islam) whose every flaw they willingly accept and love.

"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything." - Katherine Hepburn

2. TO LUST

I plan to have sex. ENOUGH SAID. (Mom, this is just a joke to spice up this blog entry, I swear).

3. TO LEARN

Schooling has always been in my agenda for the past three years and I still haven't gotten around to getting the right time, degree, all that. This year, I'm looking forward to going back to the academe. My father is suggesting I take up law but my heart is telling me to pursue marketing. Hopefully, I'll be enrolled before the year ends.

4. TO EARN

Saving is really hard for me. I'm addicted to shopping and I go party a lot. For 2010, I plan to allot money for three international travels, not more than eight local travels and two night-outs at most in a month. HARD. I got into this savings program so I'd be able to save at least P4,000++ a month. That's a start.

I've also established a marketing and events company with my college friends. We're all busy with our jobs and we've lost focus last year. Hopefully, this year, we can align our plans and be productive.

5. TO WRITE

Writing gives me clarity and focus - I need both for kick-starting 2010 with direction. I'm turning 25 this year and I ~~want~~ need to be able to write something about my life and what mark I've left in the world soon. I don't want to think that I've squandered a quarter of my life for nothing (like learning Super Junior's Sorry Sorry choreography).

How about you? What are your plans for 2010? Walang kopyahan (No copying)!

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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

The New Me

This is my official entry to Nuffnang's GlutaMax contest. I haven't participated in contests for a while because I just couldn't see myself relating to them. But when I saw Nuffnang's email, I immediately said to myself, I can totally wing this contest by just showing up with my before photo. 2009 has been a year of transformations, of growing up and of gearing my engines straight ahead.

So, here's my before-after photo.

30 pounds lighter

I enrolled at the gym in December 2008 with the hopes of going below the 'overweight' scale. It wasn't just the weight, believe me. Being fat, I would look myself in the mirror and my self-esteem would diminish every second (that's why I don't keep large mirrors at home, haha). I just overcompensate with fake self-confidence so no one would notice.

Here are other photos I swear I wouldn't have posted if this contest hadn't come up.

Double chin at 150 pounds.

2007, in a beach. Yes, I was wearing a t-shirt.

The year-long make-over

A year ago, I wouldn't have insane amounts of products on my shelf. Now, I have 7 different products for my face, I have my hair treated every month, I follow my regimen daily, I buy tons of new clothes then tossed out the old baggy ones and I see to it that I don't eat too much.

2009 is a year of accomplishments for me. It wasn't just the weight loss - I got promoted (technically, adding two people on the team at work), I established my own events company with college friends, I found a new hobby to keep me in shape and I genuinely loved myself.

I learned to improve myself day-by-day and this is what got me through the whole year. For every second I look back, I give myself a whole day of looking forward.

I live by this mantra: self-love is not a crime. If it were, I'd gladly give myself up for the gas chamber.

Glutamax, see the results.

Also, for everyone who commented on Haloscan, I still don't know how to migrate your comments, so I'll just post them here:

Ria Jose
http://www.shoppingera.net
You, my friend, are FAB! Congratulations on the transformation! *HUG*]]>

FunnySexy
http://funnysexy.ph
Dde, srsly, if you don't win, Imma throw a fit (though I have no idea what this contest is about but I'm assuming it's a transformation/make-over thingamajig).

How many have you lost? 30 lbs? Man, that's a lot! Keep it up!

Also, I just wanna say that... I DID A GLUTAMAX VIDEO. http://www.flippish.com/test-tube-whos-the-fairest-of-them-all-a/2009/06/09/ PWNED.

Thanks, YSA!

GeoRge
http://digiputz.com
119.92.206.159
Wow, congrats Poyt! Nothing bad in a little self-loving... hehe.

Ligaya
http://ligayas-joys.blogspot.com
OMG Poyt lookin' FIERCE! I need to get with the programme as well. Congratulations and Happy New Year! ^0^

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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Shake, Rattle and LOL 11

Being compelled to watch at least ONE movie from the Metro Manila Film Festival roster every year to support our dying film industry, my friends and I decided that Shake, Rattle and Roll 11 would be the least excruciating to watch. So, according to the Shake, Rattle and Roll tradition, 11 also has three episode with Maja Salvador and Mark Anthony Fernandez starting it off with Diablo.

Read a review for each episode after the jump.

Diablo

The only thing I remember about this movie was how wimpy Mark Anthony Fernandez' obviously dubbed voice sounded. Maja Salvador was a bit convincing in her role of a legion-of-demons-possessed doctor, the prosthetics helped, believe me. The plot was anti-atheist and anti-people-who-hate-religions with the premise that Maja became susceptible to the possession because she stopped believing in a god and stopped going to church. I was like WHAT?!

Then Mark Anthony, the priest everyone desired in town, predictably revealed near the end of the movie that he still had the hots for his ex (Maja) then dies for her. I would have given the film a thumbs up for having an artsy feel during the movie intro where Maja was falling from atop a building except it wasn't really related to the damned plot. Falling and possession. HRMMM. Although I give props to Joem Bascon for looking so scared of a naked Maja Salvador. By the way, I almost went blind with the lighting - sana binuksan nila ang ilaw habang nagta-taping.

Ukay-ukay

This is the most bizarre SRR story I've ever seen. The Ruffa-Zoren tandem is back and both of them are dubbed in the funniest way. Ruffa sounds like a tight pussy and Zoren sounds downright weird. Ruffa gets this 1950's wedding gown from an ukay-ukay (thrift shop), which happens to be owned by a scorned bride. When Ruffa asks his designer friend, John Lapuz, to refurbish the old gown, it kills John by attaching itself to the designer's body, thereby choking him to death. Best quote by John - "Designer ako, gown ka lang!"

So, Ruffa gets creeped out by strange noises in her house and asks Zoren to sleep over. The gown tries to kill Ruffa and chases her around the house. Ruffa escapes and comes back with *dun dun dun, wait for it* a CHAINSAW. The three has an altercation on the front yard with Zoren suddenly finding a dos-por-dos (two-meter long wood). He swings it, hitting the gown smack on the stomach - in short, sinikmuraan niya yung ghost. The gown, unbelievably, recoils and swaggers towards a well. Ruffa gets insane amounts of gas and pours it on the gown, which almost drowned. They set the gown on fire by throwing in a lighter.

Can you tell me what's wrong with this scene? Everything? Yeah, everything.

Laman Lupa

This is a staple teens go into the forest and everyone dies sort of story. Except you get to see Bangs Garcia's cameltoe and a lot of cleavage care of Iya Villania and Jennica Garcia (Jean Garcia's daughter). Also, while Iya was given a 10-second slow-motion scene while being chased by the laman lupa with matching lens flare. Pa-artsy effect daw. The Roco twins are hot though - the only consolation for watching this 35-minute episode. Gah!

Shake, Rattle and Roll 11, therefore, is an unintentional horror-comedy. Go watch it if you want to ~~get frightened~~ and laugh, at the same time.

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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Videocast on First Day at Bangkok

We almost forgot about this videocast of crack we recorded live on our (Palawan Gang) first night in Bangkok. This describes how we got around toured around Bangkok with a tuktuk, how we got duped into eating super expensive Thai food and how Thais have a nasty habit of not washing their hands before they handle other people's food! CHRIST!

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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Exploring Bohol in 24 hours (part 1)

If someone asked me if I can experience and explore Bohol in 24 hours, I would tell him - "BEEN THERE. DONE THAT!" So, how did we do it exactly?

Upon touch down, we hired a car for 2,000 PHP (for 8 hours) to take us to all the exciting and tourist-y places in Bohol such as:

Our first stop - the Blood Compact site.

Actually, it's not really a stop, we didn't really wanna go there but it's on the way. I just had to post this really funny photo of my Aunt. LOL.

Then we sampled the famous restaurant by Bohol Bee Farm in Island City Mall, Tagbiliran.

Bee Farm's staple garden salad with flowers. I ate the flower, seriously.

Baclayon Church, about 6 km east of Tagbilaran, one of the oldest churches in the Philippines. It has a mini museum of relics of saints. They also sell rosaries, crosses and other religious items.

Like giddy high school kids, my Aunt and I then proceeded to drive to the Tarsier Sanctuary.

The locals said one of the tarsiers scratched one of the tourist's eye out (just exaggerating), when he tried to pet the animal. That's just gossip, but now they're not allowing anyone from touching the tarsiers. Also, don't use your camera's flash. Tarsiers are extremely sensitive and they're suicidal. Maybe that's why they're an endangered species.

Then, lo and behold, the famous Chocolate Hills! It's not even remotely chocolate brown when we went there though. It's three hours from Tagbiliran and apparently there's another view called the Sagbayan Peak, but it's another 45 minutes.

It's great to have dinner at Loboc Floating River Cruise for about 300 PHP because of the ambiance. Although the food's not that great, stomach fillers really. You can join the cruise fora bout 450 PHP.

Then we slept for about two hours, had this night cap at Lazer Disco in Bohol Tropics Resort, which deserves a separate blog post, believe me. I even have videos.

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