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  • Aug. 7th, 2008 at 10:44 PM
charlie

another meme from [info]ladybracknell, who i think has posted several in the last few days. hehehe.

Shuffle your player and select the first 20 songs that come up. Post the first line of the lyrics and have your f-list guess the songs.

( bone bone bone bone )

i only listed those songs that i actually knew. i have 5000+ songs on my pod, and i have a lot of albums i haven't even listened to in full. or at all.

yes, i know, nos. 5, 11, 16 and 17 should be dead giveaways. what can i do.

some of these were actually covers when they appeared on the shuffle; i need the original artist. track no. 4 was a cover by paolo santos; no. 13 was a live concert performance by alanis morissette; no. 17 was a performance by brooke white on american idol.

on the first incarnation of this list, posted at my main blog (politicsaside.blogspot.com), i had some songs originally done by filipino singers. i'm just adding them here for posterity. heheheh.

( to be, is all i gotta be... )

  • Location:office
  • Mood: satisfied
  • Music:lifehouse, make me over

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yeah, i think i've read more than six

  • Aug. 5th, 2008 at 11:46 PM
luna ginny

this is a meme I've seen do the rounds at lj a few weeks ago, but never found the time to do myself. then a high school friend posted it, so i thought i might as well.

  1. Look at the list and bold those you have read.
  2. Italicize those you intend to read.
  3. Underline the books you LOVE.
  4. Reprint this list in your own multiply/lj so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;)

 

 


  • Mood: indifferent

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finally

  • Aug. 4th, 2008 at 10:05 AM
xtin

yesterday was my graduation day. after six years of bluffing my way through, with three of those years devoted to the struggle that is my strategic management paper, i finally got my degree. and if i wanted to, i have the right to add those three letters to the end of my name.

i didn't have major problems during the graduation ceremony itself, except for my academic gown almost choking me and my cap weighing about as heavy as an anvil. no missteps or major boo-boos. but it was the other stuff surrounding my graduation that gave me major headaches. after i finally submitted my paper, which was late, there was the clearance (an issue i'd rather not discuss). then not knowing if i made the cut, because according to the rules, i should have submitted my paper earlier (though i had the defense before the deadline). then finding the right dress, where normal dress-shopping is already a traumatic experience. then, after the ceremony, it was as if our trusty '94 civic was on strike. just as we were ready to leave, dad discovered the battery was discharged, so we had to have a replacement delivered. then, on our way home, we landed on a massive pothole on the slex and got a running flat. imagine all of that accompanied by heavy rainfall.

i hope to write about all the different details soon. the subject matter from the speeches during the ceremony were inspiring, though not enough to spur me to write extensively. i'll try to get back on my feet in a couple of days.

  • Mood: thankful

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for sci's writer's mini workshop

  • Jun. 24th, 2008 at 10:32 AM
xtin
probably not a recommended method of writing...

  • Location:day off!
  • Music:sting, all this time

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independence day

  • Jun. 12th, 2008 at 2:27 PM
luna ginny
it's june 12th, and in my corner of the pacific, we celebrate our independence day.

in honor of this significant moment in our history, i decided to break my apathetic silence and write a little something. in filipino. which is why i'm only providing a link from here, because i wouldn't want to flood the list with nonsense people wouldn't understand.

and chary, i challenge you to tell me exactly what i was talking about.

btw, you might want to hear the song i linked in the post, it is a very good performance by the philippine madrigal singers. i sang it with my glee club more than a decade ago, which is why it's a sentimental favorite.

the post is here:
http://politicsaside.blogspot.com/2008/06/isang-himig.html
  • Location:missing
  • Mood:patriotic
  • Music:somebody else's noise

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aaaargh

  • Jun. 10th, 2008 at 12:30 AM
xtin
still doing the revisions, which should be submitted by saturday...
ohhhh brother. here i go again.

still obsessing on my (incomplete) ai7 playlist.

still unable to scrobble my ipod on last.fm. why why why why????????
the problem started when i upgraded my software, then the scrobbling
became patchy until it stopped altogether, then i upgraded my itunes,
then i downgraded my last.fm software. nothing. i'm holding off
upgrading my ipod software though, i tried it today but my connection
gave up. whuh. so, that's the biggest annoyance right now, bigger
than the revisions. lol.

just posted my summer movie wishlist on my blogspot. so it's no
longer summer here in the islands, so what? this is the start of MY
summer. i wish there's a portable widget for lists though. so that i
can just put them in my lj if i so choose. heh. like i've already
managed to configure the sidebar already.

i am sleepy. even if it was already monday (actually, it's tuesday
already) i still did my sleepless sunday bit. hurray for long
weekends! the next one is probably late august, oh dear.

so good night, i have to brace myself for the new day :D (and the new
workweek, traffic is gonna be hell urgh).

if you love harry potter, will you love this show?

  • Jun. 5th, 2008 at 9:53 AM
remus

this has been running for a few months already, and i really can't resist. i have to share this.

there's a tv series currently showing on one of our "free tv" channels, every weekday at around 9pm. the title is lobo which is the tagalog term for wolf, so it's kinda obvious that it's a fantasy series. especially since the characters are obviously people. do you see now where i'm heading? maybe it's just me, but the mere mention of werewolves bring to mind one remus john lupin. and so i thought, the people who conceptualized this must be closet fans of harry potter. little did i know how prophetic that was.

so the story is, there's this girl werewolf named lyka (omg i had to lol on that one. hello?) who was for some reason brought in from the barrio (the remote rural areas) to work for fashion mogul lady elle/eleanora (ok, at this point i mistakenly wondered if werewolves were required to have names that start with the letter L). she falls in love with a childhood sweetheart named noel, who is a military man connected with a top secret group called luna. after several adventures, and finding her mother, lyka finally discovers her true destiny as huling bantay (the last guard), basically the savior of the werewolf race, both white and black werewolves. lady elle is actually her great aunt, her mother is a black werewolf, and apparently lycanthropy is hereditary. idk. as of now lyka is going through her final challenge, which she will undoubtedly win, but not before the viewers are held in suspended disbelief whether or not noel or her mum will survive, etc.

i think there are enough references to harry potter to last a lifetime, but the clincher: the power of the last guard, in this case, lyka, is in the puting bato (white stone) which is also known as bato ng remus (stone of remus). WTF?!?!?!

  • Location:the office
  • Mood:hysterical
  • Music:foo fighters playlist

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techie questions

  • Jun. 1st, 2008 at 10:00 PM
hermione
my latest object of obsession in the internets is the last.fm application. it's cool tracking everything i've ever played on my ipod and at the itunes at work. i just wish the tagging for past tracks is easier, my connection especially at work is spotty at best. and it's tiring to have to tag every single track one by one. i hope they put in a mass tagging feature soon. (if you're on last.fm, check out my profile from the link at the left.)

i also just bought a new hard disk casing for the 80 gb hard drive i got last year - the one that was in danger of expiring before its time. it turned out the problem was in the casing and not really the hard disk, though i guess its days are numbered with the several drops (oops!) i've subjected it to. and that's why i bought a new 160 gb my passport. with all the movies i'll be ripping for the ipod, i'll probably need the extra storage soon.

which brings me to my next problem, which is a FREE dvd ripper that can rip by chapter. it's for the sting concert videos that i want to rip by song. so, help?

and i just also got into del.icio.us, which is a wonderful tagging device since my firefox bookmark list is loooooooooong. but who knows when i'll eventually transfer them to del.icio.us. bahhhhhh.
  • Location:home
  • Mood: nerdy
  • Music:david cook whatever

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it don't matter, it's over

  • Jun. 1st, 2008 at 9:33 PM
ginny
i just surpassed the biggest challenge of my life, and i can't find words good enough to describe it.

( i'm here, wide awake again )
  • Location:head in the clouds
  • Mood: relieved
  • Music:u2, i still haven't found what i'm looking for

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a short - and very much delayed - american idol post-mortem

  • May. 29th, 2008 at 1:38 AM
xtin
so, david cook won. for the first time, someone i was betting on with all
my heart finally won one of these reality singing competitions.

i actually had mixed feelings about him winning instead of archie. there is
still a stigma attached to the show, and there is the danger of too much
pimping and unfulfilled expectations. taylor hicks ring any bells? i also
felt a little bad for archie, because he needed the win more than cookie
did. but it's done, and i can only hope for the best for those two and the
other finalists.

so, my favorite performances on ai season 7:

1. top 8, seasons of love - it seriously gave me goosebumps the first time
i saw the video. even if kristy had a louder mic and brooke didn't have a
solo part.

2. michael johns, across the universe - i didn't know this song except as a
title for that movie. i looooove this performance.

3. brooke white, let it be - i'm sure she was genuinely thrilled to perform
this song on top 12

4. jason castro, hallelujah - if only because he bumped jeff buckley to #2
on itunes! but jason's a unique singer as well.

5. brooke white, love is a battlefield - another song i was introduced to
in this season

6. david cook, happy together - lss factor! this first performance of
david is a precursor of great things to come.

7. david cook, billie jean - anybody with the guts to bring chris cornell
into ai has my utmost admiration.

8. david cook, music of the night - no, david cook is not a fluke. nor is
he a boring rocker. he has serious vocal chops man.

9. david cook, first time ever i saw your face - hay naku kaka inlove ka
talaga.

10. david cook, the world i know - this is why i decided that david cook is
the best representation of the kind of music i go for. aside from chris
daughtry, who else in the whole idol history could be counted on to bring in
chris cornell, switchfoot and collective soul? obviously, wala. and this
song is actually one of the best songs of the 90s alternative rock - i rank
it up there with last goodbye in the senti factor. at buti na lang cookie
left this song for the last, it made listening to this song all the more
poignant because of the wait. omg david i so love you for that. thank you.

btw, idol gives back is such a disappointing show performance-wise, but the
finale made up for it. especially archie's duet with onerepublic (this is
the sort of song david archuleta would do really well in) and the "audition
tape" for gladys knight and the pips. jack black you are so hilarious!

and i feel fine

  • May. 16th, 2008 at 11:48 AM
hermione
so that took three years. i had a friend who was dragging her master's thesis and we all kept pestering her to finish it. eventually she did. i really know how she feels.

i have just submitted my mba paper last night. i don't think it's really sunk in yet that i am finally free. some of the 50-random-things-to-do-after-strama were popping up in my head last night, but i can't really grasp them. i do know that one i'll be doing pretty soon is visit my friend who just gave birth, and probably another is get a whole lot of sleep. because i now have the mother of all headaches, and not involving alcohol in it only made it marginally better. i also have a crick in my neck that is just pain.

though i've been already warned of an impending outing with classmates. out of town, with planes and accomodations involved. one of the things i missed out on while i was doing my penance from hell. and now i'm doing it. yay.

so, actually i'm not completely free of grad school yet, defense is still in the horizon. and it's the one thing that really scared me shitless in my last semesters attending class (which was already three years ago). and it's probably the underlying reason why i never got to this point much much earlier. i'll probably get the nerves again when i finalize my schedule, but right now, i just can't care less.

wangsting temporarily banned from my life. the world is just an intriguing shade of pink for me right now. and for now i can say with utter conviction: THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY.
  • Location:office
  • Mood: relieved
  • Music:still michael johns, across the universe

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all right now

  • May. 10th, 2008 at 10:52 PM
xtin
snatching some time for some dc:

my idol *manok*, david cook, will be singing *collective soul*'s *the world
i know* next week (it was his song choice).

i've loved that song ever since it came out back when i was in high
school/freshman college? it's seriously one of my favorites. omg i really
really really love you dc i can't say it enough.

so with that, i am now trying to convince myself he's going to sing it badly
so that i'll not expect too much from the performance (and consequently
enjoy it as it is). at least my peculiar musical tastes are represented
this year. god i miss rockstar.

and logan, you're gonna love this: jeff archuleta banned from david's
practice. stage dad fallout much? *kawawa naman si *archie. and no, i
don't think TPTB will kick him out. the money potential of a david vs david
finale is incomprehensible.

for the deets:
www.rickey.org
www.myfoxkc.com


songs of the week: *david cook*, *all right now*; *michael johns*, *across
the universe* *(grabe caloy **naging lss namin to ni anne kasalanan mo to*)

i'm a believer

  • May. 8th, 2008 at 4:55 PM
xtin
whenever i know i needed to write something, i end up writing a whole
lot of nonsense on my blog instead. and now that i have twitter, i
update as well. funnnnnnnn.



i blog because i want to be heard. because i don't feel i'm heard
enough in real life. like everything just goes on whether i'm there
or just sitting in the sidelines. which i am most of the time.

and i put my feelings out there, somebody hears, but i don't feel like
anyone's listening. do i expect too much from people? from some
people, who don't even care?

or am i deaf to the people who really care, the ones who listen but
dare not speak, for some reason?



comments of the day:
from the blog of rhojmp3downloads.multiply.com

commenter a: ...anyway, that priscilla betetr learn how to LISTEN.
listen to other people's side before doing something else.

commenter b: paano naman niya magagawa yan...bingi nga

[/crack]

on tv this week, and it's only wednesday

  • May. 7th, 2008 at 9:27 PM
xtin
today on american idol, i was a little bit disappointed in david
cook's performance. thats the problem whenever i look at rickey.org
and see great reviews, i almost always end up a little deflated seeing
the actual performance. also, minor gripe: baba o'riley was TOO
SHORT. how many seconds did that clock in, hello? hungry like a wolf
could have been better, but at least that was a little more upbeat.
but i still love him. go cookies!

and, PUSHING DAISIES finally here! saw the first episode this
morning, at 4 am (i missed the primetime). i seriously dig them both.
anna friel is adorable! she would've made a good tonks, i think, and
we'd have all dissolved in the utter romance of it all.

wtf? (i fail at life)

  • May. 6th, 2008 at 2:57 PM
xtin
seven days.

blah blah blah and all that shite.

this is it, this is the moment, this is the wtfery.

i will not, i mean NOT call lei/mike/whoever and crycrycry again.

...

so please please please let me let me let me
let me get what i want this time
- the smiths

twitters

  • May. 6th, 2008 at 12:06 AM
xtin
  • 13:40 @baddie ano na namang widget yan baddie? me ipapakilala ka na naman sa mga katulad kong internet loser #
  • 13:42 ...more than bent on getting by... #
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where is the love

  • May. 2nd, 2008 at 12:27 AM
harry
ok, so it just occurred to me, it's the tenth anniversary of the battle of hogwarts today (starting yesterday, that is, when harry, ron and hermione came to hogsmeade).  a great day for those who doubted harry would live through it (well, he did come back from the dead) and a not so good day for those who didn't see the next sunrise.  namely fred, remus and tonks.  oh a sad day indeed for the r/t shippers.  and i became a full shipper because i was so depressed over them dying.  waaaaaah.

[info]shimotsuki has a ficlet from her AU verse, it's a good read for those of us feeling the love.  and [info]fernwithy just did a challenge call, with lots of teddyverse ficlets, but also a few from pre-dh.  my request was for a glimpse of sirius in gof/ootp year, and she gave me one better: tonks was in it.  wheeeee.

ah i just got over my bout with measles (what the...) and the itchy bites, but not my procrastination... at this rate i will never ever for as long as i live finish my strama paper.  perseverance, where are you?
  • Location:dreamland
  • Mood: bored
  • Music:maroon 5, little of your time

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whine, whine, whine

  • Apr. 21st, 2008 at 3:31 PM
xtin
it's hot out. it's cold in here. i have fever, my frap is melting.

so instead of going home right away since i first felt this weird temperature disparity, i chose to stay. when i badly needed sleep. and with no ready cash. but a few weeks ago, i decided to go home in the midst of a really freaking hot summer afternoon (it was after one pm, go figure) having the same symptoms and i wasn't happy at all. so i decided to try the other way for now, and waited for the free ride home. (because luckily, today, i get a free ride home.).

i should have just stayed home and not spent as much money. too late for that. and to think the initial reason i took a sick day (originally a half-day, but circs have a way of going awry) is no longer itching to make its presence known. it lends credence to the popular school of thought that illness is largely psychological. just when the theory that the little buggers were living the high life in my epidermis has been dashed, once and for all, it's like i'm reborn. but i could have done without the flames from fawkes, thank you.

ok, i've spent two hours sitting like a good lamb in this sofa chair, no complaints. no highlights, either. just some good 'zine fodder and fern's latest teddy chapter. i have at least an hour left to go before i'm saved. ohhhhhh brother.

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meme

  • Apr. 7th, 2008 at 1:25 AM
hermione
picked up from [info]wildmagelet.  at first i couldn't figure it out, haha.  especially since i found myself having a lot of answers in common with hers.

  • Location:room
  • Mood: awake
  • Music:sandwich, sugod (acoustic)

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last day of the week

  • Mar. 19th, 2008 at 9:21 AM
xtin
living in a predominantly christian country has its benefits.  like having this long weekend before easter.  the work week officially ends today, but even better, it's a half day at the office.  yay!

since i'm not really inclined to do anything remotely related to work, i'm posting a couple of memes from my f-list.

this one's from [info]sciathan_file:

Everyone has things they blog about. Everyone has things they don't blog about. Challenge me out of my comfort zone by telling me something I don't blog about, but you'd like to hear about, and I'll write a post about it. Ask for anything: latest movie watched, last book read, political leanings, thoughts on yaoi, favorite type of underwear, graphic techniques, etc. Repost in your own journal so that we can all learn more about each other.

and this one from a pretty happy [info]ladybracknell


advanced happy easter everyone!

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