Derrick and I went to Greenhills today where got me a belated birthday gift.

Guangzhou Gymnasium, "Really Living Without It"

1. Royal Skateboard Truck
2. Parool
3. Dandy Warhols
   
4. Merzhase
   
5. Szukalski
6. Native Ventures
   
7. Haaretz Daily
   
8. AFSC
9. Low-Fi
10. Bad Transit

Haha. XD I was going to copy Robert and photoshop it too, but i got lazy and just cropped the image to album size just so it would look more album-y. XD

I've had dysmenorrhea in varying stages of pain for the past 4 days.

Who the hell has dysmonorrhea for 4 straight days!?!

So I run to my Aunt-the-OB GYNE

I'm now on the pill for 3 consecutive packs without the 1 week break in between.

Oh, my ovaries.

According to The Big Read, the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books on their list.

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

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee --haven't gotten around to it yet
6. The Bible -- Just the Old Testament.
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien -- I read the first chapter, then got bored. XD
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy -- never got past the first chapter
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- haven't gotten around to it XD
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery -- i grew up with this book XD
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -- I love the musical though. :P

I'm doing a couple months worth of laundry right now. Really have to stop putting it off. I don't mind the laundry so much. the washing machine does most of the work anyway. I just hate hanging the clothes out to dry. :p

I'm seriously craving for some Taco Bell. They have this good-for-3 meal that Derrick and I split last Friday and I want more! It comes with 3 drinks, 2 tacos, 1 order of nachos, 1 mexican pizza & 1 quesadilla. Mmmmm-mmmmm. Come on, pay day! Yo quiero, taco bell.

There's this thing at work where if there aren't enough calls coming in, you can volunteer to go home without pay (hence, VGH = voluntary go home) and I've gotten in the habit of doing that more than I should.

So: SALARY + night diff - withholding tax - SSS - Pag-Ibig - Philhealth - VHG deduction = NOT ENUF MONIES!! T^T

Kasi Gab, kaya ganun, tama daw kasi si Notorious BIG, Puff Daddy at Mase eh.



Word.

I'm looking forward to a web project thrown my way, despite the pro bono-ish pay. It'll give my brain some much needed exercise. I just hope I still know what I'm doing. Hee~

They're showing re-runs of Honey and Clover again. I never get sick of watching this over and over again. Despite the heartache. Ha-ha.

Hullo, friends. I miss you all.

Derrick and I caught a last full show of "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" last night with Mama and Andy.



When I read the books, I used to have a huge crush on Caspian and Edmund. But a much more grown-up Skandar Keynes has just  tipped the scales in Edmund's favour. Haha.

As expected, there were a lot of deviations from the original storyline. I DID NOT like the Caspian x Susan angle. Where the hell did that come from. That was just gross. There was also just a leeetle too much angst in this movie, particularly on Peter and Caspian's part. Plus, the dryads looked like Ents. I know Tolkien and Lewis were friends, but that's just taking things too far.

Aside from that, I loved it. I thought the other deviations from the original storyline worked well to its adaptation on film. Like the siege on Miraz's castle, and the materialization of the White Witch.

Go, watch Narnia! :D

I may not love what I do for a living, but I love the people I work with. :)

Team building / Jepoy's last day at work / Tin's birthday celebration at SUKINA. (plus random after work photos)


I haven't had beer in ages and oh, how I missed it so. Sukina was ok. The booze and food are cheap, the food's not bad and there's an attempt at interior design. It was an air-conditioned smoking area though, which meant I still faintly smelled like an ashtray 24 hours later. Fun, fun, fun. :D



Oh, and I updated the graphic design gallery of my portfolio with a couple of layouts I did with Toolbox. Yay! Update! :D

I love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love Kylie Minogue's new single.

Love it.

Like wow wow wow love it.



Lecheng buhay to. Gusto ko na manood ng gig. Miss ko na yung nasa labas ako ng madaling araw dahil gumigimik ako, hindi dahil pauwi pa lang ako galing trabaho.. Miss ko na matulog ng gabi. Ayoko makipagusap sa bobong amerikano. Pero masaya ang pera. Hay. Kinig na lang tayo ng Kylie.

P.S Am I the only one who finds Nancy Castiglone and David Archuwechuchuamericanidolguy (cannot spell their family names for the life of me) annoying? I swear. So fucking annoying.

I asked Andy to pick up my transcript for me since UP is so very far away and he's taking summer classes anyway.

According to the Office of the University Registrar I only graduated with a CERTIFICATE IN FINE ARTS.

WHAT THE HELL?

Sinampal sa mukha ko thesis ko ah.

All my fourth-year subjects are credited and listed on the transcript, but its heading as well my certificate of graduation all say Certificate in Fine Arts. 

Putangina niyo, balik niyo sakin Bachelor's degree ko pinaghirapan ko yan leche!

So I'm going to UP tomorrow to throw a tantrum.

Derrick downloaded the new Avatar episodes for me.

SO TOTALLY WORTH THE WAIT BUT I"M SO FUCKING BITIN AND I'M A COMPLETE AVATARD BUT I DON'T CARE! I WANT MOAR PLZ!

So... AVATAR COOKIES!


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I bought a couple of new brushes and some new paint. I've had them out for about a month now and I still haven't painted anything yet.

Good job, Gab. Ano na. Saan ka na pupulitin ngayon?

In other news, Nickolodeon announced that the new Avatar eps will be out in July but word on the street is it's already been leaked out on to the intarwebs.

Oh, my kingdom for broadband.

And can I plz has beach nao?

What's in my purse meme from Tata and Miel on Multiply:

• Kikay Kit - Make-up, tissue, medicine, a toothbrush & toothpaste, alcohol, hairbrush.
• Organizer
  
• Fountain Pen - Christmas gift from Joie ages ago
  
• Eye Glasses - Only wear 'em when my eyes start getting tired
  
• iPod - I'm running out of space. 4G not enough! T^T
  
• Mobile Phone
  
• Cigarettes - Someone from the office stole my Nightmare before Christmas case. :( Boo for kleptos.
  
• Wallet - My gift to myself last birthday.
  
• Coin purse - Pasalubong from Baguio from Camsy
  

Occasionally, I'll have a couple of Butterballs in there, but that's pretty much it. XD

Derrick and I were at Megamall yesterday and I finally got around to buying Geoffrey a new terrarium/aquarium. She outgrew her fishbowl months ago, and I just found the time to go shopping yesterday. :)

Mister Kabab, that is.

I'd been craving for some Special Chelo Kabab and hummus for the longest time but never had the time to pass by. Yay for Mister Kabab! They were open last night so yay for Kabab for after-church dinner. :D

Mmmm-mmmm. Garlic sauce.

I'm watching this Spice Girls documentary thing on Velvet.

Galo reformatted the iBook before I brought it home so naturally I have to download and reinstall stuff, right?

They refuse to work! o_o

So I copied Mimie's installers. (clever girl, backs up her installers) They still refuse to work! o_o

So I thought maybe I just suck at installing, but I installed Firefox ok.

So I dunno.

So help? o_o

and this is cute:

So we just got dispersed from the all-no0b team to our respective teams which kinda sucks because we've kinda grown attached to each other. My new TL is someone I've hung out with before at the yosi area so it's cool and she's uber nice so I'm having second thoughts about pushing through with my request to transfer to the swing shift. :P I'm off on Thursdays and Fridays! For teh winrar. I can has Friday!

My mom's in Vietnam for a week. Oh lordy. House party, anyone? If anyone's up for a house party around lunch. Mothers. Can't live with them, can't live without them.

Work's going ok. The temptation to resign early is still there, but I'm sticking to my guns (for now).

Daylight Savings Time sucks. I now have to be at the office at 8pm. Ugh.

Derrick and I found this at V-mall and I so want one!!! I'll paint my iPod to match, I swear.


It costs as much as a new 2nd gen iPod nano, but i want onnnnne! I also want the Rumble/Frenzy earphones and the Soundwave mp3 player.

They also have Transforming Nike sneakers, but I'm not into basketball shoes. :P

Met up with Anj, Monica, Myka and Noelle last Saturday for a long overdue coffee-yosi-chismis session. It was great to see them again, and at the same time it brought into harsh perspective the fact that my life has absolutely no direction whatsoever. I'm still an overgrown college kid pretending to be a grown up and not liking a single minute of it.

There is a design job opening that I'm itching to apply for, but I decided to hold off for a while. I really want to, but I know I'm not ready. I know a couple of months into it, I'd lose interest and resign.

I originally gave myself at least a year to stick it out at as a call (center) girl, but I'll be regularized in three months so I'll wait til then. If that opening is still there, then good. Then it was meant for me, right? Right. Keep telling yourself that.

And moving on from the angst...

My Aunt/godmother is one of those people who are impossible to buy gifts for because she pretty much has everything (she can also afford to buy everything). She's a big Klimt fan, so I thought I'd make her something Klimt inspired for Christmas. (yes, I know. i only got to upload it a few weeks ago, so there.)


An upside to my current job is that I'm actually motivated to work on my watercolour. I have an idea for a series of paintings that I need to flesh out a bit but I'm buying watercolour paper tomorrow so I can get started. Let's go, go go!

I was looking through their online catalogue and I just had a cuteness orgasm.



If you can get me every single thing that's on that site, I will smother you with unwanted attention.

I'm in the process of buying Mimie's iBook G4 because Lola, my old laptop, has been slowly dying out on me. Which is understandable, since she is more than 7 years old. Between Lola's hardrive ready to give out at any moment and our retarded desktop, we don't have a single properly functioning PC anymore. Boo.


So a TON of love to Mimie for letting me bring my new/her old laptop home even though I'm not (even close to) done paying for it in full! THANK YOUUUU, MIMIEEEEEEEE! \(* 3*)/

I still haven't decided on a name yet. Hee~ I'm still getting used to the Mac OS. n0ob. The score is currently iBook=1, gab-0.

The "weekends" go by so fast. (And by weekends, I mean Mondays-Tuesdays. I swear, I've never looked forward to Mondays before. :P ) Work's going okay. I'm not dreading it as much as I used to dread my old job, although I do miss doing anything remotely artsy-fartsy. (Photoshop!)

Right-o.

The problem with being away from the intarwebs for so long is that by the time you're finally online you can't remember anything interesting to blog about.

I got to watch Avatar 13 earlier (after months and months of waiting!) and I'm very, very happy that Zuko is past his teenage angst and uber mushy phase. And in as much as I love Mai and Zuko, Mai x Zuko is just whack. o_o

I still haven't watched "Sweeny Todd". For shame, Gab! You'll make Allan Rickman so sad!

And because I can't think of anything else to say:



Oh-ho! And is this supposed to melt in your mouth, not in your hand? XD It's for realzz, people. Check it out in the Japanese/Korean section of the Megamall grocery.