tickledpink

i visited a friend last night. i believe her medical abstract called her a successful individual or something to that effect, which must be the worst understatement of the year. becoming the first cum laude after 14 years of drought in the honor roll in one of the best, if not the best, nursing schools in cebu is a phenomenon. which only bewilders the mind of the not so faithful as to why this had to come at such time that would have otherwise been spent rejoicing over such a phenomenon.

we had hesitated at her hospital room door, debating over who’d come in
first, afraid we’d find her sad and beaten; we all grappled with the
right words to say, the right emotions to show. but for somebody who’d just found out over a week ago that she has malignant tumors that have spread to the bone and lungs, she was, fortunately for us, more perky than we had expected. in fact, she was full of smiles, though clearly tired from the radiation therapy and i guess, the pain of it all. minus the weight loss, she was the calai i’d met and shared a summer with years back - witty, positive, and still bislish, mixing english with cebuano, distinctly the calai way.

it’ll be a long long road ahead for her with the radiation and chemotherapies yet to come. but she’s a brave soul. that summer in 2003, calai’s infamous words were "i feel so sluggish"… she’s sluggish now, alright, but there’s no ounce of lethargy in her fighting spirit. god bless lai.

found this on the bulletin board.. interesting…

what does your name mean? mine means:
S- You are easy to fall in love with.
A- damn good kisser
M- Success comes easily to you.
A- damn good kisser
N- You are absolutely beautiful
T- You’re loyal to those you love
H- You have a very good personality and looks.
A- damn good kisser

N- You are absolutely beautiful
I- You get hyper easily.
N- You are absolutely beautiful
A- damn good kisser

Haha! I know this is just a lot of crap but it’s fun anway…. and i really must be a good kisser since i have 4 A’s in my name.. haha….

And i just couldn’t resist this. so here goes …

W- You are very broad minded.
E- You are nice .
N- You are absolutly beautiful
B- Good all around person
E- You are nice .
R- Fuckin sexy.
T- You’re loyal to those you love

Fuckin sexy? haha ..nice one…

and i just realized this one….Do you know anybody named CAROL??? she must be some chick…
C- You’re wild ‘n crazy
A- damn good kisser
R- Fuckin sexy.
O- Great In The Bed!
L- You live to have fun.

*Check below to see what your name means…
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> A- damn good kisser
> B- Good all around person
> C- You’re wild ‘n crazy
> D- You have one of the best personalities ever
> E- You are nice .
> F- People totally adore you
> G- You never let people tell you what to do.
> H- You have a very good personality and looks.
> I- You get hyper easily.
> J- Everyone loves you.
> K- You like to try new things
> L- You live to have fun.
> M- Success comes easily to you.
> N- You are absolutly beautiful
> O- Great In The Bed!
> P- You are popular with all types of people.
> Q- You are a hypocrite.
> R- Fuckin sexy.
> D- You have one of the best personalities ever
> S- You are easy to fall in love with.
> T- You’re loyal to those you love
> U- You really like to chill.
> V- You are not judgemental.
> W- You are very broad minded.
> X- You never let ppl tell u wat to do
> Y- One of the best bfs/gfs anyone could ask for
> Z- Your a loving person
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> Delete the other persons name and Repost this
> with the title "What does ur name mean??" in 11
> minutes and something wonderful will happen
later
> tonight

i have trouble making friends. im
socially dysfunctional. i have trouble keeping friends. im too frank and, well,
bitchy at times..hehe.. so those who stay in spite of are the some of the most
valuable treasures i have in life, second to my bestest bestfriend who’s also
my bItter half (hehe) and they-whose-names-are-too-boring-to-be-mentioned
(read: my folks and blood clan).

my grade 1 adviser unexpectedly
became my close friend. it started when i gave my teachers, including ms. dublin, a gift for christmas.
since then, up until grade 6, she gave me gifts as reward for being an honor
student. she gave me a pair of gold heart earrings on my graduation back in
1997. less than a year later, she died of bone cancer. it was the visits to her
house during the time when she was bedridden that we found out we had a "connection"
- we were distant relatives. that was the first time i lost a friend.

yesterday, i lost another - to
the world of grownups. charles has chosen makati to be his pasture. i know i should be happy for him, admire him for his
braveness in leaving his comfort zone, and wish him only the best. but i can’t
help feeling sad. after all, charles, jaylord, erwin, jam, wenbert, and me have
kept the friendship. over the last five years, we’d go months, even a year,
without seeing each other. but when we did see each other, nothing changed.

charles, good luck… uli inig
october ha? hehe….

ou have to trust me on this… whatever you are doing (and I
don’t care if you’re studying for the board exam!), leave it, find P130, and go
watch POTC: dead man’s chest! Its f*cking awesome! Haha… sorry if I had to use
some french there…. no other word would have given a more apt description… I
love it, love it, love it! I wasn’t even aware that the movie had come to its
last scene. I was shOcked when, after the re-appearance of Capt Barbossa, the screen
turned black and “Directed by Gore Verbinski” popped out…

It’s sooo hard to tell you which scenes to watch out for…
there’s simply just too many of them… the funny cannibals, the attack of the giant squid monster, the
mesmerizing weird fortune teller, the sword fights on a spinning wheel, or the
hot kiss between between Capt. Jack and Elizabeth (fyi, Keira Knightly had to
wear extenders because she had cut her hair short for a previous role as a
bounty hunter)…. You have got to see the movie for yourself…!!!

Johnny Depp is unbelievable! He’s too lovable! Omg, what I
would give to spend a night with him..haha! But if there was any disappointment
I felt after watching it, it was largely my fault..hehe… I was waiting all
throughout the movie for Keith Richards, Rolling Stone legend, to appear as
Capt. Jack Sparrow’s father. I found out later that he had to cancel the
appearance in the sequel because of a band tour. But he’ll be in the third
installation, I think. Speaking of which, I hope it’ll be released before the
end of the year. Tough luck, I know. But it’s just wishful thinking…

And yeah, I had to add… one reason I love my guy is his
quick mind. He notices a lota things while I’m just clueless. “I know that
squid-faced Capt. Davy Jones.” Wenbert said after the movie. “That’s the guy
who played the patriarch in Underworld.” I didn’t notice it because for
chrissake the guy had a squid for a head. But, Googled it and yep, my baby
baboy was right.

P.S.

Wenbert and I watched the
last full show last night at Cinema 1. I was surprised that the moviehouse
wasn’t even half-filled. Hmmm… Wasn’t the opening day just last Wednesday?
Wenbert says maybe it’s because it’s raining. Whatever. A lot of people are
missing up on a really good movie… Btw, the movie was done at 1030 but Wenbert
had to stop by home to fix the Australian’s guy website because it wasn’t up.
So I got home at 12 and voila, woke up today thinking it was before 8 am and
had to blink twice when the clock read 10:53 am.

this came on the news tonight. two interesting tales about pinoys making it big in the US of A, although, on totally opposite spectrums.

first, a blind pinoy who was appointed adviser on domestic policy at no less than the white house.

then, hurray, a pinay runs for governor in nevada. i doubt if she’ll win though. even the pinoys out there have shown little support. oh, have i mentioned that she’s a famous porn star? yep, porn star. but if arnold made it gov of cali, why not mimi gov of nevada. both famous; maybe both successful, too?

if she doesn’t win, at least she’s in wikipedia, which, interestingly says, "By this time she was becoming quite popular for her abilities to take well-endowed men during anal scenes, as well as for her unusually long tongue. She was also building a fan base due to her lesbian scenes. Mimi also had several surgeries to increase her natural "B" cup breasts to "DD" size." how’s that for lady governor, eh?

wanna see more of her? http://www.miminet.com/

This could turn out to be (a)
scary (b) funny or (c) paranoid. Read on and you decide.

Last Sunday night, I was doing
some reading on some very boring Philippine Standards on Auditing when I
happened to look out my window and saw a parked vehicle outside our house. The
dogs were barking furiously at it. It was nearing 11 pm and I could not see
anybody out there. I know curiosity killed the cat but I don’t like cats
anyway. So I went out of the house to check it out. It turned out to be a brand
new (latest model) black Toyota Rav 4. It still carried temporary license
plates. Its engine was off but its tail lights were on. I stood behind it for
awhile. Though it was tinted, I could make out the lights on its dashboard and
I was 95% sure that somebody was inside.

I asked my uncle and another
aunt, whose houses were beside ours, if they were entertaining visitors (who
owned the parked car). But they weren’t, so our curiosity was heightened. My
aunt then turned on the house lights. As soon as the lights were on, the car’s
engine sprang to life. It moved three houses away but cut off its engine and
parked again.  We were now thinking that
this was probably a couple who were making out while parking.

A few minutes later, the owner of
the house where the car was now parked arrived. The Rav 4 again turned its engine on and moved away. He drove past us. He had his window down. He
was short and probably in his forties. It appeared he was alone but well, his companion could have just ducked.
This time, he parked in front of another uncle’s house, which was four houses
away.

At this point, my aunt decided to
call the police. I was getting excited because this was turning out to be
interesting. It was the chance for the town police, who usually had no exciting
police work compared to city police, to finally see some action. Unfortunately,
the police did not fail to live by their trademark – arriving only after the
criminals have escaped. It was a good two minutes before the police – carrying
high-powered rifles – arrived. Oh yeah,
the police station is only 3 minutes max from our house if they sped it up.

Maybe you know somebody who
recently bought a brand new black Toyota Rav 4? Let me know, will you?

i watched superman returns last saturday. i didn’t expect it to be that good. thought it would be boring since we all know that superman flies, has a body of steel, is vulnerable to kryptonite, and well, you know the rest. but it turned out great. not a lot of new tricks but suprisingly good action scenes and the romance element really got the film going. plus, there’s the surprise element of well, superman and lois’ son… brandon routh has a face that’s greek-god-like. it’s chiseled in all the right places that you could suspect they enhanced it digitally. but, i do know of one feature on brandon’s body that was enhanced, or more aptly, reduced digitally… read about it in the paper some months back… but here’s a newsclip from the internet for those of you who might not believe me without proof…

"Maybe that’s why they call him SUPERman. This was just way too
funny not to post. But apparently the studio execs are not very happy
with an element of Bryan Singer’s new Superman film. Oh they aren’t
worried about the quality of the production… they’re worried about
the size of Brandon Routh’s bulge.

Apparently the new "Man of Steel" is so well endowed, the costure
department had to fit him with a special codpiece for the movie. The
execs are worried the bulge is going to become a distraction. The good
folks over at Ananova then tell us what they’re going to do about it:

The
Sun’s source said: "It’s a major issue for the studio. Brandon is
extremely well endowed and they don’t want it up on the big screen.

"We may be forced to erase his package with digital effects."

How
good must life be for Brandon Routh right now? I can just see him in a
club hitting on some woman: "Yeah baby… they had to hire another
special effects company to REDUCE the size of Mr. Krypton if you know
what I mean". Too funny."

source: themovieblog.com

When you understand success as a state of mind, not just an
outcome, any moment can be a victory. Here is a list I got from www.oprah.com.

 
How many of these achievements can you call successes in
your life?

1. Staying focused (I’m trying to dump all my thoughts on my reviews…It’s not easy, but at least, I’m trying.)
2. Being optimistic, no matter what (It’s pretty hard to be optimistic about passing the board exam when there’s just three months to go and I’m still nowhere near the syllabi. It’s easy to be so “nega” when a lot of other things are going downhill.)
3. Raising confident kids (I love kids – especially boys. *Whoah*
   That’s eerie. I thought it was Jacko speaking.. Seriously, I would love to
   raise kids of my own. I’m excited to see what my kids would look like. I just hope the girls get my hair but not my face. Hehe… But I’m sure they’ll be
   smart and good-natured, unlike me..hehe)
4. Earning more than you ever
   dreamed (My dreams are simple. Earn, eat, live, love.)
5. Hanging in, regardless (Omg, somebody just told me last night
   to“hang in there” Thanks doc.)
6. Passing on what you know (I can teach you crocheting  )
7. Running for office (Hell, no. I hate politics. I don’t
   have the money to pay voters.)
8. Finding work you love (I think I’ve already missed this
   achievement. I would have loved to be a teacher. But financial demands have
   forced accounting on me. )
9. Telling the truth, always (Does this count out white lies?)
10. Paying off debts (Allelujah! I’m allergic to debts. I
    always believe people would be a million times happier if they were
    debt-free. So always live within your means.)
11. Finding the good in being
    fired (I’ve never been fired; I’ve
    never had a real job either.)
12. Winning a tough case (I think this includes winning verbal
    spars though out of court. But if there’s anything I’ve learned, it’s not
    good to always try to win arguments.)
13. Celebrating a milestone
    birthday (I love birthdays! I love getting
    those cards from him. *Sigh* I hope I haven’t seen the last of those
    cards.)
14. Exceeding your parents’
    expectations (Ah, this one I’m not
    too sure about. I’ve been an achiever for the longest time. But I realize,
    their expectations only increase with every achievement you show them. Sometimes,
    I wonder how it feels when your parents don’t expect you to always do the
    best in whatever you do. I wonder how it feels if just being ordinary is
    extraordinary for everyone.)
15. Building a house with a
    Habitat for Humanity team (I’m going
    to do this sometime in my life. No matter if I’m 80.)
16. Bouncing back after a failure (I think I’ve had more personal failures
    in these recent years and yes, bouncing back is a great thing.)
17. Delivering a healthy baby (I’m crossing my fingers…
18. Mastering the impossible—Mt. Everest, golf, the fuse box ((I’m not that much of a dreamer. So, I’m partial to the possible.)
19. Losing the last ten pounds (I have tried gaining ten pounds, but
    not losing them. Maybe this time I can. Food’s not that appetizing
    anymore.)
20. Meditating every morning (I think this means meditating while
    you poo in the morning..hehe)
21. Accepting your looks hair and
    all (What I learned – when you find
    that special someone who truly loves you, you start accepting everything
    about your looks.)
22. Learning to forgive your
    worst enemy (Let me scratch out this
    last one.. Let’s just be real. Very few people can actually forgive their
    worst enemy if that enemy keeps pushing itself back into your life. It’s
    not easy to forgive when you’re always reminded of the wounds.)

Keep track of what these achievements mean to you. Can you
add more to your list?