It's all about the good karma..

So yeah, I'm officially 23. That's old, right?

Woke up 12PM, not surprising since I think I WoW-ed til around 0730AM! Lol! ROFLMAO!

Well Tuesday's maintenance day, so maybe that's reason enough to enjoy this day not WoW-ing. Mom and Dad got me this: Logic3 i-Station Dock and Speaker for iPod. I lovessss it. My parents can actually be techie! Coolness.

Ho hum. Thanks to y'all who greeted me thru txt/blogcomment/ym. :)

In about an hour and a half, I'm turning 23. Hay..

My brother Job bought me cake from Bizu. I thought it was going to be deliciously sweet, and oozing with chocolate. Instead, it was sugar-f-ing-free!!!! Hehe! But I still loved it. Ate it after going through a platter of sinugba and baked mussels at Dencio's by the service road at Sucat. Great place, great view -- and they've about the best service (among all the Dencio's resto's I've tried).

I'm off to play WoW now. At least there, my character won't be getting old! Only levelling up! :) *DING*

Just got home from Pawie's surprise party. It was nice seeing old friends from college, and finally logging some time hanging out with my barkada. We've all been itching to just get together and chill. We miss Chad and Marco who are now both in Canada and San Jose. Come home you bastards!!!



Pao cooking up an exotic-named dish, which has meatballs, olives, beef, etc. in it. Fuck I almost had 2 plates of this. Delicious!



I pretty much took most of the pictures last night, and was rarely (as most people assigned to the camera are) in the pictures. Here's one of the two pictures I get to make my pa-cool pose. I need a haircut. I miss being bald.



Missing from the picture: Jeff, Emil, Rog, Marco, and Chad. :(

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I'm too buzzed to play WoW. Damnit, and I've this kickass belt which I'm bidding for in AH pa naman.

I have the WoW Soundtrack on my iPod. I had the whole album "blaring" (Ogrimmar beat!!! yo!) on the way to Pawie's surprise party. :)

This'll be a post full of WoW Screenshots. I'm trying to convince Bny to get on the wagon and play!



That's Thunderbluff home of the Tauren people, and that's a shot of my character Kanaya riding a Winged mount one means of transportation in WoW. We have Zeppelins, Ships, Bats, etc. for going around the continent of Kalimdor and the neighboring Eastern Kingdoms.



Overhead-view of Thunderbluff. I'm about to land inside that hole on that tall-totem like structure.



The lights of Ashenvale - Night Elf territory.



Posing by this roadsign on Ashenvale road.



Check out the Guardian patrolling the roads. This ain't Kansas anymore kid.



I see dead centaurs.



Going around the Wailing Caverns, that monster's probably twice as big as me up close.



Goggeroc the naked ogre. Fucking disturbing, and wrong.



Told 'ya.



That's a loooong way up.



Me and some partymates rushing for a quest.



Some underwater action killing water elementals.

So me, Iris and her mom were by 168 today. It's that "mall" around the China-town area in Manila, near the route going to Divisoria. What a place. Talk about bargain-ridiculous prices; I saw an alarm clock for 20 pesos. 20 pesos? Where's the profit in that? I mean how much did it cost to make that alarm clock? Though I'd think twice about using that, since judging by how the alarm clock looked it'd probably conk out on its first alarm, but jeez 20 pesos? So yeah, Iris and her mom went gaga over the necklaces, bags, pants, and Freebra's. Whatever that is. I got meself a megaphone for 300 pesos! It's got a 10 second voice-recording feature and this funky-chinese-carnivalesque tune for its siren. Fun fun fun! Quit wondering why I got that, that's just me! Hehe! I'm going back to get myself one of those electronic flyswatters, this kick ass night-stick which turns into a sword! Yeah and we weren't able to go up to the 3rd floor, so we might do that next week. Parking's a bitch though, we're taking the cab next time.

If you still haven't watched The 40 Year Old Virgin, get off your ass and watch it! Hilarious! I needed Kleenex half of the time from laughing. If it wasn't for that funky smell Iris and I were getting whiffs of during the movie (think Wet Dog, and it had to come by us everytime there was a quiet moment). Was funny seeing my hobbies being the hobbies of the guy in the movie, too -- of course Iris kept laughing at me telling me I was so like the guy. Umph!

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So the DVD for Kingdom of Heaven just came out. I want that.

Y'all should watch Corpse Bride. It's beautiful hah! And to think it's not CG! Most of the post-prod work was done on a Mac, too, I heard. :)

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I want this..c/o the hey_comics! yahoogroup.

DC UNIVERSE: THE STORIES OF ALAN MOORE TP
Writer: Alan Moore
Artists: Dave Gibbons, Klaus Janson, Jim Baikie, Kevin
O ' Neill, Rick Veitch, Curt Swan, George Pérez, Kurt
Schaffenberger, Murphy Anderson, Joe Orlando, Jim
Aparo, Bill Willingham, Terry Austin, George Freeman,
John Byrne and Brian Bolland
Collects SUPERMAN ANNUAL #11, DETECTIVE COMICS
#549-550, GREEN LANTERN #188, VIGILANTE #17-18, THE
OMEGA MEN #26-27, DC COMICS PRESENTS #85, TALES OF THE
GREEN LANTERN CORPS ANNUAL #2-3, SUPERMAN #423, ACTION
COMICS #583, SECRET ORIGINS #10, BATMAN ANNUAL #11 and
BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE
304 pages, $19.99 US

Gathering every DCU tale written by Alan Moore under
one cover for the very first time, DC UNIVERSE: THE
STORIES OF ALAN MOORE TP features sixteen stories
including the never-before-collected BATMAN: THE
KILLING JOKE and SUPERMAN: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE
MAN OF TOMORROW.

Topped with a new cover by Brian Bolland, DC UNIVERSE:
THE STORIES OF ALAN MOORE TP features art by Bolland,
Dave Gibbons, Kevin O ' Neill, Klaus Janson, Jim
Baikie, Curt Swan, Rick Veitch, Joe Orlando, John
Byrne, Bill Willingham and others, in stories
originally published from 1985 - 1988.

The book also includes an excerpt from Moore ' s
proposal for BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE, as well as text
pieces by Dave Gibbons and Paul Kupperberg.

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I'm off to watch The 40-Year Old Virgin!

Damn cel is acting up. I can call, but I can't text! Sosy ha! Seriously, I was by the Globe Center the other day, turns out they forgot to turn off my roaming and apparently you have to have at least 500 pesos of load (sorry prepaid!) for you to continue using the roaming device. Like duh! So yeah THEY forgot. Now I'm stuck with load for calls only. Hanep ah. 2 days daw. Putek. With that, I just had to forget my damned password for sureseats, and I need to TEXT to retrieve it. Oh well. 10:30PM Gloerietta, here's to wishing there won't be too many people.

Pimping from Ramon's blog.

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BE ADVISED!

"ODDBALLS" or "I'M AFRAID OF AMERICANS"

Short Films by DAVID LYNCH & HAL HARTLEY (rare stuffs!)

MONDAY NIGHT, OCT. 10, 830 PM, MAGNET KATIPUNAN

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Gogogo! ;)

Stuff to watch this week:

Corpse Bride
A History of Violence

Capote'll kick ass. Philip Seymour Hoffman is just too damned good, everytime.

Oh and there's this, I think, new trailer for Saw II. :)

Taking a break from WoW. :)

Some interesting stuff.

Apparently WoW may be used to model disease outbreaks. Here's a link to the article, and the NPR show bit.

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Salon.com interview with Susanna Clarke (Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell) and Neil Gaiman (DUH! Ya gotta know this guy).

Just got home from picking up Iris from her medical school org activity "thing". I live five houses from her, so I'm pretty much her driver whenever she has to be out late at night. So yeah. Encountered the usual slew of Friday traffic along the south super highway going to Quirino. Halfway to Quirino, Iris calls and tells me to just wait for her someplace convenient since the rain pretty much caused the route to Nagtahan, Aurora, etc. to be jammed with traffic. I was thinking of meeting her by Cash And Carry, but I figured that area probably had traffic too from the flooded spot at Buendia. I spot a Pan De Manila and I agree to meet her there while she hitches a ride with a classmate.

I park out front of the Pan De Manila, and get greeted by this friendly security guard. I asked him if I could wait out front for someone after buying something from the store. Upon entering the store I notice these 2 kids, girls, they turn out to be sisters. They were selling their sampaguita bundles, but kinda stopped since it was raining pretty hard. See here in the Philippines, we have kids who go around the city (usually along the main roads) who sell flowers to people in traffic. Usually these flower bundles end up as offerings placed on altars, or sometimes if one is fond of the scent of the sampaguita, it ends up being hung on the rearview mirror. Sometimes these kids kinda get one your nerves when they literally sometimes push themeselves onto you bugging you incesstantly about how they just want cash for food. Anyway, so yeah one of the girls was bawling in tears. I felt bad about how she was crying, I was half guessing she was crying because she was hungry, or she just wanted to go home. It was cold, wet, and looking at the clock it was close to 11PM. Other kids their age would be home playing their PS2's, reading their Harry Potter books, watching something on TV, or just sleeping after the week's barrage of schoolwork. So I went ahead and bought bought of them bags of pan de sal (bread) and cheese bars. The security guard took the liberty of getting them drinks, out of his own cash. Great guy, really. Some "sekyu's" would just shoo these kids off so as not to "inconvenience" the customers. Anyway so yeah I gave the two of them the bags and was joking with the crying girl to stop, asking her too why she was crying. She didn't feel like talking, and her sister along with the guard told me "Sinusumpong po" (She's having Tantrums). Oh. Ok. I head into my car and as I was opening my bag of pan de sal, I looked out my window and saw the kid selling her flowers despite of the rain and cold. I felt bad about how everyone was safe, dry and warm at home or inside their cars these kids and I'm sure a lot more like them were out trying to just raise enough cash to buy their next meals. I just had to do something at that point. I called for the kid. Asked her if she'd promise me she and her kid sister would go home if I bought all their bundles. She said yeah. Gave her cash and told her to keep the change.

You know it's been a while since I bought anything from people selling stuff on the streets. I remember the last time I bought something was when I was with Iris, it was Christmas and this guy was selling these blinking star-pendants. Iris loves stars, and the guy had only one left. Iris and I wanted him to just be off and go home to his family. So yeah, we bought it.

Anyway, I felt like crying, really, after seeing those two kids go home. It was kinda beautiful seeing how the older girl had her raincoat, and her wet sister was crying -- the older sister took off one arm of the raincoat and managed to fit her sister and her inside the raincoat which I'm sure I'd barely fit into. They even ran into this other girl still in her school uniform bare feet; some small talk and they parted ways. Probably a schoolmate. *Sigh*. One day. One day. I'm going to have enough money to take these kids off off the streets. Give them food, shelter and education. One day. I've had that in my book of "promises"/"things to do before I die" for years now.

I went home with my car smelling like sampaguita. My rearview mirror blocked with all the bundles I bought.

:)

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Oh my mom and dad are home from the Beach Boys concernt. :)

So the FEU Tamaraws are the new 2005 UAAP Champions. Congratulations to y'all! Beautiful game. :)

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What's been keeping me busy for the past few days?



WoW! World of Warcraft kids! It's one god-damned addicting game!



Blessing of the Warchief yo! +300HP 10% haste 10 mana regen per tick!!



My latest "activity" in the world. Fishing. Damn addicting -- aside from bidding inside the Auction Houses (wherein my being an impulse buyer/bidder usually comes out).

So there. I'll post more pics of my character (his name's Kanaya) later. :)

Dabu? Loktar!

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Let me leave you with a WoW comic strip which had me laughing out loud (lol) this morning.

The Adventures of Murloc Boy

Taking time off from questing in Suramar for Game 2. :)

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Finally, the local convenience store decided to stock up on Vicks Inhaler. Ahhhh..I missed this. *Happy Inhaler-addict*

It's almost 12AM, and WoW server maintenance is still going on. Bummer. I need my WoW fix.

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New Mercedes Mixed Tape Vol.9. Go go download.

Turning on word verification for the comments guys. Sorry for the inconvenience, but I received my first piece of comment-spam. :(

WoW an Early birthday present to myself! Hehe! I don't see myself sleeping early anytime this week... :)

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My brother received an iPod Photo for his birthday today! Coolness. I still love my old trust monochrome 3G iPod. :)