Extra! Extra! My first ever poem on my blog!
Tired from work so I made a haiku.
Hear my stomach roar
Peanut butter jelly time
My scalp is itchy.
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Oldies but goodies
In Thailand there are only three channels I can watch on the tube- HBO, Star Movies and AXN. I hate it that the cable service offers Star Movies and Star Sports, but not Star World. I almost never get to watch TV series anymore. I would watch AXN on very few occasions because the shows that I like in that channel are in the morning block, like CSI and House. Man, I miss weekends at home in Makati with my former housemates. Also, most of evening shows I am familiar with in AXN are dubbed in Thai. Sometimes, it's not even dubbing, there'll just be a Thai voice-over commenting on the show.
And so my stack of DVDs are really piling. My latest is a Jack Nicholson-starrer that my former Philosophy professor in AdZU Fr. DJ had once recommended to our class. Well actually he didn't tell the entire class about it, we were just over at Ronald's house after graduation and people started talking about the best movie they've seen. Fr. DJ, who was the "guest of honor", said One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was a must-see.
And it was. The movie was hilarious as it was sad, and I especially liked the evil nurse and her grim expression. "Your hand is staining my window," she tells Jack in one scene, and instantly the bitchy nurse becomes my favorite character.
Watch it. This was the movie that gained Jack (we are on first name basis) his Oscar nod in 1975. This movie was made almost a decade before I was born. I almost didn't recognize Danny DeVito, he still had his hair back then.
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Last Saturday was my first night out in a bar with fellow Filipinos here in Bangkok. It was fun, especially since the bar (Yes, Indeed!) was celebrating its anniversary. They gave out some fancy trumpets and party poppers, and everybody made absolute noise. And we had a very nice spot in the bar too, right in front of the platform where two dancers in skimpy clothing strutted ala- Coyote Ugly.
Two of the singers of the house band were Filipinos, by the way, and boy did they rock. This girl Janice can take on And I Am Telling You without effort.
I noticed however that most of the songs in the program were quite old. Like Scorpions old, but it was what satisfied the Thai crowd. I guess they pretty much still like old stuff here. I mean I can still hear songs by boy bands in the late nineties being played on the radio when Im in a cab. (Once though I heard a song by Christian Bautista being played, I wanted to tell the cabbie "He's freaking Filipino!")
But one thing's for sure, Thais really know how to have fun.
Papaya (daw)
Now that you are done laughing at some poor girl's answer in the Q&A portion of a contest in the Philippines, here's another one making waves.
Apparently, America's caught the papaya dance fever that actor comedian and ex-Captain Barbel Edu Manzano started in GKNB, a game show back home.
Now here's a duo of Filipina girls in Florida doing the dance after inhaling large amounts of rugby and downing a can of Diet Coke after swallowing a Mentos.
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Horror
Last Friday, a girl jumped off our building from the tenth floor because of heartbreak. Jeezus.
I wonder what compels some people to choose jumping off a building to commit suicide. It's such a bloody mess; imagine your brains scattered all over the street.
I hope the girl rests in peace.
I am pained in my chest as well, but that just ain't my thang.
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Safari
It's the fastest browser in the world (so it claims) and the no nonsense interface suits me just fine. Plus, it fails a lot less than IE or Firefox in Windows Vista.
Try it.
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Noticed the blog's new look? Yeah... Something I tinkered with yesterday. What you think?
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Me
My neighbor Jesse (yes, my namesake, or as they say it in Thailand - "same same") took my pic without my knowing during our photography activity in Chatuchak some weeks ago, and he showed it to me.
It kind of looks like I knew it all along, but I didn't. (I also look like ass.)
And yes, my eyes are like that, right one's kind of bigger than the other. Hey, stop looking too closely, what's your problem?
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Tomorrow's gonna be my first field work in 2008. Yes, been that long. I miss going to client locations and pestering the clients with documents I need to audit, hehe. For the past
I also just got a replacement notebook (nobody calls it a laptop here in Thailand) for work. I'm impressed that the company only gives the PCs some three or four years estimated useful life, after which they would issue spanking new ones that boot and run at lightning speed. The only thing that I wish they'd issue which they haven't is a slim backpack to carry it around, like the one I had in my previous company, so that I won't have to haul this very heavy standard-issue bag around and strain my arms. I have my own backpack but it's a little bulky and I miss that Samsonite bag I used to have back home.
Okidoke, see you at work.
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Urban Ninjaaaaa!
Speaking of Step Up 2, I wanted to say in the previous post that I thought that cool Asian girl character with "the accent" was pretty funny and crazy (with cool dance moves to boot) so I tried to search in the internet for some of her dialogues, one click led to another, and suddenly I found out that the lead actor is none other than Urban Ninja! No kidding!
Urban Ninja is this guy dressed in ninja costume scaring the bejeezuz out of people in the streets. He'd pop out of nowhere and dart across the street with a trademark move- one hand stretched out and the other behind the back. It's pretty funny sight and I first watched this clip when it made its round in the usual non-work emails.
Urban Ninja! Cool!
The Streets
I watched Step Up 2 and I really liked it. A lot of people say it's predictable, and it is, but hey you knew the ship's gonna sink anyway but you still watched Titanic.
When I got out of the cinema I had this irresistible urge to break into a freaking break dance number. It didn't help that my ears were hooked to my ipod and Jay-Z was playing. Suddenly I was felt like I could do the head spin and all the people around will see me dancing and they'd, like, join in the fun. Like some Bollywood movie, only with b-boying instead of belly dancing. But haha, my friends would immediately tell you that ain't really my style.
This isn't the first time that this kind of crap gets into my head after watching a movie. I'm like a kid whose fantasies still run wild. After watching X-Men The Movie I came out of the cinema wanting to move things with my mind. With Terminator, I was secretly hoping I would discover I was actually a cyborg and the fate of the world was in my hands. With 300, well, go ahead and figure. (Back in the 80's there was also this cartoon show called Visionaries, and I was a huge fan. It was about these two groups of superheroes that could transform into powerful animals whose images appear on their armor chest. Back then I was always drawing something on a bond paper and sticking it to my chest in the hope of producing my own transformation. And speaking of transforming, don't even get me started about Transformers!)
I bet though that I'm not the only one. Oh come on, don't tell me a year ago you weren't wishing you were Fantastic # 5. Or that you went to a school of witchcraft and wizardry.
I guess deep down we are little boys and girls still full of enormous dreams we can't let go just yet.
The following takes place... in Fall
The powers that be have spoken.
Because they're making us wait until 2009 (2009!!) to catch the 7th season of 24, the people behind the show have decided to make a TV movie in the meantime - a two hour 24 'prequel.'
I hope it's gonna end up on DVD as soon as it airs and make its way to Thailand so I can watch it. Im thinking of revisting seasons 1 to 6 on DVD while I play the waiting game.
In the meantime...
I found a way to be in touch with my friends in the Philippines whenever they are online. The answer: get my emails automatically forwarded to my phone so I can read and reply to them anytime, anywhere. I just realized that my phone (a Motorola V6 Maxx) can synchronize with my mail server by itself every 15 minutes. (This does not include emails at work though- I don't want work-related emails to reach me when I am not in the office. Work life balance!) This means I would have to be online almost 24/7, but that's okay because GPRS/Edge access in Thailand is very cheap. I am charged only 100 baht for 900 minutes, and since the synchronization takes only around 15 seconds every 15 minutes, my 100 baht can last me a whole month (I had to do the math, Im a CPA). What an offa!
But wait. There's more.
Another way to be always online is to get a Blackberry phone, or any phone that supports an "always online" synch mode, like a Windows Mobile PDA or a Nokia E-series phone. This option's better because you'll receive emails on your phone as soon as they are sent, not just every 15 minutes. You would then have to subscribe to an unlimited GPRS/data plan which costs 850 baht monthly, still pretty cheap considering you'd have ulimited internet access. And since you are 'always online,' that means you can also be connected to Instant Messaging tools like Yahoo Messenger on your phone and never log off.
What an amazing offa!
Kidding aside, it's a very appealing solution and I may decide avail of this eventually, but as of now, the need is not too pressing.
Ah, the things you do when you are an OFW.
Monggolink:
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Photo op
I recently joined a photography club composed of Filipino amateur and freelancing photographers and we had our first photo shoot at Chatuchak Park this morning. Lookie, lookie, ain't my photos swell?
I am actually just using my trusted Canon A610. All the others were using digital SLR cameras. Think how ashamed I was. Surprisingly however, I still don't have an urge to jump wagon and grab me one of those mean black heavy things. I am still fine with my trusted gadget.
From the photo shoot I went straight to Emporium to watch the movie Jumper. There was something seriously wrong with the ending of this movie. I was like, okay, just like that and everything's fine now? And why the hell didn't Samuel Jackson go "Yo Darth Vader! I've had it with this madafucking snakes on this madafucking plane!" I was robbed.
Out from the cinema guess what I see at the ground floor. It's a sale. I couldn't resist buying this nice watch that was on a 50% discount. That's half the price!
Nice, eh?
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Blue Harvest
Dropped by Silom road where DVDs are aplenty, and I found this:
Family Guy, baby!
It's actually the first episode (entitled Blue Harvest) of season 6, but it's being marketed as a special. And rightly so, I mean, it's a Star Wars parody, come on. See more about the DVD and related cool stuff here: www.familyguyblueharvestdvd.com/.
So. What have I been up to? Well, I've been reading. Particularly this book:
It's another Mitch Albom, yes. Now here's something interesting. A few pages into the book -two, to be exact- and I realize I've read it already a few years back. Hehe. Oh well, I don't remember how it ends anyway so it's still a good read.
Aside from Five People, here's also another book in my list:
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By the way, I now have an idea why I keep losing my debit cards here in Thailand - like five freaking times (and counting). The reason is because in Thailand, when I make a cash withdrawal from an ATM, the order is this:
- Insert card.
- Perform transaction.
- Get cash.
- Get receipt
- Get card.
Now in the Philippines, the order of things that's been ingrained deep in my subconscious is:
- Insert card.
- Perform transaction.
- Get card.
- Get cash.
- Get receipt.
And so what actually happens is that everytime I make a cash withdrawal, I always forget to retrieve my card from the machine. As soon as I get the receipt, my mind tells me that my business is done as it's the last step of the process that I've been used to back home, and I leave. But here in Thailand, the card comes after the receipt. So there.
Thinking about WP
I'm thinking of making the big switch to Wordpress.
I initially wanted to just upgrade from classic Blogger to the new Blogger, but unfortunately for me, the new blogger widgetry is just too much for my 2 brain cells to take. I would want to spend time blogging, not tweaking my theme.
And here's the deal.
I know that you're castigating yourself over and over for not getting me anything last Christmas. Well, it's not yet too late! Why not gift me with a Wordpress upgrade? Costs just 15 bucks to make me happy. Spare change, but I'm interested to know if I had any generous readers. (My username would be jsiason.)
To express my gratitude, I will let you live send you a photo of myself wearing nothing but a Livestrong wristband.
I'm waiting.
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It's been a week and there's been no offer.
Die, you.
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