Archive for September, 2007


September 30, 2007

After picking my sister up this afternoon, I coerced her to join me in satisfying my burger craving at Wham! burger. Uncharacteristically though, instead of ordering the usual, I settled on their Hungarian sausage which looked mighty yummy.
After grabbing the items to go, we headed on over to our suking DVD stall at a nearby [...]

Dissapointed with CYHSY
September 29, 2007

Right this very moment, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s self-titled debut album is playing over my stereo. And while I am still left gasping over it’s genius with every listen, I can’t help but be puzzled with what happened to their brilliance when they released their second effort early this year.
I had real high [...]

No more cookie and pancakes
September 28, 2007

Jologs na kung jologs, but can I just say ‘putangina!’ Why did they have to take down close to 300 TGIS videos on youtube? Favorite show ko pa naman yun.
Kung may dvd lang e…

The intricacies of watching Heroes
September 27, 2007

With one of the most exciting TV seasons coming up, I thought about how I would probably enjoy more if I viewed the shows as they were meant to be viewed, on an actual television set and not the 14 inch screen attached to my laptop.
The first step involved the actual search for the episode. [...]

Not quite, but close enough
September 26, 2007

“Sometimes you want to go
where everybody knows your name,
and they’re always glad you came.”
- Theme from Cheers
Being raised spoiled on Chinese cuisine, there are a million reasons that I can nitpick about the food that North Park serves. Hot tea is always served lukewarm, noodles are semi-raw, dimsum’s barely passable, etc. But still, there were [...]

I used to be a little boy
September 24, 2007

I forgot what it was that took me to smashingpumpkins.com last night, but it was a pleasant discovery to say the least. I found out that they have available for download, mp3s from concerts dating back to when they were still great and relevant (pre-1998 to the uninitiated).
I downloaded the one concert they had [...]

How I could just kill a man
September 23, 2007

“Here is something you can’t understand
How I could just kill a man”
- How I Could Just Kill a Man by Rage Against the Machine
The park was dark and dead silent. I stole a glance at my wristwatch and told me that it was past 2 in the morning. I was pacing swiftly, [...]

Bread of Salt
September 20, 2007

Perhaps there’s some sort of drug implanted in our native pan de sal that fascinated our Taiwanese guests so much that they decided to bring back some to share to their loved ones. And by some, I mean a lot.
500 pesos worth, actually.
That’s 250 rolls of bread that I helped stuff in [...]

In exchange for Groban
September 18, 2007

A bank called up my dad today. Here’s how I imagined their conversation went.
Dad: Hello.
Bank: Hello, good afternoon sir. This is so and so from Bank X. We are offering you tickets to see Josh Groban live in Manila.
D: Sounds good. But what’s the catch?
B: Well, sir, we are giving you two tickets valued at [...]

Painfully unscary
September 17, 2007

I’ve pretty much avoided watching slasher films when it was dominant in the 80’s, and there’s a pretty darn good reason for it. I was probably around 4 when I saw Oliver Stone’s The Hand, and I think one of my earliest childhood memories was being unable to sleep for fear that the hand would [...]