House Bunny Quickie

[Quick post: we have a ~social gathering later.] So, I was strolling around the mall buying something for my mother cause I owe her a huge favor when I passed by a video store. They're on sale and this on movie title caught my eye. "The House Bunny" starring Anna Faris and featuring on her first film, my idol Katharine McPhee. I then taught of our party (which is later!!!) in which we can have movie marathon. So I approached the sales guy and with a large grin of accomplishment in my face I had this convo:

Me: "One House Bunny please".
SG: "Sir, our rated titles are over there the red curtain".
Me: (#%^$&%*@!!!) "No, I mean the comedy film, that one".
SG: "Ohhhh..okay sir but we only have that on VCD".
Me: "IRK!!! Who watches VCD's these days?!"
SG: "It's only fifty pesos sir".
Me: "Do you accept debit cards? :D".

:) I can't pass the oppurtunity to own another Kat related stuff so it's a win situation. We'll just have to make do on putting in the second disc. Ha!

A Whole New World

I'm not gonna start singing so relax. :D I can't really remember when I started wearing glasses. I thinks it's the time between gradeschool and highschool. I believe the reason why my eyesight got worse is because of my reading in the wee hours of the morning during that time. Like, I would be up by 4am then flunk myself in the dinner table to read books. No kidding. If you're the cool highschool guy or girl, the Mr./Miss popular ones...well good for you. But FORTUNATELY I'm not that kid. I was the resident dork. Yes, and I'm freaking proud of it. At least I am valuable, class wise all year-round and not only during intramurals or pageants. Blah... Anyway, I'm not here to rant about childhood bitterness but to share the best invention next to slice breads --- Contact Lenses. I do love glasses, seriously. But contacts are much more efficient for me. It's actually my first time wearing one. I was hesitant to get one back in college 'cause then I believe that contacts are just fads and I'm not really into social conformism. Everything changed when I first popped in my right contacts after waiting 2 weeks for it to be made and spending 4k+ bucks (which is actually way cheaper than glasses). It's like seeing things differently all over again. Things are much more clearer, crispier and blah blah. It was a big dorky moment for me in that eye store. I was like... wowww... If you saw me at that time you'll prolly think that I'm a kid who got a new toy. Ha! It's a joyous moment for me, to the point of almost hugging my optometrist. Haha.
Moving on, having contacts have it's downside. With glasses, you just put it on, put it down, clean it with something and you're done. With contacts, it's ~effortful. You have to wash hands, poke your eye with contacts, find for it when you freakin' drop it, clean it again, poke yourself more, and cursing your eyes for it's blinking reflex and wishing to have a eye spectrum to get this over with. And once you got it in place you have to lubricate it everyonce in a while to avoid drying.What's more you have to clean it at night after use. Ugh.
Looking at the bright side contacts apparently has this cute little cases to put it on. And I think I got carried a little in buying accesories for it.

I love my contacts! Woohoo!

All Over Again

I was sifting through my not-so-old music album when I bumped into Ronan Keating's music folder. For those of you who doesn't know him, he's a english singer widely know as a part of Boyzone. Boyzone is a all boy group or boyband in short. But unlike other boybands out there they're good in my honest opinion. Anyway, Ronan has been a solo act for years now. He's definitely one of my favorite guy singer, Jon McLaughlin included but that's going to be another different post.


Anyway, I love Ronan's music. I find his singing style very standard-ish. Nothing fancy, no frills, just good singing. When You Say Nothing at All from the movie Nothing Hill is definitely a ~favorite. But another track from his Bring You Home album made a mark into my life. It's a song I promised myself that I'll sing to that one true love waiting for me. (Cheese alert!) Or something I'll sing in my wedding. <3
The song has like a gazillion versions. The original album version with Kate Rusby. One with spanish singer Rita Guerra. Another Italian version with Rita Comisi. And with Floortje.


Here's the standard version with Kate Rusby




And my favorite version with Rita Guerra (Spanish Version)

And a version from...ehem..yours truly (I don't sing. Did this for fun. So haters to the left! :D)

It's with my good friend France from New York who made it to the Hollywood round of American Idol! Wahoo! This is such an honor.

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Cutest thing ~ever!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY! GOD BLESS!

Christmas is the Time....to be with Loved Ones

This is probably the first Christmas in 10 years that our family celebrated the Holidays complete. Well, my oldest brother is MIA as usual so I scratched him off the family tree. Ha! Joking.


We planned a simple dinner for Noche Buena. Nothing fancy, cause as they say we are celebrating Christ's birth and spending this season of love and goodwill with loved ones. The menu was planned, tasks are given and everything was prepared for the best Christmas the Lazatin's will have yet. Dad is in charge of the kitchen. Mom is spared of responsibilities as she has colds. Rc (my older sister) is in charge of babysitting. Benito's (nephew) job is to be as annoying as he can get, which he does so perfectly. While Nico's (niece) task is to be her little cute self for a minute or two and then be snob most of the time. And our Yaya Angelina's (no pun intended) share of work is to be the messman or messwoman in her case. And lastly, I'm in charge of desert and overall arrangement.


The night passed by pretty normally, a few laughs here and there. Photos and videos taken especially of Benito's weird antics. And Katharine McPhee accompanying us on background with her soulful holiday music collection. I was planning on having a family portrait with everyone in barong and pina but then most of got drunk and all flustered so raincheck on New Years' Eve hopefully.


Christmas wish? As cheeesssy it may sound, more Christmas like this. :)

Missing QA

I got a message from my dear cousin back from Qatar yesterday saying that they miss me being there. (tears) 'Cause no one will bake cake on Christmas eve. I then realized that - yes, I miss Qatar for many reasons. And I remembered I never really showed my appreciation for her(QA).


My top 10 things I miss about Qatar.

Grilled Chicken Combo
- Half chicken, fries, cucumbers/carrots/lettuce, garlic sauce, pepper sauce, unlimited biryani rice. Need I say more?

Co-workers
- Though I not a big fan some peepz there. I do definitely miss the people who seeks my help and the respect they give me even though I'm a fairly new nurse.

My Clinic
- I absolutely do nothing here. Mostly watch movies, facebook and sleep. (that examination bed is more comfortable than it looks)

Headgear
- I revolutionized fashion in my company for real. When I started only field workers wear this kind of headgear and most senior officials doesn't dare wear this accesorry. But when I started walking around with this on, they all followed. Seriously.

Doha in general
- Everything is neutral in color. You'll rarely see something outrageous. I think I miss the consistency of the scene.

Family and Friends
- My cousin who gladly treated me as a real brother and let me in their lives. I'm forever grateful for everything. And of course the friends I made. Sure we just saw each other on weekends and known one another for a few months but you guys made every weekend a reason to look forward too.

Malling/Shopping
- Gone are the days of tax-free shopping and wages that allows me to have my emergency shopping fund.

Long Hair
- 'nuf said.

Camels/Petrol/Cakes/Turkey
- I miss my camels! They are my constant companions. They are good listeners and they always tries to eat my hair.
- Cheap petrol - only in the middle east
- Baking is much cheaper there.
- Turkey! Pawns Andok's and Baliwag

Winter
- Brrrr...!

Walkers Update

Finally got to finish the 6 episode season 1 of "The Walking Dead" based from the graphic novel of the same title. I'm definitely biased on this one but it's definitely good. Well, there's a few holes here in there to the story but nah! I don't care much. 'Cause how many Post-apocalyptic TV series do we have in history? One which involves zombies? I know right? So, I'm utterly in love with this. <3 As I've said before the production of the series is up par with Zombie produced movies, even better actually to some. 
Most of the main characters as well as the supporting ones are likable. I don't know almost of them and some are familiar by face. I remember the guy who is playing Shane - the best of the main lead - played as husband in one of the witches in the series "Eastwick" based on the novel and movie "Witches of Eastwick" (another promising series that got axed too early).


The storyline is pretty decent. Not much different from the generic zombie storyboard. A guy in coma woke up into a world that is infested with zombies. (Resident Evil anyone?) But he's no genetically transformed human. Just your average good ol' Sheriff of a town. A honest guy, a family guy and a good citizen. The whole cast is okay. There's the native americans, latinos, white guys and a asian (He's korean, which are kinda in demand these days - Sun and Jin from lost). Back to the story, the finale was actually a bit dissapointing. Not gonna spill any spoilers but I was expecting a swarm of zombies or something. All I got is conflict, tears and lots of fire.


All in all, The Walking Dead is a breath of fresh air to the TV series scene today. We got vampires, witches, slayers and lots of teeny-boppers shows these days. Some rotten undeads are grossly nice addition.

True PUV Stories

PUV = Public Utility Vehicles


I don't know what's with me but I'm a magnet (or so I thought) of freaky/weird/odd/interesting/funny co-commuters. Commuting is my main type of transpotation. As much as travelling in your own vehicle sounds cool, commuting has it's pros - sight-seeing (so true), saves gas (lesser pollution and noise pollution as well), socialization event (sure?), exercise (either sitting tightly on crowded PUJ's or standing on buses) and of course a great way to escape "some" traffic officials (that's all I'm gonna say.


Moving on, let me share to you my true-to-life PUV memorable experiences.


Nayong Pilipino
Shortly after my friend Jo alighted from the bus we were riding, this guy who is sitted next to us on a 3seat block starts to act frantically like someone who is not familiar with the place. He would look around the left, the right any direction and would constantly check his phone dating from the 80's (which is cool btw in a vintage kind of way). As a good citizen of this republic I though of offering my help to the poor guy. So, I did it the only way I know that won't be too obvious to him that I want to help (His ego might be hurt). What I did was stared at him intently until he spilled his guts. In which he eventually did and what he asked came as big surprise. We were passing by the Mall of Asia, by the big LED globe to be exact when he asked "Nayong Pilipino na ba 'to?" I was in shock and when it dawned to me that he was serious I tried not to laugh and subtlely said "Hindi po, yung Luneta po dun pa banda." This is one of the stories that you need to witness for real to be that funny.


Public Orgasm
Okay, so  I was traveling along Molino Boulevard I'm on this jeepney with this another woman. We're on opposite sitting on the far side from the driver.  I think we're cruising on 80-90kph which is already fast for a jeep. The road is kinda bumpy so both me and the woman were literally bouncing off the air. The funny/weird part is the woman makes this weird sounds/moaning while we're bouncing off. She would be like "ooh..! aah..! and all that crazy sounds people does when they "do it" (I think so). It was a very awkward scene for me. Believe it.


Bang Bus
NO. I'm not referring to the infamous adult site with the van, a driver, a cameraman, a guy and a girl to be "picked up". (Check the site on your own risk!) I was with my friend/co-worker Jo again when this interesting event happened. We're on the two sitting part of the bus, and in front of us is a guy in his late twenties or something. I actually didn't get to see his face in full to be honest. So along our travel along EDSA this old guy seated from far back moved seats to the empty slot right next to the guy. It's not my business to eavesdrop on people convos but this particular instance caught my attention. I just find it weird when people just start asking random question on random people. And that's the case on this one. I can't help but listen cause apparently the old guy doesn't know the word "discreet". Again, I felt like I was violating these peoples' privacy but then the old guy made this move which made me confer this to my friend Jo. The old guy is obviously touching/caressing the younger guy's private parts. I was definitely shocked beyong belief of what's happening in front of me. I'm no homophobic for the record but I believe such acts shouldn't be done on such place. The act is repeated a few more times up until Jo got off on his bus stop. Thankfully, the younger guy moved seats afterwards. Shortly after, I got off the bus too. I didn't bother looking at the perverted guy. Moral of the story - we live in a screwed world nowadays so beware.


Sobbing Lady
On the bus again. I'm sitting on the three seater on the aisle side. When all of a sudden the lady seated on the window side started to cry. I mean like...cry. I don't know how else to describe the scene but it was like that. I think she received unwanted message or call or something. And then after she calmed down she then started blabbering about going to the nearest airport. I changed seats afterwards. Weird much?

Weekend Playlist

1. California King Bed - Rihanna

2. Firework - Katy Perry
3. Islands In The Stream - Ronan Keating feat. The McClaymonts
4. Christmas Is The Time - Katharine McPhee

5. I Stand - Idina Menzel

6. Dance Your Life Away - Jon McLaughlin
7. Long Shot - Kelly Clarkson
8. More Than Words - Ruben Studdard
9. Dynamite - Taio Cruz
10. [New Discovery] Red - Daniel Merriweather

Nice Guys and Aholes

Last night I was procrastinating more than usual and during it's course I then started to wonder on why in the world that I guy like me is still single. Is it because I'm nice? Probably. And then I asked Lord Google about nice guys and I found this gem. [Explicit Content]

NICE GUYS FINISH LAST

By: Garrett Hols

It’s amazing that assholes can get girls. Actually, now that I think of it, it’s not that amazing. They are assholes at heart, but to meet girls they lavish their undying love. IT’S A CHARADE. They act nice, friendly, and they listen… until they get into what they’re after. Their prey thinks they are in love with them, however when they realize what assholes their predators really are, they pretend like the asshole is really nice inside. The girl tries to change the asshole into a nice guy, but assholes will always be assholes. She gets upset and goes to the nice guy to complain about the asshole. But she claims to love the asshole… now this is where the theory begins. She doesn’t want to look like she is easy so she wont dump the asshole right away, instead she will stay with the asshole. Girls are idiots. They don’t realize that the nice guy has been there all along. He never had to pretend to be a good guy to get girls because he is naturally like that. However, girls don’t see it for some reason or another. They look at the nice guy as a friend, a trusted companion to whom they can tell their sad story to about their asshole boyfriend. But the nice guy isn’t THAT naïve. He was trying to score with the girl he listens to all along. The problem is that since he is a nice guy he keeps listening. Since girls get attached to things that pay attention to them, they think of the nice guy as a friend. A FRIEND. They don’t say, “Oh he’s hot” or “I want to have his children” about the nice guy, they just want the emotional support. When they get the emotional support from the nice guy, they don’t need it from the asshole. The nice guy gets the shit end of the stick while the asshole gets all the action. I am starting to wonder if being a nice guy is really the route to take to get action… I have been down this path for all of my post-pubescent life and it has gotten me NOWHERE… at least not in the women department. Perhaps another reason why girls fall for the asshole is because assholes ignore the girl they are with. The women wonder, “Why isn’t he paying attention to me?” so they explore why. They poke and prod and get closer to the asshole. They start to get easier with each attempt to get closer. The asshole finally says, “I’ve let this beauty dangle long enough, time to boat this bass”. It is then he puts on his charade and the girl feels like she has won him… even thought all she has won is an asshole. Once you have gone down the path as a nice guy or a “listener” you can’t turn back. The girl will always go after the assholes because there are always nice guys there to listen. Once you realize that you are a “listener” you cant do anything about it… just pack up and close shop. There is no way you will get into her pants… ever. There is and never will be a situation where the nice guy will get the girl he has a crush on. It just doesn’t work like that. The girl wont “come to her senses” and realize what an asshole her boyfriend is like in the movies… instead she will just go after another asshole, and unless you stop being a nice guy, she will never go after you. Women complain that there are no nice guys in the world. Right. They are obviously not looking hard enough because there are nice guys EVERYWHERE!!!! Girls aren’t looking for nice guys… they say they are but they’re not. They are looking for the perfect asshole, but there is NO SUCH THING as the perfect asshole. All in all, the nice guy gets the shaft. To all the girls out there with boyfriends that don’t treat you with respect, that don’t listen to you, and that don’t care about you I say this; look next to you. The guy that has been standing next to you the whole time is the guy you have been looking for. He is what you want your asshole to be like. He knows more about you than you know about yourself… because he has listened to it all.

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The guy is a genius. This is what I had in mind all this time that I can't put into words. Bad guys (aholes) are stupid. Girls are weird and I'm still single. Blah!

(in)Human Billboards

This has been a part of our ~intellectual convos among us friends. In this age of innovation and all, how can such companies still revert to this kind of advertising. I do feel their need to show the masses their products/promos etc. but definitely not to this level. 

Wikipedia defines it as:

"A human billboard is someone who applies an advertisement on his or her person. Most commonly, this means holding or wearing a sign of some sort, but also may include wearing advertising as clothing or in extreme cases, having advertising tattooed on the body. Sign holdersare known as human directionals in the advertising industry, or colloquially as sign walkers, sign wavers, or sign twirlers. Frequently, they will spin or dance with the promotional sign in order to attract attention."

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Which proves my argument that this is a detestable act. In the end, it all comes down to those people who are willing to do this kind of job. I know for act fact that most Filipinos these days are suffering from the never ending crisis shadowing our country. So, to those who are courageous enough to deal with this (demeaning) demanding job. I salute you. And to the companies behind this, I just hope you are fairly compensating those who doing this and ummm... can you just put them in malls where it is cold rather than having them walk around hot/polluted streets. Pretty please?

One last note: I'm fond of viewing gigantic billboards (static/mechanic/digital) along roads while travelling, true story. But seeing them on sidewalks on weary hardworking people makes me wanna boycott your products. Just saying.

Best Christmas Gift Ever!!

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So it's not a secret that I'm a huge Katharine McPhee fan. Eversince she appeared on Idol, I've followed her throughout her career. If ever you miss her stint on a little show called American Idol let me give you a refresher.

Stunning eh? Moving on, Kat is now on her 3rd studio album and first Christmas album titled "Christmas Is The Time To Say I Love You". In reality if someone wants to get their hands on this album its either they wait for it to be available in local music stores in ummm... 2013? Or buy it off ebay or something. Luckily, I have a few good friends from the west who graciously sent me a copy of the cd and not just a copy but a signed copy! Score!

Yep yep. Thanks to my friend Franny for this early Christmas gift. I actually bring it everywhere I go. Ha!

Walkers

Recently found out about this new AMC series "The Walking Dead"

The Walking Dead is an American post-apocalyptic horror television series developed for television by Frank Darabont and based on the comic book series of the same name by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard. It premiered on the AMC network on October 31, 2010 with a 70-minute premiere episode, during the network's "Fearfest".

Okay, so I saw the 70minute premiere of The Walking Dead last night which was not a very good idea at first, for the obvious reasons. Nighttime plus zombies is not a very good combination. Ha! Seriously though, I really really really enjoyed this one. Yeah, I may be biased in some ways cause I'm a zombie lover but the whole show feels so real and cinematic. The production, which I think is up par with those zombie produced really gives you that feeling of doom. I'm halfway through the second episode now and definitely looking forward to the remaining four episodes. Which is kinda disappointing by the way that season one is only six episodes max but it's been confirmed that the show has been renewed for a second season with 13 episodes. Yay! Another addiction along with TrueBlood. A must see!

Holiday Benefit Concert on Stickam

http://www.stickam.com/greenroomlive

"Live from cafe Was in Los Angeles: Katharine McPhee, Tyler Hilton, Angel Taylor, Kyle Patrick (of The Click Five), Jessie Payo and Allison, Angie & Jess (from Green Room Live) perform live. Presented by Koffeehouse Productions, Café Was, and Green Room Live. Justin Kredible hosts."

Tune in right now for Katharine's performance. Yes! Posting more details later.


[UPDATE]

Katharine McPhee had her recent concert in Kofehouse in Ca which was streamed through stickam and katharinemcphee.com. This is the first time I've seen Kat in concert and it was the best experience I've had ever! I really enjoyed Kat's crazy antics. Below is Kat's setlist for her concert and corresponding links to youtube videos of it. Enjoy! Spread the the love on holidays as well as the McPheever!

It's beginning to Look A Lot like Christmas

What Are You Doing New Years Eve?

Say Goodbye

Jingle Bells (On Crack)

It's Not Christmas Without You

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas Ft Tyler Hilton

Who Would Imagine A King

Christmas is the Time (to say I Love You)

Surrender

The Christmas Song & This Christmas ft. Angel Taylor/Others

Hilariously cute!

If I'm his parents I'll prolly smile big time before panicking.

This is one is super sweet.

More cute notes here: http://theberry.com/2010/12/06/brutally-honest-kids-writing-notes-24-photos/

This kids' notes makes me remember my very special nephew Benito. He has all this crazy/melodramatic acts depending on his mood. Cute kid and mostly a little devil. :3

di·no·saur (dn-sôr)

n. One that is hopelessly outmoded or unwieldy.
Use in a sentence: Ryan is such a dinosaur (said by a close friend, now just a friend).

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Still in the process making up something clever for this blog thigy.   
"I’ll look into it. I’ll get back to you on that. I’ll give you an update."