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Of Black Friday, Thanksgiving and Turkey
2007-11-22 09:20:00
Black Friday .When I moved to the United States I had no clue what Black Friday meant. As born and raised catholic, I only know of Black Saturday the day after Jesus' death; and Good Friday for the day of Jesus' passion and death. So when I came across the term I was like, there's a Holy Day in November?!Goodness, I got all hyped up and excited upon learning what it meant! Black Friday is THE day after Thanksgiving . It's not any other day. It's THE day of all days! It's the biggest, craziest sale of the year! It beats even the Christmas or year-end sales! Shopping galore to the max! This is when Christmas shopping officially starts. It's when retailers and manufacturers give their big thank you's to consumers by practically giving away their stuff! And when I say giving it away, I'm not kidding! The items are so cheap it's unbelievable!current Circuit City ad, Black Friday 2007I almost never pay for my rewritable DVDs and CDs because I buy them on Black Friday and get it fr...
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Show Off Your Blog, Send a Postcard!
2007-11-18 20:48:00
send a postcard just like this one. get creative. the sky is the limit! the address is real; that's where you'll be sending out your postcards. snail mail meets the internet age!This is my shout-out to all of you my visiting readers. I have a new project I'm currently working on over at The Poscard Collector. The idea is pretty simple and easy to accomplish. Simply send a postcard with your blog name and URL on it. If you got time and space, you may write more like what the blog is all about or any message to the world wide web!If you are a postcard collector, we can exchange postcards! If you are a blogger, I will feature and link your blog to mine! Be part of what could turn into something substantial later. The Postcard Collector is two-weeks old and already it has drawn a lot of hits more than this month old blog! Oh and I didn't even mention that in the spirit of fun and surprises, I'm giving out $5.00 via paypal to the first 10 people to send a postcard. In 25 postcards ...
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The Power to Heal
2007-11-10 23:35:00
The current mini mock poll is over and I asked the super question: If you could have superpower(s), what would it be? Top three result says: 60% want the ability to time travel, 46% want superhuman strength and 70% want the ability to heal. I'm surprised almost nobody wants to have x-ray vision (9%) and the ability to fly (12%). The power to be invisible didn't do too bad at 21%.As a child I've always been fascinated with anything super (who wouldn't?): superpowers, superheroes, supernatural events and at some point, (super)aliens! Once I saw E.T., I wanted to meet an alien. I was sold that they're friendly, loyal, highly intelligent and if I befriend them long enough, they would give me my heart's desire! Of course that never happened and I grow up and life just threw me disappointments, failures and frustrations. Life without E.T. on it.Superheroes are another thing. Thanks to comic books and movies, it's safe to assume that we all want to be a superhero! The success of Sup...
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today i die with you.
2007-11-06 07:36:00
how much is too much?how worse is worst?how bad is bad?how deep are your wounds?when fate isn't on your sidewhen you lose all hopewhen you question your very faithwhen you're beaten and bruised, and burned some more.when you risk too farwhen you fail one too manywhen all the odds are against youwhen you take it all in.what is left of you?what is there to live for?oh please, you begged: kill me nowfor you have been dead.you're dead insideyou're done livingyou're giving uphow much worse can it get?will we ever find redemption?will we ever see the light?there are no answersthere are no blueprints.mark this daynovember the 5thtoday, i die for youtoday, i die with you.
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Folgers Coffee Partners With Habitat for Humanity For a Cause
2007-11-04 22:01:00
Folgers Gourmet Selections is teaming up with Habitat for Humanity to help Greater Los Angeles, which is among the most overcrowded places in the United States. By way of creating your own commercial or voting for this simple ad I made here, Folgers will donate $1 to Habitat of Humanity of Greater Los Angeles (up to $150,000).According to its press release, "Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles (HFH GLA) strives to eliminate poverty housing through advocacy, education, and partnership with families in need to build simple, decent, affordable housing. Since 1990, HFH GLA has built more than 190 homes, transforming the lives of hundreds of people. In the spring of 2007, HFH GLA kicked off its three-year "Building a Greater Los Angeles" campaign to build or renovate more than 250 homes in Los Angeles County." Sounds like a plan!I know there are far more worse areas in the world other than the city of Angels, Los Angeles (LA) but fact still remains, there is poverty even in the U...
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Acclamations
2007-11-02 08:13:00
ONE OF THE BEST poems ever written in my book is "Funeral Blues" from Wynstan Hugh Auden. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for poetry for his book "Age of Anxiety." This was the poem we all cried over in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral, and yes, he was gay.Funeral Bluesby W.H. AudenStop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,Silence the pianos and with muffled drumBring out the coffin, let the mourners come.Let aeroplanes circle moaning overheadScribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,Let the traffic policeman wear black cotton gloves.He was my North, my South, my East and West,My working week and my Sunday rest,My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.The stars are not wanted now; put out everyonePack up the moon and dismantle the sun;Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;For nothing now can ever come to any good.I g...
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Interested in Finding Out When You're Going to Die?
2007-10-31 09:15:00
Since it is All Hallows Eve, I get to talk morbid! I'm sharing an interesting web find. Click on the DeathClock.com. "It's the internet's friendly reminder that life is slipping away," says the website. All you need to do is enter basic information such as date of birth, sex, BMI (Body Mass index- you can look it up from there.) and habits on smoking and your view in life (pessimist, optimist, sadist or normal?!); voila, it tells you the exact date when you are going to die!Except that, you won't actually believe on it yet it IS fun to do! It is not meant to be taken seriously because whether you are a believer or not in the supreme being, nobody can predict exactly one's death. Only time can tell and it's not going to reveal itself until, yeah- it's time.I found the website dark and twisted and morbid but all in a good way. It is inventive for what it offers. So what if it's all bulls**t as others see it? It still draws people to try. It takes a creative mind to come up wit...
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Serendipity!
2007-10-28 05:53:00
SERENDIPITY IS AMONG MY FAVORITE WORDS! They're high sounding and pleasing to the ear. I like how your lips touch when you say seren-DIP-ity and put a stress on the -ity. The very word sounds active, alive and expressive! It's meaning is even better. Dictionary says, it is the faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident; an instance of making such a discovery; good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries.I feel blessed for all my serendipities. My chanced unexpected meetings and discoveries of people and places in my life. In the internet alone, I've met some interesting, real nice people. I've gained new friends through this blog. Without it (the blog) I wouldn't have known them! You get a letter, a note, a comment every so often and it just makes your day! Finding yourself in a crowded place and seeing a warm smile across the room then that's enough to start a conversation. Being in a place totally new to you and discovering how it would turn out to be on...
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"As You Sow so Shall You Reap"
2007-10-24 07:19:00
The Eavesdrop Writer is Vienne and her blog transforms overheard conversations from just about anywhere into remarkable short stories. Read the character(s) come alive! Feel the character. Be the charcter. What you are about to read is part of her developmental project where each week, she posts a conversation- overheard of course, and invites readers to partake in finishing the story. Anything goes. You make your own ending. This is mine.To read the beginning of the story, click on the above button and when done, read how I end it.His hand is shaking as he is writing. By this time, the squatter's face turns red in anger. I recognize from the way his shoulder is moving up and down that he is breathing too fast. He may be hyperventilating from stress. His intense eyes meet mine. He looks troubled every passing moment. Something is wrong. I instantly grab a handy paper bag from the glove compartment, step out of my car and approach the squatter.Me: Hey, Are you okay? I saw the whole ...

Unrequited Love
2007-10-23 01:51:00
"Hello?" "Hi. Kath? This is Jason. Jason Angeles." Total Silence. "Are you there? Please don't hang-up." "Yes, I am here." "Ok. Sorry... ummmm, long time huh?!" "Yes." Dead silence. "I see. Ok, let me pull myself together here. Wow, I'm suddenly lost for words. It seems that after all these years, you're still cold to me. Are you still mad? I mean, hey. How do you do it? I just wonder. How you can sleep at night while I can't? How you can go on with your life as if I never existed while I live with your memory everyday? How you can resist writing back to every letter I sent trying to fix the mess I did while I cry myself each night wishing I didn't do what I did six years ago?" "Six long years Kath. Add 3 years of wonderful friendship. You've been here with me for nine years. I see you in everything. There's nothing I can do. I'm sorry. I'm sounding desperate here. There is something you can do for me though. If you'll only help me end the misery and ...
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Fil-Am Group Wants ABC to Pay Tribute to Pinoy Health Workers
2007-10-19 09:40:00
Related Posts:Update: Desperate Housewives' Remark Nothing but a Silly Joke!Desperate Housewives Picks on Medical SchoolsThat is the the title of one of the headlines on ABS-CBN news website.Still on the Desperate Housewives issue. Sigh... A Fil-Am group rejected ABC station's offer of jobs for Filipinos to work in their network. Instead, the Philippine Anti-Defamation Coalition (which was just newly-formed) wants ABC to pay tribute to Filipino Health Workers through an episode of Desperate Housewives and they specifically want Teri Hatcher to say things about Filipino Health workers in the effect of honoring these workers. They don't want the jobs, they want recognition! Huh?!In the news article, it also mentioned of the National Federation of Filipino American Associations (NaFFAA) filing a $500 million law suit for that racial slur!!Please read the full story and tell me, please tell me that we are not OA (over-acting) and KSP (Kulang sa Pansin, attention seekers)! This is tot...
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UPDATE: Desperate Housewives' Remark Nothing But a Silly Joke!
2007-10-19 08:34:00
Related Post:Desperate Housewives Picks on Philippine Medical SchoolsCyberpunk's So-Called LifeI placed a mini mock poll on my blog to run for 2 weeks because I just can't believe, after reading tons of blogs, that I'm all alone in my opinion that the Desperate Housewives' remark shouldn't be taken out of context. In this blog's poll, 22% finds the remark offensive, hence demands an apology, 11% doesn't care on the issue while 66% agree that there's nothing more to it but a silly joke. Sure, it was but a mini poll with only 54 people voting but points my case that there are two opinions to a story. Mine may not be a popular choice but it does not make it wrong, just because there are more people against it. It appears I'm not alone after all. There are silent voices out there who thinks that we have indeed taken this issue out of proportion. Before you lambast me with your political correctness rhetorics on your stand on the Housewives issue, let it be known that I respect ...
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She
2007-10-16 09:47:00
My relationship with her has always been that of love-hate. I love her the most when we're not talking or when we're apart. I love her when she's away or when I'm away. As long as I don't see her or talk to her, I love her. It's almost impossible for us to stay in one room without us having a fight. Our conversation kicks off okay but moments later, we'll be discussing points then arguing then fighting then ending up not talking altogether for days... Those are my youthful recollection with her in my life. She was 26 years old when I was born. She was just starting a career in the food business and was she enterprising! Her whole world revolved around the business. She worked ludicrous hours, performed tasks for what could be done by three or five people at one time, laboured like there was no tomorrow. She was unstoppable. She made night, day and worked some more in the wee hours of the night. I didn't ever see her asleep! She's always working 24/7 it seems. And though ...

An Internet World Without Clicks?
2007-10-14 04:21:00
Imagine an internet experience without clicks. Imagine opening Internet Explorer or Firefox simply by pointing your mouse to the browser icon, then placing your mouse on the address bar, begin typing to where you're going. When you get to your destination, you merely navigate on the title and headings, do your usual browsing, pointing to all links and tabs without clicking your mouse! Impossible?! Not anymore with this inventive, innovative concept from a website I StumbledUpon named dontclick.it- institute for interactive research. It is a work in progress but I believe once full blown, will make a huge impact into the future of internet browsing. I spent a good 15 minutes on this site trying to get the hang of browsing without clicking and then I keep coming back.I LOVE the idea because I 'suffer' from Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) being on the computer for long hours! (Well, mostly it's bad posturing for me and not taking breaks but I still blame "clicking" too much as one o...
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Filipina Ako. I am a Filipina.
2007-10-11 00:33:00
HAVE YOU GOOGLED "FILIPINA" LATELY? The internet over the years has become the most powerful source of information- more than books, other print media, tv and library. It gives limitless knowledge to the point of overloading one with too much data. As such, it gives access to any unimaginable topic, issue, news, anything at your fingertips. It can also mar reputations, make you want to throw up on the sick sites you accidentally come across, ruin companies, destroy lives. Anybody can go to any search engines to search for anything one can possibly think of. Type a word, phrase, even a question and though won't guarantee you will find what you're looking for, it will supply however countless websites (by the hundreds of thousands of links) more than enough to divert your attention and focus on the searches found instead. Imagine my surprise when I typed Filipina and or Pinay in google! I found some objectionable listings there. Go see for yourselves. Even this paid google ads in ...

Stumble Upon on This Website Yet?
2007-10-10 05:28:00
StumbleUpon is the new google or the new wiki that's taking the net by storm. Already boasting over 3 million users, been featured on TV and tech magazines, this is one sure find you want to keep! I just stumbled on it a week ago and I'm hooked! This is the Myspace or Friendster of bookmarks and links. There are millions of websites on the internet. One can't possibly explore even half of it in one's lifetime. This must-have helps you discover websites that are only relevant to you, according to the preferences you included.The best thing about it is, it has a toolbar add-on with Mozilla Firefox so its so easy to use. Everytime you click stumble, you'll be in a whole new world of serendipity! It's exciting what you can discover in every click! It's building a community of people helping each other bump into something new and interesting. Everytime you stumble a site, it would ask you to rate it to help the next stumbler. In that way, only relevant sites are being distributed ...
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Does Lea Salonga Works Magic for Les Misérables?
2007-10-08 06:06:00
Is she the secret weapon of this musical comeback?I am obviously biased here because we share the same Filipino heritage. However, when Les Misérables (The Miserable Ones) re-opened in November 2006, it initially advertised itself as a limited six-month engagement. Now ten months later, it has an open-run date and has scheduled shows all the way to January 2008. She wasn't among the original revival cast, she came in 3 months prior to its supposed closing in May 2007. In that short time the role Lea currently plays had to be replaced not once but twice before everyone was comfortable with the character fit. Although majority of the original cast are no longer in the show for various reasons, Lea maintains her role (7 months and counting) with the only two remaining original revival cast Adam Jacobs and Ali Ewoldt, who happen to be Filipino-Americans!It is a pleasant surprise that it is still playing in New York. I saw the musical in May this year and I was among those who weren't...
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snail mail.
2007-10-07 02:15:00
i can't sailand i can't bailif there's only a railto follow thy trail.my heart's in ail,think i need a round of alewithout theeoh my world's a pale. can't you see,my passion's not stale?the depths,it's over hill and dale. if there's only a gale oreven a whaleto bring me to theein an exhale. hail, if i can stop rhymingwords ending in ale and aillo, this is just to put into scalehow i think of theewithout fail.-26 may 2006 ©
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Meeting Julia Roberts And John Lloyd Young Up Close (OR How To Watch Broadw
2007-10-06 07:48:00
SO I WAS IN NEW YORK with a friend in June 2006. We got tickets to see the Mel Brooks hit musical "The Producers". We arrived in NYC pretty early on Saturday after a three and a half hour car ride from Boston. We figured we'd check out other theaters and see if we can get good enough rates to watch more shows. Summer has officially started and NY has more visitors those days than any other season. Tickets were hard to come by unless you're willing to pay premier seats that could go as high as $400.00 per person for a show (or scalped tickets at even ridiculously higher price for good shows). Since the shows we were interested in were all blocks away from each other, we decided to split and just call if there are seats left on the theaters we were at. First stop for me was "Three Days of Rain," which was only playing until Sunday, June 18. As expected tickets we're sold out (except for premier seats!!). But I kept pressing for cheaper seats, until the ticket guy said- "here's the...
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In Julia Roberts' Defense: A Fan's Dissection of "Three Days of Rain"
2007-10-06 02:37:00
BY SOME UTTER LUCK, I found myself in Bernard B. Jacobs Theater at 242 West 45th Street in New York June 17, 2006 for the matinée show of "Three Days of Rain ." There are over 40 competing Broadway and off-Broadway performances twice a day in NYC's Theater District. It's hard to pick the best show to watch. Obviously, musicals are more lively and entertaining because of its music, props, costume changes, lights and dances. Plays on the other hand are restricted in one setting with monologues and dialogue. You have to be all ears to understand what is going on in a play. With that, I wouldn't have chosen to watch a play over a musical. With the exception that it is THE Julia Roberts playing the female lead in the play "Three Days of Rain." I observed every nook and cranny of the packed imposing theatre. The audience were a mix of young and old, affluent and impoverished like me and the in-betweens! I stood there with eager anticipation, with knots in my stomach, anxious as though...
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Oh Frankie Valli, You're Just Too Good Be True!
2007-10-05 23:18:00
CAN'T TAKE MY EYES OFF YOU. I wanna hold you so much! Where were you all my life? I might just as well be in love with the real Frankie Valli, only he's 70 years old now. BUT I am currently in love with his music and John Lloyd Young- 2006' Tony Awards Best Actor in a Broadway Musical. JERSEY BOYS is Broadway's newest No.1 musical hit and twentysomething John Lloyd Young is Broadway's newest musical sensation! To say that the show is phenomenal is simply an understatement! There are no words to describe it. The performers are superb, memorable and perfect in their roles! The story is touching and inspiring! Clever and unbelievable! No question it won Best Musical, Best Lighting Design, Best Actor and Best Featured Actor in the Tony Awards, the highest coveted award in Theater. It is what Oscars is in the movies. Jersey Boys is the Story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. This group along with the Beach Boys were perhaps the only American groups to have survived the Britis...
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Melancholy
2007-10-05 23:01:00
...tearsthey begin with thoughtsthat would not ceaseThey start with lonelinessand go on in sadness-that would not stop. ...tearsthey blind meblurring the sight of beautybecoming oblivious to the world. I go on in tears,in desperate solitudewaiting for days to comeuntil a happy day wouldsoon bring me a smile- someday. - 14 march 2006 ©
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Pinoy at Heart. Are You?
2007-10-04 21:28:00
You know you're STILL a Filipino at heart living abroad when: the only carb that matters to you is RICE.you eat the only carb that matters at least twice if not thrice a day!you eat at breakfast buffet, gulping your all you can eat bacon, sausage, corned beef and eggs with toast AND ALL YOU CAN THINK of is "damn, this is really great with rice!!"you have Silver Swan soy sauce, Rufina Patis, Jufran banana ketchup, Mang Tomas condiments in your shelves.you use Ginisa Mix, Sinigang Mix, Palabok Mix and any other Mama Sita or Knorr Mix as part of your cooking.you fry salted dried fish in your backyard or outside your home for all to smell, ignoring even the snare of your neighbor!you have sky flakes as your saltine crackers of choice.you drink and or have your kids drink Milo and Ovaltine as 'energy drink.'you crave for bagoong (shrimp paste) and would get it no matter the cost!at your extreme anger, you blurt out expletives in Tagalog!! Leche! Gago ka! P***ng Ina mo! Bwisit! Bastos...
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8893
2007-10-04 11:18:00
the sound of the wavesgently touching the shoreline,the wind blowing softlycaressing willing bodies.the feel of fine sandson one's feet,the thousand starswatching over... the warm sea water seducingwanting bodies,why in the midst of all these,without you,it's depressing more than exhilarating,gloomy and sullenmore than pleasurablewhat can one make happy in times such as this?it's not all those, no. not at all. it's being with you-- period.- 20 august 2005 ©

Again
2007-10-03 22:47:00
"I heard from a friend today and she said you were in town, suddenly the memories came back to me in my mind..." "MISS IS THIS SEAT TAKEN?" The husky voice belonged to a handsome man in his early twenties. I was startled by the sudden intrusion and I could only mumble a quick, "no". Corny as it may had looked but that was how it all started. Plain and simple. We were both on our way home to Davao. He was in Cagayan de Oro on a business trip I was told. I wanted to ask what kind of business but decided it was none of my nosy concern. I told him that it was my first time to go outside the city over the weekend unchaperoned. "Hmm, good for you," he commented. I can't say that I felt comfortable talking with him right away although I noticed that I was the one bringing the conversation. He seemed distant at first. There was something in him that was quite strange. I guess it was his eyes and the way they ...

(Adrianne) What The Stars Knew: I
2007-10-03 22:25:00
"I'll call you,"That's what you saidThe Sunday we met,So I waited and waited and waited.Still you haven't calledWhatever it is you're doing,Can't you spare a minuteTo give me a ring? Tonight is WednesdayAnd as I sit here anticipating,Constantly prayingAll of a sudden I know. I can sit here now foreverAnd snivel altogetherUntil the tears run salty on my cheeksFor all of a sudden I know. I know what the stars have knownAll the time.You'll never, never call...Never.-First appeared on Kist, literary journal. 1994 ©
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