the devil wears prada

we watched last night. miko and ailen were on their way out we were on our way in on the 7pm show nice. meryl streep was great! i imagined babs would've done great in this role too. with me: steff, verle, niña, sandy and lala.

babsie

bab's tour being advertised on madison square garden

A Great Day - - what i need

A Great Day

From Funny Lady

When you're down and out
Lift up your head and shout

There's gonna be a great day

Angels in the sky

Promise that by and by

There's gonna be a great day/

We're gonna see a great day

Gabriel will warn you

Some early morn

You will hear his horn

It's not far away

Lift up your head and say

There's gonna be a great day

Great day

*Repeat

When the skies went darker, oh Lord!

Came Noah’s Ark, oh Lord!

Amen and Amen!

Amen and Amen!

He came in January, February,

March, April, May, June

July, and August,

September October, November,

De De December

'Twas was a great day

It was a great day

One of those great days

And on Judgment Day

If you believe

he will receive you and me

Gabriel will warn you

Some early morn you

You will his horn, hear his horn

It's not far away

Lift up your head and say

There's gonna be a great

We're gonna see a great

There's gonna be!!!! Be a great day!!!!

i really need this... i hope all medstudents get a great day from time to time. ~lz

mi herida fresca

(grades just released) pedia! you didn't pass me! my first shifting grade is 73 sumthin huhuhu even if it's remediable... i really resent it, i know i could do more if only certain things were easier for me. well... whatever... i'll probably just pick up garbage if i fail. ... off to read ophtha, another bothersome subject. sigh...

lz

early morning post

it's 7:30 am i just had to take a break. im really down after my coffee spilled in the car :-( yeah shallow. too shallow, but it's just sort of a breaking point, i know tina babe will understand when i say it's a pansit-spilling, calamansi-rolling kinda-thing hehehehe. everything just accumulates. AND! backaches are back. now count how many posts back that's it's just complains about life. i am beginning to feel unhappy about what i'm doing. i hate to think that some people gets to have everything placed on their laps and just have to study... if only i were given that chance sigh... (ophtha... ophtha... psych... psych...)

hay... hmmm... allright im ok now. im ok now. btw, yesterday we finally had the chance to go out during community pediatrics. we went to our community near loreto church and saw our very cute (but very dirty too) kids. well of course between me and my partner (verle) she virtually did all the asking except for some useless comments from me of course. i laughed at myself when i asked ron, my classmate from the US if he needed any help and he answered that his partner did the talking (language barrier thingy), i answered, "well im no different" hehehe thanks BERLY!

(reminder to self) i'll post about our big group discussion on the weekend ^_^

lz

my quizzted mind

what do you think of five quizzes all in rapid succession? well, three and two more accurately. oh! and one was a shifting exam actually 75 items neurosurgery in under 60 minutes... and that's hmmm... about never mind how many pages... and i have to drive home (need brainpower) wake 3:30 am and leave by 4:30 to be able to PARK... drive to school (less brainpower but nevertheless). well.. im not even reading this again to check if this is even coherent., i just got 3 hours of free time (imagine how happy i am) and i just want to debulk my load before i lose it.

seriously, if only i can live here in the medbuilding i would. in fairness, im passing, well hell im even getting good grades (btw, i got an 83/84 in derma-final grade-it's a quarterly subject) yeah, but i think lately things are getting more difficult and i want to continue PASSING. i don't want to relive my past. i'll probably just give up if that happens again. im DONE.

if anyone out there can HELP ME. please. it seems no one wants understands the troubles of the med students except us.

lz

back to the picture

New pictures from our highschool get together last May 22.

Formula Bar, Tomas Morato
No more people. We literally closed the bar.

Pier One, The Fort
There were still a lot of us

One more picture from Formula Bar early on the evening

More pictures here >>

Related :
Golden Dawn >>
Perpetually Recovering from the Night Before >>

poop, wala na! hehehehe

well, the title is an inside joke so i guess, let the people who get it, get it, right!? but anyway, this has been a week of (ehem) explosive happenings hehehe. a funny thing to realize that the one time we eat in the "up-scale" part of the eatery that shall-not-be-named is the time one irregreg goes on full blast on both ends, one on one end, and three with vague abdominal discomfort hehehe. an epidemic? we don't know, but it was fortunately a relatively "benign" week. rest up guys, i'll see you in school next week. i hope that goes poop, wala na! already

lz

when is small, SMALL!?

i though i knew how small was small. apparently, i haven't experienced enough of the world yet. yesterday, my mom and i got shown what is the biggest architectural blunder in my book (so far). i'm looking for an apartment near my school because i've been missing out on studying/sleeping time just to arrive by 0445-0500H in school just to be able to park. imagine this.. in the supposed """apartment""" there's room for one bed... literally. i cannot even outstretch my arms! i think the width of the space could have been only a square meter or less, almost like a sarcophagus really... and the most stupid thing is that i think the space for the bathroom was bigger than the supposedly apartment space!!! and the walls were not even flushed right and parallel, OMG i tell you i'll die before i'll move there... i'd rather endure my back pains, lack of sleep, and i do hope my grades won't suffer because i can't study and sleep enough... sigh... i don't know... i think i'm beyond complaining, i don't care anymore if my mom thinks of my comfort or sanity for that matter, i'll just make do with what i have and just let what the result of this be what it will be.

lz

Gynecologist!?

well... almost... nyehehehe... my ka-tribo's and me had a deal that whoever hits the jackpot at each of our subjects prelims will have to treat the group. the ever reliable obstetrics and gynecology department was the first to release the results of the prelims and i got the highest raw score in my subsection 96/120 (i know it's not perfect but it's already something to be proud of for us hahaha) it's roughly 86% transmutted to our B65 system. anywhooo... lucky me sandy aka. zander got.... drum roll please... 100/120 yeehee galing-galing ni zander ^_^ i'm preparing my tummy for the libre ha!

i'm so glad prelims' over, one of the more stressful weeks for a medstudent is really exam week. i missed going to the highschool classmate's celebration for getting the top spot in the architect boards (congrats architect bassig!) well... what can i do... studies come first... i the hell don't want to go through the entire ordeal of repeating a year feeling guilty of not studying for one night... thinking i could have made one more little effort... sigh... i admire all of us who don't miss a beat. most people think we can always make time. how i wish i could... really... some people go sleepless most nights of the week to get drunk, i don't. i try to accept my 3 hours of sleep just so i can park for free and at the same time trying to remember that the pH of the vagina in bacterial vaginosis is <4.5 compared to vulvovaginal candidiasis which can be normal and worry that my facilitator may make me stand the whole period reciting everything from the book ("don't open your books and notebooks please..."). im one big frustrated guy...

i wish my mom will find me a nice apartment, very near the hospital... i just wish... a small thing that will add an hour or so of sleep is most welcome... a very much welcome idea...

pedia.... please pass me... hehehe...

lz

Streisand Gives $1 Million to Clinton Charity

August 10, 2006 — By Reuters

LOS ANGELES — When Barbra Streisand sings, the cash register rings at Bill Clinton's favorite charity.

With a gift of $1 million, Streisand has selected the former president's Climate Change Initiative as the first recipient to benefit from the millions she has pledged to charitable causes generated by her upcoming national concert tour.

The gift helped make Streisand the leading contributor to Clinton's effort to bring together a consortium of major cities around the world to drive down greenhouse gas emissions.

Streisand recently announced that she would undertake a concert tour in October and November to help raise money for organizations dealing with environmental, women's health and educational issues.

A spokesman for Streisand said she has been funding efforts to deal with global climate change since the late 1980s.

source : http://news.yahoo.com

The First Blow...

...landed on me quite hard. well, i could say gynecology's dificulty is quite acceptable. this last day of the first week of the two-week-long-prelims was harder to swallow. pediatrics ii and ophthalmology on the same day. we studied up to 2200H doing the usual firing-back-and-forth-of questions. i thank steff for having i think up to 70% of what i answered coming from her hahaha. ophtha was really hard, mostly because i don't even know the terminologies yet. i just hope i can make up for it with the remaining time... sigh...

here i go again...

lz

piktyur updeyt

reformat... again...

well not yet.. after the prelims, i think. my laptop's been infected again and this time it's worse. online scanning won't work, this virus/worm/trojan (i don't know yet) seems to be able to inhibit online scanning programs to launch.

my laptop (and desktop pfft) and steff's were infected a few weeks ago from a classmate's usb. as if that didn't teach me enough! this week i was so lethargic i let people stick their phallic usbs in my laptop's c*nt (ehem sorry im really annoyed) and the amazing thing is that i was able to detect the virus and clean the usb. and yet! i still got infected! well... i'm deferring my reformating after the prelims and i'm never going to let any usb touch my laptop lest everybody hates me i won't care. hehehe... (as if... for everybody who knows me, i know you know i can't can't hahaha!)

to steff who shares my woes... don't worry ^_^ what goes around...

to my ka-tribos, im proud to be from our tribe - - KAY SUSAN TAYO! (hehehe) (ehem for non-tribe-members, don't think for one moment this is susan roces puleeze... HAHAHAHA)

lz

let's hear it for us!

a2 2007 reunited, and don't think all i do is pose for photos... well... yes on all available times ^_^

ectopic top five

here's an out of the blue top five, just felt like it hehehe

1. fita crackers - steff is a bad bad influence hahahaha, i bought two big wraps and i've been munching three days in a row now
2. pgma - i admire her simply for her staying power hehehehe, i don't know who the hell she's friends with [wink, wink]
3. i'm in the mood for love - (from the movie album) so lush, and yes... i've been dreaming of someone... (literally) hay... hehehe
4. internet explorer 7 - yeah i always loved it, even though they copied tabs from another browser, i welcome it hehehe i deleted my firefox and am now using the explorer 7, nothing is better than this
5. chuckie &/or hershey's - mmm mmm mmm love chocolate drinks ^_^ especially with my fita crackers

three days post

(started july 23) it’s raining wildly again, and of course secretly i’m wishing classes will be suspended again tomorrow. one more day of 7 hours sleep is a very welcome gift for any med student. well of course there’ll be repercussions, piled up work, piled up quizzes, but the sleep… yeah… just like drugs ^_^

i’m having terrible headaches, they come most days of the weeks more often on the right occipital side, but sometimes bilateral. today i endured what i think is the worst episode, around 7/10 if i grade it, and yes remember that i have great pain tolerance so this is just one titanic sized headache for a normal person.

i’ll let you on another secret… hehehe… i’m enjoying medschool hahahaha i must be mad right? i was cursing myself for enduring this torment, but hey, what do you know? now im enjoying it. i enjoy the company of my girls hahaha ^_^ and im looking forward to clerkship to show off those clinical skills (yaiks! poor poor patients nyehehehe)

i continue writing this today… (july 24). i watched pgma’s sona and i mostly laughed. i laughed my annoyance to the people who kept on clapping (well yeah thanks for clapping) but i was always hanging on what she going to say next. i love infrastructures and hearing projects such as new airports and new superhighways going to be built gets me all excited, and these people just keep on interrupting. as far as i’ve heard she got 127 interruptions hehehe good job. and i always think she’s got great ties to whomever ‘cause she’s always saved, now by the strong rain hehehe

continued again (july 25) wow! classes suspended… again!!! lakas talaga ng powers mo pgma hehehe. the sky is still so dark i sincerely hope this doesn’t go on the whole week, my exams are piling up!

to marge and tina - hope you to are alright, i’ll see you guys soon.

tribong irregreg

i must sing again

A Convenient Tour that Addresses an Inconvenient Truth
Streisand ‘must sing again’ to ensure our well being
By Steven M. Housman

In late summer of 1986, Barbra Streisand made an announcement that shocked and delighted the entertainment industry, not to mention her throngs of fans—she announced she was about to give a one night concert in support of the Democratic party. It was a time during the Reagan years when AIDS was practically ignored by the administration and the horrible accident at Chernobyl had recently occurred. On her audio invitation to an invited audience of celebrities and political dignitaries, she declared “I felt I MUST sing again.”

On September 6th of that year, she fulfilled her commitment by giving a concert entitled “One Voice” and raised millions of dollars for her fellow Democrats, and established The Streisand Foundation. The foundation was formed to raise awareness and, most importantly, money for causes such as HIV/AIDS, Gay Men’s Health Crisis, AmFar, equipment and general health care facilities, as well as the political causes she believes in. Since 1988, The Streisand Foundation direct contributions to charities have raised $15 million. Additional monies she has helped non-profits raise through her talents are an additional $14 million. The 1993 donation of her 24-acre Ramirez Canyon estate in Malibu to the people of California and the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy was valued at the time to be worth $8 to $11 million. This does not include upwards of $20 million raised for political causes, such as her concerts for presidential and congressional candidates.

On June 8th, 2006 she announced a multi-city tour that consists of 20 concerts, kicking off in Philadelphia on October 4, taking her to New York City, Washington, D.C., Detroit, Boston, Fort Lauderdale, Atlanta, Atlantic City, Chicago, San Jose, Las Vegas and winding down in Los Angeles on November 20th.

People had mixed emotions from elated to “how dare she!” The latter group of people seemed to be more than a bit peeved since they shelled out their hard earned dollars back in 2000 when Streisand announced her “Farewell Concerts.” They were labeled “Timeless—Four Last Performances” with two concerts in New York and two performed in Los Angeles. They thought she was worth the $100 to $1500 (not including scalpers’ tickets that sold for thousands) since they’d never hear their beloved diva give another concert again…ever! It’s fair to say that when the latest announcement was made, these people had a right to be upset. But hold on a minute, I also have a couple of pet peeves that seem in synch with Ms. Streisand’s reasons to go on the road again. Since September of 2000, we have endured 9/11, a corrupt administration, an unnecessary war, not to mention the rapid demise of our planet earth due to global warming. (Have you seen An Inconvenient Truth yet?)

With a commitment to direct millions of dollars to charitable organizations she supports, Barbra Streisand will undertake her first national tour in over a decade. To the concerned citizens, fans and the naysayers alike, Ms. Streisand has issued a statement noting, “A prime reason I decided to tour again was the increasingly urgent need for private citizen support of women’s health and educational issues and environmental efforts to combat dangerous climate change. This will allow me to direct funds and awareness to certain causes that I care about deeply.” As her past efforts have proven successful, designated proceeds in support of philanthropic initiatives will be distributed through The Streisand Foundation. My sources in the Streisand camp conveyed Barbra’s sentiments by saying, “this was the key consideration for why the tour was undertaken.” My contact also informed me that Streisand, along with many Americans, “have been living in a world where things tend to go from bad to worse unless generous and passionate people pursue cures. She has always been motivated to support those people, and the decision to tour again derives directly from the sense that these three issues are crucial points where the additional money and awareness can have impact.”

As for the tour, it will be presented by Michael Cohl for Concert Productions International and The Next Adventure (A Live Nation Company). “It’s an incredible opportunity to work with Barbra Streisand, certainly the greatest female performer of all time,” said Cohl. Streisand will be touring with the multi-platinum record selling quartet Il Divo. In a joint statement, Il Divo commented, “We believe the experience of working with Barbra Streisand—a truly legendary artist—will forever shape the way we approach our own singing and performing. Her voice and her music have profoundly influenced and inspired so many artists, including Il Divo, and we are thrilled to be sharing the stage with her.”

Barbra Streisand’s status as the #1 best-selling female artist with 50 gold, 30 platinum and 13 multi-platinum albums sold are pretty well publicized. That she ranks ahead of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, and is only exceeded by Elvis, in record sales is a fact that her fans know by heart. I would be remiss without mentioning she is the only artist in entertainment history to receive a Tony, two Oscars, six Emmy’s, eight Grammy’s (not including the Living Legend Grammy and the Lifetime Achievement Grammy), eleven Golden Globes (twelve when you count the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award), Cable Ace and Peabody Awards, and the American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award.

source : the bottom line

during ophtha

5:30 am beside the med building

my new subsecmates

My Psych Girls ^_^

the regularly-irregular pulses.
from psychiatry class... girls! girls! girls! ^_^

The Lake House

after my long hiatus in cinema attendance hehehe steff, verle and i watched the lake house as part of our “debriefing,” “decompression,” “detoxification” which we and upon philip’s suggestion decided should be a regular thing. i admit, i wasn’t even sleepy for a moment. ‘twas a great treatment. there were a few things that could have been improved, but overall, i was entertained. i’m sure verle and steff was too ^_^ i had a great time with you two!!

pediatric surgery

the subspecialty i used to want to have (hahahaha) gave us a quiz on our first ever meeting! a shocking quiz for that matter, “…to test your entry competency…” my god! normal values… principles… although i must say i was so proud i guessed (as in guessed from nothing no background knowledge at all) two of the normal values hahaha i got six out of fifteen. sigh… at least i didn’t get a zero right!?

Lunch-Reunion

lunch in SM Manila chef 'd angelo

In the Ghetto

niña, kim, ryan and me in psychiatry class

Standing Room Only

this post disappeared. i've been having a lot of trouble with blogger lately, well... i just can't worry about this as of the moment.

this post actually is a rant how us paying Php78,000.00 per semester have to run, push, and shove people to get seats in our classes. i don' t know why the departments and the dean's office insist on combining two sections (around 200+ students) for holding lectures. it's hot, noisy and unlucky people end up sitting in the sides on the floor, on ugly uncomfortable chairs and even inside control booths. as much as i want to shut up and just try to learn, i can't! and i don't care if the reason is that lecturers don't want to repeat themselves or there are not enough lecture rooms. ust faculty of medicine and surgery... MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!

remade june 19, 2006 (and with much subtler language... i'm sleepy already)

lz

first day back in medicine

my mommy woke me up late but fortunately i was still able to prepare and leave early. i arrived at school quarter to six and was able to get a good parking spot, right across the left side of the med building. i spent my free time in the morning seeing my friends who are clerks now, it's their last day in medicine rotation, and i congratulate them for doing great! i hope i get as good as them when my time comes. i'd be following the same schedule they have now so medicine will also be my first rotation.

the only thing i can say from what i experience in this first day is that : we have lots lots and LOTS of reading to do. it may not be as difficult to understand as second year because of our background knowledge, but the sheer volume of material we have to take in and the quizzes every meeting that will force us to absorb all of it is really daunting.

well, i HAVE the motivation now, i hope i don't loose it as i receive more torment. imagine this... we had a quiz today! our first day! on our first subject ever. hehehe well... that's med... and we already have a written report to submit tomorrow for gynecology, which we'd have to read 4 chapters one of which is quite long. well... it's alright... bring it on!

Guilty Pleasures

Tour News :

• the Il Divo as "opening-act" rumor is confirmed. they will be billed as special guest
• tickets will be sold starting june 19th
• the tour will kickoff in philly

source : usatoday.com

Happy Days are Here Again

finally! the official announcement! for months now, rumors are milling that miss streisand is contemplating on coming out of retirement to tour. the reason? read ahead...


Barbra Streisand Set for Fall Concert Tour, Which Will Provide Millions of Dollars to Organizations Concerned with the Environment, Education and Women's Health

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 8, 2006--With a commitment to direct millions of dollars to charitable organizations she supports, Barbra Streisand will undertake her first national tour in over a decade next Fall. The announcement was made by her longtime manager and the tour's producer, Martin Erlichman, who stated that the engagements will comprise twenty concerts in major U.S. cities during the months of October and November.

Ms. Streisand notes, "The increasingly urgent need for private citizen support to combat dangerous climate change, along with education and health issues was the prime reason I decided to tour again. This will allow me to direct funds and awareness to causes that I care deeply about."

Designated proceeds in support of philanthropic initiatives will be distributed through The Streisand Foundation.

Ms. Streisand's only previous multiple city national tour, the "Barbra Streisand: The Concert" tour in 1994, set standards of critical and popular success not since exceeded.

The past year has been one of extraordinary success for the director/actress/singer/writer/composer/producer. Her album, "Guilty Pleasures," quickly became her 50th Gold Album. In addition, the film that returned her to movie acting, "Meet The Fockers," became the first live-action comedy to exceed a half billion dollars at the box-office. It also set a record of 3,000,000 copies sold in its first 24 hours of video release. Additionally, Warner Bros.' release of the DVD box set of her first five television specials has been a major success with quintuple platinum sales.

Selected cities, specific concert dates and other pertinent information for the upcoming tour will be announced shortly.

www.barbratour.com

Idols News

elliott was caught by hotel cabana boys trying to get a picture of nicky hilton hehehe, still the guy from richmond, hey nicky you're passing on the next big thing!

and wow! imagine this, my kathy is going to be andrea bocelli's guest on the san jose leg of his tour!! good job kathy!

my subjects this year

YEARLY SUBJECTS

• medicine ii
• surgery ii
• pediatrics ii
• radiology

SEMESTRAL SUBJECTS

• gynecology
• forensic medicine
• dermatology
• psychiatry iii
• ophthalmology
• obstetrics ii
• neurology
• ENT
• preventive medicine iii
• medical nutrition
• medical ethics iii
• rehabilitation medicine
• legal medicine

pumped-up for next week

i’ll be back in school full time starting next week. in a way i AM excited, but of course i have the feeling that if i can only avoid it all together, i’d prefer THAT. hahaha. typical me.

last night, i brought my grandma to the usth-er around 12:00 a.m. i suspected her to be just hypoglycemic but for the peace-of-mind of everybody i brought her there. she was indeed hypoglycemic, her new medicine was causing it. it’s a good thing her doctor was able to call around 4:00 a.m. and instructed she just revert to her old blood sugar med and we were able to go home. i realize that things are going to be like this from now on. my grandma’s 82 and small variations in her usual routine will strongly affect her. young people can tolerate missing a potty break, our geriatric population usually cannot, a missed wee can mean a urinary tract infection, a missed meal – fainting. i wish i could be with her all the time to see to her but i cannot. all-in-all im glad she’s fine now. i hope she does well for a few more years.

well of course this gave me the chance to see my former classmates from maximus. i admire these people, they put up to the torture they are submitted to. i think you might think that their stories are over zealous, over embellished narrations if you hear them. but i think they’re just accurate. death is an everyday thing. they pay for their patient’s lab tests if these people cannot, they get blamed for everything, and they virtually get no sleep monitoring patients who are supposed to be in the icu but are left in their care. imagine people on mechanical ventilators in a very septic environment… sigh… we’re really a great country :-/

read my friend tin’s first day experience on her friendster blog

well anyway, i got my uniforms ready and i have stories of what my year should be like. i hope i’ll be able to take everything in. i want to do well. i hope i have the strength. i do know i have the will.

Pictures from the Reunion

• In Nipa Hut
• My Class Pictures from Angelicum

golden dawn

pretty much what we saw as we went out our last stop, formula bar in tomas morato. i think it was past six am and boy were we all spent! my day out the house started 2 p.m. the day before and i got home 7 a.m. the next morning.

my batchmates decided to have a get-together and we met in nipa hut near ortigas. we were around 30, and i haven’t seen many of them since angelicum days. so we talked talked talked until around after midnight when nipa hut was throwing us out already. i haven’t downed any alcohol yet, great pacing huh, yeah and boy was i right to pace myself. we tracked out to the fort to pier one, with an invisible convoy, i rode with manong in his toycar, following our convoy head who didn’t know where we were going! hahaha!

and so we sat and talked and laughed at about almost everybody in pier one. a lot of pictures, impersonations, new gossips i even didn’t know about! hahaha and of course as claude (uncombed and unruly) reminded me, some of the funniest jests. and so like nipa hut, management was already handing us our bill even if we haven’t asked for it so we decided to scoot. apparently, mr. versoza isn’t done yet and invited us to formula bar in tomas morato for a few more.

of course the placed rocked, and epileptics can’t go in with those kinds of lights! and the music! everything just totally wild! we toasted to our batch and to us the real batch matibay who welcomed the golden dawn in each others arms.

Two Years of Posting

thanks guys for reading my banters here ^_^ hope you continue to visit me. i especially thank robert, you give me posting advice although i apparently still post garbage hahahaha! i haven't come around to writing that post about wrong eductional practices in medschool, but i haven't forgotten it. thank you to marge and tina, you may account for 75% of the hits here hahahaha! and thank you again to all visitors who don't leave comments, fine, lurking is fine with me, i'll take what i can hahahaha! love y'all!

i still love you kathy even if you didn't win, i love you too mr. elliott! i can't believe you sang with one of my most favorite singers too! you rock mary j!

American Idol

Congratulations Taylor! I hope you have a great career.

I'll see you soon Kathy and Elliott.

two years!!!

i'll be celebrating my 2nd year posting in this blog on may 26! unbelievable! and in two years time i'll be celebrating 10 years of my worthless presence on the internet hahaha i'm getting old ^_^

VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!

I've got McPheever!!!!!

paula's funky white boy

i'll be first in line to buy your album when you release one. congratulations mr. yamin for making it into the top three. you're going to be a superstar!

Vote like 'Yamin' it!

kathy! my kathy sang my favorite song in the whole world!!! "Somewhere over the rainbow!" thank's to simon for choosing it. i hope she pushes through.

elliott's probably gonna go. it would really be a miracle if he stays on. i agree with some people in elliott yamin forums who said that his trip home and back, the pressure of being on the top three, may be affecting him especially because he has diabetes and it's really hard to perform on that kind of setting when you're blood sugar is on a roller coaster. on some nights, i can totally see when he's hypo or hyperglycemic hehehe. if he goes home, he'll get his well deserved rest and im sure he'd still get tons of offers.

woohoo!!! thank you! thank you!

i passed the objective part! have to wait for the essay part results though. i hope i also passed it. it'll really be a downer if i failed it. please help me God! mama mary pray for me! i give this to the virgin of the most holy rosary, i know she won't let me down. i was really worried because i was totally out of my comfort zone but was really surprised i even got a higher score than my biology subject area exam. anyway... thanks for all your prayers ^_^

lz

tomorrow

the sun'll come out tomorrow! i hope i do well tomorrow. this is the last step of my certification process. i know God's Holy Spirit will be with me and so are your prayers. ^_^ Happy Mother's Day to all your moms!

Just Unbelievable

elliot. top two... unbelievable... america is a really mature audience... i cannot believe it! it's not that i don't want him going into the finals, I DO! but i thought everything was against him, i saw taylor's face get a little worried when he was grouped with eliott. well, chris sang his swan song and kathy stayed on. but if i had my way, i would have rather have taylor get eliminated rather than chris. thank God you saved my kathy. en hora buena elliot!!!

elliott's night

I gotta say last night… was Elliott’s night. His two performances were definitive. He was great great great! I was really moved by ‘If I can dream.’ Simon was right, he showed he deserved to be in the semi-finals. I can confidently say he sounded better than chris and taylor last night. I hope he goes through.

My poor Kathy was at a disadvantage, it was a boy’s night. The theme was just not for her although her first performance was hot!

wrthless lnguage

am i a magnet for "filipinos!?" (and yes im using filipino as a derogatory term here) hahahaha the girl beside me in the jeep earlier was using me as her backrest! the bitch! i know im fat but i definitely don't look like a couch! she should sit straight-up! i really shoved her a little in the right direction. and then i overheard her saying to her boyfriend (she recieved an sms) "kinumpleto!... ang tanga naman nito di marunong magshortcut..." who does she think is stupid here!? maybe this girl already forgot that the CORRECT way of writing things is not in this stupid txt shrcts language.

have we become so idiotic that the accetable form is this shitty text language which i am disgusted with!? poor poor philippines.... :-(

Gross

(don't read ahead if you haven't taken your dinner yet)

i think i've been in my most disgusting FX ride yet. the guy beside me was sound asleep, snoring and worst of all! DROOLING! and it's not the flowing in the cheeks type (hehehe) his head was hanging down so it made a visible string from his mouth to his lap, yech... perhaps he's just so tired. it's really embarassing. very viscous eeeew! hahahaha! and the two rabbits in my front we're busy doing something perversive on the other hand (i was sitting at the back by the door). what a night...

I know... I know...

Thank you God! You saved Elliott once again. He should choose songs wisely now. I wonder if they can contact their families and other people to ask advice on their song choices… hmm… I think they can’t divulge information.

My honest evaluation of the remaining contestants is that :

• In General – all the four remaining contestants are good vocalists. It will be really a favoritism battle. Paris also had a good vocal ability and she just fell short on her fanbase perhaps.
• Kathy – will have no problem with working the audience (especially me hehehe), it’ll be song choices that’ll be the limiting factor. No vocal problem at all. I still believe she’ll end up the winner.
• Chris – has less audience appeal than Kathy, probably his rocker attitude. He showed his weakness this week, his voice may be giving up. His song choices are ok so far. He’ll definitely be in the final two
• Elliott – I place him on third pretentiously fantasizing that he’ll overcome Taylor. Voice is great, but bad song choices. You can’t get on choosing bad songs. Based on yesterday alone, Elliott deserved to go. But Lady Luck loves my team ^_^
• Taylor – has never been in the bottom anything. His bottom has been on the floor though. It’ll all depend on the voters who’ll go home next. Voice is great, always chooses songs as white as his hair to be safe, I’d like to see him try interpreting a song way out of his usual repertoire. But I doubt he’ll do it at this stage.

You can tell...

…by now that I’m becoming obsessed. Well, what’s new? Hehehe. Kathy, you can’t do wrong anything in my eyes. Kathy’s performances were great last night, I’m not sure if randy was right about the pitchy things, it didn’t sound pitchy on TV. The second performance was even greater, with the sitting on the floor and the other people on stage.

I’m afraid last night may be the last for Elliott. I’m really sad thinking about it. He has a very good quality in his voice. And I’m sure I’ll buy any album of his when he gets a deal. Bad song choices, it’s all there is to it. and I totally agree that you can’t be singing “…I wanna go Home…” Hehehe. I pray it’ll be paris saying bye bye instead of him ^_^ but he deserves it.

By the way, Kathy... thank you for the wardrobe malfunction ^_^ hehehehe

hah!

they apologized to my kathy!! the three judges said that when they watched back the taped, it wasn't bad at all! hmmp! see! i was right!

i think tonight, ryan grouped the two contestants who will battle until the end. my kathy vs. chris. although i want elliot to reach the final two, i'm not sure why not a lot of people vote for him. he is definitely better than my namesake the rocker.

'twas a busy day

VOTE FOR KATHERINE!!!

• went to nbi to get my fbi fingerprint form accomplished so i can send it. i'll have to go back to claim my nbi clearance though.
• i went to plm yesterday to get a transcript (again) and i was excited ma’am vitug gave me ma’am plaza’s email in the u.s. i was really happy to know she’s teaching again! highschool biology in fact in ca. i hope i can see her if my trip to san diego gets pushed through.
• enrolled in level 3 spanish, lola's still our teacher for a week. there were a few newcomers, im glad most of our original group from levels 1 & 2 are still there. i feel a little uncomfortable meeting new people always.
• then of course, i can't miss ai. i totally disagree with the judges comments last night for my kathy. my baby kathy sang whitney houston’s “i have nothing.” it wasn’t bad at all! maybe it sounded different in the studio but it certainly didn’t sound out of tune in tv. it wouldn’t help that she went first, but i think she won’t have to worry being in the bottom three. for me the bottom three this week: paris – they she sang the way we were, sorry, not just oversang it, i think it was awful; taylor – they were right, it was sooo karaoke, it was a bad song choice, a very common song like that; kellie – it is just simply… bye bye kellie. for me, it’s either kellie or paris who’s goin bye bye
• elliot. my man! you go dawg! hahaha great great great performance, this might catch on as your signature idol song. congratulations. chris also did good, i just think by the age of 40+ he won’t have any voice left at all. better take care of your throat, chris.
• i saw a movie about a teacher ron clark. matthew perry of friends played him and in the movie his teaching put his students to the top of the district. i only saw a little of the last few minutes of the movie. i want to see the entire movie. he wrote a book, “the essential 55.”
• oh btw, i just want to share that i'm recently enjoying watching "the o.c." my only trouble is that two cable channels are showing it simultaneously with different seasons. and since i've only just begun to watch it, i'm frantically switching channels trying to get everything hahahaha! it's a very good mixture of comedy and dramatic moments for me.

Happy Birthday Barbra

movie marathon

yesterday, i watched 7 movies! hehehe! now i have to apologize again to the movie emperor ^_^ i have to talk about these movies :

• origins of the da vinci code – well, it was a documentary. the truth of the matter is, i am not crazily amazed by what this documentary presents. pentacles in the landscape, aligned churches, and mountains, etc. with the abundance of mountains, i can fit any pattern i wanted to see. i can understand hidden codes in text and patterns in paintings because it’s man-made but i do not see god’s purpose for aligning some mountains in france and letting it be discovered by some people in my lifetime. not that i am saying that i understand god’s motives. i do not. but what i do understand is that if god had a message, he made it known. i believe in the bible. when he wanted something known he sent a messenger, he appeared himself if he had to. to me, this was entertaining but the content is crap.
• the family stone – i really felt for sarah jessica parker’s character. i felt crushed whenever something bad happened to her. everything that happened to her can really happen in one way or another in someone else’s life. embarrassing situations… been there. you have to watch this to understand J i’m glad the end was light though. i’m a sucker for good endings ^_^
• nanny mcphee - like the line “when you need me but don’t want me, i will stay. when you want me but don’t need me, i have to go..” great movie! the children are devils in the beginning. i don’t care if they are sad or frustrated by the death of their mother or if their father ignores them, but they don’t have to be so evil. well, they got what they deserved. emma thompson was great here!little manhattan – a cutsey movie. i really liked it. the musings of young love set on manhattan island and central park. lovely. hehehe it reminded me of… those were the days my friend… la la la nyahahaha
• bewitched – what can i say… i understood why this moviel... hmmm… how should i put it? …. flopped hahahaha! lucky will ferrel, got to kiss nicole kidman several times. i watched the trailer after the movie… and watching the minutes long trailer was better than watching the whole movie. the only redeeming factor was the great shirley mclaine ^_^
• flightplan – jodie foster’s character was crazy! hahaha! i’d understand why the captain ignored her, she did not approach the situation eloquently if i may use the term. she just went crazy all over the place, i understood the situation, whoever lost their children are really bound to go crazy, but it didn’t help at all. overall it was… fine.
• brokeback mountain – cinematography was great. actors were great. the sheep were great, even though most of them weren’t real. i understood the story as a whole, but i cannot understand heath ledger’s talking though. i’m not sure if he was mumbling or talking at any time, well except when he was shouting. jake gyllenhaal’s character was the one who needed more attention from men here, and as i understood it, he was killed by guys who maybe discovered he was gay. overall, it was a fine movie but i think ang lee extended it too much than it needed to be. it was just too damn long and it made it a drag to watch the last few scenes. now, i really want to see crash, a lot of people tell me , this is a really good movie. i have to see for myself so i can compare it to brokeback and assess whether the ranting of the author after they lost the oscar has basis.

My Week's Top Five - XVI

• inipit – marge’s dad introduced me to inipit / it’ll surely hike your blood glucose levels to oil prices high / i like the custard one that i tasted
• chocolate chip cookies – my mom bought a horde of chocochip cookies / and i think i devoured more than a dozen!
• assessment in special and inclusive education – im really starting to learn what the correct ways of assessing students are / and that testing is not assessment but only a part of it from this book / im realizing that test construction in medicine is a big piece of shit! / i hope that when time comes / our generation will be better equipped to pass on medicine to doctors of the future
• spanish – im liking every minute of it / i recently got a Spanish dictionary for my pocket pc so i can search faster / so my vocabulary is increasing a bit / i hope i can tackle with it even when classes start
• Comfort and joy – an unknown movie i chanced upon on HBO / it was just a nice heart warming movie / this businesswoman crashed her car on christmas eve and awakened to a new life / a wonderful new life with a man she never met and she had two wonderful children! / she was doing charity work and living a simple life / then she woke up in the crash and there was the man in her dream / saving her / her first line… “I’ve always loved you… always” nice! HAHAHA

I Love You Kathy McPhee!!!

MARRY ME KATHY McPHEE !!!

• I just finished watching tonight's episode. Kathy sang Someone to Watch Over Me. Sob... Sob... I'm sorry kathy I can't vote for you from here. Why!??? Why!???? MARRY ME!!!! WHAA!!! I can possibly jump on a couch!... Ten times if you wish for it.
• on a side note, why do you have to ruin elliott's performance simon!? he did a great job. i thought his performance was superlative and i don't understand simon's comment. i hope it's not bye bye time yet for my other idol.
• in my opinion, it's either kellie or ace's who should be goin' bye bye

spring break

it may be spring break for u.s. students but my classmates have just started the dreaded and tortuous clerkship. i'm waiting for their blog entries that will chronicle their suffering or (sige na nga) nice experiences ^_^ i've already read supersexy ivy's blog, and her assignment to the psychiatry ward became a mill for her famous quotable quotes hehehe. i recommend you go click on her blog and read a few.

this blogging thing's really great for these kind of things. now, more people get to vent their frustrations, share their experiences to people who value them and friends get updated of the latest tsismis on their friends or their crushes or whoever. hehehe

mmm, i think i haven't wrote about my latest thoughts on AI. well, i could've appreciated more if ace was removed instead of bucky, poor bucky, but it was not bound to last. elliot is strike two on the bottom three, i hope it does not continue this way. he is my favorite male contender and i hope he makes it into top three, or two. but of course i'm McPHEE all the way!!!

Descripción

one of our last assignments in level 2 spanish is to write a paragraph describing a person. what i'm saying here is pretty basic, i just thought i'd share what i did ^_^

Mi favorita actriz y cantante es Barbra Streisand. Es Americana-Judia de Nueva York pero ahora vive en Malibu, California. Tiene sesenta y tres años. Es un poco bajita, rubia, tiene el pelo liso y los ojos azules. Tiene la nariz grande, cuello largo, y las labios finos. Es muy inteligente y buena en negocios, acciones y valores. Tiene muchos sentido del humor también. A ella le gusta adornar su casa. Ella tiene muchas películas: comedias y musicales. Tiene sesenta mas o menos elepés tambien! Ahora, ella es la segunda de los diez primeros cantantes de Estados Unidos con más discos vendidos, y la segunda de la lista, después de Elvis Presley .

Ella tiene una voz muy bonita. Su voz es alta, muy alta y relajada. Algunas de mis favoritas canciones de Barbra son: Evergreen, Ordinary Miracles, With One More Look at You y On Holy Ground. Mi sueño es ver a ella en un concierto.

Holy Week 2006

• i went to marge's yesterday for our annual participation in accompanying their image in the good friday procession. it seems my two girls are very happy. well... we lost lots of story-updating time, but anyway, they wanted to share the moment with their boys.
• i was reading my classmates' (who are going into clerkship tomorrow) messages in our yahoo groups. and i honestly had trouble sleeping and had an upset stomach from just reading what they are about to do. i was like in the garden of gethsemane having agony with jesus OMG! i hope i'll have the strength and courage to face clerkship when my time comes..
• i hope the people coming back from resting will be more work-focused instead of bickering about politics and wanting to continuously create havoc.

swimming in the sky

we took a dip atop aina's condo-pool in vito cruz. thank you to meg and ate ara for slipping us in hahahaha! it's my first experience swimming at a rooftop swimming pool, and now i'm nagging my mom to buy a unit in the soon-to-be-built burgundy tower in forbes hehehe.

the image is my best effort to capture the makati skyline without a tripod ^_^ pretty lame huh...

found this somewhere

nice... i found this sometime ago in a bookstore, didn't know they issued a la naval stamp.

The New Trashy Streisand Bio

this is a fan's account of barbra's participation in al gore's 2000 fundraising vs. the new trashy unofficial streisand bio, 'the way she is.' the book is really full of shit,

I got the new Barbra bio today from Amazon.com. Very, very gossipy and there's really nothing "new" that we don't already know about Barbra. But, it has many, many lies in it. Especially the August 17th, 2000 concert for Al Gore - The Democratic Nomination Celebration Concert that Barbra participated in.

I was in Barbra's choir for that concert, I was there, and NONE of the "gossipy" things that are written about her is true!!!!! After reading it, I got so angry. I can't even begin to imagine what Barbra goes through each and every time this happens to her.

He writes........during a 6 hour rehearsal, she demanded that a small table be set up onstage, and that a pot of hot tea be placed on the table. But she hated the beige tablecloth, and the green one that replaced it. After two hours and a half-dozen tablecloths (blue, yellow, white, red and white checks), she finally settled on one in cranberry. NOT TRUE!!!

First off, our rehearsal with Barbra...........the choir and her band..........was not 6 hours, it was about 2 hours. She did not demand that a table be on stage, she asked for one and one was brought out. When haven't we seen a table on stage when Barbra sings?? She did go through several color choices for the table and chose one that she liked. That process didn't take 2 hours. It took, maybe 10 minutes. That's what you do at rehearsals.........you check your mic, you check your props, etc. That's the whole point of rehearsing!

He then writes................after her performance, Barbra ran into her dressing room and began wailing, "I looked TERRIBLE!" she said. "The lighting was awful! Why did the camera keep shooting me in profile! Goddammit! I look like @#%$!" she shot back, oblivious to the fact that the crowd was still roaring it's approval.

NOT TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

First off, Barbra didn't have a dressing room. The Shrine Auditorium where the concert was, has many floors of dressing rooms - including very large ones with sitting areas, green rooms, etc. Barbra didn't have this. She had more of a changing area off-stage left. It was put together with draperies, wood and pipes holding it together. Certainly not something you would think that a person of Barbra's stature would have. She had an entire building of dressing rooms to choose from. She was happy with what was made for her.

When the concert was completely over and the curtain came down, Barbra stayed on stage and milled around with the political guests that were there..........Al and Tipper Gore, Joseph Lieberman and his wife and others. They were all talking and laughing and in a very, very good mood!

During the entire day at The Shrine, Barbra couldn't have been more professional! Originally after we, the choir were finished singing - an upstage black curtain was to have come down and we would have been done. Then she was going to bring Gore and Lieberman on stage. She said, "Don't have the choir go away. Have them on stage." Then she turned to us and said, "You don't want to leave, do you?" To which we all said, "NO!"

Barbra changed it to have us remain, and, we sang the chorus of "Happy Days" during her curtain calls. Gore and Lieberman would then be brought up on stage. We then would sing the chorus of "Simply The Best" - Gore's theme song! We rehearsed it a few times and it was great, just great!!!!

During the rehearsals, Barbra constantly said how great we all sounded and what a treat it was for her to be "backed up." In other words, all the weight of the evening wasn't on her shoulders. She commented that it was nice to perform in a much smaller venue.....comparing to The MGM Grand or Madison Square Garden.

When the concert started, we, the choir assembled behind the black curtain. I was lucky enough to be stage left and I could see Barbra in the wings, pacing before she went on. She was nervous. But, she was acting like any other person who's about to go out on stage. She was talking and laughing with the stage crew, checking her hair and makeup.....right there......not in a dressing room, not with a hundred assistants hovering over her.......just Barbra........a performer........about to perform!

During the show, when Barbra brought Gore on stage, he acknowledged how great the choir sang. Barbra acknowledged it again, as well. When the concert was over and the curtain came down, Barbra was all smiles, turned upstage, we made eye contact, I blew her a kiss and she thanked me!! A moment I will NEVER, NEVER forget!!!!

There's been so much that has been written about Barbra that is so not true. And, just because it's written, doesn't mean that it's true. That is the power of the written word.

I just wanted to share with you and your many Barbra fans who read this site, what really happened on that historic Thursday night of August 17th, 2000.

Thanks...

Neal

this was posted on craig's the barbra streisand forum. thank you so much neal for standing up for ms. streisand. celebrity life must really be a big shit, especially when so many bad things are being said about you. it just becomes so easy to be mean, the way they want you to be, so they'll prove they're right.

lz

Idol Update

hehehe, my feelings are coming true. altough, melissa got booted before lisa, they were on the bottom of my AI girl list. bye bye lisa, i admire she was very composed when she got eliminated. as for the other two on the bottom three, i CANNOT CANNOT believe my baby katherine would be put there, ace, nevermind he really should be kicked, pulling a showing little skin stunt wouldn't help you boy! i though katherine had the strongest performance of that evening and i wonder whether people laxed in their voting thinking she doesn't need help. vote people! vote!

My Week's Top Five - XV

did i skipped a week? oh yeah... ^_^ and when i'm supposed to have my final exam on tues, now i'm posting. hahaha!

i must've tortured you with my looong post on american idol didn't i? i hope you can hear the songs i'm referring to, they are just wonderful. it was sad to see melissa (AI) go, but someone had to. i just hope kellie won't get eliminated before chicken little gets eliminated. this reminds me, i don't know if sandy reads this blog, but i've talked to her and she watches american idol too.

i've moved on to module 2 level 1 in my spanish class, i'm really enjoying it. my teacher's a blast! love lola! lola's short for dolores in spain, as she shares with us... which brings us to the dolores on my favorite list... (hahaha segue)

1. sister act - dolores is whoopi goldberg's character's name. i love it when the sisters sing ^_^ i downloaded the songs from the soundtrack and keep on repeating them. salve regina, my guy (my god), and i will follow him.
2. century tuna spanish style - i talked about this with verle hahaha i love love love it, i eat it whenever i'm alone eating, which is a lot!
3. kalabasa with gata - mmm mmm mmm
4. dra. minerva calimag - if someone asked me who's my favorite pharma doctor-professor, you know the answer. (sip-sip)
5. my no bullshit reviewer - i seem to have tapped into the minds of my teachers, what i usually write down as the most probable questions do appear on the exam, well that's being a veteran brings about hahahaha!

lz

Barbra Week on AI - - a fantasy

here's babs during the agassi fundraising event last year around christmas. this is a 63 year old woman! vavavoom ^_^ (oh, btw, he and andre agassi were once... hehehe).

anyway, i always fantasize there would be a barbra week on american idol. i doubt she'll ever do it. well but i think if she does, she'll be a really good teacher to them, and her experience as a director will also help them on their stage performance. of course they should start practicing up hahahaha! if i were to select a song for the top 12, it would be the following :

• elliot - my favorite guy so far. he has great control, and as i observe, he hasn't even given 100% of his full vocal potential. my song selection for him, The Music that Makes Me Dance. this song is from Funny Girl originally, but bab's only recorded it for his A Love Like Ours album. i think the lyrics can easily be changed to a male version. i think this will really showcase elliot's talents. go soar elliot!
• chris - great performer. i like the quality of his voice. he's second guy on my list and i choose The Woman in the Moon. the lyrics can easily be modified so it will work. this is one of bab's rock songs from A Star is Born. this will really bring the house down! woohoo!
• taylor - his third on my list. he has a great great voice but i don't like his imitating the genius ray charles. i think he can't avoid doing it anymore because he's been used to doing it hehehe. if he wins, he can't act like that! i choose Sweet Inspiration/Where You Lead. this is a bluesy type of song and it will rock with his interpretation.
• ace - this guy can sing, but i think he was selected because he could be a model hehehe. if he looked like shit he wouldn't be considered im sure. now... now... i'm turning into simon hehehe my song for him. well... i'm not sure why i'm giving him one of my most favorite barbra songs but i think it is the best suited for his voice and vocal technique... Evergreen. composed by barbra herself. i'm sure he won't kill it but i do hope he brings justice to it. hell... i'll sing it let's see who's better hahaha!
• bucky - with a country southern voice. hmm... nice attitude. i hope he doesn't get eliminated before kevin does hahahaha! for you the new Stranger in a Strange Land with modified lyrics will be a great showcase for his voice.
• kevin - kevin... kevin... acceptable voice. i'm sure he's a nice kid, but i don't like the attitude. riding on the teasing for a while is good but don't push it kid. calling yourself a sex-symbol when you look like chicken little will do you no good hehehe! it's bye bye time soon for you! but i give you a great song: Somewhere. i think he can pull this off with the right arrangement. it will be great... a difficult song that will make him... or break him
• katherine - my favorite girl. looks and talent smashed all together. beautiful... just beautiful... and! she sang a barbra song two weeks in a row! her mom's influence i presume. for her the beautiful Ordinary Miracles. i don't have any doubt she'd be able to do it.
• mandissa - great great great talent. if this girl can start loosing weight, for her own sake please... i'm sure she'll be a great star. i hope she follow patti austin's example. for her is one of my favorite songs With One More Look at You from A Star is Born. this song is bursting with emotion, it'll showcase her soaring voice.
• paris - great performer, wonderful voice. i always look forward to hearing how she'll sing the song, no hesitations whatsoever when performing. for her Lover Come Back to Me will be p-e-r-f-e-c-t.
• kellie - this is a real nice girl hehehe quite naive, but she can sing. i hope she stays long enough so someone will get her to make an album on her own, but i really don't think she's the next american idol... well that depends on america. for her, i pick Stoney End. a great song to perform and won't be too hard hahaha!
• melissa - i think she still hasn't realized she's on american idol. hmm... you have to snap out of it! i think she just needs to be taught more because her voice has potential but is not yet baked enough in the oven. but i give her one of bab's signature song Happy Days are Here Again.
• lisa - nice voice but what i don't like is her attitude. i don't know why... she seems like a nice girl but i feel she's a little plastic. i hope i'm wrong though... don't know why but i just don't like her reactions on comments by the judges whether it be good or bad. it's just like, get it over with i really don't care what you say to me... anyway... for her another signature song: The Way We Were. this is a song for her type of voice and vocal technique

just to end i'd just like to say a few things about the judges... paula, OMG, paula is like on drugs or drunk everytime, her comments are dreamy... her eyes are dreamy... well... i hope she just doesn't throw her clothes off during the live show. randy, well you go dawg! hahaha! i like him. but of course the one i like best among the judges is simon. he's non-patronizing, non-apologetic, and very direct. and although sometimes he crosses the line to being really rude, reality checks for the contestants are always good.

Fearless

there are a few movies that i would watch in the bigscreen. and it would be a more rare occassion that i would want to watch alone. but i'm a sucker for for kung-fu movies hahahaha! i just can't pass them up, so i'll play movie emperor this week.

great movie, and although the true-story is said to be not very accurate, i really don't care. there are fight scenes from the beginning to the end. the fighting was beautiful. all sorts of weapons will be seen, and i also liked that his last oponent was really honorable. this and also jet li's 'hero' are on my dvd wish-list.

lz

My Week's Top Five - XIV

i'm a contented man. this week, i finished my first level of spanish and i passed my pharmacology exam. i'm disappointed i've been lax on my review for my certification, but anyway, i'll just have to make-up then. i've talked with tina, heard few more things about the ins and outs of her life. and... i really am very calm (except for a throbing headache yesterday) and i don't know... just contented with everything (i hope i just don't die suddenly hahaha). hmm... this reminds me i should post how i want my wake (or how i don't want my wake to look). nice idea... anyway... on to my favorites for this week:

1. monay from i don't know where - i think this is my second post about this monay hehehe maybe it has metampethamine hahahaha! nice...
2. robbie williams concert at knebworth - what kind of singer wouldn't cry at this kind of response from the people. really... you couldn't see how many people turned out, it was great, i wish i could've been there
3. i don't break easily - a calm song from babs really nice...
4. A2 - i miss eating out with you guys, where are we going this summer!?
5. myth busters - more and more, this is show is getting really interesting...

what'll really be great?? - - if someone posted a comment hmmp...

windows vista

microsoft will be releasing the new windows operating system called vista. i hear there are a lot of new improvements. but of course the first months or year will be bugged up to heaven so like what i did with xp, i'll wait it out first until the system has been tested by the public.

read why windows vista won't suck...

just one lifetime

for tina, who's a smothering paste of love right now, sticky.... hahaha

at laast my heart is ready.

This time I can believe

That love has truly found me.

How sweetly love surrounds me.

You're like a glimpse of heaven,

A blessing I've received.

I'll give you my tomorrows.

But even now I can see...

Just one lifetime

Won't be enough time for us.

We need more

For all this love.

Just one lifetime

Can't be enough time for us.

We need more

For all this love.

What you have given to me

Is better but a dream.

There's no need for pretending

You're my happy ending.

So I will hold you closer

With all the love in me

And wish we had forever

For even now I can see...

Just one lifetime

Won't be enough time for us.

We need more

For all this love.

Just one lifetime

Can never be enough time.

We need more

For all this love.

I prayed my heart would lead me

To find a love somewhere.

It's taken me a lifetime

To find you waiting for me there.

Just one lifetime

Won't be enough time for us.

We need more

For all this love.

Just one lifetime

And all that's waiting for us

We want more

For all...For all this love.

- - just one lifetime by barbra streisand

appears on 'a love like ours'

written by: melissa manchester & tom snow

the country in turmoil

what can i say... i feel sick... literally... and this trouble broiling in this i don't know what kind of country is giving me all kinds of aches all over. sigh...

i must admit, i don't know a lot about politics. i don't watch local tv for allot'a reasons. the lost compelling is the headache it get listening to all the bad stuff that's happening. what i do know is that an armed conflict is never right whatever the reasons may be. it always will be a last choice for me if not entirely unavoidable. what's really getting on my nerves though, is people who are pretending to shun the idea of conflict but otherwise suddenly appear out of nowhere and douse the fire with fuel... hypocrites...

now, i don't claim sanctity but hey, neither do i deprive people of land do i? who among these politicians do you think should replace the president should she resign? who amongst those who say she should step down should have her place? she can always call a snap election and not run on it... but think about it, would that solve the crises of the country? who can? when all the while, every few months or so, with whoever is in malacañan, certain people will always feel abandoned, certain people will always claim the government abuse them, and clearly certain people will continue to use other people... people who need people, may not be the luckiest of people here. pfft...

i don't see the present president as a perfect president, and don't tell me i am a blind follower of a worthless leader. from my point of view, what is happening now is a result of our collective fault. people who lax their vigilance during the election process, and then say the process was manipulated by politicians to their advantage. people who bribe and those who accept bribes. people who forget how our forbearers sacrificed everything to give us the freedom that we apparently don't deserve. we forget... we were known for our unbreakable principles and integrity.

almost a three quarters of a century after we asked the americans to give us our freedom, we should reflect how far have we progressed from then... have we? or have we succumbed to the natural course of increasing disorder through time?

god be with us all

My Week's Top Five - XIII

i want to make this week's top five all about the songs or music i like :

1. big band! - wohoo! tan-tan-tananan new york, new york! love big band! like the closing theme of monsters inc. sung by billy crystal and randy newman hehehe just great
2. soaring ballads - siempre siempre my babsie. evergreen is a great example.
3. gospel - who can resist aretha's 'amazing grace?' really amazing. or barbra's 'on holy ground?' just hypnotizing...
4. r&b - i really like mj blige. i like her raw voice, especially when she's getting it on hehehe... i also like alicia keys' voice and her little more bluesy side of rhythm&blues
5. rock - robbie williams type rock that is. but i like green day too! and gavin de graw's chariot, i have to admit i like rock a lot hehehe

it seems i'm really eclectic.

Streisand Songs on American Idol

Barbra Streisand songs that have been covered on American Idol :

(in no particular order)

1. people - vonzell solomon, AI4
2. no more tears - diana de garmo, AI3
3. somewhere - mikalah gordon, AI4; la toya london, AI3
4. don't rain on my parade - la toya london, AI3
5. since i fell for you - katharine mcphee, AI5

there are other songs thave were sung by babs but were not her original so i didn't include it in my list

chris

random image

product of being idle for a long time... hahahaha! star is learning how to be a star ^_^

My Week's Top Five - XII

i am hearing waltz music from affar... someone's turning 18 and is probably already thinking when she'll get to have sex... pfft... or has probably done it already... anywho...

1. boiled peanuts - mm mmm mmm i think i ate a bucket
2. hopia mongo - oooohhh im getting fatter.... fatter.... and fatter...
3. marge - marge did all the talking while i typed in reply hahaha i enjoyed being mute, as i am always the one doing the talking. you can do it marge! and i feel you won't get called on your conference... i hope... god bless you and tinababe
4. green day - i like their songs
5. volunteers of the philippine red cross - i applaud them, they are again sacrificing their time, energy and effort in trying to save lives in leyte... sigh... what is going on with the earth!? so much snow in new york... la niña here... snow in san francisco... is 'the day after tomorrow' approaching?

A Valentines Post

i am a happy valentine's popsy ^_^ thank you marge, i really appreciate your wish of happiness. i am happy that this valentine's both my loves have their own lovey-doves to snuggle with hahaha enjoy yourselves, just don't do nothin' nasty, BWAHAHAHAHA! joke!

i am a very contented person as far as this moment is concerned. yes, i've told marge that of course from time to time i wonder or perhaps "fantasize" (urrgh yuck im going to puke hahahaha) how it would feel to be in a "dream-relationship." but i daresay i do not desire it at all (for the moment) hahahaha! im enjoying my freedom so much i think i will need my head to get pounded by a mallet first before i remove the force-field hehehe.

to all the lovers out there who read this blog... HEY WHY ARE YOU HERE!? shouldn't you be doing something else!? ^_^ yeehee hahaha! if it's feb 14 and if you're reading this... YOU SUCK! loko lang hahahaha... my parting message is very profound...

...GO FORTH... AND... MULTIPLY God's blessings... be a miracle (oh ha!) happy valentine's everybody

san miguel philharmonic

marge told me the san miguel philharmonic orchestra will have a free concert tonight at the shang so we attended. we sat on the floor but enjoyed the evening, they played songs from their cd including my favorite 'ikaw lang ang mamahalin' by maestro levi cilerio, pop songs by eraserheads (hehehe they were really nice) a michel legrand medley and a broadway medley -- they played a lot more including 3 encores but i can't remember the repertoire.

what really surprised me is how many people came to watch. i didn't know a lot would be interested in orchestra music. im happy about the turnout ^_^

lz

firebolt

we have a magical broom. unfortunately, you wouldn't want to touch it... what's so magical about it!? ... apparently we have a broom that can ground you hahahaha and it seems our whole kitchen is grounded!

earlier, i was about to get a laddle but when i touched it, i was shocked! my mom told me then that there must be a grounded outlet somewhere and when she tries to touch utensils and stuff she gets grounded often (a disadvantate of a lot of stainless kitchen countertops) anyway, even our kitchen broom is grounded! hahaha this is pretty funny

grammys and my performance

i watched the grammys last thursday night and some of the things i distinctly remember hahahaha :

• when u2 won for (i forgot) maybe record of the year), when the group stood up, 'we belong together' by mariah was played, hahaha bono looked suddenly straight faced, hahaha but i guess it was just the technician's nervousness (or maybe he was a mariah fan? hahahaha)
• kelly clarkson... kelly clarkson could have won a guiness world record for talking soooo fast on her second win to squeeze in everything she wanted to say... hahahaha but you go girl... very good idea... an award's ceremony will be a fast-talk contest from now on
• christina aguillera's performance -- mediocre... she coudn't reach what she should have been reaching... i was really disappointed... but i guess american audiences are easy to please they gave her and herbie a standing ovation
• mariah's performance -- she got a standing ovation, nice... acceptable... but you could just see she's not what she used to be, i must say it took all her powers to go through the two songs hehehe, she was really straining and i was already getting ready to hear her flop, but i thank God she did not, i really like her i hope she can recover her powers from the past

anyway, i also performed, well i didn't sing.. but i conducted a seminar and unfortunately i had to share the stage with another student, but anyway, i think i may have unintentionally tricked her into: me doing the better part and her doing the part where many questions will be asked... AGAIN unintentional (hehehehe) i guess me and mama mary are really best friends HAHAHAHA - - it was in general a very straightforward presentation, i hope i got a good grade

zagato-- out!

My Week's Top 5 - XI

why won't anyone post comments?? huhuhu doesn't anything of my favorites remind you of your favorites? hehehe anyway, as long as you come to read, i thank you from the bottom of my limbic system. ^_^ thank you guys, even if you are all mute (hehehe)

1. the ultimate - from coffee bean & tea leaf. mm-mm-mm. i'll waste good money if the coffee or cold-coffee is this good!
2. san miguel philharmonic orchestra - i remember i just fell in love with orchestral music when i heard this orchestra play. even the 'spaghetti song' sounded good when they played it. tonight, we're going out to listen to ?? mmm manila philharmonic i think
3. perry ellis - exquisite smell hehehe love it, thanks dad
4. green day - i enjoy this one hehehe, very unlike me but hey! im sor'ta eclectic when it comes to music, i own from bach to streisand to robbie williams to enya to whatever hehehe
5. Never has seen snow - from BS and other musical instruments. it's just impossible this is live hahaha but it is! and i don't think this performance will ever be repeated... ever... even streisand herself in her age now...

I am the Starlight

i "rediscovered" this song from Starlight Express, a broadway musical, it is lovely and the song's message is good. Ton gave me this compilation of broadway encores, and i have just listened to it again yesterday and loved a number of songs on it...

RUSTY

Starlight Express, Starlight Express...

STARLIGHT

Only you have the power within you.

Just believe in yourself -

The sea will part before you,

Stop the rain, turn the tide.

If only you use the power within you

Needn't beg the world

To turn around and help you

If you draw on what you have within you

Somewhere deep inside.

RUSTY

Starlight Express, Starlight Express

Are you real, yes or no?

Starlight Express, answer me yes.

I don't want you to go.

STARLIGHT

Rusty you're blind,

look in your mind - I'm there.

Nothing's new

The Starlight Express is no more nor less

Than you Rusty. I am you. I'm you and

STARLIGHT / RUSTY

Only you/I am the Starlight.

Have the power within you/I can achieve

Just believe in yourself/anything

The sea will part before you

Stop the rain and turn the tide/ All the things I didn't believe.

If only you/I am the Starlight.

Have the power within you/I can achieve

Just believe in yourself/anything

The sea will part before you

Stop the rain and turn the tide/ All the things I didn't believe.

If only you/I am the Starlight,

Use the power within you/I can see it throught.

Needn't beg the world to turn around and help you

If you draw on what is deep inside.

RUSTY

I won't let you down.

my back is aching

i've been in front of the computer for almost an entire week. i've been doing a presentation on geriatric pharmacology and as i'm taking advantage of my numerous free time, i have spread the work doing a lot of game breaks, internet breaks, snack brakes, nap breaks, name it, i did it (wink) hahahaha just joking ^_^

anyway, i've been progressing steadily. i've never been this proud of myself, i didn't feel fed-up with any of the work. i guess this is just the way i work... i just can't go on continuously for extended periods of time. sigh... it's unfornate the world doesn't work the way i do...

i'm already on the making cue cards and making visual-aids part, and i still got three more days to do it, i see that i'll finish just in time and have lot's of time to rest in between hehehe ^_^

the downside of this is however, i have laxed my review for my "other thing" to focus on this... well... really don't care for the moment

My Week's Top Five - X

i went back and counted my week's top five posts. i'm on number 10 now ^_^ and i'm not stopping! you're gonna hear from me! ... as always, in no particular order...

1. ref cake filled with banana - isn't it obvious!? i think the first thing that comes to my mind writing this is FOOD! hahaha
2. "...art does not exist only to entertain - but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for the truth." - Barbra Streisand from her speech in Harvard University JFK School of Government, "The Artist as Citizen" (photograph above)
3. ate ruth! ate ruth - go! go! go! CONGRATULATIONS!!! wow! have you started making a list of things to bring? hehehe save me a bed in your house hahahaha
4. sony ericsson z520i - just love it! thank's mom! wooho! imagine, quad band, BT, IR, camera for a cheap price, gotta love it
5. the parent trap - it was on star world (i think) the other night and i've watched it i think for the nth time, but i never get tired of it, just a nicey-nicey movie

lz

im getting angry...

i just felt the need to say something in the middle of the week (as if i don't have a lot to say all the time) hehehe my mom told me about another mining-environment disaster, i'm just so sad about things like this happening here. i always believe we have one of the most blessed countries environmentally. and what would it take to make our people appreciate that!? if i could only urge God to smite those government officials who don't give a damn.

what am i doing about it you ask? well, here, im speaking about it. i don't have the power to influence changes, yet. but i vow that one day, i will what i can about these things.

my heart is with the people who are affected, the whales and sealife that are being poisoned, and the unborn children who will surely be affected. I WANT THE OWNERS OF THESE COMPANIES TO BE BATHED WITH and FORCE-FED THEIR OWN MINE TAILINGS!!!!! GRRR...

hahahaha on to lighter things....

scary movie 4 spoofs fockers hehehe

lz