"James Jean in Manila"! Or so shouted the posters around the school building a few months ago. My first reaction was "Who's James Jean and why should I care?", but a closer look at the posters showed that the event was being hosted by Fully Booked. If you recall, the Fully Booked people also masterminded the Neil Gaiman event in 2005. So I figured ( Read more... )

I am getting quite annoyed by the random scam text messages I get, sometimes in the middle of the night. At first I thought I'd start a one-man (okay, woman) crusade and post the mobile numbers that sent the scams on my blog, but it turns out that I don't have to. Go to Read more... )

One of my guilty pleasures is checking out the latest casual PC games during weekends. (And I've ended up buying more titles than I can be proud of, but that's another story). A favorite haunt of mine is the GameHouse website, but just yesterday I was surprised, shocked, and flabbergasted to see this new title "Youda Sushi Chef". Why? Because it's ( Read more... )

Stumbled across an article about ASCII art yesterday and decided to try out the FIGlet program for myself.

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- Watch the Gunslinger Girl opening "The Light Before We Land" by The Delgados.
- Be bored at work. Be very, very bored.
- Listen to Vienna Teng's "Waking Hour" album over and over.

...and before you know it, you've revamped your LJ layout, made a new userpic, and even managed to make a desktop wallpaper of "Lullaby For A Stormy Night".

Over the weekend, I played this game by Ferry Halim called High Delivery and it was so beautiful, I wanted to cry.
Just found out today that he is a, er, he, thanks to this interview from the b3ta.com community ( Read more... )

Got this from bebe_sheens and it makes me sound so devious!
Your Birthdate: May 14
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Lately I've been feeling hungry all the time, even at odd hours of the day. And I'm always sleepy ( Read more... )

Was Googling for info about Bonnie Bailey's "Ever After" when I stumbled upon a blog where the comments ran along the lines of "Great, now they're playing house in mainstream", and "Dapat sa Embassy lang pinapatugtog yan!". Basically, these music snobs wanted to keep this wonderful song all to their club-hopping selves ( Read more... )

Was wailing to seagal35 last night over SMS about my work-related malaise. (I used some pretty strong words and I beg her pardon. Di naman sya yung nagdulot ng gulo pero sya yung pinagbubuntungan ko diba?) I hope I can get out of this soon. But I have a feeling that things are going to get worse before they get better ( Read more... )