You are influential and persuasive. You tend to have a lot of power over people.
Generally, you use your powers for good. You excel at solving other people's problems.
Occasionally, you do get a little selfish and persuade people to do things that are only in your interest.

You are usually the best at everything ... you strive for perfection.
You are ( Read more... )

She stepped down bashfully from her soapbox, dusted it off, and stuffed it in the back of her closet. And then she took her foot out of her mouth and walked away.

Boo effing hoo.

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OPRAH: ...But about your ideal man. Would he be a combination of McDreamy and Dr. Burke?

SHONDA: Yes. The two are a mix of intelligence, patience and vulnerability. They're also men who have their own interests. I've always wanted to have a relationship with someone who has his own thing - and I can't be that thing.

OPRAH: You're the first woman I' ( Read more... )

William Gates III is no longer the world's richest man. *insert v. audible gasp here* He now trails behind Warren Buffet and Carlos Slim Helu.

Two Filipinos made the cut. Lucio Tan and Henry Sy. Meh. No surprise there.

Mark Zuckerberg, founder of social networking site Facebook is the youngest person on the list, at age 23. Shit. We're the same age ( Read more... )

Today, I came home early. Well, earlier than usual at least. I was home by 8:20. I watched Idol, read a couple of chapters from the book I most recently purchased, and now, I am actively trying to sleep. Yes. This is me willing myself to sleep. ;-)

With the entire family here in manila, I feel:

1. A great deal of love.

2. A certain amaount of pressure.

3. And no semblance of privacy.

Seriously. For real.

I am Left-brained.


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The following are life-affirming convos I've been privy to. Not quite verbatim, pero, more or less, this is how they generally went.

JoFra: San ba tayo kakain?

Marieben: Oo nga, saan? Ano bang gusto n'yong kainin?

Mama: O sige nga. Ikaw Marieben, anong gusto mong kainin?

(Insert v. enthusiastic second emotion ni B & JoFra with matching v. high ( Read more... )

The holy libation of sincerity.

The potion that dispels all hypocrisy, all charade of fine manners.

The drink that does nothing worse than to incite it's fans to urinate in all innocence, to gain weight in all frankness.

[Credit: Carla Jill Masalonga: Student Council President Emeritus of the most populated school in the Philippines. (read: Epalets ( Read more... )