Hey tamadita. Paumanhin na lang at naputol ang blog-in-real-time from last week. Not everyone has internet access, ya know.

As for me, I hate being bed bound. I think I over extended myself last week, believing I could fly to Batangas and back to UP and not get sick. Oh well. I spent the weekend at home, recovering, but still getting worse for some reason. I missed all the weekend parties, that huge relaunch by Studio 23 and the White Party in Malate. I think I'm getting old.

Para kunyari may relevance naman ang weekend ko kahit paano, I finished Chuck Palahniuk's "Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon." Supposedly, this is as close to nonfiction as he can get. I still want Lullaby. *hint hint*

hey, babaeng kanto! ;-P hayaan mo na akong mag-ilusyon na may reputation pa ako to protect. ikaw naman, parang di ka friend. yikes! chaka!

Counter chika

Aba hindi ako syempre magpapatalo dito. Meron din akong counter chika ke Tamaditz. (Ang haba kasi ng pangalan ng lola mo!) Alam ba ninyong gabi-gabi na lang ay ginagabi siya ng uwi dahil may bago siyang kinalolokohan at ang kanyang challenge ay kinalolokohan rin ng bading ang beauty ng kanyang matipunong lalaki. At hindi lang yun, may hot mama din si matipuno at malanding lalaki. Kaya talagang naloloka na si tamaditz. hindi na nga siya nakakapagstarbucks. haay napapagod ako dito sa counter chika challenge namin ni tamaditz.

and the plot gets thicker!

may pumoporma kay a t sa office! grabe talaga ang kamandag niya! sinabihan ba naman siya na, "uy, sumeseksi ka yata ngayon ah." tapos tinanong siya kung sila pa daw ng nyowa niya. at ang hirit ni lola a t, "kayo pa ba ng asawa mo?" good one, a t! mwahahahahahaha!

kala ko ok na, kaya lang after a couple of minutes, nagkatitigan sila ng sobrang lagkit! talo ang mighty bond!

Reputation? What reputation?

Reputation? What reputation?

Hey tamadita, parang kilala ko siya. Phish tayo ha? Hehehe. And speaking of reputations, you what the higher ups said in that faculty orientation thingy? Bawal daw ang PDA. As in. Dahil daw may "reputasyon" na pinangangalagaan at kaakibat na dapat protektahan ang isang dakilang guro ng ating pinakamamahal na unibersidad. Wtf di ba? Pero still, pag may nakakasalubong akong estudyante sa kalsada, sa gimikan, sa mga gilid gilid ng Malate at Sarah's and I'm in a less than reputable mode, bigla akong nagso-sober up. So I guess that is the end of days of being wild. As if naman noh.

At ang masasabi ko lang, converts are always fervent in their faith. Keep on blogging, yo. :)

to the diva, a million thanks!

hey! bakit hindi pa rin nag-appear ang name ko nung nag-post ako kanina? invisible mode ba? ;-P

fine, i admit. all by my lonesome lang ako for a little while kasi i also saw a guy from my past. and no, he doesn't sell shirts. sheesh. wherever did you get it from, diva? if you must know, i used to bully this guy around when we were kids. so there.

i don't want to say anything more about that night kasi mahirap na. i have a reputation to protect. ehehehe.

The Wifey

Ya, is one of your pretty but useless things the banig we got you for your wedding but I forgot to put a card to say that it came from us? La lang, if it is then it's nice that the Wifey seemed to have liked it and found some purpose for it.

The Diva's Wife

If you ask me, "Arwen: The Diva's Wife" would have sufficed, but then again you don't know what people could do with Google and a slew of downtime. Plus it's really a small, small world, so sige na nga, until we find a better substitute, "The Wife" would do.

Masasabi ko lang sa extrapolated narrative mo kay Tamadita, wehehehe!

Aba! Sandali lang ako nawala, maraming mahiwagang kaganapan na agad ang tumambad sa aking pagbabalik. Ako rin kakauwi lang galing Batangas, wearing yesterday's clothes, but nothing exciting about that kasi galing ako sa wake and funeral and all I got was a runny nose. Samantalang sina *toot* at *toot* parang roller coaster. At tama bang dito sa blog ikalat ang balita na puwedeng mabasa ng madla at mapagtsismisan? Well, sabagay, talk show mode nga pala tayo. Hehehe. Back to you *toot* at *toot!*

Sagot ko naman kay The Diva: Nanaisin ko nga sana na hindi for display purposes lang yung tea tray at cups nyo. Pero marami naman talagang gamit sa bahay ang pangdisplay lang at hindi talaga nagagamit. Parang naiimagine ko yung cocoon na lamp nyo. Hindi ba yan yung puti at dark wood/metal na nakasabit sa mga Yoshinoya branches? O baka naman kamukha lang. Yung #2, hindi ba dreamcatcher yung nakasabit sa pinto nyo o baka nga wind chimes lang? Tungkol naman sa banig, hindi ba iyon yung mahiwagang magic banig ni Astrid?

Puro katanungan ang naibato ko sa iyo, so kailangan ng sagot. At talagang she would rather die kesa may giant kutsara? Okay, so I guess we won't be surprising you by showing up on your doorstep with giant kubyertos. We don't want your happiness to be short lived. Saka nga pala, you seem to be fond of saying "my wife, my wife." Siyempre hindi ko naman masasabi yan for myself di ba. Ha, basta someday. *charing*

Ps. Nood kayo ng Sabel. Feeling ko nagmeeting silang lahat at nagdeclare si Mother Lily na kailangang maging "mature actress" na si Juday kaya itinodo na nila ang pelikula: Madreng nagahasa na dati palang slut machine na may problema sa pamilya at ms understood kaya biglang naglaho tapos nung nagsurface nakakulong dahil nakapatay na may jowa na siyang babae na isang napaka-butch na Sunshine Dizon. Something tells me na ito ang kanyang may-i-grandslam-sa-pagka-best-actress campaign. Basta, astig ang lola Juday, nakakaloka.

it's not exactly the same outfit...

hey, i only wore the same pair of jeans and shoes, not the entire outfit. bahala na kayong mag-isip kung saan ko kinuha yung pinampalit ko. ;-P

All by lonesome my ass

Anong all by my lonesome ang drama ni Tamadita? Aba, mas maaga pa akong pumasok sa office the next day. At si Tamadita dear, ngarag ngarag na dumating ng mga a bit after 10ish. Ang kwento niya lang ay habang binabaybay niya ang Katipunan "all by her lonesome," nakatagpo siya ng guy from her past din at aba! hindi na umuwi ang lola. Suot pa nga niya ang same outfit niya kahapon. O, talk about spontaneous!

intriga!

may ka-date si a t kagabi...and it wasn't pepper!

ganito kasi nangyari. naglalakad kami papuntang vinzons hall around 7pm or so when her phone suddenly rings and all i could hear from her was, "sarah brightman? sige, ok."

being the curious girl that i am, tanong agad ako kung sino yun. aba! ayaw sabihin ng lola! she only gave me two hints: 1.guy ang tumawag and 2.he's part of her past. exciting di ba?

niyaya pala siya ni guy-from-the-past to watch the sarah brightman concert kagabi. napaka-spontaneous ng lolo ha! siguro, he's the type of guy that would really shower his girl with so many presents. in fairness, hindi cheapipay si guy-from-the-past.

thing is, i thought a t and i were going to hang around starbucks after work. eh, tumawag si mystery date aka guy-from-the-past...ayun! all by my lonesome ang drama ng yours truly kagabi. hmph!

Hail, hail

Hail, hail the block's all here.

I swear kulang na lang nga talaga si Father Nudas at ang kanyang mga Biblical jokes at para na tayong ibinato ulit sa ating golden days of youth.

finally! nandito na rin ako at maraming salamat kay kantogirl sa pag-imbita sa akin. :)

Okay, so talagang talk show mode ba tayo? I-clarify ang mga issues, ganun? Pero sabi nga ni Tita Arlyn, we like calling you the Diva, so you will be the Diva. Kasi Dennis cornered the market na as the Impossible Princess. Si Jol na lang ang wala.

What do you mean by "pretty but useless?" Meron ba kayong giant kutsara at tinidor saka Last Supper? Di ba lahat ng households may ganyan? May nakuha ba kayong gift na ganyan? Wala lang. Sana magkaroon din kayo ng wall hanging na mga asong naglalaro ng pool na nagyoyosi pa at the same time. Pag wala pa kayo nyan, consider it our great honor to supply the Santos-Cruz household with one. :)

Back to you, Diva.

Judy Blume's Lesser Known Philosophical Texts

Are You There, God? It's Me, Zarathustra
Tales of a Fourth-Grade Nonentity
Freckle Juice and Nothingness
It's the End of the World
Then Again, Maybe It Doesn't Matter Whether I Do or Not
Blubber and Trembling
Starring Sally J. Freedman as the "Self"
The Phenomenology of Fudge

For some strange reason, I was so into Judy Blume back in college, mostly around the time when we were all in Emil's Young Adult writing class. I got this list from McSweeney's. So here it is, posted especially for Dennis, who definitely gets pleasure from the text. Wehehe.

Hope you don't mind, but I invited the Diva to join the blog. Diversity is all. Saka para fresh news (or cautionary tale, whatever) for everyone di ba?

Also, I was going to send all of you ChuckP's Guts mp3 the other day when I discovered that Yahoo had this facelift and we can now like send a 10mb email, but attaching the file was just taking too darned long and I had to go to school and it was an eternity plus the eternity I had to spend in order to catch the train, well you get the drift. Instead I'll try to upload the darned thing somewhere so you can all just download it if you wish. Am feeling torn though. I got myself gmail, but now that yahoo's up and running (but still full of spam) I'm having second thoughts.

Oh btw, went to that Living Out Loud chuva at Greenbelt. Mlle Helga Lamermoor read something from a tribe somewhere and you can't miss her because she's wearing this bright fuschia robe and she's flailing her arms and she also read a Joi Barrios poem about Maria Makiling. Basta Gwen and I left during the open mic when some girl started blabbing on about flora and fauna and the water drops became bigger and I decided time's better spent elsewhere. But the highlight of my night was when Ka Pete read a poem about still being awake in the wee hours of the morning and putting his hand on the thigh of his wife and I suddenly got this bad bad image in my head I just have to stop blogging. *no.god.please.no.ugh*

Naka-ym conference namin si The Diva a couple of days ago. Bumalik na pala siya sa Eduquest for lack of better options. Hahaha. Funny yung hindi happy si "Arwen" kasi hindi pretty yung house. Maybe we should have given them the bean bags. OP, nood tayo sa Tuesday sa COnspiracy bilang supporta sa mga co-fellows ko.

DAgdag sa Book list natin na hindi na aabot ng 50 siguro dahil hindi tayo marunong magbilang: Last Order sa Penguin at The Lion in Winter. Parehong dula. Parehong witty yung lines though magkaiba ng level. Like ko yung Last Order kasi parang it speaks na rin for my generation though di pa naman tayo nagci-crisis at being 30. Love ko yung Lion in Winter kasi super hayup sa galing ang mga dialogues! Pinanood ko muna yung movie version ni Katherine Hepburn at Peter O'Toole tapos kebs na yung mga artista ang galing ng lines promise! Basahin ninyo.

Other matters: Dennis! Am done na with the Artista book. Tama nga ang hinala ko, most of Richard Gomez at ang Mito ng Pagkalalake etc relies too much on Richard Dyer's Stars. So those are my 2 books. I don't know anong number na sila.

Hey you guys wanna go check out the Fete de la Musique tomorrow in Eastwood? Saka nagyayaya si Astrid sa Conspiracy sa Tuesday. May kakilala daw tayong magbabasa. Yun lang. Any word from Jol?

Noises from Beyond the Baul

Okay, so first things first: Some noise from the wide blue yonder called the married life from our favorite newlyweds. I had to ask the Diva something about having beautiful air.

Diva: U home by any chance? You can call me @ 4xxxxxx so we can talk about it. Call b4 9pm.
xkg: Why can't I call after? r u stl at work? so how's the newlywed life?
Diva: No, home # namin. :) masaya ang marriage. shes like the college roommate i never had.
xkg: Ay ganun? So para pala kayong nasa dorm--lights out na rin by 9? Hehe
Diva: Yes, in the early days of marriage, like the first 3 wks. But now we have cable. Sigh.
xkg: Bilis naman wear off ng enchantment na yan. 3wks!
Diva: La lang, i gues i settled into it quickly. Not her though.
She's cute when she cries and says "i wanna go home."
xkg: ....
Diva: Well, I just meant she used to get homesick because the house wasnt pretty. But its
pretty now and she's happy.
xkg: ... u mean she's happier the house is pretty but not bec she wakes up in d mrning wid u
by her side? No cohabitation for me then.
Diva: .....

And that's the end of the baul exchange. Wala nang signal, lights out na yata. If you want to hear the Diva's own thoughts about his wedding, click here. Yun lang po.

Nice round of talks and cold strawberry banana fixes. Will get the RT books from LB next, Jess. For now, you focus on the entrepreneur mag while Arlyn thinks up more scenarios for Astrid.

Oh and my two cents worth(less) on pain: it becomes a problem for me when I begin to think it's nice.