pardon my french

hoorayee! an update! a gawddarn blog post! stand up! stand up and rejoice everybody! put your hands in the air and lemme hear you say "hooo!" don't you hate it when a performer on stage does that? coercing the audience to a specific chant? i do. i hate it as much as when they aim the microphone towards you and want you to sing the song instead. i'm like, dude, i paid you to sing. so sing goddamit!

so anyways, welcome me back, ladies and gentlemen. what do you think of my brand spankin new header?

allow me to blabber about my new job. i am an entertainment transcriptionist at peoplesupport. if i shouldnt be telling you that and the ones that will follow this sentence, i have no idea so i don't give a monkey's pimply ass. basically what i do is watch small movie files, which are mostly interviews, listen very carefully to the audio and transcribe it. play, listen, pause, type, rewind, listen, play... and that's about it. the whole shift. it's really not that hard (my new friend and i are the fastest in the batch. the rest eat our typing dust), but it depends on the file and what the people in it say. if names/places/events/other stuff need checking, we fire up internet explorer and do research, which i'm pretty good at. it's actually quite fun sometimes, especially when the file is from a comedy talk show, or when it's really informative. like the last one we did about andrew jackson ( you know, the american president) and his movie-worthy love story. the uppity ones tell us that in the future we'll get a chance to transcribe films as well. one says that another transcriptionist hates transcribing r-rated movies. well, bring em all over to me! my pleasure. anyways, i like this call center job way better than the last one, for many reasons, like i get paid on time. unlike those government buttmunchers in quezon city! damn you all to hell!

oh, btw, here's the link to an old movie review that i've only uploaded now: art school confidential.

and finally from here on, the comments section is all yours. i wont be making anymore replies there. it's just me; i believe that the comments section should contain only your comments, suggestions and other messages (though i was gonna say 'violent reactions', dintcha? no way, cliche!). none of mine. what i would do instead is respond to them within the succeeding post. i shall do my best to answer all of them, the challenge thi would entail depends on the number of messages i receive. oh well, ive never really had that many comments. anyways, talkbacks start!

bloodboard talkback:
luigi: my main man, are you saying you'll be here on monday? if it's true, then holy shitballs! welcome back! cant wait to see you again and do with you things that are illegal in some countries. uncap the beer bottles and let out the girls! because the jai and luigi show is on!

ghostinyou: neither can i. as a big spidey fan, there aint nothin that can hinder me from watching this film. see you at the premiere!

onlinepad: thanks you, jen. i've added you as well. gimmick? anytime. especially if you're paying for it. question is, how? you're out of the country!

peter: dude, with what? the blog voting thing?

ituloy angpagsulong: hop `til you drop!

patty: will do my own rounds after this and i'll be sure to pass by your blog. take care, pattycake!

rho: happy belated halloween. man, i was gone for that long?!

din-din: yup. i was very busy. didnt have enough free time to do long posts. but thanks for visiting still. take care.

comments talkback:
katia: don't know if it'll coincide with the may 4 premiere in the us. but i pray to all the gods out there that it does. i'll keep an eyeball hanging out for any info regarding that. oh don't you fuckin dare cheat me, philippine organization that handles movie releases!

jigs: venom is in the other trailer, the one they showed in comic-con this year. you'll find it if you google it up. im sure we'll get to see it in full glory before the movie comes out, hopefully attached to one of the films early next year.

done! i'll be back at ya as soon as i can.

p.s. congratulations to the philippines for winning against mexico in a fist fight. rey mysterio's presence didnt give el terible enough boost to 619 his way to victory. the what-the-fuck-was-that? look on erik's face when he kissed the mat the third time was classic. [laugh] manny pacquiao for president!
p.p.s. on a totally unrelated note, remember that bald lifeguard dude with a mustache in baywatch who was an extra at first and then became a regular later on? of course you remember him. we all remember him. we just don't know who he is. he doesnt care though. because he got to see the baywatch babes' boobs bouncing in the beach.

spider-senses tingling!

dazzling ditko doodles! it's the new spider-man 3 trailer!!!

did you watch it? did you see the symbiote engulf spidey? did you see the black webbing?! did you see spider-man cleaning the train's exterior with sandman's face? still no venom though. but the trailer kicked ass nonetheless. sam raimi! give us venom on the next one!!! (directly below is a pic of what venom would most likely look like in the movie)

that is it for now, true believers! i'm gonna go home and play ultimate spider-man on my ps2. take care!

pick of destiny

rockers of the world unite! it's the first six minutes of the tenacious d movie!!!

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appy polly logies for my lengthy absence. if you happened upon the explanation i posted on the bloodboard, you'd know that the reason behind it is that i went through (and still am going through) one of the biggest problems of my life. a fate i wouldnt even wish on my enemies. well, maybe only because i want em to die in my hands. anyways, i may seem unaffected but believe me, deep within me, i could feel it eating at my soul bit by bit. i cope and i move on but i find it real hard to just completely forget about it and everytime the memory sneaks into my brain, i tear myself into pieces.

hey, i am on my second day of new hire training in peoplesupport. oh yes. ive lost my marbles and decided to become a call (center) boy once again. actually, i had applied around august, and after i had passed the tests and interviews, i got the "dont call us we'll call you" treatment. then i got a call last week saying there was an opening available but that i had to undergo everything again. since im lazy, i didnt go. day after that, saturday, i got another call and was told to go to their office at 5pm for "final assessment". contract signing soon followed and voila! i am a bum no more. the freelancing ive been doing for some time was okay, but the pay never came on time, and therefore, financial problems. so now i have a regular job. which looks like fun and will probably last longer than my previous attempt. best thing about it? for now, it is the donita rose/connie sison look-a-like trainer named mimay (for oh me, oh my!).

that's about all i can say for now. i'll talk more and try to hop around your blogs next time when i have full control. take care.

oh and btw, thank you, mysterious free wifi.

piss be with you

my last post about my music-video-making adventure just vanished into cyberspace air. no damn idea why. my guess is that someone logged into my account (since my password was pretty simple) and erased it. or maybe it was one of those internet cafes where logging out took so much time, i just closed the window, paid up and left, and then the next customer happened upon my blog and decided to have a little fun with it. either way, it baffles me why he/she/it deleted that one entry. why not all my entries, or better yet, why not the whole blog? then i'd just take it as karma because i myself have been guilty of messing around with friendster accounts that werent signed out. still, why just that one post? im quite sure i didnt put anything libelous there. which brings me to another conclusion: it was blogger's fault. something went cuckoo with their servers again and lucky me i suffered the consequences. oh well. cant have it all. your mobile phone gets snatched, you dont get paid on time, your blog post disappears... life sucks, eh? i could retype everything but it wouldnt be exactly the same, plus it's a chore. and im not really into doing something again and again. as ive said before, i never repeat myself (tee-hee!).

i was able to salvage the links from that post though and i thought i should put them here along with some new ones.

road on the side of a cliff!
insane wrestling moments!
starbucks dude!
cool house!
geeky wallets!
why widescreen rules!
eyelash creatures!
best chocolate ice cream cone!
triple 7 craze!
cool elevator!
lego icecubes!
serial killer calendar!
album cover battle!
cool workplaces!
cool business card!
smart dog!
guess what the python ate!
transformable costumes!
birthday calcualator!
cool ring!
people who share your names!
liquid condom!

nokia aeon!

a friend of layla's (whom i consider my friend as well of course, i just wanted to associate him with layla more) asked her for help on an upcoming debate contest, because layla and her team won during her time. layla then discussed it with someone who won during his time, which is me. the topic is euthanasia, and unfortunately our friend (there you go) is on the affirmative side. i like debates and am confident that i could triumph on any topic and any side, but this one posed a bit of a challenge. well, only at first because once i found an argument to jumpstart from, layla and i were debating ourselves. anyways, the point of this paragraph actually isnt the debate but religion. one of the "aces" i came up was this: if life is a gift from god, dont we have the right to keep it or throw it away just like any other gift? (for the confused, the previous sentence argues that a person with a grave illness that would make them suffer for a year or so and then die has the right to choose to die now) i was very certain that the negative side would use the "gift from god" thing and then the affirmative will counterattack with this bomb. then the negatives would scratch their heads and turn to "borrowed life". that was when i was reminded of the questions i had about religion. borrowed life? sounds just like a workaround to "gift of life" since like i said, any gift given to you is yours and you have full control. which scared the religious dudes so they changed it to borrowed so that now we have no control and they have. then i thought, arent we the ones to decide what to borrow? take for example the beggar out on the street. why would he borrow that kind of life? why not a life of wealth and health and big-boobed babes in bikinis? i mean, would you go to a video rental and rent a video that you know is absolute crap?! no. me, i'd take a nice horror-flick and some porn. so no, it cant be a borrowed life because i did not chose it. and if it's not a gift, then it's a forced life. "here, this is life, take it and live it. it comes with free will so it's upto you how you wanna live it. but you'll be punished if you do the bad stuff. oh and it has built in original sin so no matter how good you think you are, you're still a born sinner. you can just embrace that fact and sin all your life, but then you'll be punished for each sin you commit. so i would suggest you do good, because if you do good, maybe, and just maybe, you can get somethin good in return. but dont expect it, because expecting it is wrong. so just live this life with your free will but it is highly recommended that you do good. or else." by the way, i am not questioning god. i know he's out there, but he's just not exactly the way we're told. i mean, take for example the bible. i believe that god's word cant be put on paper. sure he spoke to the people who wrote it, but that was a long long time ago. there's gotta be some mistranslations there. for instance, try this test. find a free translation website and type a sentence in english and have it translated into another language. then copy the translated sentence and translate it back to english. it will not be the same with the one you started. that took like, a minute. imagine what thousands of years of translation could do. i mean, not even all english bibles are the same. and plus, the bible has plotholes. like who was cain's wife? eve?! i asked a priest this and he said that the bible shouldnt be taken literally. so it's all just symbolisms?! then he said that not all in the bible should be taken literally, some should be. so who chose which was real and which was not?! and another thing, if i copied the whole bible verbatim in a notebook, is my notebook the holy bible? surely it is, because that's the word of god right there, just handwritten. if not, then what will make it holy? use ink that has holy water? and how is holy water holy anyway? because a priest blessed it?! if a priest blessed my pee, will it become holy pee? and blessed shit be holy shit? why should we believe these priests and preachers anwyay? they have original sin too. sheesh. i'll stop now. i get carried away with this one. always. i apologize if i offended anyone, but im not saying sorry for what i said. my opinions. love to hear yours.

remember my entry about just for laughs? well, here's a video from a similar show of a prank that went wrong. very wrong...



anyways, that's today's entry, dear friendly friends! let's all hope and pray that this one and the succeeding ones stay put! keep smiling and take care out there!

sharp shooter

random

applause to gma for their new aquaman rip-off fantasy series, atlantika. you know what this means, kids! more stolen concepts, more stupid dialogue, more "cliffhanger" scenes where the characters just stand there and stare at each other, more boasts of "hollywood-worthy" cgi effects that they never keep up, more obvioisly choreographed fight sequences, more plotholes and inconsistencies, and of course, more bad acting. quality entertainment my ass!

layla's been acting really weird lately. missing-object-that-you-find-when-you're-not-lookin-for-it-anymore weird.

that was some terrible typhoon, eh? couldnt go to work (and even if i did get there i wont be able to work anyways since there was no electricity) so i was in bed the whole time. sounded like god opened up a can of whoop-ass. all i could think of was: sodom and gomorrah. and giant kittens.

i miss being inside a movie theater. i wanna watch crank, talladega nights, pulse, and dead or alive. this week it's spanish film fest once again and hopefully layla and i will be able to catch more good peliculas. for 50 bucks. and, if fate allows, win the grand prize which we didnt win last year (it was a trip to spain, not sure if it's the same now).

i still hate seeing song lyrics on blogs.

a couple of things i wish for in the future: better batteries and zero loading screens.

misa campo. google her. now.

err... im off to watch smallville season six premiere and the descent. after that i'll do some ps2-ing again while waiting for the live telecast of the amazing race 10. then im takin the next train to dream city. or if im lucky, nightmareville.