Tuesday, March 29, 2005

curled up part deux

forgot to put. where my eyes/mind are currently stuck at.



my dark places by james ellroy.


damn good book. tragic. enthralling.

worshipping ellroy again.

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Sunday, March 27, 2005

the short good friday

didn't know it was good friday if not a for a reminder from an internet site that generates holidays corresponding to the country you lived in.

as usual. woke up late. stayed up til 3 in the morning running with Neil Patrick Harris on a Doogie Howser marathon on dvd. finished up the night (or you might say, dawn) curled up with James Ellroy on his memoir.

it's quite unusual though. this was the first good friday i missed in my twenty-five years of earthly existence, not counting the time my wife's family trekked to Pangasinan as part of their annual tradition which i was left without any option but to join the fray.

there's this certain inexplicable feeling of isolation. a thousand miles away, counting chickens that yet to be hatched, incessantly reminding oneself of the purpose of the decision.

good fridays are days of sacrifices. let us remember that analogy. good friday would not be a good friday if not for the same reason that day was consecrated...

Someone gave up His life for our transgressions.

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Thursday, March 24, 2005

royal ramble

just got off a chat with Rommel at Yahoo! Messenger. yup. it's one of those days again. an exchange of ideas between two writer wannabes. the perverts of the written word. graduated with text, and since i'm hundred thousand miles away from him, IM is the next best thing to a long-distance phone call.

the last time i posted what we had talked about was months ago. text-crazed suckers who would trade nonsense chitchats with P1.00. sweet luxuries. the obstinacy of the need.

what we discussed was purely products of each other's boredom. of how i swallowed my pride and sent butch dalisay a private message in a forum- - -something i will not attempt to do- - -in direct defiance of how i would respond if given the opportunity. to rommel's claim of how his writing was taking him; my lack of a word processor hindered me to do the same; of how a mini-walkathon produced the wonder juice that his mind has so vainly struggled to squeeze out...

yeah, dude. i'll do what you suggested. maybe there are muses left to be wooed; places that need to be discovered, and emissions to be forcefully pumped.


will heed your advice...






i'll start walking tomorrow morning.

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Sunday, March 20, 2005

pac-ed up

the pac-man manny pacquiao lost the magic pellets...

hovered in the lazy maze of a boxing arena. sparred with intensity. never gave up. went the distance.

it's the points that count.

damn.





cost me nine dollars to watch it in pay-per-view.

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Saturday, March 19, 2005

lazee-boy

blogging in the office. working on solo flight.

woke up with a pinprick in the tummy. a flu forthcoming.

baudolino in dull preterition. one of his social gatherings. a crowded emptiness devoid of anything but an added weight to my misery.

the personification of lethargy, magnified a thousand times, trapped behind a glass partition, handicapped by his inability to initiate a single thing. an innate characterisitic. eternal. unchangeable.

looking at him with extreme derision...

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Thursday, March 17, 2005

frost-ed

posting at 6:18 AM. quite unusual since i normally wake up at eleven. or twelve. or one. doesn't matter.

had coffee hours earlier, possibly the effect of caffeine slowly kicking in. well, it kicked alright.

on the final minutes of babysitting blues. in a little while Sas would be home, relieving the guardpost, and hit the sack. end of my day, to dreamland and beyond.

finished Zatoichi 4, squeezed in a dvd and a round of nba live in playstation. shuffled with an episode of the X-Files on TNT, hitting three birds with, not a stone throw, but with an automatic rifle.

watching the kids sleep, and pounding away at the keyboard. sigh. a few more minutes...

yawn.

guten nacht.

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Sunday, March 13, 2005

lucked out

a reply to my comment in Dodo's blog:

I actually meant that credibility is strained when a Fine Arts major professes to want to direct and not draw storyboards or build sets. It upsets the paradigm, I suppose. That is what the fatcat producers and executives expect us to do. Just as they expect the Comm Arts majors to line up for the Director’s Chair.

Then there’s the principle of what we know vs. who we know, which is still how people get jobs here, specially in the entertainment industry.

Good luck to us, man. All I can say.

Oh, and one of these days, I hope to read one of those stories you're writing. Hopefully published. :-)

- - - - - - - - -

yeah. you're right, man. most of my peers (well, my college blockmates) ended up brewing instant coffee (i know it's an irony, but what we normally observe happens, right?) to directors, hoping one day/time, that person would notice how good their coffees taste...

...but that doesn't necessarily mean they'll get the break they're looking for.

i know it sounds discouraging to the graduates of my course, however, the entertainment industry is merely a grain of sand. there are other jobs out there waiting to be fished out; careers that need someone who has the guts (and probably, the luck) to pursue. sadly, none possess the ability to think like we do. and it serves them right.

maybe they also need a cup of coffee to wake their sleeping brains up.

yup. good luck to all of us. may we find the happiness in our careers that we've been searching for.

...


and Dodo (or X44, if that's what you prefer dude), i'll let you read some of what i've written....in time.

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Saturday, March 12, 2005

vacuum

if a reversal of roles has to take place and a vacuum in the position is to be filled up, then this would be what i'd probably (and would like to) see in a job classified ad:

- - - - - - - - -

Customer Service Representative I

aptly called the Teller, which by no means sound so derogatory. As euphemestically as it stings the auditory sense, the teller should, in anyway, perform these specific functions:

1. He/She should be able to do the work of the Manager;
2. He/She should tolerate the manager's laziness with utmost and extreme tolerance;
3. He/She should be able to obediently follow the Manager's orders without complain unless otherwise he/she are in for a verbal reprimand;
4. He/She should possess the knowledge that the Manager is infallible;
5. He/She should have a penchance for plants, flowers and anything in that category, like the Manager himself;
6. He/She should be able to adapt (and desensitize himself/herself) from a continuous barrage of the Manager's arrogance and know-it-all attitude;
7. He/She should be able to answer to the customer's complaints and grievances since the Manager would try to avoid such incidents whenever, and in anyway he could;
8. He/She should have the knowledge that when he/she decides to call it quits, the Manager would fabricate lies to ruin the reputation of the person;
9. He/She should be computer literate since the Manager is illiterate;
10. He/She should have a taste for peanuts and lemon, and;
11. He/She should be fit to fill in the position without any qualm and agree to the terms and requirements stated in this classified ad.

let this post be a caveat to those who wish applying for the position i'm currently stuck at.

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Monday, March 07, 2005

overblogged

i received a YM message from Dada asking me to delete the link of her blog from mine.

she did tell me why, however, prompted me to think. someone trying to squeeze through her blog for no apparent reason? ah. the voyeurs of online world prowling the backstreets of the web, searching for unknowing exhibitionists. the perverts of vocabulary who takes pleasure in one's written paroxysms.

a blog is a public missive. somehow, i keep a journal of myself. those that needs certain censorship are carefully tucked away. still, her reasons are contrary to the purpose of creating a blog.

nevertheless, i understood her sentiments.

hayaan mo, dang, I'll do something about it.

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Sunday, March 06, 2005

rewired

finally got the notebook computer i drooled over when i was in manila:



apple powerbook G4 12-inch. it runs on Mac OS X operating system, though the processor nearly boasts 1.33 Ghz clock speed, but limitedly (since the 15" and the 17" powers 1.57 Ghz). has a sufficient hard drive capacity of 60 Gig, well after i put the necessary software and downloads i still got fifty-two gigabytes of space which is not bad considering i attempted to scrimp on the smaller 5-gig HD of my previous laptop.

basically, it's more of a portable machine than anything else. enough to have the writing bug trapped in an aluminum-built quarantine facility and at the same time treat my visceral faculties to two servings of dvds. yep. the battery clocked in 4.5 hours in my initial testing (though i know it would gradually sag since batteries are the most fragile component of any laptop- - -give or take, a year and i just might have to purchase another pack).

from what i've read they say (but i'll avoid quoting in verbatim), powerbooks are the fastest notebooks around, which is probably one reason why i try not to get blinded by the enticing centrino stickers affixed in most notebooks that proliferated the technology market. secondly, apple normally takes about three to four years before they introduce another hardware in the market, and by that time (i believe) its PC-equivalent had already crawled on and wheeled in replacements. thirdly, it is one of the cheapest of any power laptops considering that it has the illuminated apple logo upfront- - - the misconception arises that mac users are: (1) geeks who got exhausted of having microsoft invade their tech lives; (2) company officials and executives who has the moolah to spend; and (3) filmmakers whose iMovie software are only compatible with macintosh computers.

further on with the specs:the bundled software included are not what most PC notebooks would stuff into (the entire iLife package that includes iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iCal, iMail, iChat), i was looking for the Garageband, dunno what happened to the application when i reformatted the system; the powerbook has a NVDia Geforce video card with 64 MB DDR SDRAM which is practically okay if you want to play games albeit i am refraining of installing any game software in it; supports ethernet, bluetooth connections as well as wireless internet (i'm having trouble with this Wi-Fi thing, though the Apple guy told me it has an AirPort extreme card installed in it). The only lowdown with the system is its 256MB of DDR SD-RAM pre-configured and installed, and with such thing i felt obliged to get an additional memory card to boost its performance, to let's say 1 Gig of RAM.

to sum up, it's not a blind buy. i considered the vaio line of sony, HP pavillion and even IBM Thinkpad but settling on a powerbook is putting the saliva back into my mouth.

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