MOTHER’S DAY Happy Mother’s day to your mom and to every mom out there! I greeted my Mom last night before she drifted away to her sleep cause I was still awake when the clock hit 12AM. She liked it and thanked me after, lol. Honestly.. my parents don’t really care about this kind of events anymore. Even my Dad doesn’t care much about Father’s Day anymore. When we get older, I guess, we’ll know why people like them don’t mind about it much now unlike before. I suppose age has something to do with it? Bills to pay, money and debts, thinking of where to get money to sustain the needs of the family — just some of the important things our parents think about than celebrating their “day”. Come to think of it, EVERYTHING they do is hard! Gahh, I don’t want to be a parent anytime soon. That’s why I don’t want to get myself in relationships.. LOLOLOL.

Anyway, mom and dad went out earlier this morning to look at Air Conditioners at the mall. I wondered why they’re planning to buy one when we still have a working unit on this very room where I’m in right now. Dad said they’re gonna put it on our house across the street. Meaning…. our house may get finished renovating soon. So yay.

I got tagged by Joni.

The rules are simple: (1) Post a photo of you and your mom together (recent or old) and write the words “I heart my mom” across it (or type the text below the photo if you don’t feel like opening your image-editing software). (2) Tag your friends!

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And here’s a photo me and my mom….

Proceed with your comments of “You don’t look like your mom”.. I will gladly accept them with no offense in my part. HAHA. I told my mom about that once and she said I’m not supposed to look like her.. neither like my dad as well. I don’t know what she meant by it. I posted a pic of us with her making a wacky face because her other pics are more wacky and well, might scare you people. Haha. Just kidding, ma. Sorry for the crappy erasing on the background, there’s a poster of Bianca King in her underwear on that place and I think it’s too nasty for it to be shown on a public blog like this, lol. BUT I don’t own that poster, alright? Alex owns it and he’s the one who posted it on our wall here in our room. That perv.. Jk.

Who shall I tag? You don’t have to do it if you don’t want to of course.. but please do if you CAN. I tag..
Anne Kate, Ayiene, Charlene, Cerisse, Sherica, Juice, Keng, Mary, Joyce, Rachel.

I think that’s enough.. haha, but if you’re not in the list yet you still want to do it, go ahead!

DRIVING I was supposed to go driving yesterday but the tutor did not arrive. I got dressed at quarter to 5pm cause he always arrives early, but yesterday he never did. And then I found out later when my brother woke up from his nap that the car had to be taken to the tune-up center cause some part of the car was malfunctioning or something. Then I immediately asked him if it was OUR fault that the car broke down, he said it wasn’t. Well, I had the right to ask because as far I can see, Alex, Mom and I were the only ones who used that car most of the time to tutor us.. and I felt bad for it cause I could’ve been the reason. Yesterday could’ve been my 7th day of driving. Damn, they told me I could finish in 10 days but it will be extended to 11 days (because I didn’t get to drive yesterday). I’m getting lazy…. BUT I’m getting better. Thank God I’m getting the hang of that manual car.

SCARING MYSELF Last night I watched age old videos of Are You Afraid Of The Dark, Tales of The Crypt Keeper and 1960s Twilight Zone. I know I was a fool for doing that because I scare myself easily regarding scary shows but like always, I only realized it when I was watching Part 3 of the last Twilight Zone episode I was watching. Not only that but I also went memory tripping by watching old school Nick show intros like Clarissa Explains it all, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, etc. I wish our Nickelodeon in the Philippines would bring back shows like that.. they used to show it when I was in Elementary, lol. IMO, they beat the new teen shows hands down but I still like to watch them compared to American Idol (no offence to all AI fans) and some other TV Series out there..

Are You Afraid Of The Dark was one of the shows I would never ever watch alone when I was a kid. I’d turn off the TV and go to sleep once I see the scary intro, especially the one where the title of the show flashes on the screen and then a hand holding a lighted match stick comes up! Pete and Pete, one of the weirdest shows I’ve ever seen in Nick back in the day.. I tried to watch a clip from the show last night but I still find it weird and boring so I didn’t bother.

Needless to say, most of the episodes in AYAOTD still scared me and left me unable to sleep last night. The Tale of The Pinball Wizard, The Tale of the Thirteenth Floor and The Tale of the Dark Music are some of the scariest! Lets put to consideration the crappy quality, props and everything but it still leaves you haunting in your sleep.

I’ll try to watch more episodes later.. hopefully as long as the Sun is still shining. It’s less scarier when you watch horror shows in daylight cause you forget about them when you sleep. What an idiot, scaring myself.. Meh.

BACK TO SCHOOL This coming week is my *final* week of doing nothing. Probably next next week I’ll be “busy” preparing myself for my school comeback, ROFLMAOWTFBBQ. Sophomore year, here I come! There’s a part of me wishing to have Him as my classmate this term, but I know that’s too illusionary to wish for since he’s probably ahead of me with the subjects. Last term He took subjects that I would be only taking this term.. I know, I asked. HAHA! And after my first day in school, I wouldn’t have any classes again. Yay for Thursdays!

NEW SKIN I got my BestSkinsEver package for Macbook 13.3 laptop last Thursday. I put it on the laptop two days ago. It was too much work but in the end it was worth it, I think. I decided to remove the skin for the wrist part because it looks REALLY ugly. Half of what I paid for was wasted, huhu. Here are pics.. Does it look bad or what?

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There are parts where I didn’t get to do the method carefully but I don’t think they’re very noticeable. The trackpad takes time getting used to since its hard to go around it. Glossy, glossy. Hmm, next time when I do something like this again I’m definitely going to do it inside the bathroom.. I had to soak the films to water first before applying it (yes the laptop had direct contact with water in the process, scary!.. not really). Why in the bathroom? Because inside the bathroom there is less lint than inside a room where lint drops itself just about anywhere dusty. I did my first BSE application on my iPod before and inside the bathroom and the results were really good. Not sure if I should put back my orange Speck hardshell case.. I’m going to sell it online if I don’t find any use for it anymore. Would anyone be interested?

RANDOM On a completely random note.. Bea Alonzo is playing the Philippine version of Betty La Fea! WTF! I thought it was gonna be Anne Curtis, LOL. IDK.. She’s more fitting than Bea Alonzo.

Sheesh, I never thought I would ever say this but.. I MISSED MY DOMAIN! Not many people have noticed but my site’s been off the map for a DAY! Okay, actually only 2 people noticed it and came up to me and told me about it. Anne Kate and Mary, thanks for the concern. Heh. I thought it would take longer than what my new domain host said (4 days then changed to 7-10 days) but the problem was with me not giving authorization to my old domain host (GoDaddy) to start the transfer. Good thing I tinkered around with the site’s Domain Manager or this would take longer. I don’t know if I’d be able to hold up to that.

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Well, good thing everything is back to normal now. Thanks GoDaddy for the time being of hosting my domain. Now I belong to D0M41N.NAME! They helped me throughout the transfer process, the owner (Ed) even called me to update me on what’s going on with the transfer when I got confused with it (cause it’s pretty odd that it’s taking a long time to transfer.. or I’m just pretty dumb with these domain stuff). Totally recommend them to the Filipino blog/domain owners there. Payment options are varied as well, not limiting to just credit cards like the usual. Oh yea, their prices are SO affordable — PHP 350 for a year with great service, what more could you ask for, right? Sorry but while I was doing domain hosting research, most of the PH-sites I stumbled upon offer this kind of service for PHP 500, and I think that’s way to expensive for my budget.

I was supposed to talk about my driving lessons and my “Twilight” reading experience before my domain went kaput. Yes you got that right, I just rode the Twilight/Edward Cullen/Stephenie Meyer fan bandwagon! Never thought I would be sucked into this kind of addiction. In every single blog I go to, at least 5 of them mentions the damned book and “Edward Cullen”, I don’t even know what’s so special with him, until I read the book 3 days ago. Actually I already had a copy of Twilight last February but only got to read it this month because my friend who borrowed it returned it just recently (if you’re my friend at Twitter, you might’ve read my smallish rant about her ). Moving on.. I read the book, surprisingly I finished it in a day! I normally finish reading a book within a month, if I’m busy or bombarded with school works. But I can finish a book in 3 weeks if I’m really not doing anything. Slow reader, I am. As much as possible I try to grasp whatever it is that I’m reading so I can picture it out easily on my mind, lol, weirdo. A lot of things pretty much surprised me while reading Twilight:

The book is full of words like “ice”, “cold”, “icy”, “stone” and “eyes”. Hahaha, eyes y’all! Now I’m all “eyes-mode”. Every “eye-staring” scene and event in the movie makes the butterflies on my stomach fly.. or something like that, haha. EYES EYES EYES!! I would so melt if a guy would stare directly to me, gahd.

I can relate with the main character (Bella) on the parts where she and Edward first meet.. Ayii. Paranoia rules our minds

As much as possible, I’m not going to indulge myself into drooling at Robert Pattinson nor the making of the movie (yet I was watching ‘making of Twilight’ shooting scenes last night ) clips I find online. Who knows? Maybe the movie will make me depressed because they didn’t include every happening/event/scene in the book. Besides, don’t movies always do that? Call me bad but I downloaded the whole ebook of the series. After reading the sneak peek off the next book found just a couple of pages after Twilight, I felt the urge to want more of what’s going to happen next. Don’t worry I haven’t started reading the ebook just yet. Somehow, the feeling of holding a book in my hands while reading makes it worthwhile to read MORE.

My last purchased books (last February 2008 with my friend at Powerbooks Robinsons Ermita) consists of 3 books. Namely from Chuck Palahnuik’s Invisible Monsters, Haruki Murakami’s After Dark and Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight. Other books I have that I bought pretty much a long time ago BUT unread are J.K Rowling’s HP & The Deathly Hallows, Mitch Albom’s For One More Day (oh, this I borrowed from a friend still unreturned, hehe) and Paulo Coelho’s Veronika Decides To Die (Yeah I’m aware I put it as one of my fave books on my Friendster/Facebook profiles but I only read a few pages off it and would really like to continue soon). Before going back to school, I must read at least 3 books, HAHA. Let’s hope I accomplish that before school starts, I have 2 weeks left.

[edit] There’s an official Trailer out for the movie, OH MY GOD! I get goosebumps every single time I watch the trailer. Fucking crazy I tell ya! Edward Cullen.. Robert Pattinson.. Those eyes.. those moments.. MELT ALERT. [/edit]

DRIVING *drumroll* ATTN: I RECENTLY GOT INTO A DRIVING ACCIDENT, I CRASHED THE CAR AT THE NEAREST TREE AS SOON AS WE LEFT OFF!
Just playing! IDK, DID YOU LAUGH AT THAT? I must be pretty fucked up right this second to think it would be funny if I crash myself while learning to drive. But thankfully, I haven’t! I started my driving lessons last Sunday (that makes it yesterday) morning, we tried it for an hour first to see if I’m really interested, and yea, I am interested. So we continued it today.. up to the next 7 days. Hopefully I’ll be good at driving and knowledgeable after 10 days, just in time for school. Driving is fun. Yes. Seriously, driving IS fun. If only I could learn everything in just 1 session I would be so glad but unfortunately I’m only human so I have to practice more. Mom’s been very supportive all the way, since she’s always with me everytime I go inside the car I’ll be driving. My dad however, is pretty doubtful about it. He even laughed at me when I told him I got my Student Permit and going to have driving lessons. He doesn’t take me seriously, probably because I’m short and I don’t look like I’m capable of driving or even taking responsible in owning a car. And our family driver is not talking to me! God, what am I supposed to think about that? Should I be paranoid about that? Gah. But my mom says that I shouldn’t mind him if he’s acting that way. By the way, I don’t have my own car yet! Hahaha. I’m using the car the instructor provided, and it’s Manual. Same car that Dok Sergio of Pupil drives, hee.

Driving may be fun.. and an awesome thing to learn through summer. But I’m having problems with driving. I get tired easily from it, and I’m driving not more than 20 kph! Ugh, maybe I’ll get used to it soon. We’ve only drove around my place for the past two days and so far I fear the following:

Making left and right turns on busy main roads (I’m too conscious about the other cars getting pissed at me for being so slow. )

Starting the car after doing a full on-brake. I’m having problems with the clutch and gas pedals. Told ya I have bad footwork. If I get it correct at one point, time comes when I fuck up all over again.