geym adik, mtrcb ++

call us game addicts. pc games, that is. me naman, arcade downloads, free demo games. i'm searching for the code or cracked version of BETTY'S BEER BAR, this simply stupid game where a voluptuous girl named betty has ambitions of owning an island in the caribbean so she works in a bar serving beer to save up 33,000 dollars yata (US) to buy that island. so ayun. wala, cute siya eh, natutuwa ako sa simplicity. saka sa kuwento.

on the other hand, m is hooked on the HARRY POTTER 2 game again, rediscovering all the secret hidden places in hogwarts etc. haaay, when's the next HP game coming out na??? nasasawa na ko sa sounds ng HP2. paging greenhills game pirates...

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in other news, wala pa pala kaming president. who the fuck cares? all presidents are rich landed elitist bigots who cannot define human rights properly and has one ear perma-glued to the doors of the catholic church anyway. i just say -- elect the darned person and let's get on with our advocacy and strategize on how we will remove that perma-glue for the next couple of years or so. and pray that the next chief will not suffer from attention/intelligence deficit syndrome.

asa pa.

hopeless na ba? no, not hopeless. just realistic. as an advocate in the media industry, yeah, i know. realistic.

just take a look at this bit of news na lang eh. forwarded by someone from the task force pride mailing list. excerpts below.

'The Buzz' scolded for airing lesbian 'wedding'
| May 22, 2004 | Inquirer News Service

THE MOVIE and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) has
warned the Sunday show biz talk show, "The Buzz," for airing the
"wedding" of a lesbian couple.

The MTRCB chair said "lesbian relationships are an abnormality of human
nature."

Kris Aquino defended their show's airing of the episode.

"I've always believed that whoever you're having a relationship with is
your personal choice," Kris said, pointing out that there are lesbian
relationships that are \"monogamous, supportive and loving."

A memorandum dated May 21, 2004 and signed by MTRCB Chair Marissa
Laguardia pointed out that "The Buzz," being aired on prime time, is
watched by youngsters "who are at their most impressionable stage."

"Their young minds are easily affected, so that to show lesbian lovers on
TV programs and give them media exposure would give young viewers the
impression that it is perfectly normal to get into lesbian or homosexual
relationships," the MTRCB statement said.

"We are certain that you are aware that lesbian and homosexual
relationships are an abnormality of human nature," said the statement.
"To show such kind of abnormality/aberration on prime time TV programs
gives the impression that the network is encouraging lesbian and
homosexual relationships and tantamount to saying lesbianism and
homosexuality are alright."


can i, like, bitch-slap that chair?

so is it okay to watch a former president's daughter cry like a kulangsapansin gel because thistalksshowhostformerlyknockedupbyamarriedactor got some std from a philandering married mayor of some city who fathered a brood of panganay children? er, are those the pg-13 rated values we want our children to learn, instead of two people celebrating their love? (the footage was of the marriage between lesbians elaine and her jowa). so what if the celebration of love was between two women? better to educate the children about ACCEPTANCE, UNDERSTANDING and TOLERANCE, di ba? unless we are training them to be no-brainer politician-actors in the future. tama, the story of joey and kris and alma nga ang panoorin nyo. fotah.

hopeless? or realistic? take your pick. lalaro muna ko betty's beer bar.

aloha mora!

harping for hermione

forgive me for saying this. this might appear too d.o.m.-ish or something like that, but that hermione girl is growing up to be one hot gal! as in!

seen the promo pix for HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN lately? you should! grabeh. pretty pretty girl, that hermione, especially when she doesn't have eye make-up or when photographed with 3/4 profile view or when she's not smiling so much and has that intense look on her face. just lovely.

gosh, i'm sooooo gay, as the girls in THE L WORD said. hehe. sabi rin ni m. pero nung nakita rin nya sabi nya 'potah gandah.' hehe.

we're sooooo gay. hehe.



the thought is weird, being attracted to someone who was born in freaking 1990, di ba! e student number ko kaya yun sa peyups! hehe. bad. pedophilic. or lolita-ish. hm, is that concept applicable to women loving women, too? potah, tanda ko nah!

wala lang. i was actually going to write about something else here as a result of my ICT week day ekek in dusit hotel, especially mentioning that jerkazoid who wants to protect the communication rights of the unborn. (whatdafolk!) but when i saw the teaser posters of HP3 atop those bus waiting sheds along edsa, man! blew my mind off when i saw that deep midnight blue background silvery font photo featuring hermione only, with hair kinda flowing in the wind and all. i think that was somewhere across sm megamall. basta baybayin nyo ang edsa at tignan! man, she looked sooo hot! grabeh.




basta ha, this kid is growing up to be something else! unlike the boys! lalo na si draco! amfangeth.

nonetheless...

can't wait for cuaron's version!

y tu magician tambien!


hehehe and this is so appropriate for today...

Congratulations you are Hermione Granger!


The sensitive muggle born girl with brains. Without Hermione, Harry and Ron would have to take their own notes!

What Harry Potter character are you?

blog of my life

it's almost three in the morning here in rooster crow-filled mapagkumbaba street in sikatuna village, good ol' kyusi. never mind the date -- i'm blogging on a monday morn here. damn US-based server! but i digress.

was checking out my friendster account while i was dowloading some game demos when i came upon a bulletin post by a long lost friend, announcing he has a live journal blog. so i checked it out. and i'm glad he's in blog-land. he's one guy i can rely on for honesty, i guess, in this poseur-magnet pastime called blogging. as in, comments ko lately sa isang blogger 'bakit ang lilinis niyong mag-blog?' para yatang masyadong conscious yung ibang bloggers sa mga words na ilalagay nila diyan (it's like they check 100x before posting a freaking entry!), lalo na yung mga newbies or those who are oh-so-quick to label themselves as 'writers' or aargh even 'artists' (insert horrific kuh@pagbabago 2001 flashback here -- ayan, kaya nasusunog ang repofmalate eh!>:). ewan. bibihira lang ang honest blogs around, and i count old pep-friend carlo's and my favorite vet kia's (yehei nabuhay ulit blog nya! mabuhei! thanks ulit sa tomb raider lunch box hihi) as honest. and nicely done. i also like the compound blog site of indi's and my other writer friends who are murakami fans. drew, a friend in geneva, also has one honest blog, but it's rather too honest for my, er, reading. but still, it's good.

me, i don't know how many times i tried blogging. started way back in '02, i think. i have one at the original blogger site, but i'm not sure if it's still there. besides, i didn't really bother updating that, but i liked the color of that the most (orangey autumny). then i made a second one there but that, too, i abandoned. then our global fil-wherever literary workshop group opened accounts in a site called diaryland, but that's just too cheesy for a blog, eh. i wanted a live journal when i saw kris aquino's lj years ago, but they were not free then. (free na now. should i?). this one here is the result of beta testing. the woman who runs this is a member of a writer's list i belong to, and she asked if anyone's interested to test it. so i signed up. i kept it, as you can see, since starting this last june '03. so that's cool. i made another one, however, at blog-city, but i haven't been able to update that much as i wanted to. love the color of that one better (orangey rin). i'm contemplating on changing this blog na because i hate that i can't change the colors, especially the black text on white appearance. alam mo namang light text on dark background typist ako. sa office na, nawi-weird-uhan sila sa interface ng computer ko, akala nga ni len i'm doing some coding daw (haha i wish! technoramus here).

well, speaking of coding, len also taught us dreamweaver stuff as being part of the office web team. now they're testing postnuke, drupal and other non-proprietary open-source thingies. i hope those npos stuff have blogs rin, para i can choose a new one with more options. kakatamad kasing mag-maintain ng sarili mong site kung according to dreamweaver ang option kong kukunin. saka the coding. ngyar. oh well...

we'll see.


earth to libay...

islandville is where i think i will more be, soon, but now it's just full of my fiction works and works-in-progress and rants/raves culturati reviews

dahondahon's digital domain is where we post literary works in progress for workshops with writer pals nadine sarreal, veronica montes, susan evangelista, marianne villanueva and the one who made this work cecilia manguerra brainard (hm, i think i forgot somebody but i can't remember, sorry po!)

necessary nonfictions
was an essay project of sorts, junked it na rin

leaflets is the mother of all chuvas, but not anymore...

catching up is hard to do

too bad that greek god quiz result didn't show up here. how come in other blogs you can put up these links and stuff? hm, must be some techie glitch, is all. hope i can still do that here in the future, because i also want to put here the result of the quiz "what angelina jolie character are you" hehe. guess who i am -- freaking gia! well, it's the lesbian part that did the trick there hehe. but i wanted to be lara croft! aw man! >:) hmmm, does that mean i am an openly non-apologetic bisexual supermodel candidate who has a tendency to be addicted to drugs? i hope not! hehe.

it's half past three in the hot scorching metro manila afternoon of this mild-mannered sunday here in the only catholic country in asia known as the philippines, or as the fil-ams call it, "P.I." adding the islands word. what time is it in your mindsphere?

but of course i will be like "blogging in the USA" here because as i discovered, the server of this blog is in the US, and thus there\'s a 12-hour delay. so as i'm writing this at 3.30pm, it's just like 3am or something there, so that's the time that this blog will reflect. kinda weird, isn't it? it's like i don't exist in real-time here. wow. that's a concept!

so as i try to update this blog, i am also trying to update my life. and my mp3 collection with THE L WORD music. yeah, season one is over but i really like the songs there, very chillout as i said in an earlier entry. but lately, i find myself missing that gay-thump-thump that emmet said he missed in QUEER AS FOLK. well, i'm missing that, too, that's why i am also downloading some thumping songs from the US version OST. also to be part of my nek's dj wannabee collection for our fantasy dance party here at home. hehe fantasy because we've been talking about it, lining up the music, thinking of stuff we will serve, but there's still no time or date for it. so it remains as such -- a fantasy. for now, that is. but hey, i still would love to dance!!!!!!!!!!!!! because i miss doing that.

so, to update my life, let's see. it's already may, so that means my birthmonth just passed, which means i just turned 31. freaking early 30s!!! that truly validates that i am no longer part of generation x. my, my, coupland, how time flies, eh? one moment you're wallowing in existential angst thinking of what life path you want to take as you "use and abuse" your gorgeously fit i-can-eat-anything-and-not-gain-weight mid-twenties body, the next moment you find yourself in the comfort of your complex life decisions while wondering why your butt is slowly showing the calories of last night's dinner. in short, you grow up.

but is it time to be adults now? could be, who knows, as tony sang. life changes fast that sometimes it's impossible to catch up with it. but you do manage to get along, experiencing some changes yourself, noticing the nuances of change all around you -- your family, friends, your work, how you have fun. they all change. no matter how we don't want them to change, they still do. they still do.

so what's a girl got to do? first, stop referring to your self (yourself? grammar police, help!) as a girl, but more as a woman. ugh, sounds so adult, doesn't it? don't you just hate it when people on the streets or in the stores now refer to you as "ma'am" instead of "miss"? i mean, what did i miss? hmm.

well, whatever. changes happen whether you like it or not. the thing to decide on is if you are willing to change along. or maybe it's better to choose the things that you want to change, and cherish those you want not to change. i can live with that. so can you.