HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICAAAAAH!!! Haha. Just thought I'd pop that in.

Grabbed this from my [seester]

- answer the questions below
- do a google image search with your answer
- take a picture from the first page of results
- don't copy the answers of the person who posted this before you


1. the age you'll be on your next birthday

B-24 Liberator. It was either this or the DVD cover of the series 24. Corny naman nun.

2. a place you'd like to travel

Angers, France. I was supposed to live and study for a year, but that's another story. ^^

3. your favorite place

Kopiroti wins over National Bookstore Cubao only coz I don't get to go to the latter often nowadays.

4. your favorite food

i heart eggplant/aubergines. among many others. i so heart vegetables.

5. your favorite animal

I am a lioness. Hear me ROR! Haha.. yeah I like lions.

6. your favorite color

Is a black burr! Haha. Got my 2nd favorite animal up there pa, so sulit!

7. first name of your significant other or crush

Had to work around the dead giveaway results on the first few google image runs... LoL

8. the town in which you live in

Makati! Get me some calamine lotion! (aka caladryl)

9. your screen name/nickname

hyperory - wow, this is still from my blogspot

10. your first job

Take a wild guess

11. a bad habit you have

Overthinking.
And it has the punning thrown in there for good measure, though I maintain that it's a TALENT.

12. your worst fear

Loss of passion.

Grabbed this from [Kenji]

These eyes hide behind big-ass glasses for a reason. Tingnan nga natin.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien -
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
>> I have a love/hate relationship with this series... (//_T)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks >> I think i have a copy somewhere...
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
 >> Just to see if it ended differently from the movie. It didn't.... yuck.
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams >> OMG UTTER WOW
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland  >> oooooohyeah
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
>> only about a bazillion times... each time because i was sooooo bored.
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens >> on of these days, i WILL finish this
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
>> Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes...  TILL WE HAVE FACES is still his best tho
34 Emma - Jane Austen >> I've tried several times.. Sigh
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis>> Didn't I just say yes?
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres >> My sis keeps telling me to read this
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne >> awwww....
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery >> I have the entire 8-book series
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood >> So good
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding >> required reading in HS
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert >> on every geek's list. or at least it should be.
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth >> ooooh, nice title! i'll add it to the list
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley >> depressing... but brilliant
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
>> for all the wrong reasons. Read: Simpsons reference.
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding >> i think every girl has read this... and the sequel
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker >> back when i COULD read scary stuff
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath >> i hear this is good
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert >> only i find this in the original French
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White >> i haven't been able to find this!!!
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom (... meh) >> agree
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle >> fun!
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton >> enid blyton... sigh
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery >> i want the french version!
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
>> i'm planning a post-apocalyptic epic loosely based on characters from this,
so i HAVE to read it sooner or later
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Wow.. I'm not as nerdy as I thought I was...

Link to your list below!

This will blow your brains out with its brilliance.

Galeng... Id quote Twin, but... I'm a prude so I won't use her term.
Suffice to say but this is Pure Unadulterated Musical Perfection.

Put this on while you're walking and you'll feel like the hottest girl on the planet or an epic hero.
If I hear my brother play this, or see Maradee dance to this, (as my dad says) "I can die happy" LoL

See the video here
See the live version here

  I remember this scene all too well..

To all students out there... my condolences to the horrors waiting for you.

Buwahahahaha!

I saw this on my sister's blog, and of course I had to try it.
What is it about internet tests? They're freakishly accurate! LoLz

Groundbreaking Thinker (GT)

(Just visiting? Take the free test and determine your personality type!)

Groundbreaking Thinkers are charming, enthusiastic persons. They really bubble over with energy and like to take centre stage. They love variety both professionally and privately. Groundbreaking Thinkers tackle changes consistently with their optimism and firm belief in their own abilities; they are always on the look-out for improvement possibilities. Their excellent communication skills are of great advantage to them here. They approach the world with curiosity and openness and master new situations with a great deal of talent for improvising and with resourcefulness. Their spare time is taken up with a large number of hobbies; most Groundbreaking Thinkers like to travel in order to gather as many different impressions as possible. This personality type is unbeatable at discovering new possibilities.

In their work, Groundbreaking Thinkers highly rate challenges and diversified tasks. They cannot stand routine and too detailed work. They love to astound others with bold ideas for an original, new project and then leave it up to the others to implement them. Hierarchies, rules and regulations arouse their opposition and they love outsmarting the system. It is vital to them that they enjoy their work; if this is the case, they quickly become pure workaholics. Their creativity best takes effect when they work independently; but they are very good at motivating others and infecting them with their optimistic nature. Conceptual or advisory activities appeal especially to Groundbreaking Thinkers. It can happen that some people feel somewhat duped by their flexible, spontaneous nature.

Their sociability and enterprise ensure that Groundbreaking Thinkers always have a large circle of friends and acquaintances in which activity plays an important role. As they are mostly in a good mood, they are popular and very welcome guests. Grumbling and peevishness are unknown to them. However, they do tend to be a little erratic and unstable when it comes to obligations and this makes them appear to be unreliable to some. Groundbreaking Thinkers are very critical and demanding when it comes to picking a partner because they look for the ideal relationship and have a very concrete picture of this ideal relationship. Mutual aims in life are very important to them. They do not like compromising and would rather remain alone. For the partner, it is often a challenge to have a long-term relationship with a Groundbreaking Thinker. Groundbreaking Thinkers need a lot of space and diversity or otherwise they become bored and feel cramped. Types who are rather more traditionalistic often have problems with the willingness of Groundbreaking Thinkers to take risks and their often crazy, spontaneous actions. However, if one can summon up sufficient flexibility and tolerance for them, one will never be bored in their presence and will always have a loyal and faithful partner.

Adjectives which describe your type

extroverted, theoretical, logical, spontaneous, rational, innovative, intellectual, open, independent, curious, enterprising, analytical, clever, enthusiastic, venturesome, inventive, energetic, sociable, optimistic, non-conformist, creative, freedom-loving, charming, able to get enthusiastic, self-confident, communicative, capricious, inconsistent, outgoing

It started when I was taking the mickey out of the Arnean dude-pare-man-bro-chong-tol boys, but the word has wormed its way into my everyday vocab, and now, duuude...
I've been using the word "dude" way too much these days.

LoL. I heart Pearls before Swine.

Happy-emo animation. I heart. ^___^

Blurb: Delicious comedy packed with high calorie evil. The Imp is a light hearted look at trying to square a career spreading evil, coupled with the mundane demands of domestic life.

I first saw you when I was looking for the haka on youtube... You led the New Zealand All Blacks in the traditional war dance against South Africa (sorry Leo T) to "kick off" a game your team would win. I had a hard time picking my jaw off the floor. You were... spectacular.

Women's beauty is best displayed in rest. Men are at their best... in motion. Maybe it's the military brat in me, but I think rugby and martial arts are the pinnacles of masculine "beauty." The sheer strength and brutality of these activities are so... wow. Add to that the rhythm and grace (yes, grace!) of the haka... <Fans self>

Thank you, Lord, for Tana Umaga. Lolz.

Yun lang.
I miss watching rugby. ^____^

13th French Film Festival
11-22 June 2008 :: Edsa Shangri-La Plaza

Wednesday June 11
Opening Night - By Invitation
7:30pm – Un baiser s'il vous plait (1.40)

Thursday June 12 – Tribute to Philippine Cinema Night
12:00pm – Changement  d’adresse (1.25)
2 :00pm – Je crois que je l’aime (1.30)
4 :30pm – Serbis
7 :00pm – Now Showing (4:00)

Friday 13 June
12 :30pm - Clean (1.40)
3 :00pm - Qui m’aime me suive (1.40)
5 :30pm - Ma vie en l’air (1.45)
8:00pm - Changement   d’adresse (1.25)

Saturday 14 June
12 :30pm - Ah si j’étais riche (1.45)
3 :00pm - Clean (1.40)
5 :30pm - Qui m’aime me suive (1.40)
8:00pm - Je crois que je l’aime (1.30)

Sunday 15 June
12 :30pm - Ah si j’étais riche (1.45)
3 :00pm - Qui m’aime me suive (1.40)
5 :30pm - Clean (1.40)
8:00pm - Changement  d’adresse (1.25)

Monday 16 June
12 :30pm - Je crois que je l’aime (1.30)
3 :00pm - Ma vie en l’air (1.45)
5 :30pm - Changement  d’adresse (1.25)
8:00pm - Ah si j’étais riche (1.45)

Tuesday 17 June
12 :30pm - Clean (1.40)
3 :00pm - Changement  d’adresse (1.25)
5 :30pm - Roman de gare (1.43)
8:00pm - Qui m’aime me suive (1.40)

Wednesday 18 June
12 :30pm - Je crois que je l’aime (1.30)
3 :00pm - Ma vie en l’air (1.45)
5 :30pm - Changement  d’adresse (1.25)
8:00pm - Ah si j’étais riche (1.45)

Thursday 19 June
12 :30pm - Les chansons d’amour (1.35)
3 :00pm - Ah si j’étais riche (1.45)
5 :30pm - Qui m’aime me suive (1.40)
8:00pm - Ma vie en l’air (1.45)

Friday 20 June
12 :30pm - Changement  d’adresse (1.25)
3 :00pm - Qui m’aime me suive (1.40)
5 :30pm - Les chansons d’amour (1.35)
8:00pm - Je crois que je l’aime (1.30)

Saturday 21 June
12 :30pm - Roman de gare (1.43)
3 :00pm - Ma vie en l’air (1.45)
5 :30pm - Les chansons d’amour (1.35)
8:00pm - Je crois que je l’aime (1.30)

Sunday 22 June
12 :30pm - Les chansons d’amour (1.35)
3 :00pm - Ah si j’étais riche (1.45)
5 :30pm - Clean (1.40)
8:00pm - La Môme (2.20)


To view the film details, click [ here ]
I've added highlights to the screenings I want to see, for those of you want to "accidentally" bump into me. LoL. Kita kits!!

Start:	Jun 11, '08
End:	Jun 21, '08
Location:	Shangri-La Cinema

Click here for more details: http://tinyurl.com/3z6dxc

This was the first movie for the 2008 Film Festival in Edsa Shangri-La. So... yeah, of course there was a whole launch event beforehand, with HOURS of politicking. No joke. Show was supposed to start at 7:30, started around 9... Sigh. So anyway, I missed the last southbound train. Sigh again... At least I got a great seat. The perks of catching a film solo. ^___^

Okay. The movie.
Official blurb: "While on a job in Nantes one evening, Émilie encounters Gabriel. Although they're both attracted to each other, they each already have someone in their life. What's more, they know that they will probably never see each other again. Even so, he'd like to kiss her. She'd also like to kiss him. But something prevents them from doing so: a story of a married woman and her best friend overcome by the effects of a kiss. A kiss that should have been of no consequence."

Anyway it gets complicated because the story-girl here is married. And her husband loves her, as in BIG LOVE, and he only has eyes for her (yes, doesn't the bimbo know how rare that is!?!?!) To cut the long story short, the best friends end up together, the husband goes to Italy a broken man. But it's a happy ending, because that man is now the storyteller's husband. And yes, Émilie and Gabriel do kiss at the end, but still, it's a bittersweet parting.

*Haaaaay nakupow* {slaps palm on forehead}

Which is why I stand by saving all one's kisses for one's spouse! It just makes life less complicated and more exciting at the same time. First kiss at the altar, y'all!!! LoL.

So.. reaction paper time.
I usually HATE movies/books/stories/anything that revolve around infidelity. But this movie had surprisingly good morals. Not perfect, nor perfectly embodied by the characters, but the audience walks away with an important truth: that although it takes effort to stay faithful to your spouse, it's worth it. And the damage that results from such trysts are serious. It didn't trivialize or romanticize extra-marital moonlighting, wasn't at all preachy but still got the point across. And the most important part: IT ENTERTAINED.

And although the context of adultery makes me go "Ewww", I have to admit I'm a sucker for stories of two best friends who wake up one morning and realize they've fallen for each other, or even better, grow in love with each other. *Kilig!*

For a French film, it had surprisingly little dodgyness in it (Yes, I've been told MANY times that I'm a prude and I'm OKAY with that, plus two teen boys were sitting next to me --> protective ate mode --> extra prudishness). And this is a romantic comedy (another rarity for all-too-often-angsty French cinema) so lotsa scenes that were so awkward they were funny. Add to that the fun of spotting discrepancies between the subtitles and the spoken dialogue, it all made for a VERY FUN MOVIE!

Unfortunately, this film has only one screening for this film fest, so if you want to see it yourself, you'll have to buy/rent/torrent it. LoL

I'm planning to spend 2-3 whole days in Shang over the next 2 weekends to catch EVERY SINGLE movie on this list :http://tinyurl.com/3z6dxc

Except maybe "La Mome" the Edith Piaf movie, because I have that already.

During the week, i might even catch the earliest shows for some of them (those that will end before 5)...

Anyone want to come with?!?! Text/message me lang.

Je suis francophile!!! Regardez ces filmes avec moi! Nous aurons beaucoup de rires!
(Je pense que j'ai fait beaucoup d'erreurs... LoL)

I don't like emo music, so these are a sample of the most emo stuff i have.
Which is not too emo. Hopefully. LoL

Now a slice of life... Our yorkshire terrier amusing herself with a calamansi.

'Roppongi Tsunderella' by DJ OZMA (FULL VERSION)

Saw this at Sango with Leo on 6/6/08. He can totally pull off every move here...

I heart the Japanese. ^__________^

I heart Imogen Heap so much.

Goodnight and Go - Imogen Heap

Skipping beats, blushing cheeks I am struggling
Daydreaming, bed scenes in the corner café
And then i'm left in bits recovering tectonic tremblings
You get me every time

Why d'ya have to be so cute?
It's impossible to ignore you
Must you make me laugh so much
It's bad enough we get along so well
Say goodnight and go

Follow you home, you've got your headphones on and you're dancing
Got lucky, beautiful shot you taking everything off watch the curtains wide open
Then you fall in the same routine flicking through the TV relaxed and reclining
And you think you're alone...

Why d'ya have to be so cute?
It's impossible to ignore you
Must you make me laugh so much
It's bad enough we get along so well
Say goodnight and go

One of these days, you'll miss your train and come stay with me
We'll have drinks and talk about things, any excuse to stay awake with you
You'll sleep here, i'll sleep there, but then the heating may be down again
at my convenience
we'd be good, we'd be great together.

Say goodnight and go,
why's it always always
goodnight and go
Darling not again
Goodnight and go

I got my sister to tag me... How sad...

Anyway, I'm more looking forward to reading my taggees' 10 bits of randomness. So wheeee!!!

The Rules:

I. Each blogger starts with ten random facts/habits about themselves.

II. Bloggers that are tagged need to write on their own blog about their ten things and post these rules.

III. At the end of your blog, you need to choose ten people to get tagged and list their names.

IV. Don't forget to leave them a comment telling them they're tagged, and to read your blog.

TEN RANDOM FACTS ABOUT ME! HOORAY!

1. My favorite everyday weather is sunny but overcast.
And I get really kilig by thunder and lightning. As in REALLY kilig.

2. I love frogs. Not toads, frogs.

3. I don't like ice cream.
Or oreos and other hard cookies.
Or chocolate with caramel, nuts, or other "fancy" fillings.

4. I get my news filtered by BBC online radio... satirical quiz programs.

5. I tear up every single time I hear "Let me be your wings," from Don Bluth's Thumbelina.

6. I used to be a hif-haffer... <shame!>

7. Veggietales revolutionized my life. It made me realize what my God had called me to do. I cried at 4 different episodes. I can sing along to practically every song, except maybe the really complicated Silly Songs with Larry...

8. My favorite word is "serendipity," and has been since I was seven years old.

9. Prime numbers make me happy.

10. I can sing in tune, but only when my listeners are imaginary, tone-deaf, drunk, or too tired to throw their shoes at me.

Now your turn!
I tag the following friends, and EXPECT THEM TO POST THEIR RANDOM 10!!!
i know you guys blog so you have no excuse!!! LoL
1. Twin aka Stef
2. Micah
3. Anj
4. Doos
5. Sheila
6. Jorem
7. Genine
8. Josh B.
9. Aileen
10. Ninna