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the idiot box

ok so i have a tv at home right now since more than a week ago thanks to a friend of mine who just came home from sidney.no she didn't buy me tv and i would not let her. it's an extra tv her sister has and since she's crashed my place that's got an imaginary no-tv-allowed policy written on my walls and being a tv person she figured she'd bring the thing with her.

i'm a tv addict ( well, my sister said so. she's enumerated supposed syptoms i exhibit like i'm some freak ). so since i'm here to make something of my life i figured i cannot have a tv at home. i'm hard on this rule.i don't give in to niel's constant wanting for one. just won't happen you see.

now there's tv. i'm getting lazier and lazier by the day. i tried to reflect a bit about my productivity this week and oh my gosh i'm so embarassed i have 3 planners. i've stayed up late and woke up almost lunch time.it's nuts. my routine's ruined.it's so hard to build a routine but so easy to break the same.it's nuts.i'm nuts.

anyway this will be the last day i have a tv at home. it's going tomorrow. this morning i was watching something on etc and there was an ad or preview of a particular show i don't remember now. what struck me was the question this girl asked.she said " if he ( bf/husband or special someone ) forgot about your birthday, what would you do?". i was amused at how girls can be so girls fussing about dates and all. it is such a big deal that one remembers birthday, anniversary and for crying out loud monthsary. lordy!if special someone forgot any of these dates it's like he committed a crime with the heaviest penalty under the RPC. i don't understand it really but i do and can identify with the general gil population in this regard. why is it so difficult for girls to just let it slide when it happens? it really is emotionally dumb sometimes.

on another note, why can being dum or dumbing oneself in certain situations attractive to the opposite sex? i don't understand it. like this someone who chose a loser, i.e. jobless, out of school and is not bothered about it over someone who's in school taking his MBA. i mean, what is this about?

i still firmly believe i should not have a tv at home.

the kingdom rocks

i love it. i can't get enough of it.it's entertaining.it's a well written one.it's now in my list of movies i can watch over and over.

i've actually been meaning to watch it since the cinemas started screening it. i just never really get around to doing it until 2 days ago on dvd. i can't make excuses like "i'm busy" and all that crap because looking back, i'd fail the test/ standard for calling or labeling someone as busy. i remember advocating it to my friends and not so friends; i've emphatically said " you have to watch it.i heard it's amazing" even before i watched it. crazy i know but when joey says it's good then i believe it like the word of God and advertise it to people i know whenever i get the chance ( movie producers should seriously start paying for marketing their product ).

i won't start narrating what the story is about because anyone can google the synopsis for this or just rent a dvd or buy a pirated one, whatever you know. the thing that amazes me about this movie is that it had so much real emotions.it's supposed to be an action movie. it is. the first scenes were like explosions and firing all over the place. in the progression of the movie there were so much blood and killing. it's a serious movie no doubt but it gave those few moments when you just laugh at the conversation happening, some pretty funny situations too like when the arab col was trying to explain to jennifer garner how they tried to give her privacy by putting a wall divider ( the nbi team was housed in a gym ) and that given she's a girl they tried to look for something pink and they just couldn't. the most interesting thing i suppose was how powerful the movie was in the emphasizing how in a conflict people what ever race they belong to, which side they come from do value life, do put premium on the same things and feel for the same things, that friendships transcend culture and race. it's beautiful how this movie juxtaposed what joey termed as the human side of racial/ideological clashes. at the end of the movie you just couldn't take a side.it educates you. that's what films should be about aside from being entertaining.

don't fall for a nice guy

lately i've been quite successful in trying to keep busy with reading this and that, watching this and that in the hopes of exhausting myself to death so i could have my precious uninterrupted sleep at night. this afternoon however, i've become a bit restless again after reading a magazine, 3 articles from the global experience and a chapter from this difficult impact assessment handbook i photocopied. 2 pages to the end of the chapter of my photocopy, i was reading words i couldn't recognize anymore...they're in english but it was like reading russian ( i have little phrase book i read when i'm in the bathroom ). the thing is, i wanted to escape. escape from the reading, escape the thoughts that divorces my attention from my reading. i thought gonuts donuts would help. i got up therefore and went to buy some. i got stuck for awhile in a bookstore. these days my favorite's the self-help section. before i got there, a book with good guys, nice guys words boldly written on the cover caught my attention. i looked at it closely and it said something like us not needing guys to be nice, rather we need them to be good. it reminded of this book i barely read some 10 or so years ago ( ages ago i know ). it said something about not choosing a nice guy to fall for. nice guys break hearts. i'm sure there were explanations why and how but i don't remember now. i thought the nice guy concept was a perfect break for my antsy brain cells. it made laugh a bit. and sure, engrossing on the thought of how many girls actually fall into this kind of pit ( which in darwin's words is utter masochism ) is a refreshing analysis after getting immersed in the israel-palestenian conflict readings.

i got me a box of three gonuts donuts, a hot black coffee.this is the good life baby!