Taken from Mark Shea's blog: http://markshea.blogspot.com/2002_04_01_archive.html. :D

Sure Glad I'm Not Old

1970: Long hair
2000: Longing for hair

1970: The perfect high
2000: The perfect high yield mutual fund

1970: KEG
2000: EKG

1970: Acid rock
2000: Acid reflux

1970: Moving to Calif. because it's cool
2000: Moving to Calif. because it's warm

1970: Growing pot
2000: Growing pot belly

1970: Watching John Glenn's historic flight with your parents
2000: Watching John Glenn's historic flight with your kids

1970: Trying to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor
2000: Trying NOT to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor

1970: Seeds and stems
2000: Roughage

1970: Popping pills,Smoking Joints
2000: Popping Joints

1970: Our President's struggle with Fidel
2000: Our President's struggle with fidelity

1970: Paar
2000: AARP

1970: Killer weed
2000: Weedkiller

1970: Hoping for a BMW
2000: Hoping for a BM

1970: The Grateful Dead
2000: Dr. Kevorkian

1970: Getting out to a new, hip joint
2000: Receiving a new hip joint

1970: Rolling Stones
2000: Kidney stones

1970: Being called into the principal's office
2000: Calling the principal's office

1970: Screw the system
2000: Upgrade the system

1970: Peace sign
2000: Mercedes logo

1970: Parents begging you to get your hair cut
2000: Children begging you to get their heads shaved

1970: Taking acid
2000: Taking antacid

1970: Passing the drivers test
2000: Passing the vision test

1970: Whatever
2000: Depends

Whoever says that comic books don't amount to anything are missing out on a lot.  Here are a few quotable quotes from some superb graphic novels. :)


"I was seven, the first time. The family cat had been missing for days, and I said I'd had the strangest dream: On May 25th, our cat should be returned to us. A complete lie of course. But after the fuss that the made of me... How? How could I admit that I invented everything? I chose to keep up the pretense, and the longer I did, the harder it became to extricate myself."
- Mr. Lees to Abberline, From Hell by Alan Moore

"Everyone goes around trying to find their soulmate, but no matter how hard they look, they never find it. So instead, they force two bodies together. Everyone wants to use that short time they have together to open their hearts. Even if it's just a one-night dream that's bought with money... It's funny... It's strange... It's sad... I hate doing it, but I also like it!"
- Lawrence Hill to Adrian Clay, Boys Next Door by Kaori Yuki

"I have the whole world to explore, and you don't..." (Kai: Ouch. >_<)
- Beth to Yorick before she broke up with him, Y: the Last Man

"It's not, 'at this late hour.' It's, 'from now on...' "
- Saki to Kouichi, Kurogane no Linebarrel by Shimizu Eiichi

"If you don't trust yourself, trust me who trusts in you!!!"
- Kamina (<3) to Simon, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann by GAINAX


To anyone who has a program that can handle torrents, I HIGHLY recommend that you download some issues of Fables by Willingham, Buckingham, and Leialoha. The story is superb, and the entire series is quote-worthy. For the time being, I'll be running through Alan Moore's Watchmen and Y: The Last Man all over again, because these are both made of AWESOME. 8D God Bless, everyone!

BONFIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BACLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!

*collapses*

Waiting for that honeycrunch-cake-induced-sugar-rush to kick in. And for that Chemistry postlab to finish itself.

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It's amazing, how limited my knowledge of you is.

... which makes me wonder why it hit me so hard when I found out.

That person... It wasn't you. Not anymore.

I read through your LJ again. There was a post that was entirely in French. I couldn't understand a word, but I found a nifty French-English translator online.

Faut-il finir, indeed.

... Rest well, friend. You are missed.

G.D.
28/11/88 - 23/09/08

Cue the Beegees.

• Ladies and gentlemen, it has been confirmed. The Ateneo DOES have its own little bubble of reality. Not only does it call for classes when the entire NCR has none, it is also the only place in the world where Monday happens twice a week! (Yes, I know that this was done out of necessity, so that we can all catch up with the loss of precious class time. But heck, this only happens (hopefully) twice a semester. Might as well snark about it now, or forever hold my peace.)
• For anyone who has a Playstation Portable (PSP), I highly, HIGHLY recommend getting the rhythm game called BEATS. It's simple game: you hit the buttons as they appear on the screen, which vary depending on the song that's playing. But the real beauty of this game is that you can save your personal music collection onto your PSP and voila! Instant tapping experience to your favorite songs.  From Jason Mraz's Curbside Prophet to Mozart's Turkish March, you can practically transform any song into a rhythm game, so long as it's in mp3 format. I'm already at extreme mode, and have started to look at classical music in a different light ever since.
  (Warning: This game may cause calluses and repetitive motion injury. Highly recommended for the easily amused.)
• Salamat, Panginoon, at binigyan Mo kami ng apat na araw na walang pasok. Nawa'y magamit namin ito nang mabuti. Amen.

Mahirap pahiran ng bagong pintura ang mga bagay na hindi maaaring burahin.

Kaninang umaga'y pinag-usapan namin sa klase ng Pilosopiya ang naganap na pagpapatiwakal noong nakaraang Linggo. Si Sir Roy pala ang unang nakakita sa mga labi. Ayon sa kanya, ginamit ni Lawrence (ang binatang nagpatiwakal) ang usok mula sa nasusunog na uling upang kitilin ang sariling buhay. Kawalan ng hangin at pagkalason dulot ng carbon monoxide ang naging sanhi ng kanyang pagkamatay.

Hindi pa rin makatulog nang maayos si Sir hanggang ngayon. Ngunit ayon sa kanya, wala lang ang kanyang nararansan kung ikukumpara sa nararamdaman ng mga magulang ni Lawrence. Sa kanyang palagay, ang pinakamasakit na pangyayari noong umagang iyon ay noong dumating ang mga magulang at nakita ang walang-buhay na katawan ng kanilang anak.  

Kanina, habang naglalakad ako paalis ng aming silid-aralan sa ikalawang palapag ng SEC-A, napansin kong pinapahiran ng bagong pintura ang pader ng SEC balcony. Sa bawat pahid ng roller, unti-unting natakpan ng bagong puting pintura ang kupas na beige ng pader. Tila sinusubukan nitong kalimutan ang kanyang karumihan.

Doon ko nahinuha na ang buhay ay parang pader. Kung may ilang bahagi mang nais mong kalimutan, maaari mo itong takpan gamit ng isang panibagong simulain. Ngunit sa ilalim ng bagong pintura, naroon pa rin ang nakaaraan nais mong ibaon sa limot na tila nagmumulto sa gilid ng iyong kamalayan. 

Maraming tao ang naapektuhan ng pagkamatay ni Lawrence. Hindi natin alam kung papaano sila makababangon mula sa karanasang ito. Marahil ay tatakpan nila ito ng panibagong simulain. Ngunit iisang bagay lamang ang tiyak: Hindi na mabubura ang bahid ng uling sa pader ng kanilang (ating) kamalayan. 

I thought that it would make me happy.

---> Perhaps the most common underlying reason behind every misguided decision in the world.

For the ones I've made, at the very least.
 

Today is Enlistment Day.

You know what this means.

TEN-TENENEN!

AISIS-bashing tiiime~!!! :D *throws confetti*

Online enlistment is always exciting. It's as exciting as, let's say, trying to get onto the MRT during rush hour. Maybe it's the frenzied rush (MUST GET THAT CLASS --- OH LOOK, ONE SLOT LEEEEFT!!! --- NOOOOOOO!!!! *dies*), which, when coupled with the sluggish crawl of the loading bar of your browser (Click the Submit Enlistment button. Play a game or two of Minesweeper. Take a bath --- a looong bath. Wait for five more minutes. Ting! Print your assessment form.) makes for a veeeery fascinating experience.

I feel like I've just gone through a temporary bout of bipolar syndrome.

While my bloody assessment form is currently drying on the counter top, allow me to share the bits and scraps that I managed to scavenge from my morning struggle with AISIS Online.

• Interesting observation: Roy Tolentino's Philosophy classes (all friggin' three of them), along with Sir Dave Lozada's History classes (also three) are to students as fresh meat is to a school of starving piranhas.Talk about picked to the bone.
• I had numerous tiny aneurysms during the whole process, particularly whenever AISIS cruelly sputters and spits out an "Error Occurred while Loading this Page" page to my horrified face, and just when I was about to hit the Submit Enlistment Button too
• It's amazing how this message: "Class full. Cannot be enlisted," can suddenly become, "Enlisted," within the span of 10 minutes. Closely linked to this is the strange phenomenon known as, "WTF, Zero Slots 'to Kanina ah!!!" in which a class that initially had zero available slots suddenly chokes up 20 available slots. Surprise surprise!
• Forecast for the first semester: Much blood (mostly mine) will be lost due to the combined storm front known as BioChemPhyChemHistoPolSciPhilo. Laboratory classes not included.
• Just like my previous AISIS experiences, ghost subjects (subjects that you've already taken/do not need to take) still appear on my enlistment page. As if enlisting for 7 subjects online isn't horrible enough, an additional 3 ghost subjects materialized: En 11 & 12 (which I don't personally mind re-taking, but come on); and FLC (which I'll be taking next semester. Do you hear me, AISIS? NEXT semester).
• For the stalkers and the curious folk out there, allow me to lessen your pains by presenting my schedule to you:
  
  M    0730-0830       0930-1030      1230-1630                                                              1800-1930
  T                                                                                     1500-1630       1630-1800
  W    0730-0830      0930-1030      1230-1630                                    1630-1800
  Th                                                                                   1500-1630       1630-1800       1800-1930
  F      0730-0830      0930-1030
  
  All in all, I have three half-days: T-Th (in the afternoon), and F (in the morning).
  As for Mondays and Wednesdays, I'm currently pretending that they do not exist, so as to avoid triggering further aneurysms.
• Has anyone taken Joy Aceron as a PolSci 100 teacher? I have never heard about her, so any kind of feedback/warning would be much appreciated. :) (e.g. How are her discussions? Did you learn much from her? Will studying under her bring anyone closer to his/her dream of world domination?)
• [EDIT] For the sake of comparison, here's the list of my professors for this semester:
• Roy Tolentino - Philo 101(730 - 830, MWF)
  
• Ambeth Ocampo - Hi165 (1630 - 1800, TTh)
  
• Joy Aceron - PolSci 100 (1500 - 1630, TTh)
• Nina Rojas - Biochemistry Lecture
  
• E. Enriquez - PhyChem Lecture & Lab
  
• TBA - BioChem Lab

            Thanks to christoff_jaman for pointing out the pointlessness of a class-less and teacher-less schedule. ;p

How can a guy have a hole through his belly and still have washboard abs? o_O

Ah, Grimmjow. You're still hot, despite that gaping hole in your midsection. *dreamy sigh*
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True strength is about being able to see beyond oneself.