Because we do not own a router, I have to wait in queue for my turn to use the internet while my bratty sister was in her typical cranky self. Storming to my room, I decided to continue reading TH White’s Once and Future King, left unfinished for a week or so.
Bad-tempered at first, I then got lost in the world of fantasy and enjoyed reading about Merlyn’s wisdom, Queen Morgause of Lothian and her other enchanted sisters, of the Old Ones and the early years of Arthur’s rule.
JD Salinger is dead at age 91 on January 27, 2010. He was the writer of “The Catcher in the Rye,” a cult favorite of sorts that I have mixed feelings about.
I once took a Facebook quiz on which literary character you are, it came out with Holden Caulfield. Nak ng –!I am not like Holden Caulfield. It killed me. Do I strike you to be the type of guy who complains a lot, and has all this angst against the world? I am not like that! Do you see me complaining that way?!
Okay.
I read The Catcherwhen, I think, I was in college. I was young but not that young that I have already a good grasp of who I am, which is probably one of the reasons that the book did not hit me as hard as others. I liked Franny and Zooey better.
It’s been almost six months since I started my job here in this place of constant boredom. It is better than taking calls, so I stay here editing transcripts. It’s not really that bad.
I do not know if I am going to be regularized by February. I have some absences and my performance isn’t exactly what you’d call stellar.
But if I do, and if there is some sliver of hope that I am to be regularized, I need a friend. A friend that gets it, a normal friend.
Not that I hate the people I hang out with, they’re actually very nice to me. But it sure would be nice to hang out with someone, male and heterosexual, for a change.
A co-worker once said that men in our company are either gay or ugly, they then look at me and say that I am an exception in that category. Now, they have changed it. The men in our company are either gay or geeks. I think superior geeks will shudder at the nature of our jobs. But seriously, I dont see many geeks here, maybe they were all transferred in the evening shift. But it sure would be nice to hanging out with some one different.
Yesterday, I confessed to Meow that I am beginning to talk like them. She was surprised that I said Gora so casually. Hahaha! It is not wrong to speak Gay Talk but it doesn’t really suit me. I don’t want to say all those stuff in normal conversation. They are beginning to rub off on me. NOOOO!
I want a friend who likes fantasy and cartoons. Someone who smokes and drinks. Someone who have a sense of humor that is similar to mine. Someone who does not fornicate with men. Please, please, please…
Yesterday evening, I checked my email. Checked Google Reader, which I have not been checking for a while: Surprise! Fantasy writer Neil Gaiman is engaged to Singer-songwriterAmanda Palmer! I am a fan of those two.
My first reaction:
So I checked the Internet, not a good time, our ISP’s service is so SLOW last night. Read the rest of this entry »
I was thinking of something to post, and then I thought it would be nice to be posting things I like. I don’t write anything I like anymore.
Today, I will be posting musicians that I like. Yes, musicians I like. Now, why I have to reiterate that, I don’t know. Maybe for dramatic effect.
Today, let’s start with Tori Amos.
I like her a lot! Ever since… I don’t know. I just did. I’ve known her from high school, Jackie’s Strength. I liked it even if it isn’t a very manly song. Then, I started to hear other songs. Very original and unlike anyone else’s. She sing songs that tell a story, sometimes sweet, surreal, tragic or dark, at times even disturbing.
This Facebook Sabbatical made me go back to my neglected online activities like blogging, twitting (or is it twitter-ing?), and so on. The reason behind the FB boycott is a long story.
My online life was never the same after college. Maybe because I did not have much of a social life, just always waiting for the next birthday so that I can find a reason to get drunk.
Like I was browsing through Pinoy Exchange, and I was thinking, they are annoying. I never considered myself (maybe a little) a good debater but recent arguments on my former favorite threads are insipid and lame. Where have all the great PExers gone? Maybe I outgrew it and heard most of the arguments.I was grossed out.
I have mentioned countless times that I want to be a writer, not necessarily a prolific writer but a writer that writes for a living. That’s one reason why I chose that part-time article writer job.
Now, I am able to earn 300 pesos for five 500-word articles. Not very much, I know.
I downloaded way too many eBooks. I want to read them all, but I can’t due to my job. I badly need an eBook reader, a really cheap one.
My laptop is working against me. I need a new one. But I love this one, still.
While I was looking for Peter S. Beagle stories, which is hard to find in bookstores, I stumbled upon something about a Last Unicorn rave. Geeks know how to party. See This.
Three rooms of music and fantasy! Why aren’t there parties like that here?!
A good movie does not need to have uber complex relations to be melodramatic, nor does it need have super complicated and unusual situations. I saw the movie Ded na si Lolo , and I think it is one of the best Filipino movies I have seen recently. The movie was cast with great actors (maybe except Rainier), we have Gina Alajar, Dick Israel, Elizabeth Oropesa, Roderick Paulate and Manilyn Reynes among others. The movie was directed by Soxie Topacio.
It is nice to see an indie movie that is not gay-themed.
New Year morning at Cubao is disgusting. Smog covers the city. It would have been picturesque if it was natural fog but it stenched of combustible powder. That was depressing.
I love the Manila Peninsula. It’s so nice there. The food is great, the staff are nice, it’s like perfect. It even has P’s on the towel. P for Peninsula and P for my name. Oh! I love it there. The tub was just the right size for me. The bath robe is just the right size and fits so well, it seems it was made for me.
We had this really great buffet breakfast and we had plenty of pictures. It’s not everyday that you get to be in a five-star hotel. So lumabas ang ka-jologs-an namin. The people there are nice. From the reservation desk when I called to everybody there, from the front desk even to the chefs.
I owe it all to Xandee and Shamie who sold the GC for three thousand pesos!
But all good things come to an end. We have to leave that nice place.
I just got confirmation that I passed the screening for freelance work. I will work on that tomorrow. I wonder what topic to choose. I tend to be dull and uninteresting if I find the topic dull. If all goes well, I may consider doing it full-time.
I’ve been watching a lot of anime. Naruto us still fun to see. I also saw Dragon Hunters, a nice french film. I loved it so much, you should see it.
I also have Coraline and Ponyo to finish.
I hope that everything goes well next year. Hoping, it will be a better one.