This song is used in the new iPod Nano commercial. Song by Feist. All taken in one seamless shot. Brilliant!
"1234" Feist One Two Three Four Tell me that you love me more Sleepless long nights That is what my youth was for
Old teenage hopes are alive at your door Left you with nothing but they want some more
Oh, you're changing your heart Oh, You know who you are
Sweetheart bitterheart now I can tell you apart Cosy and cold, put the horse before the cart
Those teenage hopes who have tears in their eyes Too scared to own up to one little lie
Oh, you're changing your heart Oh, you know who you are
One, two, three, four, five, six, nine, or ten Money can't buy you back the love that you had then One, two, three, four, five, six, nine, or ten Money can't buy you back the love that you had then
Oh, you're changing your heart Oh, you know who you are Oh, you're changing your heart Oh, you know who you are Oh, who you are
For the teenage boys They're breaking your heart For the teenage boys They're breaking your heart [ www.azlyrics.com ]
It's pretty obvious that you don't make basic grammatical errors. If anything, you're annoyed when people make simple mistakes on their blogs. As far as people with bad grammar go, you know they're only human. And it's humanity and its current condition that truly disturb you sometimes.
You may want to consider selling your DNA. They pay $5000.
Aside from that come-on, you also help researchers. But beware, they could actually hold the patent to your DNA (insert The Twilight Zone music here *)
"Thanks to the U.S. Patent office, your DNA can be patented, protecting your blueprint and putting your DNA on file for scientific purposes."
I don't know how long this tag has been going on. I'm unreliable with tags because if I'm not feeling it, I can;t answer.
Anyway, somehow I got through this one from Lynette. Here are the rules:
"Each player of this game starts with 6 weird things about himself or herself. People who get tagged need to write a blog entry of their own as well as state the rule clearly. In the end, you need to tag 6 people as well and list their names. "
I can’t grow my nails long. I just can’t. There is nothing logical about it, I just can’t. The moment they start looking manicure ready, I cut them off, or worse, start biting them.
I can raise my left eyebrow … only the left eyebrow and the right one doesn't move at all. And I can make my nostrils flare at will.
I’m kind of hairless. I don’t have any noticeable hairs on my arms. And I have very thin hairs in my nose.
I detest the smell of any laundry detergent (I can tolerate Mild variant of Perwoll, but barely). It makes me sneeze. And to think I do the laundry … No. 2 is probably the reason why I am so sensitive to smells. Sometimes even the merest whiff of detergent on my clothes irritates me.
I sneeze really loud, just like my Lolo. He hangs on to something solid, sneezes and we feel the earth (ok, wooden floor) quake and see window shingles shaking. Think of me as a mini-quake, especially when doing the laundry.
My study table is a horrendous mess. But my files are in top-top order. But I just as easily find something in both. Order in chaos, order in order.
Hopefully no one is suffering from voter's remorse as we find out who
are next bunch of leaders are ... Got this in a forwarded email. Just
want to post it here for everyone.
Miriam Defensor Santiago was featured in Correspondents last week.
ANG SARAP MAGING SENADOR!
Maganda rin naman ang naidudulot ng pagiging prangka ni Senador Miriam
Defensor-Santiago. Ayon kay Santiago, marami ang tumatakbong Senador
dahil sa laki ng budget na ibinibigay sa kanila kada buwan.
Lumalabas na P35,000 suweldo nila kada buwan ay pakitang-tao lang sa
milyun-milyong budget ng bawat senador. Kada buwan ay may Fixed
Monthly Budget ang bawat Senador ng humigit-kumulang P2 Milyon.
Sa opisina pa lang nila ay humigit-kumulang P500,000 and budget nila
sa Maintenance and Operating Expenses (Rental, Utilities, Supplies at
Domestic Travels) at P500,000 para sa Staff at Personal expenses. Kaya
para makatipid ang ibang Senador, kaunti lang ang staff na kinukuha
nila. Nagtataka ka pa kung bakit mayroong mga Ghost Employee?
Bukod diyan, may P760,000 allowance pa sila kada buwan para naman sa
Foreign Travel. At ang masakit pa nito, hindi na kailngan i-liquidate
ang mga resibo ng mga gastusin 'yan kundi Certification lang ang
Requirement.
Heto pa, lahat sila ay Chairman ng mg Komite sa Senado. Ang Committee
Chairman ay tumatanggap din ng budget na sinlaki ng tinatanggap ng mga
Senador na humigit-kumulang P1 Milyon din! Hindi sila mawawalan ng
Komite dahil 24 lang ang ating mga Senador at 37 naman ang Committee
sa Senado. There's food for everybody 'ika nga! Lumalabas na doble ang
kanilang benepesiyo at kita kapag sila ay nabiyayaan ng Committee
Chairmanship.
Sa P200 milyon na Budget para sa Pork Barrel ng mga Senador bawat
taon, awtomatikong may 10% na S.O.P. o kita ng Senador na P20 milyon.
Ito ang porsiyento na ibinibigay ng mga kontratista sa mga Senador na
nagbibigay sa kanila ng mga Infrastructure at Livelihood Project.
Bago matapos ang termino ng isang Senador, kumita na siya ng P100
milyon sa Pork Barrel pa lang. Yung ibang Senador mas gahaman, hindi
lang 10% kundi 20 - 30% ang komisyon hinihingi sa mga kontratista.
Pansinin niyo na lang ang pagbabago ng buhay ng ilan sa ating mga
Senador simula nang manungkulan sa puwesto. Kung dati ay simple lang
ang kanilang pamumuhay ngayon ay nakatira na sila sa mga eksklusibong
subdivision, maraming bahay sa Pilipinas at abroad at mahigit lima ang
sasakyan.
Ngayon nagtataka ka pa ba kung bakit gumagastos ng daan-daang milyong
piso ang mga Senador sa kampanya para sa isang posisyon na P35,000
lang ang suweldo kada buwan? Bawing-bawi pala ang gastos kapag naupo
na!
This year's winner is a photo by Spencer Plat (US) showing a group of youths amidst the aftermath of their bombed neighborhood in southern Beirut, Lebanon last August 15, 2006.
About
200 winning photographs are on display thoughout Metro Manila.
Schedule:
The Podium: May 2 - 8
Mall of
Asia: May 10 - 16
The Block (SM North EDSA): May 18 -24
Everyone remains in shock from the Virgina tech killings. I was further
shocked to learn that one of my batchmates, Romeo, is a student there.
Thankfully he sent us an email, assuring us of his safety, as well as
that of the many Pinoys studying there.
Hi everyone! If you are wondering why this blog has largely been
unu-pdated and entries are slowly disappearing, its because I am doing
my bloggy spring cleaning ...
note: if you are already my contact here but of dui's, i'd gladly make her your contact.
2. if you're just interested in the foodie entries (recipes, resto reviews, etc), everything is at aloimeansyummy.wordpress.com. my old foodie blog will disappear entry by entry.
Maintaining multiple blogs can be quite crazy at times. The reason why
this blog (this being the original one too) has been so unupdated is
because I have two other blogs:
It goes without saying that I am not touching Dui's blog. This is more for family and friends.
But what to do with this blog and the foodie thingy?
What with customization now possible here in multiply plus the fact
that blogcharm isnt "making me money" (as it claims it would), why
bother? I also noticed that the most commented/visited items here in
multiply are in fact my foodie related posts. Oh, and setting privacy
here "seems" to be better.
Anyway ...
I'd love to hear from anyone out there who pops in here, even once in a while. :)
When I feel the beginnings of a cold or flu coming on, what do I do?
No, I don't reach for a pill. I go get a massage. This is exactly what
Yeng and I did recently.
Am recuperating from what I swear could've been a full blown case of
the flu. What with the weird weather changes, I've been getting a
scratchy throat in the morning and strange aches and pains. And
as I was getting well, Yeng suddenly seemed to have my symptoms. Ha,
transferred my germs to him!
So off we went to get that much-needed massage with our trusty container of olive oil in hand.
Our favorite place is Sharper Image along Congressional. For P390, you
get to use their sauna for 30 minutes and a whole blissful hour (give
or give 15 minutes) of massage - Swedish or Thai, take your pick. The
place is clean and the massage therapists well trained.
Our favorites: Ruth (if you need a light touch and want to relax),
Diding or Lisa (if you need a hard massage and get rid of those achy
achy aches of an oncoming flu bout).
Enjoy!
Sharper Image
Barber and Massage
Unit 101, # 27 Congressional Ave, Quezon City
Tel: 925.4474
At our place, Milenyo was just a minor irritation. No lights for a few
days. But nothing major. Until I saw photos and TV clips of what was
happening.
Talking with some UPLB friends, I learn that my hometown has suffered
even more. And to think I was annoyed that I couldn't get through the
telephone lines to LB over the weekend.
Tags and wordclouds seem to be really in. We tag everything here in
Multiply. It's an easy way of finding out whats exactly written in a
blog, and the font size also indicates how much you've been yapping
about something too.
With summer around the corner, it’s getting really hot. To cope, I’ve
been eating ice-cream. I think I am developing an obsession for Arce
Dairy’s products. Each time we pass the ice cream section, I’ve been
grabbing up the unusual flavors.
But this by far is one of my top picks. A bowl of ice? Not too far off
... sherbet! Buco lechias. Buco is young coconut. Lechias is lychee.
Imagine iced buco juice with a few strips of young coconut and bits of
lychees. Sweet, succulent ... and so refreshing for these hot days!
I don’t know if it’s less fattening, at the rate I’ve been eating it
though. (Especially since I eat ice cream too). Dui elicits giggles
from her cousins when she starts yelling for her bowl of buco LECHAS!
She strangely prefers it over ice cream.
Was chatting with
mommy while we were having a bowl each of buco lechias sherbet after
another leisurely dinner. She remembers that as a child that were
street hawkers of sherbet. Kind of like those bringing around taho to
your doorstep. I wonder what happened to those?
I’ve got this on my list of things to do: make my own sherbet. Because I doubt half a gallon really costs 190 pesos!
(I'm transitioning my foodie stuff over to I'm Hungry. So
if you want to be on the mailing list for only my foodie entries,
please let me know and I'll remove you from my Multiply site's email
list. Cheers!)
I am at an impasse. Is it a midlife crisis impending? I remember Tatay saying that I am at a crossroads and that he felt old. Now suddenly I feel old.
Now a few meanderings on nothing in particular.
Rave: Burt's Bees makes me extremely happy. I love most of their products
(what can you say about their peppermint lip glosses and lip blams, and
my fave: lemon butter cuticle cream) and I've recently bought their
Orange Essence Facial Cleanser. Like all their products, it smells good
enough to eat! I gave it a test run last night and came out
smelling like mandarin oranges, and invigorated. It really doesn't dry out your skin, and while it feels
pretty greasy going on (and there are no suds either) ... wow, what a
far cry from the squeaky clean feeling I've gotten used to with
Neutrogena products. Yeah, it's expensive but it IS an indulgence.
Rant:
Multiply is going through these weird changes that I've had to change
my format. if you noticed, my welcome page is now like any other
ordinary blog. Why? Because the recipes link no longer comes out. With
the recipes being a major feature, it looked pretty funny that it was
no longer there. Ha!
So instead of ranting and getting frustrated, I created another blog
especially for food. If you arent interested in all my mundane yakkings
here (yeah, it's ok to say that, I still love you, dear friend), you
can go to I'm Hungry.
Everything food related is there - the resto reviews, recipes, food
finds, etc. Now you can expect my Multiply site to have more
miscellaneous stuff posted. Like about facial cleansers.
The first two actually scared me a bit! ;) Honestly, I've thought of
myself in this (either) way. As for the pizza thingy, that's seemed
more predictable. Hmmm....
You Are a Powdered
Devil's Food
Donut
A total sweetheart on the outside, you love to fool people with your innocent image.
On the inside you're a little darker, richer, and more complex.
You're a hedonist who demands more than one pleasure at a time.
Decadent and daring, you test the limits of human
indulgence.
Unusual and uncompromising.
You're usually the first to discover a new trend.
You appreciate a good meal and good company.
You're an interesting blend of traditional and
modern.
"Our music is possible because we are possible" - Silvia Calado Olivo of Ojos de Brujo, Madrid, November 2002
Ojos de Brujo. ODB. (insert fanatic scream lasting about ten whole seconds here)
I don’t have any of their albums (yet), but I was an instant fan. I think this group is absolutely brilliant!
Translated as “Eyes of the Warlock,” Ojos de Brujo is a collective of
young (and radical) Spanish musicians based in Barcelona. They use
flamenco as a foundation for their cross-genre experimentation -
infusing elements of hip-hop, funk, salsa, and reggae. Then throw in
some electronica and Barcelona street sounds too. Sound impossible?
Listen here and tell me that it doesn’t work. Because it DOES work, and surprisingly well.
They’re called noveau flamenco by some. But ODB calls their brand of
music "Jip Jop Flamenkillo" which they claim is “a sound that catapults
flamenco into the 21st century without losing any of the power or
passion of the music's roots.”
Oh so true. There is a dynamism there – the intricate guitarwork, the
percussions, the impassioned vocals - so infectious that you want to
jump up and dance! Or at the least, sing along! When I first downloaded
Tiempo de Solea,
I couldn’t get enough of it and played it for at least five times
straight. In our iPOD, it got its major long play treatment in the car
when we were stuck in horrendous traffic to watch New Year fireworks.
It’s pretty difficult to remain crabby for 3 hours when you hear ODB!
I’ve been semi-singing-humming the song Tiempo de Solea for a few days,
and Dui has been going “tio-tio VAN, tio-tio VAN VAN VAN” during her
morning showers too that its becoming silly!
As in all my dabblings in world music, I got my first taste of Ojos de
Brujo from Putumayo. Vacileo (“A Good Time”) is a danceable song that
has strong Latin flavors and declares that: “Oh, I am cured by rumba / That’s how I have a good time …”
Tesoro (“Treasure”), meanwhile, is slower and quite subdued in
comparison. It has romantic introductory guitarwork. The lyrics are
quite bizarre (“Your face is a fish when you have fun” – err,
romantic?) and incorporates local slang (“Donderei donerara”). These
aside, you could fall in love to this song. Hubby and I dance this
sometimes during our “feeling Latin dancers” moods.
As a sidebar, Ojos de Brujo has a grassroots and anti-corporate
philosophy. While the music is in the forefront, ODB is not merely
about music. They are a loose collective of various artists - graffiti,
multimedia, designers, filmers, among others. "I don't want to say we
belong to a political party," says Xavi, the group’s percussionist. "We
don't like those kind of associations. We do believe in doing things
for ourselves, in controlling our own productions, in being free and
having a social commitment, trying to do something to make this a
better world… and in this sense we maybe also a little political, since
politics are also social." In fact, they released their album overseas
through their own production company, La Fábrica de Colores (now
Diquela Records).
So it’s no wonder then that in my quest to own my own ODB record, I
have come up dry. I have found nada in all the music bars here in the
Philippines. So I have had to settle for the smattering of songs in the
Putumayo albums.
It seems that ODB is making waves in the UK market,
generating an almost fanatical bunch of groupies. Makes me wonder if I
may be a lone fan in the Philippines. I hope not, because if you have a
full ODB album, I would probably scratch your eyes out to at least
borrow it!
My next project is to learn some more Spanish so I can at least sing along to them and not feel like an oaf.
