i'm a little teapot

Snagged from boz4pm:

When you see this, post your favourite poem in your journal.

I'm posting poems that I love from two different languages because I cheat like that.

( For Example, A Flower by Arkaye Kierulf )

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( Ako ang Daigdig ni Alejandro G. Abadilla )

By Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies features the original text of Jane Austen's beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton...[read the entire synopsis here]

THIS LOOKS SO AWESOME WHY IS IT NOT IN THE MARKET YET??? (Also: I hope it gets released here. Or else I will just cry.)

恭喜發財!

Kung Hei Fat Choi everyone! Hope you enjoy eating tikoy tonight! xD

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Um...I once stole a 6-inch ruler from NBS once by accident. And by accident, I mean 'I held on to it all the way out the door until I got to the car without anybody stopping me'. By the time I realized that I accidentally shoplifted, I was halfway home already.

I 'accidentally' left P15 the next time I went to that particular NBS branch though, so I guess what happened wasn't technically stealing?

...but thank goodness for the Intarwebs and people who kindly share links with me! I miss watching Conan O'Brien, haha.

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This is a hard one. I'd like to go to Hogwarts, the Jedi Temple, (assuming the Jedi Temple has a high-school-type setting), Ashford Academy (I'd be one of Lelouche's Super Sekrit Fangirls xD) and Osaka Gakuen (I'd be right there being a crossdresser next to Mizuki HAHAHA). And um East High School so I could join the musical...WHY ARE YOU LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT?

I am such a dork. :D

Just finished watching the mad but brilliant 4-part show Lost in Austen, wherein Amanda Price, 21st-century girl, encounters Elizabeth Bennet in her bathtub addressing her as "Ms. Spencer" ("It's written on your underclothes!") and swaps places with her. It's filled with anachronisms and plays around with canon ("Hear that sound? That's the sound of Jane Austen rolling around in her grave!") and this is probably the first time in the history of P&P adaptations that I find the actors for Wickham and Bingley hotter than the one they got for Darcy. (Coincidentally enough, they're both named Tom. Hee.)

I was giddy and acquired a stitch on my side by the time I finished the series. That was the most entertaining 4 hours I've had in my most recent memory. It's similar to the satisfaction I get from reading substandard 'girl-falls-into-Middle-earth' story: it may be brainless fluff, but it's entertaining brainless fluff, and that's all that matters to me -- "chasing gaiety" and all that. xD

Go watch!

ETA: Memorable scenes:
- "Why is my daughter Lydia crying?" "Oh, expect it's because she's bored!"
- Mr Bingley whittling a spear from a tree branch after his failed "social experiment"
- Mr. Tinkler Collins
- Mr. Wickham the ladies' fashion guru
- Mr. Darcy and Tinky Winky
- Jane and Mr. Bingley running away to America to have 25 children, all named "Amanda" (even the sons)
- Caroline "Frosty Knickers" Bingley propositioning our heroine
- every single instance Mr. Wickham chases gaiety

There are rumors of a TV adaptation of the Twilight series to be aired on ABS-CBN, entitled Takipsilim. I saw a link to the press release, but unfortunately, I got a 404 error. That said, I give you hilarious photomanips from here:


Also, whoever wrote the following is a genius of EPIC PROPORTIONS:

"kasi pare ganito daw yun. may isa daw babae na hot daw pare. pero maputla siya kasi hindi siya inalagaan ng nanay niya pare. tapos pare emo daw siya kasi nga daw hindi siya mahal ng mundo at para siyang patay na bata na galit sa mundo. tapos pare, lumipat daw siya ng tirahan kasi daw masyado daw siyang emo para sa luma niyang tirahan. sabi niya sa nanay niya "tangina mo nay gusto ko lumipat kay tay". tangina pare hindi nagalit nanay niya. sabi lang ng nanay niya "tangina mo pare wag ka magmura".so lumipat siya sa tatay niya di ba? pagkarating niya dun sabi niya, "tangina erpat bakit maulan dito?" sabi ng erpat niya "gago "bur" months na! malamig na tangena". so nagtaka yung babaeng simula ngayon ay tatawagin na lang nating "babaeng maputla at emo".

so pumasok siya sa school di ba? binigyan siya ng truck ng tatay niya pare. sabi ng tatay niya "tangina mo sa'yo na tong truck ko". sabi niya "salamat tay".

pagkarating niyang school tsong, may nakita siyang lalaking mukhang bangkay pero pogi. sakto. pogi pero mukhang bangkay. sabi ni babaeng maputla at emo "hot pare".

nung chem lab na ni babaeng maputla at emo, natagpuan niyang lab partner niya yung poging bangkay. so nung tinignan siya nung poging bangaky, ang asim ng mukha nito. mukhang nandiri ata kay babaeng maputla at emo.

sabi ni poging bangkay "tangina mo". sabi ni babaeng maputla at emo "tangina KA". sabi ni poging bangkay "tangina NIYA oh *tumuro sa teacher nila*". sabi ni babaeng maputla at emo "oo nga noh. TANGINA MO". sabi ni poging bangkay "tangina mo gago bampira ako". tapos naghubad siya ng damit at kumintab ang katawan niya kasi linagyan niya ng glitters ang abs niya kasi tigas siya at ganun na ang mga tigas ngayon na nagpupuntang emba.

so pare na in love si babaeng maputla at emo kay poging bangkay. si poging bangkay naman sige lang kasi sex din daw yun. so ayun. angshweet shweet nila.

"eow poh... ahihihihi"

"bebe mwahugz,..... ^^,"

so tapos nun nagpunta sila sa damuhan kasi.... alam mo na. tapos sabi ni poging bangkay "ikaw na buhay ko ngayon" sabi ni babaeng maputla at emo "tangina mo gago patay ka na". sabi ni poging bangkay "TANGINA KA".

tapos nagsex sila

so basically pare yun lang yung mga importanteng nangyari sa buong storya. intense noh? kaya pala nahhook lahat ng tao. akala ko overrated. hindi pala. astig pala. parang estorya ni jesus christ pero may mga bampira. mas astig. alam naman natin ang basic equation ng pagkacool."

*I almost put "redox" as in "reduction-oxidation reaction" in the subject line. Clearly, I have been studying chemistry for far too long. DDDDD:

As I was staring off into space this morning, I suddenly remembered that the Tagalog word for Christmas, pasko, came from the word pascua, which (oddly enough) is Spanish for Easter.

So how did Easter become Christmas in the Philippines? We may never know the exact etymological route that word undertook, but I'd like to think it's because of the symbolism inherent in the two Christian holidays. Christmas is the celebration¹ of Jesus' birth, while Easter is the celebration of his re-birth. Christmas is our Easter, then, a time when we celebrate the coming of Jesus Christ in the world. Which sort of makes sense, if you squint and you tilt your head just so.

In any case, whether or not what I wrote above made sense, I'd like to greet you all a Maligayang Pasko!




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1. Maybe I should have used the word "commemoration". Hmm. Must think on this.

1. It was NINETEEN DEGREES CELSIUS THIS MORNING. No wonder our normally freezing airconditioned classroom was downright toasty when I got to school.

2. According to news reports, there is an estimated 100,000 people in UP Diliman tonight, all there for the Lantern Parade. I heard that it was bongga this year, on account of their centennial celebration and all. Alas that I still haven't watched a single one yet, as the one during first year was cancelled due to student rallies, and I simply forgot about it last year. I swear, I'll watch it next year, even if it kills me.

3. There are around 1,000 guests in Manny Pacquiao's birthday celebration right now, including, apparently, PGMA. Really, all this brouhaha over that man is starting to annoy me.

4. I really hate going home late. Manila's traffic is horrendous. It took me almost an hour to travel 10 kilometers. WHUT.