BoobooStrider

For the past few days, I've seen:

Looks like the Philippine Star is gaining momentum...

At first, I thought they were just kidding when they said Britney's hit and run incident was videotaped. Until I saw this:



OMG. And DMV is saying they NEVER issued her a license???

"Otra vez, numero cinco..."
"Huh?"
"A ver, numero cinco por favor!"
"Si - No me gusta las canciones de Shakira."
"Esta despitada senor?" -(Are you absent-minded?)

I wish I could say yes but instead I said I was okay. I have to admit the fact that I'm getting a bit old. When I was 19, I managed to go to work without dropping my subjects in school. I had only four hours of sleep. I lost a lot of weight. But now, I couldn't do that anymore.

I chose to attend Spanish four times a week for two reasons: 1) I get to learn and practice more and 2) I thought that the stress would make me lose weight. I was wrong. It's become unhealthy. I've developed some weird headache --> only the left side of my brain hurts and it starts around 10 AM and lasts for about an hour.

One proof that I need to rest: Last Friday, I took a bus on my way to Instituto. I woke up somewhere near La Salle. I shut my eyes again and voila! I woke up in freaking Quiapo! I got off the bus immediately and crossed the street through the underpass. I took an FX and got off Times Plaza along United Nations Avenue.

Upon entering the mall, a man got my attention. I was listening to some music on my phone so he tapped my back several times, I got pissed. When I turned, he handed me my wallet. F*ck... I keep forgetting things. Maybe I really need to get some rest and see my doctor.

I thanked the guy who gave me the wallet. I wanted to treat him for lunch or something but he was in a hurry.

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It's hard to admit but I guess it's true that some things do happen for a reason. Like for my spanish class, I was supposed to be under Profesor Esteller's clase. He's a good-looking and very nice profesor en clase dos pero I think he has such a short fuse [like me hehe]. When a student couldn't pick up the pace, he tends to make faces, making sure we know that he's irritated because we didn't get what he just said. Or maybe we were just overreacting to his rolling of eyes and tone of voice.

Anyway, one thing I love about his class is he taught us a lot in just two days. It's also what I hate about it because there were just too much information to digest in our brains. The class was cancelled like I blogged earlier. I was put in Profesor Bernacer's class. He's an old-fashioned instructor but i like him because he makes sure every student participates and speaks Spanish in every class.

I cannot believe level two ends next Thursday. I will be taking level 3 soon then the examination's next. I'm so excited. I was told that by the time you take level 8 or 10, you should be able to carry a conversation in Spanish, or at least watch a movie without reading the subtitles.

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Yey! They started filming! This is the first pic officially released. So what's the plot? It follows the story from the series. Mr. Big a.k.a. John and Carrie move in together and they'll be hunting for apartments in NYC. The movie will be released in May 08.

I can't wait to find out what happens to Samantha Jones who had breast cancer in the series.

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I realized that I've surrendered my social life to the worldwide web. I've been blogging or blog-hopping a lot lately that I forgot how to have a good time and go out. The problem is, I can't think of anyone to go out with. My crew's busy with their own shiz. Ria's enjoying the weatha down unda. France is in some deep shit. I texted Belle and she had this crazy idea of us going to the zoo.

BoobooStrider: Which zoo?
Belle: Malabon Zoo!
BoobooStrider: Sunday, open ba sila?
Belle: Call them! Google na lang.

Fortunately, Smart Bro was cooperative for the past few days. [I figured they might have been convincing me to pay my bill ASAP that's why I haven't had problems with my connection lately.] I got their number and found out they're open until 5PM. Belle and I were texting at 1PM or thereabouts. So we agreed to resked na lang. We might not enjoy the entire zoo for just two-three hours.

So scrap the zoo plan. I logged on to ClicktheCity.com to find out what's happening in the city. I never thought this site could come in handy when you're bored and all. I saw an ad for 'Avenue Q' and 'Cinderella'. I wanted to watch both plays but the times were against my schedule.

So I decided to watch movieS instead:

THE BRAVE ONE (Jodie Foster/Terrence Howard/Naveen Andrews)


I am not really a big fan of Jodie Foster. I started watching her movies when I saw her spectacular performance on 'The Accused' when it was shown on HBO. I had to rent a DVD just to watch it over and over again. Aside from the intriguing poster and the exciting trailer, I wanted to give her another chance to impress me. Why? Because I thought her last movie, 'Flightplan' sucked and the movie didn't give justice to her acting.

'The Brave One' has a common plot. Jodie is Erica Bain in this movie, a radioshow host. She becomes a victim of a brutal massacre that left her boyfriend, 'Lost' star Naveen Andrews dead. She struggled to come back to her normal life but she just couldn't. And just like an ordinary victim of any crime, she tries to feel safer by arming herself with a gun. She then becomes a sort of a hero that kills crooks that come her way. Her last kill were her attackers at the tunnel.



I had a hard time understanding what was happening in the first part. It seemed like the pace was slow--probably with the acting--but then a lot of things were happening in the first act. I imagined Jodie getting the gun somewhere in the middle. There seems to be a disconnect somewhere in the beginning that ended up in the cutting room.

Anyway, the ending was really great. Terence Howard gave a great performance too. Although it does leave one big question, does the end justify the means? Does killing a murderer bring justice to the victim?

I KNOW WHO KILLED ME (Lindsay Lohan/Brian Geragthy)



Okay, the only reason why I watched this is because I read somewhere that Lindsay Lohan was on rehab while shooting half of this film. So, celeb bloggers were thinking that we might see a before and after.

Sadly, I only saw the 'before' LL. She looked like a miserable drunken/fallen star in the movie. Frankly, I don't even know what she is doing in this film. It looked like a low budget, torture-porn reminiscent of 'Tamara' or 'Valentine'. There was no coherence in the story and they forcibly injected twists and turns in the plot which made it utterly ridiculous.



LL plays Aubrey Fleming, a student who quits piano lessons to pursue her love which is fiction writing. One night, she disappears at the college football game. Scenes of her being tortured by some lunatic who loves shiny, blue sharp objects. She is then found, with an arm and a leg amputated by her kidnapper. When she wakes up at the hospital, she claims she is not Aubrey and takes the identity of some nightclub dancer named Dakota.

The police try to get information out of Dakota or Aubrey but she wouldn't cooperate, saying that she might be a twin of Aubrey as she shows manifestations of having a stigmatic twin. She bleeds when Aubrey bleeds.

This is the most silly part: the killer turns out to be her jealous piano teacher who gets frustrated because she quit playing piano. But that's not all. Dakota was telling the truth. Aubrey Flemins really is another person and she was buried alive by the killer. Dakota finds her, manages to outsmart the pathetic piano teacher and saves the day.

First of all, this isn't the first time LL played twins in a movie. Remember 'Parent Trap' in the 90's? Secondly, there was just so much going on in the movie that you can't help but ask WTF they really wanted to get out of its audience.

I really hope LL finds a better script next time. She has yet to produce another blockbuster hit after 'Mean Girls'.

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One important thing pala, I noticed that in both films, there were A LOT of cuts! MTRCB must be working really hard nowadays. Tsk Tsk.

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I went DVD shopping today. I couldn't think of what to buy since there are a lot of good titles. I only buy DVDs of the movies that are not released locally. That's my strict policy. I bought Richard Linklater's 'Fastfood Nation' and another movie entitled 'Scorned'. The actors are some reality TV stars like Ethan Zohn and Jonathan Baker. Should be interesting.

Back to work tomorrow. Sigh!

They say:

Basta I don't want to end up like this:

Vashti, Jhing and Maleen invited me for a little treat last week. They're going gaga over these fried squid being sold on the streets. I am not a big fan of street food. The last time I ate street food was in UP. I trust their fishballs vendors more than the ones that are here in Makati or in Manila.


Why? Because I saw how they prepare everything in the morning before they sell their food on the streets.

Our [high] school used to be located beside the PNR railroad (I know, tell me about it!) When you look outside the window at around 7am you would see the fishball vendors preparing for another long day of selling their products. What's disturbing is that they just get the water from an unknown tube. They use the same basin to prepare the sauce and wash their clothes later. They also wash and use their pans as tabo. So I can just imagine how people get sick after eating fishballs.
So anyway, they were really convincing me to try them. 'It's just calamares!' Maleen said. I told her I might try it but not today. Kaso I saw them eat the it and it does look delicious. It costs only 2.50 per piece. I was so tempted but my stomach was convincing me not to try one.

But it became increasingly difficult to avoid the pusit when it's all over the metro! I went to Manila for my Spanish class and the streets smelled like calamares.


So I went ahead and tried it. I told myself that this is definitely better than this:

Another crazee moment at the office this morning. I saw Sandara* -The Bipolar Bitch at the office. You see, she was let go last week not because of her mental state, but because she had the balls to yell at her [then] future boss in front of the entire batch of new employees. I wasn't there to witness her moment but I heard it wasn't the first time it happened.

My training cohorts said she's been acting really weird since day 1. She went on a sick leave one time and when she came back, HR demanded that she present a medical certificate. She went berserk saying they were making things hard for her since she can only get medical certificates from two people - her psychiatrist and someone at the National Mental Hospital.

One time, I caught her yelling while talking to someone on the phone. I didn't know she was bipolar then so I was going to berate her or at least ask her to shut the fuck up but the guard stopped me. 'Sir wag na po. Baka mapagtripan pa kayo.' Later I realized what she meant by that.

So I am blogging about her for two reasons. Firstly, I saw her today at the lobby of our building! And she was still wearing her company ID! Last week, she even slept in the office after the hearing for her termination I alerted the security officers saying she might be a danger to everyone if she forgets to pop that pill or see someone who might have been an accomplice to the Sandara Out project. You see, while she was still in training, I heard that the whole batch of new employees signed a petition for her to be axed due to misdemeanor. I wonder if she was still trying to make an appeal.

Lastly and most importantly, I've become some sort of a bipolar too lately. I have these occasional outbursts and sometimes I yell at my crew. The other day was the worst. I was having a great day when I heard Kervin toying with our new gal Ann. First of all, the flirting isn't appropriate since he has a girlfriend who happens to be under my supervision too [but is currently doing an earlier shift]. Secondly, you're not supposed to flirt while we're doing business here.

And oh, I forgot to mention that Ann lied and almost got me into deep trouble. You see her blah blah performance caused her to end up on the D-list and she was supposed to attend a weekly training in hopes of becoming a little better than how she's performing today.

The other day, upon arriving, she told me she wasn't able to attend because of some lame reason. Then the moderator approached her and asked why she didn't attend the session. The bitch lied saying I told her not to go. So it prompted Matt, the moderator to send out another nasty email asking me to explain what she just told him.

I hate emails. Especially nasty ones like this:
'Explain yourself!'
'What happened here?'
'Where's the disconnect?'

Sadly, there's no other explanation and there wasn't any disconnect. It was her brain that malfunctioned and the bitch lied. So when I saw her flirting with the asshole, my temperature went off the charts and I lashed out on them.

Oh, poor them. They saw the worst of me. I hate it when I yell at people. I hate yelling. I'm sarcastic but I hate yelling. It's like my mom whispering in my ear to yell at them. Not a pretty sight.

Anyway, I was impressed that after a little pep talk, about 85% of the crew were early today except for the might-be-cursed couple. Ana arrived earlier which led me to believe that either he dropped him off at the lobby while he looked for a parking slot or there really was no fucking that happened....YET.

Oh, when I was a kid I wanted to be Donald Trump. And now I am half his toe, I am still complaining.

It seems that despite her tragic performance, the fans are staying behind Britney Spears. They've launched a new campaign 'Leave Britney Alone'. Some of them made videos on YouTube sending out a message to the whole wide world to... well... leave Britney alone.

My favorite video is from Chris Crocker, the crazy bitch from YouTube. And oh, EyeLurveIt:



I found him on the internet a few days after Brit's 'Gimme More' single was released. He did his own version, which I prefer more than Britney's VMA performance. Haha!

Since I know that the VMAs will have a sooper delayed broadcast here in Manila, I searched online to watch her much-awaited comeback/performance. I wasn't too thrilled to see it. I was actually scared for Britney. Who goes out partying the night before her big performance? And when MTV released a clip of Brit rehearsing, I had a feeling it will suck big time.

Lo and behold, my predictions are true. A few points here:

1. She must have forgotten how to lipsynch.
2. Where is Britney the dancer?
3. You can see 50 Cent shocked and speechless (00:46)
4. SHE DIDN'T GIVE JUSTICE TO THIS SONG!
5. Nothing else would describe it other than a DISASTER.

Freedom of Expression.

It's always a phrase that has no boundaries, especially on the internet. But the meaning of the operative word 'Freedom' will once again be tested as the controversy behind the popular blog, 'BoyBastos.com' is unravelled in front of the Senate.

Senator Loren Legarda, the author of the Anti-Child Pornography act questioned the 'illegal' activities of Mark Verzo, author of BoyBastos.com. She said the site allegedly directs its readers to several sites conducting human trafficking on the internet.



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I know, i know. I've been posting a lot of videos lately. But I'm only posting 'relevant' content --hehhe. I can't help it. These past few days, my life's been such a bore and I can't invent stories to spice it up..at least not here (wink at Ria).

I don't know how but Ria always manages to find the funniest videos on YouTube. Maybe she has lots of idle time? I didn't even know this movie was released. This has so many versions on the internet but I chose this one coz this is the funniest. It's the music video of Mark Lapid's [in]famous line in his movie:



ENJOY!!!

The first blog I ever had was with Blogspot. It was a friend of mine in college who first introduced me to the site. Her site was fantastic. She knew a lot about HTML codes and I was struggling with my Online Journalism class. We were asked to create a website about the one of the most talked about recent events. The site was hosted by Tripod. I don't know if it's still online after being idle for more than 4 years now.

Signing up was easy. Customizing the blog was excruciatingly difficult. I had to learn basic HTML codes. Thank heavens for LissaExplains.com, I was able to pass. It was on the same site where I found out about Bravejournal. I signed up for the blog service and have been with them for more than 4 years now. The first site was called TheBigYellowLane. I don't know how I came up with that silly name. I have this habit of coming up with some silly idea and relating it to life. Blame it on the entire household who goes on a soap opera marathon on a daily basis.

After it got sort of hacked, I signed up for two more Bravejournal sites. One is called LifeBeforeSunset. It was heavily inspired by my favorite movie of all time, 'Before Sunset'. The movie has changed my way of thinking about life and relationships that I decided to create the blog and share it with the world. Of course, it was primarily the theme but I decided to just make it an avenue for practicing what I really love--writing.

I have another Bravejournal site which is Top Secret. It's sort of a project. I'm writing about the stories of my friends, family and of course me and changing each and every one of them to fit in one sort of novel. I hope the story is still tight considering that I get the ideas from almost anybody.

Last April 2007, I started a new blog with LiveJournal. First, why the title? BoobooStriders is actually a combination. It was derived from to t-shirt designs my college friend wore during our freshmen days. The first one was called Booboo Boys. The group was consisted of two boys and four girls. Since it was dominated by the ladies, we added the second shirt's name which was a All Striders--or something like that. Together, we were the inseperable group called the BoobooStriders or the Booboos.

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WHY DID I MIGRATE TO BLOGSPOT

I really enjoyed blogging through my LJ. However, I find it extremely difficult to customise my blog. I am not an expert in CSS or HTML but I've recently started monetizing my other blogs. And I thought that I should do the same for the BoobooStrider blog since, I am surprised, a lot of people actually visit this (not just my bestfriend toyomansi hehe). I realized that the only way to do that is to migrate to the more customisable format that is Blogger.

I will still be updating my LJ. I won't be closing it down since I need it to comment on other LJs. However, I will be more focused on updating the new Booboostrider Blog which is:

It seems that the whole Ms. Teen South Carolina craze is far from over. I found several clips on the net which are soooooo hilarious!
These are my favorite videos... ENJOY!!!



And what's a pageant without the proud parents of the contestant?

Today I finally saw:


and I were chatting earlier about how similar her voice is with Jessica Zafra's. She was right. She does sound like her. I listened to her four podcast eps and I suddenly missed my bestfriend. We kinda regret not going into the podcast world and doing a radio show online. We could have talked about a lot of things like our detoxx ep in Clark, etc.

Anyway, I downloaded a few programs so I can convert files. I first signed up for a Podbean account. Then I did some recordings using my Samsung phone. Apparently, it's being saved as an AMR file. So I downloaded a converter which converted my recording into [only] an WAV file. So I had to download another program [thanks to the free WWW] to convert the wav file into an MP3.

Et Voila! The preview: Note--> You may hear Jessica Zafra talking.. sorry forgot to turn it off!

This rare find is somewhere between disturbing and alarming. I cannot decide whether I am for it or against it. toyomansi referred me to a Multiply account which posted photos of the 20+-page children's book which tackles homosexuality at a very young age. It tells us a story of a kid who gets abused and experienced sexual confusion. In an attempt to cure his disease (Note: This is what the book is trying to imply in my opinion), he consults a counselor who then explained that homosexuality CAN be cured by spending more time with his father.

Read and post a comment, will you?