Music Meme

I find this meme from Ruff's blog amusing, and so I am voluntarily tagging myself to make one for myself.

The RULES couldn’t be any simpler:
1. Put Your iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc on SHUFFLE Mode,
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer, and
3. YOU MUST WRITE DOWN THAT SONG NAME NO MATTER HOW GAY IT SOUNDS.

IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
iTunes: Talking In My Sleep (Christopher Cross)
Me: Always (Atlantic Stars)

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF?
iTunes: Starlight Express (El DeBarge)
Me: I am (Shades Of Life) (Billy Gilman)

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
iTunes: Of All The Things (Dennis Lambert)
Me: Dare You To Move (Switchfoot)

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
iTunes: Hurts To Be In Love (Gino Vanelli)
Me: A Little Love Goes A Long Way (The CompanY)

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
iTunes: A Whole New World (Aladdin Movie Soundtrack)
Me: I'll Be Alright (Sarah Geronimo)

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF OFTEN?
iTunes: Sailing (Christopher Cross)
Me: Breaking Free (Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens) -> I adore HSM!

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR ENEMY?
iTunes: Tikman (Eraserheads) [English: Taste]
Me: Affirmation (Savage Garden) -> "... I believe in karma, what you give is what you get in return"

WHAT IS 2 + 2?
iTunes: Hand In My Pocket (Alanis Morissette)
Me: Forevermore (Jed Madela)

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BESTIE?
iTunes: Mother, We Just Can't Get Enough! (New Radicals)
Me: Friends For Life (Chico and Delamar)

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE ONE YOU LOVE?
iTunes: She (The Sundays)
Me: You Changed My Life (The CompanY)

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
iTunes: Baby Can I Hold You (Boyzone)
Me: Buses and Trains (Bachelor Girl)

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO WHEN YOU GROW UP?
iTunes: You'll Be Here In My Heart (Phil Collins)
Me: Breakaway (Kelly Clarkson)

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
iTunes: Baby Come To Me (U Turn) -> With Richard Poon doing part of the vocals (weehee)
Me: Every Now and Then (Jed Madela)

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
iTunes: I Want To Give It All (Jed Madela)
Me: Ngayon at Kailanman (Basil Valdez) [English: Now and Forever]

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL
iTunes: Deep Inside Of You (Third Eye Blind)
Me: Handog (Florante) [English: Offering]

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST??
iTunes: Then You Look At Me (Celine Dion)
Me: Real Thing (Kalapana)

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR?
iTunes: There's No Easy Way (Jed Madela)
Me: Solo Otra Vez (Il Divo) [English: All By Myself]

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
iTunes: The Loneliness (Babyface)
Me: Lover All Alone (Clay Aiken)

8 Harebrained Drake Facts

I guess I am way behind here, nevertheless I am answering this meme. By the way, I was tagged by ladyMacho (^_^).

1. I have the ability to lock and unlock my jaw voluntarily. This is medically unsafe as "clicking" and locking the jaw is tantamount to creating friction on the joints that join the upper jaw and the mandible. Alas, I still click my jaw especially when I yawn, as I have been used to opening my maw to its limits since birth. My dentist joshingly says I've got talent. Hehe. She admonished to avoid doing it as it may severe the jaw joints. Well, it seems I need to practice yawning in a demure manner.

2. I'm a calorie freak. Labels on cereal boxes and fruit juices, junk food foil packs and dairy tetra packs... matter. I've developed this OC behavior on the food that I eat since the day I started shedding my baby fats worth 70 lbs. I think there's nothing wrong with monitoring Nutrition Facts of my food - it's a way of being a responsible food consumer. But too much concern is quite bothersome. It's a good thing I've learned to loosen up on the calorie counting (well, just a bit :p).

3. I did not attend my Accounting II class and consequently missed a test just to prove to one of my classmates (who pissed me off) that I was not a perfect student as he deemed me annoyingly. Gosh, this was childish and ridiculous. At hindsight, I would not have done such. But I did, 'cause I was totally pissed off. This was just plain insane. What's just funny was that I still managed to get a 1 on my report card.

4. I tutored my classmates for free. During college I was so dedicated in tutoring my classmates in most of our Mathematics subjects. I just felt happy that I was able to help them in their struggles.

5. I lost 2 inches off my waist in just a month without exercise. Oh yeah, I was apparently happy (Who wouldn't be happy to be size 32 from being size 34?) with the results but at hindsight it was insanely unhealthy. Weight-loss should be done with proper diet and proper physical exercise.

6. I shaved the hair on my limbs for nothing. This was when I was in first year high school. I just got curious on how my extremities would look and feel without hair. Haha! Which reminds me... there was an instance then when I accidentally shaved half of my left eyebrow. It freaked me out 'cause my face was not anymore symmetrical.

7. I have a fondness of watching tear-jerking films. A Walk to Remember made me appreciate such flicks. And so the list continued... A Moment to Remember, Bicentennial Man, The Notebook, ING..., A Sad Movie...

8. I think I am anal-retentive. Associated to my occasional obsessive-compulsive behavior, being anal-retentive predisposes me to being meticulous in such things like: In eating pancit, I eat the veggies first, then the noodles, then the meat/shrimps; I eat the skin and breading of hotdogs and chicken nuggets first; I want my CD covers folded the same way they are folded when they were bought; and #2 in this list.

Self-portrait: Swimming Spectacles

After almost a month of hiatus, I finally drenched myself in the pool again.
(And now I have goggle eyes, haha!)

Quote of the day

I observed that the basic motive for success is the driving force of envy and jealousy.

- Ecclesiastes 4:4

Israel Trip Putoff

I just had a whirlwind of on-off decisions in the past 24 hours....

Yesterday was my supposed departure to Israel but it was called off because of a technical problem of the airline carrier that would take me from Hong Kong to Tel Aviv. I was already at the Centennial Airport when I got the official directive from my office's Admin Assistant that the flight's delayed until August 18. Ergo, I left NAIA 2 with a frustrated mood (for wasting all the effort of bringing my heavy luggage and paying a hefty taxi fare, all for nothing) and went back home.

Then on the following sunrise...

Heads-up... a high-priority e-mail topping my Outlook inbox. 'Twas from my Senior Manager informing me and my other officemate that our arrival in Israel would be postponed indefinitely due to changes in the project schedule.

It makes me happy that I need not leave the country soon. It's just frustrating that I've already set myself yesterday on my departure. In the coming days, I need to set myself again once a new flight schedule's finally achieved.

For now, I am just happy to not leave the country (To tell you the truth, I was already missing the country and my loved-ones just while on my way to the airport). And if the trip would be scrubbed totally, the one thing I'd regret is missing the chance to wander in new land gratis.

Self-portrait: A Green Peanut M&M

(I felt the need to unwind and do something not work-related... I guess my abatement's not yet set for today)

Ready for momentary abatement

I only have three nights left before leaving for Israel. It'll be approximately 17 hours of flight and slack period, Manila being connected to Tel Aviv via Hong Kong.

My preparations aren't halfway through; My luggage's not yet filled with my necessities; My brain's not yet trained for technicalities... Instead of being excited about this trip, I am more of anxious on what work environment I will have to deal with. This will be my first business trip... another "first" for me after some previous firsts I just encountered in the past couple of fortnights.

I've just received my bon voyages from my loved-ones... Gosh, those gave me the bad feelings of goodbyes. And I certainly didn't like it. I could actually empathize now to the emotions drenching our OFWs when leaving the country.

I am now in hiatus with sporadic attention to Drake's Ragbag....

¡Hasta la vez próxima!

Kiwi!

An apparently funny, objectively stupid, and ultimately touching short graphic animation that evokes a seemingly superficial side of me. Presenting, Kiwi.... (Thanks to Roxie for reminding me about this)


Kiwi can't fly, he can never fly.... Yet he wants to feel, to experience, the greatest leap any bird can ever achieve. Even if he already knows it isn't possible, he takes the risk, the chance. Even if everything he wants is an end in itself... a sad end at that....

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There's a time when a man needs to fight and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny's lost, the ship has sailed and that only a fool will continue. The truth is I've always been a fool.

- Ed Bloom from the film Big Fish

Video courtesy of YouTube.

The Merman in Me

Since I was a kid, I have always had a fascination for sea creatures, especially mermaids and mermen (then, they were all mermaids to me, I didn't know merman existed in the dictionary). I was a Walter Mitty woolgathering about myself swimming aimlessly in the deep underwater seascape, with colorful corals and gracefully undulating schools of fish welcoming me to their humble abode. The feeling of it was surreal, it always rendered me futile with a big sigh, wishfully thinking my fantasy would had gone real.

to be continued somewhere else...


Photo courtesy of Worth1000

Rainy days always get me down

Rainy weather always connotes the feeling of sadness and solitude to my emotional dimension. The cold wind it brings, together with the seemingly ominous cumulonimbus formations, kindles melancholic mood. Capricious to the rational mind, such sensation I often feel is just a mere manifestation of my trivial self. Nothing significant at that. Though sometimes, it calls forth the elusive pains inside to introspection. Odd, but at hindsight, I like experiencing such plaintive occurrence.

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It's been 4/5 days since you left, still I don't have the answers. It's fine; I am still waiting...

Photo courtesy of Philip Spence's Ninja-Bunny