The Spirit Of Giving To Marvin

ZOMG! It took me days to finish this entry!!! Admittedly, I need breaks to sleep, eat and play video games. BUT STILL!

Anyway.

Since when did Christmas become a holiday of receiving and "me likey". I thought it was supposed to be about giving. This season should be focused on compassion rather than consumerism. This society has become obsessed with with consumerism that it has slowly forgotten the spiritual meaning of this season. Where is the spirituality? Where is the real meaning of Christmas?

Have you seen those chaotic news about people being trampled to death because of those holiday sales at toy stores and boutiques?

No?

Me neither. Hence, the title. *Pelvic Thrust*

When I was like six, I really wanted to have those foam-based weaponry that shoots or is made of... you guessed it... foam. I was not even asking for the Nerf brand because when I was six, intellectual property rights was not in my list to consider yet. So the f*ck do I care, right? So anything Nerf-like would do.

My grandparents were constantly calling me Gerry by accident because my uncle is the youngest and they say he looked like me when he was my age. When they wrapped the toy gun they got me that year, they marked it "To: Gerry" and I was horrified when I saw him open it. Of course it got straightened out pretty quickly, but mehn, I was one pissed off six year old for a few seconds.

Ang haba ng intro. Hahaha! So as if everyone in my circle had already published their "Christmas Wants" I'll join the bandwagon and share my own list. And since x-mas party season is on full speed, I hope you guys consider that you'll be making me really happy if you get me one of these:

1. Crazy Hair by Neil Gaiman - I've never seen a copy of this in any National Bookstore I get into. Friends say that they see copies of this at FullyBooked but I'm too lazy to visit one and confirm.

2. Exacto Knife - Don't worry, I will not use it to slice your necks. Imma use it for t-shirt printing. New hobby. Don't Ask.


3. Cork Board - For home use. I so miss my office when I go home.

4. iTouch 3rd Gen - You'll have me for a night! Seriously

5. Insane PC Upgrade or a MacBook Pro - TWO WEEKS!!! TWO WEEKS!!!

Short list this year, yeah? Hahaha!

House Keeping Blog Entry Coz I've Been Busy

And they rhyme! Awesome!

Yes! Believe it or not, I am swamped with a lot of things. Music has been my only life besides work, though I love it, could have been better, right? But beyond this environment of stress that surrounds me, I found new love for "indie" and 70's rock. You can visit my Blip if you wanna know what sounds have been bangin' my eardrums lately.

In closing (Naks! In closing!? Parang serious lang. Hahaha!) I wanna share with you ang isang bidjeo ng isa sa paborito kong awitin from one of my favorite artists:

You Really Got A Hold On Me
by She & Him

Sympathy Messages And Dating Advice

I think I'm picking up momentum to be lazy. It is weird coz when I feel lethargic, I start doing crazy things. And for those of you who've been reading my blog since day dot and haven't killed themselves out of boredom (but thanks for reading my blog and not slashing your necks in front of your parents after) would know that I become neurotic about certain things when I get in the groove to be lazy. I was even threatened with a libel lawsuit when I passed through this stage of lethargy a few years back. (Oh you think all was forgotten. You're wrong! You lying, cheating, *****!!!)

On a lighter and non-libelous note, one of the few things I absolutely go crazy about is the look of my blog. I change everything! So the header with a photo of stir-fried noodles (pansit), my dead P991i (may it rest in peace) and my messy office table is absolutely driving me off the wall... and that's not the story. Anyway...

I've been getting a lot of post break-up sympathy messages from friends lately. And for some reason, they manage to insert a couple of dating advice here and there. I don't know if you've noticed, but I'm a nut job. I am a lowly Tabon man who haven't gotten any for one too many Tabon years (well, that's an exaggeration, but what the hell, it feels like it).

Dating advice is a form of advanced knowledge to my retarded brain. Honestly, I am easy to please. A good date is if you drink a couple of bottles of ice cold SMB Pale Pilsen with me after dinner, your in the good books. If you go with me to Retiro for pares after then you order extra rice, baby your getting pretty hot somethin-somethin to-night!... Just joking... Unless you buy me bulalo. Hahaha! Nope! No pansit. Pansit is really, really huge. You don't want to order pansit during our first date or I'll have to marry you and make you the mother of my 17 children... and you don't want that.

Yeah. Hmmm... I think I'm better off writing some emo shit.

Consolidated Hate

I told myself that I'd impose a moratorium on blogging about these subjects because I really don't see the point on publishing these on my blog (like things I hate). But for the love of all self-respecting creation that walk on the face of this planet, these are just too much to let pass.

1. WTF's wrong with you Kuya? Why'd you do that?

Something is wrong with Kuya. Either he's high on C2 or Fit N' Right when he decided to do it (coz I can really tell just by listening to his voice) or he's just afraid that there will come a time that all the peeps in one of his houses would either be forced evicted or voted out by gazillions of Melason fans. Don't ask.

Yes!, its about Pinoy Big Brother's new annoying twist. Pinagpalit niya yung mga girl housemate ng both houses. A-Girls going to house B and B-Girls going to house A. Why do I hate this you ask? Because it sucks. It's like when Ginebra started trading their players like Marlou Aquino and Noli Locsin for not so Ginebra-ish players like Jun Limpot and Vergel Meneses. See the analogy? No? But it made perfect sense to me. I'll just leave it at that. Because it made perfect sense.


2. W(hy)TF do a lot of people like the Twilight series?

(and I'll try not to be rude...)

It is amazing how the movie adaptation of a novel of this genre could generate this "innumerable number of followers" (I hope my grammar is correct). I cannot understand why people are going gaga (and gago) over Twilight and not appreciate Pinoy pocketbooks sold in Quiapo and Recto. They have the same formula (especially the movie adaptation): a dimwitted leading lady who always finds herself in trouble because she's so, yeah, dimwitted, but fortunately (or unfortunately coz I really want her dead just to get this series over and done with) there is this dude in Volvo (who happens to be a "vampire") who is always on the rescue. Sounds new-age sexist love story to me.

And don't tell me I know nothing about Twilight. I read the book, that is why I can say that I hate it. I hate it so much I'm beginning to like Harry Potter... and that says a lot. And besides, Edward is EMO.

What I hate more about Twilight is that it is infectious and kahit na the people I expect not to like the Twilight series were bitten by the EMOdward bug:


And it compels me to be rude to my Twilight-loving friends:
Screw Twilight, I have Coraline! Don't ask.


3. WTF's wrong with me? I'm nuts about this girl

I think I'm slowly turning into one of those internet nerdos who are so out of touch from the real world that they are in dire need of getting laid with someone other than their hands. I'm so falling in love with this girl, that I watched 3 years worth of her videos in just a week. Yes, I'm borderline obsessed... but i'd like to believe "not really".

Her name is Natalie Tran a vlogger from Australia and I so hate her because she's so adorable it is such a shame that I can't put the "f word" in between "so" and "adorable".

Yes! I'm having a zap to highschool back when I used to daydream about G Toengi and Joyce Jimenez during my chemistry class.

Yes Nat, I spanked your mum more than twice the number of stars in the milky way last night. Don't ask.


Thanks belle_abbey for the title of this entry. I'm loving it much I'm starting to hate it.

Ang Dasal Ng Sambayanan Kay Bro

picture taken from here

Dear Bro,

Thank you for this wonderful day.

A day na nagmistulang holiday dahil wala halos sasakyan sa labas at pwede kaming
humiga sa highway ng hindi nasasagasaan.

Sa pamamagitan ng Inyong naguumapaw na pagpapala ay nanalo na naman
ang aming kapatid, the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world na si Manny Pacquiao when he KOed Miguel Cotto sa 12th round ng kanilang labang pinamagatang "Firepower".

Sa gitna ng mga pagpapalang ito ay sana dinggin pa din Ninyo ang aming dalangin.
We pray that in the next Pacquiao fight, he'd be facing Floyd Mayweather, Jr. na
so Pacman could finally shut his hole up.

Ang lahat ng papuri ay binabalik namin sa iyo, Bro.

Amen


Tweets on FIREPOWER: Pacquiao versus Cotto

• REF STEPS IN! IT'S OVER! MANNY PACQUIAO DEFEATS MIGUEL COTTO BY 12TH-RD TKO
  
• Manny Pacquiao vs Miguel Cotto Round 11: Cotto is just backtracking and trying to survive. I feel for him. PACMAN 10-9
  
• Manny Pacquiao vs Miguel Cotto Round 10: Cotto's wife and son walked out. Time to throw in the towel? PACMAN 10-9
• Manny Pacquiao vs Miguel Cotto Round 9: Cotto has a ton of heart for staying on his feet but Pacman is destroying him, 10-9 round.
• Manny Pacquiao vs Miguel Cotto Round 9: Pacquiao storms Cotto against the ropes. This could end any second now.
• Manny Pacquiao vs Miguel Cotto Round 8: Cotto landed a couple of good punches in a closer round but this is still Manny's fight. PACMAN,10-9
• Manny Pacquiao vs Miguel Cotto Round 7: Manny is peppering Cotto's face at will. Cotto hanging in there but getting hurt. PACMAN, 10-9.
• Manny Pacquiao vs. Miguel Cotto Round 6: Pacman has better hand speed, better foot speed, controls the round. PACQUIAO, 10-9.
• Manny Pacquiao vs Miguel Cotto Round 5: Cotto slows down but lands some hard jabs. Pacquiao lands power punches. Close round Cotto 10-9
  
• Manny Pacquiao vs. Miguel Cotto Round 4, I score it for PACMAN 10-8, although Cotto was winning until the knockdown.
  
• Manny Pacquiao vs Miguel Cotto Round 4: DOWN GOES COTTO!
• Pacquiao vs. Cotto Round 3: Manny Pacquiao knocked Miguel Cotto down, 10-8 PACMAN on my card.
• Pacquiao vs. Cotto Round 3: DOWN GOES COTTO! A right hook stuns Cotto but he's going to be OK.
  
• Cotto vs. Pacquiao Round 2: A close round with Pacquiao showing off his speed, I give it to PACQUIAO 10-9.

tweets from Michael David Smith