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Entries for February, 2008

February 3, 2008 @ 12:55 AM

Pinoy Kalibugan Month v.2

Posted by baboysai under Baboysai's Days

So I'm just announcing my patented Kalibugan Month.

Zoning out... Student mode, while looking for love in the deep corners of the universe called Katipunan Avenue.

I'll get back to you bitches come Feb. 8, and then we can go all out on lovin'.

6 cared.

February 11, 2008 @ 02:34 PM

Just Move On.

Posted by baboysai under Baboysai's Days

This has got to be the cheesiest title in the world.

The type you read in LJ about girls and lost loves and shit.

No. This is not it. Just so you know, I'm quite happy with my love life. And this post is totally unrelated to that. But this is about moving on. From a lot of things.

I just finished my thesis design, and had already presented it in front of the architect-jury. I was not able to come up with what they were asking for, and I'm in semi-deep shit. Not totally in deep shit. Just dipped my toe in it or something. This is getting too graphic. Which means, I'm not in the mood to elaborate any more than that.

Well, moving on.

My sister just got married. My sister who had given me the most reasons to hate her. But there's just something about weddings. It's just magic. I'm sincerely happy for her, and quite happy in my own consciousness that she has finally found that place for her.

Well, moving on.

It's that time again, I guess. The regular "what am I supposed to do with my life" nights, the cigarettes, the lonely walks, the crying. Some things are just as worse as PMS.

I get into this zone called "Soul Searching" a lot. As if I enjoy it. But you should know that I hate it. It's times like this that I get really confused, or just empty, and depressed.

But that it's so regular, how about just, you know, move on?

Baboysai listens to bumbling idiots.
Baboysai reads Perry Mason.
Baboysai watches bumbling idiots.

THE END. Baboysai is missing a lot of people.

10 cared.

February 11, 2008 @ 03:36 PM

Vampires and Valentine's

Posted by baboysai under Baboysai's Reviews

There's something about the "crunch" and "slurp" like biting into a fresh juicy apple. It's kind of refreshing. But when it's a vampire biting into fresh white skin, it's kind of, well, kinky. I'm not reading Vampire Knight because of that. Though it is an added service.

VK (Vampire Knight) is a story about Zero, the boy born into a vampire hunter's family, but was orphaned by a vampire. Sworn to destroy all rampant vampires, he is cursed when he himself is bitten and turned into the creature he hates most.

It is a story about Kaname, the last in the line of the Kuran, the strongest of the pure-blood vampires. He holds not only physical and tangible power, but political power as well, over other vampires. He knows his world is not as safe as it seems, but it's not himself that he is trying so hard to protect.

It is a story about Yuki, who remembers nothing prior to a bloody evening in the snow.

This is a story about Zero, Kaname, and Yuki, when all their fates intertwine in Cross Academy, where the headmaster Cross dreams of peace between vampires and humans. Kaname, as Cross's friend, becomes the president of the Night School in the academy. One night he knocks on the door, bringing a shuddering Yuki. Yuki is adopted by the headmaster, and Zero becomes an adoptive brother to her when he is also taken in by Cross.

From this point, it is now a story of Yuki's confusion about her past that comes crashing with Kaname, of Kaname's mysterious protectiveness for Yuki, of Zero's struggle with himself as Yuki offers her own blood for his survival, and Zero and Kaname's denial of their rivalry.

Story-wise, as it is only 36 chapters so far, it definitely has potential to become one of the best vampire shoujo manga. The art of this graphic novel is also commendable. These two elements combine to make the air waft with a rusty, stale, and cold smell of blood and darkness, at the same time violent love brings the panels to life.

Title: Vampire Knight
Author: Matsuri Hino
Type: Graphic Novel/ Manga
Genre: Shoujo
Vintage: 2005

Rating:

Thanks to the VK scans group for scanlating this manga. Readers please inform me if you know where to purchase this manga in Metro Manila. :p

Baboysai reads vampires

THE END. Baboysai is hoping to be vampire food

4 cared.

February 25, 2008 @ 02:44 PM

The Origin of Love

Posted by baboysai

When the earth was still flat

And clouds made of fire

And mountains stretched up to the sky,

Sometimes higher,

Folks roamed the earth

Like big rolling kegs.

They had two sets of arms

And two sets of legs.

They had two faces peering out of one giant head

So they could watch all around them

As they talked while they read.

And they never knew nothing of Love.

It was before the origin of Love.

And there were three sexes then.

One that looked like two men

Glued up back to back,

They were called the children of the sun.

And similar in shape and girth

Were the children of the earth.

They looked like two girls rolled up in one.

And the children of the moon

Were like a fork shoved on a spoon.

They were part sun, part earth,

part daughter, part son.

Now the gods grew quite scared

Of our strength and defiance.

And Thor said,

"I'm gonna kill 'em all with my hammer,

Like I killed the giants!"

But Zeus said "No!"

"You better let me use my lightning like scissors,

Like I cut the legs off the whales,

And dinosaurs into lizards."

Then he grabbed up some bolts,

And he let out a laugh, said,

"I'll split them right at the middle,

gonna cut them right up in half"

And then storm clouds gathered above

Into great balls of fire.

And then fire shot down from the sky in bolts

like shining blades of a knife.

And it ripped right through the flesh

Of the children of the sun and the moon

And the earth.

And some Indian god

Sewed up the wound into a hole,

Pulled it round to our belly

To remind us of the price we pay.

And Osiris and the gods of the Nile

Gathered up a big storm

To blow a hurricane,

To scatter us away

In a flood of wind and rain,

And a sea of tidal waves

to wash us all away.

And if we don't behave,

They'll cut us down again,

And we'll be hopping around on one foot,

Looking through one eye.

Last time I saw you,

We had just split in two.

You were looking at me,

I was looking at you.

You had a way so familiar

But I could not recognize,

'Coz you had blood on your face,

I had blood in my eyes.

But I could swear by your expression

That the pain down in your soul

Was the same as the one down in mine.

That's the pain,

Cuts a straight line

Down through the heart,

We called it Love.

So we wrapped our arms around each other,

Trying to shove ourselves back together,

We were making Love,

Making Love.

It was a cold dark evening

Such a long time ago,

When by the mighty hand of Jove,

It was a sad story

How we became lonely two-legged creatures.

It was the story

of the origin of Love.

The Origin of Love is a song from the stage show Hedwig and the Angry Inch and subsequent film written by Stephen Trask. The song is based on a story from Plato's Symposium.

PS: I experienced my first car crash this Saturday. Thank your gods we were all safe. The world amazes me a lot.

Baboysai listens to Dango Daikazoku
Baboysai reads Nothing!

THE END. Baboysai is lazy.

5 cared.

February 29, 2008 @ 06:15 PM

It's Not That Simple Anymore

Posted by baboysai under Baboysai's Works

In the light of the current news (and Public Affairs) in the Philippines, I am not apathetic, but I would just like to say that it's not that simple anymore. After all the political troubles that we have experienced, it is only at this point in our history that we are truly in chaos.

It has been an 'accepted truth' that politicians in the Philippines are corrupt to the core. And all presidents have had their issues and scandals. But why was it only Marcos who was thrown out of the country? Moving closer to the present, why couldn't Erap escape the scrutiny? Yet today, why can't we push GMA out of the seat?

In a parallel situation, a riddle was told to two different age groups: kindergarteners and working adults. 90% of the children got the answer to the riddle while not one single adult answered it, proving that the more one knows about something, the more complicated it seems to get. Similarly, the mindset of the Filipinos are evolving.

A classmate of mine said that the People Power we know is driven mainly by emotions. In an ideal world, the People power means that the whole of the people unite for a certain cause. But this is not the ideal world. What are we really looking at? Does this throng of people really represent the country?

My boyfriend said he would take the streets when Ateneo did. I asked him if he was comparing it with the hype of the previous People Power he experienced, and if he felt the nostalgia. He answered yes. My point is that we're a very nostalgic race. We get very attached to certain things, or events, as proven by our popular art and culture. If that is what's driving us, then I rest my case.

In the previous People power, because of the heightened emotions, things ended rather premature. A professor said he had endured a lot of beatings during that confrontation, but it only resulted to this (the current state of the nation). Did we charge forward only to fall off a cliff? We as a nation, are experiencing more as the years pass. Instead of charging blindly forward, we have learned to think, even a little.

The University of the Philippines has always been known to be very involved with issues regarding the country. UP has been considered synonymous to activists. There is much noise outside the classroom calling to join in the rally, and someone stands to close the door and shut out the noise. Why are we here, and not out there? Compared to the private universities in Metro Manila, we seem apathetic. But has activism really faded from the UP student's blood? Possibly. But intelligence and criticism remain.

I realize that it is only now that we have really experienced chaos because we are confused. The current kaleidoscope of events has caused us to look into our very cores: our standards of morality. We Filipinos are not used to looking at our own selves and admitting our mistakes. But because of what is happening, we are forced to evaluate our own principles. This is the appropriate situation to say we are rocked to the core. We reluctantly ask "What is it we should really fight for? Up to what faults can we tolerate?"

Presently, Truth is the new slogan. It is so easy, so safe, to say "I am fighting for truth" or "We want the truth". To be fair, I am not bashing any group or person who claims this, but what is it you guys really want? Why choose something so abstract, so absolute? My truth is not yours, and your truth is not mine. So if it is truth we are really looking for, then we can never find it in the government, or the People Power.

Why are we staying in the backstage? Surely not because we're tired. I believe in the Filipino people. We are becoming more critical, and more intelligent. "Tama na, sobra na ." Then what? We have learned from our previous actions that taking to the streets and making a president step down is not the end of our problems. We know more now that what we did then.

I resent that we are called apathetic, when I could be working three times more than you, searching for answers to problems your generation has caused.

Iskolar ng bayan, ngayon ay lumalaban.

Baboysai listens to music to soothe it.
Baboysai reads a search for solutions

THE END. Baboysai is shooting pigeons

6 cared.

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