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Today I rode all three trains.  LRT 1 from U.N. to Doroteo Jose, walked the bridgeway to LRT 2.  In LRT 2, I rode from Recto to Katipunan. Then, LRT 2 again from Katipunan to Cubao.  Stayed a few minutes in Gateway, then went to Ayala station through MRT.

Around the metro FTW!

LRT 2 was the prettiest of all 3.  LRT 1 was defintely the skankiest.

Legs ache from all the walking.

I am not only bad with directions, you shouldn't ask me about distances either.  My mind forgets how far things actually are.  Everything seems near.  Walked from Katipunan station to Starbucks near Cantina, oh boy, it was not near at all.  I remember I used to do that before.  Unless they made things farther now. erm.. ok moving on.

For strange reason, I like checking those stores which sells things you don't need.  You know what I'm talking about.  Stores selling alarm clocks, small tin cans, little boxes, cheap stickers.  I just bought myself a couple of those cheap stickers.  Can't seem to resist swirlies and heavenly bodies.  I was tempted to buy the tin cans, but seriously, what do i do with those?

Short fuse night this is turning out to be.  Sometimes I can't explain myself.  I get annoyed with the smallest detail.  Things other people doesn't seem to notice, but I do.  And it irks me more having to explain myself, so I'd rather sulk and be quiet.  Yeah, most of the time I don't make sense.

Maybe this is just the product of tiredness + PMS.  What an all around excuse this PMS thing.  Can I be excused from murder if I use PMS as defense?

 Enter Hairspray Manila.

 Remember the movie with the same title?  There's a musical.  Promises to be just as fun.

 Story goes:

HAIRSPRAY is about Tracy who wins a spot on the local TV dance program The Corny Collins Show. The big girl with big hair and big dreams becomes a teen celebrity overnight. Soon Tracy finds herself pitted against the show’s reigning princess for the title Miss Teenage Hairspray 1962. Based on the John Waters film, Hairspray is the winner of eight Tony awards including Best Musical. It was recently made into a hit film starring John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer and Queen Latifah.

 Last play I saw was Avenue Q, and that was months and months ago.  Should be fun to check this out!

the cast!

Madel Ching makes her professional theatre debut as Tracy Turnblad, one of the most demanding roles for a musical theatre actress. She appears in all but two scenes in the musical. Joining her in the cast are Michael de Mesa as Edna, Dulce as Motormouth Maybelle, Tim Espinosa as Link Larkin, Menchu Lauchengco-Yulo as Velma Von Tussle, Nyoy Volante as Seaweed J. Stubbs, Leo Rialp as Wilbur, Noel Rayos as Corny Collins, Gabe Mercado as the Male Authority Figure, Enchang Kaimo as the Female Authority Figure, Christine Allado as Amber and Monica Reynoso as Penny. In the ensemble are Jordan Aguilar, Emy Alcid, Caisa Borromeo, Erika Cedilla, Red Concepcion, Gerlin Francisco, Bea Garcia, Crienna House, Yanah Laurel, Cheeno Macaraig, Michael Odoemene, Anthony Ong, Myrene Santos, Mark Tayag, and Lee Villoria

Hairspray is directed by Bobby Garcia, choreography by Cecile Martinez, sets and costumes by Gino Gonzales, lighting design by Shoko Matsumoto and Musical Director Archie Castillo conducts FILharmoniKA. It runs from Nov. 14 to Dec. 7 at the Star Theatre, CCP Complex.

Tickets are on sale now by calling Atlantis Productions at 892-7078, 840-1187 or Ticketworld at 891-9999.

esterday, I finally bought my cam!  So it wasn't the one I was actually lusting for, that one costs about 30k, can't afford one.  So instead I bought this:

Sony W110

Thought about buying one in Greenhills or Hidalgo where it's supposedly cheaper, but since I plan to cc and 0% is preferred, I opted to buy one from a real store (yeah, cos the ones in gh and hidalgo are make-believe, lulz).  Also, I want the waranty.

specs comparison

I know I wanted a cybershot, and I know it has to be in black, but the actual model I want, I'm still not sure yet.  I initially thought of getting a W120 or W130, but comparing the specs to the W110, there's reall not much difference.  W110 and W120 basically has the same everything except for the steady shot feature, which I've been told isn't really a big deal.  So for a 2k difference I chose the lesser model.  Also the fact that W110 seems to have longer battery life.

*btw, I posted the worng price, you hafta' subtract 2k for each.  bleh!

Here are my first few shots!

cam shot still pretty blurry, got lazy to upload new one. but puppy looks pretty, yes?

first pic of me trying to have kissy face shot with puppy, obviously still no good with knowing where to point; second is puppy making pa-cutesy face cos he wants to go upsatirs; third is cos i like feet shot eventhough I have fugly feet. heh.

Made Nissa more girly by adding flowers.  See?  See?  Isn't he pretty?  I just really like the stickers. lulz.  They are actually for nails, but i think they are sticky enough to last in the cam.

At first, I actually thought this should be a boy toy.  All my stuff are girls!  And him being all black and shiny is just screaming boy right?

Unfortunately, I got this case for him.

Isn't it just screaming gay pink???  So I decided, he should just be gay then.  So yeah, I have a gay cam named Nissa.

One fun thing I discovered about Nissa is the smile shutter.  So I had a hard time at first trying to figure it out.  It wouldn't work the first 5 times I tried it!  I just needed to change the setting to something lower lang pala so it would work much easier.  So here's how it goes:

While in the smile setting, click shutter once.  Then just hold it to someone's face and wait for her to smile.  When they do, it automatically snaps a picture.

Nissa needs that much smile wattage before it would click.

How awful it would be if Nissa wouldn't snap cos your smile isn't good enough?

Guess what I got!

Yes!  Finally have my planner.  Got the one in red.  Yes, I know it's fugly, but I still wanted it.  So there.  But now I'm done with the caffeine, and the dragging *him* with me to Starbucks every single time.

**you know what I hate? when I see something like this and then I think, there's someting wrong here and I finally figured out what, but I'm too lazy to edit, and I think I deleted the original.

Ignore me, I'm babbling.

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This was part of yesterday's lunch.  I had McDonald's delievered, and guess what happened to the french fries!  I haven't touched that yet, and it's halfway gone!

I felt cheated.

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The mention of bloggers made me stop.  I'm curious who might have been involved.  Full story here.

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Bought this this morning.  I don't get it.  Why do I need mints with chlorophyll? 

So I can process sunlight on my own?

Christmas season means baked goodies from Ria.  For those still thinking what to give people this season, I think you can never go wrong with food, especially if you really have no idea what to give people.

On to shamelss plugging of Baby Cakes Pastries!

*Date Walnut Bars
our classic recipe, still at it's best quality! delicious chewy bars just the way it's always been.
         small (6pcs)      Php 120.00
         medium (12)            220.00
         large (18)                310.00
         xl  (24)                    400.00

*Walnut Tea Cookies
delectable sugar coated, candy-sprinkled walnut cookies perfect with cocoa, coffee or tea! rich and scrumptious, one is never enough!
         small (1 doz)      Php 115.00
         large (2 doz)             200.00

*Orange Poppy Seed Muffins
soft, yummy muffins with the fresh, sweet goodness of oranges...a perfect choice for breakfast, snacks, or anytime of the day!
         6's                              Php 155.00
         12's                                   295.00
         mini muffin packs
                 6's                      Php   68.00
                 12's                             128.00
                 24's                             230.00

* Banana Muffins
an old favorite with a new twist. Old fashioned banana muffins with chocolate and/or walnuts.
         Choco                          6's Php 80.00
                                           12's      150.00
    
         Walnut/Choco Walnut    6's Php  98.00
                                          12's        190.00
     
         Sampler: 12's (3pc/variety)               Php 210.00
         Mini muffins
                any variety      6's                      Php  45.00
                                    12's                               80.00
                                    24's                               135.00
 
Please give 3-5 days lead time for delivery. Free delivery to most areas.
For orders, leave a message here.

All goodies come packaged in teal and brown boxes accented by gold ribbons and gift tags. An easy and affordable Christmas giveaway for your office mates, kids' teachers, friends and just about anybody!

I personally love the Date Walnut Bar.  It tastes like food for the gods.  Walnut Tea cookies are yummy and sweet (di nga? sugar coated kasi?).  They are pretty small though, about the size of 5-peso coin I think.

Have yet to try the others.

A week ago I attended this thing called Elation chocolate and shooters buffet in Quezon city.

It was prom night all over again, what with the pink and white balloons and underage kids galore (ok maybe not underage, maybe hopefully they're in college na).  So yeah, it was prom night with chocolates and alcohol, so it's still my kind of party.  There were three kinds of fondues: dark chocolate, white chocolate and milk chocolate.  I loved the dark the most cos I like 'em bitter.  heh.  The other two were a little too sweet for my taste.  Yes I know, they are chocolates.  Also, 32 signature shots, which we did not finish at all.

Hi, I'm Cinderella, you are?

I wish I could tell you which ones I like; unfortunately, I just kept drinking them up as they go whizzing past, so no.  They weren't alcoholic-tasting at all, which was great.  Some tasted like cough syrup, which was not great.

Overall, I loved it, the shooters more than the chocolates.  But hey, who doesn't like chocolates?  Fine, maybe you; but no, not me.

Thanks Marco for the pics. I stole them.

It all began here.  Then, there came this.  And now we're on the thrid, possibly the last, cos I've ran out of stupid ideas.

(click to see what happened next)

That is where I'm going to be this friday.

It's a Fully Booked Bloggers Event in Bonifacio High Street on November 28.  They're giving away free books for the first 100 bloggers who reserved a slot here.

I've always loved books, and this is definitely one of those events that I can't miss.

See yah!

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I know alot of people are into the Starbuck's planner thing (me included), but I do hope they also fill up their CBTL cards.  It's just so nice of them to offer to help out.  Fill up the card with 12 stickers, and then choose which non-government and charity organizations to support.  Read full story here.

I know this is stupid and irrational and really what do I need it for, but I bought cigarette-girl.com.  Yep, I now have it for 2 years.  Why did I do it?  No idea really.  So maybe when I, uh, move, I still keep the name, ionno.  Of course right now it directs to here.  So, honestly, I have no idea what I did that for except that tabulas suddenly offered own domain thingy, and I thought it maybe seems fun to do, and I have this paypal money in the innernet from the paid reviews thingies so might as well use abstract money for abstract net thing too. Whew!  That was long sentence. 

So there.

If someone has a bright idea what I should do with this, share.

Because I had a really sucky, pointless day, I share my (mis)fortune to everyone out there reading my blog.  I give you 12 movie spoilers to ruin your day (night, week, whatever)

And no, I am not talking about movies like Snape killed Dumbledore, or that Jacob is really destined for Bella's daughter Renesmee, or even that Darth Vader is Luke's father.  Nope, not those.  Guess which movies these are from:

(you've been warned)

So I’m leaving pretty soon, and company says I need to learn how to drive.  Obviously, I’d need a car to drive as well.  Now, while I absolutely adore those 2-door car things, the most practical car I think I should get is an SUV.  No, not because it’s so when I hit something (like maybe another car, but most likely some post at the side of the round), it would be less likely for me to get smashed.  Nope, nothing like that, although that in itself is good enough reason for me.  It’s really because SUVs are better with all types of road in different types of weather.  And having to go through all 4 season, I think I should really start learning how to handle those big things.

Looking through list of cheap SUVS (meaning $15k or less), the nicest thing I saw was the 2008 Scion xD.  This suvs site was helpful enough to include a review of the car.  So apparently, pretty car I like has its downside (duh!): sluggish and with questionable safety features.  I don’t really get what sluggish in that sense means though.  Now if it’s going to be buy anything you want I’d be getting a BMW X5-series.  They are gorgeous!

I am such a sell out.  Yeah, paid.

Today I went to the Fully Booked Bloggers Event.  One of those events that I seriously had the most fun (well, there was that food tour which was also just as good). 

Was on the table with these poeple:

with Ria, Marco, and Jonel.  Not included were Carl, Ada, and anoher girl whose name I forgot.  opps!

cos some biatch was bitchy. lulz

Basically we got a field trip around the store in High Street, sat through a film showing about Fully Booked (who knew they have a film showing place right?).

this is the inside of my dream house: a floor to ceiling shelves filled with books

kiddie books with tour guide! (just like your everyday field trips)

Two words I can't forget from the short film: oral pleasures.  That was how they described the listening stations, and yeah, I have a durty mind. pbfft!

Food was from Hizon's.  Loved it!  Especially the desserts, except for the mangoes with cream, most tasted like fake mangoes (a.k.a. mango-flavored gulaman. then again, most likely they are gulaman.).

some of the foodies

my fave!

Best part of the night was the free book give-aways!  We got two books free (I got an extra one c/o Marco. Thank you!)  Ria, Jonel, and Az won in the trivia contest (lucky lucky!), so they got one extra free book and a cute USB.

here's my book loot!

Then there was this Bloggers Book Club.  I wasn't paying much attention to what the speaker was saying, but it went something like you write a review of a book, if they like your review, they'll post it on their site for a week, then you get an FB php 1,000 GC.  This I think they'll start on January.  There's also a Twilight trivia raffle contest.  You check their site for the trivia question, more stuff you answer, more entries for raffle for you.  If you win, you get a Twilight movie guide.  Uh-huh.  Yeah, I'd love to own that (sarcasm right here.  sorry still can't stand it.).

four new books to go through (Survivor I bought from the Palma kiosk)

*was going to take more pictures, unfortunately, battery was empty na. sad really.

**will post links to other pics when people start uploading 'em.