Mood: Walking the fine line between cool/nonchalant and distressed/world-weary
It feels like 400 years since I’ve last updated this poor old blog. Maybe because it’s been that looooong. I wish I can say that I’ve redeemed my social life and shared my story to real people, as opposed to immortalizing my thoughts on an amorphous space on the internet for all the world to frown upon.
But I won’t make pretenses. Top excuses would be (1) that I don’t have enough time (I’d rather have the mandatory sleep coz I’ve been exhibiting signs of anemia) and (2) that my resources have been restrained and limited (like I was an over-abusive and under-performing imp). Well, that’s life. I am mature enough to roll with the punches and not make a big deal out of something so rudimentary.
Below is the 400-years-worth of musings from an inhibited and restless soul.
PERSONAL PICKS
New Music on heavy rotation: Chasing Cars (Snow Patrol), In The Sun (Coldplay feat Michael Stipe), How To Save A Life (The Fray), Leave The Pieces (The Wreckers) and ok…Breaking Free (from High School Musical; the eternal kid in me has been soaring… flying… and infected by this virus).
Recurrent Music on heavy rotation: 1979 (Smashing Pumpkins), Still (Macy Gray), Cats In A Cradle (DMC feat Sarah McLachlan), Shine On Me (Watershed), Out Of My Mind (True Steppers)
Highly Recommend Albums: OST – Grey’s Anatomy, Under The Iron Sea (Keane), The Island (Agot Isidro)
Top-Viewed Videos: Me & You (Cassie), Is It Any Wonder? (Keane)
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LAST SONG SYNDROME
Have your ever encountered a song that at first makes you go what-the-fuck-is-that? Because it has an incessant weird beat and it sounds so different from the artist’s previous works. But upon further listening, you got into the hidden groove and suddenly couldn’t get enough of the song. Yes, I am talking about Sexy Back (Justin Timberlake). While I believe that JT is way more talented that the alumni of the boyband pack, I didn’t know he can give Madonna a run for the reinvention crown.
And have you encountered a song which annoys you from your first listen up til the last time you heard in on the radio (like 5 minutes ago)? And then you got the shock of your life when you learned that it is the #1 song in the U.S of A. Yeah, I’m talking about Fergie’s London Bridge. Until now, I can’t make sense of her lyrics: How come everytime you come around my London Bridge wanna go down. Duh! Tsk, tsk…Fergie is better off with the other Peas.
I have been very vocal about how I liked Disney’s High School Musical. Blame it on the frustrated singer in me. But I didn’t know that I will have a stigma from it. Now every time Breaking Free is played on the office radio, no less than four people will send me a winpop saying: “O ayan na favorite mo” or “Uy...kumakanta na yan!”
U-oh, here come Breaking Free again.
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OLDER….SUPPOSEDLY WISER
I know that I am mature beyond my years. Because LIFE happened to me and I have the scars to prove it.
Based on my experiences and observation, here are sure-fire signs that you are an emotionally-developed human being:
--> If you are a girl, you do not look for a boyfriend with Hollywood looks, you look for stability and companionship. If you are a guy, you want to marry at age 30+ when you are stable and companionable.
-->You deal with problems the best way you can (by finding its resolution or simply crying it to sleep) before you get outside help (of your friends or for god’s sake…your parents!)
--> Speaking of friends, you have learned to go around the oh-so-high-school term called peer pressure.
--> You have permanently retired the “the world hates me” angst of early adolescence. Instead you realize that the world does not revolve around you and that each of us has our own cross to bear. It goes without saying…nasa pagdadala lang yan.
--> You do not lament over the PAST, but instead prepare for the FUTURE.
--> You are OC about your hard-earned money…as opposed to “spend now, cry and save later.”
--> You know when to talk and when to shut your mouth. To paraphrase, your mind is faster than your tongue.
--> You acknowledge that while you are good at something, some people are better at other things. So no need to act all high and mighty…or no need to act insecure. In the grand scheme of things, we are all equal.
--> You do not make up for your incompetence by finding the flaws of other people. People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
--> You have seen the grey between white and black. Also known as compromise.
--> You lost the eye-for-an-eye thirst for revenge. For you know than sometimes it is better to just grin and bear it, instead of getting even or getting evil.
--> You have a blog citing what it feels like to be mature.
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WHAT GOES AROUND…
I may not believe in religion but I do believe in comeuppance (karma, in layman’s term). Both the good and the bad kind.
So when I have the urge to lash out at someone, I just leave it to LIFE to deal with them. How mature, eh?
Maybe the bitches will have asshole husbands who will make them wish that forever will end sooner than later. Maybe the asshole husbands will have terminal diseases which will make them suffer a slow death. Maybe the blabbermouths will get a dose of their own medicine and have their dirt become the talk of the town for years to come. Maybe the sloths and free loaders will find non-stop work keeping the flames of hell alive.
I still believe that there is some justice in this world.
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ONE UP FOR TREE HILL
I recently finished the third season of One Tree Hill. Their latest (which might have been their last season), was a greater improvement from their second season, where nothing memorable happened. I am glad they were given another season to prove their worth.
Move over The O.C., I now concede and declare that One Tree Hill is better. Their script and dialogues alone have the makings of a literary gem. I like how they start most episodes with a famous quote and end it with another quote to make it come full circle. Not to mention that the soundtrack to all their shows are simply awesome. Good thing there are sites citing the songs that were played on a particular TV show or movie.
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THE HUNT IS SADLY OVER
Upon opening Yahoo News, I was hit by one of the most shocking news of late. Steve Irwin (or Crocodile Hunter to Animal Planet freaks) died when he was stung by a sting ray while he was shooting a documentary off the coast of Australia. He was 44. While sting ray barbs are excruciatingly painful, they are not usually fatal. It is just unfortunate that he was hit in his chest and direct to his heart.
I am not a fan of Steve but being a Animal Planet freak, he was always an amusing presence especially with his highly animated expression in the face of danger and his weird accent. Though his work involved flirting with perils and death, his demise comes as some sort of a freakish accident. Imagine after battling it out with wilder animals, he succumbed to a relatively tamer animal. The only comfort is that he died doing what he loved best. Most of us will not be that lucky.
To a respected environmentalist and one of Australia’s best exports, thank your for showing us the magnificence of the wild and the beauty in danger. Your hunt maybe over but the thrill of it will last longer than your beloved crocs.
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I, COUCH POTATO
I am addicted…to watching TV shows on DVD that is. And with entire seasons of popular TV shows now available in 1-season-per-disk formats at your favorite pirates at unbelievable prices, who wouldn’t surrender to the addiction?
My recent haul involved buying full seasons of Grey’s Anatomy, CSI: New York, How I Met Your Mother, Desperate Housewives, Supernatural and Sex and The City. I am now in the prowl for my other favorite shows, even the older one: Six Feet Under, Prison Break, Dawson’s Creek, The X-Files and Felicity. And I heard that House, Cold Case and Entourage are also good buys.
For losers like us who come home to late-night news or even static (station sign-off), this is akin to mana from TV heaven.