A few months ago, I talked at length on the pitfalls of being the Gay Best Friend Only Straight. And if you don’t remember (or too lazy to click that link), I concluded that girls treat me as such because I’m too nice. I mean, not nice enough to trust me with your sister, but still nice nonetheless. Well, months have passed since I made that conclusion, and here’s a progress report:

Progress? What progress?

Yeah, girls still treat me as a GBFOS. Other guys envy me because I can seem to get into the girls’ trust zone immediately and not set off any “rapist alerts”. But I tell you, it’s not actually pretty in there. Mainly because women treat me like a eunuch and you tend to learn things that you can be happier off not hearing. Like that time this one girl was having her period and she actually pulled a blood clot the size and shape of a squid out of her privates. Cringing now? Now you know how I feel. Read more

My current webhost Dreamhost is giving away limited edition keychains made especially for their 10th birthday or 10 years of existence in the web hosting business. There are only a few keychains left so you better hurry if you want to get your hands on one!

Learn more on how to get these limited edition Dreamhost keychains.

The barangay poll takes place today. And playing with the old soviet slogan, blogger Mongster’s Nest proclaims “all power to the barangay.” So from the said article comes the quote for the day:

If Russia had soviets and China had communes and brigades (Antonio Gramsci proposed factory councils for Italy), I believe a newly conceptualized barangay system would have some role to play if ever the Philippines would embrace socialism in the future.

Last week I mentioned having a few laughs over the news of a reelectionist barangay captain signing the certificate of candidacy for barangay councilor instead. Well here’s a boat, so to speak, that some says we’re all better off missing. And this one’s no laughing matter.

But welcome or unwelcome, everyone, let’s get to know the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement or simply JPEPA.

Notwithstanding Solita Monsod’s counter-arguments in her recent columns (The other side of JPEPA and Under JPEPA, no export of hazardous wastes to the Philippines), I’m sharing the link to an online petition, which I received via email, that wants the agreement junked.

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If you’ve recently tweaked the appearance of your Ubuntu installation, and selected anything other than the default Human theme, chances are that you may find some of your icons blurry. This is because the Human theme uses 24×24 icons and (probably) all others use 22×22. Therefore, choosing anything other than Human theme would compress all remaining icons on the main menu that has no corresponding icon from the newly selected theme, making them blurry.

Read about the workaround on my blog.

Me propesor yung ibang kaklase namin dun sa ibang subject. Di namin sya titser kasi, di naman namin kelangan yung subject nya para grumadweyt, di kasali sa kurikulum namin. Kaya lang masyado sya sumikat sa mga kwentuhan naming mga ekis, kaya, natural kasali rin sya sa wento.

Tawagin na lang natin syang si Mr. Bungol. Kaya yun ang naisip kong itawag sa kanya kasi sa sobrang baba ng boses nya, walang binatbat si Diomedes Maturan. Kung di mo nakikilala si Diomedes, itanong mo muna sa lolo mo kung sino yun. Kase natural, panahon pa ni kopongkopong kumakanta na yun.

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MY FORMER INTERNS borrowed my digital camera and had a photo session in the Speakers’ Guest House in Baguio City. It was in July 2006, and their last day in Baguio during their LGU exposure trip so they took turns on shooting each other’s photos for posterity. When they were done, I reviewed what they got, and was surprised to see an orb or two in some of the photos. These are indoor shots and apparently, these are the only indoor shots that have “orbs” in them.

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If there’s one week in 2007 that I should consider the bitchiest muthafucka week in the history of all bitchy muthafucka weeks, it has to be last week. Seriously. My annual depression attack arrived just when I was starting to be pwned at work, and the screwy weather ravaged my health, leading to a sick leave last Monday. It was Hell, I tells ya! But if there’s one bright spot in the past week, that’s last Wednesday when I dropped by the 6-9 Show with CJ and Sarah to get my copy of the Smallville Season 6 DVD set. That was indeed one happy moment for the geek in me. And I think the DVD set was also happy joining my DVD collection. I think.

Continue reading ‘Smallville Season 6 Joins My DVD Army’

I was busy managing the queue today when a friend sent me an email. I LOLed my way until the end of the message and then remembered that Ade posted something like this. Even got death threats, I heard. LOL.

Anyway, I’m sure Jhozel Grace won’t mind me posting these screenshots of her Friendster blog. LOL. (click to view bigger size) Read more here…

You all know how my husband and I love coffee — we rave about it, we write about it. But today, we were confronted by a question while shopping for groceries…

Is instant coffee really extinct?

Last year, I was very sad to part with my favorite instant coffee - the old flavor of Nescafé Classic. My husband and I really did not like the taste of the modified coffee flavor. To us, it tasted like coffee made from burnt rice. It was so bad for us that we refused to drink it even if we still had a full bottle.

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When I was about three, my mom used to tease me about being a kissing bandit. Apparently I’d go around kissing everybody in sight (am afraid to think of what the singular indefinite pronoun “everybody” comprised in my case, really). Of course, I still love to kiss — the only difference is that since my toddler years I’ve become much more judicious. Oh, and of course, what’s also changed is precisely how I like to kiss these days.

Continue reading at GIGI GOES GAGA.

Since the country’s back to where we started before 2001 (after deposing and convicting a plundering President and all that), I think it would also be appropriate to share something that’s all the rage back then: Erap jokes:

Top 5 Signs that Erap and GMA Have Indeed Become Friends

5: Mikey Arroyo and Jinggoy Estrada agreeing to star in the local version of Brokeback Mountain

4: Joseph Estrada and Mike Arroyo deciding to play golf together regularly

3: Gloria Arroyo and Loi Ejercito start calling each other “‘Mare”

2: Luli Arroyo and Jude Estrada start calling each other “Sis!”

1: Gloria Arroyo appointing Joseph Estrada as “Anti-Plunder Czar”

There’s more from the Professional Heckler. And while we’re at it, here’s something I stumbled over from the blog Futuresheet that everyone should find interesting. This one’s not a joke. Well, sort of:

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Political forces are contesting for hegemony in barangays throughout the country. Right now, traditional politicians have the upper hand since they control the economic pie. Didn’t Malacañang distribute cash gifts to allow governors and congressmen to finance the candidacies of their purok leaders?

Read more at Mongster’s Nest

Do you remember the advertisement of 3D electric fan? That was a long, long time ago. 3D fans were presented as pamilya ng mga mahangin. We surely want fans to be mahangin. But I bet you couldn’t stand someone who is mahangin! 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time

I don’t think it would be an exaggeration to say that many are outraged by the pardon of the disgraced former president Estrada by President Arroyo.

For veterans and sympathizers of Edsa2 – particularly those from the middle classes – the recent action of the present administration is an unpardonable act that followed a long chain of controversies that rocked it anew.

Interstingly, a huge chunk of this sector, Manuel Quezon III remarks in the blog entry A gathering storm, “was willing to tolerate many things about the administration, so long as it maintained the appearance of being marginally more virtuous than the Estrada administration.”

GMA’s pardon of Estrada jolted the sense of these sectors as the feeling of being had is suddenly sinking in. Questions as to the very rationale of GMA’s ascendance to power in 2001 – the issue of corruption that led to his ouster – are now being asked.

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This day is a big disaster, thanks to the ridiculously disorganized enrollment day. I had to wait for an unbelievable seven hours and 30 minutes just so I can proclaim myself officially enrolled for the second semester. And the big thing was more than half of that time was spent standing on a line with multitude of students around me.

I arrived at school around 7:30 in the morning. I thought that I would be the first in line. But it turned out that I was the 35th second year student who arrived there. During the first step of my enrollment was not a big fuss. I finished the first step in no time.

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I am not an avid fan of plain butter cakes. I like my cakes chocolate or of the mousse-y type. My love for all things chocolate (including cakes), has been evident from day one.

I cannot remember where I first heard about the famous Vargas butter cake, but when I read about it in Anton’s post about the Rockwell Baker’s Fair, I felt like I had known about it for years.

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The past few days my website for Filipino writers hasn’t been doing well. From an average of 1000 visitors every day, it’s now down to just 500 visitors a day. At first I thought maybe it was the upgrading and changes that I did. But I couldn’t figure out which change triggered the massive drop. My other theory is that maybe the drop is a seasonal thing. Usually, I would find the number of my visitors falling during weekends (primarily because people are out on weekends). So I thought that the drop was influenced by the semestral break. Maybe students are on vacation. And then I learned about the Google dance. The Google dance is apparently something that happens when your PR is being updated. You get turbulent stats for your websites during the update. But after the update, all goes back to normal. Just a couple of minutes ago, I found my page rank updated. Although I am not sure if this is final already.

READ MORE –> http://allicanhandle.blogspot.com/2007/10/pr-mania.html

When Zamboanga City was named Asia’s latin city, a lot of people reacted to it. Some negatively and some positively. The primary aim of this new title is to drive in tourism. Some people said that it would be a rip off. But Zamboanga city looks latin as any city in Latin America does. In fact Most cities in the Philippines can be branded as a Latin City. The British historian Arnold J. Toynbee went even as far as saying that “the Philippines is a Latin American country that was transported to the Orient by a gigantic marine wave”. Zamboanga City having Chabacano (the only Spanish creole in Asia) as its language makes it even more deserving of the title.

READ MORE: http://allicanhandle.blogspot.com/2007/10/zamboanga-city-asias-latin-city.html

Blogspot humorist Anton Deleon takes a shot at the recent release of Former President Joseph Estrada and why he got wind of the news at the last minute.

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