Thin? Who, Me?

Monday--Prof. Dory spots me at the stairway, takes a second look at me and says "Hey, you lost weight, didn't you?"

Tuesday-- Annie Mae at the office takes a glance and says "J____, you look....like you've shrunk!"

Wednesday-- B___ meets me on the walkway. "Lucky you, you look absolutely chic! How many sizes did you down to?"

I don't know, everybody says I've looked like I lost the pounds. I know I've gone two jeans sizes smaller, but to be remarked on as if I've earned the right to pose nude on FHM? PRICELESS!!

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In other news,

My crush at the Graduate School asked for my number! YIPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

New Look...for now!

I decided, after almost 3 years of blogging to change my pink layout. Thanks to aquapoppydesigns2.blogspot.com, I've found my perfect template- for now! At least it's still much in pink.

Maybe you could give this website a try.

Grrrrrrrrrrrr

This isn't my day.

I gave my boss the WRONG papers for a meeting.

Some very important files in my flash disk got LOST. Good that I still have copies of one of them, but the fact that some damned virus was the culprit still makes my blood boil. That's it.

I have to figure out how to attend two very important meetings that happen AT THE SAME TIME....tomorrow!

I am far from relaxed and I don't expect to have a FREE weekend this week. Sigh!

The only good thing right now is that my vitamins (I order them) will be arriving tomorrow.

Too Much ...

I often subscribe or adhere to the saying "misfortunes don't come one by one."

This week just proved that.

My best friend in college got officially engaged, and it was broken the same week! Some obnoxious relative of her suddenly came up with something that made the guy's family retreat. I don't know if it was settled or what, but everyone felt sorry about the whole thing. What makes it more irritating is that the girl and the guy aren't kids anymore and they've waited for YEARS to get married, and the guy knows his responsibilities but some people out there just love to mess things up for their own benefit.

Then a relative of a friend suddenly died at a young age. Just one heart attack. He didn't make it alive to the hospital.

Then a few days ago, someone sent me SMS saying that a colleague at work had her dad at the hospital. It was a stroke and the doctors said there's almost no hope, they could honestly give him a 10% chance to live.


This is too much heartache for a week.

Announcement

I've got something new here (well not that new).

Because I've been recently victimized by anonymous commenters who post advertisements and all that nonsense, I'm enabling comment moderation.

So don't be surprised if you have to answer some captcha thingies in order to send your comments.

When You've Had Too Much Soap

I spent an afternoon at a friend's house (something I don't often do) and somehow we wound up watching TV soaps (again, a nonexistent activity with me, these days at least). We couldn't resist the temptation to throw mental tomatoes on some of them for having a stupid plot, actors who don't fit their parts or bad house decor. While we were switching from one mushy scene to another I thought of all the television soap operas I've ever watched in the past and I tried to think of things they all had in common and all the things people did to react to what they were watching.

Soap Operas' Common Characteristics


1. The plot revolves around a love story; it may be the main thing or just the sideshow.

2. The hero and the heroine are goodlooking, the bad guys and girls might either look horribly ugly or just have raised eyebrows or too much make-up.

3. The plot often has the mushy "Cinderella" story line: girl is poor, guy is rich, girl has villains around her,or the guy's family looks down on her, both fight for the relationship, the story goes through twists and turns, the bad people do something to hurt the girl, guy reacts/rebels, something happens that make the guy's parents change their mind and accept the girl, the couple get married and end up happy together.

3. We say that a soap opera plot is bad when events like accidents, rapes, death of characters etc. happen for no plausible reasons.

4. It's also bad when characters change attitudes as fast as they change underwear.

5. Some soap operas have such silly mushy names.


You know you're watching too much soap operas when...

1. You adjust your work schedules just to be able to watch every episode. ( My college classmates and I once found out a professor guilty of this!)

2. You cry when the protagonist is being slapped, beaten up, hung, shot by firing squads, burned alive...

3. You get sooooo angry at the villains that you forget it's just a soap opera and you plan you beat them up if given the chance.

4. You can discuss the plot, episode by episode.

5. You don't get sick of reruns.

6. You sue the TV station for allowing A to get married to B in yesterday's episode when you want A to marry C.

7. You go to a salon or barber shop and ask for an actor's hairstyle because you saw it on last week's episode.

8. You feel your day isn't complete when you miss an episode especially when you know that something BIG is going to happen.

9. Your remote control burned down because of switching from one soap to another.

10: FACT: Men also get glued to soap operas, only they won't admit it. But they can tell what happened to A, B, and C in case grandma asks because she missed an episode.

To Add or Not To Add?

I opened my e-mail this morning to find a friend request on Facebook.


It was from somebody I didn't know, and yet his name pointed out that he's from my place.

Needless to say, I didn't add him.


Oh, yeah, I got Facebook, Friendster, and Twitter, but I don't have many friends there.
I am wary of who I add and who I invite. Most of the time, my friend lists contain blogger friends, people at work, high school/college friends, etc. In short, people I know a bit.


But total strangers? Usually no.


I'm cautious about adding people from my place because, well, hmmm. I know that normally people would trust and become friendly with those who come from their place but it's different here. No, I've got nothing to hide, it's just that when you add people from your place in your social networking account, it's almost like a suicide note. Sometimes.


These people often don't know the difference between legitimate bashing of one's own ethnic group and bashing that's not. They watch out for photos and Status messages. They'd tell you on chat that "you're a disgrace to the tribe because of blah blah blah" when I know that they complain about it too and the things I point out are the things that prevent us from growing as a people. Some of them even take pride that they do illegal stuff! Is that something to be proud of? They bash other people for their beliefs but hey, when they get out of my city, you'd see them imitating the ways of the people they criticize. No use arguing with these people because their brains are in a permanent time deposit box.


Once you have these kind of people there, you can kiss freedom of expression goodbye.


I don't care or give a damn, really. I just block or ignore friend requests from people I suspect are like that. One thing you'll notice about my friend lists is that I almost have NO relatives from my father's side in them.


To the one I ignored this morning, sorry, i don't know you. And even if I did add you, you might not handle some of the things I would say, and you might not understand. I'm doing the both of us a favor, really.