Braising my Beef

freaks and geeks unite!

i went the ny comic con yesterday, but much to our dismay, the tickets were all sold out! so the great jay started scamming other geeks for their passes, while i patiently listened to him scamming as i schemed to play with my great game boy.

well, he tried scamming this geek but sadly, he was just too ubergeeky to fly from tennessee into NY and wont let go of his weekend pass to the convention, so we just went to the bathroom…

and there it was, we saw a pavillion full of people and werent checking on people’s tickets. har har. so there we went and saw todd mc farlane talk his ass off about his company… at this time i was really into my game boy that i couldnt care less even if he dropped his pants there. besides, he was a good 60 feet away from me.

as soon as he finished, the organizers told us that milla jovovich was gonna be next. hey. what a nice way to see a celebrity, sit nicely and play with my gameboy. hahahaha. she was really nice, though she was causing me diabetes since she has been sugary sweet. saccharine even. include splenda if you must.

at the time she stepped out, all the napoleon dynamites and the future 40 year old virgins have been a huge mass of raging hormones that they always screamed "i love you milla" and pleading their undying love. it was funny albeit reminiscent of the other events that ive gone to that involve comics… then again, in those events, i always got in the event in some twisted vip way because i knew the organizers and the great stars. (yes, im talking about the alamaters)

she was great. and boy isnt she ever so radiant that she could easily radiate all the way to where i was sitting. my lesbian tendencies arent reserved for anyone else yet, but sadly, she didnt wine mine. almost there, but not close and not quite.

as soon as she was done, we got a load of freebies. hahaha. (this is the reason why we like going to conventions like these. remember my zen vision?) we even got to take pictures with 2 uglydolls!!!

and then we snuck in the tradeshow floor… and grabbed more freebies.

i have been out of the loop of comicbooks but i still think they are great entertainment.

i would certainly read them again, if only my interest havent shifted to shoes and classic nintendo games.

i finally finished one video game! and all in one sitting, no continues.

though i think, im 22 years too late for this feat. but who cares!

i finished bomberman!

i sound really pathetic.

i have been lusting after a game boy since summer and thank god for valentines jay finally got it for me as a gift. i had the great super mario brothers 3 with it.

ive been wanting to have it all because ive seen bomberman classic in the video game store in new rochelle and since then, i wanted it. i even found a pink one in ebay… of course, i needed my game boy to match  my dvd player (yes, my dvd player is HELLO KITTY) but oh well, maybe i own too much pink?

i also found a 99 in one game cartridge on amazon. it finally got in the mail last friday, and boy it had my bomberman (!!!), the original super mario brothers, lunar ball (billiards), battle city, lode runner, urban champion and some more games (99 in one nga eh!)

ive been tripping down memory lane, and almost completely ignoring milla jovovich in the ny comic con today because i was obsessing over bomberman!

and so i searched for the legend of kage — not only did i find kage, i also found the great contra commando. hahahahahahahha.

ive also been circus charlie-ing my subway time away.

its funny how i would only want to play these 32 bit games on the great game boy sp (with new and improved backlit screen!) and not even bother learning the new games out in the market. ive also learned a newfound skill in the gaming arena — since i got all the way to stage  25 in bomberman in one sitting, with 14 lives to spare. wow. ive never felt so geeky with video games.

after 15 years, my god. i finally ALMOST reached the gaming skill level that my cousins had in the late 80’s.

hoooraaaay! (hahaha pathetic)

in this age of 6 control buttons per hand and im still with my up up down down left right left right B A select start, im not even surprised why i cant appreciate the new video games.

though i must say, im probably still good at tekken 3 — but for crying out loud, that was playstation 1 and it was 8 years ago.

and i consider myself a geek?

oh the searing chest pain.

i am officially a part of the statistic. 94 million americans suffer from heartburn — well, except for the american part, i am now a very annoyed sufferer.

and i swear, im beginning to think that this came from my diet. goddammit. i lost lbs, and yet i have my great digestive tract that endured everything from kilawin to soup number 5 (yes, that cow testicle soup, tried once) and 5 months worth of eating curry in every kind for 5 months….

i have been researching on this whole GERD/heartburn thing because my tita suggested that i might have it. damn, and now i am instructed to swallow one prevacid in the morning and at night. at this rate, it is going to be a maintenance drug, AND I DONT WANT MAINTENANCE DRUGS THAT ARE BOUND TO MAKE ME QUIT EATING CHOCOLATE.

dammit. last entry, i was so happy about my chocolate intake, and now i have to friggin eat so much yogurt just to keep it down.

i dont know how my lower esophagus thingy has managed to relaxed and spew acid northward. but it irks me because i have to live with this damn thing EVERY SINGLE MEAL I TAKE.

also, this limits all the steak that i want to eat.

i dont know what happened. im seriously hoping that i can reverse this. this ultimately stresses me, and stress produces more acid and causes heartburn.

its a chicken and the egg syndrome.

i hate heartburn. may this heartburn burn in hell. argh.

1. Who was your first prom date? i never had a prom date, but my first date to a big formal event was at the frat ball of sigma rho, i was a freshman and the archon didnt recognize me! the date was named joey.
2. Who was your first roommate? may ho, in sri lanka.
3. What alcoholic beverage did you drink when you got
drunk the first time? tequila shots.
4. What was your first job? slave at aca video.
5. What was your first car? IT WILL BE A MINI COOPER.
6. When did you go to your first funeral? i think it was my dad’s. i was 13.
7. How old were you when you first moved away from
your hometown? if you count a 6 month stint in sri lanka, i was 22. but the big move was 24. hahaha.
8. Who was your first grade teacher? mrs. arboleda.
9. Where did you go on your first ride on an airplane? i was probably 5 or 6. i went to cebu. the next one was 12 years after.
10. When you snuck out of your house for the first
time, who was it with? there was no way to sneak out of our 2 story, 2 bedroom apartment. i just didnt go home early!
11. Who was your first Best Friend and are you still
friends with them? marianne
12. Where was your first sleepover? it would be in COLLEGE. the oddest part of it was the fact that i slept over at LYNDON’s house. hahahaa. my mom is too weird! (would let me sleep over at guy’s house, not over at girls!!!)
13. Who is the first person you call when you have a
bad day? nowadays? jayah
14. Who’s wedding were you in the first time you were
a bridesmaid or a groomsmen? my tita marie’s. i was in high school and i looked horrible!
15. What is the first thing you do in the morning? turn off my alarm and wait for it to go again after an hour!
16. What was the first concert you ever went to? the fifth dimension with my parents (and i didnt understand a thing)
17. First tattoo or piercing? ears, when i was a baby!

18. first celebrity crush: charlon davao as "ringo" in eh kasi babae… then it was ian veneracion — he grew up to be hotter!!! to bad he is blah.
19. age of first kiss: real one? 16!!! isnt this sad?!

i have yet again, lost another pound. (127.8 lbs. 3 lbs to go until i get to my manila weight again!)

this is one of the easiest pounds that i lost in a week. and i lost it by eating a huge slice of chocolate cake from dean and deluca. i know it probably isnt possible, but it did happen. along the way, i ate some baby back ribs, chicken fries from burger king, a cheese danish from the good pain, and yet another flaky encounter with a ham and swiss cheese empanada from dean and deluca.

why did i discover dean and deluca all over again (they also have the best chocolate cupcakes ever… but still the best chocolate muffins are from the stop and shop in white plains, near ping’s house.)???

i dont even have internet to track my food intake via caloriecount.com

oh the pain, the pain! (the pe, the pe… according to lee. in english, oh the bread, the bread!!)

so how did i manage to eat all of that, and yet lose another pound that i have no intentions of finding again?

i didnt eat the great american serving. (except for the pastries. gimme my sugar any day!)

the great ribs were from delaware (dinosaur and wes’ is a lot better!!) and jay and i shared half a rack — which really is good enough for one rice eating pinoy.

i still dislike the limiting of my food intake, and i will never successfully stay off the chocolate (nor do i have plans of doing so) but the dieting is going all well. and my diet is sure hell better than doing atkins because i will never get off eating rice, and it is probably bad for you.

hail hail chocolate!

1. Is your friendster name your real name?
~ of course. its not my given name though…

2. Elaborate on your primary photo.
it seriously blinks!

3. Who introduced friendster to you ?
leeann because she needed more friends in her friends list.

4. How many testimonials do you have?
count it yourself.

5. What’s your current relationship status?
"its complicated" until my bf changes his status to in a
relationship.

6. What are you wearing right now?
black tights and a red sweater… faaaaaaaaaame! im gonna live forever!!

7. What is your current problem?
my bank account has so many zeroes AFTER the decimal point.

8. What are you doing right now?
procrastinating

10. What do you love most?
chocolate.

11. What makes you happy?
chocolate… and now my game boy advanced sp! woohoo!

12. Are you musically inclined?
nah. im not even inclined to listen… yet i want an ipod.

13. What would you do if you woke up one
morning and found out you were on cocaine?
i would look for the stash of money where i got the cocaine money from. i might
be rich!!! and then go shopping.

14. If you could go back in time, and change
something, what would it be?
if i changed anything, i wont be what i am now. nah. let them all be there,
battlescars and all.

15. If you MUST be an animal for ONE day,
what will you be?
paris hilton’s chihuahua. at least i get to be photographed everywhere while i
hang out in some 5 thousand dollar purse.

16. Ever have a near death experience?
not really.

17. Name ONE obvious quality you have.
loud.

18. What’s the name of the song that’s stuck
in your head right now?
that jamiroquai song from napoleon dynamite.

19. Are you happy today?
yes. i look forward to getting a bomberman game for my gba

20. Who will cut and paste this first?
its not me???

21. Name someone with the same birthday as
you:
william shakespeare

22. Who was your first kiss?
hahaha.

23. Have u ever vandalized someone’s private
property?
not really. im not the intentionally destructive kind… im just naturally
destructive.

24. Have you ever hit someone of the opposite
sex?
of course. i have brothers.

25. Have you ever sang in front of a large
audience?
no. but i almost always burst into song.

26. What is/are the first thing(s) you notice
about the opposite/same sex?
if im in my office? the porma, and sometimes the smell, unfortunately.

27.What do you usually order from starbucks?
the bottled frappuccino

28. What is your biggest mistake?
hahaha. now that i remember, i just laugh about it.

29. Have you ever hurt yourself on purpose?
only when i drink too much and end up with a really bad hangover the following
morning

30. Say something totally random about you:
im a princess!

31. Has anyone ever said you looked like a
celebrity?
yeah. lee has this delusions that i look like melissa joan hart and parmindar
nagra.

32. Do you still watch kiddy movies or TV
shows?
sometimes.

33. Did you have braces?
~ yes

34. Are you comfortable with your height?
yeah. im comfy with my belly and fat arms too.

35. What is the most romantic thing someone
of the opposite sex has done for you?
theres loads of them. oh where do i begin?

36.When do u know it’s love?
it will say so. hahaha.

37. Do you speak any other languages?
besides english? tagaolog and cebuano… and few words of hindi that usually
dont mean anything so i just say banana!

38. What is your favorite smell?
bacon frying.

39. Have you ever been to a tanning salon?
~ no…

40. What magazines do you read?
anything i can get my hands on. i have a new york magazine subscription too.

41. Have you ever ridden in a limo?
nope.

42. Has anyone you were really close with
passed away?
no i dont think so

43. Do you watch mtv?
i dont have cable

46. Do you like Michael Jackson?
he is weird.

47. Can you dance?
i am miggy buzeta’s second dance instructor. richard is the supreme dance
instructor.
 

48. What’s the latest you have ever stayed
up?
the next morning.

one day, marie my filipina coworker, brought a big bottle of shampoo to the office because she went shopping before coming in at the drugstore in our building. the indian coworker, arti was a little bit complaining why she bought the bottle of shampoo in duane reade because it was definitely more expensive there.

marie: well, im bringing this to the week and a half long trip to tucson and i dont want to be bothered with transferring shampoo from my huge bottles into smaller ones…

arti: why not get the trial sized ones, dont you think its too big?

marie: its not enough really…

arti: (in an odd tone) why? do you shampoo your hair everyday?

marie and me in the background: of course!

something tells me she doesnt shampoo her hair everyday. maybe her shampoo is "gee your hair smells…"

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arti: my son is so annoyed that he has to brush his teeth before sleeping because the dentist said so.

me: (feigned sympathy/sarcasm) oh that poor thing. (and in my head: "why? do you need the dentist to tell you this? do you brush before sleeping?)

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me: oh, i hate seeing my dentist. i have to go again for cleaning in june!

mr. b: what? too much clean is not bad. your teeth will fall out right away if you do. you should go for cleaning every two or three years

oddly enough, i think that they think im too weird because i clean myself too much.

thank god for weirdness.

as far as i can remember, i have always been the slothy daughter that my mom despises. i love lying in the boat that is the bed that is floating on the sea of my great kalat as i watch loads and loads of tv into the dead of the night. my mom totally hated this slothy and filthy habit of mine.

alas, im still the slothy and filthy woman that my mom has come to put up with until i left. and i suffer in the memory of my mother’s constant nagging of commands to clean up. (i most usually ignore it, its just a voice in my head)

yes, i still manage to bring chaos to a room of order with ease. (all rooms except the kitchen)

so what does this have to do with my premature geriatrification?

you see, i still have my sea of kalat and the bed that floats me from the dreadful waves, but i have, due to my extreme laziness and utter love of sleeping that i have come to the conclusion of leaving my kalat alone and just do what im supposed to do in bed on a school night.

sleep early, and sleep enough.

and i looove it.

somehow, i dont understand that inspite of getting a full 9 hours of shuteye i still feel sleepy in the middle of the day. (i am not pregnant)

but hey. maybe im addicted to sleeping.

oh yeah, did i mention that i rarely go out past 12 midnight? i swear, old age is just beside me.

i hate the first week of the month. its the time when i pay EVERYTHING — rent, phone, metrocard and all those other things that make my life running smoothly… (grown ups call it bills.)

this week, since it was the great week of the tucson jewelry trade show in arizona, i have decided to pay my dentist a visit. and get a new pair of eyeglasses. its been a couple of weeks since i broke my current ones which are being held up by a couple of drops of crazy glue.

and i hate letting this pair go. by far, it has been my most complimented pair of eyeglasses. even strangers stop to ask me where i got them (i forgot to tell this minor detail to nathan dorfman, my eye guy) and the fact that i just coughed up 150 bucks to replace them. darn.

and then there’s the tax free week. GOODNESS! and i cant spend a single cent.

then my paypal account is palpak. i cant even pay for my larousse gastronomique. I WANNA CRY!!!

now i am officially broke, and its gonna be my mother’s birthday in a few days. no more shopping.

argh. bill week + dentist + new pair of eyeglasses. friggin priceless.