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V I D E O G R A P H Y
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THE GREAT ORACLE
Not your average everyday sane psycho supergoddes
Mood
Vibes
: Hawt!
: Home
: Sleeveless top and big shorts
: I need MONEY!
: Severus Snape
: My current employer
: Alkaline Water. Sweet!
: Nothing. Actually craving for McDonald's Large Fries + gravy
: 1983 by Neon Trees
: NONE
: B-R-O-K-E!
ANATOMY
PART ONE: The Basics
Online Identity: The Great Oracle
Gender: Female
Relationship Status: Single
Birthday: December 30th
Astrological Sign: Capricorn
Year of the: Tiger
Alumna of: University of Santo Tomas
Course: Bachelor of Science in Accountancy
Occupation: Certified Public Accountant
Religion: Catholicism
Race/lineage: Asian - Filipina with Spanish and Chinese blood
Location: North Caloocan, Philippines
Affiliations: Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA)
PART TWO: Appearance
Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)
Weight: 46 kgs.
Eyes: Dark Brown
Vision: No assisted eyewear
Hair Color: Black Brown
Hair Style: Straight - Long
Skin Tone: Tan
Best Feature: Lips
Clothing Pref.: Conservative
Tattoo Info: Does stick-on tattoos count?
Piercing Info: 1 on each ear
PART THREE: Personal Favorites
Books: Harry Potter Series, The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, Digital Fortress, The Alchemist, Purpose-Driven Life, The Count of Monte Cristo, Les Miserables, A Clockwork Orange, Frankenstein, The Diary of Anne Frank, Pride and Prejudice, The Gospel according to Jesus Christ
Authors: JRR Tolkien, JK Rowling, Dan Brown, Victor Hugo, Anne Frank, Paulo Coelho, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Music Genres: Rock Music Genres
Bands/Artists: Evanescence, Garbage, Greenday, No Doubt, Blur, Ciara, Prodigy, Matchbox 20, POD, Nirvana, U2, The Calling, Foo Fighters, Incubus, System of a Down, The Killers, Gorillaz, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Audioslave, Coldplay, Franz Ferdinand, Metallica, Lenny Kravitz, Marilyn Manson, etcetera.
Albums/CDs: My CD Collection
TV Shows: The Apprentice, Prison Break, Kyle XY, World Wrestling Entertainment(WWE), MTV, MYX, Knock First, Hunter x Hunter, Queer Eye, Charmed, Smallville, Alias, Arrested Development, House, Nip/Tuck, CSI, Desperate Housewives, etc.
Movies: The Passion of Christ, Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, Harry Potter Series, The Matrix Trilogy, So Close, S1mone, Love Actually, My Best Friend's Wedding, The Wedding Singer, Armageddon, Braveheart, What Lies Beneath, Underworld, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Van Helsing, Hot Chick, White Chicks, The Fast & The Furious, 2Fast 2Furious, etc.
Actors / Actresses: Kate Beckinsale, Eva Longoria, Zhao Wei, Jake Gyllenhall, Adam Sandler, Sean Biggerstaff, Lindsay Lohan, Rachael Leigh Cook, Johnny Depp, Freddie Prinze Jr., Keira Knightley, Keannu Reeves, Daniel Radcliffe, Winona Ryder, Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, Drew Barrymore, Alan Rickman, Ian McKellen, etc.
Games: Final Fantasy Series and The Sims
Sports: Basketball, Softball, Quidditch
Colors: Black, Blue, Red, White
Pets/Animals: Oreo -- my pet Maltese
Food: Some Vegetables, Ice Cream, Pizza, Pasta, Chocolates, Beef Caldereta, Beef and Mushroom, Fish Fillet with Tartar Sauce, Siomai, Starbuck's Choco & Mocha Frappe, French Fries, Burgers, etcetera...I love eating fatty foods...haha!
Drink: Water, Gatorade, Vodka, Red Wine, White Wine
Quotes: "Victory is always possible for a person who refused to stop fighting."
Interests: Eats, drinks, and breathes Accounting | my bed | movie marathon | malling & window shopping | doodles | animes | stars | cartoons | bass guitar | drums | wee hours | photography | drawing | rock music | the boob tube | TiVo | music | games | food trip | books | blogging | designing layouts| html | keyboards | personal computer | the cyberspace | jeans | tees | dancing | martial arts | mandarin
PART FOUR: In A Nutshell
adj. Trademark - the "boyish" walk | the Garfield-ish eyes
adj. WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) - I feel natural, I act natural. No pretentions, no masks, just the plain, real me.
adj. Perfectly Imperfect - procrastinates until the last minute to do anything | grade - conscious but doesn't make the effort to improve them | temperamental | can sometimes be too opinionated | cruel at times | stubborn | indolent | harsh to the people she abhors | forgives but never forgets
adj. Outlier - beyond the average! (Haha!)
adj. Living paradox - queen of irony | has a love - hate relationship with challenges | sometimes optimistic, sometimes pessimistic | sometimes mediocre, sometimes an expert | shy & introverted but friendly & approachable | always wants what she can't have
adj. Weird (in better terms, unique) - a complex mixture of different qualities in one creature : God - fearing | family - centered | unica hija | homebuddy | boyish | simple | creative | childlike but is never childish | cynical about love | wants to be independent | open - minded | responsible | practical | honest | observant | as unpredictable as life can get
ME, MYSELF, & I
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T A G B O A R D
footprints
Whoa
10:27 PM - Thursday, August 01, 2013
Whoa. My last post was on October 24, 2012.
Been too lazy to blog. Microblogging (aka Twitter) has been a big reason LOL.
But I think I need to go back to blogging :)
Good thing blogger is NOT blocked in my office laptop. Hihi
A year since I last blogged
7:59 AM - Wednesday, October 24, 2012
I seriously think that I should go back to blogging. My English grammar has suffered severely due to "lack of practice" (since I often post phrases and just tidbits of my mind on Twitter). And good grief that my blog address is no way near my FB or Twitter address, it will be pretty hard to trace me LOL.
So what's up with me? Still with Company X (but heavily contemplating the possibility of resigning). Anyway, they're going to redundate me (though the redundancy package is attractive, I bet I'd have to go through hell before they'll hand that amount of cash to me LOL) so staying is a non-value adding activity LOL.
And still single. LOL. What's new? I'd rather not dwell on that bit of fact or else there's a big possibility that I'd reduce myself to tears. Another LOL.
Oh well, that's it for now. Will try harder to blog more often.
Labels: A CPA's Life, Euphoria, God is good -- All the Time, Me-Myself-and-I, Randomities
On the realities of "love" life
9:57 AM - Saturday, October 22, 2011
...or the reality that I don't have a love life. HAHAHA
Last October 1, 2011, I celebrated my 10th year of being single.
Yes, single -- as in no flings and no serious relationships. In 10 years!
Had my first so-called relationship when I was still in Grade 5. And yes, I also believe that it was just "puppy love". Haha
Grade 4. I have a crush on him. And he also has a crush on me. So its M.U. (Mutual Understanding).
Grade 5. The exchange of love letters has started. And what's weird is that we don't talk to each other personally; we only talk via the letters. And I laugh so hard whenever I remember that I sometimes transfer at the back of the classroom so that I can sit next to him and hold his hand. LOL
Grade 6. I had another crush that time, so I really didn't give a damn about him. No formalities nor closure, the exchange of letters just stopped. Yes, I admit, that was infantile.
First Year High School. Got infatuated with him again. So the exchanging of love letters resumed. But this time, we talk during breaktimes and dismissal (we don't belong in the same section). He's also one of the reasons why I refused to transfer to another school. HAHA stupid decision.
But before the school year ended, someone told me (can't really remember who that person is) that he's been seeing another girl while we're still together. That person even mentioned that it was my ex'es sister who told him/her about it. And he also informed me that he'll be transferring to another school. So, another stupid move done: without formalities nor disclosure, I broke up with him and refused to talk to him again.
And that concluded my first relationship.
During my second year in high school he called me again, thinking that we're still an item. I talked to him because I want to preserve the friendship, and I think that was a good move because it was then that he discovered that I was in a relationship with someone else already.
And at that time, stupid me, I still didn't know that I was the one at fault. Why? Because upon hearing the rumor that he's being unfaithful, I didn't talk to him to confirm the news -- I just made the decision immediately.
Second year in high school = Second Relationship. My best friend had a big crush on him, and for some unknown, twisted and weird reason her infatuation with him annoyed the hell out of me. Especially when she do stupid things just to get his attention.
Then one day I just felt it.
So we became an item. And celebrated our first anniversary on September 29, 2001.
But before we reached our first year, I acted really bitchy. We always argue. And what's bad is that even if it is already my fault, at the end it will always be him who'll ask for forgiveness.
Stupid me, I know now that he's the one that got away.
I don't know why but maybe because I was still too immature that time and because we got really close that I thought of him as my "best friend" and NOT my "boyfriend", I developed feelings for another guy.
And because I was already unsure of my feelings for him, I broke up with him on October 1, just 2 days after we celebrated our first anniversary.
And then later on I found out that I still love and care for him when it was already too late.
The only good thing about that event, I'd say, is that I didn't keep him hanging on to me while I was preoccupied with someone else, and because of that, he already met the woman who'll be with him (until now).
So with a heavy heart I wish him well. Good for him.
And that concluded my second relationship (and any hope of reconciliation with him).
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24 years old. 4 years after graduation. And most, if not all of my batchmates are already taken or married.
Some of them just got engaged. I was previously viewing their pre-nuptial photos and checking out their wedding preparations chronicles.
Some of them just got married. Last month a batchmate of mine got married and she just announced on FB that she's pregnant. Wow! :)
Some of them are currently in a relationship and are happy. Most of them have been together for some years, and I am very happy for them that they were able to sustain the "fire" in the relationship (I even have some friends who have been together for 10 years or more!)
My best friend is going to get married next year, and damn, I am the Wedding Coordinator. LOL
So WTH is my point? You probably are asking.
Well, my body clock is ticking.
And I just had the realization that I'm not getting any younger.
And everyone around me is getting married. Or is already going towards that path.
And my parents aren't getting younger too. My mom is 69, my dad is 57.
And I am adopted, and since that I'm the only child, I won't have any one to be with me (well, honestly I can't really rely on my relatives because they know that I am adopted, they don't really treat me well. Imagine how worse their "indifference" will become once my parents are gone -- they're still here and I don't belong anymore).
In short, I am panicking. And I seriously think that I'm gonna be a spinster.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think that there's nothing wrong in being a spinster -- I know some women who prefer single hood throughout their lives. And it's their choice.
It's just that I think that spinsterhood is not for me.
So within that 10 years, WTF happened to my so-called love life?
Fell in and out of love with some, and my feelings were always UNREQUITED.
Some showed interest but I wasn't interested in them.
So it's like being at the wrong place and at the wrong time with the wrong person. HAHA
Sometimes I think that it's karma. But hell, are those mistakes worthy of a 10-year lovelife drought? Or even spinsterhood?
Or maybe I've just gotten ugly (damn pimples) and fat (damn my waistline). HAHA
And whenever I remember Bob Ong's quote I cringe:
"Hindi lungkot o takot ang mahirap sa pag-iisa kundi ang pagtanggap na sa bilyon-bilyong tao sa mundo, wala man lang nakipaglaban upang makasama ka."
Ouch. Oo nga naman.
Imagine, sa dinami-dami ng tao sa mundo, wala man lang ni isang nag-offer ng puso nya para mapa-sa 'yo lang???
Most, if not all the time, I ask myself, "is there anything wrong/what is wrong with me???"
Or maybe I should just blame it on the "surge" of gayness that has affected 7 out of 10 straight men? Please don't take offense on this one, I have soooo many gay friends and I love 'em! But really, the number of STRAIGHT men has plummeted over the years (just stating a fact).
My close friends (and even my mom), whenever I complain about this, always give me that emotional band-aid line "Don't worry, someone's meant for you and perhaps its not yet time, yaddah yaddah yaddah". But then, how can you explain spinsters (who are not spinsters by choice) right? Ah, they eventually got tired of my rebuffs on this line. Too bad.
And then I LOLed after reading this line from Bob Ong again (intelligent guy):
Kung maghihintay ka nang ng lalandi sayo, walang mangyayari sa buhay mo. Dapat lumandi ka din.
HAHAHAHA. But then, that's not my personality.
I'm the type of girl who runs out of topics to talk about or forgets what she's about to say whenever she's with the guy that she likes.
Ow crap, is that considered "boring"?! LOL
Or maybe I am just too "old fashioned". Because I really want the guy to go to such great lengths to obtain my "yes". But then, too bad, in this very modern age, some guys just court girls through text. One of my professors said that most, if not all, men nowadays don't even bother to climb the apple tree just to get the ripest and the best that were on top -- they're already contented with the mediocre ones that fall from the tree.
Too bad that guys that I liked don't feel the same way about me. And too bad that some of them are gay pala.
Yes, yes, I am in panic mode. I think I am on the way to spinsterhood.
And I am being emo about this.
All that coming from a person who's not inlove with anyone right now.
Imagine my devastation and grief if I'm in love right now with someone who I know don't or won't feel the same way about me.
Oh well, papel.
Labels: Dead Meat, God is good -- All the Time, Head Over Heels, Love is in the Air, Quotable Quotes, Randomities, The Great Depression
News and comments
9:30 AM
Long time, no blogging!
I think I need to blog again regularly, I'd say microblogging has killed my vocabulary and deteriorated my subject-verb agreement knowledge. Lech.
Oh well, I'm pretty busy, so I really need to find time to blog.
Too busy that I don't have time to watch the news on TV anymore.
So to keep up and get informed, whenever I log out of my Yahoo mail, I check out the news at Yahoo Philippines.
Great, I get to know the latest from the site. But as much as possible, I try to avoid the "comments" section.
Gawd, those people put the stupidest comments on earth! What a shame.
I was just reading news about a UST Medical Student who died in Cebu city because his parachute failed to open while he's skydiving, and my curiosity was piqued. I checked out the comments of people to see their reactions and, sad to say, the internet is indeed swarmed by imbeciles who are either just plain stupid, really effin' bored because they don't have lives, or just major asses (or all of the aforementioned).
It's just sad that these people, instead of just expressing condolences to the family of the deceased, their moronic minds instructed them to post very insensitive comments.
Same with the news that Yue Yue, the 2 year old kid from China that passed away because she was hit by 2 vehicles, people also posted rude comments about the Chinese people. I mean, come on, don't come clean, even in the Philippines there are people who don't help others, ask any "hold-up" victim who was robbed in broad daylight (especially in Manila).
As said, "don't open your mouth and say anything, because people might fortify their suspicions that you are stupid". Argh, I forgot the exact words, but that's the jist of the adage.
Condolence.
Labels: Atrocities, Quotable Quotes, Randomities, The Great Depression, WorldWideWeb Stuff
Just on FB
5:00 AM - Saturday, June 25, 2011
And so, I was not able to resist the temptation...
I added her on FB!
*squeal*
Labels: Euphoria, Head Over Heels, Randomities, The Yuppie Strikes Again, WorldWideWeb Stuff
A R C H I V E S
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