Archive for September, 2008
September 16, 2008 at 2:56 pm | Filed under the internets
When I told my non-blogging friends that I was voting for Mike Villar in this year’s Philippine Blog Awards Bloggers’ Choice Award, I was met with puzzled looks. “…Who?” they asked.
“Mike Villar!” I answered, exasperated at their e-ignorance.
“Who?”
“The Rising Internet Superstar???”
They stared at me blankly.
“You remember that Atrocities of Friendster series that came out some years back? He’s the guy who wrote that.”
More blank stares.
“Remember that guy who passed out on us at the Meatshop?” I sigh.
Well, that did it. Finally, flashes of recognition in their eyes!
“But don’t you hate that guy???” they asked.
“Well, yes,” I admitted.
“Isn’t there anyone else you can vote for?!” they pleaded.
“No one!” I exclaimed, passionately.
“Actually, there’s Bim,” I said, after a pregnant pause. “I really should vote for him because Bim is the better-looking dude and he smells nice, but Mikey promised me prescription drugs and we all know how easy I am when it comes to such things.”
Truthfully now, I don’t hate the guy and I am actually (sometimes) proud to be friends with him. His is one of the few Filipino blogs I still read and one of the very few that manages to leave me ROFLWAFFLE-ing at the end of each entry. There’s really no need for me to go into detail and list why I think Mikey is one of the best (if not the best) “bloggers” out there, so I’ll keep it short and sweet: he’s self-deprecatingly funny and witty, he writes well, his vocabulary is GORGEOUS, his penis is as tiny as an SD card (so boys, no need to feel insecure just cos he’s leagues smarter than you), he never fails to make sense, and it would do the world a whole lot good if there was a little Mikey (no, not THAT little Mikey) in all of us.
Other people who have made the right choice:
Lauren’s Vote For Mike Villar
Ade’s Vote For Mike Villar
Pau’s Vote For Mikey
Baddie’s I Believe In Mike Villar
Fritz’s My Vote Goes To Mike Villar
Euri’s Philippine Web Awards 2008
And say hello this year’s PBA sponsors:
Level Up! Games
Nokia
Blog Bank
Smart Communications
Josiah’s Catering
Rsun Technology Store
Yahoo
XFM 92.3
Buddy Gancencia Reality TV
Ultravision Photo and Video
Click Booth
Aloha Board Sports
Sheero Media Solutions
YourPinoyBroker.com
Belo Medical Group
Inquirer.Net
Toshiba
ROAM Magazine
PLDT
Red Box
Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf
2go
Havaianas
September 15, 2008 at 5:50 pm | Filed under camwhorage, events, joyful girl
LAUREN BEATING MY ASS IN A GUITAR HERO FACE-OFF.
WE WERE PLAYING AEROSMITH’S COVER OF ALL THE YOUNG DUDES HERE.
Upon, Jayvee’s invitation, I dragged Drew and Allah to Friispirit last Friday for a night of Guitar Hero, Rock Band, beer, and munchies. It was my first time at Friispirit (located at One Burgundy Plaza’s ground floor along Katipunan Avenue. It’s the building where 7-11 is) and my first time to try out GH and RB and ZOMG, it was so much fun, my fingers were sore ’til the next day!
ME SINGING. I SUCKED AT IT, BY THE WAY.
I TRIED OUT THE DRUMS AND I SUCKED AT IT, TOO.
I SHALL STICK TO SKANK-DANCING.
I was only able to play Mario Kart, Guitar Hero, and Rock Band but Drew and Allah played this Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 mini game where you throw balls of paper at the teacher while his back is turned. If the teacher catches you, he’ll throw an eraser at you, so you either hide your Wii OR you can snitch on one of your classmates. I heard Lauren got an eraser thrown her way.
Now before things get boring: I forgot to ask about Friispirit’s fees, but according to a couple of friends who used to go there, it costs PHP 500 to register as a member and it’s PHP 75 per hour per Wii stick to play. Prices may have gone up, though. I’m definitely going back one of these days, seeing that I can’t afford a Nintendo Wii or the Rock Band peripherals right now.
More pictures here and here.
So cute: Ladybug steam cleaners!
September 12, 2008 at 2:37 pm | Filed under the helga manual
Admittedly, I’m not big on fashion nor am I fashionable. I love shopping (like most girls), especially for clothes, but I’m not the kind to keep an eye out for the latest trends or splurge on expensive designer items. Because of my devil-may-care attitude when it comes to dressing myself, I often find myself wearing stupid jeans, a stupid shirt, and stupid flip-flops most days and it’s not surprising when people mistake me for a 14-year old. Now despite being a borderline fashion disaster who can’t tell the difference between cotton and polyester (I am able, though, to spot a fake Coach or Louis Vuitton purse when I see one. It’s easy, really: see that woman dressed in a Mercury Drug uniform about to board that Cubao-bound jeepney? Those LV monograms on her purse probably stand for LolVag. …okay, that sounds lame AND wrong), I’d like to think that I am able to pull off decent-looking outfits.
Recently, the boyfriend gave me a copy of InStyle’s Secrets of Style (I actually thought it was a book on web design when he told me he had a Style book for me). I haven’t had the chance to go through it thoroughly, but I’ve flipped through a few pages and saw several pictures of celebrities— presumably style icons. (Cue in awkward transition here!!!) So I thought: well, damn, I’ve got a few style icons myself! And let me show you them! Though I don’t necessarily aspire to copy the way they dress, these are people I look up to and prevent me from leaving the house dressed in, I don’t know, shipping boxes? (O-ho)
1. Edie Sedgwick
Edie Sedgwick has long fascinated me, even before Factory Girl came out in 2006 (a movie that prompted an ex-housemate to start acting and dressing like her). According to Styledash, shoulder-sweeping earrings, short bleached blond hair, heavy eye make-up, black tights, and leopard print furs make up the Edie Sedgwick look. Nevermind that I haven’t worn chandelier earrings five times bigger than my ears since college, that it’s been years since I last had short hair, that and I’ve never worn anything leopard print (or fur!) my whole life— if there’s one thing Ms Sedgwick and I have in common, it’s that a cigarette and a drink are our best accessories.
Our boobs are both non-existent, too!
2. Lauren Conrad
While there is nothing exceptional about her wardrobe, Lauren’s simple, above-the-knee dresses are very familiar to me, in the sense that these pieces are already things I wear.
3. Clémence Poésy
Unsurprisingly, not a lot of people are familiar with this French actress, who has one of the most beautifully-unboring faces I’ve ever seen. She looks fabulously pulled-together and classy even though it always seems like she’s up to no-good/just freebased heroin/about to scratch your eyes out/planning your death or how to steal your first-borne son.
4. Mary-Kate Olsen
There is no other celebrity I adore more than Mary-Kate. I love how she can go from all-glammed up to lazy-Sunday-ashcan-hobo-mess and still be, well, hot. It’s pretty easy to pull off the latter look, too: just throw on a slightly oversized shirt, a huge bag, anti-paparazzi shades, mess up your hair a bit, grab a Starbucks latte and voila! you’re a fat MK! Pants are optional.
Notice a theme here? Save for Lauren Conrad, these girls are built like cokewhores.
September 8, 2008 at 7:38 pm | Filed under admin, the internets
Between the lover and I, we own a handful of domains, all purchased with plans of turning them into money-making sites/niche blogs. Unfortunately, the webgeek in the relationship (aka me) got distracted with other things while the pushy-naggy one (aka him) got too busy with actual work. It’s been a few months and something has yet to become of the several domains.
One of the reasons nothing has been done about our little projects is because all the domains are hosted on a free server whose service leaves a lot to be desired (no surprise there). My schedule isn’t so busy nowadays (what a laugh, really) so I have time to look for webhosting. I’m always on the lookout for affordable hosts that offer good packages and I came across Webhosting Geek’s list of the top 10 web hosts for 2008. It’s helpful information; now all I need is the lover to decide on one (because I am a woman and by default, can’t make any decisions. Har).
September 8, 2008 at 1:50 pm | Filed under art & design
Not really illustrations but more like crap I whipped up in ten minutes with the pen tool and some patterns. I’ve posted the bird on Plurk (Fritz insists it’s a paru-parong ningning) and nicely enough, people have told me they find it cute. I’m hoping to incorporate these into a potential template for work (the idea is a scrapbook-y theme, except I suck when it comes to texturing and creating depth). We’ll see.
My creativity is at an all-time low. I can’t even make a decent blog entry.
fire pits
Hi, my name's Helga Weber and welcome to my personal site. I'm 23. My first socio-political scandal will happen at the age of 35 and will include men, sushi, an African country, and lots of money. My lover is the greatest. 
