Shooting Stars and Interrobangs

May 31, 2010 at 7:00 pm | Filed under photos, the helga manual

Well, I’m 25 today. My mom called around one in the morning to greet me; she asked “How old are you?” I answered and she chided “When I was 25, I already had you.”

I’m old enough to have a baby this year, I guess.

(“Uh-oh,” my dad goes.)

Maybe it’s normal but I find it rather strange that I feel nothing about being 25. I guess people (myself, included) tend to glorify or romanticize birthdays, the way they do New Year’s: a time for changing! A time to re-assess who you are and what you want to be! A time to set new goals and check what you have achieved in the past year, five years, decade. I’m simply not in the mood. Today, tonight, and like many of the past May 31s— I would rather drink.

I barely got any sleep last night and I woke up feeling less than stellar at 730am. People who know me know that I usually don’t wake up before 9 in the morning. I carried on as usual: wake up, stare at my ceiling light, shower, coffee, internet. I felt that familiar icky feeling when you lack sleep. I also felt fat. I also hoped that the days leading up to my 26th birthday wouldn’t be spent like so.

Here is a photo:

And here is a song:

A With Living, Do Make Say Think

Happy birthday to me. I hope you guys have a good day or night. Tell the universe Helga demanded it so.

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My Happiness Platter!

May 31, 2010 at 12:48 pm | Filed under food, photos, the helga manual

This is what I call my Happiness Platter: hotdogs, Ma Ling (pork luncheon meat, a lot like Spam but yummier!), and eggs. I had this Saturday afternoon while nursing a hangover (as usual, I was in my couch watching old episodes of TV shows on my DVD player that I got from circuit city hrhrhrhr). Breakfast food is my comfort food; it’s terribly unhealthy but I can’t resist and it does make me feel better. Or at least less hungover. Ice cold Gatorade also helps me a lot.

What about you guys, what do you usually eat to cure your hangover?

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How I Spent the First Hour of My Birthday

May 31, 2010 at 8:34 am | Filed under ditz drivel

The short version: watching How I Met Your Mother and eating pork chops.

The long version: chatting with lover, eating meat loaf (from the can) and two pork chops (last week’s leftovers), catching up on How I Met Your Mother season five, replying to birthday tweets, thinking about my age, thinking about the rest of my life, thinking about ice cream, thinking about cake, googling about senior citizen life insurance, slightly grumbling about having to work.

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A Quick Rant About “My People”

May 28, 2010 at 5:39 pm | Filed under bitchin' a ride, the internets

Filipinos are so unnecessary and asinine, always coming up with crap like this to proclaim how supposedly “awesome” and “great” we are. Guess what? WE AREN’T. We are a poor nation with backward values and outdated morals. Listing crap like this doesn’t make non-Filipinos think better of us. It’s just a bunch of dumb Pinoys masturbating each other’s egos.

Here’s another one. WHAT IS THIS I DON’T EVEN.

It gets embarrassing. I just wanna throw a couple of electric grills their way and knock them out cold.

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Links, Here and There

May 28, 2010 at 1:48 pm | Filed under the internets

The 7 foods experts won’t eat. A few in the list: canned tomatoes (ooh), microwaved popcorn (uh-oh), and conventional apples.

Too unfit to run: Two-year-old who smokes 40 cigarettes a day puffs away on a toy truck.

His mother, Diana, 26, wept: ‘He’s totally addicted. If he doesn’t get cigarettes, he gets angry and screams and batters his head against the wall. He tells me he feels dizzy and sick.’

Ardi will smoke only one brand and his habit costs his parents £3.78 a day in Musi Banyuasin, in Indonesia’s South Sumatra province.

But in spite of this, his fishmonger father Mohammed, 30, said: ‘He looks pretty healthy to me. I don’t see the problem.’

How ridiculous is this?! I would like to know how a two-year old child learned to smoke and where he got his first cigarette from. How is this even possible?! Why hasn’t this child been taken away from his parents?! Too many interrabangs, I know, but I’m just in disbelief.

carinsurancelist. You know, just in case you guys are looking to get free insurance quotes online and in minutes.

Addicted to fat: Blame it on Evolution! Benj explains why “If fat does have really bad effects on the human body, why is it so hard to resist the temptation?”

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