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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 1, 2008 at 5:44 pm | Filed under events, joyful girl, pop culture and such
I was four-years old when the Eraserheads first came out and I didn’t start listening to them until my brother brought home a copy of Cutterpillow. Ten is too young an age to appreciate and fall in love with an odd-sounding quartet whose songs were nothing I could relate to, but Ang Huling El Bimbo captured my pre-adolescent heart.
Getting to the Eraserheards reunion concert last Saturday turned into an almost-epic adventure for Drew and I and save for a few bumps (like Drew losing his phone right when the band opened with Alapaap and my having to wrestle with a hundred people for water), it was a remarkable experience. There have been enough complaints written about how badly produced the event was; Ticketworld clearly misled us with the map of the venue they posted on the site, as there was no mention of VIP and SVIP sections. I’m sorry if I expected to get more out of the 1,300 I shelled out, really, but never the mind. It was enough to see hear live for the last time (but let’s hope not) a band whose music greatly made up the soundtrack of our formative years.
I really wish I could post some badass pictures from that night, but I have none. Instead, I shall show you how just how far (away from the stage) my monies could get me:
Shower faucets, I mean, the crowd.
I’d post the video clips I took but they’re all very Blair Witch Project, seeing that I couldn’t stop swaying, shrieking, singing, and jumping up and down.
July 17, 2008 at 1:00 am | Filed under events, the internets
My geek panties are wet: finally, WordCamp Philippines! Damn right I’ll be there, if only to have my photo taken with the most important Matt in the world.
I remember the first time I introduced myself to WP: it was the day Pope John Paul died. It was foreign and all gibberish and no amount of reading the documentation helped. I absolutely hated it. An entry about Wordpress I wrote three years ago, after a couple of weeks of trying to make sense out of it:
I FUCKING HATE WORDPRESS FOR BEING SO FUCKING COMPLICATED WITH ITS PHP AND FUCKED UP CODES. YOU TWEAK IT AND IT WORKS FINE AND THEN YOU DO SOMETHING ELSE AND THE PREVIOUS CUSTOMIZATION FUCKS THE FUCK UP AND SO TO MAKE THINGS BETTER LIKE A FUCKING PHILLIPS COMMERCIAL OR HOWEVER THE FUCK YOU SPELL IT, YOU HAVE TO TAKE OUT THE FIRST CUSTOMIZATION JUST SO IT’D LOOK THE WAY IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE, BUT REALLY, IT’S NOT SUPPOSED TO LOOK THAT FUCKING WAY BECAUSE YOU WANT IT TO LOOK LIKE SOMETHING ELSE BUT BECAUSE IT’S FUCKED UP AND BECAUSE WORDPRESS SUCKS MICHAEL JACKSON’S COCK YOU HAVE TO MAKE DO WITHOUT THE PRETTIFYING CUSTOMIZATION.
GOD, THIS WORLD SUCKS.
I ran back to my LJ overrides after that. I gave Wordpress another shot a year later. It’s been two years and here I am, absolutely in love with it. So devoting a whole Saturday to nothing else but WP? Awesomecakes.
Party invitations! I mean, the official sponsors:
WordCamp Philippines will be held on September 6, 2008 at the Augusto-Rosario Gonzalez Theater in College of St. Benilde. Organized by Mindanao Bloggers. See ya there =)
June 29, 2008 at 3:02 am | Filed under a waste of human capital, events, joyful girl, mr wonderful
It’s been a week since my last update and for good reason: I re-joined the labor force last last Friday. I’m currently employed by dotPH, being a total ditz in their creatives department. I’m actually half-creatives, half-sales & marketing…it sounds awesome, I guess. I’m just happy and absolutely relieved that after wasting two years on being a stupid call center agent, four months of web design school, and a month of bumming around, I finally have a real job.
To make things more fun, I work with my friends, Mordo and Ade! Now that is awesome.
Now here are the boring details: my hours are noon to 9 in the evening. I work in Emerald Avenue in The OC (The Ortigas Center, anyone?). Coffee, beer, cheap food, KFC chicken, and cigarettes are all within walking distance. I only know of two sites that are blocked at work: youtube and meebo. I have access to Yahoo Messenger. I have a non-Avaya phone, I do not hate it and I am not chained to it. I smoke three to four cigarettes during my breaks. I spent the whole week last week working on a template in Photoshop. I realize that making cutouts is therapeutic— not that I need therapy for anything. I’ll probably spend this coming week modifying and coding, though I was told I’ll be doing cold calls this Monday. You’re welcome to stalk me.
Several nights since I started, I’d go for a couple of beers after getting off work. I called it my two-beer habit. It felt good and it felt normal. I am spent by the time I get home and I am conditioning myself to get used to functioning on six hours of sleep and copious amounts of weak office joe and nicotine. Just like college, really.
(There’s nothing I miss more than heading home with you, knowing it’s only a matter of minutes before we find ourselves in our bed, tangled up in each other and naked.)
It was a tiring week and there was no better way to end it than going to Coke’s Buhay Coke ng Bloggers party. Everyone got a free carton/case of Coke Zero (I didn’t claim mine because lugging it home would be a byatch) and the beer was free and free-flowing— just like how a party for bloggers should be. A picture (care of Fritz!) of me looking like a tranny hooker junkie mess who got too drunk to work her corner that night, I love it:
A job, the greatest boyfriend, fantastic friends— life is good. And normal.
Other blog posts:
An Apple a Day, Happiness = Coca-Cola
Jehzlau Concepts
Ka Edong
Azrael’s Merryland
Macuha.com
Love in the Time of Coca-Cola
Mistervader
Godiane
Galwin Fabian
Websaytko
Fritzified
Jester in Exile (in his new home)
BrownPinay.com
AWHoldings (Plurk’s Arbet Loggins)
Baratillo.net
Think of Me
Momblognetwork
Kape ni Lattex
Buhay Coke Ng Bloggers At SM Hypermart
Something Sweet & More
Pinoy Life at Large, Arpee Lazaro
Pinoylife
Melo Villareal
Xeemomma
Rockerfem
Brian Ong
Micamyx
Jason King Ong (the Banana Dancer)
Cigarette Girl
Photos:
An Apple a Day Photos
Superbong
Hrudu
Micamyx
Fritz the Paparazzi
Juned
Juned’s Flickr
My Flickr
Shirley of Hollywood has awesome lingerie.
April 29, 2008 at 6:44 pm | Filed under camwhorage, events, the internets
First, proof that I was at iBlog 4’s after-party last Saturday. Because, my friends, the law of the internet is: PICS OR IT DIDN’T HAPPEN!!! (or PICS OR NOT TRUE!!!):
THERE’S A NORMAL LOOKING PENNY, HELGA, AND ANNE.
AND THEN THERE’S MIKEY.
I HAVE NO CLUE WHAT LUIS DID TO BIM, BUT IT CAN’T BE GOOD.
Highlight of the evening was watching Ade and Lauren’s band, Lose Your Beer Belly, play.
Now that that’s out of the way.
In today’s episode, we tackle pressing matters such as your newfound internet fame, how not to come across as an attention whore when you’re, well, pretending to NOT be one (and obviously failing at it), missing doctypes, swearing off dating bloggers (but there is an exception, apparently), why screaming Japanese gibberish in a really high-pitched voice at 3 in the morning can be annoying to some people, and how to properly respond to stalker-ish blog entry mentions about you.
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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. 
