being O.C.

here we go... one stop wiki-ternative. hehehe!
okay... first up...

Latios & Latias

these 2 are the guardians of the water city of Altomare (which literally means "high sea" or "high tide" in Italian)

loosely translated from Ratiosu & Ratiasu, they are the only 2 legendary pokemon with defined genders... Latios' demise marks the first actual death of ANY pokemon in the whole North American Franchise...

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Entei




hahaha! in your face jeff! heehee!

Entei is one of 3 Legendary Beasts, and as such, embodies an aspect of nature... in this case, the passion of magma and the ferocity of volcanoes...

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Hatake, Kakashi

apparently, he has never shown his face... EVER! be it in the anime or the manga...


























and as discussed, those that can be found online are meticulously made fakes...

this one is from the artbook from Galbadia... nice, yes?!

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Angels & Airwaves













aside from the very catchy band name, their tunes are also quite addictive...

AVA (their abbreviated name with a supposed inverted A in the middle) is an alternative rock supergroup featuring Tom DeLonge (Blink 182 lead vocals & lead guitar), David Kennedy (former Box Car Racer guitarist), Atom Willard (former bassist of The Distillers), and Ryan Sinn (The Offspring drummer)...

the video of their debut single, The Adventure, caught me by surprise because i never expected that Blink 182 would ever come up with a non-juvenile video that did not require individuals with hypothyroidism...

and a song that i'd actually like! but that's just me. hehe!

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Zac Efron






star of Disney Channel's T.V. movie High School Musical... actor-slash-musician...









a definite eye candy...

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Marahute


a "larger than life" , rare, and beautiful golden eagle from the Disney animated film The Rescuers Down Under (1990)...













just add a couple'a more limbs, turn talon into paws, and presto! that's pretty much how Daitona'd look like... and oh! a lion's tail, of course...

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Don Bluth's Thumbelina


Don Bluth was one of Disney's chief animators... with works, including: An American Tail, Land Before Time, All Dogs Go To Heaven, Anastasia, and of course Thumbelina...


released in 1994, Don Bluth's Thumbelina was distributed by Warner Brothers and is one of Bluth's subsequent works... as of this time, i am unsure whether the name of the characters in this feature are from Hans Christian Andersen's original Thumbelina fairy tale as well...


particularly, Thumbelina's love interest, Cornelius, prince of the Fairies...

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Teddy Geiger









american singer and songwriter... first seen in international media as a finalist in VH1's "In Search Of The Partridge Family"... with 2 albums released over the last couple'a years: Step Ladder EP (2005) and Underage Thinking (2006)...











the music video for his debut single (which i saw the other night and instantly loved), For You I Will (Confidence), features Laguna Beach's Kristin Cavallari...

"but tonight i'm not afraid to tell you how i feel about you...
i'm gonna muster every ounce of confidence i have
and cannonball into the water...
i'm gonna muster every ounce of confidence i have...
for you, i will
for you... i will"

~ for you i will (confidence)



"'cause love is a marathon
that's why you get tired so fast of everyone...
slow down and pace yourself,
because when it's good,
it's a long, long open road..."
~ love is a marathon



"so the pencils change to pens,
i just wanna hang out with my friends.
we can give it our all...
time after time,
but it just keeps on getting harder
and getting harder to the touch.
i need the hot and silver sun...
i wanna just let go
with someone to help me survive...
don't you want it?
i've never seen anyone who wants it this bad...
you said games were much more fun,
i'd rather play than get things done
but look where we are now,
well, look where we are now...
you said life happens too fast,
i'd rather play than make it last
but look where we are now, look where we are now."
~ look where we are now

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Storm

as if you haven't heard me yapping about this... so i'll just put it in writing. i just think that Janet Jackson would'a made a more visually resembling Storm... often, when i make this remark, people would point out Halle Berry's thespian skills (with her Academy Award backing her up) in contrast with miss Jackson's...

there're workshops y'know!


(just to make my point... pardon the lousy editing...)
just that... i have always seen Ororo as regal... statuesque... sophisticated. she was worshipped as the "goddess of life" in Kenya's tribes after all.


in the What If comicbooks issue #79, the Alternate Marvel Universe decided to postulate, What If Storm Had The Power Of Phoenix? up until two days ago, i had always thought that this was an official Marvel storyline... heehee!



it would'a been really cool though... but the thing is, as a high school student, i had come across this exact issue in a bookstore and had ever since then acknowledged the fact that Storm will become Phoenix's vessel... anyways...

moving on with life... heehee!

living on chords

Love Doesn't Have To Hurt (Love To Infinity Extended Mix)
by Atomic Kitten

Don't say You Love Me
by M2M

Out Tonight
from the Rent OST

For You I Will
by Teddy Geiger

Let Me Be Your Wings
from the Thumbelina OST

High
by Lighthouse Family

It Hurts
by Angels And Airwaves

Forever You And Me
by Lighthouse Family

Look Where We Are Now
by Teddy Geiger

Somewhere Over The Rainbow
by Katharine McPhee

Sparkle Me
by The Buffseeds

Safe
by Bonnie Bailey

In My Mind
by Freemasons

The Adventure
by Angels And Airwaves

another me-me

1. Put your music player on shuffle.
2. Press forward for each question.
3. Use the song title as the answer to the question even if it doesn't make sense. NO CHEATING!
4. Tag 10 people to play this game too.
5. Bold the questions and answers that make sense. (for my purposes, those in yellow...)



How are you feeling today?
Hideaway 2005 (Young Punx Mix)
De'Lacy

Will you get far in life?
Love Forgotten (Ray Roc Latino Soul Mix)
A Man Called Adam

How do your friends see you?
Gone Too Soon
Michael Jackson

Will you get married?
Fragrance
Gackt

What is your best friend's theme song?
Friends Forever
Puffy Ami Yumi

What is the story of your life?
Nothing Can Be Explained
Mike Wyzgowski Bleach Anime OST

What was high school like?
Il Dolce Suono/Diva Dance
The Fifth Element OST

How can you get ahead in life?
Sadness And Sorrow
Toshiro Masuda

What is the best thing about your friends?
You And Me
Vonda Shepard

What is today going to be like?
Amazing Grace
Destiny's Child

What is in store for this weekend?
Moonriver (Instrumental)
Breakfast At Tiffany's OST

What song Describes you?
Phat Beach (Club Mix)
Naughty Boy

To describe your grandparents?
Selfish
Sunset Daze

How is your life going?
Love On My Mind
Freemasons featuring Amanda Wilson

What song will they play at your funeral?
Hideaway 2005 (young Punx Mix)
De'Lacy

How does the world see you?
With You I'm Born Again
Mariah Carey with John Legend

Will you have a happy life?
Movin' Weight Instrumental
CamRon featuring Prodigy

What do your friends really think of you?
The Burning Bush
The Prince Of Egypt OST

Do people secretly lust after you?
Gratification (Hawke Blue Resurrection Mix)
DJ Drunken Monkey

How can I make myself happy?
Swing To Harmony
Perasma

What should you do with your life?
Disco Revenge (2001 Tamperer Club Mix)
Gusto

Will you ever have children?
Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Sister Act 2 OST

man! that was just freaky! kind'a puts things in perspective... especially those ones that fit the question asked... whew!
okay... hope these guys do it... heehee!
Brother John. Karen. Lolo. Superboy. Chris. Vitto. Ramde. Mother Nature. Piijii. Star (*)

for sports... and love...

It's supposed to be hard!
If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it...
It's the hard that makes it great.

~ Tom Hanks as Jimmy Dugan
A League Of Their Own

for my unknown

because waiting for you,
is like waiting for rain to fall in this drought...
and wishing for all my dreams to come true.
wanting eagle's wings when earthbound i am and will be...
to remain watching the blue skies above,
when i long for the clouds to touch me.
it's like strangling on spider's web...
all too real... all to weak...
and saying i love you is the only key,
in this game of hide and seek.

highlights

Nature Boy and The Swimming Tsinelas
Seven Fairies and A Bumblebee
Master and Slave: Dance The Night Away
Erecta: One-Two-Three, Pass-The Beer!
Bakekang and The Beanstalk
Where There's No Smoke, There's No Yosi
Donya and The Frog Prince
When Aruroy Met Aruray
Bakekang and Bakekong: Are You Afraid Of The Dark?

from Maria's diary, just after abandoning the boring book:

I’ve met a man and fallen in love with him. I allowed myself to fall in love for one simple reason: I’m not expecting anything to come of it. I know that, in three months’ time, I’ll be far away and he’ll be just a memory, but I couldn’t stand living without love any longer; I had reached my limit.

I’m writing a story for Ralf Hart—that’s his name. I’m not sure he’ll come back to the club where I work, but, for the first time in my life, that doesn’t matter. It’s enough just to love him, to be with him in my thoughts and to color this lovely city with his steps, his words, his love. When I leave this country, it will have a face and a name and the memory of a fireplace. Everything else I experienced here, all the difficulties I had to overcome, will be as nothing compared to that memory.

I would like to do for him what he did for me. I’ve been thinking about it a lot, and I realize that I didn’t go into that café by chance; really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.

Generally speaking, these meetings occur when we reach a limit, when we need to die and be reborn emotionally. These meetings are waiting for us, but more often than not, we avoid them happening. If we are desperate, though, if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, then the unknown reveals itself, and our universe changes direction.

Everyone knows how to love, because we are all born with that gift. Some people have a natural talent for it, but the majority of us have to re-learn, to remember how to love, and everyone, without exception, needs to burn on the bonfire of past emotions, to relive certain joys and griefs, certain ups and downs, until they can see the connecting thread that exists behind each new encounter; because there is a connecting thread.

And then, our bodies learn to speak the language of the soul, known as sex, and that is what I can give to the man who gave me back my soul, even though he has no idea how important he is in my life. That is what he asked me for and that is what he will have; I want him to be very happy.

~ Eleven Minutes
by Paulo Coelho

a lose-lose situation

everything's make or break.
i just wanna break... myself... into the tiniest of pieces.
maybe then i'd find silence...
maybe then i'd be content... and maybe i'd be able to realize what it is that i really want.
maybe i shouldn't even be doing this.
maybe i should just shut my pie-hole and resign to what i do best...
disappearing.
how can i lose when i'm not even playing?
that's one of life's cruelest jokes... you make no wager, but you pay regardless.

random twisted thoughts

i get off on the idea of restraints...
of obstructed, constrained, repressed, and so-close-yet-so-far restraints.

excerpt for loneliness

Ralf poured himself another whisky and, as if he were making some utterly inconsequential remark, he said:

“I need you.”

A pause. A long silence. Don’t help to break that silence, let’s see what he does next.

“I need you, Maria. Because you have a light, although I don’t really think you believe me yet, and think I’m just trying to seduce you with my words. Don’t ask me: ‘Why me? What’s so special about me?’ There isn’t anything special about you, at least, nothing I can put my finger on. And yet—and here’s the mystery of life—I can’t think of anything else.”

“I wasn’t going to ask you,” she lied.

“If I were looking for an explanation, I would say: the woman in front of me has managed to overcome suffering and to transform it into something positive, something creative, but that doesn’t explain everything.”

It was becoming difficult to escape. He went on:

“And what about me? I have my creativity, I have my paintings, which are sought after by galleries all over the world, I have realized my dream, my village thinks of me as a beloved son, my ex-wives never ask me for alimony or anything like that, I have good health, reasonable looks, everything a man could want… And yet here I am saying to a woman I met in a café and with whom I have spent one afternoon: ‘I need you.’ Do you know what loneliness is?”

“I do.”

“But you don’t know what loneliness is like when you have the chance to be with other people all the time, when you get invitations every night to parties, cocktail parties, opening nights at the theatre… when women are always ringing you up, women who love your work, who say how much they would like to have supper with you—they’re beautiful, intelligent, educated women. But something pushes you away and says: ‘Don’t go. You won’t enjoy yourself. You’ll spend the whole night trying to impress them and squander your energies proving to yourself how you can charm the whole world.’”

~ Eleven Minutes
by Pulo Coelho

always on your side

my yesterdays are all boxed up
and neatly put away
but every now and then you come to mind
cause you were always waiting to be picked to play the game
but when your name was called,
you found a place to hide
when you knew that i was always on your side

well, everything was easy then,
so sweet and innocent
but my demons and my angels reappeared
leavin' only traces of the man you thought i'd be
to afraid to hear the words i always feared
leavin' you with only questions
all these years

but is there someplace far away,
someplace where all is clear
easy to start over with the ones you hold so dear
or are you left to wonder,
all alone, eternally
this isn't how it's really meant to be
no, it isn't how it's really meant to be


well they say that love is in the air,
but never is it clear,
how to pull it close and make it stay
butterflies are free to fly,
and so they fly away
and i'm left to carry on and wonder why
even through it all,
i'm always on your side

but is there someplace far away,
someplace where all is clear
easy to start over with the ones you hold so dear
or are you left to wonder,
all alone, eternally
but this isn’t how it's really meant to be
no, it isn’t how it's really meant to be

well, they say that love is in the air,
never is it clear
how to pull it close and make it stay
if butterflies are free to fly, why do they fly away
leavin' me to carry on and wonder why
was it you that kept me wonderin’ through this life
when you know that i was always on your side


Song Of The Week

Always On Your Side
Sheryl Crow featuring Sting

wonderland waning

maybe winter's overstayed just a tad of a day too long...

just like maria, i think i'll let fate handle most of my affairs, if only for the time being... there are just some things that are better off tuned out. not minded. and half-heartedly felt. i cannot and will not allow myself to succumb to being that which i have the least liking to. and maybe... just maybe... grab a spoon.

an excerpt

One of the girls said:

”Prostitution isn’t like other businesses: beginners earn more and the more experienced earn less. Always pretend you’re a beginner.”

Maria still didn’t know who the “special clients” were; they had only been mentioned on the first night and no one ever spoke of them. Gradually she picked up the most important tricks of the trade, like never asking personal questions, smiling a lot and talking as little as possible, never arranging to meet anyone outside the club. The most important piece of advice, however, came from a Filipino woman called Nyah:

“When your client comes, you must always groan as if you were having an orgasm too. That guarantees customer loyalty.”

“But why? They’re just paying for their own satisfaction.”

“No, that’s where you’re wrong. A man doesn’t prove he’s a man by getting an erection. He’s only a real man if he can pleasure a woman. And if he can pleasure a prostitute, he’ll think he’s the best lover on the block.”

~ Eleven Minutes
by Paulo Coelho

ergo...

i promise...
i will never, never... EVER!!!!!!!!!!
again.

me-me from cupkeyk

The first player of this game starts with the "6 weird things/habits about yourself" and people who get tagged need to write a blog of their 6 weird habits/things, as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don't forget to leave a comment that says "you are tagged" in their comments and tell them to read yours.

1. I eat potato/corn chips using a fork or a spoon.
2. More often than not, when I write stuff, I have Carrie Bradshaw’s voice inside my head.
3. For me, toothpaste serves more a purpose than just for dental cleaning… it is an excellent alternative for a foot scrub.
4. I watch movies in cinemas, alone… with 2 or more McDonald’s ketchup packets as snacks.
5. Instead of changing channels, I throw my slipper/s towards the TV when whoever’s on annoys me.
6. Is jacking off in front of the mirror weird? (teehee)

says here I hafta tag 6 other people… hmmm… Karen. Brother John. Superboy. Ramde. Piijii. Mother Nature. (heehee! hope they do it…)

from Maria's diary, on the day that she met the Swiss man

Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong
decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What
does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks,
to go back where I came from because I didn't
have the courage to say "yes" to life?

I made my first mistake when i was eleven years
old, when that boy asked me if I could lend him a pencil;
since then, I've realized that sometimes you get no
second chance and that it's best to accept the gifts the
world offers you. Of course it's risky, but is the risk
any greater than the chance of the bus that took forty-
eight hours to bring me here having an accident? If I
must be faithful to someone or something, then I
have, first of all, to be faithful to myself. If I'm looking
for true love, I first have to get the mediocre loves
out of my system. The little experience of life I've had
has taught me that no one owns anything, that everything
is an illusion--and that applies to material as
well as spiritual things. Anyone who has lost something
they thought was theirs forever (as has happened
often enough to me already) finally comes to realize
that nothing really belongs to them.

And if nothing belongs to me, then there's no point
wasting my time looking after things that aren't mine;
it's best to live as if today were the first (or last) day of
my life.

~ Eleven Minutes
by Paulo Coelho

from Maria's diary

When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a
sense that the whole universe is on our side. I saw this
happen today as the sun went down. And yet if something
goes wrong, there is nothing left! No herons, no
distant music, not even the taste of his lips. How is it
possible for the beauty that was there only minutes
before to vanish so quickly?
Life moves very fast. It rushes us from heaven to
hell in a matter of seconds.

~ Eleven Minutes
by Paulo Coelho

Hymn to Isis

for i am the first and the last
i am the venerated and the despised
i am the prostitute and the saint
i am the wife and the virgin
i am the mother and the daughter
i am the arms of my mother
i am barren and my children are many
i am the married woman and the spinster
i am the woman who gives birth and she
who never procreated
i am the consolation for the pain of birth
i am the wife and the husband
and it was my man who created me
i am the mother of my father
i am the sister of my husband
and he is my rejected son
always respect me
for i am the shameful and the magnificent one

(hymn to Isis, third or fourth century B.C., discovered in Nag Hammadi)

amiss

so, this is missing you...
unsure if i should or even if i really do.
there've been but a million and one words between us,
add distance & velocity and 3 hours on a bus.
i do not know you... nor you, me.
what of you that allows this boy the reason to be free.

and now i miss you.

i miss you like the sun misses the moon in solstice...
like a flower to a bee,
and true love's first kiss...
i miss you...
like the desert misses the pouring rain.

i miss you without knowing why or how,
reasons irregardless, but i just do.
but, i do not miss whatnots about you...
not your touch, your voice, nor your face.
i only miss you... the wholeness of you.

just and only...
you.

you and me (thanks for this one, vonda shepard)

part of me wants to break the ice
and part of me wants to leave it exactly how it stands
part of me wants to roll the dice
and part of me wants to leave them curled up in my hands

where they will be safe and no one will know
how i really feel and i'll never be real
and i'll roll with the punches that i'll never feel
and i'll have a heart that no one can steal

it's you and me and you're nowhere to be found
i'm rolling on the ground
it's me and you and i'm nowhere to be found

part of me wants to break these chains
and part of me wants to keep them locked up tight
part of me wants to stop these rains
and part of me wants them to fall all night

fall on my head just to wake me up
anything to drench my half-empty cup
and i'm sorry baby i've had enough
i'm tired of your promises tearing me up

you will be safe and no one will know
how you really feel and you'll never be real
and you'll roll with the punches that you'll never feel
and you'll have a heart that i'll never steal

Songs Of The Week

the muses must have been generous today...
more than they have in the past, that is...

dateline: the mall @ approximately 19:00...
escalator going to the 2nd level... then familiar lyrics from the pipe in music from mcdonald's.
"tell me that it's over..."
i was like, "jojo?"
but, of course i was wrong...
more of lindsay lohan... this is a remix.
i proceeded to my destination, with a mental note to look up the remix upon arriving home.

dateline: mall cinema @ approximately 21:45...
mission impossible's 3rd installment rolls credits... a catchy theme in the background.
female vocals fade in... a gospel-ish chorus... lots'a rappin'...
i recall, but i am not a hundred percent...
"is this kanye west?"
i would'a stayed 'til the entire credits finish, had the reel operator not cease the projection.
i rose from my seat with another mental note to look the film's soundtrack.

dateline: manor @ approximately 23:15...
online... limewire just finished downloading the 2 mental assignments.
a message on my mobile suggested that i download a particular song off the yousendit.com service.
i proceeded promptly... and i was hearing serendipity.
"ohmypotahinangGAWD! get the music on is fucking GooD! woohoo! like... 'i am Diana of Themyscira, watch me rock this dance floor!' weeee!"
another instant fave... many thanks, joel (cupkeyk).

okay... sans the espionage talk, these 3 will be playing a lot on my iTunes from now.

Over (Full Phatt Remix)
by Lindsay Lohan

Impossible
by Kanye West featuring Twista, Keyshia Cole, and BJ)
from Mission Impossible 3's OST

Get The Music On
by Sophie Monk

twinxclusively yours

in honor of those who have infected me with such a liking for them...

whoever invented asian twinks should either be executed or hailed ruler of the world... i am drowning in twinks right now. and i came across some quite interesting specimens...
(it has been called to my attention though, that technically, not one of the individuals posted here is a twink. hehehe! let's just call 'em eye candy then. hehehe!)
i call to the witness stand:

Dongwan of Shinhwa

























Tae Bin (white shirt) and Se7en (brown shirt)




















Tae Bin

























Se7en



















Nicky Teerakol

























and...

the 8th Wonder Of The World...

Won Bin























again...
























and again...

























and... well, again.

blunt

"... gay men cover more issues than CNN does..."