C O L O N Y
Ants in my car
Lately noticed that I've got ants in my car. Today, when Brandie opened the door, he saw what looked like a colony of ants making a mad scramble to move their food from one part of car to another. There were grains of rice and the ants were moving them to God knows where. Then again, those little white pods could have been eggs. I really need to get my car washed.
Radioactive Mirco Office Roaches
Our office is infested with this tiny roaches. Not the big brown roaches you usually find at home. But little greyish roaches. The other day I saw one of them enter this crack on the microwave oven. My God... the cockroaches are living inside the microwave oven! Can you imagine what kind of mutation they're undergoing? They must be impervious to all kinds of insecticide by now!
I even saw one roach go inside the keyboard of the computer. Talk about bugs in your computer!
These roaches have adapted to office life.
One time, saw a dead roach stuck on a Post-It pad.
Memo to self: I'm dead.
This was their land before we came. Now they're slowing taking it back.
I can just imagine the roaches in the mircowave, tinkering with the settings and controls, and one day, while heating up my adobo for lunch, this beam of microwave radiation will blast me through the wall and I'll morphing into Kafka.
It's 12:17pm.
Lunch.
Time to heat up what's in my lunch box.
Friday, July 06, 2001
Thursday, July 05, 2001
In the Tristan romance, when the young couple has drunk their love potion and Isolde’s nurse realizes what has happened, she goes to Tristan and says, “You have drunk your death.”
And Tristan says, “By my death, do you mean this pain of love?”—because that was one of their main points, that one should feel the sickness of love. There’s no possible fulfillment in this world of that identity one is experiencing.
Tristan says, “If by my death, you mean this agony of love, that is my life. If by my death, you mean the punishment that we are to suffer if discovered, I accept that. And if by my death, you mean eternal punishment in the fire of hell, I accept that, too.”
Now, that’s big stuff.
Joseph Campbell from “The Power of Myth”, chapter VII: Tales of Love and Marriage
Tuesday, July 03, 2001
Monday, July 02, 2001
Keeping it cool
Already spent around P6,000 on my car. The engine kept overheating. At first, I though it was the auxiliary fan, which was busted. But after I got it repaired, turned out my waterpump was leaking. So, I got that fixed, but my radiator was clogged with rust. That was my Tuesday.
My Saturday was spent getting lost in Quezon City, picking a radiator shop at random, spent three hours there. Thank God I had a copy of the first trade paperback of PREACHER, lent to me by Rachel, one of the accounts people in the office, who turns out to be from the sorority that’s connected to the fraternity that Mike joined when he was in college. Which just goes to show how ridiculously small this city is. Anyway, PREACHER was good read. But according to Dave, the search for God just took too long and that’s why he dropped the series long before the Preacher got close to finding our missing Maker.
(cheap) Sound Trip
Got a copy of Imago’s debut album “Probably not, but most definitely” for only P250 and Sandwich’s “4-Track Mind” for only P272.
Why are they so cheap, compared to the P450 CDs of other local bands? Supposedly, it’s the record companies’ way of battle piracy, by offering the originals at lower prices. It still doesn’t compare to getting the CD at P50 or P60, but at the two-hundred plus price tag, you get the original CD which doesn’t skip and the really cool CD sleeve.
Btw, both CD sleeves were designed by Cynthia. I liked the Sandwich sleeve better. Really cool, Really sleek. Very Wallpaper. But I also liked the puzzles in Imago’s CD sleeve. And I finally know the lyrics to “Rain Song”. Kinda ruins the magic, like finding out the trick behind the magic act. Still, it’s one of my favorites right now. Along with “I’m Not Ugly” and “Bathala”. Track 19 has the remixed version of “Rain Song”… remixed by Raimund Marasigan... really cool!
As far as the new Sandwich CD is concerned, I like “Bottleneck” and “4-Track Mind”.
I guess the guys at the office will be hearing these two CDs on heavy rotation for the next month or so.
Super Spy
I was supposed to stop collecting ULTIMATE X-MEN.
Then I saw the great cover which showed Nightcrawler teleporting in, half-covered by a cloud of brimstone.
Then I saw the trailer to the issue. A great marketing gimmick which Marvel should link to other sites that kids (or other potential readers) usually visit.
So, that convinced me to at least flip through it and looked good enough to buy.
I like the way Millar is spinning X-Men history.
In this “ultimate universe”, SHIELD is the organization behind the Weapon X program. Which makes perfect sense! Mutants would make great spies and soldiers. Had a similar idea a long time ago. I actually pitched it to Marvel. Send it them back when they still had a “What If?!” series. My story was “What if Spider-Man became an agent of SHIELD?” Which was inspired by the story “What if Daredevil became an agent of SHIELD?”, wherein after Matt Murdock gets his heightened senses is recruited by Nick Fury because the radioactive isotope that made Matt blind was supposedly part of a SHIELD experiment.
Anyway, my story got rejected.
TXT-MEN
Also in the issue, Marvel Girl talks about getting text messages from Cyclops.
Cyclops, along with Storm and Colossus, were in Japan appearing in talk shows, preaching the old human-mutant-living-peacefully-in-one-world-sermon. They get mobbed by fangirls who give them their cellphone numbers.
I txtd the guys at the office that Globe should sponsor X-MEN.
Would be interesting to see, Wolverine say, “I’ve got a Globe, bub. Wanna make something of it?!”
Already spent around P6,000 on my car. The engine kept overheating. At first, I though it was the auxiliary fan, which was busted. But after I got it repaired, turned out my waterpump was leaking. So, I got that fixed, but my radiator was clogged with rust. That was my Tuesday.
My Saturday was spent getting lost in Quezon City, picking a radiator shop at random, spent three hours there. Thank God I had a copy of the first trade paperback of PREACHER, lent to me by Rachel, one of the accounts people in the office, who turns out to be from the sorority that’s connected to the fraternity that Mike joined when he was in college. Which just goes to show how ridiculously small this city is. Anyway, PREACHER was good read. But according to Dave, the search for God just took too long and that’s why he dropped the series long before the Preacher got close to finding our missing Maker.
(cheap) Sound Trip
Got a copy of Imago’s debut album “Probably not, but most definitely” for only P250 and Sandwich’s “4-Track Mind” for only P272.
Why are they so cheap, compared to the P450 CDs of other local bands? Supposedly, it’s the record companies’ way of battle piracy, by offering the originals at lower prices. It still doesn’t compare to getting the CD at P50 or P60, but at the two-hundred plus price tag, you get the original CD which doesn’t skip and the really cool CD sleeve.
Btw, both CD sleeves were designed by Cynthia. I liked the Sandwich sleeve better. Really cool, Really sleek. Very Wallpaper. But I also liked the puzzles in Imago’s CD sleeve. And I finally know the lyrics to “Rain Song”. Kinda ruins the magic, like finding out the trick behind the magic act. Still, it’s one of my favorites right now. Along with “I’m Not Ugly” and “Bathala”. Track 19 has the remixed version of “Rain Song”… remixed by Raimund Marasigan... really cool!
As far as the new Sandwich CD is concerned, I like “Bottleneck” and “4-Track Mind”.
I guess the guys at the office will be hearing these two CDs on heavy rotation for the next month or so.
Super Spy
I was supposed to stop collecting ULTIMATE X-MEN.
Then I saw the great cover which showed Nightcrawler teleporting in, half-covered by a cloud of brimstone.
Then I saw the trailer to the issue. A great marketing gimmick which Marvel should link to other sites that kids (or other potential readers) usually visit.
So, that convinced me to at least flip through it and looked good enough to buy.
I like the way Millar is spinning X-Men history.
In this “ultimate universe”, SHIELD is the organization behind the Weapon X program. Which makes perfect sense! Mutants would make great spies and soldiers. Had a similar idea a long time ago. I actually pitched it to Marvel. Send it them back when they still had a “What If?!” series. My story was “What if Spider-Man became an agent of SHIELD?” Which was inspired by the story “What if Daredevil became an agent of SHIELD?”, wherein after Matt Murdock gets his heightened senses is recruited by Nick Fury because the radioactive isotope that made Matt blind was supposedly part of a SHIELD experiment.
Anyway, my story got rejected.
TXT-MEN
Also in the issue, Marvel Girl talks about getting text messages from Cyclops.
Cyclops, along with Storm and Colossus, were in Japan appearing in talk shows, preaching the old human-mutant-living-peacefully-in-one-world-sermon. They get mobbed by fangirls who give them their cellphone numbers.
I txtd the guys at the office that Globe should sponsor X-MEN.
Would be interesting to see, Wolverine say, “I’ve got a Globe, bub. Wanna make something of it?!”
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