This Year is Gonna Be Incredible

Wala lang, just my attempt at having a line from a song as my blogpost title.


Plot twists have been popping up both in fiction and in real life, so really there's a lot going on, just been too lazy or busy to update.


But, since I am the way I am, the initial emotional flavor of these important events doesn't really linger as long as they do with other people, so I guess I won't be writing as colorfully about them as I otherwise would have been had I written about them immediately. Anyway...


Here they are, updates, in no particular order:

1. Very important story developments in the manga series I've been following, ever since my sister introduced me to it: Inuyasha. Kikyou has died, a second time, and Inuyasha seems to have lost the will to fight (temporarily). Losing your first love, a second time, does that. Poor boy. Things will get better though. Because this is a children's comic, and what I like most about stories written for children is this: there's always redemption in the end. I believe in redemption.

... Also, Sesshomaru (Inuyasha's superhot, metrosexual, full-blooded youkai half-brother) just met up with his mother (she's still around?) and seems to be upgrading is sword. He just slipped into Hell in the last chapter, in pursuit of a dog who took his ward. Sooo looking forward to what will happen next.

All in all... really significant turn of events, and 400+ chapters into the series Rumiko proves she really does have many, many more stories to tell.


Yes, important story developments in fictional stories I follow count as updates to my life :-)

2. It just really hit me recently, that the report I was working on in CEM, was connected to this. Pretty interesting stuff. If only I had more time to do it. We just wrapped up last Friday though. The people we talk to are really nice though. Not like clients in the other job.


3. Got promoted and got a raise. Yey! The first in all my 6 years of working. Because when you're self-employed there are no raises unless you're making more money. I guess I wasn't at the time. I feel a bit more grown up now. Just a bit more. Until I think about my lack of savings, which makes me feel like a newbie to the working world. Haay, depressing.


4. Got a haircut.


5. And well, since I find good news in other people's lives updates to mine as well, I would like to take the opportunity now to congratulate people with good news in their lives: Joa, who will be getting married next year, and Hazel who has been grabbed by a cable channel to host a medical probe-team type show. Very cool girls! Let's take over the world!

Blue?!? But Everyone Likes Blue... :(

Your Power Color Is Blue

Relationships and feelngs are the most important things to you. You are empathetic and accepting - and good at avoiding conflict. If someone close to you is in pain, it makes you hurt as well. You try to heal the ones you love with your kind and open heart.

What's Your Power Color?

My Demon Aura Rates...

You Are 20% Evil

You are good. So good, that you make evil people squirm. Just remember, you may need to turn to the dark side to get what you want!

How Evil Are You?

Hmmm. Did I really answer as honestly as possible? Mwahahahahaha!

A Week of Pivotal Stories

This week has been an amazing week of good stories!


Of course, they're all fictional.


Still. That's never stopped me before from crowing in delight. :D


Briefly, a rundown:

1. House, M.D., 2nd season, Episode 2: Ka-iyak!

2. Carnivale: Ben Hawkins finally finds Scudder! Management is a freak! (but we knew that) Pervert Brother Justin is Management's Son! Ben Hawkins grows in power! Episode ends with: Sophie in Brother Justin's House! (ewww...)

3. Carnivale part 2: after Wikipedia-hunting, I find (apart from more than I really needed to know :)) that: Scudder and Brother Justin are of the House of Dark, and Ben Hawkins and Management are of the House of Light; and... Brother Justin is actually Sophie's father... (will he cut off her right hand?)

4. Inuyasha: NARAKU!..... Kikyou...


5. And of course... Superman Returns


I'll probably take these up in detail some other day, or in the other blog. Still writing Hatim's paper. Grrrrr.

Cold Turkey

That's how I should quit. And it should start by me quitting reading this particular person's blog. I just find it... depressing. Unfortunately, when I don't find previously mentioned blog depressing, it's actually quite entertaining. Besides reading it makes me feel connected.


But I should stop that.


...This is hard...

Legend of the Condo Heroes

Uhm, the title is a kind of lame pun on the Chinese story / legend / anime, now telenovela, "Legend of the Condor Heroes." Yes, the pun is somewhat related to my blog content :)


In the news this week... been condo unit hunting. (see?) Unfortunately, there's always something off about the units we've seen. Of course, there's a budget so we're limited by that. And there's a preferred location, which narrows our choices even further. So far, what we've turned up are either:


- Accessible but too cramped / small for 3 people (2 girls and a boy pa, so there'd be dressing up problems)
- Accessible, nice neighborhood, but the unit itself has no windows (Live on aircon air? These people are nuts!)
- Accessible, hotel-like, what the unit lacks in kitchen amenities, it makes up for with a roomy bathroom (duh), but the street is close to seedy bars


It's hard to look for a nice place on a budget. :-( (That's another duh comment, isn't it? Hehe.)


Most recently, just this morning, we looked at some DMCI homes in Taguig (mid-rise, residential condos with resort-type amenities... yes, they have POOLS!!!! Waaah!). DMCI, the makers of allegedly 90% of the stuff in Makati (shouldn't that be the Ayalas? :)) and the sultan's palace in Brunei.


And the units are nice. Really nice. Except they're for sale. But they're actually affordable! Except they're too far from well, CBDs (Makati and Ortigas). As in public transport coming from Cainta is probably more convenient to get.


But there's a pool!


Except if we're going as far as Taguig, we might as well get the DMCI condo units near Cainta. (Which I just found out now also have pools. Waaah!) But we just learned this morning that all the 2-bedroom units are sold. That's the smallest unit for the East Ortigas Mansions.


Waaah!


What looked like a weekend of unexpected accomplishments turned out to be a weekend of eliminations. Actually it was a whole week of such. >Sigh<. I want to move out. Take myself to the next stage of evolution. Or growth. The Adult Stage. ============== Note: Yes, childhood lasts a long time in our house. Up until the age of 30, if you don't do anything about it. I better do something, and fast!