paolo berdin

the seeker and colosseum.
10.19.2007

"the seeker: the dark is rising" made me dizzy with all the changing shots. i thought it was a kids' movie, but more than half of the scenes were literally in the dark. i had to squint my eyes a lot.

it's about the battle between light and dark, and the seeker has to find these 6 signs of light hidden throughout time. the rider - the bad guy, by the way - is also after the signs... but who do you think got them? hahahaha. silly question. the seeker, of course!

wait, did i just spoil the whole movie for you? but moving on..

there wasn't really much of a story and dialogue, so i cannot understand why it was almost 2 hours long. by the time will, the seeker, started reciting his "i am will stanton, the seventh son of the seventh son..". mitz, mitzi and i couldn't stop laughing. who has time to think of an introductory speech when you're about to fight for your life?

i had more fun watching national geographic when i got home. they have this show about megastructures and they featured the Colosseum last night. they actually built it over a lake and so they had to come up with a drainage system that would drain all the water out. AND they created these retractable roofs that would cover the spectators when it got too hot. AND they even had tickets and an effective seating arrangement. pure brilliance, although the fact that their idea of entertainment was watching people clobber and stab and pound each other to death, well, isn't exactly in line with mine.

8:10 AM
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goodbye bangkok
10.17.2007

i just watched "knocked up" which wasn't as hilarious as i thought it would be. the only part i couldn't stop laughing about was when allison (katherine heigl) was giving birth (which was actually very sick, but i have a strange sense of humor).

our bangkok trip has been canceled. we were on the waiting list for the longest time and now it's closed. sigh. we're leaving for manila on the 27th instead, and bangkok has to wait until december. i hope it pushes through, i've been hoping for this since last year!

7:42 PM
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sembreak!
10.16.2007

it's sembreak already, thank god, and i now have all the timein the world to blog. presuming that you are interested (and you most probably are because why else would you be reading this?) with how i have been, this is what i've been up to lately:

"are we human because we gaze at stars, or do we gaze at stars because we are human?"

i watched "stardust" last saturday. i loved it, even though i've never really liked claire danes - and yes, even though she starred in "romeo & juliet". michelle pfeiffer was amazing, robert de niro was hilarious. the movie made me laugh in the most unexpected moments.

i MUST read the book by neil gaiman.

i went to cris go's house after that and i was shocked to see how thin everyone had become. i am probably the only person who hasn't lost any weight at all (my weight is one of the many things i never tire of, and it deserves another entry.. watch out! HAHA).

we went swimming at almost 3 in the morning and i bumped my head REALLY hard against the pool wall. my poor brain cells..

it's nice to know that in spite of the fact that we're almost half-done with college, my friends from high school are, well, still my friends. they're still the people i can talk anything about to....

...and criticize openly! hahahaha.

click photo above for more pictures.

yesterday was faj's 18th birthday and we had dinner at her house. we went to cris' house again at about half past midnight and there were these motocross boots that were the most difficult tings to take off.

mitz made corned beef and grilled (or were those fried? haha) cheese sandwiches.

click photo above for more pictures.

the chances of having a great semestral break seem high. i hope it stays that way.

10:48 AM
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ANSWER ME PLEASE.
10.12.2007

for example, what if naay 3 ka sisters then they all have a child.. and then ang dad sa ilang mga anak kay pareho ra..

..unsa ang relationship sa children to each other? half-siblings or cousins?

hahahaha.

2:03 PM
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head banger.
10.11.2007

I am a head banger, in the truest sense of the term.

I’ve had my head stitched twice, and both events occurred in the span of just a year.

The first time happened when I was 6 years old. I was in school and my eraser fell under the horrendous chairs we students paid to sit on. I crawled for it, of course, as it cleaned all the mistakes my extremely short pencil made. I was forced to throw the pencil away, mind you, since the teacher told me that tiny pencils would make me dumb. Anyway, a classmate thought that pushing me while I was on all fours would be amusing, and so he did. BIG mistake. My forehead hit one of the many nails that stuck out of the chairs and blood started pouring down my face. I would like to point out that I have a very strong pain threshold and I didn't even shed a tear. My classmate, on the other hand, was given a spank on each palm as punishment.

I was brought to the hospital and the "smiling" wound, as the teacher described it, was sewed shut by a doctor who said that if he ever had a son, he'd name him after me. I doubt he did, though, but now there's a scar on my forehead. I bear quite a striking resemblance to Harry Potter now, but I just need new round-shaped glasses, fairer skin, and a different accent.

The year after that, I suffered another accident. Still in school, but a different one this time, my friends and I were playing tag. Now at the back of the main building, there were these hollow blocks that we used as stepping stones. I was running towards that area and the person who was it was closing in on me. He caught me with so much force that I fell and, you guessed it, my head landed right on one of the block's edges. The funny thing is I didn't even realize that my head was actually open. Someone had to point out that the back of my head was bleeding. I felt it, saw blood on my fingers, and just shrugged while the person who accidentally pushed me started to cry.

I was rushed to the hospital, sewn up, and brought back to school. I became some sort of hero – all the younger kids crowded around me in awe. The attention was great, I admit, but for such a terrible reason?

I would much rather have preferred to be ignored.

6:13 PM
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shameless ranting.
10.06.2007

i'm supposed to write an article. i'm allowed to rant about anything i want, which is great, of course, but that's also what's making this so difficult. i can't think of a topic.

it would probably be highly suggestible that i write about something i know a lot about, and only one thing comes to mind: myself.

now, if i didn't have at least the tiniest bit of shame in me, i'd fill this up with the most random facts about your truly. not only would that be shameless, but it might even get me in landed in jail for being overly pretentious. i mean, seriously, why would you take the time to read about someone you hardly know at all? heck, you probably weren't aware of my existence before this.

maybe you also didn't know that i used to have a tongue piecing or that i skipped a grade in school. you also might not have known that i've had my head stitched up twice or that i gave up the chance to study in my dream school to learn about health promotion & disease prevention instead. there's also a great chance that you had no idea that i read the 7th harry potter book in less than twenty four hours, but there's an even greater probability that you couldn't care less.

no? i didn't think so, either.

but what matters is that i've actually written a whole article, and how surprising, the whole thing has all been about myself! i must congratulate you for completing the arduous of reading about someone you claimed to not have cared about. and will you look at that, it turns out that i'm not so shameless, after all!

5:26 PM
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