when fandoms collide

being an only child, i am too used to park myself in front of the computer and spend hours upon hours on the internet without feeling the need for face to face interaction. which is why i think it's easy for me to be interested in things that my family and friends are normally not interested in. or obsess on them too much on my own.

tv's fall season in the us is commencing this week, with most of the shows holding their season premieres over the next five days. how i met your mother is starting off season 6 tomorrow night, and glee (with charice) will be premiering on tuesday (with an early telecast on local cable on wednesday afternoon). but the most anticipated show for me this week is the season two premiere of my current biggest obsession, the 30-minute pop culture-laden college sitcom called community.

nice dream

i've just finished season 3 of how i met your mother. the season ender, miracles, is notable for the mushy stuff: lily, marshall, robin and barney all running to the hospital; ted getting engaged; barney's loves flashing in front of his eyes.

however, there's also the little matter of the soundtrack to ted's accident.

nice dream. by radiohead. from my favouritest album ever.

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incidentally, i'm on the bends lss mode. particularly, sulk.

my life is a tv sitcom (hi, i'm ted mosby)

it was only last friday that i felt well enough (at times) to plug my ipod to my ears. but sheer boredom loves company, and i had just downloaded new stuff on the pod. like s1 of how i met your mother.

aside from being a comedy, and witty at that, the striking thing about it is that ted, the lead character, is my age. like, really. granted, he's a few months older, but it's rare to find a show that has a lead character my age. i always feel they're either too old, and as life went on, too young.

plus, it's the life of a single guy, in nyc. so, i'm not a guy, and i'm not in nyc, what do i have in common with ted? i've not even been in any relationship like he has. but he has four friends in the show, which kinda reminded me of my own group of friends when i was 27. (or to be more accurate, when i was turning 26). unlike ted, there were three girls and two guys in that group. lily-and-marshall were my other best friend and her now-husband. barney would be my best friend, who, while not as comedically bad as barney, is adventurous in her own right. robin would be the newcomer guy, who went to the same uni as the rest of us but only really hung out with after lily-and-marshall became an item. and needless to say, he could have been the one, but probably not for me.

that year i became 26 was probably the most emo year i ever went through. i was coping with big change professionally, struggling to graduate from grad school, and learning about dating for the first time in my life. actually, all the angst stuff went on until the next year, and a necessary lifestyle change put the brakes on that situation. again, needless to say, things did not work out as hoped, and love was one of the many things that frustrates me up to now.

but like ted said, these are my mistakes to make, and i had to make them even if i knew they were mistakes.

and now, time to start on season 2.

2008 mtv asia awards - let's vote!

i've successfully ignored my yahoo inbox for several days now, and it just occurred to me that i might want to check it out. good thing too, because i got a message that prompted me to look up the mtv asia website.

the mtv asia awards is on again, and we have four excellent bands vying for favourite artist: chicosci, sandwich, sponge cola, and urbandub. personally, i'm supporting urbandub, which is one of the most underrated bands in the country. but if you don't quite dig them, vote for the other three acts and let us show our appreciation for their contribution to the local music scene.

you will find voting links to all four artists here, and even widgets and email links to get your friends to vote as well. the winner will get to perform in malaysia, and while i'm really pulling for urbandub to have that honor, all four bands deserve to show the world what we've got.

(at the risk of excessive fangirling, i have to declare that lalay lim is one of the best female bassists ever. she can give myrene academia a run for her money, not to mention a lot of the male bassists out there. that's how good she is.)

my david cook playlist

these are actually songs in my playlist that i think david cook will totally nail. and who knows, maybe he's sung some of them already. it's not far out actually (he sang collective soul, man!)

1. stone temple pilots, interstate love song
2. bush, comedown
3. don henley/the ataris, the boys of summer
4. the calling, stigmatized
5. live, selling the drama (or all over you)
6. jeff buckley, last goodbye
7. greenwheel, breathe
8. dishwalla, somewhere in the middle (or any of the others: angels or devils, home, counting blue cars.)
9. lifehouse, spin
10. foo fighters, everlong (acoustic version)
11. goo goo dolls, black balloon
12. switchfoot, on fire (or only hope. i can't believe he likes mandy moore! lol!)
13. u2, new year's day (or one, stay... the list is endless. he can do bono!)
14. the police, tea in the sahara (or anything really)
15. the who, won't get fooled again

i wonder what he'll pick?

a short - and very much delayed - american idol post-mortem

so, david cook won. for the first time, someone i was betting on with all my heart finally won one of these reality singing competitions. even if simon cowell totally owned the title "master manipulator" with the reverse psychology pimping omg.

i actually had mixed feelings about him winning instead of archie. there is still some sort of stigma attached to the show, and there is the danger of too much pimping and unfulfilled expectations. taylor hicks ring any bells? i also felt a little bad for archie, because he needed the win more than cookie did. but it's done, and i can only hope for the best for those two and the other finalists.

so, my favorite performances on ai season 7:

1. top 8, seasons of love - it seriously gave me goosebumps the first time i saw the video. even if kristy had a louder mic and brooke didn't have a solo part.
2. michael johns, across the universe - i didn't know this song except as a title for that movie. i looooove this performance.
3. brooke white, let it be - i'm sure she was genuinely thrilled to perform this song on top 12.
4. jason castro, hallelujah - if only because he bumped jeff buckley to #2 on itunes! but jason's a unique singer as well.
5. brooke white, love is a battlefield - another song i was introduced to this season.
6. david cook, happy together - lss factor! this first performance of david is a precursor of great things to come.
7. david cook, billie jean - anybody with the guts to bring chris cornell into ai has my utmost admiration.
8. david cook, music of the night - no, david cook is not a fluke. nor is he a boring rocker. he has serious vocal chops man.
9. david cook, first time ever i saw your face - hay naku kaka inlove ka talaga.
10. david cook, the world i know - this is why i decided that david cook is the best representation of the kind of music i go for. aside from chris daughtry, who else in the whole idol history could be counted on to bring in chris cornell, switchfoot and collective soul? obviously, wala. and this song is actually one of the best songs of the 90s alternative rock - i rank it up there with last goodbye in the senti factor. at buti na lang cookie left this song for the last, it made listening to this song all the more poignant because of the wait. omg david i so love you for that. thank you.

btw, idol gives back is such a disappointing show performance-wise, but the finale made up for it. especially archie's duet with onerepublic (this is the sort of song david archuleta would do really well in) and the "audition tape" for gladys knight and the pips. jack black you are so hilarious!

all right now

snatching some time for some dc:

my idol manok, david cook, will be singing collective soul's the world i know next week (it was his song choice).

i've loved that song ever since it came out back when i was in high school/freshman college? it's seriously one of my favorites. omg i really really really love you dc i can't say it enough.

so with that, i am now trying to convince myself he's going to sing it badly so that i'll not expect too much from the performance (and consequently enjoy it as it is). at least my peculiar musical tastes are represented this year. god i miss rockstar.

and logan, you're gonna love this: jeff archuleta banned from david's practice. stage dad fallout much? kawawa naman si archie. and no, i don't think TPTB will kick him out. the money potential of a david vs david finale is incomprehensible.

for the deets:
www.rickey.org
www.myfoxkc.com

songs of the week: david cook, all right now; michael johns, across the universe (grabe caloy naging lss namin to ni anne kasalanan mo to)

on tv this week, and it's only wednesday

today on american idol, i was a little bit disappointed in david cook's performance. thats the problem whenever i look at rickey.org and see great reviews, i almost always end up a little deflated seeing the actual performance. also, minor gripe: baba o'riley was TOO SHORT. how many seconds did that clock in, hello? hungry like a wolf could have been better, but at least that was a little more upbeat. but i still love him. go cookies!

and, PUSHING DAISIES finally here! saw the first episode this morning, at 4 am (i missed the primetime). i seriously dig them both. anna friel is adorable! she would've made a good tonks, i think, and we'd have all dissolved in the utter romance of it all.

two princes and some lab rats

it's another sunday. and like every sunday before this one, i get allergic to work of any kind. and i watch lots of tv.

after watching oprah on the hallmark channel, i stuck around for the dateline interview with william and harry. yep, THE william and harry. like most people i'm fascinated with royalty... well, we're all fascinated with what we can never have, right? but as they were sitting there conversing with matt lauer, all i could think of was just how comfortably (or not) they were doing that interview. if i'd been sitting there like that for the time it took me to watch them, i'd be really itching to move. and william isn't as cute as i'd imagined him to be. not all the time, anyway.

good thing axn was just one channel away from hallmark, because during breaks i got to watch csi. tonight they aired the one episode i wanted to see this season: lab rats. the one where the bida aren't the csis or even jim and sofia, but -- you guessed it -- the lab rats. archie kao, wendy sims, some other guy i didn't know, and of course david hodges. i finally understood the fascination some kids over at fanfiction.net had on hodges. and why they raved over this episode. for once, the guys doing the back office work -- where the brilliant greg sanders used to rule when he was dna tech -- got the spotlight. and the writers gave them real cred by leaving hodges to come up with a vital connection for the season's story arc. enough gushing, i'm just waiting for miami ink to come on.

i also got a new keyboard today. not that i'm really pissed with my laptop's keyboard, but the full size one does make an easier time of it. i haven't tried out the number keypad yet, which is the main reason i got this keyboard. i got a number keypad for the laptop a few months ago, and while it's cool to use (especially for us dealing with numbers most of the time), the num lock function takes some getting used to when you're typing letters at the same time. nothing really beats a full-sized keyboard.

lastly, an important update on the blackberry curve, my dream gadget. the next-gen curve, i think it's 8320, will have wifi. thank god. and maybe 3g? hopefully. like, the main use of this gadget for me is mobile surfing! hello?!? plus, the external sd card slot. man, i am so loving this. it's brought me back on steady ground after i saw ziel's o2 xda (the one with the sliding keypad). i was really seriously thinking of getting a touch-screen device instead. or a nokia e61i which loyalists say is just as good as blackberry (among the non-touch screens). so, here i am still, waiting for the perfect timing (and pricing, and budget availability) to get my blackberry.

push the mute button

i'm still reeling... i am numb... i've been had. but i'm one up on them. they didn't get one cent from me.

who else is dismayed that the gossip had proven to be true?

against all odds and beyond logic, that effing band of has-beens (who now can't even use the term supernova because of a court order) chose the one person i was not convinced is the right choice. this was a setup. magni, toby, and dilana were not even in the running.

so good luck to you, gargamel... er, lukas. you're gonna need it. and to tommy, gilby and jason... don't hold your breath. you've had 11 weeks of us hanging on every word you say and every move you make (geez i resorted to parroting the police!). you are not gonna take any more of my time. now toby is another matter. meet my new favorite band, juke kartel !

and now, back to regular posting.

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in honor of the rock star finale this week, here's my least favorite performances from this season. in some cases, they just plain suck.

disclaimer: i did not see the first five weeks so i probably missed out on a lot of mind-numbing performances. thank god.

jill gioia: respect (aretha franklin). were you even thinking straight, jill? you are not a rock chick, and you can't pull off a rock version of a song that is screaming soul train. no way.

patrice pike: celebrity skin (hole). probably thought she is true-blue rocker just because she nailed my iron lung. not by a long shot, baby.

chris pierson: roxanne (the police). dilana had good reason to perform this song on the finale; she has to avenge sting's musical genius. and when i saw the clip from the earlier weeks, that practice session at the mansion is enough to judge. A-W-F-U-L.

ryan star: baba o'riley (the who). man, that was sooo painful to watch. i'm not gonna say anything more about the climbing up the amps, running around like there was no tomorrow, and opening that champagne bottle. those were the least of his problems.

dilana robichaux: psycho killer (talking heads). dilana is a very good performer, if she's prepared. lucky for her, they'd rather give ryan the boot that week, otherwise she'd have been in big trouble.

lukas rossi: all these things that i've done. besides the awful voice and the horrible stage moves, he does not do good on the killers. leave it for toby, dude.

magni asgeirsson: starman (david bowie). in all honesty, i can't find one performance that i hated. it's just this one highlights how much his performance improves when a song really suits him. this one, it's like he hardly moves at all.

toby rand: runaway train (soul asylum). boring as hell. this isn't you... wrong song choice, brother.

storm large: i will survive (gloria gaynor). her gamble did not pay off. and she got completely trashed by dave. that's gotta suck, right? then they all tried to bring it around the next night, giving her props and allowing her to defend her performance. evs. btw, it was a toss-up between this song and bring me to life, but toby was in that song so here it is.

ooops, i forgot z! to be honest, i am not impressed with her singing style, though i loved not an addict. however, i didn't see enough performances to judge, not even on the episodes i actually watched (must've been on bathroom break). i might put in razorblade (blue october) just for the sake of having her on the list... but i love the dress she wore that night. if you're gonna get booted out, might as well look your best.

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ok, so i'll be posting a follow-up to my favorites list sometime in the future. i'm just not in the mood for it right now. you can see why.

song of the week: toby rand, somebody told me (from rock star: supernova finale)
gadawful song of the week: lukas rossi, bittersweet symphony (from rock star: supernova finale)

this is it!

dalawang tulog na lang...

the season ender of rock star: supernova is just hours away... and i can't wait!

last week, my officemate and i spent probably 10 minutes at the watercooler (which lends truth to that idiom about watercooler gossip) just taking apart all the performances last wednesday and thursday. i still believe dilana is a kickass singer, but i've also gotten around to officemate's opinion that toby is the one. but i digress...

dilana, my dear, what the hell are you thinking? or, to paraphrase gilby, what the hell were you not thinking? i guess this is what's called equal opportunity -- not one person has everything, eh? so maybe you have reason to think that because the band was looking for a singer, it is not necessary to be a brilliant songwriter. maybe they were just trying to stump you, because otherwise you are it. but good gawd! get over the depression girl! i'm expecting you to come out in fighting form wednesday. don't disappoint me.

oh stormy! how i wish you were here... i've come to love you, wrong notes and all. you give such heartfelt performances especially this last week. but i'll see you again this wednesday, and i'm half-rooting for you to get the wild card encore. basta you'll sing the mature version of ladylike... like it will happen on tv.

magni, though you're a great singer (i still got you on a pedestal man) i really don't think you will win. maybe fuel should get you instead... or how about pinch-hitting for ed kowalczyk? us live fans won't notice.

i don't understand how supernova got hooked on headspin. they were raving and raving about it. thankfully, newsted just shut up about lukas' voice, that comment was really getting old. but i still like you, gargamel, just for that lithium performance the other week (which officemate and i agreed was the best performance episode ever... though the next day everything went south). at least, you being from toronto is not the only reason.

ryan, you sourgraping boy! you're just so lucky the fans love you, and you're making a killing on the downloads. now you're cashing in, with a live recording of your previous songs on rockstar accompanied by no less than the house band! i'll buy it if only for a cleaner version of enjoy the silence. or maybe i'll just wait for the downloads. heheheheh.

my favorite aussie boy! you've come a long way, baby. thank god you've turned it all around... from being barely noticeable to bright shining new frontrunner. or maybe you were just keeping your cards close, eh? well done, dude. you wowed 'em with your last performances, and you've got more than decent songwriting skills too. what more could they ask for? one piece of advice (if you even get to hear about it): make a good name for yourself, because one day you'll find you've outlived those three clowns. uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh!

song of the week (last week): storm large, suffragette city (from rock star: supernova)

i'm so excited

isang tulog na lang...

dj has posted a spoiler list for tomorrow's ep of rs:supernova.

all are performing originals, as well as covers. nice! the last three eliminated (ryan, patrice and zayra) were also the ones who got the original song in the song selection. at least now they can't blame the original song for getting booted out, because all of them are doing it.

most anticipated for me is toby's take on mr. brightside. this was marty's breakout performance last year, and i think toby's voice is better suited to the song. earlier i've been wondering what song would be great for toby, and so far he has shown his versatility with layla, solsbury hill, and rebel yell. it's time he visits the alternative scene.

and in case you haven't noticed, i'm rooting for toby mostly. i crush him na. heheheh.

hell week

it's not just for college orgs

it's just one of those weeks that you wish was over when it's just started.

i've been wrestling with a project deliverable for, like, 3 weeks now, and it's still not done. i'm rapidly losing cred here and i still can't figure out what to do! though i guess it'll all come when i'm good and ready... but i really hope that will happen on monday.

then i have this sneezing spell which rapidly developed into a cold last monday. this whole week i felt soooo tired when i got home at night... and it's not purely due to taking the bus to and from work. i actually went to bed willingly before 10 pm early this week. but then wednesday came, and you know what happens on wednesday...

this week's performance night on supernova is the best in my book. the one bright spot in the entire week. like my officemate said, "wala kang itatapon na performance." surprisingly, i was impressed with lukas the weirdo's performance. MOKB has a good alias for him: gargamel in drag. ROFL.

however, what went down elimination night was exactly that... it went south. gad, it was painful. that does not include toby's encore. and we (errr, me, my best friend and my officemate... as if we were a whole lot, eh?) all agreed about the non-wisdom of booting out ryan "the dark horse" star. i actually thought he was a shoo-in for the finale. but as i re-read MOKB's reviews (they're not flattering at all) i got the picture that ryan might not be as good as i thought. whatever. or, according to toby, EVS.

so with ryan out, who do i think have the chops to make it into the finale? dilana, as i mentioned previously, is the frontrunner, until her horrific mistake during the press clinic. which was why she ended up bottom three for the first time this week. however, she still has lots of cred with supernova. toby, on the other hand, has rapidly gained cred in the last 2-3 weeks. i think it started with week 6 and burning down the house... even if the bullhorn brought on cringes and thoughts of "been there, done that". but him getting to perform with supernova and getting the encore for rebel yell are some pretty obvious signs he is up there. magni, of the solid vocals, should also be a shoo-in. so the question remains, who betwen lukas and storm will be eliminated next week? will we see another double elim?

oh, and i'm also entertaining the wish that none of those three i'm rooting for wins, because they do not deserve to be stuck with a bunch of wash-ups. heheheh.

song of the week: lukas rossi, lithium (from rock star: supernova)

my rockstar supernova post (finally!)

like the previous season, i did not watch this from the beginning. but hearing the performances i downloaded (go here: jeepney diaries thanks dj!) got me really hooked. i actually thought at the beginning that this batch doesn't hold a candle to the original batch, but i'm having second thoughts now with the five frontrunners.

like i said before, i'm not able to download all the performance clips because of my connection speed (or lack thereof). so here are my favorites among the ones i've got so far:

jill gioia, alone (heart) -- i think this is one of the first i downloaded, because i read off the blogs that this was a good performance. i loved the song, and jill gave justice even with the soaring vocals. this is the kind of band jill should be in.

magni asgeirsson, clocks (coldplay) -- honestly, i hated coldplay. their music rubs me the wrong way, at least until speed of sound came along. magni is the best vocalist in the current batch. maybe not the best performance, not with dilana around, but his vocals are solid everytime i hear him. and he taught me to love this song. (runner-up: magni's rendition of live's the dolphins cry, both the original acoustic performance and the electric encore.)

lukas rossi, creep (radiohead) -- jason newsted was pretty happy with lukas on this song, and it earned him an encore last week. if there was a perfect match, this song and his looks are it.

zayra alvarez, not an addict (k's choice) -- zayra is not supernova material, and the guys proved it when they picked patrice over her last night. that's not to say she's horrible, she wouldn't have got to the top 15 if she was. this is one of those songs that prove it, her sometimes off-tune vocals go nicely here.

patrice pike, my iron lung (radiohead) -- i admit, i'm a sucker for radiohead, especially if it's off the bends. i'm not happy with patrice's more recent performances, because she honestly comes off like a preppy rocker. but she's good with this song, and instant karma (john lennon) also suits her. (however, i think supernova should have done the double elimination thing and booted her out with zayra.)

josh logan, santeria (sublime) -- best friend lei was raving over this, and ranting over him getting kicked out last week. though he miscued in the beginning, he recovered quite nicely. you gotta hear it to feel the vibe, and there's even a pleasant surprise in the middle.

ryan star, in the air tonight (phil collins) -- supernova was happy with ryan's steady improvement, and this performance was so powerful yet silent that it earned a deserving encore. in contrast to dilana's performance, which was rocking as usual, this one had more impact.

dilana robichaux, lithium (nirvana) -- if there was one standout in this batch, this babe is it. i think someone said she has more balls than any of the guys there, and it's true. this is her first performance and she rocked even more than kurt did in the original. and these last performances are so consistent with that first one, you can't help but think it's a done deal. though supernova denies it to death.

song of the week: josh logan, santeria (from rock star: supernova)

i blame it on the black star (i heart radiohead!)

48 hours away from my laptop + hundreds of mp3 blog links = radiohead bliss

i get home from work...

i seem to have a really weird hangover. i have less than 8 hours sleep in the last two days, and i must be crazy if i'm still up at one a.m. surfing instead of sleeping. it's not that i can't get enough of the internet, it's just that there are some things that rank higher in my list of priorities. namely, love. pair that with one of the greatest rock bands in history. it's a no-brainer.

i think it was last week or so that my best guy bud and ultimate mp3 resource (the boy's name is mike by the way) sent me a link to a blog that featured a thousand covers of leonard cohen's hallelujah. here i thought jeff buckley was the genius behind the song. and man was i overwhelmed. not only does my old kentucky blog have gazillions of other bands featured (like, the ones you never hear about) as well as an opinionated commentary on rockstar:supernova, it also lists an impressive number of mp3 blogs. i'm telling you, this is just the tip of the iceberg.

it started with me downloading patrice pike's performance of my iron lung (pretty neat), and then one click led to another... and i'm drowning in links to various radiohead live mp3s. it was like having my birthday three months early. if i'd been on dsl i would have downloaded them all according to show, but since i don't i had to pick and choose and leave the rest for another day. listening to the live performance of black star in copenhagen gave me a rush much like staring at my phone wallpaper of lee dong wook. 10 minutes after my last listen, my heart has not stopped pounding.

disclaimer: i'm not really a big, big fan of radiohead. i'm yet to buy the rest of their albums because at the time they came out i was just a poor college student. or a poor entry level actuarial student. only last monday tower gave me a big surprise when they put out 3 cds on the shelf: kid a, ok computer and hail to the thief. i don't think it's ever happened before. so when i've stopped being a poor actuarial analyst (hopefully by next week ) i *might* get ok computer, arguably their best album. so that my copy of the bends will have a companion, finally.

here are some of the other blogs that quenched my thirst for the boys from oxford:

http://musicisart.blogspot.com the kroq performance is here
http://gillmoreboy.blogspot.com linked to musicisart
http://neileslife.blogspot.com copenhagen and other stuff
http://www.bestweekever.tv/category/mp3/ start here

another btw: thom yorke just came out with his solo effort, the eraser. nope, the band is not breaking up.

song of the week: trapt, lost realist

sunshine on a cloudy day

fridays are not for working, they're for thinking about sunshine

the past few days have been unbearably inconsistent weather-wise. i probably didn't need to say it, but what the heck.

one day this week i rode the bus to work and i was surprised when i came upon a janitor mopping up the puddles at the buendia mrt station. but as i was walking on that dumbass pavement they called a sidewalk, i started feeling the heat -- and not from the conversation i was having with my bud from work. i went out lunchtime armed with my rain jacket and an umbrella, just in case the downpour from the previous hour gave a repeat performance... but nooooo. the whole time i was out on the streets, the sun proved its might as if mocking me and my just-pampered-newly-trimmed hair. yeah, the one time i did not need the hassle of breaking out in sweat.

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my sunshine, julian.

hey nic, wasn't it you who wrote about keeping tabs on some korean telenovelas in the us? have you seen mai geol yet? yep, it's airing here right now on channel 2. and i'm so totally in love with seol gong chan (hereabouts known as julian).

to think that i was a bit amused at the idea that my friend ness bought the dvd box set (from lei's suking pirata). and even my recent fascination with princess lulu did not prepare me for this ultimate fanaticism. but the hopeless romantic in me just can't resist the charms of the stoic but caring grandson. and after the marathon session at ness' place last night (i still have 3 more discs to watch -- a total of 6 hours of torture), i could hardly think of anything else. really. i was so unproductive at work today, it's a wonder i even remembered to have a cake delivered from aristocrat (i'm telling you, their chocolate supreme is even better than polly's, though also more pricey). and it took all my willpower to wait for lunchtime to view my friendster page, to get my lee dong wook fix. for once, having lunch was not a priority.

see, who can blame me for complaining about real life? fiction may be insubstantial, but temporary happiness is better than nothing at all.

song of the week: top suzara, sabihin mo na (cheesefest! but my girl is sooo worth it!)

wtf?????

caught me unawares. damn!

grissom and sara? NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

first it was aiden, then h marrying marisol (not that i hate marisol delko, but i liked calleigh more). there's also the rumor about mac and lindsay. i never thought i'd ask this question, but what is csi coming to? i thought it would be the show that will be more about cases than love interests (though that didn't stop me from hoping :D ). especially las vegas.

way to go? avoid at all costs, more like.

distractions

50+ word rant about the finality of character exits

why the heck they killed off aiden burn, i'll never understand.

the penultimate episode of csi:ny season two, titled "heroes", brought back a much loved character only to say goodbye. i'm only starting to cope with not seeing aiden in the lab, when i find out that she gets murdered. it feels so... final. it just sucks.

dizzy girl

summer? does it matter?

it happens to the best of us...

so many stuff to blog about, but either you have no time, or you're too lazy, or you just don't know how to do it.

don't be surprised. i'm probably one of those people who can't start writing at the drop of a hat. especially when under pressure. which is why my strama paper is still under construction.

before i got to this sentence i've already corrected two spelling errors, which would be a clue as to how tired and inattentive i am. and why i can't write a good blog entry right now.

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so what happened in the last 2 months?

i've been so engrossed in watching csi and csi ny. i'm even starting to like csi miami (wow what a miracle huh). but i've been missing the last couple of episodes on axn. i'm more curious on what's happening in anticipation of the season ender which is showing this week in the us. just reading through all that talk on the numerous mailing lists i'm a part of is making my head spin. so many theories on the clues in the picture (see it from the cbs website). the funny thing is, i've had that picture since start of the season, i didn't know it was going to be such a teaser.

after a few months of lying low and cutting back on my favorite things, i made one of my first significant cd buys just last friday. i don't really care that i had to wait in line for the bus for over 30 minutes, i am just so happy to finally get the cardigans' first album, emmerdale. so now you have a clue on the story behind my alias. it's really pretty straightforward. what made that album stand out in my memory was that it contains one of my favorite cardigans songs, rise and shine. a great alarm tone, if i may say so. hence when i was thinking of a good email name, i thought, wouldn't it make a cool alias... and people have been asking me about it ever since. (by the way, some people really want to know what it means. so if you happen to know swedish or know someone who does, maybe you can tell me if it means something in that language. otherwise i'll keep thinking it's the name of the dog on the album cover. or i could just ask the cardigans.)

work has been piling up, though all of them are the sort that don't have real deadlines... it's like you just make some progress and it's a never-ending thing...

i've not done much on my strama lately. actually, i've not done much of anything lately. life has been a blur these past few weeks. sometimes i get the feeling that i've been bumming, and it's true in one sense. but i've also been so busy in another sense, most of my time is really taken up and everything else usually falls to second place. well, except when i go make takas to see a movie right after work and try to catch the regular bus trip at landmark. it's like i didn't watch a movie at all.

my uncles are here again for vacation. pretty soon we'll probably be seeing a gig or two at 70's or conspiracy. any ideas? we're choosing among bamboo, noel cabangon, joey ayala probably. we need a few more ideas. i suggested urbandub but they're probably not up to it yet.

hay, better log off because i'm leaving early tomorrow. once again it's monday, the worst day to be taking the bus to work.

grand murder at central station

the downfall of aiden burn

yep, the title of csi: ny episode 2.02 does sound butchered, if you knew that the station is called grand central.

hill harper’s portrayal of the eager trainee is starting to get on my nerves. i miss his laid-back m.e. maybe later hawkes is gonna be more laid back as well, as he gets used to the excitement of being out in the field. we’ll see how it goes.

thankfully danny keeps his shirt tucked this eppy. and i liked stella’s clothes this eppy.

aiden was nowhere to be found, except for the final confrontation scene with mac. so that’s why the aiden fans are suffering from withdrawal. after all that’s happened at the season pilot, it was such an abrupt change to be limited to one aiden sighting.

somebody from another blog (or csi fansite, i forget already) made a comment about mac wearing a suit jacket to the crime scene. it is kinda weird, wearing a jacket out in the summer heat. whatever.

but don flack… i crush him na talaga.