MMMiii!

That’s the name of my cute little nephew. He was born on the 14th of July of this year. He’s so cute and tiny. He already got a present from me even before he was born. They named the bear Gen for Genting, Malaysia which was where I got the bear as a prize from a carnival game.

My brother said that it looked like I was going to be a doting aunt. And I agree.

I placed an order for this Tiger Bib set from CDJapan.

Animal Bib -tiger-

Cosplay/Party Goods

I also ordered the Cow bib too because they’re both so cute.

Animal Bib -cow-

Cosplay/Party Goods

Aside from baby talk, my brother and I were also talking about some future plans, like getting a car so that he could take the baby here easier and more often in the future. Right now he only has a motorbike. I guess he’s giving up on getting an atv now that he’s got a baby.

Right now, Ioshi is only about 2 weeks old so the bib won’t really fit him. However, with my CDJapan order, I also pre-ordered Yubiwa [CD+DVD / Jacket A] / SPEED which is set to be released on September. I’m also having it shipped through SAL so I’m giving it about 6-8 weeks. He would be about 4 months by then. I’ll probably give it around December, as a Christmas gift.

I don’t really know how old babies can start wearing bibs like that.

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Lately, there’s been plenty of lay-offs, even with the call center industry. It was once thought that the call center industry would save the country’s economy, I think, but that might not be the case anymore. In the past couple of years, there’s been plenty of “schools” popping up here and there, that will train one to be a call center agent. Although I honestly never saw the point of those “schools,” they might be even more useless soon.

Right now, all I could do is to make sure I stay on my job, if not move up. It doesn’t matter now what kind of job you have these days, or where. The great lay-off could come at you any moment. Even Manhattan jobs won’t make a difference. There are lay-offs everywhere.

I think, instead of lay-offs, why not just decrease the pay. Give them a paycut, like 50%. At least they still have a job in a sense, albeit the pay is a little low, but I think it’s better than nothing. Cut a whole company’s salary into 50%? Lol. I don’t know. I’m not into business or anything, just a thought that came up. Having 500 or 900 people suddenly losing their jobs like that is just scary.

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I just finished watching the video of hide Memorial Summit which I just downloaded this morning. It’s a commemoration concert for hide’s 10th year death anniversary. I can’t deny that there were some parts that got me teary-eyed. Especially when Toshi sang “Without You” which I heard for the first time (I haven’t been able to watch the X Japan “rebirth” concerts). I’ve been wanting to hear it sung ever since I heard the piece in Eternal Melody II which has the 17-minute track including the lyrics but no one singing it. I had imagined Yoshiki would hire a woman to sing it but after X Japan’s “rebirth” he had Toshi sing it.

I don’t really want to call it a reunion since hide will never be back (T__T) but rather a rebirth.

“Without You” is such a nice song, the piano version and the song version. It used to be my sleep song. It would be the last song I’d play before I head to sleep.

And I noticed that Toshi is really not in condition anymore. He’s old. Not that I don’t like his voice anymore. I love his voice. Except that there were many parts in the concert that his voice broke or he went out of tune, but I don’t know if it was the 2nd day of the concert or not. Since he’s Toshi, I forgive him.

This is a screenshot from The Last Live concert of X Japan.

I love hide as well. I wish they had an encore, probably they did, it just wasn’t shown on TV. I was half wishing they’d perform hide’s Goodbye.

The finale of the hide Memorial Summit was a ton of bands on the stage performing X Japan’s “X” (We Are!).

But since I badly wanted to hear Goodbye …

here are some videos.

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Last night, I went out with my amigas Lori, Sara, and Sarah. We ate at Cafe Bola for dinner and then at Max Brenner for desserts. I was supposed to go to UnionBank first to make a deposit, but I left the house somewhat late, almost an exact calculation that I’ll reach the bank just in time before it closes. But when I arrived in EDSA, I realized that I had left my cellphone. I left my cellphone inside the refrigerator. I sighed, got off the jeepney and crossed the street. Hailed another jeepney and went home. I’ll make a bank deposit some other time. I can’t meet with my friends without a phone because you never know what comes up.

Going to Makati, I felt lazy walking to GMA station so I took a bus. I planned to get off two stations from GMA but when I was there, I couldn’t get off immediately so I’ll be walking, so I told the conductor that I’ll just get off somewhere else. And I did. And I realized that I was so stupid that I really should’ve taken the train instead. I would’ve saved about half my total fare on my way to the meeting place. Sarah arrived after 7 and we kind of got lost going to Cafe Bola. We had to ask where it was because Lori forgot where it was. When we arrived there, Sara just arrived as well.

At Cafe Bola, I ordered Spicy Green Curry with Carambola

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Plan? What plan?

A couple of people have already said they have my support, that I should continue this dream. Sadly, I have no definite plan as of yet.

aaahh… I’ll try now.

Contents:

• Forum
• Lesson Plans and Activities
• Teacher Blogs (?)
• Education News
  • Local
  • International
• Resources, Links
• WebQuests

• Student Portal
  • Study Guides
  • Forum?

Shall I use the Wiki software?

And then… how am I going to divide it? By topic or subject area? I mean should I put each subject area below Lesson Plans and activities and so on, or should they fall under the subject areas?

Waaaahhh Ano’ng gagawin ko? Ni hindi ko pa nga bayad si bratyfly!!! Active pa kaya yung account ko sa pinoyhosting.net? May abandoned kasi akong webspace dun..pero… pero…. waaaahhh.. Nagpapanic na ko!

In short, what use are big dreams if you don’t have plans?
What use are plans if you don’t do them?

I HAVEN’T EVEN PICKED A DOMAIN NAME! AOMAI GAWSH!

PinoyTeacher.com
FilipinoTeacher.net
GurongPinoy.com

hmmm… WHAT!?

ok.

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I grew up watching the Dragon Ball series (Among others… of course.. there’s Macross, Ranma, La Blue Girl, and so on…….)

Currently, one of the anime I am following is Lucky Star, from which my cute avatars come from, though I haven’t posted everything. I stole them from a board… (I’m sorry I forgot which, please drop me a note if you know which). It is based on a 4-panel manga like Azumanga Daioh, and it’s crazy like Haruhi Suzumiya no Yuuutsu, but I think it’s way crazier. It has a lot of anime, manga, forum, and game references even otaku events (They actually happened in real life) references. It reminds me a little of Martian Successor Nadesico which has a lot of parodies of other anime, particularly of mecha anime. I haven’t watched a lot of parody anime (I can’t think of the other title that I actually know had a lot of references), but this one is almost overboard… What the heck, I take that back. It is overboard.

The anime is halfway through the series, and they’re about to release Lucky ☆ Star Ending Theme Drama album but it leaked out… While reading, listen to the opening song of Lucky Star - Motteke! Seiraafuku.

Lucky Star revolves around 4 girls, but it seems to be centered more on Konata Izumi (泉 こなた),. Konata is intelligent, athletic, and skilled, but she is THE hardcore otaku in every sense of the word, that her life revolves around anime, manga, games, forum (image boards, 2ch), and otaku events (Comiket or Comic Market, etc) so much so that she is known as the Legendary Girl A. She takes advantage of her height to get child discounts at movies.

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We were designing our table tops at the faculty room today. I wasn’t able to draft a lesson plan again.. oh well..

Anyway, what drives me? What motivates me?
That was the theme…

And because I didn’t really bring any materials even after my co-ST Gail told me to. Well, I did. I brought a brochure of the Atom Xda O2 thingie.
I cut out the picture of the PDA and pasted it there… …. It kind of looked pretty bare, so I looked through my file case to see if there was anything worth passing as motivation. The only other colorful thing in there was an Anglo-Saxon map of Great Britain. I cut it randomly into random strips and then pasted it haphazardly but still in order.

I wanted to draw a map of Japan, but that would mean my wish to leave the country, which was one of the serious issues here. hehe… So I just drew a big red dot.

Wouldn’t it be nice if I could just pack up with Samsonite luggage bag and leave and go to wherever I want… Like Japan. Hehe… I hope no one figures out the big red dot.

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The UPFI Schedule for this year’s Eiga Sai (Japanese Film Festival). I’ve not been watching for thepast four years though. Either I had a class and/or I was just lazy. OMG. Why am I so lazy? Someone save me (/>_<)/

Anyways, Eiga Sai is going to be held in other venues, not just at UP, but since I’m studying there anyway, I might as well. Here is the schedule and line-up for the festival.  All showings are FREE. and I love free stuff.

UP Film Institute

Gonna watch the 5pm shows, I think. From these movies, I’ve seen Kamikaze Girls and Gaichu. I want to see the rest. >_< Good thing my classes are just until 3:30 or 4:00. XD I can stay at the faculty room until 4:30 I guess.

It’s just that there seems to be more and more Japanophiles these days. It’s annoying, to be honest. I don’t know why. I feel like they’re so…. so…. trying hard. >_<

I’ll check FSS first if they have the other movies. Although… It would be nice to watch free movies in a theater. It’s free anyway.

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