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Scott and I went to the BoI office in Intramuros. I read various posts about going there via public transportation but nothing really was clear. Or maybe my sense of direction is that bad that I couldn’t understand it. We walked around asking for directions as well but imagine 6 people pointing in different directions with their arms (enter picture of tokusatsu pose… or power rangers for those who don’t know tokusatsu) and each giving different ways to get there.

I live in Quezon City so I will talk about how to go there via EDSA which is probably the fastest way compared to taking a bus or jeepneys.

1. Get off at at MRT TAFT Station and walk to the LRT EDSA Station.
2. Get off at LRT Central Station.
3. If you’re facing the street once you get down, go left. Keep going straight until you see a parking lot to the left.
4. Turn left and when you get to the street, you should see the entrance to the underpass.
5. Go down to the underpass and keep going. There will be a sign that points to the right saying Intramuros. Go up on the right.
6. Keep walking along the sidewalk until you see the entrance of Intramuros to the left.
7. Turn left and enter Intramuros.
8. Turn right once you get inside and just keep going straight. You’ll see various food places to the right and dorms on the left.
9. Once you reach the gate, turn right. You should see a green building (As of July 2010). That’s the Bureau of Immigration building.

For aliens (foreigners) who need to extend their visa and don’t have an ACR I-Card yet…

1. Once inside, go straight to the assistance desk (I can’t remember what it’s called).
2. Ask for visa extension forms. If you’re already overstaying, ask for the Motion for Reconsideration form. The visa extension form just needs your name, passport information, address in the Philippines, address in your home country, and the date of expiration for your validity of staying. The Reconsideration form will just ask you why you weren’t able to apply for an extension before your due date and why you need to stay longer.
3. Remember to bring a pen with you. If you don’t have a pen, you can buy at the photocopying machine. You need to have the first page and the page where the due date is stamped on your passport. Each photocopy costs P2.
4. Submit your papers at the Receiving windows. There are 4 I think. They will compute how much you need to pay. Bring cash with you, as they do not accept credit cards. There is also a “plus $50 or peso equivalent” stated there but not added so be sure to have an extra P2400 when you go to the cashier to pay.
5. Come back in 2 hours. There’s a Starbucks nearby and you can stay there while waiting.

I don’t know what to do for other cases.

I think we walked more than what we had to because of the people who were giving us bad directions. Hopefully this can help someone. I swear I think I lost some pounds walking around. I haven’t even taken any weight loss supplement yet but you can read more info on weight loss supplements if you click here.

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Ever heard of accutane? It’s a prescription drug for acne. I mentioned a few posts ago about my father’s high school classmate taking something or putting something on his face to get rid of the acne prescribed by a dermatologist. Well… I’m trying to find out what it is, so I was reading on some drugs related to acne.

Putting that aside, I was reading about accutane and other acne drugs and I was surprised to find out that there are plenty of side effects related to these drugs. I’ll be reading more about it because I’m curious. Apparently it does work in proper dosages and with the recommendation of a doctor.

For the record, my face isn’t full of acne. This really just gets me curious

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There’s this grocery store near my place that I like going to because it has all kinds of promotional sales (i.e. products that are about to expire go on 50% discount, like mayonnaise or jam or pickles) and there are also a lot of products there that are relatively cheap. I’m talking about Hi-Top along Aurora Ave, Quezon City. Their floor space is probably about the same or even a bit bigger than the SM Savemore branches I’ve been to.

My favorite mints are these Wrigley’s Doublemint Sugarfree mints. I like all three flavors — Peppermint, Spearmint, and Winterfrost. My favorite would probably be Peppermint. It only costs P68 in Hi-Top. I think it’s like P78 in SM Groceries (I’m not sure. I just know it’s more expensive there) and P100 in 7-11 stores.

Aside from the low prices in Hi-Top, I’m amazed at the cashiers. From the picture above, you can see that the price sticker covers the barcode. Yes-you won’t get an itemized receipt from them. Only the prices and what their general category is. Most big groceries now use barcode scanners like the Symbol LS2208. Heck, even the smaller groceries near Hi-Top, the two Anson’s Supermarkets, use barcode scanners.

This doesn’t mean that the cashiers are very slow with punching in the numbers for each item. Probably because they’re veterans at this, they’re actually pretty fast. Even though I’m fond of watching them punch the prices all the time, I still wish that they’d upgrade a bit (without jacking up their prices) for the sake of the cashiers and customers (who like to keep track of what they bought). I’m pretty sure they can do this upgrade. I’m not sure if the other branches already use the barcode system.

I really like having a record of what I bought. Obviously, some people value this too. When we went to El Nido, Palawan, where electricity is rationed, the big groceries store there have the “cashiers” writing down each item on a sheet of paper, probably as official receipts. It was pretty amazing, although it’s probably for the other people who have their own smaller stores in the town. … But still!!! watching the two young ladies writing like crazy each item and the price…

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Do you know what NEET means? It means Not in Education, Employment, or Training.

That’s what I am right now. But I’m not a social recluse nor do I move from one part-time job to another. I’m just not doing anything productive right now. Because of this I’m being lazier and lazier.

I don’t wash my face when I get up. I don’t fix my bed. I sleep early and get up late (early morning, late afternoon). I just sit in front of my computer and play games or talk to people online.

At least I’m not worried about pimples. Some people who don’t wash their face often sometimes are easy preys to whatever causes pimples. Even if I did, I’m sure there’s something like pronexin that will help get rid of it if it gets worse.

But! I actually have a job interview on Saturday. BEAT THAT! lol.

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I just LOVE ordinary buses. Here in the Philippines, “ordinary buses” are non-airconditioned buses. Yes, there are still buses like that here in the metro. They’re cheaper and faster. Cheaper, because since it’s not airconditioned, they charge less. Faster, because they usually skip some places and they sometimes don’t stick around waiting for passengers.

During off-peak hours, they’re even better. They FLY in highways. Airconditioned buses would wait about 10-15 minutes each stop (I might be exaggerating but that’s how it feels like) while ordinary buses would just wait a few seconds, or better yet, not stop at all if there’s no one flagging them down.

From Baclaran to Kamias, it only takes about 25-30 minutes during off-peak. When I was still working in Ayala, I was always forced to take airconditioned buses and it will take me 50 minutes to an hour just to get home, and even longer to get to work because I go to work during peak hours.

The only thing probably that I don’t like about ordinary buses is afterwards, I feel so grimy and all the pollution of the cities I passed through is on my face and hair. My hair really feels sticky and heavy and I might want to buy some acnepril soon. THAT kind of feeling. Like I’ll start to have acne on my face. I just wash my face when I get home.

My friend said the ordinary buses in the Philippines are better than the rollercoasters we rode in Hong Kong and Malaysia.

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We have an avocado tree, and a couple of fruits falls from it from Summer to the start of the Rainy Season. The avocado fruit from our tree is long and green. q3m (Yes, he’s still here) isn’t used to seeing avocado like that, he said. He’s used to avocado that is short, fat, rough and deep purple. When I opened it, he said it also looked different. It tasted the same, however.

I just remembered this because Pop and I went to buy groceries together and we saw the avocados that matched more of what q3m was used to. And we got to joking how it was like a face full of acne scars. He said it reminded him of his classmate in high school whose face was like “a pimple that grew a face (pimple na tinubuan ng mukha).” That was so mean of him.

In his defense though, he said that it was now just a joke amongst them. That classmate used some really effective acne scar removal medication that was prescribed by a dermatologist and it worked. That classmate is also now a heart surgeon.

But still, because of that story, whenever I see that kind of face, I think “avocado face” =_=;; I’m so mean

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I configured my music library from my hard drive and external drive and while randomly playing the whole list (198Gb combined, mostly lossy, hardly any lossless), it played this old recording of mine. I recorded this in 2006 and the song itself is even older.

It’s Stay (I Missed You) by Lisa Loeb and the Nine Stories.

Back then I loved to sing and record and I participated in online karaoke and what not. I would talk about songs and not ways of reducing belly fat although I was also heavy that time. Things that I would talk about would be songs, anime, drama, movies, school…

I’m trying to record songs again but I’m so out of date with everything. I hardly watch anime, because I want the series to be complete before I even start watching. Same with drama. Most of the movies I’m getting are somewhat older as well. I don’t listen to the radio. My guitar is broken. The most recent “band” I’m into right now isn’t even exactly a band. It’s GIRLS DEAD MONSTER which was the band in the anime ANGEL BEATS!.

I’m out of practice. I don’t vocalize anymore. Heck, I vocalized more when I was doing my student teaching so that I won’t lose my voice when I’m teaching in the classroom.

A~ah… *rolls* need to watch more recent anime! need to watch more recent drama!

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Yu and I movie-marathoned the trilogy 20th Century Boys from last night (which was actually around 3am already) til this afternoon. It is the movie adaptation of the award-winning manga 20 Seiki Shounen or literally 20th Century Boys. The title was taken from a real song by T-Rex, 20th Century Boy. You can listen to the song on YouTube. (Side Comment: hide has a version too. :D It’s purely in Engrish though.)

The plot is something that young children would usually think of when playing with other kids: Good VS Evil, and there’s someone good, there’s someone bad. Good prevails in the end. But the plot that the kids had imagined becomes reality in the future. The end of the world and stuff like that. And…

I suck at writing summaries so please just check the links on this post. This post isn’t meant to be a review either. I just want to rant about it. Oh, and spoiler alert. Probably.

Some basics though:
The first movie, 20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End, jumps from 1969 to 2000. Kenji and friends tries to save the world from TOMODACHI but they fail.
The second movie, 20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope, continues to 2015 with a teenage Kanna and a reigning TOMODACHI.
The last movie, 20th Century Boys 3: Redemption, comes 2 years later and TOMODACHI pretty much controls the world. Kenji and friends make a comeback and they kill TOMODACHI. TOMODACHI is revealed in this part.

A few questions…

WHY THE HELL didn’t the people ever question the “MASK” of TOMODACHI? It’s like he’s going around and people just nod and raise their finger. Pointer finger, I mean.
One thing I hated about the movie was how they kept on stalling on exposing TOMODACHI!!! aaargh! So even if I wasn’t quite interested in seeing the whole trilogy, I still kept on watching. The true identity of TOMODACHI doesn’t get exposed until like the last 10 minutes (or less) of the movie, credits included. Had I known, I would’ve jumped from first movie to the 3rd just to find that out.

In the first movie, the terrible twins were fat. In the second movie, they were lean. In the third movie, they were huger than ever. Did they read some lipozene reviews and magically gained weight after 2 years? Just wondering.

Kanna has ESP, because she bent a spoon and she was able to find her classmate that was kind of dragged by one of her uncle’s childhood classmates. She’s also called The Chosen One, and God’s Child among others. What is the purpose of this? After the ESP scenes that seemed forced, the idea got lost. I was hoping for more ESP action.

The people who seemed to be under TOMODACHI’s spell most of the time act like remote-controlled zombies, like when they tried to take baby Kanna and in the processions, etc. But when faced with a gun, they suddenly become … I can’t think of a good word for them, but it’s like unhumanly cowards… I guess that’s one of the few funny scenes of the story, but still, I found it ridiculous. If they’re zombified, they’re zombified. If they’re doing it because they’re scared, then they should look scared. Movie physics, I guess.

I’ve never read the manga so I’m not sure how much it stayed with the storyline of the manga version, but overall, I liked the story. Considering each movie lasted for almost two and a half hours each, and I watched them all, I did like it.

I’d give this 3.5 out of 5 stars!

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Lately I’ve been cooking fried rice a LOT. And I mean, a LOT. About twice to four times a week.

Today, I made Corned Beef Fried rice.

My usual ingredients for fried rice are the following:

• Rice from yesterday
• 5 or more cloves of garlic, chopped
• 1 White or Red onion, chopped
• Sesame oil
• Soy sauce (Lee Kum Kee or Kikkoman)
• Oyster sauce
• Egg

In this one, I had mixed vegetables (carrots, peas, corn kernels) and a can of Pure Foods corned beef. I don’t usually add salt and pepper anymore, but sometimes I throw in some garlic powder if there’s any. About the amount of garlic, I like my fried rice with a strong taste of garlic. If it doesn’t have any garlic taste, it’s not fried rice. If I have hoisin sauce as well, occasionally I would add some in to add a little flavor.

My friend told me that I was addicted to carbohydrates. I guess I am. I really like rice and noodles A LOT. I’m not much of a bread eater (that includes pizza). I need to worry about losing weight but I’m too lazy to worry about that. Just pop in some clinicallix and maybe get thin…. when I can afford it. hahaha

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