Of thirding your eyesight.

I think it is quite appropriate to make-kwento this subject for now. After the demise of everybody’s favorite MGB Halloween episode, we all just have to take the specials of Korina’s, Sharon’s, and Mel & Joey’s. In fairness, Mel & Joey’s have some astig Halloween episodes.

One of which was when Elizabeth Oropesa was their guest. I remember it exactly when she wasn’t able to cope up with some bad aura inside the studio (as skeptics would say, eh nagdadrama lang yan. Ta-artits yan e.) She was complaining that her spirit or aura is bringing her down.

And it probably is true.

As people with third eye don’t really just have to see the spirit, feeling the emotions of the spirit is still considered as third eye-ish.

But before that, let’s go back to the part when we were born in this world. As all young-lings have a third eye until the ripe age of two (that’s what I remember). Some kids retain the eye when they grow up and eventually it closes. Ergo, we all have the third eye. It is actually up to us if we open it, we retain it in its open state, or we want it closed.

Isn’t it nice when you’re cousin or pamangkin suddenly says to every one “Uy, si Lolo o!” When the corpse of your dead grandfather is just on the other room. Spooky? Yes, but it is reality (wala kang choice.)

One thing about people with third eye is that they know if another person has a third eye too. No, there’s no certain special feature that you can see. You’ll just know that he/she has one, if you have one. Just like the idea of ‘Lukso ng Dugo’. It’s all in the feeling…

But what if the feeling is gone by Ellamaesaison… nah…

Now, the depiction of the third eye in the movies is quite OA actually. From what I gathered, and usually, a spirit usually would just appear for a couple of seconds. It usually doesn’t stay there. The funny thing is when you happen to see that spirit; everything will stay inside your mind. It is as if there’s a footprint inside your mind (but it’s not a foot, it is a spirit… so spiritprint. If you can say that three times as fast, I’m gonna give you half a dozen sticks of sundot-kulangot.)

My mom’s third eye is really wide (kasinlaki nung sa Cyclops). I always ask her things like “Ma, anong kulay ng aura ko?” (because they can easily see your aura color despite the fact that my momma has glaucoma. Uy… rhyme…)

That’s why it is really fun if she’s with you if ever you enter an old house…

In addition to her wonderful third eye when she’s awake. The third eye works during sleepy time. She usually has these dreams about things like talking with our dead relatives especially her parents (or my grandparents). So, what’s special about that? If that particular dream is important to our kin (or angkan in tahgalog), she’ll have this certain episode wherein she’ll shout or cry or wail waking my father at the same time.

Of course, if you don’t know us, you’d probably have some hysteria too. You might say that my mom is having a nightmare (probably), but she’s fine. Trust me.

I don’t need to scare you people. The supernatural world is not scary. You just have to blame the media for that one. I’d rather be scared with today’s economy or even things like riding a taxicab.

Happy Halloween y’all.

Of un-bliss-ed

Move over Chris Brown and Rihanna.

Move over Gary Valenciano.

I swear this concert is waaaayyy betterer than the E-heads concert back in August/September.

Click the link to find out the crap that I’m talking about:

http://www.ticketnet.com.ph/2006/detail.php?eid=921&res=Y

And since the last time I did a concert viewing, I listened to the albums of the Eraserheads all over again and again for a week so that I won’t be left out in case they sing the famous and not-so-famous songs. Well, I just had to listen to catch up with missed tones and forgotten lyrics.

Now, in case I’m going to watch this concert, I’d probably do it in a different manner. I believe I still have a few weeks to gather all the movies that play their songs. Given the era of the band’s hits, I think I have to check out the early 90’s movies, probably movies by Rita Avila, Rosanna Roces, and such.

And I have to take out the movies with the song Careless Whisper, since that song is actually gasgas already.

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I just remembered this one yesterday. Are you familiar with the Kite Runner? It is a movie about young slashers in Afghanistan…

Seriously, the movie is a sort-of-an-autobiopic of the author of the Kite Runner. It happened before and the fall of Afghanistan. (I swear Afghanistan looked cool in the eighties. Damn you twisted individuals.)

So, our protagonist wants to be a writer and his father doesn’t want him to. His father was kind of amused with the idea that he told his son, “Anong churva ba naman yan iho? You want to be a storyteller?”

It just made me say one thing. In case this happened today and the same situation arises, I’d probably say, “Rowling itay, rowling.”

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I’m listening right now to the Fruitcake album and moi thinks that the E-heads first coined the term Mother Packers. Remember SBC packers by Rex Navarrete?

(wala lang…)

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Everything is still blank. They say ignorance is bliss. Not in my case.

Of mac noodle da doodle.

Isa si Alfred Hitchcock sa paborito kong direktor ngayon. Dati kasi hindi ako masyadong pamilyar sa kanya. Hindi naman kasi nagpapalabas ng mga palabas ni Hitchcock noon sa Million Dollar Movies, kaya hindi talaga ako pamilyar sa kanya sa mga usapang sine. Pero alam ko may palabas sa telebisyon yang si Hitchcock noon, series baga. Alfred Hitchcock Presents yata ang titulo ng palabas na yun sa telebisyon. Tapos mala-tipong Charlie Chaplin yung background music.

At matatakutin ako noon kaya hindi ako nanonood ng mga ganung palabas.

Kamakailan lang, natagpuan ko si Hitchcock muli bilang isang direktor ng mga kagila-gilalas na pelikula. Ang isa sa pinakapaborito kong ginawa nya ay yung Strangers On A Train, nakornihan kasi ako sa North By Northwest. Ang astig pa nung Strangers kasi orig na dibidi yung kopya ko. Wala akong makitang pirata e.

Hindi ito konektado sa Strangers, pero ang isang istilo ni Hitchcock sa mga palabas nya ay yung paggamit ng temang Macguffin. Ang Macguffin ay hindi mabibili sa Mcdonalds kasi hindi naman Mcguffin ang pangalan nun, Macguffin po. Ha ha ha.

Kung napanood nyo yung Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull (tama ba?), ginamitan ito ng Macguffin. Yung tipong akala mo yun ang tinatahak ng pelikula na direksyon pero hindi pala. Ang ending pala ay malayo sa nasimulang plot ng pelikula. At tulad sa Indiana, alien pala ang ending.

Tutal, nasa usapang Macguffin tayo, meron lang akong nais ipamahagi sa inyo. Maaaring nakwento ko na ito noon sa mga kakilala ko pero gusto ko lang isadula ito muli dahil hango ito sa tunay na mga pangyayari. Basta, parang ganun.

Nagsisimula ang storya natin sa pagkamatay ng isang batikang babaeng artista. Magaling sya dahil marami na syang naging pelikula at palabas sa telebisyon. Matagal din ang mukha nya sa telebisyon, e kaparehas mo ba naman yung Hari ng Pampatawa e syempre damay ka na. Astig diba.

Ang pagkamatay nya ay marahas. Hindi ko na ilalahad dito yun. Siguro naman napanood mo yung nangyaring to, mga ilang taon na ang nakalipas.

Ang gulo na kasi ng nangyari, kesyo yung asawa daw nya ang pumatay. Tapos ang anak nya hindi na din malaman kung sino ang pumatay. Kumbaga, wala nang patutunguhan talaga to tulad ng libo-libo nating mamamayan na hindi na na-sosolb ang kanilang pagkamatay.

E ano na ngayon ang koneksyon nung Macguffin sa usapan? Kasi ganito yan. Etong artista na ito may asawa, si R. Shood. Si R. Shood ay Macguffin (maaaring idepensa mo sa kin na decoy sya. Oo, pero gusto ko lang gamitin yung plot ng Macguffin kaya wag ka nang umangal, storya ko to) kasi simple lang naman. Hindi sya ang pumatay dun sa asawa nyang artista. Baket? Kung ikaw ba ay nakikinabang sa isang tao papatayin mo ba ito? Hindi naman diba? Ni hindi nga sya kasama sa last will and testament, bale ano pa ang punto mo na ipapatay yung asawa mo? Kung tinatakot mo man, hindi aabot sa ganitong karahasan yan.

Ganito, bago ko ituloy ang kwento kaunting background muna. Etong bida nating namatay, may maliit na grupo yan. Yung isa sikat na artista din. Kilala nyo yun, si Ina Cyan (itanong nyo yan dun sa mahilig sa mag-tap dance). Tapos yung isa pa nilang kabarkada, kamag-anak naming.

Ngayon, maagang namatay itong si Ina Cyan. Ibig sabihin, nauna syang mamatay. Ang hilig nitong dalawa, yung namatay at si Ina na namatay na din, ay ang pagsusugal. E itong si Ina, nilalapitan yan ng mga hustler na magsugal. Dyan lumalapit yung mga natatalo sa sugal at dun nila pinasasanla yung mga gamit na hawak nila tulad ng sasakyan, para lang manalo sa araw na yun.

Si Ina Cyan ngayon, maraming hawak na mga bagay bagay na hindi nya sinasauli hangga’t hindi sya nababayaran. E namatay sya. Ngayon, itong bida nating namatay, kinuha nya yung mga gamit na yun. Yung mga taong nagpasanla ng mga gamit, kinukuha na nila ngayon dito sa ating bida dahil ang punto nila hindi naman daw nila sa kanya pinasanla yun. Maaaring ayaw pumayag nitong ating bida kaya pinaslang nya.

Ang aming balita, ang nagpapatay daw ay isang sundalong mataas ang ranko. May bituin daw sa damit e.

Grabe no. Kaya ako hanggang beto-beto at tong-its lang e. Mahirap na.

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Bitin na talaga ang istorya. Wala nang nangyari e.

At sumalangit nawa sana ang mga namaalam na.

Of an upcoming office Xmas partey.

Woot. As early as today, our HR is starting the planning for the upcoming Christmas party. Last year was really a blast. Despite moi ending up with one red ball, it didn’t really matter much because you go to the event not just for the prizes but also to enjoy it (it has always been my belief, turo ng nanay ko, that whenever you attend an event, be sure you’re going to enjoy it. Or else, don’t attend. It is really ugly if your sugly, sulking ugly, person).

We did the 80’s last year. I recycled some items at home to create that 80’s look. And now, it might be a wittle bit hard. Our HR emailed some possible tentative themes:

- Under The Sea

- Movie Star Look-alikes (Red Carpet / Hollywood)

- Mardi Gras / Masquerade

- Filipino Myths

If ever no new themes would be suggested then I should think and plan in advance on what I should wear on the given themes above. Let me see; let’s start with the Movie Star Look-alikes.

The closest I can think of is to dress as a student in Hogwarts. Given the Hollywood idea, that’s all I could think of. Or I could dress up as Zac Efron or Edward Cullen. Bwahahaha.

Actually I really want to go as that weird character in Pan’s Labyrinth. The part with the “don’t eat any effing food on the table, you dyslexic you”. If you don’t know this, watch the movie. Berri good pilm.

For the Filipino myth, it would be really really hard. We only have a few of these myths and I’m not sure if people will buy this one. It might end up like a Hallomas or a Christoween, and I can’t really accept that. I won’t vote for this one. But given the chance that our dimension ends up with this choice, and then I might dress up as Robina’s twin sister / brother. Yes, the snake in Robinson’s Galleria.

Exploring Under The Sea is quite easy, you just have to watch a few water related movies such as The Little Mermaid, The Little Mermaid 2, Dyesebel Edna Luna version, Dyesebel Alma Moreno version, Dyesebel Alice Dixson version, Dyesebel Charlene Gonzales version, Isabel Granada’s version of a Sirena, or Nemo from the movie LXG… Kidding… from Finding Nemo of course.

I think I just have to wear those Nemo bags. Punch a big hole at the middle and wear it. Presto. I have a costume.

Lastly, the Mardi gras are probably the most easiest (hehehe) theme. I think I just have to wear six multi-colored beaded long necklaces and that’s it. I originally thought of wearing just one but it might me look naked so I made the number increase to six.

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I have a few suggestions too but I don’t think it will be chosen. It isn’t much though but I’ll try:

- Twilight (I’d still enter as Edward. Bwahahaha)

- Sexbomb (Eat Bulaga’s sexbomb dancers a)

- Donuts (you can get ideas from Gonuts, Krispy, etc. etc.)

- Pixar characters (I’ll probably dress up as ‘mater from Cars)

- Mathematical symbols (I’d be a decimal point or ang lalaking may period)

- Naruto (this is just a tribute to my boyplen beejay)

- Local showbiz tv host, deads or alive (I’d come in as Giovanni Calvo)

- Starbucks drink (Coffee Jelly)

No serious suggestions here… I’m getting sleyfee na.

Of something's funnee.

Lookie, lookie. What have we here?

I was browsing through some stuff in Ever the other day and was able to chance upon this item. It was like back to the 80’s or 90’s again. I just had to buy it. Though I’m not really interested in reading the comic but I still bought it. Out of boredom and for blogging content.

And look at the number (in Ta-gahlog, yung may bldg… ay mali… basta bilang) Imagine the number, it’s in the thousands already. This comic has come a long way. Despite the inflation (it’s 450 percent increase bebe), I think it is still suitable for kids. The content isn’t as much as before, maybe due to the fact that this type of business isn’t as lucrative a decade ago (yes, ang kawawang kartunista… umunlad na… hopefully.)

I do miss Niknok, Planet op d Eyps, and Combatron.

And I remembered a few other competitors as well. There’s Bata-batuta and Kick Fighter.

Swet.

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Despite the magazine’s name, I still bought it. There:

It is written as a Collector’s Edition so I bought it.

In fairness to the issue, it is still, somehow, worth it. It lacked content though. And maybe due to the 67 songs with chords included in the magazine, as this magazine really is a song hit.

I just didn’t like the “album review”. Like, duh.

(hindi ako maka myx e. maka halo lang… har har har)