tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68857452011-04-22T11:40:42.843+08:00Straight from the (Jack)Ass' mouthstay awhile.Peejaynoreply@blogger.comBlogger381100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885745.post-1120703461334802102005-07-07T22:00:00.000+08:002005-07-07T21:58:06.843+08:00Three names you go by:1. Phillip2. PJ3. PeejThree screen names you have had:1. pj_jackass2. peejayjackass3. phillip_james_manalo (my new other Y!M ID... add me)Three physical things you like about yourself:1. My Eyes2. My Hands3. wala na kong maisip eh...my bird? ->haha tama, mart! tama!Three physical things you don't like about yourself:1. Height2. Skin3. uhm... yun lang. Maybe... Nails?Three Peejaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885745.post-1119352433700839112005-06-21T19:16:00.000+08:002005-06-25T00:10:37.073+08:00my comment on that stupid tape... my two cents worth...i left this as a comment on monjoe's new political commentary blog. check it at http://pp-e.blogspot.com/.anyway... here goes. and do correct me if i'm wrong...anyway re. this overhyped tape. give me a break, Messrs. Clean. i mean come on. who really didnt cheat in the last election? i mean really?if anything she should be penalized for Peejaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885745.post-1119348797790647842005-06-21T18:15:00.000+08:002005-06-21T18:13:17.796+08:00patience... patience...i am one of those who subscribe to the old adage: Good things take time. like a fine wine or excellent cheese most things greatly benefit from just a little bit of patience.i'd like to concentrate this time-enduring philosophy into the microcosm that is my kitchen.yesterday i was home as always, and as always i was thinking of stuff to do. while i should've been looking forPeejaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885745.post-1118850903273102062005-06-15T23:56:00.000+08:002005-06-15T23:55:03.310+08:00the weekend that was...last weekend was interesting enough to be written about.friday. my mom spotted me 1k for grocery shopping for a dinner i was gonna be throwing the following day. so i skipped on over to the LRT station and got off at gateway to do my grocery shopping in rustan's. i was so proud of myself. devise recipes on the fly, buy whatever it is that they had there, and still come up Peejaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885745.post-1118846138442358452005-06-15T22:35:00.000+08:002005-06-15T22:35:38.490+08:00spent my day on my new graphic tablet... whatchuthink?Peejaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885745.post-1118245738652478262005-06-08T23:42:00.000+08:002005-06-08T23:48:58.656+08:00i couldnt help myself.tv-diatribe addendum...half-assed rehashes of old cartoons, especially: He-Man and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. the originals are way, way, waaaaaaay better. it's like the michael jackson look-alike that they use to re-enact the Michael Jackson trial proceedings in cable news channels. just too ugly to be right.Peejaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885745.post-1118244795701772432005-06-08T23:35:00.000+08:002005-06-08T23:33:15.746+08:00Hi! my name is PJ and I'm a TV-holic.one of the things you learn when you're an addict is that there are some things you most definitely and absolutely hate about whatever it is you're addicted to but whatever those things are they will never stop you from feeding your addiction.you know... you love to drink but you hate the hangover but you drink anyway.same for TV addiction.so what about TV Peejaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885745.post-1117978283351705122005-06-05T21:33:00.000+08:002005-06-05T21:31:23.356+08:00somewhat busy week... yeah right!a couple of cool purchases for the week:1.) went software shopping in greenhills and came home with an Adobe Acrobat Pro 7.0 and Adobe Page Maker 7.0.2.) finally got myself (or rather bought with mom's cash) a wacom graphic tablet! graphire 2 lang (i just found out na may 3 na pala) but it works just like how i dreamed it.but these purchases were not at all Peejaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885745.post-1117468306313926882005-05-30T23:53:00.000+08:002005-05-30T23:52:09.316+08:00when i grow up...just came home from a relatively hectic day... anyway met up with invent people for a meeting... but rewind, to when we were still meeting up. barbie greeted me with a, "peej still looks like a kid."true, i was in shorts, sneakers, a t-shirt, and a baseball cap; an outfit that definitely does not lend itself to any sort of sartorial maturity. coupled with my clean look (i.e. sansPeejaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885745.post-1117365922600729762005-05-29T19:27:00.000+08:002005-05-29T19:28:15.890+08:00bumhood 101...it's been over 2 months since i graduated from college and what have i to show for it? a better understanding of the sedentary life, of bumhood.how would you know if you're a bum? read on and learn, little grasshopper.- do you wake up right on time for brunch?- are the distinctions between breakfast, lunch, merienda, and dinner blurred?- do you watch tv so much that your daily TV Peejaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885745.post-1117349105105535052005-05-29T14:45:00.000+08:002005-05-29T14:57:18.383+08:00testing out this photoblog thing... btw i didnt take this pic. rica did.Peejaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885745.post-1117203987091751982005-05-27T22:29:00.000+08:002005-05-27T22:27:04.316+08:00my name is...ok, i know this is a rip from martin's and marjoe's blogs but i need some writing practice eh.the name game. in chronological order. who people are in my life by the name they call me.phillip - you have at least got to know that this is my given name, right? you're family or a childhood friend who wasn't around to see me grow up or someone from kundi 2000 kasi naunahan ako ni PJ Peejaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885745.post-1114609612215909012005-04-27T21:28:00.000+08:002005-04-27T21:50:00.256+08:00nostalgia trip...just over a year ago i went to the graduation of Ateneo De Manila University's batch 2004 as a guest.just over a year ago i went to boracay with 7 others (5 barkada, and 2 new friends) for The Great Summer Adventure 2.just over a month ago i went to the graduation of Ateneo De Manila University's batch 2005 as a gradute.just less than a month ago i went to boracay with 11 others Peejaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885745.post-1110386167437097772005-03-10T00:35:00.000+08:002005-03-10T00:36:07.443+08:00an interesting day in the not-usually-interesting life of a bum...started my wednesday morning off to church to serve at 6 in the AM. it was a birthday mass for the presiding priest... there was breakfast after... and, as usual, i was the only one my age there; everyone else were either mid-lifers or octogenarians and every gradation of old in between. food was pretty good, though. buffet. good Peejaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885745.post-1109947365390521322005-03-04T22:43:00.000+08:002005-03-04T22:42:45.396+08:00another turning point, a fork stuck in the road...man, what a weird and wonderful 2 or 3 weeks... i barely know where to start.a.) two weeks ago i had my last couple of deliberation sessions for heights. alas, i submitted two works and they were turned down. no prob. i've been published four times in three issues. it would have been nice but oh well. the criticism was constructive and i'll only Peejaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885745.post-1107096598864472122005-01-30T21:29:00.000+08:002005-01-30T22:49:58.863+08:00vertigo and delusions...
last wednesday i had a surreal trip to st. luke's emergency room. i had started the day off on the wrong unsteady foot struggling to wake up at 530 for my mwf morning date with the Thou at the chapel down the street. at about 645 i was not in any good shape to have breakfast but i trudged on to continue my day in school for a 930am class and a 130pm philo quiz.
but 45 Peejaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885745.post-1102694464765239622004-12-10T23:31:00.000+08:002004-12-11T00:01:04.766+08:00the more things change... the more they st... yeah, the more things change.
goodness gracious. yesterday (thursday) was one of the more embarassing moments in my recent memory...
anyway some back story. i took a basic bahasa course this semester (fyi 1/3 of my subjects this sem.) it was a small class with about 17 people. gender distribution was pretty much equal. i was fortunate to sit in Peejaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885745.post-1101959111957536442004-12-02T11:37:00.000+08:002004-12-02T11:45:11.956+08:00new blog alert.
i'm putting up another blog. it's gonna less to do with my life and more to do with random, off-the-top-of-my-head kind of stuff. less real, more fictional. less wordy? probably not.
link to it at: http://overactive-jackass.blogspot.com . or just quickly click to it in my "Link me to..." menu.
Peejaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885745.post-1101745346097956322004-11-30T01:23:00.000+08:002004-11-30T00:35:40.833+08:00man... about as constructive as a barrel of monkeys and a squeeze tube of mustard...
i have a quiz tomorrow for mandarin and what have i to show for it? nothing.
well not exactly nothing. earlier on i was very diligent in studying. about a week earlier on.
anyway for the past three odd days i was busy. busy cleaning my room and tossing out stuff from my walk-in. busy defragging and disk Peejaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885745.post-1101460456353634122004-11-26T17:12:00.000+08:002004-11-26T17:14:16.356+08:00hello everybody... i'm stuck in martin's lab in ateneo. merong inuman mamaya c/o joe dahil bday niya tomorrow. so here i am. walang magawa so mini-update muna ng blog.
oh and by the way. my car got jacked yesterday. hehe shet dyahe. oh well shit happens. and then there's always a bright side.
Peejaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885745.post-1099673057120524802004-11-06T00:44:00.000+08:002004-11-06T00:44:17.120+08:00hey i'm back.
new sem. new look.
i'm going for a clean-cut, no frills, minimalist look for my blog. i'm thinkinig that i already have a lot going on with all that i'm writing so i doubt anybody has time to go poking around with links and stuff.
however, i am thinking of setting up a blog account outside blogger/blogspot coz i want an account with RSS so i can link it up with my friendster Peejaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885745.post-1095459945127053532004-09-18T06:09:00.000+08:002004-09-18T06:48:10.246+08:00this is a post that's two months late... a year older... 13 lbs. lighter...
amazingly i havent really been up to too much. class. gym. home. i've barely been going out nights, even with the freedom of not having the parentals at home. so what have i been doing? why havent i been updating as much as i usually have before?
i've been sleeping. alot. perhaps, too much.
so now that i think i've Peejaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885745.post-1089124909414030142004-07-06T22:39:00.000+08:002004-07-06T22:41:49.416+08:00this is gonna be short...
it's not even a real entry... it's just to let my readers (hehe) know that this things still up and that i'll be posting something substantial soon.
take care all. come back again soon.Peejaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885745.post-1088340517071901992004-06-27T19:45:00.000+08:002004-06-27T20:48:37.070+08:00long time no update...
2 weeks since i put anything down and 2 weeks of school have passed and what have i been doing? running...
actually, dieting and going to the gym. what for? partly for health but for the most part... vanity.
first, i'd like to confess that i'm not much of a runner. in fact i'm not much of a person who does anything athletic. second, i've consoled myself that i'm a Peejaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885745.post-1087132996609062492004-06-13T20:09:00.000+08:002004-06-13T21:23:16.610+08:00... ang aking damdamin ay pinaglalaruan ng baliw at ng ulan...
tomorrow classes begin. fitting that tonight the rain falls. a signal start to a new season.
today summer ends but tonight i'd love to dwell on the season that was and sift through all the ends and the beginnings before the rain washes them away.
summer was kicked off in grand fashion. my last exam for the year was a night-time Peejaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885745.post-1086710817772346562004-06-08T22:23:00.000+08:002004-06-09T00:17:39.920+08:00separating the men from the boys?
last night i was watching "about a boy" followed up with "sleepless in seattle"... talk about piling on the chick flicks (please excuse my political incorrectness.)
however that last statement could not be farther from the truth.
these were man movies. or rather more appropriately man-and-boy movies. man movies without "the family" or the fast cars or the Peejaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885745.post-1086537942284098402004-06-07T00:05:00.000+08:002004-06-07T00:05:42.283+08:00run for your life? i think not.
the other day i was watching "stark raving mad" on star movies. fyi it's a straight-to-video production with sean william scott (aka stifler of American Pie fame)... i actually liked it... but anyway there was one thing about the movie that jumped out at me.
it was about fear.
backstory: the protagonist (scott) is facing a remarkably difficult - and potentiallyPeejaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885745.post-1086013310901220212004-05-31T21:27:00.000+08:002004-05-31T22:34:24.810+08:00Only after disaster can we be resurrected.
i recently finished reading the original book version of Fight Club (probably my most fave movie ever) by writer Chuck Palahniuk. the first question people would probably ask: which is better, the book or the movie?
two different forms of media should be measured accordingly different. different form = different merits. but i'd rather have read the Peejaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885745.post-1085923401133717182004-05-30T20:55:00.000+08:002004-05-30T21:23:21.133+08:00one week hence...
it's been exactly a week since i last posted... so now i've got a week's worth of bloggable stuff dripping out of my already aching head...
anyway...
i barely remember the start of the week... all i remember is i've been in school to submit summer class's final requirements and it feels good to be finally over with summer class (unfortunately, it also signals summer's end *Peejaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885745.post-1085334375649270002004-05-24T00:45:00.000+08:002004-05-24T01:46:15.650+08:00it's been over a week since i last posted and i thought it's about time. sabi nga ni marjoe mahaba na yung masusulat ko eh... read on and see na lang.
last week my tita died. she's my dad's half-sister and she's 88. first of i'd like to say that i'm not posting this out of some morbid curiosity. this post is nothing more than a reflection...
anyway...
if you think about it no one will really Peejaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885745.post-1084528259602438512004-05-14T17:35:00.000+08:002004-05-14T17:50:59.603+08:00back to old habits.
last night i was up till about 3am. what was i doing until 3am? nothing! just chatting. i tried sneaking in a couple of phrases of a blog but YM beckoned incessantly. that little sound announcing a new message kept drawing me out of my lucid textualization of pure thought. and so for about 5 hours my fingers were preoccupied with activities of the more mundane type (pun Peejaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885745.post-1084466853290948432004-05-13T22:55:00.000+08:002004-05-14T00:47:33.290+08:00Democracy! Responsibility!
last monday i voted. one vote among millions in an effort determine the future of the country.
this evening i voted again. one vote among 12 in an effort to determine the future... the peace and stability... the security... the pest control... of our little town home.
unfortunately where the campaign and voting process of the national elections was civilized and Peejaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885745.post-1084448405310025922004-05-13T19:33:00.000+08:002004-05-13T19:40:05.310+08:00turning over a new leaf?
i've been reading the stuff i've been posting... medyo ang seryoso naman... could it be that time (and maturity) is finally catching up? is it possible that a smart ass jackass like myself has crawled out of my prepubescent-toilet-humor phase? quite possibly... either that or as always i'm just talkin' out of my ass... only time will tell.
anyway good to be home. expectPeejaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885745.post-1084175960661440372004-05-10T15:40:00.000+08:002004-05-10T16:26:34.376+08:00the polls will have been closed by the time i even finish publishing this entry. this is the philippines' umpteenth election. it is my first.
remarkably it was an easier process than i had dreaded it would be. it actually took me longer to get to the place (less than 2km away unfortunately i had to walk) than it was to vote.
remarkably it was a brief yet empowering foray into the life of the Peejaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885745.post-1084119588002632762004-05-10T00:19:00.000+08:002004-05-10T00:37:03.110+08:00question: is honesty all it's cracked up to be?
we've all heard how "it's the best policy" but then again there are people who subscribe to this belief and yet would never admit that there are loopholes even if they knew there were.
here are just two of them:
i.) there are timing issues. say the truth at the right time otherwise it may not be the best option.
ii.) not all people are receptivePeejaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885745.post-1084106516649866522004-05-09T20:41:00.000+08:002004-05-09T20:46:26.966+08:00i'm still struggling to put together a good color scheme for this blog... for those who know me you know how much i need to put together a good palette. this is made more difficult by un-tech-saviness and my selective memory that has un-selected my high school html writing classes...
anyway also just wanted to say: Happy Mothers' Day. Love you, Mom.Peejaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885745.post-1083931684259882072004-05-07T20:08:00.000+08:002004-05-07T20:12:32.263+08:00finally. back in the metro. back in my house. back in my room. back on my own PC. indeed, absence makes the heart grow fonder. anyway it's good to be back even if just for an extended weekend. anyway still not a real post. just an update to keep this site alive. till next time. or till i finally have something smart to say.Peejaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885745.post-1083840954088198162004-05-06T18:30:00.000+08:002004-05-07T20:13:10.543+08:00i've yet to start putting stuff up. i can't do it now coz i'm stuck in an oven that also happens to be an internet place here in the province. the heat is melting my brain. and a toddler just did his business in his shorts. the smell... damn i cant even think of anything witty to say. until next time na lang when i actually start this thing off right (hopefully in the confines of a less-smelly, Peejaynoreply@blogger.com