ears

You Communicate With Your Ears

You love conversations, both as a listener and a talker. What people say is important to you, and you're often most affected by words, not actions. You love to hear complements from others. And when you're upset, you often talk to yourself. Music is very important to you. It's difficult to find you without your iPod.

How Do You Communicate?

the disappearing cockroaches

it happened twice already.
and i need enlightenment.

i have this thing against cockroaches. kill. kill. kill.
so anyway.

i've lived in this house for a little more than a month and i've killed 2 cockroaches in my room. (yeah, gross. they enter through the space between the floor and the door.. aargh.) i swear the house is clean, the maids clean all the time. but it's too open. if you know what i'm talking about. anyway. that's not important in this story.
the first one, i had trouble killing, as it was the flying kind. the second one, it was dead in 5 seconds after 5 hits.hahaha

so, since it's past 12 when these cockroach murders happen, i do not like going down to get a broom just to sweep them dead creatures out. because hey, i can do that in the morning.

so here's the thing.

the first time it happened.

i woke up, checked underneath the slipper, ready to sweepsweep the dead thing. and lo and behold. it was gone.
i woke up a bit late, so i figured, maybe the maid came in to clean up?
it wasn't a strong suspicion, but it wasn't entirely impossible either. i let it pass.
after all, i was glad i didn't have to clean up anymore.

the second time it happened.

i killed the poor thing at around 3 in the morning.
i double locked the door. meaning i locked the knob, and locked the (i don't know how you call it) chain bolt thingy.
and then i went to sleep, leaving the dead thing on the floor.

i woke up at around 8 the next morning.
waah, it was gone. without a trace. just like that.
and it couldn't have been a human body that took it. i double locked remember?

so the question is
do mice eat cockroaches? (i'm thinking maybe there are mice in this house? eeeeep, no!!)
do lizards eat cockroaches?
can ants take away whole cockroaches in say 4 to 5 hours?
or could it have been some mysterious ghost or mumu who took my bloody cockroach sacrifice?

i am so lost.
if anyone can enlighten me.
please.

i think the next time i kill something, i'll stay up all night just to see what happens.
and then i can sleep in peace.

perfect love

“And then she tells me about one of his ideas, an adaptation of the invisible man: one day the invisible man, exhausted by having to play all the double games, hides in a store case to cry about his solitude. People pass by without seeing him. But one woman stops and comforts him: she is blind. What follows is a love story between the invisible man and the blind woman. They flee in a small boat. You see the oars moaning by themselves and the woman in the front, her face turned toward the horizon. This is the last shot.”

- I forgot the source! Waah. I just wrote it down some time ago. Found it really interesting =)

by far, the most romantic thing ever

“Why do people marry?”

“Because we need a witness to our lives. There are one million people on the planet. What does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you’re promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things. All of it, everything, everyday. You’re saying, ‘your life won’t go unnoticed ‘cause I will be your witness.”

• from the movie, “Shall We Dance”

yza: i know. i'm not getting married anywhere in the near future. but hearing this really makes me actually look forward to it. for about a minute. haha

buhay broadcomm

What I love about working in television productions is that you can never produce a show alone. I still get anxious before all my productions, and the anxiety doubles when I crew for someone else(especially when it means sitting in front of any console, haha). It's not just because it's not my grade on the line, but more because they trust me to do my job. Because how each crew member handles his job would make or break the production. And it sucks when it could have been perfect if it weren't for that little screw up that just happened to be my fault.

Looking ahead, I may not end up working for the broadcast media industry. But taking up all these production classes aren't worthless in any way at all. Despite being a nervous wreck before(while desperately trying to complete all the necessary preparations -OBBs/CBBs, VTR inserts, set design and props, scripts!, music, chasing after interviewees/talents, rehearsals, etc etc etc), during(while being constantly bothered by the fact that something may go wrong, or that I may freeze in the middle of it all) and after each production(while waiting for the grade, and the nasty-haha-comments of the profs), I'd still say that production work is so worth it.

It's where no one can survive alone, and every single person's job is crucial to the output. It's where everyone learns (or is forced) to trust everyone else, because not to trust is the start of your downfall. It's where you learn to order everyone around with niceness - if you don't want everyone talking behind your back about how you were such an ass, or worse.

In every production, there is a potential for fights(cat fights, fist fights - which I have yet to see,haha), misunderstandings(this, I've seen a lot of), and blackmail(lol). But since my batch mates seem to all be peace loving (eh?), the whole ride has been fun and exciting.

One more year of college, and it's all over. By then I'll have to decide whether or not I'll be doing this production thing for the rest of my life. But before that time comes, I still have a year's worth of productions ahead of me. And a thesis and internships(both TV and radio) to boot.

I'm no psychic, but something is telling me that this year is gonna be exciting. =)

the nanny diaries

Category: books
Genre: literature and fiction
Authors: Emma Mclaughlin and Nicola Kraus

I used to be a "Baby Sitters' Club" addict. So when I spotted this book at the bookstore, I had to buy it. And I did. And I'm so glad I did.

So anyway.
The story is simple. A nanny, named, well, Nanny, works for a certain Mr. and Mrs. X (nice names?) They are a rich Manhattan couple, and Nanny is to watch over their darling 4-year old son, Grayer. Nanny does that, and more.
So basically, we see in the novel, how the upper class New York couples raise their children. They don't. I have no idea if these things happen in real life, but that's the least of my worries. This book is a funny, witty peek into the high-end, pretentious lives of New York's rich. A peek, through the eyes of an overworked, underpaid nanny who gets more than enough of her dose of lavender water, music and French and all possible after-school classes, philandering husbands, and outrageous Teletubbie costumes.
A laugh-out-loud read, and one that's so hard to put down ;)
Oh yeah, on the job, Nanny meets a hot Harvard boylet, so you definitely get a dose of kilig too =D
Light light read that's good for the summer.

And a movie version is coming soon, so read up!
Scarlett Johansson (i love!) is playing Grayer's nanny, so it should be good.
Can't wait.

today is where your book begins

"Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten"