The joys of being sick during your sick leave

Are actually zilch. Harhar.

However, there is actually one thing that I appreciate when I am literally excreting my lungs out through diseased air molecules: I am slowing down.

I just turned 23 this month, and the pressure to perform beyond stellar expectations has been performing the limbo rock on my flat, flat head.

So what did I do during my extended weekend? As the virus ravished this defenseless lump of flesh (germs can be so sexy), I was laughing my ass off watching Seinfeld and The Office. Talk about reflexivity in SitComs. Laughter may have not been the best medicine, since I cannot swallow anything bigger than a grain of rice after.

Kamakailan lamang ay mas lalo kong napapahalagahan ang aming mga aso sa bahay, lalo na tuwing lalapit sila sa akin matapos kong magtaray. Nakakabugnot naman kasi talaga kapag maysakit ka: bawal kang lumabas ng bahay, bawal mamasyal sa perya (oo, nagpupunta ako sa ganun), bawal mamili ng dvd, bawal mag-drive, at kung anu-ano pang maaaring ipagbawal ng Bathala.

Walang pakialam ang mga aso kahit hinihika na ako, kahit sumasabog ang kung anu-anong near-carcinogenic stuff sa ere. Palagi silang andun, naka-tanga’t nakatitig. Akala siguro tinatawag ko sila: kumakahol na ako tuwing pakiramdam ko ay kinakahig ang aking baga’t lalamunan.

Dahil nga kakaiba ang trabaho, hindi ko agad nakuha ang aking birthday leave. Kukunin ko siya sa Lunes.

Tinanong ako ni Lizzie kung ano ang gagawin ko sa araw na iyon, at sinabi ko na lang,

“Matutulog. Matutulog nang matutulog.”

Panawagan

Guys,

If you're planning to buy from or eat at McDo for the next few weeks, kindly give me a call I'd like to ask a favor:

Pabili naman po ng Snoopy nila na Happy Meal.:)

Just text me na lang at 09178397354. Meron na ako nung parang air balloon. Will pay P30 per Snoopy.

Please help the kid with the addiction.:) Thank you!

Of LSS

List five songs that you are currently digging - it doesn't matter what genre they are from, whether they have words, or even if they'renot any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying right now.

Post these instructions and the five songs (with artist) in your blog. Then tag five people to see what they're listening to.

(Si Philip kasi e.)

Summerwind by Frank Sinatra

Vertigo by U2

Roxie by Renee Zellweger (Chicago OST)

The Only Gay in the Village by Spencer Liam

King of Pain by Sting

A matter of choice

Tama si Philip.

It is now a matter of choosing what is right, and what is easy.

Just before my 23rd.

Yes, my 23rd birthday. I am turning 23 tomorrow.

Recently, I have been riddled with questions on what I am supposed to do.

For me, the answers are obvious. On the other hand, actually moving my butt to do what I want is not as easy.

Andyan na, e. Mahirap lang... abutin.

Listening to:

• Gypsy Kings (and I am learning I only have a certain threshold to listen to fancy Spanish music)
• Jamiroquai
• Billy Joel
• Beck
• Vince Guaraldi

Thanks to my new 256 MMC.

If I could afford an MMC, then I should rethink my priorities. :p

I may have found the perfect course: media and market research in one. Unfortunately, the campus is in Taft, and the workload may necessitate me to quit work and concentrate on my studies.

This I simply cannot do.

Hay, naku. Think happy thoughts.:)

Pick me!

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In the name of the Father, Son, and Semiotics.

Academic takes PhD in art of air guitar
By Amy Iggulden
(Filed: 02/08/2005)

The first academic study into the sweaty pursuit of air guitar playing is to use the work of French philosophers to explain why men and women do it differently.

Doctoral research has begun under the supervision of Britain's first professor of pop music, who is also overseeing a PhD into the art of "moshing", the vigorous head-shaking dance popular among concert crowds.


The study will try and answer why men and women play differently
For the next three years, Amanda Griffiths, 32, a dance teacher from north Wales, will attempt to explain, in 60,000 words, why the attractions of an invisible guitar are generally overlooked by women, and how the girls who get involved do it differently.

To do so, she will use the complex arguments of French post-structuralist theorists such as Michel Foucault and Marxists such as Roland Barthes.

Miss Griffiths, who is funding her research at a cost of about £10,000, said: "The time seems right for a cultural study of phenomenon, because there is a very hardcore air guitar scene that has been bubbling away for years. But as a feminist I am interested in why there are so few women at events."

Her work, one of the subtitles of which is "air guitar: celebrating the fakeness of the inauthentic", has come to the attention of the organisers of the World Air Guitar Championships, and she has been invited to address a training camp for competition entrants in Finland this month.

Britain created the first world record for an air guitar ensemble when more than 4,000 people flailed along to Sweet Child o' Mine by the heavy metal band Guns 'n' Roses at the Guildford Festival in Surrey last month.

But Miss Griffiths's interest grew after she entered a regional air guitar competition on the eve of her 30th birthday two years ago.

Her unusual PhD was suggested by Prof Sheila Whiteley, chair of pop music at the University of Salford, whom she met on Radio 4's Woman's Hour, who has also overseen PhD studies into "post-anarcho punk" and heavy metal music.

Yey!

Hihihi.:)