cigarette_girl

The other day I went to Gilmore (and I know this is Gilmore because LRT 2 said so) and applied for my international driver's license.  A totally pointless thing to do I've been told, as MY philippine license is valid in the US for up to six months anyway.  BUT person-in-charge says I have to get one, so meh.

The whole thing was over pretty quick, so it really wasn't so bad.  Except for the fact that you hafta pay Php1,800 for the whole processing.  Potential shopping money lost!  There were only two windows to work on.  First window is where you submit your shit.  Second window is where you claim and pay for your license.

Ta-da!  My license!

which is better: hot pink hair, or as a locoroco?

*photos edited by teh boyfie <3

miyuchi

TIME

is in the center of everything.

“I was born under unusual circumstances.”

And so begins “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: A man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. From New Orleans at the end of World War I in 1918, into the 21st century, on a journey as unusual as any man’s life can be, the film tells the grand tale of a not so ordinary man and the people and places he discovers along the way, the loves he finds and loses, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.

Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures Present A Kennedy/Marshall Production A David Fincher Film, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson, Julia Ormond, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas and Tilda Swinton. The film is directed by David Fincher. The screenplay is by Eric Roth, with screen story by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord, based on the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The producers are Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Ceán Chaffin.  The behind-the-scenes team is led by director of photography Claudio Miranda, production designer Donald Graham Burt, editors Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall, and costume designer Jacqueline West. The music is by Alexandre Desplat.

I was one of the lucky people who got invites from Az to get tickets for the advance screening of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Benjamin Button's many love

The movie has the same director as that of Se7en and Fight Club, and it's surprising how this movie seems to be their complete opposite.  It was full of picturesque sceneries, relaxing colors of yellows and browns, and beautiful people.  While there were no memorable lines to remember, the shots seemed to be perfect.  It was a story about Benjamin's life, how he dealt with growing backwards, and more specifically how other people in his life dealt with it.  It would be interesting to know how we deal with growing old, and dying.  The movie took its own sweet time showing these, almost three hours actually.

Lookie! It's Dakota Fanning's sister!

So now I have stupid question: did the Button family chose button-making as a family business because their last name is Button, or did they chose Button as a family name cos they want to make buttons?

Today, I refused to jog with my mother.

It's not that I am lazy to get up 5:30 am or 6 am but it's this girl thing that unleashed my slothiness. So I went back to sleep, ate my breakfast at 7am and started molesting my inanimate friend. He stood when he's hung and sported a white and black attire complete with a poor looking gig bag. So I played him for hours. I played while listening to The Killers' Mr. Brightside. I played while listening to our myspace. I played until my palms became sweaty, until I got tired of it, until I broke the 6th string.

Yesterday, I told them I'll be working on something today.

So they approved my leave and I stayed home and watched porn. Yes,  crappy youtube posts are considered porn. There were good ones and they weren't porn. And I enjoyed them. No, not the porn.

I'm running out of sensible posts, again, lately.

Tomorrow, I will go back to work, take calls and won't watch porn.

Next week, maybe.

tabulas

For patron accounts, I've added one new feature: linkbacks. Any time a Tabulas user posts an entry that links to a particular entry of yours, you'll see it appear in the comment view of a page. This will help you discover who's talking about your entries on Tabulas, and it is a way to encourage you to link to other's posts as well!

I've also started processing Tabulas entries for the "Related" entries feature - for those of you who don't know, this is a magical feature which will try to find "related" entries that you've written. Sometimes it's accurate, sometimes it's not. But it's fun to see what entries will show up

Related entries are processed nightly, so you may have to wait a bit to get related entries. All patron account should have had their entries processed, though.

cigarette_girl

Been purging the bookshelf again for more books to giveaway (or sell, although, I've yet to see buyers).  I've already cut the book stuff in half last year.  But I'm still left with alot.  While there are a few books I will never ever give away, I do have some now that I'm willing to part with.

Hence, a book contest!

Some of these books are in really good condition (most are wrapped in plastic cover), while others are in a pretty bad shape (specifically The DaVinci Code) mainly cos I got them second hand that way.  No lost pages or anything that horrible though.

(The Book List)

Here are the rules:

1.  Pick any book you like from the list.

2.  Write in your blog why you want that book.

3.  Include in your blog post the words cigarette-girl with a link back to my site: http://cigarette-girl.com

4.  Leave the link to your post in the comment section, and your email address.

5.  Once somebody posted an entry for book A, I start counting 5 days, and if no else posts an entry for it, then it's yours.  If another person wants the book though, I check which one has a nicer entry and give it to the winner.

I have one condition though:  You have to be living in metro manila cos I'll just be handing you the book.  I'm too lazy to do postal.  Sorry.

I will inform the winner through email.  I'll be crossing-out books from the list as soon as somebody won it.  Contest will run all throughout the month of January until there are no books left or I'm gone, whichever comes first.

p.s. books with ♥ means that somebody wrote something about it already.

miyuchi

I found these kittens beside the road on my way to our house in Boni. They are new born babies but I couldn't find their mother anywhere. And I'm pretty sure they are not anyone's pet.

Well, what can I say? I have a soft heart for babies, whether that be animals or people.

Okay, except for baby lizards or cockroaches...no. No pests please.

Anyway, I just randomly called them AOI and URUHA. Then the kids playing outside our house, who were as fascinated with the kittens as me, told me they were both male.

XDDD

Yes, my fujoshi-mama-self is grandously happy. 8D

Ahhh~ I hope the mama-cat here would not eat them. The kids told me she's pregnant. She might snap at the whailing kittens and make them dinner. X.x Oh god noooo....

Yes, they are now warm in a shoe box provided by the kids and my old panty.

HEEEEEY~ I don't have anything to give them as blankets! For the mean time, they have to settle with them. They are washed anyway~

Uru...Aoi...please grow up healthy, ne?

miyuchi

ahahah~ yes, I was a big fan.

I remember snagging all my father's remote controls and aligned them at both sides of me while I lie down on the bed, then I use them to 'control' my imaginary story.

Lol.
I remember my father looking for the remote control and having that amused look on his face when I handed the VHS, betamax, TV and stereo remotes to him when I heard him asking for them to my grandmother.

Ah~ then today I remember Control again of the movie "Batang X" when I had both my persocoms running simultaneously.

Feels COOOOOL 8D

Ahhh~ youth.