bury me in this dress

I took the plunge. I hope I won’t regret it in the end.

I settled for this guy.

Fuck! My ipod is officially dead. I thought I was able to somehow resurrect it by defragging the drive. That worked for a while but not anymore. Sad. I reformatted everything, thereby erasing all the songs, in the hopes that the fuck would work. It didn’t. So goodbye mp MP3 collections. Goodbye my 3-year old ipod. It was good while it lasted.

Now I have to save up again to buy a new one :(

I’m so disappointed to learn that this photo of A.I. contestants Chris Richardson and Blake is shooped.

That totally destroyed my gay wishes for the two of them. Hmmp.

I want to upload some mp3s to my ipod but it can’t be detected on my computers anymore. It’s still working cos I can play the stored mp3s but I wouldn’t upload new ones. Damn this ipod. It’s quite old. It’s a 4th generation model so no color or video. But I really want to upload new tunes. I wonder if it can still be fixed. *sigh* I don’t have money to buy a new one and I don’t really want to change it because of all the mp3s in it. Sucks!

It’s Holy Week in the Philippines and most of the country is calm and quiet. Well that’s what I think because I’m stuck at home since the family decided to just stay here to avoid expenses since we’re saving up for a trip to Thailand this May. I don’t really mind staying at home since there’s always cable TV, internet, and DVDs for entertainment.

I invited some friends from the depression mailing list to an overnight stay in Fontana (Clark) but there were only 4 of us plus the driver. I had fun anyway. I loved the buffet dinner we had, our viewing of Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, and story telling until 6 am the next day. My friends went for a swim but I just slept. I prefer sleeping and I needed it. I think they had fun. At least I hope they did.

I still have fun during our classes in Fashion Institute of the Philippines. The teachers are great and very nice although they love to gossip about people in the industry. Scary. What would they say about me WHEN I become famous. Ha! Anyway, John gives us lots of homeworks so I have to do that during the vacation.

I need to make money. Lots of money. I want to buy stuff I can sell from Thailand. I’m selling some of my beloved books out of desperation. The price is quite high so I still haven’t sold a single book. Boo. How come the resale value of once-read books so low? Is it the same in other countries? I mean, I spent a lot of money for those books and they’re still in great condition. So how come there are no takers?!

Hmm it’s late. I was planning to watch DVDs but I’m sleepy now. Tsk.

Stupid Wordpress plugins! I was blocked from posting IN MY OWN JOURNAL because, according to CBL (whatever that is), I have a virus, trojan, or a malware. Doi! I’m on a mac and I have an antivirus too. I use the wifi I installed in our house so maybe the virus or whatever is on the Windows computers here. Did I mention before that I hate Windows? No? Well I do especially now!

Ugh. I feel like I’m bleeding to death which I am. Well, not to death but the bleeding is true. Female problems. I hate getting my period. At least now I know why I’m depressed.

I was supposed to go to my shrink earlier today but I canceled because of the damn bleeding. I also didn’t see the point in going anymore since I know the cause of my being emotional lately. I told the secretary I will try to go next week and I’m still planning to. Hopefully this bothersome problem would be gone by then.

Tomorrow I’ll go see my OB-Gyne. Not at all pleasant since I haven’t gone back for more than a year and I expect that she will reprimand me. I really have to go though and it’s about time.

Moving on to more pleasant and appealing news. I was shocked to receive a friendster message from a former crush. I blogged about his marriage and was kinda whining about it. I never really met him personally so the message was an extra shock. Kinda embarrassing but I was asking for it since I mentioned his name over and over. Hehehe. Well he just said that he read my blog and he found it amusing. Yeah, embarrassing but I’m also amused. *sigh* I still think he’s awfully cute. Better shut my trap now.

Nothing much to write about. I’ve been badly neglecting this blog. Tsk. I’ll try to write more often but nothing much is happening in my life. At least nothing interesting to write about.

Anyhoooo, I hurt my right arm last Monday so I was in pain for several days. I’m not sure what really caused it but I suspect it’s my ridiculously heavy bag. I bring it everywhere with me and it’s messy inside as hell. I’m not even sure what’s inside anymore. The contents as I recall:

• Small Moleskine notebook (yeah, I’m pretentious)
• Hairbrush
• Long wallet heavy with coins, not paper bills
• Small wallet (the Anna Sui I won from yahoo japan!) with emergency money and some credit cards
• Benefit Glamourette
• Parker pen for more pretention
• A regular gel pen
• Valda Pastilles
• Bath & Body Works hand sanitizer
• Foldable fan
• Numerous lipsticks
• Jim Thompson mirror I bought from my trip in Thailand
• My small Nanette Lepore perfume
• Small bottle of Tylenol
• My cellphone
• Anna Sui sunglasses with case

I think that’s it. Not much so much so I have no idea why it’s so heavy. My mom has more stuff in her bag but it’s not as heavy as mine. I’m sure it’s not the bag itself cos whatever bag I use regardless of material and weight, the whole thing is just heavier than normal.

My arm is kinda okay now after having it massaged by a professional masseuse but now my left arm is beginning to act up. Ugh.

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I was watching tv last night, I think it was an E! Entertainment show, and it was mentioned that Heathers 2 is in the works. Hurray! I loved Heathers and I can’t wait for this sequel. According to Entertainment Wise, Christian Slater and Wynona Rider have already signed up for the movie. Also, the original director, Daniel Walters, is writing the script and might even direct it. Great. I just hope the film wouldn’t suck as most sequels do. I want to have a copy of Heathers DVD but I have too many DVDs here which I haven’t watched yet.

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I’m selling a lot of cute stuff on my online shop. Right now I’m accepting pre-orders for the cell phone accessories. They’re all from Japan and oh so cute! The deadline is on February 10 for pre-orders. Visit the shop at misseerie.multiply.com and add me if you have Multiply. I know my price is expensive but shipping and customs will be a killer. BTW, my stuff are only for Philippine buyers only. Sorry, my online foreign friends. I’m still selling stuff on ebay.ph and the sales are pretty good. Nice hobby, eh?

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I’m pining for a Gloomy Bear plushie. I would even settle for knock-offs but of course, I prefer the original ones from Japan. Damn obsessions! I know that buying one is a waste of money but I love it! My friend used to sell knock-off plushies but his store has closed already. Too bad for me. Boo!

Sorry for the unexpected hiatus. I was sick last week with the flu. I was also absent from work for 3 days. A few things have changed since I last wrote here. I’ll try to them as I write this post.

I don’t think I ever mentioned this but a couple of weeks ago, I fell in love with a pink Anna Sui bag. The initial price is cheap. I think it was 800 pesos. I don’t remember if I was the first one to bid but another girl was wanted the bag too so for several days, we tried to outbid each other. I placed my maximum bid to 2,500. I don’t recall why I was sleepy. Maybe from lack of sleep or I was feeling sick. But I slept early. Like 10 PM. Can you believe that?! 10 PM!!!! So okay, when I checked my mail the next day, I found out I lost the bag. The bitch stole my bag for P2,700. Waaaah! So now I am still obsessed with that bag. In my desperation, I tried to find Ebay Japan but that doesn’t exist. There’s Yahoo Japan though but the site is in Japanese and I found out that the Japanese don’t really like selling to gaijins like me. So I googled for Japan auctions and learned that there are websites which offer bidding services for gaijins who want something from Yahoo Japan. I found a good one, japanauctioncenter.com which offers the service at a cheaper rate than their competitions. I joined the site and deposited a couple thousand of pesos. I saw bags like the one I lost in ebay.ph but they were brand new and expensive. I’ll keep on waiting for a good deal for that bag but for now, I still bid on other Anna Sui products. I actually won a nice wallet. I’m still crossing my fingers for the bag. It’s just like the bag in the photo here except it was pink.

I have 2 Anna Sui bags now which I won on ebay.ph. They’re not as nice as the one I wanted but what can I do?

I am working on a new project. It’s web-related and it’s looking good. I’ll keep that a secret for now.

I just remembered that my driver’s license is expired and I need to renew it. Gah. It expired last Nov. 26. I have to pay penalty fee for not renewing it in the proper time.

I ordered Absolutely Fabulous 1 to 3 and Degrassi Junior High the complete collection on Amazon and I got the DVDs last week. I haven’t started watching them though. Hopefully I’ll find time to watch during the short xmas holiday.

I’m so pretentious. I got myself a moleskine notebook and a large moleskine sketchbook. For those not in the know, moleskine is the brand of notebook Hemmingway, Van Gogh, Picasso, and other brilliant people used. This is what I get from hanging out in philmug.ph. Moleskine.ph overcharges those damn notebooks but I still ordered from the owner who is a philmug regular. It’s just a damn notebook but I’ll keep the illusion that I’m brilliant too because they are expensive. I just got them but I ordered last month. Damn longbeard (the seller). I’m still happy with the purchase though.

I already mentioned about the ibook I have. Well, I bought a bag for it. It’s a Samsonite laptop backpack but it’s way cheaper than the bag I saw in the Samsonite store. I bought mine from istudio in Greenhills. I also bought a…I don’t know what they’re called but they’re stands for the laptop and it’s spherical in shape. That one is expensive but it’s serving me well. I overspent my shopping that day because I also ended up buying an Edifier speaker for my ipod. It’s cheaper than the other good speakers I saw before so I took one.

Great. Most of my activities involve spending. What about me getting money? I hope I didn’t lose any of my regular readers with this update. I would also like to pass around my patented tin can with class? Funds are low once again and sprinking a few $$$ my way would cheer me up in time for the holidays :D

I’m too sleepy now. I could hardly keep my eyes open. Please be generous while I sleep. I’ll post again about the changes in my life when I find time at work.