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The first book of the Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer is going to have a film version which will be shown at the end of this year. I’m addicted to the books and there’s a big chance that I might get disappointed with the film version. I mean, in my imagination, the Cullens and Bella Swan look so much different from the actors chosen to portray them. Hmm, actually I’m pretty sure I’ll be disappointed with the film just like I was disappointed with the Harry Potter and Bridget Jones movies. Still, I will watch Twilight on the big screen if it gets released in the Philippines.

Robert Pattinson (Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter) was cast as Edward Cullen. He’s handsome but my imagined Edward Cullen is dreamier. Now that I’ve seen the trailer and some video clips, my imagined Edward is gone and is now replaced by Pattinson. Oh well. I can’t really do anything about it.

Here’s a video about the cast of the movie.

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A while back, pinoytwitter picked me as erm…twitterer of the week. They said that they’ll send me a gift but they never communicated with me about it. Hmmmm.

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My aunt forwarded this to me a few minutes ago. Nobody knows if this is what in Neri’s mind so read this with a grain of salt.

Here’s the secret testimony of Jun Lozada on what Neri is afraid to tell the public.

Lozada wrote this in Oct. 2007 and gave a co-IT Engr. Vicente Romano III leaving it to Romano when to divulge as he deems right.

For Immediate Release
Contact: Vicente R. Romano III, 0920.9615610
Leah Navarro, 0917.898.1957

Dear Friends,

Here’s a short write-up that Jun Lozada wrote sometime in October. He wanted me to disseminate it without attribution. I believe he was motivated both by his genuine concern for a beleaguered friend who was being maligned no end, and his desire, even then, for the truth to somehow surface. He left it up to me as to how and when to disseminate it.

I did not find any compelling reason to get it out then. But now that Jun has told it all, and Neri is being invited back to testify, I believe the public deserves to know what was (and maybe still is) in the mind of Neri – at least from the point of view of a friend. I’m sure Jun will not mind.

Let’s get this out in the open.
God bless,
Enteng

What is Neri afraid to say and Why?

Many speculations have been made as to what Neri knows about the ZTE-NBN most particularly the direct involvement of Pres. Gloria Arroyo in this abominable affair. After his damaging “Sec. May 200 ka dito” demolition of Abalos, the discredited former Comelec Chairman, many were  left disappointed when Neri  suddenly clamped up when the Senators started asking him about the nature of his conversation with Arroyo, no amount of coaxing, cajoling and threats was enough to break his Code of Omerta. The question on many people’s mind was, What was Neri trying to protect when he repeatedly invoked “Executive Priviledge” during that gruelling 12 hour Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing on live television?
We have known the Truth all along as one of the few people that Neri confided his predicament during those fateful days of April 2006, and how he wanted to resign his post of NEDA Director General and Secretary for Socio-Economic Planning over this incident where he lost all his moral respect for Pres. Gloria Arroyo.
We are doing this document to give the public an understanding of this predicament.

What is Neri afraid to tell the public? He is afraid to tell the public that after he reported the Abalos P200 million peso bribe offer, Arroyo casually told him to ignore it and work for its recommendation for approval anyway. That when he protested that it is too controversial and may attract the wrong kind of attention from media, Arroyo retorted back “Pakulo lang ni Joey yan and his father”. When he tried to reason that it may not be accommodated in the Chinese ODA package because it has been filled up with a list of projects already,

I am so behind the trends in the blogosphere (is this the correct term even?!). I just recently discovered what SEO means (Search Engine Optimization) but I honestly don’t know how that works. I also don’t care. I just know that SEO brings in the big bucks when it comes to blogging. There are so many blog owners who are earning some $$$ from their blogs. I still haven’t seen a single cent from THIS blog even though I have a paypal tin can and I add those stupid survey banners in some posts. Adsense didn’t work for me so I removed them. I am considering joining pay per post but I keep on having second thoughts since that would defeat the purpose of me having a personal journal of sorts. I do want to make monies. Lots of them. I just don’t want my blog to be so commercial and littered with ads.

My webhost screwed up big time last December 29. The server where my blog was hosted crashed and they were only able to revert my entries up to last Dec. 19. I only had backup up to Dec. 21 so all my entries after that date got lost. They are gone gone gone. I won’t dwell on it anymore but I hope that doesn’t happen again.

I wasn’t able to blog a standard “Merry Xmas Happy New Year” post so belated MERRY XMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR! 2007 was good to me, at least the latter part of the year. I was able to reconnect with old friends as well as gain new ones. I won’t assume that 2008 would be as good or even better for me so let’s just see how it goes.

I started the year with flu but it’s alright since I think what caused it mostly is my gimmicks almost every night. I spent New Year’s eve with my family at Shang Makati (like last year) but it was boring. I met a really interesting person though. He’s my uncle’s friend and he’s super rich. He’s also gay I think. He talked a lot and his stories fascinated me. The good thing about him is that even though he’s filthy rich, he doesn’t really brag about it. Well, at least not during my encounter with him. Anyway, I expect that things would go back to “normal” again and I wouldn’t be able to party like I did during the holidays.

BTW, the photo in this entry was taken by me. It’s so purrty.

I spent hours early this morning trying to make mp3 plugins to work for my wordpress. I just don’t get why they don’t. What the fuck is wrong with my wordpress?! The mp3 problem was even in my dream but in the dream, the mp3’s were working fine! Again, suggestions, links to help sites, and plugin help will be much appreciated.

Maybe someone who’s more knowledgeable with Wordpress themes can help me. I just couldn’t figure out how to make a separate links page. I have links.php in my theme’s folder but when I try to call it by typing the address on the browser’s addy bar, it won’t load cos “it doesn’t exist”. I am confused. Heniway, I’m trying to organize my blog links. I keep on forgetting to add the blogs I read because I automatically just subscribe to the feeds and forget to blog link. Feh.

I have been so busy lately. It’s only today that I got a breather but the following days will be hectic too. Sorry if I haven’t got the chance to answer personal emails yet. I will when this is all over.