It's that Freaking Baby's fault!

I originally started this blog because I was encouraged by my friends and co-workers to start one so that we can all have someplace to post our drawings and view each others' works. See, we intended to do something called the 30-Day Drawing. For 30 consecutive days we were supposed to make a drawing based on the list of subjects/themes on the list.



I was doing quite well during the first five or so days I regularly finished and posted a drawing here on my blog. The next four drawings I finished every other day... and then finally, drawing number 11. That's where it all stopped. The subject? Draw a freaking baby.

this was literally what I felt like!

How was I supposed to draw a freaking baby??! I don't know how to draw a human face (see my Day #10, old man... it's more cartoony than "old man"... oh wait, I'm yet to upload that...) much less a freaking baby. What is a freaking baby in the first place?? What constitutes a freaking baby? Does it look like a freaky alien monster, or something... like these...?

This was I had in mind! But I could never put that in drawing!

Another interpretation of "freaking".

Just had to add this one.. LOL

This one too... =D aren't they cute...!

Hmmm... now this one's giving me an idea...

It's funny but I'm totally stressed about this thing! hahahaha! 


Oh yeah.. speaking of the 30-Day Drawing Challenge, I seriously doubt that any of my friends finished theirs too!

So there, I'm blaming the freaking baby why I stopped posting in this blog for a while. Now I'll be posting again! :) I'm encourages to start posting again because I want to catch up on some reading. One of my Tombie friends is one heck of a writer and she's posting her work here in blogspot. I've been busy catching up on work lately and I couldn't read her posts as often or as soon as I would want to, so I'm logging in here again in order to keep tabs on her posts... hi there Chrissy! :)


Everyone have a wonderful day! 

I Have Communication Problems

1. The purpose of my cell phone is for my family to contact me when I'm out of the house.

2. I'm deathly afraid of some emails.

3. I write for a living. 

4. I often go invisible.

5. My employers just got frustrated with me.

6. Emoticons are forever present in my FB comments.

7. I converse freely on chat than in person.

8. I don't always complete my sentences when I speak.

9. My sister is often fooled into thinking that I have something else to add to whatever it is I'm telling her. She'd lean forward and say, "...and?" and I say, "That's it."

10. I can always think of a better way of saying things... after I've said them.

=]

Favorite Movie Quotes: The Mirror Has Two Faces

Any romantic at heart will have watched this film and declared it one of their favorites. =) This is the first, and so far the only, sweet, heartbreaking, heartwarming and genuinely funny love story on film for me.

It's just unique! Although I find Jeff Bridges's character to be a bit of a wuss, Barbra Streisand's endearing portrayal of Rose was more than enough to for me to leave him be (normally I'd be bashing characters like George and squashing him to a pulp, but that's not the point of this blog =P ).

Would you believe that much as I love this movie, I've only ever seen it twice---the latest was because my sister finally ripped open the wrapping of the VCD I bought last Christmas. During the years that spanned the gap between those two viewings, the movie kept coming back to me and I could even vaguely remember so many of its scenes. Of course, there's also the movie's theme song "I've Finally Found Someone".

So now for my favorite movie quote... it's not just a quote, actually. It's the entire discussion Rose gave  her students about L-O-V-E. The first time I saw the movie and heard this part, I remember saying "Wow."


"So this is the scene of my sister's wedding. There she is, getting drunk, regretting she ever got married---for the third time, mind you. My mother's so jealous she's sprouting snakes from her hair, and I'm thinking: this is perfect. We've got three feminine archetypes here: the divine whore (excuse me), Medusa, and me. Who am I, what archetype? Trevor?"


"Virgin Mary?"


"Thanks a lot, Trevor! No; the faithful handmaiden. Always the bridesmaid, never the bride. It does prove, however, what Young (?) said all along that myths and archetypes are alive and well---and living in my apartment.
As i stood at the altar beside my sister and her husband to be, it struck me that this ritual called a wedding ceremony is really just the final scene of a fairy tale. They never tell you what happens after. The never tell you that Cinderella drove the Prince crazy with her obsessive need to clean the castle (cause she missed her day job, right?). No, they don't tell us what happens after because...there is no after. The be-all and end-all of romantic love was... Mike?"


"Uh, sex?"


"(laughter) Mike! Sex on the brain Mike! (calls another) Yes?" 

"Marriage."


"Marriage, that's right. But it wasn't always like that. Around the 12th century there was a notion called courtly love where love had nothing to do with marriage and nothing to do with sex. In most cases it was defined as a passionate relationship between a knight and a lady of the court who was already married; and so they could never consummate their love.
In this way they would have to rise above your ordinary, you know, going to the bathroom in front of each other kind of love, and they would go after something more divine. They took sex out of the equation and what was left was a union of souls.
Now think of this: sex was always the fatal love potion. Look at the literature of the time: Lancelot and Guinevere, Tristan and Isolde. All consummation could lead to was madness, despair or death! Clinical experts, scholars and my Aunt Esther are united in the belief that true love has spiritual dimensions, while romantic love is nothing but a lie, an illusion. A modern myth. A soulless manipulation.
Speaking of manipulation, it's like going to the movies and we see the lovers on screen kiss, and the music swells, and we buy it, right? So when my date takes me home and kisses me goodnight, if I don't hear the philharmonic in my head, I dump him!

Now the question is: Why do we buy it?
We buy it because whether it's a myth or a manipulation, let's face it: we all want to fall in love. Why? Because that experience makes us feel completely alive! Where every sense is heightened, every emotions magnified, where our everyday reality is shattered, flung into the heavens! It may only last a moment, an hour, an afternoon... but it doesn't diminish its value. Because we're left with memories that we treasure for the rest of our lives. 
I read an article a while ago that says when we fall in love we hear Puccini in our heads. I love that. I think it's because his music fully expresses our longing for passion in our lives and romantic love. And while we listen to La Boheme or Torindo (?) or reading Wuthering Heights or watching Casa Blanca, a little bit of that love lives in us too.
So the final question is: Why do people want to fall in love? When it can have such short shelf life and be devastatingly painful, what do you think? Stacey?"


"It leads to the propagation of the species?" "Hmm.. Ren?"


"Psychologically, we need to connect to somebody." "Could be. Jill?"


"Because we're culturally pre-conditioned?"


"Good answers, but much too intellectual for me. I think it's because, as some of you already may know... while it does last, it feels fucking great!"

"While it does last, it feels fucking great!"

Where's my 30 Day Drawing Challenge???

To anyone who cared to keep watching out for my blog (=P hehehehe!) and my 30 Day Drawing Challenge, everything may seem to have come to a standstill. And you're right.

I did make 12 drawings though! I only wasn't able to photograph the last two or three... I stopped at the 13th. I was already supposed to draw a Freaking Baby. A freakin' baby? How am I supposed to draw a freaking baby? I can't even draw a freaky baby (noun) much less an actual freaking baby (verb)! >>>Hey, it's difficult to put action on paper... *pouts. hahaha!

Promise to self: I will upload my last two or three drawings here. Maybe then I will be more encouraged to finish the challenge (dang you, freaking baby!).

My Second eBay Purchase!

I don't intend to post every eBay purchase I make, but bear with me people. This is still new to me, and getting them makes me really really excited! =D 

I got my second eBay package yesterday through Air 21. I'm liking this courier; they delivered on a weekend, when other couriers would normally wait for the weekdays to deliver in office addresses. My seller sent it Friday afternoon and both she and Air 21 tells me to expect the package on Monday. Imagine my surprise when I arrived in the office and found out it already arrived earlier in the morning!

 Air 21 even sends SMS alerts to tell you that your package is on its way (plus your tracking number). They send another message when it arrives, even  adding the name of the person who received it for you! Imagine my surprise when I got an Air 21 SMS telling me that one of my bosses signed for the package because I wasn't in the office yet =P LOL!

So anyway...

A really clever, witty, sassy and smart-mouthed professional thief has now dropped into my book cabinet. She brings with her her sexy, British billionaire stud muffin and a slew of other equally witty and funny characters, including  sexy, British billionaire stud muffin's overly suspicious lawyer best friend, a Steve Buscemi-like uncle (at least in my imagination) who is also a pro thief, a suave, smooth-talking gay escort, an extremely irritating ex-wife with bleached hair, a resurrected father (THE pro thief), a persisiting ex-boyfriend, priceless art pieces, and of course, the occasional bad guys...and girls. And cursed jewels. =D (and if you ask our heroine about it, a certain sparkly-diamond-ring-thing can also be considered as one)  =D  The End!

It All Ends.. Emotional Cast and JK Rowling Speeches at the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Premiere

It really is the end of a decade; an era in my life. =( Harry Potter has been such a huge presence in my childhood and teenage years. There's always been a sense of comfort in knowing that every year, or at least every other year, there's one Harry Potter film I can look forward to. Now it all ends....! That's what bothers me the most. After the Deathly Hallows Part2, that's it. I feel like I'm officially done with my childhood/adolescent years LOL! *darn, I'm getting old! Ten years has truly passed already, which is kind of hard to believe.

Here are the last words of our dearest wizarding trio, the very last time that they will appear in public as such; and of course, the head honcho, the ultimate witch :p and creator of the Harry Potter universe, JK Rowling.

I will sorely miss seeing these people together.

Dan and Jo did get it right.  "The stories we love best do live in us FOREVER." =) Till the next time I read and watch you again, Harry. 

My First Ebay Purchase!

wheee!! =D

I've had my ebay.ph account for a while, but I only started getting serious about it two weeks ago. I paid for it last Saturday and received it via JRS Express Delivery on Wednesday (my seller shipped it Tuesday because it was a national holiday last Monday).

=D

I was super duper excited! I couldn't stop fidgeting in my seat at work last Wednesday because I knew the package was due to arrive at any minute...and then voila! 

THE BROTHERHOOD ARRIVED!