Read but you don't have to weep.

Went book shopping yesterday before heading home from a 3 day vacation. I was looking for a copy of Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer at almost every book store I know but couldn't find any. Either its out of stock or the universe decided to gang up on me and hid the book in a different plane or something.

I bought a couple of paperbacks and was so tempted to buy a blue-ish green Holga camera of my own. I haven't seen my Fisheye in ages but I do know that its somewhere in my room. Or maybe I'm just hallucinating.

So! I know Sex and the City 2 would be flying to the country some time next month. Thanks to Candace Bushnell and the producers of the movie. But before watching the film, check out Carrie's transformation from girl to woman, and how she ended up on the Big Apple.

The Carrie Diaries
Meet Carrie before Sex and the City

I saw this yesterday and couldn't help but buy it.
This better be a good read.

*Book image from Barnesandnoble.com

Of errors and irons.

Haven't been able to watch the news lately because I'm too lazy to switch the TV from AV to cable. Lame, I know. I'm sure you've all heard about Marian Rivera's "Isa po akong Psychology" slip. I didn't see it on TV Patrol but thanks to YouTube, I saw the video everyone was talking about.

See, when it comes to this girl, all kinds of emotion hover and float in the air. There's hate, love, dislike, like, disgust and so on.

I read a couple of comments saying it really shouldn't be an issue because Marian's only human. Or that everyone makes grammatical errors once in a while. Or that the world should give her a break. Some were also comparing Marian's error over Manny Pacquiao's which I think is completely pointless, by the way.

My NO CENT worth about the issue:

1. People took her "Isa po akong Psychology" statement seriously because we all know that she's slightly grammatically challenged (for a lack of better term). So, people don't really believe that it was an accident. Her one liners in her TVC's speak for it. Does the word "byutiful" ring a bell?
2. Majority of us always root for the underdog. The Marian-DingDong-Karylle love triangle has been long forgotten but some can't just let it go. I think that adds up to all the hatred and loathing. They see Marian as a relationship wrecker and sad to say, a whore.
3. She's a celebrity. Period. Let's face it, when you're a public figure you have to be perfect. Every infinitesimal thing about you is magnified. Pores kung pores!
4. Pretty woman. Enough said.
   

As Mo Twister said, “If Pacquiao effs it up, we laugh. If it's Marian, she gets destroyed. Life just ain't fair highness.”

On a lighter note, watched Iron Man 2 finally! It was all sorts of AWESOME. I like it.

Looking mighty fine, Mr. Stark.

Much ado about nothing.

I wake up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy…

NAH.

I woke up one morning and went online after grabbing a cup of joe. I logged on to Facebook and was surprised to see the new trending topic online. It felt like I didn’t log for a month when I only went incognito for about a week or so. Everyone was talking about ‘Jejemons” and the image of Mr. Gibo Teodoro holding a piece of paper concerning such was scattered everywhere.

I seriously have no clue what the "Jejemon" term referred to, but then I remembered that I could just google it. Duh.

Jejemons are low life creatures in the world wide web posting messages that has wrong grammars and spellings.

Example of jejelanguage:

1. Mwahugz xoxo = hugs and kisses in formal language
2. u ahrrr soo fhunnny jejeje
3. e0wSsZz pOwhhZzmUsZtAhH nUah pOwhHzz kEowHsz = hello po musta na po kayo.
4. e0wh phF0u? mUsZtAh nHa?

from http://wiki.answers.com

I get the whole thing. I get that it is annoying to read messages that makes you want to bang your head on the wall. Messages that would want you to hang yourself because you just couldn’t grasp the point of it. I GET IT but ENOUGH is ENOUGH.

I don’t know why it is suddenly a big deal now but when I was high school no one really gives a damn about it. I’ve seen the horrid spellings and nasty grammars way back and it wasn’t that big a deal. Now it is like an epidemic spreading like crazy and people just can’t stop blabbing about it.

The "Jejemon" trend.
(Image from http://jejemons.com)

It’s unbelievably overrated and much I hate to admit it, those who scrutinize the idea used to be one of them.

Sure it’s fun and hilarious the first time the topic came out but now it’s just annoying and irritating. And those people who condemn “Jejemons” are no exception either. Earth to them. Just because you spell right and type right doesn’t make you more human than the others.

C’mon, world! Get over it already!

I live in a FAIR tale.

Yes, FAIR tale not FAIRY tale.

Because life is not perfect
but we still survive.

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