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#31

happy 31st, mr. jon zuluaga :)

the sweetheart had roses as red as hellboy (ack i'm hopeless!) delivered to my house :) i am so psyched :)

thank you, thank you, thank you :)

i must be the luckiest gal in the planet :)

rats!

it's heartbreaking.

i have six hamsters in the big hamster house and two more in the smaller purple apartment.

in the big house is the mother of all hamsters, dora. the original (along with john travolta) that joan gave me some time ago.

one of dora's daughters has been fighting with her for the longest time (coz they live in the same house and females tend to do that). so far, it's always been minor scuffles that involved small wounds on both.

today, i saw dear old mommy daga with blood coming out of her left ear. both ears with holes in them but the left one looking like a rotting, half-eaten leaf of cabbage. her eye is purple and swelling and she has a huge gash on her side (it's still dripping blood up to now). there's also this deep, long wound on the top of her head and it's very, very red.

i saw her trying to climb the plastic house inside the hamster house. she was very slow. when she was trying to go down, she fell on her head (which hamsters are wont to do but they pick themselves right up as the height is only about an inch) and was lying pabaliktad--with her head semi-bent--for about FOUR seconds before she weakly picked herself up.

i swear, i really wanted to hurl that young daughter to kipkip so she knows how That feels like. yes, i can be very vindictive...even to hamsters. especially evil hamsters.

aaaaauuuuugggghhhhh!!!!

i am very very angry (baka mag-transform na ko).

so we put a divider in the small purple apartment and put mommy daga there to recuperate.

punyeta talaga.

i want to cry. kawawa naman yung daga ko.

had me rolling in the aisles

literally!

as my boss is in france hobnobbing with the Cannes Advertising Film Festival influentials, I am here at work being very, very productive without her constant little-errands-that-should-be-done-by-her-secretary/PA-if-she-had-one.

and so i've also been able to read up on my new favorite actor ahuhuhu...

and man oh man are his fans funny!

here are a couple of gems from his the imdb fans message boards:

1. i personally liked the one that said he thought ron perlman looked like the missing link between the homo-erectus and will ferrell

2....and the one which Insists he does Not look like...Ted Danson.

3. “But I think his best role ever was in that french film, "The Quest for Fire" or something like that. In it he plays a neanderthal man. He really doesn't need ANY makeup to look the part. He DOES look like a Neanderthal man. That skull of his is an exact copy of a NEANDERTHAL one. Kinda gives him a unique look. And an aura of one mean motherf"""er!!!
Love him...”

4. "Man, I never thought he was in his 50's. I always thought he was in his 40's. All these action flicks he's doing makes him seem so young.
He is not a monkey! He just gets a lot of roles that put him in the ugly guy freak catagory." -Julie

5. Here's a 'poet':
“It's like heavy make-up frees up the man's sensuality. Perhaps he's like this because, straight up, off the street, he's not, shall we say, easy on the eyes and with that and height he gets constantly cast as the bad guy (as though ugly = evil! Common casting premise in Hollywood, I guess). I think the heavy make-up frees him up to unleash more of the "inner" Ron Perlman. Whatever anyone says, Ron Perlman in heavy make-up is a total scrumptuous hotty ... powerful, sensual, and tall.
As to looking like a monkey, even without make-up, I don't think so.”

6. and my hands-down personal favorite (obviously coming from a guy):
“I think he looks fucking solid and he would kick anyone's arse. You know for a fact he could get loads of bitches, and laughs all the way to the bank with his money. So when people lay into the guys face, just think, he gets more pussy then any of you.”

There. I hope that at least made your workdays a little sweeter or zanier (pun intended).

ahuhuhu! this is fun!

i'm over my tommy lee jones phase

RON PERLMAN...

...is effing hot.

he's got fabulous arms and smiles like a bastard with a gorgeous secret. and he's 54. it's perfect!

i just may be falling in love.

a hu hu hu =D

les coeur des hommes...

... is "French Men" in english.

it was one of the movies in the extended run of the french filmfest. the plotting and the style is very american. pwede mo nga sigurong sabihin na isa siyang "american movie with french actors, shot in france"...but still i really liked it. made ya feel good about love and its mess :)

take four middle-aged men (yung isa kamukha ni dave matthews...with a french accent *slurp*) living in "modern" france. Two are married, and the other two are divorced/separated. The two married men are a study in contrast. one is a doting dad and staunchly devoted husband. the other is as devoted but has "extra-curricular" activities at least once day during weekdays (but his wife is ultra-gorgeous). One is a 53-year old rich, distinguished divorcee who's been with a young model the past year. the other is a retired chef managing his own deli and his mum.

Let's take the story of the dave-lookalike first. he is a loving husband, never cheated, and they have a cute son. they're almost picture-perfect, until his wife admits that she had a disastrous (re: sex on the sly so bad she left after only 20 minutes) fling 3 months ago.

Now the "gigolo". to be fair, he's very sweet, doting and affectionate to his wife. the thing is, he really just can't keep it in his pants. he's a nice, fun, almost decent guy but just incorrigible when it comes to boobs and flirtatious smiles. and so he gets it on the side in his office, during lunch breaks, etc. and the most admirable thing is, he can look his wife in the eyes and swear to her that there's no one else.

the old guy can be a bit of a bastard, in a non-confrontational, i'm-too-old-to-be-bullshitting-anyone kind of frankness. he's currently holing up with an amazing woman who not only makes him feel young but refreshes his vigor for life (after he divorces his wife after having been told by his then wife the past year that she aborted their baby 15 years ago).

and the unassuming pork seller is almost your typical nice guy...always there for his family. simply living and always quiet. everybody likes this guy. parang si ejay ang pagkabait niya... until he meets a quirky, middle-aged free spirit.

and so it unfolds, the dave "lookalike" was cheated on by his wife. but she admits to it sooner than the old guy's ex-wife admitted her secret (aborting the baby). the babaero's wife is starting to smell her husband is having extra-marital affairs. the old guy's eldest daughter is getting married and is forcing him to face his ex-wife; and the nice guy's dad just died.

the friends weather it all together, despite their usual soccer bets getting sour, lack of availability when everyone's in love except for the depressed dave-lookalike, they fight, they drink a lot and everyone goes right in the end.

basta it's nice. it's so nice i'm looking for a copy i can buy online (with subtitles siyempre).

parang Sex And The City, but with a nicer, feel-good ending.

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ON "INFIDELS"

last friday, i had a 9am meeting i only remembered when i got to the office...at 9:30am! needless to say, i'm glad our company drivers are a patient bunch who knows the best shortcuts. i got to the meeting at 10:15 and they were 40 minutes to wrapup. but oh well, i still made it.

but where was my point? oh yes, the driver was telling me about someone who worked in the company who got into tabloid news because his wife caught him, naked, with another woman, at...er...one of those places. and how did wifey pinpoint him? he was using the company-provided service vehicle for him. what genius! so his wife blabbed to the police etc. etc.

anyhoo, so me and the driver are talking and after about 30 minutes he tells me so nonchalantly, "alam mo, ngayon ko nga narealize kung gaano ako ka-swerte. nahuli na rin akong ganyan dati pero at least siya di niya ko ginanyan. blah blah".

i was so bothered. i mean people always say that filipinos can also be the mose "extra-curricularly" active... basta bothered ako. is it really a filipino macho thing? yipe. i sure hope not.

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THANK YOUs

thanks, ger =D the postcard was a nice touch.
and of course, thanks, jon, for always being patient with my "strong" moments :)

horny post

dont read if you think you'll find something juicy

admit it. there are times when your brain is just running on...um...sex. all it takes is a song, movie scene, memory or an absent mind and there you go. your brain tells you to get the eff out there and get some, or go quickly home and give yourself some.

(at this point, you can stop reading. doesn't get any interesting :) )

the physiology of gender is fascinating. (see i told you it gets boring :p ). the pang to be shanked can get so darn uncontrollable when the body clock tells you its mating/fertile season.

not that i'm speaking from experience, mind you. the only experience i have is the intense wanting that comes with being er fertile before the monthly blues.

aaaaanyway...

the nights are cold, its raining and i have new bedsheets...

ngars.