"I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end."
Margaret Thatcher, in Observer April 4, 1989
i don't know who said this but i agree:
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."
"Lately, I have come to believe that the principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there."
-- Simon Illyan, from A Civil Campaign by L.M. Bujold
from The Devil's Dictionary by the ultimate cynic Ambrose Bierce :
"Patience: a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue."
"Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country."
"Politics: The conduct of public affairs for private advantage."
"Bride, n.: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her."
"Lawyer, n.: One skilled in the circumvention of the law."
"Year, n.: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments."
"Pleasure, n.: The least hateful form of dejection."
"Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man."
"Admiration, n.: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."
"Corporation, n.: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility."
"Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion."
"Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to."
"Admiration, n.: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."
"Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen."
"Quotation, n.: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."
"Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)"
"Brain, n.: an apparatus with which we think we think."
"Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others."
"Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
"Politics, n.: Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles."
"There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know."
"Politeness, n.: The most acceptable hypocrisy."
"Truth: An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance."
"Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence."
"Love, n.: A temporary insanity curable by marriage."
"Egotist, n.: A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me."
from Mark Twain:
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."
"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
from Voltaire:
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."
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WHaT'S oN MY SH3LF???
The 8th Commandment by Lawrence Sanders
Lawrence Sander's book: Timothy's Game
Sunday, May 29, 2005
last post for may. a repost from edel's friendster.____________ Part 1: Basics_____________name: vannysex: femmebday: i'm an aries let's leave it at thatwhere do you live: right now, a hole somewhere in pasayheight: a little over 5shoe size: 5first crush: bachrighty or lefty: rightyzodiac sign: the ramusual first impression of you: too quiet, nerdyever been in love: no, should i? puppy love never always: puppy??? ;)tattoo: nada crush: pineapple! hahaha____________ Part 2: Food_____________chocolate milk or hot chocolate: hot chocolate, i'm a puristmcdonalds or jollibee: fries - mcdonalds, spaghetti - jollibeecoke or pepsi: cokeroot beer or cali: calitea or coffee: tea if it's ice teamilk/dark/white chocolate: dark chocolatevanilla or chocolate: chocolatecake or pie: definitely cake____________ Part 3: Pick one______________marry the perfect friend or perfect lover: both, i'm selfish cats or dogs: rottweiler, so dogs 1 pillow or 2: 2 w/ or w/o ice: it's summer, so w/ icetop or bottom: uhm, top i guesswinter/spring/summer/fall: springrock/rap/r&b/punk/ballads: rock!day or night: day, blind as a bat at nightvest or mittens: mittensdressed or undressed: depends on the placebunk or water bed: water bedmake plans or go along: make plans and go along <-- ditto!truth or dare: dare, when truth sucksMTV or VH1: MTVocean or pool: ocean, but i can't swim thoughshowers or baths: showerslove or lust: lovesilver or white gold: silverdiamonds or pearls: i like bothpencil or pen: pencilsunrise or sunsets: sunriseblind or deaf: deaf_______________ Part 4: Favorites___________color: greennumber: 8
subject: Englishdrink: water, C2 iced tea animal: rottweilerholiday: christmas and my birthdayline from a movie: can't recall anymovie: LOTR trilogy was goodhang out: my hole, PS internet cafe for stoning _________________ Part 5: Future_____________number of kids: 3job: professional stoner =)ideal partner: a good nudge giver, of course
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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
it didn't just rain yesterday, it POURED.while i was still at the office probably past 6pm, got a message from my sister that electricity just went out. she was asking me where the matchboxes were. hahaha! for some weird reason it's in my bag. i don't smoke, ok. i was cleaning the day before and was stuffing random things into my bag and the matchbox was one of the things i forgot to take out. so i went to work with those stuff that should've been better left at home. left work around 7:30pm got home nearly 10 in the evening. while walking to landmark i was asking Sitael to please ask the angels in-charge of the weather to call it quits and save some rainy weather for the next day. it seemed that he was listening because by the time i reached landmark, the rain had become tolerable. it was not coming down in torrents anymore, just a shower. lucky me. but lightning would continue streaking all over the dark sky. sometimes it would be accompanied by thunder. but mostly it was just lightning. i have never seen so much lightning in my ENTIRE life! freaked the daylights out of me. but because i wanted to go home so badly i didn't dare leave my place on the queue, which was very very very very very long. i couldn't emphasize it enough. it was LONG! even in my abjct terror i can't help but be amaze at the bolts that light up the sky. who needs stars when these things could light up the sky better than stars do, right? they're beautiful in a scary kind of way. after all if it hits you, you're fried, toasted, burned more likely - bupkis.when my admiration over the lightning dance gradually faded, as time dragged on from seconds to minutes and from minutes to hours and from hours to what seemed like eternity to me. i was starting to REALLY pay attention to my immediate surroundings and to the conversations around me. nevermind the sky, the rain and lightning. i started to become mad, then i was angry, and then i was furious and then i just crossed over from totally positively furious to absolutely silently fuming. it was wonder i didn't start throwing rocks at those drivers. blame it on my hunger. i couldn't think straight. much more carry more weight other than my own and my backpack. so the jeepney drivers were lucky. i was too hungry and weak to go amok. and the jeeps still won't take any passengers. i heard that pasong tamo was so goddamned flooded that no jeepney drivers would dare brave it. so i was stranded for more than two hours. wet, chilled down to my marrows, jumpy as a cat, starving and stark raving mad. to put it in one sentence, i was royally pissed. the last time my tummy had seen any food was 1pm people. if i could drive i would have hijacked one of those jeepneys and drove home myself. but i couldn't - lucky bastards! why couldn't they just pass through edsa?? like the others did. you'd think those m*th*rf*ck%rs were so brave (what with overspeeding and racing with trucks everyday and then they're afraid of water???? por dios por santo!!!) if i wasn't so hungry and thoroughly pissed i would have laughed out loud then, so i just smirked. it wouldn't solve my problem anyway. i got stuck until one driver decided he can't spend the night on his jeep and decided to confront his fear of water. traffic was horrible. pasong tamo was worse, water is at knee level. when i reached libertad, i was so happy i could kissed the ground i was walking on. but i didn't - what??? you think i'm that nutty? i was just glad to get there.",>
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Wednesday, May 11, 2005
ended this day with 4 stone puzzles done with and dusted. that brings the total to 60 puzzles in the wind. solved messages today. stored mind is frying my brain for the meantime. nudges keep telling me to KISS - keep it simple, stupid.... and i thought that's what i've been doing. got an email from my good friend up there in wien. jeez reminds me that i am such a LouSY friend. if you're reading this Eves thanks for putting up with me. while i was solving one stone puzzle (reunion - tough one but real cool) your name was actually one of the closes (close answers) - reminded me of you. halfway to solving it, i was thinking - man i have to write Eva =) sorry for the neglect gurl. watch out for my mails sent them to your wien address. since you're there most of the time, right? thought that you might not be in neustadtl till your summer vacation. from what i know of heartaches i'm afraid that's something not even good ole aspirin can't cure. just like a bad tooth, you have to go the dentist to have it pulled out. but i heard tequila works fine on it - ok jsut kidding... ok i'm getting too batty here ...blame it on thestone. this game's messing wih my mind lately.
ok going home cherie, have to get some shut eye. getting late here and still at work. going home before maki kicks me out =) tata
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solved fossils - FINALLY!!!!!!! don't ask how. i feel stupid... the answer has been staring at me all along or i HAVE been staring at it all along. kung ahas to natuka na ko promise. talk about pahirapan ba ang sarili. eto na to! i knew i tried it - dont' know why it didn't take it then. must be the damn spelling thing they were talking about. i can't believe i wasted almost 3 weeks on it!!! sucks! what waste of time. i almost posted a nudge on it at the commons. sheesh...also solved a couple of other puzzles that i never thought i would. fast forward - should've tried out the answer as soon as i read frost's piece. the moths - SHEER BLIND LUCK. got it in 30 minutes or less. not even a close or a clever. knew what it was about based on the images on the puzzle. just had no idea what sort of answer the SK's want. just pasted a random answer from one of searches i tried. all the pax and the lucis - did it i guess. consider it a nudge if you will ",>what probably made this day stink to the high heavens was:
nagshadi pa ko. tien na! wang chi lo ko yung closing spiel on one of my QA's last week. it's suppose to cure amnesia with regards to that annoying subject. kawsu ni men: it pedends, it pedends =0
ok, off getting stoned again. later alligator
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Monday, May 09, 2005
i have not made any updates on my blog. it's not that i've forgotten how to do it, i've just been away - hunting, walking, wool gathering. had a slight probelm logging in, couldn't quite remember what my password was - damn. sorry gwennie. she was asking me a few minutes ago if i have updated this. well this is my first entry for may. my mom, and my brother and my naughty little cousin visited me last week and i've been too busy to update anything. they just left last saturday morning. so it's pretty peaceful on my abode again. i got a bad cold as well, courtesy of my brother. can't breathe. i feel like i have tb rather than just a nasty little cold. i shouldn't be working today but swapped skeds with lissa. for reasons i am not allowed to disclose, right liss? had a dream last week, was with aleck on the elevator and another person we didn't know probably from another account. we were plunging all the way to the ground floor. pretty scary. felt so real. that was on may 3 past 3 in the afternoon. i almost didn't want to go to work anymore. i gues aleck and i shouldn't be sharing elevator rides for this month huh. best to remember it. i keep forgetting.ok i've been at least written something decent. time to go back to my stoning. haven't been doing much lately. god i Hate fossils. too many damn closes and no f*ck*ng cigar. if a fellow stoner can read this, i need a cattle prod please....
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