I DON'T KNOW WHO HAD BEEN A GOOD FRIEND

I'm just furious. I don't know, pissed, mad.. I understand that sometimes people will tend to oversee the intensions of your own doing. I can't define if I may call it inconsiderate but anyhow, it's getting on my nerves. I do not expect a foul italian word from a friend to whom I just said "Ti Amo" a few minutes earlier. I just can't get it. I wanna be a good friend to them, but I can't seem to get the good intentions back.

He/She's one of my good friend way back from high school. He lives in Italy now and I am wondering, what happened? What had really happened? Even if it was a joke, even if it was unintentionally mentioned (good thing, it was in italian. Nobody can understand not unless they google it) I say it is hurtful. Because it was posted on a public social network site, inside the fan page of our HS Alma Mater. What's bad about this is that the comments are all posted on my design.

I do not want to say that he is accusing me of creating a design more like of FEU / DLSU (there I said it already!) just because it is green? We share the same color what the heck?! I found a cool tut and made something out of it. Never my intention to imitate a design or what. It's just bad that people can sometimes can be as bloat-head as a bloat fish and maybe even smell like one.

No more nice girl for them. No more cool and understanding friend for them!

I'VE BEEN DOING DESIGNS FOR MY HS ALMA MATER

I'm so loving it! I just love anything about designing. Now I am learning to use Adobe Photoshop CS4 and here's a sneak preview of what I did using this cool software!






























I mean, soooo cool! Way too cool! Still a lot more to learn. Even if it's simple, I find it amusing because I did it myself! Alone!


I'm just so happy.. :)

100 TRUTHS ABOUT ME

WHAT WAS YOUR:
1. last beverage Royal
2. last phone call It wasn't mine. A certain Tess for my sister.
3. last text message From Eric
4. last song you listened to Live Like We're Dying by Kris Allen

HAVE YOU EVER:
6. dated someone twice No. I'm not good at dating.
7. been cheated on Yea. And they're gonna end up regretting it..
8. kissed someone & regretted it Yeah
9. lost someone special Yeah.
10. been depressed It's all in the process.
11. been drunk and threw up God, yes!

LIST THREE FAVORITE COLORS:
12. Black
13. Blue
14. Red

THIS YEAR HAVE YOU: (2009)
15. Made a new friend Yes, a lot!
16. Fallen out of love Yeah.. It was for the better, I guess..
17. Laughed until you cried Everyday.. Hahaha!
18. Met someone who changed you No one's gonna change me.
19. Found out who your true friends were Yes. In trouble and in Happiness.
20. Found out someone was talking about you Yea. Luckily, She's out of my sight now.
21. Kissed anyone on your fb friend's list Of course! Some of them are my friends!

GENERAL:
22. How many people on your fb friends list do you know in real life I say, atleast 85%. I got 412 listed friends so far.
24. Do you have any pets Yea, her name's Millicent. She is an Intellicare Bear
25. Do you want to change your name Right now, yea.. Hahaha! Imma change it to Sophia Alexandra!
26. What did you do on your last birthday Ow! We're on an IBM interview!
27. What time did you wake up today I woke up 12, and then I slept again at 2, woke up at 5.
28. What were you doing at midnight last night Sleeping.. Foh Real!
29. Name something you CANNOT wait for See what's for lunch today!
30. Last time you saw your Mother 1992
31. What is one thing you wish you could change about your life The way I sleep!
32. What are you listening to right now Ladytron's Fighting in Built Up Areas. [ OST from Need for Speed Carbon City ]
33. Have you ever talked to a person named Tom No.. Not yet..
34. What's getting on your nerves right now My cold!
35. Most visited webpage Facebook and Blogspot
37. Nicknames Di ,Dikya
38. Relationship Status It's Complicated!
39. Zodiac sign Gemini
40. Male or female? Female
41. Elementary? ABES International School
42. Middle School Never attended
43. High school/College Far Eastern University
44. Hair colour Black
45. Long or short Long
46. Height 5"3
47. Do you have a crush on someone? Yes
49. Piercings None
50. Tattoos None at the moment. :)
51. Righty or lefty I am an ambidextrous

FIRSTS:
52. First surgery None
53. First weird piercing Tounge
54. First best friend Nino Angelo Blanco
55. First sport you joined Softball
56. First vacation I can't remember..
58. First pair of trainers Nike 7.0 Free Women's

RIGHT NOW:
59. Eating Nuh-uh!
60. Drinking Nuh-uh!
61. I'm about to Finish this blog
62. Listening to Need for Speed Carbon City's OST
63. Waiting for Lunch [ it's just 6:09 AM, Philippine Time ]

YOUR FUTURE:
64. Want kids? Yea
65. Get Married? Yes
66. Career? Ofcourse! At Pixar!

WHICH IS BETTER
67. Lips or eyes Can I say both?
68. Hugs or kisses Hugs
69. Shorter or taller It depends!
70. Older or Younger I think it is case to case basis.
71. Romantic or spontaneous I so love both!
72. Nice stomach or nice arms Nice arms
73. Sensitive or loud Sensitive
74. Hook-up or Relationship Hook up, then relationship
75. Trouble maker or hesitant Hesitant.. Wouldn't benefit on a trouble maker.

HAVE YOU EVER:
76. Kissed a stranger Hell, no!
77. Drank hard liquor What is hard? Vodka? If yes, then yes..
78. Lost glasses/contacts No
79. Sex on first date Hell no!
80. Broken someone's heart Yea..
81. Had your own heart broken Yea..
82. Been arrested No..
83. Turned someone down Yes.. But I can't remember who and why.
84. Cried when someone died Fuck you! Of course! Wouldn't you?
85. Fallen for a friend? Fallen in love?

DO YOU BELIEVE IN:
86. Yourself Sometimes.
87. Miracles Yes. I have faith.
88. Love at first sight No
89. Heaven Yes
90. Santa Claus Oh yeah!
91. Kiss on the first date Yes
92. Angels Yes

ANSWER TRUTHFULLY:
93. Had more than one bf/gf? Yes. It was good!
95. Did you sing today? Sorry, I can't remember..
96. Ever cheated on somebody? Yea
97. If you could go back in time, how far would you go, and why? Elementary days, when I was still one of the top notchers. Visiting friends' houses every afternoon.
98. If you could pick a day from last year and relive it, what would it be? I'm gonna think harder about this, I'll get back to you.. :)
99. Are you afraid of falling in love? Sometimes.
100. Posting this as 100 truths? Yes.. With "about me"

I KEPT MY FAITH

Things happen for a reason. I wanna ask why, but I know, I ain't getting no answer right now.

I'm not to post it here. I don't want to detail the terrible incident last night. To sum it all up, my sister lost her two new cellphones, wallet with her ATMs inside, and atleast 5,000+ cash while riding a tricycle on our way home. To make things worst, she was scheduled to be admitted at UST that night. No cash, no phone, everything.

God is still with us I know. It was meant to happen. I never lost my faith in Him. Things happen for a reason. He will never allow my family to get hurt or suffer anyway. I am afraid. Yes, afraid that unexpected things like that happen again without me doing something to prevent it. I'm afraid I'm not there to see things and work our way out. Afraid of losing everything.

Anyway, God is good. I say, what happened last night was better than those of the people threatened to die due to a serious robbery. (It was not robbery, by the way.) The culprit needs the money more than we do.

Palms out for more blessings!

I'M PLAYING CAFE WORLD! YIPEE!

ANOTHER INTERVIEW

1.Radio history (if any). There's none :)
2.One person you can bring back from the dead and why? My Mom.. I miss her so much! Mom, I'm actually fine answering this.. :)
3.Best compliment ever given to you? Ang payat mo na!
4.If your friends could describe you in one word, what do you think it would be? Kid
5.What's under you bed? Boxes, dust, lost shoe pair, slippers.. Name it!
6.What's in your bag? My phone, black jacket, wallet, candy wraps..
7.What is your motto / mantra? Char!
8.What's wrong with you? What the fuck do you think is wrong with me? Fuck you! :)
9.Whtat's your guilty pleasure? Food, and more food!
10.What's your secret talent? Am I to tell you a secret? Are you kidding me?
11.If you were to become a spice, what spice would you be? I don't have an idea..
12.What would be your porn star name? Diana Schneider! WTF!!
13.What do you do when you're alone and no one is looking? Pick my nose, scratch my butt, what do you expect? Haha!
14.Food you can't say NO to? Anything! Name it!
15.One thing you've always wanted to try? Swim!
16.Would you rather be trapped in an elevator or the train? Depends on who I'm gonna be trapped with. I choose elevator..
17.What song never fails to make you cry? ABS-CBN's Star ng Pasko. Salamat sa liwanag mo, muling magkakakulay ang Pasko. Best Christmas song by a network ever!
18.Greatest achievement? I dunno yet..
19.Proudest moment? Have my own blog.
20.Best lesson life has taught you? Nobody cares if I am miserable, might as well be happy!

WHAT IS GREAT ABOUT SUMMER?

January is almost over, everyone says Summer will start late February.

I don't really like summer at all..
I don't want to feel the warm air and all. I just can't stand sweating..

What is great about summer by the way? When I can't even use the comforter at night..
What is really great about summer when I can't stay at my room chillin' out..
Tell me..

I'll lose lotsa fats.. Sounds great? :)
Swim? With family and friends? That's a lot better!

55 ANNOYING THINGS TO DO INSIDE THE ELEVATOR

1. Walk on with a cooler that is labeled "HUMAN HEAD" on the side.
2. Grimace painfully while smacking your forehead and muttering "Shut up, all of you, just shut up!"
3. Crack open your briefcase of purse, and while peering inside, ask, "Got enough air in there?
4. Stand silently and motionless in the corner, facing the wall, without getting off.
5. When arriving at your floor, grunt and strain to yank the doors open, then act embarrassed when they open by themselves.
6.Greet everyone getting on the elevator with a warm handshake and ask them to call you Admiral.
7.Meow occasionally.
8.Bet the other passengers you can fit a quarter in your nose.
9.Stare at another passenger for awhile, then announce in horror, "You’re one of THEM" and back away slowly. - WILL TRY DOING THIS ONE!!!
10.Wear a puppet on your hand and use it to talk to the other passengers.
11.Listen to the elevator walls with your stethoscope.
12.Annouce in a demonic voice, "I must find a more suitable host body."
13.Say "Ding" at each floor.
14.Say "I wonder what all these do?" and push all the red buttons.
15.Make explosion noises when anyone presses a button.
16.Stare, grinning at another passenger for awhile, and then announce, "I have new socks on."
17.When the elevator is silent, look around and ask, "Is that your beeper?"
18.Try to make personal calls on the emergency phone.
19.Draw a little square on the floor with chalk and announce to the other passengers, "This is my personal space."
20.When there’s only one other person in the elevator, tap them on the shoulder and then pretend it wasn’t you.
21.Push the buttons and pretend they give you a shock. Smile, and go back for more.
22.Ask if you can push the button for other people, but push the wrong ones.
23.Call the Psychic Hotline from your cell phone and ask if they know what floor you’re on.
24.Hold the doors open and say you’re waiting for your friend. After a while, let the doors close and say, "Hi Greg. How’s your day been?"
25.Drop a pen and wait until someone reaches to help pick it up, then scream, "That’s mine!"
26.Bring a camera and take pictures of everyone in the elevator.
27.Move your desk in to the elevator and whenever someone gets on, ask if they have an appointment.
28.Lay down a Twister mat and ask people if they’d like to play.
29.Leave a box in the corner, and when someone gets on ask them if they hear something ticking.
30.Pretend you are a flight attendant and review emergency procedures and exits with the passengers.
31.Ask, "Did you feel that?"
32.Stand really close to someone, sniffing them occasionally.
33.When the doors close, announce to the others, "It’s okay. Don’t panic, they open up again."
34.Swat at flies that don’t exist.
35.Tell people that you can see their aura.
36.Make race car noises when anyone gets on or off.
37.Shave.
38.On the highest floor, hold the door open and demand that it stay open until you hear the penny you dropped down the shaft go "plink" at the bottom.
39. Pick your nose

40.When at least 8 people have boarded, moan from the back: "Oh, not now… motion sickness!"
41.Frown and mutter "gotta go, gotta go" then sigh and say "oops!"
42.Show other passengers a wound and ask if it looks infected.
43.Leave a box between the doors.
44.Wave hands wildly at invisible flies buzzing around your head.
45.Start a sing-along.
46.One word: Flatulence!
47.Do Tai Chi exercises
48. If someone went in, hold your hands up high and say "Take my wallet, take everything, just let me out alive!" -- Di's original.. :)
49.Carry a blanket and clutch it protectively.
50.If anyone brushes against you, recoil and holler "Bad touch!"
51.Sing "Mary had a little lamb" while continually pushing buttons.
52.Bring a chair along.
53.Lean against the button panel.
54.While the doors are opening, hurriedly whisper, "Hide it…quick!" then whistle innocently.
55.Call out, "group hug!", then enforce it. ( duanesis the menace )

Reference: Mc Duane's Blog Post

100 MOVIES TO WATCH BEFORE I WENT BACK TO NORMAL LIFE

And now, I'm posting my 100 Movies to Watch for completion of my Bucket List. Most of here are Romance Comedy. Hope you find it useful too!

1. 2012
2. Avatar
3. Red Cliff
4. Up in the Air
5. (500) Days of Summer - DONE
6. The Men Who Stares at Goats
7. The Blind Side - DONE
8. The Invention of Lying
9. Love Happens
10. The Rebound
11. Couples Retreat
12. Surrogates
13. Extract
14. Spread
15. Time Traveler's Wife
16. Funny People
17. My Sister's Keeper
18. The Girlfriend Experience
19. The Boat that Rocked
20. Fighting
21. State of Play
22. The Soloist
23. The Six Wives of Henry Lefay
24. The Exorcism of Emiy Rose
25. The Bridge on the River Kwai
26. Casablanca
27. The Godfather
28. In The Mood for Love
29. Raiders of the Lost Ark
30. Seven Samurai (Will Watch Again! This is definitely one excellent movie!)
31. When Harry Met Sally
32. To Kill A Mockingbird
34. Boy Culture - DONE

MARTIAL LAW IN FEU

MARTIAL LAW IN FEU
By Joey B. Ting

I thank God I am still alive until now.

Hear the story and be open to the incident that had happened to me within the week.

When we resumed classes last Monday, January 4, 2010, I knew something went wrong. All new faces of security guards surprised us as we enter the campus uncomfortably. They were so tall and well-built, looking like young military men. They stood everywhere as if a Martial Law is about to happen, vigilant and so attentive to entering students, faculty and staff. It was Monday, resume for work (faculty and administrators) and study (students) in the campus after the Christmas break. Everybody has its own personal reasons to endure the day.

For me, I still need to catch up for the rehearsals for the upcoming theater project SPOOF. I stayed in the Arts Building together with the ATC (Art Theatre Clinique) kids until past 10pm, the usual night rehearsal just to polish the show due on the last week of January and the new theater company (family) I founded for the FEU Mass Communication majors. Normally, I would park in the Technology Building since I have become the FEU Faculty President (2007) and before Christmas break started, my front part of the car was slightly damaged as unknown culprit never appeared before me to confess. I just saw the damaged part when I was about to leave one time from the SPOOF rehearsal in the parking. I communicated it during the last CBA (FEUFA Collective Bargaining Agreement) Meetings with the officials but nothing has done to remedy the part. The dent is still there until now. Then, as the year change from 09 to 10, another security agency came about.

That Monday evening started it all. After the rehearsal, I went to get the car, unfortunately, the newly-installed steel bars covered the whole area of Technology Building where parking is also located (I am referring to the old hospital space). I asked the guard to open up the said bars so I could bring down my car. I, together with Neil Tolentino, Ian De Ausen and Wilbert Castillo waited for almost an hour just to open the bars. I inquired as to why the community was not informed of the new installation and blockage as there were no MEMOs or E-mail or any communication for that matter regarding this “curfew” thing and the “closing time” approach. The security guard didn’t answer as a trained communicator. He just looked at me as if I am questioning the pronounced Martial Law To add, another FEU Official – Budget Officer Arnie Macapagal - had his car upstairs, also trapped. Eventually, we got the cars down the parking and out of its vicinity. This prompted me to be conscious with the time.

But that Monday night fatefully repeated. Last Friday, January 9, 2010, I accidentally forgot that I need to transfer the car again from the Technology Building to the Administration open-air parking simply because my teaching schedules for that day and my first blocking rehearsals for SPOOF got so tied-up. I just remembered the car after the rehearsals that ended as usual past 10pm since a lot of things should be done for the show. I got so tired as I went through a lot last Friday, however, the discourtesy displayed by the guard on duty that time provoked me to a heated argument with the assigned guard. This became worse. I waited two hours to get my car. KARAPATAN KONG KUNIN ANG SASAKYAN KO KAHIT NAKA-SARA NA ANG STEEL BARS NA YAN. TAMA PO BA? I called several officials before guards agreed to look for the key and finally opened up the bars.

Saturday morning, I attempted to park inside the open-air parking (VIP & OFFICIALS’ parking) since I do not want to park anymore in that Building and be trapped inside it and the only parking available perhaps for me since there’s no office on Saturdays. After the two previous incidents, I introduced myself as a Faculty Union President this time through a written notice that I’ve prepared a slogan posted inside the car and the kind of relationship I have with the FEU President. Like a thunder, I went out of my car. An unknown security approached me suddenly and asking for the key. I refused to give the key. To my surprise, he dragged me like I was a criminal to the corner gate, physically pushing my right face and body against the wall and forcing me to get the key. He threatened me with a gun and discreetly kicked me while I was down on the floor, helpless. I have stood up once more yelling WALA KAYONG KARAPATANG SAKTAN AKO! WALA KAYONG KARAPATANG HAWAKAN AKO! HUWAG NIYO AKONG HAHAWAKAN! Then a troop of security guards came and the Security Head VERLANDO O. MIGUEL, again, once more held me but this time, I forcefully shouted for help and he let me out of the scene. So as I continue to leave my car at the gate hoping to communicate my point, I still met my 7:30-10:30am class in the Arts Building pretending to be okay but continuously trembling, as if nothing happened. I acquired bruises on my right elbow and muscle pain all over my right portion of the body as I was pushed by a 5’8 or 5’9 guard Hernandez.

The security never came back to inform me about the TOWING. During my class, a student who is familiar with my car told me that a towing service gets the car WITHOUT ANY SECURITY INFORMING ME. Since, the security fabricated the story that – after I left my car in front of the one of the three opened gates, they still have the guts to blotter the car as OBSTRUCTION and that the police station officer told me that I left out of the campus after having it parked.

They treated me like a criminal. In my eight years in the university, this is the first time I was physically touched and hurt by a security guard. Honestly, they do not look like one. They look like a trained military man ready to harm the ones asserting their right. This is still an educational institution.

ARE WE TO TOLERATE GUNS INSIDE THE CAMPUS?

ARE WE TO TOLERATE PHYSICAL HARM TO ANYONE WHO IS A MEMBER OF THE COMMUNITY EVEN IF VIOLATION OF POLICY IS COMMITTED?

ARE WE TO ENCOURAGE FEU OFFICIALS THIS KIND OF SECURITY MEASURE?

Yes, I do assert my right as the Faculty President of FEU but I condemn the act of seriously hurting people especially in public. Whether I like it or not, I do carry the name Faculty President of the whole university system but being the first person to be harmed on the first week of this month by a one-week old security agency is unexplainable, a forceful act.

I can accept SUSPENSION OR EVEN EXPULSION FROM WHAT I DID WITH MY CAR but to touch me and harm me is another major matter.

IF THEY COULD TOUCH AND HARM THE FACULTY WITH OR WITHOUT A PURPOSE, THEY COULD DO EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING THEY WANT FROM US.

There is no difference now if directives come from the Officials.


From,
JOEY TING
Faculty President, FEU