The Phoenix Lives On

Tragedy and Love

2007-08-28T17:04:00.000+08:00

Because I was so excited about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, I finally bought a copy and can't wait for the other one. In just two or three chapters, Harry lost close friends. I couldn't believe that the gift Sirius has given him 4 years ago, his Firebolt fell and was lost. And then this damn Death Eater Avada Kedavra'd Hedwig. Poor Harry. They also lost Mad Eye on the way to the Burrow...and George's ear.

By far, Deathly Hallows is the darkest Harry series. I guess it's supposed to be since this is the last book. And Hedwig and Mad Eye are not the only casualties. There are a lot.

For those who have read the book, you would probably know that Harry's close friend, Dobby, was killed was Bellatrix. I cried when I was reading that part. I love the fact that Harry Potter are his last words.

I also couln't believe that Fred is dead. Poor George. Also, Remus and Tonks Lupin had died. Yes, they got married, secretly though. It was one of the cutest moments of the book.

The most horrible death is Snape's. I just wished that Voldemort Avada Kedavra'd him but instead, he let Nagini bite him and Snape bled to death. Maybe it was so, so that Severus can tell Harry his side and why he so loathed Harry. I found out that Snape could've been Harry's father. So that explains Lily's eyes. Snape had loved Lily and was so grieved that his master had killed her.

And of course, a happy ending. For Ron and Hermione fans, they finally hook up. Oh, yeah, they get married too. I just can't place where I have seen the names Rose and Hugo before, aside from the fact that they both start with R and H. And it was Harry and Ginny forever. This is the part I love. They have three children: James, Albus Severus, and Lily. Little Albus Severus is 11 and about to go to Hogwarts. He's afraid that he'll be sorted in Slytherin. Harry talks to him and says, "You were named after two great Headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was Slytherin and he was the bravest man I have ever known."

I won't delve how Harry had defeated Tom Riddle but it has something to do with the Deathly Hallows. And and Elder Wand.

Well, Harry's journey is finally over and his scar haven't hurt him in 19 years. But I don't think the readers will just stop there. There's still the movies though (and seeing more of Daniel Radcliffe ).

As for the copy I bought, I don't think I would sell it anymore. It's first edition. I might be able to give it to my future kids someday and tell them the story of Harry and how I journeyed with him for 8 years.

Congratulations BEA!!!

2007-07-02T18:02:00.001+08:00

at least she's the one who won. oh, i'm sorry. i'm talking about PBB Season 2. i so HATE, HATE, HATE Wendy!!! fuck her!and she thinks she deserves to be the winner! hello! damnation! fuck her!

at least Bea won. she is the more deserving one because you saw how she worked out the personal tasks given to her. imagine sharpening 10,000 (yes 10,000) pencils in what? 2 hours or so. what the fuck!! even Quicksilver can't do that!

okay now the bashing, ranting, and venting.

fucking Wendy! she said that the fans of PBB hurt her family? she's the one who hurt her family by acting like a stuck up little girl inside the house! she's a fucking brat! she should just go back to Japan and fuck there! she belittles Gee Ann and Bodie saying that they aren't deserving because they're wealthy? huh? they entered the house because they wanted to prove something. and Bodie? i think just because his dad's a great actor they are wealthy. well, if his dad's named Dolphy probably. they can afford everything but i don't think they are super wealthy as Wendy imagined it to be. and Gee Ann? yes she can also have everything but she entered the house because she wanted to prove that she can do it. and Wendy? why the fuck did she enter? for the money or just to be an actress?

okay it all started when big borther did this little survey. bth Gee Ann and Bea said that they don't want Wendy to be with them in the Big 4. then Bea went to talk to Wendy. problem is Wendy pushed her away! this git shoved her friends away from her by doing that. Bea wanted to explain to her why she chose her to go out. Wendy's only companion is her boyfriend (huh? did he actually court her cos i never saw it) Bruce. and then she said that she wanted them to be sincere. they apologised then Wendy went out to go talk to somebody (forgot who but maybe her git) and then she said that she hasn't fully accepted their apology. where's the sincerity in that? fuck Wendy! and then she said Gee Ann and Bea will win best actress in a pretending role? oh, maybe it was her that she's pointing to! hahaha!! yeah! she'll win everything!

well if Gee Ann and Bea have a choice then they may not vote out Wendy. buit they don't. and of course, if you're in that house and you deem your best friend as your closest competition, then you would vote her out right? alliance or not? what Wendy lacked was understanding.

then when she went out (and winning third!) she said that people should just hurt her and not her family. in the place, she had already hurt her family. her mum was saying sorry in front of national TV! i believe that Wendy also hurts her mum like the way she hurt Gee Ann and Bea in her life. imagine how that would break a mother's heart! she should not say sorry to the people who hated her but instaed she should apologise to her family! and that deal or no deal thing on father's day? she said she didn't care because she doesn't have a father? so what? i don't have one, too, but i would try to win the biggest prize there is for my friends if i were her.

anyway, this is all finished now but me hating Wendy isn't. she's not fit for being an actress too. actors have discipline and should know how to conform. she doesn't sadly.

It's Time To Say Goodbye

2007-04-16T17:00:00.001+08:00

I woke up pretty late today expecting to be greeted by our cupie companion. Lo and behold! Mum told me that baby Cupcake, Cuppy, is gone. I dunno exactly what happened but Cuppy died this morning. It just waited for Jen to come back home, to see her. I even fed Cuppy a midnight snack of lettuce and carrots. Poor sis! Mum said she's sad again.

Cuppy is this adorable little bunny that my sister got for Easter. It was a reward for her having the perfect attendance at work (which I believe don't have hahaha!!). Cuppy immediately became a dear to us. Jen even let it play on my bed for a while. And it certainly is a very intelligent rabbit. Cuppy easily learned how to escape from his box. But he was a very quiet bunny, only making noises when he's hungry or wet, like a baby does.

Two nights ago, he was so noisy my mum got angry at him. I dunno what got into him but he probably wants to play. We never took him out of the box so he wouldn't get dirty but he can very well escape from it. Yesterday morning, he escaped despite the "netting" I put on the box. The "netting" was actually just straw loosely placed like the bars of a cage, buliding a roof-like feature on Cuppy's box. But being an intelligent rabbit, Cuppy escaped from it. Of course, he fell. Jen said it might be the cause why Cuppy died. His head felt a bit soft. But when Cuppy escapes, he usually lands on his paws. Then, mum told me that it wanted to regurgitate something. I think, Cuppy died because of a furball. Who knows?

Cuppy is the second bunny ( :( ) who died. I had one when I was in my sophomore year but it was a very spoiled one. I don't even remember its name! Both bunnies stayed with us for a week.

Cuppy is in a box right now. I told mum to have the box cemented, like that in a cemetery, and be put in a corner just outside our house. She declined.

I dunno if my sissy happened to have lots of Cuppy's pictures but he certainly is cute, if you want to see him. Also, we're still busy taking care of those adorable kitties we adopted months ago, Tube adn Arwen. Now, I'm just wondering where I can get my sissy another rabbit to take care of.

Displaced/Demented

2007-04-05T17:44:00.000+08:00

i was thinking that if i made an album (oh yeah! i wish!), a good title will be displaced. for some reasons, i probably consider myself displaced.

first off, displaced continent. oh yeah. i always thought, since i'm born on St. Patrick's Day, i'm Irish. haha! and i know that Nonie will agree with me. okay. probably because i thought that i'm european in some ways, probably a past life.

second, displaced government. it goes with displaced continent. i always thought that the government in my world has princes and princesses, kings and queens.

third, i know, just know, mostly european languages! haha! i understand the British accent more than the American opne. no offense meant.

it's weird though. but really, that's how i am.

demented - crazy, insane, mad

another god title for an album. it goes with me, too! hahaha!! well, i'll be demented if:

1. for one day, i don't sleep. har har!
2. i don't see a picture of my favourite actors (erm, not really hahaha!)
3. in relation to number 2, for the sake of fandom, like my friend, i'll probably stalk them lol
4. if and when that happens, i won't be able to ask for their autograph because i'm really embarrassed,shy/bashful!

i am totally weird, demented! you know, i treasured my Dixie Chicks record when everybody's burning their CDs!

Hello But Not Goodbye

2007-03-31T22:39:00.000+08:00

i know i haven't, like, posted in nearly, erm, three months or so, except for that Joie article. sigh! i miss her so much. i miss talking to her. well, at least, she's our angel. :)

anyway, busy, busy, busy. my brain's been racked and whacked and gone haywire for the past few weeks. hahaha!! i want to destress nw by writing another poem for Joie. haha! i haven't even started to write the first word! also, i want to write about how some Filipinos, critics and prdinary people alike, look like idiots!

well, it's that just, they don't like films where they will keep you guessing until the end. many Filipinos like films that are formulaic, films that you really know what the ending is based on the plot of the film. sigh! idiocy! that's idiocy!! i like films where i don't really know what the outcome will be, films that will make me think! an example is Scoop (okay! i know that Hugh Jackman is in that movie but Woody Allen is really one brilliant director!). that movie kept me guessing who the fucking killer and then, i find out that it was...

okay i won't tell, but it did keep me in suspense. another one is Premonition. cheesy ending, really, i mean, i knew what the last scene will be like, but it kept me guessing how Jim had died and how the days seemed to go helter skelter.

sigh! i know i'm so, i dunno know, bad maybe or un-nationalistic but that's what i see. why don't they like to think? sigh! i like other genres of films, too (oh, yeah. i have like the three X-Men films, the third one in both VCD and DVD, the four Harry Potter films, Sandra Bullock films, Famke Janssen films, Hugh Jackman films, the list goes on), but i like those films where it would make me think.

The Angel Heaven Let Us Borrow

2007-02-08T22:23:00.000+08:00

[[this is the same article I wrote for Mimi. she has replied to me that it was a bit long, lol,for such a small magazine. i want to thank her for quoting the last part of it in the current issue of WITCH. thank you very much.]]

THE ANGEL HEAVEN LET US BORROW

"When the singer's gone, let the song go on

It's a fine line between the darkness and the dawn

They say in the darkest night there's a light beyond" – All I Know, Art Garfunkel

I had only known her for almost a year now and yet she has become a good friend, a best friend, to me. A close common friend introduced us through the Yahoo Instant Messenger early this year and we used the program as our communication device. It is the only way we can talk anyway since she lives on the other side of the world, in Paris, France. A six-hour time difference also separates us and yet we find time to “talk” to each other. And we haven’t even seen each other in person, only in photographs. Her name is Joelle Maxine Lindley.

Joie, as we call her, came to the Philippines a while back and stayed in the South for three years. She studied nursing in Ateneo de Davao. An acquaintance there told her of this forum, the W.I.T.C.H. Board. I have been quite inactive the time she became a member so we weren't formally introduced. But there's where our friendship nourished. We found out that we have several things in common, one being Harry Potter. Together, we've established a role-playing forum where I'm Headmistress and she's my Deputy. I also got her to sign-up as Rogue in an X-Men role-playing forum I'm a member of. We also laugh at little things and have fun with the smileys at Yahoo.

It was our close common friend who told me the real deal about Joie's health. She is in Paris because she has to rest. She has leukaemia. It was a little disturbing since I never had a close friend who had cancer. But I have to accept it. I know that she was taking chemotherapy treatments but in April, her body started rejecting it. In late June, she flew to Maryland to have bone marrow transplant (BMT). The operation happened on 7 July and it was successful. She came back to France the same week and was online in no time. She was still feeling sick but she found the time to post in W.I.T.C.H. (we are both Girl Scouts, moderators, by the way), in our Hogwarts forum, and of course, chat with us in Yahoo. We talked about how she feels at the moment and how she's still taking chemo once a week. You'll never know from her responses that she was feeling sick at the moment. Our Yahoo midnight conversations only stopped when I started work in August yet we still found ways to communicate: the private messages and the chat boxes. When I worked the graveyard shift, I catch her at W.I.T.C.H. even for a while. And since I have shallow tears, she was one of the W.I.T.C.H.ies who "comforted" me when I told them I cried and got depressed watching the scene where Adrian (played by Seth Gabel) killed himself in front of his mother, Ava Moore (played by Famke Janssen, a favourite of mine) in the Nip/Tuck Season 2 finale. And need I be reminded that she was also one of the W.I.T.C.H.ies who "comforted" me when I told them that I cried when Logan killed Jean Grey in X-Men The Last Stand and that it was the second time they killed Famke in an X-Men film!

Last month, her fiancé has to take the laptop she's using on a business cruise so we missed Joie. She still posts but not as often as she used to. When I checked my introduction thread, a post from her said that my Hugh Jackman obsession has gone to the extreme (oh yes. I love him and I'm waiting for him to get divorced so that we can get married. Ha ha!). She meant it as a joke. And then I got sick and hadn't been online for a week.

I felt a little better on Saturday, 11 November, so I was able to open my email. I found a letter from her. I thought she just wanted to ask me about something but what was written in it shattered my heart. It said that she had begun to feel weak again and that she had to stay in the hospital for the rest of her life. She left it to my discretion whether or not, and how, to tell the W.I.T.C.H.ies that she had to leave all the forums she's a member of. Here I am, ill myself, and then I receive this news. It took a lot of courage to tell the kids at W.I.T.C.H., who love her so much, the reason she had to leave. I don't know if I was going to cry or not but it was a burden for me, that it was me whom she trusted with this. We sent her messages and her friend printed out and read the messages to her.

Joie travelled to her new home on 14 November 2006, 7 in the evening in France. I was at work when I learned from another friend the post that Joie's friend wrote in her blog. I couldn't help but cry but our linking friend said that, as Joie's last wish, the forum continue to be happy, that it's as if she just took a very long vacation and she would be coming back. It only totally sunk in when I saw the teaser poster for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I realised that she will never see the film and that she will never be able to read the series' conclusion.

Everything is a borrowed heaven, as was stated in that Corrs song. We will truly miss Joie's presence so much. Her nyahas and teehees will be greatly missed as well as her bold, hot pink-coloured posts, her ability to make us laugh, her role in our role-playing family as Lola Dionisia, her charm, and probably her dislike for the purple coloured dinosaur. I will certainly miss her telling me about my obsession with a certain Mr Jackman. But as the Art Garfunkel song, used in that fateful Nip/Tuck finale, "But the endings always comes at last, endings always come too fast. They come too fast but the past too slow," the finale will always come.

And for Joie, wherever you are now, we thank Heaven for letting us borrow you even for a short while. Your wish is our command so there will be time enough for tears. This is not goodbye and for every summer sunshine and silver strand we'll encounter, we will remember you. You are our angel.

NOTE: Joie is half-British, half-French and the only Filipino words she knew were lola, bantot, ate, and pasaway.

The Dreadful Day

2006-11-16T12:32:00.000+08:00

The time has come. I just learned from Neym, through Andie, that dearest Joelle Maxine Arden Lindley had passed away. I am still waiting for confirmation but it had come from Andie herself. We we just talking about Hugh Jackman last night and then...

I don't know what to do. I cried and my heart broke into a million pieces. I am now just realising that I will never talk to her again. I will never see her posts. I will never hear her nyahas and teehees. I also realised that she will not see the new Harry Potter film and the last book. We will never conquer the chat zones again. Most of all, I will never see her bold, hot pink font again.

Credits to Neym for the picture.

On The Brighter Side Of Things

2006-11-15T23:10:00.000+08:00

ok, forgive me for being so emotional but reading those messages made me cry so hard knowing that joie won't be able to respond to them personally.

i'm really really sorry to have let you go through this but this is the least we could do. you know how much joie loves you ever since she became a member of that forum.

all those messages will go to her and don't worry i'll make sure that each of those messages will have a reply from her.

i guess she'll be happy for winning most unique! she is indeed unique in so many ways!

thank you so much denise! thank you!

This is a bit happier. This is Andie's note to me. What made me smile is that Joie told Andie that I have the hugest crush on Hugh Jackman! Haha!

Another Update

2006-11-14T17:22:00.000+08:00

I don't know what to do anymore. I kept thinking of things that are going to happen and what will I do if it does.

thank you so much for the messages! i've been so anxious to have them printed!

and tell neym that i appreciate her blog post although i've already posted on her cbox. thank you so much.

and for josh: tell him not to worry, i'm sure joie will leave him a message before she goes or something and for if you only knew, i wish i would know his/her real name so i could tell joie. nevertheless, extend my thanks to her!

now i really don't know how to thank you for being so concerned about my friend, just thank you, thank you so much!

she's currently under critical care and she might be removed from life support if she won't show any improvement.

This is more disturbing. I'm still praying for you, dear friend. You are a fighter. I already miss your nyahas and your teehees.

Another Sad News

2006-11-13T16:01:00.000+08:00

Joie is not all right. I don't know what to do. I don't know if I will cry or not really do anything. It hurts me every time and it breaks my heart. This letter came today.

hello! this is andie, joie's friend, i'm going to print your letter and the other one from your other friend and i'll give it to joie to read.

she's currently in the hospital receiving treatments but i'm not really sure if it'll work though. as of now, we are already preparing for her time to come since we are so sure that it's gonna come now, although we don't want to think about it

anyway, i really don't know how this happened but then it just happened eventually. she became suddenly weak and terribly sick-looking so she was brought to the hospital. there, we found out that her body's really deteriorating because of her sickness plus her heart's not helping as well.

so yeah, that's it really. i'm really sorry if you guys would have to know er status now. actually, she doesn't want you to know, but i convinced her to tell you so that you also won't be puzzled on why she isn't showing up.

well thanks a lot for your concern and i hope you'll continue praying for her!

I have passed on a couple of messages rom our fellow WITCHies. I don't want to think about it right now but I can't help it. Especially with this letter.

A Very Sad News

2006-11-11T16:00:00.000+08:00

I was just bouncing back from being sick when I had received a very sad news/email from my friend, Joie. She was the one who had bone marrow transplant earlier this year. To save me from crying, I will post what she wrote to me here.

hi denise!

i have to tell you something and i really hope you'll understand...

i trust you so much with this and hope you won't fail me...

anyway, i'm saying this to you and it's up to you if you'll tell our friends and how...

okay so i've been so well these past few days but i've become weak suddenly...then i've discovered that i don't have much to live now...so i need to go to the hospital and spend the rest of my life there...

well i know you're smart enough to figure out what i'm talking about...

i'm really sorry for telling you this but this is all i could do...i'm leaving the forum from now on...W.I.T.C.H, hogwarts, x-men high and all others...i really hope that even if i'm gone, i will still be remembered...

if you can't hear about me again, just mail me here or at ...my bestfriend will be reading your message for me...

i'm really really sorry for this, but as i've said, there's nothing i can do about it...i just hope you guys will be happy without me...

thanks so much for the friendship...i love you all so much!...

love you denise!...thanks a lot!...

I have readied myself for this since I heard that even though she had undergone BMT, she is still having her chemo. Don't worry, Joie. I will be here and you willnot be forgotten. The joy and the laughter you brought in our lives will always be there. We love you always and forever.

The Aftermath

2006-10-02T02:02:00.000+08:00

Thursday. From the moment I got out of the office, at 5:30 am from working the graveyard shift, I knew that I would be wet. I had heard in the news the night before that the storm, "Milenyo", will unleash its forces on the Metro the next day. Good thing I had brought my Harry Potter-Dementor raincoat, but because the wind is very strong, I still got soaking wet the moment I stepped out. There were no more transportation from where I usually ride to go the tram. I rode the other way and fortunately, the tram's still operating. I hailed a cab from my station, really, really soaking wet to go home. It was frightening outside: nearly flooded roads, the other vehicles splashing water to other cars. I had a Starbucks breakfast with me, which I bought the night before. The bag was ripped because it got wet. And that was just the morning.

By 10 am before I went to sleep, I could already hear the wind howling far away. We still have electricity. I was in the computer a few hours before, surfing and watching Nip/Tuck Season 2: Bobbi Broderick (again), and the electricity was already fluctuating. Getting frustrated from the computer going on and off, I finally turned it off. I went to sleep and woke hours later to the howlings of the wind and the fact that electricity was already shut off. My sister was supposed to go home at about 5 pm. She SMSed my mum that the tram is non-operational and there was completely no more transportation (we were on the same avenue, different companies, hence different buildings). I called my office and told them that I wouldn't be able to come that evening due to the fact that there were no more transportation and there were debris flying here and there, helter skelter. The winds probably stopped at about 5 or 6 in the evening.

The next day, the storm was completely gone, but it left a devastating sight. The tram was still non-operational, billboards went down, trees uprooted, and electricity still off in 70% of the city. And that was just in the Metro.

I finally went to work that night. Since the tram is still off, I rode on a cab. What a sad sight!! The whole length of EDSA was like a warpath or something. Half of the whole avenue's dark and dangerous. Even the road to where I usually pass to go to work is still dark. In some parts of EDSA, traffic was bad.

Two days later, the billboards are still down. There was a building from where the tram goes up that was wrecked because a huge billboard went down. All the advertisement boards along EDSA were bare.

These pictures were taken by my sister in the University of the Philippines, Sunday morning (she has her licensure reviews on this day). And this was just in one place.

Nip/Tuck

2006-09-25T01:36:00.000+08:00

i finally bought the complete DVD set of Nip/Tuck Season 2. and who would've known that i will cry in the last episode! poor Ava Moore!! i'd never seen Famke cry like that, not in her movies. poor Ava!! it's that that Adrian killed himself in front of his mother. people may think that Ava is not your typical mother, well technically she isn't. she had some sexaul relations with her son but i think she had loved him him, both as a son and as her lover. that's why she was so distressed to see her son run away. and her anguish, to see her son kill himself. boo hoo!! am still crying!! poor Ava!

okay Ava. mother. yes she is a she. and a beautiful one lol. anyway i just hopoed that they had the before and after pictures of Avery Tanner. haha! he must be so wafu to be played by Famke. haha! imagine Jean Grey as a man....oh yeah she did that. she was Cyclops...she dressed up as Cyclops. haha!! i so love that part.

oh yeah, X-Men The Last Stand will be out on 3 october in the US. hopefully it will be released at the same time here. i can't wait. they have three alternative endings and hopefully Jean doesn't die in any of those endings but instead goes steady with Logan! Jean and Logan forever and i hope that Famke and Hugh will do a movie.

From Ate Jasmin's Friendster Blog

2006-09-25T01:18:00.000+08:00

1. Initials:
***DVCA > oh yes, first three letters means Da Vinci Code

2. Name someone with the same birthday as yours?
***Caroline Corr

3.Last thing that you ate?
***tinola! mwahaha! oh wait i think that Spout gum

4. For or against same sex marriage?
***erm, well now that i have watch Nip/Tuck Season 2, for ;)

5. Do you still watch cartoons on Saturday?
***nope. i have mo more time to watch TV actually

6. Do you believe in God?
***of course

7. Something non-physical you hate about yourself:
***non-physical...i dunno, my bashfulness i guess

8. What is your crush's name?
***Hugh Jackman > oh yeah, Wolverine! animalistic! mwahahaha!

10. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?
***IRELAND!!! that's the first. second is walk around New York, preferably in SoHo or West Village. i might see someone there, you know, a very tall woman walking a Boston terrier!

11. Favorite holiday?
***holiday?! may holiday pa ba ako?! mwahaha!! double pay! any holiday!

12. Do you download music?
***yes, before.

13. Where would you want to go on a first date?
***Eiffel Tower or Ireland hahaha!

14. Has anyone ever sang or played for you?
***no :(

15. Have you ever cried for a reason?
***huh?! do you cry when there's no reason at all? you're deranged!

16. Do you like President Arroyo?
***i think so.

17. Have you ever bungee jumped?
***no! too chicken for that lol

18. Has anyone ten years older than you ever hit on you?
***no

19. How is the weather right now?
***a bit cold

20. Current track you're listening to?
***Bríd Óg Ní Mhaille > literally Young Bridget O'Malley

21. What is your current favorite song?
***many! but now i think it's Unfaithful from Rihanna

22. What was the last movie you watched?
*** poor me! in theatres it was Pirates of the Carribean 2: Dead Man's Chest. on VCD it was Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. on DVD it was Nip/Tuck Season 2....episode title was Naomi Gaines. ah! super sexy Ava Moore!! haha!! great! lucky guy..John Hensley..kissed by Famke!

23. Do you wear contacts?
***no

24. Where was the last place you went besides your house?
***fifth floor of our building!

26. Any pets?
***Arwen and Tube > cats but probably they're not. i think they're lions

27. Have you ever loved someone?
***of course...my mum, my sis..mwahaha!!

28. What really turns you on?
***i dunno ;)

29. What do you usually order from Starbucks?
***raspberry tea frappe

30. Have you ever fired a gun?
***no

31. Are you missing someone?
***Joie!! come online!

32. Do you have an iPod?
***yes, an iPod shuffle and i'm listening to it right now

33.Cellphone?
***of course

34. What's the name of your crush?
***Hugh Jackman! haha!

35. Are you comfortable with your height?
***yes

36. Have you ever been caught doing something you weren't supposed to be
doing?
***no

37. Favorite flower?
***tulip > oh yeah!! Netherlands man!

38. Butter, plain, kettle, or salted popcorn?
***cheese...lol and caramel

39. What books are you reading right now?
***X-Men The Last Stand again

40.Do you watch anime?
***yes

41. Do you watch MTV?
***Yes

42. What's something that really annoys you?
***many....

43. What are some things you really like?
***my cell phone, my iPod, Famke Janssen, Hugh Jackman, my X-Men haha!!

44. Do you like Michael Jackson?
***NO

45. Can you dance?
***i think so

46. Favorite football/soccer team?
***none

47. Favorite breakfast food?
***Sausage McMuffin! yum!

WITCH Mods meeting

2006-08-28T00:59:00.000+08:00

saturday. we were supposed to meet with the other WITCH Boards moderators, along with the KHQ ones, but only Gerlie and me attended. anyway we had fun. super fun!!! the guys at Summit Media is super fun!! ate chamie's fun to be with, kalog. koko's great too. and i saw ate mel again, my editor in SHSian Voices. and it seemed that only me and Gerlie were the upbeat members there. and i gues it was due to lack of sleep! lol anyway, the guys gave both of us a WITCH shirt each (love it!!) and a bag (love it too!!). and since we didn't have stickers in our 50th issue, they also gave us stickers!!! i gave one to Jen and she loved the one with Will holding her precious froggy!

as for my work, i survived another week. haha! imagine having to transcribe bible studies. hahaha! my eyes and head were drooping. and imagine having to transcribe with defective headsets! my seatmate, from a previous batch, let me borrow her extra headset. i had a great thursday though. we transcribed those cool reality TV shows like Ricki Lake, Judge Hatchett, and the show Ready, Set, Go (a how where they makeover an area of your house so it would look like your favourite TV show). it was fun though. now i can't end a sentence without having to hit the space bar twice lol (client specs - you have to have two spaces between the sentences)!

sweldo week!! hahaha!

need:
new shoes - my beloved Chuck Taylors!!! finally i can have you!!!
lingerie - more bench body lingerie!!! i have to say this is the best brand for me. it fits!! super!!
another shirt/blouse/top or denims/bottoms - more Penshoppe clothes!!!

want:
Nip/Tuck Season 2 - Ava Moore!!!! if my tita can't buy it for me, then this is my luxury item in my list. teehee!! complete set! 6 disks!! Famke!!!!

STRESSED

2006-08-16T18:37:00.000+08:00

It's a favourite word of our trainer Anna. No not the Anna in WITCH. Our trainer. Well for two days, we haven't done anything except surf the Net. It's like an Internet cafe with restricted sites. And free! Lol. But stressed is just DESSERTS spelled backwards. I received that from Jenny a few months back. It was a SMS quote.

Yeah, I had Starbucks for breakfast today because I haven't eaten last night. I slept continuously and no one even woke me up to eat! Hahaha! I had raspberry tea frappe, whole wheat croissant, and my beloved almond biscotti! Yummy!!

Hey any fans of Harry Potter out there? Please join my role-playing forum, Hogwarts Academy of Enchantment. I still need teachers and of course students. And if someone can figure out why the wand codes are not working please tell me why. Apparently, only my and Joie's profiles are the ones where the codes are working. I'm stressed! Hehehe! No. I'm going insane!

Well, I survived two weeks now. I'm still sleepy but I'm okay. It's a fun work. You just have to figure out the punctuations! Stressed! ;)

Ode to Jean Grey

2006-08-14T19:15:00.000+08:00

This is another one of my poems dedicated to Jean. It is more like a eulogy. It was after I read The Dark Phoenix Saga.

Farewell to a Friend
She was the most benevolent spirit
All of us came to love
She saved others, mentally and physically
And loved her friends more than herself

Nobody expected that it'd be this way
She would become life incarnate
She turned away from us
Hurt us and denied us as her friends

But when ruby eyes and her were alone
She said her final words to him
A shout was heard, of grief, misery, and pain
Her name rang through the name

Farewell to you, life incarnate
A sacrifice made so as not to hurt anyone again
And you will be remembered here in our grieving hearts
As the embodiment of love

Ode to the Phoenix

2006-08-13T17:03:00.000+08:00

I made this poem while languishing over the death of Jean Grey in X2: X-Men United. I hated it when the characters I like die at the end of a film. I especially don't like it when that character's actor happens to be a favourite lol.

Fenice*
As you soar up the sky
I see your wings so bright
Your enchanting song calms me down
And it brings a smile on my face

You may be a myth, a legend
An immortal with eyes of fire
Flames surround your entire body
Storms that rage the air every beat of your wings

You heal those who are wounded
Loyal to those who care for you
But when it is time for you to go
You burn until all I can see are dust

How surreal this moment is
To see you rise upon the ashes
I believe it now that I've seen it

You will always come back to us

I also made referrals to Fawkes here, since he also happens to be a Phoenix. Although everyone knows that Fawkes will always come back. Jean won't ever come back though in the comics she did several times. This poem was also written in my poem diary, ironically with a Phoenix (Fawkes) on the first page.

*Fenice is Italian for Phoenix

Working....

2006-08-12T17:12:00.000+08:00

well, i'm working now and it's quite an exciting field too. i'm a transcriptionist. but it can get pretty crazy too! lol and bummer! there's no YIM and ProBoards are restricted so i cannot access my own forum! hahaha! well i can't access some forums too!

well i know i haven't updated my Joie Chronicles. hse's back now and we've been PMing each other again. she still has chemo sessions so i'll continue to pray for her. as for he Chronicles, i'll post the last two chapters soon. i just can't find the paper where i wrote the draft of it.

my auntie was here for two weeks. she left a while ago. we had a great time with her and of course, we made "bilin". iPod Shuffle for me and the second season of Nip/Tuck since i haven't seen it yet. it was on cable here but we don't have one and free TV doesn't want to get the show since it's quite gory (well imagine me and my sissy while we were watching The Hills Have Eyes! lol).

oh, X-Men The Last Stand will be out on DVD on 3 october while The Lake House will be on 26 september. hmm...a little treat for me and my sissy. hope we have our salaries by then. har har!! gonna bust my first pay on DVDs lol. hey no! just on X3 and Jen and I already said that it's half and half on The Lake House. the only DVD i know that i will buy is The Da Vinci Code cos of Audrey Tautou. hmmm...hope it has some bloopers.

New Blog!

2006-08-08T01:30:00.000+08:00

Hello there! Got this new blog! Finally a Phoenix themed blog! I so love Jean Grey in the X-Men films. Of course, I totally adore Famke Janssen! She's a great actress, especially that Bond film GoldenEye.

Anyway, thanks to my sister, Jennifer for making the design. Yep! I have a designer haha! I'm too Jurassic to make one and am not that artistic as her lol. Also the mermaidy, according to my sissy, pistur is from www.famke-janssen.org. The other one I dunno where but it originally came from 20th Century Fox. It's the Phoenix production photo.

I'm not writing anymore to my Friendster blog but instead I'll transfer the other entries of my LJ one here, especially my Chronicles.

The Joie Chronicles Interlude 1 (Republish)

2006-07-07T17:46:00.000+08:00

the conversation going on at the WITCH board, in Joie's thread. a big thanks to Neym who translated the even pages.

PAGE 2
^ na intindihan mo rin un...waaaaaa...bilib na ko sau shen...pati german alam mong basahin...saludo ako...
well kung my news ako about her... ill post here...
Joie: La mancherò il mio amico. ..hope lei essrà di ritorno presto..
ENGLISH: you also undertsood that? you're really great shen. you can also understand german. i salute you.
well if i have news about her...i'll post here. -PRUE-

wahehe, alam ko na po ang news.
and sana maging okay yung chemo niya. nabasa ko kasi sa thread niya, she doesn't respond well to it daw
ENGLISH: wahehe. i know the news.
and i hope her chemo will be ok. because i read on her thread, she doesn't respond to it. -NEYM-

PAGE 4
uhmm i dunno kung maiibigay ko sa inyo...ill ask him first kung payag sya ha...
E: uhm i don't know if i can give you. i'll ask him first if he'll agree -PRUE-

oo nga, mag paalam ka muna kung ok lang sa kanya. wala pang update, noh?
E right, ask permission first if it's ok with him. there's no update yet? -neym-

wala pa... di sya nag onlyn today....baka busy sa business
E not yet. he isn't online today. maybe he's busy with business -prue-

ah email na lang nya ko dun sa yahoo ko since that was the email address that Joie and I use for exchanging the pictures for the links sa board namin. bigay mo na lang. it's the same as my YM
E: ah, he could email me on my yahoo since that was the email address joie and i use for exchanging the pictures for the links on our board. just give it to him. it's the same as my YM. -denise-

wahehe. prue, parang chance chance lang talaga na magkita kayo at dawn, ano?
pwera na alng siguro kung talagang hihintayin mo siya magdamag.
anyway, sana makausap mo na talaga siya ulit this week, para ma update uli tayo
E: wahehe prue, it seems like just a chance for you to meet at dawn, right?
maybe except if you'll wait for him all night
anyway, i hope you can talk to him again this week so we'll be updated. -neym-

hahaha...ngaun hihintayin ko sya hanggang 8 am...siguro naman mag oonlyn sya diba...(pray)..tapos di nag onlin oh...waaaaaaaaa

okie dokie...sabihin ko sa kanya pag nagkausap kami mamayang madaling araw...bakit kasi magkaiba pa oras ng paris at pilipinas eh...parehas naman silangnasa earth....grrrrrrrrrrrrr....

E: hahaha. today, i'll wait for him until 8 am. maybe he'll o online. (pray). then he won't get online
pkie dokie...i'll tell him if i can talk to him this dawn. why is is that the timezone for philippines and paris is different when they are both on earth...grrrr -prue-

ah, bakit ganun?
that's so bad naman, i mean she's supposed to be responding para matuloy anf bone marrow transplant niya.
hope she'll be fine
E: ah, why? that's so bad, i mean she's supposed to be responding so that her BMT will be done. hope she'll be fine -neym-

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tama ka gerlie. the flutterby should be back. ang tagal naman ng 14. wahehe
E: you're right, gerlie. flutterby should be back. 14 doesn't get any sooner. -neym-

hahaha..miss ko na rin sya sa mental..si master joie...kung hindi sa kanya hindi ako makaka alis dun sa room...at tsaka na mi-miss ko ung chatting namin sa msn...ung kakilitan sa Chaos dati nung indivual mission...

E: hahaha..i also miss her in the mental...master joie...if not because of her, i wouldn't be able to get out of the room...and i miss our chatting on msn...our randomness at chaos during th individual mission. -prue-

na mention nya sa PM dati na may phone siya, pero di na niya ginagamit kasi nahuli daw siya ng lolo niya. hehehe.
lolo talaga.
prue, may suggestion ako, e-mail mo kaya fiancee niya. tapos sabihin mo na kung may updates siya kay joie kung pwede i-email na lang niya sa'yo. kasi diba minsan niyo lang naaabutan ang isa't isa.

E: she mentioned on her PM before thatshe has a phone. but she isn\'t using it anymore because she was caught by her grandpa. hehehe
oh, grandpa.
prue, i have a suggestion. e-mail her fiancee and tell him that if he has updates, maybe he can just email it to you. because sometimes you don't catch each other, right? -neym-

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.... naiiyak ako denise sa ginawa mo....
kahapon nga habang nagsusulat ako sa diary ko..(sinabi pa talaga na may diary ako)
binasa ko ung mga previous na sinulat ko...then one of pages...bigla akong napaluha you know why...
kasi un ung page na sinulat ko ung pano ko nakilala sa joie...
grabe miss na miss ko na ang friend kong yan..
i met joie last january 04, 2006...since then we always talked in ym...
i dunno if im the first person na sinabihan nya na may sakit ako...oh..no..meron pa atang isa me and josh...well
nadulas kasi ako kay josh kaya...nasabi na rin nya kay josh that night....
uhmm..that ol i can share...
ang drama ko...

E: waaa, i cried on denise's work...
yesterday, while i was writing on my diary (and i said i have diary)
i read my previous entires...then one of the pages...i immediately cried you know why...
because it was written there on how me and joie met each other...
i really really miss my friend...
i met joie last january 04, 2006...since then we always talked in ym...
i dunno if i'm the first person whom she told about her illness...oh...no...there's another one...me and josh...well
i slipped on josh so she also told him that night...
uhmm..that ol i can share...
i'm so dramatic... -prue-

kaiyak talaga, na sad tuloy ako lalo.
balak ko nga ring gumawa ng get well banner para sa kanya. siguro pag nakapag isip na ako ng magandang idea
i met joie just recently. mga 1 month pa lang naman ako dito sa forum naging active eh.
but i already see her sa school dati, same kasi kami ng school, ahead lang ako.
when she stopped studying, wala na ako sa addu, so i never saw na when she got sick.
we dont' usually chat on ym, kasi di ko siya palaging naaabutan. so we chat on pm's na lang.
dun, she tells me a lot of fun things she's had in our school and yung mga hinanakit niya sa admin namin, mga kalokohan lang.
i easily felt at ease with her and minsan nga, nakakalimutan kong may sakit pala siya.
it was really an experience being her friend.
joie is such an angel
E: it was really sad.
i also plan to make a get well banner for her. maybe if i could think of a good idea.
i met joie just recently. i have just been activehere for a month
but i already see her at school before, we're in the same school, i'm just ahead.
when she stopped studying, i wasn't in addu anymore, so i never saw when she got sick
we dont' usually chat on ym because i don't usually catch her. so we chat on pm's
there, she tells me a lot of fun things she's had in our school and her grudge against the admin. just crazy things.
i easily felt at ease with her and sometimes, i forget she's sick/
it was really an experience being her friend.
joie is such an angel -neym-

kaya pala ang daming message sa inbox nya...hahaha
lol..hehehhe
E: that's why she has lots of messages in her inbox.
lol...hehehe -prue-

oo, dun kasi kami nag uusap. kung hindi, sa thread niya
E: yes, because we talk there if not, we talk on her thread. -neym-

ah...... ganun pala
hay..siguro busy si andrew kaya di sya nag online ngaun....
maaga naman me nag online..3am...siguro busy lang...well sabi ko naman sa kanya email nya na lang ako pag hndi
nya ko naabutan online
E: ah...that's it
hay...maybe andrew's busy that's why he isn't online right now...
i was online early, about 3am...maybe he's busy...well i told him he should email me if he can't catch me online.. -prue-

hehehe. don't worry, mukha namang mabait yun eh.
maaabutan mo yun if not, mag e-email yun
E: hehehe. don't worry, he looks nice.
you'll catch him if not, he'll email you. -neym-

PAGE 8
waa! na excite tuloy ako, sumakit ang heart ko, lols!
ui, miss niya tayo! yehey! good nes talaga prue! ang galing!
at nai-imagine ko na ang boses niya pag sinabi yun, lols!
E: waa! i got excited, my heart hurt, lols!
ui, she misses us! yehey! it's really a good news, prue!
and i can imagine his voice when he says that, lols! -neym-

lol...talaga na imagine mo ung boses nya...
hehehe...
ang sabi ko kay andrew... " paki sabi MISS na rin namin sya"....
E: lol...really, you imagined his voice...
hehehe...
i told andrew..."tell her we miss her too"... -prue-

talaga, tinagalog mo?
buti naman, naintindihan niya, lols!
E: really? you said it in tagalog?
it's good that he understood, lols! -neym-

sira ka talaga syempre english..kaw talaga pinapatawa mo ko
E: you are crazy. of course in english. you really make me laugh -prue-

wahehe. naka quote kasi so akala ko yun talaga ang sinabi mo. lols!
E: wahehe. it was quoted so i thought that's what you really said, lols! -neym-

ay hindi naman...wla lang gusto ko lang kasing i qoute...hehehe
E: oh no, i just want to quote it. hehehe -prue-

lols, basta andun yung thought.
akala ko lang kasi talaga, kasing talentado mo rin siya sa languages
E: lols, as long as the thought is there.
i thought he's also talented like you in languages -neym-

sabi ko na nga ba, matutuwa ka, anna. hehehe.
ang saya noh? 16 days na lang before siya bumalik
E: i know you'll be happy, anna. hehehe.
it's so fun right? 16 days more before she comes back -neym-

Oo nga..!! Magbababalik na si flutterby. Of course, matutuwa ako, and tayong lahat.

I knew that our prayers would be answered.
E: right..!! flutterby will come back. of course i'll be happy and all of us.
I knew that our prayers would be answered. -anna-

oo, puro nanaman pollen ang forum pagbalik ni joie. hehehe.
E: yes, our forum will be full of pollen again when joie comes back. hehehe. -neym-

waaah!...pag babasahin ito ni ate joie..wala talaga siyang maiintindihan!!..wahihih...kailangan niya pa ng translator..!!wahiihi...
ate joie...we miss you!!>..get well soon!!
E: waaah!...when joie reads this..she won't understand anything!!..wahihih...it needs a translator..!!wahiihi...
ate joie...we miss you!!>..get well soon!! -shen-

wahehe. si prue na ang bahalang mag translate ng lahat lahat sakaling manghingi ng translation si joie!
E: wahehe. prue will be responsible for the translation in case joie asks for one. -neym-

PAGE 10
basta yung mga nasa odd pages, sa'yo. yung mga nasa even, sakin. PM ko sa'yo yung mga na translate ko na.
E: the odd pages will be yours and the even will be mine. i'll PM you those that i've already translated -neym-

oo, dionisya mas masaya! bakit mo hinahanap ang mister ko?
E: yes, diyonisya is more fun! why are you looking for my husband? -neym-

aling bebang naliligaw po ata kau ng sinulid....
E: aling bebang, you're lost on a different thread. -prue-

1st line: o sige...start ako ng thurs..
2nd line: anong asawa mo... Thats my husband....he's mine...Tiburcio...nasan ka na ba...bat ilang araw ka na di umuuwi....

E: 1st line: ok...i'll start on thursday..
2nd line: your husband...that's my husband...he's mine...tiburcio...where are you...why aren't you soming home for days.... -prue-

aba aba aba, anong asawa mo? ang kapal ng mukha mo, nanghihiram ka na lang nga ng pustiso sakin eh!
UPDATE: yehey! malapit na transplant niya. tapos niyan, babalik na siya!
E: hey hey hey, what do you mean your husband? what a thick faced! you were even just borrowing dentures from me!
UPDATE: yehey! her transplant is near. agfter that, she'll return! -neym-

Naku! nasan na ba si Tiburcio?
ang tigas ng mukha nun ah!! pinagaagawan ng dalawang matanda..
E: oh no, where is tiburcio?
his face is so hard! two oldies are after him! -rash-

tatlo, apo. tatlo! wahehe.
si tiburcio kasi, ayaw sabihin sa dalawang losyang na yun na ako ang mahal niya!
E: three grandchild, three.
it's tiburcio's fault. he won't tell those two oldies that he loves me! -neym-

What r u talking about?...hoy! manang ambrosia...mag ingat ka sa sinasabi mo...ni wala na nga makakapitan ng postiso dyan sau eh... pano ka magkakaroon nun...
tsaka Im the LEGAL Wife...ofi tiburcio...in fact..kakakasal lang namin.....nung.... (thingking)...uhm... i forgot...basta ikinasal kami nun...di ko lang matandaan.

E: What r u talking about?...hey! manang ambrosia...you watch what you're saying...there even isn't anything for your dentures to hold on...how would you have it...
and i'm the legal wife...of tiburcio...in fact...we just got married...last...(thinking)...uhm...i forgot...whatever, we were married...i just don't remember. -prue-

o kita, di mo nga matandaan! kasi ulyanin ka na!
at matagal na kaming kinasal ni tiburcio! dalawampung taon na ang nakakalipas!
oi! inggit ka lang sa pustiso ko!
aray, rayuma ko!
E: see, you can't remember because you already have alzheimer's!
and me and tiburcio were married for a long time. twenty years ago!
oi, you're just jealous of my dentures! -neym-

AY! TATLO..
botohan na lang tayo! kung sinO ang tunay na mahal ni TiburciO..
sino boboto kay Inang Chupetra!?
kay ALing Bebang?
at kay Manang Ambrosia?
E: oh, three..
let's just vote! on whoever tiburcio loves the most
who will vote for inang chupetra!?
for aling bebang
and for manang ambrosia? -rash-

ako, ako! bobot ako kay manang ambrosia!
teka, ako yun ah! oo nga!
E: me, me! i'll vote for manang ambrosia!
wait, that's me! right! -neym-

ay u have rayuma...kawawa ka naman...here ( abot ng money)go to the doctor...mag pareseta ka ng gamot... and dont buy generic okay...
Uhm.. ikaw 20 yrs palang kaung kasal..kami nga 30 yrs na... ata...ay naku...napaka ulyanin ko na ata... i forgot to drink my enervon prime eh..kaya ganito ako ngaun.......huh...basta all i know im his LEGAL WIFE...
E: ay u have rayuma...poor you...here (gave some money)go to the doctor...ask for a prescription... and dont buy generic okay...
uhm.. you are already 20 years married..we were married 30 years i think...oh no, i'm really having alzheimer's now...i forgotto drink my enervon prime..that's why i'm like this...basta all i know im his LEGAL WIFE.. -prue-

oi tanda! hindi ko kailangan ang pepitsuging pera mo kasi may pera rin ako!
baka gusto mo, isakay pa kita sa pajero ko!
E: hey oldie! i don't need your cheap money because i also have money!
if you liek, i can give you a ride with my pajero! -neym-

Inang kO! magrereview na kO ha! Bye mga lola..
magme2morize pa ko! niahaha! bye Inang Chupetra!
Mamãe, Mamãe, Mamãe Eu Quero
Mamãe Eu Quero, Mamãe Eu Quero Mamá
Dá A Chupetra, Dá A Chupetra
Dá A Chupetra Pro Bebê Não Chorá

Manang Ambosia.. ambisyosang kikay ka!
padalan kita ng kikay kit dyan ha! wait mo ko! lewlz
Aling Bebang.. si Bitoy si Itoy atska si BEBANG!
Kapatid mo ba sila!? hehehe!
E: oh mother, i have to review! bye grannies..
i still have to memorize! niahaha! bye inang chupetra!
Mamãe, Mamãe, Mamãe Eu Quero
Mamãe Eu Quero, Mamãe Eu Quero Mamá
Dá A Chupetra, Dá A Chupetra
Dá A Chupetra Pro Bebê Não Chorá
manang ambrosia, you're an ambitious chick!
i'll give you a chikie kit there, just wait! lewlz
aling bebang.. bitoy, itoy and bebang
are they your sibs? hehehe! -rash-

hehhee. sige apo, mag aral ka at nang ikaw ay matulad kay manang ambrosia mo.
matalino at kikay!

E: ok grandchild, you study so you will be like me.
intelligent and a chick! -neym-

aba!.. Pajero...Yuck!... sorry i have my choper with me...masyado kasing traffic d2 sa manila...
wer's my bodyguard... Guard... can u pls call the choper..i need to go to my huse ryt now...baka nandun na si tiburcio
E: pajero...yuck!... sorry i have my chopper with me...it's so traffic here in manila...
wer's my bodyguard... guard... can you please call the chopper..i need to go to my house right now...maybe tiburcio is already there -prue0-

huh?...oo nga no..baka kapatid ni bebang sila bitoy
E: huh?...right..maybe bitoy is bebang's sib. -prue-

korek! hehe kapatid ko nga sila. kaya lang maganda na ko ngaun kasi... bwhaaaahha. secret
E: correct! hehe, they are my sibs. but i'm prettier now because... bewahaha. secret -gerlie-

The Joie Chronicles Chapter 2 (Republish)

2006-06-27T15:27:00.000+08:00

Frankly, I learned about her being sick from Anna at that fateful conference after Joie left. I never told Joie that I know. Eventually, she let us know.

I was shocked the first time I learned that she has cancer. I never knew someone, much less a friend, who has leukemia. I never took pity or felt sorry for her. I was much more worried for her, and for me because I might lose somebody that I care about.

You will never figure out that she has leukemia from the posts in her thread at the WITCH board. She constantly changes her display name to fun things. She'll post "nyaha!" if she finds your post funny. She also posts in pink, earning her "agent" name Geek in the Pink. Most of all, she looks at being sick in a positive way.

Our midnight chatting about anything under the sun never showed that she feels sick at the moment. Though she tells me, she would do so by replying with laughing smileys and her usual "nyaha!". You'll never really know she's sick when you chat with her. It just shows when you ask her if she'd seen the latest movie releases.

As her condition is delicate her grand-pére, who lives with her in France, does not allow her to go out. She'll know the stories just by listening to her friends who've watched the latest releases. I once asked her if she's going to watch The Da Vinci Code. She said she wants to and she was imagining how the opening scene will be. I also remembered telling her that I was saddened and crying at the end of X-Men The Last Stand. she told me not to cry though she didn't know what exactly the ending of X-Men The Last Stand was. I once told her that I can send her pirated copies; we just laughed at the idea. Next thing I know, she posted that it really was a very sad ending. Her friend told her about it. I promised her when she comes back I'll tell her the whole story.

I learned recently from Anna, who's in contact with Joie's fiancé, that she's doing all right. I also learned that in April, her doctors stopped her chemotherapy. She was not responding to it anymore.

The Joie Chronicles Chapter 1 (Republish)

2006-06-25T10:25:00.000+08:00

I miss my friend. She's been gone for several days now. I hope she comes back okay. I've only known Joelle Maxine Lindley, Joie for short, for about four months but we've already become friends. We met through an online friend, Anna. Oh yes, she's also a member of the W.I.T.C.H. board. We met while in a conference chat with some WITCHies in YIM. She's 20 and is half-English, half-French. We've only said hi and hello in the posts at the board before. It then turned to midnight chatting in YIM, then the CBox in a forum where we're both members also. Next thing we knew, we were "conquering" the chat zones online, talking nonsense, never knowing that by doing so we were fast becoming friends. We both learned that we have some things in common: love for Harry Potter and love for Barbie Fairytopia.

Our love for Harry Potter helped me form an idea to make a role-playing forum of our own. Since I'm not familiar with Proboards environment, she helped me, thus becoming my co-admin, do the skins and the info centre. We were thinking and joking about what we're going to place in the boards. She helped me a lot.

Since she lives in France, there's a six-hour time difference. Although I can stay up at 4 in the morning, sometimes it was also a problem. So the e-mails came through. We passed on the pictures we can use for our forum. Then we talk about nonsense again, joking that we have to do the pictures fast. We also share the love of dowloading additional Photoshop brushes so we can use it for the pictures. The first time she got me hooked on this brush business, I sent her a picture of crowded brushes. She said it was fun to look at and cool. I even pointed out the fleur-de-lis, France's flower.

I never thought Joie and I would click. She is such a bundle of joy, laughing at odd things, you never know that she's ill. In one forum, she told us that she'll be leaving. On 21 June, she left for Maryland, for Johns-Hopkins. She'll have her operation there. She has leukemia.

On top of Mt Everest, The Da Vinci Code, and the Phoenix's Rise and Death (Republish)

2006-05-28T15:47:00.000+08:00

Filipinos reaches the top of the highest peak

well, Leo Oracion and Pastour Emata reached the top of the highest peak in the whole world last week. yippee!!! we have the Philippine flag on top of Mt Everest. the next batch will be climbing Mt McKinley in Alaska, also this year. they're the girl members of the team. wow! i was joking that there next stop is the moon! wahihihi! anyway, it'll be too expensive for them to go to the moon. ;)

The Da Vinci Code

we watched The Da Vinci Code last week at Gateway. whoa! the queues are long. and to think i was in the express lane! and the 3pm showing are sold out so we had to watch an hour later at a different cinema number.

it's pretty cool and they followed the book faithfully. i love Audrey Tautou! i was excited to see her in this film since i haven't heard her speak in English. i haven't watch Dirty Pretty Things the time we watched The Da Vinci Code. i have only watched Amélie and was supposed to watch A Very Long Engagement but i always forgot to get it at the rentals store (fyi: we watched it already). and i am excited that scored the role of Sophie Neveu.

critics are saying it a boring film and they can't understand Audrey. i think it's not boring and i understood Audrey very well. i love the film, really! it's not like Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. that film did not even explain who Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs are to Harry. hmp!

The Phoenix rose, yet Wolverine....

waaahhh!!! i cried again watching X-Men 3: The Last Stand. i know it's pretty weird since it's not a drama film but Jean!!!!! the only Class 5 mutant! i know she pleaded with Logan to kill her. and in the comics she killed herself. but no!!! LOGAN killed her!!!!!! waaaahhhhh!!!! and Jean killed Scott and the Professor! but LOGAN still killed her!!! that's the second time they killed off Famke Janssen in an X-Men movie! at least it was still Logan who was with her. and he finally said I LOVE YOU to her. it was like, in the last film she made a choice with Scott but in the end it was still Logan who she chose. she died in Logan's arms.

Magneto is human now, although at the last scene, with him playing chess, the piece moved a little. so i think there's still a little bit more of power to him.

Mystique is also human. as is Rogue.

oh and yeah, the Professor's reincarnated in the body of the charge of Moira McTaggart.

but Jean!!! she'll never be alive again!!! what sacrifice Logan has to do!