Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Britney and Paris



Britney: "Paris is my idol."

Vatski: "Utang buot!"

Thursday, November 23, 2006

TF Foundation's adopt-an-angel project


no please, dili kanang duha kay tawo mana, that's me and workmate joeberth. Right before us is, of course, the Christmas tree nga namungingi og angels. Each angel is sold for P50 and is named before the adoptive parent, and is then hanged in this tree. Lovely! The money will be used to buy gifts and toys and food for the street kids. So sali namo mga batang-isip :) For those nga nipalit na, palit japun mo we have enough space pa eh :)

Thank you, thank you!

Friday, November 17, 2006

this sunday, the streets will be deserted

whitney's getting a divorce. reese is joining. and britney too. and while they're at it, Gringo did not see the authorities coming. tsk! so what will happen to pacman this sunday? wanna bet? im for erik morales. para malahi!

Sunday, November 12, 2006

my Chirstmas wishlist

1. headphones (the bigger the better)
2. a gray jacket (Giordano lang gud)
3. a Kelly Clarkson CD (orig if pwede)
4. a sling bag/belt bag (kana uso ron, dunno how it's called eh)
5. a blue bonnet (im planning to rob a bank puhon)
6. a DVD/VCD copy of Great Expectations and/Mulan
7. a whole body massage gift certificate (hair spa is also accepted)
8. a throw pillow--pikachu or winnie \ako himuon unlan :)
9. Harry Potter books or VCDs/DVDs (im starting to have my own collection basin ganahan mo mojoin)
10. puto bongbong/bombong? ay basta, kana sikat sa Manila, that they put in a bamboo thing...murag lami na sya.
11. a huge back pack (that can accomodate me--i want to travel around the world next year)
12. a DVD player with monitor (barato ra na sa mga Taiwanese store)
13. a blue belt
14. a pair of Oakley shades
15. a tennis/badminton racket (tennis preferred)
16. a guitar
17. a home theater
18. Artwork shirts (blue/white)
19. a pair of white sneakers
20. Jay Hernandez (or Joshua Jackson)

i really wish!!!

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

a testimonial

i understand, practice makes perfect. but i also understand that nobody is perfect, so why practice? and that brings me to this post, an excerpt of the testi that i grabbed from someone's friendster account.

Though we donnu much each other
for only we came to know here, I still be thank full,
Sooner or later in the days to come, we can know
better, better yet we can meet “finally we cross the
bridge when we get there “. Once again thank you
for counting me take care and have your days be
wonderful, beautiful as it can be. Pursuit your perfection,
stand out above the rest and best among the best.
Can’t say more about for now but one thing that
I can be sure off your such a person believing
in yourself succeeding life challenges and building
your wisdom out of it
Life is our classroom for perfecting our souls the
forks in the road help us choose our own goals.
There's no right or wrong in the direction we
choose, God gave us free will; we don't win or lose.
We can very right or left or go forward or back Take
which way feels right, for no learning shall lack.
And when this life ends, we'll look back and decide
if we yearn more perfection, or stay on the Other
Side Each immortal soul is given the choice to
come back to a life to express a new voice, but
remember, each day, if life seems not to give a
choice of circumstance; It's through those lessons
we must live sometimes worth it to leave it to
chance. They're all for perfecting, though
sometimes bring pain, but gets better with time, for
it's more wisdom we gain.

Saturday, November 04, 2006

paranormal, are you in or out?

Paranormal (para/beyond+ normal) is defined as a catch-all category of popular thought, designed to mix together all that is strange or weird, whether fairly or unfairly, related or unrelated.

Ghosts, witches, Extrasensory Perception (ESP), haunting, life after death, doppelganger (a ghostly double of a living person that haunts its living counterpart), reincarnation, monsters, Electronics Voice Phenomena, and so many things that cannot be explained by science. Whether or not they are true, only those with "physic abilities" or those who claim to have been acquainted with the paranormal realm can vouch for their existence.

Cebu is highly-urbanized but would you believe there are reportedly a number (if not a lot) of paranormal sightings happening within this island of about three million people?

Ederts Cojuangco, founder of the newly-launched Cebu Paranormal Society (CPS), said that they've been invited to some haunted houses here, mostly built before the second World War, and witnessed paranormal activities. He cited an incident in an Urgello house, where according to its present occupants a series of unexplained events had disturbed them. Cojuangco said they later on found out that somewhere near the old house buried was an aborted fetus. The group talked to this unrested spirit as one of the process of "healing" the place from such unexplained phenomenon. CPS, he explained, was founded to help people in trouble with paranormal beings and the like.

One of the CPS' advisers is Rene Espinosa, a former ABS-CBN's Nginig paranormal investigator. Espinosa said that paranormal here in the country has not been given that much importance yet, despite the country's love for fairy tales and folklores. It has been set aside like it's a dirty laundry. However, CPS, he added, would hopefully change that image as the supernatural world really exists and people have only to open their eyes to see the world beyond.

Psychic, as defined, is a medium or channeler, one through whom the dead or the other inhabitants of the spirit world are supposed to speak.

Espinosa, who claims himself as one, told TF that indeed they can see and talk to ghosts. It does not need a "third eye" (it's not even the right term as people in his field would rather use "sixth sense" in place of this one) to see paranormal things like they do. Although he explained it requires a great amount of dedication and an equal amount of belief that there are other unseen forces other than the humans, to be one of them. The group, by the way, is open for those, with psychic abilities and those who is willing to learn the trade, and membership is for free. But having the supernatural skills already is a plus, he said.

CPS currently has 12 members, with not much of "gadgets" needed in its quest to help people bothered by weird incidents have a "peaceful coexistence" with whoever is/are spawning them. It is all about the ability to do it, said Espinosa, while explaining that simple materials like a kinetic bell and salt (yeah, the ordinary salt) are enough to "heal" the haunted houses or the supernaturally disturbed person.

So ghosts are coexisting with the living? Espinosa, who was famous for a while with his stint in Nginig wherein they foraged spooky places in the different parts of the country (including those struck by calamities that left several people dead…), explained that it is very possible that a house inhabited by normal people is also used as a dwelling by spirits. And spirits like humans have also different characteristics. Espinosa recalled a case that involved an old man, who had been dead since but refused to leave his house because he was attached to his daughter. The old man reportedly harassed the new occupants everytime he felt disturbed. It is just a matter of talking to them, explaining to them, and the problem would be solved, Espinosa said. And that was what they did to the man, talked to him and put him in a small tightly-closed jar. Then there was peace in the house, the young psychic stated.

And if they co-exist with the humans, do they see each other too? "Apparitions in the morning is very rare, it most likely happens in the evening when the people are resting," Espinosa replied, while adding that ghosts can also make themselves appear like normal people. But, they are not without head or zombie-like as depicted in films, Espinosa added.

Juren Sumalinog, also of CPS, said they are encouraging those people who have the capacity to see "dead people" and ghosts, to help them understand this gift and nurture it if they want to.

The group uses a digital camera to record a haunting, for example. A haunting, by the way, is a kind of "recording" of a past event on an environment, such as a house, building or any ancient place. These recordings play back, over and over in a kind of loop that is always the same, like it was video recorded. It is said that the presence of certain people can trigger these recordings to play back. It is not known, though, how these recordings are made, but they are often associated with a traumatic or strongly emotional event. Cameras, unlike the human eye, can reportedly capture hauntings that are in most cases associated by ghost-like figures.

A spirit or a ghost (or apparition) is the energy, soul or personality of a person who has died and has somehow gotten stuck between this plane of existence and the next. Most psychics believe that these spirits do not know they are dead. Or if they do they are just attached to the earthly life that they don't want to move on to, they say, the other world. That explains, according to Espinosa, why they co-exist with the normal beings.

In this computer age, paranormal has become a popular topic in the discussions in the world wide web. However, questions such as whether there are actually paranormal occurrences will always be asked as paranormal events are not in accordance with scientific laws. Even Christianity has not accepted this "belief" as what it usually thought as paranormal is the power of God to do beyond the ordinary things. As for the skeptics, this myriad of paranormal and fringe science claims may either be absurd or crazy.

Being interested in the "out of the ordinary" phenomena is legitimate, in fact, there's no law prohibiting anyone to be involved in these things. But if by any chance you hear a door banging and you don't see anyone doing it, might as well ask this question: "Yo! spirit, you there?" Who knows you get a reply. VATSKI

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

i don't know why cemeteries fascinate me, especially this one



Sunken Cemetery, Camiguin Island

This large cross marks a cemetery buried along with an entire town by an eruption of Mt. Vulcan Daan in 1871. This is where I wanna go soon.

all saints' day nagvideoke!

filipinos are so fond of singing. buti nalang pinoy sad ko di kayo ta sawayon og magkanta-kanta bisan wa sa tuno. exactly my idea of spending the entire morning of this holiday, before we go to the cemetery and burn some expensive candles there. our neighbor is playing bizrock, giunhan kos mga carajo, so i put my 100+ songs of various artists cd into the player, and im now singing along with 98 degrees. i am not shooing away the spirits, i just want some relaxing day. hay layp!

Some Good Things Never Last (di lang akoa! hehe)



Em-em and Third (about two years ago), mga anak sa akong miga (my children)