This poem is all about “love”… and I wrote it all by myself…

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BFWOT!

BFWOT! Ay diyusku, ako’y napautot! 
Silid ay umalinsangan at biglang bumantot! 
Ipinagdasal na lang na walang kasamang pururot 
Ang amoy na singbaho ng panis na balot

Ang utot, kaibigan, ay galing sa puwit 
at senyales ng bagay na biglang lalawit 
Ito’y malagkit at mananatiling makulit 
hanggang isang ire lang, bagsak ang nakasabit

Ako ay lumaki na lubos na ututin 
Ang irog kong mahal, pinilit tiisin 
Ngunit puwersa ng damdamin, sadyang mahirap pigilin 
Utot ko’y bumulwak – at bumalik ang kanyang kinain

Pagkamasid sa nangyari, ako ay nagitla 
Kasunod nuon, utot ko ay muling bumuga 
Hinayupak na baho, hindi niya makaya 
Luhaang lumisan ang aking sinta…

Dumaan ang mga araw, lumakad ang linggo 
Tumalon ang buwan, at saka nagsirko 
Ako ay nakakita ng bagong kalaguyo 
Na hindi ininda ang mapanghi kong sikreto

Sana naman, kaibigan, ay hindi ka nabagot 
sa munti kong tula na tungkol sa utot 
Dahil ngayon ako ay hindi na malungkot 
Kuntento na ako, sa aking pagkan… ta… 
(La la la, akala niyo, ha?)

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This was a poem I submitted to the spoof version of  our college paper – the Heraldo Flip-No.  Please note that the events that took place in the poem are fictional, and any relation to actual events are purely coincidental.  Really…  Honest…

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And no, I’m not talking about the Tagalog word for mango, either… manga is Japanese comics, those little books you find in most bookstores that have bubblegum colors on their covers, have Japanese titles, and reads from right to left (so if you’re one of those people who normally browses a book starting with the end to see what happens, you’ll be pleasantly surprised with manga, coz you will be logically starting from the beginning).

Anyway, just making it known that I will be posting reviews and download links to some scanlated manga very shortly…  Scanlated pretty much means “scanned and translated.”  As you know, manga are originally written in Japanese, and unless you were born Japanese or took up a very involved course in reading Japanese text (kanji, hiragana, katakana, etc), I’m pretty sure you won’t understand what the hell those cute drawings are saying.  So many independent online groups who have decent knowledge in Japanese have started the practice of scanning the original manga, and then translating the Japanese kanji into text we other folks can actually read.  These are called “scanlation groups” and they have been very instrumental in bringing Japanese “comics” to not just North America, but other parts of the world.  The same thing applies to other foreign-language comics like manhwa in Korean, etc…

Anyway, I will be posting some manga series here that I really liked, and I will make them available for download.  Now, you’re probably asking if I will be breaching some copyrights or intellectual property here, or promoting piracy by allowing commercial comics be available for download… Well, think again – most of what I’ll be putting here has not been released in the United States, or even licensed by any of the companies that are distributing translated manga.  In fact, most of them will probably never be available in the United States, and that’s a crying shame, really…  While series like Naruto, Bleach, One Piece or Death Note get widespread distribution, some little-known gems by manga legends like Mitsuru Adachi are nowhere to be seen.

Hence, I will be posting some series here, ones that I like personally… maybe you’ll like it too, who knows  If you are interested in downloading and reading the manga, make sure you download and install CDisplay.  It’ll allow you to read the manga even if they are zipped up.  You can download CDisplay here.

So anyway, that’s it for now… stay tuned

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(by Francis Duggan) 

She sees things of beauty in all that she see 
And what’s beautiful to her seems ugly to me 
What to her is a flower to me is a weed 
We do seem so different so different indeed. 

The window of her soul is open to light 
She always seems happy and bubbly and bright 
And her type of person a pleasure to know 
For beauty goes with her where-ever she go. 

Of those who are different good things she does say 
And for to help out others she goes out of her way 
She helps out the homeless and those in dire poverty 
I do not know of anyone as great as she. 

And sad to think her type are becoming more rare 
For the poor and downtrodden she genuinely does care 
To the most worthy causes her work free time she devote 
Yet she is not seen as one worthy of note. 

A beautiful person with a heart of gold 
And surely her story deserves to be told 
Not proud of her beauty and free of conceit 
And people like her one does not often meet. 

(to MS) 

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What the fuck, I’m back … again … once more …. for the umpteenth time … uhm, yeah.

Anyway, I got a bunch of things I’m gonna write this week, but while I try to extricate myself from the bowels of sloth and try to rub away all the cobwebs on my journal, lemme just inform you that I have updated my photo gallery to include my favorite cars! Well, the cars that I wish I had, and most of them I could never have unless my girlfriend wins the lotto and becomes my sugar momma…

I woke up this morning with a nasty allergy … initially I thought I was gonna get a cold again (I just recovered from a rather nasty one last week), but as I went outside, there was a thin film of “something” in the air … I would have dismissed it as fog, which frequently cloaked our area coz of our proximity to the beach, but the sun was shining … then I remembered what had been on the TV news since last week …. the wild fires … what I was seeing was smoke.

As of now, there are ten wildfires raging across Southern California, as far south as the Mexican border, and as near to our area as the northern suburbs of Los Angeles. The death toll has been 13, and 800 homes lost in wildfires that haven’t shown the faintest trace of stopping its onslaught.

Here’s the latest aerial image of the wildfires as of yesterday:

Overhead map of wildfires in California...

 I am not a stranger to the frequent wildfires here in Southern California, but to imagine TEN wildfires all raging in different parts of California … I am glad that the allergy I have right now is the worst thing I have to deal with…

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Isn’t it funny that this site suddenly went to a grinding halt after April Fool’s? And isn’t it an amusing trend that there is always a new layout each time I come back and say “I’m back”?

Well, as you can see, this is a kinda different setup once again … a little more snazzy than my last layout, and definitely much better.

This is also my first journal entry using Moveable Type for the first time (a departure from Blogger that I was using last year). This script kicks ass!

Anyway, don’t bother trying the buttons on top – they don’t work yet. I’m converting the entire site to use the new layout, and I’ll make it a point not to leave any broken links anymore. I can always give an ETA on when everything’s gonna be finished, but it always backfires on me. Something always comes up. So I guess it’ll be done when it gets done. Soon.

That’s all for now. Feel free to comment on the layout. It also allows me to see if the Moveable Type script works as great as I think it does. I set this up on my brother’s site several months ago.

I like this new layout a lot. I hope you do, too..

testing this blog … the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

A friend pointed me to a site called the South Park Studio, where you can go and make your own custom South Park character … well I fooled around with it and tried to make an image of myself in the most accurate possible way, and I ended up with the person on the left, hehe … This is pretty good, and I am considering using it as the OTS chatterbot’s image … we’ll see

Oh, did I mention the location of the site?:
http://southpark.gamesweb.com/flash/spstudio.html

Anyway, what’s the latest about me? Well, they cut my hours at work so I won’t be earning as much anymore … and to think that I considered buying a laptop just two weeks ago! The only thing that stopped me was that I didn’t get approved for the 90-days no money down offer from Dell … I was so pissed off that day… well, it seems fate was smiling on me. If I actually DID buy that laptop, and I found out that my hours have been reduced and I’ll be earning less money to pay for it, I would have been a lot more pissed off

Oh well, at least I can devote more time finishing the updates on my tech site. Still have to finalize the chatterbot, as well as the four additional layouts I made for the site. The only thing left for me to decide is whether to unveil it as soon as I finish it, or to wait until December 31, to make it a little more “momentuous” … guess we’ll find out

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