Paul's posts with tag: meme
Snagged from Mary Ann. Place an X beside the item that applies to you, and add them up. The sum will be your supposed mental age. [x] I know how to make a pot of coffee.
[x] I keep track of dates using a calendar....
[] own more than one credit card....
[] I know how to change the oil in my car.
[x] I can do my own laundry.
[] I vote every election.
[x] I can cook for myself.
[] I think politics are exciting.
[x] I balance my checkbook. TOTAL = 5 [] I show up for school/college/work every day early.
[x] I always carry a pen in my pocket/purse. (Well I'm supposed to be a writer, after all.)
[x] I've never gotten a detention.
[x] I have never smoked a cigarette. (Make that 404 sticks to date.)
[x] I have never gotten completely trashed.
[] I have forgotten my own birthday at least once. (Forget my birthday? Perish the thought!)
[x] I like to take walks by myself.
[] I watch talk shows.
[x] I know what "credibility" means without looking it up. (Again, writer. Hellooo.)
[x] I drink coffee at least once a week. (More like twice a day at least, actually.) TOTAL SO FAR = 12 [x] I know how to do the dishes.
[x] I can count to 10 in another language. (Two other languages, actually.)
[x] When I say I'm going to do something I do it. (Eventually.)
[x] I can mow the lawn. (If I had a lawn.)
[x] I can make adults laugh without being stupid.
[] I remember to water the plants.
[x] I study only when I have to. (These days, I really don't have to study anything, but I do anyway.)
[x] I pay attention at work.
[x] I remember to feed my pets/child. TOTAL SO FAR = 20 [x] I can spell "experience" without looking it up.
[x] I work out on a regular basis. (Yoga at least twice a week. :D )
[x] I clean up my own mess. (Sometimes.)
[] The people at Starbucks know me by name.
[] My favorite kind of food is take out. (Hell, no.)
[] I have gained weight since high school. (I've actually lost weight since those days.)
[x] The first thing I do when I wake up is get caffeine.
[x] I can go to the store without getting something I don't need.
[] I understand political jokes the first time they are said. (Depends on the time period and whose politics. Current events, hindi siguro.)
[x] I can type quickly. TOTAL SO FAR = 26 [x] I have realized that the weather forecast changes every hour.
[] My only friends are from my place of employment. (Of course not!)
[] I have been to a tupperware party. (How 70's, far out!)
[x] I have realized that no one will take you seriously unless you are over the age of 25 and have a job.
[] I have more bills than I can pay.
[] Almost all my friends are older than I am.
[x] I can say no to staying out all night.
[x] I use the internet every day.
[] My wardrobe hasn't changed in a while.
[x] i can read a book and actually finish it. (Finished a couple just this past week, actually.) GRAND TOTAL = 31 Whoa, just right! "Good day, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Goldilocks." *curtsies*
*sigh of resignation* 1. I'll respond with something random about you.
2. I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.
3. I'll pick a flavor of jello to wrestle with you in.
4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me.
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
6. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of.
7. I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you.
8. If I do this for you, you must post this on your journal.
Snagged from that host of UP alumni who've been posting, although this one's from Macy. Originator of survey now unknown. 1. Student number? 95-16230 2. College? Arts and Letters 3. Course?
English Studies: Creative Writing 4. Nag-shift ka ba o na-kickout?
Neither. First choice, baby!
5. Saan ka kumuha ng UPCAT?
AS 324
6. Favorite GE subject?
Humanities I, under Conception Dadufalza. Professor Emeritus, w00t!
7. Favorite PE?
Archery
8. Saan ka nag-aabang ng hot guys sa UP?
Walang abangan. They tended to jog past on the academic oval, along with the hot girls.
9. Favorite prof(s)
Gisela Aceremo - French 12-13
Jose Bartolome - Soc Sci I Wendell Capili - CW 101 Conception Dadufalza - Hum I Neil Garcia - Comm I, CW 120 (Poetry), CW 160 (Non-fiction Narratives) Judy Ick - English 23 (Shakespeare) May Jurilla - English 21, 22 (Survey of English Lit I and II), 42 (Survey of American Lit I), 143 (Early 20th Century American Lit) Preachy Legasto - CL 122 (Literary Theory II) Luisa Mallari - CL 123 (Non-western Literary Theory) Paolo Manalo - CW 198 (Special Problems: Comic Book Writing) Kats Mendoza - CW 198 (Special Problems: Erotic Writing), 110 (Fiction I)
10. Pinaka-ayaw na GE subject.
STS. It tried to fit in too many subjects into one class, tapos ang dami pa ninyo.
11. Kumuha ka ba ng Wed or Sat classes?
The aforementioned Erotic Writing Class. We opted to change it to just a three-hour Wednesday class, because not even sex stories are worth getting up on a Saturday morning for.
12. Nakapag-field trip ka ba?
French 12-13 - Eurocampus somewhere near Sucat. Friendly Francophone kids, lots of fun and games.
Hum II - Tour of churches in Laguna, including Paete, Pakil and other towns there.
13. Naging CS ka na ba or US sa UP?
Does it count that for one sem, my average was 1.70?
14. Ano ang Org/Frat/Soro mo?
UP Quill; UP Kontemporaryong Gamelan Pilipino.
15. Saan ka tumatambay palagi?
Freshman to sophomore years, Main Lib, Arts & Humanities section. Junior to 5th years, Talulah Craft (tambayan ng Quill) and KontraGaPi. Other places: Sunken Garden, Lagoon, FC Steps, FC Grove, and a lot more that I forget.
16. Dorm, Boarding house, o Bahay?
First three years, bahay. Nightmarish commute. Minsan overnight in the open air. I once spent the night in that bamboo stage, the panggao, in FC Grove. Malamok! Fourth year, Pabling Station, w00t! Fifth year, balik commute. Pero may MRT na by then.
17. Kung walang UPCAT test at malaya kang nakapili ng kurso mo sa UP, ano yun Given ang mentality mo nung HS ka)?
I wanted to take Creative Writing ever since I was 14. :D
18. Sino ang pinaka-una mong nakilala sa UP?
Si Neal Saveron, blockmate.
19. First play na napanood mo sa UP?
The Rogelio Sicat retrospective series in 1997, kasi Noreen was part of the chorus then. That was where I met Ralph, actually. Pen Medina as lead actor in Tatalon.
20. Name the 5 most conyo orgs in UP
JMA, hahaha! And yes, some of my blockmates are members.
21. Name 5 of the coolest orgs/frats/soro in UP.
UP Quill, obviously.
Kontra din. And our non-recognized writing group, the Conclave Workshop, hahaha! I didn't join any others, but I do have friends in Cineaste and Tomo Kai. 22. May frat/soro bang nag-recruit sa yo?
Ako, frat material? Perish the thought! 23. Saan ka madalas mag-lunch?
Beach House. Greenhouse (later Orange House). CASAA. Katag. Chocoloate Kiss once in a while, pag feel mag-splurge. Khas, for Arabic food, and that infamous entree: It's Not What You Think It Is. Rodic's. 24. Masaya ba sa UP?
Guess you couldn't tell from my previous answers, eh? 25. Nakasama ka na ba sa rally?
A few, yes. 26. Ilang beses ka bumoto sa Student Council
Twice or thrice. Only really remember voting for Argee Guevarra. 27. Name at least 5 leftist groups in UP
Stand UP, Gabriela, and I'll be damned. I used to know half a dozen of those orgs. 28. Pinangarap mo rin bang mag-laude nung freshman ka?
Mwahahahaha! 29. Kanino ka pinaka-patay sa UP?
No one, really. This might be one of the few tragedies of my life. 30. Kung di ka UP, anong school ka?
I passed UST's exam for their AB English, but that was my just-in-case. I've wanted to go to UP ever since I was a high school freshman, so some dreams do come true.
And behold, a numerological analysis of my name.I find it inaccurate, which I'll explain after the following copy-pasted text:You entered: Paul Julius Martin Kurrien Jr.There are 25 letters in your name.
Those 25 letters total to 116
There are 10 vowels and 15 consonants in your name.
What your first name means:| Latin | Male | Little; small. Biblical apostle and evangelist Paul's letters to early Christians comprise many New Testament books. Before converting to Christianity at Damascus, Paul had been involved in the brutal persecution of Christians. | | French | Male | Little. Biblical apostle and evangelist Paul's letters to early Christians comprise many New Testament books. | | English | Male | Little. Biblical apostle and evangelist Paul's letters to early Christians comprise many New Testament books. | | Biblical | Male | Small; little |
Your number is: 8 The characteristics of #8 are: Practical endeavors, status oriented, power-seeking, high-material goals. The expression or destiny for #8:
Your Expression is represented by the number 8. The 8 Expression is well-equipped in a managerial sense. You have outstanding organizational and administrative capabilities. You have the potential for considerable achievement in business or other powerful positions. You can expect to receive the financial and material rewards. You have the skill and abilities to establish or operate a business with great efficiency. You have good judgment when it comes to money and commercial matters, and you understand how to build and accumulate material wealth. Much of your success (or lack of it) may come due to your ability (or inability) to judge character. With the number 8 Expression, you exercise sound judgment in most of your affairs; you are realistic and practical in your approach to business matters. The positive 8 Expression produces individuals that are very ambitious and goal-oriented. If the 8 energy is not in excess in your makeup, you will no doubt express these traits to some extent. No one has any more energy that a person with the 8 Expression who has a plan laid and is starting to work. No one has any more self-confidence, either. If you are expressing the positive qualities of 8, you are an outstanding manager because you can plan, initiate, and complete projects; you are very dependable and determined. As it always happens, there can be too much of a good thing. If you have too much of the 8 energy in your makeup, you may express some of the negative attitudes. A negative 8 can be very rigid and stubborn. Ambition sometimes has a way of becoming over-ambition, and you may express an unreasonable impatience with the lack of progress. If your negative side is showing, you may be too exacting, both of yourself and of others. Sometimes this can even becomes a case of intolerance. The number 8 is very materialistic and also very desirous of status and power. Neither of these drives are inherently negative unless they are taken to an extreme. You must avoid the tendency to strain after money, material matters, status, or power, to the detriment of the other important factors in your life. Your Soul Urge number is: 1 A Soul Urge number of 1 means:
Your Soul Urge is the number 1. With a Soul Urge number of 1, you want to lead and direct, to work independent of supervision, by yourself or with subordinates. You take pride in your abilities and want to be recognized for them. You may seek opportunities to display your strength and usefulness, wanting to create and originate. In your desire to manage the big picture and the main issues, you may often leave the details to others. The positive 1 Soul Urge is Ambitious and determined, a leader seeking opportunities. There is a great deal of honesty and loyalty in this character. If you possess positive 1 Soul Urge qualities, you are very attainment oriented and driven to success. You are a loyal friend and strictly fair in your business dealings. The negative side of the 1 Soul Urge must be avoided. A negative 1 is apt to dominate situations and people; the home, the spouse, the family and the business. Emotions aren't strong in this nature. If you possess an excess of 1 energy, you may, at times, be boastful and egotistic. You must avoid being too critical and impatient of trifles. The great need of the 1 Soul Urge is the development of friendliness, and a sincere interest in people. Your Inner Dream number is: 7 An Inner Dream number of 7 means:
You dream of having the opportunity to read, study, and shut yourself off from worldly distractions. You can see yourself as a teacher, mystic, or ecclesiastic, spending your life in the pursuit of knowledge and learning. * * * Strange that my life as it is now is closer to what the Inner Dream number says rather than my supposed Soul Urge, Expression, or Destiny. Am I living the wrong life? Hahahaha!
Because I'm too damned lazy to think of something original, and I have too much time right now. Grabbed from Dat, and tweaking it to include more books, mwahaha! Hey, we're English nerds, of course we'd name more books. 1. Books that changed your life.
As a kid, there was the Bible, King James Version, much as I hate to admit it now; reading it involved lots of memorization and public declamations. As a teenager, The Catcher in the Rye; convinced me that dropping out of high school was a good idea. In college, Frank Herbert's Dune and the entire six-book series; and David Lodge's Nice Work, Paradise News, and Therapy. 2. Books you have read more than once.
The Alienist, by Caleb Carr; This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Dune, Dune Messiah and Children of Dune, by Frank Herbert; The Catcher in the Rye, by JD Salinger; The Rules of Attraction and Less than Zero, by Bret Easton Ellis; Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work, and Paradise News by David Lodge; Much Ado about Nothing, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Richard III, and A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare. 3. One book you would want on a desert island.
A concession to the one-book rule. A Reader's Digest anthology called 70 Favorite Stories for Young Readers. Read it as a kid, love it until now. 4. Books that made you laugh.
David Lodge's books always make me laugh. 5. Books that made you cry.
Maybe the Moon, by Armistead Maupin. Curse you, Rej Layug! 6. One book you wish had been written.
*ahem* 7. One book you wish had never been written.
The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown. Diatribe to follow in another post. ;-) And Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis. 8. Books you are currently reading.
The Last Tycoon, by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Orlando, by Virginia Woolf; and rereading Generation X, by Douglas Coupland. 9. One book you have been meaning to read.
Ay nako, there's a long list in my backlog.
 | Tagged | Oct 19, '07 12:07 AM
for everyone |
Fine, it's a meme. From Rej. - Upon receiving this tag, immediately perform a screen capture of your desktop. It is best that no icons be deleted before the screen capture so as to add to the element of fun.
- Post the picture in your blog. You can also give a short explanation on the look of your desktop just below it if you want. You can explain why you preferred such look or why is it full of Icons, things like that.
- Tag five of your friends and ask them to give you a Free View of their desktop as well.
Tagging Dat, Ian, Joon, Beejay, and Aids.
Courtesy of Jovan and my inability to think up an original post at this time:
grown-up survey daw to be completed by ADULTS out of high school. Tired of all of those surveys made up by high school kids? 'Have you ever kissed someone?' 'Told someone you loved them?' Here are some questions for the people who are a little more mature...1. What bill do you hate paying the most?- Our phone bill. Nakakatamad lang kasi.2. Where's the best place to eat a romantic dinner?- UP Lagoon and/or Sunken Garden. Alternatively, dito sa Yale, meal cooked by me. ;-)3. Last time you puked from drinking?- The morning after I'd gone drinking with the Manox last year. I met up with them at their rehearsal studio, and we went off to Mikey's birthday party. A girl in a pink baby top and denim skirt came up to us with a bottle of Johnny Walker Black and said, "This group looks promising!" Someone was pressured into drinking (bwahahaha, blind item), while I drank for the sheer pleasure that Johnny brings (oo na, suggestive na). Anyway, we all stayed up the whole night, and I only threw up the next day, after I got home, showered and had a nap. Ugh. 4. Have you ever gotten drunk and danced on a bar?- No. I don't need to get drunk to dance on a bar. Besides, it's dangerous to be drunk and on a surface where on which you slide beer steins.5. Name of your first grade teacher?
- I forget, but my prep school teacher's name was Mrs. Karunungan. Odiba, ang apt!
6. What are you doing right now?- Take a wild guess.7. What did you want to be when you were growing up?- A pilot, an ornithologist, an environmental conservationist (thank you, David Attenborough). I was 14 when I decided to become a writer.8. How many colleges did you attend?- One. UP Diliman, College of Arts and Letters. DECL, woo!9. Why did you get the shirt that you have on right now?- I'm not wearing a shirt right now. But there are stories to most of my shirts. Ask me when we meet.10. If you could move anywhere and take someone with you where would you go?- I have an imaginary rooftop loft apartment somewhere in Loyola Heights. Half of it is living space, the other half is a balcony that has a spice garden. If I could draw the plans, I'll show you.11 . First thought when the alarm went off this morning?- What alarm? I did wake up with some alarm today, thinking, "Damn, it's Thursday!"12 . Last thought before going to sleep last night?- "I need a massage."13. Favorite style of underwear?- Boxers and briefs alternating according to mood. Boxer briefs for trooping.14. Favorite style of underwear for the opposite sex?- Tanga
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1. What is your opinion on sex without emotional commitment?
- Fun at first, gets screwed up later on.2. Do you bite your nails?
- No.3. Are you a jealous person? - No.4. Are you allergic to anything? - Crabs and shrimp, especially if not fresh.5. What books, if any, have made you cry? - Shakespeare read aloud. Try it. 6. Does it get annoying when somebody says they'll call you, but doesn't? - Depends on who the person is.7. What is your favorite simple icecream flavor? - Strawberry kisses.8. Whose car were you in last...? - Oneal's, going to and from Dante's birthday dinner.9. What would you rather be doing right now? - Getting important stuff done. Hahaha, procrastinator.10. What song lyrics, if any, are stuck in your head at the moment? - "Mister Paganini, now don't you be a meanie/ What have you up your sleeve, go on and spring it/ And if you can't sing it, you simply have to ...." by Ella Fitzgerald11. What will you dress up as for Halloween? - Not sure.
12. What is your favorite TV show? - Sometimes I feel I should stop watching shows altogether. And then I find myself watching too much again. Off the top of my head, Spooks, Hustle, Doctor Who, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Flash Gordon (the new one), Burn Notice. And those are just the series I've been watching recently.
13. Do you get along better with the same or opposite sex? - Both.14. Can others make you cry easily? - No.15. Who was the last person to piss you off? - Like I'd tell you.16. Are you picky about spelling and grammar? - Check item #7. 'Ice cream' is two words. I could go on, too, but let's not. ;-)
17. Do you pay attention to calories on the back of packages? - No thanks, I'm thin.
18. If you could be any type of fruit, what would you be? - Pomegranate. Nice and red on the inside.19. How many hours of sleep do you need to function? - Four and a half on a good day. Twelve after meeting a work deadline.
20. When was the last time you slept on the floor? - Two afternoons ago, after yoga, while in Corpse Pose. Fell asleep for a few minutes.21. Have you ever been attracted to someone, but not physically? - Yes.22. What are some things that are needed in a relationship? - True Love. No really.23. Do you like traveling? - In theory. I'll get back to you when I get to India.24. Would you ever date someone covered in tattoos? - Why not?25. Do you believe the guy should pay on the first date?
- I believe in going Dutch as much as possible.
26. Are you currently wanting any piercings or tattoos? - A few tattoos, yes.27. Which do you make: dreams or plans - Dreams.28. Can you speak any languages other than English? - Filipino, of course. And some conversational French.29. What is your favorite salad dressing? - Honey mustard.30. What movies do you know every line to? - The Matrix. Much Ado about Nothing. Romeo and Juliet. Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Monty Python's The Life of Brian.31. Has anyone told you a secret this week? - Yes.32. Have you told someone else that secret?
- No. What do you take me for? Granted?33. Would you rather take the picture or be in it? - Either end of the camera lens is fine. 34. Do you wear flip-flops? - Right now, yes.35. If you could eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be? - Pasta.36. What's the sweetest thing someone has done for you? - It was one lean Christmas around fifteen years ago. I was just at home, enjoying the school break, and my mom slipped out without me noticing. When she got back, she'd bought a whole lot of Christmas food. To add to my surprise, my mom was sick. Of course, I was all, "Mommy, you didn't have to do that." And I would've been fine without the food, but my mom isn't one of the most communicative people, especially to me. I guess she just had to go and do it, and that was sweet.
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