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Where is my mind?

About Me

A little demented, harharhar! I'm the living proof of all those stuff they say about non-breastfed kids and middle children!

My Interests

my family, U2, Brandon Boyd, music, lotsa lotsa books, food, family, friends, EATING, my loved ones, art, beer-guzzling, netsurfing, outer space, the weather, THE LAW (nyaks!), DVDs, Ethan Hawke, Hello Kitty, sports (specifically swimming -- men's division!), netsurfing, hanging out with friends, staying at home... when I've no moolah, KTV (I love our Magic Mic!), practising my mp3 pirating skills, committing doublespeak, pondering the meaning of the lives of the people I abhor, HARDCORE PROCRASTINATION, my baby nieces, salty foods, TOFU (I can survive for a week on the darn thing), liver, ice-cold San Mig Light/Strong Ice/Super Dry, DANCING (magaling ako sumayaw! Totoo! Haha!), pesto, cloudy days, hot chocolate, iced chocolate, isaw, coffee, riding in fast cars, Winston Lights, SLEEPING, lip balms, bars with "buy-one take-one beer" promos, the outdoors, the indoors (if it's too hot outside, teehee!), dirty sneakers, pineapple juice, that feeling between mere tipsiness & outright inebriation, potatoes, jackets, mountain-climbing, shower gels, ukay-ukay, banana bread, tuna sashimi, texas hold'em poker, myself

I'd like to meet:

BRANDON BOYD, Neil Gaiman, my future self -- 10 years from now (so that I'll know if I'd still turn out OK despite the things I've put myself into)... old friends, new friends, potential drinking buddies (previous applicants need not apply, HARHARHAR!)

Music:

U2, Coldplay, Radiohead, Pearl Jam, Fiona Apple, Folk Implosion, Sebadoh, Moby, Beck, Jeff Buckley, Travis, Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave, Weezer, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Rentals, The Cure, A Perfect Circle, Wilco, Death Cab for Cutie, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Postal Service, The Raconteurs, Lamb, The White Stripes, Sarah McLachlan, Nelly Furtado, Buena Vista Social Club, Maroon 5, Lenny Kravitz, The Lemonheads, Morphine, Portishead, Goldfrapp, Gin Blossoms, Air, World Party, Outkast, The Pixies, The Police, Eraserheads, 10,000 Maniacs (Natalie Merchant days), Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, The Beatles (thanks, Daddy!), '80s music, some old school rap ;)

Movies:

Kill Bill Vol. 1, The Godfather 1 & 2, Shaolin Soccer, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Amelie, Amores Perros, Great Expectations, Alive, Reality Bites, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Waking Life, Ocean's Eleven, Happy Gilmore, Snatch, Go!, LOTR Trilogy, In The Name Of The Father, 12 Monkeys, The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, Shrek, As Good As It Gets, Napoleon Dynamite, Crash, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Pirates of the Caribbean, Sleepy Hollow, 24 Hour Party People

Television:

House, LOST, CSI, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, The Office, Arrested Development, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, American Idol, Monk, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Becker, That 70s Show, World Poker Tour, Six Feet Under, The Practice, Spongebob Squarepants, Blue's Clues (the ones with Steve Burns!), Drawn Together, Iron Chef, Hey Arnold!, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Books:

The Chronicles of Narnia, Catcher in the Rye, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Godfather, stuff by Neil Gaiman (The Sandman series and his novels), The Bell Jar, Breakfast of Champions, Girlfriend in a Coma, Persepolis, Persepolis 2, Sherlock Holmes mysteries, books by Chuck Palahniuk, High Fidelity, Dr. Seuss series, Harry Potter series, stuff on Greek and Roman Mythology, non-law books (harhar!)

Heroes:

Bob Hunter

My Blog

slow like honey...

Goodness!  Was my previous entry sappy or what?!  All that angst and despair make me shudder.  Eew.In any case, I'm sooooo ok now.  Far removed from that person who was up to her n...
Posted by - Karen - on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 08:51:00 PST

this unending void

Just when I thought things couldn't get any more fucked up, I hit another one of those all-time lows... It seems as if no amount of alcohol nor nicotine -- my two constant refuge -- can get me throu...
Posted by - Karen - on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 02:49:00 PST

throwing a KISSYfit

Was bored. And I wanted to know if I still had it in me. <table width=350 align=center border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2><tr><td align=center><font face="Georgia, Times New...
Posted by - Karen - on Tue, 27 Sep 2005 01:43:00 PST

First time...

Wow... I'm feeling sentimental. The past few weeks, something seems to be amiss. Wrong. Lacking. I couldn't pinpoint it exactly at first, but now, as I'm within the vicinity of what has become my ...
Posted by - Karen - on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Beautiful and surreal

Freeze the moment... Freeze the moment... Freeze the moment... That was what I was thinking while I stood there, my two feet precariously atop those two monobloc chairs, 20-or-so feet away from him...
Posted by - Karen - on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Woohoo!!!

I finally got tickets to THE Incubus gig here in Manila! Oh my gawd! =) Imagine -- after four or so years of drooling and wishing and dreaming and fantasizing (whoops!) about the invisible, floating...
Posted by - Karen - on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST