B. A. N. A. N. A.
Banana Spin-off9 Names
Message: YOUR NAME:
– Patty
2.YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (first three letters of your name, plus izzle)
– patizzle (i think it sounds luxe than street)
3. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color and fav animal)
– green dog
4. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, and current street name)
– estrella fennel lane (ayos, pang-knots landing na wisteria lane) haha!
isa pa…
– estrella ragas (haha! pwede na sa flordeluna)
5. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name, first 3 letters of mom’s maiden name)
– crupatvic (zosyal, dagdagan pa natin ng title: princess crupatvic. ganda! hehe)
6. SUPERHERO NAME: (2nd favorite color, favorite drink)
– red tea (boring, kainis, pang japanese fast food)
7. IRAQI NAME: (2nd letter of your first name, 3rd letter of your last name, any letter of your middle name, 2nd letter of your moms maiden name, 2nd letter of you dads middle name, 1st letter of a siblings first name,
– auriej (pwede! sheik na sheik)
8. WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (fathers middle name)
– decaiman (ayos foreign-sounding)
9. GOTH NAME: (3rd favorite color, and the name one of your pets)
– orange michiko (parang pang kill bill naman eh)
It’s So Tragic
*Dead after 8 hours on laptop *
By Ng Wan Ching – May 1 2007
The New Paper
Her story is a painful but apt lesson for us as we take a break this May
Day: Work hard, but take care of your health.
That lesson came too late for Ms May Leong, who died on 23 Apr. Just two
days before her death, she had written in her blog: “I don’t wanna end up
dead for the sake of dough”.
Her mum and some friends believe she was stressed out from work. Going by
her blog entry dated 21 Apr – her only entry this year – her job seemed
demanding.
Between Mr. & Messrs.
…and my GREAT confusion.
I had the greatest discovery of my life…I just learned this afternoon that there exist such plurals:
Mr. – Messrs.
Mrs. – no plural
but Madam – Mesdames is sometimes used as plural for Mrs.
Miss – Misses
Ms. – Mses. or Mss.
Funny, I think my grammar teacher missed that one out 
Het Meisje Met de Parel
“Lick your lips, Griet.” I licked my lips. “Leave your mouth open.”
I was so surprised by this request that my mouth remained open of its own will. I blinked back tears. Virtuous women did not open their mouths in paintings.
THE GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING
BY TRACY CHEVALIER
Plot
IT tells the story of Griet, a 16-year-old Dutch girl who becomes a maid in the house of the painter Johannes Vermeer. Her calm and perceptive manner not only helps her in her household duties, but also attracts the painter’s attention. Though different in upbringing, education and social standing, they have a similar way of looking at things. Vermeer slowly draws her into the world of his paintings – the still, luminous images of solitary women in domestic settings.
In contrast to her work in her master’s studio, Griet must carve a place for herself in a chaotic Catholic household run by Vermeer’s volatile wife Catharina, his shrewd mother-in-law Maria Thins, and their fiercely loyal maid Tanneke. Six children (and counting) fill out the household, dominated by six-year-old Cornelia, a mischievous girl who sees more than she should.
On the verge of womanhood, Griet also contends with the growing attentions both from a local butcher and from Vermeer’s patron, the wealthy van Ruijven. And she has to find her way through this new and strange life outside the loving Protestant family she grew up in, now fragmented by accident and death.
As Griet becomes part of her master’s work, their growing intimacy spreads disruption and jealousy within the ordered household and even – as the scandal seeps out – ripples in the world beyond.
Reviews
New York Times, 24 January 2000 — Richard Eder
“A brainy novel whose passion is ideas…Chevalier’s pattern is complex and revealing.” Read entire review
Time, 17 January 2000 — R.Z. Sheppard
“Chevalier is especially adept at character studies: imperious burghers, butchers, biddies and crones. It’s as if, after scrutinizing Vermeer’s masterworks (and doing the required reading), she began to think and feel like a 17th century Delfter.”
What Makes Him My Fave Ogre
1. Green is my favorite color.
2. I like to be left by myself.
3. I have no patience for protocols.
4. I have layers.
5. I enjoy the royal treatment.
6. I irk fame.
7. I fight for my friends.
8. Spoofs are hilarious.
9. I like Jason Wade (for song “You Belong to Me”)
and
10. I, too, recently got married
The “Silent Treatment” is Over!
It’s officially over, and I can’t keep my mouth shut because I’ve got great news!
To all the guys out there who are looking for single, able-bodied, nice-looking girls, I have a TIP for you!
Forget chat rooms, trash singles parties! They are all old school. Believe me when I say the newest place-to-be is bookstores. Honest! Particularly the travel section.
It’s an honest to goodness, no-malice strategy. You only have to stand there, pick up a book, browse through the pages. (Another tip: Choose something exotic but not too outback, maybe some place near, some place still Asian, if you know what I mean.) You can either pretend or sincerely catch up interest in what you are pretending to be reading, or not.
In your quiet solitude, boom! some nice girl will approach you and make a small talk. She’ll ask about the book you’re reading, of your travel plans, of your occupation…and the conversation will just veer to all sorts of subjects, it will go long and wide if you will allow it 
Next thing you know, you already made yourself a new travel companion.
* I should know because I just spent two days behind a bookshelf and I already exchanged biz cards with two lovely ladies.
Silencio
I have hoped my creativity (blogging-wise) would soar, or at least maintain a comfort level of steady C juices. But apparently, I’m crash landing towards blandness by frequently quoting Wikipedia.
I haven’t written anything that is originally mine. You notice? My current fecundity can only extend as far as 300: the movie and my wedding, and I don’t think it’s very much entertaining especially when I have like a dozen entries of them already. Sigh. But if i can’t say anything beyond 300 and my wedding, I might as well shut up and resurface when i have something worthwhile to say, right? Right.
More on that Greco-Persian War Flick
I’m done for. I was bitten by the 300 bug. No one can help me now. Agh! …OA!
*** Memorable quotes from 300 ***
King Leonidas: Spartans! What is your profesion?
Spartan soldiers: Awooo! Awooo! Awooo!
King Leonidas: This is where we fight! This is where they die!
Captain: On these shields, boys!
[Spartans cheer]
King Leonidas: Remember this day, men, for it will be yours for all time.
Persian Officer: SPARTANS! Lay down your weapons!
King Leonidas: Persians…COME AND GET THEM!
King Leonidas: We’re in for one wild night.
King Leonidas: Give them nothing! But take from them everything!
King Leonidas: Spartans! Enjoy your breakfast, for tonight we dine in Hell!
Stelios: Then we will fight in the shade.
King Leonidas: A new age has come, an age of freedom. And all will know that 300 Spartans gave their last breath to defend it.
King Leonidas: This is where we fight. This is where they die.
Xerxes: Cruel Leonidas demanded that you stand. I require only that you kneel.
Persian Officer: Spartans, lay down your weapons.
King Leonidas: Come and get them!
Queen Gorgo: Only Spartan women give birth to real men.
Persian Emissary: This is madness!
King Leonidas: Madness? This is Sparta!
King Leonidas: We Spartans have descended from Hercules himself. Taught never to retreat, never to surrender. Taught that death in the battlefield is the greatest glory he could achieve in his life. Spartans: the finest soldiers the world has ever known.
Battle of Thermopylae
O ye men who dwell in the streets of broad Lacedaemon! Either your glorious town shall be sacked by the children of Perseus, Or, in exchange, must all through the whole Laconian country, Mourn for the loss of a king, descendant of great Heracles.He cannot be withstood by the courage of bulls nor of lions, Strive as they may; he is mighty as Jove; there is naught that shall stay him,Till he have got for his prey your king, or your glorious city.
Is There a Connection?
Why is it that the people who pray most are tried most?
Sometimes it makes me wish I don’t pray as hard.
