CHARADES DO CHRISTMAS!!!

A month after Jem and I coordinated regarding the party, here are our plans: we were planning to have: a welcome wagon drink, a game of spin the bottle, complete with truth or dare, food (pasta, chicken), a god-forsaken raffle, the classic charades, and whatnot.



On the day, here's what happened:

12:00 - the supposed arrival time



Everyone was late (blame that on [Filipino time]).



1:10 - Kei arrived first.....







2:00 - Jeff brought home the chicken...

2:30 - Jem arrived with the party favors and her crinkles...







We immediately started putting up the crepe paper...







about 10 minutes later...

I cooked pasta...

we got so freakin' hungry waiting for tash and sarah so...

we ate...











eventually Jeff and Kei went down to buy some drinks...







tash and sa eventually arrived... the drinking session was called for...







tash got sleepy...







as we played spin the bottle... we lined up our phones....







ate some cake...







ate chips while watching white chicks...







yours truly took the liberty of catching some butt shots...



Kei's butt...





Tasha's butt...





Sarah's after-cr shot...





then... the exchange of gifts...







P.S. Jem... promise... you'll get yours A.S.A.P. :)



My day was complete... t'was a night divine... as the song would put it.



to the charades... a job well done, and MERRY CHRISTMAS to you all!!



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and jem, here's the site for our x-mas party pix:

http://photobucket.com/albums/v518/yosiboy/

password: jemma (read-only)

The Sarcastic Draftsman

My good friend Jem asked me to draft the CCP Theater before going to the UP Diliman lantern parade. She even asked Jeff to go.



The irony of the situation is:

1. Once I finished drafting the plate, it was already six.

2. We waited 30 freakin' minutes to get a freakin' cab!

3. Jeff got there even before we did.

4. In frustration, we went to starbucks, only to bear the stinkin jeepneys horns.

5. And yeah, just in case you were wondering, we didn't make it to the parade.



all I can really say is fuck.





My all-time favorite: Yosi Crappuccino



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GININTUANG PASENSYA

GININTUANG PASENSYA is a short film directed by yours truly, depicting boredom as a phase that eventually leads you to a fork in the road: one, being productive, and another, being suicidal. The movie offers a real perspective within which one can decipher the art of boredom, so to speak. It infringes the cliche side of narcotics and vividly displays how boredom affects a person, in an intricate weave of scenes showing that even with complex and often harsh realities, we need not succumb to complex and even fatal solutions.

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17th Golden Shell Awards

Ceremonial Hall, Malacanan Palace, Manila

The Golden Shell Awards is the most prestigious body that celebrates the entrapreneurial spirit of the Filipino Exporters and positions the recipients as trailblazers in their industries for Design, Manufacturing, and Marketing excellence.

Golden Cane Manufacturing Corporation grabbed the presidential citation which is the highest honor given. The family was there, the Pascuals, the Nools, us, and Kristofferson Andres, soon to be Assistant Marketing Manager. We got to see Auntie Frocy give a speech in behalf of all the awardees. After the awards, a "presidential" merienda took place, although, the food needed you to have the acquired taste of a toad, given that the menu included some fried leaf drenched in egg, a pasta that had friggin' olives, and a cupcake that didn't have sugar on top. The security was so tough, all cameras had to be checked in and cannot be used inside the hall, cellphones were allowed anyway (what? PSGs didn't sense that cp's nowadays have built-in cameras?). Other than that, it was a pretty cool gathering of the best in the manufacturing industry.

the international students at our back stunk so our smiles were a bit narrow.



Kristofferson Andres and Kikay Soriano

Living the Alfie Life

ALFIE



I just happened to bow down to the sacrileage of pirated DVDs on the way home from HP... and I must admit, that I was a bit surprised that after watching this film, i realize that not only are the intellectual rights are stomped upon notwithstanding the frigid laws and executions that bestow these [pirates] not only the ability, but the obvious right to sell fake merchandise, but the way I say this as if I didn't become victim to this tragic industry.



Enough of the bull.....



Critique of "Alfie"

Cast: Jude Law, Marissa Tomei



Life is a box of chocolates.......[cliche intended] if you eat too much, there will surely be nothing left for you afterwards.



Alfie is a womanizer who lives up to his reputation of being a cocky middle-aged man who screws every girl in sight. But his endeavors are suddenly put to a halt due to his lack of affinity nor his indifference to the mediocre that he has left behind... only until life gives him a huge stab at the back. Realizing to this point, he eagerly picks up the pieces of a puzzle that would never fit and ends up a shattered man, nevertheless wise, but still... shattered. He tries his best to get absolution from the faults he's committed not any longer that it was already too late. -- yosiboy

Cooking with Zoie

Zoie Gadi whips up a fusion of flavour.

Out of canned goods and a [questionable] ketchup, which she jovially puts over the vienna sausage, she whips up what I'd like to call an "omellete au vienna" [dexter, pardon me].



omelette au vienna in the making





the [finished product]





Aroused by her enthusiasm for cooking, the [novice] cook, me, invented:



tuna in boeuf extract





Bon apetit!



--yosiboy

MOVIE-MARATHON

Due to insistent boredom, and perhaps due to a missed lunch, Me and a good friend of mine watched movies.



Here's the low-down per movie:





Before Sunset

Cast: Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy

A real-time romance located in the streets in Paris. Jessie (Hawke), a writer on the last leg of his book tour was in a cafe in a last reading, until he meets Celine (Delpy), a woman he met nine years ago with whom he missed a chance on romance. They reminisce and tackle their personal lives and thoughts as they walk, eventually finding out that they have yet to put an ending to their abrupt love affair.





The Terminal

Cast: Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta Jones, Diego Luna, Chi McBride, Stanley Tucci

Another masterpiece by Steven Spielberg.

When Viktor Navorski (Hanks) arrives to JFK, Krakhozia, an Eastern European country and home to Viktor, suddenly enrages in a war, voiding his entry to New York. He is assigned to wait at the International Transit Terminal, and that's exactly what he did... for nine months. In the blur of shops and arrivals, he finds new friends due to his undying enthusiasm and naiveity. He also meets Amelia Warren (Zeta-Jones) a flight attendant who lives on the fast lane. He got attracted to her, not knowing that she's a third wheel. He convinces her that she needs not be, and pursues her. Life is waiting.

Rauchen: Hast du feuer?

“The deserving are a group of people defined by and directly opposed to the undeserving”



My brother told me this in a repartee regarding the construction of a potentially hip party central located at the then "astro park" in clark. As my cousin just arrived from Germany, we offered him a trip to the city. Here's the sked:



Friday

10:00 pm - Got my head shaved with his razor

Location: Casa de Kris

11:00 pm - planned to go to the Vin restaurant in Clearwater... ended up at our clark home, cooked tuna, watched a truckload of movies then slept.



Saturday



11:00 pm - partied. Bands were 7th sign and Ignition.

Location: R&B



the 7th sign band



2:30 am - coffee

Location: Coffee Overdose

4:00 am - watched y tu mama tambien

6:00 am - went jogging

Location: Fort Stotsenburg







clark sunrise





excuse: an insect bit me





kris and kiqs





a 1902 sculpture



7:00 am - went to Golden Cane, only to find out kuya danny (head of security) locked the marketing office (apparently checking out freaky sites) leaving us no choice but to go home.



the "s" road



Sunday

all food

1. 2 large Didi's pizzas

2. 1 pint each of ice cream

3. Lala (childhood snack, still a treat)

and the ironic:

4. Diet Coke