lady gaga

“I was told for a very long time that I was not pr etty enou g h, too strange, not edgy enough. But I’ve always been famous; it is just that nobody knew. … There are times when it can be a lot to deal with, but always when I get up in the morning I try to find that very joyful place that reminds me that I would die if someone took it all away. If someone did that I wouldn’t be a person any more.”
— stefani joanne angelina germanotta

Photo courtesy of philthyus blog.

jolina magdangal ka

“Pakia-abot ng chuva.”
“Ay, redo the lay-out, Chaka Khan!”
“Josko, ang CR hindi na-flush ha ma-Panjee Gonzales.”
“Hoy, i-ready na ang pang-Janno Gibbs sa press ha”
“Anong oras na ba, Tom Jones na ako e”

Getting the drift? Neither me sister.

Tell you what,

I just had my hair shampooed in a salon when somebody said- “Mandy Moore.”

I was racking my brain for a desperate gay lingo that I heard somewhere to interpret the remark.

Haha. And funny as it may seem, I suddenly drew the connection (at least I think).

Mandy Moore-A Walk to Remember-Cancer-Super Lagas Hair.

And really, I’m super falling hair since the first re-bond treatment I got years years back.

So for the sake of it, I was inspired to pile up a couple of super taray words for the sake of us, Muggle people, in the outside world.

Roll it:

Anik / Anetch — ano (what) / which
Balaj — balahura (shameless)
Bitter Ocampo — malungkot (sad) / nagngingitngit (fuming mad) / bitter
Baklah / Baklush — used instead of one’s name, may refer to any gender
Givency / Janno Gibbs / Debbie Gibson — bigay (to give)
That’s Entertainment / Anda / Andalucia / Anju / Anjo Yllaña — datung (money)
Fatale — sobra (excessive) / to the max
Feel / Fillet o’ Fish — type / gusto / natipuhan (like)
Fly — alis (leave)
Forever — palagi (always) / matagal / mabagal (slow)
Pagoda Cold Wave Lotion — pagod (tired)
Washington / Wishing / Wish — wala (nothing or none)
Chanda Romero — tiyan (tummy)
Mahalia Jackson — mahal (expensive)
Kuya Germs — madumi (dirty) / bearer of germs
Lucresia Kasilag — lukaret / baliw (crazy)
Lucita Soriano — loser na sorry pa
Luz Valdez — matalo (to lose)
Winnie Santos — manalo (to win)
Award — pinagalitan / pinagsabihan (reprimanded)
Freestyle — slow makagets (to understand) / slow
Imbey / Im — imbyerna (irritation)
Jowa / Jowabelles / Jowabella — karelasyon / BF or GF
Kape / Capuccino / Coffeemate — magising ka sa katotohanan (be realistic)
Lupita Kashiwahara — malupit (cruel)
Rita Gomez — nakaka-irita (irritating personality)
Enter the Dragon / Entourage — pasok (to enter) / come in
Julie Andrew / Jolina Magdangal — mahuli (caught in the act)
Antibiotic — antipatika (bitch)
48 Years / 50 Golden Years / 10,000 — matagal (after a long time)
Crayola — iyak (to cry)
Thundercats / Chandeliers / Masyonda — matanda (old people)
Wrangler — gurang (also means old)
Jubis / Juba — taba (fatso)
Jutay / Jutes — maliit (small)
Kangkang — sex
Reyna Elena — ulan (to rain)
X-Men — dating lalaki (formerly a man) now gay
Morayta / Murriah Carrey — mura (cheap)
Pamintang Durog / Pamenthols — closet gays / acting as men
Backstreet Boys — cute boys at the back
Chiminey Cricket — chimay (maid)
Goodbye Suklay — goodbye
Fayatollah Kumenis — payat (skinny)
Anaconda — ahas (a snake) / traitor
Anong petsa na? — asked when someone is taking too long to dress up, etc.
Charing/Tienes — jest / a joke / not serious
Kaplang — mali (error) / mistake
Barbra Streisand / Barbara Perez — bara / binara (bluntly rejected)
Regal Drama Hour / Maalala Mo Kaya — when someone tells a sob story
_______, ikaw ba yan? — when someone acts like another
person, maybe a showbiz personality or not. (example: Vilma Santos, Ikaw Ba yan?)
Purita Kalaw — walang pera (broke) / mahirap (poor)
Rica Peralejo — mayaman (rich, from the Spanish word rica)
Chova / Chovaline Kyle — chika lang (small talk)
Cookie Chua / Cookie Monster — magluto (to cook)
Clasmarurut / Klasmarurut — classmate
Cynthia Luster — hindi kilalang babae o lalake (unknown she or he)
Daot — insulto (insult)
Eksena / Eksenadora — mahilig pumapel / mahilig sumabat (someone who always likes to figure in a scene)
Emote — mag-inarte pa rin (one who is over-acting)
Karir/Career — sineryoso ang isang bagay like BF or work (to be seriously involved)
Lafang — kain (eat)
Lapel — malakas ang boses (someone with a loud voice)
Carry / Keri / Cash & Carry — sige (OK or alright)
Cathy Dennis — “makati” (frisky) or promiscuous
Char / Charot / Charing / Charbroiled — not ok
Liberty / Statue of Liberty — libre (free)
Okray — paninirang puri (criticize)
Lucky Home Partner — live-in partner
In Fairness — pampalubag loob (to console)
Compared to Lugaw — kesa wala (better than nothing)

Coffeemate, Jolina Magdangal na ako, Jolina Magdangal ka na rin. Pero in fairness, statue of liberty naman ito compared lugaw. Purita Kalaw man tayo sa pera, Rica Peralejo naman tayo sa swardspeak. Kaya wag silang Barbara Streisand. Antibiotic! Goodbye Suklay.

They call it swardspeak. Swardspeak sister.;)

so everybody’s a princess now

Well, who wouldn’t be?

Jennifer Behr ’s sense, I’d say, is beyond any 3d Disney movie. It’s like plucking Cinderella straight out of Dreamville and taking her place instead.

So move over preppy heads, because even the Blair Waldorf  “It” head pieces just decided to take a back seat.

Even the classic bohemian princesses just can’t resist the elegance.

We can call them Diyosa in the Philippines.

Or plainly just KC Concepcion.

It’s always a shinning, shimmering, splendid fashion day right here, so flaunt it princess.

i’m going to be feeling so sad about sunday

and then i’ll have to pack my things,

some memories,

even write a letter.

but i could still laugh when my boss pairs me up with the church guy,

relay endorsements,

prepare OR replacements,

refill dextroses and ampule boxes,

list out patient discharges,

and charge medicines,

and read out prescriptions.

but still i’m going to be feeling so sad about sunday.

i can’t even wear my dress.

apenas déjeme tomar los cuadros

Apenas parece como el ayer en que iba todo tan bien. Planeé meticuloso una historia para vivir.

E intenté mi mejor para vivir. Las ocasiones parecían de donante.

Fui a cada masa en mis vestidos de domingo, pregunté cuándo no sé, yo empujé para la excelencia en cada presentación, y nunca dormí sobre el trabajo deshecho. Dije que mis rezos y yo tenía demasiado cuidado de no pedir demasiado.

Pero el sino parece dejarme responsable para las circunstancias algo de forma aplastante que están fuera de mis esferas.

Me recordé tan. Trabajé difícilmente. Tan difícilmente vivir por las leyes de la naturaleza y de la ciencia. Pero la orden natural de la acción y de la reacción trabaja en absoluto en los términos que entiendo.

Duele para realizar que diario consigue siempre más difícilmente que dura.

Es más doloroso que las maneras que ha trabajado siempre para otros no parece trabajar en absoluto para mí.

Consigo el funcionamiento cansado no porque necesité algo pero porque estoy demasiado ocupado olvidando que estoy sobreviviendo. Me recuerdan siempre que dios me dio todo— una vida casi perfecta de la seguridad y del exceso en casi todo que necesité y quise nunca. Y tengo incluso miedo ahora de preguntar si él quita también. Porque si hago, quizá I’ comienzo del ll que lo cree. A la derecha aquí, no puedo permitirme guardar en soltar.

Estoy pesando las probabilidades de permanecer puesta realidad y de dejar las fantasías mis los propios. Pero no hago quiere soltar la pasión para ser. Si paso solamente esta manera una vez, déjeme sonreír, canta, actúa, dibuja, escribe, y lo crea de la manera que puedo. Déjeme incluso mientras que grita.

Y finalmente, déjeme tomar cuadros del él solamente las cosas que tengo conmigo.

Déjeme perdonar y amar.

Apenas me prepongo ser feliz. Apenas feliz. No incluso más feliz.

karissa

Sa NLEX:

Karissa: Mommy, ano english as kotse?

Tita Elaine and Kate: Car!

Karissa: Eh ano english sa tsinelas?

Tita Elaine and Kate: Slippers!

Karissa: Eh sa Crocs?

Tita Elaine: *******

Kate: Ano Mommy?

this one is for leo

I am, again, working in my favorite shift where breakfasts usually start at midnight and random bloody tetanus toxoid cases follow after.

But it’s not about that.

At around 5 pm, when I was already supposed to be eating a “bruncher”,  Guess what? I dreamt of Kuya Leo.

Laugh your heart out Kuya Leo, but yes we were so in a fashion show—in the catwalk, posing for some spring collection of Banana Republic or the like. (You were wearing one of those V-cut tweed Harvard sweaters.)

And so as we were  going up the stage, you kept mumbling to me– “Ayusin mo Joey, Ayusin mo…”  haha.  And I was like? “Panu?”

Hay. Last night, I received unexpected phone calls from the dearest–est people in my life while I was on my way to the hospital.

Thank you guys.

How many times did we talk about boho hairs and LV and Vera Wang again?

bypassed

What is going on. (Imperatively)

It’s always that Zynapse 1g ampule.

So I was thinking,…not all the nurses are actually grouchy.

Some are just way too consistent.

I think I might even need the Zynapse now.

So how much is a table in heaven again?

2,000 dollars.

mille feuilles

in a 16,000 square foot restaurant

housing a 27 foot-high semi-circular main dinning room

with polished ebony panels and a giant abstract “big top” light shade that comfortably seats 95 people.

Feast like an angel, not like a president.

Otherwise, salvation is compromised.

Le Cirque, NY.

hangtime

Let me tell you a little story about how people are not like books with covers we can judge:

Eight years ago, it was in an early June morning when I found out that the homogeneous section I grew up with,  was reshuffled, reshuffled so badly, that I barely knew five people in the room.

Though the rest of our other batch mates were already 7 year-acquaintances, it was a different story.

The classroom was near the third floor landing and it was the first you see at the left wing. At the right wing and three classes farther, were the rest of my old classmates.

I always looked too old to seat in front, so at the far far end of the room– near the big glass window overlooking the stairs, I had to seat next to the least known “acquaintance ” I can think of.

He stood 5′6, the same as I do.

He wasn’t rude, but not necessarily nice.

That was all that I needed to know.

But as the weeks passed on, I had, yes, I had to learn he was a star player of their team and everyone’s crush. (I honestly didn’t notice, no offense.)

They said he was supposed to be popular.

So, I learned all that, before I even knew his name.

Classes went on day after day and I had to bear with remarks from teachers about how he didn’t do his assignments, not passed his notebooks, and slept in NEAT review classes.

Oh yes, he is popular.

I hated how he doesn’t copy lectures, bring his books, and hide under his workbook during Reading class while eating bubble gum.

I vividly hated how dirty his yellow Adidas bag was.

Especially, I hated that he doesn’t give the slightest care about the whole, wide, breathing world.

The only thing I didn’t hate was how he doesn’t know me.

–like how I actually didn’t know him.

He wasn’t in a childhood crisis after all.

He loves his family and his passion for sports.

He is a really good friend to everyone.

I wasn’t really able to thank him for teaching me how to speak Bicol.

for an attempt to lend me his sister’s M2M CDs.

for almost saving my face with the cellphone thingy. (In which case, he was first at fault.)

for some assignments which he also actually does.  Sometimes.

for not getting really mad after a hard punch at the back that made him sick for a week.

for writing in those floral autographs.

for carrying my sleeping bag during retreat.

for lending me his cellphone battery.

for the MOTIVATION when I played re-bounder for our team.

for the silent hello’s at the halls in high school.

for the vote. I assume.

for the heart-felt- four-year-late-apology. Really.

and the stories.

for the friendship.

Pasawayun kaya. haha.

For the last time, it was JC for Jesus Christ. Didn’t you hear that from Bro. Ed’s lectures?

Or you must have been out again

always Hangtime.

(Hoy, sinulat ko lang to kasi super konti lang naman ng mga kabutihang ginawa mo sakin e. Joke lang. hehe.)