D’Arvit!

Well, okay, that was rather conceited. But still.

I logged on my Blogger account just a few minutes ago and found two unfinished drafts happily sitting on my dashboard. Nostalgia is an amazing thing. I have decided to reproduce them right here, just like Christopher Tolkien published his daddy’s unfinished tales. Bad bad analogy, but whatever.

So here are two of my unfinished blog entries. Yeah, even that Of Magic Lists, Positivity, and Getting Your Heart’s Desire series is unfinished [I’m working on it!]. But midterms almost murdered me, and the end of the semester has been piling up a few million things all at the same time so forgive me, my loyal readers. Yes, there’s still several of you left… I’ve got 12 RSS feed subscribers, and about 20 different people who religiously check on this blog for new entries. Well, better than none, I guess. Thanks for staying with me. I intended to abandon this blog, but I just can’t. I still have lots of plans for it, but not now, I guess. Anyway, off to the first unfinished draft, which, I have to say, is the typical circa 2003-2006 D’Arvit! blog entry…

The first one is a list. You see, before those professional bloggers turned “list-making” into a marketing tool, I’ve been doing my own D’Arvit!-ed lists ™ since 2004. Hah. Take that, cash cow “bloggers” who blog for money!!!!!!111!!eleventyone11!!

From Oh the shame. The SHAME!!! LAST SAVED ON APRIL 10, 2005

The D’Arvit! List of Signs that our Country will Collapse in the Next Few Years:

• People think that a person is “intelligent” if s/he has fair skin and Spanish-speaking skills. I mean, WTFH???!!! I SO DAMN F*CKING HATE THAT POND’S TV AD. For those of you who have been living in their respective shells, the TV Ad opens with this mestizo guy warning his girlfriend that his mother “is a perfectionist”. After that said warning, mestizo guy introduces the girl to his mommy. Mama Perfecionista, trying to act cocky and secretive, tells her Baby Mestizo–take note, in Spanish–that she thinks that his girlfriend “has a perfect face… but is she intelligent?” Before Baby Mestizo answers Mama Perfecionista’s query, the girl in question answers MP in Spanish. Because of that, MP is impressed. And thus, they all live happily ever after, damn them. I mean, what the frell do I care if you can speak Spanish? FYI, English is the Global Language right now. I don’t care about your Spanish. And another thing, the knowledge of a second, third, or fourth language is definitely not proof of one’s intellectual capacity. IMHO, intelligence is what you actually do with your gift of tongues. There is a HUGE difference with just speaking in Spanish and well… speaking in Spanish. I just hope that people would be…hmm… INTELLIGENT enough to know the difference. A Spanish tongue would not make you perfect. And definitely, white skin would definitley NOT make you perfect. I have seen a bunch of old, ugly women, in their dire desperate attempts to lighten their skin tones, have, I must say, ended up looking like Michael Jackson’s clones. Oh, how perfect!
• Angel Aquino blabs about how many Starbuck’s Coffee branches there are in our country, in an attempt to look cute in Oprah. Ok. So maybe I put in a little bit of exaggeration in that, but that’s how it looked like to me. For those who weren’t aware, last week, Oprah Primetime had an episode wherein they “went around the world” and gave their audiences an overview of the different lifestyles of 30 year-old women around the world. Some of these 30 year-old women actully went to Oprah’s studio to say something about their lifestyles, but most of these women just submitted short feature videos that would describe their lifestyle in their respective countries. The Philippine’s “representative”, Angel Aquino, definitely disappointed me [and a bunch of other Filipinos who saw that shameful segment].

I do recall that episode of Oprah. So Angel Aquino was basically telling the whole world that 30 year-old Filipina women basically hang out in Starbucks and have merienda because that’s pretty much the only thing to do in the Philippines. What a pretentious c*nt. There’s lots to do in the Philippines, dammit! Manila has a lot of hotspots: shopping centers, restaurants, universities, business districts–just anything else aside from Starfarkingbucks! This is the remnant of the Starbucks folly that I mentioned around three years ago. She could also have been a bit more honest. She could have said that there are probably two kinds of 30 year-old Filipinas: the pretentious, social-mountaineering kind [e.g. her], and the hardworking, tax-paying, cash-strapped sensible one who doesn’t strive to get seen sipping Starbucks coffee in public. Yep, I totally hate it. I don’t suppose that it’s still that bad anymore, I hope?

From And he turned around and said, “We’re home…” LAST SAVED ON DECEMBER 4, 2005

We drove East. Straight ahead on the highway, watching the buildings disappear into open fields of corn and trees and cattle. Over fields. Over roads. Across mountains. We went through Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, and Virginia. Illinois’ snow melted away as we…

It ended there. I can’t believe it’s been three years since we moved to the US. Anyway, I wrote that after the Chicago-North Carolina roadtrip back in November 2005. Hard times, they were.

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Anyway, this is just to let you all know that I’m still alive. I’m just really busy trying to keep my grades up (and my scholarship) these days. Summer won’t give me a break, either. Oh well. I’ll get back to blogging and web design someday.