i recently finished reading "Angels & Demons" (2 days ago to be exact) and holy mackerel was it a delightful (and exhilarating & heart-pounding) read. i discontinued reading two months ago, because of homework & the fear i might addicted to it or something. so last monday i took advantage of our little holiday and spent almost the whole time finishing the 200+ pages left... i couldn't stop reading it. i must say this is equal to OR better than "the Da Vinci Code"... maybe because i forgot the latter, or maybe i just found the characters lovely. (who said i didn't find leigh teabing lovely? haha)

and speaking of leigh (POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD?!), why is it that dan brown always ensnares me to "to good to be true" characters? aarrgh. i'm really getting the "weird villain affection virus"... it freaked me out when my classmate let slip (when i was still in the middle part of the book) that my favorite character was the real 'hand' in the whole thing! (if you have read it, you know who i'm talking about... fascinating one, yup..)

but anyways, i'm wondering if this will be made into a movie... please, please! i wanna know who'll play CCV! (*swoon!*)... for the moment i'm contented that the Da Vinci Code film got my favorite people on them... :)

on the other hand:
this "integumentary system" report really has me stuttering. our group's going to face the music on saturday, and honestly, i haven't done anything quite like this. i've NEVER actually done an oral report, so i've been practicing these few days. probably i won't be posting before saturday. God save the timid people...

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Caption: "The movie to watch & the handsome-st cockpit model"

Cillian Murphy!!! ain't he the hottest villain on earth???

aside from his delectable blue blue eyes (i lust over that adjective, though i'm not a cannibal!) that makes me roll over and yap like a poodle, and his killer name... i love how he plays baddies (given i've only seen one film)... he makes them seem gorgeous, neurotic, charming, intelligent, calculating, somewhat evil but sexy nonetheless (--enough!!!--) all at the same time! his 'scarecrow' performance left me asking for more (exaggeration, but yeah... i suppose he should've appeared longer and without the ratty sack... heheheh...) ... and now he's in this new film called Red Eye... don't know what the title really means, but anyways, he plays a sexy villain (yet again! he's in it for the big time! good casting, though he oughta play a romantic lead soon and let's see the results...) .. the story all starts in an airplane, where he's got a female seatmate (rachel mcadams) he flirts with at first, but then at the takeoff reveals his all-too-menacing plan: kill a powerful businessman. she's elemental to his plot, but if she refuses to cooperate, then he's got an assassin on standby to kill her daddy... (so it's really not a coincidence they're seatmates)... there. i know it's not really a megawatt of a story, but just the same, I WANT TO WATCH IT BECAUSE OF HIM!!!! (imagine the screen time! he's basically all over it! ;p)

~ ellie's signs of 'red eye -- RE' obsession, cillian-angled ~

kept looking for 'RE' info in the web (critics' reviews, juicy stuff...)

joined a cillian murphy fanlisting... finally!

looked for CM pics, sites, even surfed in the official RE site

went to the mall just to go up to the 'movies floor' and see the RE poster..

**as for the last, well ok, i didn't go to the mall just for that. but give me credit for ascending 4 escalators only to see his lovely hand -- IF IT IS HIS HAND!** (LOL manic laugh)

cillian, can i be your second wife?

(p.s. i'm right again with my WTF theory -- the BEST guys are always TAKEN. sheesh.)

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where art thou, ralph fiennes?
...hey...he's alive AND kicking!

it was a real good surprise to me that he's back on the running in the movie world... i unexpectedly saw an article about him on TIME magazine (uh-huh, my fave mag... since it's readily open and all haha) that he's got 5 new films up this year! the article discussed about his almost barely-there presence in the recent years (after all the buzz with "schindler's list" and "the english patient"... --*my opinion, frankly i don't know what's the big deal with the 1997 best pic.. bored me to pieces.. hmm*) and now he's on again in many aspects: an empathic lead in dramas (in "the constant gardener" and "the white countess"), a romantic comedy lead (don't remember the movie title..), voicing a lovable brit clay character (in "wallace and gromit"), and let's not forget his transcendance as Lord Voldemort (or Voldie, for the fans! in "HP: The Goblet of Fire"). all opening this year! yep, he's got it going on.

have i told you HE was my FIRST CELEB CRUSH? ;p

the lame reason: i *fell* for him while watching "the avengers" (ha, ha, ha). i was 10 then, around november of '98. see? funny but i still remember the "bathroom scene" with him in the nude (?) reading the papers... and the fact that i tried to get in but unfortunately caught red-handed because i was OBVIOUSLY UNDERAGED when "the end of the affair" was playing in theaters..

i absolutely liked this guy. i watched almost half of his movies (and a Discovery Docu of nicholas & alexandra of russia, with him and former wife alex kingston voicing the royals)... there's something about him that's so je ne sais quoi... he's handsome in a way that's enigmatic... whatever. what shocked me most while reading the time article was that after divorcing kingston, ralph went into a relationship with some other actress (francesca annis -- who is she?) who's eighteen years HIS senior! now that beats the tom-katie fizz! imagine: he's 42 now, so that makes her 60! **eyes boggle** but who am i to judge? maybe she's hot.. (goes to research)

anyways, save the affectations, i have a Skin Disease presentation to tinker with... (the agony!)

and i just realized i watched too much tv the past week. my past tv addiction has come back to haunt me! bad, bad girl.

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hmm. it's around 5 minutes before i drag myself out of the computer to watch "willy wonka & the chocolate factory" on tv (the old one with gene wilder... i'm kinda eager to compare him with JD.. haha) ... i'm a little sloppy to post a new 'blost' (BLogpOST!!! for people who aren't familiar with my ever-growing schiz vocabulary)... so technically, this really isn't anything. ;p

though i have something in mind i'm thinking of posting sometime within couple of days, so you better watch out! clues:
it's about my CELEB CRUSHES & THEIR NEW MOVIES! mwahaha! :)

there. that ought to keep you giddy. **signing off**

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well well well... as an intro, this is my Current Favorite Oldie Tune.. fits fine with my mood... the "wishing for more & i wanna be REALLY happy" feeling... :)

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DOWNTOWN
Petula Clark

When you're alone and life is making you lonely
You can always go - downtown
When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry
Seems to help, I know - downtown
Just listen to the music of the traffic in the city
Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty
How can you lose?

The lights are much brighter there
You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares
So go downtown, things'll be great when you're
Downtown - no finer place, for sure
Downtown - everything's waiting for you

Don't hang around and let your problems surround you
There are movie shows - downtown
Maybe you know some little places to go to
Where they never close - downtown
Just listen to the rhythm of a gentle bossa nova
You'll be dancing with him too before the night is over
Happy again

The lights are much brighter there
You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares
So go downtown, where all the lights are bright
Downtown - waiting for you tonight
Downtown - you're gonna be all right now

------ instrumental break ------

And you may find somebody kind to help and understand you
Someone who is just like you and needs a gentle hand to
Guide them along

So maybe I'll see you there
We can forget all our troubles, forget all our cares
So go downtown, things'll be great when you're
Downtown - don't wait a minute more
Downtown - everything's waiting for you

Downtown, downtown, downtown, downtown ...

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anyways (nostalgic isn't it? for unknown reasons i really like oldie songs... they're so melodic and feel-goody... :D), life moves on. my prelim grades are unveiling themselves slowly, and... i'm a bit DISappointed. though i'm pleased with my NatSci grade, it's just not enough to 'jack up' my ailing so-so other quizzes. same with philosophy (though it's the other way around... silly me). and math. quite unnerving, but i'm not exactly complaining. hmmm...

and there's the Proposed New Uniform for the new college of accountancy... damn, just when i have 6 uniforms that i *hoped* will age till 4th year! it's kinda plain (and i think i've seen that pattern before): cream top with 2 thin red (?!?!) stripes below the collar, and brown slacks. it psyched me again with the fact that my Hopeful Major is really shifting itself into something grand with the restructuring and the outfits (i swear, the construction plan looks high-tech). and then the uber-hope that i will be one of the first to stroll down that college building. what am i breathing for?

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^^i just LOVE that word.^^

my preliminary exams, safe to say, went fine. my grades are average, but still i'm contented. but my bio grade hasn't unfurled itself yet... i'm gently crossing my fingers in the hope that i did well (i STUDIED, ya know! ;p)... anyways, i'm happy i'm still blogging around (a-ha! SIX MONTHS and counting! that's a record!) trying to convince no one in particular out there that i'm a wonderful homo sapien. but hmmm...

dental alert: i *think* my WISDOM TEETH are starting to wiggle its way out (the left area more prominent). not cavities as i first 'paranoidly' speculated. i don't want those! (die, sweets addict! pay for your siiiins!!!!)

and inspired by charlie and the chocolate factory (such a cute little film), i made a delectably intoxicating dessert concoction of chocolate grahams, coffee, a spread of peanut butter, and chocolate bits! it's layered with each distinct ingredient, and boy did my experiment TASTE SO GOOD! (my folks said so too...) i'm so proud of it! (baking connoisseur on the rise! ;D) makes you think of chocolate mousse with a mocha-ish dash. heaven!

and recent tv serials i like to watch: Cold Case and Desperate Housewives! (i was cackling like mad last night... too bad it just lasts an hour haha..) ta ta~!

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if men were just as adorable as these penguins... ;-p

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i swear, the title isn't another lame attempt to attract attention (though you really should obey me!). or profanity (something close to that, but nah..), or the days of the week. it's about the most disturbing 'things' that we females aptly call MEN. or BOYS. or RATS.

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Welcome to Ellie's "WTF" Theory About The Opposite Sex

We ladies have always wondered, wished, and fantasized who's Our Perfect Guy... admit it or not, we've got our stash of "The Ideal Man" lists, complete with hair color, body weight and whether he's got a complete set of teeth (and visas?!). In conversations that concern guys, everyone just gets so lively and idealistic. We swoon at the cute guys we see on movies, lusted (ahem) after the mysterious gentlemen we read on paperbacks, debate over which rock band frontman is hotter/sexier... so on, so forth. We so hoped we'll get caught in a long-winding, sweet romance with the Most Eligible Bachelor. We closed our eyes and prayed for that legendary Knight in Shining Armor to come sweep us off our feet.

...but so far, NOTHING has happened.

Who are we to blame?

Blame it instead on GLOSS. What we're dreaming is too fictional. I swear, if we go on and on with this, truly we'll grow old and tired and still nothing comes out. There is NO SUCH THING as "Single & Perfect Man".

Because there are only THREE KINDS OF MEN in the universe:

the "Wimps"

the "Takens"

the "F*! How could you?!!?!??!?"s

...so pardon me. to elaborate:

1) the "Wimps"
single as they are, it's because they better off that way. they're not "boyfriend material" and most certainly they're not "what you'd want to take home to momma." they're intolerable. either they don't have the backbone, or the personality, or the *****. they do not balance the gender equation because they're lamer than artsy-fartsiest of women (who says we're the weaker sex?, if they happen to pass by.) they're the bad faggots, your resident egotists, extreme geeks, the jerks, plain Evil People you know.

and the sub-type... to put in a milder way -- just the "boy friend" (please notice the gap). you love spending time with him, but please, BoyFriend's just 'not my type'. not to hurt him, but there IS a limit on the grounds of our friendship - don't ask, don't tell. the reason? I LIKE YOU FOR BEING YOU - only! (emphasis on "Like") ... there's a huge difference between Boyfriends and BoyFriends (we girls know that!), but it seems that a majority of the male population is just too blind to see the fine line. poor brats.

2) the "Takens"
ever wonder why some other (unworthy) lady always beat you to the Hunk? that your picturesque wedding fantasy turns all hellish when you see your Man pursuing some other damsel (worse, them riding in a golden carriage)? that your level of self-worth dips a little low when you walk alone in a crowdful of couples? well, we're just meant for that. compare the Man to a Toilet Cubicle: he's Occupied, or simply Out of Order. better luck next time.

BUT WHY DOES IT HAPPEN ALL THE TIME???

...one of the many unanswered questions of the universe, my dear.

3) The "F*! How could you?!!?!??!?"s
aptly put, "Why are you GAY???!?!?!?!" or gay-like... or effeminate... or childish!?

"You could've been SOMEBODY... you could've been MINE!"... enough elaboration.

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there. pretend you didn't read anything... i'm just my usual man-bitching self. for people who find it very relevant, let me know! ;-)

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What are the things you enjoy even when no one around you wants to go out and play?
Honestly, i'm a homebody... so i really am:

listening to music. it relaxes me, gives me a quick jolt in the senses.

blogging. nothing's better than satisfying your beautiful angst.

eating! the universal pastime! :)

reading great stuff (newspapers, mags, blogs..)

making sense out of nonsensical entities

What lowers your stress/ blood pressure/ anxiety level?

sleeping and waking up right

doing absolutely nothing

watching comedy/parody/satirical shows

cartoons! spongebob!!!!

making people laugh, or just laughing

meeting my friends and chatting up

food. can't live without it.

hope that's good enough. SHURI, you're IT! :)

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just the start of things.

DO YOU KNOW WHAT I DID OVER THE WEEKEND? (kill somebody! aaaaahhhh!!!!! needs slasher hit next to jennifer love's!)

i actuallyoutlined 5 chapters of my Biology! imagine 24 hours (not straight, mind you!) of slaving over the mighty bio bible! now i'm confused with the terms... gametes are ribosomal anticodons? got it all mixed up. wait a sec....

haven't studied for tomorrow's. and please don't tell me we've got a prelim on acctg! i'll literally die! (that's next week's business!)

i'll be making my vow of NO INTERNET for the whole week. so i'll be giving you a good supply of posting today...

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"Strawberry Fields Forever" - the Beatles

Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to
Strawberry fields
Nothing is real
And nothing to get hung about
Strawberry fields forever

Living is easy with eyes closed
Misunderstanding all you see
It's getting hard to be someone, but it all works out
It doesn't matter much to me

Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to
Strawberry fields
Nothing is real
And nothing to get hung about
Strawberry fields forever

No one, I think, is in my tree
I mean, it must be high or low
That is, you can't, you know, tune in, but it's alright
That is, I think it's not too bad

Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to
Strawberry fields
Nothing is real
And nothing to get hung about
Strawberry fields forever

Always, no, sometimes, think it's me
But, you know, I know when it's a dream
I think, er, no, I mean, er, yes, but it's all wrong
That is, I think I disagree

Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to
Strawberry fields
Nothing is real
And nothing to get hung about
Strawberry fields forever
Strawberry fields forever
Strawberry fields forever

(cranberry sauce..)

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ah... what i'll do while waiting for this particular song to completely download. i love the rhythm of this sooo bad. let me take you down...

(God, i hope my ad critique doesn't leak out!!! i'll strangle myself if it does!!)

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stupefied... by YOU! (the PRELIMS, that is!)

just remembered that cutesy line uttered by john forbes nash (russell crowe's character) in "A Beautiful Mind" (and i'm damn near his condition! *loony*)... anyhoo, it's my First Post of the Month! aren't you pleased? :)

our preliminary exams will commence next tuesday (aug. 9-15), difficult as they may taunt us, but the great thing about it is that we'll have a long "review break" (w/c is NO CLASSES from aug. 6-8 due to really good fate)... the little minus is on friday (aug. 5) because even it's almost our 'little' holiday, we still have to attend one single class (Math... an exam... and an online quiz... any questions?) ...and yeah, if it weren't for that, i would have had a double concussion from overfantasizing how to spend my vacation! ;p

and since prelims are finally arriving (better remind myself to get my EXAM PERMIT tomorrow!), i'm making a solemn promise not to use the computer **especially the Net** by next week as part of my heavy-duty geekiness vigil. my teachers have been reminding us time and again that this prelims thing hogs a HUGE chunk of our would-be final grade... a greater percentage than the final exam itself... so i want to really do well in this. please wish moi the very best. :)

**ahem, watch out for my hopefully next post, "WTF". you'll see what i mean soon.**

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