Archive for February, 2007

Civ - “the thinking man’s GTA”

Published Date: February 22nd, 2007
Category: Nerdee

The only reason why I never could play that damn GTA series was because I sucked at beating up policemen and picking up hos. Damn machismo. My character never had enough balls. Now, back to my game.

Grizzly Man

Published Date: February 20th, 2007
Category: Moovees

Read somewhere that Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man is the ultimate modern-day Greek tragedy: the delusional, well-meaning hero; the unforgiving and relentless world; the conflict, the drama, the inevitable downfall.
Whatever the reasons, or lack thereof, that Tim Treadwell had in embarking on his journeys, whether he was crazy or histrionic or attention-whorish or an adrenalin junkie, [...]

Beautiful Boys

Published Date: February 14th, 2007
Category: Hottness

Because I don’t need a reason to post pictures of beautiful boys. These are taken from JustJared, taken from the annual New York Times portraits of actors in memorable roles.
I loved Leo di Caprio. I loved him in The Basketball Diaries, and This Boy’s Life, and What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. But I always wondered why [...]

Good Job

Published Date: February 14th, 2007
Category: Life as a Peon

Good job, what you did, said a Danish officemate after I’d finished clearing the dishwasher and refilling it with dirty dishes.
I don’t normally do it, but last week, our receptionist/administrative assistant/payroll computer (who is beautiful in the way only women over 40 can look beautiful; she is also white) arrived in the morning to find [...]

A Day in the Life (Part III)

Published Date: February 13th, 2007
Category: Travelogues

You never realize how spoiled you are until you have to live on your own. Things I do that I still can’t get over the fact that I do them just because I’ve never really done them before:

Vacuum
Wash my own underwear
Wipe the stove, preferrably after use, but because I’m lazy I just do it once [...]

A Day in the Life (Part II)

Published Date: February 11th, 2007
Category: Travelogues

We went to Field’s today, supposedly the largest shopping center. I was a little more skeptical going to it; you don’t throw around the words “largest shopping center” easily around a Filipino. To get here, you have to take the Metro, which is one of the two city train lines, the other being the S-train. [...]

A Day in the Life (Part I)

Published Date: February 4th, 2007
Category: Travelogues

I haven’t really thought about how it is to live in Copenhagen yet; I’ve been here for a couple of months and the days don’t really feel different from each other. The weather is really the most interesting thing I’ve noticed about it, but that’s because I think I haven’t been to many of the [...]

Empire(s) Fall(s)

Published Date: February 3rd, 2007
Category: Teevee

So, I’ve been indisposed this past couple of days because I bought the Civ III game (because I thought it was Civ IV — and I was so happy to have found it on the sale bin at the Blockbuster — that’s what I get for letting my emotions get the better of me). I [...]