Superstar Sighted!!! Freddy Kreuger/Tinyente Guimo/Ricky Reyes

Sighted this supersar at the mall today. Singing at the MagicSing demo booth. Hehehe. What do you guys think?

Sorry I think I'm being really mean already. Strike two in a day. forgive me!

Sorry I couldn't resist posting this . . .hehehehhe

Taken back in January 2007 in McDo - Emerald Avenue by my friend using a phone cam. He he. I know it's evil and mean to laugh at other people but I've been itchin to post just this one for a long time. really hehe. Will you forgive me? sige na. hehehehe, guffawwwww. I guess folks like this love the attention anyone ergo the get-up. hehe. What do you guys think?

Sheer Swiss Elegance

Wow! even their farmers are dressed fancier than many of our wedding goers! Grabbed from Time's photo of the week, this is an authentic pic of a swiss cow hand.

Parking? NO WAY

I'd rather lose my car than park in this parking lot!

Ascott (is not equal to) Elegance

This is a perfect illustration of the fact that Ascott, Hats and Frills DO NOT necessarily translate to the word ELEGANCE

Oscar the Cat of Death - One tubby cat you wouldn't wanna have around you

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) -- Oscar the cat seems to have an uncanny knack for predicting when nursing home patients are going to die, by curling up next to them during their final hours.

Oscar the cat doesn't like to be put out in the hall when a patient is dying.

His accuracy, observed in 25 cases, has led the staff to call family members once he has chosen someone. It usually means the patient has less than four hours to live.

"He doesn't make too many mistakes. He seems to understand when patients are about to die," Dr. David Dosa said in an interview. He describes the phenomenon in a poignant essay in Thursday's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

"Many family members take some solace from it. They appreciate the companionship that the cat provides for their dying loved one," said Dosa, a geriatrician and assistant professor of medicine at Brown University.

The 2-year-old feline was adopted as a kitten and grew up in a third-floor dementia unit at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. The facility treats people with Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease and other illnesses.

After about six months, the staff noticed Oscar would make his own rounds, just like the doctors and nurses. He'd sniff and observe patients, then sit beside people who would wind up dying in a few hours.

Dosa said Oscar seems to take his work seriously and is generally aloof. "This is not a cat that's friendly to people," he said.

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Oscar is better at predicting death than the people who work there, said Dr. Joan Teno of Brown University, who treats patients at the nursing home and is an expert on care for the terminally ill

She was convinced of Oscar's talent when he made his 13th correct call. While observing one patient, Teno said she noticed the woman wasn't eating, was breathing with difficulty and that her legs had a bluish tinge, signs that often mean death is near.

Oscar wouldn't stay inside the room, though, so Teno thought his streak was broken. Instead, it turned out the doctor's prediction was roughly 10 hours too early. Sure enough, during the patient's final two hours, nurses told Teno that Oscar joined the woman at her bedside.

Doctors say most of the people who get a visit from the sweet-faced, gray-and-white cat are so ill they probably don't know he's there, so patients aren't aware he's a harbinger of death. Most families are grateful for the advance warning, although one wanted Oscar out of the room while a family member died. When Oscar is put outside, he paces and meows his displeasure.

No one's certain if Oscar's behavior is scientifically significant or points to a cause. Teno wonders if the cat notices telltale scents or reads something into the behavior of the nurses who raised him.

Nicholas Dodman, who directs an animal behavioral clinic at the Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine and has read Dosa's article, said the only way to know is to carefully document how Oscar divides his time between the living and dying.

If Oscar really is a furry grim reaper, it's also possible his behavior could be driven by self-centered pleasures like a heated blanket placed on a dying person, Dodman said.

Nursing home staffers aren't concerned with explaining Oscar, so long as he gives families a better chance at saying goodbye to the dying.

Oscar recently received a wall plaque publicly commending his "compassionate hospice care."

Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

Watching the movie - Shooter (Mark Wahlberg) now on DVD courtesy of Pam and MIke

The movie is good but am still in it. Will write more soon. hehe.

Sona Quote of the Day -

Congressman Abante to Congressman Digs Dilangalen in yesterday's proceedings at the House before the State of the Nation Address: "There are more than 200 congressmen here! You have been talking as if you are just the only one. Talking for 30 minutes is too long!"

Quote of the Day: GMA at the State of the Nation Address

"From where I sit, I can tell you that the President can be as POWERFUL as he or she wants to be."

What do you do? What do you do?

You oblige to accompany some friends to buy some car parts in Banaue. Still half asleep that Rainy Saturday afternoon. You sit on the passenger side of the car, and then all of a sudden you are confronted by a man wearing a fit red shirt and a much fitter pair of redder shorts while having something done in his car.

What do you do? what do you?

(MUSIC FROM PSYCHO)

hEHEHEHEHE.

What do you do? Man in Red (Shirt and Shorts)

Hail the the 14 Marines . . .

Our hearts go out to the 14 marines beheaded in the war against insurgency in the south the past week. These men left behind widowed wives and orphaned children.

We salute these brave warriors.

Lazy Sundays at Eastwood

My pal steven called for lunch at eastwood so here I am again minus my mac. It's free wifi here, luckily I still have my ipaq along.

Had vietnamese at pho hoa, it was their choice to have vietnamese so i ordered the calamares. hehe my spanish tist in a vietnamese resto.

i've got a full load of work ahead again this week. sundays seem to just skip my weekdays. my weekdays seem to just pass by in a blur.

yadda yadda.

My trusty Ipaq 6365

I finally got my replacement unit for my trusty iPaq 6365. This waiter at a fastfood chain, who was too flimsy for his own good, was mopping the floor beside me, hit the table I was eating on, and my ipaq of (2 years) my other phone and a glass full of pineapple juice came crashing down the floor.

i din't bother berate the guy, i just told him calmly to wipe the goo off my phones and my shoe. although the phones were still working after that, the ipaq kept on resetting along with everything in its memory, everytime it got a hard knock or a strong shake.

so i went to the HP service center. I found the repair prices skyrocketing and absurd, 1800 just for the diagnotic fee, 1200 something for labor fee, 5000 for this part, 2000 for the antenna and all that. luckily they have a policy that offers a brand new replacement unit for half the price. I grabbed the chance.

the ipaq is my life manager. it holds everything, my contacts, my emails, my calendar. plus because a 2 gig sd card now only costs 920 bucks (pesos) , i have my own veritable video i-pod in it too. i receive my emails and faxes via wi-fi or gprs, anytime anytime. edit word and excel files. the works, am digressing so this is the end. bye.

hehe

bwaaaahahaha laugh trip gid ya sang mga ilonggo

transformers

i surprisingly loved the movie!!!

yadda yakkity yakkk

it's rainin' again right this very moment . . . they changed the noisy heavy wrought iron chairs at starbucks here in eastwood to wooden picnic ones, and I think they're better and more comfortable and less stiff. I just wonder if the rain will not ruin these chairs. i woke up a bit earlier than I do on saturday mornings to try to have my ipaq pocket pc phone replaced, but I called to find out that they're close on saturdays . . . i'm working on the up and coming Aid for Trade conference being put together by ADB and WTO in Manila come September and I still try to remind myself that I ain't working for the private sector anymore. . . rainy lazy saturday afternoons in manila is bliss for me indeed. i'll try to catch the transformers the movie tonight.

yesterday i came back to my office from my meeting at adb to find our parking lot unusually full of officials' vehicles so I parked at the lot across from my building. i wonder how the avid bloggers just seem to put together their thoughts into coherent blog entries and here I am trying hard to come with a decent one . . . actually i end up with this poor excuse for a write-up yakkity yak.

it's been a week of me feeling that bad-hair feeling. work's prevented me to stop by at the nearest mall to grab my usual hair product. i hope i won't forget to do that right about now.

there's this girl who talks like a politician in her husky modulated voice hahaha. i should record her the next time she goes into her usual spiel. some elderly division chief unbuttons his barong all the way down to reveal a black fishnet undershirt. ewwwwwwwwww.

i miss my dogs. I've been told that (my pure white lhasa apso in Roxas with my folks) monica's been having accidents in the hallway because she's scared of the sound of the rain to heed the call of nature in our lawn. she's so ashamed of it, so she's been hiding away from my mom in my room for two days now. (the rottweiler) napoleon's happy at his new spot beside the new garage dad had built. he usually couldn't stand long periods without people around him.

yadda yadda

WTF is happening around us?

I was drivng to work this morning and they got a huge billboard by telco SMART I think, that featured three rather very plain (or worse than plain) looking women under the banner VOTE FOR YOUR MISS UGLYNOMORE. I'll try to get a snapshot of the billboard as I pass by, or maybe I can get their web version. It's another of those sms-moneymaking ventures not unlike the one they had before on beuaty. hehehe

Then in the papers, I read that authorities finally found a stolen 500 something ton Barge! what the F**K! a humongous barge? stolen? bwahahahaha.

the pounds i gained in Cebu

Sigh, after a full week of wanton gluttony, I think i gained so much weight. We've had too many gracious hosts who hosted our lunches and dinners left and right. Not to mention the sumptuous buffet breakfast at the Waterfront in Lahug. Recipe for my weight to go out of control. I dread to weigh myself actually. My recent pictures during our island hopping sortie are proof enough, my face has ballooned like a frightened puffer fish. AAAAAAAAARrrrrgh!!!!!!