Quotes from John Maybury's The Jacket

"Sometimes life can only really begin with the knowledge of death; that it can all end, even when you least want it to. The important thing in life is to believe that while you're alive, it's never too late. I promise you, no matter how bad things look, they look better awake than they do asleep. When you die, there's only one thing you want to happen. You wanna come back."

"Sometimes I think we live through things only to be able to say that it happened. That it wasn't to someone else, it was to me. Sometimes we live to beat the odds. I'm not crazy even though they thought I was. I live in the same world as everyone else. I just saw more of it, as I'm sure you have."

Family values taught by Deuteronomy (Nakuha ko lng sumwhere)

Det.20:13: In the cities that god "delivers into thine hands" you must kill all the males (including old men, boys, and babies) with "the edge of the sword .... But the women ... shalt thou take unto yourself."

Det.20:16: "But of the cities ... which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth." Kill the old men and women, the sick and the dying, the blind and the lame, pregnant mothers, nursing mothers, infants, toddlers, and babies.

Det.13:6-10: 13:6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; xxx; Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

Det.21:18-21: "If a man [s] a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

Quotes from Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 2, No. 36

"xxx the story of humanity is written in towers not in tears
In the common blood and bone
In the voice that speaks within even the worst of us, and says this is not right
Because even the worst of use, however scarred, are still human
Still feel
Still mourn the random death of innocents
We are here
But with our costumes and our powers we are writ small by the true heroes
Those who face fire without fear or armor
Those who step into the darkness without assurances of ever walking out, because there are others waiting in the dark
Awaiting salvation
Awaiting word
Awaiting justice
Ordinary men
Ordinary women
Made extraordinary by acts of compassion
And courage
And terrible sacrifice
Ordinary Men
Ordinary Women
Refusing to surrender"

Quotes from Christopher Nolan's Memento

"If we can't make memories, we can't heal."

"I have to believe in a world outside my own mind. I have to believe that my actions still have meaning, even if I can't remember them. I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. Do I believe the world's still there? Is it still out there?... Yeah. We all need mirrors to remind ourselves who we are. I'm no different."

"So you lie yourself to be happy. There's nothing wrong with that. We all do it. Who cares if there's a few little details you'd rather not remember?"

"Well, I guess I can only make you remember the things you wanna be true."

Quotes from Ryan Fleck's Half Nelson

"Change moves in spirals, not circles. For example, the sun goes up and then it goes down. But everytime that happens, what do you get? You get a new day. You get a new one. When you breathe, you inhale and you exhale, but every single time that you do that you're a little bit different than the one before. We're always changing. And its important to know that there are some changes you can't control and that there are others you can."

"One thing doesn't make a man."

Quotes from Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers

"A revolution isn't a gala dinner. It cannot be created like a book, a drawing or a tapestry. It cannot unfold with such elegance, tranquility and delicacy. Or such sweetness, affability. Courtesy, restraint and generosity. A revolution is an uprising, a violent act by which one class overthrows another."

"Before you can change the world you must realize that you, yourself, are part of it. You can't stand outside looking in."

"There's no such thing as love.There are only proofs of love."

"I'm sorry to say it, but for me there is...a distinct contradiction. Because... if you really believed what you
were saying...you'd be out there. Out there, on the street.There's something going on out there.Something that
feels like it could be really important. Something that feels like things could change. Even I get that.
But you're not out there.You're inside, with me, drinking expensive wine,talking about film.Talking about Maoism. Why? Because I don't think you really believe it.
I think you buy the lamp, and you put up the posters, but I don't... I don't think you..."

who are we kidding?

we've only got ourselves to fool....

Chuck Palahniuk: Why have I sold out? You think I'm supposed to grow old, beating some trite old protest drum that people don't hear anymore? Please; protest is now just a backdrop for a Diesel clothing ad in a slick fashion magazine. My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way. It's time -- for me, at least -- to be clever and seduce people by entertaining them. I'll never be heard if I'm always ranting and griping.

Joker Arroyo on junking:

"Even me, I'm asking some of my friends in the opposition. That's normal because it will add to your vote." (PDI. May 9, 2007)

Right! A month ago you were talking bout party loyalty. When the only decent senatorial candidate starts talking crap….

"The rich are different from you and me. if female (paris hilton), they can have intercourse on the internet with impunity. if male (george w. bush, say, or howard dean), they can run for president of the United States. Public copulation and candidacies prove that natural born millionaires can pretty much aim as high,or low as they want: Proper breeding packs enough shamelessness, innate self-confidence, and familial connections for either extreme." [det. mar 04]

"there are more important things in this world than what i want and what I love." [dunno where i got this one]

three years old na ang blog ko!

i'm driving again. haha.
graduate na ko.
i got accepted sa up law.
i was rushed to the ER last nyt.
whow.

9. I'm fuckin freakin out

i've been practicing for hours, but i can't seem to find the ryt answers to the questions they would surely ask me. "if this is what u really want, then y'd u run?" "how much time will u devote 2 ur studies if ever we accepted u?" "y'd u hav mediocre (low) grades?"

i wish i knew the ryt answers. guess i really don't know what i've gotten myself into until now. & 2 think months ago i thought i'd get through all this without a sweat. i was wrong. this is real life now. no standard answers, no second takes. humor alone won't get me through this, nor will simple rehearsal. damn.

i can't frickin sleep. my conscience is bugging me; asking me what is it that i really want. wat is it that u really want ,victor?! what? wish i also knew the ryt answer.

these past few weeks, ive been doing a lot of thinking. i've come to realize how much of a failure i've been; how much i've messed up my life. i cannot help but regret a lot of the decisions i made in the past. i've derailed myself from my track. & darn, all i cud do now is rant. 'had i only been a little stonger.' 'had i only given it more thought.' fucker. what's done is done. but no regrets. they don't work anyway.

not by me... just took the photo.

magnolia

In this life, it's not what you hope for, it's not what you deserve - it's what you take!

Don't ever let anyone ever say to you, 'You shouldn't regret anything.' Don't do that, don't! You regret what you fucking want! And use that, use that, use that regret for anything, any way you want. You can use it, okay?

3. Fight Club

[I] see in Fight Club, the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential. And, I see squandering. God damn it! An entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables: slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing car and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy sh** we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man--no purpose or place. We have no great war. No great depression. Our great war's a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars . . . but we won't. We're slowly learning that fact and we're very, very pissed off.

____________________

For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to clean up after everyone. I have to wash out and flatten my soup cans. And account for every drop of used motor oil. And I have to foot the bill for nuclear waste and buried gasoline tanks and landfilled toxic sludge dumped a generation before I was born.

____________________

I've met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, "Why?" Why did I cause so much pain?Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness? Can't I see that we're all manifestations of love? I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God's got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens And God says, "No, that's not right." Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.

3. missy, istatchu?

Papa Bear nagbabasa ng inquirer sa opisina: kamukha ni missy o!
Lahat: oh shit kamukha nga ni missy! long lost twin!

2. pretty much how i feel

#0001

let's face it. we aren't as great as we use(d) to be. two decades of being on the pedestal...I guess it's about time that we abdicate our thrown. Tough luck, but we deserve it, or should I say we don't deserve it anymore...you know, being looked up to. It's not like that we've actually brought the country any good.... In fact, lay men blame us for the tragedy that struck. I guess all the idealism the University has taught every one of its graduates is no good for the temptations of real life. And darn those crazy activists! The last bastion of hope, the nest of messiahs isn't exactly the perfect haven everyone thought it was. Yeah, I must admit, we have become nothing more than a University of destabilizers and naked runners. Add to that sloths. Darn.

27. Billboards et al.

1. Lose weight. Fast and Cheap. Earn Money

2. Cute Funeral Homes

3. Pinoy Big Burger. The first reality-based burger in town.

4. Aso lang ang umiihi dito.

5. We're sorrt. Instant spouses not allowed.

6. Natting's Hill Resort.

malas

wala nang mas malas sa 'kin. lang binatbat kamalasan ni tin. hehe.

strike 1. gumising ako. ang ganda ng araw; ang taas ng sikat. Biglang umulan ngunit maliwanag pa rin. Namalayan ko na lang nawala ang aking telepono. pakshet. di ko mapaliwanag ang misteryosong pagkawala ng aking bulok ng telepono. malamang sinundo na ng kanyang mga kaibigang U.F.O. na nakatira sa planetang Neptune. natulog akong nagsusumikap namiss lang siya ng kanyang mga kaibigang alien at isasauli din sya sa akin kalaunan.

strike 2. kinabukasan, maganda ulit ang sikat ng araw. hindi ko pa rin makita ang aking telepono. inisip ko, "ayos na lang sira rin naman yun e." hmmp. pestengyawa! umupo na lang ako sa aking trono at binuksan ang aking computer. Binuksan ko ang aking yahoo at google mail accounts. Dami palang nakaalala sa akin. Bigla kong naalalang hindi ko pa pala nahahawakan ang aking pitaka simula ng aking paggising. pesteng mga alien yan. hindi pa natuwa sa aking telepono, pati wallet ko dinala rin sa planetang neptune. kasamang nawala ng wallet ko ang: karamihan ng aking mga form 5, UP ID, Pisay ID, PAL ID, Drivers License, at kung anu-ano pang ID. Sa kasalukuyan wala akong kahit ano mang dokumento na makakapagpatunay na ako nga si biktor sumalangitnawa fontanilla.

strike 3. dahil sa hindi mapaliwanag na kadahilanan, bigla na lang akong binilhan ng tiket ng nanay kong pauwi g kotabato. kailangan kong umuwi, wala man lang paunang pasabi.

strike 4. asar ang katabi ko sa eroplano. nilalagay nya ang kanyang dalang dyaryo sa side ng upuan ko. hindi tuloy ako makatulog nang mahimbing sa flight. patago kong tinutulak yung dyaryo papunta sa side nya, pero tila type ata ako nung dyaryo nya at balik nang balik sa side ko.

strike 5. nakalimutan kong magdala ng pambahay dito sa kotabato. kamusta naman at mukhang lalabas ako ng bahay araw araw! buti na lang at may mga lumang shorts pa ako sa bahay.

strike 6. since sira ang laptop at wala kong internet sa kotabato, ang sources of entertainment ko lamang ay: magpraktis gumawa ng smoke rings (gud luck),manood ng tv, manood ng dvd (ayos ng crash!), maglaro ng pingpong (mag-isa), kulikutin ang PC ng tatay ko (na ang games lamang ay solitaire at moto racer!), at makipaglaro sa mga aso ng tatay ko. peste.

strike 6. di ko pa alam kelan ang balik ko. malas.

there's something about me

haha

There's something about mary, but i don't know what it is. maybe it's in the way she talks, or walks, or something else. But there really is something. I was in the middle of my power nap in econ 100.2 when i suddenly started to see butterflies in front of me. A dream? I guess not. it was too real for a dream. "class dismissed," the professor just shouted and everyone started to scram. enough of the butterflies. I myself had to scram or i'll end up late for next class. scram, scram. i had scrambled eggs for breakfast that day. I guess the eggs must have caused the butterflies.

i haven't had a good night sleep in weeks. every second of my darn school life, i'm imagining myself sound asleep in a kingsize bed. even math 100 could not compete with the sleepiness that's building inside of me. the size of my pupils approaches zero as the diameter of my professor's mouth increases. good one, maam. i reached nirvana again for the 5th time this week.

what's wrong with me? i'm seeing a doctor later today. my mom won't do with my prescribing drugs for myself, hehe. what's up with the E or the V as substitutes for cough syrup. haha, just kidding.

during times like this i wish i'd just turn into an ant, or even a butterfly. aside from the fact that i'm really fascinated with insects, i just want to do away with the human brain. i'd really love a couple of hours of not having to think.

pero guys, do you know that the grasshopper and the locust are actually one and the same organism. the solitary, green grasshopper transforms into the 'predatory' , brown locust during tough times.

'sigh.' i'm dead tired. makes me want to watch battlefield earth. huh. god bless the philippines. adios.

"Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure. "

the Matrix

somebody else's

I used to think that there was still something more powerful than money, like love, friendship, honor, truth. But I was wrong. We work because of money; we'll die if we don't have money . We'll kill for money; we'll stab a friend in the back for money. It may sound bitter; that's because it is.

ely buendia

food for the soul

fucked up. that's what i am right now. minutes had just passed after i finished what i call my best work ever. and now all that is left of it is a picture of it in my head. how could i? now, all i could do is cry over spilled milk.

i was damn right about the thought of doing that damn piece in notepad first before uploading it here. i should have, and now i can do nothing to retrieve that stupid thing.

it's closing time in here, and that means it's closing time for me as well.

hair on my back start to rise as people in the other room seem to be quarrelling about something. i don't know what it is about and i'm too afraid to know.

our driver just tried to grab the gun placed near my laptop. i don't know why but now a drunk man is right in front of me as the rest of the guys resume with their worthless talking in the other room.

1 hour and midnight would be striking, and i don't know how this beautiful night would end. my beautiful hands are not yet tired punching dumb letters here. my dumb brain aint tired either.

the neighborhood is already asleep. all that is left right now are the hissing of the airconditioner and the bustling of the rain outside. the comotion that had just occured seemed to have already died too.

hzzzzz... goes my airconditioner. and soon, it would be my beautiful mouth that would be hissing as my beautiful brain goes into deep sleep. yes i am not yet done. there are lots of stuff to write about. and a couple of minutes sure aint enough. but there's always next time.

any minute now, the night would be over. soon, i would be headed home.

this beautiful occasion was suppose to end happy, but now it's anything but that. tragedy had struck and all i could do in here is continue my adventurous exploit in the computer.

life is beautiful and so is the night. there are no stars right now. clouds cover the beautiful sky. i still am wondering what the rumbling in the other room was about.

it's freezing cold. and soon, instead of sweat soon i'd be wiping off ice from my feet. 'why is life like this?' the old man in front of me asks. all i could do is nod my head. 'sir, i don't know.'

Driving 101

How funny is it that we sometimes laugh about how dumb our MMDA traffic officers are. When an intersection that you usually would be able to pass through swiftly gets jammed with intertwining cars, we usually would say ‘malamang may MMDA na naman dyansa kanto.’ Ironic because I remember having watched MMDA chairman Bayani Fernando saying on national TV that he thinks that the qualifying examination for MMDA officers shoud be made easier because no one seems to pass the damn test and they can’t hire any more hooligans that would aid us on our exploits on the streets. Come to think of it, the MMDA officers out on the streets of EDSA and Quezon Av worsening the already worse flow of vehicles are actually members of the very few who passed what BF describes as a ‘tough´exam.

Bible 101

i found these verses while i was browsing through my bible. i thought that they were worth noting and so i decided to post them here.

1. “why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? how can you say to your brother, ‘brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when you ? yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye ? you hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”

2. “all food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble. it is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother to fall.”

3. “do not overcome evil, but overcome evil with good.”

4. “do not say to your neighbor, ‘come back later, i’ll give it tomorrow’ –-when you now have it with you”

5. “four things on earth are small, yet they are extremely wise: ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer; conies are creatures of little power, yet they make their homes in the crags; locusts have no king, yet they advance together in ranks; a lizard can be caught in the hand, yet it is found in kings’ palaces.”

[and here’s something funny…]

6. “better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.”

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orinola boys

Nung bata yung kapatid ko, [hirap siyangbigkasin yung salitang orinola].kung tayo, may nakakapagpabagabag, siya may orinola. as in urinal. anerola, onerola, alirona. ayayayay. hindi mabigkas.

hayskul na kapatid ko, may problema pa rin siya sa nakngtokneneng na orinola na 'to. tawagin ba namang urinary yung urinal. [kuya, mahaba ba ang pila sa urinary?] urinary bladder!!!

siguro, lalake si God. ang galing na innovation nung urinary system ng lalake. para bang maikukumpara sa PC at laptop. yung sa babae, PC; sa lalake, laptop. kahit saan pwedeng gamitin!!

[kakaasar mga taong hindi marunong gumamit ng urinal. ang toilet bowl ay ginawa para sa pwet, hindi para sa ihi.]

nabasa ko sa bathrum humor na mini-book, a gentleman never pees in the bathrum. hehehe. tama nga. sino kayang lalake ang gentleman? ako, out na ko kaagad. naalala ko pa nung hayskul. sinasabay ko sa buhos ng tabo. nasa dorm kase kami, kaya rinig sa kabilang cubicle. ssshhhhh. passsshhh naman, bagsak ngbuhos ng tubig galing sa tabo. bakit nga naman ako lalabas pa kung pwede naman dun sa loob?

pero ang malaking mystery sa akin ay kung bakit kailangang hindi gamitin ang mga urinal na inimbento ng tao para sa pag-ihi. sinong mokong kaya ang nakaimbento ng urinal? sa mga kumag namang hindi marunong gumamit ng orinola, mabuti sana kung binubuhusan nila ang toilet bowl bawat gamit nila. yan tuloy, sa dorm, masusuka ka muna sa amoy ng kanilang ihi sa bowl bago ka matae. holy shit, piss pala.

pero speaking of urinal... [malas talaga ako dyan sa pink urinal na pinatayo ni Bayani].nung unang beses akong gumamit, natodas ako ng mga holdaper. swak ang magandang mata ko. buti hindi nangitim, namula lang, parangnamake-apan lang ni ricky reyes. tapos nung bday ko, shit, the curse continues... gumamit ako, tapos kinuwento ko na sa mga kasama ko yung nangyari sa kin last tym kong gumamit ng pink urinal...at after ilang minutes. tsaraaan... hayan na si holdaper, naghihintay kaming holdapin.

buwisit na orinola yan. yan tuloy, naiihi na ako.