It survived!

Blood. BLOOOOD!

Can't believe our crappy research project (conceptualized, executed and presented in the span of 2 WEEKS) has an online imprint now. It was supposed to stay hidden in the Pisay library, far from the prying eyes of, well, everyone. Now it's immortalized! *sob*

I will never forget that we seriously, SERIOUSLY chased after the chickens behind the school cafeteria in the hopes of getting blood when we catch them. The resulting blood agar had a pretty funky smell, too. Even our normally poker-faced lab technician grimaced when he had to get the agar from the autoclave.

Huh. Why is it that the things you don't want others to know have a way of making it out into the open, and the things you feel you could be proud of don't? Wala lang. Secrets. They can't stay secrets forever.

If any evil is to happen, it will not be by my hand mouth.

Menfolk (mainly)

Now that Dochin has a large black vicious animal making its home on top of his head and eating his ears, I had to turn to my other boyzzz to ease my pain. (Kawabata is also going through a weird hair phase --- what is with that curling sideburn fuzz thing? Huh?)

Met up with Vigs and Dale at Divi for ChESI stuff. Of course, I couldn't go there and not buy a DVD. :P Went home happily with My Name is Kim Sam Soon (MNIKSS), then Gokusen (mainly because of the MatsuJun goodness, for Ceres). Since I watched Gokusen on YouTube (courtesy of high-speed Internet in the Nagasaki University library :P), I watched Kim San Soon.

I'm not particularly a Koreanovela fan, but I liked MNIKSS. It made me laugh out loud pretty often. The heroine of the story is overweight, nearing her 30's, and has been unlucky in love: think a Korean Bridget Jones. She gets hired (or maybe coerced?) into becoming the patissierie chef for a restaurant run by a demanding, well-dressed (to the highest level, I swear) and thus extremely attractive man 3 years her junior (Cyrus in the GMA version, according to my sister). Their story progresses with a major roadbump in the form of his ex-girlfriend. But all in all they have sex (done nicely, v. cute) and live happily ever after. :D

The lead actress actually gained 7 kg for this role! Wow. And here I was thinking she was naturally big-boned. :P Her character is very maternal, a bit coarse but she seems to have a lot of fun. She reminds me of my friend Mi Hee. She's not a martyr, but she's nice enough to be taken advantage of. I think she portrayed what it's like to feel your biological clock ticking and having no one to love you pretty well. A memorable line was, "I just want a man who loves me, who will treat me well and we can lead an average life together," or something like that. Maybe that's at heart what makes women happy: not riches, not fame, but love. *cue cheesy music* Anyway, she and her partner had great chemistry.

Her partner is Hyun Bin, who now has a whole folder in my laptop. Eye candy! I think it's his dimples, and that deep voice. When he and Sam Soon, the main character, end up together, he can be sweet and whiny and all in all little boy-ish, even though as an arrogant bastard he's pretty hot. And he (the character) plays the piano! And loves his niece v. much! Aww.

Also v. hot, but not with his own folder in my laptop, is Korean-American Daniel Henney. Now Hyun Bin is great, but he can't speak English. And with the sprinkling of Korean I've picked up, we wouldn't be able to talk. A fan who met him while they were shooting in Malaysia (WRONG SEAsian country! Augh!) said Hyun Bin was kind of aloof, while Dan was v. nice and accommodating. In the drama he also plays a nice guy, so I'm sold. Haha.

The ex-girlfriend is played by a dead ringer for Heart Evangelista! She's easy to hate: pretty, dimpled, skinny, fluent in English, and she gets to kiss/be kissed by Hyun Bin AND Daniel Henney. (T_T) Apparently she moved to Australia when she was 12, which explains the English. The character had her wearing all these feminine, floaty outfits. She really is v. pretty. (And has a nice set of teeth. :P)

All these got me thinking: Korea's great at spreading their culture through music, drama, etc. This allows so many of their hot (and not-so-hot, I mean look at Rain :P) stars and in turn Korea itself recognition the world over. Heck, there are whole sites, whole social networks founded on a common love for Korean pop culture.

We could learn from their example. Though I hardly think Maging Sino Ka Man or a similar drama would gain a loyal following in other countries (although Pangako Sayo and Esperanza was quite popular in Malaysia, I heard). There's a whole lot of talent in Philippine showbiz, if you know how to sift through all the flashes-in-the-pan and talentless mestizos. :P Who knows, someday soon Sam Milby (also of mixed blood, like Dan Henney) will be able to make the hearts of girls all over the world beat faster...Maybe.

Thanks to all my picture-hunting, I stumbled upon this blog. Yay for attractive men! And it featured John Lloyd Cruz, so this is truly an excellent site (with a minor booboo: they also had Carlos Agassi *rolls eyes*). I've bookmarked it already. :D

AHOO AHOO AHOO*

*still debatable: Is it so or actually AWOO AWOO AWOO?

Heard all about outing from everyone who went. A big *power clap* to my buddy ANGGE, who in her brilliance and (practically) self-sufficiency was named KEM Laude. Hurrah! Buddee, I'm so proud of you. Even though you probably won't get to read this. We expect great things from you...great things. :D

Have amassed a fair amount of money towards replacing Kim's scientific calculator (lost right before finals week x_x), which I will eventually use myself. But anyway.

Finally got to watch 300! Whee. Before that, though, we watched The 300 Spartans on DVD. My Dad was telling me that it was a good movie, but I didn't really appreciate it that much. It was sort of...tame. And there were some honest to God "Duh!" moments in the film: Leonidas tells one of his captains to get 30 of their best swimmers for a surprise attack on the Persian camp. When the moment for the attack arrives, they don't swim, they WADE. So why did he ask for the best swimmers???

There was also Phylon and Ellas (Queen Gorgo's niece), the young lovers. You half-expect them to break into song somewhere along the movie. I don't know why they had to be part of the plot. Maybe so someone could inform Leonidas of the goatherd who goes traitor and reveals where another way past the pass is.

It had a whole, I don't know, cheesy moralizing feel to it. But they focused on uniting Greece, blahblah. So watching 300 was a stark contrast to the whole butterflies-and-rainbows atmosphere it presented.

First, let me just say ZOMG ABS EVERYWHERE!!!111!! In real life this would've been a v. serious impediment in battle, ie. the Spartans would all die because of how little clothing they were wearing. But this is not exactly aiming to be realistic, I mean Xerxes' Immortals = man-sized Orcs. Uhhh. And Xerxes is just precious! Am I the only one who loved him? Hahaha.XD

Butler was great as Leonidas, although some small part of me was half-expecting him to suddenly sing "Phantom of the Opera" in the midst of a battle scene. That Scottish brogue is surprisingly not out of place though. The part where he says something about the Athenians: "...boy lovers," made me laugh out aloud, to the consternation of the dude sitting beside me. Then right after that, when he kicks the Persian emissary into the practically bottomless pit, that was priceless. We should have a mini-bottomless pit during Engg Week:

Rival org person: *Blahblah complain complain*
Pres (Mils): *reasoning peaceably*
Rival org person: I will send my goons after you *threaten threaten*
Mils: "THIS IS KEMMMMM!" *kicks into mini-bottomless pit*

XD

...Anyway. Have tried to summarize it into a by no means comprehensive list with my !mad! Photoshop skillz (SARCASM), and leave you to decide the winner for yourselves:

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Now have Google Desktop! It's pretty cool. Customizable, with a nifty selection of gadgets ranging from an international clock to Bart Simpson watching your cursor move. And, in a fit of organizing frenzy, now have some v. good To Do List-making sites (all web-based though): Remember the Milk, Ta-Da List and (this one's superfun) 43 Things.