The Tag of wierdness

I got tagged by Balikbayan Box. It's been quite a while since I got tagged because I have a reputation for breaking the chain, but this one got me interested, especially since I have seen a lot of people tagged for this one already and came up with interesting responses.

Weird Habits Tag

The writer will create a blog with 6 weird things habits about yourself.

People who get tagged will have to post a blog of their own telling 6 weird things habits about themselves.

At the end of your 6 weird things habits, you need to choose 6 people that you would like to be tagged and list their names.

Dont forget to leave a comment that says You are Tagged! in their comments and tell them to read yours for instructions on how to proceed!

Here goes...

1. I perspire when I eat something sweet. Not just a slight perspiration. My broad forehead, nose, mustache area, beside my ears, eye area, my neck. I don't know why. In fact, I'm perspiring now because a colleague dropped by my cubicle to give me a couple of Turkish Delight (my first time to eat this! Reminded me of Narnia! It was nice and soft and ... sweet).

I perspire especially with chocolates. But I discovered recently I can tolerate dark chocolate, so all is not lost.

2. I don't like tomato ketchup. I prefer the one made with banana. I even got angry with the commercial where kids identify the color of a fruit and a product it's made from. When it came to the banana, the kids answered "yellow!". And when it showed ketchup, the kids said it's not yellow, it's wrong! What the heck. Is the commercial implying that banana ketchup is japeyk?

3. I cannot go straight to sleep without watching a bit of TV or reading a bit from a book or magazine, or play a video game. Which sometimes drags my sleeping time to a couple of hours later. A bit of something turns interesting most of the time.

4. I get grumpy when I'm hungry. So grumpy that my temper usually flares up when people strike a conversation with me. I have had a couple of misunderstandings due to this and I have explained this fact to them. So now, I simply keep quiet when hungry until I can chew on something.

5. I keep all receipts and bits of paper. I just learned about that when I moved house last June. It took me a whole month sifting through the grabage! That's nine years' worth of paper. Get the biggest black garbage bag; I filled up two of those.

6. I like my egg scrambled on the pan itself while it's cooking. When the egg served me is sunny side up, I just eat the white part, leaving the yolk by its lonesome.

Hmmm.... I'm supposd to tag six other people but in my hopping lots have answered this already. So, if you haven't answered this yet and you're born in the merry month of October, you're tagged!

Happy weekend everyone!

The Breakfast Club: a movie review

First, a 500-peso update.

If there's one thing I learned this week, it's that I cannot stretch 500 pesos into a week. I barely have 30 pesos left in my pocket today. Oh well, I have to get funding from my coin bank and chase those who owe me. Salary day seems so far, far away ...

I think my wife hasn't been reading my blog lately ... I'd better alert her :-).

***

"They were five students with nothing in common, faced with spending a Saturday detention together in their high school library. At 7AM, they had nothing to do, but by 4PM, they had bared their souls to each other and become good friends. John Hughes, creator of the critically acclaimed Sixteen Candles, wrote, directed, and produced this hilarious and often touching comedy starring Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy. To the outside world they were simply the Jock, the Brain, the Criminal, the Princess and the Kook, but to each other, they would always be The Breakfast Club."

So runs the introduction to the story at the back of the CD. Don't check the current movie listings, for this one came from the jolly old 80s, 1984 to be exact. I have never watched this movie before so when I saw it last Friday while browsing through a video store, I simply had to buy it (along with Some Kind of Wonderful which a friend was looking for).

I wondered: why Breakfast Club? There was no scene of them having breakfast together (duh). They did have lunch though, each bag reflecting their lifestyle and character. The entire movie happens in the library on that fateful day where they all meet. Strangers at first with diverse family backgrounds, they display animosity towards each other. They question each other's beliefs and convictions.

Eight hours is quite a long time to just sit still. The professor monitoring them eventually found that he had his hands full with these rowdy students. But while in conflict, they stood for each other against this professor who was trying to catch who loosened the screw on the hallway door to his office, making it difficult to keep watch from his chair. Later on, they finally had an opportunity to sit down and share the reason for their detention and its even deeper cause. No cheesy dialogues. Just a batch of people looking for acceptance from their family, their friends, and questioning why they are who they are, and what if they meet each other in the corridors come Monday, will they still greet each other like friends? What will their other friends say about it? It surely hits the spot when it comes to stereotyping people based on how they dress, their family background, and the people they get along with.

I enjoyed watching this movie. No special effects, no guns blaring, no bombs going off. Just plain watching a bunch of kids spending detention and getting on with their lives. It was actually like sitting in detention with them too.

The movie even starts with the song "Dont you forget about me" by Simple Minds, taking me back to the fun 80s. There was even dancing, 80s style. What a treat!

Catch The Breakfast Club on HBO, or buy your copy (VCD format only, no DVD available) from your favorite video shop for only P100.00.

The 500 peso update

A couple of hours after posting the previous article, my 500 pesos got turned into loose change due to the following tasks(inspite of my to-do list to save up; didn't realize it was going to be difficult!). But I also got some freebies along the way.

Yesterday:
- got a taxi ride from office to Dusit for occular inspection with Follen. Damage: 40.00 (Booooo!)
- hungry! had to eat after the occular. Went straight to Wendy's. Damage: 55.00 (Boooo!)
- It was Princess Em's birthday yesterday! Happy birthday Em! She invited me and Follen for food and chat. It became dinner (Yeeeees!)
- a friend gave me 100.00 in exchange for the "Some kind of wonderful" VCD I bought him last Friday (Yeesss!)
- bought a sick friend dinner. Damage: 71.00 (Good deed forthe day)
- got a taxi ride going home. It was 9PM already and slightly raining. Damage: 60.00 (Booo!)

Spent: 226.00 Remaining: 374.00


Today:
- got to office through carpooling without paying for it (Yeeesss!)
- lunch at Jollijeep. Damage: 52.00 (Gotta eat!)

Follen's first time to eat in a Jollijeep

So what do you think? Will my 500 pesos last til weekend?