Drama Queen, For Once.

I was never a drama queen.

When the lives of the people around you contain enough drama to make a soap opera, there is no time to waste adding your own drama to the mix. I don't remember having a crying fit, banging a door or walking out because of anything. Others found it quite strange for me to be calm, sensible and ridiculously compliant when the rest of the teenage population was composed of either happy-go-lucky or excessively emo rebels.

You see, the most stubborn I can go was to make a disappointing decision.

I think there's nothing wrong with being anti-social. You don't accuse someone of being anti-social. It is a choice to avoid displaying unnecessary emotion and friendliness, just like it is a choice to be loud and outgoing. We are not less human and we don't necessarily have low self-esteem.

Isn't it convenient that I haven't said that to anybody's face yet? Just because I don't scream and lash out at anybody, doesn't mean everything you say is acceptable. Just because I am obedient and non-confrontational by nature doesn't mean what you do isn't demeaning. You don't know how lucky you are that I am relaxed and rational like they say I am; that I don't add more unnecessary drama to your life.



I know I still don't have the luxury to wallow. I still am deprived of the right to be angry. I don't even remember the last time I felt my eyes damp. But would you please, at least... give me time to breathe? 

Manga on Microbes?

You read that right.

A certain blogger buddy introduced me to an anime he watched recently, entitled Moyashimon: Tales of Agriculture. The screenshots looked a little boring, but what caught my attention was the anime's plot. Moyashimon is about a college freshman Tadayasu who enters an agricultural university with a gift - he can see microbes in their icky, magnified glory. And even speak to them! ... or it.


To anyone who has studied microbiology or at least have seen a lab set-up of the sort, this anime would definitely be hilarious. Upon seeing the images, I suddenly remembered our Bacillus plates... and  just imagine nagsasalita sila, ew! Hahaha.

This is now definitely on my must-watch anime list. Now that I've seen the culture plates, I can't wait! Hahaha! (Omg, may shapes pa talaga sila! May coccus tsaka bacillus... hmm, may peritrichous pa ata! LOL)

A Passing

Rein, the rat, passed away this morning due to unknown causes.

His petrified body was discovered at noon, eyes closed and peacefully lying on his side. We buried him in the yard and stabbed a wooden cross in the ground in his memory.


Rein was a good rat. Despite his sharp bites to my hand, clever escapes and his being picky with food; he lived a life full of monkey bar exhibitions and funny rodent antics. But the most notable of all was he spent more than half of his life in the service of science - and to him I owe my college degree, among many others. 

Kyaaa!

The sleeping otaku has been awoken.

By whom? Ahem. My DVD-crazy friends.(Onee-chan is on vacation leave until August, can we finish everything by then?)

I still need hours and hours to finish the anime series that I've already began watching. I'm in the sixth file of Ghost Hunt, and even though Joey advised me against watching it alone (dapat daw kasama sya), I'm itching to get to the next episode! I need to know what's with Lin-san, hmm.  My dvd of La Corda  D'Oro Primo Passo has been collecting dust in my room, and I think Animax has finished airing it. I forgot where I was on Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya) but courtesy of Joey's cool officemate Ms. Marnz, I might actually finish it sooner than I thought.    

 

  

In addition to that, there are a couple of these I have yet to start from episode one! Angela, I'll borrow the Saiunkoku Monogatari dvd if and when I have time, haha. I still have several rmvb downloads of Special A and the Nodame Cantabile Europe special in my laptop, geez. And since I'm starting to lose hope that I can finish all 400+ cases of Detective Conan in this lifetime (uggh...), I'm going to settle for the second live-action adaptation for now. Besides, I know dear sister is aching to see the latest Oguri Shun project, hehe.

So girls, bago nyo ko tambakan ng dvds, patapusin nyo muna yung iba... haha. Besides, I'm in the middle of EiC writing/editing these days. Did I also tell you that Joey and I have a screenplay concept in the works?

There's no use

Ignoring. Denying. Hiding. Or running away.

Maybe pride is just a piece of crap invented by man to justify why he is embarrassed by failure. You want to take it? Fine. You don't have to tell me that the world is unfair, because I know. Tough luck, we all live in it. You'll be surprised once fairness takes my side.

I have to take the wheel and start driving, literally and otherwise.

Girls and boys, it's showtime.