pang pababa ng presyon

Totoo nga ba ito? Nakaka-baba ng presyon ng dugo ang UTOT.

Ayon sa balitang parang kuwentong barbero, eh may enzyme daw tayo sa ating blood vessels na nag po-produce ng hydrogen sulphide --- ang sanhi kung bakit mabantot ang ating utot.

May relasyon kaya dito ang heart conditon ng mga "passive utot-inhalers" na laging katabi o kasama ng mga ututin? Mababa kaya lagi ang presyon nila? Sa tingin ko hindi, isipin na lang natin yung pag titiis sa masamang hangin na pumapalibot sa iyo, nakaka stress yun di ba? Lalo na kung di ka maka-angal!

In the future, magiging health consumer item na rin ang bottled compressed fart. 'Gandang business idea ito ha... it comes in different levels of malordous flatulence and sounds! Take a hearty whiff and see your blood pressure drop.

Heto ang article sa BBC news.

weekend mixtape

Looking forward to the next long weekend! 80)

Geraldine
Glasvegas

When your sparkle evades your soul
I'll be at your side to console
When you're standing on the window ledge
I'll talk you back from the edge
I will turn your tide
Be your shepherd and your guide
When your lost in the deep and darkest place around
May my words walk you home safe and sound

When you say that I'm no good and you feel like walking
I need to make sure you know thats just the Prescription talking
When your feet decide to walk you on the wayward side
Up upon the stairs and down the downward slide
I will, I will turn your tide
Do all that I can to heal you inside
I'll be the angel on your shoulder
My name is Geraldine, I'm your social worker


I see you need me
I know you do

Tanderkats are GO!

Social networking sites contain treasure troves of albums, including some pics or worse, videos that you've been keeping to yourself to make sure it does not see the light of day. They are now out in the open, thanks to your loved one, your ex, your friend or your fiend-- be it hi-resolution, or not, uploaded in the vastness of cyberspace for all to see and download (for odd reasons, I guess).

I'm saying this because a childhood friend of mine uploaded our entire High School Yearbook online, hehehe. But rest assured, for privacy reasons, only Batch members can view it. It's fantastic to have "that was then and this is now" pics side by side. I tell you, talagang lahat kami sa Ygroup namin ay aliw na aliw sa aming album! We have some classmates na parang hindi tumanda talaga -- which made me jokingly quip "...you are so well-preserved!", you can imagine the banter that followed!

So far wala pa namang nag-upload ng sex videos...

Well, in 20 years time, our albums would probably look like this... Stylish tanderkats are go!

Hooked

It's amusing to find out that some of my friends/family have been hooked on Facebook. Ika nga ng aking kaibigan... "Welcome to Facecrack!"

Yeah, that's potent crack indeed, worth billions! What could be the next? YouPorn? And how are we going to call this... wankcrack? or some kind of adultery? -- corny naman... anyways, the website actually exists and I can't wait to hear someone update their status on Facebook as... "I'm hooked on YouPorn!" -- o di ba?

I on the other hand, have not been bitten by the Facecrack bug yet, perhaps it's because I'm already hooked on the net, lahat-lahat na. I've kicked my smoking habit ages ago, 13 years to be exact and I've drastically cut down on my drinking, the binges are history, tanderkats na kasi -- believe me, my tolerance to alcohol is getting waaay too low. I shudder at the sight of an open bottle of tequila. Dry baby, dry!

My internet addiction is a perfect distraction from the things that I should be doing. How to kick this, I am figuring out, still. Maybe I should go back to drinking....

ang may huling halakhak...

Na-aalala ko noong bata pa kami, mga kalaro kong lalaki, ang laging tuksuhan sa isa't-isa ay kungdi "bakla, bakla!" ay "supot! supot!". Pagkatapos nun, kinabukasan may mga wala sa patintero at pagbalik nila, nanga-ngamatis ang...

Hanggang sa pagtanda ko, naririnig ko pa rin sa ilang mga ka-inuman kong lalaki, the straight ones mostly, ang pag-lait nila sa mga "supot". They still sound like lil' boys, really.

Well, I hope they read this blog on "artificial foreskin". Ayon sa blog, "There is now conclusive medical evidence that a circumcised penis with the glans exposed has less nerve receptors and is less effective than a naturally covered penis."

There really is artificial foreskin now being sold and it comes in 10 sizes! Ano ba yan, sounds so desperate! Para namang pag binalot mo sya eh mag reregenerate ang mga nerve endings! hahahaha! Kaya?!

Tekaaaa... eh paano na kung may suot ka ng artificial foreskin tapos kelangan mo pang mag-condom! Aba, tinalo pa ang lumpiang shanghai ng aking good friend dito!

tsk...tsk...tsk...

Napansin ko lang, kahit saang lupalop, walang paltos kong maririnig sa kapuwa kong Pinoy ang parinig nilang "tibo yan" o kaya naman eh "lesbee-yan". Sa Manila, talgang parang kasama na ito sa soundscape, pero di ko sila ma-sisi... ikaw na ang maging kalbo.

Dito rin, na-alala ko, kumakain kami ni C ng hapunan sa isang Chinese restaurant nang may isang grupo ng 3 lalaking Hapon at 2 Pinay na umupong isang mesa ang pagitan sa harapan namin. Napansin namin sila dahil narinig namin yung mga babaeng mag-Tagalog.

At kunwari pa nilang pabulong na sinasabi sa kanilang mga kasamang lalaki na kami raw ay mga "lesbee-yan". (Siguro ngayon lang sila nakakita ng 2, magkaibang lahi pa!) Natawa na lang kami dahil hindi talaga ma-gets ng mga lalaki yung sinasabi nila, ang the girls made it a point that we could hear everything (to our amusement). They had to explain to the middle-aged guys what they were blabbering about --- and eventually, the guys just shrugged them off! Ni hindi nga kami tinignan! (inisnab kami ng mga oyajiii!, hahaha!)

Sabi ni C, usually bale wala itong issue na ito sa mga Japanese guys, lalo na yung mga middle-aged oyajis. What matters to them are the young girls' Ts and As. We were already chuckling to ourselves at this point, to let them know that yes, we heard everything... and as we stood up, we also made sure they heard... "well at least we're not going to bed with that!"
tsk...tsk...tsk...

Awesome rockers talaga

Blogged about this awesome band last year and I still have not got enough dough to buy the box-set "First Time In A Long Time", I also thought that this website was by a fan... ay mali!
Check out the Fanny website by one of their very own drummer, Alice de Buhr!

Anyway, ang galing talaga nila. I came across another article about them at After Ellen, "When Fanny Rocked", nakakatuwang basahin ng mga anecdotes ng mga band members. When I first saw clips of the band in this documentary, "Radical Harmony", kinutuban ako about the Millington sisters, aba Pinay siguro sila (Pinay nga!)... and June registered a blip-blip-blip on the gaydar! Salamat sa Google at YouTube and devoted fans, marami silang clips online!

Bakit kaya noong kapanahunan at kainitan nila ay hindi sila sumikat sa Pilipinas? Or did I just miss it -- kasi bata pa ko nun? Bakeeet?!

"the first all-female rock band to be signed to a major label... they played hundreds of fantastic live concerts for thousands and thousands of fans and were instrumental in founding the modern world of women in rock"

Ah, alam ko na ang aking Christmas wish...

my tainted love of food and drink

Hmmm, I am eyeing my last Chocopie (parang isang mega-Mallows ito), sitting on top of our dining table and at the same time wondering whether this sweet treat has got traces of melamine in it. What da heck, I've already eaten the rest of what was in the box!

I guess were just looking at the tip of the iceberg here. Aren't we actually ingesting other kinds of chemicals everyday through food containers and kitchen stuff?

What about the teflon coating on cooking pans, rice cookers which we all have ingested one way or another through out our lifetime? Have you checked your pans lately, I bet you can already see through patches of exposed metal. And the tocino sticks to the bottom of the pan more often than before. It's really convenient to cook on non-stick pans as long as we're in denial about the chemmy stuff.

Check out your spatulas and other cooking utensils, some of them are plastic and heat resistant right? But how sure are you that tiny bits of heated chemicals do not get mixed with your sinangag (The "tutong" sure tastes good! ) or stir-fried beef with broccoli?

Thirsty? Bottled water infused with PET chemicals will definitely hit that dry spot. Same goes for canned or boxed drinks, different container liners but can we have some reassurance that chemicals do not leach through? Gaddemmet, I just wish that glass wasn't as breakable as it is.

I can only imagine a world without plastic food containers, no ziplocs, tupperwares, rubbermaids, nalgenes, etc. It's possible but there's no other convenient way around this right now, I guess.

I'll pass on the Chocopie and just go for that cold can of beer in the fridge.

Almusal Pinoy

Imbes na Tabasco, dapat pala suka't bawang ang sawsawan ko, kaso naman may pasok ako ano!
Kahit mag-sipilyo't mumog ako, amoy-bawang pa rin ang hininga ko. Mantakin nyo ba naman ang longganisang Lucban na siksik sa garlic flava! Palugit na nga't plain rice ito, wala na akong oras pang mag fried garlic rice!

Before my longganisa phase, dahil sa sobrang miss ko ang tapa, I made it myself! Madali lang naman pala. Just marinate the tapa in the basic suka, bawang, toyo, paminta at bay leaf (plus worcestershire sauce) and let the beef strips dry out in the sun for several days. Food orgasm ako sa unang subo ng tapsilog ko!

Next in line would be my homo-made tocino. Ilang taon na rin akong di nakaka-kain nito, tulad na rin ng tapa't longganisa. Yung tuyo kasi di pwede dahil ma-amoy syang lutuin -- sa Manila na lang ako kakain nito, kasama na rin yung daing na bangus at danggit!