6.3

-Persians are the weirdest people on earth. I secretly dislike them for some reason.
-Thursday is mistress day (woah, what?)
-23 is old for un-virginity
-Play Store has a really cool Nike+ Running app!
-The White Hat's yogurt is plain heavenly, I love it too much
-my dad was in a press conference with Enrile just a few days before his imprisonment

My dad was in a press conference with Enrile just a few days before his imprisonment

My dad was in a press conference with Enrile just a few days before his imprisonment. In that press conference was also Winnie Monsod, with whom he had a seat beside. That press conference was when they deliberated on final matters of the issue before Enrile's imprisonment. They had a picture taken afterwards. Unfortunately, my dad was not able to catch up with the group picture because he had elsewhere to go.

6.2

-my brother's sword smelled like toyo--but it was not toyo
-I learned how to polish a sword
-Sir Jeremy listens to Johann Hummel, too!
-I learned how to edit a video using my sister's Mac
-YouTube has a 60-minute recording of the Moonlight Sonata, awesome!
-time lapse videos are cool...

I polished my brother's sword today. An accomplished blade smith, he makes swords for leisure and money. In the afternoon today, he had to meet with his parkour group and so gave me instructions for his sword. His sword was drenched in toyo-smelling liquid. I had to peel the covering with my bare fingers and run the blade under running water for about three minutes. Right after that, I had to coat the blade with another strange-smelling substance before wiping it in ethyl alcohol and leaving it out to dry.

I polished a sword today.

6.1

-Mashitta (a restaurant at University Mall) serves instant ramen!!! :(
-men complicate matters too much
-the Henry Sy Sr. Hall was designed by Leandro Locsin
-one particular stall at Animo Biz serves SUGAR BUKO WATER!!! *cry* :(((((
-Clementine is a girly name. No... :(((

One particular stall at Animo Biz serves sugar-infused coconut water

A fan of fresh coconut water, I was delighted to find that a stall in Animo Biz sold "fresh" coconut water for twenty pesos; and so I bought one cup and took a sip. To my surprise, it did not taste anything like buko at all. It tasted sugar-weird, but I inhaled the entire cup all down, using my finger to scoop in the shreds of buko which I think were the only safe, decent things inside that drink. I felt unhealthy after that, so guiltily unhealthy so that I promised I'd run all the sugar away that afternoon when I do my usual 2.5 km run on the streets.

5.7 [Tabloid 7]

Headline: Snatcher Todas sa 'Mystery Man'

The reason this headline appealed to me is that I really did not know what the word "todas" meant. I then asked my mom, being always a great resource whenever it came to hard Filipino vocabulary, what it meant; and she explained that it meant "patay" or "dead." A second reason would be that a "mystery man" subject always seemed interesting, given that the names of both the snatcher and the mystery man are not given. Why a tabloid headline would give such a vague, indefinite title provokes much thought.

I was at the counter of a grocery store in Quezon when, at the corner of my eye I saw a vision of one man mysteriously walking around a shelf of wine bottles. I kept a close watch on him. That man--a tall, dark-skinned, dark-haired figure--looked over at a bottle and drew it from the shelf. He held up so as to look at the label properly. Shaking the bottle slowly, he slipped it inside an eco bag that looked like a shopping bag. After a while, he took about five bags of chips from another shelf and proceeded to the counter to pay, after which he walked out of the door without even paying for the bottle of wine.

Outside the grocery store, a beggar with raggedy clothes interrupts him and asks for money. The man ignored the beggar. The beggar, however, kept begging for money, even resorting to following after the man as the man walked away.

After such time when the man had already enough of the beggar's panhandling, the man stood still and looked into the distance, as if to deliberately show a sign of unconcern. The beggar, startlingly, intercepted the man's eco bag which had the stolen bottle of wine in it. Furious, the man pushed the beggar to the ground and beat the beggar up until the beggar bled and died on the spot.

Claiming his wine bottle back, the man started to the opposite direction when, from a hidden corner, a mysterious man showed up and started toward the man with the wine bottle. The mysterious man pulled a gun out of his pocket and shot the other man.

The man with the wine bottle fell to the ground, dead beside the beggar that had just died

Both snatchers died that day.

5.6 [Tabloid 6]

Headline: KALBARYO: Sangkap sa paggawa ng tinapay, magtataas na rin

After staring at the headline for a few minutes and still not figuring out what "kalbaryo" meant, I gave the third degree to my Filipino-word-smart mother. She explained that "kalbaryo" meant something like "Calvary" which suggests suffering. The headline made me wonder what the appreciation of the value of a certain bread ingredient had to do with suffering. To say the least, the word "suffering" sounded much too heavy a word for anything that had to do with a bread ingredient, which could have been anything from yeast to flour to specialized bread improvers. A fan of bread and bake shops like Bread Talk, I ultimately had to agree with the idea that an increase in the price of a bread ingredient, thus resulting in more expensive bread, is a lot of suffering. The 55-peso "flosss bread" of Bread Talk would probably have to increase in price as well. That would be devastating.

5.5 [Tabloid 5]

Headline: Not Guilty: Revilla, Napoles, Cambe humarap sa Sandiganbayan

I imagined three people face the judge pitifully. Their lives are at stake because the day of their death sentence draws near. They plead to the court with hopes that their lives be saved somehow. The judge finds favor upon them due to the strangest circumstance of liver fluke (fasciolosis) and other liver problems. He did did not like the idea of killing people. Hence, the criminals are set free.

Three serial killers dwelt among the townspeople of Bayan. Revilla kills for a living. Napoles kills for fun. Cambre does not even know he kills--it's been second nature to him. Each day, there are reports of unknown deaths and townspeople missing. People have for so long been searching for the culprit/s behind this tragedy, but the culprit/s are no where to be found.

Not long after, three of them are caught jabbing a male supermodel in the belly with a knife. The male supermodel does not last long, but the three serial killers are captured and brought to the court where they face the judge. The judge sentences to have them killed five days after.

On the third day of their trial period, the criminals beg the judge for mercy.

For some reason, the judge was in the thick of bad liver problems. He decides that if he sends these people off to execution, karma might strike back. He did not want that. He then set them free.

The three killers go on with their usual lives in harming innocent people just for the heck of it.

5.4 [Tabloid 4]

Headline: Kahit si Erap: Revilla, Napoles, Cambe humarap sa Sandiganbayan

Now this is something I have not yet read about on papers. Without prior knowledge on the subject, I would imagine the scene as something like a ceremonial event. Revilla, Napoles, and Cambe, three noble human beings, face a prince for an awarding. Erap, the least noble, joins the three for the award.

After risking their lives and saving humankind from supernatural forces, Prince Sandi decides to reward three heroes who have done great. Those three heroes are namely Revilla, Napoles, and Cambe. Revilla, having lost a limb after ramming his body onto a wall, now feels an "incomplete" human being. Napoles and Cambe almost lost their hearing from an explosion outside a building.

During the awarding ceremony, Revilla, Napoles, and Cambe stand on a platform and receive their tokens. The prince gives them each a bag of gold and treasury and hangs some metal around their necks. While on stage, the prince from a distance notices a strange but familiar person and calls on him. His name is Erap. Erap had also fought during the uprising, but due to fear, he ran back home and dedicated the rest of the time to treating wounded people instead. Although he felt less noble than the rest, the prince still  called him to the front and rewarded him.