A page header, finally

See the new header?

Hey, that's a header! Trust me...

Okay, I'm just too conscious about this new header. It's my first-ever major page element here, you know. I'm not sure; maybe it looks like some kind of junky rectangular visual stuff bombarded with overloading crappy hokum or like it’s a data that shouldn't take up any space in the Internet at all.

Anyway, here's a point...I've been blogging since last year, but why in the world have I decided to put up a header just so lately?

Well, first off, I wasn't actually certain of maintaining a blog in the fist place. I believe (until now) that it would just snatch up time on my fussy studying agenda. I'm pretty convinced that my brain isn't in a sufficient composure for UP psyche standard, so I really do extra studying as much as I could (but unfortunately, I can only sense negligible progress yet, sigh). But at least, the 'singko' boxes on my class cards were still clean... no bombs yet.

What was more was that the wifi signals at our dormitory building were really so hostile of my wireless LAN card since I moved into a new room location this semester. The server antenna is too far from my room assignment, but I've got a theory that it's just my LAN card and my laptop that were the losers here, since I can't see any connection problems with my room neighbors.

Fine. But why is the world so cruel?

So much of the melodramatic lines...

Until now, I'm still on the stage of exploring and experimenting and adventuring with this blogging business yet. I ain't got a structured concept of my master plan for this blog actually. I just thought to keep updating posts a while more and eventually formulate the thing after some time.

As for my new header, I thought of experimenting a draft of it one night while scanning my image files and reminiscing the yet unpainted memories of my life (roll eyes...o.o).

I found a picture of my legs from last December and one of my paintings from last semester break at a room in a boarding house near the university campus (the picture with a seated girl). The title of the painting is "October Solitude" because I was encaged in a subjugating solitude in that room for more than two weeks in October doing nothing but paint, read books, write my journals, sleep, eat twice a day, and talk to myself - totally deserted from the outside world.
(Roll eyes again...o.o)

For the design, I only used the PAINT.NET software since my computer memory and hard drive are literally so poor to afford the better Photoshops.

The words at the bottom part are, well, they're actually just some sort of adders, or fillers, I think. But I'm planning of doing many articles about Maharlika, PROUT, Neo-Humanism, and vegetarianism in my future postings. I think that they're really worthy topics to discuss, and I'd truly love to do such with this blog (I just wish that time and the Ethereal elements would at least conspire with me for this).

So much for the out-of-the-world terms, eh?

Okay, so perhaps I owe some explanation for those words at the header...

Well, I'm corroborating with "Maharlika Movement" for the nonce. Briefly, this movement embodies the principle of Progressive Utilization Theory (PROUT), a socio-economic theory laid out by Shrii Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar (a great Indian philosopher, author, and founder of Ananda Marga and Tantrik Yoga practices).

Being an advocate for animal rights with "People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)", I drew up my leading from Neo-Humanism, a philosophical paradigm also set out by Sarkar as a vision for human progress based on universal values and ethical principles.

As much as my intuition could manage, I always keep my hands off from the dusts of dogmas and self-assertions in my 'search' for 'meaning' throughout my educational career. At the time being, these matters are the most sensible bodies of knowledge that I've settled down with and have planned to explore.

O yeah, I'm growing up!

And so, I now decide to put an end to the tale of my new header here, before my blabbing could lead me somewhere else far from the virtual realms.

(Hey, and I'm planning to write about aliens and 'super beings', too! Lol.)

Orange?

My friends say that orange is my favorite color.

Really, huh?
??????

And then I noticed the colors of my stuffs.

My water bottle is orange.

My backpack has orange on it.

My desk tray is orange.

My pen holder is orange.

My blog hearder's orange.

One of my sneakers is orange.

The cover of study desk is orange.

The skin of my cabinet, which is my painting, is orange.

Many of my artworks have significant areas of orange on them.

But are these enough to tell that orange is my favorite color?
Oh no, no, no.

Reward: 10,000 centavos

Don't fail me on this...
It would cost my life...
So please, help me find this vampire.

Hooked, Addicted, and Crazy

I’ve been enslaved under the impregnable spell of reading last month. In particular, I was bewitched by Stephenie Meyer’s livid Twilight Series to an extent that I once woke up one morning bearing a state of mind that I am living in a realm beyond the mundane normality where other unnatural beings coexist with me. That had stirred my sanity afterward, realizing that my mind had been unconsciously lured by Meyer’s tale to wander with vampires and werewolves. Then I chided to myself: Are you insane? Wake up!

And so, my reflex fixed me to watch my imagination not to cross the demarcation line and put myself sane. But then I wanted more of that realm beyond, I thought to myself. It was like a narcotic that activates the radical room in my brain and glands on my system that pull me into ecstasy. I knew at once that I couldn’t produce that enough grip to behave well, so I eventually decided to let myself drown with the ecstasy of the plot.

As I swam with the flow, I saw myself giggled with Bella’s tickle pink moments with Edward, exploded to angst and irritation when Jacob acted his role as a second party in line, laughed when Charlie talks with his daughter about sex, cried when Edward broke up with Bella after her tragic birthday, tensed up with the confrontation with the ancient Volturi’s, guffawed when Alice performed her silly mannerisms using her predicting talent, surprised when Jacob imprinted with the half human, half vampire baby, Reneesme, freaked out when the mad Volturi’s contended with the Cullens, and finally delighted when the series proceeded to a happy ending.


The crooked smile...

and the kiss to die for!

As I receded from wandering the supernatural realm with Edward, Bella, Jacob and the party, it gave my heart a squeezed feel of nostalgia as if I really had been through the story myself. No wonder I would miss those moments I unconsciously shared with them, and I’m extremely longing for a sequel, as if there could possibly be any. I don’t know when I would finally break away from this silly nostalgia, but for the time being, I would cherish this moment of being not totally exiled from my fantasy yet.

Okay, taong gubat is a freak, no wonder.

Attention: Vegan on this blog.

I go vegan! Yes, I’m not kidding this time, really. At first, I thought I’m at peace already being a strict vegetarian, but certain circumstances eventually hovered me lately into this somewhat higher and far very stern platform level.

Okay, perhaps some of you may not have a clear idea of what does ‘vegan’ means, and why the heck am I blabbing about this stuff right now. So, here’s how I define it: veganism is a kind of lifestyle that omits eating foods from animal sources like meat, poultry, fish and any animate kind of seafood, egg, and milk from lactating animals. It also excludes consuming goods that have thrown the life of any animate being into a dreadful situation that kicked suffering into them. Examples of those goods are clothes made of fur, bags, shoes and belts made of animal skin, cosmetics that have substances from animal sources, and etc. This one has very the same grounds with simple vegetarianism, but observes more strict and higher philosophy than the latter. Commonly, people turn into vegan out of their huge compassion to animals, or because of religious beliefs or spiritual philosophies. Some of them were driven into this simply because of so much obsession with their physique and decided to resort to very strict dieting, which, I admit, is what I am into right now. Hihihihi.

And now, let’s talk about the reason why have I chosen to do a make over with my lifestyle lately. Here goes the list of what have doomed into me:

1.Last October, I checked my weight, and I was astounded by the huge amount of pounds I have gained from the preceding month of my vital signs check. As what I can remember, my weight was a whooping 52 kilograms that time. Geez, I always end up fainting recollecting that hateful moment. When the semester break came in and I rented a room at a boarding house just a few kilometer-distance from the university, I lived my two weeks of solitude inside the four cornered perimeter of my room doing nothing but to eat, read, paint, and sleep. After that break without burning any calorie from my system, I guess I gained more weight again. In retrospect, when school resumed for the 2nd semester, I received a couple of comments from my colleagues that I already looked different from way back with my, shall I say, obtrusive inflation.

2.My appetite was really wacky before. In a sense, it was like a spificated devouring and grinding machine that I cannot even put a hold of its neck. Very often, this always places me in a hopelessly deplorable condition with my financial holdings. I superbly go gaga over chocolates and anything creamy, always losing control with myself. This may seem an inconceivably built up story and out of this world, but this sure is not a tarraddidle of mine, I tell you.

3.I tried so hard disciplining myself with those uncontrollable worldly affixations, digging arduously inspirations from books and anything I’ve read, sometimes taking steering thoughts from my spiritual philosophy. These also work, but after sometime, I again end up being the blighted usual me.

4.Many of my clothes won’t hug me a comfy touch anymore. I look like a rice cake wrapped in a near-bulging banana leaf already – a thing that is such a horrendous crime! My waistline also extended a few inches from 25 to 26 point something. At that event, a couple of my jeans were piled up untainted in an obtuse corner of my locker, useless and crapped.

5.I joined PETA’s worldwide movement for the good benefit of the animals, and settled membership in their on line community in the Internet. There, they award points for any service that I’ve done for the animals to exchange for some PETA signature goods like shirts, bags, books, etc. For the task of going vegan, I could bag a square thousand points, and so, I went to think about it.

Time to shine! Last Thursday, I had my monthly vital signs check, and the result was pretty pleasing. The current reading revealed 49 kilos for my weight, equivalently 96 pounds. Here’s what made that a nice one – that’s actually my exact weight last September which was about two months ago! As what my monthly vitals signs trend shows ever since I entered college, I’ve been constantly adding extra pounds every month without misses, and what had just happened was really something fabulous of an improvement.

I started switching into a vegan diet just about the previous three weeks. Little by little, cutting out my cravings for my ever-favorite creamy delicatessens and other foods that contain any trace of milk products from animals. Of course, it is a very unwise thing to cut out milk because I need the nutrients of such for my health, especially that I was diagnosed before with scoliosis wringing up my backbones. Good thing, there’s this soy milk easily found in many stores that came to the rescue as a sub for the regular cow’s milk usually sold in the market. In fact, this soymilk is far more teeming with nutrients than the other because its source is in the highest lieu of the ecosystem’s food pyramid, and a bona fide non-fat.

With the sure better prospect of greener pasture with my lifestyle right now, I don’t think I would end up with a blue regret for the change. The steadfast calorie burn up and budget expenses decline I took in for the last three weeks just indulged me into delightful initial test drive. I wonder what the future zephyr of it may wind me up. Stay close; let’s just see.