The Katrina Kronikles

I have a housemate. Her name is Katrina. At least for today, she says she's Katrina. Hahaha.

I have a question. Who is more makulit? Katrina.... or Katrina? Haha lab yu Katrina.

I am taking bets by the way. ... Will the cat...? Or will the cat not...??!? Or rather, cats. Now that Katrina and I have draped coal all over our front stoop will the neighborhood cats stay away???

We offer eggs to ....anyone who can give us a guarantee! Plus our everlasting esteem and affection.

i quit... i give up... nothing's good enough for anybody it seems (edie brickel?)... lol... i accept that today i am useless.... so i'll just go and do something equally useless but more entertaining :-D

my friends' alternate personas, part1

arlie - a famous rapper LOL strange but true... or a toilet-trained cat hehehe
ivan - my boyfriend in his next het lifetime lol! when i'll be oh so gaaaay ...
deedee - hmmm someone unbelievably boring and grouchy in a previous lifetime hehehehe (this is a compliment deedee!! :-D) ... or a change in zodiac sign to ... hihihihihi
eds - zsa zsa padilla
"joseph" - someone who can never decide if it's oo o hindi?!
joanna - Jamaican!
buddha - the maker of floral umbrellas mwahahahaha ... or regine velasquez mwehehehe

take your revenge why not?!? that's what comments are for ;-)

Peculiar Penchants of the Saturnine Capricorn

1. Umbrellas :-P ... hahaha... nice for regular walking in the rain ... great for thumping cars that pass and splash thoughtlessly on your clothes!!! ... takes you safely from work to coffee :-D ... makes it easy to pick you out in a mob (speaking of hot pink 'brellas)
2. Socks ... they ward off evil spirits, and keep illnesses away!! ... hehehe seriously ... they are great for when you're not feeling too well but you're not allowed to get sick!!!
3. No Ice on Sore Throat Days ... no matter how much Arlie argues against it ... how can I deny that I always feel so much worse if I enjoy a drink with ice when am not feeling so hot?! ... does she want me to deny myself? to be not-me? :-(
4. This one's a real third world trick --- put everything in the ref to protect against everything!! Like your toothbrush against cockroaches, sugar from ants, and yourself from rising temperatures. hahahaha.

Questions am bound to ask if we hang out together:
1. When was the last time you washed your bag? (hehehehe you know who you are :-P)
2. Have I asked you this already...? hehehe

H-A-P-P-Y!

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i think that i shall never see... a comment as lovely as a tree ... by (name of mayor), (name of town). hehehe, for you to get the joke, look around you at the street signs the next time you visit a local town

Riding the PMS Wave (chasing after the flavours demanded by having a uterus)

Saturday: Hot sun. Great meal. They go together. I thoroughly enjoyed Rudie's and my green mango salad and boneless bangus at Muscuvado Grill. Can't get enough of green mangoes!!!! ... Later having "welcomed" George Bush, the one who wages a war against the women of the world, I departed from my office with a good friend in my bag. Dolphin-friendly Century tuna! Hehehe.
Sunday: There's no day like Sunday! I chanced upon my local carinderia serving hot pork adobo and hot rice. Had it with Arlie's papaya achara! ... Then had tuna pan de sal with coke (added life :-P) then much later had more of the local carinderia's adobo, the chicken version. hehehe, there's no accounting for womb-driven wants!
Monday: Having given up on the case for studying at home (how to read at my study table with my chairs full of clothes, and my table full of piles of papers... how to read on the couch facing the extremely distracting tv... oh and dette was still on the couch :-P... and how to read on the dining table full of glasses and facing the tv at a sidewise angle hehehe), I put on shoe pair #56 (joke!) and went over to my local McDo... WHERE I WAS ABLE TO STUDY!!! ... over my big breakfast omelet and burger with ... vinegar for my PMS ;-)
Tuesday: Tucked wallet under armpit and towing Dette, trotted off to the nearest restaurant serving sliced mangoes with bagoong. YUM. Didn't stop till it was all gone. All gone. All Gone. ALL GOONE. Sob.

Oh my goodness, it's Friday!

GRIN GRIN GRIN. My vacation leave for a week in November has been approved!!! Yes!!!!! I can drink shakes and be merry!!! :-D ... Also, finally got the FDC chapters' much needed long delayed fund requests underway.

I was telling DeeDee earlier how everything in FDC is needing a gender perspective this week! Am doing two briefers with an officemate on women and water, and on women and privatization, then will do one with another officemate on women's perspectives on the 2004 Philippine budget, and then there's a "seminar" on monitoring and evaluation that's also needing gender indicators. hehe. two-three years ago, all of this together would have sent me into a panic --- straight into bed with my head under the pillow!!! but now they are all interesting!!! they make me happy :-D ... am just glad my deadline for my research proposal on women organizing and reproductive health and sexuality got moved a bit. ... guess it's never too late to grow up!

Just came from an hour-long noise barrage in front of city hall, one of a series of protest activities against the Bush visit to the Philippines tomorrow. A sample placard said: Red carpet para kay Bush! Basahan para sa mamamayan! (referring to the Philippine government's red carpet treatment for Bush and it's poor services for the people, described here as being like a rag). Hope we get on tv!!!

Time to freshen up. Must meet my classmates in my research class. We're needing a bit of a powwow.

And my roomie's and my MyMix song of the day goes: Swing swing from the tangles of my heart is crushed by a former love!

Top Two Most Sexy Songs from my MP3s (as of today):
1. Sexual Healing (Marvin Gaye featuring Shaggy)
2. My One and Only Love (Sting, Leaving Las Vegas soundtrack)
since there's just two I guess it has to be quick! or on repeat repeat repeat repeat repeat after me :-D

and by the way, you can drop me a line at themundaneandthedivine@yahoo.com

so look around your world pretty baby, is it everything you hope'd it'd be? the wrong guy, the wrong situation, the right time to roll to me! - Roll To Me, Del Amitri ... care of Duni who wants to go Hawaiian in the middle of a North England autumn!!!!!! (sister?!?!)

Yours is not to question why, yours is just to admire :-D

Bruce was wondering if it's my birthday today hehe. You know when your clothes fit on a particular day and happen to look awright! together, you thank the Goddesses, and accept presents. Hehe. Do I want to be Libran, carrying the scales of justice, forever pondering on the fairness of the world? But I like Librans, they are kinda quirky :-P

Pondering on some of my beloved and esteemed women last night ... if only if only if only if only if only if only people (men!) could let women be! Let them run naked in the streets if they want to, assured that people (men!) respect the integrity of their persons and their bodies, secure that consent was a word people (men!) understood and are able to practice.

When women dress as they want and do as they want, it very often and most likely does not have anything to do with you... men. It might, if you're the one they want to attract (and we also have to deconstruct sometime why what is attractive is what is attractive) but you're not to assume that. You could ask. Politely and respectfully. For as long as you then believe whatever it is that she replies. But just because someone is sexy and attractive, it doesn't mean you can have your way! That you can do what you want, say what you want, because I suppose, in your mind, being a sexy and attractive woman is license for you to do something. Well, **** off! (this has suddenly turned into a parental guidance site! Just thinking about some men is enough to turn your musings into a rant!).

In the meantime, it really is a very unsafe world out there. If you're a woman, you're damned if you don't make yourself attractive (chaka manang old maid etc), and damned if you are (hottie babe slut promiscuous). So what are you supposed to be then, really?!

In the meantime, the dutiful Capricorn worries. But trusts that women will find the strength to somehow teach the world how they want to be treated... if they can stay alive till then.

Awe. Hush, I am in the hallowed halls of my brand-new blogger. I am online, teeheehehehehehe, once again the star of my very own universes! Online autism, here I come! Brucieeeeee, nyenyenyenyenye (you must sign up soon!) Dette-dette!!! Happinesses!!!! ... As it turns out, I can't do without company :-), the friendly and charming souls we hang out and skip happily with to the tune of .... currently Regine V.'s version of Harana :-D! Apologies to those who have strong positions, I take what I like and incorporate in my long-running soundtrack... Enough for now, must get back to my first draft of the FDC primer on women and water ... uso pa ba ang harana, marahil ikaw ay nagtataka, sino ba tong mukhang gaga, nagkandarapa sa pagkanta at nasisintonado sa kaba... ;-) see ya