What The World Needs Now Is Lau Sweet Lau

08/01/2006 2:00PM

Can you handle Distraction?

DO you know this TV show DISTRACTION (on JACK TV, Saturdays, prior to Banzai). You do? Great! That, however, has nothing to do with this whole blog. Haha. Iron CHef America is on at about the same time on the Lifestyle network, which means I hardly even watch Distraction (pLus I can’t quite grasp the accent. Haller, talk about distracting). Anyway that’s just my intro to today’s 10 things… 10 absolute distractions during board review:

1. TV. Check previous blog. ‘Nuff said. (btw can i just say I’m so happy about Kahlen and Naima making the top sa ANTL…buti nga kay Keenyah, ang feeling kasi mashado… infernes, all three of them were really pretty dun sa commersh and all the challenges sa finale… but i bet yung manok ko si Brittany would have also been gorgeous had she made it. La lang!:)… Ooh, ooh, and crush ko na rin si Kyan, hehehe!… and yup yup I’m right my honey Ashton Kutcher was the brains behind Beauty and The Geek… Sam Oh said so.:-) )

2. The PC. INcluding surfing the net, organizing and reorganizing the folders that i rebuilt after reformatting the virus-defeated ol’ thing, etc… (btw mental note to self: follow up Vice and Gen for the pics i need to get to rebuild the My Pictures folder. Oh, and hi guys!)

3. Sleeping. Nothing in the world — at least in my world — is sweeter. I sleep too much! Can you blame someone who’s been sleep-deprived every-three days (or two, or four, or for days on end kung nagme-makeup at nagpeperpetual) for 2 years? Thought so. Anyway i’ve noticed, sleeping has done wonders for my skin, for my psyche too coz i’m a lot happier now (unless it’s the being away from the hospital and from many other malevolent forces i’d rather not talk about that’s making me happier now)… but not for my figure, hehehe. As in, i can totally trace my weight gain to sleeping, kasi i don’t eat more than my usual naman, even if i do cook now, and i still have the same amount of "exercise"… pero nagvavitamins na ako ngayon, so. That may also have something to do with it.

4. My siblings, whom I love very much. That i willingly get distracted.

5. The rare instances the writing bug bites, that i just have to pounce on it! In my case, writer’s block has already been the default state. And when I write, "now that’s refreshing!" (thank you Heart and Palmolive)

6. Books, NON-ACADEMIC of course, which i keep scrounging for on-line, in book sales, mga ganun. And that I read immediately if i can’t help it (like, I just finished "Confessions of a Sociopathic Psychopath" and "Player Piano"! Kainis!). My golly, i think i must even be applauded, coz I have like 20+ books waiting for me to read them (mind you, these are titles that i have always wanted to have, that I’ve always wanted to read, and now that i’ve finally acquired them in a cheaper, previously owned or otherwise, or discounted state, i couldn’t!), and i’m fighting the temptation, but i figured, "you also have a lot of sample exams and hand-outs waiting for you to read them, Lau"

(As an adjunct to that pala, and my shopaholic gastadora impulsive nature, i also keep on looking for things on Ebay and pinoy exchange and Buy and sell, just looking, looking, looking, at things i can’t afford, and things i think i can afford and i think would like to have soon but i don’t really know if i ever will or if i really even want them in the first place. DId that make sense?)

7. Staring into space. Which can be an adjunct to #3, as the prelude or the aftermath. Staring into space and just thinking about nothing, or about my heart (buti sana kung in the anatomical/physiological/pathological sense, but no…), or about the void that is my life — ahehehe drama, or about the SONA, or about making money (coz i need some as have been off allowance since i decided to stay home and not to go elsewhere to study, and i need to finance #6), or about kung may typhoon suspension ba and kung may klase ba ang mga kapatid ko bukas, and if not, what can i cook kaya for them… things like that.

8. Cooking and insisting on being another Sous Chef of the one and only Iron Chef in our house, Manang Zen.

9. Fixing my room. Sabi na ADHD talaga ako, i have to exert extra effort in fixing my room maya’t maya and rearranging things maya’t maya. Can’t help myself. (does that make my neurotic too? nge)

10. MY HOUSE. Actually encompasses all numbers. PLus the major home improvement projects we’ve been instituting lately has been distracting me, as my house naman is a really old thing na (24 years almost ka-age ko. Nge), and is a work in progress. But I like staying at home, I like cooking. Walang gastos dito, I have everything I need (almost!), and i don’t get rattled or freaked out or pressured much when i don’t see the intensity of how other people are reviewing as opposed to me. Kinakabahan ako eh. Hihihi!

May this serve as a moral/guide for future board reviewers, these are things to avoid (for me too, should I have to take it again). DO live under a rock, why don’t you (as long as you think you can study there). Anyway I realized I have to have this blog posted before D-Day, lest I don’t make it, at least I’ll know why, and my split personality can say, "I told you so, Lau." However, as it may seem desperate about trying to doff the blame on something else, after all’s been said and done, at least I’ll know everything would have been my doing. Like, distractions and temptations abound, always, and surround us all the time, but aren’t we the key players to our destiny, and couldn’t we decide to just say no? Exactly. Like now, tignan mo, crunch time na, and I just had this uncontrollable urge to blog. And i did not say no. I also kind of want to post about my little crushes of late, but at least my conscience mocks my frivolity. AT least that i can fight. Sige na, have to sharpen those cramming skills once more.

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Erratum: Now on video is BLue Moon… ang movie ng mga Regal-babies ni Joel Lamangan sa UERM… kaya lang i can’t seem to fix the previous blog, talagang tumatalon ahead yung "May God bless us all" na line, even if I already re-wrote the whole bloody thing. Kaya here’s the whole thing once again: Now on video: Blue Moon, directed by Joel Lamangan, starring many, many magagaling na actors and actresses, but more importantly, ME, and my friends Dennis Fernandez, Dra. Julie Pua-Ferraz, Marris Tec-de Jesus and Andrei Cifra star in cameos. No kidding! Serioso!We earned 200 bucks each for our very short time. Blink and you’ll miss us. Oh well. Regal babies na kame!!! (Again I’d like to mention my friend Chona, ate Charo, for getting us this gig! Kami sana ni Oliver, but then again, it turned out fine otherwise… thanks Cha!) … btw I haven’t seen it myself, Eunice. Na-edit out ba kame? I wonder.

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Crunch time na… turn ko na’ng mang-asar ngayon with all those pesky chain letters. Hate that! I Hate na hate ko yung especially those with historical value (such as "This has started in the late 1800s in Uganda, passed down from generation to generation and has never been broken since…" ), veiled threats ("DO NOT IGNORE!"), so-blatant-I-won’t-even-bother-with-the-veiling threats ("if you don’t pass this on something bad will happen to you and your family"), assumptions about my faith ("if you believe in God, send this to 4 thousand people") and time limits ("…within 1 hour"). Kaya humanda ang mga nagkalat nyan saken magpapaulan ako ngayon wahahaha.

Too de loo. God bless us all.

08/01/2006 2:14 PM ayan short and sweet lang sha just like me

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08/09/07 Another thing about chain texts which get my goat. Since when did it require you to be a Globe/Smart/Sun/Talk and Text/Touch Mobile subscriber with unlimited text potential to be worthy of God’s love??? Ha? Pa-explain? Does this mean that if you do not pass these wretched things on, He will do something to harm your family kasi hindi mo pinayaman ang mga pinuno ng monopolya ng telekomunikasyon? I thought so. Alam ko pa nga bawal yan eh, it’s in Deuteronomy or somewhere, about false faith. I think I believe in unconditional grace and love, and I know He loves me kasi He has proven it to me so many times, in ways even the people who know me best don’t know or realize. Jesus has kept me whole. And I believe in the Bible, if nothing else. And at the risk of sounding needlessly preachy, you know dati I attempted to read my Bible from cover to cover (some of my bestfriends already have, ako yung Gospels lang yung mejo nabasa ko ng kompleto, and of course, from Genesis to Deuteronomy) –and I mean the real thing ha, not the Children’s Illustrated Bible, kasi yun natapos ko — PERO at least umabot ako ng Deuteronomy (actually ang naaalala ko lang na umabot ako dun sa chapter after Numbers – kasi I waded through Numbers painstakingly, and by the time I reached the next chapter mejo nagwane na ang pasensha ko – so I just grabbed my Bible just now to check kung ano yung chapter after Numbers, hehe), and I’m pretty sure bawal yang ganyan ganyan. Pero heck, since naka-unlimited text ako ngayon, pi-nass on ko na rin. Sabi nga ng friend kong si Wena, it wouldn’t be so bad if more people prayed for you diba?

Anyway, gusto ko lang idagdag dito the best chain text I’ve received in years, yung super funny Goldilocks chain letter, lest I get depressed in a week’s time and I look back on the blog, at least I’ll have something to laugh about… I thank my beloved Joel for this chain text. It goes:

"Happy 40 thoughtful years Goldilocks!" Send this to 40 of your friends within 2 days, or else magiging cake ka. Totoo to! Yung friend ko naging cake na, mocha siya.

SO I passed it on to 40 people that same night, kaya heto, hindi pa ren ako nagiging cake. Hahahaha. Although sabi ng favorite mare kong si RR, "ok lang kung maging cake, at least yummy ka." We don’t have to be cakes, mare, yummy na tayo eh!

Too de loo part two

PS. Hello to one of my best friends in high school, si Trina… thanks for making paramdam, and yeah pareho nga tayong junkies!!! Wow, i wonder if i can get Kara Saun to do my wedding dress (if and when)… I’m still using my forever Globe number. text text! And my Bear sister Eunice, hugs and kisses!

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