anybody wanna watch with me?

This is a tribute to the nice guys. The nice guys that finish last, that never become more than friends, that endure hours of whining and bitching about what assholes guys are, while disproving the very point. This is dedicated to those guys who always provide a shoulder to lean on but restrain themselves to tentative hugs, those guys who hold open doors and give reassuring pats on the back and sit patiently outside the changing room at department stores. This is in honor of the guys that obligingly reiterate how cute/beautiful/smart/funny
/sexy their female friends are at the appropriate moment, because they know most girls need that litany of support. This is in honor of the guys with open minds, with laid-back attitudes, with honest concern. This is in honor of the guys who respect a girl’s every facet, from her privacy to her theology to her clothing style.

This is for the guys who escort their drunk, bewildered female friends back from parties and never take advantage once they’re at her door, for the guys who accompany girls to bars as buffers against the rest of the creepy male population, for the guys who know a girl is fishing for compliments but give them out anyway, for the guys who always play by the rules in a game where the rules favor cheaters, for the guys who are accredited as boyfriend material but somehow don’t end up being boyfriends, for all the nice guys who are overlooked, underestimated, and unappreciated, for all the nice guys who are manipulated, misled, and unjustly abandoned, this is for you.

This is for that time she left 40 urgent messages on your cell phone, and when you called her back, she spent three hours painstakingly dissecting two sentences her boyfriend said to her over dinner. And even though you thought her boyfriend was a chump and a jerk, you assured her that it was all ok and she shouldn’t worry about it. This is for that time she interrupted the best killing spree you’d ever orchestrated in GTA3 to rant about a rumor that romantically linked her and the guy she thinks is the most repulsive person in the world. And even though you thought it was immature and you had nothing against the guy, you paused the game for two hours and helped her concoct a counter-rumor to spread around the floor. This is also for that time she didn’t have a date, so after numerous vows that there was nothing “serious” between the two of you, she dragged you to a party where you knew nobody, the beer was awful, and she flirted shamelessly with you, justifying each fit of reckless teasing by announcing to everyone: “oh, but we’re just friends!” And even though you were invited purely as a symbolic warm body for her ego, you went anyways. Because you’re nice like that.

The nice guys don’t often get credit where credit is due. And perhaps more disturbing, the nice guys don’t seem to get laid as often as they should. And I wish I could logically explain this trend, but I can’t. From what I have observed on campus and what I have learned from talking to friends at other schools and in the workplace, the only conclusion I can form is that many girls are just illogical, manipulative bitches. Many of them claim they just want to date a nice guy, but when presented with such a specimen, they say irrational, confusing things such as “oh, he’s too nice to date” or “he would be a good boyfriend but he’s not for me” or “he already puts up with so much from me, I couldn’t possibly ask him out!” or the most frustrating of all: “no, it would ruin our friendship.” Yet, they continue to lament the lack of datable men in the world, and they expect their too-nice-to-date male friends to sympathize and apologize for the men that are jerks. Sorry, guys, girls like that are beyond my ability to fathom. I can’t figure out why the connection breaks down between what they say (I want a nice guy!) and what they do (I’m going to sleep with this complete ass now!). But one thing I can do, is say that the nice-guy-finishes-last phenomenon doesn’t last forever. There are definitely many girls who grow out of that train of thought and realize they should be dating the nice guys, not taking them for granted. The tricky part is finding those girls, and even trickier, finding the ones that are single.

So, until those girls are found, I propose a toast to all the nice guys. You know who you are, and I know you’re sick of hearing yourself described as ubiquitously nice. But the truth of the matter is, the world needs your patience in the department store, your holding open of doors, your party escorting services, your propensity to be a sucker for a pretty smile. For all the crazy, inane, absurd things you tolerate, for all the situations where you are the faceless, nameless hero, my accolades, my acknowledgment, and my gratitude go out to you. You do have credibility in this society, and your well deserved vindication is coming.


Fu-zu Jen, SEAS/WH, 2003
This rant was written for the Wharton Undergraduate Journal
http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/~jenf/writing/rant04.html

Gear  |  Pic

Cutest Babies! By photographer Tracy Raver.

http://likecool.com/Tracy_Raver--Pic--Gear.html

plurked by budj. written by Carlo Vergara from:
http://carverhouse.blogspot.com/2009/03/kalabanin-ang-google-at-facebook.html

o ha, sharing ng content. that's what the net is alla bout. just don't forget to cite your sources :p super laugh trip, i just had to share. his entry reads:

NOTE: Forgive me. Just needed to do this.

Sa isang coffee shop malapit sa isang I.T. research facility sa Silicon Valley, nagkakape si Programmer Zoorla. Enter si Programmer Juniffer.

Programmer Juniffer
Darling, natapos ko na rin. Dyusku, ten thousand years ko itong trinabaho!

Programmer Zoorla
Anech ba 'yan? Ilang araw ka nang nakakulong sa laboratoryo mo. Hindi ka na nakakapag-gimik. Ayan, nagkaroon ka na ng natural highlights. In English...uban. In British... uban jungle.

Programmer Juniffer
Natapos ko na ang pinakabagong search engine na tsutsugibells sa Googelyah.

Programmer Zoorla
Talaga? Ang galing! Pa-search nga diyan sa inimbento mong search engine!

Programmer Juniffer
Eto ang mobile phone ko. Dito ako nag-code. Naglagay na rin ako ng Wi-Fi capability sa phone ko.

Programmer Zoorla
Dito mo ki-nowd ang Googelyah search engine fighter mo???

Programmer Juniffer
Oo, bakit?

Programmer Zoorla
Eh, punyetang Nokia 3210 itong hayup na celphone mo. Mas matanda pa 'to sa lola ko.

Programmer Juniffer
((presses a button on the celphone))

Programmer Zoorla
Aba! May Safari browser ka, ineng! Mac baga.

Programmer Juniffer
In English...Macamandag! Sige, i-search mo kung nasaan ang crush mo.

Programmer Zoorla
I-search ko yung crush ko, 'ka mo?

Programmer Junnifer
Hindi. I-search mo kung NASAAN ang crush mo NGAYON.

Programmer Zoorla
May ganon?

((types)) Where is my crush Bonjobi... ngayon?

((enter))

One result daw, o. "Bonjobi is going to the west wing comfort room of the second floor of building D-3, approximately 30 meters from your location. He just had merienda with Barrakus, the operations manager, who is wearing a yellow summer dress by Kashieca. Bonjobi is in love with Barrakus, but you're not supposed to know that."

Juniffer... echosera itong search engine mo.

Programmer Juniffer
Maganda kayang pangalan ng search engine 'yan?

Programmer Zoorla
Echosera?

Programmer Juniffer
Oo. Tignan mo 'yung mga pangalan ng mga applications at websites ngayon. Mayroong Ubuntu, Squidoo, Twitter, Google, Django, Voxli, Phlook, Plurk... 'di ba parang mga tanga? Pero memorable ang mga pangalan kase kakaiba.

Programmer Zoorla
Eh kung Chorvah na lang?

Programmer Juniffer
Hmmm... Chorvah... "We will soon be releasing the beta version of our Chorvah search engine very soon. Chorvah's revolutionary search protocols and algorithms guarantee accurate results everytime. Eventually, users will equate Chorvah with accurate, relevant and up-to-date web searching. Complete your web experience with Chorvah."

Maganda.... I like...Dadating ang panahon na sasabihin na lang natin ay, "Punta ka sa Web at i-Chorvah mo na lang."

Programmer Zoorla
O, i-print mo na 'yan. Puntahan mo na si Designer Mishokolat para gawan ng logo.

Programmer Juniffer
Or, in English. "Log on to the Web. Just Chorvah it! Did you Chorvah it already? I love, love Chorvah."

Programmer Zoorla
O, sya. bablik na ako sa trabaho. Basta kapag yumaman ka diyan, huwag mo akong kalimutan.

Programmer Juniffer
Ano nga pala ang project mo ngayon?

Programmer Zoorla
Social networking site. Kakalabanin ang Fezbook.

Programmer Juniffer
Anong title?

Programmer Zoorla
Chenelyn.

Dear Bonsai,

I don't really know how to tell you this, you're a leprechaun . I think I realized it when your dwarf bit me at the mental hospital and I saw you hit on my father. I'm sure you're open enough to understand that your driving sucks. I'm returning the couch cushions to you, but I'll keep your left ear as a memory. You should also know that I told my psychiatrist about the bruises and you ruined my attempts at another world war.

Best of luck on the sex change,
Jay

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on my birthday, my sister brought a gift to the house.

for my mom. which came from my dad. my family's funny that way.\

it's a laptop.

a couple of days a week, my dad usually stays in angeles for business. so it's a way for them to stay connected (24ever?)

so i taught them how to chat on YM. and make calls. and webcam.

it was really sweet because everytime my mom would get an IM from my dad, she'd start to get a little panicky and ask "o anong isasagot ko?" lol. or when "rene is typing" would appear she'd go "wait lang nagtytype pa si dad" and we'd go, "mom ok lang mag-usap lang kayo"

it was like nagdadalaga siya ulit at nagliligawan sila all over again.

anyhoo. i have to go. gotta teach my mom how to google. she wants to look for recipes. and the princess wants to watch mamma mia videos on youtube.

originally email blasted by loe.

Here are a collection of songs represented in graphs, charts and other stuff. Can you get them all?

Some people have let me know these are from Graph Jam, where you can find many more.

http://www.just-whatever.com/2009/02/18/musical-statistics/

(college dorm room. shot this for a photo class. it's actually me upside-down.)

2. picture of you with someone you don't really like
(I don’t have pictures taken with people I don’t like. Or I might have deleted ‘em already.)

3. a picture of you very drunk

4. a picture of you on your birthday, or your favorite holiday

(Christmas last year. I gave everyone awesome gifts)

5. the youngest picture you can find of yourself in digital form.

(uploaded this for a project in college. i was a cute baby :) )

6. a picture of you in one of your favorite outfits.

(I cant find this jacket anymore.)

7. a picture of you making a goofy face at the camera

8. a picture you might have edited to make yourself more attractive

9. a picture of a night you regret

(lesson learned. Do.not.mix.drinks.)

10. a picture of you being truly yourself

(it’s just me playing in the sand. I’m such a dork)

11. your most recent picture.

12. a picture of you being absolutely ridiculous.

 

13. a picture of you showing off a new haircut / color

(not really a cam whore. And I’ve always the same hairstyle. i’m boring that way.)

14. a picture of a time in your life that's over, but you wish it wasn't

15. a picture of a time in your life that's over, and you couldn't be more thankful that it is.

 

16. a picture of you when you were anything but happy

17. a picture of you that you had no idea was being taken

18. a picture of you when you were a different person than you are now.

19. a picture of you with someone you love.

 

 

 

20. a picture of how you'd like the world to see you.

21. a picture that describes how you'd like to spend every day.

22. a picture of a time when everything was changing.

 

23. a picture that makes your heart hurt.

24. a picture that makes your heart smile

25. a picture of one of your best days / nights of your life

 

as email blasted by loe.

Client: Globe
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i just had to share

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A: Sisa Mistrit

Q: Anong apelyido ni Cedie?
A: Cedie Player

Q: Anong apleyido ni Beast?
A: Beast Kwit

Q: Anong first name ni Nemo?
A: Sarahgero Nemo

Q: Anong apelyido ni Punisher?
A: Punisher Ranno

Q: Anong apelyido ni Denzel?
A: Denzel Weta

Q: Anong apelyido ni Curly?
A: Curly Gazpi

Q: Ano last name ni Anchor?
A: Anchor Tis

Q: Ano last name ni Jewel?
A: Jewel Torre

Q: Ano last name ni Kula?
A: Kula Desma

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A: Joseph Protgam

Q: Anong apelyido ni Aiko?
A: Aiko Zada

Q: Anong apelyido ni Christopher?
A: Christopher Minute

Q: Anong apelyido ni Palito?
A: Palito Lippi

Q: Anong first name ni Keno?
A: Krisa Keno

Q: Ano first name ni Janno?
A: Eduman Janno

Q: Ano first name ni Squall?
A: Piolopa Squall

Q: Ano first name ni Basilio?
A: Lacto Basilio

Q: Ano first name ni Pikachu?
A: Cherrypie Pikachu

Q: Ano first name ni Kenny G?
A: Johnep Kenny G

Q. Ano first name ni Chris Tiu?
A. Jesu Chris Tiu

Q: ano ang first name ni Volta?
A: Johntra Volta

Q: Ano first name ni Diether?
A: Tirso Cruz Diether

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Icebreaker Louis Saint Laurent in Resolute Bay, Nunavut Territory , Canada .

Worker resting on bales of cotton, Thonakaha, Korhogo , Ivory Coast . Cotton crops occupy approximately 335,000 square klilometers worldwide, and use nearly one quarter of all pesticides sold

Sand dune in the heart of vegetation on Fraser island, Queensland , Australia . Fraser Island, named after Eliza Fraser, who was shipwrecked on the island in 1836, is the world's largest sand island. On top of this rather infertile substratum, a humid tropical forest has developed in the midst of which wide dunes intrude, moving with the wind. Fraser Island has important water resources, including nearly 200 freshwater dune lakes, and has varied fauna such as marsupials, birds, and reptiles. Welcoming 200,000 visitors a year without damaging the local fauna and flora is a real challenge to sustainable development on the island, which was declared a World Heritage site by Unesco in 1992.

The Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix basilica in Yamoussoukro , Ivory Coast . In 1983, Yamoussoukro replaced Abidjan as the official capital of Ivory Coast . President Félix Houphouët-Boigny, who died in 1993, made his native village into a modern city with a grid of wide avenues - which are almost deserted - and every modern facility: international airport, luxury hotels, golf course, prestigious universities, and so forth. Yamoussoukro also boasts the world's biggest basilica, Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix (Our Lady of Peace), consecrated by Pope John Paul II in 1990. The former president, who donated this building to the Vatican , insisted that he had financed the basilica's cost out of his own personal fortune. This building was seen as a colossal waste by many Ivorians. It was highly controversial in a country that lacks schools and hospitals and has only nine doctors for every 100,000 inhabitants (compared to 413 in Norway )

Flock of sheep, Tierra del Fuego , Argentina . After the missionary period, between gold fever and the first drillings for oil, sheep-raising became the chief activity in the north of the main island, Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego. The local cabanas (sheep pastures) are huge sheep farms with 3.5 acres of land per head of livestock.

Tree of life", Tsavo national park, Kenya . This acacia is a symbol of life in the vast expanses of thorny savanna, where wild animals come to take advantage of its leaves or its shade. Tsavo National Park in southeastern Kenya, crossed by the Nairobi-Mombasa road and railway axis, is the country's largest protected area (8,200 square miles, or 21,000 square kilometers) and was declared a national park in 1948

Elephants in the Okavango Delta , Botswana . The Okavango Delta is the world's largest inland delta, flooding seasonally, and is populated by five ethnic groups of people, sharing it with hundreds of species of animals.

Iraqi tank graveyard in the desert near Al Jahrah, Kuwait . This graveyard of tanks will bear witness for many years to the damage that war causes both to the environment and to human health. In 1991, during the first Gulf War, a million depleted uranium shells were fired at Iraqi forces, spreading toxic, radioactive dust for miles around. Such dust is known to have lasting effects on the environment and to cause various forms of cancer and other serious illnesses among humans.

Village in the Rheris Valley , Er Rachidia region, High Atlas Mountains, Morocco . Fortified villages are frequently seen along the valley of the Rheris, as they are on most rivers of southern Morocco , inspired by the Berber architecture built to protect against invaders. Today, with the threat of raids now gone, the close clustering of dwellings, small windows, and roofs covering houses and narrow streets serve the purpose of protecting occupants from heat and dust. The flat, connecting roofs also provide a place for drying crops.

The Athabasca Oil Sands, Alberta , Canada . These oil deposits make up the largest reservoir of crude bitumen in the world, and as recently as 2006, produced over 1 million barrels of crude oil per day.

Road interrupted by a sand dune, Nile Valley, Egypt . Dunes cover nearly one-third of the Sahara , and the highest, in linear form, can attain a height of almost 1,000 feet (300 m). Barchans are mobile, crescent-shaped dunes that move in the direction of the prevailing wind at rates as high as 33 feet (10 m) per year, sometimes even covering infrastructures such as this road in the Nile Valley

Tea cultivation in Corrientes province, Argentina . The fertility of the red soil and the regular rains of the Corrientes region create the ideal conditions for the cultivation of tea. In an effort to protect the soil against erosion, tea is planted along curved terraces and protected from the wind by hedges. Unlike Asian and African countries, where the young sprouts are handpicked, in Argentina mechanical harvesting is the rule, done mainly with high-clearance tractors that are driven along the straight rows of tea bushes.

Icebergs and an Adelie penguin, Adelie Land, Antarctica . Antarctica, the sixth continent, is a unique observation point for atmospheric and climatic phenomena; its ancient ice, which trapped air when it was formed, contains evidence of the Earth's climate as it has changed and developed over the past millions of years.

American cemetery north of Verdun, Meuse, France . Covering some 40 hectares (100 acres) at Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Verdun , the American cemetery was dedicated in 1935 by the American Battle Monuments Commission. The commission was created in 1923 at the request of General Pershing, who had taken part in the American offensive of 1918. Its aim was to undertake architectural and landscape studies in order to restructure American cemeteries and commemorative monuments in Europe . Whereas the French army chose to build permanent cemeteries where temporary cemeteries had been made during the hostilities, the American army opted to create a single cemetery. Some 25,000 American tombs scattered around Verdun were then brought together at Romagne where, after almost half the bodies were repatriated to American soil, 14,246 soldiers have lain ever since.

Islet in the Sulu Archipelago , Philippines . More than 6,000 of the 7,100 Philippine Islands are uninhabited, like this islet in the Sulu Archipelago, a set of 500 islands that separate the Celebes and the Sulu seas. Their extraordinary biodiversity is under threat, not from distant industrial sites but from the effects of global pollution. These islands, which barely rise above the surface of the water, are among the first potential victims of global warming and are certain to disappear when the sea level rises.

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