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Name: Nina
Gender: Female
Interests: geography, history, travel, current events, ballet, reading, tv, makeup, shopping, earrings, beaches
Expertise: complaining, bumming, smiling, laughing, talking, listening
Industry: Computers (Internet)
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Yahoo:  nina_chick326
Member Since:
1/20/2005
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Is there anyone out there cos it's getting harder and harder to breathe.
-Maroon 5
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| I came across this article on the BBC website today. It makes a lot of sense to me...being in Human Resources - Recruitment, I think I've interviewed applicants of nearly all shapes, sizes, predispositions, personalities, and IQ levels. Its premise is that in over 10,000 years, the human species will evolve into 2 split categories: the beautiful, intelligent ones, and the uglier, stupider ones.Naturally, I'd like to think that I am a predecessor for the more fortunate ones. Go read the article, it's interesting and tragically funny. There's even a computer-generated image of what they're supposed to look like. 
Human species may "split into two"
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| wow. it's been over a month and a half...
this is gonna be a short rant entry...on che guevara. well not on him per se because i know very little about him, but on the proliferation of merchandise with his picture on it
 i can't really say that i have anything against him, because from the little i know about him, i'm led to beleive he was a passionate man who gave his life to the cause he believed in. i think he died a sad death. but i always see him in t-shirts, bags, buttons, etc. etc. sometimes i'm tempted to stop the wearer in the middle of the street and ask if they even know who the person on their clothing / accessory is and what they know about him. do they know what participation he had in fidel castro's july 26 movement and the cuban revolution? do they even know what the july 26 movement is? do they know that he was not cuban, but argentinian, a marxist and a socialist, and an advocate of guerrilla warfare? in the free world, he's called a communist. (can they even tell me where cuba is? haha!) i am not a believer in marxism, but i don't hate people who are. in fact, i respect people who are extremely passionate about their beliefs. but i get irritated at the thought of those who wear his picture proudly as a design on an accessory and yet don't know what that picture and/or the person stands for. wala lang! ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤
i have a new obsession...the HBO tv show entourage. i love it, i love it, i love it. i looove it. it's shallow and relatively pointles, i know. but it's fun, easy to watch, and i don't need to analyze it.  it's been showing here for a while now, but i was never able to catch it in sequence until this past weekend when i was able to watch a marathon of the first 2 seasons. sigh, i'm in love with all of them. i heart entourage.  | | |
| Life, in a big way, is about expectations. We go to school or work everyday because we expect that the effort and sacrifice will pay off in some form or other. It's human nature to do things and expect a result out of it. You do things precisely for the result you foresee.
Right now, with my best friends, my expectations have changed. I no longer expect them to text me every single day, or meet up with me each and every single Friday. Things have changed, so have we -- but that's not to say that I no longer need them. Even though I don't expect them to jump at the minor things that go on, I expect them to be there when shit hits the fan or completely leaves the building. The minimizing of expectations then, as I have realized, has made me more patient and forgiving. It has made me a better friend, I think. Plus the fact of course that it means less aggravation and anxiety for me.
On to point # 2. The Boys. Yikes. There is nothing wrong with expecting from them...except when they are unable to live up to these expectations and...and...and...yun na. Haha! Expectations and Boys need/deserve a whole discussion and may even involve cussing and throwing of things, so I'll end it here. The girls and I would probably use up the same amount of time and passion to discuss E and B as we would for religion. That's how serious I think the whole deal is. Ahaha!
Last. Still on Boy and Expectations, but now I'm talking about mine. Boy is not at all the type that I expected to come along, but here it is. I'm not disappointed, but I just did not expect.
See??? All these darned expectations. This is why the Buddhists decided to emphasize the value of acceptance and not expecting. Expectations are...sigh, I don't know. We just need to learn to manage them properly I guess. Like our finances!
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| Today, for no particular reason, I feel like I can breathe easy. It feels like I've gotten off the roller coaster which I had been on for the past weeks (about 2 months?).
I'm feeling kinda upbeat, so I'm just go on and on and I don't care if I don't make much sense!
Why is it that there's always a perfect song for the best and worst emotions you go through? When it's an extreme emotion I'm experiencing, I look for a song that can represent that.
I think it's music that has helped me shake off the blues, because I would just bury myself in work and never take my headphones off the past 2 weeks.
I am one of the people I know with the most diverse musical tastes -- I've been listening to Metallica (Black Album), Sugababes, Kaskade, Gnarls Barkley, Red Hot Chilli Peppers (love Stadium Arcadium), Juanes, Gipsy Kings, Sly & The Family Stone, The Supremes, The Temptations, and the rest of them 70s disco, Bamboo, 90s Rivermaya, Robbie Williams, George Michael, Scissor Sisters (I worship you), Mos Def & Talib Kweli, Outlandish (Google them! They have vids on youtube too) , Black Eyed Peas, Bone Thugs n' Harmony, Mariah, N.E.R.D., Sahakira, etc etc etc.
I was very much into alternative and rock in highschool -- who wasn't in the mid-90s? Well ok, not everyone...but most of us teenagers were. -- and my highschool B4E (best friend forever - we used to sign our notes ith ILY & B4E ) has always said I'm a rocker chick. I adored Metallica. But with the surge of hiphop / rnb in the late 90s and early 00s, i kinda moved to that as well. But now, I have to admit, rocker chick is so back. I'm not into the whole rocker lifestlye and vibe (maaan...) like black clothes (even though I wear a lot of black tops, the reason for which is not to be a rocker) and tattoos and piercings, but I love the music. The guitars and drums...mmm...I like. Why do I talk about this all of a sudden though? Because last night I watched Rockstar Supernova and I Jason Newsted again. Plus, I like Gilby Clarke's whole chill rockstar vibe.
Wishing I could afford to watch the Black Eyed Peas tonight, but right now I'll take that "sadness" from the fact that I can't be in Araneta tonight and have this general positivity instead. Go APL, reprezent!
Feels good to be out of the woods, I hope i can sustain this.
rock n' roll! \m/
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