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February 4, 2008

This came from ramblingvirus, and I’m doing this because I respect him.

10 Random Things About Me…

1. I’m a vegetarian, and I don’t intend to renounce that.

2. Night Dreamer is actually a song by Wayne Shorter. Now will you please listen to it?

3. I was extremely busy last friday. I had to create a flash presentation, and as if it wasn’t bad enough that I had to submit the next day, I was told just then that I had to submit 5 hours earlier than the original proposed time. I worked until 4 AM, slept only for 3 hours, then went to see the guy proposing such torture, only to receive word that he was sick and had postponed the submission to next week. Gee, all my losing sleep for this?

4. And yet, instead of going home immediately, I stayed on that venue, borrowed a computer, and did some tweakings on my flash. I wouldn’t stop doing it until my head was searing. AND YET, I didn’t feel tired. My flash teacher was also with me then, and we spent hours chatting. And that was fun. There’s nothing that energizes me more than an intellectually stimulating conversation, and it’s been a while since I talked to someone for that long.

5. In case you don’t know about this, my real life self is the most apart to my persona as Nightdreamer. I’m tongue-tied, am quite shy, and am vaguely nice. No, really, I kid you not.

6. Also, I seem to be more interested in talking to people who are more artistically-inclined (which is one way I describe my flash teacher). Perhaps it has something to do with having a pianist as a sister and a comic artist as a brother, but something about the way artists perceive the world never ceases to amaze me. At least, I find creative-thinkers much more fun to be with than those typical social-climbing frappe-swirling yuppie scum garbage whose conversations - most of which are done on Starbucks - only involve cars, celebrities and fashions.

7. I was supposed to write items 3-6 on a seperate post, but my head aches and I couldn’t express them eloquently.

8. I like to nitpick double standards.

(And one of the most recent double-standard that I’ve spotted, unfortunately, come from sports journalists. NBA ones, in particular. Just last week, Boston defeated Minnesota by one point, and I expected to read that Minnesota does not actually suck that much. Instead, the journalists recounted this like Boston did the most awesome thing ever, and was gushing Kevin Garnett as if he sends these journalistic jesters free passes to the local strip clubs. The irony is that KG didn’t even do well on that particular day. Also, a day before this one, Miami lost to San Antonio by one point, and the recount sounded like Miami was the stupidest team ever even if they were only a point behind last year’s champion. And you know what this reminds me? The Kobe-Lebron favoritism bull. That is, if Lebron scores 50 points people would go "OMG he rulez!!!" but when Kobe scores 50 points, people would go "ay, bwakaw yan!" [translation: he’s a ball-hog].)

9. My office desk contains a lot of weird trinkets. Art papers, origami-folds, novels, Transformer toys, and play-dohs.

10. When I’m done with Isaac Asimov’s Foundation and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, I’ll be reading Odyssey, and then Ulysses. Actually, it’s Ulysses I’m most preparing for. It’s a heavy read.

People I’m tagging?

Well, anyone. But if pressed to list 10 down,

Brad, liz, cai, wits, schumey, J, fence, novz, cyril, dhey, michelle. The reason being, I just want to hear from them, is all.

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Yikes! May I pass this one up? I’ve been ill as well, downed with the flu with complications. Interesting things about you. No wonder I like you, we’re totally different in so many ways.

Posted by Schumey at February 4, 2008, 5:47 pm

Thanks very much Kris for doing the tag. Regarding having to stay up late for work, well, all I can say is that shit happens and yeah, it somehow is related to work most of the time. Hehehe.

Get well soon!

Posted by virus at February 4, 2008, 6:04 pm

Schumey: Don’t worry about it, as I won’t hold your not-taking-this-tag against you. Hope you do get well soon.

Virus: Quite true.

Posted by nightdreamer at February 4, 2008, 8:30 pm

hmm i have been looking for someone to converse with intellectual stuff.. but im too absorb with thesis and other stuff my lappie is offering me, i don’t have time to talk with real people.. haha..

are you into classical reads? i haven’t read ulysses, too (maybe because i am thinking that it is really a heavy read)

anyhoo, thanks for the tag! will be doing this soon.

Posted by Cai at February 4, 2008, 11:44 pm

“5. In case you don’t know about this, my real life self is the most apart to my persona as Nightdreamer. I’m tongue-tied, am quite shy, and am vaguely nice. No, really, I kid you not.”

Interesting. People with these personality are said to be the ones with fat brains.

Posted by J at February 5, 2008, 12:04 am

Cai: I don’t know about conversing intellectual stuff, haha.

I alternate between modern and classical reads. So what happens most of the time is that I’ll read a couple of modern fictions, then read a couple of classical.

Yes, Ulysses is a very heavy read, and it’s also notorious for bending whatever rules of English you may have learned from school, which is why I’m doing a lot of preparation before reading it. And it runs about 900 pages, the last 100 of which does not have punctuation marks nor uppercases at all.

J: Interesting trivia you got there, and, um, do I serve as a testament? hahaha

Posted by nightdreamer at February 5, 2008, 9:41 am

I should tell you that when you drop by Cebu City, I’ll hook you up with some yuppie artists around. You may want to meet a friend who’s doing a start-up company which is into animation. Pixar animation stuffs. He’s also plans to open a architecture outsourcing firm, you’ll definitely enjoy his takes on stuffs.

Posted by cyril at February 5, 2008, 12:29 pm

yikes, another assignment. The third one in my tags-to-do. I’ll do this when Valentine’s Day is over. I don’t pass on tags. I’ll just forget about them. he he.

Posted by novz at February 5, 2008, 7:44 pm

Well, novz, do it anyway because in all likelihood, I’m more awesome than all the others who tag you. And another thing is that I rarely tag people, so do take my remembering to include you as a compliment.

Posted by nightdreamer at February 5, 2008, 9:48 pm

yo Kris, I already did something like this. you can refer to this link.

http://www.thefencesitter.com/2007/06/15-whatever-things.html

It’s 50% more than what you’d have me do.

have a nice weekend dude.

Posted by fence at February 8, 2008, 6:33 pm

Hey, how come I get a lot of comments when I do a post like this, yet get almost none when I post something more serious (like my book reviews, for one)?!

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