krispy kreme!!!
Posted by: dianne carreon on: June 15, 2009
It’s been a while since I opened my blog. Nothing interesting happened for the past month. Hmmm, come to think of it, there was my birthday, SFC activites and our fiesta. Everything else, just the same. I’m still enjoying my work and I think I’m gaining weight because I don’t do my morning exercise anymore. I always sleep late and… I just love to eat. I can’t help it.
How can you resist that?!
Three Stars And A Sun
Posted by: dianne carreon on: May 2, 2009
This would be the first time that I’ll support PacMan. Hope I won’t jinx it. Hell, he’d better win this fight.
Just flaunting this henna tattoo I had the other day in bora to show my admiration to Manny. A few more hours before The Battle of East and West! GO Pacquiao!
Twilight’s New Moon Casts
Posted by: dianne carreon on: April 16, 2009
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I am a huge Twilight fan. Read the whole series of ‘em including the unpublished “Midnight Sun”. I even read the parts that, according to Meyer, “we’re sacrificed in the altar of editing” of the twilight series. Too bad they had to remove those.
Anyways, I was googling this early morning and I found out the newly announced addition of the New Moon casts. That’s Charlie Bewley as Demetri in New Moon. Can’t find so much information about him though but he’s sure is handsome. He looks like Edward too.
Charlie Bewley in New Moon
“The Twilight’s studio SUMMIT Entertainment announced it earlier that Charlie Bewley as Demetri has been added to the casts of the Twilight Series’ New Moon.
Charlie will be playing alongside with Michael Sheen as Aro, Jamie Campbell Bower as Caius, Daniel Cudmore as Felix, Christopher Heyerdahl as Marcus, Cameron Bright as Alec and Dakota Fanning as Jane. They all belong to a powerful vampire coven Volturi which enforces the law of the vampire and eliminates those who break the rules.
Kristen Stewart as Isabella Swan, Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen, and Taylor Lautner retain their roles. Also rejoining the movie are Ashley Greene as Alice, Peter Facinelli as Carlisle, Elizabeth Reaser as Esme, Kellan Lutz as Emmett, Nikki Reed as Rosalie, Jackson Rathbone as Jasper, Edi Gathegi as Laurent and Rachelle Lafevre as Victoria.”
Source: leeloveshottrends.com
I can’t wait for the movie release. Candy, finish that book already will you… :p
Ikariam: A Free Browser Game
Posted by: dianne carreon on: April 4, 2009
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This is what I do during my “free” time. I introduced Ikariam to Sev but now he’s far richer than me and crazier about it too. I don’t play as often as he does. :p
Ikariam is a free, real-time browser game created by Gameforge AG and was released last year. It is available in many languages and has many servers to choose from.
Interested? Here’s a quick gamer tour…
Go to www.ikariam.com or just search ikariam on your web browser.
At the beginning of Ikariam you only own a small, fertile piece of land on a green coast.
Can you turn it into a flourishing town and capital of a mighty island empire? These pages will give you a general idea of how to get there.
There are five resources distributed over the islands of the world:
Building Material, 
Marble, 
Wine, Crystal Glass and Sulphur.
During the game you will definitely need a lot of building material – assign workers in order to get building material and expand the resource deposits together with the other players on the island!
After you have sorted out the resource supplies, you can start and expand your town.
1. An academy allows you to make many fantastic discoveries.
2. With barracks you can begin to instruct troops.
3. Building a trading port and trade ships will allow you to trade resources with other players.
Four loyal advisors will stand by you, so that you are always up to date and keep your head above the water.
When they light up, this means that a new message for you has arrived. Then you can get the newest information from your advisors.
You can change the view in Ikariam as you like. From the world view over the island maps to the town view.
Now you have learnt all the important things for the start – you only have to register (for free!) and then you are ready to go!
What I like about this game is that you can just leave it there. Your people will gather resources, expand, and get richer even if you’re offline. I also like the resolution of the graphics better than other web browser game. I find it cute and simple. So, have fun playing… ^_^
The ALCARIBA Mansion Burglary
Posted by: dianne carreon on: March 15, 2009
OTON, Iloilo. March 15th, Sunday. I woke up early today. I was my checking emails then papang called me up for breakfast. I asked where’s mom and they said she needs to be somewhere important. When there’s just me and my aunt, she secretly told me that mamang is in the police station.
The ALCARIBA Mansion
I found out that the house next to ours, the ALCARIBA mansion, was entered by a burglar. My relatives live in that house. It was suspected that the incident happened early in the morning, around 3am-4am because my aunt turned the TV off their around 2:45am. It was raining last night that’s why they didn’t feel anything or haven’t heard any noise at all.
Jewelries worth more than P1M were missing, a dvd player and P20K cash. Not all of their jewelries were stolen. The police are still investigating. Baranggay tanods were alerted. Since there are no witnesses, there are no suspects yet.
Where the thief climbed and left footprints.
The only room where the burglar entered.
I don’t know if anybody in Iloilo can read this but somehow I want to help. Please don’t buy any jewelry from strangers. As far as I know, a gold necklace with heart-shaped pendant with diamonds, a wedding ring with three diamonds on it, a blue South Sea pearl earrings paired with a necklace, a white gold bracelet surrounded by diamonds, gold bangles and many more not specified were stolen.
Good thing they were all alseep. What my family was so grateful about was that only jewelries were stolen and not their lives.
Seven Pounds, Seven People, One Soul.
Posted by: dianne carreon on: March 4, 2009
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Rosario Dawson and Will Smith. Seven Pounds.
Candy, Sev and I were supposed to watch “Underworld: Rise of the Lycans”. But since Sev has seen the movie already, we have to pick from the few remaining options. We’re not an avid tagalog movie fan, we decided on “Seven Pounds” starring Will Smith and Rosario Dawson.
I haven’t heard any ads or trailer from this movie (or maybe I’m not that updated recently). It’s like it came out of nowhere. I recall overhearing my production leader that it’s a good movie and that you’ll never guess what the movie is about just by its title. So, I got curious and convinced Sev and Candy that we’ll just watch this movie instead.
It’s a story of a man named Ben Thomas (Will Smith) who had lost his fiancée in a car accident, including six other strangers. He wants to atone for his mistake that he dedicated his life helping seven other people. Giving his lung lobe, liver, kidney, donated a bone marrow and his house.
He met Ezra Turner, who is a blind meat salesman and plays the piano. He provoked him and proved that he is a good person. Then Emily Posa. Her heart doesn’t pump enough blood to her brain. They spend too much time together and eventually, he fell in love with her. As her condition worsened, he needed to decide.
He then committed suicide. He filled his bathtub with ice and water to preserve his body and pulled unto it one poisonous jellyfish. He donated his eyes to Ezra and his heart to Emily.
We live in a Christian country where suicide is a highly forbidden act. But the movie makes me think that if you chose to take your own life for the benefit of others, is that a sin incapable of forgiveness?
Seven Pounds is a good movie indeed. It has this powerful effect on me that will be on my list of fave movies. I can’t understand why it hasn’t made the Oscar’s. Have they seen Will Smith’s performance? Or Rosario Dawson’s? C’mon! I got out of the movie theater with puffy eyes. Pffft! Oh well. I love the movie. I”m thinking of dragging Sev to watch the movie again…
The Forgotten
Posted by: dianne carreon on: February 23, 2009
- In: Books| author's| literature| pieces
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
I’ve never really forgotten about them. I knew they’re there and I feel sorry for that pile of not-yet-read books at the far corner of my shelf, covered with dust, silently screaming at me to notice them. I wasn’t born a bookworm. Hell, there were other things better do besides reading. I have chores, school assignments, friends, TV, places to go. I just don’t have time for books. Geez, back then, it never crossed my mind that reading is so important.
I started my liking for books during college, when most of the girl’s I hang out with talked about books I haven’t even heard about. That’s when I decided to start reading Sheldon, Brown, and Grisham’s novels. Im proud to say, that I wasn’t enticed to read tagalog pocketbooks, guys and gals, the truth is, they suck, big time, not worth wasting your time. Hah!
Then I met my “pudding”, Sev. Waw. Boy, he reads quite a lot. Staying up till who-knows-what-time in the morning just to finish some book. I envied him for his patience and persistence to finish those lucky books, the best part is, he enjoys them too. Then along came Janice. She introduced me to the Overlord of the Universe, known for her infamous world domination plot (or plots), Jessica Zafra. One of the best writers I admire, someone who could write/speak as fast as her mind thinks. I’ll be forever grateful for her Twisted books series that Janice lend me.
Which reminds me of my current dilemma, how to finish all this darn books! So many books come in (nice ones too, not that the ones I already have aren’t nice they’re just too long… ^_^) that I don’t have, or shall I say, I don’t give them much reading time. On top of this long lost pile of not-yet-read books, Mark Twain’s The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn. Janice just lent it to me but it’s been within my possession for more than a month now. Sigh! I also have the Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy but unfortunately, I’ve only read until chapter 6 of The Twin Towers and never laid eyes on it again. I bought these books because I love their movie adaptations. I always remember Zafra’s quote, when Orlando Bloom first appeared on the screen and people asked (girls mostly whimpered… ^_^) “Sin-o na siya?” (Who is he?), he stole our hearts, and from then on, we knew that we belong to the LOTR community. I know, I know, the books are better, more detailed. Don’t worry, I’ll finish it soon. I must revive my reading chutzpah. Dusty friends, here I come.
But before that, I better finish reading Samual Langhorne Clemens’ novel. Good read..
“Chapter IV. The Hair-ball Oracle.
Well, three or four months run along, and it was well into the winter now. I had been to school most all the time and could spell and read and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five, and I don’t reckon I could ever get any further than that if I was to live forever. I don’t take no stock in mathematics, anyway.”
Last Days on a Cruise Ship… I wish…
Posted by: dianne carreon on: February 13, 2009
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Bamboo, The Band
Bamboo, The Band
If there’s one Filipino band that I’m so obsessed about. That had me to waiting till 6 in the morning in the lobby of a hotel where they’re staying at after one of their gigs. A band whose every album I’ve bought, every magazine which featured them I grabbed, every song they’ve played I’ve memorized by heart and sang all over again, that’s got to be Bamboo.
A foursome band, each member having its own unique exceptional talents, front man Bamboo Mañalac (quite a dancer too ^_^), Nathan Azarcon doing bass guitar, Ira Cruz the bands lead guitarist and Vic Mercado on drums. Individually they’re already amazing, collectively, well, you have to hear them for you to judge them but to me, they are so naturally cool. Still, above all of these talents they have, it’s their charisma that’s got people opting to listen to their music, a very humble band, from the beginning up to now. To quote what Mr. Mañalac has said during one of their first jam sessions, “It’s not the band that plays the music. It’s the music that plays the band”. With all those qualities, they’ve since then never left the spotlight.
It’s already been 5 years or so and the band is still as astounding as they were in the beginning. With four successful albums on their record they continue to amaze us fans. Their first album As the Music Plays was released 2004. The Noypi fever reached far and wide, tambay’s, students, professionals, almost everyone knew the song (with the exception of those few people who are, shall I say, nagtatago sa loob ng banga). As the Music Plays is a definite instant national hit, it established Bamboo as one of the biggest rock bands of our time. After that came Light Peace Love, their 2005 album with their carrier single Hallelujah, this is a different album than their first, not as much noise, a very calming and thought provoking album,. This album showed us that the band’s music is as diverse as their personalities. We Stand Alone Together was released 2007, this album contained local and international revival songs. Yup! All revival songs, they added their own feelings into each music they sang. featuring the songs Tatsulok by Buklod, Umagang Kay Ganda by Pops Fernandez, Englishman in New York by Sting and many others. Their most recent album after a long wait, Tomorrow Becomes Yesterday, as with its predecessors was another national success. It achieved double platinum award barely on its second week release. Songs included are Kailan, another anthem song and on of my favorites Last Days on a Cruise ship.
There are lots of bands out there but Bamboo still retained its spot on the top. An icon of OPM rock music. They are not just an award-winning band, they are also philanthropists in their own simple ways. With the earnings of their album, they contributed and helped UNICEF raise funds to build school buildings for less fortunate barangays. Not just a band.
It’s not just them being cool, good-looking, and obviously talented that got me go gaga over them. They are not like those other “bands” (not all bands, there are other exceptionally good bands too, just those stereotypes) that will change who they are and what they believed in just to be in the “market”. Even how they look just to be on the trend. Pffft! That’s pathetic. Even those bands envy them for making good music that just rocks! No pretensions.
I may not be in their every concert or album/mall tour (Though I really try to be!). I may not know the latest news about them (hardly). But I’ll remain their faithful fan and proud to be a Believer (that’s what their fans are called by the way, like me!). And just like what Mr. Bamboo said, “In the end, music will speak for itself”. There!
Supreme Love and Respect! ^_^
Here are the tracks from their album:
As the Music Plays
Take me Down
As the Music Plays the Band
Mr. Clay
Pride and The Flame
Masaya
War of Hearts and Minds
Light Years
Hudas
Noypi
Light Peace Love
04
I-You
FU
Dinner at 6
Much Has Been Said…
Hallelujah
Truth
Peace Man
Alpha Beta Omega
Children of the Sun
Check out i-you…
We Stand Alone Together
Probinsyana
Feelin’ Alright
So Far Away
Alive
50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
Prayer for the Dying
Umagang Kay Ganda
Tatsulok
Tomorrow Becomes Yesterday
Kalayaan
Blown Away
Little Child
Kailan
Nobody Knows
24/7
Last Days on a Cruise Ship
Wake Up Call
Muli
Looking Out for #1
My personal favorites on this album are little child and last days on a cruise ship which I recommend everyone to listen.
Hudas Not Pay?(jeepney adventures…)
Posted by: dianne carreon on: January 8, 2009
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“Barya lang po sa umaga”. “Basta driver, sweet lover”, “Bayad muna bago baba”… those were the usual stickers posted inside a jeepney vehicle. While traveling, we can’t help but read/notice those signs or phrases that is mostly always being ignored. There is one special sign that I wish people would/should obey. The “No Smoking” sign. It irritates me a lot that even when there’s already an anti-smoking law in PUJs and public areas, there are still lots of people smoking deliberately(not to be unfair though, even the police and others who should be models of the “community” breaks this “law”). I once rode a jeep with two (2!!) no smoking signs stickers on it and still, there’s this guy sitting not too far from me, smoking! The nerve! It might be just me but, I really hate the smell of smokes. Well, my point is, can’t they read?! Be more considerate all you smokers out there! Please!?And here’s the worst part, even the freaking driver who posted those signs smokes too, haaar! What kind of twisted world am I living?! What the hell…
Still, there are those wee bits of fun that could amuse us. Like that time when I was on my way to work, on a jeep of course, one funny experience (for me) to remember. So it was about 9:30pm and there’s this fiesta fare in the next barangay, lots of parties and booze. Anyways, while riding, I noticed this guy who was obviously drunk from wherever he came from. We both paid our fare almost at the same time (and me cringing away from him, far away as possible, the smell, augh!). After 5 minutes, he paid again. I was sure he paid already because there was just a few of us on that jeep and as for me, I was paying attention to his every action, just to be on the safe side, (just to be ready in case he does something stupid, like puke all over me!) so that confused me cause I’m sure he’d paid. When we were almost at Iloilo Supermart (a department store), take this! Hah! He paid again! For the third time! I knew there was something fishy. This time though I saw a wide grin form from the driver’s face and he willingly accepted the money. After he pulled over and the drunk got down, I heard the driver saying to no one in particular “it’s good to have drunks as passengers from time to time. They forgot they’ve already paid, extra income for me.” Hehehe. And that made me smile too. A bit of advice thouth, to all drunkards out there, try not to get too wasted on your way out, take it easy dude.
To think about it, there is lots of stuffs happening on inside a jeepney. Like when people can’t even say a little “please” or “thank you” after handing over their fare. Inconsiderate people eating like nobody are watching. Lover’s arguing about who know what. Cell phones and wallet being stolen/pick pocketed, bookworms reading on the jeepneys dim light (not to mention that the jeep is moving) not caring bout their eyes, or the fact that they’re past their destination… Sometimes, it’s kind of fun. Sometimes, it’s just sooo annoying… Oh well, as long as I have that little spot to sit and watch them doing what their doing, I guess I wont mind, a bit, don’t you think? ^_^
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