I’ve done it! What I’ve been whining about to my friends and family for the past couple of weeks, I have finally done.

Today, I went to Gateway Cineplex and watched me some Hunger Games*.

It was great! Of course, I read the book a long time ago, and my memory of it is a bit hazy. But my expectations of how Katniss should be were satisfied, and even cried a little when Rue died. Although I’d imagined the chariot scene to have a lot more… fire.

Not really looking forward to the following movies. It’s not that they won’t be great (they probably will), it’s that I obsess over the love angle, and when things don’t go the way I want, I start disliking the character that’s making everything complicated. Katniss (if I remember correctly). The other characters have their hand in it too, but… it was Katniss’ point of view… and she’s a lot closer to the readers than the other characters…

I can’t explain it properly. Maybe I should read the books again.

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* While standing in line to buy a ticket, it was a very hard decision between The Hunger Games and Moron 5 and the Crying Lady.

What we ordered:

1 - spaghetti

1 - Jolly hotdog (classic)

1 - Jolly hotdog (regular)

1 - large fries

1 - large coke

What we got:

2 - spaghetti

1 - Jolly hotdog (classic)

0 - Jolly hotdog (regular)

1 - regular fries

1 - large coke

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Guess which of them I ordered. I mean, my dad gave me the extra spaghetti, but it’s just not the same. :( Lesson learned. Don’t trust other people to do the ordering for you.

My brother has classes tomorrow, so we’re now in Manila! There are still some things that need to be fixed in the condo unit, but it looks pretty homey and comfy—for one person, anyway. But with four people, three of whom are going around arranging things, it’s a bit cramped. At least it smells nice!

Well, it has been a while, hasn’t it?

Last night, I answered a survey about how Korean culture affects something-something* — it was a really long title, okay? And while I was answering, I decided to double-check my music folder. You know, to see how much I was influenced.

Skip to a few minutes later, and I finally had a Westlife playlist.

I was around 6 years old (give or take a year) when they popped into the music scene, so Westlife is an integral part of my childhood. In fact, they started my boy band obsession. That’s right. Not Backstreet Boys. Westlife.

And this is my favorite Westlife song, World of Our Own.

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* A documentary on the socio-cultural impact of the continuous growth of Korean influence to the Filipino youth

Wouldn’t it be funny if my next entry went:

“So I bought CNBLUE’s album instead of B2ST’s Fiction or Fact.

And I threw my Agatha Christie collection down the stairs. Thank god no one was standing at the bottom.”

Block B’s 난리나 (NalinA). I was linked to this music video and a live performance by a friend a few days ago. When I woke up this morning, I had an outline already prepared for this, but it seems to have vanished under all the clutter in my head, so I’m going to pick a random place to start.

What I like most about the stuff on my playlist recently is how the artists play with sounds. Take BAP’s Warrior* as an example, with the whistles and the digidigidum. I know the way I stated it makes it sound ridiculous, but IT’S BADASS, okay?

So we’ve got NalinA, which (for the lack of a better word) tinkers with different sounds. It’s playful and intense, and if you actually bother to look for a translation, the lyrics contain—I wonder if ego would be a good term for it. But if you’ve got a personality that can (jokingly or not) say, “follow me baby,” and “I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know, but I’m hot, hot,” this is the song for you.

And NalinA isn’t even my favorite song from Block B’s mini-album, Welcome to the Block. In fact, I can honestly say that I find it impossible to choose a favorite. Action is also a fun song to listen to. It has this summer-y feel to it, which I find very appealing. (I hadn’t considered the lyrics yet when I made this observation. I still don’t know what the song is about, actually.) So I recommend that you just listen to the mini-album instead of, you know, reading someone babbling about it.

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* It was a toss-up between posting Warrior or NalinA. I like them pretty much equally, but since I’m more attached to Block B and know next to nothing about BAP (I only know Bang Yong Guk from his song I Remember), I thought it would be wiser to go with NalinA.

It’s not even that I’m entirely against them. There are just some points about them that have me at a disadvantage, and here they are:

1. When music players are embedded into scrollable sidebars (the kind that stays on the screen no matter how much you scroll), and when those scrollable sidebars DON’T FIT ON MY SCREEN. :( My netbook is tiny. Sometimes I have to add “/page/2” at the end of a blog’s url just so I can go to the next page, all because of the stupid scrollable sidebar. 
2. 80% of my time on the internet is spent with YouTube waiting in another tab, and 60% of that 80% is spent watching videos on said YouTube tab. So when the music player is on a stupid scrollable sidebar that doesn’t fit in my screen, I cannot turn the music off and end up closing the blog altogether. This makes me sad because it hinders me from backreading tumblr blogs. 
3. My internet connection is slow, so instead of hearing a smooth, “Soomeul gotdo chatji mothae naneun,” I get this: “Soomeul gotdo—” [2 minutes of silence] “—chatji mothae nan—” [more silence] “eun.” 
4. When the music player is on a fixed sidebar and I still can’t see it because it’s transparent or whatever. Does this actually happen? I feel like it has, though. I just really want an option to stop the music whenever I want. 

But that’s it. As long as the music is good, and I can stop it when I need to without having to close the tab, I think showing off the music that you like on your blog is a good idea. Plus, it lets your followers get to know you a bit more.

This is my favorite B2ST song forever and ever. That happens, right? No matter how many new songs a group or solo artist comes out with, no matter how excited you get about their different comeback stages, there’s always going to be a song you run back to. This is definitely it for me, as far as B2ST is concerned, and the moment I pay for this month’s postpaid bill, I’ll save up for the Fiction or Fact album.

That’s the plan And I’m going to stick to that plan, or I’ll THROW MY AGATHA CHRISTIE COLLECTION DOWN THE STAIRS. Mark. My. Words.

The best part about being recently hooked to 2PM (or any band, or anything at all) is that everything you learn is a novelty. Discover the era of blond Wooyoung and red-haired Junho and squeal about it every few minutes in the course of two hours. And because Wooyoung is my bias, and Junho comes a close second with his attitude, there’s a lot more flailing involved than usual. Even more than after being exposed to Jensen-lookathislips-Ackles on my dashboard.

Am I fangirling right now? Yes, I am. Direct your eyes towards blond chubbycheeks.

Meanwhile, I’m gonna go faint on my dinner.*

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* I’m allowed my exaggerations! Wooyoung is so seriously adorable, that this feeling can’t be helped.