Wednesday, January 31, 2007
glamour in pokpok land
i love the tile. haha. it's so... different from the usual one word titles i put in. haha tagalog pa. pokpok land. NICE.
anyway. (this is going to be just some random post)
START:
Labeled as:
THE WEIRD, THE WEIRD, AND THE WONDERFUL: A comprehensive study about the two loverly dolls invading the toy worlds all over the world.
(allow me to speak in Taglish - i refuse to call it conyotic)
BRATZ: (passion for fashion)
+ The Good
- more up-to-date in fashion
- mas stylish
- big on accessories
- maganda yung variations (diamond thing edition, belly dancers-ish na whatever, etc)
- magaganda yung accessories and extra stuff (like huge cars, salon thingy, etc)
- mas interesting yung other merchandise (like journals na appealing to kids, cool pens na nagiging lip gloss na umiilaw)
- mas eye-catching yung packaging (let's face it, we're all getting tired of pink)
- mas modern yung itsura
- mas trashy (which is apparently a good thing sa kids, because it's what they want to look like)
- mas mahirap mawala yung accessories kasi big (not to mention their SHOOOOOOEEEEEES)
- The Bad
- gaya-gaya sila sa Barbie (at least Barbie has better intentions sa kids who buy her)
- hindi ko sila term paper topic
- Barbie's losing sa market because of fat lipped Bratz
- they seem like a bunch of Bratz, lliterally
- too "sexy" (which reflects our time- walang pakundangan pag manamit)
-- The Ugly
- ang super kapal ng lips nila (it's like they all carry a big flashing sign which says "hey mister, kiss my big, weirdly shaped lips")
- ang abnormal ng proportions (mas abnormal pa sa Barbie)
- ang huge ng head at ang super thin ng arms
- sobrang POKPOK (pick-up girl na pinasosyal ang damit, but still...)
- they MIGHT have bad effects on kids
- they're teaching kids to dress like Bratz girls and giving them lessons on how to look and be vulnerable and submissive
BARBIE:
+ The Good
- the original doll for kids
- she serves as a "future self" model for youngsters
- nirereflect niya ang pwedeng mapuntahan ng bawat batang may dream
- inspiration to billions of people all over the world bec. of her achievements
- madami na siyang narating since 1959 pa
- modest siya manamit
- madaming collector's item na Barbie
- madaming tribute to certain famous female figures si Barbie
- ginagawa siyang hobby and passion by some serious collectors
- term paper topic ko siya
- maypinopromote na good values
- may guy na nagpakasal sa kanya (which is not actually good, but weird)
- may family siya and love life (mas in tune siya sa totong buhay which meand mas maraming makakarelate sa kanya and mas likely siya maging rolemodel ng mga bata)
- she's a supergirl
- The Bad
- since matagal na siya, maraming nagsasawa
- yung variations niya hindi na naghihit
- yung Fairytopia, kakaiba na sa totong Barbie
- less interestiing features for Barbie
- no innovation na, kahit packaging hindi na iniba
- natatalo siya sa malanding itsura ng Bratz
- people are less conservative now- she remains the opposite of what we are
-- The Ugly
- the My Scene collection seems like a desperate attempt to win the audience back
- mukha siyang rip-off ng Bratz. a really really bad one at that
- nakakahiya yung evolution ng Barbie ngayon (parang basta-basta nalang at kahit ano nalang just to win the kids back
- may pagka abnormal din yung bidy niya. masyadong malaki yung chest tapos yung neck super laki kung cinompare sa human form. but then again, she's not human)
- iniiba na yung itsura ni Barbie just for the market
- it's TOO PINK!!!!! pink overload. explodeeee.
FINAL VERDICT;
Kung ako ang bata ngayon, I'd say I'd be more obsessed with Bratz. Actually interesado nga ako sa Bratz e, kasi parang if you have lots of Bratz ang saya. Like, it gives you a feeling of glamour and glitz and stuff. parang sobrang hollywood ng dating ng Bratz. tapos the color of the packaging is purple, parang royal color siya. promise may effect to. kasi parang girls are always associated with pink na nakakasawa na kung puro pink yung nakikita mo. purple is a refreshing color.
tapos yung clothes ng Bratz, yung iba parang envy worthy talaga, for a kid, parang pwedeng pang runway. pati yung cuts, interesting siya, tapos yung stitches, big at kita. yung hair, mas styled tapos heavy make-up sa mukha mas may dating. Barbie kasi, she still remains to be that nene that she used to be. i mean, okay yun, i'm all for that image. but the thing is, no market. pero hello... i'd still rather do the right thing and ,ake Barbie the nene that she used to be than make her slutty to compete with Bratz. besides, feeling ko kung ginawa ng Mattel yun mas maddrive away ang mga buyers sa kanya.
Bratz talaga i think na dominate na niya halos yung market sa girl dolls. slowly kinukuha niya to mula kay Barbie. ang lungkot lang kasi Barbie has always and will always be like a part of everyone- childhood toy natin yun na binaboy at kinalbo through the years. it's sad that only a bunch of slutty looking dolls can knock Barbie off the top of the market scene. ang pangit. it tells us something about ourselves too- something we all ought to be ashamed of.
Kung pwede lang maging Bratz collector, I'd fill my room with everything that's Bratz related. parang ang cool niya maging obsession. it's so... nice looking (seemingly). puro dolls na parang gimikera at lasinggera nakahilera sa table mo or sa glass case. ang galing. tapos madami pa silang ibang binebenta aside from the dolls and yung accessories nila. may diary (hard case), may digital organizer, may extraordinary pens (which kind of reminds me of Power Penz (sp?) na sobrang fun icollect dati), may necklaces and bracelets, may malalaking faces na pwedeng make-up-an at sobrang madami pang iba. it;s like, hindi ka mauubusan ng bibilin. well, the same goes for Barbie, kung bigtime collector ka, kaso mas magastos yun kasi sobrang luma na. and kids won't get to appreciate vintage. kasi titignan mo lang yun. obviously you can;t play with anything vintage kasi baka masira at mawala yung value. kaya it won't be so interesting for kids.
Maybe i just have to accept that Barbie is almost like a distant memory now. The Barbie that we used to know and love is slowly changing and slipping away. Ang hirap makalimutan nung dati but I guess we all just have to get on with the program. It's really weird to get sentimental over Barbie (to even make a blog entry about dolls is way beyond normal) but i don't know.
I guess I'm like Peter Pan.
Sometimes, I just don't want to grow up.
...
OKAY BILI NA NG BRATZ!
kidding :)
Cheers
Devious and Twisted,
Therese
P.S.- Even though I don't know a thing about Star Trek, I do know that it sounds freakish and totally way way way totally way sci-fi- more than I could take. and i think that everyone obsessed with it is majorly weird. but then again, someone as obsessed with Barbie as I am is just as weird, don't you think?
AAAH.
P.P.S- I love this month. medyo madami akong entries
P.P.P.S.- Ang saya pala gumawa ng entry na taglish
killed a random reader @ 8:34 PM
Monday, January 29, 2007
hangover
hello biatches.
fair's over. one of the best fairs so far, mainly because of the band-aid com.
the crazy, obsessed, hormonal members of the band-aid com. i'll never forget you guys.
CEL AND KAYE!!!!! i know that you know that he doesn't know that we did the you-know-what to his you-know-what. it was loads of fun, i was laughing a weird weird laugh when we were doing it. aaaw. DECOLGEN!
=))
that's all i can say.
BAND-AID was the best. it was THE. BEST.
the band people are practically sweating on our faces as we took pictures from the platform/risers of the stage. It felt good that the other people were just screaming, behind the rope and the metal bars while we were enjoying the closeness of the famous and not so famous band people sweating on us.
plus, i touched yael's sweaty back, had my picture taken with him, with a 6CycleMind person, with Callalily's vocalist and guitarist, and I led Callalily's vocalist to the bathroom. HAHA. kahit Callalily pa yun, close na kami! haha. RIGHT!
i had fun with the competing bands. DisBand was fun to talk to- I mean, the members. I even happened to disclose certain information about me and the band i'm "band angel-ing".
they share in my grief.
anyhoo, i'm a stalker now. don't ask. won't elaborate!
haha.
i got so giddy when i got the Ateneo envelope. it was so... large. and so... nice looking, i couldn't stop staring and rereading every single word of every single paper that's in that envelope. no really.
i still can't believe i passed.
hay.
anyway, this is not going to be long long because i've got to write my hopefully winning short story for english week. i've made lots of drafts, but none of them are good enough.still, no one has been nice enough to give me freakin ideas.
haaaaay. i love this week.
i've made lots of personal quotes!
like:
"i've almost forgotten how it felt, but now i remember that it feels wonderful"
and
"if i can make you call me, i will. but i can't. i really, absolutely can't"
and
"Expectation can be your most bitter enemy"
and
"Lock me away in this four-walled cubicle and I shall find my release swimming away with my waste, counterclockwise."
(the last one was my personal fave)
life's so sad, yet so... lovely.
no one might get this entry. haha. just a crazy crazy entry to express what i feel right now.
how sad.
Cheers.
Devious and Twisted,
Therese
P.S.- I CAN'T stand people who talk like this: aq hnd pmasa ng physx tst eh. ingatz k ha? aq ingatz aq.
shit. SHIT!
but i can make an exception.
another shit.
killed a random reader @ 8:49 PM
Thursday, January 18, 2007
support
loverly people people!
i'm putting this poster i made here simply for advertising purposes. the posters printed, unfortunately, were badly stretched (which sort of had a bad effect, in my opinion, but whatever)
do support Band-Aid Year 9, guys!
January 27, 2007, SHS Gym. Buy tickets from me! or from any Band-Aid committee member for Php 200
And even though some bands are a bit, well, eeenk, (those are the results of the surveys you answered, people. don't blame it all on us. we don't deserve this you know. haha), do support it anyway. You might as well spend your saturday night with a couple of friends than go straight at home sulking, you know.
Plus, it's the spirit of togetherness that matters anyway.
So go and contact (or comment or tag or whatever) me for tickets!
It's gonna be Guhroovy Babey.
I think.
P.S. - Runner ako ng Callalily (tama ba spelling?)
Big yay, right?
NOT!
Well, at least I'll get to meet the bands as consolation. Hah!
Cheers.
Devious and twisted,
Therese
killed a random reader @ 2:02 PM
Sunday, January 14, 2007
overdue
hullo, world.
so the "welcoming the new year" post has long been overdue.
two weeks overdue, actually.
anyway, this is going to be really short though. i've just realized that i only have to go through 1 and a half months of high school life and it will be all over.
not that it's a bad thing.
sure i'll miss the friends, but i don't know. i must say i haven't really developed a strong liking for HS life, you know?
and anyway, i'm thrilled to enter college, now that i passed the loverly Ateneo.
never in my life did i expect my effing name on that effing list. i dreamt but never expected. it seemed too
good to be true.
that saturday, after learning about the results, i swear i've been smiling after every 5 seconds just because of the thought that i passed.
I PASSED!
still i can't believe it, and i might be overreacting or whatever, but it's just a wonderful wonderful thing to pass Ateneo.
for me, and to some other people i know, at least.
well, the thing is, i sort of asked God for a sign way before the test results were out. i was trying to ask Him what college is He planning to put me in. of course, i also didn't expect any answer for Him, for based on my past experiences, i never got any (whenever i asked). but one time, on my way to school (in the school bus, of course) i was weirdly thinking about what college is the right one for me and stuff (as this seems to be the ultimate concern of every single 4th year student alive) with closed eyes (and not because i was concentrating or anything, mind you. i was asleep- well, half asleep anyway). the moment i opened them, however, i saw an Ateneo De Manila University bus in front of our own school bus (take note: this happened right after i opened my eyes. RIGHT effing AFTER.)
so of course, my heart leaped up (right... is that from Wordsworth? or no...)- i was excited suddenly, but then it died down.
i mentally cursed myself for being expectant for even a second.
i didn't even know if i was going to pass or not (since i practically guessed all 25 numbers or numerical ability) and i dind't want to cling to that tiny tiny hope that might have been a coincidence anyway.
but God continued to show me obvious signs (at least to me) leading to Ateneo. Ateneo stickers and Ateneo shirts whenever I started to think about the where i'll be going to college and stuff. and the more i saw them, the more i tried to avoid believing in them, or hoping that i would pass or i would get in. obviously i didn't want to be failed.
i'm not sure if you should be laughing because i believe in what-might-be-coincidences, but whatever to you and what you think. i still strongly believe that God is behind all these signs.
imagine my surpreez when i saw it.
our vow to not curse for our ticket to Ateneo was soon forgotten.
i cursed a million curse words out of happiness, and i know it's a bad bad thing ( and i apologize) but i can't hide my ultimate joy.
the whole day i was smiling. as they say, no one can rain on my parade.
it truly was a sunshiny day.
i still thank the Lord for the opportunity He gave me to pass, whether it's the school for me or not.
i know that lots of people's dreams of going to Ateneo has gone down the drain that day, but equally, lots of people's dreams God smiled upon and got fulfilled too.
that includes mine.
i still love it.
thank you Lord. a million billion gazillion infinite ultimate loverly thank yous.
Cheers
Devious and Twisted,
Therese
killed a random reader @ 11:38 AM
Saturday, January 06, 2007
here i effing come
i am writing this entry for the sole purpose of informing the whole world that I EFFING PASSED ATENEO!!!!!! first choice.
LOVE.
Infinity thank-yous to you, dear God, and to Daddy, who interceded for me.
Cheers.
Devious and twisted,
Therese
P.S. - Ateneo, here I effing COME!!!!!
killed a random reader @ 10:03 PM
