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What I’m doing

MK — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:34:52 +0000

After a week of being sick and working through that sickness to finish my statistics project, I think I deserve a good heavy dose of old TV series geekdom. I know everyone is probably going nuts over Glee and all that but for me nothing’s better than old Xena: The Warrior Princess and Buffy: The Vampire Slayer episodes!

The Cast of Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Yes, Mark is a huge Buffy geek. I actually have copies of the Season 8 comics! As much as I like Buffy, nothing can defeat the original female butt-kicker of the 90’s and early 2000’s generation.

Xena in Samurai armor

YEAH!!! I’ve been watching Xena: Warrior Princess reruns on the SciFi channel for a while and has secretly been part of my geekyness since it was showing on Star World when I was a freshman high school.

Fun Facts:

1. Xena is actually a spin-off from the Hercules series (the one with Kevin Sorbo). Most internet people actually know this already but I was shocked when my mother asked “is that Xena? the female version of He-man?”… I know the inner guy geek in me had a face-palm moment.

2. Buffy was originally a full feature comedy film created in 1992 with another actress. It was sort of a flop but the idea was good enough that people wanted to turn it into a TV show.

3. Xena’s Chakram is actually a real weapon used by sikhs (makes you wanna go aahlalalalallalala-shiiiaaah!)

4. There was originally a planned Buffy The Vampire Slayer animated series. Search around Youtube you’ll likey.

5. Xena has a daughter hahahaha yes warrior woman is a mommy. Actually she had a son before that she gave up because she was a bad warlord (Solan) who eventually died and then Eve, the divinely concieved (yes we’re talking about the angel gabriel thingy here) daughter. Yes Xena has all this weirdness in it.

… Yes Mark is a geek

Who says summer is fun?

MK — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:52:08 +0000

Well, summer is actually fun for the most part but when you’ve got three subjects and they all have requirements due and tests due in one week which at the same time is the same week that all your organizations and extra-curricular activities decide to have their requirements due!

Business statistics is my biggest problem right now cause my teacher really can’t teach. He just stands their in front of the class and laughs his head off the whole day. Its the same feeling I got when I was taking up accounting a few semesters ago where the teacher really wasn’t helping and I had to learn all by myself.

Statistica actually took away all the fun feelings I had left over from the planning seminar the ACTM and Ieft me groggy the entire week.

Besides that I’ve been really pushing myself to finish my GUIDON application requirements, which I’ve been doing during histo 165 class (thank god no one really cares what notes your typing down on your computer). I really hope my application passes, here’s a look at my application requirements.

Redesign of the GUIDON online

40 pesos for a bottle of C2

MK — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:37:48 +0000

I was at my cousin’s graduation yesterday afternoon at the PICC. Before I continue, I’d like to say congratulations to my cousin and his fellow UST College of Engineering batchmates.

It was a long ceremony and I found myself going outside the plenary hall every now and then because of the extremely cold air-conditioning. I decided to refresh myself with a drink after my 3rd or 4th walk out with something from the caterer that was stationed at the corridor.

I think the caterer was Via Maria’s and it was a big rip off. I asked for a bottle of C2 and they complied by giving me one of those smaller bottles of C2. What makes it bas is they charge 40 php for a small bottle of C2! 40 pesos!!! That’s like 1 dollar for an extremely small bottle of C2 Iced green tea!