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       Game of Thrones became very feminist very fast. I can't believe it. The rulers of the major houses are now women: Dany, Cersei, Ellaria Sand, Olenna Tyrell. Yara Greyjoy is staking her claim to the Iron Islands. Lyanna Mormont needs no introduction. Not to mention the amazing Stark girls (who don't admittedly rule House Stark but are still awesome anyway). Very, very surprising move.         When I started (being forced) to watch Game of Thrones, I had a hard time really getting myself into the story because I kept on dismissing it as another boys' fantasy thing. But NOW, I'm invested as heck. I think it's only right that women are dominating this season. It should have happened a long time ago.        I just finished this great PC game called "The Dark Eye: Memoria," or "Memoria" for short. The game tells the story of two characters, Sadja and Geron, whose exist in different times but are entangled in some ...

     Remembered something my high school friend Makay told me as we met up for lunch one afternoon. She said I should invest in a domain, as in a .com domain, to make my blog more legit. Internally I thought, what the hell, my blog is my collection of pointless ramblings about mundane things. Owning a .com will be pointless if the content I make is just this same old drivel.      Decided long ago to make my blog a family-friendly diary, but have forgotten to keep it updated. I do feel bad whenever I let a day go by undocumented or unwritten about. I feel like my only connection to my past is through my own writings. For instance, I don't remember much about my childhood, but I'm glad that I kept a diary even then. Perhaps I shall advocate for writing to be the cure to memory loss.     Was reading through my some old personal stuff I wrote and was quite surprised at how good the writing was. Yes, I'm claiming it: I actually wrote something goo...

I'm really happy at how my birthday turned out. (Okay, it's been 3 weeks since then, but because it was the hell-iest of hell weeks, I never did get to write about it.) Caitlin, who was supposed to be on vacation and at home, stayed a week longer in Manila to catch my birthday dinner. Dad and Jigs who were in Manila for other business also stayed for a couple extra days. And mom, who was (and is) really busy with work actually flew all the way in on the day itself. We had a simple dinner at Bannaple in Robinson's Galleria, and my family just ordered a freaking salad because they had just eaten Fill-Up boxes from KFC for merienda . Hay naku. Anyway, Rap joined us for dinner. The last time my family and he were together was during our joint graduation dinner in 2014! And at the end of the day, they dropped us home (yeah, from Galleria) and unveiled to me an armful of birthday presents: a thermos, a cat pillow, a new bag, a cactus necklace, and bluetooth earphones. Good hau...