Stages of Intoxication

On our regular Saturday night, after clinks of glasses, a few exchanges of banters with my friends and alcohol filling up my system. I suddenly thought of something, how many stages of intoxication are there  before a person completely passes out. So i came to realize, this situation would be the best time to watch my friends closely. I'm a heavy drinker so i don't think i can be a rat lab for this. I know getting a lil tipsy can make your brain work better but not when were heavily boozed. So there is a limitation for me if i do that alone. So from start to the end i took notes (in my mind, of course) Anyway, here are a few things that i noticed: 

1. Confident/Over Confident - No restrictions, you say what you want and do what you want. If your personality is tactless it will be even worse when you drink. 

2. Elation/Excitation - no matter how a person feels from the beginning, they will go through  an ecstatic feeling. This is probably the reason most  of us would feel we're having a great time but i think its caused by alcohol.

3. Emotional - for some, it is already considered drunk but not for me. Because you still have your senses intact. A person carrying a problem/burden at this stage would break down and cry, very likely in breakups. But this is just their chance of letting it out.  

4 Argumentative - we become illogical and would just protest over little things they don't agree with. This will be a battle between what they think is right. At this point, it could end up in a brawl or one of them would let it loose.

5. Guilt/Realization- this is point of realization. Most likely will feel guilt after their actions especially petty arguments. Or, realizing its drinking limitations.

6. Physically impaired - kinda funny right? its very similar to an impaired person. Body at this point won't coordinate with what your mind says. Speaking will be definitely hard and if you manage to speak out whats in your mind, hands down to you! Distinct characteristic of this stage is extreme clumsiness!  

 7. Spiderman abilities - why you asked, you will learn how to crawl, cling to walls and insensible to inhuman physical damage. However, your wrong if you think that is cool. This far you lost your ability to walk or stand and body could either be parallel to the ground or down on all fours. Your only way to get your footing is to cling on walls. You may not feel a thing because of numbness caused by alcohol, if you hit your head or any part of your body you'll definitely feel hell the next day!

8. Sound sleeper - system shutdown, comfortably sleeping  regardless of what position. This is where your friends will make fun of you. So don't be surprised if  pictures of your are all over facebook or other social network sites the next day.

I guess thats it for now. i'll try to update this as soon as i gather more information about intoxication..

BRO CODE! (How i met your mother book )

BRO CODE by Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris) and Matt Kuhn

 

 I really love this sitcom next to Friends. If you watch this you would really know what i mean. Every season it gets closer and closer to Whos their mother (Ted Mosby's kids) and how they met of course. You can find the whole plot of the Sitcom here in Wikipedia: 

How i met your mother wiki

But here is very interesting, Neil Patrick Harris (a.ka Barney) has a book that relates to his role in this sticom. Its like a reference book on how to become Bro (How to be cool as Barney). Its fun, i took a sneak at Amazon the contents of this book. It will show you diagrams and most of all how they hit a girl with a nick like Barney. That is very impressive don't you think? But i don't think you can ever use this  in real life.. hehe... 

I was able find one of this book in National Bookstore but for some reasons i didn't took it home with me. I very much regret why i didn't because when i came back to get it, its no longer available. However, i'm still looking forward on putting this on one of my Book collections. I'm also interested in getting "The playbook" which illustrates the different ways on how to score a girl in one of the episodes (Again, this doesn't help you in any way in real life!) 

So anyone there who can point me online where i can purchase it cheaper..?

Southern Leyte Road trip!

Extraordinary! That is how exciting our trip was. It felt much better going on a vacation spontaneously just letting the road lead us the way and just by bringing along a few maps and list of beautiful spots and resorts in the area, that is enough to take you where you want. Although we really don't have any plans, we all know that somewhere around, that region, it will eventually take us to a place where we can stay and Enjoy! 

Our First stop was Liloan, a small town but has a lot to offer. A few may know that my Aunt is the Mayor of this town so we dropped by at their grocery to buy our foods and drinks. Then visited their house and ate breakfast. 

After that, my Aunt suggested to eat dinner with them since we still have a spare time. We agreed and took this opportunity to try out the Zip-line in Agas-agas in the meantime. Unfortunately, they were on lunch break when we got there. 

Well, since this will still be the road that we'll take going back to Tacloban might as well do it later. We got back to the road and straight to the place where we are to meet up with Aunt and Uncle. Syshore (seizure according to Ryan hehe.. ) Resort/Convention/Restaurant we really don't know. We were not satisfied with their food but since we need the energy for our trip, its completely necessary to stack up food in our belly. Then we headed back to the road to resume our trip.

Took a few wrong turns, drop by at some resorts (which unfortunately not good for our palates), and drove back and forth between resorts. As a tripper, you should pick a place that is very convenient for you and not to mention affordable. So being picky is very wise! That is what we did after all!

From jumping one resort at a time, we finally found a place to crush, Kuting Reef. The price was kinda average though you can still get the best out from their itinerary and their amenities. They recommended the barkada package since we are a group of four, inclusive of their amenities and tours, however, this is our first stop and we still have a long way to go. We took a bed for two instead and paid additional fees for two persons 3.7 K, that was cheaper than we thought. Our stay there was superb and very unlikely to other beach resorts, i'm rating it 7 and 10 as a perfect score. Very accommodating, great foods, clean beds and pool and the best attraction is their Reef! 

The Morning after a few bottles of Tequilla and Beer, we head out at 10 a.m. but this time i'm taking  over the driver's seat. We went deeper south of Southern Leyte and had a few stops to look at spectacular scenery. Then again right after a few wrong turns we eventually reached the place called Maasin City. 

We found the city very quaint, i think its because their old houses or maybe it felt like our place before. But what i really found odd is the one way streets, yeah we have one way streets hear in Tacloban but its very unlikely, they have different routes for the North and South bound Highways. I never realized how hard it is to follow a route not familiar to you, no doubt, its very common for traffic police to hear this as an alibi "I'm not from here, i'm from (insert place)" but of course i'm telling the truth if ever i was pulled over. hehe... 

According to map and reference we brought, they have a holy place situated in this area. So we decide to pay a visit to say our prayers and thanks. It was kinda hard driving to a very narrow street especially when you took a wrong turn and you have to make a U-turn. Minutes passed and we still haven't seen the place. So don't ask if we got lost? Evidently we did. We actually overlooked the sign several times, but don't blame us the sign was covered with something.

I really don't remember what was covering it but anyway once we got off the car, what really surprised us is how far we have to climb up to get to Monte Cueva. How far? Just a 400-600 steps. I actually lost my count after the grueling climb. Just a word of advice, this is certainly not for the faint hearted, you don't wanna be rolling down the hill after fainting, would you? Anyway, while we were at the middle of our climb, just our luck when deluge of rain followed, what worse could happen anyway with this kind of situation? The only thing that was in our mind was if we could make it or not.

We finish the climb probably after 30 mins with our clothes drenched of course. Well, all the grueling climb paid off when we finally went inside Monte Cueva, somehow, we felt relieve and enlightened. No wonder, people would do this every year its because of this feeling where one would literally feel light spiritually. Not to mention the breathtaking view overlooking Maasin City. 

Took a while to regain our energy, however, going down is not as hard as climbing up. What an experience!

Since we are spiritually refreshed, we went back to the road to head home but We still have one last stop to make, Agas-agas bridge Zipline. Me and sol, prepared for this and was too excited that we got our adrenaline pumping. Our minds were set, even though its raining we still insisted on going no matter what happen. However, once we got there our disappointment went off the roof. We have to endure the long line before getting to the end and we only have a few minutes left because its getting dark, we don't wanna be on the road by that time. It was kinda bummer. 

We head home looking a pretty drained. It did not matter anyway because our trip was a blast. An experience we definitely will never forget!

more pic of our trip

Best Photo share website for my Vacation Photos.. ?

I keep on forgetting to post our vacation expedition in Southern Leyte and most recent one in Naval Biliran. I really don't know why i keeps on slipping out of my head where in fact i mostly spend my day online. I guess now would be a great time to share it to everyone. The only problem is i cant find a website or a host which will contain all of the pictures. Most of all, i'm not just going to find a random website to host my pictures particularly for security reasons. Preferably a website that has connections to all blogs, easy to use and doesn't pretty much decent for my pictures of course. Actually, i already have few candidates which i would elaborate further: 

1. Photobucket - i had this all this time but i don't think of using it again. Have to find another a new one

2. Flickr - very common to bloggers, which made me think of switching to this but i still have my options open

3. Imageshack - very easy to use, not really vibrant or not very attracting to me in terms of website as a whole.

4. Picasa - i really doubt i will use this, just visited the website just a while ago and it made me install the windows version (its powered by Linux, no wonder!)

5: Smugsmug - 14 days trial, big no no to me! hehe..

Feeling Lucky Today!

Ever had that feeling when you wake up your going to start your day just fine? and its like something is coming your way that is very special! Well, you don't have to ask me because its written all over my face right now. I'm also thinking this may be a great start for this July. Let's see what the days ahead in store for me.

Here is official statement of Tacloban City's Mayor

I was waiting for the official statement from the two parties and recently found this in Facebook from a friend. I gotta say, Mayor literally put his foot down to the recent issue. I know for sure he made his point and it was a very persuasive defense indeed. However, we have to hear the others side's defense as well.

Tacloban City Festival caught up in between Political Rivalry!

Normally, everyone is excited about the Festivals namely Pintados-Kasadyan and Sangyaw. Unfortunately, because of the Rivalry, what turned out to be fun apparently turned in to chaos. Both Festivals are organized by two different Leaders Pintados by Palo Mayor Petilla and Sangyaw by Tacloban Mayor Romualdez. This Political rivalry has been going on for decades! As a Taclobanon, i'm very dismay of what the Mayor's action by disallowing the Pintados to take place. However, at the same time i'm disappointed as well with the Mayor of Palo. If both of them only agreed on something, Fiesta could have been fun like the past years we experienced but it even gotten worse. What happened on the 27th of June is a showcase of their immaturity, and worse, their incompetence of their power! Just a thought though, if your on the wrong side of the jurisdiction as a citizen you should follow the law and order of whosoever ruling the City. Just like what the Organizers did in the said event, they took a wrong route and did not follow what they were permitted to.  I'm not siding to anyone however its what i think is right looking at a the perspective. I still can't consider blocking using huge trucks and barricading the way "appropriate", it was an exaggeration on the Mayor's part. Both of them should have been more considerate that along with the parade are contingents from different Regions. Is that how we should show our tradition through Politics? Did they ever thought that their acts had brought shame to our place and not to mention the supposed celebration of Sto. Niño. How are supposed to boost our economy with all this mess? This is the only event our town has to attract tourist and to stand out among other town.

Jezz.. Please get your acts together (message to both parties). As of the moment we're watching the Sangyaw parade hoping we can enjoy it! Haha...