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Do you know what today is?
Yes, it’s Friday the Thirteenth. Boo.
But wait there’s more. Today, February 13, is Get a Different Name Day!
Sad fact of life: we did not choose our names. Our parents bestowed it upon us when we were born. If you like your name, well, freakin’ good for you.
But if your parents had such a bad taste at the time of your birth, you may have found yourself suffering from the consequences of having a terrible name all your life. (wuhuhuhu)
If you have long loathed your name, February 13 is for you. It is on this day that we are allowed to change our names. Choose a name of your liking and tell your family and friends about it. Take advantage of this day because this privilege lasts only for 24 hours.
If I were to change my name, I’d pick Josiah, Jacob, Jericho or Joshua. Wahaha. I just love biblical names that start with J. I dunno why.
I’ve said a million times that I want children. Biological, not adopted. No, I don’t wanna get married. And I’m not going straight. I just want kids. Even if it means I’ll have to knock someone up (to my disgust and horror). I wanna have kids BADLY. In fact, I have their whole lives planned for them. (I know that’s not really good parenting but eeeeeh.) So I already have names for my children this early. You see, I want four kids.
- Dresden Munich
- Athena Alexandria
- Geneva Sofia (Si Ruffa kasi, inagawan ako ng Venice)
- Kyiv Tashkent Cairo
Haha. Sorry, I named them after cities. I know it’s weird. But if my children won’t like it, they always have February 13 to change it. Wahaha.
How about you, guys? Come on. If you were to pick a different name, what would it be?
VALENTINE’S DAY
So tomorrow is Valentine’s Day. And according to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Valentine’s day, it is a holiday invented by greeting card companies to make people feel like crap.
Take a look at statistics. The US Greeting Card Association estimated that around one billion valentine cards are being sent on this day each year worldwide. This makes this holiday the second largest card-spending day of the year, after Christmas. That’s a lot of cards.
And motel owners are happy!
Well, I don’t feel like crap on Valentine’s even when I’m single. I dunno. Our college barkada has a special tradition that we observe on this day. Those who are single among our circle of friends dine together at Chocolate Kiss in UP Diliman. We call ourselves the Single and Happy Club.
Take note, it’s not Single BUT Happy. It’s Single AND Happy Club.
And what’s amusing about it is that our membership has not changed a bit. It’s the same people every year! Haha.
It’s funny I’m always single on Valentine’s Day. I’ve had relationships before but they don’t really last long enough to invalidate my membership to the Single and Happy Club.
SINGLES AWARENESS DAY
Observed on February 15th, this day is for all singles to stand up, be proud and show that it is okay to be single. Hell, yeah.
Interestingly, the acronym for Singles Awareness Day is SAD. But whether singles around the world are sad or not, Singles Awareness Day is a reaction to Valentine’s Day by the people who are sick of the cheesiness and heavy commercialism of the day before.
On this day, they plan little get-togethers and exchange gifts with other single friends. While some singles send themselves flowers, others plan parties for other singles. This is done by people who don’t want to stay single. It’s a nice way of hooking up and meeting new prospects.
This holiday ain’t really that well-known here in the Philippines. Hmmm…. That’s sad.
PAHABOL
- I’ve just updated my Grammy Predictions post. I’m quite satisfied with the results.
- I’m excited to see You Changed My Life. Wahaha. Eeeeh Sarah Geronimo. Eeeeh John Lloyd Cruz. Ang jologs ko na naman.
- Umiyak si Marian Rivera kasi she lost her phone sa taping ng Ang Babaeng Hinugot sa Tadyang. May reward na P100,000 sa makakapagbalik nung phone. Isang daang libong freakin’ piso?!?! For a cellphone?!?! Waaaah. I smell a scandal. Hehe.
- UP Fair tonight! I miss UP Diliman!
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some parts of this post were originally written for crunkish.com
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Advanced Happy SAD Day then! =)
haha. and to you, too.
oh wait, SAD ba dapat ang bati ko sayo or Valentine’s?
Yay for single and happy people!!!
Pero sabi nila yung mga masasaya lang daw na single eh yung mga malayang nakakapag-date. Pag walang date na single, miserable pa rin.
Whatcha think?
Aye aye! Hahahaha.
Pero hmmm… ewan ko rin. haha
I can change my name? yahoo! i don’t know if i shall greet you advance Happy Valentine’s or advance Happy Single Awareness Day. I guess i shall greet you both, “Happy Valentine’s Day and Happy Single Awareness Day.”
single and happy club? can i join? can i? because really i am single and happy. yehey for us!
good day yoshke.
yep, for today lang. change your name. haha.
sure, join the club! haha.
They are all girls name… so you wanted a girl, or girls?. What are your plans for them? Would you want them to join beauty pageants or into more serious path in politics? What would you do if men would start to snatch them away from you?
1 and 4 are boys
2 and 3 are girls
One of them has to be a diplomat.
One filmmaker/writer/musician.
One international lawyer.
One business-minded football player/chef.
hahaha
hahaha!!! best laid plans…. but wait, would you like the same mother for each?
doesn’t matter. hahahaha
Best Laid Plans. You read Sidney Sheldon, don’t you @Elyong?
gawd. i think i should change my name soon! hahaha
what vday? never heard of it.
vday. never heard. ULUL! hahaha
Change your name for today lang, dali… para fun.
i ♥ Dresden.
Have I told you? I’d name my kid Cuervo Asti. Haha.
oh, alam ko you love Dresden.
but i didnt know about Cuervo Asti.
Up Fair Week! Jeez it will be my first time to attend this momentous event!
trew. masaya dun. well, sana masaya.
ang saya naman nito…sali ako sa SAD event na to..hahahaha
for today, call me tristan alexander…lol
I loooooove Tristan!!!
the blogger?
the name.
hahaha aww…yun lang…
is Tristan your real name?
no, i am tristan for this day only….
Oh. I thought you’re finally divulging your name. Ive always been curious.
dude you got taste, those names are totally nice!
we had lunch at Chocolate Kiss when we dropped by UP Diliman last month… great food kahit jampacked yung place. I was really impressed hehe.
Happy Valentine’s Day tomorrow and SAD too hehe
it’s always jampacked. gaaaah.
tsk tsk. see, i should’ve given you a mini-tour when you were here in manila. tsk tsk tsk
yoshke, there is such a thing as artificial insemination.
all it takes is a cup, my friend.
lol at single awareness day. (i’ll be sure to celebrate that.)
oh, and i love the names you’ve thought up. really cool idea to use cities.
now that i think about it, i might name my kid Shanghai Katmandu Thimbu. it’s even unisex, which is good, right?
a cup and a magazine? haha
DEEJAY, Add Nairobi and Mogadishu. para may representation ang Africa! Wahahaha.
ERTLING, gay magazine. haha. won’t work otherwise.
UP Fair?! aaaah! i miss UP fair (kahit di ako taga UP, nakiki-crash ako nung college)
re: marian rivera, i smell it too! ayayay!
re: SAD, nakow! itulog na lang ang weekend na to.. o kaya manuod na lang ng ugly betty at simpsons…
re: valentines day… i read in a book (for kids) that the Romans invented valentine’s day, but they called it ‘lupercalia’. the boys would pick a girl’s name in a hat and she was meant to be his girlfriend for a year.. sheesh.. ergo, the fall of ancient rome! haha! joke! (sorry, geek mode)
gaga, NATAWA KAYA AKO SA HIRIT MO! haha.
Oh come on. Celebrate SAD! haha
che! X_x
o sha… HAPPY SAD! ahahah!!
Grabe naman un. Fall of the Roman Empire dahil sa lupercalia. LOL
Nice post.
As for me, to be honest, I don’t want to change my name. But more often than not, people misspell my name as Fritz (i.e., at Starbucks) or worse, they write it as Fits (wah!). Which makes me wonder sometimes if I should just rename myself as Fritz… (hmmm… nah! Fitz pa rin! LOLZ)
And oh… I sorely miss Chocolate Kiss, specially their Iced Tea.
(Mental note: eat there the next time I’m in QC… which would be tomorrow for the UP Fair yay!)
Wahaha, Ive had a number of that’s-not-my-name incidents at Starbucks, too! haha
Fitz is weird, yes.
I actually thought you misspelt your name when you commented. 
13 is my lucky number ergo, i always feel happy and giddy during friday the 13th! i dunno if it’s just me or there’s something with the number but i rarely get into trouble during this much-avoided superstitious day. it’s either there’s something good in store for me during friday the 14th or i just end the day feeling really pretty good and on top of my game. lolz!
if i were to change my name (as it is as hideous and odd as it is right now; i have two first names), i’d rather everyone calls me leonard aragorn or louis alexis or leopold arris. i have a close affinity with two-name monikers that start with L and A.
and yes, i think all this valentines hoopla is overrated and way too commercialized!
p.s. so have you thought about my chaperone pleading yet? lolz!
oh yeah, yeah. I already replied. I said yes, you may! haha
my kid would be a junior… JOHN LLOYD CRUZ JR!!!! ahihihihihi
ULUL!
haha, yun lang ang nasabi ko.
nice and cute names!!!! haha. do you really need to knock someone up? haha. clay aiken and ricky martin did it the artificial way. =)
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!!! kate winslet!!! haha. wala lng. loved that movie.
balentayns balentayns!! crap. haha.
bitterness.=)
Yes, I have to knock someone up. I like the old-fashioned way. haha
wooooooooT! I love my name din, and my name is Biblical and it starts with letter J. Pero yun name ko pinalitan ng isang letter ng mama ko. From Jahzeel (member of the tribe of Naphtali Numbers 26:48 and Genesis 46:24) to Jehzeel
Kaya Jehzeel na me now instead of Jahzeel
I didnt realize that your real name is Jehzeel! Wuuuu. Jahzeel, I like it. Starts with J! And biblical. Haha
ako religious talaga name ko.
noahdel hallel.
o diba, sige isipin mo if muslim ako, haha…daming nakakabanggit eh.
o well, SAD for you and me…
i’m single and happy..but right now, may pinoproblema so no time to dwell with balentayns.. amf.
Waaaah. ang cute nung name mo.
Ano naman pinuproblema mo? Acads?
I hate it when people greet me Happy Single Awareness Day. It is as if Valentine revolves around singles and taken.
Hmm. very nice point, Joms.
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yoshke ok lng ba kayo kagabi sa fair? kainis mga asungut na jj
TREW!!!!!!!! Jumping Jologs, gaaaaah, I hate’m!
jumping jologs losers! pfftb.
worst. fair. ever. and not because of the jj.
hohum.
bkit kaya? hehehe
JAKE, I know why!!!
DOHNA, I snickered when you texted “Call me. I need to rant.” You’re the ONLY person in the world who doesn’t call to rant but asks someone to call to rant to, instead. Iba ka. Haha. And ako naman, uto-uto, I obliged. Haha
Gandang name din ang Reykjavik para sa boy, or Ljubljana para sa girl.
UP Fair, the frustrating long entrance line and the JJ’s, and because of them they stopped the live band performance.
It was still a night to remember especially for first timers like me..
Grabe mga JJ. Sinira talaga nang bonggang bongga ung fence. OMG!
Seriously? 100,000 for a phone? hmmm…baka scandal nga ito. hehe
latika!
yan na panuod ko na…
parang magiging dominatrix o porn stars yung mga anak mo. hehe. Peace!
pero very well-researched ang blog! Kampai! 
Hahaha. That’s too funny. I like animals.
Sorry. Wrong blog. Hahahaha. :S
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pd anakan mo ko?
fave ko rin ang sofia maging name ng baby ko, pero sophia not sofia. hehehe
aun baka gusto mo lang naman anakan ako, trip ko rin ung gusto mo, anak lang ayaw mag asawa, basta ba sustentado mga bata.
gusto ko na kasi mag ka anak, i dont care if your gay. mas okey skin un.
kaya lang baka d mo ko type eh. =(
rock on…\m/
i just discovered your blog trough blog hopping, and i keep on reading coz you always makes my day rock through your insights, ideas, thougths, feelings, and i just can’t help it, I’m hook.
yeba may bago na ko idol sa pagbo blog…