How exactly does one go from an almost underweight 135lbs to a fatass 151lbs in a span of 3 months? I don’t know exactly, but it’s happened to me. I checked with a doctor and she said my blood pressure is a bit on the high side. Now I have to start watching what I eat for real if I expect to stay around long after I have my mid-life crisis.

Ah well, at least I’m getting a little bit of exercise now that I’ve starting commuting and walking to work on a daily basis. Although there’s still that temptation of splurging on a fatty meal with all those restaurants in the area. Argh, I should just intentionally spend on other stuff so I won’t have enough money to become a total tub o’ lard. Guhh..

Okay, I start tomorrow for real. Finally, a real office with real office people.

I start working again as a web designer in Ortigas starting tomorrow. Yay for me.

Edit: Hmm actually no, but I’m starting soon. I’ve already been accepted, I just have to iron out some documentation.

Here are a couple of screenshots from yesterday. I spent a couple of hours making both my Windows and Linux desktops aesthetically appealing.

I’m going for the clean, minimalist look nowadays. A couple of years ago my desktop would’ve been dark, with a macabre wallpaper. I suppose I grew out of that phase, no more bleeding angels or cracked skulls just because I listen to metal.

Windows:

• FlyakiteOSX 3.0
• Foton Visual Style
• Foton Winamp
• Winamp CD Case
• Yahoo! Widgets

Linux:

• Ubuntu Linux
• art.gnome.org
• gDesklets

I’m so tired. As of writing, I have been awake for roughly 22 hours. You see, my sleep cycle has this nasty habit of flipping around. I turn nocturnal, wide awake all evening and asleep like a log during the daytime.

I intentionally stayed awake in order to fix this. I the earlier half of my waking hours in front of my computer learning from instructional videos about typography, color theory, networking, advanced graphics editing and photomanipulation.

By the time I was done soaking up all that information, I was getting drowsy and my sister had already left for work. There was no one to check on me if I’m still awake (I attempted this whole thing yesterday but I fell asleep) so I started doing house chores just to keep me awake. I’m not a big fan of coffee but I think it helped.

I then spent most of my afternoon in the mall. I bought some mini CD-Rs to use as design portfolios and I scoured for a couple of hours looking for some ankle/heel padding for my new leather shoes. The back part of my crisp new leathers were pressing and rubbing against the back of my ankle, I was bound to develop some kind of blistering and whatnot if I didn’t find proper padding for it. I went to three Watson’s branches and all of them had no Scholl padding for my ankle, they were all out of stock. Ankles, say hello to a couple of band-aids

I’m going to drop any moment now. Job interview tomorrow, I hope it all goes well.

I went out yesterday to the mall to take my passport picture taken. No, I’m not going anywhere, but I needed to renew it to claim some documents I need before I go back to working. After the photographer took my pictures, I was told to come back a few hours later to pick them up. I haven’t been to the movies in quite some time so I thought seeing a film wouldn’t be a total waste.

I saw the Aeon Flux poster and remember the extremely slick and stylized animations from MTV Oddities and Liquid Television from the 90’s when I was younger. The Head, The Maxx and Aeon Flux were quite possibly the coolest shows I’ve ever seen back then.

I simply loved how the protagonist, who looked like the poster child for anorexia, would just jump, flip, run and shoot in a way that would put any B-movie ninja to shame. The revealing leather outfits, the otherworldly firearms, the cyberpunk setting, the sex and violence, I loved everything. Exactly the reasons why my brain’s logic center switched itself off and why I picked to watch this movie over Memoirs of a Geisha.

I should have seen it coming. It’s a movie adaptation of a popular action animation, of course it’s bound to suck.

Charlize Theron, while really pretty, doesn’t look anything like Aeon. Perhaps someone like Famke Janssen or even Carrie Ann Moss would have been a more appropriate choice to play the role. Nonetheless, the hairdo while completely inaccurate, is actually not bad. My biggest complaint (same with most other guys) is the costume, hands down. Aeon Flux = 30% leather + 70% skin, a formula the filmmakers obviously missed.

While the setting was still surreal, it seemed too clean compared to the eccentric cyberpunk that I remembered from the animated series. I have nothing against this though, they were better off coming up with something they could believably pull off rather than try mimicking the original series knowing they can never emulate the same exact look and feel of it.

The plot was shallow, but passable. I can’t really compare it to the animated series because it was too weird for me to understand and piece together back then. The action was not what I expected, I was waiting for bullet-time effect like in The Matrix but they never came. I also wanted to see similar things from the series like tools hidden in Aeon’s… er… privates. Instead, we get an eyedropper hidden in her heel. Lame.

Aeon Flux is too tall an order to be a live action movie, I never should have expected anything more than a Hollywood eye candy movie created to take advantage of people’s nostalgia and curiosity. This movie is a great disservice to those who enjoyed the series back in the 90’s, when MTV was still cool.