All I Want
For the longest time, I have envied Friendster members who had birthday cake icons hovering under their profile pictures. With my birthday fast approaching (“Yahoo!”), I’m excited about the prospect of getting my own pink cupcake underneath my Baywalk Molester snapshot. In line with this, I have decided to make this blog post that will include a wish list of the gifts that I’d prefer to receive.
I never made a wish list in the past since I still think that it’s the “thought that counts” and that there should be an element of surprise when it comes to gift-giving. Two of my closest friends, the Guru of Adidas and Badminton (GAB) and the Queen of pain and Tardiness (QPT), however, made their own birthday wish lists this year. Both of them argued that a wish list id not a manifestation of their materialistic tendencies. Rather, the list simply serves as a guide to relatives and close chums about what they would really appreciate on their natal day. After all, it’s quite difficult to keep a straight face after getting porcelain figurines or the latest CD of the Sex Bomb Girls, right?
So without further ado, let me bring you:
MY TOP TEN GIFT LIST (in no particular order of preference):
1. Any Dilbert comic book by Scott Adams except for “Seven Years of Highly Defective People” and “It’s Obvious You Won’t Survive With Your Wits Alone”
2. Lucky Dumpling — the only CD ever released by Moonpools and Caterpillars (Note: To anyone who can give me this one, I’ll be your slave for an hour.)
3. Any gray shirt (Local size: Large; American size: Medium)
4. Fisherman’s Cap from Fluid Surf
5. Small back back from Habagat
6. Victorinox Swiss Army knife
7. Board Shorts from Speedo
8. L’eau D’issey (Issey Miyake) cologne
9. Jogging pants from any sporty label (i.e., Adidas, Nike, Reebok, etc.)
10. Nalgene® drinking bottle
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The title of this blog entry is lifted from “All I Want,” the hit single of Toad The Wet Sprocket from the 1990’s. This blasted song has played over and over in my mind for days on end. This is way beyond what we call LSS (Last Song Syndrome) and I’m starting to find the experience both pleasant and fascinating. 
July 5th, 2005 at 6:35 am
Paano kung naulit yung gift? Halimbawa, may nagbigay ng 3 cds ng #2.. pwede bang akin na lang yung isa? >:)
July 5th, 2005 at 11:45 am
At least yung gray shirt, puede isuot iba’t ibang araw. Baka nga lang isipin di ka naliligo.
anong size ng board shorts? di kita bibilhan nun, nagtatanong lang.
So kung 3 CDs ang nabigay, 3 hours kang slave?
Nakakita na ako nung CD kasi sa september mo pa makukuha. matitiis mo ba? pirated ok lang?
July 5th, 2005 at 3:59 pm
To Joan: sure, ibibigay ko sa’yo yung isand CD pag marami nagbigay sa akin nun. Kaso, ikaw ang magiging “slave for an hour” nung nagbigay at hindi ako. :p
July 5th, 2005 at 4:07 pm
To Bambi: Matitiis ko yun kahit September ko pa makukuha. :p Matagal ko nang hinahanap yun kaso matagal na talaga syang na-pull out sa mga shelves.
Kung pirated siguro or “burned” copy ng CD, ayos lang din kasi I don’t think I’ll be his/her slave for a full hour. Compromise ko dun 30 minutes siguro. :p
Sa board shorts, my waist plays around 32″ (pag gutom) to 34″ (pag busog or kinakabag). Since I’m trying to lose weight now (really, really hard), it would help if I get a size that fits a 32″ waist line. :p
As for the gray shirts, ewan ko ba, nag-evolve na ang taste ko siguro. Before I used to go for anything dark blue, kaso ngayon, I find gray rather strangely appealing.
Hey, di ba birthday mo din sa mid-August? Sige pag-uwi mo sa September, “exchange gift” tayo. :p
July 11th, 2005 at 1:56 am
Alam ko na ang bibigay ko sayo. Isang calendar ni GMA. Yay! Since idol na idol mo sya diba? :p
On a more serious note, ang kapal mo humingi ng Issey Miyake noh! Tapos demand ka pa dyan ng “edi yung maliit lang!”. As if!
Bigyan kita ng tape measure para ma-inspire ka ng magdiet. Or isang month supply ng oatmeal para twing friday may kakainin ka. Hihihi.