My friend Anne and I started a new horror movie blog, and I’ve moved my review of Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist to www.horrornut.net
Dear High School Boys Who Ruined Our L4D Campaign, I’m sure you guys haven’t had much experience playing anything else but Counterstrike and DoTA, but you don’t have to be a video game geek in order to succeed at an L4D campaign. All you need, really, is to be a little bit smart, alert, and
When I was a kid, I used to have these recurring dreams where I’d go surfing under cloudless blue skies. I have never gone surfing as a child, nor was I particularly keen about learning how to, but in my dreams I’d feel as though I were one with the waves carrying me gently to
Dating. Courtship. I never understood what those words meant because I’ve never seen a need for these rituals in my life. To date someone involves a certain kind of caution and certainty-seeking that I don’t have the patience for; I believe that the only way you can ever be sure of how the other sees
Today, I took my first tentative steps towards independence: I sold my financial soul to the gods of Philippine real estate in exchange for a little shoebox I can call my home. People with a superficial knowledge of my life and who I am would probably think I’m crazy for wanting to live on my
ALL RIGHT ALL RIGHT I’LL DO THE MEME ALREADY YOU CAN STOP TAGGING ME NOW K? Last night, I started working on the 25 Things About Myself meme everyone’s been doing on Facebook, but halfway through it I started blathering on about Lacanian psychoalanysis, jouissance, neurosis, and hysterical desire. The whole thing sounded like I
Whenever I get struck by an idea, I become fixated by it until the idea becomes reality – or until a better idea comes along to distract me from the previous idea. Last weekend, I had the idea to enroll in fashion school and today, I did just that. Ever since I started my ukay-ukay
I meant to publish this during the evening of December 31 but writing this entry took longer than I thought, and I was already late for New Year’s Eve shenanigans. So I’m sitting here at the lobby of the pretentious condominium development my grandparents insist on living in when they’re at the city, getting a
I almost didn’t attend yesterday’s rally at the Makati Central Business District against charter change because I was severely turned off by the “interfaith” adjective attached to the demonstration. I read on the papers that the rally would be spearheaded by Catholic groups and the last thing I want to do is attend a political
My name is Lauren Dado and this is my personal blog. I like nerdy things, scary things, and travel things. I'm not really always right. (
