Thursday, October 29, 2009

Getting back on the groove...

It's been a while since I last posted something on this or any of my blogs. Ever since, well... after the whole ordeal we had with Angel. Read more on Che's post here.

This has been a most difficult thing for me to write about. She's supposed to be our first baby... and out first big loss...

Don't want to dwell too much on this. We're just moving on.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

House M. D. Quotes - Season 6 Episode 5 - Brave Heart

Dr. James Wilson: Oh God! I'll be back in ten!

Dr. Gregory House: I'm picking lint out of my bellybutton.



Dr. Gregory House: You didn't want me to sleep where you and Amber slept. After she died, you converted the study a bedroom, the bedroom to a study. Except it's not a study, it's a shrine.



Dr. James Wilson: I'm not ready to transition from my dead girlfriend's shrine to your... morning glory. I'll have the mattresses delivered and set up for you in a tabernacle. I just need it Tuesdays for animal sacrifices.



Dr. Allison Cameron-Chase: Patient's a genetic timebomb.

Dr. Gregory House: There's no fuse. It's not a bomb. Right now he isn't a patient either.

Dr. Eric Foreman: You saying we ignore three generations of cardiac problems?

Dr. Gregory House: I'm not ignoring it. I'm labelling it a coincidence.



Dr. Gregory House: He's only agreeing with you because he wants to have sex with you. And by the way, I agree with you, too. Especially in those pants.



Dr. Lisa Cuddy: I need to know what your plans are.

Dr. Gregory House: First we take Berlin. Then we circle around behind Poland and yell surprise.



Dr. Robert Chase: I've crossed some line that I'm having trouble getting back to the other side.



Dr. Gregory House: Now I've done it! There's urine everywhere! Gosh! Great thing about the teacher-student relationship is that the teacher can often learn more from the student... Have you learned anything yet?



Dr. Gregory House: Great contributions back there.

Dr. Robert Chase: There's no case. I have nothing to add.



Dr. Gregory House: You've a little devil on your shoulder told you to kill a guy. And you've got a little angel won't shut up. Telling you, you're going to burn in a lake of fire.

Dr. Robert Chase: I'm fine!

Dr. Gregory House: You shouldn't be! Talk to someone. Docs fixed me up in 7 weeks. You're... 10 minutes, tops.



Dr. Eric Foreman: Whatever it is, we all missed it.

Dr. Gregory House: I missed the fact that there is something to miss. What is wrong with me.



Dr. Gregory House: Quick cut to the moenyshot. It's his heart. So let's look at his heart...

Dr. Eric Foreman: You can't perform an autopsy without a medical license.

Dr. Gregory House: Really? 'Coz I don't think there's anything I could screw up that we hadn't already screwed up...



Dr. Gregory House: I had some dental work done in the Philippines when I was a kid. Adjoining metal fillings can corrode, pick up AM radio signals...



Dr. Anne Ayala: I can only tell you that you're hearing things as you should. If you're also hearing sounds you shouldn't, well that would be psychosis. You'd have to talk to someone who does the brain. I only do ears.



Dr. Lisa Cuddy: Bravo! It's amazing how you did a hundred and twenty hours in one day!



Dr. James Wilson: If you need to talk. If you need more help. I'm right here.

Dr. Gregory House: Great. can you be right here somewhere else?



Dr. Gregory House: You know.

Dr. James Wilson: That you're an ass? Yeah. You overheard me talking to my dead girlfriend and thought to yourself "Hmmm... What kind of fun can I have with this?"



Dr. Gregory House: Why are you talking to her? You run out of living people? You can talk to me. I'm right here.

Dr. James Wilson: I miss her. Talking to her makes me feel better. You don't.



Dr. Lisa Cuddy: Either you did have a problem, which I can't ignore. Or you were jerking me around, which I can't ignore.

Dr. Gregory House: You're a woman. You can do anything.



Marta: No wonder she hates him.

Nona: Mmm. That's not hate. It's foreplay.



Dr. Gregory House: Are you getting some help? Or is this how things are gonna be from now on? You know what's pathetic is you haven't gotten help because you want to feel bad. You want to suffer. 'Coz if you feel guilty, then you're not a psychopath. Patient needs some carbonazapine. Now, I don't care how much that room scares you. You're doing your job.



Dr. Robert Chase: Why? Tell me what's sacred about a dictator that kills hundreds of thousands of his own people?

Priest: What is sacred of a doctor who kills a patient?



Priest: You can't have absolution without first taking responsibility.



Dr. Gregory House: Good. I thought it was because of the sexual tension.

Dr. Lisa Cuddy: There is no sexual tension.

Dr. Gregory House: There was tension and... it made me feel funny, so...



Donny: How do I know you're still not lying to me? Saying I'm healthy so I just feel better?

Dr. Gregory House: It does sound that way, doesn't it? But this time, no sugar pills. I'm gonna cut into your brain to make you think that I'm fixing it. And if our fake test confirms, I'm gonna be cutting into you son's brain, too, 'coz I'm just that committed?



Dr. Gregory House: That's what I thought. The "saving-the-kid-from-pain" stuff was crap. You just don't want anything in your life that won't let you do whatever the hell you wanna do whenever the hell you wanna do it. You've had it easy. Sorry to screw you up.



Dr. James Wilson: You see? He really is getting better.

Monday, October 19, 2009

House M.D. Quotes - Season 6 Episode 4 - Instant Karma

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Gaga over Plants vs Zombies!

Been playing Plants vs Zombies for a few days -- erm, maybe a few weeks? Hehehe... Yeah, one of my latest addictions today. :) A very nice casual game, where you strategically place your plants to stop the onslaught of zombies which are after your brains.

Simple, entertaining, and extremely replayable. With several modes to choose from, you can zone out for hours before realizing that the sun is already up. (Yeah... Been there, done that...)

Here's my Plants vs Zombies list:

My Top Five Favorite Plants:
(Note these are my favorites, not necessarily the best plants in the game)

5 - Cherry Bomb - very cheap "panic button" for taking out all zombies within a small area.

4 - Spikerock - the upgraded version of Spikeweed deals out significant damage to all zombies who walk on it. Plus it can take out several zombie vehicles. And it is the toughest plant in the game, able to withstand six strikes from the biggest zombie Gargantuar.

3 - Winter Melon - massive slowing/freezing damage that can take out several zombies at once. Simple and straightforward.

2 - Cattail - perhaps the best aquatic plant in the game; it can target any zombies in any lane and it can pop those annoying balloon zombies out of the sky.

1 - Gloom Shroom - short-range fast attacker; all you need is a good strategy and you're all set.


My Top Five Annoying Zombies:
5 - Balloon Zombies - forces you to reconsider playing with Cactuses in stages where Cattails can't be used.

4 - Digger Zombie - digs all the way to the end of the lane and eats your plants from behind; makes you think twice about defending not only your frontline, but also your rear.

3 - Jack-in-the-Box Zombie - left unchecked, this fast-moving zombie can wreak havoc on your frontlines; the zombie equivalent of the Cherry Bomb.

2 - Zombonis - it has high toughness, can crush your plants, and lays out ice on its wake where you can't plant. And if that's not enough, the length of ice provides the launching pad for the zombie bobsled team.

1 - Gargantuar - the lean, big, fighting machine of the zombies... need I say more?

My Other PvZ Lists

My Favorite Mini-Game - Last Stand - enables "gold farming", to buy those important plant upgrades and Zen garden supplies.

My Longest Survival Flags - 40 - still need to try out more strategies...

Highest Trophy - Gold Sunflower trophy - plus finished the game twice

Vasebreaker Endless Streak - 10 - damned Bucketheads!

I, Zombie Endless Streak - 5 - still not used to playing zombies!

Tree of Knowledge height - 62feet

My Favorite Zen Garden - Mushroom Garden - well, I'm a night person, I guess :)


You'll love the simple charm of this game!

Monday, October 12, 2009

House M. D. Quotes - Season 6 Episode 3 - The Tyrant

Dr. Lisa Cuddy: I'm not asking you to love him. I'm asking you to do your job.



Dr. Robert Chase: Possibly incomprehensible... And of course, I'm talking about you firing your girlfriend.



Dr. Gregory House: Oh my God! It's three years ago! Does that mean I'm still crazy?



Dr. Gregory House: You're rushing the diagnosis because you're rushing out of this room 'coz you're rightly upset at me. Although I wasn't the one who made that asinine decision...



Dibala: There was a Catholic mission in my childhood village and I like the priests. They were good people. But when my two younger sisters were dying from consumption, it wasn't more priests we wanted.



Dr. Gregory House: It's a process. I'm learning.



Dr. Remy Hadley: Because there's a much simpler explanation for you firing me. You wanted to break up with me but you were weak to do it yourself.



Dr. James Wilson: How was your first day of school?

Dr. Gregory House: I peed once in the sandbox.

Dr. James Wilson: How was it with Cuddy?

Dr. Gregory House: What did you think I was talking about?



Dr. James Wilson: I think you're losing your sense of mind.

Dr. Gregory House: Check right now. Pull my finger.



Dr. James Wilson: Yes. Shoes. Garlic. I'm vampire, Sookie..



Dr. Gregory House: I told you to get that echo fixed!



Dr. Gregory House: Coping skill number 1: complete avoidance. Are you happy?



Dr. Gregory House: The Egypt visit was for the African union meeting where I'm guessing he was "meeting" people from "Africa" which includes Liberia, which sends some numbers of their foreign ministry which has itself has just been hit by jockage. Wait not jockage... Lassa fever...



Dr. Remy Hadley: Most people send chocolates.

Dr. Eric Foreman: I'd stand outside your apartment all night holding up a boombox, except you told me you hate 80s music...



Neighbor: I was wondering what that noise was. It's the damn cane.

Dr. Gregory House: And I'm Greg.



Dr. Gregory House: Only in the sense that it has a rubber tip on the end not a top shoe.



Dr. Gregory House: I'm just gonna sit here quietly. I feel like I've been inadvertently undermining your authority. So I'm just gonna observe. Not gonna say a word.



Dr. Gregory House: Uhh, I need you to spread your legs so I can do an "H".



Dr. James Wilson: It's just a wild coincidence that he thought you were a rude jerk?



Dr. James Wilson: Normally we'd all tell the amputee to go screw himself.

Dr. Gregory House: Victims get pity, heroes get adulation. It's way better.



Dr. James Wilson: It's easy to be nice to people you like. But being nice to people you hate... that's a skill. DO IT!



Dr. Allison Cameron-Chase: Am I trying to kill our patient? Of course not. But if he died, am I supposed just to pretend that wouldn't be good for the world?



Dr. Gregory House: Thought I had detected the sickly sweet smell of maple syrup and socialized medicine. It smells like victory.



Neighbor: They sent troops to reinforce the peace accords. Which is where I tried to free a twelve-year-old boy who stepped on a landmine. 36 years later, every second, I feel pain in my had like I'm still grabbing that boy's arm even though my arm isn't there. So no, I'm not faking it.

Dr. Gregory House: Oh. On a related note, go Maple Leaves.



Dr. Eric Foreman: This isn't a democracy. I don't care who you get. At least for right now, this is MY department.



Dibala: I did her a favor. I showed her her true character. She's too weak to act on her beliefs. But it is not her fault. Almost everyone is. Even my own advisors -- my own colonel -- all they do is negotiate and debate and sign treaties. They are appeasers...



Dibala: What is an enemy to you? Some younger physician who coverts your office? In my world, there are dangers and bloodshed and death. And that makes you a a man. And men make choices.



Dr. Robert Chase: I saved your life. I deserve to know what you're planning...

Dibala: Whatever it takes to protect my country!



Dr. Allison Cameron-Chase: But there's some deep part of you, that when you find you're wrong about the most important decisions you've made, you get insecure and you just retrench. Try to mess up your relationship that's your right, but you mess this up, your patient dies.



Dr. Gregory House: If you believe in God, pray that this is gonna work. I'd also ask him why he blew off your arm.



Dr. Gregory House: So either you killed him by not having confidence in your opinion, or you killed him by being too attached to your opinion. If you are anything like me -- and by the way you are -- you need to know which.



Dr. Gregory House: There's a reason I hired you. You used to know what to do with a locked door...



Dr. Eric Foreman: You really think you can kill another human being without consequences to yourself?

Sunday, October 04, 2009

House M.D. Quotes - Season 6 Episode 2 - Epic Fail

Dr. House: I quit...

Dr. Foreman: You can't quit

Dr. House: I think you're confusing me with Jake Gyllenhal.



Dr. House: I'm sorry. I know this will affect both of you... and Thirteen... and the one with the nose... I just can't risk coming back here.



Dr. Cuddy: House was a genius.

Dr. Foreman: House was an egotistical pill-popping lawsuit magnet... and a genius.



Dr. Hadley: You're the boss. It's kinda sexy.

Dr. Taub: And here I thought it's just the pants.



Dr. Foreman: Look at that. No House, the job still gets done.

Dr. Hadley: And yet something's missing.

Dr. Taub: I'm short. He's black. You're gay-ish.

Dr. Hadley: That's it.



Dr. Cameron: You know how House feels about people touching his ball.

Dr. Foreman: No. Chase refuses to tell me.



Dr. Cameron: Taub and Thirteen cool with it? He's older than you. She's seen you naked.

Dr. Foreman: Not like we haven't been working for two years now...

Dr. Cameron: Working with is different than working for.



Dr. Nolan: You need something to keep you engaged... Connected to other people.

Dr. House: You already made me get a roommate. Wilson's got one bedroom. We can't get anymore connected without unzipping.



Vince: Dr. Foreman basically strong armed. Which is impressive.

Dr. Taub: Guess you found him a little more persuasive than the two of us... probably the pants...



Head Chef: In a lot of ways, cooking is like music... Different elements combine to make a symphony.

Dr. House: The difference is that Beethoven's 5th isn't to be cooped tomorrow.



Dr. Wilson: What was my one condition for allowing you to tag along?

Dr. House: Try not to be a jerk. I'm trying. I'm just failing.



Dr. Wilson: Throw your meatballs and keep an open mind. <pause> How hard are you trying not to make a bald joke right now?



Dr. Wilson: You might have... saved my balls.

Dr. House: That's the spirit!



Dr. Hadley: First you try to act like him, that doesn't work. So then you try the opposite. Now you're mad because you have to use his move.

Dr. Foreman: Feel like Tom Brady's backup...

Dr. Hadley: Tom Brady's backup now makes ten million dollars. Stop comparing...



Cecille: If she's a missionary, why does she dress like a hooker?

Dr. House: I meant the position.



Dr. House: We flirted. We kissed. I fondled. I hallucinated the night when you yelled from the hospital balcony. You're not a narcissist.

Dr. Cuddy: So what am I?

Dr. House: Not the reason I'm leaving.



Cecille: Lady, either kiss him or leave. We've got work to do.



Dr. Taub: I'm sorry I just realized. Joint pain and joint pain. Honest, I wasn't laughing because of the obvious tension between the two of you.



Dr. House: Daddy's little co-dependent has all grown up. Making room for daddy's hot bisexual boyfriend problems.



Dr. Hadley: This might be the best thing I've ever eaten... And yes, I'm including what your thinking of now.



Dr. House: How like a man to think that I'd enjoy slimming over hot stove all day while you're off banging secretaries.



Dr. Nolan: I didn't let you out because you were happy. I let you out because I believe you have the skills to cope with that. You tried one thing. It didn't work. So, move on.



Dr. Foreman: The internet is a magical place!



Dr. Foreman: No point in treating the symptom and not the disease.



Dr. House: If you wanted a quickie, you should have called ahead. I'm a mess.



Vince: You're my doctor. I trust you.

Dr. Foreman: No you don't. You're scared and you don't want to make this decision... My career is riding on this case. Nowhere near as important as your life. But I think the best shot for both of us is to treat for LCDD.



Dr. House: No. The only thing you know is that I'm a genius who got a dog to pee in your toilet. You don't know how I did it or more interestingly where I peed.



Dr. House: If the lab says this is retriever, too, please let me know right away. 'Explain my overwhelming desire to wipe my butt on your carpet.



Dr. Nolan: Isolation fosters depression.



Dr. Nolan: The only thing worse for you than going back to diagnostic medicine is... not going back...

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Saturday, October 03, 2009

House M.D. Quotes - Season 6 Episode 1 - Broken

Dr. House: Wow! And he's BLACK.. 'Thought you'd be a little more sensitive to the slavery issue.



Dr. House: I AM a lot better. No painkillers. No hallucinations. Leg hurts but it's manageable. Great job! I'll miss you. I wanna start missing you as soon as possible.



Dr. Nolan: Your issues run deeper than vicodin.

Dr. House: Well that's not gonna cheer me up, is it?



Dr. House: Oh! I'm sorry. Suicide taboo? Gosh, I've broken a rule on my first day. I will KILL myself.



Dr. Beasley: Ready to play nice?

Dr. House: Would you believe me if I said yes?

Dr. Beasley: No.

Dr. House: Then YES.



Dr. Beasley: Why don't you put the plan on hold for a few days, see what happens. Just let me do my job. If you prefer private to group, we can do that. Maybe try some SSRIs. If you think that's not working, you can always go back to your schemes.

Dr. House: God, if only you said that two minutes ago. Before I came up with my new scheme. Now I'm committed. Ha get it!



Dr. House: Are you ignoring me, or are you just letting my charm wash over you?



Alvie: Thinking sucks.



Dr. House: I see you've got some cello on your trunk... No, it's not a euphemism



Lydia: Are you spying on me?

Dr. House: I'm living in a psychiatric hospital. Staring out the window is what we do.



House: And who's going to carry you when you carry the cello?

Dr. House: Yes, cast aside the useless cripple. How very German of you.



Lydia: Am I somehow a bad person for showing compassion?

Dr. House: No. You're not even a bad person if you're lying about what you're doing in here.



<After Steve falls from the carpark building.>
Dr. House: I need help.



Dr. House: Van Gogh is your patient. He's satisfied painting houses instead of starry night.



Alvie: They broke you.

Dr. House: They didn't break me. I AM broken. Stop worshipping me and start worrying about your own loser life.



Dr. House: I take advantage of my friends... Friend... I only got one...



Dr. House: I did connect with one guy. My propensity for screwing things up overtook me. My desire to have fun overcame my propensity.



Dr. Nolan: Why do you think that people would treat you worse if they know the truth?



Lydia: What you did was misguided... and irresponsible. But it was also nice. You gave him a moment of pure happiness.



Dr. Nolan: Why do you value your failures more than your successes?

Dr. House: My mother caught me masturbating. Pictures of her mother...



Dr. House: Successes only last until someone screws them up. Failures are forever.

Dr. Nolan: So you accept that fact? You accept that there's nothing you can do.



Dr. Nolan:
You acknowledge failure and you move past it. You apologize.

Dr. House: Wow. Powerful things these apologies. For someone to jump off the building and say two words and you go on with your life. Hardly seems fair.

Dr. Nolan: Is that the issue? You caused him pain. If the world is just, you have to suffer equally? You're not God, House. You're just another screwed up human being who needs to move on. Apologize to him. Let yourself feel better. Then you can learn to let yourself keep feeling better.



Dr. Nolan: Two things just happened. You got hurt, which means you got connected to someone else strongly enough to miss them. And more important, you recognize the pain and came to talk to me instead of hiding from it in the vicodin bottle. The fact that you're hurting and you came here, the fact that you're taking your meds, and we're talking right now... Come inside and get some sleep. Tomorrow you can say your goodbyes.

Thursday, October 01, 2009

Dark Days Ahead

Seems like apocalypse have hit us once again. As if last week's rampage of the Ondoy/Ketsana was not enough, tomorrow comes the new, even stronger super typhoon Pepeng/Pharma.

The strongest flood that hit Metro Manila in decades, Ondoy forces Manila down to its knees, drowning the city for days. And before we can even recover, Pepeng cuts to the scene.

The only silver lining is that this worst of events has brought out the best in Filipinos. Willing and able citizens used everything at their disposal to help people out. The cellphones and the internet are used extensively to communicate, and identify flooded, and locate survivors and stranded citizens, helping a lot in the relief efforts.

Now if only the public infrastructure is just as cutting edge as most Filipinos are with their gadgets, then maybe the situation would have been prevented in the first place... That, I'm afraid is still a looooooong way to go.

If that's not enough, the recent earthquakes in Indonesia seems to portend even worse tidings in the coming days. Hope this isn't so, but everyone should be prepared.

On a more personal note, all of these events seem to have been eclipsed by the catastrophe. Don't want to get in further details, but suffice to say, we've hit rockbottom like never before. Still recoving and I thank the people who supported us along the way.

Anyway, here's to hoping that the future is not as bleak as it appears to be right now.