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My Baby's Fourth Month

Finally, a triumph! Here's now a glimpse of my baby via ultrasound. Thanks to modern technologies of science that soon-to-be parents like me can view at least the silhouette of the fetus which is a product of my genes. I still can remember vividly how my heartbeat is pounding fast as I am viewing the screen with the figure of the baby kicking as if it's showing off while being watched by its parents. I can't help but feel proud how it feels to be a father.

The baby is now in its fourth month. With what I learned in college of medical science (ironically, this was my report in Physiology 2), the baby's heart now pumps about 25 quarts of blood a day. This will increase to be about 300 quarts by the end of pregnancy. All of the teeth have formed and even has a scalp hair pattern (God, don't let the baby inherit my chromosomes involving hair pattern)! The baby is about 3 ounces (85 grams) and 6.3 inches (16 cms). The gender can't still be detected by ultrasound. Though gender predictions at this point are much harder to rely on. More subtle changes, such as the development and positioning of the eyes and ears, will take place, making the fetus look much more human. Movements now are being observed, and the baby now really kicks a lot.

Whew! I wonder how I will be called five months from now... Dad? Papa? Itay? Tatang? Tatay? Itang? Papay? Father? Pere? Vater? Padre? Pater? Patris? Sator? Ojca? Patria? Far? Whatever.....

Threesome

Threesome...

Three things that scare me: earthquake, fire, plane crash.
Three things I love: my personal computer, my mobile phone, my digital camera.
Three things I dislike: elevators, Pinoy trash movies, being told what to do when I know better.
Three things I like to do but can't: cook, swim, eat in a smorgasbord
Three things you will not find in me: umbrella, hankies, pen.
Three things I don't understand: Physics, Philippine politics, Bible.
Three things I can't leave without: wallet, mobile phone, my pouch with "something" in it.
Three things I can't live without: my computer, radio with loud speakers, money.
Three things I prefer to do when bored: sit infront of my computer, play the guitar, sleep.
Three things I want to experience before I die: be crucified at Golgotha, dine with the British Royal Family, join Fear Factor.
Three ways to describe my personality: moody, boring, evil.
Three best-loved collections I have: my complete Beatles albums, Superman stuff, my old cassette tapes.
Three of my absolute favourite foods: sashimi, potato salad, eggplant for viand.
Three things I’d like to learn: speak French, direct a movie, to mummify.
Three movies that made my tears fall: Schindler's List, Alive, The Cure
Three movies that scared me: The Eye, Sixth Sense, Amityville

Three words why I wrote this: I am bored!

It is I... Dark Lord

Welcome to the wrath of the Obertians! The time is near. We will now dominate the earth and annihilate all humankind. We will propagate pestilence. Plagues will be everywhere. Prepare to meet thy doom. No more riches but widespread agony. No more happiness but neverending misery. No more love but abhorrence. And I... will be king! Life will now be ephemeral since I will soon be the epitome of boundless existence. Come now on your knees and plead to suffer the eternal melancholy. I am your messiah! Bwahahaha (echoing uncle Scar's devilish laugh while Jeremy Irons' fatal glare backdrops the scene)!!!

Scary, huh. Not really much a blasphemy nor being agnostic but this is only what I get from reading Dan Brown and Jessica Zafra's books plus watching the only movies that pull me up to enter the moviehouses which should have the following requirements: (1) serial killers, (2) bloody killings, (3) good against evil battle, (4) adrenalin-stirring chase of ghouls to its prey and (5) Kris Aquino crying in the scene with fake tears falling from the lateral side of the face to break up the monotony so I can die laughing.

This is only what my new blogskin suggests. If the picture speaks, this is what it says. My blog is now dressed-up with a newly-edited fresh-from-the-oven skin which depicts more of my personality than the previous one which used to have a freaking connotation of a boy-next-door type of an owner. So coquettish. Ugh! This, I believe is the more apt description of me being an evil wolf inside a sheepskin. Thanks to my Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft FrontPage (all pirated worth P40 each) alongside Eddie Vedder's howling voice while singing "Last Kiss" as I was conceptualizing my new skin. Ironically, Nina's "I Don't Wanna be Your Friend" also contributed inspiration why I came up with such design, hahaha.

Obertianism is flourishing again after ages of hibernation. Kudos!

November Born Personality

I received this personality description of November born like me from email (thru my friend San), and I was quite appalled and mesmerized for exactly 0.56 microsecond that everything is true although one is actually a big LIE. I'm not romantic. I wish I am but I hardly can. Anyhow, read on if you want to know me further and this is perfectly me!

NOVEMBER:
Has a lot of ideas.
Difficult to fathom.Thinks forward.
Unique and brilliant. Extraordinary ideas.
Sharp thinking.
Fine and strong clairvoyance.
Can become good doctors.
Dynamic in personality.
Secretive.
Inquisitive.
Knows how to dig secrets.
Always thinking.
Less talkative but amiable.
Brave and generous.
Patient.
Stubborn and hard-hearted.
If there is a will, there is a way.
Determined. Never give up.
Hardly becomes angry unless provoked.
Loves to be alone.
Thinks differently from others.
Sharp-minded.
Motivates oneself.
Does not appreciates praises.
High-spirited.
Well-built and tough.
Deep love and emotions.
Romantic.
Uncertain in relationships.
Homely.
Hardworking.
High abilities.
Trustworthy.
Honest and keeps secrets.
Not able to control emotions.
Unpredictable.

I wonder why it didn't show here that I am friendly and an extrovert. Am I not? :o)

Breaking Me In Two

God, it's 4:09am and I am still awake. This is the adverse effect of working in a graveyard shift. I looked for things to keep myself busy but all I can do is to sit here in front of my PC and scribble thoughts to written words. I can't sleep and I won't sleep, either. Why? My heart is breaking me up in two. At this point in time that I am writing this, my friends are enjoying the night (with the fruit of the pay day, of course) chanting along with the reggae beat in Timog Ave, where I am supposed to be with. I now visualize Melch and Francis tossing up cider drinks while boy-hopping along the bar with guys wearing shirt printed with cannavis sativa on it. And Macy, oh I hear her now yakking "No Woman, No Cry" in a Bjork's singing voice, hehehe. Kay is silently pulling down the pants of a guy in the corner while smoking pot... in her thoughts :o). And Neil, oh the Neil who is every woman's dream to wed and bed is now cracking up a new Jologs quiz: "What is the name of Juan Rodrigo's character in Mara Clara?" to a newfound girl in the dark corner of the bar. Girl slaps her, oh yeah... in the butt! I wonder if Mark Lester is also with them. Above all, I've been thinking of them the whole night. It must really be fun. And I'm not there, huhuhu. How I'd wish I can suddenly pop-off here thru a warp zone and join the fun. I miss these guys since I was already transferred to graveyard.


Where am I right now? I am in the middle of my pitch-black room as only my monitor lits up the dark while lying in my bed is my girlfriend hybernating. Of course, I am more than glad to be with her for the night. With pride to see her carry our child in her womb (I can't do that, dummy). But what breaks my heart in two is to think that my friends are all there enjoying the night and I am here in the dark clicking my keyboard while sipping tap water.


I'd better go to sleep now.