Serpent in the Night

Do you have any idea how it's like to try to go back to sleep at 3-ish in the morning with a severe migraine attack crushing your senses and making you vomit until you feel numb from the pain?

If you do, I love you. We should totally sleep together.

2 a.m.

I've been home for three nights now, and it's freaking me out to find myself being roused from my sleep at exactly 2:00 a.m. The first two nights it happened, I thought it was just a coincidence staged by my unwilling subconscious, whose bedtime back in Los Baños is always at 2am - so I don't think she enjoys very much being at rest at an earlier time. But last night, it happened again.

I keep complaining about it to everyone in the house, but they all seem to think I'm just still adjusting to being home. I can't quite explain to them the terror I feel when I look at my cell phone clock and see the numbers 2:00 imprinted on the screen for three nights in a row now.

Call me crazy, but I feel like God wants me to do something. I just don't know what it is. And worse, I don't know if it's really God waking me up - or something else.

"Are you there, God?" 

F.A.D.

The following statements are excerpts from an article entitled "Are You a Facebook Addict?" from ABS-CBN, published on October 20, 2009:

Facebook users beware. Psychologists are now probing a new kind of addiction called Facebook Addiction Disorder (FAD).

Psychologist Dr. Michael Fenichel, who has published numerous writings on FAD online, describes it as a situation in which Facebook usage "overtakes" daily activities like waking up, getting dressed, using the telephone, or checking e-mail.

"The amazing thing is that, like cellphones, nobody seems to notice the vast amount of time and energy - at work, at home, and now while on the move - people are devoting to Facebook. It has become a given," Fenichel writes in an online post titled "Facebook Addiction Disorder- A New Challenge?"

According to Joanna Lipari, a clinical psychologist at the University of California, Los Angeles who was interviewed for a CNN report, here are some signs that you are addicted to Facebook:

1. You lose sleep over Facebook. When using Facebook becomes a compulsion and you spend entire nights logged on to the site, causing you to become tired the next day.

2. You spend more than an hour a day on Facebook. Lipari said it is difficult to define how much is too much when it comes to Facebook usage, but that an average person need only spend half an hour on the site.

3. You become obsessed with old loves or exes you reconnect with on Facebook.

4. You ignore work in favor of Facebook. This means you do not do your job in order to sneak time on Facebook.

5. The thought of getting off Facebook leaves you in cold sweat. If you try going a day without Facebook and it causes you stress and anxiety, this means you need help.

According to the same report by Elizabeth Cohen, Senior CNN Medical Correspondent, Facebook addiction is not yet an actual medical diagnosis.

However, the report notes that several therapists in the United States have noticed a rise in the number of clients who get hooked on social networking, to the point of social dysfunction.

Click here to view and read the full article.

Impulse

Something inside me wants to get out and explode into a million tiny pieces.
But exactly what it is, I have yet to know. And explore.

Random Seven (1)

I've always been fond of making lists on my blogs 'cause they're so easy and fun to make. This entry is the first of many succeeding lists of seven random things about me. I picked seven as my base number 'cause it's my favorite. :) Here goes!

1. My eyes well up with tears uncontrollably whenever I have a good, hard laugh. I'm currently learning how to control it because it ruins my makeup and gets me so red in the face.

2. Like any girl, I crave for the most ridiculous kinds of food during PMS. Tonight, for example, I'm thinking about that "mami man" stall along the corner of F.O. Santos - one of the most radical streets in Los Baños - and how I would give anything to have a bowl of those steaming hot noodles mixed with tanglad (lemon grass), garlic, pepper, and egg. Heaven forbid.

Image by cooljoy from Flickr

3. I like to clean my room at 2-ish in the morning, which is my peak hour: I can do almost everything I have to do after midnight. I especially like to clean during these hours when I have a fever.

4. When the right time comes, I'd like to get a tattoo around my right ankle.

5. I can't drive around by myself because I tend to lose control of the steering wheel in my attempt to perfect my rhythm and balance between the clutch and the accelerator.

6. I have bad dreams when I go to sleep at night without saying a quick prayer or making the sign of the cross.

7. I suffer from migraines everyday of my life. (This one shouldn't be new to everyone who knows me.)

There goes the first list. Watch out for more posts featuring seven random things about me. Now, 'cause that picture is getting me so hot, I think I'mma go fix myself a bowl of soft, yummy noodles from Lucky Me! :) (Damn you, hormones!)

The Clash of the Browsers

I have a problem, and I need help.

See, I currently have three Internet browsers installed in my system, and I don't know how to manage them: I have no idea which of them to set as default, and which should be tossed aside ('cause I have to delete one lest I want my system to crash - it's a complicated situation, let's just leave it at that).

(Click photo to enlarge)

I like Opera because of its functionality. I don't like it because it takes a while for some sites to load.
I like Mozilla Firefox because of its loading speed. I don't like it because it crashes unexpectedly, and it doesn't have a speed dial.
I like Google Chrome because of its simplicity. I don't like it because it sucks at composing e-mails. (Segway: how cute is my Mariah theme??!)

I feel like I have three different bars of chocolates, and I don't know which of them I should eat first. Help?

Scrumptious

Today, I had lunch at exactly 12 noon for the first time in weeks. (Yes, you may smack me on the head.) I blame it partially on that burning piece of hell they like to call an exam, which got me so depressed, I actually finished my meal in less than 10 minutes. But that part I blame on something else: Ate Aileen's incredibly heavenly beef caldereta. :)

It was one of the special times when I really got to enjoy eating. Don't get me wrong - I'm a total pig when it comes to food, but lately I've been battling with a rare kind of eating disorder (so rare, they don't even have a name for it), that it's become a daily struggle for me to get up and digest anything. (Why Lord, why?) So here I am, blogging about that extra special ten-minute meal I had with that delicious extra spicy beef caldereta. :)

Heniway, I forgot to take a picture of it 'cause I was busy stuffing my face with every morsel, but the picture above (from cafenilson.com) pretty much paints it. :)




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Catch Me If You Can

Hey! So I'm back to blogging again - sorta. I've been crazy busy with all my other social networks, that I totally forgot about this one. Oopsies.

I call this blog "Fever" because everything in here is hot off the press - straight from my bare hands. (I know, right?)

Heniway, I'm already on Multiply, Twitter, Facebook, and et cetera, but I really plan to maintain my spot here. I don't have much time right now though (yet again), but I'm currently working on some write-ups, which I'll be posting once I weed them out. Or whatever.

So there. I guess I'll just post my crap some other time. Just catch me if you can. :)