On "Me" day, South Beach Diet and Pirated DVDs

So much has happened today! And here’s my attempt to put together a hodge-podge of todays thoughts and events. Gym- at exactly 9am I was at Fitness First. 45 minutes on the Step machine and joined the Body Jam class. By 11, I was done. Sweating like a pig, but felt thin. Hee… Foot Spa – Footloose was still closed when I passed by so I opted to go to Definition Salon, which was just beside our place. Felt weird being foot scrubbed buy a guy though. Nonetheless, I buried my head in lots and lots of issues of STAR magazines (the U.S. version. Is there any other kind?) Facial – I was early for my 6pm appointment at BELO Med. It was alright. As long as there are magazines, I don’t mind the wait. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My hana picked me up and we headed straight to National Bookstore at the Shangri-la Mall. We bought The South Beach Diet Cookbook. Yeah, upon seeing his now slim nephew last night, who was having South Beach Diet food delivered to him for 2 weeks now, we decided to give it a try. It’s not really to lose weight, (well, maybe for my hana but not for me) it was more of us wanting to eat the right kind of food. It says that we should avoid anything with sugar. Oh God, help us! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I remember my friend telling me last week, that for the nth time, another one of her DVDs choked on her. It was pirated, of course. It just stopped playing before the start of the final chapter. She went crazy trying out some techniques that pirated DVD buyers seem to know of. But it was all ineffective. I would probably kill if I was left hanging like that. I learned that this often happened to pirated DVDs. So I'm thinking, “then why the heck buy pirated”? Ok fine, so it’s way much cheaper than the original ones but I don’t mind paying that extra amount for quality. Example: Today we went to Tower Records and bought an original 895 peso copy of The Last Samurai. I'm pretty sure I won't be experiencing low sound quality, jumping and skipping or any of those problems found on DVDs made in violation of copyright. Ok maybe not so many peeps share the same opinion. Actually, I can only think of less than 5 people that vehemently resist purchasing pirated stuff. (Hmm..that would be me, my hana, Bong Revilla and Edu Manzano) But really now, think about it. It’s stealing! Did you know that before the latest album of U2 came out, it was already available for download online? So sad, isn’t it? Oh well, enough of this self-righteous fit from me. Hope I didn’t upset anyone. Just wanted to share my take on piracy. But then again, I can say whatever I want coz this is my blog you know. Hehe! In relation to this, let me tell you this funny story shared to me by one of my co-dancers that bumped into Edu Manzano in Greenhills. After the hi’s and how are you’s, Edu jokingly said, “O, anong ginagawa mo dito? Bibili ka ng pirated noh?!”