On my phones: Folie a Deux

I finally have a copy of Fall Out Boy's latest album! I'm so happy! Thanks for the gift, Ate Lea!

There are thirteen new F.O.B. songs on this album, five bonus tracks, and a downloadable bonus song with the use of the CD online. It also comes with a poster and a pin. Sweetness. Too bad it didn't have a lyrics sheet.

Unfortunately, I'm having problems getting the bonus song online so I haven't got the chance to listen to it yet. But it's not a problem at all considering the other eighteen tracks on the album. I've only played through the album three times and I still haven't familiarized myself to all of the songs and so far, these are the ones that I like:

Disloyal Order Of Water Buffaloes
I Don't Care [We already heard this one]
America's Suitehearts
Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet
The (Shipped) Gold Standard
What A Catch, Donnie [My favorite song on this album. Check my previous post]
20 Dollar Nose Bleed [Also my favorite]

It's pure F.O.B. goodness. However, I loved more songs on their previous album [Infinity on High] and I like that one over this. If you like their music and still haven't got any of their albums, I suggest that you buy Infinity on High first, but Folie a Deux doesn't disappoint. Happy Holidays!

Edit: I'll add "Tiffany Blews" as one of my favorites.

The song for Fall Out Boy fans: What A Catch, Donnie

It may not look like it but I'm a big fan of Fall Out Boy. Their new album, titled "Folie A Deux," was just released last December 16. I still can't find a copy here in the Philippines so I listened to their new songs online. I ended up finding this.



It's one of their slower songs like "I'm like a Lawyer With the Way I'm Always Trying To Get You Off," and I instantly liked it. Then towards the end of the song, surprise, surprise! I heard this: "Where is your boy tonight I hope he is a gentleman." Wow. It turns out that they included lines from their previous singles into the song. Each were sung by different guest artist. Here they are:

3:00 Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet* Elvis Costello
3:45 Grand Theft Autumn Gabe Saporta
3:52 Sugar, We're Going Down Travis McCoy
4:00 Dance, Dance Brendon Urie
4:07 This Ain't A Scene, It's an Arms Race Doug Neuman
4:14 Thnks Fr Th Mmrs Alex Deleon
4:21 Growing Up William Beckett

*Their second single from the same album.

I know. They're all short. But they all make the already beautiful song a whole lot better. One more reason for me to love Fall Out Boy.

The term ends

I guess this is the end for my MANCOMM reports. [Haha! Kala mo naman napakarami nun. Ü] I'm kinda satisfied on how this blog turned out so I won't end it here. I still have a few stuff inside my head to blog about, but I don't think that I can blog very often from now on. We'll see. Depende na lang kung ganahan ako talaga. Besides, I don't have much to blog about. My social life is not as broad and exciting as most bloggers out here. But I guess that's what makes this one different.

To Ms. Aileen Apolo, I'm really happy to be part of your first class ever and I really appreciate that you forced us to do blogs. I know I'm a newbie and giving positive feedback is a big thing coming from what I've heard to be one of the best known bloggers in the Philippines. I hope you continue teaching as I try to continue blogging. [Okaayyy... Masyadong sipsip ang dating so I'll stop here. Ü]

Thanks for the 2.5

MANACOM Report 4: Doublemint mints

I'm sure that you've seen this by now. Wrigley's Doublemint, one of the best known chewing gum in the Philippines, is now selling mints. Yep. Sugarfree mints in fact. But why though? Chewing gums are proven to be very beneficial. It controls craving, releaves stress, improves oral health, and makes you stay focused. I doubt that mints can do better. Maybe a lot of people just like mints. I do.

But why release it in the Philippines? It cost a whopping 79.50 pesos on the supermarket, and as much as 85 freaking pesos on other stores. People can buy doublemint gums anytime anywhere for a peso each.

Maybe it's a sort of social responsibility thing of Wrigley's. People just doesn't want to throw their trash properly [despite the reminders on every single wrigley gum wrapper]. Gum wrappers are everywhere and chewed gums under everything. There are no wrappers to throw when you have a recyclable container. Recyclable how? I can't think of anything to place it with and we ended up having six of them lying around my sister's bookshelves.

Yep. Six. We just like the stuff. Three Eclipse mints and two Extra mints from our trip to Hong Kong and Macau, and the Doublemint mints that I just bought recently. What's the difference between the three? Extra is very, very, very strong. Akala ko habambuhay ako maglalaway sa sobrang anghang. Between Eclipse and Doublemint, not a thing. They're the same mints, same flavors [Peppermint and Winterfrost. Who comes up with a flavor named winterfrost?! HELLO?!] in different containers.

What else can I say? The chewing gum is the more practical choice, but like I said, we just like the mints. I have always preferred chewing Orbit gum (another one of Wrigley's) over other gums, candies, and stuff. Maybe I'll just try the winterfrost flavor of doublemint before switching back. As much as I love the mints, they're just too much pricey for me.

Mas beneficial, mas mura, at mas matagal maubos ang chewing gum.
Mas masarap nga lang yung mints. Hay buhay.