In the Philippines, a lot of people do not know if they are depressed or not. You just find out right after you die or when something really bad happens and then you finally get yourself checked out to see if there is something wrong with you.

I did some reading about it, and well, some of the symptoms say that I might have some mild depression. Thing is, I don’t have enough resources to get myself checked out, which is why a lot of people are so unaware of actually having it themselves. Because a lot of people can’t afford it, they risk themselves.

The Supreme Court as released the final results to the 2007 Philippine Bar Examinations. Below are the listed Top 10 Bar Passers:

Wow, very close scores! Congratulations again, new lawyers! Click for the list of the bar passers.

On my last American Idol entry, I suggested that it’s either Chikezie or Ramiele Malubay going. I was only half right. Only Chikezie made the Bottom 3.

Next to get called on is Brooke White. She can’t go in the Bottom 3, so she’s safe. Carly Smithson is up, she’s also safe. David Archuleta is also safe, but I’m starting to think that he’s getting less and less versatile. Seems that ballads suit him more than anything, but you can’t just do ballads all the time.

Looking at this year’s contestants, I’d say that they are pretty young, even Michael Johns, who’s almost 30 (or is he 30 yet?) looks young. So tonight was 80’s night and the Idol finalists are all competing to be the next American Idol and don’t have to worry about getting to go to the Tour anymore.

First was Filipino-American Ramiele Malubay with “Alone“. Such a tiny little girl with a big voice. To be honest, She’s starting to bore me. But if I were in the U.S., I’d probably be voting for her. Filipinos are like that.

Jason Castro sang with his guitar again tonight with “Fragile“. Ok, so I haven’t been watching AI as much as I used to last season, but I finally noticed the John Travolta likeness. I do not even know what to say about him right now.

When I’m not doing anything in particular and we’re both online, I’d ask him if I could see him. He was never hesitant to show himself. I would then poke fun at how he looked. If it were anybody else, I would be all nice and say that he or she’s good-looking.

For almost two years now, I am still smitten by this man. When it’s before my bedtime here and during his days off from work, I would ask him to turn his cam on and tell him to open his eyes more, since he has such small eyes that they look closed almost all the time. And when he would, I would see if they would change colors with the light. He has very green eyes that even the crappy quality of his cam can’t hide and they are so bright that you wouldn’t be able to ignore them even if you wanted to.

This week’s elimination round will determine who will get to join the American Idols Tour. That must suck big time for this week’s “loser”. Let’s start the recap.

In the future shows, the Idol contestants will have mentors to help them with the competition and they will be Dolly Parton, Mariah Carrey, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Neil Diamond. The songwriting contest has also been announced. So whoever’s got skills in songwriting better step up, because your song might be the next American Idol single.

It’s American Idol day again. Performance nights are Tuesdays in the US and Wednesdays in the Philippines, but well, I got friends in the US that like to update me and also like to spoil stuff for me, so I might as well blog about it and tell everyone. The Idols sang Lennon-McCartney songs again, and some did well, and some didn’t do too well.

Rocker nurse Amanda Overmyer went first and sang “Back in the U.S.S.R.”. It’s either I was too young or wasn’t born yet when this song was written. Umm, a little scared for the nurse. Too much talent on this show.

A few days later, Online Buddy asked me to be his girlfriend. There was this couldn’t-help-but-smile moment. And I said yes. I figured he couldn’t do anything to hurt me since he was overseas.

Still hung up on the ex, I focused all my energy into forgetting the ex and drowning myself with Online Buddy’s attention. I’d ask him if he could stay until I fall asleep, so I won’t have time in between being asleep and awake to think of ex. He worked during the night, so we basically had the same bedtime. He’s about 12 hours behind.