Pet Peeves

Off the top of my head... (Okay, so I'm adding to this list like there's no tomorrow.) Can I help it if I don't like a lot of things? Maarte ako eh. =p

(1) crumbs on anything

(2) lint on dark-colored clothes

(3) dust on anything

(4) dog-eared pages (there's a reason bookmarks were invented.)

(5) icon-laden computer screens (i sincerely doubt if the hundred or so word files saved on your desktop make life any easier.)

(6) slooooooooow computers (keep multiple operations running simultaneously)

(7) shower drain hairballs (and all other kinds)

(8) direct sunlight (i get sunburned easily.)

(9) people who smell like old bills a.k.a. mga amoy lumang pera (it's not a crime to bathe and change your clothes, you know.)

(10) phones that ring forever

(11) government employees who refuse to respond to queries by phone (or who make queries by phone essentially impossible)

(12) oily faces

(13) almost empty pens, water bottles, etc.

(14) greasy (and/or cold) food

(15) white clothes that aren't laundry-detergent-tv-commercial-worthy-white

(16) clothes that bite

(17) EDSA-plying buses (kadiri talaga.)

(18) dried out formerly soaked paper (they're never the same.)

(19) frizzy hair

(20) animal poop on sidewalks

(21) icky billboards

(22) ads that don't make any sense

(23) getting stuck in traffic jams

(24) broken airconditioning

(25) slow elevators

(26) "scented" candles that smell like hell on earth or don't smell like anything at all

(27) getting any of the ff. as gifts: photo albums, mugs (except last christmas, when I actually needed them for use at the office), figurines, picture frames, clothes i will never wear, bags i will never use, food i will never eat, etc.

(28) tinga

(29) gelatinous cheesecake

(30) bland food

(31) deplorable service at service-oriented establishments (LESLIE'S I TAGAYTAY!!!)

(32) vendors who all but take the money out of my wallet to make me buy what they're selling (e.g. religious item vendors outside the Manaoag church who pin stuff to your shirt and then ask you to pay. duh!)

(33) pretentious people

(34) bad grammar (particularly wrong prepositions, subject-verb agreement, and use of pronouns)

(35) foreigners and their streetwalker chimiaa-looking almost-naked female (or pretending to be female) companions

(36) sticky restaurant tables (there's a reason why they call the process "clearing" and "cleaning" the table.)

(37) steel utensils with soap or watermarks, or worse, particles of food still stuck between them (that's just gross.)

(38) tangled tassles

(39) flickering busted lighbulbs

(40) dripping faucets (especially when i'm trying to sleep)

(41) printers that chomp up my bond paper

(42) rap songs (especially those in tagalog) with surprise female vocals interspersed somewhere in between stanzas

(43) kids singing songs about sex and other things (it's bad that they don't know what they're singing about. it's even worse if they do.)

(44) kids dressed like hookers. parents should dress their kids like kids.

(45) people who go to church (or anywhere) to see and be seen. (i particularly hate it when people go to church to chat. duh!)

(46) homilies reminiscent of padre damaso (there was this notably bad one at a mass i attended last year in laguna where the homilist basically said we're all going to hell.)

(47) mang jerry-shrunken clothes (he's very adept at shrinking clothes.)

(48) escalators that don't work (sana stairs na lang nilagay nila para hindi nako umasa. =p)

(49) that deceiving buendia flyover

(50) people who use roads as their personal basketball court/living room/funeral parlor/party venues/sidewalks

(51) super-swerving vehicles

(52) people who cross C5 or EDSA or any road, at points where they're not supposed to cross (kaya nga may overpasses and pedestrian lanes eh. tapos magrereklamo pag nasagasaan. again, duh!)

(53) the aisle seats of EDSA-plying buses (i swear, kalahati na lang ng pwet mo makakaupo.)

(54) people who have no concept of personal space

(55) uneven sidewalks

(56) the following words (or more appropriately, non-words) that a lot of people use: furnitures, evidences, fishes, medicines, etc.

(57) people who have never lived (or have never been to the u.s.) and intentionally acquire a california accent (if you lived there, sure, it would be inevitable. but come on! what did you do, closely study cher's (from clueless) or marissa cooper's (from the o.c.) speech patterns?)

(58) animal prints

(59) chipped nail polish

(60) the color mustard

(61) cafe food. (is there a standard for cafe food, which if surpassed, results in the declassification as cafe food? tsk tsk...)

(62) non-fat milk (it tastes like crap.)

(63) unsalted butter (it doesn't taste like anything.)

(64) Satya's vegetarian chicharon (whatever it's made of, it tastes like deep-fried yellow pad.)

(65) (that purple vegetarian place at the corner near law school)'s vegetarian shawarma ---what's the point of eating shawarma if it doesn't contain any meat?

(66) humidity

(67) walking outside when it's raining, or after it rains. kadiri eh.

(68) FROGS. why they exist, i have no idea. couldn't they be prettier, less slimy and less horrifyingly gross? couldn't the food chain substitute some other creature for this despicable animal?

(69) The X Files. good lord. how many conspiracy theories can they come up with?!! exaj. there may or may not be other living creatures in the universe, but could you PLEEEEASE not make david duchovny sound so stupid?

(70) jojo alejar's late night show on QTV 11. so obviously a pathetic conan rip-off, floppy hair, antics and all. only with horrible lighting and an even more horrible script.

(71) master showman walang tulugan. i pray to god every week that a certain person would forget that this show so i can fall asleep on saturday nights without having to listen to it in the background.

(72) that stuff left when one uses an eraser. there's a word for that, i just can't remember what it is...

(73) arugula, asparagus, ampalaya, papaya, chico, macopa, atis seeds, tulingan, anything paksiw, fish bones and ginger (blech.)

(74) the sound of jackhammers

(75) noisy keyboards

(76) smoke belchers

(77) miley cyrus/hannah montana (why is she so popular?)

(78) dr. phil

(79) self-help books

(80) proof-reading stuff I've written

(81) the distinct smell that sticks to clothes at places like gerry's, a veneto, etc.

(82) the smell of the CLTPSJ lounge/cafe

(83) the smell of Drakkar and other Saudi-ish perfume

(84) the musty smell of the malcolm theatre (well, before it was renovated... it probably smells infinitely better now.) and other musty scents

(85) dysmenorrhea

(86) commuting

(87) waiting to be served

(88) queso de bola

(89) doing my laundry

(90) doing the dishes

(91) one-ply tissue paper

(92) the smell of mediterranean sea salt