Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the Lord my soul to keep
And if I die before I wake
Then an angel he should take
A Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows book
For me to read in some heavenly nook

And there goes an attempt at poetry with a revised old English prayer

Hopefully, there’s no need for the prayer to take effect, but I want to clarify my expectations just in case I meet an untimely demise before I get to read the last installment of the Harry Potter series.

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Unmistakably, the look of the site has changed. I would love to say that it’s because I’m celebrating the second year anniversary of TheBachelorGirl, however, it isn’t so.

An upgrade necessitated the theme change.

Thus, before the original design disappeared into cyber oblivion forever, I thought that I might as well try to document its existence.

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The Harry Potter Phenomenon Oddly enough, I started TheBachelorGirl.com with roughly the same circumstances as this present period, i.e., Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince was going to be released so Harry Potter fever was in the air.

So the first couple of posts on 11 July 2005 were about Harry Potter — the Harry Potter Trivia Contest and Reserve Harry Potter 6 at Powerbooks

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Angel Locsin was humbly apologetic for making us wait until the end of the Asian Treasures taping day before we were finally allowed into her dressing room to shoot the acceptance speeches for her Pinoy Wannabe nomination and win (which we did with John Lloyd Cruz and Christian Bautista as well).

Angel Locsin impressed me with her improvisational skills as we went thru the extra sequence wherein she has to encourage young superhero wannabe Alexa Catral via video.

Angel Locsin had to pretend that she was actually looking at Alexa when in reality she was looking at my moving hand, while improvising lines at the same time.

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John Lloyd Cruz at the ABS-CBN Ms. Earth Philippines Pageant I was able to give a fan letter to John Lloyd Cruz through my sister who was part of the ABS-CBN Ms. Earth Philippines Pageant last 29 April 2007. John Lloyd hosted the event together with Piolo Pascual.

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Gatecrashers. Yup, that’s what I and my friend were essentially during The 2007 Philippine Blog Awards.

Totally wrapped up in directing the Learn and Play with Barney SM Supermalls shows for the past three weeks, I had marked the event on my calendar, but there was a Barney show scheduled on 31 March 2007, the same day as The 2007 Philippine Blog Awards, so I wasn’t sure if I could make it.

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The concept of The Harry Potter Book 7 Translator was born after reading the Guardian article about translators.

All the actors agreed to work for free, as well as the production assistants. Nevertheless, costs still managed to climb to $350 to cover the technical and production requirements to make this short video.

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