...drama, comedy, and stuff: it's great to blog again...

i always check out my Y!mail in the office looking to check out new updates on my multiply account. it's partially blocked in the office, so i can't comment but i can view people's profiles and updates... i can't blog in the office because weirdly, they're giving me tons of work... from useless, clerical work, to tiring, but enjoyable, purchasing work, to mind-draining research work... going home, i either go home late because of "quality time" with che, or i hog the TV to watch How I Met Your Mother.

and today, i have nothing better to do, since i don't have the third season of How I Met Your Mother yet, and che and i decided not to see each other today... hence, i blog about what i missed out blogging...


POLITICS

The Euro and the "Lone" Soldier Responsible


Watched the news earlier, and saw that Gen. Dela Paz admitted sole responsibility at the Euro-fiasco. It's a big amount of money, and I don't really think he'd be solely responsible for it... I mean, how the hell did he think he was going to get away with it in the first place without public scrutiny? Now, he expects people to believe that he did it all by himself? heh.. First you "assume" that the public is stupid not to scrutinize you shipping the money out/in, then you "assume" now that the public will believe that it was a selfish act? Please. I haven't really followed this too much, but I get to read some articles about it... The "watch" angle is actually somewhat believeable, but c'mon... If he had money to buy that expensive of a watch, don't you think he has the money to actually pay to travel that far to buy the watch himself? He says he does not benefit from his friendship with Dela Paz, but do you not call him asking his friend, who is using gov't funds to pay for his travel expenses, to buy him an expensive watch "benefitting"? To say that he asked his friend to buy it for him "para makatipid sa pamasahe ng pagpunta dun" is hypocricy. If you're a watch collector, your watches must be some sort of proof that you've been to a particular place, not some expensive piece of item you asked a friend of yours to buy.



The Joc's on You


3 years of waiting for the guy who supposedly must know something that could topple GMA's regime, and all we get is a guy who can't seem to emphasize too much that he has a heart condition. Everytime the camera pans on to him, he holds on to his chest like it was leaving or something. About a week before Joc-Joc arrived, Uncle Jun told me (us: my parents, and Tita Violet over dinner) that he wanted to have a chance to talk to Joc-Joc about laying it all out there... A couple of days before he arrived, an officemate of mine printed out a copy of what it said was an "open letter to Joc-Joc" and set it on my desk... I read it, and from the looks of it, it's legit, and it's an actual letter of Uncle Jun to Joc-Joc... Haven't got the chance to post it still though, I don't have a soft copy, and I don't get the chance to use my computer as much for "personal" typing stuff...

Anyway, I thought he'd be man enough to speak up about what happened about the fertilizer scam, but still, he stands his ground in saying everything was legit. No fingers pointed at the obvious. Bullshit. So, what, he leaves for 3 years to get an acting workshop to sell his heart ailment (ok, fine, he might have a legitimate heart ailment... but selling it over and over? please) and to refine his "calm under pressure" attitude?

As I see it, him coming out tries to prove two things:

1. GMA had nothing to do with the fertilizer scam.

2. You can lie under oath and stay calm about it. This is an attack on Uncle Jun's testimony, with Joc-Joc cracking some jokes here and there as Uncle Jun did before...

I just wish he won't take whatever he has in that freaky white head of his to his grave...



Political Positioning and the Senate Presidency

This is new. Manny Villar resigned as the Senate President. He mentioned in GMA-7's interview with him that 5 presidential aspirants voted him out as senate president. Of the 5, Sen. Ping is included. Sen. Ping whom my dad has supported right from the start. I don't know what they would get out of this. Burning Manny's rep won't earn them votes, talking about Ping and Loren... As it seems, I wouldn't want to vote for either...Why the heck can't they all just get along and set aside political differences to focus on what is at hand? Now, they expect a better performing senate inquiry on 2 cases (Fertilizer and Euro Scam) under the "experienced" Juan Ponce Enrile? Wow. What an improvement indeed.

Approaching 2009, new justices will be appointed, Senate is headed (probably temporarily) by JPE, and the Speaker of the House is another ass-kissing Representative in Nograles. I have no doubt in my mind now that GMA WILL finish her term, and I'm starting to doubt if there will ever be a 2010 election... With the way we're being manipulated now, it seems "tuloy tuloy ang asenso ng bansa, at patuloy pa nating mararamdaman ang asenso!"

Happy, happy, joy, joy...



DRAMA


Why Do You Love?

It's hard to define, loving someone. You do things for him/her you'd do with other friends, you'd say things you'd say to other friends, but nothing beats just being yourself when you're with someone... With friends, you conform, to some extent, to what is in front of you... You laugh with them, have fun with them, talk to them, but it's not easy for you to open up to them for some reason. With a person you love, you just lay it all out... You can be mushy, stupid, witty, smart, and disgusting (its not cute if you get farted on the face... kaya babawi ka sa pamamagitan ng matinding bombang makakapatay ng 2 lamok at 1 bangaw) all at the same time...

Of course, stuff you do may not necessarily mean that you can't experience it with other people. So what difference does the person you love have from your close friends?


Frankly I don't know. If I spent almost 4 years with someone else, I probably would treat her the same way I do Che... She probably would too... But reality is that that "someone" we decided to spend those 4 years on was each other. And us staying together may be because we're too comfortable with each other already, or that we're secured with each other already, but it may also be because we genuinely love each other or we feel that much comfort at the company of the other...

She's not perfect, and she sees flaws in me too. We don't agree on all things (eh ano ngayon kung masarap ketchup ng fastfood?:p), we don't always like the same stuff (koreanovela vs american series), and we don't enjoy the same things (drinking out with friends vs malling/window shopping. ok, I may enjoy the latter at times. But sometimes you wanna see stuff for you din, tulad ng toys and gadgets), but what's important is that we spend that time with each other. And at least we see both sides of things... We have better perspective in life because she doesn't always agree with me and vice versa...

Cliche and mushy as it may seem, I think she completes me... My friends are always there to satisfy pieces of me, but what puts it all together is her...

So I guess that's why I think she is an important piece of my life. There are frustrations, but at the end of the day, those are frustrations I'd rather live with than without...



Risking and Burning

A quote from the series I'm watching:

"ok, yes, it's a mistake, but there are certain things in life where you know it's a mistake, but you don't really know it's a mistake, because the only way to really know it's a mistake is to make the mistake and look back and say 'yup, that was a mistake'... so really, the bigger mistake would be not to make the mistake because then you'd go your whole life not knowing if something's a mistake or not"

You gotta make mistakes. It's part of life. You get burned once or twice, or maybe even always, but you don't get to the other side of the cliff if you keep thinking you're not gonna make it on the other side. You just got to do what you got to do. Don't live with the constant fear of burning if you take the risk because you'll never know if you'll actually get burned. You gotta give yourself a chance...

So *insert name here dahil alam mo naman kun sino ka pero kung ndi man ikaw at tinamaan ka eh mabuti na rin at baka makatulong pa seio ito (but i'm curious. itext mo nga ako kun feeling mo ikaw... haha... sasabihin ko seio kung para kanino talaga to.)* we gotta take our chance. Sabi nga ni Imon na sabi daw ni Larry Bird (pota todo quote ah) "just roll the dice"... We will get burned, but we'll never know if we don't go through the flame.=)




RANDOM NOTHINGS


Public Hospitals = Easiest Way to Die

Sinamahan ko si Che sa hospital, sinamahan namin girlfriend ng kuya nya. Wala naman kaming mga pera, so mejo takot kami sa private hospitals na baka holdap abutin namin sa singilan. Pumunta kami sa Pasig General Hospital.

Sa ER:
(3 nurse nagkukwentuhan)
Che: uh, excuse me po...
Nurse: (in the coldest possible voice) Anong problema mo?
Che: (says issue, ndi ko narinig, malayo ako)
Nurse: ah, dun yan sa taas. Labas ka lang tapos punta ka sa mei tapat ng elevator sa 2nd floor.

Sa Lab:
(Mei pinadala sa min papunta sa lab na maliit na papel. Walang tao na makakausap. Mei isa pang manang na mei hawak na test tube na tila puno ng dugo. Pinauna na namin xa. Nun kami na:)
Che: pinadala po sa min to galing sa taas...
Person: (looks at it) teka lang ah (approaches computer) ikaw ba pasyente?
Che: ndi po. nasa taas po xa.
Person: ah... ndi pa kasi pumapasok sa computer un info nya eh...
Che: ah ok. so, pde na po ba namin iwan?
Person: Hintyin nyo na lang..
(after 1 hour or so)
Person: (naka-casual na) una na ko ah (kasuap mga tao sa loob) <casual na tingin sa min, sabay alis>
Che and me: watdahel?

Truth be told, I'm actually amazed that the public hospital isn't technologically outdated... Interconnected mga computer nila so input data sa isang room, mei data makukuha si lab and they could work from there. Ang kaso, ang mga kapansin pansin lang dun ay:

1. Bawal ngumiti kun empleyado ka ng ospital.

2. Lahat ng tao ay dapat tratuhin mo bilang walang perang pambayad.

3. Bawal maging magalang.

4. Mas importante ang gumawa ng magandang pakikisama sa mga katrabaho kaysa ang "problema" ng pasyente.

Sa ER puno ng tao. Mei mga todong tila ginulpi ng limang adik, meron naman parang isa sa mga adik, meron din namang mga talagang kailangan ng kasama dahil tila ndi nya kaya ang sakit na nararamdaman nya... Pero mei oras magchikahan ang tatlong tao sa desk. Pasig pa lang to. Panu kaya ichura ng public hospital sa Maynila?

Kung gusto mo na mamatay ng maaga, eto magandang gawin: Tusukin mo ng kutsilyo kahit anung parte ng katawan mo, basta magdudugo dapat ito. Tapos, takbo ka sa public hospital. At sigurado, aasikasuhin ka nila pagdating ng eksaktong oras na puti ka na sa kawalan ng dugo.



How I Met Your Mother

I just finished watching the last episode of season 2... I still don't have season 3 yet, so here I am blogging...=P It's a great series, but I don't know if the humor fits everyone... It definitely fits my ever-dynamic sense of humor (I get a kick out of My Only U jokes and kiddie jokes, but I also enjoy John Stewart... Polarized enough?) so I'm glued to it...



Gilbert Arenas and his Blog

There was a point in time that I didn't blog with topics. And then I was inspired by Agent Zero himself... I find his lengthy blogs really entertaining, and I read through it... So I thought, as talkative as I am, I think I'd need his type of blogging to make my lengthy blogs somewhat fragmented into stuff I wanna say... Then, it becomes structured as I write it, and structured for the reader to read only the stuff that reader wants to read and skip through everything else that reader doesn't feel he/she is interested in..

After a long hiatus, Gil made a new blog a couple of days back... I read it only earlier today, and I felt like blogging.



Work and Christmas Party

It seems I'm stuck in work... Well, it's not entirely a bad thing. At least I have income while waiting for a new opportunity...

Now, there's gonna be this Christmas Party on Dec. 18th. And what do you know, they hired a voice coach to help us practice for the contests on the 18th... I was supposed to be with the third-party people, but the fragrance team decided they wanted me with them, so they pulled some strings and got me in their group... I should feel happy, right? I don't know. Somehow, I still feel I belong nowhere... I'm not a regular employee, and though the regular employees love me, I can't be part of everything that they do. Hence, I should be creating bonds with the other contractual people, no matter how older they may be from me, because we're in the same situation. But as it seems, I'm being pulled in by people I can't be part of from the people I am actually part of...

But my boss said I should be with their group. So I can't do anything about it..

And the voice coach liked me. And it seems I'd be going solo for a part of the song.

Gotta get my videoke-practiced voice ready for it..