Sunday, September 30, 2007

..."why are they flying high? because there's no one up there to shoot them down"...

DLSU - ADMU part 5. Sudden death sunday. Gate attendance a whopping 23,000, beating the previously held 20,000 people back in DLSU - ADMU finals game when ADMU broke the 5-peat bid by DLSU. Upper B tickets were being sold by scalpers for 1,200, while patron seats came to as much as 6,000 (and some people actually buy them...)... i sold mine to esme and joe, esme gave the price of 500 for both upper a tickets, in addition, reserving good seats for us..


joe: dude, you're not wearing blue!
volt: my dad wore my green shirt. see?
joe: are you medium? i'll buy you a green shirt once my parents get here.


and he did. mei uniform na ko sa DLSU games. ateneo kept chanting "wrong spelling" while la salle chanted "NU" so as not to be outdone... it was a seesaw battle, runs made by DLSU to start the first, but run made by Ateneo to end it, so score was close. Ateneo held the lead for a while, but after an offensive outburst, DLSU got the lead back.

eto na. halftime break. in spurts, Ateneans chanted "wrong spelling" to the DLSU pep squad. once Ateneo was up, someone from the middle of the DLSU crowd rolled open a huge tarp which was about 4 feet tall and was held by about 10 people in length... it read:

"#392 #488 'nuf said!"

the rowdy Ateneo crowd was humbled for a few moments... and thought of another chant: "Suspended!!" sayang... di ko agad naisip un banner ko...

"Suspended nga kami, nag-CHAMPION ba KAYO?"

anyway, in the game of runs, Ateneo made their final push through free throws, while la salle kept it close by missing their charities... but just when it seemed DLSU can't make a shot, Cholo Villanueva came through with crucial baskets that gave cushion to the DLSU lead. i saw the title for this blog in form of a shirt of a girl in front of me... the game wasn't over til it's over, as Baclao made a 3-pointer to cut the lead to 2.. casio made good on both his free throws which basically gave the win to DLSU...


3 - 2 is the final count for the season 70 showdown between the two teams... 3 should be greater than 2, but only 2 games mattered most....


after-game party showed Rasa's Araneta filled with overjoyed La Sallites outside while dejected Ateneans were either inside or at Dencio's... their cheers when Atenean friends went over? "Go NU!!!" or "Ang cold cold nya!!!".. haha...

UAAP basketball... makes grownups act their most childish.... haha....


La Salle Uncle (no, not the manager): dpat pala next game lower box bilhin natin dahil UE kalaban
voLt: tama! malamang di nila kaya bumili ng tickets para dun!
chorus + high five: nyahahahahaahahahahaha....

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

..."wait for our call by 5pm next day"...

once you hear that line, look for another job... thank you McDonalds for teaching me that...

 

applied for work at Makati for a MedRep position... ok sana, ownable car, good training etc... i don't know where i messed up... i wanted that job mainly because of the car, but practically because i hated to go back to the call center industry... i passed the IQ test, my seatmate also did (ndi ako nangopya, kapal ng mukha nyo) and we were the only two who did in our batch... pinabalik ng 1:30PM, only to be called for the interview at 4PM...

 

"willing ka ba ma-assign anywhere in the country?"

"i want to answer yes, but i have to say no. i quit my job because it was ruining my relationships with other people, and if i get assigned to another place, i know i wouldn't like that.. sure, adventure is good, but my relationships would again be compromised.."

 

"honesty is good. (jots something down)"

 

if it was good, how come i get the "call you next day" line and not the exact date of when i should come back? hm... was it too much talking on my part? if only i could know... para naman ndi ganun sagot na matanggap ko next time i apply for a job... nakakasira din pala ulo walang trabaho... sana kasabay ng sem break un pagkawalang trabaho ko... ndi ganito.... syet...

 

nakikibum ako sa lyceum makati library ngayon, walang puntahan eh... mei klase si kuya ags kaya nagsasayang ako oras kakablog at kakaapply ng kun anu anung trabaho sa net... wag magulat kun san tayo magkabanggaan... mei nakasabay akong tga-ust socio kanina eh.. nakalimutan ko pangalan pero familiar face... si grace aguilar din ng eco nakasalubong ko nun umagang naghahanap ako ng printan ng resume...

 

 

hirap maging tanga sa makati... nakarating ako ng yakal street, somewhere na mejo magulo na at tila patungo nang pasay, paseo de roxas lang naman pupuntahan ko... layo na nga ng nilakad ko, nagtaxi pa din ako para lang makarating sa paroroonan.... paksyet...  tpos di rin naman pla matatanggap... buhay nga naman.... oh well... animo la salle na lang bukas!!!

Monday, September 24, 2007

survey-like blog..i need to get a job..---masaya (bamboo)

whee!!!!!! pag wla ka nga namang trabaho... haha.... nakikiburaot ng blog ng mei blog..

RULES:
1. Put your iTunes, Windows Media Player, Winamp, etc. on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS.
4. Put any comments in brackets after the song name.



If someone says "is this okay?" you say
Because of you (ne-yo) - hm.......

How would you describe yourself?
Hanggang ngayon (kyla) - oi... di naman ako ganun kasawi...  pero oo naman... "ikaw pa rin ang mahal..." nax! haha...

What do you like in a guy/girl?
Broken by you (jordan knight) - wow.. .someone who could break me... haha...:P

How do you feel today?
Never again (justin timberlake) - andami dami ko kanta sa senti napupunta... di nman ako sawi...

What is your life's purpose?
Lonely (public announcement) - o nga... gs2 ko mei kasama... un lang naman purpose ng buhay ko eh... inter-relationships..:p

What is your motto?
Tokyo drift/fast and furious soundtrack - weird... anu na lang sasabihin ng mga nagiging pasahero ko?

What do your friends think of you?
stick around (azure) - ows? tlga lang ah?:p

What do you think of your parents?
the band (bamboo) - you figure it out....

What do you think about very often?
black balloon (googoo dolls) - hm.....

What is 2 + 2?
makes me wonder (maroon 5) - sabi sa inyo ayoko sa math eh...

What do you think of your best friend?
i hope it's you (ntwine) - cnu ba best friend ko? define best friend muna.:p haha....

What do you think of the person you like?
stars (callalily) - ay grabe naman...

What is your life story?
hopeful (twista feat. faith evans) - hopeful makahanap ng trabaho..:P haha...

What do you want to be when you grow up?
last night (diddy feat keisha cole) - what? gigolo? di nman siguro exactly...:p haha....

What do you think of when you see the person you like?
slide (googoo dolls) - hmmm......

What will you dance to at your wedding?
As long as it matters (gin blossoms) - parang sweet pa rin in a way.... cool din un ah, banda sa wedding..:p

What will they play at your funeral?
someday (nina) - kamusta naman... grabe naman.... asim kahit patay na ko... grabehan...:p

What is your hobby/interest?
gemini (spongecola) - labo. bkit nga ba nasa playlist ko pa to? teka nga....

What is your biggest fear?
anonymous (bobby valentino) - tulad nga ng life purpose, un lang naman gagawin ko sa buhay eh... kya siguro biggest fear is to be anonymous... haha...:p

What is your biggest secret?
amber (311) - "amber is the color of my energy". :p

What do you think of your friends?
barely breathing (duncan sheik) - lalo na pag nautot ako. haha...:P

What will you post this as?
masaya (bamboo) - yep. masaya nga.:p lalo pag wala magawa... haha....


feng.mpg




feng shui po che...

...kalbo + kalat = pido crying = talo...

shet.



i still can't get over it...




parang ndi totoo... talo.... sa mga pesteng un... tantadong refereeng kalbo.... lahat ng mali ng uste xa tumawag.... peste.... hrrrrgggggg.... pero cla rin nagpatalo sa sarili nila... near endgame, hawak ni jervy, nagpalapit ng 2 player dahil nakadikit si arao, wlang lumapit.... upper b kami kitang kita namin na nagtatawag ng tulong si jervy.... walang lumapit... antatamad... stop, tpos ayun, eric salamat drive, baclao follow up... everythin went downhill from then... dylan misses a transition 3, and misses again on another try after a timeout...


naiyak si pido... nabasa ko sa inquirer sports na sabi pala nya sa interview na "basta pagdating ng playoffs, matibay kami, tingnan natin tibay nila"... mayabang siguro pakinggan pero di xa nagaangas nun... maganda run ng uste, maganda last game nila... di lang kinaya makasustain.... mei next year pa naman eh....


"si japs daw atenista girlfriend. malamang sinabihan si japs na pag nanalo uste wala xang popoy* ng isang linggo" -robert [*my translation]


siguro nga... wla un aggressiveness ni japs... off si mirza... ok sana si jervy, wla lang tulong... ganda sana effort ni dylan pero kulang siguro sa minutes dahil na foul trouble... dizon pinasok para manakit.... mirza napakitang rookie xa... canlas nice effort... taylor wlang kasiguraduhan sa gs2 mangyari sa buhay (sori agad kei coach pagtira ng 3)... espiritu inalat... cortez mei silbi lang pag namamasa.... allera ok sana, kaya lang on-off din... ah leche...



basta next game, go la salle ito... match sana ateneo chaka ue, kaya lang ayoko kasi gumanda pa lalo season ng ateneo eh... peste tlga...

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

...15mins, games that matter, chris tiu and "baste"...

IQ test in B.Braun for medical representatives:

I should have been there at 9AM but wasn't able to make it since i was told late, and i fixed my clearance from ICT... additionally, i was wasted.

"come back before 1:30PM for the test."


alone, i walked to the MRT station to o to my mom's office to get my DLSU upper a tickets... as soon as i got there waiting for the train, my mom told me that i'd get it at araneta... again, alone, i walked to shang to burn more time, i ate, bought a leather case for my phone, and bored myself to sleepiness... 1:15, i got back to B.Braun to wait for 1:30... 1:30 came at 1:50PM... IQ test was going to be for 15mins, and whoever passes it could move on to the next tests... scene: wasted, sleepy, and anxious for the game, i had to pass an IQ test in 15mins to move on to the next tests and get hired... no pressure... it was the fastest 15mins of my life... i was about to start test 4 out of 4 when the person came up and asked for our papers... demmit... needless to say, i missed out on that chance, but the good thing about it is that i had the chance to get to the start of the game!

joe, esme's whatever, asked if i wanted to drop by at the Coffee Beanery in Gateway regarding a 1-day hiring of Dell... illogical as it may seem, i told him i'd rather pass on that than pass on the game...



history lesson: every team meets twice during the UAAP season.. FEU beat UST bad in the first game and they beat UST again on a game that could've given us the chance to be 2nd... La Salle was beaten by Ateneo in their first outing to notch their first win against their blood rivals since Norman Black took over as head coach... That did not go without controversy as DLSU asked for a review as Kirk Long(USA) and Zion Laterre(AUS) were on the playing court at the same time at one point of the game, which must not be as only 1 foreign player is allowed on the playing court... on their 2nd meeting, La Salle was out for revenge, but a Yuri Escueta kickout to Chris Tiu for a 3-pointer gave Ateneo a lead La Salle was not able to break... Rico seemed to be fouled before time expired, but no call was made... La Salle just accepted their fate, but that meant Ateneo beating them back to back...


Monday: FEU vs UST for the last slot at the final four, FEU did well in the first quarter... but a 2nd quarter rally gave UST as much as a 22-point lead, a lead UST was able to at least sustain to get the win despite a furious late-game rally by FEU who employed a hack-a-japs strategy...


Tuesday: DLSU vs ADMU. i was sitting right behind the Ateneo bench, having been given a patron seat by Tita Nene... one thing i learned from that game: putanginang gwapo pala talaga ni Chris Tiu... linis ng mukha eh... anyway, Ford Arao proved to be the difference for DLSU as he powered the Ateneo Eagles to their loss... on one sequence, he missed 3 tries: 2 under the basket and his last being about an 18-foot jumper... Jayvee Casio fired on all cylinders on the second half after a poor showing in the first... Cholo is again Mr. Consistency as he anchored the DLSU offense and defense... TY Tang hit his patented stop-and-pop jumpers at the right moments... Ateneo had Nonoy Baclao manning the paint with his excellent wingspan for rebounds and blocks... Yuri Escueta and his butt ugly face still was like a wild monkey playing on the court, but was able to play well at the point... Ateneo big men dominated the rebounding department, and free throws were of opposite outcomes, as Ateneo missed i think just 3 while La Salle missed about 10 of 16... in the dying seconds, Ateneo missed a chance to tie the game on a Jai Reyes floater, but had another chance at a tie as Arao caught it for 2, yes 2, tries right under the basket before someone tapped the ball out, and Jayvee Casio cauht it... he passed to Cholo, who would probably be the best foul shooter on the floor at that time... however, he missed on the first, but made the second... Ateneo had no timeouts left, Jai brought it across, was denied a look as he jumped, so he passed to Zion while he was in mid-air. Zion shot the ball and made it, but it was for 2, the margin was 3, 0.1 seconds remaining, and La Salle finally beat Ateneo this season....


both teams lost to their foes twice this season... but when it mattered most, they pulled off their wins.... and how sweet it is... now, we have a chance to beat the team who made a lucky shot to beat us this season.... i wanna watch the game and shout my lungs out against "that" team...


I don't watch NCAA much... I do only when Mapua is playing... Kelvin dela Pena is a joy to watch, plus Neil Pascual and Joel Banal.. anyway, i also didn't watch their cheerdance competition... Che's sister just told me that San Sabestian mimicked the oh-so-famous "Go Uste" cheer by chanting "Go Baste"... first thing i thought was "yuck." but i thought she was playing... then came the juniors NCAA finals between San Sabestian and Letran...


when you watch games regularly, you'd get to memorize not just the cheers, but also the drumbeats... and while watching the juniors game, i heard the drumbeats that souned so familiar to me.... it was the preparation for "go uste"... demmit... ever think about "identity"? yuck... no offense to people from "Baste", but c'mon... at least have the decency to come up with your own cheer... what's your student population? and no one from your school could think of something original? "go uste" goes like "go uste (3x) go,go, go, (3x) (drumbeat) U (drumbeat) S(drumbeat) T, UST Tigers!"... i would like to wonder what they cheer during the part of "UST" but then again, yuck. basta. shet kayo. kadiri nyo. maisip naman kayo ng sarili nyong cheer. yuck. ue naman naging coach lang si Dindo, pde na gamitin un "Go la salle, go go la salle" na cheer... yuck din. pero magaling team nila. pero kahit pano, swak naman un cheer, un lang naman eh... pero "go baste"? Y-U-C-K.

Sunday, September 9, 2007

...saan pa galing ang mga langgam?...

thesis days...

puyatan blues pag mei papers na hinahabol...

alam mo un feeling na ndi ka pa natutulog tapos parang bigla ka nangangati? kala ko naman ganun talaga pag puyat ka.. pero ndi pala normal un..

minsan nakita ko mga langgam na gumagapang mula sa bookshelf, tapos natitigil ang linya nila sa keyboard... inangat ko tuloy un keyboard, inaasahang makakita ng kapirasong pagkain na siyang maging maaring dahilan ng pagkalanggam...

walang pagkain.

xempre binuksan ko na un keyboard para makita un loob... baka lang naman andun eh...


akalain mo un, andun nga sila. mistulang namahay sa keyboard namin... sandamakmak na langgam na di ko alam kun panu nagawang mamahay sa loob ng keyboard namin... kaya pala bawat letrang pinipindot sa keyboard eh mei konting kirot na nararamdaman... mei langgam palang lumalabas... habang gumagawa ng thesis ay parang sinisipa ko ang punso ng mga langgam... nilinis ko na, pero ngaun andun pa din sila...

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minsan din namili ako ng pagkain... 4 na pack ng lucky me beef mami, 2 potato chips, at isang snaku... dahil nagkakataluhan sa chichirya sa bahay, hindi ko tinanggal sa plastic ang mga pagkain at iniwan ko sa kwarto ko, pinaupo sa tyan ni Bochok (big bear stuffed toy na makikita ang pix sa multiply account ko) at hinayaan ko muna dun...nakain ko na un mga chichirya, tapos minsan naisipan ko kainin un mami... habang hawak ko eh nasaktan ako... kinagat ako ng langgam... langgam na nanggaling sa plastic ng mami... pagbukas ko ng plastic, ayun sila, nagzi-zigzag sa zigzag ng pansit... peste... nakaplastic na nga, nakalagay pa sa plastic ng pinagbilhan ko, pinatos pa rin ng mga peste... syempre tiningnan ko kun nilalanggam din si bochok... ndi naman... hinanap ko dinaanan ng mga langgam, pero ndi ko nakita... pati un chocnut ko dinali din nila... kinanginang mga langgam...

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nanonood ako ng tv, umiinom ng coke o kya iced tea habang sa kabilang kamay hawak ang chichirya of choice... pagkaubos ng lahat ng ito at natutuwa pa ko sa pinapanood ko, ndi ko naibalik at napahugasan ang baso ko... after 1hour lang ng pananatili ng baso kong walang laman kundi ang amoy lamang ng nainom ko na, aun, nagpipista nanaman ang mga langgam... san galing? ewan. parang tumubo lang sila dun..

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saan ba nanggagaling ang langgam at bakit sa kahit anung sulok eh nakakasingit sila nang ndi mo nalalaman? bakit isang barangay na sila kapag nakikita ko at ndi ko man lang nakikitang paisa-isa silang sumusugod? bakit ndi ko nakikita un pila ng mga langgam na dumarating? gusto ko lang kumain nang walang langgam... bakit ba ganun na lang sila kabilis dumating pero kinanginang hirap nilang paalisin? hay...

...blog, joblessness, racism, "kobe", and freakin' 3 pointers...

every monday morning, i get to make a weekly blog... then it just stopped... i quit work, and no, that was not the reason for the blog stoppage... actaully, working was part of the reason.. when you do what you do everyday with everything seemingly staying the same, you too would lose stuff to write about... the "uneventful life", it would seem, is not only limited to the jobless... try waking up to go to work, then go home to sleep all alone in a house made for 5 or more, then wake up just when everyone's back, and then go to your very exciting work of being a "stupid-asian-who-can't-get-anything-done" for Americans who think so highly of themselves but are actually more idiotic than any people on this planet... and they must be the laziest people on earth... why the hell did you think they popularized tv shopping and ebay? exactly so they wouldn't get up off their asses and at least use those two stuff on the lower part of their bodies that we normal people call "legs"... why the hell did webcam vids get so popular? because it's like having sex online... see how freakin lazy those people are? sorry for the bashing nice white people, but this is for all the freakin American racists who never gave much respect to people other than Americans... i thought time has killed you all but still,  you stay and mock every other race in the world... i hope you all die a miserable death...

speaking of freakin Americans, UST is in a must-win situation coming into their match against FEU... that, because Ateneo had the Guy-up-there on their side... and he gave the win to that white boy named Kirk. it was a "Long shot" as PDI described it... then came Kobe... and the news report that "Kobe taught Kirk". i didn't get to hear the whole story but wtf, one lucky shot and you're "that good" all of a sudden? gimme a break...

needless to say, i had to cheer for DLSU on their game against Ateneo for the simple fact that i don't like them, and i do want DLSU to exact revenge on those blue bastards... i wanted Ateneo to lose so bad just because of winning with a lucky fuckin shot and also because it would make the road to the final four or even the finals for UST to be bit easier because then we wouldn't have to worry about Ateneo having a record close to ours...i looked for a green shirt to wear even if i knew i didn't have one (luckily, my dad did) and rushed to Araneta for the first game... 2PM and there are no more seats left in upper A.. there was a patch of yellow, which we expected to be empty after the game was over... but as soon as we (as expected) won the game, green quickly consumed the few vacated seats... luckily, a girl called us to let us know there was a seat available...there were 3 seats between her and another guy... 1 seat was all we needed, and the guy quicly reminded us that there was another person sitting on the two other seats... we said we'd give it to them if they were there.. (we actually finished the game sitting there, no other person went there to take "his" seat. bastard la sallite with no respect for his alum) we cheered the whole time... lead ballooned to about 13.. then came the freakin 3 pointers... yuri escueta, the butt-ugly 3rd stringer last season with the spunk of a big man and a body of a kid, nailed a couple to bring ateneo closer... he set up salamat and  tiu for their share of threes, nkemakolam (hell if i care if i spelled that right or not) made a couple of baskets, and all of a sudden, the sea of green went quiet, the blue bastards got their cheers back.. casio never got his groove until about the final minute where he gave DLSU the lead... tang also delivered a wonderful pass to ilad inside for an and-1 opportunity... but when it all mattered, when it seemed that DLSU has won it, since Ateneo turned the ball over and DLSU was nursing a 1-pt lead, casio's drive was blocked... no fouls called, and Ateneo ran a transition 3-pt shot for Tiu. and whaddayaknow? he nailed it. he fuckin nailed it.. gave Ateneo the 2-pt lead, DLSU no more timeouts, casio had the ball in his hands... he took his usual big-game shot in the form of a turnaround stop-and pop fadeaway. it was short. amid the confusion, rico got the ball, and stuck it in, and gave us all hope that it counted (i saw it was a little bit late, but i was really hoping that it wasn't). rico was pumping his fist, the rest of the team held hands, Ateneans were shaking their hands to motion no basket, and after the 2nd replay was shown, they all went wild... by the third replay, the bench was coming to mid court, and by the time the final score displayed ADMU 89 DLSU 87, the world kinda fell apart in the sea of green... fuckin Ateneo bench were grabbing their jerseys and looked straight at the la salle crowd with all that machismo...

assholes... especially escueta... ugly SOB... save for salamat, tiu, baclao and jai, i hate those blue fuckers... arao's face... arao's everything even if he did improve this season... monfort's takedown of cholo when the latter stole the ball away from him... laterre's kick to ilad's weird face... nkekomakelam's last name spelling... al-hussaini's body hair... kirk long's "hype"... baracosso's promise that is never fulfilled, and whoever is left on that roster.. damn them all... i hope we beat their sorry asses if and when we meet again this season...