sabi ni kali good chow daw eh... masarap naman... at nawili si che sa mga bolang ilaw... ako naman nawiling kumain...
makulit un waitress namin, parang classmate lang... ndi ko nga lang natanong pangalan...
Monday, November 24, 2008
...zola...
sabi ni kali good chow daw eh... masarap naman... at nawili si che sa mga bolang ilaw... ako naman nawiling kumain...
makulit un waitress namin, parang classmate lang... ndi ko nga lang natanong pangalan...
...going home + raindrop collection ni che....
sabi ni che wag ko daw tanggalin "raindrop collection" nya eh...
naubusan ng battery un cam wala pang 1/8 ng byahe, so yan lang meron... haha...
...boating...
late afternoon till night... ang nakakainis lang, pagkaalis namin, ilang minuto pa eh si kuya'y nagsisisigaw na ng "o, 60 one to sawa na!!"
pakshet.. oh well.. lugi rin naman ako sa paguran no...
xempre onti lang pix namin together... takot kami tumaob un banka eh.. hehe...
...baguio cathedral...
marami pic nun mga ibon.. hinuhuli kasi ni che un paglipad daw nila eh..
mei captions un iba... kakatamad lagyan un iba eh...
...baguio trip...
hindi pa nakakarating si che sa baguio. kailangan andun ako sa first time nyang pagpunta dun...
we're gonna be celebrating our 4th year together on 11/29/08, and we were thinking of celebrating it in a special manner... problem is 11/29 happens to be uncle jun's birthday, and uncle jun never wants people missing his birthday... and che had a trip to davao on the 28th for work... kaya eto, gulatan na lang ang laban, advanced celeb na.
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kasama ang aming tour guide in spirit (kali), at ilang tips/directions mula sa tatay kong pinagmulan ng idea ng Baguio (kuya ags) bulag naming tinahak ang baguio... nakatuloy sa isang hotel na inalok nun mga sumalubong sa min...
lakad sa kun nasan man kami... hinahanap ang good chow na sinabi ni kali, at matapos ang matinding lakaran paakyat, pababa, paliko-liko sa kawalan, nakita rin namin:
oo masaya lakarin ang session road... pero pota... pag pataas ansakit kasi sa paa eh...
nawili si che kakapichur ng mga ilaw... ako masaya na sa pagpapakababoy...
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cathedral was next, dahil malapit lang dun... pichur pichur sa mga ibon na nakatambay dun dahil nag-aantay makahuli ng ibong lumilipad... mei cool pa na pic na parang mei TV un rehas... nakapasok din sa loob, kun saan mei kasal... lumuhod muna't nagdasal, nagpasalamat ako sa buhay na ibinigay sa min, sa kasama ko, sa magandang byahe at sa paggabay sa byahe pauwi... ewan ko lang kun anu dinasal ni che... hehe
framed!
the Cathedral
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minesview na...di daw dapat mamiss sabi ni kali... nakakatuwa kasi mejo umulan, nagtakbuhan mga tao pasilong.. kami sugod lang... tapos tumigil un ulan... fun... mei magaganda tuloy kami pwesto...
mei nakita pa kaming bangaw na mei identity crisis, kala ata bubuyog xa... o butterfly...
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back to hotel, dahil mei dala na kaming ilang pasalubong (kabilang dito ay dalawang halaman)... tapos sugod ulit matapos ang sandaling pagsilip ni che sa chika at sa palabas ni kris aquino at eric quizon... burnham ang next stop... lakad ulit nang malupit... pagdating dun, binatog muna, dahil miss na ni che... ndi ako kumakain pero napakain ako dahil ayaw ni che ng gatas (na nilagyan ni ate/kuya)... bumili kami ng isa pa na walang gatas...
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boat ride na next... nakakainis kasi pinatulan namin agad un unang nag-alok sa min. pde namang ndi... mei swan sana.. ayun, napa-sagwan tuloy ako ng di oras... pero nagtry din naman si che....
see? haha..
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lakad along burnham, mei nakita kami na pinatulan namin as remembrance ng baguio (mamaya ko na pakita un)... tapos nakabili si che ng sapatos na maganda at mura so pinatulan na namin... isaw stopover ang next...
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at dahil wala na budget, sabi ko ndi na kaya mag-ukay... at sarado na rin ang mga ukay, kaya SM Baguio na lang kami... nginangatog si che sa lamig ng SM Baguio...
che: wala ka siguro makikitang naka-sleeveless dito no?
me: ndi. kahit saan mei malandi.
che: ang lamig kaya!
me: meron yan...
pagpila namin sa taxi, eion, mei babae sa harap namin. naka-sleeveless. tangna nya. nanginginig xang literal. wahahahaha... pigil kami ng pigil ng tawa ni che...
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balik sa hotel room, nanood ng onting MMK, tapos Banana Split (Christine Reyes, demmit..), tapos Emergency ata. ewan. nakatulog na ko... bwakananginang lamig pa rin kahit na nakasarado ang bintana sa walang aircon naming kwarto...
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kinabukasan, gumising para dapat magsimba, kaso ndi makabangon.. apparently, nagising si che ng mga 2AM at ndi agad nakatulog, habang ako'y mahimbing na ang tulog... kaya un, wasak pa siya, habang ako nama'y pabanjing banjing na at nagawa pang tumawag ng room service for breakfast...
lumayas kami sa hotel ng mga 10:30 at nag-rush palengke pasalubong shopping kun saan muntik na ko manakawan... naramdaman ko nang nakaangat un jacket ko eh, kaso nasa loob na bulsa un mga gamit ko so, pasenxa si kuya...
nakabalik naman kami sa hotel in time para makapagpahinga ng onti at makapag-check out ng walang extension...
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sa byahe pabalik, paubos na baterya, pero sinagad na ni che, at kanyang nabuo ang kanyang tinatawag na "raindrop collection." mei sample sa baba...
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after a long weekend that seemed at times short, but at some points seemed like the longest saturday of our lives, che and i celebrated what has been 4 years of us being together with another first: her first trip to baguio, our first long trip alone together, our first "blind" trip with nothing whatsoever planned out...
it was a rather exhilirating experience.. quiet moments, as well as noisy, senseless ones (use ____ in a sentence... wahahahaha... ayoko na ulitin. ang jologs eh.. haha...) make up our time together...
4 years together, and hopefully, there would be more to come...
and as for Baguio, it is immortalized in pictures, and we are left with our own immortalization of the trip, and somewhat a material thing that is not a ring:
....you'll always have the other half of my heart...
...the paint may fade (after 3 weeks sabi nun gumawa) but hopefully "US" won't...
we're gonna be celebrating our 4th year together on 11/29/08, and we were thinking of celebrating it in a special manner... problem is 11/29 happens to be uncle jun's birthday, and uncle jun never wants people missing his birthday... and che had a trip to davao on the 28th for work... kaya eto, gulatan na lang ang laban, advanced celeb na.
=======================================================
kasama ang aming tour guide in spirit (kali), at ilang tips/directions mula sa tatay kong pinagmulan ng idea ng Baguio (kuya ags) bulag naming tinahak ang baguio... nakatuloy sa isang hotel na inalok nun mga sumalubong sa min...
lakad sa kun nasan man kami... hinahanap ang good chow na sinabi ni kali, at matapos ang matinding lakaran paakyat, pababa, paliko-liko sa kawalan, nakita rin namin:
oo masaya lakarin ang session road... pero pota... pag pataas ansakit kasi sa paa eh...
nawili si che kakapichur ng mga ilaw... ako masaya na sa pagpapakababoy...
====================================================
cathedral was next, dahil malapit lang dun... pichur pichur sa mga ibon na nakatambay dun dahil nag-aantay makahuli ng ibong lumilipad... mei cool pa na pic na parang mei TV un rehas... nakapasok din sa loob, kun saan mei kasal... lumuhod muna't nagdasal, nagpasalamat ako sa buhay na ibinigay sa min, sa kasama ko, sa magandang byahe at sa paggabay sa byahe pauwi... ewan ko lang kun anu dinasal ni che... hehe
framed!
ayun, nakahuli ka ng isa..
the Cathedral
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minesview na...di daw dapat mamiss sabi ni kali... nakakatuwa kasi mejo umulan, nagtakbuhan mga tao pasilong.. kami sugod lang... tapos tumigil un ulan... fun... mei magaganda tuloy kami pwesto...
mei nakita pa kaming bangaw na mei identity crisis, kala ata bubuyog xa... o butterfly...===============================================================
back to hotel, dahil mei dala na kaming ilang pasalubong (kabilang dito ay dalawang halaman)... tapos sugod ulit matapos ang sandaling pagsilip ni che sa chika at sa palabas ni kris aquino at eric quizon... burnham ang next stop... lakad ulit nang malupit... pagdating dun, binatog muna, dahil miss na ni che... ndi ako kumakain pero napakain ako dahil ayaw ni che ng gatas (na nilagyan ni ate/kuya)... bumili kami ng isa pa na walang gatas...
================================================================
boat ride na next... nakakainis kasi pinatulan namin agad un unang nag-alok sa min. pde namang ndi... mei swan sana.. ayun, napa-sagwan tuloy ako ng di oras... pero nagtry din naman si che....
see? haha..
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lakad along burnham, mei nakita kami na pinatulan namin as remembrance ng baguio (mamaya ko na pakita un)... tapos nakabili si che ng sapatos na maganda at mura so pinatulan na namin... isaw stopover ang next...
==================================================================
at dahil wala na budget, sabi ko ndi na kaya mag-ukay... at sarado na rin ang mga ukay, kaya SM Baguio na lang kami... nginangatog si che sa lamig ng SM Baguio...
che: wala ka siguro makikitang naka-sleeveless dito no?
me: ndi. kahit saan mei malandi.
che: ang lamig kaya!
me: meron yan...
pagpila namin sa taxi, eion, mei babae sa harap namin. naka-sleeveless. tangna nya. nanginginig xang literal. wahahahaha... pigil kami ng pigil ng tawa ni che...
=================================================================
balik sa hotel room, nanood ng onting MMK, tapos Banana Split (Christine Reyes, demmit..), tapos Emergency ata. ewan. nakatulog na ko... bwakananginang lamig pa rin kahit na nakasarado ang bintana sa walang aircon naming kwarto...
===============================================================
kinabukasan, gumising para dapat magsimba, kaso ndi makabangon.. apparently, nagising si che ng mga 2AM at ndi agad nakatulog, habang ako'y mahimbing na ang tulog... kaya un, wasak pa siya, habang ako nama'y pabanjing banjing na at nagawa pang tumawag ng room service for breakfast...
lumayas kami sa hotel ng mga 10:30 at nag-rush palengke pasalubong shopping kun saan muntik na ko manakawan... naramdaman ko nang nakaangat un jacket ko eh, kaso nasa loob na bulsa un mga gamit ko so, pasenxa si kuya...
nakabalik naman kami sa hotel in time para makapagpahinga ng onti at makapag-check out ng walang extension...
===============================================================
sa byahe pabalik, paubos na baterya, pero sinagad na ni che, at kanyang nabuo ang kanyang tinatawag na "raindrop collection." mei sample sa baba...
==========================================================
after a long weekend that seemed at times short, but at some points seemed like the longest saturday of our lives, che and i celebrated what has been 4 years of us being together with another first: her first trip to baguio, our first long trip alone together, our first "blind" trip with nothing whatsoever planned out...
it was a rather exhilirating experience.. quiet moments, as well as noisy, senseless ones (use ____ in a sentence... wahahahaha... ayoko na ulitin. ang jologs eh.. haha...) make up our time together...
4 years together, and hopefully, there would be more to come...
and as for Baguio, it is immortalized in pictures, and we are left with our own immortalization of the trip, and somewhat a material thing that is not a ring:
....you'll always have the other half of my heart......the paint may fade (after 3 weeks sabi nun gumawa) but hopefully "US" won't...
happy 4th anniversary bebeh...
(other pictures posted separately... haha.. first time ko rin mag-spam...=P)
On the way to baguio
si che mei hawak ng cam. tulog ata ako. o papikit pikit. eto ang mga nakita nya...
Monday, November 17, 2008
...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..
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..
Sunday, November 2, 2008
…happiness and miracles…
We’re good. At last. We talked. And we agreed we need to patch things up piece by piece. Relationships don’t work if they’re too simple.
I know I seemed down in the dumps as if we’re through, with no hope for reconciliation, but as I said, it was a necessary time for both of us. I just didn’t know how to deal with stuff on my own. I needed perspective. And I have you, who constantly read my blog and comment, to thank for that.
I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t know who’s supposed to come to who, but I guess with intervention from up above, an opportunity presented itself, and I grabbed it immediately.
So now we’re good. My mom was telling me we were fighting over petty things, but like coins, small things can amount to something big if it was collective.
On Miracles
Last year’s F1 season saw a three-way race between McLaren’s Fernando Alonzo and Lewis Hamilton, and Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen. I forgot what the exact circumstances were, but the odds were stacked against Kimi. I think it went this way: Lewis was on top of the standings, but he needed to finish 8th or better in order to win the world championship. Alonzo had to finish 5th or better (I think) if Lewis doesn’t finish 8th or better. Kimi was in a must-win race, and he needed the other 2 drivers to finish badly. Basta. Andaming scenarios.
And after everything was said and done, Kimi won the world championship, crushing the record-breaking hopes of the rookie Lewis Hamilton and the gunning-for-a-3rd/4th straight-title Fernando Alonzo.
Last night, well,
Ferrari’s just praying for another miracle, another glitch that would make Hamilton’s race terrible and make him finish 6th or something, so that Massa would win his home race AND the world championship.
And miracle came with about 5 or 6 laps to go in the race.
Rain came down hard, and everyone was going wild.
And then the unthinkable happened. Glock inexplicably slowed down at the final turn, giving way to
No miracles this year, I guess.
I’m just happy I had my own already. J
Fantasy League
Trying out the PBA fantasy league now, and it actually sucks. You only get 5 players, and if you pick another player, you lose the player you had before for the rest of the conference. Bummer.
But then it’s fun to tweak your lineups a bit. Then pick good players who’d give great value, drop them to get two-better valued players, and stuff like that. I think you’re going to win something if you top the overall rankings (as in play with the 6k++ people registered) but I’m really not that concerned with that, as I started out 1 or 2 weeks late, so I need to make up for lost time. Big time. So my goal right now is to top the league my classmates and I set up and probably use this as training ground to NBA Fantasy league for next season.
Anyway, I had Willie Miller on my team. In choosing my team, I had to pick between Jayjay Helterbrand and Willie Miller. After the game last night, I was only too happy that I chose Willie Miller. Jayjay’s line wasn’t bad, Miller’s was just better. :)
Emo and Sulking
I know my past couple of posts were about sulking and being emo, but I guess I don’t have to prolong it. I was thinking of laying off blogging for a while if nothing eventful ever happened, which wouldn’t be surprising considering my ever-exciting job as somewhat of a glorfied bum. I’d probably write more emo stuff, but more on my thoughts, not calling her out. It’s annoying to read emo stuff over and over again.
I blog not to seek sympathy or encouragement, but rather perspective. I may be wrong in doing what I’m doing, and I need perspective that is not mine to better understand my predicament. I understand that this may not probably sit well with everyone, but blogging as I do keeps me from slashing my wrists or going insane.
A couple of blogs gave me enough perspective to slap my ego silly, and I just had to deal with loneliness. A couple of sulking, down-in-the-dumps blog. One need not blame everything on anyone or everyone. Shit happens. Deal with it.
I’m not saying this because I’m done with my ordeal. I just know what pain it is to read an emo blog over and over again. And I was really, really, waiting for something eventful to happen.
So instead of time off blogging, eventful things happened, like the race, the overtime game of Alaska and Ginebra (which gave me great fantasy points pick up), the crazy James Yap buzzer beater (which I didn’t get to talk about), and the reconciliation.
Again, emo blogs must be >2. Any more is annoying. Don’t be like “Chuck” who had an annoying phase of blogging.
Yes “Chuck”. That’s why I asked. =P You are/were THE poster boy for emo blogs on the same topic.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
...acting on confusion...
i've taken you out of my contacts. i can't help not to blog every once in a while. but i said i will not bother you ever again, until you're "ready". i don't want to rush things. i don't want you seeing any of my blogs popping out in the first page of your multiply updates. i don't want you to see me. a month short of 4 years could take out a lot from your identity. i have shortcomings, i know, i'm not perfect, but i want to become a better person, not just for you, but for me as well...
i feel like i've been wronged, but i don't need an apology. i feel like i did something, but i don't know what to seek forgiveness from. i miss you but it would seem i'm rushing you if i tried to talk to you right now. im praying, wishing, and hoping to hear from you, but i don't know if you've had enough time yet. i want to see you, but i don't know what to tell you.
i don't like the idea of "cool off" because i see it as an excuse for one to fool around with others, and if that doesn't work out, there's still the "cooling off" partner securely waiting for you to come back. but for this case, i'll make an exception, because i trust that you are not that type of person. i've known you well enough.
if you're reading this, you're probably logged in a different account. or you're probably wondering why you can't see my blogs. hence, i posted this for everyone to see. as you're no longer in my network. no me whatsoever.
all the space you'd need right there...
this blows. but i have t o endure. if only for you. know that i long for you, but i understand the necessity of what is happening.
i hope it doesn't take forever for you to find yourself...
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on being dispensible
it sucks to know that in this temporary life, you are dispensible no matter how much you've done for something or someone. it snaps you back to the reality that you are not as important as you think you are.
jason kidd carried the new jersey franchise on his back for so many years. and then last year, he got traded to dallas. similarly, devin harris was dubbed "the future" of the mavs organization, thinking he was an untouchable commodity in the lineup, only to be packaged with a couple of other players in that same deal.
wowee de guzman was a matinee idol of sorts back in the day. he had the universal motion dancers, a popular dance group which was even more popular than the street boys. he was paired up with judy ann santos, an up and coming young actress. all seemed well for wowee, but then hardly anyone knows him now, nor does anybody know the success the universal motion dancers had before over the streetboys (they even had a movie together with gary v)... judy ann santos would later go on to enjoy the success that she has now.
every once in a while, i think that i'm indispensible to my company. i hate it there, but i don't know if they'd get a guy like me again to make them work as efficient. then again, who am i but just another person in the 8billion filipinos around the world. i can be replaced anytime.
i love her, i know how to take care of her, and i don't know if she'd meet someone else like me who'd do all the things i do for her... but then again, i am not irreplacable.
and it sucks to know that the world goes on long after i'm gone...
i feel like i've been wronged, but i don't need an apology. i feel like i did something, but i don't know what to seek forgiveness from. i miss you but it would seem i'm rushing you if i tried to talk to you right now. im praying, wishing, and hoping to hear from you, but i don't know if you've had enough time yet. i want to see you, but i don't know what to tell you.
i don't like the idea of "cool off" because i see it as an excuse for one to fool around with others, and if that doesn't work out, there's still the "cooling off" partner securely waiting for you to come back. but for this case, i'll make an exception, because i trust that you are not that type of person. i've known you well enough.
if you're reading this, you're probably logged in a different account. or you're probably wondering why you can't see my blogs. hence, i posted this for everyone to see. as you're no longer in my network. no me whatsoever.
all the space you'd need right there...
this blows. but i have t o endure. if only for you. know that i long for you, but i understand the necessity of what is happening.
i hope it doesn't take forever for you to find yourself...
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on being dispensible
it sucks to know that in this temporary life, you are dispensible no matter how much you've done for something or someone. it snaps you back to the reality that you are not as important as you think you are.
jason kidd carried the new jersey franchise on his back for so many years. and then last year, he got traded to dallas. similarly, devin harris was dubbed "the future" of the mavs organization, thinking he was an untouchable commodity in the lineup, only to be packaged with a couple of other players in that same deal.
wowee de guzman was a matinee idol of sorts back in the day. he had the universal motion dancers, a popular dance group which was even more popular than the street boys. he was paired up with judy ann santos, an up and coming young actress. all seemed well for wowee, but then hardly anyone knows him now, nor does anybody know the success the universal motion dancers had before over the streetboys (they even had a movie together with gary v)... judy ann santos would later go on to enjoy the success that she has now.
every once in a while, i think that i'm indispensible to my company. i hate it there, but i don't know if they'd get a guy like me again to make them work as efficient. then again, who am i but just another person in the 8billion filipinos around the world. i can be replaced anytime.
i love her, i know how to take care of her, and i don't know if she'd meet someone else like me who'd do all the things i do for her... but then again, i am not irreplacable.
and it sucks to know that the world goes on long after i'm gone...
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