| Tuesday, May 17, 2005 |
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Gising, frend.
Tumatanda ka na, frend.
Nasa Friday Magic Madness na yung mga paborito mong kanta.
Nakaka-relate ka na sa Classic MTV. Lesbiana na yung
kinaaaliwan mong child star dati. Nanay na lagi ang role ng crush na
crush mong matinee idol noon.
Dati, pag may panot, sisigaw ka agad ng "PENDONG!".
Ngayon, pag may sumisigaw nun, ikaw na yung napapraning. Parang botika
na ang cabinet mo. May multivitamins, vitamin E, vitamin C, royal
jelly, tsaka ginko biloba.
Dati, laging may inuman. Sa inuman, may lechon, sisig,
kaldereta, inihaw na liempo, pusit, at kung anu-ano pa. Ngayon,
nagkukumpulan na lang kayo ng mga kasama mo sa Starbucks at oorder ng
tea.
Wala na ang mga kaibigan mo noon.
Ang dating masasayang tawanan ng barkada sa canteen,
napalitan na ng walang katapusang pagrereklamo tungkol sa kumpanya
ninyo. Wala na ang best friend mo na lagi mong pinupuntahan kapag may
problema ka. Ang lagi mo na lang kausap ngayon e ang kaopisina mong
hindi ka sigurado kung binebenta ka sa iba pag nakatalikod ka. Ang hirap
nang magtiwala.
Mahirap nang makahanap ng totoong kaibigan. Hindi mo
kayang pagkatiwalaan ang kasama mo araw-araw sa opisina. Kung
sabagay, nagkakilala lang kayo dahil gusto ninyong kumita ng
pera at umakyat sa tinatawag nilang "corporate ladder". Anumang
pagkakaibigang umusbong galing sa pera at ambisyon ay hindi talaga totoong
pagkakaibigan.
Pera din at ambisyon ang sisira sa inyong dalawa.
Pera. Pera na ang nagpapatakbo ng buhay mo.
Alipin ka na ng Meralco, PLDT, SkyCable, Globe, Smart, at Sun. Alipin
ka ng Midnight Madness. Alipin ka ng tollgate sa expressway. Alipin
ka ng credit card mo. Alipin ka ng ATM. Alipin ka ng BIR.
Dati-rati masaya ka na sa isang platong instant pancit
canton. Ngayon, dapat may kasamang italian chicken ang fettucine
alfredo mo. Masaya ka na noon pag nakakapag-ober-da-bakod kayo para
makapagswimming. Ngayon, ayaw mong lumangoy kung hindi Boracay o Puerto
Galera ang lugar.
Dati, sulit na sulit na sa yo ang gin pomelo. Ngayon,
pagkatapos ng ilang bote ng red wine, maghahanap ka ng San Mig Light o
Vodka Cruiser.
Wala ka nang magawa. Sumasabay ang lifestyle mo sa income mo.
Nagtataka ka kung bakit hindi ka pa rin nakakaipon
kahit tumataas ang sweldo mo. Yung mga bagay na gusto mong bilhin dati na
sinasabi mong hindi mo kailangan, abot-kamay mo na. Pero kahit nasa
iyo na ang mga gusto mong bilhin, hindi ka pa rin makuntento.
Saan ka ba papunta?
frend, gumising ka. Hindi ka nabuhay sa mundong ito
para maging isa lang sa mga baterya ng mga machines sa Matrix. Hanapin mo
ang dahilan kung bakit nilagay ka rito. Kung ang buhay mo ngayon ay
uulit-ulit lang hanggang maging singkwenta anyos ka na, magsisisi ka.
Lumingon ka kung paano ka nagsimula, isipin ang mga tao at mga bagay na
nagpasaya sa yo. Balikan mo sila.
Ikaw ang nagbago, hindi ang mundo. |
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| Sunday, May 15, 2005 |
| Sa Aming Parokya |
My college friends does not fail to make me laugh. Even though we seldom see each other, we would make it a point to send an email every once in a while. It seems that people has not changed and they still reminded me of the good ole college days (which contributed a lot in keeping my sanity). We're supposed to have our annual barkada outing this month but unfortunately all our schedules are full. Sayang kc i've been looking forward in going to that event kc I was not able to join them last year =( The good (and the weird na rin) thing about it is that mas kumpleto ang barkada kung spontaneous ang yayaan.
Hay naku guys, let's make up our minds...sana talaga matuloy ang outing natin this year.. kahit sa December pa.
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| posted by subhuman @ 10:27 PM |
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| I am a Singer |
I love to sing. I think its in my genes. During family gathering, my father never fails to sing during family gathering as he always sings his heart out on songs by Tom Jones and that Engelbert guy. Im not embarassed even though his type of songs are baduy because he has the voice to carry the tune.
When I was a baby, I cry a lot. My mother had a hard time from stopping me from crying. But people says that babies who cries a lot may end up being a singer. And I think they proved that when I was 3 years old. After the mass, I would always sing those hymns that my parents recorded me while singing my own rendition of our father and lamb of god.
During my second grade, my teacher must've seen my guts and my appreciation in singing so she signed me up to be our class representative for the grade school singing contest. I sang Mr Dreamboy by Sheryl Cruz which the judges found amusing so I ended up in the third place. I joined 2 singing contests after that but unfortunately I lost. As I grew up and I became shy to sing in public, I joined the church choir and the glee club in school.
A few years later, my exposure in singing experience is limited in videoke and in the bathroom. My friends and team mates from the office labelled me as the videoke queen as I would sing my heart out. My team mate Jasmine convinced me to enroll in UP Conservatory of Music. I did for one semester and I took up classical voice training. It was an experience for me but I find it difficult to sing since I'm used in pop singing. After the course, I performed on my first recital. I sang If I loved you from the Carousel musical.
Last month, my office mate Arnel and I signed up for the theater singing workshop offered by our company for free. Because of this training, I appreciated musical theater and promised myself to watch all the musicals shown here in Manila. At the end of the workshop, we would record a song in a recording studio. Our schedule was last week and I would say that it was indeed an experience. I sang Fallin from they're playing our song musical. Being inside the recording booth is nerve wracking and it's really weird to hear my voice from the headphone while I'm singing. What's more weird for me is listening to my song after recording. It's a good thing that the one who's in charge of the recording session was supportive and encouraging for us to get through our first recording experience. I can't wait to get a copy of my CD!!!
Not contended for joining the theater workshop, Arnel and I signed up for the pop singing workshop. This time, there are four of us from our project na kinarir din ito... Ryan and Lucky. They sang last time in front of everyone and got criticized for it (feeling American Idol di ba?). Ryan is a good singer and left us amazed after his 'performance'. Lucky said that its too bad that she didn't had a chance to meet us earlier as she is really has the passion in singing. Anyway, we've decided to join a musical theater workshop in October so that we could further hone our craft.
I'm really glad that finally I get to do something that I really love as a diversion from the stress of working in IT. And I'm also happy that I get to meet people who share the same passion and interest in music =)
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| posted by subhuman @ 9:20 PM |
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| Monday, May 02, 2005 |
| My Affair with Ipod |
Finally, after thinking and craving about it since last year.. I finally bought my Ipod..shuffle.
Well, I've been craving for an Ipod Mini while I was still in the US. Thanks to Iks and Vench who bought this item and made me really envious of it. When I got back in Manila, I would always visit the Apple store and get pamphlets of it. I considered buying an 20 GB Ipod before. Thinking that it was expensive, I opted for a blue Ipod mini as well.
But thanks to the competition in the market, Apple launched the cheapest (and I think the most practical among them all) Ipod model.. the Ipod shuffle. Thinking about it, 4 GB is too big to maintain and a 512 MB sounds reasonable.
I asked my friend Uly to buy me an Ipod mini while he was in the US but due to time constraints (Amazon.com takes a while to deliver it), he was not able to do so. So I ended up buying an Ipod shuffle from Avant. Now I've loaded a lot of songs in my new MP3 player, which would be primarily use while I workout.
I know mababaw lang itong topic na ito.. but it's a big deal to me because I finally have the courage to buy this. Now I'm enjoying the benefits of what its like to have an Ipod Ü. |
| posted by subhuman @ 4:22 PM |
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| So long, Wijo |
Wijo died this morning. He got infected with the same virus that killed Liit. He was only 7 months old.
I got Wijo from Myla, my officemate, as a replacement for Liit who died several months ago. He is a half-pomeranian, half- spitz and still looks like a puppy with his small built. We got him last November and he spent Christmas and New Year with us. When we got him home, we were bothered that our other dog, Puti, will not like him at all. But after 2 hours, Wijo slept on Puti's tail as if Puti was his mother. My family was very touched about it that i took a picture of them sleeping together.
Wijo was a complement to Puti's playful behavior. Puti likes to spank Wijo but Wijo does not
mind at all. It's their game. Puti eats as if he's on race while Wijo would chew his food very slowly. So it ends up with Puti taking Wijo's food. But Wijo was smart enough to hide in the corner where Puti won't be able to fit in. Puti likes to take a bath while Wijo is afraid of water. Puti always initiates the spanking game and no matter how painful Puti hits Wijo, he's not pikon but he knows how to fight back. Wijo always sleeps on a blanket but later at night he would sleep beside Wijo.
So what will I miss about Wijo? When I come home, he always likes me to carry him. I usually pretend to ignore him so that he would put his tiny little paw on my foot so that I would notice him. He's a sweet little puppy. He likes to play on our feet when we're outside our door. Hinahatid pa nya ako when I leave for work until I ride the tricycle. He's been my favorite subject for photographs as he would willingly pose (he has lots of adorable pictures). I will always remember him as malambing, which I think is very rare for a male dog.
Although I've only known him for a few months, he will always have a special place in my heart. I rather see him die now than for him to suffer like Liit did. I hope that he's happy now with Boogie, Kring kring and Liit in heaven. I'm looking forward on the day when I will see them. But for the meantime, I still have Puti to shower my affection. |
| posted by subhuman @ 12:27 AM |
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| Baguio trip |
Cycling team in Baguio 
I've been eager to go to Baguio for the long time. The last time I've been there was before the earthquake happened (which was about 15 years ago) and I never been there ever since. I've been contemplating what if my mother allowed me to study college in Baguio. It's a nice place to stay actually.I really wanted to go to this place and see how it was able to rebuild itself after an earthquake destroyed this city. Fortunately, our team building was held in this place since Lynn prefers to go this place rather than the beach.
For our trip, we left at around Friday 1 PM so that we could be in Baguio 8 PM. The team is seperated into 2 cars: Eric C was the driver of the smaller one and with him are Denise, Maddy, Susan and Ivan. The other car's driver was Bong with Lynn, Cindy, Janjan, Abby, Eloisa and I as passengers. I can't help but feel amazed and pity at the same time to our car drivers since they were able to drive for 7 hours with Kennon road as the most difficult phase. No wonder Eric C was grumpy that night. Bong, as the host of our team building activity, was still able to crack jokes and made us feel at home that night. We stayed at Bong's family resthouse for the whole weekend.
On Friday night, we had dinner at Bong's cousin's restaurant where they really have big servings of food. As a matter fact, we were not able to consume the sinigang that we ordered which is supposed to be good for 4 people. That night, we played Cranium which became a battle between the oldies and the new members of my team. Until now, I still can't believe that I'm now considered as one of the oldies. It was a fun game and of course, we won. After that, we played 1-2-3 PASS with beer as our drink. Because of that game, I consumed more than 1 can of beer. But the biggest loser of the night was Susan because I think she consumed 2 1/2 cans of beer. We slept at around 3:30 AM the next day.
After 4 hours, I woke up because it was very cold. The reason why we were freezing was because we forgot to close the window. And stupid as I was, I forgot to bring any sweater. Well, I thought that I left my sweater at the office when I packed my things but it turned out that I brought it home. Anyway, I had no choice but to wrap myself with my malong and towel. Early morning, we went to mines view park and bought a lot of pasalubongs. The place was crowded so I was not able to enjoy the view. After mines view, we had pizza for lunch at Camp John Hay. Since Lynn was tired from walking, we went back to the rest house. I barely slept that night so I took a nap. Unfortunately, Maddy talked about her lovelife while I was sleeping and I missed that. At 6 PM, we went to the basilica to hear the anticipated mass. Then we went back to Camp John Hay to eat dinner at Forest House. It was my first time to eat chicken madeira again since I got here in Manila. I remembered Hazel because we would always oreder course from Cheesecake Factory way back in Phoenix. Anyway, the waiter had a crush on Bong (who is a gay magnet, by the way). We found out about it because Maddy saw the waiter licking the corner of his mouth and looking at Bong lustfully while Bong is paying our bill. Everyone was amused with the story when Maddy told us about it. After that,we went back home and the whole team played 1-2-3 PASS again with vodka as the 'punishment'. This time, everyone is cheating and there are alliance teams which is really hard to figure out. Bong and cindy played a prank on Janjan and made him drunk that night. So the night ended with everyone listening to Janjan telling about his lovelife.
The next day, everybody packed up for Manila and left Baguio at around 11 AM. But before we left, we did our last minute shopping for pasalubong. But of course, the fun never stops there. As if his humiliating experience from the previous night, Janjan spilled his drink during lunch when we ate at Jollibee in Pangasinan. The 'wet area' does not look good so he had to change into his dirty clothes. I got home at 7 PM that night
To sum it all, I'm glad that this team building allowed the old and new members of the team to bond. I like the new members of the team because they reminded me of my college friends (which are very makulit by the way). Kung gaano kagulo ang mga college friends ko, ganun din sila kakulit. And I never felt out of place around them. Now there's hope of me not becoming an outcast anymore and fortunately the people that I wanted to hang out with just around the corner (sensya na kung cheesy ung line ko.. hindi ko alam kung paano ko sasabihin sa english e.. hehe). I find this as a good thing because I won't be shy anymore and I can be more of myself now since I'm now corfortable with the people that I work with.
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| posted by subhuman @ 12:25 AM |
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| Comeback |
It's been a hectic month for me that I was not able to blog in the past few weeks. Finally, after 4 months of working as if there was no tomorrow, drinking 3 cups of coffee everyday just to stay awake, dealing with the pressure from my boss (who I think was as paranoid as I was) and endless whining how I hate my job, it finally came to an end. I felt relieved and very ecstatic as I was texting my boss this message: FINALLY WE'RE DONE WITH STS. YAHOO! I do now have time to go to the gym, my weekends would be spent outside the office and I could stop complaining for a while. Because of too much excitement that I don't have to work on weekends, I texted my friends to go out and I have listed all the places that I wanted go this summer.
For now, I'm saying good bye nervous breakdown, goodbye olats weekend. So long eyebags and stress. I'm now happy. Ü |
| posted by subhuman @ 12:23 AM |
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