unexpected

hello there, www!

10 days ago, one of the most beautiful things has happened to me.

i had been oblivious of a certain individual's admiration yet eventually, i found it so strong i could no longer resist it - so finally i gave in.

(yay! *giddy*)

in short, something that i could never forget happened on June 24, 2009.

and i so damn hope this is going to be it!

so help me God!

happy father's day!

had dad been alive, we could be doing two things today - either: story telling or winning an argument.

family members say i'm a daddy's girl - well, at least i was (i.e., when dad was still alive) - by the fact that i always dealt with dad in almost everthing...

**i was there when he engaged in any political discussions with his co-parties (by the way, my dad used to be a barangay captain during the whole marcos regime - so even before he married mom who was 20 years old then while he was 41 years of age).

**when he got drunk, which often led to deeper discussions, i was there giving rebuttal as if we engaged in a debate.

**when he was too drunk (which only happens during family celebrations, i was there mainly as his cane.

**when he was to check the farm (because by the way, my father was a farmer and manager of his own copra business), i insisted i'd come (which usually took me hours of incessant pleading because he wouldn't want me to go as he didn't want me have bruises blah blah blah in the field...etc..

i remember when i was young, family occassions consisted only of birthdays, christmases, and others (and when i say others, i mean family friends' birthdays - usually kiddie parties).

i figured out lately (when i say lately, i mean when i was already in college) that my parents limited our celebrations to just almost 3 occassions then due to economic reason (did i tell you we are 10 in the family and you know that having 12 in a roof means there was a lot to feed?).

well anyways, today is one of those days i would think of my dad.

... because it is today that he would have stayed home with us reading stories along with mom...would have been extra playful with us and mom. even if the family didn't celebrate father's day, i would always know that that day was special because of dad.

i am so missing you, daddy! :'(

but i know you're so happy in heaven...so i'd say happy father's day! i love you!

P.s. happy father's day to all dads in the whole www!

happy happy

it's my beloved country's 111th independence day!
(but to Filipinos out there, are we really free?)

it's one of our beloved team mates' birthday!Ü
(happy birthday, shalon!)


it's the day before my rebond turns 3 months!Ü
(happy monthsary to my hair, it's still straight despite a lot of beach-ing)

it's my new phone's first day!Ü
(it's lovely because i got it for free...hehehe!)

when A meets P

The only things of real value in life are the things you have to fight for...mushy? Haha, I only hear it from somewhere. And I think it's real pain. ;-)

I just got home.

No. Just kidding.

I have been home since June 4, 12:20AM - many hours ago (do your math).

Where have I been?

Well, exactly a week ago, I was in the middle of an island in Mindoro which wasn't too accommodating at first but became our 2nd home the entire stay.

I was talking about my stay with friends in Pandan Island. Just so you know, I didn't have the internet connection, neither did I bring with me Kaki there so what accounts below would be the fruits of my imagination.

Seriously now, at the back of my mind, I was documenting what transpired during the trip.

May 29, 2009 - after office.

We all agreed that we took a van as our means of transportation. There are three ways to get to the place. 1) by plane, the easiest yet most expensive one; 2) the bus - dimples bus specifically - and this is the most cheap yet not so comfortable one among all; and lastly, 3) thru van. We took it. It's a hundred peso more expensive but it's the next best thing after Dimples - the bus company was petitioned to close. Gie made all the arrangements and we were all informed we needed to be at the location not later than 8 or 8:30PM.

It was Friday, May 29 ... and a pay day. So since I haven't shopped for anything yet, right after office, I went to the mall to grab myself a hair cap, googles...i meant goggles ;-) and a pair of swim wear (a 2-piece-suit and a beach dress). They're affordable and nice! Honest!

I didn't expect the mall would be packed with all the consumerists - mallers and shoppers - and so instead of the 30-minute-shopping, it ended up like forever. So I arrived at the meeting place almost 10 minutes before 9PM and we still had to take a cab going to the location. So to make the story short, I was the only one without the bathroom kit plus canned goods or some food to eat on the way. But with the friends around, it was all good. (I am not saying I'll do it again next time)

We travelled by land - a van which was, by the way, late for over an hour. I would have spared myself from being a parasite of the bathroom kit, etc. had I shopped longer. When the van arrived, it was already jampacked like we were in a canned sardines ourselves. You call this convenient still because you have your way to get to the place you'd go.

Day 1: May 30, 2009, Saturday: This is officially our first day in Pandan Island

We travelled by water and land this time. It was my first time to take "roro" and it felt great (meaning, I was just a little dizzy due to sea waves but nevertheless survived without puking). From Manila, the van driver took us to Batangas Port. We departed Manila around 10:10PM and it took us almost forever to arrive Batangas port (maybe because manong driver had to pick up some more passengers). Oh did I mention here we didn't rent the whole van for ourselves? Yes, we didn't.

From Batangas port, a "roro" was bound to "Abra de Ilog" in San Jose and from there, we rode in the same van going to Sablayan, Mindoro. There was a little port in Sablayan where we took a motorboat going to an isolated island called Pandan Island. It's where we went to and we arrived around 10AM on a Saturday. The owner's wife, Ms. Marina (her husband and her co-owner is a French guy named Dominic Carlut) met us and welcomed us with cans of juices, a bottle beer and a little of PR-chit-chat. We chatted while the room reserved for us was being fixed. When we were all in our designated family-room, Gie and I went to the information area to inquire of the things - mostly bills - we were to pay during our whole stay. We planned to stay 5 days and 4 nights in that place should everything went well.

And it did goes well. But before things got better...it went real bad!

Marina asked how much we got the room for and Gie told her it's under negotiation. She then told us to talk to Rizza (of Pandan - I need to draw distinction here because Gie is also Rizza but we call her Gie). She was talking to the secretary, Marivic. We were supposed to talk to Rizza (of Pandan), the one whom our Rizza was coordinating with the whole time we were still in Manila. She was told to wait or just be back because Rizza (of Pandan) was at the "computer room" which, by the way, gave me the impression that I could blog on a daily basis but I was wrong. The whole island is run by a solar energy - this is something i am so proud to say I love the place.

Where was I?

Well, yes, Rizza (of Pandan) and our Rizza (Gie). They were supposed to be talking but we were informed to go back. Take note: We haven't eaten any major meal and it was almost 11AM on a Saturday, our first day in the island. I wasn't feeling well with the whole thing - I was starting to give my side comments, which was, by the way, a bad sign because at any moment, I could be the bitchy-type that I could be. (Boy, did I tell Gie that Marivic was not supposed to be there? She doesn't have this customer-service-attitude like Marina does? And we found out, Marivic is Marina's daughter to her first marriage.)

Anyways, enough. When we finally talked to Rizza, apparently, she too, couldn't decide on what to do. Plain pffft! Grrrrrr!

Here are what we intended to negotiate.

• Room rate - at first, the reservation was good for 6 persons for Php3,000.00. Then since there were 8 of us, it became Php3500.00 but that wasn't final according to Gie, we could still be given discount should we stay longer (allegedly). So this was what we were trying to negotiate, a discount for a longer stay.
  

• Buffet meal - we were never informed we were required to take their BUFFET MEAL EVERYDAY (of our lives in Pandan) which was worth Php400.00/buffet OR we would stay famished the whole night because they wouldn't serve short-order-meal after 3:30PM. I am not fond of math but the numbers just came running my throbing head and my brain said, oh man, you're out of here. You don't have the budget! And that triggered all that there was. I didn't like it! Gie was neither in the mood. However we reasoned out, they seemed so close-minded - they were inside their tiny little boxes, they couldn't afford to listen further but told us to go back by 6PM when Dominic is already feeling better to face us. (Take note: We were hungry and tired guests who needed to settle down instead of thinking of an eventual relocation due to a price-y accommodation and food. We were hoping to get our host to have talked to us, to make things better - but we were like criminals who were all of a sudden abandoned in the middle of the desert.)

So after a little more sermon from Gie, we decided to go back to where we came from. It meant we were not pushing thru our stay in the island. I, too, agreed. Then off we went back to our friends who were equally tired and hungry. When we got to the room, people were sleeping, some noticed our sour faces so the whole gang was silent. We decided we eat first then packed for home. Some hesitated because of how much we already spent to get there. So the meeting was adjourned and would be resumed after we had taken our lunch - it was already 1PM.

During our lunch in the resort resto, Marina came by, clarified what she heard about us going back to Manila. She asked what was the problem and we relayed it was the buffet! She said we better talk to Dominic and suggested some things until all was cleared off and we all stayed! She even got us another welcome drinks of rhumcola (a combination of Tanduay Rhum and Coke) plus the usual chit-chat. And it was when we were able to talk to Dominic. Agreement was, we would take the buffet meal of Php400.00 on the first night and then he offered that the succeeding meals would be the Pinoy style dinner worth Php 220.00 plus a 20% discount for our accommodation. We could also eat at the resto anytime of the day, we could ask them to buy us food/canned goods from the town thru a boat that traverse daily and we would be allowed to cook our food in their kitchen with a minimal charge of gas and other condiments. Not bad, right? :)

That day we all had great smiles and a lot of firsts: first charade, first of the many drinking sessions and my first time to watch the real Hayden Kho-Katrina Halili sex video scandal plus a lot more after that.

Day 2: May 31, 2009, Sunday: I met the sea turtle and others!

This day, I met the sea turtle and Diana fish plus I got to see two coral mountains sorrounded by the school of fish! Yes, they were so fabulous! I was joined by no other than Mrs. Marina Carlut! My friends were still asleep and maybe didn't want to go swim so I decided not to disturb them. On the other hand, She Pablo had her first sunrise photo shoot. After my swim, we all had our first breakfast with the talking bird and we all had our first sumptous affordable buffet feast at 7PM.

Day 3: June 1, 2009, Monday: Our official non-working Monday!

The sun was up when all souls were in slumber. By 11AM, all of us were active...ready to conquer the island once more. Marina encouraged us to go visit the lagoon during our stay and still encouraged us to go check if we could still make it to Apo Reef (only if the weather is good). We told her we would definitely visit lagoon but the Apo Reef tour would now be put on hold...it meant, we were not pushing thru for 2 reasons: weather and budget.

Afternoon was really fun. We had our beach games: tumbang preso (not sure if I named it correctly - it's done by jumping high on top of a person's back without hitting him, he stays low first like a dog then higher like a carabao until it's too high for one impossibly not to hit the person's back) and patintero -- these are the games I never remembered playing during my childhood. Or if I had ever played those, we have different terms for them. Anyways, all it gave us (or at least to me) was muscle ache. We thought we were going to play charade - a game played usually by two teams, members of which take turns at acting out in pantomime a word, phrase, title, etc., which the members of their own team must guess to score.

Day 4: June 2, 2009, Tuesday: Our 2nd non-working day at the resort!

The morning sun gave us hope that this day would be the last wonderful one in the resort before we head back home on Wednesday. However, nothing beats the weather as an enemy!

During breakfast, there were two guests - a couple named Cris and Shanti - who have just arrived the resort. We found out that they've stayed in different parts of the Philippines for 3 months already. They came from Romblon, Romblon; Boracay, San Jose and somewhere in Sibuyan Island before they were in Pandan. We invited them in for the night's drinking session and wished them a happy stay before we headed back to our bungalow.

We thought the rain would never stop and we thought that day would be wasted by just sleeping away. Good thing by the afternoon, we were able to check the lagoon without worrying so much of the weather since everything was passable anyway. Afterall, no one or nothing could stop us even the heavy downpour. We had fun in the lagoon even for just some time.

Dinner was fantastic, fabulous and sumptous... and the chef, Manong Joel, was great and nice! He's a gift from heaven to us, hungry guests! We started earlier than 7PM because apparently the resort was running out of power - remember the power is generated from the solar energy...and it was always raining...so you know what it meant. By the time everyone (including other guests) was seated and taken some bites, the power gave in and instead, we had a candle-lit dinner. Dinner was followed by billiards, dancing and drinking at the resort's bar...with Cris. We found out that Cris was just 24-year-old lad who married Shanti and both stopped work to cruise Asia for a year. They were in India first before they went to Thailand then to Philippines. Their trip ends by September. And by then, they'd be back to Switzerland. What a couple!

Charade and the drinking session continued, still at the bar. We were joined by Manong Joel and sometimes, Dominic butted in. Then we finally call it a night until around 1 or 2AM. At the bungalow, we finalized our bills to be settled in the morning by Gie. It was another great day that we would be missing by the morning (I meant come the daylight). But for the night, all we want was a sound sleep. We finally were able to sleep by the fading sound of "a watch ...a what ... oh a watch" game by Nins and Lach.

Day 5: June 3, 2009, Wednesday: Our 3rd non-working day, last day at the resort :(

There were mixed emotions. I, for one, felt like having an LBM. Other folks were restless. Sun was shining so brightly I hated to say that I envied those new guests who just came in. And so when everyone was out, I packed (but couldn't find my camera), didn't take a bath and instead, I just slept. I pretended it wasn't our last day in the resort. And boy, I thought I lost my camera for good! Had it not by Joyee (who, by the way, has a 6th sense...told me to check the attic), I would have come home without it. I only found it in the attic, where She and I went there to take some snaps. I knew I didn't bring it there because She did have one already but anyway I found my camera on the bedside. Thanks goodness! I remembered Kathleen who mentioned the other night that the bungalow was inhabited by "the others" and that Joyee decided not to mention it to the gang to avoid panic.

Anyways, we were to leave the resort by 11AM because our van (the same van, by the way) would be at Sablayan port by 12NN. While everyone was taking turns to take a bath, I had my last round at the beach front and finally had my dive test of the Pandan Island. The feeling of anxiety was gone and replaced with excitement. I always have that feeling whenever I leave a place I am fond of.

We took the same route back and around 5PM, our roro sailed off not so smoothly because of the tropical depression at the time of our departure. We made sure we seated beside the "life jackets" storage. I could see the waves by the window slapped the ship and all I could do was hope and pray that we would be all safe. And we were.

The whole journey back to Manila wasn't that exciting as going to the island. We were silent the whole time except when we were to pull over to answer "call of nature - or take cr break." Around 9PM, we arrived at SLEX and had second stop over to grab ourselves some take-out dinner. The gang finally arrived Manila almost 11PM and Joyee, Lach and myself at Montalban around 12:20AM of June 4.

Literally, darkness loomed my place when I get in. Power was out and only around 2AM today, June 6, that the whole subdivision got the power back.

Overall, Pandan Island is a nice place...and I am proud to say I don't need to travel abroad to be there.

spontaneity

when boredom strikes, most of the time, i let it pass by sleeping or reading or do my online thing - blogging, facebeooking (i don't usually use my friendster that often, only when i upload photos) and to some extent, i call friends and ask them out.

BUT...

if boredom is too intense, i'd do the counterstrike either by going out of town with friends or just go anywhere ALONE.

(usually i invite some few friends - the ones who will definitely say yes to such a very short notice)

MAY is almost over and weather reports officially tag the other day as end of summer season! MAY is the month when i supposedly have so many plans yet so few really happened. when i say plans, i mean "out-of-town-planned-getaway." to name a few, here are some of my places of destination.

• caramoan - oh i loved it the first time i saw its pictures (i'm sure you'll do love it too). and oh...friends/classmates of mine planned to go there with me and i got too excited that when it got cancelled, the frustration was so intense, i'd wanted to punch them or not talk to them for one whole year. when i say one whole year, i mean i will "intentionally won't answer" just one of their phone calls.
  (seriously, it was so frustrating...)
  
  
• tagaytay - just a few hours away from the metropolitan. best getaway when you want to escape from the busy metropolis and just hide away from the heat of summer days...lucky i went there before...
  
  
• baguio - the summer capital of the country. i was there 5 years ago! or was it more than 5 years? can't imagine how time flies and how the place looks like now.
  

i know the above-mentioned places are too boring for you to even bother going. however, those are the places i never had gone to with those friends who really planned to be there with me.

however, the people i least expect would care join me have now booked a trip to a beautiful and enchanting island. this will finally make my summer plans come true!

i can't wait...

just another nonsensible thing

i used to blog like i wanted to get a "nobel award" in blogging or something but couldn't even start a sensible thing to say on my little net space lately.

i don't know why? (though it's a good thing since i don't get to stay late or up in front of kaki all the time, right? sort of good for my eye thing plus it saves me electric bill but clearly, this is another issue).

i want to write - i could not consider myself a blogger per se (since i only blog when i feel like it) but lately, i'm barely a writer. not at all a writer! (here i go again with my whining - bear with me for some seconds/minutes).

whenever i read articles from my favorite newspaper columnists, i wonder how they do things. they are so good i feel like worshipping them...my "god in writing" (does anyone know a term for that - god of essay or writing or prose? pardon me God for committing yet another deadly sin, well hope YOU will understand because i am a frustrated writer!)

anyways...

i'm yet again late for mother's day post (i promised i would write one on mother's day to pay tribute to all moms especially my dearest mom but i was so hooked up in several calls i made to all sister and sis-in-law moms...not to mention becoming an instant one-day call center agent (iodcca) that day.

i didn't intend to be an iodcca. sometimes, the family is just so used to it - i mean, i have done this ever since i know how to dial a number on a landline or mobile. my sister would ask me to call her first then when she's on the line, she'd ask me to dial my other siblings' number then we sort of have a conference meeting for hours. (during the not-so-high-tech phone technology then, it was simpler -- they'd let me call them - usually the older ones since they were more powerful than i was - and then, they'd leave messages for the others and they'd let me relay those messages instead them relaying those messages directly to the recipients. so many messages, huh? :D

in short, i used to be a messenger and or in modern days, a call center agent.

maybe this is why i am so employed in a call center. or maybe, they're just so obsessed with the idea that i am the best one to do this because i work in a call center. oh yes, i work in a call center.

anyways, why my whole mother's day post has completely been forgotten until this morning? because i was too exhausted to write...the whole thing i did was spent my whole day talking to my siblings on the phone, relaying their messages to this and that and me, a crazy woman didn't complain (until now of course).

so what's my point of writing? hmmmm...none really, i just couldn't sleep again. but i have to sleep now, it's past 1am. now i got to go. i got work tomorrow ... i mean later at 8am.

p.s. i'll post something sensible next time. i promise! :)

he's just not that into you

we darted off the scanty gateway aisle just to be told "he's just not that into you" so back off...(*just kidding*)

(that was the line i was trying to put in my head right after we watched that movie "he's just not that into you" in gateway mall...i was with an office friend then...so not that someone told me that very same lines but at the back of my mind, it's what happened - it's just how we hurried off to catch up that movie).

anyways...

i think it's ok to share some of my virtual secrets...well, not that there's some libel case involved or sex scandal or whatever abominable or something in it, but today, i feel like sharing some things...except, just be discreet haha...no name calling in case i know you and you want to leave comments.

(what have i eaten today? well, nothing, and that's exactly the problem...or maybe just one of those days of the month? hmmmm, whatever, there's no stopping me of sharing this!)

but wait, maybe because i'm in a dilemma right now. AS IN!

will i go or not? (to my Diploma in Industrial Relations graduation rites, that is)

anyways, it's no big deal...this is not the masters yet. it's more of a recognition for having finished 21 units but since i'm done with the academics portion - a 39-unit-masters, i am thinking it's no point attending to this one but instead, i just need to pass the exam this august then attend my masteral degree graduation on april 2010.

anyways, back to virtual secrets.

i fall in love once...or maybe twice or thrice (that is not the point now but yes, my heart is, afterall, a human heart and not a wood carving or some kind of a stone). who cares? hahaha!

had this friend whom i "dated" online - i know him only through a colleague before. yes, online because we never met in person...ever! not that i don't date face-to-face, in fact i do... mostly with friends...don't ever think it's pathetic (though i couldn't help but agree a bit...hahaha well, never mind).

anyhow, everything felt so right (for me at least) up until things went awry (i guess things go that way always - if it wouldn't go right, it would definitely go wrong). and thought that he actually was serious about "it" i.e., "our virtual relationship" which i never thought would have commenced in the first place had it not been meant to happen...'twas like too impossible? but nevertheless, i believed it then...and my feelings were true. (now, i want to puke sorry.)

obviously, we (myself and let's call him - BIG X) didn't end up together. (fortunately hahaha! not that i hated him. NO.)

as i was saying, we were introduced and eventually, instead of involving the "match maker" we just "dated" casually until we kind of already fall in "love" or "lust" for each other (i guess it's how dates go except if it's online, it's kind of different) in short, our case was different - since it was an online thing, i never thought it would work out. (but hell, some does, you know and this is why i had so much faith.)

we chatted, we talked over the phone, we connected by the help of webcam (what are gadgets for, right?) and i could see BIG X was really into me...until one day...

something's changed!

a third party...or i was just totally wrong...

i was so naive and innocent then, i believed in all he said until one day, the match maker revealed the truth - BIG X is married! the saddest part is, he got married when we were supposed to be planning for "our marriage" and i knew he was married after a month or 2 he's been married. meaning, all the time we were "together" he's been with this woman...and when he mentioned that he'd be out of the country for a business trip when he was supposed to see me, he was actually marrying someone else! interesting, isn't it? eventually i found out - based on his version - that he was forced to hook up with the woman his father wanted him to marry(talk to my hand, liar! what are you, 10 years old?!)

that's when i learned a big lesson.

and i want to quote samantha of sex and the city: "you know it's so interesting...you can tell a man, "i hate you" you have the best sex of your life...but tell him "i love you", you'll probably never see him again."

oppps sorry, i bore you. i'm not a good story-teller, am i? couldn't actually tell something with sense if it regards heart issues. wehehe (puke!)

now, i'm pretty fine except that BIG X is coming back to "try disturb" me again. or maybe it's just me that is disturbed by his "VIRTUAL PRESENCE"...whatever!

hell, no! not anymore because i now know when a man is really into you...and i'm now a pro when it comes to signs of he's just not that into you thingy.

by the way, will i go? :p

no-smoking on earth day...

amazing, isn't it?

well, i am quite happy that today, some people has pledged for the earth day cause - a whole day no-smoking event!

two (2) notable things happened today:

1. my team went green!

(it's not what dirty-minded folks think) but we wore something green - a simple support for earth day celebration.

(*cheering* go, go, go sdbu!!!)

2. some pledged for a no-smoking earth day!

(yes, not everyone participated - they are willing to quit but slowly, not this drastic...which is a good start at least!) what is important is, they are committed to stop smoking...sooon (*i'm so hopeful*)

you may view some photos here.

happy earth day, everyone!

nocturnal thoughts

today, i wanted to commend kaki for behaving so nicely the entire service.

i promised myself to sleep around 8pm... yes! 8pm, manila time! - but ended up blogging...

i remember i promised y'all that i'd be posting something about the earth hour thingy as soon as kaki gets back on track. fortunately and thanks to a very good friend, kaki's back and is now behaving well...btw, this friend of mine can fix anything at a very reasonable fees (*plugging*).

now here we go.

when: March 28, 2009, 8:30pm-9:30pm

where: everywhere

what: earth hour

anyways, i remember when i first signed up to become an official earth hour fan (as i called it then), it was Earth Hour: 8:00-9:00pm March 29, 2008. i signed in to www.earthhour.org with the personal URL: http://earthhour.org/user/zJ12 (which when i checked now, it no longer exists as if it never happened at all).

as part of that global thing (not that i played a big role on it), i reached out to all i know and encouraged them to participate. it was fabulous as some really got into joining the said event! however, one thing that made me so awful was when i got this message from some asshole who never even bothered to introduce himself up to me, and just said like: "hey bitch! you can't save the world by making another big mistake.

in short, turning off your lights for an hour is a huge mistake! the earth hour was a huge mistake!

(i was told he saw my name on that personal URL i provided earlier and he's so furious, of all people, he never expected me to be on it yet i did sign up! so i figured it out - he's one of those i knew or still know but he's just got no balls to tell me straight in my eye that i was a b-i-t-c-h who cared the earth where i live)

so much for that, i didn't give a damn. i went on and earth hour 2008 was a huge success!

then came earth hour 2009.

things have to continue. what has been started should either be sustained or it'll bore the whole things up!

for me, it just didn't feel so right. the world keeps on becoming hot and it's all because of just so many wrong things we all do. i know it's part of living...but sometimes, a mere global event "for an hour" doesn't seem right or enough (i believe the right word is "enough").

it feels like it's all for a show whose viewers are bunch of hypocrites who're just after of fun. i didn't sign up, nor bothered to even cooperate. but apparently, i was sort of cooperating...even if all i thought was to continue being what i am, minding of what i would do to help delay the earth's demise. i was too exhausted to even bother to text my friends or forward all those mail messages like i used to.

so what i did?

i went out with classmates and friends. we had a great spa session, had our whole body massaged and it felt great.

(i asked the establishment, of course, if they would participate in the earth hour event by turning off their lights in a span of an hour and after hearing the answer which was: what is earth hour? i just said, hmmm...well, it's ok, i will be there with 3 more friends to have a massage.

and there we went.

global warming isn't a joke, folks. i bet all of us has this in our veins by now. earth hour is a big step but this isn't enough! the least that we can do is do simple things. those who are smoking, please try to minimize doing so (if you really can't stop it at all)... those people you see burning dried leaves in your community, let them stop doing so. take the heat if you'd be tagged as "pakialamera" a.k.a. minding other people's business.

the thing is folks, our earth is our business! this isn't the aliens'!

shit, i should never have promised you about writing earth hour. it just sucks...i feel like i should never have said anything...now i am feeling old...and wasting almost an hour of lights turned on.

but you see, i care and it's that feeling that makes me sad why i still care when all of us don't seem to?

and today, just as i was all up to taking the humidity that spells "g-lo-b-a-l w-a-r-m-i-n-g!," it rained.

but it is still HOT...

and it kills me!

p/s. good night! :)

holy week

hello www!


it's been awhile...

these past weeks were hell...thought i'd never ever experience heaven again. :p

anyways, i'm back ... (and oh boy it feels really good to be normal again)...like normal weekends...normal meal, etc..

however, it's holy week.


for catholic folks, it's time to:

1. repent (some say but well, i don't...i haven't confessed i'm ugly, because, honestly i am not...lol);

2. time to fast (dieters, this is it!..i just had dried fish a.k.a. tuyo and egg on sat/bfast, roasted pig, among others on a sat/lunch - courtesy of a friend who's celebrating her birthday today), milk and 2 bananas on sat/dinner...and today? cup of milk and tuna sandwich + 2 apples on breakfast, another yummy red crab in a cocomilk recipe courtesy of my brother on lunch plus banana and milk on dinner....to my heart's content) and

3. time to reflect on things... what has been and so far has it been worth all the while? (hmmmm, i better try this!).


in fact i did try to reflect on what just happened, earth hour!


allow me to take this opportunity to talk about it(well, i might not be able to finish this litany if my notebook - i named it kaki - hangs again for the nth time....since it has been attacked by virtual virus lately - i'm sure i got it from school...it doesn't open any application for less than 2 hours - damn!)

where was i?

ok, well, let me tell you about what happened in the midst of earth hour!

i felt outraged by the fact that --

folks, if i don't get to finish this post, it means kaki is having its tantrum again...i promise i'll post more often this time...and i'll finish on earth hour story.


good night for now!