Sunday, February 18, 2007

VACATION IN MIND

Planning your summer vacation? Well so am I... Just crossing my finger that I can get a 1 week off from work though... On top of the list, going back home! The reason is quite obvious...

Next on the list is Pagudpud! Well that's just 2 hour away from my hometown... If you want a less crowded beach, Pagudpud is the wiser choice rather than going to Boracay.

I might as well visit the wind mills in Bangui while on the way to Pagudpud... Or the lighthouse in Burgos (Cape Bojeador). It's almost seven years now since the last time that I visited these places... Vacation wouldn't be complete without the foods that you've been craving for. Empanada? Chichacorn? Those that have their local taste on it... Though you can find those things here in Manila, eating them where they originated from is not the same. Longanisa? You can scrap that from the list. My dad sent me 2 kilos last January so I don't miss it that much. However, just to make a point, the longanisa prepared from my hometown are "taba" free in contrast to "others" claiming so.

Food trip and vacation goes hand in hand. But a vacation is a lot more exciting when you spend it with the people you love. Your family. Your friends. And sometimes, with unexpected strangers...

So how about you? What's on your list?

Saturday, January 27, 2007

1st QUARTER PROSTITUTES

Don't be surprise if one of these days you'll be plagued with news with regard to politicians jumping from one political party to another. Turncoats will flood the political scenario till the run up to the May 2007 election.

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I can't fathom how the politicians' stomach could churn out a gut so thick that even an 18 M HCl can't dissolve. Ang lalakas ng apog! I wouldn't even wonder and be surprised if they have already set up an appointment with Vicky Belo prior to the pictorials for their campaign posters. Ang kakapal ng mukha!

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Platform wise? The opposition has the ultimate platform of hating GMA. Hating GMA seems to take 90% percent of the criteria for a politician to be included in their fold. Pathetic isn't it?

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The administration on the other hand seems to play coy with opportunists jumping to their bandwagon. Trojan horse in the making if I may say. The administration should wake up! Political unity is a taboo! Political prostitutes are taking the stage again. It's their time to shine and self destruct.

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When will the last curtain close on them? We can only wonder and speculate. Well, who do you think will take home the "Political Slut Award" this election year? Please let me know who's your pick just for pun and fun.

Point of reference: The Philippines

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Missing

There are a lot of things that I am missing these days. I am missing the cool breeze of the country side caressing my face each morning I wake up. I am missing the fresh fruits and vegetables personally hand picked from the backyard garden and orchard. Though my system has adjusted with the Metropolis environs, my body is still yearning for the good old days where I can go hill-hiking and go swimming on the cool waters of the river snaking through my hometown. The beach is just a couple of minutes drive from home if wanted to feel the salty breeze of the sea-side. Add to that the option of a white or black- sand beach to your liking.

I am missing the old crowd where I belong. Childhood friends. Neighbors? Well, we really don?t have neighbors back home. I am missing the pets back home. I am not even quite sure if they are still alive. It?s been more than two years since the last time I went back home, so I can?t help but wonder if how?s my old hometown doing.

I?m no sentimental but I can?t help wondering how the old mango tree?s trunk where we etched our names looks like now? Does it still bear the names of individuals who dreamt of being remembered, always? Its trunk chronicles the love story of faceless couples, the frustrations, and for the others simply for no apparent reasons.

I am missing my old niche and the environs that surround it. I am missing the experience of simply staring at the endless-clear-blue sky while daydreaming of what could be. I am missing the chirping of the birds busy hopping on the branches of the guava tree adjacent to my bedroom. I am missing the bleating of the goats when they clamor to be let out to graze freely on the other side of the fence. I am missing so many things. Yet here I am, missing from all those things.

Sunday, November 12, 2006

Wheels and Totally Something Else

Note: You need not read this post as this is merely a reminder for me, myself.

Another day at work and I am currently cross trained for MSN E-Mail/Messenger specialization but my attention is with Carrie Underwood?s track playing on my MP3. The word training is quite out of the line to describe what I am actually doing right now. The training and study guides were just dumped through my electronic mailbox and I am left to breeze through them. I already left the Windows Live team where I?ve stayed for the last 5 months. I?ve had to handle the Windows Live Messenger Beta and Windows Live ID, and then my scope was expanded to include the Windows Live.com and Windows Live OneCare Family Safety Beta among the new product releases from Microsoft. ?Beta? equates with ?Bugs?, and with ?Bugs?, a splitting headache for me.

Now, I can just focus on one specialization.

By the way, my back log of books to read has quite grown. I have a newly bought book of Anne McCaffrey but I only managed to read the first 20 pages. Swaintson?s ?Our Time? is also on my ?To be continued list?. I?m so dead beat tired these past few days that I can only manage to go home and take a bath, not more than 30 minutes later, more likely than not, blissfully sleeping. Forget eating. I can manage without it. Sleep is what I want! But I need the pay that I derive from my work.

I have so many things to do. I just hope I can finish them all. I still have yet to de-clutter my room. I have yet to do my laundries. My files need organizing and my books need stacking. My computer had crashed again and needs to be repaired. I may need to replenish my cache of food at home. I?ll do the latter probably on Saturday since my pay is due on Friday. Yikes!

I miss the good all days when I virtually handle my own time. I can have DVD marathon if I fancy it. I can go ?malling? if I feel bored. But everybody needs to grow up and take responsibility right? Yeah. You?ll learn how to pull some strings here and there. It?s now a responsibility to become a productive individual. But where do these lead to?

I don?t quite know.

Well, just imagine this. December is approaching and I have no plans just yet. The burden of the ?What?s not? and ?Need?s not? is quite a big dilemma. Whatever?

?Jesus take the wheel
Take it from my hands
Cause I can't do this all my own
I'm letting go
So give me one more chance
To save me from this road I'm on
Jesus take the wheel?

Carrie Underwood is quite ravishing, isn?t she?

Monday, September 04, 2006

HUMANIZATION

When bouts of melancholy strike you, you have no defense but to immerse on the feeling. Yeah, it may sound crazy but sometimes it really hits you the worst when you least expected it. You can only stare at the world with unminding consciousness. Your life flashes like a full-sped movie cramped in an hour time frame and still nothing stuck...

When you think you're above such kind of feelings... it will spank you like hell to remind you that you are human. Not some industrially-concocted-synthetic-robot devoid of emotions. You are human that needs to feel. You are human. Surprisingly.And so I am.

DENiZEN of the DARK REALM