who are you?….

 Who are you?

A question I now pose to myself

A question I do not know if will be answered

Or will just be discovered

Little by little

Will it matter?

This time or in the future

Uncertainties abound

But I hope it will not be a question

Of who really you are…

I myself have pretensions

That I myself try to hide from you

What should I feel?

What should I think?

What should my reaction be?

Honestly I am lost

Will I just shrug it off

And convince myself it’s just the

Morose of youth?

I wish I wasn’t inquisitive enough

Or too much

I wish I didn’t find out

I wish it’s a case of me being

Too stupidly smart

That I find things I should not be concerned of

Finding things that consume my thoughts

I wish I was just plain stupid

And never find ways to find things

Ignorance-is-bliss kind of wish

That I know I can never undo

I wish I can never assume

And just accept things at face value

‘Cause things are the way they are

Hope I can get over it

Hope I can get over it

days of inactivity…..

been a while since my last entry…not that im lazy to do any blog…but my %#*^*^*$#$&^ internet connection gone boinkers for quite some time now…will update as soon as Sun fix it….

Corazon C. Aquino (1933 – 2009)

Farewell....

Farewell to a woman who left a legacy to the whole world. A wife, a mother, friend to many, who went against a tyranny and triumphed.

A symbol to the whole world that a dictator can be ousted by a peaceful revolt, initiated by the masses, and a united Filipino spirit.

She had given us, the younger Filipino generation, the chance to get a glimpse of democracy during an era when democracy was humor.

No matter how she was criticized during her term as president of the Philippines, her critics cannot take away that most valuable gift she had provided us.

To her family and to her friends, I, together with my family, extend our condolences.

Your spirit will live on…..

this is justice…poetic or whatever…

Dear Husband,

I’m writing you this letter to tell you that I’m leaving you for good.

I’ve been a good woman to you for seven years and I have nothing to show for it. These last two weeks have been hell. Your boss called to tell me that you had quit your job today and that was the last straw.

Last week, you came home and didn’t notice that I had gotten my hair and nails done, cooked your favorite meal and even wore a brand new negligee. You came home and ate in two minut es, and went straight to sleep after watching the game. You don’t tell me you love me anymore, you don’t touch me or anything. Either you’re cheating or you don’t love me anymore, what ever the case is, I’m gone.

P.S. If you’re trying to find me, don’t. Your BROTHER and I are moving away to West Virginia together! Have a great life!

Your EX-Wife

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Dear Ex-Wife

Nothing has made my day more than receiving your letter. It’s true

that you and I have been married for seven years, although a good woman is a far cry from what you’ve been. I watch sports so much to try to drown out your constant nagging. Too bad that doesn’t work.

I did notice when you cut off all of your hair last week, the first thing that came to mind was “You look just like a man!” My mother raised me to not say anything if you can’t say anything nice.

When you cooked my favorite meal, you must have gotten me confused with MY BROTHER, because I stopped eating pork seven years ago.

I went to sleep on you when you had on that new negligee because the price tag was still on it. I prayed that it was a coincidence that my brother had just borrowed fifty dollars from me that morning and your negligee was $49.99.

After all of this, I still loved you and felt that we could work it out. So when I discovered that I had hit the lotto for ten million dollars, I quit my job and bought us two tickets to Jamaica. But when I got home you were gone. Everything happens for a reason I guess. I hope you have the filling life you always wanted.

My lawyer said with your letter that you wrote, you won’t get a dime from me. So take care.

P.S. I don’t know if I ever told you this but Carl, my brother was born Carla. I hope that’s not a problem.

Signed

Your NOW rich and free EX-husband

**pulot lang…credit to the original uploader…

Kasal o Sakal?

“All marriages are happy. It’s the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.” -Raymond Hull

“The total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.” -Bertrand Russell

“A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve is extracted”
-Helen Rowland

“Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven’t been able to find anybody who’ll take what I have to give.” -Cass Daley

“Marriage: A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other for ninety-nine years, or until death do them join.” -Elbert Hubbard

“The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.” -Groucho Marx

*“Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.”
-Henny Youngman

“When a man opens the car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.” -Prince Philip

“I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.” -Dorothy Parker

“When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.” -Helen Rowland

“Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.” -G. K. Chesterton

“Alimony – The ransom that the happy pay to the devil.”
-H.L. Mencken

“A husband’s last words should always be, OK buy it.” -Unknown

“My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.” -Jimmy Durante

“I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” -Rita Rudner

“There’s a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It’s called marriage.” -James Holt McGavran

“Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up.” -Evelyn Hendrickson

“After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can’t face each other, but still they stay together.”
-Hemant Joshi

Marami nang nasabi tungkol sa pagpapakasal. Mayron positive, and of course, meron ding negative. Lagi lang akong natutuwa at natatawa pag nakaka encounter ng mga ganitong humorous quotes about marriage. It gives me glimpse of how some people see marriage in a glance. At 33, i am not married yet. I have kids but I am not married. I can sympathize with all the people out there na nagsasawa na sumagot ng tanong na: “Bakit di ka pa nagpapakasal? ” Minsan tuloy gusto ko na sumagot ng: “Pakasal tayo, gusto mo?!” The answers are many and many are pointless to answer.

In this age, hindi naman na socially outcast ang isang tao na hindi pa nagpapakasal at a certain age. Although nandyan pa rin ang tuloy-tuloy na pagtatanong, pagko-convince pag humarap ka na sa umpukan ng mga kaibigan. I know someone who had been given the advice na pag nagpropose na ng kasal yung bagong bf nya, sunggaban agad. To think the girl knows the guy barely two months. Wow. Kasabihan nga ng matatanda, hindi yan parang kanin na pwede mo iluwa pag napaso ka. Sabi naman ng mga bata, pag isinubo mo sana you swallow it na (hehehe)…

Ang lagi kong line pag pinag-uusapan ang marriage ay mas importante ang commitment than any other ceremony or contract. Tama naman di ba? Hindi naman na alien sa atin ang sandamakmak na hiwalayan sa paligid natin. Hindi naman na kabigla-bigla ang single parenthood among these times.  At lalong matter-of-fact na lang ang infidelity. Siguro kasama yan sa process of social evolution ng tao. Theory lang yun. Remains to be proven. But definitely, totoo lahat yan.

Dear Employees

Dear Employees,

Due to the current financial situation caused by the
slowdown in the economy, Management has decided to implement
a scheme to put workers of 40 years of age and above on
early retirement. This scheme will be known as RAPE (Retire Aged People Early).

Persons selected to be RAPED can apply to management to be
considered for the SHAFT scheme (Special Help After Forced Termination) .

Persons who have been RAPED and SHAFTED will be reviewed
under the SCREW program
(Scheme Covering Retired-Early Workers).

A person may be RAPED once, SHAFTED twice and SCREWED as
many times as Management
deems appropriate. Persons who have been RAPED could get
AIDS (Additional Income for Dependents & Spouse) or HERPES
(Half Earnings for Retired Personnel Early Severance).

Obviously persons who have AIDS or HERPES will not be
SHAFTED or SCREWED any further by Management.

Persons who are not RAPED and are staying on will receive as
much SH!T (Special High Intensity Training) as possible.
Management has always prided itself on the amount of SH!T it
gives employees. Should you feel that you do not receive
enough SH!T, please bring this to the attention of your
Supervisor, who has been trained to give you all the SH!T
you can handle.

Sincerely,

Management

P..S. Due to recent budget cuts and the rising cost of
electricity, gas and oil, as well as current market
conditions, the Light at the End of the Tunnel has been turned off.

Imagine na ganito ang makuha mong letter from your work today. Wouldn’t it make your day? Or your year perhaps? Galing diba? At least you can see the efforts from management to give the employees a fair share in the midst of the economic crisis. You try to have a nice day once you receive this notice. Try lang!…

Bill Gates Giving Up Facebook

Yeah. We heard it right. Bill Gates had given up on his Facebook. Why? There’s around 10,000 lined up waiting to be confirmed as his “Friend”. I bet you can see more than a couple of ironies in this, right?

Who doesn’t want to have friends? Where almost anywhere give high praises on friendship, here’s one guy who refuses 10,000 people to be his friend. In his defense, he said he asked himself whether he had met one or many of them before really giving up his FB account. I sympathize with the guy. In this age of social networking, friendship seems to have reduced its meaning to mere statistics. I’ve got 200 plus “friends” at my Friendster but I have got to be honest; I don’t know many of them. Just literally picked them up as they appear on any of my pages. I acquired the “Add-me syndrome”.

On the case of Bill Gates, maybe he just got tired of thinking when or where did he exactly meet those who tried adding him up as their friend. With 10,000 in line, who wouldn’t be? And for a man who built his fortune on computers, it’s kind of ironic to figuratively turn your back on one. Maybe he just doesn’t want to be sucked into the Add-me mania. Imagine him trying to befriend every other man/woman on the Forbes List of billionaires through Facebook?  And even if the B-Listers (billionaire-listers!) add him up, would they say “Bill Gates trying to figure out where to have breakfast today, Paris or Hong Kong?” on their FB walls?

“I read a lot and some of that reading is not on a computer,” he said. So here’s another glimpse of the man behind every Microsoft product that we stare to everyday. We would easily imagine him bringing a laptop where ever he goes. But truth to be said, there are a lot of things out there that can be enjoyed without a glare of an LCD monitor. When was the last time you tried reading, the old fashion way? Me, the last book I read was John Grisham’s The Appeal and I enjoyed it, just like the other paperbacks I have of John Grisham’s work. I’m still trying to find a bargain of Rainbow Six and The Bear and The Dragon by Tom Clancy to add up to my Jack Ryan Series collection. There are rumors of disappointment on his The Teeth of the Tiger but I still have to read it. And of course, I am looking for the Harry Potter collection too. I am trying to instill the same passion for reading to my two kids. My daughter started on her mag collection (K-Zone) and Pugad Baboy series. My son still has to learn to read. Reading and imagining how the characters move around a plot is really more stimulating than clicking or pointing your mouse pointer to every available link.

Borrowing Gates’ statement, the information technology is “hugely beneficial” but it wastes a lot of one’s time if not so careful in using it. Get up. Get out of the house. Smell the flowers before they become your wallpaper.

State of the Nation Address

Ngayon pala ang huling SONA ni Pangulong Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Last week ko lang nalaman. Hindi na kasi ako updated sa current events. Wala na kasi maingay na balita para pagtuunan ng pansin (opinion ko po ito! Walang kokontra!). Wala nang kontrobersya mula sa angkan ng nasa palasyo. Wala nang alingasngas ng suhulan at kung anu-ano pa. Sa aking panonood ng balita tuwing umaga bago pumasok ng opisina, mas marami pa ang aksidente ng dahil sa motorsiklo (may napilay, nakahandusay, putok ang ulo, patay at iba pa) kaysa sa mga pangyayari sa bansa. Sa aking paningin tuloy, naging immune na ang mga tao sa mga balita ng aksidente.

Meron ding mga nagbabalik-bansa para raw ilabas ang katotohanan ng Dacer-Corbito (tama ba?) case. Aysus! Bakit kaya iyang si Katotohanan na yan ay palagi na lang nangingibang-bansa at lagi na lang daw lalabas kapag malapit na ang eleksyon? At ang mga taong maglalabas kay Katotohanan ay lagi na lang gagawin sa ngalan ng pagtatama sa isang pagkakamali at walang kapalit anuman? Pilipino! Gumising ka na! Please lang!

Mabalik tayo sa SONA ni PGMA bago pa umusok ang bumbunan ko sa mga scripted na balita na ito. Ilan taon na ko na hindi nagbibigay pansin sa SONA ng sinumang nakaluklok na pangulo ng bansa. Bakit? Kasi sa aking palagay, ibang nation ang tinutukoy nila sa kanilang State of the Nation Address. Hindi ko alam kung may parallel dimension silang ginagalawan at iba ang kanilang description sa nation. Don’t get me wrong but I will not curse my country for being in such a situation. Im too proud to be a Pinoy in my own way. Kaya nga until now, hindi ko pa din makumbinsi ang sarili ko na mag-OFW at hanapin si pareng Future sa ibang lupa. Anyway, dapat yata State of the Other Nation ang  event na ito. O kaya State of Another Dimension. O kaya totally wag na lang gawin. Mag-announce na lang sa TV, dyaryo at radio ng ganito: Sa mga nagnanais malaman ang tunay na kalagayan ng ating bansa, mangyari po lamang na gawin ang mga sumusunod:

1. Lumabas ng bahay.
2. Subukang maghanap ng trabaho na kahanay ng kanyang pinag-aralan.
3. Subukang maghanap ng trabaho na may mataas na sweldo.
4. Pumunta sa Quiapo at maghanap ng original DVD titles.
5. Magsadya sa anumang kalye at hanapin ang walang advertisement ng sinumang politiko.
6. Pumunta sa istasyon ng pulis at subukang magreklamo ng kahit anong kaso.
7. Pumunta sa pampublikong paaralan at subukan magtanong ng estudyante tungkol sa SONA.
8. Kung may sasakyan, pumunta sa gasolinahan at magpagasolina.
9. Pumunta sa grocery at pagkasyahin ang isanlibo para sa isang buwan na pangangailangan ng pamilya.
10. Pumunta sa BIR at usisain kung lahat ng kanilang nasasakupan ay nagbabayad ng tamang buwis. Pag sumagot ng OO, magpamisa agad.
11. Dumalaw sa library at mag-research kung ilang Senate investigation na ang may appropriate conclusion.
12. Pumunta sa EDSA. Bilangin ang mga bus na sumusunod sa batas-trapiko.
13. Magpahuli sa MMDA at bilangin ang hindi tatanggap ng lagay.
14. Magsadya sa mga munisipyo at maghanap ng mga tumatanggap ng lagay.
15. Mag-apply ng driver’s license sa LTO at sabihing bulag ang isang mata. Pag hindi ka nakakuha, pabulag ka na talaga.
16. Etc. Etc.

Maging creative ka lang at marami ka pang pwedeng maisip na sukatan kung paano malalaman ang tunay na katayuan ng ating bansa.

Napansin ko din na kasama sa balita kung ilan beses pinalakpakan at binigyan ng standing ovation ang isang pangulo sa kanyang SONA. Ngunit hindi ko lubos maisip ano ang relation nito sa nilalaman ng kanyang talumpati. Ibig bang sabihin nito ay maganda ang sinabi ng pangulo at sadyang totoo lamang? O kaya ay kinabukasan pag tapos ng SONA ay maisasakatuparan na ang mga nakabinbing panukala ng bawat mambabatas? O kaya bukas bawat tao ay may kakayahan nang bumili ng sariling bahay at lupa? O kaya kinabukasan, lahat ng may kakayahang magtrabaho ay makakapagtrabaho na? Kung ganon ang mangyayari, pati na rin ako ay papalakpak at mag-ii-standing ovation na rin sa harap ng telebisyon!

Alam naman natin na it will take more than one person to change the country. Or at least, change the way the country or the government is ran. There is a lot of dynamics to be considered. We cannot just focus on the one person who stands in front of us and tell us tales about the affairs of our beloved country. In fact, it will take the whole population to effect any change that we would want. What changes? That is  another matter altogether.

History repeats itself, sabi nga ng marami. Pero dito sa bansa natin, history repeats itself almost everyday. Next year, may circus na naman pagdating ng Mayo. Babaha na naman ng komedya sa mga entablado ng kandidatura. Lalabas na naman ang mga tagapagsalba ng sambayanang Pilipino. Maghahasik na naman ng mga pangako ng kaginhawahan at yaman sa bawat dukha. Lilipad na naman ang mga pahayag laban sa graft and corruption. At higit sa lahat, pag tapos ng mga moro-moro at komedya, ibabandera muli ng magwawagi ang State of the Nation Address. O kaya ang State of the Other Nation. O kaya ang State of Another Dimension.

What do you do when you are bored?

I can think of many ways to fight boredom. But acting on it is a different matter. Sometimes I just let boredom take its course and, in most probability, it will just go away. Then something will present itself to be done.

For instance, I am writing for my blog because boredom got bored with me and pushed me to do something. Right? I think so. Or maybe there is another word for it. Procrastination. Don’t you think so? Yeah maybe it is. Procrastination at its best.

I have been procrastinating the rest of my life. Things I should have done eons ago remains undone. My graduation diploma. My career direction. My marriage. My entire life.

Once, I heard myself say “you can never be sure of anything whether it will hit or miss. You can only increase the probability of that thing hitting or missing.” I asked myself whether this holds true or not. And until now I am not able to answer that question.

Maybe when I am not bored anymore. Or maybe when I’m not procrastinating anymore. Who knows?

A Pathetic Day in a Pathetic Place

I woke up this morning feeling kind of refreshed from last night’s “mall tour”. I accompanied my girlfriend to buy her cellphone. It’s like accompanying any girl to buy her shoes or clothes or whatever things she might have in mind. You wander endlessly and discuss sensibly (or at least try to) what brand and style would fit her. Then, when I helped her out by having her new phone started, I found out she labeled my numbers (I got 3 mobile numbers) “Father-G***e, Father-S***t and Father-S*n, respectively, I cant help but wonder “what-the-hell?!!!”. Do I look like her father when we go out? So as not to dampen my spirit more, I let it pass.

I started my work in the office quite early. Not exactly work, as I checked my emails and stuff. I also surfed the internet for any significant (really?!!) matter just to pass the time away. I bumped into one of my buddies sometime in the afternoon. He told me something that really took my day away from me.

It seems detractors will always find a way to make your lovely day go awry. I just don’t know how they are able to live their whole lives with one thing in mind: to seek and destroy any unassuming bystander. Pathetic, isn’t it? Don’t you think it’s pathetic that your main job is to spy on people and make reports about what they do in the office? Don’t you find it pathetic that all you are doing is to stare into a CCTV monitor and hope that something interesting will happen? Don’t you find it pathetic to wait for lunch time and pick your brown bag from your vehicle and eat on your own? Don’t you find it pathetic to await for someone to play chess with you? God! Get a life!