Love Generation - Bob Sinclar
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April 07, 2006
April 06, 2006
IT'S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME
The news this morning said something about the avian flu finally hitting the United Kingdom. Swans were found dead in Scotland and it's highly suspected that it's because of the H5N1 virus. Similarly, domestic chicken are being culled in a certain part of Germany after an outbreak of the virus in several farms.
So the virus decided to take an western route rather than hitting us directly here in the Philippines. After China, it swept through Africa and Eastern Europe. Now it's in Germany and the UK. Will it make the big jump across the Atlantic towards East Coast United States? From there, who knows how it will spread? Pretty soon it will be here.
Buti na lang libre ang facemask sa office namin.
The news this morning said something about the avian flu finally hitting the United Kingdom. Swans were found dead in Scotland and it's highly suspected that it's because of the H5N1 virus. Similarly, domestic chicken are being culled in a certain part of Germany after an outbreak of the virus in several farms.
So the virus decided to take an western route rather than hitting us directly here in the Philippines. After China, it swept through Africa and Eastern Europe. Now it's in Germany and the UK. Will it make the big jump across the Atlantic towards East Coast United States? From there, who knows how it will spread? Pretty soon it will be here.
Buti na lang libre ang facemask sa office namin.
April 05, 2006
ME (tagged from nonvocabulum)
1. Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18 and find line 4.
I just realized something... I don't keep a single book in my cubicle!
2. Stretch your left arm out as far as you can, what do you find?
A box of coffee sachets.
3. What is the last thing you watched on TV?
Anthony Bourdain's No Reservation, on Asia Discovery Channel Travel and Living.
4. With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?
My two officemates chatting while having breakfast.
5. When did you last step outside? What were you doing?
30 minutes ago. I was smoking.
6. Before you started this survey, what did you look at?
Novocalum blog.
7. What are you wearing?
Flannel gray button shirt and jeans.
8. Did you dream last night?
I don't remember my dreams.
9. When did you last laugh?
Two nights ago, when I watched Ice Age 2.
10. What is on the walls of the room you are in?
Post it notes. I listed all the companies I plan to send my resume to in the next six months.
11. Seen anything weird lately?
I'm in the Philippines. Everything is weird.
12. What do you think of this quiz?
It helps me to get my creative juices going. I need to submit my travel plans to my boss and I have to justify why I'll be staying for two weeks in Hong Kong.
13. What is the last film you saw?
Ice Age 2 and Moments of Love. Kilig!
14. If you turned a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy?
A condo unit at One Roxas Triangle, and a Hummer H2.
15. Tell me something about you that I don’t know.
If I do that I'll have to kill you.
16. If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt and politics, what would you do?
Give everybody free broadband internet.
17. Do you like to dance?
Yes.
18. George Bush.
Loser.
19. Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?
Bianca.
20. Imagine your first child is a boy, what would you call him?
Agustin.
21. Would you ever consider living abroad?
Are you kidding?!
22. What would you want God to say to you when you reach the pearly gates?
"Why are you here?"
23. 4 people who must also do this meme.
Anybody. I don't know if anybody still reads this blog anyway.
1. Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18 and find line 4.
I just realized something... I don't keep a single book in my cubicle!
2. Stretch your left arm out as far as you can, what do you find?
A box of coffee sachets.
3. What is the last thing you watched on TV?
Anthony Bourdain's No Reservation, on Asia Discovery Channel Travel and Living.
4. With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?
My two officemates chatting while having breakfast.
5. When did you last step outside? What were you doing?
30 minutes ago. I was smoking.
6. Before you started this survey, what did you look at?
Novocalum blog.
7. What are you wearing?
Flannel gray button shirt and jeans.
8. Did you dream last night?
I don't remember my dreams.
9. When did you last laugh?
Two nights ago, when I watched Ice Age 2.
10. What is on the walls of the room you are in?
Post it notes. I listed all the companies I plan to send my resume to in the next six months.
11. Seen anything weird lately?
I'm in the Philippines. Everything is weird.
12. What do you think of this quiz?
It helps me to get my creative juices going. I need to submit my travel plans to my boss and I have to justify why I'll be staying for two weeks in Hong Kong.
13. What is the last film you saw?
Ice Age 2 and Moments of Love. Kilig!
14. If you turned a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy?
A condo unit at One Roxas Triangle, and a Hummer H2.
15. Tell me something about you that I don’t know.
If I do that I'll have to kill you.
16. If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt and politics, what would you do?
Give everybody free broadband internet.
17. Do you like to dance?
Yes.
18. George Bush.
Loser.
19. Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?
Bianca.
20. Imagine your first child is a boy, what would you call him?
Agustin.
21. Would you ever consider living abroad?
Are you kidding?!
22. What would you want God to say to you when you reach the pearly gates?
"Why are you here?"
23. 4 people who must also do this meme.
Anybody. I don't know if anybody still reads this blog anyway.
March 24, 2006
SAY THAT AGAIN?
So my officemate and I were horsing around in this hotel in Chang An city, in the Chinese province of Dongguan. Chang An isn't really like Shanghai, which is a well developed city. It's one of those satellite cities selected to host technoparks, which are sites for endless factory buildings churning fine merchandise worthy of the likes of Walmart. Anyway, so we're here at the only five star hotel in the area. It's 2 o'clock in the morning and we just came back from dinner and a massage. Nothing to talk about the massage, really. I didn't get any action.
It's a pretty big hotel. A LOT bigger than Shangrila Makati. It's really extravagant, with a lobby that leaves you breathless. But you see, you're still in China. And people here don't speak very good conversational English. It's like you're hearing something off from a textbook when you talk with them. And when they do try to say something they hear from Western TV, it doesn't sound quite right. Case in point: There's a karaoke/bar in the hotel. We know it closes at around 3am. So we come up to the receptionist and ask what else to do, aside from singing and drinks.
She says, "Oh, you just missed the song, dance, and sex."
WHOA?! SEX? Did she just say sex?
"What?" I asked. "There's song, dance, and what else?"
"Sex."
"Sex?"
"Yes." Then she proceeds to put both her hands in front, and wraps around an imaginary shaft. "Sex!"
"Really?"
Then she turns to the stage and points towards, of all things, a saxophone.
This country never ceases to amuse me.
And oh, just to let you know, this is typical fare for business lunch in this area.
So my officemate and I were horsing around in this hotel in Chang An city, in the Chinese province of Dongguan. Chang An isn't really like Shanghai, which is a well developed city. It's one of those satellite cities selected to host technoparks, which are sites for endless factory buildings churning fine merchandise worthy of the likes of Walmart. Anyway, so we're here at the only five star hotel in the area. It's 2 o'clock in the morning and we just came back from dinner and a massage. Nothing to talk about the massage, really. I didn't get any action.
It's a pretty big hotel. A LOT bigger than Shangrila Makati. It's really extravagant, with a lobby that leaves you breathless. But you see, you're still in China. And people here don't speak very good conversational English. It's like you're hearing something off from a textbook when you talk with them. And when they do try to say something they hear from Western TV, it doesn't sound quite right. Case in point: There's a karaoke/bar in the hotel. We know it closes at around 3am. So we come up to the receptionist and ask what else to do, aside from singing and drinks.
She says, "Oh, you just missed the song, dance, and sex."
WHOA?! SEX? Did she just say sex?
"What?" I asked. "There's song, dance, and what else?"
"Sex."
"Sex?"
"Yes." Then she proceeds to put both her hands in front, and wraps around an imaginary shaft. "Sex!"
"Really?"
Then she turns to the stage and points towards, of all things, a saxophone.
This country never ceases to amuse me.
And oh, just to let you know, this is typical fare for business lunch in this area.
March 15, 2006
I'M SO INSENSITIVE
And just when you thought the world couldn't be any more stranger, or more unfair, than it already is, you run across this piece of news that leaves you not knowing whether to laugh or to sympathize.
And just when you thought the world couldn't be any more stranger, or more unfair, than it already is, you run across this piece of news that leaves you not knowing whether to laugh or to sympathize.
March 09, 2006
A TYPICAL DAY
5:00 I wake up
5:05 Start making breakfast. Usually coffee and a cup of oatmeal.
5:15 Sit down. Watch TV. Eat breakfast.
5:30 Watch TV.
6:00 Still watching TV.
6:30 Still watching.
7:00 Take a bath.
7:15 Get dressed.
7:30 Out of the house.
7:40 In the car. Off to work.
8:45 In the office.
9:00 Boot up computer. Work.
12:00 Lunch
1:30 Back from lunch.
1:35 Back to work.
7:00 Drive back home.
8:30 Back home.
8:35 Dinner
9:00 Take a bath.
9:15 Watch TV.
11:00 Sleep.
Today's a little different. I actually managed to take 15 minutes to remind everyone in Bloggerland I'm still alive.
How's your day?
5:00 I wake up
5:05 Start making breakfast. Usually coffee and a cup of oatmeal.
5:15 Sit down. Watch TV. Eat breakfast.
5:30 Watch TV.
6:00 Still watching TV.
6:30 Still watching.
7:00 Take a bath.
7:15 Get dressed.
7:30 Out of the house.
7:40 In the car. Off to work.
8:45 In the office.
9:00 Boot up computer. Work.
12:00 Lunch
1:30 Back from lunch.
1:35 Back to work.
7:00 Drive back home.
8:30 Back home.
8:35 Dinner
9:00 Take a bath.
9:15 Watch TV.
11:00 Sleep.
Today's a little different. I actually managed to take 15 minutes to remind everyone in Bloggerland I'm still alive.
How's your day?
January 02, 2006
November 30, 2005
MIDLIFE CRISIS, MEDIA HARASSMENT, AMONG OTHER THINGS
When it rains, it pours. Depression is starting to sink in. Things have not progressed significantly at work. I still spend the better part of the day browsing from one website to another, and though this may not be totally bad, it gave me a chance to touch base with long lost email friends. Other than that, I feel I'm now totally up to date with what's going on with the world around me. I think I can join any online trivia contests and I'll leave you all eating dust in my wake. That's how good I am now. That's how much free time I have.
I wish I could just tell you about what's really eating me. But not just yet. I'm still hoping I'll get that phonecall which could possibly change my life forever. It's been almost a month since that meeting, but I feel like they've left me hanging. Nothing surprising really, considering that they've done this before, but now that it's happening on such a critical juncture, it's just so frustrating that they do this. I'm still hoping. I just don't know how I'll react if things don't go the way I want them.
So here, I'm trying to live life by the day. Waiting. Surfing. And getting my car crashed yet again. Happened last Friday. Terrible traffic on C5, at that U-turn slot in front of BMW Autohaus. I was making a left hand turn at the slot then wham, got hit up my Lancer's ass by a spanking new Nissan X-trail. There was the usual fanfare: traffic so bad the tail end must've reached Ortigas flyover; two irate drivers, of course I was the cooler one, but irate nonetheless. Things soured when we were Camp Karingal for the investigation. The other driver, it turned out, was driving his wife's company car, an issue from GMA Channel 7. You should've seen the wife! She was strutting up and down the police station, with her media ID pinned for everyone to see! Names were dropped and wallah!, poor Sisig was found to be at fault.
SPO2 Patulot! Hindi kita tatantanan, anak ka ng tipaklong!! Wala akong pakialam kung kumpare mo si Gus Abelgas pero sa pagkakataong ito, magpaliwanag ka!! How did you ever graduate from police school? Simpleng banggaan lang hindi mo malaman kung sino may kasalanan, ano pa kaya kung ma-rape ang misis mo? Hay... it's cops like you who make me feel so ashamed I'm Pinoy.
Anyway, that episode is done and over with. Unless you want me to get into the details of how the wife called me on a Sunday afternoon demanding she get a copy of my insurance policy. Ok. It's now with you. But let's just see how easy it will be for you to actually get anything out of it. Don't tell me I didn't offer to settle ha?
So much angst, so early in the day. Gotta stop. I need my yosi break.
When it rains, it pours. Depression is starting to sink in. Things have not progressed significantly at work. I still spend the better part of the day browsing from one website to another, and though this may not be totally bad, it gave me a chance to touch base with long lost email friends. Other than that, I feel I'm now totally up to date with what's going on with the world around me. I think I can join any online trivia contests and I'll leave you all eating dust in my wake. That's how good I am now. That's how much free time I have.
I wish I could just tell you about what's really eating me. But not just yet. I'm still hoping I'll get that phonecall which could possibly change my life forever. It's been almost a month since that meeting, but I feel like they've left me hanging. Nothing surprising really, considering that they've done this before, but now that it's happening on such a critical juncture, it's just so frustrating that they do this. I'm still hoping. I just don't know how I'll react if things don't go the way I want them.
So here, I'm trying to live life by the day. Waiting. Surfing. And getting my car crashed yet again. Happened last Friday. Terrible traffic on C5, at that U-turn slot in front of BMW Autohaus. I was making a left hand turn at the slot then wham, got hit up my Lancer's ass by a spanking new Nissan X-trail. There was the usual fanfare: traffic so bad the tail end must've reached Ortigas flyover; two irate drivers, of course I was the cooler one, but irate nonetheless. Things soured when we were Camp Karingal for the investigation. The other driver, it turned out, was driving his wife's company car, an issue from GMA Channel 7. You should've seen the wife! She was strutting up and down the police station, with her media ID pinned for everyone to see! Names were dropped and wallah!, poor Sisig was found to be at fault.
SPO2 Patulot! Hindi kita tatantanan, anak ka ng tipaklong!! Wala akong pakialam kung kumpare mo si Gus Abelgas pero sa pagkakataong ito, magpaliwanag ka!! How did you ever graduate from police school? Simpleng banggaan lang hindi mo malaman kung sino may kasalanan, ano pa kaya kung ma-rape ang misis mo? Hay... it's cops like you who make me feel so ashamed I'm Pinoy.
Anyway, that episode is done and over with. Unless you want me to get into the details of how the wife called me on a Sunday afternoon demanding she get a copy of my insurance policy. Ok. It's now with you. But let's just see how easy it will be for you to actually get anything out of it. Don't tell me I didn't offer to settle ha?
So much angst, so early in the day. Gotta stop. I need my yosi break.
November 10, 2005
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