Saturday, March 23, 2002
Nagising ang bahay sa isang mabahong amoy. Parang merong nabubulok. Parang merong namatay. Hinalughog namin ang taas at ang baba hanggang makita namin ang labi ng isang mayang walang buhay na nakasiksik sa pagitan ng dalawang maleta.
Nakakatakot isipin ngunit nagsisilbing isang malaking pangitain ba ito sa maaaring mangyari bukas sa aking paglipad? Tinadhana na yata ito kung gayon. Isang mapait na katotohanan ang pagkilala sa katapusan. Ni hindi man lang ako binigyan ng pagkakataong pumili at magpasya.
10:19 AM
Friday, March 22, 2002
Spider-Man
The boss asked me how am I. Boy, it's been a while since we talked about it. He refreshed my memory when I was called to his office because I was about to resign. I think that was March of 2001.
That's a good question. So how am I? Honestly. I haven't attempted to answer that question until last night. It was hard. I have to admit I'm having fun with what I'm doing right now. Who would think that I'd be handling a channel at only 25?! I also have to admit that there were and there still are angsts. But in the end, I still go to the office. Despite not having a weekend. Despite being overworked. I haven't realized these things until he asked me.
I guess it would be great if i had more time. But I guess that would be leaning more into wishful thinking. I wished I had time to walk Zagu, to rebuild my relationship with Myles, to have a social life, to enjoy the mountain bike. Maybe my body is asking me to give it a break. That could explain why I'm late all the time in the office.
A raise will be more than welcome. That would really help me pay the bills with this other company I'm working for - Citibank. Yes, I work for the credit card company.
But I still wake up up in morning and go back to the office. And I stay there late.
I guess now I know what to answer the next time the boss asks me how am I.
"How am I? I'm Spider-Man".
12:30 AM
Thursday, March 21, 2002
The TXTjock's Song
Something to sing to make time fly
Two thousand text messages waiting on the page.
Two thousand waiting text messages.
You moderate one out.
You publish it on air.
One thousand, nine hundred ninety-nine text messages on the page
One thousand, nine hundred ninety-nine text messages waiting on the page.
One thousand, nine hundred ninety-nine waiting text messages.
You moderate one out.
You publish it on air.
One thousand, nine hundred ninety-eight text messages waiting on the page.
(Continue singing until death occurs)
10:53 PM
Babay!
Bukas ang aking huling araw bago ang aking bakasyon. Malamang, bukas rin ang huling araw kong makikita ang aking dalawang kaibigang aalis na. Ibig ko sana silang pigilan, pero wala din naman akong magagawa lalo na't pamilya ang rason. Ano namang magagawa ko dun kung ako mismo'y naghihikahos? Ano pa nga ba kundi lunukin ang sama ng loob. Pinasasalamatan ko sila sa lahat, ipinagdarasal ang kanilang tagumpay, at umaasa sa pagkikitang muli.
Taliwas sa sinasabi ng karamihan
naniniwala akong nakatutulong ng husto
ang pagkakaroon ng alkohol sa katawan.
Higit na dumudulas ang dila.
Higit din itong tumatalas.
10:46 PM
Monday, March 18, 2002
Last Week
Huling linggo bago ang isang linggong bakasyon. Kakayanin ko na ito.
9:30 AM
Saturday, March 16, 2002
Miss, walang bang extra?
It was sweldo day yesterday and we decided to splurge at the local massage place. We had fun in the jacuzzi watching an episode of Survivor Marquesas before the hour-long swedish massage. On this note, I'd like to thank God for not letting my dick embarass me in front of the miss. Because of its proper conduct, I think I will treat it later. Hahahahaha!
10:39 AM
Thursday, March 14, 2002
Magaling mag-balance si God
Have you ever heard this phrase before? Sabi nila magaling magbalanse si God. Kung pangit ang person physically, binibigyan Niya ng redeeming factor. Kung ubod naman ng ganda at yaman ng isa, meron din namang qualities that would keep her feet on the ground.
On this note, I overheard this last night from one of my TXTjocks, who is a contender for this year's Miss Malabon Pageant: "Hey guys! Have you tried playing Battle Reyalms?"
Yari. Ang galing talagang mag-balance ni God!
Oo nga pala. Bago ko malimutan, nais kong batiin ng isang maligayang kaarawan ang aking kaibigang si QT.
9:28 AM
Tuesday, March 12, 2002
We have a brand new spanking printer - an Epson Stylus C50! On another note, we're burying the old one this evening. The service will be tonight at 7:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to the Tahanang Walang Printer Foundation.
I am sick. My colds are terrible and my throat is sore. I called my buddy at the office and told him that I'll probably do a half-day today. Actually, I'm thinking of just doing the meeting and then go back home. I hope the Nanette Medved event tonight doesn't push through.
10:27 AM
Sunday, March 10, 2002
Thoughts on a Sunday Afternoon
If the beanbags by Mark's area had sex, how would you determine which one is male and which on is female? Also, if they produce an offspring, would their volume drastically be reduced for the third beanbag?
Happy birthday to my first ex. She's now 27 years old. I dropped by her party last night to meet with some old college friends. I was hoping to meet her Snuffleupagus. He wasn't there.
Got home at 5:00 a.m.
2:01 PM
Saturday, March 09, 2002
The Queen of the Damned is a Vampire
Queen of the Damned is like a vampire - it sucked big time!
For those who haven't read the novel, you'll either be bored to death trying to figure out the stupid story, or bored to death that you wouldn't care figuring out what the story was all about.
For those who read the novel, my advise to you is stay away from watching the film. I'm serious here!
I miss biking to the office. I wish we had shower rooms. I would've given up that lousy bar for a decent shower room.
I think it was a few days ago when it finally dawned on me that it has been five years since I had a girlfriend.
On the same note, I have a cute OJT coming in this April.
Yeba!
6:48 PM
The laziness has landed. After more than three weeks without a break, I don't feel like going to work on a weekend. I need a break. My mind begs for it. Everytime I pass by the living room, my bikes are calling me. "Ride me, ride me," they said.
After seven years of service, our printer finally gave up. We all agreed that it's time to retire the old bastard and get ourselves a new one. Going back, it was the state-of-the-art in 1995 - 720 x 720 dpi full color printing. I did a lot of production programmes using that baby. The Exclamation Point underground publication project was one of her offsprings along with several copies of Tinajeros' SK newsletter. Those were the days.This is weird. It's like saying goodbye to an old friend.
10:30 AM
Friday, March 08, 2002
Beginning of the (week)End
Today is the day. This is it. The big kahuna. Arrived at the office early - 9:17 a.m. Now I know what you must be saying here - that's not fucking early! Well you really have to take it from my point of view - I go home at 12 midnight. So there.
Now back to the main topic. We have an important meeting today at 10:00 a.m. and everyone in the team is asked to attend. I believe It's time to let the cat out of the bag. Was that right? It's time show your cards. Add to this all your favorite cliches. It's another musical chairs game all over again.
When will the music stop? Nobody knows.
We're watching Queen of the Damned tonight at Louie's THX. I think that theater has a new name. I just checked the tickets and it's now called Premiere THX Cinema. I will not be surprised if they called it the Jose dela Cruz Memorial Theater for the Deaf and Blind. Who gives a fuck? Aaliyah is dead. That would really add to the creepiness of this film. Cool.
9:48 AM
Wednesday, March 06, 2002
Executive Katulong, at your service
Just got back from the 14th floor. Don't you just hate it when account executives bug you for their own presentation? This one asked me to go all the way to the 14th floor to scan her VHS tape and look for the ad! I found the ad right away, no problem with that. It just pains me to see that these people do not do their homework. It's their presentation anyway. It's their job. Shouldn't they spend the whole night last night preparing for it?
3:45 PM
I just got to the office and there is a faint scent of a candle burning. I don't know if my officemates got the the scent too. Maybe it was just me. M is not here. She's usually the one who has a lighted candle by her work station.
According to Filipino folklore, they say that when you smell a candle burning, it means that a spirit is visiting you. Or it could mean a bad omen. For the spirit, I pray for you that you may find peace. I also pray that no bad thing will happen to me, my friends and family.
12:04 PM
Tuesday, March 05, 2002
And God gave me the sign
I prayed for a sign. I'm hoping that he'd tell me what to do. I asked for stars. Yes, that would be good. That's something you don't see everyday. So I pray for stars. Show me stars, dear God. Show me the star before I go to the office. That would be your sign to me.
And I saw a dilapidated parol on one of posts of an island near the intersection. Obviously it wasn't taken out by the City cleaners. No, that can't be it. Show me another.
7:45 PM
Sunday, March 03, 2002
A Level Two Employee with a Level One Job
I am a slave of the capitalist world. It's a Sunday today and I am still in the office. Same as yesterday. Same as last week. Same as weeks past. And unless I can get someone to substitute, I think I'm facing a similar fate next week.
In here, we have a community of guys and girls who are stay in the office on weekends. Same faces. Same stuff to do. Images of Efren's San Miguel commercial flashes into my mind - "Tayo-tayo din naman ang magkikita sa finals."
I want my tabo!
In our posh new office, we have a state-of-the-art rest room, complete with urinals that flushes automatically and hand dryers with sensors. But in this country, you can't really take out the Filipino culture.
The supposed liquid soap, for instance, smells strangely familiar to the shampoos beauty parlors from the kanto uses. And sometimes it doesn't smell like shampoo at all but hair conditioner! So now the hairs on our hands are really healthy and shiny. Cool huh?
Why do we force ourselves to use toilet paper? We are Pinoys and toilet paper is so western. Is it because we are so westernized that we have to have it instead? So if we're in Demolition Man's World, we'd probably be using the three shells.
I've never learned using that until I was in high school. When I was a kid, we use water and soap! And even now I still look for the makeshift water containers/dippers that the guards and other blue collar workers use. The question is why not issue one tabo and soap per cubicle? That would be more useful. Plus the employees will have cleaner and less itchy asses. Hahahahahaha!
7:46 PM
Saturday, March 02, 2002
Maraming salamat
Evil-O
Sa pagbahagi ng iyong sarili.
Maganda ka.
3:38 PM
Friday, March 01, 2002
Heavenly Dessert for only P10!
If you haven't tried the butterscotch sundae McDip from McDonald's, then you're missing a good part of your life. That sundae cone dipped in butterscotch is really an adventure to the tastebuds! And all for only P10. Not bad, eh!
In a serious discussion in our office pantry, we can conclude that the butterscotch in McDonald's Sundae McDip is made from two things and two things only -- butter and scotch. This explains the exquisite flavor.
Holy Week quotable quote
Hey! Wouldn't you know it, it's March already and the Holy Week is just around the corner! Yeba!
Overheard from a conversation: "Good thing Christ died or we'll never have a vacation!" The Philippines is such a Catholic country, wouldn't you say so? Hehehehe!
I don't know if I said this already. I could be wrong, but don't you think the ultimate goal of the Singles for Christ people is to meet their partner and be Doubles... este... Couples for Christ?
PurpleCat now black and blue
Heard what happened to the Cat? She fell down a flight of stairs! Too bad. Now the Cat can't go to the gym anymore. Bummer.
8:26 AM
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