Wednesday, October 30, 2002
It's Wednesday but it felt like a Friday with all the work. Thank God for the long break. Whew!
7:06 PM
Friday, October 25, 2002
Friday night and I'm still in the office.
I do not get text messages from Morny and Rumel anymore. They're now in their own world of playing billiards, having night outs at Countryside in Katipunan, and watching Star Trek Voyager. The first two I can still relate to, but I guess I'm not too much of a geek to be a trekkie.
I want to go biking tomorrow in Batangas. What I find weird is there is a part of me that doesn't want to go there for now. Shadows of an unfinished mall and memories of the Batangas home haunt me. I wish we didn't push through with that project. I wonder what life would've been if we chose to stay put and be content instead. But here we are and here I am. What's done is done and the only thing that we can do is make the best of what we have now. Still, I can't seem to look at Francis straight in the eyes. I can see his disappointment. And I don't want to show what's in mine.
When I was driving at Gilmore the other day, I saw something I was really not expecting - they were already selling parols. Only then did I realize how close it is to Christmas. This afternoon, my boss told us to submit our Christmas list.
Christmas. Now that's a thought. I'm not looking for anything spectacular this year. I don't want to set myself up again for another fall. The only thing I'm wishing for is a warmer one. I just want to feel the season. Haven't felt it for quite some time now.
It's a Friday night and I'm still in the office. I need a breather. Thank God for blogs.
8:25 PM
Thursday, October 24, 2002
It's Thursday and the bosses aren't here in the office. They're somewhere in Tagaytay planning for the stuff we'll do next year. Hmmm. Don't you find that ironic? Come to think of it, shouldn't we be in Tagaytay, too? I mean we'll be the ones doing the dirty work anyway. (Oh yeah! I forgot! We already had our own planning session disguised as a break from work.)
10:50 AM
Wednesday, October 23, 2002
I see you
I see the little things that you do
And that fact that I see this when others don't
Makes me feel so lucky
2:13 PM
Sunday, October 20, 2002
Celebrate milestones no matter how small it may be. After doing another photo finish miracle in launching the channel in Bacolod, I texted my boss to tell him that we're up. His reply: great but we're down in Manila. I didn't bother texting him back. We went out and celebrated our achievements ourselves. Asshole.
4:35 PM
Monday, October 14, 2002
In a few hours I'll be leaving for Iloilo to set-up our channel there. I pray everything will go as smoothly as the time when we did the set-up for Cebu and Davao. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I sure hope this thing works. I really hate letting go of some of my team members. They sacrificed a lot to make this work.
I'll be gone for a week. We had dinner tonight at Avenetto in Visayas Avenue. I picked her up at 7:30 in her place and chatted throughout the drive. She told me she hasn't been in this place yet, so I ordered some of my favorites - fried crabsticks, nut pesto with seafood pasta, and a seafood pizza. After that we chatted for a while before I drove her home. It made me feel weird. Somehow it felt so natural. I ask myself why is it when it is actually anything but that.
I'm consciously telling myself to hit the brakes. Tell me if you know how.
I'm actually not that excited with this trip as with my previous trip to Cebu. I'm leaving a lot of work behind and I don't know if Moby can handle it. Lately he doesn't seem to be excited with what he's doing. Whenever I look at his screen he'd either be chatting in mIRC with his friends on his band, checking up on the football news or just listening to music. Don't get me wrong. He handles the moderators pretty well. But after more than two years in the company, it's time to move on and handle more responsibility. With my absence, I hope he wakes up and matures.
One of the things I'm looking forward with this trip is the time to reflect on my personal goals -- looking from where I came and seeing where I'm heading to. Today I'm living one day at a time, but it can't go on like this forever. I need to mature, too.
I guess that's it for now. Good luck to us.
12:02 AM
Thursday, October 10, 2002
Quotable Quote for the day
"Her time spent with me is time not spent with the boyfriend.
A text message sent to me is one less text credit for the boyfriend."
7:07 PM
Monday, October 07, 2002
Forwarded Text
Here's a forwarded text message which circulated after the UAAP championship game:
Quote for the day:
"As long as I'm playing for La Salle, Ateneo will never win a championship."
- BJ Manalo, 1999
Gago! Please pass hanggang umabot kay Manalo.
Thank you very much to the Hail Mary squad.
10:51 AM
Thursday, October 03, 2002
DEMAND AND SUPPLY
Boo Chanco
The Philippine Star
If you have been following the championship round of the UAAP basketball tournament, you will get the feeling that the Ateneo team is pretty much like the country. Halfway through the season, you would have given it up as a hopeless basket case. How, you must have wondered, can this team hope to dislodge the champions La Salle, if it allows easy victories over weaker teams to slip past them? Even my UP beloved, not known to be of champion breed, won over them.
Then the Ateneo team sprung a surprise - a string of victories that landed them precariously, among the top four and eventually, a secure position to challenge the champion team. The Ateneo team surprises us further by beating the champion team twice.
While they were at their best, the Ateneans displayed what's great with this country when we Pinoys put our minds on something, like Edsa 1. There was teamwork, no superstars who must shine at the expense of the team, everyone knew their roles and played them and you can sense an almost systematic conquest of the foe. They knew they had to win or it is all over. Pinoys behave like this abroad because they know they must be at their best or else. We behaved that way during EDSA 1, because we knew Marcos and Ver would slaughter us, if we behaved like everyday Pinoys.
Of course the Ateneans lost last Sunday because like most Pinoys on a winning streak, they succumbed to the temptation to relax prematurely. Something like the week after Edsa 2. The Ateneans overestimated their abilities and underestimated the desire of the other team to redeem themselves. The Ateneans didn't seem to feel the same pressure they did the last two times they faced La Salle because last Sunday, they knew they could lose and live to play the last game. That attitude also explains why Edsa 3 happened.
How will it all end? It is entirely possible that Ateneo, the team that almost got eliminated, will end up the champions. We know they have what it takes to be champions. But they don't seem to have the discipline nor the obviously honed skills of La Salle to make it a sure thing. There is a little bit of the bahala na for Ateneo, which makes them interesting and maddening.
At some point in the season, you wanted to impeach Ateneo coach, Joel Banal for losing to the non-entities in the league. You yearn for coach Joe Lipa or Fernando Poe or anyone who can maximize the productivity of the team. It is the same feeling you have for Ate Glo, as measured by the latest polls. Like Joel Banal, she may be good and professional but unable to make the most of this talented but seemingly unmotivated, unorganized bunch. We need someone who knows how to make gems out of these raw diamonds.
In ASEAN terms, La Salle seems more like Singapore, methodical, well trained, successful and maybe a little boring. Given their precision, you wonder if La Salle's team is ISO-certified. Ateneo's more like the unpredictable Pinoys, surviving on sheer guts, native talent and a lot of hubris from the stands. You can't out shout them even when they are down and out.
But like Pinoys today, they need a Dick Gordon to cheer them on. You can almost imagine what the Ateneo team (or the Pinoy nation, for that matter) could be if it had a little more system, a little more faith in themselves and not so faint of heart so as to falter when pressure builds up at the homestretch.
I guess that's what makes them (and us) interesting. You never know what they (or we) will deliver until they (or we) do. The Ateneo team thrives as an underdog. They are so Pinoy. And you know how being a Pinoy is an adventure in itself. And that's what makes Ateneo a team to cheer for, even if you aren't an Atenean. You feel like you are cheering for yourself, for your hopeless and pathetic country. You know.the only one you've got.
10:08 AM
Tuesday, October 01, 2002
My brother woke up early this morning and went to the Araneta Coliseum at five o' clock in the morning to line up for tickets for this Saturday's Ateneo-La Salle game. He was supposed to bring Liza, our househelp, so he could get four (one person can only by a maximum of two), but we told him to get the tickets himself. When he got there, he got the shock of his life. At five o' clock in the morning, there was already a long, long line of people. He got so disappointed that he went home and slept instead.
10:33 AM
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