just because I’m bored

February 10, 2007

You Are The Star

You represent the ultimate in truth and purity. Insightful and illuminating, you provide guidance for others. You also demonstrate unselfish, unconditional love. You posses many spiritual gifts, including the ability to heal. Your fortune: Your future is looking brighter by the day. The near future will be a time of both hope and healing. Luck is about to come your way, perhaps the best luck you have ever seen. Life is about to get a lot easier and much better!

What Tarot Card Are You?

 

 

Sabi na nga ba STAR ako! istariray! hahaha!

you are 23 years old

February 9, 2007

You Are 23 Years Old

Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe. 13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world. 20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what’s to come… love, work, and new experiences. 30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You’ve had a taste of success and true love, but you want more! 40+: You are a mature adult. You’ve been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.

What Age Do You Act?

 

Yey! I’m acting my age! hehe..

thinking allowed

February 8, 2007

I used to love political discussions. I actually enjoyed my Political Science class in college. But lately, I’ve become very apathetic. Perhaps, the idealistic mamamayan in me is dying because reality is biting me hard. Who among the tax-paying law-abiding (second thoughts here) citizens like us won’t feel that way when everytime you look at our payslips, a large amount goes to tax. And then there goes ’Dito po napupunta ang tax na binabayaran nyo (font n) sa tulong ni {insert trapo here (font n x 20)}. Nakakapikon di ba?

Just last weekend when I went to Batangas, a undoubtedly good-quality concrete road is being bulldozed. It will be replaced by better-quality material. My gawd! How much is that worth again? Why do they allocate our very scarce resource fund to something that does not need allocation (an allocation for reconstruction is way far-off to simple maintenance) and leave those that need funding unconsidered. Well, election is near and having projects on roads would at least give higher exposure of their names. The hell with election!

Speaking of election, I don’t have plans of voting this time. I always say that we should practice our rights but I felt that it’s not worth practicing anymore. Anyway, surveys say that a large percentage of the youth don’t want to vote this election anymore. I hope whoever gets elected will take that as a cue that winning doesn’t guarantee public trust. I doubt if they will consider that at any rate.

Look at these showbiz personalities trying to have a seat in the government. Richard Gomez, Ara Mina, Manny Pacquiao, Lito Lapid, et cetera et cetera. E mas mahirap pa mag-apply na security guard kesa tumakbo sa election e. Look at these trapos who change parties and sides. Today opposition. Tomorrow administration. What’s next? What kind of principles do they have?

To the voters this May: Thinking is allowed. oh puhleeez! As for me, my stand not to vote is not a sign of apathy. It’s a sign that I don’t settle for anything less. For my part, I’ll just keep my tax-paying law-abiding self and believe like the multitudes out there that there is still hope for the Philippines.

Thinking allowed… tsk tsk! Just thinking aloud!

law and order and disorder

February 7, 2007

February 7, 2007 

Three things that keep me busy lately:

House MD - When I’m at the office I watch House on www.peekvid.com and on my spare time I update some files for work… haha. Ginagawa ko nang palabigasan ang Sykes. haha. Please Chuck Sykes bossing, wag mo tatanggalin ang mga video sites dahil ito ang motivation namin para pumunta sa OSMA! haha. Kung gusto po nyong magtipid, may hinanda na ko *10 Pt Plan to Save Sykes Resources.

Ally McBeal - thanks to piracy I got to watch Ally McBeal on weekends. Kabaliw! Why did I never pursue law that much?

Osho Zen Tarot - It’s been almost a month since I bought my first deck of tarot cards but I haven’t given much time learning it yet. Well.. ganon talaga ako. Sometimes, the interest over something runs longer than actually keeping something. haha

Yun lang naman so far…

Then while watching House, the doctor said something about bipolarity. I like that word because I always felt that I am a bipolar person because of my extreme characteristics until I heard that it was a disorder.

According to Wikipedia, it is a mood disorder, a special case of clinical depression that cycles with mania and hypomania. Tsk tsk! My friends tell me that I have so many things I like to pursue but once started, I never really push hard to finish them. Like law perhaps though I never really started at all. Also, just last year, I remember being too eager to paint until I bought a good set of oil painting tools but I just painted for a day and thadaaaah… I never painted again. These are just few of those interests that I start but never finish. Well, I can really get obsessive when I want something or when I start liking something (this only applies to things… no person in record yet)

Hmmm.. So am I clinically sick? I don’t think so.I think not therefore I’m not.

Then again, lately I am being drug-dependent – on antihistamine tablets. I am allergic to dust mites that I barely lift any cleaning tool at home. haha (para-paraan) I easily sneeze and get watery eyes whenever something dusty is near, so the allegy to dust mites. This I self-diagnose as allergy rhinitis. Then I discovered that anti-allergy treatments can make you drowsy. Sounds interesting. Hitting two birds with one stone. One medication for allergy and my sleeping disorder. It’s my second week on antihistamine pills. I hope I don’t become addicted to them. Though, I’m starting to research on the effect of antihistamine overdose. So far, tremors (which I realize I am starting to have before finding out that it is one of the symptoms of overdose) are the only obvious effect so I guess I’m not overdosed yet. hehe…

Don’t worry dear friends, I don’t take this antihistamine drugs when I drink alcohol. I sleep as soundly after drink as after taking antihistamine pills. Which do you want as a friend, a drug-dependent or an alcoholic? Wag nyo akong isumbong sa parak! hehe

 

Simoy LB na!

February 1, 2007

February na! Besides Christmas and birthdays, this is one month that I really look forward to. What else could be the reason? It’s not Valentine’s Day for crying out loud. It’s FebFair!!! LB, here we come again. I shall conquer thee.

Actually, anytime, I can go back to LB but things will never be the same unless I go there with “my” LB friends. So anytime I’m with them, any place we are in is like an extension of our dear comfort zone. As I always say, “You can take us out of UPLB but you cannot take UPLB out of us.”

For my most friends, high school life is the best. For me, it will always be college. College in UPLB to be exact! Honestly, I don’t I’ll be having the kind of fun if I had taken my degree somewhere else. Kung sa CDLB kaya? haha. But seriously, others always wonder what is it in UPLB that will make you keep coming back.

Friend X: Nag-college din naman kami. Nagkafriends, Nagloko. We practically did the same things you’ve done pero di kami ganong kahamit sa mga Alma Mater namin. Bakit ganyan kayong mga taga LB?

Emcee in harness (smoke machine in full blast): UPLB culture yon!

Background: I keep coming back to Los Baños.. Los Baños (tune of I keep coming back to Manila) Repeat 20x until fade…

 

Los Baños… Los Baños. Looking back, I say that it isn’t actually the UP curriculum that I am most proud of. It is the people. The culture it already has long before I came, the culture that I come to imbibe through time, and the culture the I unconsciously pass down and influence others. My best times in LB weren’t when I topnotched an exam (although nobody might really recall this because there is nothing to be recalled.. haha) but the moments I got to know and understand real people. In my four years in LB, I got to be a member of three organizations: Econsoc, DLS and YFC. I also became part of the College Council and the Senior Board. In each group, I had a unique experiences. Unique experiences but everytime I reminisce them, the sensation is the same.

I was about to make a recap of the things I would have missed had I not stayed in UPLB for four years but I realized I could probably had gotten kidnapped, drunk, taken an exam drunk, eaten the UPLB treats, drunk again and drunk again had I studied somewhere else. Malamang makakapagsugal pa rin ako, makakasali sa orgs, makakapag-rummage sa kung saan saan. I would have still chosen not to go home to Batangas for a few weekends just for some nothingness trips that pop from we-don’twanna-know-where. But the very reason I wanted it in LB is because of the friends I got to know and understand there. Yes I have a great deal of friends I met outside LB - high school friends and friends I knew from work. I don’t mean underestimate them and I don’t, I swear!

There are people I am acquainted now that I would think twice sharing drinks with. But with my LB friends, hmmm…. these are the friends I want to get hang-overs with anytime and over and over again! Kitakits sa Feb mga kachokaran!