Things You Think About While Taking A Shower

Things you think about while taking a shower:

1. What to eat for dinner.

2. The awesome things that happened to you in the past week.

3. The complete lyrics of that song that's been stuck on your head for 2 days now.

4. Your career path.

5. What you should look forward to for the rest of the month.

That's Not a Ghost, That's a Guy in a Red Shirt! And He's Got My Laptop!

Ok... To whoever controls the ways of the universe: When I said that it was gonna be an eventful weekend, I was just being sarcastic, ok?

That being said, I'm absolutely gutted.

Saturday, ~1:30 AM: I got home, went up to the computer room and left my backpack on the chair where I always put it. After that, I went to my room, watched some tv, listened to some music, and then went to sleep.

Same day, ~9:00 AM: My dad woke me up and I had breakfast with my parents and sister. It's been a long time since we all had breakfast together, or for that matter, a Saturday morning together. We were heading to the province, which is why my parents were in Las Piñas, and my sister and I were awake before lunch on a weekend. Anyway, after I finished my breakfast, I went up to the computer room again, and took my cellphone, which I left inside my backpack. The phone's batt was dead, so I took it to another room and charged it. I went back to bed while waiting for my mom to finish using the bathroom.

~10:30 AM: After much prodding from my parents, I got up from bed and took a bath, then I went straight up to my room, got dressed and started packing my stuff.

~11:30 AM: I went down to the computer room to grab my laptop and digicam. I wanted to bring my laptop so that I could watch some movies and tv shows on a decent screen (because there was no cable TV in my parents' house in Quezon.) When I got there, my backpack (which doubles as my laptop bag) was gone from its homey chair. I asked my parents if they've seen it, or if they knew where it was. Of course, they didn't. I suspected that my dad just mistakenly loaded my backpack to the van together with all the things we were bringing to Quezon. So I checked, but the backpack wasn't there either. I checked my room, hoping that I brought it up there, and I just totally forgot that I did for some reason (someone else moving my things, short term memory loss, early signs of Alzheimer's, sleepwalking or other sleep-induced movement, I was willing to go for any reason...) But it still wasn't there.

My backpack, and everything in it including my laptop and its peripherals (geeky word, I know), my cam, my favorite brown jacket, my company ID, and important office stuff, was gone.

Apparently, when my mom was in their room getting ready, she saw, from the reflection in the mirror, someone in red coming out of the computer room. She didn't mind it thinking that it was just me, or it was just something she imagined (some friends have claimed that they see ghosts in our house, so we've gotten used to ignoring things that seem to move out of the corner of our eyes.) Also, apparently, my parents forgot to lock the door to our kitchen after they loaded all our things in the van. And apparently, our neighbor saw a guy in red taking a peek into the screen door of their house, surveying what's inside. Our neighbor locked the door when he saw what the guy was doing and the guy left.

Apparently, the guy in red was a robber, and he went into our house and from right under our noses took the easiest thing he could take: my backpack with my cam, and my favorite brown jacket, and my 3 month-old laptop containing all my work files and important emails, most of which have no backup copy. Lucky bastard.


As I said, I'm absolutely fucking gutted. And pissed and annoyed and depressed.


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Now playing: Modest Mouse - Parting of the Sensory
via FoxyTunes

Haiku of Peeves and Random Spittings

I was bored the other night and so I wrote several Haiku about some of the things that generally piss me off (in a way that's enough to rile me up but not in a violent way, that is.) I figured, I'm uselessly releasing pent-up mental tirades anyway, so I might as well put some creative effort into it. In short, these are just silly pet peeves that I've decided to put into short phrases.

Misuse of the words
Worse and Worst. And "In Lieu Of"
Shut up already.
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Why crank up the sound
when your playlist is so lame,
you pathetic twit?
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You're not paid to be
An asshole in the office,
so don't start now, k?
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He's blabbing again
Crap Crap Blah Crap. Someone, please:
Plan my funeral
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email signatures
with those annoying icons
just clog my inbox

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I'm going to our province (in Quezon) tomorrow for my grandfather's birthday. His birthday partaaay will be held at my parent's new house. I've never seen the new house, but its the fruit of my dad's year-long labor (and retirement fund), so it's probably something worth seeing. Plus, the last time I was in Quezon was 2, maybe 3 years ago. No cable tv, no internet, and no signal for my Globe cellphone. It's gonna be an eventful weekend, I guess. See ya.


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Now playing: Mogwai - I Know You Are But What Am I?
via FoxyTunes

Health Concerns and Things That Bother Me.

My right eye is twitching a lot lately. I wonder what that means? Am I slowly losing muscle control on the right side of my body? Is my reflex growing weaker? Can't handle the caffeine I'm pumping into my body everyday? Sign of nerves and anxiety? Did a small insect get inside my eyelid? Spore infection? Have I become a hypochondriac?

And while I'm at it, my shoulders make a clicking sound (just like when you crack your knuckles, only with a much lower tone, probably because it's coming from a much bigger joint) every time I shrug my shoulders. Does that mean I have to stop shrugging my shoulders each time I hear a fucking ridiculous and annoying statement from a person I hold only a slight to no respect for? Or should I just risk the possible calcium loss on my bone mass instead?

Nose close to the ground, that's my technique.

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Now playing: Damien Rice - Delicate
via FoxyTunes

Pasko, ikaw na naman?

Last Tuesday, my company held its Christmas Party at the Le Pavillon. The theme was Le Carnivale, and there were clowns, people on stilts, and mimes everywhere. The party was really fun, it started at around 6 pm and ended at about 1am (i think). The food was blah to be honest... It was supposedly catered by the Hyatt Hotel, but the food wasn't really all that interesting. (Last year's food was better.) All performances featured my co-workers, and most of it was really fun to watch. Cheers performers!

One thing I hated though was I got almost exactly the same freebie gift that I got last year! (Last year, I got a rectangular baking dish, this year I got an oval baking dish.) The good thing though: Free Overflowing Beer! Any party with an open bar is a great party if you ask me.

Then on Friday, I went to another Christmas party, this time it was the our Bundle's Christmas party. As it's becoming a tradition of sorts for out team, we were all supposed to come in costume. Two year's ago the theme was the 80's, last year it was the Movies, and this year it was White. Each sub-team had to wear a common costume, as long as it was predominantly white. The party was held at our teammate's house in not-so-nearby Commonwealth. (We came 2 hours late, besides getting caught in traffic, we took some time dressing up, and also had to take a slight detour to pick up some props: our balloons.) Oh yeah, we came as kids in a kiddie party

Last thing on the agenda last week was our sub-team's Team Building. We left Manila Saturday evening and made our way to Tagaytay City, Cavite where we had dinner at Lesley's (the dinner was heartstoppingly delicious: Bulalo, Crispy Pata and Sisig. Yum!) After dinner, we proceeded to this awesome house in Nasugbu, Batangas (thanks Vic!) where we slept till late in the morning. The next day, we went to San Juan, Batangas to enjoy the beach! We booked ourselves to La Luz Resort. La Luz was a little disappointing. The rooms were really nice, but aside from the beach, there was not much to do once the sun came down. Good thing we brought some vodka with us. That definitely kept us entertained till the early morning. We played our team's favorite game, 1-7-11 (woohoo!), and another game that Primo introduced to us, Raise (Race?) It wasn't really a game as much as it was a way for us to finish of the bottle of vodka. WOOHOO! Once the vodka bottle was all cleaned out, we used it to play spin the bottle. All I can say is, we didn't have enough bottles to get us to talk out of our asses that night.

Cheers to all who organized the parties! Last week's parties was really fun.

One party I failed to go to was the one organized by my college friends. It ran smack into out team building, so I couldn't make it. Sorry guys.

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On a more bitter point, I'll be working on both Dec 25 and Jan 1. Jeez... And what do we, holiday workers, get for it? Nothing. Not even 1% extra pay for working on those two holidays. Because the company I work for somehow has this twisted policy where they do not pay their employees anything for working on holiday. And they expect us to be motivated and deliver high-quality output.

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Relatively Pissed

As you may or may not know, Metro Manila got a taste of disastrous weather a little over two weeks ago. Typhoon Milenyo, the strongest typhoon to directly hit Manila in over a decade, downed power lines, uprooted trees and practically put the whole city on a standstill.

Our place was one of the more unlucky ones, we had to wait for 8 fucking days before electricity was finally restored. Eight straight days of barely-bright candle light (they were scented on the, um, brighter side), battery-powered radio (that sounds more like a tin can being dragged by a three-legged dog) for entertainment, and an annoyingly limited supply of water (so limited that I had to forego shaving on some days) (just shaving, mind you).
Then again, when I found out that there was still no electricity back in our province until now (that's two weeks and three fucking days), I guess I can call myself Relatively Luckier.

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I have no idea what happened, but my home computer just crashed on me. Again. It does that every year, for some freaking reason. Although now that I'm trying to recollect, I think it has actually been around two years since it last crashed (and also, two years since its last upgrade.) Or maybe not, make that 1 and a half years, give or take a few months. I'm wondering if I should just upgrade it again, or I should just buy a new one. (Reformatting the disk doesn't seem to be an option since it won't even start up. Dogshit.)

I haven't done an extensive damage check yet, because I'm still hoping that tomorrow when I turn it on, it'll start working flawlessly again. Call me Relatively Optimistic.

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One thing that has been getting to me lately is the use of the word "stuffs". It simply is annoying. Please, people. If you really have to use the word, use it like "and stuff like that...", not "and stuffs like that...". I'm not a grammar master, but I really don't think you need to use the plural form of a word when the said word is really just an expression used to refer to general objects or ideas that you cannot find a specific word for.

And really, who says "stuffs"???

The World News, some very Local Music, and Aussie Tennis

I was at home working last Saturday morning when I picked up the newspaper and found a little disturbing something written on the paper's front page. It read:

World / A8 Court grants Angelina Jolie's request for her kids to use Brad Pitt's name

What the fuck?!? This??? This belongs to the World News section? Since when did the effects of Jolie and Pitt's bed-banging leave the Entertainment pages and become World News material? Is there nothing more relevant happening in our world for this to become the banner article of the World News section? Is there no more political crisis in the Middle East? Is there no more poverty in Africa? Is there no more terrorist threat in the world? Did the oil prices suddenly reach a standard flat-line rate? Do they mean to say that the surname (the very elegant-sounding Jolie-Pitt by the way) of the wonder couples' adopted kiddies is suddenly more pressing than the current world issues? What the fuck??


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Later that day, I stopped by Tower Records in Town Center where I spotted this album called Cafe Bossa. What got me excited was the fact that the album was by Sitti, who was a classmate of mine back in grade school. So I listened to her album and was really bowled over. She's got a really beautiful voice and her singing is just perfectly easy on the ears. No ear-splitting, high pitched screams or anything like that, just a real nice and calming jazz sound. I remember when our teachers would ask her to sing in class and she would sing the Mariah Carey songs young girls are expected to sing when their teachers ask them to sing in front of the class, and I just gotta say: I'm glad she matured nicely from those days. =)

Check out her official website.


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The finals of the Aussie Open '06 is just around the corner, with the men and women ready for their semifinal battle. The women features a less surprising but nonetheless intriguing line-up headed by #2 Kim Clijsters of Belgium, #3 Amelie Mauresmo of France, #4 Maria Sharapova of (duh) Russia, and #8 Justine Henin-Hardenne of Belgium who beat #1 Lindsay Davenport(USA) in the quarterfinal. Defending champion Serena Williams got her ass booted off by my girlfriend 17th seed Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia in the third round with the score of 6-1, 7-6(7-5)... That was a great, confidence-boosting win for Daniela who then lost to Maria in the fourth round 6-4, 6-4. After an impressive run, Swiss Miss Martina Hingis' comeback from a three-year injury "break" was brought to a halt by Kim in a tight quarterfinal match (Kim won 6-3, 2-6, 6-4.)

The Semifinals willl be Justine vs Maria and Kim vs Amelie. Davenport's defeat in the hands of Justine assures Kim Clijsters of getting the number 1 ranking next week no matter happens in her next matches.


The men's side features a more varied line-up composed of #1 Roger Federer of Swtizerland, #4 David Nalbandian of Argentina, #21 Nicolas Kiefer of Germany, and the surprise of the tournament, former junior world champion Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus. The 20 year-old Baghdatis defeated #2 seed Andy Roddick(USA) in the fourth round in an amazing display of powerful and precise hitting, and great backcourt defense. In the quarterfinals, Baghdatis did more damage by defeating #7 seed Ivan Ljubicic of Craoatia in five sets. He meets Nalbandian in the semis. It should be an interesting match as both players have a similar game of aggresive baseline plays and relentless defense. Plus the fact that David is one of only 4 players who were able to beat Federer last year (in five sets in the finals of the ATP Championships, the last pro match of the season). Federer meanwhile will try to tame both the wily German Kiefer and his strangely erratic game. Federer started the Aussie Open in devastating form by not losing a set in his first three matches. However, he was tested by the extremely talented German Tommy Haas in the fourth round in a great match that saw Federer get pushed around and lose the third and fourth sets before recovering in a five-set win. He then continued to struggle in the quarters against Russian 5th seed Nikolay Davydenko, losing the second set before winning both the 3rd and 4th sets in a tie-breaker. It will be interesting to see how The Fed Express will play versus Kiefer's fiesty arrogance.

Men's semis: Federer vs Kiefer, Nalbandian vs Baghdatis

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