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Just to get something out of my system

Friday, February 12th, 2010

I am happy that people still find me creepy. I was singing that Black Eyed Peas song absentmindedly, tonight’s gonna be a good night! Yeah, I was that withdrawn. Corporate life makes you do things you don’t normally do. And it creeped out my (sort-of) communist seatmate. I think it’s because I used my from-the-grave voice, which I was not deliberately doing. Hahaha!

So apparently, I have not lost it yet. I thought I was beginning to be one of them.

I hate a lot of people right now. I hate Vice Ganda. I don’t know why people in facebook are all of a sudden fans of Vice Ganda, I don’t know what good she ever did? Really. All she did was made an insipid defense (actually lame rebuttal, which is not even a real rebuttal) against Rosanna Roces’ comments against teachers. FB makes me see the sick and twisted minds of people who are fans of Jason Ivler. It is not much different from worshipping Charles Manson. You sick, sick people!

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Farewell to Mr. Salinger

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

JD Salinger is dead at age 91 on January 27, 2010. He was the writer of “The Catcher in the Rye,” a cult favorite of sorts that I have mixed feelings about.

I once took a Facebook quiz on which literary character you are, it came out with Holden Caulfield. Nak ng –!I am not like Holden Caulfield. It killed me. Do I strike you to be the type of guy who complains a lot, and has all this angst against the world? I am not like that! Do you see me complaining that way?!

Okay.

I read The Catcherwhen, I think, I was in college. I was young but not that young that I have already a good grasp of who I am, which is probably one of the reasons that the book did not hit me as hard as others. I liked Franny and Zooey better.

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Bestfriend Wanted

Monday, January 25th, 2010

It’s been almost six months since I started my job here in this place of constant boredom. It is better than taking calls, so I stay here editing transcripts. It’s not really that bad.

I do not know if I am going to be regularized by February. I have some absences and my performance isn’t exactly what you’d call stellar.

But if I do, and if there is some sliver of hope that I am to be regularized, I need a friend. A friend that gets it, a normal friend.

Not that I hate the people I hang out with, they’re actually very nice to me. But it sure would be nice to hang out with someone, male and heterosexual, for a change.

A co-worker once said that men in our company are either gay or ugly, they then look at me and say that I am an exception in that category. Now, they have changed it. The men in our company are either gay or geeks. I think superior geeks will shudder at the nature of our jobs. But seriously, I dont see many geeks here, maybe they were all transferred in the evening shift. But it sure would be nice to hanging out with some one different.

Yesterday, I confessed to Meow that I am beginning to talk like them. She was surprised that I said Gora so casually. Hahaha! It is not wrong to speak Gay Talk but it doesn’t really suit me. I don’t want to say all those stuff in normal conversation. They are beginning to rub off on me. NOOOO!

I want a friend who likes fantasy and cartoons. Someone who smokes and drinks. Someone who have a sense of humor that is similar to mine. Someone who does not fornicate with men. Please, please, please…

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Gaiman engaged to Palmer

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

Yesterday evening, I checked my email. Checked Google Reader, which I have not been checking for a while: Surprise!  Fantasy writer Neil Gaiman is engaged to Singer-songwriterAmanda Palmer! I am a fan of those two.

My first reaction:

  • Isn’t he married?
  • I did not know they were dating.
  • Does this end any chances of a Dresden Dolls reunion?
  • They would make an awesome couple.
  • Why do I care too much about celebrities that DO NOT KNOW I EVEN EXIST!

So I checked the Internet, not a good time, our ISP’s service is so SLOW last night. (more…)

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Pictures of Musicians

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

I was thinking of something to post, and then I thought it would be nice to be posting things I like. I don’t write anything I like anymore.

Today, I will be posting musicians that I like. Yes, musicians I like. Now, why I have to reiterate that, I don’t know. Maybe for dramatic effect.

Today, let’s start with Tori Amos.

I like her a lot! Ever since… I don’t know. I just did. I’ve known her from high school, Jackie’s Strength. I liked it even if it isn’t a very manly song. Then, I started to hear other songs. Very original and unlike anyone else’s. She sing songs that tell a story, sometimes sweet, surreal, tragic or dark, at times even disturbing.

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Sydney’s biggest fan

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

Meow, my girlfriend of almost two years has this weird standard with friends or people she find amusing or people she likes.

Unlike me, I either like or hate people, and I try to get along with anybody who wants be friends with me. She doesn’t like people if she senses something. It’s a woman-thing that I stopped trying to understand. I sometimes think she’ll like some people but finds them very annoying.

One day while browsing  Facebook, I found a friend request from an old classmate. She’s not really one I’d call a good friend but rather a very good acquaintance who’s been nothing but nice and pleasant to me.

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My own room

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

I arrived home late.

The room that I shared with my brother is all mine now. He is getting married this month. I guess I felt a bit sad.

My brother and I, I guess, has gotten closer as we got older. Growing up, we never had much in common. He was fairly goodlooking, amiable, was popular in in school, engaged in sports… and I am not — just the opposite.

My mother got sad. I guess, she just realized how it’s like to have the nest being left. Boom! My brother’s not perfect but he’s far more affectionate than me.

He was the one with the biggest appetite.

I just have all my things in the room, my books that used to be lying on the floor are now in the shelves that he used to place his trash. Nobody will be borrowing my clothes anymore, I guess I’ll no longer be complaining that I haven’t seen my jacket for a long time now nor will I get irritated by him wearing the jeans that I like.

Nobody will be borrowing my computer anymore. And I could now sleep without hearing his loud snoring or his late arrival smelling like chico.

The room is surprisingly clean, I have to maintain it that way now coz I can no longer pass the blame on my brother.

It’s weird. I guess, I too am a bit sad.

That’s OK. Life has taught me to just pick up with what I have, and move on.

I wonder if he’s gonna give me something on my birthday. Probably, like always… wala!

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Contract signed!

Monday, July 27th, 2009

I just signed my contract today for the new job as a voice writer/editor.

Don’t mind the picture, I was looking for a picture with a contract on it (my blog has been mostly text in months). Nagulat ako na isa ito sa mga lumabas. If you were thinking that’s a porn movie. Wrong! Akala ko rin. Hehehe.

It’s gonna be my last few days at work, I feeeeel soooo messed up. I wanted this job but I feel there’s something missing.

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The complicated search for one tender memory

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

My parents are not home most of the time, they are still busy. I think they are united now with our other relatives. Unity is a rare thing in my father’s dysfunctional family. Death seems to unite them for now. It’s complicated. A time for me to say something  cliché. Complicated.

I feel bad that I have no good memory of my recently deceased grandfather. You know how it is with people you are not close with, you have one good memory of that person, a nice, sweet moment,  a tender spot in your mind and it is enough to think of them nicely. Like when my Tita Gemma who I remember having fun before leaving for the US and never showing her face again (that was when I was about five), my Uncle Joel (an architect) who lived with us when I was about eight and showed me things he drew… it’s fun, even some of our relatives I don’t like have their nice tender moments. Things that would be etched on my mind that makes me fuzzy when I remember.

My grandfather did not have any of those moments. He had little to do with me while growing up. He left my grandmother who I though highly of until she died when I was around 7. It was only when I was a teenager that I learned she had a maldita streak but it did not matter because I still remember the days when she picked me up at school and she gave me this expensive candy (that is for a kindergarten student). She had her tender moments.

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They meow!

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

My girlfriend got the nickname back when she was in a college: MEOW.

She got it from talking to cats. She said that back in campus, she’ll be sitting close to cats and talk to them, her friends started calling her Meow.  When I met her, her name was one of her more attention grabbing details besides her being a smartass back when we were training in my first job three years ago.

Anyway we became friends. I have called her Meow then until there came another Miao in the company, a gay guy. Minsan nagugulat ang mga tao pag narinig kami na:

Oo, naglasing kami nina Meow hanggang alas-diyes!

And people who overhear us and don’t know her would say:

Ano?! Nag-iinuman kayo ni Miao?!!!

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