Pinoy Wasteland

Since the storm began, we just had electricity today. Today! That is 5 days! I now truly hate Meralco. And I hate my life. With irritating people at work, bad sleep due to having no electricity, who could blame me?! Torture, I say it is to sleep and wake up in sheets damp of sweat that reeked in your room for days, only to go to the servitude of unsympathizing people abroad who see you only as a statistic that keeps on going and going and going….

Work is still the same, reason why I hate it.

I just realized something really common with people who have some degree of intelligence, not to say that they truly are, but people who have above-average intelligence, they are typically stubborn. Meaning, they think they are really smart. It is hard to argue with them. They don’t like people questioning what they thought about and it’s sad. Really.

At least for myself, I admit I am stubborn. I  hate self-important people who can’t let go, and who pretends they are not.

It is fairly irritating when they say “correct me if I am wrong;” then, you say they are wrong, and as hard as you try to make a logical point, thay say NO like I shouldn’t be arguing. Pakyu! Kung di lang ako magkakaproblema pag sinagut-sagot kita!

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I am busy. I can’t believe it.

I have these planned projects to do. I have work. I have people to meet up with. I have a job. And I want to have time for myself, alone. So if any of you happens to know a bar, where a person can drink silently and not look like someone looking for sex, tell me about it. I want to have time alone

Sometimes, I get bored, yes, but why do they have to make all these stuff going on at the same time?

Kinukulit ako ng supervisor ko na pumunta sa teambuilding. Medyo makulit sya, she’s a nice person, I think, pero medyo makulit. Dahil yata sya ang organizer.

Medyo mahirap kasi ipaliwanag na I don’t want to go because I have a life and that extra day without work can make up for so many things, like sleep and other priorities.

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I am not having a good day, make that three. Yesterday, I wrote a long tirade about how irritating life is, of how hard it has be a cog in a bureaucratic machinery, of how hard it is to make money… then I posted it. Then, something happened and made me unable to access this blog site.

You know how they say if things are not working well for you, something good is about to happen. Something good better happen! I lost the jacket I had for three years, I miss it a lot. I am broke. I am poor, it is not funny, not even remotely close to amusing.

Then I login to this post and see 45 spam messages. I need some cheering up.

If I were rich, I would have a bookstore, unlike the ones they have here. It will be a small one that sells good books, not popular books, and I will try to sell it to people who deserve them at reasonable prices. I will look for hard-to-find books and have them sold to people who really appreciate it.

I will not be one of those businessmen who would greedily put ridiculously high prices to signed books, because I won’t sell signed books. I am, after all, selling the things inside the book.

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Two days ago, I went to this book signing event by one of my favorite writers, I thought I would be speechless, giddy or be something, like those other people who do ridiculous things when in front of the people they love.

In the end, the whole signing event, the craziness, the irritating people, the disparaging emotions that came precedent to an anticlimactic conclusion, I was glad that I’ve put up with it. Not totally a disappointment, but more of an experience that I learned a lot from. This might be the last book signing I’d go to, or the last in a long time.

It’s not the writer’s fault. I just realized that for many reasons, I did not belong there. I am unlike them, the crowds that went.

I saw this girl yesterday on the way home, I did OT again (one that I am beginning to be sick of), when I saw this pretty girl in the jeep. She was pretty, but she could have been beautiful. She had pretty eyes and nose, but there is something wrong. She was pleasant-looking but her beautiful eyes were too small in contrast to her larger nose. It’s not that her nose was big, it was too big for her eyes.

She had eyes like for the chinita types, but it was too big for her nose (that was very Filipino, a Filipino nose in a nice way). It is funny how we are all made to think of standards, maybe she is beautiful in some cultures. And I blame globalization.

We have talked  about beauty in length last weekend, maybe suitable for another post.

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I saw episodes of The Wonder Years sometimes on the Hallmark channel.

In the episode I saw, Kevin Arnold is partnered with weird girl Margaret, the unpopular type that we all have in school. He realized she’s pretty cool even if “She asks too many questions, has a pet bat, and wears her hair in three pig tails (because you never know when you’re going to need a hair tie)”¹ .

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I sometimes wonder why the world has come to be the way that it is. Like, who needs a college education when doing the things that many of us do? I think the diploma is just a reassurance for the companies that we are not idiots.

I think I want to be back in the time when we are trained my a master craftsman, be a novice and work your way up until you get to be called a Master, because you have become worthy.

We work then we see a large deduction on our pay slip, ridiculously large coz the government feels we need to pay that much for being a Filipino. I am enjoying being a Filipino right now.

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I love the Manila Peninsula. It’s so nice there. The food is great, the staff are nice, it’s like perfect. It even has P’s on the towel. P for Peninsula and P for my name. Oh! I love it there. The tub was just the right size for me. The bath robe is just the right size and fits so well, it seems it was made for me.

We had this really great buffet breakfast and we had plenty of pictures. It’s not everyday that you get to be in a five-star hotel. So lumabas ang ka-jologs-an namin. The people there are nice. From the reservation desk when I called to everybody there, from the front desk even to the chefs.

I owe it all to Xandee and Shamie who sold the GC for three thousand pesos!

But all good things come to an end. We have to leave that nice place.

I just got confirmation that I passed the screening for freelance work. I will work on that tomorrow. I wonder what topic to choose. I tend to be dull and uninteresting if I find the topic dull. If all goes well, I may consider doing it full-time.

I’ve been watching a lot of anime. Naruto us still fun to see. I also saw Dragon Hunters, a nice french film. I loved it so much, you should see it.

I also have Coraline and Ponyo to finish.

I hope that everything goes well next year. Hoping, it will be a better one.