im speaking for those who lost their homes due to the typhoon. i really feel for those fellow countrymen who weren't prepared for the rage of ketsana. none of us were prepared actually. no social status got exempted.

it was just luck that i was able to reach the house of tiff that fateful 10 am sept 25 morning. others if not for tiff's family, i would have been stranded somewhere in manila. maybe sta. mesa. i was trapped by the flood along kalentong, v. mapa, n. domingo, sm centerpoint, and pureza. if you know the route, you probably could picture what im talking about. pure luck. the only way i could go was santol. tiff's place is along pina.

another typhoon's coming and i wish it isn't that bad.

we passed by tutto moda before we ate at italianni's last thursday and there were lots of sale items. A/X jackets are currently on sale for up to 50% off i think. i was dying to buy the grey jacket or at least the blue one because it was really cheap for 2k. to my dismay, all jackets have XL sizes only. duh. it's okay i told myself. i thought i could buy a jacket in singapore next week.

yesterday, after we had dinner at banawe, i claimed my laundry back. It's been more than a week since i've slept at the dorm since there were no classes. the first thing I looked for were my nike jackets. lo and behold, the jacket i intentionaly bought for la salle games is missing. so i went back to the laundry and asked them about it. what was so frustrating is that they seemed to be relaxed even though I said that it's expensive. does that mean they won't replace it? i think this isn't the only time this has happened. then i realized, now that i'm wearing this pants i haven't worn for a while, that another nike shirt is missing. most of my clothes are from nike since we have this 50% discount. so there...i don't know what is gonna happen. i'm really frustrated :(

i know i have this attitude. basta, alam ko marami inis saken. or im not that likeable. o praning lang ako haha. pero im submissive when it comes to those people who I like to be with. i'll do anything. sigh.

yesterday, i was teaching again this HRM class. and frankly, wala na ako kagana gana sa kanila. so i felt they found me really boring. the hell i care. mahihina na nga, ang dadaldal pa. especially that guy na kamukha ni chocolait. am i that bad to say these things? haha. at least im not naming them.

im not to blame. kasi the class president informed me that a number of her classmates gave me low evaluation marks because the grades I gave them were kinda low. but of course, i was just recording their output. and microsoft excel doesn't lie. so why would I give the students grades they do not deserve? why would I give them 1.5 if they cannot even construct a whole sentence in English. and there's a tendency that they'd believe they're actually good when they are not. i hope my point is clear to them.

what is so surprising is that their studies isn't really their priority. you can see in their eyes. basta iba sa la salle. i don't want to brag but there's really an obvious disparity in terms of academic performance. maybe... just maybe...financial issues din. pero what about me? we're not well off but i managed. i wish i could get answers.

my body's already used to waking up around 6 in the morning. no matter how late i sleep, i would for sure, unconsciously wake up at that time. parang matanda. thats why i'm already online this early. however, medyo aantukin na agad ako ng 9 am. thats my body clock ika nga.

last night we had a massage again. and as usual, groggy na naman ako after. i felt hindi siya masyado satisfying last night. i don't wanna think the masahista wasn't good because pinagtiyagaan niya ang likod ko. and to think na nag back work out ako early in the afternoon.

um... may ticket ako sa uaap game later to watch ateneo lose the game but i have work so i gave it to jaime na lang. i'll just attend the celebration. sana century park...paging mr lucio tan. lol

tapos na naman ang maliligayang araw ng bakasyon. back to work. i cant have money for vacation if i wont work. does that mean i have to work for months again before i can go abroad? bitin nga sa totoo lang. and it felt like i dont wanna come back here anymore. balik traffic and pollution. lalo na ang mga pasaway nating mga kababayan. but my work is here. and masaya naman dito kahit papano. siguro i will be happier working abroad if i have someone with me whom i really like to be with. pero mukhang wala pa yata. unless bigyan ako ni Bro.

i had a blast last night. kahit pa nagtampo ang aking inay dahil nakalimutan ko na susunduin ko pala siya. eh the thing was coding ako and expired pa ang license ko. so i had to wait pa hanggang 630 para maka andar ang kotse. yun na nga...my idol attended the dinner. chris camus. with coach pido jarencio pa. and other friends. halos puno ang resto dahil samen. haha. and coach pido kept on singing. we left home nung ubos na ang alak haha.

i work in a school environment. that's given. tas wala ako magawa... i watched a documentary. a day in enchong's life. you know naman siguro who enchong is. na miss ko bigla ang la salle. whew. 3 taon din yun. at ang dami nangyari, ang dami nakilala, and dami ko natutunan. ang sarap ng feeling pag andun ka. i always tell this to my non la salle friends. sana makapag aral ulit ako. pero ung madali lang (may ganun ba sa la salle? )

for now yeah..it's just 5:45 and i'm home. himala. nag triceps lang ako and a bit of legs para sa work out ko and i didnt bother to do some abs para lang mapanuod ang san beda vs baste game. i just tuned in and it looks like beda is leading. then maybe watch katorse. haha. tas mamaya i'll go to the pba. it's ginebra vs san miguel tas, ron's birthday.

puyat na naman i'm sure :( as long as enjoy ok lang. last night kasi nagpa dinner ako sa mga friends ko sa PBA sa conti's naman sa GH. then we went to play casino. siyempre hindi na ako tumaya masyado because i was so sleepy already. when I woke up it was already 4 am. haha imagine sleeping while sitting for 5 hrs. good thing may enough energy pa ako to go to school. then when it was my break at 9 am, i slept sa car.

includes me, i guess. kakauwi ko lang and i have to work again. ron's birthday was fun. pero mga 1230, natulog na ulit ako sa kotse. di ko na talaga kinaya ang pagod. i was sitting with rich, paolo, christine and billy sa table. i think nagcomment ako kay rich ng "why? don't ateneans eat ox brain?" then sabi nya, "what's with the generalization?", my answer was "because i don't like eric salamat". i was surprised when rich and paolo took turns in saying "me too". billy was surprised and said "really?" haha. imagine kapwa ateneans hate eric salamat. mah bestfriend.

im not finished yet with my grades...may informal defense pa kami later. and i will give the froshies exams. haaay. and maybe on weekend, ill make a test for the english majors. im pretty excited para sa susunod na semester. it's just parang i wanna teach sa benilde as well, or study again. la salle will be the host of the uaap season next year, so i heard.

it's fashion week daw pala next week says christine. we'll watch again...

today's kinda low key. i will just renew my license at 9 am in megamall para mauna ako sa maraming magpapa renew. medyo money making purposes at corruption din itong mga driving license renewal centers na to. akalain mo may medical thingy pa sila na nalalaman. and strategically, it's always beside the LTO office. i know right? i forgot to ask kung pwede ko gamiting ung medical results ko sa medicard. isn't that the same?

i think last night i saw this billboard that the mall is on a 3 day sale. so madami talaga tao. then i will watch coca cola's game sa araneta. bukas mejo hectic na naman. haaay. can i stay at home for at least a day?

nga pala, mommy said never to send my lacoste shirts to the laundry shops. eh i dont know how to wash clothes. pano na? i have no choice.

yesterday i was talking to aga over the text and i mentioned to him that I wanna do something bigger in life. more than what I am doing now. my next question is what that will be? you see my only affiliation nowadays are the basketball people and the people I see in school. and my school friends. I am trying to figure out where do I start? If I go back to study, and work at the same time, I think that will be tough. I remember, back during the days when I was doing my research papers, I was literally hibernating in the library or at the conserv. I should start thinking about this vision and how I'm going to do it.                        

a while ago, while there were only a few cars on the road, i tried to duplicate fonz's speed when he drives my car. To my disappointment, I cannot do it still. I still lack that skill of driving a manual transmission. last night, faye and I attended the launch of samsung corby at sm north edsa annex. It was my first time there. as you all know, it's a new building. there was no valet so I had no choice but to park it myself. we were surprised to see the uber inclined road to the parking and how spiral it was. the worse thing was it was full so i had no choice but go to the top floors. as expected, the engine turned off because i didn't step too much on the gas during the last part. the chevrolet at the bacl kept on blowing his horn. good thing I managed to move forward immediately. lesson, study harder, as i always remind my students.

speaking of reminders to students, before I left them for our last class, i told them not to dream of getting a job when they graduate. I advised that they should dream of giving jobs to other people instead. that's doing something bigger right?

nice one. im home na. it's 1030 pm. that means, i get to sleep early. effort lang sa pagbaba ng gamit from the car to my room. para akong nag outing sa dami ng damit na nasa compartment. pati mga shoes nagkalat. and school stuff na ren. hinatid ko si faith sa house nila sa manila. medyo i don't memorize the place buti na lang hindi ako nawala.

hindi ako nakapagmass ngayon unfortunately. not that i'm proud of it, sa sobrang busy na ren siguro. and i heard may bagyo na naman daw. dapat lakasan pa natin ang dasal kay Bro para wala na disasters.

looks like Bro answered our prayers. there are no signs that there'll be a heavy downpour today, specifically no typhoons. that's good news for everyone para wala na mahirapan. it pains me to see that most of the people suffering are the ones who are really helpless. those who can't afford to feed themselves. i think there's really something wrong with the way society or i should say government. maybe it's late for me to actually take up any course related to public service but I will try my best to serve my country.

just this morning, i heard on the tv (heard because i wasn't looking at the tv) that there was an incident yesterday at GB5. i have yet to know the whole story but that is a very sad news.  

it's 8 am but i aint hungry yet. but I should eat breakfast. last night's dinner at katipunan was really overwhelming. that means i should work out today.

after last night's class, i went to the house of gary and jen to have dinner. they cooked shabu-shabu again. i had two bowls of it, but it's okay coz it didnt have any rice in it. i knew we were going to greenhills to buy something but unfortunately, gary's gonna play poker pala beside zirkoh. i thought carlo was gonna come but mercy didn't allow him to go. since gary didn't want to play alone, we tried the online casino at silver city again. kaya lang he didn't like it. he wants the real time thingy.

 i heard on the radio last night that wynnie arboleda won't be playing for the rest of the PBA season. that is so sad. i thought it was just unfair. i'm not being biased, his wife is my friend, but he's one of the nicest people i know. i hope the PBA commissioner will be enlightened on this case and that there will be an appeal of some sort.

is there such a thing? full length kasi medyo mahaba siya compared to other sleeps i had for the past week. i should have slept at an earlier time but i had to finish my cover letter. pero i will proof read it because i felt tulog ako habang nagta type lol.

my breakfast's so yummy. it's been a long time since i've eaten danggit. mukhang mapapakain ako ng marami nito. i just noticed, i don't have much appetite during the day, then at night, ang lakas ko kumain. this has been happening for the last two days. does it have something to do with the oral medication i'm having?

i'm at a gas station now just outside valle. i have to go to work again. buti there's no traffic since most of the schools are now having their term break (short term break). mostly, a regular semestral break will take a month. but due to the typhoons, some schools don't even have breaks this year. kawawang mga bata. actually yesterday was officially my last day in school for the first term. although i have to go back there maybe monday para sa clearance. i remember... yesterday since yung classroom didn't have AC, it kinda reminded me of the time when i took the ACET, the classrooms didn't have AC. and during that time, paglabas, sobrang traffic, the cars weren't moving.

i cant seem to share photos through fb. i must be doing something wrong.

i promised myself to be productive everyday. no idle time. dahil diyan, nakapaghanap na ako ng pwede maglinis ng kwarto. and the lucky girl is jumar's helper. i hope she's gonna be able to fix everything at a cheap service fee. i'm planning to have it next week. my room's so dirty. i passed by the house a while ago and i realized, hindi ko na siya kilala. pathetic. another productive thing, nakapag visit kami ng baclaran last night (actually morning na yun) after having dinner. nagkataon na sa dampa macapagal kami kumain so it was really a blessing that we were able to visit Bro's house, and thank HIM for everything.  

as i'm writing this, i'm at the csb campus waiting for someone (secret). yipee. parang welcome back thing for me. the last time i walked along the streets of taft was in july pa. eh that was in the evening pa. it felt like yesteryears. the sound of the lrt, the fashionable people walking, the green and white surroundings. i wish my college years never ended.  buti the valet person still remembered me that i didn't have to worry about parking.

i was told though, that alumni can enter the campus until 5 pm only. what if there are events like foundation week? usually that lasts until midnight. does that mean alumni can't celebrate with their friends in there anymore? i haven't asked anyone about it but i will try to know the reason why there's such a rule now. btw, maybe it's kinda surprising that i'm with a foreigner in the pic. this is leandro and he's a brazilian. he's in the PI to get modelling jobs. i'm so intimidated by his nose so later i'll go to belo megamall to inquire about rhinoplasty. seriously...

we are on our way to audrey's birthday in antipolo. it's 1:30 pm and i just woke up. i haven't eaten anything so i think this would mean gluttony. my bad. i shouldn't even be saying that. a few seconds ago, we passed by the infamous marikina river and saw this mountains of garbage on the riverside. To say that it looked awfully bad is an understatement. You can visualize the way the place looked on the day of the storm surge. At that moment, i thanked Bro for keeping me safe that day, and at the same time, prayed for my countrymen who suffered emotional, physical and financial damage during that fateful day.

on another note, i still have no idea what i'll be doing for the rest of the day. one thing that is certain is that i will go rest as soon as we get home. my eyes need toothpick to keep it on, to say the least. oh and i'm so proud to be given this jersey of the fearless ronald tubid of ginebra. it's the first time i'm publicly wearing it during my work out sessions. their next victim: the alaska aces!

yes! kakadating ko lang it's 11 pm, we just came from the advance screening of astroboy. batang bata. i thought i won't like it but i did. is that really the story? or one of those made up stories?  kaso lang i feel guilty not showing up sa moa for the pond's segment at the pfw. ang layo kasi from the advance screening so i had to beg off. 

i feel kinda ok kahit na maiksi ang araw ko today. mga past 12 na kasi ako nagising. then when i went online, online din si carla. it's been a while since ive seen her. palibhasa sikat na. but im so happy for her. ako kaya kelan ang break ko sa showbiz kahit creative writer man lang? just dreaming

i feel i'm useless. hontestly. i don't think i will be able to vote next year. supposedly, it'll be my 3rd eligibilty year to vote, first one was in 2004, then 2007 then next year. i thought i would be able to beat the deadline. i took the initiative to ask my friend if she could help me with the process and make it simple for me since i don't feel like falling in line the whole day just to vote. the thing is for the last few days, i've had the chance to listen to the news on the radio while i'm driving. i've heard about people lining up the sattelite offices the whole day just to  register. and apparently, my friend is mayor fred lim's granddaughter, so i don't have to fall in line. however, though i've been living in manila for the last three years, all my IDs are addressed in caloocan at my parent's house. hassle right? so i spent a couple of hours begging our barangay captain to issue me a barangay certificate. he was hesistant at first but well, i still need an ID. but it was kinda late so it really won't mean anything. and besides, i had to attend my flexibility class in an hour. i really feel frustrated. there goes the issue on exercising the right to vote, and the responsibility of registering on time. come may 2010, i will be a bastardized citizen of the Philippines. i will not have any role on that historic day. 

to pamper myself, since i felt kind of low and tired, after our dinner at Little Asia, we are now having a foot spa. yucky dami dead skin. at last nagka chance ako maka online and check my facebook and mag blog na ren. one thing good about a mac is it's user friendly compared to my pc. i hope i can get my own soon. and later before I sleep, i will be putting this patch, on the soles of my feet, like a detox thing. i really should start eating healthy food.

i decided to just dont sleep since i have to work today. so while waiting for the 1 hour gap, i'll just blog. we just came from manor and we had a great time. it was so much fun. maybe the reason i'm not complaining that i'm puyat again. i was with marison, georgia, jackie, raul, plus two other guys. then when we went to eastwood andun sila paolo, mark, alex at marami pa. kaya sobrang saya. one thing i regret though is not being able to wear a halloween costume. sayang talaga, i realized that when we were there already. paolo was the only one wearing a costume. and he didn't fail. such a head turner. lol

another thing, im sure everyone here in manila experienced the strong winds yesterday. we were playing xbox till 3 am saturday and we can feel the force of the wind from our bedroom. then ronald called me to move the car to the vacant lot because a branch of a pine tree fell on it. good thing konting scratches lang ang nangyari. ang daya because yung mark III at expedition ang inuna. biased. the good thing about it was the typhoon was so quick. in less than a day it left the country already. when we were playing basketball before noon it was already sunny so it was like "that fast"? well i am sure that the quickness of it benefited tha majority. thanks a bunch BRO. whatever... i have to go now... the jollibee breakfast's arrived.