WTF are they doing in the US of A?!@#$%

The country has been thru a lot lately. Typhoon Frank has done a lot of damage all throughout the country and there is also the sea tragedy of M/V Princess of the Stars owned by Sulpicio Lines. Frank has left a lof of Filipinos homeless, foodless and some even died.

And there was this Sulpicio-owned vessel that sunked near Sibuyan Island, it has almost 800 passengers, some of them children. God have mercy on them!

The Philippines was totally lambasted by those two mishaps
in a couple of days.

And…..

… Madame President and some 60 solons are in the Land of Milk and Honey doing some “junket” in which they claim would invite more investors in the Philippines! Bravo. Bravo. Bravo. I say, syeeet!

While the Filipinos are perishing from lack of assistance here, there they are for a junket which is just a formal translation of “lakwatsa”. Now i know where my taxes are going! The last thing I heard, they are gonna stay up until the end of the month for the Pacquiao-diaz bout.  Ang kakapal! Grrrrrrr!

Why don’t they just go home and help the people here? I watched the video conference with the people from Marina and Coast Guard and it was funny. It’s just like reprimanding someone thru sms. Walang dating!

This is not the kind of government we want to have.  Their lavish lifestyles not thinking about the state of the people they left here, just sucks! They can also attract investors while here right? If they were able to do the video conference from the US to here, why can’t they do it from here to US? Or is it just an alibi to go the US for the Pacquia-Diaz bout at the expense of the taxpayers? A lady senator is already ranting on this matter and she even suggested that these solons donate their 2-month salary to the victims.  Well that would somehow appease some of the observants especially a very vocal bishop.

Well anyway, this is just my 2 cents. But hopefully it gets to their nerve. Coz i am so pissed off the way things are going.

Wake up people!

 

on LOSIN’ WEIGHT… (a lot of it!)

I have been battling weight gain for years already. And if I saved all the money I spent on those food supplements I can already afford a liposuction. Geez, had I known I just did it way back! ( At the back of mind I’m scared of the thought of it hahahaha!)

During my high school days, I never had a problem with my figure. Maybe because I was active then. I was a volleyball varsity player and a member of the barangay dance troupe so all my muscles and fats were like, stretched and burned to the highest level! Oh I so missed those days. Sigh.

And then, college came. I met San Mig. And sisig. And crispy pata. Eveything fatty. No more volleyball games coz my freak boyfriend then wouldn’t allow me to wear shorts. ( Stupid diba? ) And I was stupidier for following him, I know! Anyway, I was also boarding a dorm way back so my breakfast, lunch and dinner composed of fastfoods like cheeseburger & fries, pizza & pasta and chips & soda. Not to mention the almost-nightly bar-hopping. You know, things you do when you have all the independence. And then started my weight problems.  I would constantly resort to crash diets.

My crash diet would mean, Marlboro lights & iced tea, or if I’m in the mood to munch, crackers & iced tea. I used to do that if we have a night out and an outfit won’t fit me. It was so tedious.

I wasn’t that big though, my problem is that my thighs are so big they would call it “pata”. And then I gave birth to my eldest. I breastfed him for 8 months and I lost all the weight I gained since college. It seemed like my body was that of a 6th grader.

Well as they say some good things never last. When I took oral contraceptive, I started to gain weight again. And I was already freakin’ out coz I was starting to look “losyang” at a young age of 20! OMG. But mom said it’s in the genes so I just let it be. I would lose, I would gain. That’s just it. I told myself I need to get pregnant again coz I know that i would lose weight when I breastfeed. and I swear, I’m gonna maintain it, I swear.

April 2005, I lost weight without effort. How? I contracted pneumonitis (pre-cursor to pneumonia) and I was hospitalized for 2 weeks. I had to stop smoking then and I stayed away from smokers. I think I lost about 10 kgs then. But then again some good things never last, i gained weight again.

Until June 2006, I chanced upon a book, Dr. Robert Atkin’s Diet. I bought the book and followed everything that’s in there by heart. No carbs, no sugar. I did it for 3 long months and I was successful. So successful that they were already asking what i am doing to lose that amount of weight. I was so proud. I can already wear tank tops without blazers, short shorts. I already bought a whole wardrobe yata of new clothes.

Downfall? I got pregnant. And I gained weight again. Arrggh! Can you feel the struggle? And so my life was again back to fastfoods and sodas and chips and i became as big as Dabiana. Ewww! Anyway, I’ll breastfeed the baby, I said. and I’m gonna lose all of these.

So I gave birth. The weight loss was not that much and I was wondering. Lola said, ” Iba-iba ang pagbubuntis”. And all I could say was, OMG. And so I can no longer control it. And I was doomed to be fat forever.

But my husband is not giving up on me. He would give me money whenever I see something on TV for weight loss. Enough on the chinese-slimming-ekek, I’ll try the commercial supplements this time.  I tried this green capsule which is being endorsed by Ploning. It was to be taken 3x a day. It’s a fat-burner and you have to take it after meal and it works best before 4pm. I can feel the change naman. Only, since I work on a graveyard shift, taking it before 4pm is not applicable because I am asleep from 6am to 4pm. Although “it works best” on my days-off coz you will really sweat to the max. And all my abdominal fats has loosen so I need extra work-out on that. Anyway, not the weight loss that I desire so i tried another. I bought Orlistat. And it’s working fine with me. it’s taken before breakfast and once a day only. So it suits my lifestyle and body clock.  And I can feel that I’m losin’ weight already. Yay!

With all the money and the effort that I’ve given out, I deserve a result, a better result. Lord help me. 

Who is Hekate?

 

HEKATE (or Hecate) was the goddess of magic, witchcraft, the night, moon, ghosts and necromancy. She was the only child of the Titanes Perses and Asteria from whom she received her power over heaven, earth, and sea.

Hekate assisted Demeter in her search for Persephone, guiding her through the night with flaming torches. After the mother-daughter reunion became she Persephone’s minister and companion in Haides.

Two metamorphosis myths describe the origins of her animal familiars: the black she-dog and the polecat (a mustelid house pet kept to hunt vermin). The bitch was originally the Trojan Queen Hekabe, who leapt into the sea after the fall of Troy and was transformed by the goddess into her familiar. The polecat was originally the witch Gale who was transformed into the beast to punish her for her incontinence. Other say it was Galinthias, the nurse of Alkmene, transformed by the angry Eileithyia, but received by Hekate as her animal.

Hekate was usually depicted in Greek vase painting as a woman holding twin torches. Sometimes she was dressed in a knee-length maiden’s skirt and hunting boots, much like Artemis. In statuary Hekate was often depicted in triple form as a goddess of crossroads.

Hekate was identified with a number of other goddesses, including Artemis and Selene (Moon), the Arkadian Despoine, the sea-goddess Krataeis, the goddess of the Taurian Khersonese (of Skythia), the Kolkhian Perseis, and Argive Iphigeneia, the Thracian goddesses Bendis and Kotys, Euboian Maira (the dog-star), Eleusinian Daeira and the Boiotian Nymphe Herkyna.

 

Why did i make an entry about Hekate? it’s my new team. Yeah, nothing in this world is constant except for “change”. New TL (which is not bad because P is a friend); new teammates and hopefully new friendship. Good luck! ☺

No Smoking!

 

Yesterday, after shift, we went to Tropical Hut near Makati Med for breakfast. That is my sup’s favorite place for binge whenever she craves for toast & eggs.

It was a usual happy breakfast. After that, we went out of to smoke. You know, it feels good to smoke when you’re full from a heavy breakfast. After puffing out the stick, I looked left & right for a trash can, nowhere in sight. I casually threw the butt.

 

And so hugged each other goodbye, beso-beso-muah-muah, and I asked a guy friend to help us cross the road because we are gonna take the bus on the other side.

 

As I stepped out of the railings, this old man in cheap barong called my attention. He said, “Psst, halika dito. Oo, ikaw halika.”  See, the barong he was wearing could not hide the illiteracy in him. Would you just use “psst” to call somebody’s attention? I immediately went to him and asked why. He didn’t explain, he just asked for my ID. I already knew it was about the cigarette butt that I threw. I didn’t gave him my ID. And my friends came to me. They all came tio my rescue.

 

The two other Hepa Boys who was with the dirty-old-man were telling me that they had to issue me a ticket, confiscate my ID and just go to the municipal hall to redeem it. Ano ko kotse?!

After 15 minutes of struggle to save my ID, I won! And I can’t just let them harass me that way, for a lot of reasons:

• The dirty-old-man doesn’t have an ID.
• If it was an ordinance, they should have posted a sign that states the rules with the ordinance number.  It’s in the books of law. They can’t just stand there the whole day catching everybody who will throw butts. That’s stupid. They still have more important things to do.
• They should have cited me right there and then not to throw the butt there. They waited 10 minutes. What’s the purpose?
• They should not allow the vendors to sell cigarettes in that area if there is no trash can. Where are we gonna throw the butts? In my bag? Bago to noh!
• Traffic jam is from RCBC to Mayapis and the traffic light can’t take care of the jam anymore. So why waste your time being idiotic in that area, you should have strutted your asses to help managed the traffic! Nagkasilbi pa kau!

You can’t imagine how high my blood pressure was on that morning. I was like.. “ARRGGGHHH, is this all that you can do?” With all the taxes that I am paying? Is this the best that you can do?

 

And what’s funny is, just this afternoon when I passed by that area on my way to work, it was flooded with cigarette butts. Talk about consistency manong!

I’m Back…

This is the reason why I was blogless for less than a week…

We went to Canyon Cove in Nasugbu and it was hell of a good time. My, that vacation was so refreshing! Actually, may hang-over pa ko! Hehehehe….

  Wacky in the water!!!

 

 

                       … at the beachfront!

 

 

 

 

 

 

  …pool naman after sa beach!

 

 

 

Oh gawd, that was the best summer of my life!!!

 

After shift, we had breakfast muna at Mcdo… we need extra energy! So we needed pancakes, burgers and hashbrowns!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 travel time was almost 3 hours including stopovers for gas and other things… there’s Dang, Ohana, Moi & Obie!

 

 

 

 

stopover at 7-11 Nasugbu for chips, soda, cigar & booze!

 

 

 

 

 

  AND AFTER THE LONG TRIP…

 

HELLO CANYON COVE!!

 

 

It was a 2-days-3-nights getaway and nakakabitin! I swear to be back at that paradise next month haha!

“May pumisil ng p*wet ko!”

I was out-of-the-office on May 6-7. We had this eChorva thing and the second day was held at eTediburr Libis. Our sched was 7pm-4am so we had to leave at 4:30pm. My gawd, MRT station in Pasay was “box-office”! After 30 mins of queue we managed to get a ticket. When we got to Rob Gale to get a cab on the way to Libis, it rained hard and there was no cab in sight. 10 mins… 20 mins… 30 mins… pakshet! NO CAB!!!  We braved the rain and we just boarded a jeep to IPI where we took another jeep to Eastwood. Whew, amazing race!

 

The eChorva thing went fine… it was fun. Quite a breather, 2 days off the phone is still 2 days! Got a rest from days of arguing with a customer asking for impossible if not improbable credits. The trainor was so nice. And it also feels good to be back at the same room where we had the foundation training 2 years ago. It brings back the memories.

 

After the training we had breakfast, buffet style at Something Fishy. I had huge serving of pancakes, yummy!

 

 

Team Chimaera (from left to right) Ghe, Ohana, Moi, Lhen, Cez, Noni, Gabe, Dadi Hec, Dobie & Dang

Where’s Obie & TL?

 

Anyhoot, after breakfast we headed home. We took a jeep to Cubao where we are takin’ MRT to Pasay.

And this is more or less how Cubao station looks like… .

 

… actually it is worse than this! One wrong step and hello stampede ito!

 

Ghe: Girls, dun na kau sa for-women na coach kc puro lalake dito bka mabastos kau.

Us: Ok k lang? Kita na lang tau sa Pasay?

Ghe, Yea, ok lang.

 

And so we went to the for-women only area. 1,2,3,4,5,6 coaches passed by and we can’t get in. Dang and I decided that we should take a bus instead, otherwise, we are gonna have lunch at MRT. And so we search for Ghe among those who were waiting. Just when we are about to go, a half-full coach arrived. We were like, “ok na to, makipag-brasuhan na tau!” 

 

It was like a Black Nazarene procession on a Quiapo feast. And mind you, we were the only girls on that lane. Siksik dito, siksik don, we had to get in. And I felt a hand in my butt… and he squeezed it!  I freaked out as soon as i got in and shouted…

 

“Kung sino ka man, bastos ka, hinawakan mo pwet ko!” And everybody laughed. An old lady said, “Baka naman nasanggi lang” (Yeah, a fellow woman told me that!) I answered, “hindi ho, pinanggigilan!” 

Well I can’t do anything about it so I just laughed at it. After all, he can never  get a piece of me and if grabbing someone else’s butt satisfies him then so be it. And I thought, I will never get a day job!

Digicam Collection

Last Thursday, we went to MOA to celebrate Xelynah’s birthday. And I chanced upon  bought this…

 

 

… because I so wanted to replace this piece of crap..

 

..which  was given by Hany’s boss as a replacement for my old “simple-first-ever” Mustek digicam…

 

 

… which she lost in Galera!

 

Well that Aiptek 11megapixel/MPEG4/camcorder was just Php8k and I applied for 6 months 0 interest scheme. Good buy na din! I brought the cam to our office because I was draining the battery and so we had this picture-picture thing. And my bitchy gay-friend said… “EEEEWWW, Mami, what’s AIPTEK?” 

And … hindi ako syempre magpapatalo… so yesterday, I bought this…

 

 

… that’s how IMPULSIVE i am! Now I’m stuck with 3 digicams. And a bleeding wallet. 

Soul sistahs?

 

 

Sis & Me

 

She’s my sister. More than being a sister, she is also my friend, close friend, bestfriend, confidante etc. But now things have changed… since she got married.

 

I’ve been the head of the family since mom left us way back 1990. I was just 10. My dad is a soldier assigned in Mindanao to fight the rebel MILFs. There was no Abu Sayyaf then. So literally, I had to raise my 3 siblings because nobody will do it except me. I had to cook, wash the dishes, do the laundry, attend their school meetings & recognitions. I had to be a mom & dad at the same time at a young age of 10. I know everything about them, i know what they like, what they want, their hopes and dreams. Well, that is what I thought. Turned out in the end, i was wrong. I never knew them coz I am so used to the norm that I was the one who decides for them. Never thought they also have their own minds. And it hurts me.

 

I’ve always known her boyfriends. She had to get my approval as well. He must be someone I would like or else I’m gonna tell dad. And so I was the ultimate “kasabwat” and vice versa.  But things changed when our boy-friend became her “boyfriend”. 

 

Boy-friend is a family friend, “kababata”, neighbor & “beerkada”. He was actually my 2 bro’s friend, he’s my youngest bro’s basketball teammate. He, along with other boy-friends would always stay at the house, “tambay at inuman”.  When we learned that my sister and he had a relationship, my brothers would not approve of it. They said they knew boy-friend too well when it comes to girls and they will not let them go on with what they have. And so being the “ate”,  I wouyld always be by her side. I would tell my bros to leave them alone until one day… she got pregnant. And what’s the next step, my old-fashioned parent & relatives did the most absurd “wrongest” decision. Marriage! ( Wait up, are my ears bleeding?! )

 

And so they are married for a year now. And they already have Althea Vonne Erene, my cute niece. I am not jealous because she now has more time for her family than us or me, well maybe, maybe not. I just hate the fact that I had served them for more than my mom had taken care of us, and now I see her work for 5 days a week, and then on Saturdays & Sundays which should be her days-off, she will still do the laundry and rtake of the child. And why am I so mad about it?  Her husband is a pain-in-the-ass J-O-B-L-E-S-S!!! BUM. He doesn’t really care if my sister is the one working as long as he gets to play basketball everyday. That is what I am mad at.  I have taken care of my sibling for years only to be slave-driven by  a fuckin’ lazy asshole!!! 

 

Hany has told me to move on, let it be coz she now has a family of her own,  and that is what I’m trying to do.  And sister is now so “brain-washed” she no longer visits us though we are just a block apart. Funny though, we work in one company and I don’t even see her here. 

 

I’m still hoping that we could patch things up. I hope so. After all I love her. 

 

 

Iron Man…

When Chimays asked me out for a movie, I immediately said yes. Well the last time I watched movie was Dec 2006 and I was asleep halfway thru the movie. I was excited and I made a HUGE SIN. I lied to Hany.  He’ll let me go though, I know that at the back of his mind he wouldn’t want it coz Sunday is family day. But this is the first time that I’m gonna go with my fellas so I really tried my best to lie.  I SMSed him after the shift, “Hany, we have an uptraining from 9am-3pm so I’m not gonna be there for lunch.” Lie #1. It was 5am. I went to the lounge and tried to grab a nap, but I can’t. Guilt is eating me. I stood up and told my friends, “Guys I’m gonna go home. I’ll just meet you guys at G4. Nobody will cook breakfast for my husby & kids!”. And I had to swear-cross-my-heart that I’ll go with them.

 

And so I went home, cook breakfast, ate with husby & kids, play with Xelynah for a while and then slept. Hany asked, ” Thought you have an uptraining, why are you so early?” “Oh, change of schedule” I said. Lie #2. Aww!

 

I woke up at 11am, bathe, dressed up. Told Hany uptraining will be until 5pm. I immediately hailed a cab and fellas are already calling me coz movie is starting at 12:20pm. “Hello, wala ba kong  karapatang ma-traffic!”

I was there at exactly 12pm. As usual, meeting place was Starbucks. After a stick each of cigarette. We bought ticket to this…

 

                                                               Iron Man

 

The movie featured my “crush-of-all-time” Robert Downey Jr. Oh I love him! He’s as gorgeous as ever. My gawd, all I can say is… “He’s HOT-HOT-HOT!” 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROBERT DOWNEY JR.

 

Haaay… isn’t he HOT? He’s worth the lying di ba?  Bad me.

Gay’s Anatomy

Since our shift changed to 7pm-4am, we had to wait until 6am to go home because gay friend is afraid of muggers. He was mugged twice already that’s why. We are on the same route so we always go home together. We would pick the bestest bus without curtains and with enough lighting. And hope that it would have a “working” air-conditioning system as well.

 

Not satisfied with all the “chikas” we do at the office, the almost one-hour ride (including traffic!) from Paseo to Baclaran will still be full of “chika-chismis-chorva”. We would always laugh at the almost all the things that we see just to while away the time, because we don’t like the movie that is playing on the video.  Sometimes we will just sing the songs on his MP4 while he holds a paper with the lyrics of Julia Fordham’s Girlfriend.  And we will laugh together while other people are looking at us.

 

Yesterday, when he got off the bus at Domestic Rd., a very funny irritating conversation started:

 

Driver: Sayang no?
Konduktor: Bakit, bakla ba yon?
Driver: Oo, naman, halata naman e!
(At this point, I was looking at them but I chose to just listen.)
Konduktor: Hindi yun, nagba-bakla-baklaan lang yun para maka-chancing.
Driver: Bakla yun, di mo ba nakita kumekembot?
Konduktor: Hindi. Kunyari lang yun. Marami nang ganyan ngayon. Bakla kunyari tapos hawak-kawakan ka.
(I am now getting irritated. I interrupted them before the driver hit her with a steel pipe and she fight back with asero in her hand. I blurted out…)

 

“Bakla po siya. Baklang-bakla, wag nyo ng pagtalunan.”

 

And I smiled at them in my most “plastic” way.

 

You might be wondering that I refer to the “konduktor” as “her”. Yes, she is a LESBIAN. How dare her talk bad about gay friend when she herself is a homosexual? When she said that gay friend is just pretending to be gay just to take a chance on girls, is she pertaining to me because gay friend gave me a peck on the cheek when he got off.  Is that taking  a chance on me? Poor, gay friend. He was being judge because of his sexual preference. Fair? No.

 

I have a lot of gay friends and I love them. There may be some who are yeah, takin’ advantage of the friendship, but there is just one or two and they are somehow tolerable. Like I have this gay friend who never buy his own food. He would always dig into somebody else’s food. He’s nice though except for his being stingy. But we got along well and still friends until now.

 

I also have lesbian friends but they are the friendliest lesbos you’ll ever meet. Sweet, so caring, so protective and never judgmental. Love them!

 

So I am just wondering how other people can look at other people’s flaws without looking at themselves. Is it really a part of our culture already? And a lesbo judging a gay? Funny, ayt?
 

 By the way… that gay friend is the one in blue in this pic. Isn’t he lovable?