Himig at Pag-ibig ng Buklod: A prelude to the reunion concert!

See the group that spawned such hits as "Kanlungan", "Tatsulok", "Usok", and many others as most of their original members get together on this very rare and intimate event!

Friday September 21, 2007 7:30PM
LACXO Restobar
Agrix Complex
Los Baños, Laguna

For ticket inquiries please contact 0917-9276479 or 0915-6291951.

>>>shet sana makapunta ako!

my cold, cold, colds

Now I'm hit by the colds.

See, it all started with the intermittent internet connections (see previous rant below). Plus a number of people here have the virus too. This entry should be renamed intermittent internet part 2 (shet) If not for this inconvenience I should still be sleeping right now, and not here writing this rants.

And because of this, my work load is getting piled up. Now I'm sniffing. I've got the symptoms…

Monovirus!

Better be going, I need to rest these muscles of mine.

Let's see what heathen dreams will I partake in thy sleep…

the intermittent internet

This intermittent internet connection is killing me…

I mean, I cannot continue my last part of work which incidentally, is the most important part of my day to day working tasks. Because of this I have to return to the damn office at 9pm and continue the work until 1am, returning to my house and then getting up and going back to work 8am in the morning until 2pm in the afternoon.

Goodness, I don't know how long I can keep up with this! This is a torture schedule, really. I hope everything will be okay tomorrow, my biological age is now doubling up its present rate.

I was wondering if this amount of work will compensate my state of health in the next 30 years or so.

On second thought, I don't think so.

NINONG is going Down, Down, Down…

They sentenced him. Ninong is going down.

Today Joseph Ejercito Estrada, erstwhile president of the Philippines was found guilty of plunder by the nation's anti-graft court. Plunder is a capital offense punishable by Reclusion Perpetua or Life Imprisonment.

Estrada by far will be the highest official, to date to be convicted of plunder.

Malacañang and other government officials will surely welcome this conviction as a victory against graft and corruption.

But is it really a victory?

We are just seeing the proverbial tip of the iceberg here. Cases in point:

-Joey Marquez's alleged 'broomstck scandal'

-Cebu Provincial government's alleged 'lamp post scandal'

-The Arroyo's numerous alleged involvements in contract kickbacks especially in the country's coal shipments.

-Jose Pidal, turning out to be presidential brother-in-law Iggy, who openly admitted he's Pidal. He's now a happy elected congressman.

-The Cojuangcos, Enriles, etc

-and the Marcoses, who have never repented despite the massive pillaging in the history of our country. The Guinness World Records effectively put us in the world map.

Given these things, I don't think we can rejoice yet, not when more 'kapalmuks' are still on the loose. Some says they are all still on 'pwesto' or are controlling these 'pwestos'.

Some says the biggest crook now resides on that historical edifice in the mythical Pasig river. It is not over yet.

Pasensya ka na Ninong, mas malaking aso nakasakmal sayo

Stupid!

Some people are just stupid. Or acting like stupid. Or just a born natural. Plain Stupid with the capital S.

Consider this: You were already told of something not to do thereby informing you also of what is the proper way to do things.

Then you did that thing again which you are not supposed to do.

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Miss A is a team leader of a group in this certain company. She was a good first level employee that she was easily promoted to the next level and so on blah blah. During this period she was even groomed to be the next big thing in this group, which in a rollercoaster turn of events she eventually did bagged that coveted position, albeit in a controversial one.

Nice.

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In www.wikipedia.org, Apes are members of the Hominoidea superfamily of primates, which includes humans. Under the current classification system there are two families of hominoids:

Hylobatidae consists of 4 genera and 12 species of gibbons, including the Lar Gibbon and the Siamang, collectively known as the "lesser apes"

Hominidae consists of orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and humans, collectively known as the "great apes".

In Oxford (www.askoxford.com), apes were defined as: 

  • Noun 1 a large tailless primate of a group including gorillas, chimpanzees, and gibbons. 2 informal; an unintelligent or clumsy person. 

  • Verb imitate in an absurd or unthinking way.

I remembered something funny I almost fell of my chair…

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Again, Miss A acquired the habit of doling out instructions similar to what the late Strongman did during the Martial rule, dispensing orders via the mighty Presidential Decrees or PDs. In this case, she did use the mighty Internet tool called Internet Messaging.

Cool.

However it did backfired. The instructions were not clear (do you really expect that? It’s just a frigging chat!). Now a miscommunication ensued between her and her subordinate.

And she did the abominable. She did that something she was already told not to do (yet). She wielded the mighty email and carbon copied every known god in the topmost hierarchy. The email lambasted the subordinate for not following the mighty instruction wielded out from the mighty IM. The previous order was to attend all matters first at the lowest level, escalating it only when needed. It’s like the Military Chain of Command. You go from point A to point B, then to point C until you get to point E.

She jumped from A to E.

Haha! Stupid…

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Now the funny thing was, the subordinate pointed out that her email differed from what was actually the given instruction in the IM…

Ohmigod…

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Even funnier, realizing the muck she easily put herself in a sorry state, she even requested the subordinate to answer her previous email…

Which the subordinate did.

The bomb blasted through her shielded face exposing her ignorance… a frigging sorry state of affairs…

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Aping has become synonymous with our one of our basic characteristics. It is true that we learn by means of imitation. Babies and toddlers usually do this. In our whole life span we ape what we see and what we hear. The good thing about this type of action is that we learn through it.

Learn is the operative word.

Even in work we imbibe the styles of our superiors once we are at their former positions.

The poor Miss A is a poor mimic, befitting the second noun definition given above:

“Informal; an unintelligent or clumsy person.”

She certainly qualified as such. The looks may be applied to the definition but it’s not worth discussing anymore…