“WWHHHATTT???”
i have the houselet all to myself this whole week because my housemate’s gone to bagiuo. i’ m happy and sad ( not really sad but more like bored ).happy because he promised a lot of "pasalubong" ( i’m a sucker for pasalubong ). sad/bored because i’ve gotten used to the late eve conversations the give us good laughs really. the last topic we had was how insane our elections can be. there’s the perpetual issue of political prostitutes/ turn coats, how one candidate can say some awful, heartbreaking comments about a former party-mate after having sucked real good the latter’s resources ( and God knows what else )to be where he is and maintain his position. and yeah, what about nuisance candidates? eddie gil.lord, i can’t figure how screwy that guy is. i can’t believe what people go through to get attention!
i’m not really in the know as far as this year’s election is but i’m quite aware of who are running ( or who wanted to or have been courted to run but for some unknown reason have or might’ve dropped the idea ). few weeks ago, while in a cab i learned through the am radio that rez cortez, richard gomez, laarni enriquez among others were running! i was like " WWHHHHAAAATTT??? ". certainly getting yourself a pol sci degree doesn’t guarantee that you’d be a good public servant but for crying out loud, what’s gotten into these people’s head? i can’t figure why they would run or even considered running.
a really good friend told me when she came here for business " i’m gonna vote straight artista ". again i said " WWHHHAAAATTT??? are you kidding me?". she’s serious and asked me " what have our idols in the senate done? what has arroyo, drilon done? do you know?" then she added " at least i’ll have fun knowing and watching all the artista politicians and i won’t have expectations because i know they don’t know anything. MAN THAT GOT ME THINKING. ( a caveat: i’ve used quotation marks not because i really directly quoted her for what she said. i’ve actually paraphrased/translated our convo but it’s easier writing about it with the aid of the mark. i think it makes this entry more alive although that’s highly contestable…whatever you know? )
i do care about the future of this country. i might’ve changed my outlook about the whole migration issue but hey i still am patriotic ( i just need to work on being proactive ) and i’ll try my very best to research on who would best be in those positions regardless of which party they come from, the ones who can work with people regardless of which party they come from but has only the good of this country and its citizens in mind. then there’s something that goes in the way of my trying to be proactive: do my ideal politicians actually exist? or do we just have nuisance candidates according to comelec standards, candidates who have passed comelec requirements but act like nuisance candidate anyway and politicians i look up to for their intellect and experience but could barely do something to help us move forward? i am really wondering and seriously i have some serious researching to do.
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i’m still single but i wasn’t dateless on valentine’s day (week actually) . before THE DAY my good friend/travel agent/coffee buddy/dinner and movie partner chu’s invited me to this singles valentine even in katipunan. he said he’s seen it over at jessica zafra’s blog or something. we thought it’s interesting so we went. when we got there, really the place is interesting ( as in the tone and feeling this girl in notting hill had when she tasted hugh grant’s coffee). the place was full of art pieces which we tried to figure while we were looking around and having dinner. for a single’s event it was not bad. there was break-up letter reading every after a couple of songs from the band. the best part were really gabe’s jokes and yeah the songs…. funny, funny renditions of some popular songs ( oh it’s sad to belong to no one when no one comes along….)and those originally written by the guitar man i know were funny but i really can’t recall the lyrics. at the end of the night i could not decide whether i had a blast or what. it was a different experience, certainly not the usual, safe valentine outing.
a couple of days later, i was again on a date ( actually dates…there were 14 of them ). this i think is one of the most extreme things i ever did. upon chu’s prodding i joined this speed dating in makati covered by the etc channel. i never could say no to chu ( i think ) so i let him convince me to join because he needed company. i finally said yes when he assured me it won’t be anything like the one i saw in the movie "hitch". he said it’s just going to be a socialization where people meet people and that we ( as in chu, myself and heidee ) won’t really be separated, that we would be together the whole night. uber wrong. it went exactly like the speed dating in "hitch". during dinner before the actual dating, i was seriously freaked out. during the registration i wanted so much to go home. the thought of putting up this kind of business in zamboanga was that which got me through the night. i now have the pointers i need. save for 13 uninteresting / monggo ( 1 of the 14 was ok , sensible but i suspect not one that can really keep me interested) dates everything was OK. i had an instant crush on conrad (the host who did a few amazing magic tricks, very very tall and lean guy.my type), free dinner, unlimited drinks, free loot bag from sponsors, the annoying mime, the smooth band silk, funny sam oh and heidee’s cam. this experience blew my mind. happy valentine’s all!
Uncategorized | Comments (2)spontaneity
this is one of my favorite words for the sound and the meaning of it! i love spontaneous people ( most if not all my friends are ), spontaneous writing, spontaneous conversations and what have you.
today’s the most spontaneous day yet for the year 2007. i found the best way for me to read the newspaper from front page to the last, headline ro obituary — offer to see a friend to the airport whose flight out of manila is 6 am. drive to the airport at 4 am. of course take a cab back towards home but just before it reaches home ask to be dropped at my favorite luneta park. walk to jollibee maria orosa branch thinking of breakfast meal A1. the thing is the place is closed yet at 5:30 am so decide to have coffe somewhere else. think starbucks but no more planner to be given away so opt for seven eleven that sell a cup of coffee for 12 pesos. because it feels silly to just sit there and sip coffee, buy something to read. magazines are too much so grab the newspaper instead. before being able to read half of the paper, seven eleven decides to turn off the light so it gets pretty uncomfortable to read. stand up, get out and walk to roxas boulevard and wait for sunrise.however the brain decided to malfunction, it’s a quarter to seven, the place is no longer dusk but bright but there was no sight of a sun rising. silly brain failed to think!failed to realize the sun rises at the back of the tall buildings facing the bay. there’s nothing better or more viable to do than read the paper. can’t do aerobics or tae-bo, ride a bicycle or sell peanut or corn, or toys for tots so really the paper is the way to go—i say the february 11,2007 paper is the luckiest paper i ever got hold of for having been treated like a novel.
it was still early and the warm sun and chilly breeze felt so great i continued walking till i wound up at my favorite park. i went to the orchidarium and boy was i in for a lovely surprise. it’s the loveliest place ever. nice landscape, flowers that give off that sweet and spiced scent , very clean surrounding, and a "manong" watering the plants who said to me in english " good morning ma’am! please take this path ( pointing east )". i leisurely strode the narrow walks, crossed mini bridges until i got to some greenhouse that looked like three boxes placed beside each other the middle being elevated slightly. when i got in the first "box" i thought it was also nice with all the variety of ferns and other small plants. then i got to the middle "box" and i sighed blissfully. it had a mini wooden bridge and underneath’s a very clear water rushing from a cascade that’s a mini and better version of that one they had in one of the pools in dakak. as i crossed the mini bridge, the pretty foliage touched my head. the next "box" was magical. it’s a butterfly garden and i was awestruck.there were so many of them in different sizes and color and they seem to love the attention. amazing!i was so delighted that i flashed smiles unabashedly at every "manong" that greeted me. i greeted them back and wished them a good day ahead.
i planned to have breakfast at jollibee (still ) while i was walking home but i aborted the plan and now here i am writing this with no idea now where to eat because my stomach’s grumbling.
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