discrimination

Issue on discrimination. Almost everyone is now again fuming in anger… I also believe that nobody should offend any Filipinos in any way. But, do we ever thought of analyzing why such thing was said about us? Filipinos are infuriated; but have we tried to check on what some of the Filipinas are doing? They are all over the cyberspace, posing like a product for sale or for rent. Then, try to think and assess, why are these Filipinas doing that kind of humiliation? I think most of them are beginning to lose hope; thinking that their final option is to marry a foreigner in order to escape the deathlike poverty and have a better future... A very depressing reality that we have to face…

NOTE: bored na ang may-akda kaya nabuo ang entry na ito!

TVC

Watching TV is undeniably one of the most wanted pastimes of every person. Many people are glued to their TV set watching their favorite TV shows. In addition, we are also entertained by the advertisements, endorsing different products, in between shows. Recently, I’ve been enjoying seeing some ads:
SMART’s unlinyt calls
- this is between two guy friends, who are roommates… observe how the chubby guy reacted when he heard his roommate asking for another “level” of friendship… I’ve seen this so many times yet I still can’t help but laugh every time I see his reaction, another thing is the concept of the skit itself is very funny
Camella’s bulilit
- the theme song used and the little “bulilit” girl, who acts in the commercial definitely catches everyone’s attention…
Lucky Me’s basketball try-out
- the little boy crying came home telling his mom, “12 lang nakuha sa try-out pang-13 ako… practice ako ng practice… may uniform na ako” I really like that part! hehe and Never say die … Tomorrow is another day!
Fiesta’s basketball game
I haven’t fully figure out the concept of the ad, but the last part: the coach saying “Ispageti, ispageti” is really funny.

On the other hand, the LBC’ spelling contest is quite not right. I think REMITTANCE will never be spelled as capital lbc… right? Maybe they should think of another way of equating remittance to LBC.

5W-4L

The Giants won against the Tigers on the 1st game last night; but for the 2nd game the Texters lost to the Beermen.

Rain

The rain is heavily pouring outside, how I wish I am in San Juan now... I’m serenely sitting in the balkon watching the rain as well as the thick black clouds as they turn white, and be startled by the loud thunderstorms, and have a glimpse of the striking lightning; waits for the vehicles, especially big trucks or Supreme, to run through the collected rainwaters along the road that will make large splash towards the house. It is really fun. When the rain pacifies, start placing the bangkang-papels on the balisbisan and watch them sail all following the flow of the rainwater going to the looban… These recollections really make me nostalgic whenever it is raining since I stayed here in Manila.

In contrast, I hated rain during the Meteor Garden days. We are not a cable subscriber and are merely relying on the TV antenna to get the network’s reception; whenever it’s raining, it’s as if the reception is washed away. The sound may be audible but the picture is so blurred, and it is SO frustrating (same level of frustration if it’s brownout! Grrrrrrrr)… It’s like: Rain, rain go away. Come again… in about 30-45 minutes!?!

*************** I wish na umulan pa ng mas malakas so half-day na lang ang offices... because i REALLY, REALLY, REALLY want to go home na... it's so frustrating today... i'ts our last working day (for the week) but it is so annoying... i want to go home na... Rain, rain, don't go away, please... nakakaiyak... huhuhuhu... well, this is life!

zoobic adventure

We planned this trip 3rd week of February, over lunch. Through Rizza’s sister, we already have a booked reservation in the Holiday Inn Hotel in Clark. After more than a month of preparations, planning, itinerary, etc. finally we’re off to our Subic-Clark Summer Trip 09….

April 3, Nayong Pilipino and Clark Museum
The powerpop gurlz with a companion plus the driver left the office at around 5:30am. Breakfast at Tapa King along NLEX. By 9am, we are already in Nayong Pilipino in Clark (we are soooooooooo early, we’re the only visitors). I wasn’t able to visit the old Nayong Pilipino in Manila so I cannot compare the two. Based on what I have seen, I think the Nayong Pilipino in Clark used to be a very, very nice place to visit. Anyone can picture that it used to be a very busy tourist destination. We are maybe too late to see the place at its best, what we have got are few good materials that shows the beauty of the country. Some materials are just remains of once beautiful work of art. Hopefully, the management will have time and budget to resurrect the place, to do some repairs and repainting. By the way, you can visit the place for free.

We next dropped by the Clark Museum with an affordable Php30 entrance fee. We have roamed inside the museum comfortably because it’s air conditioned (the best!). Since Clark used to be a military base, most of the displays are on histories, military activities, and weapons during that time. Also, part of the exhibits are the pictures of the place when the Mt. Pinatubo erupted; there are also big pictures that shows large smokes from all over the place of that awful day.

Then, we proceeded to the Holiday Inn Hotel to have an early check-in. The room is extra big enough for us; we are in the 4th floor, overlooking the big pool. Since we left Manila early, we all decided to take a nap. Then by 2pm, we’re off to Subic to buy tickets for the ocean adventure and zoobic safari the next day. But before we even reached the two destinations, we almost all went crazy, hahahaha. We lost our way going to SCTEX, we got confused of the road signs, and imagine that we crawled an almost 10meters expressway backwards. We finally found the entry point to SCTEX, and to my surprise this expressway is toooooooo looooooong, we traveled more than an hour (I think!) to reach Subic exit. We again got lost in the Subic town proper and got caught by traffic enforcer. We had our lunch at 3pm, very late lunch!!! Then, we went on to the ocean adventure and zoobic safari. On our way back, we encountered a problem with the L300, good thing there’s a mechanic in Yokohama. We traveled again more than an hour to Clark, dropped by the SM to buy food for dinner. After dinner, ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

April 4, Ocean Adventure and Zoobic Safari
We left Clark at 7:30am and reached Subic by 9:30. The Ocean Adventure opens at 10, so we took pictures while waiting. We watched 3 shows: Sea Lion Marine Patrol (sea lion show), High Dive show, and the Dolphin show. The High Dive show is their newest attraction, there are 5 acrobats/divers who showed their talents… one of them dived backward from as high as 85ft. For the dolphin show, I really wonder on the intellect of dolphins trained to act the way they are asked to do. It’s just amazing that somehow at a certain point of our co-existence, humans and animals understand each other.

to be continued….