Kaligutpay

Congratulations! For those who found the hidden egg I’ve placed in my previous blog. Your prize is the reward or punishment (however you see it) of seeing the rest of the blog. (-3-)/**

What? Tingin nyo ba magsusulat lang ako ng maikling entry tungkol sa pagkabigo ko sa Good Work? Of kors not!

I’ve already removed the egg. I guess my rantings are just for the chosen few (na mahilig magclickclick kung saansaan. Hehe!).

Mukhang good work is not for me. I was meant for good places, good travel and good money.

Di naman sa iniwan ko na tong blog ko. Nakailang attempts na ako sa pagbloblog pero parang ayaw talaga akong ipagblog dahil walang natatama sa mga ginagawa kong entries.

Alam mo yun, gagawa ka pero parang kulang… Walang inspiration. Walang zing. (Yeah right!)

Kaya heto, since di ako makablog, ibloblog ko ang blog rejects ko. Hehe!

1. Trigger-Happy Tatay
- More like Mouse-Clicking Tatay o di kaya Put-To-Cart Tatay. Kind of thank you ko sa kanya for buying stuffs for us and not for his own itchy-finger (click! click! click! kaching!) satisfaction wehehehhe… That’s my fast trigger (ng credit card) Tatay. Thanks Tay!

2. Googling Rico
- Sikat to. If you’re in IT, tapos me friend ka sa japan, siguradong may kakilala yun na kilala si Enrico Pangan. Hehe! Medyo exaggerated to pero after googling his name… well. Rico, paautograph! Baka sumikat ka pa lalo balang araw!

3. Crazy-to-Bitchy Works of anti Art
- Leave an unemployed girl and her digital camera alone for a day, you get pictures ranging from gaga-crazy to taas-kilay-bitchy category. Di ko na tinuloy ang pagpost dahil sobrang vain. Tipong batok-sabay-wala-ka-bang-hiya type of vanity. Wala na talaga akong ibang mablog. Tinitigan ko ulit ung pictures and decided that they’re a waste of digital space. Shift-delete!

4. A Daily Dose of Sarcasm
- I’ve found Jessica Zafra’s blogsite. Now I have more sources of sarcasm and life irony. Usually kay Zee ko nakukuha ang aking daily batok-sa-ulo. At least, me iba akong babasahin habang hinihintay ko next blog entry ni Zee.

I’ve somehow lost the power to talk about something for more the 2-3 sentences. Hope this is temporary. (Kase sayang naman ang bagong layout ng blog site ko. Buong gabi kong kinopya yun galing sa isang template.)

Ayan! Nakapagblog din! I won’t owe the world anything for the next few days. (-_-)Zzzz…

Alam nyo ba ung feeling ng “nabunutan ng tinik“? Yup, figuratively po. Ung tipong medyo matagal mo nang pinapasan ung sakit o bigat (o kung anuman) tapos natanggal at aaaahhhhh… ANG SARAP! Sobrang ginhawa dahil alam mong di na to babalik pa (well, not soon hehe).

Ako, nabunutan na ng tinik. One less concern na iisipin. Dapat happy na ako at full of glee!

Sarap sana ng buhay….

Eh, paano kung ung method ng pagbunot ay using high-power tools? Dapat, pullers lang na pambunot kilay. Tapos pliers, drills at levers ung ginamit!?

Paano kung ung paraan ng pagbunot, mas masakit pa kaysa sa mismong tinik? Natanggal nga ung tinik. Pero pumalit naman ung seering pain dulot ng pasa, bugbog, at galos pagkatapos butasan, batakin, at hambalusin gamit ang power tools. Aray!

Wen wil da hertin’ istap?

Minsan siguro, para may maayos kailangan brutal at mabisa talaga ang solution.

Comparative to sa, pagkatapos mong madapa at sabihang “mag-ingat sabi eh“, babatukan ka pa “tanga ka kase, bat umaakyat sa escalator na pababa?“

I mean, come on!!! Di pa ba enough ung nadapa? Talagang ididiin pa na aanga-anga ung tao!? (Kung sa bagay, katangahan talaga yun. I still have the scar to prove it. Haha! )

Hopefully, gagaling din ung mga galos. Di gaya nung tinik na kelangan pang tanggalin para maghilom.

Sa mga taong naranasan to, hindi kayo nag-iisa.

I’m having a classic problem of Good Pay vs Good Work.

On one side, you get to stay in a really cool country, buy (or rather windowshop) cool gadgets, be with friends of the same wavelength (gadget freaks and anime freaks), save a lot of money (working on that), experience snow (di na kelangan mangalkal sa freezer), have an internet connection with 100Mbps speed (download! download! download!), and have some of your dreams fulfilled (bahay, lupa, impyerno ngek!).

On the other side, you get to stay in your home country (also a way wicked country), be with close friends, still save some money (uh…), not need to learn a foreign language (yeah!), have uber-cool projects (systems programming! how hardcore is that!?), stay at a rank that’s deservingly yours (i think i do hehe), and have some of your dreams fulfilled (pwede akong magmasters).

Kaya heto ako, still scratching my head and wondering, “l*ch, kung kelan ka naman hindi naghahanap ng trabaho, nagsusulputan mga offers na parang kabute!“

Good Pay offer came first. Then, Good Work offer came and made my night sleepless. Halos, itaboy na ako ng mga friends ko dahil ang kulit kulit ko na raw sa kakatanong, “Good Work? o Good Pay?”

(Syempre, this is Maharlika. Good Pay is somehow winning. =P)

In whatever way this is making my life a lot more confusing than it already is, having a friend down 12 sleeping pills (with 3 vitamin C pills, 8 Vitamin E and a probably half a bottle of Iron tablets), I can honestly say my life’s still good. (^_^;)

My friend is okay now (although sabi nya sobrang sakit ng ulo nya after nya ginawa un. At sa totoo lang, gusto kong ipukpok ung ulo nya dahil sa ginawa nyang yun!). Kaya balik ulit ako dito hehehe…

Sabi nga sa isang article eh “Good Pay that you can buy s*x? or a Satisfying Job that it can replace s*x?” Weird analogy though.

Tally:
Good Work – 1
Good Pay – 4 (i think, more yata)
Kung san ka masaya – 2
Ibang-bansa experience – 1
Punta ka na rito Meema (dont care kung good work o good pay, hehe) – 2
Dito ka lang (wala sa choices, you know who) – 1

Kayo?

I got into a dilemma this morning. Need to renew my passport at ung lint*k na renewal form needs my thumb marks na para bang kelangan nilang i-cross check kung criminal ba ako o hindi. Tinititigan ako nung dalawang blank boxes na merong “Left Thumb” at “Right Thumb” sa ilalim.

Ha!? Bakit? Tinginingining! Di ba to optional?!

Ayoko sanang umalis ngayon. Tinatamad. Inaantok. Di pa natutulog dahil baliktad na naman ang body clock. Ibibilin ko na lang sana sa may lakad talaga. Sadly, hindi sya optional. SSTTTAAAAMMMPPP PPPAAAAAADDD!!!

Hinaloghog na namin ang buong bahay. Bodega, mga tukador, WALA! Kung kelan naman kelangan, lilipat ng pwesto ung stamp pad. Who uses a stamp pad in this house anyway? Apparantly, wala. Kaya nga walang nakakaalala asan yun.

Okay, relax. Kelangan lang naman ng thumb mark di ba? Kaysa idiin ang hinalalaki sa tinta, ang tinta ang idiin natin sa hinlalaki. Makes sense? Go!

Kuha ng permanent marker, superfine point. Violet pa kamo para authentic. Kulayan ang daliri.. Idiin sa scratch paper…

WEH! Parang bilog lang ang nagmarka! Ang bilis natuyo. Wah! Next!

White board marker? TOINK! Ayaw! Pentel Pen? Almost pero kalahati lang… WaaahhhH!!!

Halos sumuko na ako. Give in na ako sa idea na pinapaalis ako. Byahe ng one hour dahil lang wala kaming stamp pad.

Then, flashback!

Naalala nyo ba nung panahon na mahiwaga pa ang ballpen (dahil hamak na lapis lang tayong mga chikiting)? Di ba? Nagdradrawing tayo ng star sa daliri, tapos ista-stamp natin sa papel ung drawing. Tadaa! Instant stars hanggang maubos tinta sa daliri. \(^o^)/

Yes! Dalidali akong naghanap ng ballpen. Kinulayan ko ang aking daliri… Press…

WOW! It worked! It actually works. Kung saan sumuko ang Pentel Pen, winner ang ballpen!

I cherish those instances talaga, na ung mga answers sa problems natin ay, something na nadiscover natin on our own nung bata pa tayo. Think of it. Not from parents, not from teachers. But in our very own adventurous isip-bata way.

I glued 2 fingers with super glue once (or more haha!). Baka someday maging useful din ung experience na yun. =)

I’m a Gadget Junkie. I’m crazy about gadgets! I was once called Gadget Girl by some friends. But I’m not all that crazy about saving money. (Haha!) That’s why I can’t have all the gadgets I want. Imagine the horror/frustration/excruciating control I must be having if I were to live super near Akihabara the Electric Town in Japan.

(Hi Paolo! I know I know. Sobrang ready na bang bilhin ang Playstation 3? Inaabang-abang na ba? Hehe.)

Not only am I a gadget junkie, I’m like a Gadget Psychic or a Gadget Whisperer. Feeling ko nasasaktan mga gamit kung hindi nagagamit (no kidding). Kaya tuloy lakas kong magpaayos o di kaya bumili ng mga accessories para di masira at para magamit.

Speaking of gadgets, I just brought a Gameboy Color adaptor. =)

Sa bahay namin, ako nagtatago ng mga Gadgets na nineneglect dito. Among the hidden gadgets, Gameboys!

You heard me right. Plural po yan. With an ‘S’. Allow me to enumerate (naging mahilig na ako sa enumeration):

1. Gameboy Classic
- meron po kami! ung mukhang gray brick na me monochrome display with 4 levels of gray. (Nung araw pa, “Wow! Four levels of Gray! Grabe!”). Kakabili lang namin nun, nung nilublob ng bunso namin sa balde ng tubig. (“Cool! Does it work underwater? … I guess not.”) Naayos din sya after ilang years. Siguro natuyo.

2. Gameboy Color
- ung maliit na nabubulsa nang version. 2 AA batteries lang (cheaper playing time!) at colored. Came out after almost 10 years nang lumabas ung classic. By then, bunso has learned na hindi marunong lumangoy ang mga gameboy.

3. Gameboy Advance
- ung malapad na version with smaller cartridges. nakakasupport na ng 3D graphics at nagkaroon ng additional buttons L at R for the other fingers. (Lumabas kase ang cellphones, kaya overused na ung mga thumbs for texting, di na makagameboy ng maayos). Bunso has developed an interest in gameboy, sya nagorder neto (at nung gameboy color).

4. Gameboy Advance SP
- flip-top version parang cellphone. Sobrang liit dahil natitiklop. With backlight at rechargable internal batteries. Ideal for bunso na maglaro kahit pinapatulog ng Nanay. (Nagtatago lang sya sa ilalim ng unan.)

5. Nintendo DS
- Latest order ni bunso. Malapad at may dalawang screens. Isang touchscreen at isang..well.. screen na hindi touchscreen. superliit cartridge pero sobrang laki naman ng platform. Me sariling OS.

Behold the evolution of gameboy! Wala kaming Gameboy Pocket, Gameboy Micro at Nintendo DS Lite. But still, kakaiba pa ring koleksyon di ba?

Recently namatay na ung Gameboy Classic. Unti-unting nagfade-out ung LCD. Either nagtampo kase di pinapansin o talagang old age lang. Nafulfill pa rin ang life purpose nito kase nakapaglaro pa kami ng versus sa Dr Mario. (Ultimate champion ako up till now =))

Pwera sa Nintendo DS, nasa akin lahat ng mga gameboys. Don’t know what to do with them. Medyo masakit kase di nagagamit although fully working. Wala rin akong mapagbigyan na someone who could really appreciate them (at hindi sila ilulublob sa tubig).

Binili ko ung adaptor para workable ulit ung Gameboy Color.

Ngayon it’s workable. Then what? Hay…

Funny thing about me maintaining this blog is: I get lots of super ideas when I just stare into space. But when I TRY to create an entry. My mind goes blank and something like “putchar, asan na yung utak ko?“

Kaya heto na naman ako, nakatitig sa isang blank notepad.

…Ano ba magandang isulat? Siguro something na lang na lagi kong ginagawa.

For someone bored like me… What to do? What to do?

1. Gumawa ng blog
- Uh… Yah.

2. Magsimula ng scrapbook.
- Magsimula lang. I started mine. I brought a scrapbook. Yun pa lang ang nagagawa ko. Wehehehe…

3. Matuto ng something new.
- I learned to drive. My boyfriend has ranked me as one of the scariest experiences in his entire life. I was gonna learn cooking, pero baka maging TOP ONE na ako sa lista.

4. Rearrange your room.
- Nabasa ko somewhere to start a new life or new habit, rearrange your surroundings muna. Inayos ko para maging organized ako at masipag. Di nakatulong. May laptop ako sa room at mistulang HOTSPOT tong bahay namin. New life ko: Tulog, Kain, Email, Blog at Chat. Tamad.

5. Watch your favorite series and/or cartoons especially ung mga pinapanood mo nung bata ka pa like Visionaries.
- Para maiba naman. New life ko: TV!, Tulog, Kain, Email, Blog at Chat.

6. Search your old friends and talk to current ones.
- Yup. Hinaloghug ko na ang Friendster, Multiply at Yahoo 360 looking for old friends, blockmates, orgmates at kung anuano-pang-mates! (For certain people, you know who you are: Bastos! Hehe!)

7. Magsubok ng kung anuanong web service, magsubok ng kung anuanong software.
- Currently, sinusubukan ko ang blog ng multiply, friendster, at bravenet. Ano pa ba? Goowy, Bloglines, etc. Nagsawa na ako sa kakasign-up.

8. Organize whaterver you need to organize.
- In relation to #7, inoorganize ko ngayon ang aking anime collection and I’m using www.anidb.net. Anime collectors! Highly recommended! Organizing my pictures too. Napapangiti lang ako sa memories at kung gaano ako kalokaloka dati. (Note po: Dati ha! Dati!)

9. Wow Maharlika!
- Syempre, gumala. Pero masakit to sa bulsa lalo sa tulad naming mga Palamunin. Masaya na ako sa lakad lakad sa kalye para me outdoor life din ako. (Syempre, nagbabaon pa rin ng ulam at kanin para tipid!)

10. Write a list of things you wanna do before you die.
- This is a bit morbid. Pero ganun ako kabato, nakagawa na ako ng lista. Gagawa pa ako ng lista ng places to go at people to see and talk to. Naghahanda na ba?

Naappreciate ko na rin ung mga ginagawa kong ito. Eto ung mga tipong gusto mong gawin pero la kang oras gawin kung meron kang regular work. (O kulang lang ako sa time management hehe)

Tsk tsk tsk… Narealize ko tuloy na hindi lang to mga things to do, eto na mismo ang buhay ko.

Damn! Need to start on that scrapbook.

Meron kaming nakikilalang dalawang tarsier.

Ang babae ay sa Siera. Maliit at laging nakakapit sa sanga na waring takot mahulog.

Ang lalaki ay si Tarso. Wala din akong masabi kundi lagi din itong nakakapit sa sanga.

Si Tarso ay umiibig kay Inday Siera ngunit di nya ito masabi. Lagi lang sya sumusulyap kay Inday at umaasang papansinin din sya nito.

Isang araw ay umikot ang ulo ni Siera. Sila nagkatitigan at ito’y napaibig din kay Tarso.

(Mababaw lang ang pag-iibigan ng mga Tarsier, kala nyo ano na no?)

Itong lahat ay nakita ng Tary, isa ring umiibig kay Siera. Di sya gusto ni Siera kase ang pangit daw ng pangalan at kapangalan nito si Terry ung bakla sa TV.

Di nagustuhan ni Tary ang kanyang nakita. Ngayon, may binabalak syang masama. Hmmm…