Nanay Upeng

I had this dream of Nanay Upeng who just passed away last month. I wasn't able to post this last month because I was so tired to do so after the trip from Nueva Ecija. Nanay Upeng wanted us to visit Nueva Ecija, too bad that it had to be her funeral before we went there. I can't remember what the dream was all about. This is weird 'coz its not so often that I forget dreams.

Nanay Upeng is the strongest lola I know. I even call her "cerbesa lola" behind her back *lol*. I could have betted my writting hand that she would die at the age of 120. If you took time to read some of my previous post you may know I have insomnia and I never have had a better companion for a bottle of beer but Jun-Jun and Nanay Upeng before bed. I missed those times when she kept the Gimenez family laugh through tough times. Although I'm just a visitor I never felt I'm an outcast simply because she's there for me. I feel I belong when she's around but how about now, she's gone? I like her funny antics even though it's really those antic jokes. She would kid around about me buying another bottle of beer for her and my girlfriend would grin at her wasted lola. For Jun-Jun, he would hug her lola like a man I know would never hug an old lady that way and then he said to her "Mahal na mahal ko 'to si Nana Upeng eh." and she replied "Wooo! Sige nga... penge pera kung ganon!" She would make the whole family laugh even though there's a power-outage and she would make them pay her by entertaining them with her "celindro" (a harmonica).

She never had a child nor a husband but even though she never had one, she still have a bunch of loving grandchildren and I loved her like my own blood aswell. I got really affected when I heard she passed away. She taught me without ever preaching. She taught me how to live life well and smile a lot. She always put family first before anything else.

To Nanay Upeng, I love you. I love you with all my heart and soul. Though I have remiss it, I hope you know it. You will always be here *pointing at my chest* and I will miss the companionship and your being just "nanay upeng attitude" . Your the best lola to your grandchildren and friend to me. You will be missed by the family.

Act of Terrorism or LPG Explosion?

I just woke up and I heard what's the lastest in the real world on a news flash (because I work during wee-hours of the night). So I have no idea what's happening during daytime. Reports mumbled on the tv set and I was still half asleep when I got up to eat. My brother was busy on my computer (we share room) and I thought it was just the usual flash reports of drunk drivers hitting posts and barricades on Edsa. But as I munched my breakfast, inasal chicken to be specific, my other senses completely woke me up and *with the yummy look on my face* I watched the news-flash with no intension of watching it at all.

Initial reports on the Glorietta 2 blast was due to LPG tank explosion, and it went off inside the Peking Garden Restaurant at the Glorietta 2 around 1:20 p.m. This is where my aunt used to work before and this is where her son's wedding recepcion took place (now its a pile of rubble, sorry to interupt the story coz it brings back the memories, I was the ring bearer on their wedding and it was my first time to be one).

On my opinion it was way too powerful to be an LPG tank explosion. As you can see on the pictures the damage extent is also shocking. The 4th report update was: 4 people found dead on the scene and 4 more died in the hospital and 56 people were seriously injured and brought to Makati Medical Center. Another witness said that the explosion was so strong that the trembling was felt up to the third level. The explosion ripped through the roof of the mall and damaged nearby shops. Debris from the blast were scattered on the streets. How the hell can this be an LPG tank?

Now I know the reason why president Gloria did not attend the grand opening of our office in Cubao. Scarred sh*t to be assassinated and if I remember right Frankie did told us he will if he saw her *lol*. I think the adiministration is tasting the countries' sorry ass picture around the world. Why would you think desperate housewives had provided a belittlement to Filipinos? Because we Filipinos kill each other, countrymen who wants liberation and revolution bombs his own country (what the hell? What kind of principle is that?). It hurts to see the country in deep mud that we Filipinos dug ourselves. I believe that we still have our long-standing esteem as Filipinos and I applaud you if you still have one. For those people who mocks us because we have flaws, I wish you rot in hell. And for those Filipinos who adds more dirt to our flag than senators and congressmen do, may satan take your soul right away and it'd be a better Philippines without all of you.

Farewell Album Orange And Lemons (Moonlane Gardens)

I post this in my review page in friendster but I also felt to post it here in my blog aswell. ONL played a great part in my life. They were the new age Beatles and I humbly admit I have a beatlemania syndrome ever since, from the moment I developed sense of hearing I knew I had "the Beatles" in my system.

I don't know how to handle this review with great courage to face the recent broke-up of the band that I applauded during their live performances and cherished the music they made. I saw Clementine's blog about the individual and musical differences between band members and the management though that's the main reason he didn't specify on a certain issue.I don't know if its just a publicity or so. But Clem did assure its not. Come to think of it the group's disbandment was announced when the second single from their "Moonlane Gardens" album "Fade," was about to be released. Yeah they fade right...

Back to the album. Its a great farewell album and I thought it'd be a collectors item. I like listening to tracks that Clem had provided on this album. They went much deeper on this one. I don't know if I heard Clem right I think he said "80% of ONL is my intellectual property." *asim dba?*

Watch out for these tracks:

Moonlane Gardens

It's About Time

Ode To Love

Eleven Minutes

These are my favorite tracks and everything on the album is just great.

Guaranteed 110% you'll love this album if you're intellectual, if you know what I mean. If you like listening to Sean Kingston's shallow music you'll find "Moonlane Gardens" album hard to digest.

Chummy

I forgot to post this last friday.

Leigh fetched me after my work and we ate dinner together. We haven't seen each other for two days already because of our hectic schedules. So we're excited to see each other and she treated me for dinner (she always does that since I don't have money coz I just got my new job last 2 weeks). While eating, we also talked about work and how we missed each other *kilig* how we texted each other goodnights and said I love yous over and over and over again before hanging up the phone. My minds works better when I'm with her. When I'm not with her I can't think of anything without her in between. Everything reminds me of Leigh and that's how important she is to me. Every second I have is a hell of worries and misses if she's not with me. I'm worrying if she's taking her lunch on time, if she's drinking enough water, if she's ok inside the jeep - if she's getting squeezed by men sitting beside her, if she got off safely, does she have umbrella, if she's getting soaked by rain... and more. I wish I have her inside my pocket so I can be with her and keep her safe all the time.

After Awhile in Friendster

Before anything else, I just want to invite everybody to
Start:Oct 17, '07 10:00pm
End:Oc t 18, '07 04:00am
Locati on: Club Embassy, The FortLaunch of the Kidrobot Philippine DunnySeries 4 LaunchFeaturing Live Art from Nels Yumul and the Weewilldoodle Crewand Artist Louie for Nardong Tae. In case you don't know I'm also a fan of various art toys though its expensive and I never had one but I'm planning to collect some if favored to earn money for expensive hobbies like these (which is imposible so it's a part of frustration now).

Well, I got bored to my friendster account. Everytime I check someone's page its the same old sh*t. There's really nothing to do much in friendster except personalize your page or change your profile whenever you feel it's been like that for a long time. No one there even blogs and who cares even if you have one. They're not gonna spend 20php rental fee to read your unpopular blog even if they're your close friends. Instead, they will add random people who doesn't even have a decent picture or a bunch of posers trying to be someone else by posting a really gorgeous picture as their primary photo *turns out to be fake*. What a loser. Enuf of the whining. I guess we just have to deal with it. PERIOD!

It's fun at work during the past few days. We were getting paid to watch movies and video clips all day. I love training in this company. We got a sexy foreigner trainer and she also gives lots of treats and freebies too. And I hope it's going to be like that until product training aswell. My only problem though is transportation. I get tired easily and its my fault. Smoking really shortens breathing process. The walks are far too long for me now and I hope this is not a sign of aging *sob*. I only smoke 4 cigarettes a day or a maximum of 10 but that's on odd occasions only because I also get a nausea whenever I smoke too much. I dunno why I get tired easily maybe I'm just too lazy *lol*.

Remarks: Moderate cigarette cravings, exercise again, wake up early to avoid tardiness and buy MRT stored value card to avoid the time consuming ticket line *lol*.

Addition: I've been tracking time since last monday and it's 9:00pm and it's gonna be a normal sleep for me tonight like how my previous weeknights ended up. Because I'm so freakin tired, I dont have to worry about my insomnia, I won't even have to buy 2 stallions of red horse tonight. YEAH!!! Goodnight everybody.

MRT Chaos

Sorry for the late post, it happened yesterday. I was too tired to even tell the story to my mom and I can't hardly lift the corners of my lips because of exhaustion. I went straight to bed not fulfilled *do you feel the same way sometimes?* Going to bed but feeling abit disturbed because there's a story or a thing that happened to you and you really want to share it to someone but you can't maybe because of some reasons *reason for me is Im tired and I want to sleep right away.*

Work requires me to ride the MRT from Guadalupe to Cubao and vise versa *now you'll have an idea where I live and where I work*. We have a garage but we don't have a car and never had one neigther.

The Story:
The train is so jam pack, we're more than like a sardines in a can, we're like ammunition in a box ready to be fired. People were sweating like pig and smelling like one. I don't want to even get close to a man wearing a corporate attire beside me because his long sleeve polo is so soaked with his own sour sweat *cute asim face on*. Then there's this guy came barging in the train and when he got caught by a lady and her boyfriend, he shouted "HOY, YUNG LAPTOP KO NAMAN BAKA MABASAG, pag nabasag naman to di niyo naman kayang BAYARAN!!!" then the train went on. The lady whispered "Ayoko nga umusog don baka mabasag ko pa laptop niya..." the boyfriend answered "Ang galing magyabang ng laptop wala naman pambili ng kotse." and they both laugh and so am I.

Closing Remarks:
I will save money to buy a bike. I guess the studio will just have to wait.