BREAKING NEWS!

Sumsuman karon sa mga netizens ang masulub-ong panagbuwag nila ni Angelina ug Brad. Aduna'y mga huhungihong nga maong nakigdiborsyo si Angelina ngadto kang Brad mahitungod sa mga tabi-tabi nga aduna'y third party ang nauwahi. Apan sa dihang nagkomprontasyon na ang managtiayon, gibutyag usab ni Brad ang iyang kahiubos ngadto sa iyang kanhi asawa mahitungod kay kini iyang nasakpan nga usa diay ka mahuyang. Kinsa'y nagsulti sa kamatuoran? Kinsa'y imong labanan? Atangi ang sunod nga issue!

9 Months

Had I been pregnant the past 9 months, I must have given birth to a lifeless baby by now. When an office friend hinted my predicament sometime in June of last year, I already knew it was coming. I must have felt it ahead of time - way before they could personally say it to my face, which by the way, never happened at all. Yet, it still caught me offguard being told there wasn't any extension anymore. Or was I just trying to be melodramatic? Whatever! Surprised? I don't think so.

Fast forward to 9 months. Well here I am, still jobless and overweight. Yes there were minimal projects in between. Trivial actually. But somehow these mini projects helped me get by with occasional showers of drama, of course. Tears, both claiming joy and misery, never dried up unattended. Even friends from the former office have been intentionally avoided as well. I don't know why. I suppose it had something to do with the untimely demise of my finances, as we all need to pay for something somehow each time we meet up. Or it could also be just keeping away from them for the sake of moving on. And there's more. The former boss was cutoff from all forms of social media. Thank heavens I was finally able to do that. Yahoo! The former boss even tried to get even by making up stories, funny unbelievable stories of my alleged conflicts with the unknowns. Hah! Sounding like an old record stuck at Side A, huh! Haven't you heard of "there are B-sides to every story"? Obviously you have not.

I have sent out feelers to companies looking for skills or talent (if you can call it as such) comparable to mine yet to no avail. Must be the age. Must be the test of times. Sigh. 

So what do I do now? Get some sleep, dream away and pray just a little bit more? Implore may be more appropriate. Go ahead. Go on. Meanwhile, let me just wipe away these familiar tears.

Good Friday

(Silot Bay photo grabbed from cebudailynews.inquirer.net)

Some bad news on this year's Good Friday. While we were in church a little past 4 in the afternoon, my nephew Jolas got a call from a friend and was told that another friend drowned while swimming in Liloan. We hurried back home upon hearing the bad news so he could go see the dead friend's remains at Rolling Hills. When Jolas got home later, my sister-in-law and I asked a lot of questions like what really happened, where did it happen, how did it happen, who was with him when it happened, what about his parents, where are they from and perhaps everything else us women can think of. Jolas' short answer was simply "he jumped off from the (infamous) Liloan bridge and never ascended back from the deep water". And that was it. Oh men.

Tidbits: 15 March 2016

15 March 2016, KFC Fuente Osmeña

A Middle Eastern looking medical student walked-in in this fastfood chain I was having breakfast at, ordered his breakfast, mumbled "samoka oy!" as the crew took a while to clean up his table, opened up his notes to study aloud, tinkered onto his celfone, turned to me and asked: "Excuse me Ma'am, is there a difference between this picture and my face now?" Wa ko ka-gets dayon kay nakurat ko so I asked him back "I'm sorry, what do you mean?" "I mean is there a difference on how I look? Do I look smaller in this picture compared to my face now?" Well he did look smaller in the picture so I honestly, though safely, answered "You look smaller in the picture, or I don't know, maybe it's the hair you have right now?" He looked a bit confused but said thank you anyway. I got confused, too.

That's Not How It Is

Earlier: A European tourist was pissed off with the slow service at the Oceanjet ticketing office in Tagbilaran City. He snapped at me and said "There's so many people lined up and they only have 1 window open." I replied with "Well, that's how it is here." He says: "No, that's not how it is! That's no respect!" I told him "Then go talk to them." And he said: "I already talked to them, they don't understand english!" What?!
I got annoyed and finally said to him: "Well, that's your problem!"

Later: It was raining hard when the boat docked in Cebu. I was the last one to get off the boat. I waited for at least one porter to help me carry the six heavy boxes I had with me. And porters were nowhere to be found! I went out of the terminal and asked the security guard to please get me one porter. The guard just stared at me. So I went back to get a pushcart and decided to carry the boxes myself. I finally saw one porter so I called on him if he could please help me. The porter got back at me saying: "Daghan mig gibuhat, Ma'am!" Oh $&@%! And so I had to get back and forth from where I left my six boxes to my pickup service, all soaked up wet!

Well, that's not how it is! That's no respect!

Delayed Goosebumps

Five years ago, I was up for a shooting assignment down south, specifically Tawi-Tawi. As we were to take photos of sunrise in the middle of the sea on our second day, we had to sleep overnight in the island of Panglima Sugala. Electricity there, like in all other islands nearby, was only available between 6 o'clock in the evening until 12 midnight. And so we called off our first day early by sleeping around 9PM to be able to catch up the 4AM call time. Like I always do, I woke up ahead of my alarm clock but stayed on the bed as I could not see a single thing in the dark, not even my colleague Aileen who was sound asleep on the other bed. Hearing the roosters early on, I did not reach out for my cellphone to check on the time. I presumed the alarm should go off anytime soon. Until I felt a tap on my left arm. It must have been Aileen who probably happened to move while still asleep. I even said, "O?" (Yes?) to her but somehow she did not reply. So I just stayed there lying for quite sometime until my phone alarm finally went off. The alarm sounded so loud it totally made me forget about what happened earlier and so we hurried up to get all our stuff and head off to the waiting speed boat. We were just on time for everything and had beautiful shots of sunrise.

Six months after, I went back for another assignment. I was on the same island, the same pension house, the same room, the same companion. When the lights went on at 6 o'clock in the evening, somehow I remembered what happened the last time I was there. So I finally told Aileen about it and asked her if she remembered tapping me. She said "No, you were the one who woke me up, remember? And how can I touch you then when our beds were quite apart, long enough not to reach the one lying on the other bed!"

Oops! My goosebumps rather came late. 

nasaan ang LOVE?

nasaan ang LOVE?

1. ang love, wala sa estado, nasa load (rich-poor love affair)

2. ang love, wala sa edad, nasa calendar (may-december love affair)

3. ang love, wala sa position, nasa office (boss-messenger love affair)

4. ang love, wala sa kasarian, nasa California (same sex marriage)

5. ang love, wala sa lahi, nasa fiancée visa (inter-marriage)

6. ang love, wala sa movies, nasa totoong buhay (artista-nonshowbiz love affair)

7. ang love, wala sa pinas, nasa remittance center (ofw)

8. ang love, wala sa classroom, nasa playground (puppy love)

9. ang love, wala sa bahay, nasa neighborhood (childhood sweethearts)

10. ang love, wala sa itsura, nasa puso (a face only a mother can love)

11. ang love, wala sa grupo, nasa sarili (selfie enthusiast)

12. ang love, wala sa patience, nasa pawnshop (durugista lover)

13. ang love, wala sa tabi, nasa facebook (stalker)

14. ang love, wala sa puso, nasa friends’ list (na-friend zone)

15. ang love, wala sa pagkakaintindihan, nasa pantasya (one way love affair)

16. ang love, wala sa commitment, nasa bar (one night stand)

17. ang love, wala sa flowers, nasa atm (bilmoko)