balikalis

sa akin pagbalik,
at sa akin pagalis
ako ay napapaisip,
kaganidan nga ba,
o pangangailangan talaga.

ako'y nalilito,
ako'y nahihilo,
mas malungkot kesa mas masaya,
ayaw ko na nga ba?
sana matapos na.

goodbyebados...

welcome back Pinas!

It was the 12th of December, my bags are pack and I'm ready to go! It was a hot december in Barbados so I was wearing my usual shorts and tshirt. Good thing I remembered that I'll be having a 12hr lay over in NYC and it's winter there!! So i changed to something more winter resistant and headed for Barbados Airport...

A few hours later I'm in NYC and I've finally experience my first snow! (I was really really tempted to make snow angel in the side street. :D ) Sadly though no snow fall that night...

It was freezing cold and a couple of us were waiting for the Days Inn hotel shuttle service. 5...10... 20minutes passed and still no Days Inn shuttle for us (there were a lot of other hotel shuttles passing by though). Then along came the security guard and asked us what hotel are we staying in. So when I replied "Days Inn", he pointed us to a parked shuttle that was already there before I arrived. There was a big label on the side that says Fairfield Inn and a letter size paper in the window saying Days Inn. So when we got in I told the driver what happend and he said that it happens all the time but he just waits for the passenger to realize their mistakes!! So no tip for him! hmmph!

It was already 2am in my cellphone and the flight is 9am so after setting all the possible alarm clocks that I have (DS and 2 cellphones) I went to sleep and woke up around 8am!! And as I was about to do the "hilamos lang pero mukhang na ligo" ritual I realized that I might be on a different timezone. So I called the front desk to confirm the time and lo and behold it was just 7am and I still have time for a decent morning ritual. ^__^

Fast forward... Detroit airport, as I was paying for the pasalubongs that i bought in the store, this

5 days to go! ^_^

brainworks

i got my katinko.
i dipped my finger in it.
i rubbed some on my wrist.
my eyelid became itchy.
i was about to scratch it with my finger.
i remember it has some katinko on it.
i rubbed my eyes with my wrist.
i cannot see.

Why is the sky blue?

Kasi ganito yan... clouds are tiny droplets of water, and these droplets reflect the biggest surface of the earth which is the ocean which is blue hence the sky looks blue.

People may say "wtf?! i thought that was a rhetorical question?" Well in most cases it is, but i have a problem of complicating my life by trying to know anything and everything under the sun... I need to know the clockwork of things.

I always seem to have a theoretical or factual answer to anything people throw at me. Which is most of the time is beneficial except when people started to ask why the cookie jar is now half empty! Instead of answering "I don't know" I tend to explain possibilities of Why. Which in Filipino is called "Mukhang guilty!".

But if I was really guilty then I wouldn't be near the scene of the crime. There I go again...

7.2magnitude, 172miles away

Sana walang tsunami. Wala ako balak mag surfs up. :-s

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/at00299322.php#details

kups de etsas

I need to make a stand.
they need to know.
things need to change.
I will make it happen.

I will stand.
people around me will fall.
i have made my point.
I will free my people.
I am free.
I am corrupted.

it wasn't a rock it was a rock lobster!

oh so sorry! oh so yummy!

One of the better things here in Barbados are the different seafoods that I can buy. I'm not really a fish person but since fish is a lot more cheaper here than beef or pork I had to go the cheaper route. But lo and behold! Never thought fish could be this tasty! So far I've cooked marlin, red tuna, white tuna, red snapper, king fish, barracuda and now... tantananan! lobster! yun lang! Wakekeke!

as requested! ^_^

hassle!!!!!

ok, my old pda phone (Eten M600) got busted while i was in SF. So I left it with Jason to have it repaired and then shipped here in Barbados. So it was sent viah DHL last week Wednesday and arrived in Barbados last week Friday and lo and behold! I'm still without the phone!

The custard people wanted me to pay a customs tax of Bb$465.00 because they thought it was a new phone. So I had to explain that it isn't but still up to now they haven't decided what to do with it. I've been bugging DHL to no avail. :(

Damn it! I really want to change my view about how a sucky place this is.. but... grrr... this is not helping!

tuwing lunes...

kami ay mayroon munting pagpupulong tuwing lunes sa opisina, dito ko lang nakikita magsalita ang aming tagapamahala ng proyekto at ganito ang kanyang mga nasambit. (non verbatim)

tnp: ok ladies and gents, sa tingin ko hindi masyado conducive ang ating mga meeting sa opisina na to! kaya meron ako naiisip na maari natin gawin! Naisip ko na kung tumayo tayo lahat sa right side ng opisina at magkumpol kumpol duon baka mas marami maging active participants ng meeting. Pero wag kayo mag alala sa susunod na meeting sa left side naman tayo mag kukumpol kumpol sa kadahilanang baka meron magisip na " ano ba yan baket lagi na lang tayo sa right side nagkukumpol kumpol."

I didn't hear the rest of what he said because now, my auditory perceptions automatically shuts down after a few minutes of him talking.