Of an anti-week.

You really can't please everybody. I guess I should lessen my hyperness and feel that not everybody is happy with what i'm doing.

Oh well. That's life.

Of a day.

No sleep.

Zzzzzz...

Of a week after post.

I didn't notice that it has been more than a week since my last post.

I'm just too damn busy. I haven't got any sleep lately and this work is pressuring me. No reclaims of course.

Anyhoo, I just hate it when you're waiting for something and then once you see or get it youl'll say "yun na yun?"

Let's give an example: Ootp trailer in Happy Feet.

I was so ecstatic last Friday about the Ootp trailer. So, we started watching the trailers and Ootp was shown. And after that I told myself, "That's it?"

And Daniel Radcliffe looked like John Cena of WWE.

And in the end Happy Feet, for me, is a so-so movie. It's a Robin Williams movie.

Of another weekend.

I got enough sleep today.

Still sleepy. Very sleepy...

Of a week.

No internet at home.
No internet at work (kinda).

I think i'm loving my job now. I mean, this doesn't come overnight. I really have to go through shit and eventually if i'm successful. I'm there.

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I just had a reunion with my blockmates way back in college. It was reminiscing to the max and the funny thing is nothing changed. As in. Nothing much has changed. Maybe except some of them are married and worse than married (i don't need to ponder much on that). I found myself thinking in the process. I'm not jealous with one of my blockmates who has been offered 120 thou a month. It really gave me something to think about. And I really do think that i'm going there. I just need focus and hardwork and a little luck and i'll be able to go to the career that I want. I really hope so.

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Just had my first taste of tequila. It was really good. BUT allergies kicked in and it also gave me to use the bathroom to do number two. Sadness...

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I guess that's it for me for now. Will post when I have an insurmountable time. Whenever that is...

Of a salty salty.

A lot has happened this week. I couldn't remember much. I'll try with all my best and might.

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First off, new work. Thank God i'm out of the broadcasting business. No more televisions. No more cable. No more Video City (for the moment). No more games. No more sleep. No more hooky. And no more actors and actresses.

If I stayed with that company, I would amassed a large sum of money that the company would owe me. As of now, I haven't received the following:

- Back-pay.
- Allowance worth 18000 + (it's true).
- Tax refund.
- A certain percentage for the 13th month pay.
- Optional: Certain percentage for the commission that I'm not expecting. They didn't promise me anything about this anyway.

--> Certificate of Employment.

As of now, I really want to sue the company. I'll wait for a month and see what happens. At least I should receive the three things above and let the allowance go into thin air (sayang pa din yan).

That's one of the reasons why I've decided to move on with my career. They can't give you good compensation and almost zilch benefits. They can't offer me anything that could make my career grow. And my brain is in tinseltown most of the time, I should put it into better use.

Right now, a company has decided to accept me as a programmer trainee. They have a bond and I don't care. It just helps me to push myself harder to work.

And all these means less time to slack and enjoy life.

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Now, pre-employment is one of the hardest things a worker ant has to pass through. You have to elbow your way into the different offices of the government.

Going to the NBI office is hard. It used to be along Taft avenue but now it's inside one of the Carriedo buildings near the Quiapo church. On your way there (NBI is on the fourth floor or third... I think) you'll pass by stalls full of pirated Dvds. Ironic isn't it? But getting the NBI clearance is much easier than getting a license from the LTO (damn you slow and corrupt government employees).

Having a Police Clearance is shady at first. I once had a bad experience with these third party employees and i was expecting i'll receive the same BS. I was partly wrong. Well, it was a hassle for me at first because I went there on November 2nd and they were closed at 2:30 in the afternoon. It was quite understandable. Government. I checked out the requirements. Barangay Clearance???? Again? Shucks.

So, the following day I went to our Barangay hall and tried to get a Barangay clearance. The employee asked me if I have a voters ID. I told him I didn't receive any paper when I voted last May elections. So he asked me if I knew anybody from our place. I name dropped the name of my dad. The powers that be. And no more questions were asked right after. He gave me a Barangay clearance and a sedula worth 37.50. A sedula is worth 12 pesos only instead of those 'bootleg' sedulas found at different parts of our continent. They are worth 15 pesos.

I finally went to the Police station. Paid 25 pesos for the application and 80 pesos for the actual Police clearance. I paid 115 for the NBI clearance btw.

In all of these why is it that the LTO is requiring a much bigger sum of payment than with its goverment counterparts. And the time. God! The time. I've applied my driver's license last May and up until now, I haven't got the card yet. I went to that Godforsakenplace for five times or more already. I think.

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Going back to the pre-employment stories, I also got a free medical check-up courtesy of my new company (hooray for this). I think the hatest part was the drug testing. I never knew the drug testing would require a lot of BS before you gave them your urine. And the CBC was glorious. No pain. Really. I wanna get a CBC again.

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For other matters, I was riding the MRT the other day and my creative mind was filled. Here're the type of people I see in an MRT train who is standing (Dizzy? Sorry...)

~Surf-boarder - These are the passengers who are standing that doesn't hold on to anything. I do this most of the time. Balancing my two preciouses in the process.

~Body-hugger - Don't you just hate these type of people. Once they hold on a post they would start to hug it and feel as if they were lovemaking the pole. I hate them because I can't hold on to any free space on the pole and I don't want to touch the person hugging the pole. When this happens I end up being a Surf-boarder (Dude!).

~User-friendly - Most elderly do this. They hold on to you instead of the pole. This is fine if it's understandable. It's not fine if this person is doing some advances on you.

~Statue - We hate these people. The world revolves around these people. They don't care if you're passing through them. They won't budge. A good strategy for these people is to fake a cold and try to get them to catch one of your sneezes.

~Spoiled brat - Worse than the body-hugger. They just want everything and every space that they can see. They think they're in a taxi or they're in the leisures of their homes. A sucker punch is good for these people.

~Box-out - Just like the Spoiled Brat. But why do they have to touch you? Why?

~Acrobat - Do I have to explain further?

~Ma'am-may-I-go-out - I know. I know. The monicker is quite cheesy. But I think this should be included in the seven deadly sins. Really. Especially the construction workers who has B.O. and they would raise their arms. And... And... Boom!

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My Christmas Wish List (things may be added in the future if I get more materialistic):
1. Video card - Geforce 6600 series or Radeon 9600 series and up only.
2. Memory card for the PC - 1 Gig or 2 Gig worth of precious memory. DDR400 or SDR3200 pls?
3. Wireless headphones - I love music. Do you? I really do think you do too. This is good when i'm taking a dump.
4. 5.1 or 7.1 speakers - I want to rock our house down.
5. MP4 player - I miss watching movies.
6. Dvd writer - Extending my piracy services.
7. Wireless telephone - A wire is my waterloo.
8. Eyeglasses - A sleek and trendy one for me.
9. Bed - A new bed please? Been sleeping on one since 1994.
10. Computer chair - No comment.

Of an ugly and ugliest movie.

Thank God I got a copy of The Aristocrats (Finally!) yesterday. It really took some time for me to find a good copy. Anyhows, The Aristocrats is a movie-documentary about a long-running joke in the western hemisphere. It goes like this. A family, consists of a husband, wife, two children, and a dog, enters an office of an entertainer agent and told him that they have an act. They showed him the act and at the end they called their act "The Aristocrats!". The catch is the middle part of the joke. You have to include the most lewd, most disgusting, and most offensive acts that you can think of in the story.

Before you continue reading, a warning: R-18 mode. Don't read if you don't want to get offended.

Here's my example:

A family consisting of a father, a mother, a sister, a brother, and a dog entered an agent's office and told him that they have an act. The agent said what's the act about? So, the father removed his clothes and ripped the clothes of his wife. He fucked her everywhere. As in everywhere. Then, he removed the clothes of his children and they also fucked. And they all performed incest while crapping. All the crap that fell into the floor were smothered by the dog... I think I don't need to expound the story more. And then the father tells the agent "We call our act 'The Aristocrats'".

That's it. You have to watch the movie to get it.

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Suckily though, I got a movie entitled "Adam & Steve". The worst gay comedy film ever.

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In connection with the Aristocrats, I remember the Pink Table joke.

Of a piracy.

Before everything else. I hate Warpspeed. I can't go to yahoo mail for my luvvy duvvy mail and to Bkada forums. Die Die Die.

Anyhows.

I just watched a Pirates of the Carribean (or is it caribbean?) 2 and it made me wonder... Are we, as Filipinos, part of the pirate era? If ever the pirate era was true, did we join the escapades against the four powers of the colonial era?

Wouldn't it be cool if we were once pirates? Imagine heaps of treasure under the Chocolate Hills or inside the Mount Banahaw territory? We could also be the so-called natives that these pirates are pursuing like the Mayas and the Incas. We could have lots and lots and lots of Gold and Silver. Wait... we are full of these. We just don't know how to go them.

Wouldn't it be nice if our vintas raced with the pirate sloops and frigates? I do hope we have pirate blood. It would be really cool. Let's say a foreigner asks you "What is your ancestry?". And you answer, "Oh! It's part Filipino and part Pirate!!!!... and a pinch of Dalmatian."

How about the names? Davy Jones, One-eyed Pete, and other cool pirate names. We could have Ambong Tatlong-bayag or Namutee Saarawan. We could've probably had those pirate'y names.

I really believe that we are from the Pirate ancestry. Look at Quiapo. Very piratey. The place where I got Pirates 2.