bola bola or asado?

Auf Wiedersehen Rennenmeister

2006-10-20T02:28:00.000-07:00

race day sundays will never be as exciting.

peter pan complex

2006-06-29T11:20:00.000-07:00

"what the f&*k is a peter pan complex?" was the response a previous officemate got from me when she unprofessionally diagnosed me with this affliction a few years ago. i was more interested than offended simply because it sounded cool!

now that i am pushing 30, everyday i realize to be the truth, because:

1. i love the lost boys movie horror movie
2. my fantasy dream has always been me running fast then eventually flying
3. last and certainly not the least i find Wendy so hot

kainis diba!

their sense of novelty

2006-06-28T11:49:00.000-07:00

lately with lance armstrong's fight against cancer bracelet followed by nike's stand-up speak-black and white up bracelets

now, mars chocolate temporarily changed their brand to believe in honor of the ongoing world cup.

if there's one thing i admire about western countries it would be their sense of novelty and how they execute these ideas, it's never half-ass!

warren buffet's billions

2006-06-28T11:33:00.000-07:00

was watching cnn today and they showed a news conference hosted by bill gates, mrs. bill gates and warren buffet.

apparently mr. buffet has decided to donate 85% of his wealth or 37 billion dollars to charity. the move officially makes him the philanthropist with the biggest d*!k.

i guess he's just sick of swimming in money (like what scrooge mcduck does in the opening credits of ducktales.)

so much for my twenty-peso donation during mass.

rich bastard!

the most beautiful cook i know

2006-06-22T09:17:00.000-07:00

nigella lawson gents!

doesn't matter if the food she cooks is good just as long as she cooks it in front of me, she can cook okra with soy sauce and i would still consider it to be the best meal i've ever had.

askmen.com included her in their top 99 women list, number 84 i think.

sorry gals, god is certainly a man.

the terminal

2006-06-22T02:18:00.000-07:00

movie posters are the coolest thing in the world!

i've always been a movie nut and being this way have always made me attracted to movie posters and how they're laid out. a fine example is the movie poster for the terminal, got the chance to see the movie again in hbo last sunday and i'm pissed i didn't blog about this sooner.

beauty in simplicity at its finest.

just wish my previous clients opened their eyes a little more and not be too narrow-minded to see the true power of a beautiful layout. i've said it before and i'll say it again having white space is not a waste of money.

the origins of ube, peanut brittle and walis tambo

2006-06-21T13:36:00.000-07:00

friends were kind enough to take me around baguio since it had been decades since i last visited. call me weird but i was really intrigued to see, of all places, sm baguio just to see if the rumors about the mall not having an airconditioning system were true, sufficely to say the place didn't need one.

since i was already there i decided to be a good catholic and help the kids from the good sheperd convent and buy my fill of their heavenly goodies.

nice ink!

2006-06-11T12:27:00.000-07:00

the prospect of getting ink on my body never really appealed to me, was always afraid of the long-term problems it will bring. ria has always wanted one but i always told her to imagine a 60 year old granny with a tatoo, sad picture aint it!

but i recently discovered a show in discovery travel and living that is little by little, on a weekly basis, convincing me otherwise.

now i just have to decide on the design.

the color wheel proven

2006-06-11T11:48:00.000-07:00

the only thing i remember about art class is the color wheel, never found a practical use for it until...

it's not everyday i get to pee in one of those toilet bowls that has blue disinfectant water in them and it amazes me everytime the water turns green when you pee in them.

cool!

arguably the best character actor of our generation

2006-06-07T20:02:00.000-07:00

luis guzman.

how can you go wrong with pachanga!

back after a two year blogging hiatus

2006-06-07T19:28:00.000-07:00

reading other people's blogs and seeing them put their views out there for the world to read has made me envious.

or maybe it's because i only have 5 working days until the end of my 5-year love/hate relationship with advertising and the situation has afforded me a bit of free time to type my thoughts.

whatever it is, i'm just glad to be writing something more than job orders.

a little less laughter in the world

2004-10-05T19:24:00.000-07:00

rodney "no respect" dangerfield

1922 - 2004

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the land of milk and honey

2004-09-03T04:15:00.000-07:00

i'm 25 years old.

been working a little over four years now.

i have nothing to show for it.

hey ask my mom, she'll be more than happy to give you a litany of how much of an irresponsible bastard i am.

i'm at a point in my life right now where i have to make life altering personal decisions, with the future of this country looking bleaker every year, i was lucky or unlucky enough to be given the choice to restart my life in another country, in the land of milk and honey.

it's not a question of whether it's the right decision to make anymore because the odds are stacked against staying in the comforts of my flood stricken street, but whether the right decision is the right one for me.

call it faith or even coincidence but a very close friend recently decided to go gung-ho and leave everything he holds dear for a chance to have a better future but an uncertain happiness in a new and unfamiliar land. i told myself, maybe this was his karma and maybe the land michael jordan gave 6 world championships to holds better tidings for him and maybe this was the case for me also with a slight twist. same karma but it will be in the land of ice and eskimos.

his example should have made it clearer and easier for me to make the decision or it should have at least lessened my resolve about carving my fulfilling my so called destiny in the land of my forefathers.

i guess not.

the day will come and the decision will be made, but until that day comes i will standby the famous words of a dear friend.

never it!

my dad and tv espanyol

2004-09-01T20:30:00.000-07:00

it was early sunday morning the tv was tuned in as told by ginger in nickelodeon and i was waiting for invader zim to come on when i decided to grab a cigarette. went out of my room to smoke when i saw my dad having an ice cold bottle of brew and eating balot while watching tv espanyol.

i tell myself this looks promising, so i decide to sit with him while i finish my cigarette.

being the old school type of man that he is i really have a hard time connecting with him so i welcome every opportunity for us to talk as individuals as men.

maybe the years that i have spent trying to prove to him that i am a man that can live up to his medieval "what a man should be" standards and not just a big fucking disappointment is beginning to rub off since our relationship has gotten smoother and easier the past few years and understanding has really helped a lot.

and now for the hard part.

respect.

the work week that was and james earl jones

2004-08-27T04:10:00.000-07:00

another work week, another 50 hours of my life breezed before my very eyes.

i wish i could say more about the past 5 days but except for having the chance to see m. night shyamalan's the village, which is a two thumbs up movie that gave me the creeps and getting the inkling to strangle an acquaintance who thought the movie was a waste of his good money. plus the chance to go home early yesterday due to the baha-causing weather; everything else is just blah blah blah.

one thing though, a certain thought kept recurring in my mind.

james earl jones has the coolest voice.

apart from trying to imitate his commanding voice i began to wonder how much ted turner is paying him to say...

THIS IS CNN.

deadline - the most hated word in my line of work

2004-08-23T04:33:00.000-07:00

dead·line (d d l n ) n.
1. a time limit, as for payment of a debt or completion of an assignment.
2. a boundary line in a prison that prisoners can cross only at the risk of being shot.

whoever invented this word should be pushed across the line mentioned in the 2nd definition.

another friday gone bad

2004-08-20T14:30:00.000-07:00

why can't all fridays turn out the way we all plan them to be.

yes, another friday gone bad. why can't the advertising gods give me this one day to enjoy out of 4 days of hell i spend anticipating another friday. i need a day where everything falls into place, a day without any hitches or witches.

today wasn't supposed to be special it was just supposed to be easy and most of all simple. the only thing that gets me going is the laughter i hear from my officemates who have rolled-up their sleeves and decided to brave it out and spend friday correctly despite all their deadlines.

tick-tock... a few more hours and the day will begin to show symptoms of ending and the highly anticipated friday night will begin...one more beer please.

the virgin's post

2004-08-18T18:29:00.000-07:00

the time has finally come and putting it off to another day is a luxury i've used too much and emptied.

i have always been a reader not a writer... was the quick response to friends who have urged me to write something.

wish me luck my friends, for this is my very first blog.

after reading some of the very good blogs my friends have written it makes me a bit nervous about sharing my thoughts to the worldwide web, but enough of my silly ramblings and straight to business.

days have past thinking of what the topic of my first post will be, should it be something as trite as "growing up" given a recent personal situation or should it be medial like my favorite things or the sort of topics commonly found in a slum book.

whatever happened to batibot?

did it die when the people from jim henson's company decided to retrieve pong pagong and kiko matsing? one of the many icons of my happy childhood that has dropped from the face of this planet and it just adds to my annoyance at the concept of being a twentysomething. i'm just thankful to the good people from cartoon network who have been nice enough to air re-runs of the thundercats that bring me back to the good old days when the air was clean and sex was a fantasy.

before i do end this let me just say that i also miss big boy and tarzan chewing gums.