Gawad Kalinga Gig (Build a Home, Build a Muscle)

Our cute little office here in Alabang recently team-up with Gawad Kalinga Las Pinas to build homes. We've pledge to build 30 houses in 3 years and the village will named after our company (conceited di ba?) Eversince i've heard the news about it thru Ate Evelyn I was so excited I nominate myself to become our department's representative! Well, ganun nga nangyari, I was assigned as coordinator and core leader of this group, even landing me the rights to be the assistant leader of the powerful food committee hahahaha!

Finally, last weekend, it was our department's schedule to build the home. The day starts very very early at 8:00AM! Again, me being a non-avid fan of early-morning-wakeup-pag-weekend have to drag myself to the bathroom at 6:30. After eating my breakfast and driving my sister to her house in Sucat little did I ralize i was sooo late! 8:30 na pala and here I am, the leader of the group still in Alabang. LOL. Di bale they can't leave without me. =P. Supringsily I was not that late, mas mas late pa pala =D.

So, we all go to the construction site, all in happy faces and very eager to help and to work. After we arrive at site and made some short briefing, introduction, teaming-up, etc. we start our work at 9:00.

Our group did a lot of work in fairness, merong taga halo ng semento, taga bitbit ng hollow blocks, nagpipintura, assistant ni foreman, taga pahid ng pawis, etc. It was hard but hey we had FUN FUN FUN! After 2 hours we had our recess break of ginataan (kulit noh, mainit na nga panahon and here we are eating ginataan!), then after eating work ulit!

After half a day's work, 2 recess break, 1 plastic gallon of mineral water, 6 bottles of POP cola, 2 liters of paint, 10 bags of sand, 2 bags of cement our work is done. Everybody was exhausted but i can see in their face (except for the emo guy) the emotional gratification of finally doing something for others. Sabi nila they we're so happy to be a part of Gawad Kalinga, and kung may chance pa ulit in the future for them to join sasama ulit sila.

Then it strucks me. Ang pagtulong ay dapat bukas sa puso hindi sapilitan sapagkat sa bukas na kalooban mararanasan ang tunay na kaligayahan.

(yikes, ang lalim nun!)

Ang sarap talagang maging bata, di ba? =D.

Mr. Mild Mannered's Eheads Experience

And then the next to impossible thing happened....

(thursday-friday) 28-29 August 2008

The Eraserheads concert was held last 30-Aug-08 at the Bonifacio Open field. Two days before the event I didn't know anything about the concert, all i know is that you need to apply for membership at Marlboro website (or sort) to get your free ticket. Lo and behold my friend told me that Marlboro/Phillip already backed out to the event and the new promoter are starting to sell the tickets! Omaygasabelgas, so it was Thursday evening i frantically searched the internet for the news about the concert, and then Friday noontime, after i lined up for the ticket at ATC, get mad at the cashier for being soooooo late in her job and ang haba-haba na ng pila, even end up being late at the office (together with my other colleagues), i got my pair of tickets for the event (clap! clap! clap!). Ang galing ko diba? =D

saturday (30-Aug-08)

My day start at 9:00am today. To those who know me very well, me waking up at 10:00am or earlier is a miracle already. But being an obedient child i have to wake up early to do our grocery in the morning, buy office clothes at sm, and hurriedly dash to ATC to buy the cool shirt for the concert. I finished doing this errands at around 4pm, only an hour before I meet up with my friend to go to the concert.

6:30pm

We arrived at the concert scene, while walking down the street of the fort you can sense the excitement of the people going to the concert venue. It's funny also because you can actually distinguish the people whose going to the concert and whose not. Actually I was looking forward to meet up few old friends at the concert, especially it's in The Fort (teritoryo ata ng PCS ito eh hahaha!), but sadly i didn't see any familiar faces. Security was tight at the entrance, ballpen, camera, perfumes are not allowed (daw!), and you have to undergo 5 times security check before you can enter the premises. Upon entering, there were no chairs pala! Yikes! I thought they will provide chairs kaso wala!So we end up sitting our a$$ at the ground. Oh well, i hope all our hardwork is worth it =D.

10 minutes countdown

when the giant screenboard shows the 10 minutes countdown, everybody went wild! yes! sa wakas matutuloy na sha! and when the timer click 00:00:00 a wave of flash basked the concert arena (and i thought bawal ang camera!) coming from both cellfone camera and digital camera that was sneaked inside the place. I overheard one girl at my back comment "good times with eraserheads are back", and so it was. The band start to emerge from under the stage then they start singing, and I was like "wow dreams really do come true!"....

Here's the list of first set of songs:

1. Alapaap

2. Ligaya

3. Sembreak

4. Hey Jay

5. Harana

6. Fruitcake

7. Toyang

8. Kama Supra

9. Kailan

10. Wag Kang Matakot

11. Kaliwete

12. With A Smile

13. Shake Yer Head

14. Huwag Mo Nang Itanong Sa Akin

15. Lightyears

Ely Buendia looks very thin on the giant screen, but his outfit (preppy type plus dark aviator shades) is far more different than his t-shirt jeans kind of guy style before during the eraserheads time. Heck, what the hell, as long as he sings nice okay na yon! Buddy, Marcus and Raimund are in their natural form, super galing parin tumugtog eventhough it's been years since they perform together.

I've post some of the pictures I've taken during the concert. It's a little bit blurred or too far away (we're in the patron kasi and in front of us is VIP and SVIP section pa) but nevertheless maganda parin ang kuha =D.

I'm very happy that they choose ALAPAAP as their intro song, it's one of my favorite eheads song kasi hehehe, especially the chorus portion "masdan mo aking mata, di moba nakikita,..", ang galing at nakakatuwa! It brings back my high school memories, we used to dance with this song during our presentation (thanks to jennifer calingo who always insist to use eheads song as our song in our presentations) and since i constantlly hear this song i fell in love with it na eventually.

Hayyyy i was teary eyed when i sang this song during the concert, naaalala ko lang my kabataan days in the company of good friends (magreminisce ba! lol!). But still i have really good memories with this song. Ilabet bigtime!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ligaya was the second song they perform, whenever i hear this i remember Chippy. LOL. But still ganda parin kantahin and the song meaning is da best.

Sembreak was nicely performed, when Eheads was singing this song snapshots of UP diliman wa shown on the giant screen, its like paying tribute to the great University by producing the best Pinoy Band ever =D.

Im not sure what song it was (Toyang or Hey Jay) when they shown on the screen the different pinoy komiks character naman. Ang galing talaga! Anyway Eheads is considered part of the pinoy pop culture kasama nila Pupung, Aksyong Aksaya, Wakasan komiks atbp.

Well, the rest of the song was ok naman but i was still expecting Ang Huling El Bimbo na obviously was not played due to what happened to Ely. Oh well all well that ends well naman. Dapat talaga may part 2 ito para masatisfy ang Eraserheads fever ng mga Eheads fan.

Para sa Eraserheads, you rocked dudes!!

Corporate Slave Workstation

Here are some snapshots of my desk here at the office. I really made it llike messy para magmukhang busy ako, hehehehe, but actually im not. See my starbucks tumbler? I'm proud to say it's one of the original tumbler of starbucks, bought by my sister years ago. Nice diba? And the desk calendar was a remembrance pa from Iran, which i forcibly took from Charlie hahahaha (cha, if you're reading this thanks talaga for the calendar ha!).

*photos was taken thanks to my superb 3.2 megapixel K800i*