Welcome Back!

After staying in Baguio for 5 days, eto ang mga napala ko

1. Headache
2. Sipon
3. Body Ache
4. Pagod
5. Teary Eyed
6. Soar Throat
7. Aching Legs

But wait, there's more:

8. Spiritually refreshed
9. Feel God's love throughtout the conference
10. Blessed by the service done by the brother's and sisters of Northern and Central Luzon.
11. Meet the wonderful persons like my breakfast buddy from QC, Ms. Secretariat, who is a deadringer to Pia Guanio, of Angeles, Roomies from Angeles,Greenhills and Dagupan.
12. Bonding time with the Alabang Brothers.

Hmmm...mukhang okay narin.Sulit naman pala ang pagod. Watyathink!?!?

theonoski

Quotable Quotes

Muntik na akong malaglag sa kinauupuan ko while I was reading the news in the Inquirer website.

There was a show named 'Newsmaker: The GMA News Special" which was aired last night and hosted by different anchors of GMA News. They interviewed current President Gloria and former Presidents Ramos, Aquino and Erap. Also was included in the list was Former First Lady Imelda Marcos.

At eto and isang quotable quote nya na nagpasira sa aking umaga...

quote:
"When Mike Enriquez confronted Marcos about allegations of a conjugal dictatorship, her reaction could only be described as Imeldific:"Hindi bale dictatorship basta patungo sa the good, the true, the beautiful and the greatness of the country."

Tell that to the political prisoners who was arrested without warrant.
Tell that to the desepriciados who was taken by the military in the middle of the night and never been heard about them eversince.
Tell that to the family of activist who lost their love ones.
Tell that to the outspoken media who was silenced up by the law.

I'm not a political activist fyi but when it concerns about the democracy of this third world country, aba, ibang usapan na yan!

Give me democracy or give me death!

Ganung level!!!

Hindi bale nang panget basta malaya naman!

=D.

Lintek!

Mukhang may pending works pa ako na madadala sa Baguio ah!

Why do the American Society of Mechanical Engineer (ASME) pinaghati pa kasi ang Long Radius Elbow at Short Radius Elbow, eh pareho lang naman silang Elbow!

Duh!

And they didn't bother to explain what's the use for LR and SR.

Ano kaya yun?????

Now I have to come up with an answer (in less than 1 hour) para masatisfy yung nagtanong sa akin about the use of LR and SR!!!

Lintek!

Excited!

In less than 40 hours i'll be in Baguio na for the RLTC. I'm really excited about this RLTC thing for i know i'll have a very good time discovering God and his wonders for me. Plus the fact that i'll be going to BAGUIO for the first time!

Yay!

Screw the Young Professional (a.k.a. yuppy) image. I'll run around Baguio like a 5 year old kid in a playground. (of course the rltc parin ang top priority activity ko sa baguio, hehehehe).

Excited? Yes!

Atat? Super!

Tapos mo naba trabaho mo sa office? Malapit na!

Current Fave Hobby

So, ok, it's official. I've replaced blogging instead of going to the gym as my current favorite hobby. Lemme, last time i went to the gym: 1.5 months ago. Last time i've posted something (whether updating the settings or posting a new post) here at the blog before this post: 0.5 hours ago. Buy something for the Baguio gig next week: Nothing. Spend something which is related to blogging: Yes! 2 hours of internet here at Netopia after work (where internet is free naman!) is consumed.

Paktay (ika nga ng mga chekwa sa binondo).

Me being in a tipid mode, due to impending travel in the land adjacent to Stanley Ho's empire but still spending a lot of time in a crampy internet cafe, is somewhat not so tipid anymore.

Darn, i just wish somebody would fix my PC at home (the modem isn't working properly kasi) so that i can do my blogging stuff nalang sa bahay.


still at netopia atc
theonoski

Salam!

Special shout-out to my dear friend/officemate/yosi break tropa/kwentuhan masters, all the way in Assaluyeh Iran who constantly reading my blog! Thanks Cha for visiting my blog and I hope to see you soon pagbalik mo dito sa Pinas.

Opkors lilibre mo ko sa gimik natin hokey =D.

To you Cha, eto lang masasabi ko:

Salam! Saad Baker. Kobi Kobam, Chootori. Salamati! Kelly Mamnum, Mochakaram Kodafes!

Yun na!

p.s.
don't forget my pasalubong, yung biggest plastic bag ng TWIX chocolates sa duty free and NOT TWIGGS mamom from SM supermarket ha! Mabibili sha sa mga duty free ng Dubai, Doha at Manila (or kung san ka man dumaan pauwi mo dito sa pnas) kaya don't tell me na wla kang makita nun paguwi mo dito okey! hehehehehe

Survivor Philippines (TV Review)

Last night, while I was busy arranging my stuff in my room and checking my schedule on my planner i got a chance to watch the much talked about new reality tv show on Channel 7, which is SURVIVOR PHILIPPINES. I have to admit I'm a survivor fan from the start but i lost interest when I started to work (since i cannot watch the live telecast on tv and i cannot catch the replay shows as well) and with the onset of much fast paced and thrill adventure The Amazing Race i totally forgot Survivor.

But lo and behold, channel 7 acquired the franchise of Survivor and made a Pinoy version of it. Imagine, a American product reality show composed of Filipino contestant and cast-away in a remote island in Thailand. How cool is that? I didn't remember all the contestants name but who strike me the mos is Patani. Her work daw is a Yaya and she's a former contestant wannabee in another contest in channel 7. In the show last night it was always her who was talked about by the other contestant, especially the call center girl, she talks a lot in my observation. But i think she's cool, palaban, and she will definitely kick @$$ on the show.

Kudos btw to the person who's in charge of supplying the girl's with their swimsuit. The labandera contestant looks like a winner in her two piece, and Patani as well =D.

(hindi ba obvious that im vying for Patani to win? hehehehe)

Oh, and also, napag-isip isip ko lang. If in Survivor States most of the contestants are waiter/waitress i think in Survivor Philippines the trend will be call center agents! Wanna bet?

The downside of the show is the main host. I mean, c'mon, P.B.? Yeah he's cool and expert in nature tripping/adventure show but i think i had enough of him already. Nakakaasar pa is that he always talk on most part of the show: e.g. when the girls are talking, the boys getting water, the team making a roof, etc. Palagi sya nagco-comment. It's like watching his previous tv show all over again! Waaaaah.

I do hope it will be an exciting reality show, it's a great relief to see another form of reality show different from the reality singing contest that we have now.

Abanga....

Lessons Learned for Today

I had a very hectic morning schedule today. First I have to drove my sister and her super cute baby to the hospital for a medical check-up. Twenty minutes later, while i was busy playing scrabble here at the office my Ate suddenly texted me, "where at the wrong hospital, we need to go Alabang where the hospital/clinic is!". Being an obedient brother i hurriedly asked permission from my boss if I can fetched my sister and bring her to Alabang. Luckily my boss is in a good mood today so he approved my request and I hurriedly went to the place to pick up my sister.

Well, for all those who knew me, I'm still a terrible driver after 5 months of driving and as much as possible I avoid Alabang interchange because of its notorious traffic and "kotong" cops! But hey, since its for my sister naman and for her super cute baby, i'll take the risk.

So of we go to Alabang, the small hospital/clinic is located in Cupang (where the road is so small and the tricyle driver are the king of the road!) and another luck strikes me, they had parking space! After we've parked and bring down the baby stuff the receptionist told my already irritated sister that the Pedia were looking for doesn't worked there anymore!

My sister's reaction is like she's saying *WTF*. Hehehehe. (Being impatient is in the genes of our family, thanks to our dear tatay!).

So, after we've talked to the lovely receptionist she informed us that this Pedia doc is now based in Las Pinas but unfortunately she doesn't know the exact location of the place. All she know is that it's in Pilar. So ok, i said, "kami nalang maghahanap sa clinic besides its along the road naman".

Again back to Alabang interchange the traffic flow is crazy, i didn't know where to turn or make u-turn just to get back to the other side of the road. Buti nalang i just follow the jeepney plying on that route. Hay, thank god, im in the right road na =D.

The drive going to the third clinic (now i know it's just a clinic because there's no major hospital along AZ road besides PH), was slow, because we checked every available signboard located on the street, baka kasi lumagpas kami. So when we approached Pilar we saw this signboard saying the clinic is here, but the problem is there's no parking space! What i did was i've parked in front of a Philcopy center/store/i-dont-know-what-are-they to check the clinic. BUT, after i've closed the door of my car this security guard immediately informed me that we cannot parked on their territory! I told him i was just about to check the clinic but he still keep on telling me (by shouting!) that we're on the wrong place. What irrirated me is that he keep on talking to me in a very loud voice (that almost everyone in the parking lot can hear), and since i didn't study in an engineering school for five years and spent 2 years in Iran as a succesful engineer to be shouted by an security guard, i shouted at him as well. (Luckily my sister was inside the car so she didn't heard me shouting at this guy). By the way, the place where the signboard was located was the OLD building the clinic used to occupy, and now they moved in the other side of the building, next to Philcopy.

So, i did saw the clinic, it was besides their building, after the shouting incident i drove to the other side of the building and to the clinic. This time it was the correct address, the prescription paper of the Pedia was already very very very old and already superseeded. Luckily the Pedia wasn't in the clinic at the time we arrive or else she will receive a tounge lashing, verbal humiliation from me.

And I thought my morning mis-adventure was over. Hindi pa pala. When I was leaving the parking lot, a small car parked at my back totally preventing me to make a turn. I tried to make a turn but to no avail, i will hit him directly. So what I did was i stepped down the car asked this gentleman nicely if he can move a little so i can turn back, since im a new driver i dont want his car to be hit by my brand new car, and i don't want to visit my insurance office. But what i've heard from him was this: "KAHIT NA IUSOG KO ANG KOTSE KO HINDI KAPARIN MAKAKALABAS".

Whoah! Is this a shouting day or what???

Then, it hit me, i can do two things:

1. Ask the driver how can i move my car by not hitting him or the rest of the parked car in the building so i can go to the main road.

or

2. Engage him in a shouting match, nowithstanding that he has his 2 year old son in the fron seat and playing a car toy, you're parked at my back dude which is supposedly a NO PARKING AREA! Duh!

Possibly, with the intercession of something i choose the first one. I asked him how can I do that and he simply explained to me what should I do (but i can still smell the sarcasm when he's telling me that). So, i did what he told me and viola! I made it outside the parking lot and off to our dear cute office.

Lesson learned:

1. When you're in a intense situation pray for guidance and patience. For sure you'll be enlighten and the "init ng ulo" will go away. I never did that on the Security guard that's why we ended up in a shouting debate. Hehehehe

2. Always prioritize your family, specially in times of emergency. No amount of work is worth to disregard your family.

3. As i was driving slowly on the road, it makes me appreciate the things located on the side of the road. Di ba we have this saying "Stop and smell the flowers". Since we're working on a fast paced time we tend to disregard or appreciate the small things in life, which in turn will makes us happy pala (or in due time we will need pala). I alwasys passed this area everyday and still i didn't know that a clinic exist there, sa last minute chances ko pa nalaman na meron pala yun dun.

Kulit noh?

I must admit, since i've been in TSD and ALNP i've mellowed down, BIGTIME! If I was not a member of this group and I had this encounter, probably i'll be in hospital now. Hindi pala sagot sa lahat ng gusot ang pagiging mainitin ang ulo (which i shamelessly admit i do before)
Thank you guys for making a better person in me =D.

Galing ko diba? Walang kokontra or else........

T.G.I.F.

Yey! Working time is almost over, sa wakas it's weekend na naman! Don't you just love the weekend??? Tomorrow i'm planning to wake up at 10:00 am then nood ng t.v. then lunch then gala sa hapon. Will try to catch anticipated mass narin because i'll be busy the whole sunday dahil it's my bestfriend's first baby's binyag!

Ang saya right?

oh, wait, i've promised myself pala to clean my room over the weekend?

u-oh, problem ah!

hay, don't you just wish your stinking rich and you have the maids who will clean your room and make it squeaky clean?

nah, i don't need them . besides it's fun to clean your room all by yourself. exercise din yun ah =D.

for all you guys whose reading my blog, thank you and may you have a blessed weekend ahead!

theonoski

Noisy List

My post was inspired by Doc Rio's (hi doc!) recently post about cheating during exams on schools. Yesterday, our group (composed of 4 young but intelligent inidividuals) got reprimanded from our manager. Yes, if im no mistaken it was the first time we, as a whole, got reprimanded for doing something. As our boss was telling us about it many thoughts come into my mind why we're being reprimanded, like:

1. Excessive use of Internet during office hours (hell, the whole company is doing it naman!).
2. Going downstairs 3 minutes before the bell ring at 5:oo pm.
3. Not doing our job well.
4. Late submission of documents.

But guess what's the real reason pala, we we're NOISY pala in our place kaya kami pinagagalitan!

Nyak! Noisy! C'mon, para naman tayong elementary students dito. I know we need to keep our voice down here at the office but to be totally silenced us during office hours (i.e. to keep quite all the time) aba teka mahirap ata yun =(.

I admit we're noisy sometimes, it's because our group love to talk and laugh. It's our time to catch up on what's happening in our life, we love to talked about our office life, and sometimes give advice to each other pag may problema. It only shows that we care to each other, para kaming family ika nga. At least we're developing camaraderie here at our group, and it's agood sign simply because if we like the company of each other we can work harmoniously (parang mali spelling ko dito ah!) and our output would be in excellent and perfect form.

We're not robot, we're humans. We talk, We care, We laugh.

being noisy doesn't make us lesser engineers, in fact it made us better human.

An Ultraelectromagneticsupercalifragiliciousexpialadocious experience

Last Sunday, I was lucky enough to be invited to attend Lingkod's anniversary in Makati City. At first I was excited to be a part of the activity of our community, to be familiarize with other branch's members and also be a part of the celebration for Lingkod. But my excitement turned into worry when they announce that we should be at the place at 8:00 am on a Sunday morning and also we need to do a presentation (i.e. we have to dance) at the afternoon affair. O.K. i said to myself, the waking up in the morning on a weekend we can dealt with but the dancing part....uh-oh...hmmmm..."houston we have a problem, a dancing problem that is"!

So, what i did was for the dancing part, we've practice the dance the day before the event (i.e. Saturday) and boy did we preactice very hard talaga! Thank God for JC, Ian and Sheena for patiently teaching us how to dance and the blockings! Eventually, after the gruelling practice we did master the dance steps! Yey! Hooray for Theo! Hahahaha.

(c'mon the last time i did dance with choreography was in first year high school pa, not counting the kotilyon and js prom dance ha! and the rest of my life i just dance in bars and disco where as you probably know, ,dancing there doesn't need choreography. jologs pag choreograph sayaw mo sa dance floor.lol)

So, the dancing part is done. Next to do thing, wake up at 5:45 a:m. Boy, this was really really tricky. Me, waking up at this time of the day on a weekend means away! But being a good servant and a little bit excited about what's store for me at Lingkod anniv I obediently alarmed my phone at 5:45 am and diligently stood up when it alarmed.

I must admit i'm impressed at myself for waking up early and not being grumpy/cranky, maybe it's a good sign that this day will be ah-o.k.

Oh, one more thing, another thing that dreaded me in going to Makati was for me to drive in EDSA. Nyahahaha! I've only drive there once and i had a ka-rellevo (no pun intended) with me but now wala! It's me who will drive all the way to Mayor Binay's Kingdom without any reliever in driving. But hey, luckily i did made it safe and sound to Makati. Maybe God really want me to go there and experience his love and to praise him, nowithstanding the early morning meet-up, the driving along edsa and the dance presentation.

The anniversary start with a mass and guess what, I've been chosen among so many people inside the training area to read the Responsorial psalm!!! I was shocked, happy, scared, doubtful all in the same time. Shocked kasi why me? Happy because i'll be serving the Lord. Scared coz it's my first time to do such a thing! Doubtful, kasi baka joke lang pala to! Well it turned out it was not a joke and i did my part (according to the priest in the mass) very fast! hahahaha! It's not my fault if i read fast, ang mahalaga they heard what I say di ba?

After the mass, its workship time. It was pure joy to worship the Lord and I must admit it was my first time to really sing out loud, raised my hand up high, joyfully sing to the lord in all my life! Sobrang saya ng experience,i cannot explain in words how happy and contented i was during the whole sessions. And the talks was amazing as well, the speakers really inspired us to be a good brothers and sisters not only to ourselves in the community but also to others as well.

Afternoon come and the presentation of each branch was held. We we're the first one to perform, in fairness to us we we're great! Hahahaha. The impromptu cast was fabulously great! Well we did lived up to the title of our song (joyful joyful of sister act 2) kaya we were having fun and joy talaga while we dancing. Nakakapagod but what the heck, we had fun naman, worth it parin ang pagod =D.

I went home very very very happy and feel blessed and yes until now i still had this so-called lingkod anniv hang-over (it's already thursday btw) but i must admit It was one great experience, pede ko pa makwento sa mga taong gustong makinig (or forced to listen to me hehehe).

Dear Lord, Thank you for the blessings you have given to me, thank you for being my saviour, my companion during loneliness,my bestfriend who keep on telling me that everything would be when im depressed, my buddy when i'm desperate for friendships, my conscience when im dealing with mortal sin, my buddy when i needed someone to talked to. Thank you Lord.

All of this I offer to you my Lord. My life and my profession I offer to you. What I do to my brothers and sisters in servicing them and my achievements in my work I offer to you, for you alone are the greatest and the most loving God. I am nothing if you're not here in my heart.

AMEN.



(note:title was inspired by the Eraserheads and the movie Mary Poppins)

Quotable Quote

Yesterday, I was in DOST Taguig City to attend a seminar about something that is related to our work. The speaker of the seminar was a Japanese guy who discussed something about Enviromental issues (i.e. Global Warming) and after the presentation an aged old Filipino guy (who seems like a kagalang-galang na executive) raised a question about it, but the problem is even us Filipinos DIDN'T understand his question! Ang labo nya pre sa totoo lang! One attendees even commented 'walang sense yung tanong nya". But the Japanese, being a nice guy that he is (i think most japanese are nice talaga) he tried to answer hi question hanggat makakaya nya. Well, lo and behold, after the Japanese answered his question eto reply nya:

" I'M NOT SATISFIED WITH YOUR ANSWER BUT THANK YOU ANYWAY"

Rude?

Sobra!

Talk about attitude.