"Sorsi, why haven’t you been blogging lately?"
"Sorsi, I haven’t read anything of yours lately."
Well, that’s because I’ve practically abandoned my Friendster blog. Everything’s at my site, www.thatgirlwasme.com =) I’m just too lazy now to keep re-posting my entries here=) So…see you there!
I was fixing my photos on my Flickr account last night… and I remembered how it was when we still used film and manual cameras. I remembered our Agfa photo processing store…our family business.
I started working at our store at a young age (I don’t know if it’s a Chinese thing because all the Chinese hardware stores in our neighborhood also had the sons and daughters working at the store). My first tasks were counting the pictures (the machines were low-tech then, we had to actually count pictures. Now, the machine automatically counts and sorts the pictures.) and manning the cash register. I loved working at the store. I learned how to count money, give change and..unfortunately, how to make ‘kupit’ while working the cash register. And I got hours of entertainment looking at other people’s pictures while on counting duty=P It’s like I’m a voyeur into other people’s lives. I knew which customers went to the beach, which ones had parties, which ones have nice or crappy homes…etc.
After how many years of voyeur-ing other people’s photos, I have noticed some commonalities in their picture-taking habits…and some idiosyncrasies of Pinoys. I used the word ‘Pinoys’ here for ease but I don’t mean to say ALL Pinoys are like this. Our store, after all, was located on Kalentong St. Our customers were mostly class CD=)
Wanting to catch the last fireworks shows of China and the Philippines last Saturday, I made sure I was on a bus home by 7pm (I’ve been watching the Pyro Olympics from a small window near our garbage chute in our condo building). Unfortunately, I got stuck in traffic for three hours, ironically caused by the same event. Most of the people in the bus already started to get up and walk since the traffic was at a standstill. I was too lazy to do the same…and I figured, I didn’t know my way home by foot anyway….so I decided to wait out the traffic. Luckily, I had a book in my bag. I bought it as a recommendation from Jun. The title? How to Find Your One True Love by Bo Sanchez. I finished the book by the time I got home…and missed the fireworks.
Have you ever led to the destruction of someone else’s relationship? I have. But not in a ‘third party’ kind of way. A few years ago, I found out a friend’s boyfriend was overtly flirting with girls in his college. I told the best friend of my friend so she’ll be warned. She broke up with him and I believe…to this day…that the guy in question hates me. Shortly after, I found out the boyfriend of my friend was scum …so I kept convincing my friend to break up with him. She did. And I got word that if I were a guy, the scum and his entire barkada would’ve beaten me to a pulp.
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Joel Tantoco has allegedly died of bangungot.
I found out about it when I told my friend, “Alam mo ba, binangungot nanaman ako kagabi!”. And she told me that Joel Tantoco has just died this morning of bangungot.
It’s weird but I have experienced ‘bangungot’ several times although I’m still not very sure of the meaning of the word. My friend said mine would just fall under ‘nightmare’ because I haven’t died of it yet. “Pag bangungot, ibig sabihin natuluyan ka na.” Another said that my episodes classify as bangungot…”Pag natuluyan ka na, DEAD na ang tawag dun hindi bangungot.”
Finally, I am able to access my Friendster account again!!!! There has been something wrong with our connection in the office and it has made me unable to connect to friendster….I thought there was something wrong with Friendster itself but I’m at an I-cafe now and it seems okay. There have been a lot of new additions on my site so check it out=) I’m back!!=)
This Christmas was another lean Christmas…I didn’t get that many presents. And I didn’t get any of the things I listed in my grown-up Christmas list. However, I did get some really nice presents…blouses, tank tops, shorts…some sweets I can’t eat. I listed here the top 5 presents I got this year…(check out number 4!)
Updates on www.thatgirlwasme.com =)
Hehe, got tamad to paste it here=)
First of all, NO, this is not a bastos post. Tsk tsk…you and your dirty mind…just because I said “wonderful things that happen under the table”…
Something happened this afternoon that made me muse about the many wonderful things the cellphone has allowed us to do….besides being able to take and send pictures of your Garfield stuffed toy in compromising poses.
We were at a lunch table and the person across from me and I were texting about the person right beside me, without the person beside me knowing about it.
I’m sure you’ve also done this. We do it lots of times in meetings…wherein we all look like we are listening and interested…but under the table, we are all texting each other things like, “Grabe, kelan ba to matatapos!”, “Gutom na ko!”, “Ano ba yan, di pa ba siya titigil magsalita?”, ”Uupakan kita pag magtanong ka pa ng question! Hahaba nanaman yung discussion!”.
So I made list of some of the things that are now easier for us to do because of texting…
1. Real-time chismisan
Before: You had to wait for the person to go to the CR or leave before you and your friends can talk about him or her.
Now: While you are all sitting at the table, you can instantly text your friend, “Shet mare, ang cute niyang katabi mo, pakilala mo ko, pero discreet lang ha!” or “Yung katabi mo ba boy or girl?”….
Situational:
Friend A says, “I’m going out with this guy named Chuva Chuva…he’s so gwapo and bait to me“…you can immediately text friend B from across the table, “Eh dba girlfriend ni Chuva Chuva si Chenes Chenes?”, to which friend B doesn’t know the answer so she forwards it to friend C. Then friend C replies to friend B, “OO, 1 year na sila ni Chenes Chenes!”, And so friend B texts back to you, “Sila nga ni Chenes Chenes! OMG, number 2 si friend A! Shud we tell her?” to which you will reply, “Hinde, hayaan mo siyang mapahiya!”. Confusing? That’s real-time chismisan for you.
I finally solved the case of my missing cupcakes!
And found some old photos of Garfield the CatWhore…
