That Girl Was Me!

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=)

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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.

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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.”

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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!!=)