Thirty six na ako, rakenrol!
This is my first attempt at audio recording. And because the movie “Accross the Universe” still haunts me in the bathroom, I decided to well, try one of the Beatles’ hits that was featured in the film. And so here it is. I had some flats on the 3rd stanza and some sharp ones on the fourth, but over all, it’s soooo awesome. No other ninja could sing this good.
What if gusto kong mag-letrato sa Alaskan wilds at mag-compose ng tula sa Amazon River nang sabay? Or gusto kong mag-grill ng tuna sa Caribbean at magbasa ng libro ni Murakami sa ituktok ng Mt. Pulag? Or i-enjoy ang sunset with jowa sa Panglao Beach at mag-bungee jump sa France kasama ang dalawang bata?
Our life as married couple is not as smooth. We’ve gone to several breakups as gelpren-and-boypren and as mister-and-misis (she has in fact already bought a book on annullment which she always uses to harrass me and fortify her walls everytime we draw a war line between us), we’ve gone too so much marital combats, so many domestic issues which to these date remain unresolved because we’re both egoistic, and have fun being so.
Having learned from our spontaneous and unplanned mountain treks in the past (when we’d climb with only Toblerons and Hersheys and Selecta’s Very Rocky Road Coffee Crumble on our backpack), this time, Elmo and I made it sure that we’re all filled and prepared before the ascent. So we drank 5000 mg of Ascorbic Acids, we had ouselves injected with cholera, malaria, tetanus, and hepa-A, B, C, D, E, F, G vaccines. We brought bawangs and holy water to ward off the evil spirits and evil elementals. We applied sunblock on 95% of our bodies. We ate imported instant seafood noodles and french pandesals for breakfast. We brought imported and expensive sardines, you know, the types of sardines that only the SEOs of Fortune 5 could afford…
Kababata at kaibigan ko si Alvin. Magkatabi ang bakuran namin sa aming hometown na Puncan (o Vector Zero sa mapa ng mga Romulans). Malapit ang aming mga pamilya, kasi naman, ang mama niya at si nanay ay mag-bestfriend na noong dalaga pa sila. Palagi nga kaming may sleep-in sa kanila nung bata pa ako pag nagkayayaan sila nanay na magluto ng kakanin, o simpleng magkakuwentuhan lang. Pag lumuluwas rin kami ng Maynila noon, parati kaming tumutuloy sa kanila sa Tayuman. Nung namatay si nanay, naputol yung mga bonding activities ng aming mga pamilya.
Ganito ang aking dilemma: home-based outsourcing ang raket ko at wala halos akong social life. Para ma-compensate ito, kailangan kong i-expand ang aking virtual community: Friendster, YM, ZeroGravity Blog. Paraan ko yun para maging semi-normal ang buhay ko, nang may makausap ako, nang may kakulitan, nang may katsismisan, nang magkaroon ng kalandian, nang may outlet ang lahat ng nagbu-boil sa aking isip.
Marami akong pwedeng ikwento, kaya lang hindi ako maka-bwelo. Na-overwhelm ang aking creative side lately nang malaking demand sa trabaho. Kaya hindi ko alam kung panong sisimulan ang mga kwento. Kung paanong susulatin ang mga kwento. Bilang panakip-butas, isi-share ko muna dito ang ilan sa mga larawang kinuha ko nitong mga nakaraang buwan. Photography na [...]
Me hates yosi. Me hates yosi, hindi dahil sa dark and eerie associations nito on oral fixations and Freud’s psychoanalysis. Me hates yosi, because of the smell ng usoks, like, eeewww. Saka meron rin akong allergic rhinitis, diba? So pag ang nose ko makes langhap the usoks ng sigarilyos, I make palit-anyo into a sneezing [...]
Nang mag-decide ako last year na mag-home-based freelancer dahil gusto kong mag-spend ng mas maraming oras sa pamilya, si jowa naman ay nag-decide na mag-resign sa pagtuturo sa kolehiyo, at tumulak ng Manila para doon mag-trabaho. Oks na yun. Originally kasi, plano niya ay mag-Iceland, at mamasukan na taga-buhat ng balyena. Mabuti na lang umatras. [...]
