Friday, November 30, 2007

Now For Our Sponsors


Somebody was trying to be very cute with me yesterday. He sent me an SMS to say hi and I said hi back, thinking it is one of my trainees. I also asked him who he was and he replied, "Mr. Admirer".

Ugh. Lame, lame, lame.

He said that he remembers me everytime he hears the song You're a God by Vertical Horizon. I guess that's because I am such a megalomaniac.

And he said it has something to do with my smile.

Well, I have my dentists to thank for that.

This portion is brought to you by Dr. Deocampo, Dr. Hembrador, Dr. Deypalan, and a certain dental clinic in Dita, Sta. Rosa.

Friday, November 23, 2007

Random Thoughts

5. I asked my brother if there are any hot men in his office. Considering that he works for a Fortune 500 engineering firm, no one came to mind.

When I was still in the Big U, we called the College of Engineering Marlboro Country. It's because all the men are handsome and all the women look like horses.

But to have no eyecandy in your workplace is utterly unthinkable! How can you get up every morning?

4. So I asked my brother if he can think of anyone that he would feel good about me dating. He first mentioned Niki's name. This guy is married. Another was Melvin.
Niki has visited our home in the province and has eaten tons of kare-kare with my brother. Melvin is someone I have yet to meet. So he gave me Melvin's number in order for me to go out with him.
Here are the messages that we have exchanged.

Me: Hello, Melvin! My brother has been pimping you. He said that we ought to go out on a date. Just say when and where.
Melvin: Sure. I'll just txt u. Jst got dischargd frm makati med though.
Me: Oh no! Is it infectious? If it is, I won't be kissing you on our first date.
Melvin: I have no idea. Let's find out.
Me: Ooooohhh. Sounds risque. But I love living dangerously.

3. My birthday is coming up in a couple of weeks and I still have to cook up a wish list. I need to come up with two wish lists - one for my birthday and one for Christmas. These are TWO SEPARATE OCCASIONS and I need to have separate gifts!
I really hated it when my friends, godparents and relatives give me just one gift for my birthday and Christmas. Such penny pinchers! It made me wish I was born in the middle of the year instead.

Mark Villaruel asked me what I wanted for Christmas.


I said, "Something with no wrappings but tied up in a bow. But I'd settle for a pair of Kate Spades."


He said, "I'll just give you one of the puppies that we have here in our camp and tie a bow around his neck."


2. Have you ever met someone and knew that instant that you two would get along?

And it really isn't love at first sight. It's not erotic love at all, even though he is (sigh) immensely attractive and can turn heads a mile away. Even though everyone teases you and tells you that you look good together, you know that everything between you two is platonic and that you care about each other. That there is no need for you to make the other person understand how you feel or thing about a situation. And that no matter what is revealed about his past, it does not change what you think about him or the fondness that you have for each other.

Hey, you know who you are. I'm so glad to have met you and you know that I love you. How we never ran into each other despite our second degree of friendship in numerous circles, I'll never, ever concieve.
But it always is better late than never. And I look forward to your hugs and kisses every day.


1. There are some nights that I think of the perfect way to kill someone without getting caught.


First, I'll buy myself a meatshop. Then I'll cut him up, grind up his flesh, and mix it with the ground beef. I'll chop up the bone into tiny slivers and throw them into different rivers all over the metropolis.



Hmmmm. I haven't eaten yet because my new schedule is two hours earlier than usual. I'm in the mood for some hamburger.

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Magnetism

Attention!

There is proof that my market value is high.

kodi_qt3.141592654: hello, (his name)
he said: hi ma'am.
kodi_qt3.141592654: i am not a ma'am
kodi_qt3.141592654: :)
he said: hi kodi..
kodi_qt3.141592654: that's better
kodi_qt3.141592654: :)
he said: hehe
kodi_qt3.141592654: i hope you're doing okay, (his name)
he said: how are you?
kodi_qt3.141592654: i'm alright
kodi_qt3.141592654: working my ass off
he said: i'm with (name of his company) now..
he said: (name of his account) also
kodi_qt3.141592654: hurrah for you!
he said: ure working hard as usual
he said: all work and no play huh?
kodi_qt3.141592654: yeah
kodi_qt3.141592654: because there's no one to play with
kodi_qt3.141592654: :))
he said: hahaha!he said: i dont believe that
kodi_qt3.141592654: that is so true
he said: you are eligible and unattached..
he said: thats hard to find nowadays
kodi_qt3.141592654: no one is interested
he said: get out of here!
he said: BACHELORS
he said: must be swarming around you now!
kodi_qt3.141592654: so where are all of them hanging out these days?
kodi_qt3.141592654: i can't seem to find one
kodi_qt3.141592654: they must have some secret society i can never run into
kodi_qt3.141592654: :((
he said: haha!
he said: you must get back into the dating game of course
kodi_qt3.141592654: i've been trying for months..... years, actually
he said: well
he said: i believe
he said: its bcoz
he said: you're
he said: so
he said: INTIMIDATING
kodi_qt3.141592654: ugh
kodi_qt3.141592654: that is so commonplace
he said: hahaha!
kodi_qt3.141592654: ive gone out on a couple of dates
he said: what happened?
kodi_qt3.141592654: then again i must be a psycho magnet
he said: i can attest to that!
he said: im a psycho ryt?
kodi_qt3.141592654: so i have been magnetizing you all this time?
kodi_qt3.141592654: >:P
he said: when can i take you out for lunch and embarass myself completely?kodi_qt3.141592654: i'd say yes if you won't be late :))
he said: ouch
kodi_qt3.141592654: c'mon
kodi_qt3.141592654: you're just putting me on
he said: i wont be late if you promise not to apply the english only policy?!
he said: hehehe!
kodi_qt3.141592654: hahahaha! but i suck at tagalog
kodi_qt3.141592654: but i can understand tagalog, you know
he said: are you at insular everyday?
kodi_qt3.141592654: yep
kodi_qt3.141592654: but i'll be off tomorrow and thursday
kodi_qt3.141592654: no training schedule
he said: i still cannot believe that you did not notice
he said: that i was trying to flirt with you all this time!
he said: hehe
kodi_qt3.141592654: no way
kodi_qt3.141592654: c'mon
kodi_qt3.141592654: i was teasing you all the time
he said: im sorry for being a pain in the ass..
kodi_qt3.141592654: you were not
kodi_qt3.141592654: you were very nice nga
kodi_qt3.141592654: but late forever!
he said: can i squeeze into your schedule this friday?
he said: or is it too late?
he said: an i promise to be on time..
kodi_qt3.141592654: friday is good
kodi_qt3.141592654: what's your schedule?
he said: 2 am to 11 am..
he said: but thur and friday are my rest days..
kodi_qt3.141592654: can we have dinner instead?
he said: of course..
he said: anything for the lady that caused me so much pain and suffering..
he said: how about 8 pm?
kodi_qt3.141592654: you won't be murdering me, right?
he said: haha!
he said: nope
kodi_qt3.141592654: SERIOUSLY
he said: at least not anytime soon..
he said: hahaha!
kodi_qt3.141592654: now i'm scared
kodi_qt3.141592654: i'm thinking of backing out
he said: hahah!!
he said: so
he said: is it a date?
he said: or are you just teasing me?
he said: again?
kodi_qt3.141592654: isn't it going to be awkward?
kodi_qt3.141592654: i mean, i did cause you a lot of pain and suffering
kodi_qt3.141592654: :D
he said: thats why i need to get back at you..
he said: by letting me buy you dinner..
he said: and i'll be discreet if thats what you're worried about..
kodi_qt3.141592654: you have to be discreet in order to murder me and to successfully get away with it
kodi_qt3.141592654: :))
he said: psycho ryt?
he said: haha!
he said: grr!
he said: you're just mocking me..
kodi_qt3.141592654: nah
he said: so is it a yes?
kodi_qt3.141592654: are you not mad at me?
he said: why would i be?
he said: it was my fault ryt?
kodi_qt3.141592654: hmmmm
he said: you were just being honest and just gave me a wake up call!
he said: and i think that is just what i needed!
he said: ?
he said: so,do i pick you up at insular?
kodi_qt3.141592654: and you'll be late for an hour pa so that means that we'll be going out at 5
kodi_qt3.141592654: yep
kodi_qt3.141592654: the insular
kodi_qt3.141592654: isn't that too far for you?
he said: you know id go anywhere for you..
kodi_qt3.141592654: bola, (his name)
kodi_qt3.141592654: we're too old for that
he said: hahaha!
he said: but ma'am!
kodi_qt3.141592654: how old are you again?
he said: 24..
he said: am i too young for you?
he said: hehe!
kodi_qt3.141592654: you're not 24!
he said: grr!
he said: do you still use the same mobile number?
kodi_qt3.141592654: yes
kodi_qt3.141592654: ever since college
he said: ah,ok..
kodi_qt3.141592654: yeah you are 24
he said: huh?
kodi_qt3.141592654: i'm turning 26 on dec 8
kodi_qt3.141592654: am i too old for you?
he said: "age doesnt matter"
he said: familiar?
kodi_qt3.141592654: so cliche
he said: but so true..
kodi_qt3.141592654: :-&
kodi_qt3.141592654: hahahaha
kodi_qt3.141592654: i'm going out with you if you promise me one thing
he said: what?
he said: anything
kodi_qt3.141592654: that you must never fall in love with me
he said: that i cannot promise..
he said: seriously..
kodi_qt3.141592654: hmmmm
kodi_qt3.141592654: really, (his name)
kodi_qt3.141592654: i am so difficult to be with
he said: and i am so difficult to get rid of!
he said: that came out wrong..
kodi_qt3.141592654: oh well
kodi_qt3.141592654: psycho na stalker pa!
he said: :-$
he said: all in one..
kodi_qt3.141592654: hahahaha

Just so you guys know who killed me if they find my body in a river.

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Wanted: Mojo..... Now!

Yes, life can never be so bad it couldn't get any worse.

Yesterday, I slipped and landed hard on my ass on the steps leading to 7-Eleven along Ayala Avenue. I was walking so carefully since the steps were wet and then I felt myself slipping. It was like everything was in slow motion and with me watching myself from outside my body. I sprained my pinkie and I think I broke something in my pelvis. Despite the excruciating pain, I managed to stand up and pretend nothing happened. It was so goddamn embarassing. I was wearing a khaki dress and a cream-colored jacket and I had mudstains all over my skirt.

I did not have anyone with me at that time so I had to get up and scuttle as fast as I could back to the Insular so that I can lick my wounds in private.

Thank goodness I have my boyfriend, John, to empathize and sympathize with me and to call me cute.

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Sloshing Along

My streak of bad luck has not ended yet. I lost my blue wallet last night. I probably dropped it in the bus or in the Laguna Bel Air shuttle. I have a couple of ATM cards in there, including the ATM card in which my company deposits my salary. Damn. Today happens to be salary day. Plus I have a date with 10 people. And tomorrow is our trip to Baguio. Fuck, fuck, fucketty fuck.

I only found out that I lost my wallet this morning. Since I spent so much time looking for it, I left my umbrella and my brown boots at home. Plus it was raining as though the heavens are hurting that I was late for work. I was dripping wet when I got to the office.

A great fact about life is that it can never be so bad that it couldn't get any worse.

Does anybody have a mojo, a horseshoe, or a rabbit's foot that I can borrow until my luck turns?

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Loopy Loop-The-Loops

The past three weeks has been pretty crazy. Some things can only be dealt with one at a time with some breathing space (preferrably a month).

*****

Here are the twist and turns in my emotional roller coaster:

1. An ex-boyfriend of mine beat the living daylights out of me. This went on for the six years that we were together. However, we have officially split up (meaning: we moved to different houses) since the start of the year and my life has been pretty peaceful since then. We were talking about our five-year old tyke with whom I permitted him visiting rights and how he needs to contribute to that child's well-being. He also bragged about his religion (he's now a Christian affiliated with Victory) and how we've been living in sin when we were together.

So we got into a heated argument which resulted to a lot of concussions, blurred vision in my left eye, contusions all over the left side of my face, my legs and my arms, and a split inner cheek.

I went to a medicolegal.

2. I graduated my class which is headed for a technical support account. I miss them terribly. All of them ride the short bus.

3. There is a guy who's courting me. Well, I don't think that he is anymore since his psychotic ex-girlfriend has been giving me hell (thanks to text messaging) and then he suddenly dropped off the face of the earth. It's not that I'm into him or something. I just hope that he's still alive.

4. An opportunity to train in New York (Buffalo, not Manhattan) has presented itself and everyone in training went into a frenzy. Then again, no one in our kind of training is ready to leave the camaraderie yet. However, no loyalty awards were given out as a consolation. But then we found out that (go to 4)

5. Our senior manager is leaving us to go slumming in operations. He is on his way to another department. Now, this is one person who must be cannonized. He takes nice to an altogether different level and when you say the name of our department, he is the first person to come to mind. I cannot even begin to express how much we love him. I feel so numb and wrung-out now. Everyone cried when he told us he's leaving. He at least had the decency to tell all of us in person.

A few trainers and I went driving all over the metropolis in a car with conked-out a/c that smells like freon and car exhaust just because the office gave us cabin fever when the news hit us like a ton of bricks.

Our department also got an all-expense paid trip to Baguio from Friday to Monday so that we can say goodbye to him properly. Ugh. We are singing I Will Survive.

6. I lost a friend. Owing to the being caught up in this frenzy (and the fact that my brain cells have been jarred and pounded out of existence), I was not able to apologize or salvage our unravelling friendship. Psh.

*****

Now what is the common denominator of all my troubles? People with Y chromosomes. It's the time of the month to steer clear of men. My lucky stars are at war with Mars.

Sunday, November 11, 2007

Giving St. Peter a Fruit Basket

So let us pretend, then, that there is such a place as heaven. That when I kick the bucket, my life doesn't just fizzle out and sputter like a candle, until it is totally extinguished. And that despite every evil thing that I have done, every naughty thought that crossed my mind, and every good deed that I failed to do because I was too hesitant or just plain lazy, I was able to bribe St. Peter and was able to enter heaven.

Would I like it there? Flitting from cloud to cloud, strumming my harp, and with everyone's idea of fashion is loose robes or half-nakedness. I'd be bored to death. That won't be heaven at all.

If the people I hated were to go to heaven, wouldn't that make it hell for me (and them, too)?

Saturday, November 10, 2007

Figurative Language, Go Figure!

I always tell my minions that there is no excuse for them to fuck up their idioms and their prepositions.

Here are a couple of classics heard in our department:

  • Empathy is when you place yourself on someone's shoes. (Wouldn't that hurt their toes?)
  • You're barking at the wrong tree. (What the heck did that tree do to you?)

Today, I heard one of the most hilarious idioms from my trainee, Brandon.

They did a short skit wherein Brandon's girlfriend is telling him that she is carrying his father's child.

Brandon suddenly yelled, "Get out! Make the hell out of a mountain!"

Oh, boy. Is that a volcano or has Satan moved somewhere closer to God?

Thursday, November 8, 2007

Kaia's Pets

Kaia was assigning animal identities to everyone.

If everyone became her pet, Rona would be her pet hamster (because Rona looks like a hamster). Freda would be her pet grasshopper (because Freda is grasshopperry).

I asked her what I would be. Kaia said that I would be her caterpillar. And then she changed her mind.

"You would be my earthworm because if I cut you, you always grow back," she said.

I walked out of the room hearing, "Eric, you are my tarantula!" feeling pretty pleased with myself.

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

A Technologically Savvy Grammar Question


What is the plural form of computer mouse?





i.e. One of the (mouses/mice) in the training room needs to be replaced.




A Little Quiz

Given the fact that all of us are fools in love, would you rather be

a. just a fool in love
b. a happy and lucky fool in love
c. rich
d. intelligent
e. a and c
f. a and d
e. a, c, and d
f. b and c
g. b and d
h. b, c, and d

Monday, November 5, 2007

Musings

Known to be verbose and to have bouts of verbal diarrhea, I happen to be a writer before I became a speaker. As of late, I cannot come up with verse or prose even if you put a gun to my head. The only muses that have not abandoned me are Thalia and Clio, who come in handy when I run a class or write in my blog.

Thalia, the muse of comedy, has always been very helpful to what I do for a living. She helps keep my class (or audience) entertained. It has always been said that teaching, or even training, for that matter, is 10% preparation and 90% theater.

Clio visits me when I rant and rave about my glorified average life in my blog.

I used to find poetry in everything I do. I used to get out of bed at night because there is a poem inside my head that needs to get out and be transcribed on paper. I lost my other muses somewhere, and my obligations and responsibilities and the humdrum of daily life have drowned out their song.

Maybe I need to listen more carefully. Maybe I need some inspiration to channel their voices to me. Now, where can I find someone of the male species?

John?

Survey! Survey! Thanks to Drey

A - Available
Not anymore. I'm with John now.

B - Best Friend
Jun Ryan - although he is pretty ticked at me right now.

C - Crush
Leonardo DiCaprio. I had to struggle with myself to type his name. So the word's out. Sue me.

D - Dad's Name
Samuel Ramil Agustin

E - Easiest Person To Talk To
Everyone. I can spin yarns like crazy. If I can't talk to anyone, I don't fit my job description.

F - Favorite Band
Incognito and Jamiroquai

G - Gummy Bears Or Worms
Gummy Bears. I love decapitating them and switching their heads around.

H - Hometown
South Dakota. Polomolok, South Da-kotabato.

I - Instrument
Piano, saxophone, voice (I sing Annie's Song off-key very well.)

J - Job
Slave driver. My company pretends to pay me so I pretend to work.

K - Kids
I hate kids but I love my son.

L - Longest Car Ride
From Alabang to Sta. Rosa. Congee drove me home in a car with manual transmission while holding my hand. The speed limit along SLEX was too high so we took a lot of detours. It was short but sweet. Since I have replayed my love affair with him over and over in my mind, it is one car ride I can never stop.

M - Milk Flavor
Anything and everything. Soymilk even appeals to me.

N - Number Of Siblings
One. No other choice.

O - One Wish
Unlimited shopping money to buy Italian shoes.

P - Phobia
Lizards. Things that drag their bellies on the ground while walking. Sheesh. They give me the willies.

Q - Favorite Quote
George Carlin: "If it is true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little."

R - Reason To Smile
Dinner date with John at Amici.

S - Song You Last Heard
Somebody To Love by Anne Hathaway (for Ella Enchanted).

T - Time You Woke Up
5:30AM.

U - Unknown Fact About Me
I was very naughty last weekend.

V - Vegetable
Everything in my sizzling Rossini with pesto sauce.

W - Worst Habits
Peeling my thumb.

X - X-Rays You've Had
Chest (to look for a heart), teeth (too much grinding), and skull (brain short-circuited)

Y - Your Favorite Food
Italian, Mexican, Japanese, some Thai and some Chinese.

Z - Zodiac Sign
Sagittarius. I don't believe in that crap. Destiny does not control us. We control destiny.