Sunday, November 29, 2015

Dear, Gee.

To the person I once knew, who beat me at bowling, I write to you with eyes flooded with mucus, with mouth dry as placid (whatever that means), with nipples tender from sleep. It has been so long, the idea of you, of once knowing you is fading as days go by, you are but a distant memory, but then you to me are the significant experience of my 23 years, however brief that encounter was, you are the transition that I have been longing for. Until it passes. Out of nowhere, she remembers me, you'd probably think. Yes, agree with you on that. I woke up last Saturday with nostalgia, inside my head, a drawer was left open, maybe it was from a dream, I can't be sure, all memories of you flashed back in seconds, I was left helpless, longing for you, or the idea of you. Same as you, you are fond of scattered words, of extensive narrative meaningless lines, like this, so I'm pretty sure you would understand me. How's work, you may ask me? Maybe that is why I seek you from my memory out, or the memory of us, however brief that was, from the back of my mind. You have entered through there, and I was released. I have been so busy these past few days over things I've no passionate about, don't pity me. We take what we think we deserve, and I frustrate on making good at it. I'm sure, you are one who could understand me on this. It was one hell of a week, or weeks. And when it was over, I seek you out as a comfort. As a result I craved for bowling to unwind myself, we had good memory at doing bowling. I was pretty tempted to hit you a message, but I remember, things might get complicated. We are not supposed to be friends. And you are not to read this. If you can, I'm sure you will, but I know you can't right now. So I invited friends to come with me, but mind you, and ever we'd met again, or talk to you again, this is one of the things I want tell you about, of how hard it is to seek friends out these days, was it me, was it them, or was it the world, who are to blame, as we drift further and further apart? It'pretty impossible to get a simple, "yes I'm free today!" these days, pretty lousy hard to come by. Sour grape, that was me for sure. There's always an excuse. I know because I do it sometimes. But why we do that to ourselves, is I keep asking myself. One hell of a roller coaster ride, and we will never gonna beat each other out, friends. So that's what what happened. I was left very frustrated. I wanted to go out there and beat the hell out of someone's butt at bowling last Saturday. It almost did come true when a group of friends from high school hit me a message about a bowling game happening late that day. I was ecstatic. But it didn't happen with one reason reasonable enough for it not to happen, we ended up watching this Second Chance movie. It was a movie, alright. Not a film, but a movie. I could cry over a lost dime over that movie, but I was with friends, so it was alright. Everything was alright. One friend from that group invited me to play bowling the next day, and I said yes. And before I end this with picture slides and some videos of how awesome it was, with how I beat my friends out of it, of how good I am at it now enough to persuade the world to let us meet again for a one round or two of a bowling match, just for one round or two of a fucking bowling match. You could not imagine how badly I want to hit you a message and talk random with you, to know how life is treating you on your side of the world, and of how it is treating me just fine, with enough frustration and bitter courage enough to drive me to a craving of deep despair of winning at least something out of this unbelievably competitive world, I surprised myself. Would be so happy to see you again, you know pretty well how to find me. With longing, here's some pictures and video to show you how much :) x









Thursday, November 26, 2015

Hi, Self.

Hi to you, Self. It's been a long time since, don't you think? But my, out of nowhere, I prayed for you today, as I washed the rice me and mother have to take for dinner, I prayed for you, alright. I said to Them, 

"Lord, God, Mama Mary. I pray for the soul of this girl that I greatly know and do not know. Align her priorities for the rest of the year and next year. She must know that she is not getting any younger. The world doesn't go backward, apparently. It's not always that she would be backed by her parents all the time. It will not be always that her mother have to repeatedly shout "Inday! Gising na, tatanghaliin ka na naman sa trabaho nyan!" during mornings all the days of her life. The world doesn't work that way. Instill in her always the blessing of having a father, a mother, brothers and their families as her support system on her life. And also the constant presence of friends. Teach her to invest. Not just on money. But teach her that the greatest investment a person could ever have is the investment of having a life. Teach her the value of time; that it is to be consumed like water must be consumed, it has to be consumed slowly during mornings before taking a bath, before meal and before dinner, at least eight glasses of it. Or else life will stop beating all of a sudden. The essence of time will be lost, then. Who would she be without her parents around her, or if she'd be lucky to grow old with them, what must be her resources to support them? No, dear you can't turn to your brothers right now, let her realized that. It is not an option. They care, of course, there is no doubt about it, but their families are their own priorities now. She's on her own, making her own choices. Taking too hard on it most of the time. What a turtle this person, can't she moved more fast. At least have her that. Teach her to be strong that nothing can break her except love. Teach her to focus. Teach her to grow up. Teach her not be to fucking scared always; with the idea of herself, with her feelings, with the smell of death surrounding her everyday, with the way the world look at her. Challenge her to the point where she woke up the next day believing with and in herself more. Cultivate her love for smaller things in life, from books, music, movies, catch phrases she have picked scattered everywhere. 

She is currently working on passing that civil service exam this year. It is her second time to take it. Heal the wound that she had in her by letting her pass this time. But be tough on her that in order to pass, it must be give and take, that wishing is different from praying. Let her act on it. She believes that she is not of those materialistic peoples but her mind is in constant ache with things like, "I want to buy a new phone on my next payday", "I want to buy a new book today", "I want a new pen today" among others. Let her realized that she just couldn't allow herself to be a wanting machine of whims everyday of her life. She has to pull herself up from that. Instill that in her. Fix her. Strengthen her priorities; along with it the dream of having that house of their own, where she wants her parents to live for as long as whenever life allows it for them. If she couldn't find a husband, if not right away, if not ever, at least let these simple dreams of her come true." x

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Trial and Error




Can't think of a better subject to trial and error my skills (or the lack thereof) in video editing haha

Friday, November 13, 2015

DAVAO WORK


Hi. Ang dami kong gustong sabihin at gustong i-share. Pero some personal wacky trying to be artsy type lang muna as of now kasi medyo napapaligiran ako ng kadiliman at kaantukan habang sinusulat at ginagawa 'tong post pdate na ito. Photos can speak a lot more these days more than the flowery combo of lines and letters. 

All photos were taken in Davao during our office's six days consultative workshop. One day per division lang actually 'yon, pero the distance of each division consumed almost all of our time, swerte na ngang makapag-side trip kami sa Garden of Eden. I have to say naka-survive ako for six days in Davao na 40 pesos lang ang laman ng wallet ko. What do you say to that? Hindi 'yon intentional trying to be deep soul searching dare to myself, wala lang talaga na akong pera ng mga panahong yon hahaha! 

Medyo hesitant akong i-upload lahat kasi it might give away the nature of what my office provides for the country and eventually compromise me as an employee, mga ganun kemerlu. Anyways here it is :) me doing my job right with three exclamation point!!! Lol grabe yung gumawa ng registration sign na to, OA sa exclaim! Haha. 


The office conducted some inspection, and me and engineer were urged to go along to documents all the verbal and physical actions going on with the whole visitation. Here you go, Sir, my after activity report hahaha








A random photo with a lady officer. It's rare you get to see female being deployed in the field. Kudos to your brave soul, Ma'am!


And it's even more rare to keep holding on and continue standing dignified like this and aim for a world-class army that is a source of national pride. Surely ain't easy mission




Then this happened, group picture with the amazingly self absorbed Pink Mosque



And of course, the silly colorful hat that made the entire six days memorable


I really would want to post more than I could, but I couldn't. x