literal translation: “huwag sumakay o bumaba sa bangka pag ito ay nasa gitna pa ng canal“
KARATULA SA SHANGHAI CHINA
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PARA SA MGA “SMAP”
isang kanta para sa mga miyembro ng SMAP (samahan ng mga malalamig ang pasko). sana nawa eh gumanda ang mga lovelife nyo. ito’y rock and roll cover version ng “goodbye to love”, isang popular na kanta ng carpenters.
PARA SA MGA "SMAP"
isang kanta para sa mga miyembro ng SMAP (samahan ng mga malalamig ang pasko). sana nawa eh gumanda ang mga lovelife nyo. ito’y rock and roll cover version ng “goodbye to love”, isang popular na kanta ng carpenters.
OH SUNSET, MY SUNSET
sunset sa manila bay with
axl, ate lannie, jet, lucas, darlene
STUPIDITY AND THE MISSING EAR
kundibanamantanga…“A Brazilian man who went to a clinic to have an aching ear checked ended up having a vasectomy after mistakenly believing that the doctor had called his name”
bakit daw hindi nagreklamo ang pasyente nung tinatali nang betlog niya? ‘…He later explained that he thought it was an ear inflammation that got down to his testicles.’
oh man. GAGO!
(pregnant pause…)
siguro, inevitable na rin na mangyayari ito. kung titingnan mo, it’s evolution and natural selection at work… ngayong nagpavasectomy na itong si eng-eng, ‘di na siya magkaka-anak. ERGO: mababawasan ang tanga sa mundo!
INTERNATIONAL CHICHIRYA
maraming chichirya ngayon sa office namin. panay kasi ang alis ng mga taga rito ngayon at panay rin ang dating ng mga bisita galing sa kung saan-saan. kahapon may mga indonesian kaming bisita at dala nila ay chicharong langka. ngayon lang ako nakatikim nito… masarap pala.
si michelle galing sa hainan, china itong week para mag scout ng venue sa aming next conference. nag-uwi siya ng iba’t ibang produktong gawa sa buko… may buko candy, buko crackers at pinakapaborito ko sa lahat: “Coconut PANGAKE”. muntik ko na ngang di kainin kasi medyo duda ako sa quality eh. pag ang manufacturer ay hindi mai-spell ang “cake” na tama eh siyempre, kwidaw ka roon.
MY PURPLE GUMAMELA
isa sa mga bulaklak ng aming munting hardin sa antipolo…
“bulaklak sa paanan naghihintay ng pansin
ano pa ang buhay niya kundi mo langhapin”
walang ibang sadya, joey ayala
A LETTER TO MY SISTER
Hi Ester.
How are things over your part of the world? I hope you were not affected by the blackouts that plagued almost the entire North American East Coast.
I just got back last Sunday from Manila. I spent a few days there for business and left Jet here. She was there for a month in June so we didn’t see the point of spending extra money for another trip. Besides, December is coming up in a few months and we normally go home for three weeks for the Christmas and New Year break.
What’s new back home? There have been many changes over the past two years that I’ve been out. Everything’s changed and yet everything’s still the same. There’s still the old problems with poverty and corruption and sometimes it depresses the hell out of me. Not enough to mount a coup though, which is just as well. If there’s any consolation, the family seems to be okay. At the very least, everybody is in good enough health and that is good enough reason for me to be happy.
My work just got extended here for another three years. I don’t really know how long we’re going to stay here but we’re giving ourselves 5 to 10 years here in Singapore. I’ll be 47 after 10 years. I can probably retire permanently by then. But that’s too long in the future. Right now, we work our butts off. We may not admit it outright but living here in Singapore really has its advantages. I have a good job and am earning enough so that we could live a good life. We have everything we need and have enough to save for a rainy day and dream dreams that were not possible a few years ago.
Just this lunch, my friend and I have been talking about growing old. He says he’s already starting to feel the effects of the excesses of his younger days. To think that he is much younger than me. I don’t know. I’m ok, I think. I’m in a stage where I’m more laid back and just take things as they come. I do not have this overpowering ambition anymore to get rich or anything to that effect. I am content and happy and that is more than what most people can say about themselves.
I’m glad that you loved the pictures of mom and the family. The pool that you saw in the pictures is not ours. This is the pool that we have for the entire subdivision so don’t have any funny ideas that I’m doing THAT good. Hehehe…
Ingat,
Jay
WHAT I’M CURRENTLY READING
nung umuwi ako last week, hinalungkat ko yung library namin para kumuha ng libro na babasahin ko sa eroplano pabalik dito sa singapore. pinagpipilian ko eh either of the two of my favorite science fiction novels. yung una ay yung Songs of Distant Earth ni Arthur C. Clarke at ikalawa ang Beyond the Veil of Stars ni Robert Reed. mas maganda ang storya ni arthur clarke pero pinili ko yung kay robert reed.
siguro, pang limang beses ko na itong binabasa. maganda naman kasi ang pagkagawa ng librong ito. tapos, makakalimutin pa ako. ito lang ang masarap sa medyo ulyanin: pag tagal kasi, nakakalimutan ko ang mga detalye ng istorya. pag binabalikan ko ang mga lumang libro, para ulit akong nagbabasa for the very first time. like a virgin? perhaps.
if you have time to read only one science fiction book, take a pick between these two books. di kayo magsisisi.
PS: oo nga pala, nabasa nyo na ba yung short story ni arthur clarke na “THE NINE BILLION NAMES OF GOD”? ba’t ko ba ito nabanggit? wala lang, it’s a killer title for a story kasi (and to my great relief, it is a great story).
WHAT I'M CURRENTLY READING
nung umuwi ako last week, hinalungkat ko yung library namin para kumuha ng libro na babasahin ko sa eroplano pabalik dito sa singapore. pinagpipilian ko eh either of the two of my favorite science fiction novels. yung una ay yung Songs of Distant Earth ni Arthur C. Clarke at ikalawa ang Beyond the Veil of Stars ni Robert Reed. mas maganda ang storya ni arthur clarke pero pinili ko yung kay robert reed.
siguro, pang limang beses ko na itong binabasa. maganda naman kasi ang pagkagawa ng librong ito. tapos, makakalimutin pa ako. ito lang ang masarap sa medyo ulyanin: pag tagal kasi, nakakalimutan ko ang mga detalye ng istorya. pag binabalikan ko ang mga lumang libro, para ulit akong nagbabasa for the very first time. like a virgin? perhaps.
if you have time to read only one science fiction book, take a pick between these two books. di kayo magsisisi.
PS: oo nga pala, nabasa nyo na ba yung short story ni arthur clarke na “THE NINE BILLION NAMES OF GOD”? ba’t ko ba ito nabanggit? wala lang, it’s a killer title for a story kasi (and to my great relief, it is a great story).
