restless

i believe this has been the most restless last six months of a year for the philippines since i worked here in manila because of the many events such as:

- the death of cory aquino
- seventh championship of pacquiao
- a filipino winning as cnn hero of the year
- the floods of ondoy
- the massacre in maguindanao
- and now, the eruption of mayon volcano.

the philippines has been on its exhilirating highs and depressing lows. as for myself, more or less the same goes as i have to juggle responsibilities of being for the first time the bread winner in the family, career, and so many other things that cause living in manila restless, at times stressful. talking about the chaos that accompanies transitions, i say, my saturn's return is already on my door steps. the door is now opened. welcome to adult life!

feed-up on american adobo?

i've tried testing my eligibility for the 2010 us green card lottery program, and i was not eligible with philippines as my country of birth.

but i keyed in indonesia, malaysia, thailand and even zambia and all of them are eligible. good thing china is not. surprisingly, iraq and afghanistan are eligible.

face to face, manny-a-manny

last sunday in st. francis church in manda, i never noticed manny p. was sitting two pews ahead of me until the priest acknowledged him on the sermon.

was i startruck? nope. he really blends well with crowd.

yeah baby yeah

she can pull off riding a big bike better than i do.



(jane cottrell, kennedy space center's only woman welder.)

photo credits: www.time.com

i quipped: childhood

one problem with childhood is one gets to enjoy innocence without the awareness of it.

exceptions

everybody now is in facebook, except for me. another social networking profile to maintain is another ego trip i am laboriously preventing myself to start.

i have noticed for the past two years of my blog, septembers have been relatively stimulating, enough for me to write many entries except for this year.

my friendster's horoscope reads today,

"don't waste time trying to find out why things are happening. go with the flow. every now and then, events really hit home and cause you to critically examine your place in this world. perhaps it is time for you to take a more active role in community affairs, or maybe you have your sights set even higher. if you make commitments, however, you must be determined to follow through with them. while your talents can be put to very good use, empty promises cannot."

and last saturday i was struck by one of the questions in game ka na ba. edu was asking, "what book were these lines mentioned, 'if you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.'”?

life has never been that easy except for the cheshire cat.

MAD

miriam is again on the roll. kudos to her for another quotable line comparing the exchanges between lacson and estrada as MAD (mutually assured destruction). she is disarmingly witty borrowing a term from the cold war era.