Archive for May, 2008
Filed under Photohunt, beach, travel
I’ve been meaning to play in Photohunt, which I heard through Bing, but I forget to post each Saturday. This time I didn’t! 
The theme for this week is Self, and so here is my entry.
I look like a 12-year-old, no?
The photo was taken earlier this year in Boracay, an island in the Philippines famous for its long stretch of white beach.
I didn’t realize somebody sneaked to take a photo of me. I must have been thinking of something while looking at the sunset.
Filed under celebrations, personal
Today is my birthday. At this time last year I was on a road trip from Kentucky to New York to Washington, D.C. My friends and I welcomed May 28 at an inn in Baltimore, Maryland, before moving on to spend the day in Washington, D.C.
It was Memorial Day and we were in the capital city, so I got to witness all the holiday hullabaloo. Patriotism was thick in the air, there was a parade, and there were booths and goods everywhere.
This year the midnight is rather uneventful. While waiting for the rain to stop so I could go out and grab something to eat (I live in a part of the city that never sleeps), I was blog-hopping when I realized that it is May 28 already. I realize it’s too late now to go out, I am starved, and the only person with me is my roommate, who has fallen asleep. Kamusta naman.
So in an effort to come up with something profound and thought-provoking (because, after all, I am supposed to turn a year wiser) on this milestone of my history, I dug my archives to check my old birthday entries. Here are the ones I found for 2004, 2005, and 2006. I can’t find the one I wrote for 2007, or maybe I did not write one. Be warned that I was just kid when I wrote those entries. I pray to the high heavens that you notice at least a slight improvement in my wisdom through the years, otherwise I am a total failure as a citizen.
I better sleep. I have a long day ahead. Maybe I’ll have the inspiration for that thought-provoking birthday post after the parties are over.
Filed under personal
My housemate, Janice, who is marrying next month, is having her and her fiance’s parents over for the traditional pamanhikan. Thus I was banished to the confines of my room lest I disrupt the business meeting downstairs.
I don’t know what has come upon this house, but three other housemates are getting married this year. Our evening bonding times, during which we used to joke around, are now devoted to drones about marriage and child-rearing, and I am left out.
The only ones who are not into the marriage thing are us three youngest housemates, ages 21, 22, and 23. Whenever the others start talking about marriage, we’d roll our eyes and start looking around for dinner plates to wash.
I can’t imagine myself marrying anytime soon, and I don’t like it when someone asks me when I am marrying. (Can’t they see that I’m too young?)
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Filed under corporate shit, culture
I slept late last night to hear out an American colleague’s frustrations about the American workplace. I work closely with Americans everyday, so I knew what he was talking about.
American work ethics is not ideal, as what most Filipinos perceive it to be. Whenever I tell people where I work, they would say I am very lucky, and then assume that I have money more than I can spend. Which annoys me, because first, I am just another wage slave, and second, they don’t know what they are talking about.
I’ve had frustrations at work, and I am not talking about discrimination here, no. I can honestly tell the world that I have been treated as an equal, that my opinions were valued, and that my abilities were recognized even though I am Filipino.
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Filed under blogging
There’s an experiment going on that aims to find out how long it would take to list one million blogs.
I’ve added my blogs to the list. Quest for the True North is at #1575, and Little Light is at #1576.
Go ahead and add your blogs, my beloved three readers.
I am curious how many blogs there are on the web. I wonder if there is a way to find out?
