I Have Game. Do You?

Had a really spaced-out week in the office. Going to work was just surreal. Everything was just a blur. Listening to 80 calls was just a breeze for me, but last week found me lagging behind in the quota. In the middle of the call I'm listening to, I'll have this pang of pain in my chest, so I stop it, and I just have to really, really concentrate not to let the tears fall. And it is so damn hard. Fuck. Tuesday, the 18th. Woke up in a good mood. Had a really peaceful sleep because of the light load of sorting tasks the day before. Went online and checked stuff. Out of curiousity and, well, the need to torture myself (hehehe!), I checked his Friendster account. I've been checking it ever since we became friends. I know. It's pathetic. Pagbigyan niyo na ako. Tanga eh. So anyway, checked and, did I torture myself. He was In a Relationship , I knew that. And now has a really long sweet testimonial from his supposed gf. Did I just torture myself? Oh God. I wasn't able t...

A few Sunday nights ago, I had the opportunity to celebrate a post-Christmas and post-New Year get-together with my friends from the Sangguniang Kabataan. Just a simple pot-luck dinner with beers after. It was great seeing them and I found myself thinking how much we've changed and how much we haven't. Politics and money can really change people, even young minds as we had then. We were talking about how the new SK Federation was doing and the projects that were being implemented. Nostalgia. 1996. My dad and my kuya were joking that they wanted me to run as SK Chairman and then they'll get me the SK Federation presidency daw. I was like just smiling and joking na ayaw ko kasi baka makasira sa nightlife ko. You see, I was just in my sophomore year in college, having the time of my life. I wasn't really the political type, or so I thought. But I was always an achiever, a leader, a calculative risk-taker. You have to understand my family has a political lineage. We were ...

KUNG FU HUSTLE It's 3am. I'm not sleepy. And to think I have to go to work, OT and 6th day, later at 10am. Hay. But it has to be done. Oh well, no sense in bitching about it, right? Right. I watched Kung Fu Hustle in G4 with Alvin, Bry, Carlo, Jhan, Dino, Nye, Ady, and Marco. Laugh trip sobra. Stephen Chow was hilarious and I loved the story. Will not tell, but it was funny but had sense. Kakaiba talaga. I've always been fascinated by kung fu movies, even as a child. I'd always watch those Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan movies, either with my dad or kahit ako lang. I have a small collection of those videos but I don't get to watch them as much as I'd like to. Some of them are even in VHS formats pa! :D Anyway, after the movie we played sa arcade, actually yung boys lang, kaming 3 girls nanuod lang, and then after we just proceeded to North Park in Makati Ave. The plan was to go to Kamagong and drink a few beers before parting ways but since I had work nga, nagpahatid na...

Boko, Tops, Sher, and Selwyn (at the back) Around 915am today, I received a text message from an ex-officemate and the message read that Jeff aka Boko has passed away. I was surprised. I didn't know of any ailment or illness that he has. As far as I knew he was healthy, and the last time we chatted he seemed fine. So I texted if she was sure and if it was, how it happened. She replied, he was shot. On the 'floor.' In the head. A friend said that he fell on my old workstation. He was in a coma since yesterday afternoon, and now, has let go. I felt the tears in my eyes when the full weight of the realization hit me. He wasn't necessarily my favorite person in the old office but he endeared himself to me because he was open with his life and opinions, he was smart and intelligent, he knew how to make fun of himself, he was always helpful with troubleshooting steps, he was a whiz kid who always loved to share his mind. Boko was a fellow Indian (our batch in the office), a ...

The year 2004 has been an awakening of sorts for me. Changes have been constant and I found myself being challenged everyday, to rise up to any occasion. I made a career move that surprised a lot of people. Hell, I even surprised myself. I discovered that I have what it takes to be a workaholic. Yikes. I found myself venturing into 'unknown territories.' I was, for lack of a better word, bold and adventurous. I've rediscovered my friends, the honest-to-goodness group of friends that I have known for 10 years. And did we take the friendship for a damn, twisted, hip-shaking ride. I really don't want to be specific but, looking back, I had a beach-ing kick-ass 2004. Happy New Year!

I'm in the office. I didn't get any sleep at all today. It's 230 pm and it's Christmas eve. And did I mention I'm in the office today? Oh yeah. Anyway, let's backtrack a bit... Got off from work at around 1:30am, the earliest time we've logged out in 4 weeks. Raffy Bogus was going to dj again in Government that night, so he texted me to join him. Alvin, Shaba, Stephen and Miel were already there. So after work, I went straight to Makati Ave. We, well, they had 2 pitchers of the Long Island Iced Tea, which in my opinion just tasted Long Island, no Iced Tea. Ang tapang, sobra. Anyway, while the queers were having fun groping each other, we were just dancing and drinking. Shaba got wasted. the first time I saw Shaba really drunk. By 330am, we took Shaba to Raffy's car. He was so wasted we had to let him rest for like an hour and a half, half-sprawled on the pavement. Ahahaha! Laugh trip but he was okay naman. By 5am we were on the road to my house. Since I ...

Just got home. Watched National Treasure in G4 with Marco C., Alvin and Bryan. Good thing Bryan texted me, I really wanted to go out and not stay at home. Thank God for friends like them :D After the movie, we ate at Hen Lin sa Select going to the Fort. Kwentuhan about what has been happening the past week, then they took me home. It was a good movie. Mahilig kasi ako sa mga ganung type ng movie, about facts, history, legends...you get the picture. That's why I can't wait for 'The Da Vinci Code' to be shown. Tom Hanks will play Robert Langdon. Tom Hanks...hhhmmmm. I was thinking of Liam Neeson or Ralph Fiennes for the role of Robert Langdon. I just couldn't imagine Tom Hanks. But, hey, Hanks is a good actor, one of the finest, imho. I'm sure he can pull this one off. I don't know how he's gonna do it, but sabi nga ng sister ko, naging Forrest Gump nga siya eh, Robert Langdon pa. Hehehehe.