Hello World!

Its been ages! 

This is actually the main reason why i've been gone for months now. I've started studying again and for the past couple of weeks, I tried focusing on academics for a change. It has been really taxing and I realized that I haven't blogged on multiply for months now. I believe you all know what I'm taking up this time since I've been ranting about it several times already. I'm honestly struggling on a particular subject but I'm enjoying all the pressure! 

so anyway! 

I'm pretty sure this photo i posted depicts the draining lifestyle I'm recently experiencing in School. God bless everyone! 

Shin....dong xD

So ok, last night, after the seminar, Louh, Celine, Dale, and I all hung out for awhile at the kubo place infront of JFH.

un lang.

If the Earth was a Village

If we could shrink the earth’s population to village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratio remaining the same, it would look something like the following:

There would be:

• 57 Asians

• 21 Europeans

• 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south

• 8 Africans

• 52 would be female

• 48 would be male

• 70 would be non-white

• 30 would be white

• 70 would be non-Christian

• 30 would be Christian

• 89 would be heterosexual

• 11 would be homosexual

• 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world’s wealth and all 6 would be from the United States.

• 80 would live in substandard housing

• 70 would be unable to read

• 50 would suffer from malnutrition

• 1 would be near death

• 1 would be near birth

• 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education

• 1 would own a computer

When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent.

The following is also something to ponder…

If you woke up this morning with more health than illness…you are more blessed than many others. If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation…you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.

If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death…you are more blessed than three billion people in the world.

If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep…you are richer than 75% of this world.

If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace … you are among the top 8% of the world’s wealthy.

If your parents are still alive and still married … you are very rare, even in the United States and Canada.

If you can read this message, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.

Someone once said: What goes around comes around.

Work like you don’t need the money.
Love like you’ve never been hurt.
Dance like nobody’s watching.
Sing like nobody’s listening.
Live like it’s Heaven on Earth.

source

65 pesos?! lets bicycle ourselves!

You can tell how gas price is so high these days just by driving yourself somewhere that's only a couple of blocks away but still pisses you off because it felt like you were leaving a trail of 500 peso bills along the way. With oil price hitting $142 a barrel ( and is expected to increase in a couple of weeks), its not a surprise everyone is giving way to alternatives which could significantly decrease transportation expenses.

Moreover, Its hard to be the bearer of bad news especially when you are also affected. But Petron announced some weeks ago that everyone has to deal with the 1.5 pesos increase in gas price per week. That's 65 pesos /liter for everyone (wapak!).

In Saudi Arabia though, its the other way around. Gasoline is so cheap, my dad gets to load gas for merely 10 riyals ( that's about 100 pesos) and use the whole consumption for almost 2 days. I know, sounds like Ripley's Belive it or Not huh? Talk about surrealism...

Anyway, i feel like I'm obliged to share this link to you. Its about how to save a grand on gas . Pretty simple steps that could save you a thousand dollars. If you follow the 10 steps that is. click here.

well. happy saving.

"so.TRAY UP BITCH."

I apologies for not citing, i forgot to save the link!

This is a rip off of a funny story from a random website I stumbled upon:

My flight was being served by an obviously gay flight attendant, who seemed to put everyone in a good mood as he served us food and drinks. As the plane prepared to descend, he came swishing down the aisle saying

"Captain Marvey has asked me to announce that he'll be landing the big scary plane shortly, so lovely people, if you could just put your trays up, that would be super."

On his trip back up the aisle, he noticed this well-dressed and rather Arabic looking woman hadn't moved a muscle.

"Perhaps you didn't hear me over those big brute engines but I asked you to raise

your trazy-poo so the main man can pitty-pat us on the ground."

She calmly turned her head and said,

"In my country, I am called a Princess and I take orders from no-one."

To which (I swear) the flight attendant replied, without missing a beat,

"Well, sweet-cheeks, in my country, I'm called a Queen, so I outrank you. Tray-up, Bitch."

Making the most of poverty.

AAhhh yes. the ever joyous Filipino youth [of the slums].

I was on my way home when i saw a couple of kids swimming in a road construction site filled with muddy water. Yes, it was a pretty revolting site indeed. But come to think of it. Some thought passed through my mind which I began to ruminate for a couple of minutes. For a moment there I was chewing the cud thinking and telling myself, "Their social status seems to provide them a bit of light relief...". I tried to put myself in their shoes trying to think like the typical "have-nots" . And so I thought that if there's one thing that we could get something good out of this impoverishment, its the state of being free from any social pressure and consciousness.
Filipinos in mass are too caught up with the idea of getting on top of everybody/thing. They want to get rich, wealthy, they want to drown themselves with money (I believe crab mentality was derived from this idea). Everyone wants to be involved with glamor, the high-end life, the luxury, and the like. Social status is not a mere position anymore. More like a competition to me. Average life is not an option. Everyone is yearning for the top.
Success is such a harsh process. People kill for it.

Somehow its a pity. Everyone looks down on poverty. They disgust it. People tend not to look at the brighter side of this wretched life. No social pressure whatsoever. No need to work for vanity. A very simple life. Walang kaartehan. (Who needs a waterpark? meron namang putikan!)

Having the basic needs will suffice. But in reality satisfaction doesn't have a limit for a mere human. Sad.

"I think everyone should get rich just to make them realize that that's not the answer" - Jim Carrey

Peter schmeter...bleh.

i just had to delete that last link i posted, it was too humiliating to keep it posted like that especially right after knowing the truth about "peter" (damn you Etch!! damn you! hahaha)

Now its time for sweet revenge. My turn to boggle people with Peter!

Thanks Val for telling me!

giving everyone a quickie.

geez, i've been ignoring my multiply for a month now. I'm into microblogging na lang kasi, you know, *tweeting*. its fun and simple and you don't have to fill up a whole page to upate yourself.

anyway since i'm not doing anything, i might as well post a blog on here and give everyone a quick update about me =)

for the past month i've done nothing but play badminton. Since we're already in that subject matter let me brag about the fact that i've improved tremendously. It's pretty evident, i'm getting a lot of positive feedbacks from other players. Lets give myself a warm round of applause...yes, thank you so much. If anyone of you plays badminton rin, laro tayo minsan :)

Also, i've been trying to work out, sadly though i was sick for 4 days recently and everything i worked hard for were all .... well, i literally defecated them all.
So i'm back to my li'l scrawny self. (will start all over again. in a minute.)

So i've been roaming around Manila, bivouacking around various locations, none is worth elaborating to make a story out of.

and oh yeah, let me just note down, i saw Celine Angue and Louh Coplan at the cashier in Nat'l Bookstore last night. It was sort of a spontaneous EB. 2 of the most prominent people here on Multiply It was awesome meeting the power couple, finally!
>>> ps. on a very serious note:
celine, you look way better in person. . and just for the record, crush kita haha!
And ofcourse louh, leche ang pogi mo. kaka insecure ka. :)) sa susunod wag mo nako batukan sa sm. simpleng kiss pwede na. ha? seryoso ha?

And just to keep you posted for a month in advance, I'm gonna start working on my enrollment for St. Benilde next week, gonna go visit DLSU-D to get my T.O.R. and those other shizz. Hopefully i'll be able to get all of them before July. And optimistcally speaking, I'd be able to study by the 2nd term. So i still have several months to bum around (and show off my badminton prowess. hah).

Oh one more thing, my dad's planning to buy an slr camera (entry level lang naman). We're eyeing for that canon xsi rebel. (Anyone who's an slr enthusiast, comment on this please. ) Lets keep praying for that, shall we.

So anyway, im not really abandoning my Multiply, i might log in lang and take a look around. I usually blog at tumblr na, a site for the lazy bloggers, *snort*

Life's hardest question.

This morning we all went straight to makati for my li'l sisters yearly check up on her scoliosis. She was being her usual perky self and I was happy to see that. It was my first time to come with my parents and Leeyan to get her vertebral column checked and see how it is doing. I already saw the xray photo of her spine but that was years ago and I forgot how the bend on her back looks like. This morning I saw it again. Then it came to my senses that it wasn't really something to be taken lightly. That moment i felt how my parents would feel everytime they would go to the doctor. It was scary. mind boggling...It was a very tense situation. I found myself talking to God asking Him to give my sister strength and help her grow healthier and stronger. i felt really scared for her. I was really anxious about what the doctor would say this time. The doctor told her to lie down so he could check her reflexes. Fortunately, it was all normal. (Sometimes, the bend on the back affects the spinal cord.) Well, comparing it to last year, nothing changed. And somehow thats good news. I still want to thank God 'coz the situation didn't get worse. (But it didn't improve either, and in reality, there is a small chance that it will.) So it was a relief hearing that. "So, I'll be seeing you again next year", said Dr. Gomez and he gave Leeyan his big smile like last time.

But something bothered me... The doctor held up Leeyan's x-ray photos. She saw her spinal column like last year and pretty much like the years before that. Of course she didn't have the slightest clue what that bend on her back was. She seemed happy that time,,smiling and asked dad, "lahat ba ng tao ganyan?"

No one answered.

Heh. I didn't know how to answered that either. I just felt like hugging her.

Just proud of our li’l princess. Seeing her for the first time ice skating alone. It just shows how she is bravely she's growing.

This is a chain letter. don't open!

aloha!

No need to mind this blog, i just have to post this to get my site verified on my bloglog :P

G'day to all :D

Undergoing MyBlogLog Verification

Please send to 100 people or else you will have bad luck. yes, 'habambuhay'.

Stop and stare.

This is sad. i would not know how to handle a devastating situation like this if it were to happen to me. I personally wanna ask everyone to pray for those people who suffered from the massive earthquake in China. Especially those 25,000 missing persons. I'm really anxious about those students who were entrapped by the huge debris of buildings. May God help them endure that frightful state.

a kid was given medical aid while trapped in the rubble. I got teary eyed on this one.



a man passing by corpses from the earthquake



No offense but this photo is really dramatic, great shot. Really sad though as this guy was seen under the rubble. Fortunately he was a survivor.



I can't help it. I imagine myself with her situation....Dear Lord......

Double up.

Ako ay kasalukuyang pagod.

Its the day i decided to make my muscles more conspicuous by making them look bulky. Basically, I'm trying to buff up. I started out with the schedule I used to follow last year - biceps chest and shoulders on Mondays/ traps and back on Wednesdays/ Legs and abs on Fridays. I usually start working out every summer and last for about 3 months and when i attain that weight i want, I tend to slack off and eventually stop from exercising. Then gradually i lose weight then start all over again. Its an annual cycle :D Exercising is not really my thing. Unfortunate for me I'm naturally skinny and I have to maintain this huge amount of diet and a debilitating workout schedule on a daily basis just to remain bigger. And of all the sports I literally got addicted to, it had to be badminton - one of the best sports to decrease weight.

Actually, i usually decide to gain mass whenever my friends start to notice how skinny I'm getting. Sometimes i don't know what I should do to myself, People would say i should gain some weight na, and when I do, they'd be like, "hey cut the calories, your fat" and they say it like its a bad thing. haaay naku, pleasing people could often make you go crazy. No wonder they also keep saying be 'true to yourself'.

Anyhoo, I personally think its better for me to start the 'buff program'. Well, I'm really not looking foreward to "buffing" up, I'm not really aiming for Mr. Universe, i just like to keep it lean and toned.

If you havn't noticed, they literally look like shit walking around in bikinis. To illustrate it more further, think about your own shit. Now imagine it with bikini briefs. Ring any bell? Told you.

So now, the worst food im eating is a can of tuna every night, a glass of milk (i abhor milk), and an egg every morning (fyi, an egg a day is healthy and safe.)

Hopefully I'd be able to tone up a bit in about a month. will be posting pictures. *LOLz*

NOT.