Narinig ko lang sa StarFM kahapon ng umaga, habang papunta ng UP Diliman...
DJ: Ano ang pangalan ninyo?
Caller: Roy po, Ser.
DJ: Ah, tapos security guard kamo ang trabaho ninyo?
Caller: Yesser.
DJ: Ser Roy, alam naman po natin ang financial crisis ngayon di po ba? Araw-araw, tumataas ang presyo ng bigas, ng langis, ng LPG. Marami po ang nawawalan ng trabaho. Sa lahat po ng mga problemang ito, may katanungan po ako sa inyo. Sa lahat po ng mga nangyayaring ito sa atin, kumusta naman po.... ang batuta ninyo?
Caller: Ser, matigas pa rin.
DJ: Ah, buti naman po, matigas pa rin. Malaking tulong po iyan.
Caller: Oo nga, Ser.
DJ: Ser ano nga po uli ang kumpletong name ninyo? Babati po ba kayo Ser?
Caller: Roy Bulaklak po Ser.
DJ: Bulaklak? Ano namang klaseng bulaklak?
Caller: Kahit ano po Ser. Basta mabango.
DJ: Sige, babatiin mo ba ang gerlfriend mo? Malapit na ang Valentines...
Caller: Ser, wala po akong gerlfriend Ser.
DJ: Di ka naghahanap?
Caller: Hindi po Ser.
DJ: Bakit di mo subukang maghanap sa Divisioria?
Caller: Ser, madaming bad elements dun Ser.
DJ: Ah subukan mo na lang sa tabi-tabi...
Caller: Sige Ser, gawin ko yan.
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Andaming kailangang gawin para sa training session mamaya! I need to answer 39 questions pa! Hayz.
Ipinakikilala ko ang aking wavemate na si Carl Nacarlo. Siya ang frontman ng bandang 7 Day Absent. Madalas daw silang sumasali sa mga band contest like Nescafe Soundskool. I think ka-batch yata nila ung Hilera band, na siyang nanalo sa band contest. Medyo maikli pa ang buhok ni Carl sa music video na ito. Medyo mahaba pero wavy na ang kaniyang buhok ngayon. When he introduced himself to us, nire-relate daw niya ang sarili niya kay Edward Cullen, ang character sa seryeng Twilight ni Stephenie Meyer.
Ito ang kanilang music video, featuring the song na si Carl mismo ang nag-compose, ang "She."
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom Brando, "The King and I", and "The Catcher in the Rye"
Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye
CHORUS We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No we didn't light it But we tried to fight it
Josef Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, dacron Dien Bien Phu and "Rock Around the Clock"
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team Davy Crockett, "Peter Pan", Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez
CHORUS
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide
Buddy Holly, "Ben-Hur", space monkey, Mafia hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no go
U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo
CHORUS
Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land" Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs Invasion
"Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say
CHORUS
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon, back again Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline Ayatollolah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
"Wheel of Fortune" , Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz Hypodermics on the shore, China's under martial law Rock and Roller Cola Wars, I can't take it anymore
CHORUS
We didn't start the fire But when we are gone Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on...
Busy-busyhan kasi launching ng 5th year ng Pinoypoets baka sa February 21, tapos ung lecture series launch na pangungunahan ni Sir Edgar Calabia Samar. Tapos launch din ng new website.
Natapos na naman ang isang linggo sa office. Third week ko na next week. Gudlak naman sa akin di ba? Hehe.
Pasensya na kung puro wavemates ang pini-feature ko ha? Trip lang. Naka-poetry mode kasi ako, lumulutang ang isip ko.
Tapos me tampuhan pa ke Kuyatot. Konti lang naman. Na naayos na rin ngayon. Thanks God.
Sana makapagpahinga lang ako sa Sunday. Hehe. Hilata lang sa kuwarto, text-text ke Kuyatot na I want you here, come here, I'm yours...
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Meanwhile, ito na ang ating first Cutie para sa taong 2009, si señor John Montoya! Post ko next time ang aking cutesy interview with him.
John Montoya took up Industrial Economics at the University of Asia and the Pacific. Co-fellow namin siya nina Phillip sa 2007 workshop ng LIRA. Currently, he's studying Mandarin in China, and also working as a part-time English instructor to earn extra money. Sabi niya, he doesn't have many solo pictures since he likes to be with friends kapag camera time. Also, I still can't believe that he claimed he is a no-girlfriend-since-birth guy. I wonder why.
Rhodge: Kumusta ung World Youth Day celebration last year in Australia? Share your experience with us.
John Montoya: Sarap! First time to get out of the country. It's good to be with many other people with the same faith.
Rhodge: Paano ka napili as a delegate for that event?
John Montoya: Nag-apply po.
Rhodge: Ah, ganun pala. Nalapitan mo ba si Pope Benedict XVI? If ever na makalapit ka talaga, ano ang balak mong sabihin sa kaniya?
John Montoya: Siguro e ten footsteps away yung pinakamalapit na distance ko sa kanya. Gusto kong sabihin na "Viva el Papa! Pray for the Philippines."
Rhodge: Have you experienced something "heavenly" during the event?
John Montoya: Yup, nung napakalapit ko sa pope, plus nung isang event na nasa stage siya, first papal appearance.
Rhodge: Na-infuence ba ng event na ito ang iyong poetry?
John Montoya: Dapat lang, but I still have to work on it. I have some things written, pero di ko na nabalikan.
Rhodge: Baka naman pinagkaguluhan ka ng mga female delegate sa event? Did you have any "connection" with a foreign chick during the event?
John Montoya: May isa akong nakilala, Malaysian. I'm still in contact with her. She is cute, for me. Hehe.
Rhodge: What must girls do to hook up with a cute boy like you?
John Montoya: Just talk. About anything. At least not nonsense. And look good.
Rhodge: How will you introduce yourself to a girl?
John Montoya: Just with a smile, and say hello.
Rhodge: Hindi ba nagrereklamo kung sinoman ang nakaka-relasyon mo na may umaaway sa kaniya kasi guwapo ang bf nya?
John Montoya: No relationship as of now, and ever since. Siguro in one or two year's time sasagutin ko yung tanong mo. Hehe.
Rhodge: Any type of girl you always fall for?
John Montoya: Long hair, cute eyes, para bang chinita eyes, haha!
Rhodge: By the way, let's talk about numbers. Your age?
John Montoya: 21.
Rhodge: Shoe size?
John Montoya: 9 yata.
Rhodge: Your height?
John Montoya: 5'5''.
Rhodge: Number of GFs? John Montoya: Nada.
Rhodge: What's your greatest asset?
John Montoya: Having a detective mindset (?). Rhodge: What do you think is the sexiest part of your body?
John Montoya: My hair when I was still a long-haired creature. But as of now, my abs? Haha.
Rhodge: Patingin ng abs!
John Montoya: Naku, wala na. Kulang na sa exercise. Hehe.
Rhodge: Nakakatanggap ka ba ng gay proposals? Paano mo hina-handle un?
John Montoya: Wala pa po.
Rhodge: Have you used your charms/kaguwapuhan to get something?
John Montoya: No. I always use my coconut. Para bang isip detective.
Rhodge: Hmmmm... Do you get insulted that some people look at you as just that boy with a pretty face?
John Montoya: I'm not pretty, guwapo lang. Haha! Nothing to get insulted. Hehe.
Rhodge: Technically, graduate ka na ng Industrial Economics sa University of Asia and the Pacific. Tell us about student life at UA&P.
John Montoya: Student life in UA&P is all about adjustment, for guys like me. It's a first time for me na halos lahat ng nasa paligid ko e mayayaman. Also, there is a great opportunity to be religious, especially for Catholics.
Rhodge: You have always been passionate about your poetry. Have you started writing verses at a young age? Who is your all-time favorite poet?
John Montoya: I started reading passages when I was in 4th year, it was a subject e. But I've been reading novels since 2nd year, required din kasi for book reviews. I'm always amazed with Roberto Añonuevo's poems. Rhodge: Aside from writing poems, what other things that keep you busy?
John Montoya: Just read and read and read books. Any book. And write on my journal. And watch CSI, which is a new hobby for me.
Rhodge: What you are currently reading?
John Montoya: Andromeda Strain, Sherlock Holmes, and Catechism of the Catholic Church. Yan yung mga dala ko dito sa China [He's currently in Nanjing - R.]. Plus another book, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time.
Rhodge: If you're going to be the country's Number 1 economist, what will you propose for the country's progress?
John Montoya: Tanggalin ang lahat ng mga corrupt na official, saka magsimula ng bagong Pilipinas.
Rhodge: Would you run for a public office, you do have the charms of a politician.
John Montoya: I have the charms siguro, pero I will not run. Ayokong maubos ang pera ko at pawis dahil diyan.
Rhodge: What your friends don't know about you, until now?
John Montoya: That I write my dreams, at the back of my journal.
Rhodge: What's your philosophy in life?
John Montoya: Go go go! High risk, high returns!
Rhodge: Your greatest achievement so far?
John Montoya: That I've been a scholar in high school and in college.
Rhodge: Give us 10 things na ini-enjoy mo ngayon, or fave mo, basta ung "hit" sa iyo.
John Montoya: a. CSI b. Sherlock Holmes c. Chinese characters d. dumplings e. My journal f. Detective Conan g. YM h. exercise / weights i. laptop j. appreciate beauty (beautiful girls. haha)
Rhodge: Any regrets so far?
John Montoya: Maybe? Haha. After thinking, wala pala. Haha.
Pero sabi ko nga ke Xam, every day naman is Valentine's Day. Walang kaso un. Hehe.
Nagtapos na ang ESL training ko nung Friday. Three weeks din un na nosebleed ako. Pahirapan. Tatlo sa amin ang naligwak after the training. Sad naman, kasi isa sa kanila ay close friend ko na, si Abby. Single mom pa naman siya, kaya kailangan niya ng work.
Kaya medyo sad ang start ng Saturday ko. Hindi ko masyado nadamayan si Abby kasi nagmadali akong nagpunta ng Antipolo para sa Valentine's Day celebration with the oldies of Kanlungan ni Maria, kasama si Kuyatot and the rest of the HOM volunteers.
Tapos me konting tampo pa ako ke Kuyatot. Konti lang naman. Pero nakaka-bad mood talaga. Sinabayan pa ng matinding antok. Diretso kami ng Pandi after ng Antipolo.
Luto lang ng dinner, tapos tulog na.... Tapos gising tapos tulog uli.... Nood ng cartoons sa Channel 5.... Tapos nood ng Kay Susan Tayo.... Tapos uwi na.
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Birthday pala ng sister kong si Margie Lyn last Friday the February 13th. Mukhang minalas siya ng konti kasi bigla na-empty batt ung digicam. Hindi pala nai-charge. Kaya ilan lang ang pictures. Hehe.
Ung nakayuko, ung bunso namin. Shy siya kasi hindi pa daw siya nakaligo that time. Haha!
I'm doing laundry this early great Monday morning. Simula kasi ng mapansin ng regular labandera namin (my youngest sister) na mas marami ang labahing damit ko kaysa sa kanila, ay hindi na niya nilalabhan ang aking mga damit. Kaya minsan, wala akong maisuot na damit pamasok o panglakwatsa. Kaya ngayon, ako na ang naglalaba ng aking mga damit every Monday early morning, since ito ung free time ko talaga.
Maulan pa ngayon kaya hindi ko sigurado kung matutuyo ang aking mga nilalabhan. Wala pa kaming dryer kasi hindi pa napapalitan ung nasira. Ilang beses pa naman ako nag-request ke Kuya na siya na lang ang bumili ng bagong dryer. Ayokong ako ang bumili kasi wala pa un sa budget ko.
Speaking of budget, first suweldo ko nga pala nung February 14. Ayun, pinaghati-hati ko na sa mga dapat na bayarin. Ang tumataginting na natira? 100 pesos. Ito ang savings ko for this suweldo, na ipapasok ko sa BDO account ko.
Halos kalahati na ng February nu, ambilis talaga ng panahon. Malapit na ang February 28, don't forget Ser Egay Samar's lecture ha? Birthday niya din pala sa February 18. Kagabi nga binati ko na siya agad. Egay month pala talaga ang buwan na ito.
Later, baka mag-SM Marilao ako. Nasunog ko kasi last weekend ung isang slacks ko nung plinantsa ko siya. Engot ng lola ninyo! Haha! Kaya ayun, buy na naman ako mamaya. Gudlak, wala na talaga sa budget ko un. Utang na naman ako sa reserves ko.
Pero sana hindi ako tamarin, para nga makapunta ako ng mall. Hayz. Mamayang gabi pa naman ang start ng prod specs namin. Baka wala na akong energy pag masyado akong nagsigasig today. Walang mapiga sa utak ko ang trainer ko. Gudlak naman.
May komiks na ipinamimigay ng libre ang MERALCO. Ang title, MALIWANAG. Nagpunta kasi ako kanina para magbayad ng bill sa haus at para sa Pandi. Muntik na ako lumampas kasi antok-antok ever pa ako sa bus. Hehe.
Ayun, sumakit ang ulo ko sa Prod Specs training kanina. Bukod sa kulang ako sa tulog, ambilis magsalita ng Ingles ang trainor namin. Nosebleed!
So ayun, mega antok pa sa bus. Buti talaga hindi ako lumampas ng MERALCO.
Ang ganda ng ginawang renovation ng MERALCO payment centers nu? To accomodate its many customers, andami nang payment counters.
Ung MERALCO dito sa amin, ung sa Malanday, dun ako nagbabayad ng bill. Two reasons: un kasi ang pinakamalapit sa haus namin, at andami nilang poging staff. Pogi as in. Hehe.
OK na kapalit ang mga eye candy na ito sa mataas na charge nila sa kuryente di ba? Di ba?
Nagpupuyat ako para mapanood lang ang Lalola sa GMA Channel 7. Ito ung original Lalola ha, hindi ung ke Rian Ramos at JC de Vera (Syet, nakita nyo ba ung billboard ni JC sa Que Ave? Syet hotness! Syet, now lang ako na-L sa kaniya!).
Ang ganda ng show! Riot kung sa riot! Tsaka ang hotness nung gumaganap na Gaston! Mamaya, ipoposas siya ng ka-sex niya sa kama, in all his naked gloryness! Hotness talaga!
At ang galing ng gumaganap na Lola, si Carla Peterson. Hotness din siya!
Telecomedy pala ang ganitong format, ayon sa Wikipedia. Hmmm. Sa atin kasi, dramedy. Haha!
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Kung clueless ka sa kuwento ng Lalola, eto ang synopsis:
This comedy is about a man named Ramiro "Lalo" Padilla (Juan Gil Navarro), who is the director of the media company High Five, editor of the famous magazine Don, and has many women around him. Romina (Marcela Kloosterboer),
who is in love with Lalo, decides to avenge his lack of commitment by
hiring a witch, who has him undergo a spell and turns him into a very
beautiful woman, as Romina wanted to make him feel so desperate like a
woman who is being harassed.
Now, this man locked in a woman's body tries to pass himself off as
someone else, because nobody will believe that he's suffered
metamorphosis. So, she enters the company as Dolores "Lola" Padilla (Carla Peterson), cousin of Lalo, because Lalo "had to make an urgent trip to Germany because his father became ill", and therefore left her in his post.
From this start, very funny situations happen, in which Lalo begins to discover Grace (Muriel Santa Ana), her best friend, and all the things that make women different from men: using heels, wearing skirts, menstruation, and so on. Gradually, she notices some people who were with Lalo, including his best friend, Gaston (Rafael Ferro). Without realizing it, she starts to get closer to coworker Facundo (Luciano Castro) and falls in love.
-- Mula Wikipedia
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At buti dito, walang gay Kempee de Leon. I find him irritating, actually. Un na!
I'm still thinking kung diretso ako bukas sa Nueve de Pebrero Elementary School for Kuyatot's Galing Mo Kid class... Plano ko sana bumili ng something for the kids, na pag nakasagot sila sa questions ni Kuyatot, me prize sila.
Kung matuloy ako, mag-lunch na kami ni Kuyatot sa Shangri-La or Megamall. Tapos attend kami ng art exhibit ng Ang I.N.K. at Ortigas Foundation sa Ortigas Park, 2 PM hanggang 4 PM. Magpo-promote din kasi ang Pinoypoets para sa lecture ni Sir Egay sa February 28.
Tapos meeting ng Pinoypoets after, para maplantsa ang iba pang detalye. Possible din pag-usapan ung up-coming lecture ni Sen. Danton Remoto by April. Siya ang second lecturer na nakuha ng Pinoypoets para sa lecture series.
Fruitful ang meeting kahapon ng Pinoypoets para sa lecture ni Ser Edgar Samar sa Sabado, February 28. All systems go na. Ang problema na lang namin, ung audience. 60 people ang capacity ng venue sa Ortigas Foundation Building (malapit lang sa MERALCO building, basta kalinya siya ng Metrowalk), kaya sana mapuno namin ito. Grabe na ang PR na ginagawa namin para sa event. Natutuwa din kami dahil grabe din ang PR ng Ortigas Foundation para sa lecture. Kung makadadaan kayo ng Ortigas Park, meron dung mga tarp announcing the lecture.
Magbebenta rin kami ng novel ni Ser Edgar Samar na "Walong Diwata ng Pagkahulog" sa mismong lecture. May book-signing kasi after the talk. Parang mini-book launch (uli!) na rin that day. Salamat kay Sir Jun ng Anvil Publishing para dito.
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1 year and 4 months na kami kahapon ni Kuyatot. So nag-celebrate kaming dalawa kasama ang ilan sa Pinoypoets. Sabi ni Kuyatot, sayang at hindi man lang kami nakadaan sa EDSA Shrine para makapagpasalamat. Late na kasi kami nakatapos sa meeting sa group.
Lately, I'm fascinated by the poems of Denise Duhamel, the wife of Fil-Am poet Nick Carbo. Shux, this girl's got balls with her poetry!
I have always wanted to be tough with my poetry. I'm actually a Lucia Perillo.
Here's one of Duhamel's poems I like. Kung ako ang magsusulat nito, I want the famous poet in the poem to be Angelo Suarez. The Suarez. I wonder how hot he will be at the age of 40....
Sex with a Famous Poet by Denise Duhamel
I had sex with a famous poet last night and when I rolled over and found myself beside him I shuddered because I was married to someone else, because I wasn't supposed to have been drinking, because I was in fancy hotel room I didn't recognize. I would have told you right off this was a dream, but recently a friend told me, write about a dream, lose a reader and I didn't want to lose you right away. I wanted you to hear that I didn't even like the poet in the dream, that he has four kids, the youngest one my age, and I find him rather unattractive, that I only met him once, that is, in real life, and that was in a large group in which I barely spoke up. He disgusted me with his disparaging remarks about women. He even used the word "Jap" which I took as a direct insult to my husband who's Asian. When we were first dating, I told him "You were talking in your sleep last night and I listened, just to make sure you didn't call out anyone else's name." My future-husband said that he couldn't be held responsible for his subconscious, which worried me, which made me think his dreams were full of blond vixens in rabbit-fur bikinis. but he said no, he dreamt mostly about boulders and the ocean and volcanoes, dangerous weather he witnessed but could do nothing to stop. And I said, "I dream only of you," which was romantic and silly and untrue. But I never thought I'd dream of another man-- my husband and I hadn't even had a fight, my head tucked sweetly in his armpit, my arm around his belly, which lifted up and down all night, gently like water in a lake. If I passed that famous poet on the street, he would walk by, famous in his sunglasses and blazer with the suede patches at the elbows, without so much as a glance in my direction. I know you're probably curious about who the poet is, so I should tell you the clues I've left aren't accurate, that I've disguised his identity, that you shouldn't guess I bet it's him... because you'll never guess correctly and even if you do, I won't tell you that you have. I wouldn't want to embarrass a stranger who is, after all, probably a nice person, who was probably just having a bad day when I met him, who is probably growing a little tired of his fame-- which my husband and I perceive as enormous, but how much fame can an American poet really have, let's say, compared to a rock star or film director of equal talent? Not that much, and the famous poet knows it, knows that he's not truly given his due. Knows that many of these young poets tugging on his sleeve are only pretending to have read all his books. But he smiles anyway, tries to be helpful. I mean, this poet has to have some redeeming qualities, right? For instance, he writes a mean iambic. Otherwise, what was I doing in his arms.
