to Dubai wid love…hehe

i'm sending a Manny Pacquiao limited edition cap from Mcdonald to my
Kuya Totoy (uncle) who is in Dubai today via postal mail.
of
course, the letter goes with it, a card i have yet to buy (later), and
notes from my mom nad siblings.  i also have the same cap. got it
for 90 bucks without any purchase. used to be P150, oh and it sells as
much as $75 on eBay, hahaha…. yun ang masarp kapag pinoy ka at pinoy
ang sikat, harharhar!!
i've actually bought and worn the cap the next day (nOv.19) Manny
floored Morales on the third fight of their fascinating trilogy (see
prev. post -pacuiao power, pinoy and proud!). 
i have been complimented for it  more than twice at the office and
once by a stranger. and you can't help but notice the glances from
people who see me on the street on on the bus. an ofcm8 said i looked
like a McDo crew, well, excuse me, I said, they wear blask i wear FIERY
RED! and it's even got Pacuiao's signature embroidered on the back
part, kewl!
harharhar!

and i look good on it, too! dang!

flatline

i've been to 4 funerals of 7 people known to me who have passed away in the past 2 weeks….. life is but a fleeting moment, make every second of it count.

the seventh one, sadly, was an officemate who i saw was happy joking around in the offcie yesterday. i heard he was in his 40's, Noel Garcia. Sometimes, I doubt and very much want to question our company's policies when it comes to emergencies (heart attack, they said go him).  I heard he was revived twice, the ambulance was "hinarang" by the guards, that he stayed for sometime on the clinic before he was brought to the hospital, that the stretcher was not brought upstairs and that he had to go down to the elevator by himself….these were all hearsay….regardless, he's gone. who's to say if it was really his time, every second counts, a second delayed could have costed him his  life.
(Note: a Company guard told me the Building guards were called to the Company's office (Country manager's Office , no less) to explain why the ambulance was made to go around the vicinity so many times cause they would not let it park by the side of the building, word going around was that it took the ambulance almost 20 minutes to unload the stretcher beacuse of the "merry-go-round", and once the patient was downstairs, they had to cross the street with the stretcher beacuse the ambulance was parked accross the street and not beside the building! Smells like a lawsuit to me…)

having an experience of emergency on the floor (calls are stressful, really!)  myself, i dunno what to think.  once i found myself almost out of breath with heavy chest aches, luckily turned out to be muscular spasms.  but i know i walked myself to the clinic downstairs with no assistance (from QSPs on the floor who saw me, who i think were more concerned why i LOGGED OUT of the phone than why i was "limping" on my way out)…. i was administered oxygen at the clinic by tthe then lone nurse (Mommy Glo) and went to the ER of Medical City by taxi with her (nurse), too.  imagine, chest pain, throbbing, at 3:30AM and trying to flag a taxi…DAMN!

i read from one e-mail that when we do, we can easily replaced in our cubicles….but when we go, we cannot be replaced in our families' hearts.  think about it.

Noel, i saw you look at me man, i had thoughts of wanting to joke around with you, exchange a few words even if we only know each other by face…that was actually the first time i had a good look at you and
remembered you look like our former team mate from Cavite….Rest In Peace Bro! You will surely be missed…

p.s.
the list: Nanay Nemia (a friend of the gf's), Tito Ely (husband of my Tita Lourdes), Edward (ex-bf of my gf's niece), Lola Felisa (sister of my Lolo Cito),  two fathers of the gf's best friends, Noel…. the list
WILL END HERE.

pacquiao power, pinoy and proud!

a cut above the rest.

that was how i saw him since his days in amateur boxing. my pops and grampa and 3 brother (plus me) would gather round our tv set when Mano Mano would show on sats or sundays. it featured this fighter from gensan who was really good.  fast forward a few years and we have a new age hero, that's Manny 'the pacman" Pacquiao for us.

last nov. 18, infront of 18,276 people at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas, NV, history was made, again, by a Filipino.  Pacman floored Erik "el terrible" Morales three times in three rounds (one in the seond, twice on the third).

and the third time, he was not standing up to fight. he knew it was over, manny was too good, too fast (as he said in a later interview).  PINOY NGA ANG TUMAPOS!  where pun was intended, it included the career of el terrible. he has seen his best years and manny was the big period that ended the morales sentence. 

erik looked to his father when he was floored for the last time on the third round and as his papa urged him to go on, he simply shakes his head, "no mas, no mas".  that scene will forever be etched in my mind. pity and proudness overwhelmed me that very moment. pity for the guy, manny was to win at his expense and he gave more than a good fight. but manny was too much for him and for that i was proud, pinoy yata yan!

all over the world pinoys rejoiced! i was ecstatic with joy, too, as i watched… though from a delayed telecast (no cable, **sigh**)………….

pinoys in dubai were late for work but were definitely happy. pinoys won lots of money on legal bettings in Australia.  pinoys in the US did "patak-patak" for pay per view ($50 per house) and held mini-parties at the same time (pay per view subscription was told to have reached 400,000 units….wow, time $50!).

like any celebrated trilogy in boxing, this will never be forgotten, not just by pinoys, but by the world!

MABUHAY KA PINOY! 

post script: Ronnie "calamba" Alcano won the 2006 World Pool Championships hel here in the Philippines just 4 days before Manny won.  Ron bested even his idol, Efren "bata" reyes.

monday… it’s all good

it's a Monday… and i'm raving!

it's my first day on the 10am to 7pm shift today. nice shift! lotsa chance for OT (if the gf does not get too sticky, that is!).  my morning's good… i only slept barely more than 4 hours but am not complaining, it' my own doing anyway. i was up till 3am watching the 4400 TV series on DVD.. sleepy? no one to blame  but me.  but sleepiness is the last thing on my list today, i have a lot of "To Do's" but my day is starting right (hopefully, my week too!).

the gf was early at the house this morning, just almost past six. i would've complained cuz i was to wake up at 7am, wanting to leave at 8 and having at least 5 hours of sleep, but hey! i ain't gonna be an insensitive prick today, i appreciate it! also, I got to work earlier that expected (9am) and so, I have the chance to write this, yeye, finally!

so, i also made it to TOP THREE at the Morning Rush's Daily Top 10 today! a new guy (i think Jake was his name, a winner of the Radio Idol contest probab'ly, making the lucky guy the new  RX DJ) was with Chico, as (from what i heard from the JumpStart) Delle was still in the US and won't be back till next week.  Anyway, the guy read my entry which was for the "TOP TEN things you would like to do if u were of the opposite gender for a day"….to which my entry was…

"i'd spend the whole 24 makin' out with my girl so we can have a child of our own, which would make us complete."

they got the point, the guy said i was one of Ellen deGeneres' kind…and they had the wits to remind me to make sure that my  girl was "ovulating", hence we'd just be disappointed. cool men, they are.

 I just got off the cellphone with my lone sis, who was celebrating her bday yesterday. It’s good to know I’m grounded and I really appreciate the fact that the gf nudged me into calling instead of just texting. I’ve has my ruses with her, esp. when she forgot my bday last april..heh.

Oh, and the weather’s really great! Just enough clouds, enough sun. wind has Christmas written all over it. I was actually looking forward into writing about the night sky and the stars I’ve looked up to while I rode the tricycle home at 12mn-2am, the past three days of my 1-10pm shift last week. The kind of sky that reminds me of my time in Batangas,   when  I graduated from college and took mountain climbing (kuno at Pico de Loro) for a couple of days with the college paper gang. Lying on a “papag” staring at the great big sky that night left me in awe of the universe. I’ve always fancied space, the start and the comets. I wanted to be an astronaut (my secret dream) for a long time, if given the chance, hahaha. Anyway, the constellation Orion (with the Tres Marias as her belt, of course) was always the one I look up to whenever I get the chance to get a good look at a bright clear sky.

Christmas, yep, it’s here aryt! You can smell it, you can hear it, see it, feel it. We went to Divisoria so I can get a good money’s worth of Christmas lights yesterday (got it for 100, when we started the “tawaran” portion at 140), I was so excited it went up the moment I got home at 9pm.  I was busy being dazzled by the lights (with the dramatic turn off the main ones) I didn’t notice the green ones were lighting up at all, sheesh! If the kid downstairs didn’t mention why it didn’t have greens,  I wouldn’t have noticed. I made “palusot” that the lights on my Christmas tree (went up the day before) already has green lights, and taking a good aim at the chance t brag about my little green tree with silver and lemon yellow flowers on it, the kids esp. likes the sparkling Christmas balls on it. In any case, looks like I’m gonna have to find time to tear down the Christmas lights by my window so I can have the greens fixed.

The malls were already palying Christmas carols as early as Nov.2, it was as if they were more than eager to get Nov. 1 over and done with.  Well, I guess that’s why the Philippines is known to have the longest holiday season in the world, what with it  staring Nov.2 and ending at January 6 (3 Kings Feast)! Meanwhile, the air just is so cool, it reminds me of a sunny day in Tagaytay or Baguio, ang sarrap matulog!

well, it’s 10:30am, I gotta get to work,  and earn my keep. Until then, thank God, life is good! As DJ Sexy Love Delamar says what her motto is: “IT’S ALL GOOD!”

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beam me up, scottie!

Hutchison Effect – ever heard of it?

Sounds like one of those principles in Science that we come across in school, right?

Wrong. 

Vancouver scientist John Hutchison's 22 years of experiments into electromagnetism has unintentionally produced every phenomena reported in the Bermuda Triangle. The term “Hutchison Effect” has become a moniker applied to all the peculiar and startling effects his plethora of machinery can produce.

It all began back in 1979. While studying the longitudinal wavelengths of Tesla (Nikola Tesla, a radio pioneer), Hutchison, limited by space in his small apartment,  crammed into one room various devices that emit electromagnetic fields and wavelengths, like Tesla coils, RF generators, van De Graaf generators, etc. He turned them on and went about his work. In some unexpected way, the wavelengths these machines created interplayed to create astonishing effects. John first noticed this when an object touched his shoulder. . .one he wasn’t expecting because it was levitating!

Repeated tests have produced a number of astounding effects. These include the continued levitation of objects: wood, styrofoam, plastic, copper, zinc— they hovered and  moved about, swirl around and ascend, or shoot off at fantastic speeds. With further experimentation: fires started around the building out of non flammable materials, like cement and rock; a mirror  smashed (80 feet away!),  metal warped and bent and even broke, (separating by sliding in a sideways fashion), in some instances crumbling like “cookies;” some metal became white hot but did not burn surrounding flammable material; lights appeared in the air,  along with numerous other corona manifestations; and water spontaneously swirled in containers. . . to name only a few.

Read more here!

Truth is indeed stranger than fiction.

A friend of mine commented that his motto was “To see is to believe”, I told him to show me the wind.  Note that there is an insurmountable difference between invention and discovery, as the latter can only be the truth mostly found in nature, as The Creator would want to have it.

Time and space travel IS not too far from here.  Civilizations before us may have long known what we are only starting to discover.  Would these finally explain crop circles and alien abductions? That remains to be seen by the next generations as we continue to advance with our infantile knowledge of our own planet.  Sometimes, I want to believe that Superman can be true, or could it be just one of my wishful thinking? 

Beam me up Scottie! You "lost" me there…