Amo: Mula ngayon, walang magsasalita ng ingles. Ang sinumang magpadugo ng ilong ko at sa mga anak ko, palalayasin sa pamamahay na ito. Klaro ba?
Inday: Ang mga namutawi sa inyong mga labi ay mataman ko pong iiimbak sa sulok ng aking balintataw sa kaibuturan ng aking puso, gugunamgunamin, aariing salik ng aba at payak kong kabatiran. Tatalikdin ang matayog at palalong banyagang wika minapay kakalingain, bibigkasin at sakdal timyas na sasambitin ng akin sangkalooban.
KUMIRIRING ang telepono nang madaling araw….
“Hello, Master Carlos? Si Arnaldo po ito, ‘yung katiwala niyo sa bahay-bakasyunan niyo.”
“O, Mr. Arnaldo, ikaw pala. Ano’t napatawag ka? May problema ba?
“Um, napatawag lang po ako para abisuhan kayo na namatay ang alaga niyong parrot.”
“‘Yung parrot kong si Pikoy, patay? ‘Yung nanalo sa bird show?
“Opo, Master Carlos, ‘yun na nga po.”
“Putris … sayang! Ang laki pa naman ng nagastos ko sa ibong ‘yon. Hay, buhay! Teka, ano nga ba ang ikinamatay niya?”
“E, kumain po kasi ng bulok na karne….”
“Bulok na karne? At sino namang salbaheng tao ang nagpakain sa kanya ng bulok na karne?”
“W-Wala po. Nanginain po siya ng karne ng isang patay na kabayo.”
“Patay na kabayo? Anong patay na kabayo, Mr Arnaldo?”
“E, ‘yun pung mga thoroughbred horses niyo, Sir. Namatay po kasi lahat sila sa pagod, kahihila ng kariton ng tubig.”
“Nasisiraan ka na ba ng bait? Anong kariton ng tubbbiiiiggggg?”
“‘Yun pong pinampatay namin ng sunog.”
“Diyos ko po! Anong sunog naman ‘yang pinagsasasabi mo?”
“‘Yun pong halos tumupok sa bahay niyo…. Tumumba po ‘yung isang nakasinding kandila, tapos nagliyab ‘yung kurtina at mabilis na kumalat ang apoy….”
“Ano? Puuut…. E, may kuryente naman diyan sa bahay-bakasyunan, a. Para saan ‘yung kandila?”
“Para sa burol po.”
“Ano? Kaninong burol?
“Sa nanay n’yo po, Sir. Bigla kasi siya dumating dito nu’ng isang gabi, walang kaabi-abiso. Lampas hatinggabi na. Akala ko po magnanakaw. Binaril ko.”
My birthday celebration came a week late, mainly due to conflicting schedules of my barkada. Last Oct. 27, I invited my few remaining ka-barkadas who were still living here in the Philippines for a night out. A friend of mine, Jerrue, suggested that we go to Red Box at Trinoma. He was always there because his girlfriend works there so he knew the place. Good thing that I’ve decided to go there a little bit early to get our room reserved, as much to my surprise (well not really), after a few minutes the list of reservations was almost full.
The reserved slot I took was from 7pm-12mn which costs 299 per head. I didn’t have a head count since I don’t know who will come and who will not, so I just told the lady at the counter that it was for 6 or 8 person. Marvin texted me a couple of hours later that he (and also his girlfriend, Jen) couldn’t come, so that makes the list to 6. So there were only six of us; Jerrue, Wella, Oliver, Gladys, Joanne, and me.
Our photos came up short because I forgot to take pictures. I did bring a digital camera but I seldom used it during the night. My phone’s (which was constantly being used by my girlfriend because she was addicted to some game) battery emptied even before the night was over. For those few shots I took, head over to the media gallery page and follow this path on the navigation: Barkada -> Red Box night out -> Photos
We were lucky to get room 36 because it is slightly in-front of the crew’s station. That’s why the service is fast and we can call a crew even without using the phone on the wall.
After all that Google’s PageRank fiasco 3 days ago I have an announcement to make, it’s not big and some of you may have noticed this already. Ok here is the announcement…
From 0/10 to 2/10 just today.
That’s all
As a side note, I didn’t do any major SEO/SEM on this site I just submitted this to the top search engines and a few directories. Because if I have a spare time to do SEO work, I always focus on my community blog site, www.tambayan.ph. And when I promote my website, I always point them to Tambayan.ph and not here.
Finally I got some time to do this. I was tagged by Sarah to do this desktop screenie thing. And to those I mentioned after this, you’ll have to do the following.
Ok, so here’s my current desktop…
(click to enlarge)
I don’t have any shortcut icons on my desktop, that’s because I don’t like it messy and I don’t want to cover Belldandy. Yes, that’s her from the manga/anime Ah! My Goddess (Ah! Megami Sama). It’s somewhat childish or girlish, but hey she’s my most favorite anime character. That wallpaper has been in my desktop for, I think, more than two years now. The screenshot is recent, but I’ve already posted that on the “Post Your Desktop” thread at Darkmoon since April last year, so it hasn’t changed until now. The Belldandy on the right is the skin of my Winamp media player.
There are no desktop icons, so I should just name the icons on the system tray and quick launch toolbar.
I don’t want many programs running in the background that’s why my system tray has only a few items (from left to right).
My quick launch toolbar contains programs that I mostly use when I’m connected to the Internet (from left to right).
Other shortcuts that are found in my quick launch toolbar are: Azureus, Bit Che, RapidUploader, MSN/Live Messenger, Frostwire, ImTOO YouTube, FeedReader, Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger, FlashGet, and Website Submitter.
Done. Now I’m tagging Gwacie, Erika, KC, Khate, and Randy it’s your turn.
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