LET's TALK ABOUT BODYBUILDING

I have been passing along V. Rama for the longest time (on a jeepney of course) and have noticed the sign outside a fitness gym. It perplexed me how that person came with the whole idea of saving the country from the pit of poverty through....what else but BODYBUILDING.



i think the idea is very original...politicians should consider the idea. after all, body builders are a disciplined pack of people. maybe thru it we'll be less lethargic and be more alert and active with healthier lifestyle. the country will be sunnier with people beaming with smiles doing fitness exercises early morning or after work. no one is fat. everyone is lean and healthy. some can choose to have the mr universe bodies. or maybe not. with people who are on the go, we will spend just enough time for sleep instead of sleeping ten hours at night and still doze off in the office. it will be inevitable that with a healthier mindset, we'll ultimately see a progressing country as we slowly shed those fat.

maybe it will work. hmmmmm....it will be expensive but how about starting by sparing a room in health centers for working out...DOH?

SHAVED

sa jipney padung colon. 3 ka kolehiyala naghisgot-hisgot.

girl 1: di gyud ko ganahan mag short kay balhiboon man ako legs. nipis ra nuon.

girl 2: ako pod gali. pero dali ra na ui. unsay gamit sa shave. tig shave mu?

girl 3: di ko tig shave ui.lain kay manuslok-nuslok man gud.

girl 2. ako kay every after day jud ko tig shave.

girl 1: lage nuh? mag shave na diay kog sugod every after day arun masuot nako tong mga shorts nako.

KAWATAN? are we?

Sa may call center dapit sa Sugbo. Mga ahente nagtubag sa nagpanawag nga mga Amerkanong nanginahanglan ug tabang. Customer Service in short.

Caller: You are stealing our jobs. Why are you stealing our jobs?

Agent: I'm sorry sir but we are not allowed to answer such questions. But I can definitely help you with your account.

Caller: Your job is to answer questions. I am asking why are you stealing our jobs? ...Dya wanna know why?

Agent: Hmm, sure sir. Why?

Caller: Because you are cheap. All of you people are cheap.

Agent: Not at all. Sir... We have our jobs because we are smarter and we are better than you are. And we did not steal your jobs.

Caller hung-up.

Agent: dah.. hung-up lage ka!


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Caller: I want an American agent. Tell your bosses they should transfer back all callcenters to America.

Agent: I appreciate that you raised that concern sir. Certainly, we will be escalating your views to our higher management.

Caller: And why in the heck am i calling all the time to the Philippines for chrissakes?

Agent: You see sir, your president and Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who is my president, are very close friends. That's the reason why you are talking to someone in the Philippines right now.

Caller: That's bull. I don't believe you.

Agent: It's true sir.

Customer hung up.

ANDRES VOUITTON? - what's on his mind?

So what the heck is on Andres Bonifacio's mind?...

A bad cae of halitosis? Bad breath ba cya?
Kiss mark on his neck?
Hmmmmm....Andres Bonifacio going gay?
Babaeng Pilipina na ba xa?
Ka Andres can't breathe?
Is Cebu too polluted?
Is it a "Bawal UMIHI dito" sign?
Is Ka Andres trying out modeling? hankies in place of 'nek-nek mo'?
No decent hanky designers in the Phils?
Or just wala lang..


Tell me what u think....

BELEN sa JONES

i was walking thru jones when i saw this belen. their faces weren't mannequin-like with features that are rough on the edges. i thought, this is the pinoy belen - Cebu style. i took a snapshot.

looking at the belen, i can't help but want to go home and be with my family. i think that's what any belen that you see just about anywhere reminds us - Christmas ( or at least Christmas Day) is family time just like the three inanimate statues along the busy Jones Avenue. I'm glad i know better.

THE CROWN OF CEBU

Cebu's tallest building is also its tallest Christmas tree. The Crown Regency hotel and Suites boasts of its flickering neon lights that runs up and down and around its sides that anyone who'd manage to glance up would notice the towering edifice at night. It is flamboyant and ostentatious, as if telling anyone who glances the building in envy, 'Your month's electricity bill is worth our day's use for the lights alone". But yes, it is a sight at night and people waiting for jeepneys would strike a pose just about anywhere along Jones with the landmark as background.

I have also watched more than week ago in a local TV Show the Edge Coaster on the top of the skyscraper. The coaster ride goes around the edge of the topmost part of the building - probably the roofdeck. Surely, the view must be fantastic from there during sunset and at night - the whole of cebu in 360 degrees. Hmmmm, i saw the ad of the ride and it said it costs P800 per person which already includes a buffet dinner. I'm not sure however if the ride is the freebie or the food is...tsk tsk...

I have been telling friends about it and everyone is suddenly all interested. I told them how much it costs. They never spoke about the ride since.

I MISS K n K

if there is anything i regret being away from home, it's not seeing my niece and nephew - Kindra and Karl - grow up....

BLUE CHRISTMAS

for the second year in a row, i will be celebrating christmas alone in cebu..

last year, i prepared food and had some friends come over to my place where we ate noche buena. it wasnt much and the party didnt really take long, hehehe. the food didn't require much preparation. just some items i had picked up earlier that day from monterey - embutido that didn't need cooking, bola-bola and lumpia ( i only know prito ...hahah). my friends came with some food too. the day wan't as merry but it was more than i could have hoped for...when they went home before midnight, i slept...

this year, it's worse i guess. the friends who came over last year are not around anymore. most have gone home to their places and some i barely bump into because we work for different companies already. I will be greeting Christmas alone in my room. :(

i was also used to receiving gifts back home before. not really the expensive ones. just the clutter-bound things that are wrapped neatly with Christmas wrappers. this year, i haven't received a single one just yet. the kris kringle we had at the office doesn't count since it is obligatory.

so to anyone out there, who reads this...can u spare me a nicely wrapped present?..please?...sob sob

( the photos are taken at twilight. looking at the lone star hanging on a tree, makes me miss home...i miss home terribly... tsk)

SAYONG BUNTAG

photos taken just before sunrise...

SIRENA SA MALA

So this is how a mermaid looks like on land.....

HEADLINERS TODAY....or YESTERDAY

MAN OF THE HOUR

Congratulations Manny...You made us proud!





MANNY - The MEXECUTIONER

Manny was interviewed in an early morning show today. With the whole country in a frenzy celebrating his victory, the morning show joined the wagon and splashed the boob in little Philippine flags and jackets of red, blue and white like it's june 12 all over again. Waking up and seeing them in Independence Day mode during Xmas season made such a confusion i had to check my calendar for a moment. Manny was interviewed by Igan.

Igan: Manny, may bago nang tawag sayo.Anong masasabi mo sa bagong bansag sayo na
MEXECUTIONER?
Manny: Hindi naman. I am just a boxer doing my job inside the ring.

*****Owwsss see?... Manny delivered it like a pro. Seems like Manny's past the HIDDEN SHOULDERS days huh... LOL..

GETAWAY VEHICLE

One news i picked up in TV Patrol tonight was the shootout that cost the life of a man in black jacket and black helmet. Apparently, the man is not a suspect as the immediate family claims, crying foul over the death of their beloved and contending that one cannot be simply judged a suspect just because one wears a black jacket, a black helmet while driving a motorbike. The report however, did not say if the dead guy was using a black motorbike.

The mom of the dead guy was interviewed.

The MOM: Sa liit ba naman ng motor na yon, pwedeng gamiting getaway car?

****Hmmmmm.. Forget about the color black..The mom has a different angle of the
story....

TGI FRIDAYS sa LUNES

Sa AYALA, duha ka manang milabay sa TGI FRIDAYS...

Manang 1: Ay kalain pud aning restorana, abri man diayg lunes.

Manang 2: Mao. Dapat unta alisdan na ug TGI Lunes inig Lunes uie.

Manang 1: Haaay, makalibog.

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What can i say? They have their calnedars checked i guess...

Center of the STOMACH

When my sister was here in Cebu for a medical check-up, she and her husband did their rounds of shopping at the malls. They bought presents, decors, clothes, books for my niece and nephew and God knows what the rest are. It wasn't really a big shopping spree. Just the normal shopping for Dipolognons who visit Cebu - usually pasalubongs. And so while shopping at a clothing department in one of the big malls an American guy was busy grabbing clothes (probably for presents) for her Filipina girlfriend who happened not to be with her. He was specifically looking for revealing clothes. At least that's what I thought with the gestures he was making to the saleslady. Two other salesladies were kind enough to offer help to sales lady number 1.

Saleslady 2: Hala ang amerkano o, nangita daw og sanina sa iya uyab kana dawng makita ang pusod.

Saleslady 3: Kani ipakita day o kay nindot ni na color

Miduol sa Amerkano si saleslady number 2 and 3..

Saleslady 2: Sir you choose this one, it's nice. For sure, u can see your girlfriend's center of the stomach...

Saleslady 3: Yes sir, and for sure it will fit. Promise.

Amerikano: Ahhh, I see. Salamat. This looks great.

Amerkano, mi-smile ug after a few minutes ug pamili ug laing mga sapot, mibayad sa counter. Saleslady 2 and 3 mibalik sa ilang pwesto duol sa akong in-law while saleslady 3 nag-assist sa Amerkano pagbayad.

Saleslady 2: Day, sakto ra tong ako ingon?

Saleslady 3: Di jud ko sure day.

Saleslady 2: (Miduol sa akong in-law ug nangutana) Sir sir, unsa gali iningles anang pusod.?

Bro-in-Law: Navel. Pwede pud bellybutton.

Saleslady 2: Ay, hala sorry abi jud nakog center of the stomach. Hahaha...

Saleslady 3: Hala uie kalain. Wa jud ta tudloi ana sa grade 1...

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MORAL OF THE STORY: We should include bellybutton and navel in the anatomy charts in elementary school. i remember caption only reads stomach....hmmmm....may point ang mga salesladies...unsa ba namay center sa tyan, PUSOD man...tsk tsk

KRISMAS NA SA SUGBO...

well, we're down to the last 28 days of 2008 and its another year again. i am not that giddy of the whole new year thing, i noticed. i have become less hopeful about my future, not to mention the future of this country. i am still glad though that there is that part of me who tries to hang on to that little spark of hope. maybe because i still wanna live. Ergo, i struggle to survive. i'm still keeping that teeny weeny hope under my sleeves. life hasn't been all that bad to me and i have more than a handful of lessons that i learned this year. but yes, i am the most forgetful person so i surely couldn't remember all of them. and since this isn't really a blog about lessons, i will spare you from that harangue.

it's christmas...hmmm almost. i am sad that the only carols i hear in Cebu so far are those of the out-of-school youth that hijacks jeepneys and sing their piece of 'Pasko na Naman' which would put you in shame if you give just a peso. Their songs literally demands 5 pesos. It's funny that everytime they jump on a jeepney and sing their carol, everyone inside the vehicle has something very important to do - checking their phones,texting, fixing their hair, changing the songs on their ipods and some just pretend to doze off or just stare blankly out of the window. Dedma. Well, i am one of them when i don't have a penny to spare. hahaha...I miss the carols on the radio that wakes me up at dawn when Christmas day is fast approaching. Especially the Max Surban song about the Krismas Tree... I might just have to visit the mall to hear it if that's even played there...ts tsk...

and so the jeepney speeds through jones avenue and approaches Fuente Osmena...it's Max Surban's giant Xmas tree you'll see.

the giant Xmas tree was lighted on the first day of December. fireworks and all, the hoopla gathered people inside the Circle and caused a humongous traffic. I took a few photos. it's hard getting photos using the cam i'm using because it's nighttime and the tree is a bit far from where i was doing the clicking. While taking the photos, some professional photographers not so far away were flashing their Nikons and Canons - professional cameras with all the lengthy accessories. My camera paled in comparison and retreated back to my pocket. I swore I will have that cam one day. Hehehe....