chatter

talk over french fries
and cigarettes
turns into
childhood tales
that make us recall
the oddness of the years
gone by
and the sweet familiarity
of innocence
that had slowly withered away.
in reminiscing,
we mourn.

city dogs

dogs in the city
they bark on concrete
that towers them, envelopes them.
they bark on speeding cans
that roar back louder
in a scary, deafening noise.
they bark on people
who bite back and backbite.

dogs in the city.
they bark at a world
that swallows them alive
and consumes their minds
until they become mad dogs
running around the city streets.

clueless

you tell us
to retreat to our shells
because you can't
get out of your own.
the chains that bind you
the mask that you wear
grows heavier
creating lines on your face
that you cannot deny.
you put on a puppet show
and we gladly oblige
as we clap on your fantastic
performance
knowing that you only have
yourself to fool.
clueless.
you are.
because everyone knows.

waiting

in bed
the lights turned low,
i gaze at the ceiling
and in the cracks
i see moons shining
and stars dancing
from universes away.
i count the minutes
in the length of each
tiny light's twinkling
as they're consumed
by nothingness
only to peep out before
i could gasp another breath.
i entertain myself with
the galleons of clouds
passing by
until they all sail away
into the window,
into the light.
the door creaks open
and my waiting ends.

SRP Tunnel Now Open

Photo by Rey Roman Tura)

THE South Coastal Road tunnel finally opened to motorists May 8.

The 0.97 kilometer twin box tunnel traverses beneath Plaza Independencia in Cebu City and will allow access of vehicles to the South Road Project.It is the first undergorund tunnel of it's kind in Cebu and is expected to decongest the main city streets.

That's something to smile about!

I LUV CEBU!

If ever you find yourself in Cebu, don't miss to grab one of the I LOVE CEBU shirts. You can get it customized and have your name on the shirt in 30 minutes. Shirts are available at ISLAND SOUVENIRS at the Ayala Center.

I have seen more and more people wearing the shirt and I am at the verge of getting my own. It certainly is great for tourists.

Bantayan Summer 2010

My second visit to Bantayan with the QA team on our first beach outing. It was so much fun I could only hope it could happen again sometime in the future. But, i guess not.

I tell you, Bantayan can change lives. You'll get out of it and you're never the same. Well, that's what happened to us. :)

sidewalk thoughts

i sit on a sidewalk
my life in stationary
while thoughts run
round and round
in a race
i could only wish the road
will run out.
i could finally hear
silence.
the littlest gust of wind
creates a sound as i
let out a breath of smoke.
18 cars past,
i wished they had dragged
these thoughts to where
i do not know of
until they all dissipate
until i couldn't care less
until all i could remember
was counting cars and
a vague memory
etched on paper
that i painfully erased.

Gothic Halloween

WOrk.Sleep.Work.Sleep.Work.

and then Halloween comes along.....

HAPPY CHARTER DAY CEBU!!

MY TEAM

I've been with my team for two months now and I have to admit it's been one of the best times I've had despite not having a team outing yet. That's a record considering my fond memories of my previous teams were mostly out of work. With them, I actually really enjoyed working... hahaha

On Angels, Demons and Adventureland

I watched Angels and Demons last night on dvd. Throughout the movie, I wondered where the movie was shot especially on scenes inside the Vatican Palace ( I am at work and I don’t have time . For a sequel of a movie that lambasted the core of Christianity not to mention the Roman Catholic Church, I thought they won’t be given the chance to shoot the film inside the splendid walls of the Vatican. It was a thrill. That sort that keeps you awake because you have to listen to all the words they say about history and signs. My brain shut off just when the end credits began to roll. I was stressed of the conspiracies of how angel statues are supposed to be pointing at something.

In a country where signs are said to foretell the next cataclysmic event, I wonder if somebody can work some tidy piece of conspiracy story about statues in the Philippines. How about starting with Jose Rizal on every town’s plaza?...Hmmmm?

There are also two other movies I watched this week. I particularly liked Adventureland.


It kinda makes me things how all our thoughts of what we'd become slowly slip away. Not because we didn't try harder but simply because circumstances just lead us somewhere else where we don't neccessarily become any less of who we are. There are just some other things we are meant to do and it doesnt eqaute to failure. Sometimes, we have just got to embrace it. :)

Holy Goodness!

Tell me this isn't the Queen of Pop?...

I AM GETTING FIT..and damn serious about it!

I went to the Cebu City Sports Complex ( popularly known simply as Abellana) 4am to do a little exercise. I usually run ten rounds straight on most occasions but thought a little deviation from the usual wouldn’t hurt. 7 straight rounds in 20 minutes and my chest was already pounding so hard I had to stop. After gulping a bottle of Fit n Right, I slipped on a dry tee and went to Pier Uno. I am yet to see the effects of drinking FitnRight and there I was waiting at the pier for some fiesta leftovers. More than a month later of swearing off rice, I broke my own covenant and cooked one cup of rice and devoured it like I haven’t eaten rice for years. The lechon, humba, afritada, bola-bola were all greasy but it was heaven in every chew. I felt guilty after eating knowing that I have to double my exercise to shed off the fat I ate. It’s for health reasons I’m starting to be conscious of what I eat and it feels light if exercise is coupled with healthy food – i.e veggies!!! I am in the habit of going to Carbon after a couple of rounds at Abellana in the morning and I there I buy my veggies. Ten pesos of mixed veggies and a sinigang mix, I am ready to make my chopsuey when I arrive home.

I miss eating greasy food, drinking coke on each meal and just lounging ( in the words of our Indian boss, Aparna. 'what are you doing, chilling?) in my bed for hours sleeping or watching television until my head hurts. But I am beginning to like a healthier lifestyle. And I am keeping it.

KARATULA

These photos have been doing the rounds in the office through spam emails. I thought these were funny. I haven’t been noticing signs these days in Cebu that really cracked me up. I should bring my digicam more. I need focus focus focus to catch those signs.