Simple Pleasures

Jory and I made it to the finals. Last Saturday, we sweeped the last game in eliminations with scores 21-18 and the semis by 21-15. We have to prep up for next next week's game. I heard that the other team is tough to beat.

Today is our company's 1st badminton tournament elmination round. We are scheduled to play two games today from the yellow and orange team. Luckily, Jory, my badminton partner, was able to get to BMCI on time to play and in the mood to smash some shuttlecocks. For some reason, our fellow badminton players of the same level see us as a threat. Jory is a smasher by nature from his skills in badminton and I, well, improved a lot after practicing almost daily for two weeks.

To cut the long story short, we won our first two games with equally capable opponents from yellow and orange teams. We try to change our gameplay as much as we can so they cannot guess what is our next move. And now my backhand has greatly improved, I can do great defense with Jory going towards offense. Also, our rhetorics are now well coordinated as we bump our hips smoothly with that adrenaline crazed expression in our face (or at least mine) everytime we score. Hehehehe.

I'm very happy with what has turned out today and I hope next week would be very much the same.

Good luck to us next week.

Dominant Personality: Innocence

Good Traits: You're bubbly and bright. You
ask a lot of questions, and can make anyone
smile.

Bad Traits: You're too naive. People will
step all over you.

You're Most Like: Calm. You're laid back,
and don't get much accomplished. But you have
more energy than someone who's calm.

You Need More: Fear. You run into dangerous
situations without a care, and find yourself
trapped. Be aware, and listen to your instinct.


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My colleague and I were walking along the sidewalk when she opened up her burdens being the breadwinner of the company. She has two younger brothers whom she had to finance them through college for the next three years, a younger sister who has a 3-year old son and married a jobless young man, a mom who doesn't have any lifetime savings after spending years as a manager of a hardware store and a father who comes and goes in every job and drinks everyday. I can feel the frustration in her eyes when I told her this:

"Ako naniniwala na di ka bibigyan ng Diyos ng problemang di mo kayang lusutan. Kahit sabihin mong kung sana mayaman ka, di mo mararanasan ang ganitong problema. Sa totoo lang, kapalaran lang ang makakapagsasabi kung paano niya babalansehin ang buhay mo at di mo pwedeng piliin. For example, ang daddy ko bago na-aksidente, supervisor siya ng isang department sa isang car manufacturing company and is doing quite well. After the accident, it took long for him to recover and my mom had to take up the role of being breadwinner kahit ayaw niya. Ang mga mayayaman diyan, you will never know if they are happy with their life right now. Sa tingin mo baket si *beep* na nasa kanya na ang lahat. Maganda, mayaman at powerful ang family niya pero nagagawa pang magshop-lift. Lahat ng tao may kanya-kanyang kuwento at kanya-kanyang drama. Isipin mo na lang di ka nag-iisa sa pagdudusa mo at kaya mong lagpasan yan dahil meron kang capability to overcome yan."

It is liberating not to care about people. It frees me from my compulsion to make sure everybody is at harmony with everybody else. I can do whatever I want without giving a rat's ass what other people think with the choices I made. I know how to take charge of my life without pretentions. And the best of all, I am totally detach with anybody. I can only take as much self-righteous people to judge me. All I need to do right now is to do what I have to do so they don't need to complain how much I suck at it.

Day after day, I tried to understand life itself and find my real calling. But with this path I take, I couldn't find the answers. Its seems that I have left everything and pursued almost anything that comes my way but no matter how I try, I cannot find the contentment I'm seeking. Everything that I make seems to lack something whether it lacks substance or the energy for me to carry it on with the same passion as the greatest people has ever did. I'm ended up getting confused and frustrated while trying to survive day after day battling my own wars and struggles. Even when I'm tired and weary, I still go around the same circle repeating the same mistakes.....only differently, which has led me to wonder: are we supposed to live this way, like a hamster going around the wheel till we all die of exhaustion?

My friends and I took the last night show in Greenbelt 3 (that's around 12mn, mind you) and I never fell asleep like I did when I watch Episode Three. There are no boring moments in the movie and probably some Filipinos are able to relate on Andy's prudish ways especially during the scene when watching porn flicks. You will come out of the moviehouse smiling and feeling quite happy that Andy Stitzer (Steve Caller) didn't "lose it".

If you are in for a good laugh and a great time, I strongly recommend to watch this. Soundtrack of the movie also is nice for those 80's aficionados.

My rating: 5 out of 5!!!

If there is one thing I can do everyday, it would be salsa. I couldn't never get enough of that energetic vibe running in my bones as I sashay on the floor with a dance partner. Despite my size, I never felt so sexy whenever I dance the salsa. Because only in salsa that dancers are able to gyrate on the floor without feeling slutty.

Salsa also connotes communication between the couple which also applies to ballroom dancing in general. Man has to command the moves and the lady will follow suit. The lady should learn how to listen to the man's moves in order to execute the dance. The added bonus in salsa, I think, is that there are certain moves that allows the woman to do her own stuff on the floor. I was watching a couple dancing LA style in salsa class. The woman was strutting down the floor following the man as he holds her letting her do her own thing. The dance gives respect to the women who wants to create their own individuality through the dance.

During my stint in Salsa, I have learned the Casino and I wish I could dance the LA and New York style so well that I can dance confidently in Cafe Havana without being embarassed. But as my friend Ares told me, I should always feel confident as long as you are passionate about the dance.

Just one good cry can soothe the pain inside
Flush the tears and can clear your fears aside
Wail your grief and let time abide
That someday you will bid your sadness goodbye.

Take a friend who can sympathize and console you
So you will not feel alone in your darkest hue
After shedding the tears, you will feel brand new
All you have to do is cry it out and it will do you good.

I've been gone for a month and have not updated this blog and I bet you, the reader, must be wondering, where the f*ck was I doing and I haven't even written a single word for the past 30 days?

Well my gentle reader, I was out doing the hustle and bustle of busy living. Yes busy living. Sound like healthy living, crazy living har har! I was so busy I can hardly scratch my own ass. Here's why:

1. Gone into and out of addiction in DotA.
2. My team mates had to bash my arse twice to come out clean.
3. Trying to be professional and deliver everything listed in my job description & assumed jurisdiction thus my pessimistic serious behavior and "trabaho lang to" attitude.
4. Involved in the process improvement hoobaloo that I shouldn't have not participated in the first place
5. My boss is Canadian and my colleagues are Japanese...enough said.
6. I had to move from Taguig to Pasig for lower rent and accessibility to all sides of the city.
7. I'm trying to rebuild my social life, which is my only salvation from madness.
8. Going into relapse on credit card frenzy. Never been happy in my entire life.

I was moving my stuff yesterday with a friend from Taguig when I had to move Kirby, my landlady's labrador away from the car to let my friend move my stuff in the car. I had to hold him in the chain and shout like a commandant to the army. Suddenly the chain, locked on his leash, broke loose and off he went to the streets. I had to chase him barefoot and even tripped twice because he was sleek enough to escape from my grip. On the corner of the street when he was sniffing the neighbor's dog's balls that I grabbed him and lock my grip against his leash much to the neighborhood's surprise. When I got back, I told my friend , "You have witnessed one of the rarest moments in my life, catching a dog barefooted in Taguig."

I'm back in badminton for the upcoming company tournament. I was partnered with a gay volleyball player and I feel the pressure that I had to do good because this guy is really serious in winning. So I had to practice 3-4 times a week to get my form right and spend on getting the right equipment. Maybe a good opportunity for me to get thin and get my gameplay straight but it so bloody expensive my and reputation exceededs me as other teams thought me and my teammate are the team to beat in the tournament.

Salsa classes are starting to get busy. Ares, my salsa teacher, has managed to seal a slot in Fitness First Malate every Sundays. I'm helping him co-instruct and be his partner in some combinations in Puerto Rican and Casino Salsa.

Oh yeah I've enrolled Gold's Gym too. Goodbye to long queues and small girl's locker rooms. Hello hi-tech equiment, flat screen tvs and unlimited towel service. *wink*

Lastly, I am trying to have that "I don't give a sh*t" attitude. Hanep ba sa rehash ng personality and lifestyle ko. I've been tolerating so much bs in my life that sometimes other people tend to abuse it. I'm getting tired of being stepped over and pleasing everybody. So I just have to be straightforward enough and say what I want to say. My boss does it. Why can't I? And if they get pissed? Well, I don't give a sh*t.