DJ, TIBET AND BURNING IN MANILA
march 18
everywhere i go, people are talking about brian gorrell and the gucci gang. it seems like the scandal deserves more attention than GMA's whoring of the philippines. baka sa susunod di natin namamalayan nai-annex na tayo ng china and magmamala-tibet na lang tayo. as of this morning (i watch BBC, CNN and bloomberg every morning before going to work) tibet and lhasa has been closed to tourists and media. i fear that what the dalai lama said will come true, that there would be a cultural genocide.
dapat iboycott ang olympics.
yes, exaggeration pero dahil sa ginawa ng presidente nyo sa spratly's baka susunod na nya ia-annex nya ang kalaayaan islands then palawan. huwaw!
oh well, mas nakakatuwa nga naman pagbalingan ng atensyon ang nangyayari kina dj, celine et al. hahaha. i'm still hooked with brian's blog.
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march 19
i used to love i still love long vacations. but long vacations entail scrounging for stories. lots of them. and writing all of them in one sitting. just like what i did today. finished at past 6 pm. my nose was already bleeding my head was already aching with all that writing to last me until monday.
hooray it's holy week! the only time in a year that presses stop. literally. they stay dead for at least two days, some three to four days (depending on management) only to start printing again by saturday night for easter sunday's issue.
unfortunately, i'm not going anywhere this year. no beach, no elbi -- nothing. we'll be staring at the ceiling (or computer screens) the next 5 days.
Fate iskind of playing a cruel game with me like s/he's getting back at me for not buying those tickets to visayas last week. but i've been pestering Other Half since january when cebu pacific offered the piso fare promo. told him we should buy the tickets "NOW!" (that time). quick before the cheap seats run out.
BUT for some reason he dilly-dallied.
you see we can't easily get away from our jobs, especially if we have a boss like ours. last day of work is wednesday and we can fly thursday ("ganun? sayang pamasahe hindi sulit kasi ang ikli lang ng stay..."). that has been the schedule for the last two years. holy wednesday is the last day private and government offices close, ergo, the last day for scrounging news. if we didn't get any, we'll be forced to pull something out of our magic hats.
told him he can go ahead without me i'll just catch up so he can maximize his stay in his hometown. i certainly CANNOT leave early lest i earn the ire of my reliever... he knows that. those are one of the many hassles we face in our profession. but he said, no, it's too much trouble picking me up from the airport from his hometown (which was 2 hours away from the nearest airport). told him i can manage and all he had to do was call the service vehicle that would take me away. been in a lot of situations worse than being stranded in some provincial airport. i can manage.
and now i am being penalized.
he only told me to buy the tickets last week, when fares have gone astronomically high in an era of budget airfares. i calculated that we would be spending more than what we spent for our fare going to hong kong for our honeymoon. told him no way we can afford that now, especially when he has just arrived from singapore.
and now i amsuffering stuck here.
i need to go somewhere. to unwind. to get away from my job for a while. to float. to be near the sea or mountain (elbi would be nice). to be out of metro manila. to recharge. be dead to the world.
but i'm stuck. here. now.
everywhere i go, people are talking about brian gorrell and the gucci gang. it seems like the scandal deserves more attention than GMA's whoring of the philippines. baka sa susunod di natin namamalayan nai-annex na tayo ng china and magmamala-tibet na lang tayo. as of this morning (i watch BBC, CNN and bloomberg every morning before going to work) tibet and lhasa has been closed to tourists and media. i fear that what the dalai lama said will come true, that there would be a cultural genocide.
dapat iboycott ang olympics.
yes, exaggeration pero dahil sa ginawa ng presidente nyo sa spratly's baka susunod na nya ia-annex nya ang kalaayaan islands then palawan. huwaw!
oh well, mas nakakatuwa nga naman pagbalingan ng atensyon ang nangyayari kina dj, celine et al. hahaha. i'm still hooked with brian's blog.
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march 19
hooray it's holy week! the only time in a year that presses stop. literally. they stay dead for at least two days, some three to four days (depending on management) only to start printing again by saturday night for easter sunday's issue.
unfortunately, i'm not going anywhere this year. no beach, no elbi -- nothing. we'll be staring at the ceiling (or computer screens) the next 5 days.
Fate is
BUT for some reason he dilly-dallied.
you see we can't easily get away from our jobs, especially if we have a boss like ours. last day of work is wednesday and we can fly thursday ("ganun? sayang pamasahe hindi sulit kasi ang ikli lang ng stay..."). that has been the schedule for the last two years. holy wednesday is the last day private and government offices close, ergo, the last day for scrounging news. if we didn't get any, we'll be forced to pull something out of our magic hats.
told him he can go ahead without me i'll just catch up so he can maximize his stay in his hometown. i certainly CANNOT leave early lest i earn the ire of my reliever... he knows that. those are one of the many hassles we face in our profession. but he said, no, it's too much trouble picking me up from the airport from his hometown (which was 2 hours away from the nearest airport). told him i can manage and all he had to do was call the service vehicle that would take me away. been in a lot of situations worse than being stranded in some provincial airport. i can manage.
and now i am being penalized.
he only told me to buy the tickets last week, when fares have gone astronomically high in an era of budget airfares. i calculated that we would be spending more than what we spent for our fare going to hong kong for our honeymoon. told him no way we can afford that now, especially when he has just arrived from singapore.
and now i am
i need to go somewhere. to unwind. to get away from my job for a while. to float. to be near the sea or mountain (elbi would be nice). to be out of metro manila. to recharge. be dead to the world.
but i'm stuck. here. now.
