Tamad

November must have been my busiest and exciting-est month of 2006. I wanted to write about those events but I'm so slothy for the past days.

I'll just post the things I did so that they would serve as a reminder that I need to write the details when I find the time/inspiration/motivation.

• La Union Surving Break
• Mt Cristobal Climb
• Alaska Cup 06
• Mt Pulag Climb
• Dental appointment with pretty dentist

P.S. If you are the 'pretty' dentist or my significant other, the last item on the list is just a figment of my imagination. OR. She wasn't really pretty, I wasn't even sure if she's really a dentist.

la union surfing break

5 days vacation at urbiztondo beach, la union. 4 days of sun and beach, 1 typhoon, 3 days of surfing, blah blah blah

mt pico de loro (aug06)

mt apo (apr05)

day 3

ronald's food column #1 - beta

According to what I've read somewhere, professional bloggers or at least serious bloggers identified as people who blogs regularly, blog in hopes of getting an offer to write a column for a published media. Writing for a publication may be enticing, but according to TFA (the f*cking article), blogging are for opinionated people. People who needs to share their thoughts to other people. While this may sound like a typical definition for a person with attention-deficit disorder, KSP in the local dialect, I have no idea why I mentioned this thought...

BUT!!, even though I'm no serious blogger (I'm more of a non-serious one), if ever I'll be snatched from the blogosphere to write in a weekly column for a magazine, I would like to write about my newly acquired self proclaimed imagined cooking skills which was necessitated by poverty. In short, in order to save money, I've been cooking my meals for sometime now.

A bit of background: I've been living away from home (home being Davao) for almost a year now. This means that my Yaya and/or Mom has not been cooking for me for that long, sad but true...

So here is my first easy-to-prepare, geared-towards-the-lazy-person, relatively affordable recipe for this 'column.'

Tantatanan!!

Ronald's version of a Tuna Spread. (Bows).

Ingredients:

1 Can (optional) Cheapest Tuna Flakes in Brine/Oil you can find ~P14
1 380ml (optional) Flavored Mayonnaise in Foil (a.k.a. mayo-based sandwich spread) ~P35
1 480g (optional) Wheat Bread Fortified with Fiber ~P50

Notes:
Every ingredient is optional - What I'm trying to say here is that you have an option of not making this tuna spread. (You have been warned.)

Bread with Fiber. Let's fight the battle against constipation!

Instructions:

1.) Drain oil/brine into bowl. (Keep this as I might change my mind and have to let you know that this _might_ still be useful)
2.) Put tuna flakes in the container you want your tuna spread to be in.
3.) Get Fork.
4.) Locate container that contains tuna flakes devoid of oil.
5.) Using the fork you hold on your right hand, lightly mash tuna flakes so that they would be exactly how you want them to be, lightly mashed and separated.
6.) Afterwards, let go of fork. Be sure to put it in an easily accessible location. (hint: beside the bowl of tuna flakes)
7.) Carefully add the sandwich spread. I usually add just enough to cover every strand of tuna flake with precisely 0.0011mm of mayo. I do not want a very soggy tuna spread. You may have a different preference.
8.) Grab the fork you let go of on #6. Mix.
9.) Buy Soda. (Important!)
10.) Spread the spread on Bread. (Hey, that ryhmes!)
11.) ???
12.) Enjoy while occasionally sipping your soda.

There you go. Enjoy the ridiculously easy to prepare Ronald's version of tuna spread.

Instruction #11 was intentionally left out as this is the most imporant step to get to #12:Enjoying your newly created spread. Non-enjoyment of you tuna spread is due to your not following the 11th instruction.

For lack of a better thing to post

I remember at one time, promising to thyself to blog regularly at least once a week. Obviously, it didn't happen. But I am again pondering the thought of regularly writing again. As soon as I find the free time to write (as all of my time are spent lying on the bed staring at the ceiling willing the lizard to move).

And if free time do finds me (despite my frantic hiding), my next problem would be what to write. I was never keen on writing personal stuffs (or is stuve?) online like feelings, emotions, definition of love, what I did, what I'm doing, what I'll be doing. I feel that blogging such things are gayish which I'm pretending not to be ... err... which truth I try to elude.. err.. Shit.

Oh, I just remembered my number one reason for blogging. I blog to be able to update my stalkers and would-be-stalkers of what I been up to lately. So if ever a beautiful stranger comes up to me and asks "Hi gorgeous, so what have you been up to?" I would immediately but nonchalantly reply "Oh.. Not much blognironald.multiply.com. See you." (I would have written I blog to update friends but most of my real friends can't read (they're all imaginary)).

Oh well.. here's another non-post to you imaginary readers.

END

Just so that reading this would not be a total waste of your time, I'm translating a list of jokes forwarded to me. The list was originally forwarded in Bisaya.

KONSEHAL: Emcee, paki-acknowledge si Mayor na nalate. Ayun, kararaan lang.
EMCEE: We would like to acknowledge the late Mayor who just passed away.
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CORRECT PRONUNCIATION
ANAK: Tay, bilhan mo naman ako ng jucyfruwet
TATAY: anak, ayusin mo naman pagbigkas mo. Di yan jucyfruwet.
ANAK: e ano pala tawag dun?
TATAY: BAGOLBAM...
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APO UG LOLO

APO: Lo, bakit kung maglakad ka ay parang pilay?
LOLO: ay naku, huwag mo na pansinin apo.
APO: e bakit po ba?
LOLO: sabi kasi ng doktor ko iwasan ang itlog at ito ay nakakacholesterol.
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EMPLEYADO: boss, pwede pa ako pumalit sa namatay nating manager?
BOSS: pwede naman,........di lang ako sigurado kung papayang ang funeraria.
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MOTHER: Anak! dumudugo daliri mo! Bilis at sisipin ko. tsup, tsup. O ayan, wala na. San ka ba nasugatan?
ANAK: Di naman ako nasugatan e. Tiniris ko lang itong polgas ng aso natin.
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ANAK: Nay, pinatumbling2x kami sa school kanina
NANAY: Di ba sabi ko huwag sumali sa ganun at baka makita ang panty mo?
ANAK: Oo, kaya ko nga pinasok sa bag muna e.
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Tatlong kumare nagkekwentuhan
Mare1: Sus, ako mare sobra nang makakalimutin. Pati ba naman pustiso naiwan ko sa ref.
Mare2: Ay wala ka sa akin, pag nasa hagdanan ako nakakalimutan ko kung pababa ba ako o paakyat.
Mare3: Sus buti na lang (sabay tuktok sa kahoy na dingding para 'knock-on-wood' effect) na ako walang problema! (Biglang talikod) Teka mare, baba muna ako at mukhang may kumakatok.
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Anak: nay buntis ako.. nahihilo ako
Nay: di ka buntis!
Anak: nasusuka ako...
Nay: di ka nga buntis!
Anak: gus2 ko ng maasim
Nay: lintek na bading to!
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Laki: Para sayo, kunin ko pati mga tala sa kalangintan...
Babae: May patala-tala ka pa, e iyong kulangot sa ilong mo kanina pa nakabitay.
Laki: Ay sorry, di ko alam gusto mo rin pala ito...
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BABAE: Ang gwapo ng pari, ano kaya pwede kong gawin para mapansin ako? Ahhh, ilalagay ko panty ko dito sa lamesa.
PARI: kaninong panty itong nasa lamesa?
BABAE: sa akin po padre.
PARI: may konting tae e....
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Isang pirata, ininterview
Reporter: Bakit kahoy ang kaliwa mong paa?
Pirata: Ah, natamaan ng bala at kailangang putulin.
Reporter: Bakit may hook ang kanan mong kamay?
Pirata: Ah, naputol habang sa espadahan laban sa kaaway.
Reporter: Bakit ang isa mong mata may takip? (eye patch).
Pirata: Ah, naipotan ng ibon.
Reporter: Ha? Nakakabulag pala ang ipot ng ibon?
Pirata: Pinangkamot ko kasi kanang kamay ko e.
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If you got here and you still think this is a total waste of time.. Well... it's too late for anything else. Sorry... >:-)

sikad sa mt manalmon (Apr06)

I'm moving

Yep, I'm changing blog service provider (if ever there is such term). New and more interesting entries will be posted on http://blognironald.multiply.com.

My first entry there tells the intriguing and significant story of my changing web space.

See you there imaginary readers.

sikad sa capones, zambales (May06)

Alpha entry on multiply

I've been blogging, or attempting to blog, nonsense for some time now. But this, being my firsty entry on multiply's blogging service, is still a special moment. Posting your first entry is like the first time of getting a dog for pet, or giving your new pet its first bath, or feeding your new pet its first meal of leftovers, or the first time you see a very pained look on a dog's face, or digging your first hole for your first dead pet's corpse. What makes them the same is that they were firsts.

Yep, like I said. Nonsense.

Anyhoo, if you're the type of person who fancies nonsensical blog entries, do visit where it all began -> http://blognironald.blogspot.com. If you noticed posts older than this, those posts came from blogspot. I tried using multipy's import blog from blogger feature, but for some reason unbeknownst to my physical being which I label me, some of the older-er posts weren't imported. Which is such a loss for multiply because those were my most intelligent, life-altering, profound posts. Ever.

I rant. I was just suppose to explain why I joined multiply but it's too late for just that. But let me explain still:

1st: The only reason was, I wanted to share my Capones-adventure pictures.
2nd: And since multiply blogs support tagging, I just _might_ continue blogging here.
3rd: Did you notice multiply's tag line? ..

"Want to show your profile to millions of people you don't know? Use Friendster.



Share your photos, video, music, blogs and more with the people you already know and love: Join Multiply"

Aww.. I did want to share my photos with people I already know and love. Thank you multiply. I heart multiply.com

Let's go Sikad, let's go!

I've been here in Manila since September of 2005. I've been playing football/soccer since that time. And since then, I realized that I've never been on a team that won a tournament, or even just a single friggin match. After several restless nights of thinking and analysis, I finally came to the most logical reason why the team I played on never won a match yet. It's due to the balat on my pwet.

If you read my last post, in able to ensure that my team gets to win at least a match, I'll have to have this balat dermatologically removed and chopped into teensy-weensy pieces. But due to the programmer's hectic schedule of eating, sleeping, tv-watching, bath-taking, eating again, the supposedly scheduled operation wasn't even scheduled.

And last sunday, a tournament was on. I'm playing for Sikad FC this time. Football tournament + Ronald + balat on pwet = ???.

Surprisingly, we won the first match versus some team whose name I forgot at the score of 3-0. You could say I was mildly surprised. I didn't score any goal, but almost did with a diving header. Click the link for the diving header should bring you to page showing a football player performing the said move (this is for football illiterate readers). Notice the player's face. To be able to correctly perform the diving header move, one's expression should be exacltly the same as the one found on the image. The expression of bewilderment, confusion, surprise and the need to defacate should be on one's face. With the face in place, one must dive to the approaching soccer ball's trajectory and let it bounce off the forehead and into the goal without the face changing expression the entire time. The reason the ball didn't go in with my diving header is due to my expression lacking the emotion of surprise.

After winning the match, doubts filled my mind. Could my perfectly logical reason for losing prior matches (balat on pwet), wrong? I was tempted to make a quick restroom break to check on the status of the balat in question, but due to the volume of people utilizing the room of rest, I decided to check on it later after the tournament.

Our 2nd match against Sta. Rosa FC was a draw 1-1. Nathan scored the first goal but due to our poor defending in the dying minutes, the opponents managed to steal one goal to draw.

We won the 3rd match against the Villamor Team 2-0. This time I had a between-the-legs kick-flip for a goal from an excellent pass from Rod. No pictures for this one. This must be executed in person for one to understand.

We, again, won our 4th match against Naija FC 1-0 courtesy of Roan. Playing Niaja was a tricky one. The Niaja team was mostly composed of colored people which I presume has their roots in Africa. Most of the players of Naija were taller and physically bulkier we are. They were more odorous too.

And with that we finished first place in our bracket. We unfortunately lost to Sta. Rosa in our Semis matchup. Despite that, Sikad FC definitely played a hell of game that day. Top team in bracket A? Wow. Take that you balat.

The Sikad's ladies team played even better finishing as the tournament's 1st runner up in the ladies division. It was the first time I saw Sikad's ladies played and I was totally in awe of how they handled, passed and moved the ball. Wow. The ladies lost the last match against a team of seasoned, ex-varsity, national players. First runner up is definitely not bad for a team of recreational female football players.

Oh, and when I got home and checked on my balat, it wasn't there anymore ! The I realized, "Oh my gosh, it was just libag!" (spoken in the coño-est tone possible).

After a Month or so

It's been a month or so since I've last posted here. I was inspired to put in a new entry when a from-davao-but-now-in-singapore friend shared her new blog. This is aside from the fact that I'm doing nothing today. And I'm bored. And I only write when I'm super bored. I'm actually only psuedo-bored but I feel writing anyway. Since I'm only psuedo-bored, I'm just gonna psuedo-write. A psuedo-blog entry.

This being a psuedo-entry, I'm just let you know what I've been doing for the past month or so.

1. 5 on 5 Futsal Tournament at Club650 with the Korsaaven.

• Korsaaven was my main football club (fc) back during my UP student days. I was pretty glad to know that the team is still playing and is slowly rebuilding. (Lots of players stopped playing after graduation and were never heard from ever again). We lost the tournament (This being my first futsal tournament here in Manila, which is totally not the reason we lost but I still feel like mentioning).

2. 7 on 7 Tournament with Sikad FC

• I played with Sikad FC way back when the team was still named ArchLegion. Never knew the reason for the change but still, playing with these guys still is fun. Again, we lost the tournament but I have an uber-cool moment during one match. I did this super-bicycle kick which awed the audiences even if the ball didn't went in. Thanks to my kick's landing, I have a mild sprain on my left wrist and right foreknuckle til now.
  

3. Bisita Iglesia with Sikad FC

• Since I was doing nothing during the holy week, I tagged along with Sikad FC's bisita iglesia. I was told that this activity was some kind of tradition with club. It was an experience (for lack of a better word). Ironically, we ended the day playing texas hold'em poker. I guess we just wanted to play the roles of the soldiers who gambled for Jesus' clothes. Hmmm.. could those soldiers have been playing poker? Aside from that, we took extreme care of not wounding ourselves. We all know the consequences of wounding oneself on the days Jesus was dead, it would never heal, forever.

4. Trip to Tagaytay

• I've never been to Tagaytay. So even if I only had 3 hours of sleep due to last night's poker game after bisita iglesia, I went and even volunteered to drive. After piercing my eyes with toothpicks to keep me awake for the drive, we got there safe and sound. Visited some popular tourist spots, took some pictures like tourists and even ate like tourists. 'Twas suppose to be a day trip, but for some reason we decided to return the next day. We found a cozy hotel/resort to sleep over for the night. The price was quite steep but the place was real nice. So nice that I forgot its name. After buying the obligatory I love *insert place where you are now which is currently->* Tagaytay shirt, we went home back to smogful Manila.

5. Mt Manalmon

• A fun climb with Sikad FC friends. What I like best about the people in Sikad is that they share the same interests I have from prOn to football to mountain climbing. A really easy climb. You'll reach the peak in 1.5 hours.
  
• Related to this climb is my purchase of a pioneer 2 coleman good-for-two tent which costs around 3K (Ouch). Prior to the climb, I had my eyes set on a good for four tent at Isetann for 850. But on the day of purchase, images from my raining first night on Mt Apo reminded me that cheap tents meant no sleep, wet clothes and group hugs the entire night.

6. Campana Farm

• Another Sikad FC activity, gawd I like this club. Fished for tilapia in the pond, videoked the entire night. Wow.

7. Tennis and Polats

• My friend Pol has new hobby, tennis. For some reason, I am in possession of a tennis racket. Pol with new hobby + Me with tennis racket = Me and Pol playing tennis. It was suppose to be a one on one tennisfest with Pol but due to our ...uhm... lack of training, we had to avail the services of Manong to help us with our strokes. I'm getting to like tennis and I might be making this are regular tuesday activity at the UP courts.

8. Mizuno 5 on 5 Futsal Tournament with Korsaaven

• Lost the tournament again. For the 6 months I've been playing football here in Manila, I've never played for a winning team. I may have to check my puwet for a balat to make sure I'm not the reason for this occurence.
• Bought a wicked new pair of Mizuno shoes. Not budgeted but since: 30% discount on Mizuno Shoes + Ronald with no Futsal shoes = Ronald with Futsal shoes - 2K. (Ouch)

Shit. This is a long one even for a psuedo post.

If I find time, or rather if time finds me, I'll blog in the details to the bulleted list here on this psuedo posts.

I'm quite contented with what is happening right now with the activities lined up for me:

• Capones, Zambales Trip - yahoo! surfing here i come
  
• Globe Football Super Cup - must have that balat dermatologically removed by this time

I just hope I didn't just imagine all these things.

Mumblings

I re-found my diary ... urhm ... journal three days ago, not underneath a tree but in the space below my closet gathering dust. It's really an old notebook the size of a large she-wallet. I dunno what came to me that time, but 'twas suppose to be a dream diary ...urhm ... journal (diary are for girls, from now on and then on, it's a journal). The first entries were dated jan 05 '02 (I had more than one dream the first time I decided to journal them down). Entertaining actually, but being the creature of non-habit that I am, the journal slowly mutated and decided to be simultaneously a grocery list, assignment notebook, soccer attendance sheet, a to-dos list, and almost even toilet paper and sometimes a girly diary.

The unpretentious notebook, tattered and with peeling covers, chronicled almost significant moments from 2002 until 2004. Emotional fights with my S.O., material things I would like to possess at that time, ways I can get those material things at that time, things I would like to do to improve myself, notes to self, bits of reflection, they were there.

Reading them again is almost living at those moments especially those notes to self. Writing notes to self started when UP decided I was too good for them. And I could write long, detailed even, notes to self.

With the ~150 pages it has, I guesstimate that there are ~50 blank pages left. And I'm gonna write into it again. I guess writing on paper with a pen is different from typing from a keyboard to a white screen. And most entries on this tattered journal is not interesting for other people. This means I'd rather write it down than blog it.

I mumble.

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On a different topic, I recently found out about polyphasic sleeping. I think I'm gonna read more on this and then try it. Quite interesting if you ask me.

Here's how I will prepare: slowly try and be vegetarian or at least cut down big-time on meat, slowly wean myself off coffee(I don't drink a lot so I don't think it would be a problem), stop smoking (Again, I smoke very occasionaly and only when socially significant. Social significance of smoking is subject of an entire blog so I'll just leave the idea on your fertile minds), regularly wake up early.

That's about it for now. I hope this gets interesting enough for me to blog on this.

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I'm also thinking of switching blog service provider (if ever there is such a term as blog service provider). The idea of having categories for one's blog entries thrills me (talk about cheap thrills). Thanks for the idea marlon.

Mr. Mild Mannered Programmer

*Update as of June 2006*
   This entry was originally posted on blognironald.blogspot.com. Prior to the url of blognironald.blogspot.com, the original url was the semi-cryptic icedman13.blogspot.com.
*End Update*

According to Blogger.com, I'm a registed user since February of 2004. Let me see, today's the first of March so 2 years times 12 months/year, hmm.. so that's roughly 24 mos. Excluding this entry, I have posted 24 others so, 24 mos. dibaybay 24 blogs, hmm.. carry one then square the result over phi... A blog entry for every month!

I may not be the most frequent poster among bloggers, but guess what? Guess who's google's number one (1) mild mannered programmer on the web. Drum rolls please. drumdrumdrumdrumdrum...

Here is the web's number 1 mild mannered programmer as of March of '06. As of this date, google returned 31,700 results for mild mannered programmers. I may not be the best programmer among the lot, but be assured I'm the mildest and most mannered of them all.

This may seem insignificant to you but months ago, I was like the 23,857th entry for the search term "mild mannered programmer." I can therefore conclude that tips on search engine optimization (SEO) sure worked. So dear friends, keep linking me up.

I see some pros and cons here.

Forgetting my easily rememberable url of http://blognironald.blogspot.com is no more a problem. I can imagine it all now.. *nuninuninuni*

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Bored Office Worker: I'm so bored working here in the office that I'm tagged as a Bored Office Worker in this psuedo-script.

Bored Office Worker (Struck by an Idea): Hey! Lemme mosey around and read up on my loser friend's blog I'll probably be thankful I'm bored working in this office as soon as I read up on him. Now what was the URL again? Was it blugnironald? Or was that Blognggwapo? *Tries the various URLs anyway*

Bored Office Worker: Oh shit! Why was I redirected to this pr0n sites!?! But hey, isn't this my highschool classmate? *drools*

After 3 hours and 2 bathroom trips

Satiated-but-still-Bored Office Worker: That should be enough pr0n for me for 2 hours. Gotta focus now and look for that super interesting blog. Let me _google_ for mild mannered programmer...

Satiated-Bored-but-now-Happy Office Worker: Viola! I finally found you. I love you mild mannered programmer but let me get back to my pr0n...

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Sounds too good, that it's true.

But on the not-so-lighter side of things, being the mildest and most mannered programmer may be too much pressure. I must be spartan in my ways to be able to maintain my mildness and manneredness. I mean, jeez, this popularity could easily get into my head.

Actually, it already have. Let's wait for the repercussions...

Not So Fair Report

I can be sometimes be so unconcerned with what happens around me. This may be due to my being situated at the lowest rung of Maslow's hierarchy. Still looking for that stable supply of wants (food, clothing, shelter) and needs (sex, drugs and alcohol). But let me try and list what important (importance is subjective, what is important to you may be total crap for me and vice-versa) events I remember for at least two weeks ago: stampede at Ultra, landslide at Leyte, UP fair 2006, bird flu pandemic spreading somewhere in Africa, my friend's baby ultrasound pic. The events are not ordered chronologically, I'm trying not to waste brain cycles here.

Anyway Hemmingway before this blog loses all sense for the nth time, I hope you had enough sense to relate the blog's title to one of the events I remembered.

The UP fair this year, like the past fairs, is full of fairness. During the fair time, I always ask friends I meet if they have been to the fair. Out of 12.75 persons I asked, 9.34 said they have been to the fair, and 5.12 of the 9.34 had been there more that once. (The decimal portion of the numbers stated resulted from a complex calculation which includes the number of persons and their BMI, that's body mass index for you).

Bits for trivia gleaned from people from the fair: Kamikaze of the UP fine arts was there and apparently, after years of searching is still looking for their slippers. They performed twice during the week performing their new single Narda (The logic here is if you don't find your slippers, go look for Darna.) Ely Buendia was there with his new band Pupils. I was told the band performed at around 5.30am of Thurday still from Wednesday's act. Hale and Cueshe was there. I really don't know what's wrong with them but there seem to be some underground movement detesting these bands. Eraserfest was the theme during the Fair's friday schedule. Fortunately it didn't rain which means the chances of the bands dying from equipment electrocution went down to 12.74% (I really like putting personally calculated statistical digits here, I feel smarter everytime I whip out numbers like that). The fence didn't breakdown this time keeping the balara kids and krus-na-ligas gang at bay (informal settlers who setup camp indefinitely around the outskirts of UP campus).

On the darker side of things, there were news of a kid's death due to fair related activity. This was not cause by mosh pit induced aggression. He wasn't stabbed or stampeded. I guess you could say he died in his sleep. Rumors has it that an SUV backed down on a lying child on the field. They said the child was sleeping. I didn't care enough to get more details.

None of these were first-hand experiences because I wasn't there.

Damn work.

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UP fair 2006

I'm remember saying to myself that I will regularly blog. Well, technically speaking, blogging once every two months still counts as regular.

I have nothing to say for now except that the day of sex ...ehrm... commercialized love is again, just days away. Yep, valentine's day.

I'm just glad that me and my significant other (S.O.) has transcended such commercialism and pressure to celebrate that day as the society expects couples to do (which is buy/give expensive gifts, eat at an expensive/romantic resto, and consummate earthly desires at home and/or at a seedy motel). A cup of coke may be less expensive than a glass of red wine. Graham crackers are not pasta. But conversations are always intimate regardless of place and food between two people fond of each other (I'm trying to avoid the cheesy and overused word love here). So dear S.O., this is not an excuse for not going out, to probably full restos, but a reminder that we're beyond that. So prepare yourself for coke and grahams at Aling Nene's Sarisari store on tuesday. (I hope it didn't come off as an obvious excuse for a totally unplanned 14. Ooops, it just did)

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UP fair is next week!

I've been to the Diliman fair from '98 until '00. On a totally unrelated issue (for now), I'm sure you know UP has been getting lots of freshmen students every year and not so lots of graduates every year. If this goes on every year, UP would be so full of students that the administration would be out of budget to give the so-called quality UP education.

That's where the UP fair comes in.

From what I remember, UP fair is celebrated the whole 2nd week of February. With different daily band lineups from the popular bands, rising bands and unheard of bands, with alcohol served at low prices, and with a cover charge of only ~50 (this was years ago, I heard it's around 85 this time), who would have the energy to go back to school after having fun nightly at fair? Incidentally, the school mandates that the 2nd sems midterms exams are scheduled on the same week.

See the logic so far? Irrestible, affordable, fun gimik at the same time as the exams means high rate of flunking students. Flunking students gets kicked off UP. Student body population shrinks to absorb next year's freshmen. Genius.

Call this a ridiculous conspiracy theory, but they got me this way.

This time, with my computer-genius certifacte a.k.a. diploma now present and safely tucked under my bed, nothing's gonna stop me from fairing every night. O wait, there's work. Naaah..

See you at the fair!

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Obligatory Pacquiao Article

What else is there to blog at this moment? I was actually involved in a near death experience yesterday (Watching AXN's extreme disasters on tape constitutes as involvement), but this experience pales in comparison with Tito Manny's win over Morales.

When else was there an event where political rivals shook hands, where people crowded the streets to stop traffic, where people gathered and claimed to pray together for a purpose, where evil doers (rapist/murderers/jaywalkers) were quickly rounded up and summarily executed? (Oh wait, I don't think the last one happened yesterday) Almost sounds like a successful EDSA revolution doesn't it?

I guess for a country supposedly full of problems and situations, we welcome these kind of news. News of the good kind. The kind that would give most people bragging rights. For example; IF Manny Pacquiao=World Class Boxer and Manny=Pinoy and Me=Pinoy THEN Me=World Class Boxer SO You=give money to Me or else; IF Manny=hardworking,disciplined and Manny=Bisaya (Lives in Southern Philippines) and Me=Bisaya EVEN IF Me=like porn Me=hardworking,disciplined too. The possibilities are endless...

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He's uber-rich now. Millions in fight prizes, product endorsements, ad space on his butt, and geez, even a singing career.

I'm a fan of Manny, as a boxer that is. But as someone who sings? Geez.

I wonder who first thought of this idea? I guess some record company wants to get a piece of that flow of money. Here in the philippines, once you're very popular, you could do anything, sing, dance, host shows and *gasp* even act and star in film. (Manny had a movie didn't he?)

Well, he has this song that's gaining lots of airplay entitled, Para sa iyo translated as For you. The first time I heard this song, I could almost imagine how they recorded the song. Manny Pacquiao seated with friends around, a microphone on Manny's left hand, platitos (small plates) of salted peanuts on the table, ash-trays with few stick of lit cigarettes, round of beer. If you imagined a videoke session with friends, that's how I think they did the shoot. Sing with me now; "Para sa'yo(This is for you).. Ang laban na'to (The second fight 'ang laban na two')."

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Imagine if Manny runs for office in his hometown. I bet he'd win. One, he's uber-wealthy and some say very kind. Two, he's very popular(Very Important in Politics!) and three, he's got insane punching power. Now what has punching power got to do with politics? I actually imagine hime saying this during his campaign; "Kung ako bobotohin nyo, Uumbagin ko ang lahat ng politikong corrupt!" Now that's a threat with a bite.

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If anything as shallow as a Pacquiao boxing win could bring about change in our country, bring it on!

Knock me another one Mister Pacquiao.

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Blog Construction

I'm making a few changes with my blog starting today.

1.) I changed my URL from icedman13.blogspot.com to blognironald.blogspot.com. I find the icedman13 URL too impersonal. blognironald sounds ..urhm, personal (for lack of a better term), plus I'm sure it's much easier to remember.

2.) Since I have a tendency to write novels (ultra long posts), I edited parts of my blog's page to show summaries with links to the whole grovel if ever you find the initial paragraph enticing.

3.) Notice the proper capitalization of posts. I actually went through all of my posts to fix the capitalization and some spelling errors after I read that good blogs have proper punct,uation pronunsiyation, but even grammer and speling.

4.) I was quite a bit of snob by not replying to comments on my posts. During my hiatus from blogging, I read and 'studied' other blogs. I notice that the blogs' authors reacted to comments. I think I will too from here on end. I'm actually gonna react to old comments starting tomorrow...

5.) I am actually in a possession of a digital camera (I didn't steal this one, just in case you're wondering. I making it clear that I didn't take this from a bag of an old lady who dozed off in an airport terminal. NO, I DID NOT, PERIOD). It's just your average digital camera which means, no, not lots of nude pictures here on my blog, but pictures relating to posts. That is, if I get the hang of uploading pictures. (Hmm, nude pictures sounds nice though, but nude pictures of a mild-mannered programmer? Yech!)

6.) My default font is now georgia. Wala lang. I just thought it would look better.

7.) I also have "Read from first post" link. For newly-imagined readers who wanted to get the gist of what I am going through.

That's it for now, hope to see you on my blog my imaginary readers. :-)

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