Philippines
October 20, 2007
Thank goodness for research (0 Comments)
For once I am thankful that I have this research. Why? I might have been at Glorietta. I could have been a victim. -_- If you aren’t aware of what happened because you never bother to watch/read the news, then here’s what happeend — Glorietta 2’s destroyed due to a bomb. 9 People were killed and more than 100 were injured. It happened on a Friday. It’s the last day of the week and there would be more people there than on a usual weekday.
Here are online news you might want to read:
CNN.com — Manila shopping mall blast kills eight
GMANews.tv — First person account: ‘People thrown like dolls by blast’
GMANews.tv — Military puts Metro forces under red alert after blast
GMANews.tv — Mall blast kills 8; Police chief says not LPG, may be ‘a bomb’
Inquirer.net — (UPDATE 19) Mall bomb blast kills 8, hurts more than 100
Inquirer.net — ‘It was a huge explosion…I am happy I am alive’
Inquirer.net — Glorietta death toll rises to 9
Inquirer.net — List of dead and injured in Glorietta blast
Bloggers have posted their experience and shared their stories. Quezon.ph posted the some blog links with information regarding the tragedy as well.
I’m glad I had to stay home and do our research. I asked Mac to come over, be my moral support, and help me get the maps I have to include in the paper. Thank goodness really. Mac and I frequently hang out in Glorietta. Although not in Glorietta 2, we always pass there if we have to go the terminal or to the CD-R King branch that’s just steps away from the Glorietta 2 entrance. I also remember that we were supposedly to have a gig in the new bar there (Rock Candy?). We were supposed to rush practice and stuff, but it’s hard to organize the members who weren’t replying (they could have been lazy or just didn’t want to bother, but… Maawa naman sila sa nagtyatyaga. PUTIK NA YAN. Ahem, anyway, that’s a different topic.).
Thanks, btw, to my Dad and Tita Sandra who checked on me and my brother after the incident.
Pictures taken from disneycute.multiply.com. Go there to see more.
I saw a video on GMANews.tv’s site. A man was still inside Glorietta. He rushed to Glorietta 2. You could see the white smoke coming from there.
(Crossposted in Here is No Why and Here Even…)
October 7, 2007
Last week on Shabby’s life (0 Comments)
:sing: I should get that breakfast table (or whatever you call it) from my parent’s room. I’m going to become a hunchback if I keep typing with this laptop on my bed and me slouching. Ugh~
Last week has been semi-busy for me. ^_^ Last Monday’s the first day of school in Mapua. I drove there (with no problems luckily because I have poor eyesight haha~), arrived at around 10:30AM, and lined up in the Customer Service to ask for a certification that my Dad had been asking me to get. He wants it while we wait for my transcript that will take 2-3 weeks to process. The certification is just an official letter from school I have taken all the major courses and only have the thesis to finish. After about 30 minutes, thank goodness to my trustee mp3 player that made my wait less boring, I was able to talk to the lady in charge. I asked if they could give me the certification. She didn’t know what I was talking about. She checked the list of what records they provide for the students, but didn’t seem to find what I want. She told me to talk to our program registrar. I went there, seeing a really long line, I asked my Dad through SMS if I could just email the head registrar. He told me to try to get it that day. It was so hot and noisy that I thought I would faint. When I got to speak to the registrar, all she said is that she can’t give me a certification because I still have a continuing course. That is the thesis. ~_~ She probably thought I was asking for the usual certifications they give. Dammit. I wish they’d listen properly. She said I should just wait for my transcript. *sigh* I haven’t told my Dad yet. He’s going to be pissed even though it’s not entirely my fault. I also think they wouldn’t give me the certification he’s asking about because they will only give what they could get money out of.
Man, I was lucky I got to talk to her before their lunch break. The assistants of every program registrar should take an early lunch and have them do the task while the registrars take their break. ~_~ I pity the students who do not get to make it. You waited long and you have to wait longer for their lunch break to be over. In spite of being a technical school, enrolling there is always a pain. The lines are always long even until the first week of school every term! For this term’s first week, the only change I saw is that they accept CREDIT CARDS. Finally! If they accepted that before, I would have paid with less worries. I wouldn’t have to worry about the cash or checks I bring. XP The school’s turned into a mall. They have a customer service and they accept credit cards. ^_^V
After that, I went home, had lunch, waited for Mac before going on a joyride with him and Mang Ed. *lol* I was so tired when we got home. I blame those 2 lines I went through. Even though you only have to stand up the entire time, it’s still tiring. I guess impatience and irritability consumes a lot of energy. *lol* We camwhored and watched a few episodes of Frisky Dingo while we ate sausages. He left before 11PM. Then I tried to work on our thesis paper.
About Frisky Dingo, thanks to Jen for blogging about it before, you guys should also watch it. It’s hilariously stupid. XD Xander Crews is a major jerk. Killface is… Really out of this world. ^_^V The episodes are only 11 minutes each, so it won’t take you forever to watch it. ^_^
Tuesday to Thursday, I stayed at home doing the paper and minor stuff including those I mentioned in my previous post. I wanted to go to school last Thursday, but decided I’ll go on Friday. The schedule of my payment was last Friday, October 4. I didn’t want to go out 2 days in a row. I’m lazy and I’m scared of the sun. HAHAHAHAHA~ I asked Mac that we meet up by 9 or 10AM, but I slept in late. I woke up by 10:30AM. ^_^V Sorry, Mac! We met up after lunch, got my money at Western Union, then I went to school. It’s already Friday and the line at the Customer Service was still effin’ long. Thank goodness my thesis groupmate Sylvan was there. It would have been really boring if I were alone. -_- Mac hanged out and played with my PSP at McDonald’s while he waited for me. It took me hours to be able to leave school. I had to talk to my thesis groupmates. I was pissed off because I feel like we’re going nowhere. Some of my groupmates aren’t really into it. *gah* Fucking thesis. >_<
I’ve heard about the issue of Teri Hatcher’s character in Desperate Housewives. I can’t believe that a non-educational show (nothing like National Geographic or Discovery Channel series/shows) will get noticed badly like that. ^_^V When she said, “… before we go any further, can I check those diplomas because I just wanna make sure that they’re not from some med school in the Philippines,” I thought she meant a school that isn’t widely known for its medical teaching. Before I go on, it won’t be too long anyway, I am not talking about this because I want to attract replies or visitors. This isn’t for a short-time net fame. ~_~ Nor am I not being ‘di-makabayan.’ All of us have their share of opinions and this is mine. Reading entries about this subject and the flood of replies is kind of funny, actually. The offended people will rant on and on, wanting the blogger to side with them. That’s fine, but if you start insulting them in the slightest way is not nice.
Moving on… I have to agree with Sassy Lawyer. I won’t go into details of what she said. Go read her post instead. If this is discrimination or a racist comment to you, then we discriminate fellow Filipinos with regards to their school. I hear some people say that person A is no good at this because he/she only graduated at this school. Whereas person B would be fit for this job (whatever that may be) because he/she came from this school. Oh well, this may not make any sense to you. It’s 5:14AM (as I type this), I only had less than an hour of sleep, and I’m effin’ hungry. Also, there’s an issue on Burma that should be taken more notice of than some TV series.
Unfortunately, I’m days late on posting that graphic. *sighs*
Photo-post coming later, I hope. I need a quick sleep before I get ready to our early Sunday mass.
September 1, 2007
The awful truth about Filipinos (8 Comments)
The title is from this. I found that after checking Dattebayo’s site after I saw the Naruto Shippuuden fanvideo-attempt on YouTube. (I don’t want to embed the video because it kind of ruins the xhtml validity of my site. *lol*)
This is DB’s news post about this matter. It’s funny that Dattebayo’s using an old slashdot entry about Filipinos. I don’t think I have downloaded any DB subs. I have no idea if their releases are good, so I can’t say they’re very un-professional in handling this. If they take their stuff seriously, they also have to take this thing seriously too. Whoever told DB about the video needs whacking… And DB should have, at least, researched whether the video is truly shown or not on Philippine television.
From their news post:
About Dattebayo:
Dattebayo is the world’s most recognized fansubbing group, with over 500,000 unique views of its products per week.
Really??? ^_^V I guess they’re only recognized to the Naruto fans considering how that anime is very famous.
After boasting, they added this:
About Philipines:
Third world country according to their own inhabitants. For more information, see http://pepper.idge.net/slashdot/philipinos.
Hmm, they can’t even spell Philippines right. -_- After seeing their site plus how they handle their group and releases based on their FAQ page, I could say they’re an alright group… But not after adding that link. The LOL @ FILIPINO TV is not even the slightest insulting or something that will get you angry compared to the link they posted. Where’s the public apology, btw? It’s not surprising to see angry comments being thrown in at the YouTube entry.
We’re Asian and it doesn’t mean we have to look Japanese or Chinese to like or appreciate their influences. An Asian doesn’t have to look like them to call themselves Asian even. Since the article seems to be mostly directed at Filipino-Americans, Anonymous Coward have generalized all Filipinos to be like that. His post lacks clarity. X_X It’s funny how one sentence such as this — SuP Wit U RhEinA GuRL??? — suddenly means A LOT to him! *lol* The guy who posted that is, he says, masturbates frequently to hentai or Japanese porn. O_o The rest becomes funny as you read it through because it shows that his brain cells have totally failed him. That kind of post isn’t supposed to be archived anymore. ~_~
August 16, 2007
Tarantino takes pedicab (1 Comment)
*lol at this news*
Tarantino takes pedicab in Manila floods
MANILA, Philippines – Quentin Tarantino was forced to hop into a pedicab to escape gridlock on flooded Manila streets Wednesday as he made his way to the presidential palace to receive a film award.
Tarantino’s limousine had been stuck in traffic for about 2 1/2 hours on a bridge close to Malacanang palace when Filipino filmmaker Amable “Tikoy” Aguiluz suggested they take separate pedicabs (cycle rickshaws).
About 15 minutes later, they reached a street corner near the palace gates where a car picked them up, Tarantino said.
“It was a lot of fun. It’s the way it is, I guess. … It was wild,” he told reporters. “No worries. I’ve done more serious things than that.”
Tarantino was 40 minutes late for the ceremony but 30 minutes ahead of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
Pounding rain from Typhoon Sepat flooded parts of metropolitan Manila, prompting authorities to suspend classes, briefly stopping a commuter train and slowing Arroyo’s convoy.
Tarantino, director of “Pulp Fiction” and the “Kill Bill” movies, wore a traditional Filipino formal shirt and sandals.
He was handed size-13 black leather shoes because sandals and rubber shoes aren’t allowed inside the palace during presidential ceremonies, said a staff member of the National Commission on Culture and Arts.
Tarantino, 44, was among three Lifetime Achievement award winners in the 9th Cinemanila, a film festival featuring foreign and local movies.
He is writing a book about Philippine films, particularly the horror and action movies he saw in his youth. -Y! News
It was probably a funny and exciting experience for him. Like my first time riding a boat on Pasig River. *lol* The pedicab driver would have been elated if he knew Tarantino. Well, if he knew him then he’s lucky. :DDD
Here’s another picture ^_^ :
And other pictures of typhoon Sepat:
Satellite image of typhoon Sepat
This is in Makati X_X
There are no classes today again even though the weather’s kind of looking good. Time for quizzes then will probably upload more pics in my Multiply account or make a layout for it. ^_^
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August 15, 2007
It rained then it stopped (0 Comments)
I’m late in announcing this. Quentin Tarantino is in the Philippines for the 9th Cinemanila International Film Festival. He was given a lifetime achievement award. He gave a seminar last August 11 which I thought was on the 14th. XP Darnit. I even put it in my Google Calendar. Lesson learned: not to check Google Calendar when you’re very sleepy still.
I so want this:
Motorola RAZR2
Motorola RAZR2 is sleek and its features are just awesome. I am curious about the touch screen on the front. The selling price now is quite too much for me. I’ll wait until it gets cheaper.
All school levels are suspended today like last week’s.
I knew this was going to happen. *lol* The rain poured down hard, it was hardly windy, and cockroaches crawled to houses’ outer walls since it’s already flooded outside. ^^; Here’s one picture I took earlier (more here):
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August 6, 2007
They say fries make your boobs bigger (1 Comment)
Philippines ranks second on what regions mostly googled (wow, Google can become a verb!) Maria Ozawa. Number 1 is Indonesia. (Source) Makati City tops Manila in the based on cities ranking. ^_^V
I’m going to school later. Probably. I feel so lazy and sleepy today. It could be because of the weather. *sighs* I’m not sure what time my professor will be at school. He’s usually late. ^^;
Gawd, I’m so sleepy. I plan on sleeping after this post. XDDD Yesterday we had band practice. EJ, the trombone player, and Jakki didn’t make it. I don’t have any idea if they knew of the practice. I asked Mac to take care of that. We only practiced for an hour and a half. We got a gig on the 25th this month. We might have another gig on the 16th, but I’m not sure if Rayton would be able to play. I’m thinking of asking one of guys in my thesis group. Hmm… Practice schedules are the only problem.
Rayton bought a kilo of fries, had one of our helpers fry it, and the four of us (Mac, Maru, me, and Rayton) ate it in less than 30 minutes. *lol* We were hungry. XD Mac also brought a kilo of fries last Thursday. I’ll be FATter than I already am. *dies*
August 1, 2007
Plugs, birthdays, and that thesis proposal (0 Comments)
XDDD I can’t believe there’s MyDeathSpace.com. The site is currently down. The server couldn’t handle the traffic it generated when AP made an article about the site.
The Philippines is where:
1. Starbucks is more expensive than gas.
2. Every street has basketball courts, but every town has just one school.
3. Students pay more than they learn.
4. Doctors go back to school to be nurses abroad.
5. Everything is spoofed!
6. Fastfood is a diet meal.
7. Rodents are normal house pets.
8. Cigarette and beer are necessities. Lottery is a commodity.
9. Soap opera is reality, news provide the dramas of life.
10. Actors make the rules and politicians provide the entertainment.
Arvy sent that as sms months ago. I say that numbers 6, 7, 8, and 9 aren’t true for everyone in the country. Anyone agree with me?
The ff. are what kept me busy (or reasons why I haven’t blogged lately) — Lucky Star, room organizing (not much of a success though), thesis proposal, for you updates, M-O, Angel Sanctuary art (yes, I’ve started drawing again), and burning downloads/requests.
Those are some I remember at the moment. I spend most of the time at home and trying to get most of my to-do list done. I always get side-tracked, so I barely finish any. -_- (Read more…)
