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getting into other people's mess..

We didn't ask for this but this mess happened because someone who just came from rehab rented the condo next to my son who wants to just finish his culinary course on time and without a hitch. However, one knock in the middle of the night when he was about to sleep changed the whole scenario. My son had realized it was one big mistake for him to have opened that door, but it was the good Samaritan in him that made him open the door because the voice of a lady crying just made him do it. Turns out that this lady happens to be the girlfriend of this guy from rehab. My son knows very little of her, he had hardly spoken a word to her, but here she is apparently begging him to have a moment with her for she has something urgent to tell him. Turns out again that this crying lady is the carrier of bad luck. She started crying and narrating how her boyfriend (the one from rehab) is maltreating her and pushing her to borrow money from many people. This was the scenario that the boyfriend from rehab found them in and this angered him, leading to threats and needless rage. In the first place, people who had just been released from rehab have no business living alone. They still need the supervision of parents or guardians, but this one was left to live alone in a condo and now he is causing troubles to a lot of people. Isn't that a shame? We're not even related to them by a single drop of blood! Why are we having problems with their child who is now back into his old addiction?

I'm back!

After almost a year of neglect, here I am ready to conquer the world of boredom and make this blog the repository of rants and what-have-you. I never thought I would still be able to retrieve this blog which I had neglected for no apparent reason. Anyway, what is important is NOW and the FUTURE. I hope to be able to write more and therefore, express more.

account back!

Thank God I have my blogs back! A few weeks ago I tried to log in to my blogger account but I was told that all my blogs have been deleted or something. Now that was a real scare. Today, however, after undergoing Google's verification process, I am able to log in to my account and boy am I glad. Whew! That was close.

memories of "tira-tira" & "buchada"

These sweet memories need to be recorded lest the future generation will never know what sort of candies our generation used to go crazy about. I remember right across the elementary school where I studied were rows of stalls selling all sorts of goodies made from red sugar. They were called "tira-tira" in Visaya and "butong-butong' in Ilonggo. The name gives justice to the sugar candy because one has to literally pull the candy long enough to cut it as you eat. Back in the day, it was an irresistible delicacy we all needed to have during recess or after school. Amazingly, there were different versions of the "tira-tira." There were the long ones which were easy to eat and the dark brown flat ones that needed some pulling when eaten. Then, where's that old man who used to go around the city shouting "Buchada! Wala'y lami, wala'y bayad!" And I remember buying and eating the "buchada" made from "ube" powdered with white sugar. Where are these delicacies now? Another favorite was the "pinampam" bread so appropriately named because of the very red "lipstick" in the middle of the bread. I really miss the good old days when we didn't know anything about obesity and diabetes. We were so free to eat anything. I do not know why kids now have to be told not to eat a lot of stuff nowadays. What is wrong with today's food?

Pasta King has arrived in Dumaguete!

World-renown Pasta King is now in Dumaguete. The first fast food Italian restaurant is located near the Quezon Park, at the cor. of Dr. V. Locsin St., right at the heart of downtown Dumaguete. What is amazing is the fact that one can enjoy a full large bowl of Italian pasta for only Php 99.00.Furthermore, Pasta King does not only offer pasta but other dishes and food items that are surefire hits to everyone's palates.

The Husband Who Told His Wife She Looked Like a Whale

The Husband Who Told His Wife She Looked Like a Whale

Tribute to a Dog Named Lara

Tribute to a Dog Named Lara

I Lived at a Time and Culture When Women Did Not Know Anything About Sex

I Lived at a Time and Culture When Women Did Not Know Anything About Sex

Some Weird or "Rural" Methods of Luring Someone You Secretly Love

Some Weird or "Rural" Methods of Luring Someone You Secretly Love

an oldie doing the dawgie?

You heard it right. What do you think of an old woman past her 50's who still dances to the tune of "Teach Me How to Dawgie"? Cool? Crazy? Weird? Well, you can say whatever you want but today I danced the dawgie dance with kids 5 to 10 years old and I had a grrrrrreat, great time doing the signature dawgie moves. Why? What do you expect old people who are above 50 to dance? Do the "Fandanggo sa Ilaw" or "Tinikling"? I am not undermining these beautiful folk dances, but hello, my generation only danced the "Tinikling" or "Itik-Itik" during Filipino week or programs. At parties we danced wildly to the non-stop music of Led Zeppelin and other rockers I could no longer remember. We were the generation that produced Twiggy, LSD, the peace sign, Woodstock, etc. We wore the shortest skirts or dresses called micro mini and jam sessions at least once a week honed our dancing skills. Now that we have reached this age, we just can't begin to dislike pop music because of our age. So whenever you see a 50 something head-banging or rocking, don't laugh or label her/him "weird". He or she could be reminiscing of happier times the present generation will never experience.

A case of email overload

There are all sorts of net users. One group is composed of people who only come to check and write emails. They are usually businessmen or busy people who have other better things to do. Others come online for more than one reason– to check their emails and at the same time do other online tasks. However, I belong to one small group of internet users who only come to update my Facebook status, write blogs and participate in forums. My online tasks do not happen to include logging in to my email. This has put me in trouble because the accumulation of too many unread emails has made it impossible for me to clean my inbox. How do you expect an ordinary person to read the close to 10,000 unread emails in one visit? The number just overwhelmed me that I decided to leave it just like that. However when a friend told me that failure to clean my inbox will disable it from receiving future emails, I decided to resolve to start reading, deleting and cleaning my overloaded inbox. I forced my lazy self to get started with it. Every time I come online I’d read and delete, read and delete, read and delete. But much of the time there was more deleting that happen than reading because majority of the emails are spam or scam mails. I did this regularly until one day, from 10,000 I got down to 699. That’s less than a hundred now. And because I do not want to waste all my time doing nothing but deleting junk from my email, I’d see to it that I leave some for next time so I can move on to my other online work. With less than a hundred junk now, I can now peacefully accomplish my work online with a lot of ease and confidence because I have finally done something to remove the clutter in my inbox. Read more: http://webupon.com/e-mail/a-case-of-email-overload/#ixzz1qlsnyFDg

Unlimited Rice & Buy One-take One Burgers Equals Obesity

Unlimited Rice & Buy One-take One Burgers Equals Obesity