The evil cotton bud January 27, 2009
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Of all the AYAD-AusAid initiatives I’ve read about so far, the one that really made an instant difference in me would be one volunteer’s campaign on the Evil Cotton Bud. Seconds after reading that humble comic book, it made a permanent mental register – a phenomenon actually, since that skeptic part of my brain does not really see truth in facts that easily.
I will never use a damn cotton bud to clean the insides of my ears again! If only I could make readers puke by posting scanned images of that comic book… hehehe.
And don’t think that those little “spoons” are better. The Earwax Bible says we are all better off seeing a doctor to have the nasty ones taken out of our ears. Oh boy.
*credits to www.sghhealth4u.com.sg for the image
My Corpo book ate my MRT card January 20, 2009
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Interesting MRT Cards in Singapore, no?
Whoever said that the best manifestation of wisdom is knowledge hungry for knowledge itself wasn’t kidding.
Today was supposed to be like any other Tuesday – coding car, music popped in my ear, commuters being usually annoying – except my MRT card is down on its final 4 Pesos and is, gasp, missing. I was oblivious to this until the guard rummaged through my bag for inspection.
Shit. Where did I put that damn card? I didn’t want to be a pain, so I went to a corner of the taft station to try to unearth that last card (and avoid the unending queue for tickets). 1 minute. 5 minutes. 10 minutes passed. Where is that stupid card?? I looked into literally every hole in my pretty bag (thank you Freeway) and found nothing but my normal clutter. Oh wait a minute. There was one place I didn’t look. No way, I thought. But I decided to go check anyway. True enough, after hammering through all 706 pages of Atty. Ruben Ladia’s Corporation Code textbook, a lone card dropped.
Uh huh. My corpo book got hungry. Great!
No shoes, please April 9, 2008
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I have to admit that I almost raised my hands up to rejoice when I found out that my new boss likes working without shoes on. I remember when I was with AL, I felt like I was persecuted (what a word) when I walked around the office in my favorite New York Knicks NBA socks! The buzzing giggles were louder everytime I put on my patent black pumps with those socks on – one office colleague called my get-up, “so London!” But I’m not in London, so…
So far so good with my new work 
I’m still getting the hang of commuting from where I live in Makati to where I work, but MRT’s been really a big help in cutting down my travel time. I just get a little paranoid whenever I get in the train cars, since images of the Rizal Day bombing are still vivid in my head. I sure don’t want to die all shattered and burnt with shrapnel.
The office plans to bring the staff along to Baguio next week; that should be fun, right? Well, honestly, going there again without Uwy and Elmer feels like desecrating my memories of Baguio. It’d be sadder this time. Awww…
thepurplehaze incognito March 27, 2008
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Argh. I can’t tweak this page’s layout/theme! If this goes on, I’d be forced to shut down this account out of sheer frustration!
Stephen Covey says, “Be Proactive”, so I will be. I’ll take a crash online course on CSS, and turn this page into something like this:
Yes, ala Multiply page!
In other news, Mario and I enjoyed posing as lawyers today at the Senate Building for the Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Seminar. The event was a collaboration of the IBP Pasay Chapter and Fairchild; our ticket to such is credited to Atty. Apollo XCS Sanggalang, IBP Pasay Chapter President and a professor at the Philippine Law School. The topics, which ranged from CivPro to Legal Ethics, were discussed by esteemed and highly accorded justices and law practitioners. The audience in itself was composed of lawyers, both new and seasoned ones.
I was fascinated by the passion that the speakers have shown for the profession, like retired Ombudsman Hon. Jesus Guerrero. He and all the veteran companyeros and companyeras deserve all due respect. I am truly privileged to have shared the same room and lunch table with them.
Now this is what you can call “sharpening the saw.” I am pretty amazed at how resourceful a person can get whenever left with seemingly LIMITED options. Ika nga nila, ang taong nagigipit, lalong nagpupursige.
(Countdown to my new job: 4 days)
First post of the year January 26, 2008
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Welcome back, Hayz!
If blogs were like my closest friends, my dear PurpleHaze would have left me a long, long time ago.
I guess those who really know me understand why I was gone, so I feel I don’t owe anyone an explanation as to my absence. Mean ba? Now I’m really back!
Wuuuurd! It’s midterms week again – RAH, RAH, RAH. I hope now that I’ve devoted less time writing blogs, my grades would be higher than last semester. I learned the hard way (hint: Property), trust me.
Allow me to do a-la Maurice Arcache by saying life has been fab to me so far, palanggas! School has been a blast, friends and family are doing great, finances have been manageable… What about work, then? I said great, SO FAR.
Let me be blunt about this (and I don’t care if anyone from ALI reads), but my supervisor sucks to highest sucking degree! He is everything a good leader is not: indecisive, unreasonable, dumb, panicky, fickle-minded and a scatterbrain. I wonder how and why he got the job in the first place. Magaling sa visuals? Maybe. Other than that wala na eh. He should look for a no-brainer job instead (although there is no such thing).
I hope that consultancy job I’m coordinating with my brod would push through.
Enough bickering for now – have to go back to reading.
HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE!
Buuuuuuurrp! October 31, 2007
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I totally understand people, women at that, who want to lose weight to keep a healthy lifestyle. What I don’t understand are women who are hell-bent on losing weight just because they think that ultra-thin is ultra-smashin (eeeeeewww, really). The only ultra-thins I like would be my feminine pads, thank you.
Take my really pretty (but really, really dumb) officemate as an example. She never enters my turf without telling everyone how much she’s been eating and how fat she is, when she’s actually already shapely and very attractive! Parang nananadya ang bruha, ha. Hmmm.
The trend among the women in the office now are diet fads: stick to one, make it actually work and you’re an instant celebrity. I asked one of the diet-cult members why they were starving themselves out. She answered, “para hindi ako iwan ng boyfriend/asawa ko at para bagay sa mga LuwiBiton ko.” What the hell happened to women empowerment? Flushed, perhaps?
I’m a big fan of eating (in proper proportions). No pathetic diet club can change that.
Queen of the Dreaming October 30, 2007
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I currently have an insatiable appetite for all things Sandman. This would be a first time for me, to actually fall in love with a character straight from DC Comics (ooops, sorry Mario, hehehe). This is all John’s fault! Are you reading this? I’m sure you are! You revived the Morpheus, Oneiros, Kai’ckul, King of Dreams, Endless lover in me. Now all of you know what I want for my birthday: a Morpheus life-size doll! Wala ata nun sa Divisoria or Greenhills eh. Hehehehe!
In other news, all the children here in our office wore cute little costumes for Halloween. All of them are going trick or treat: even the grownups. Good for the adults though, since they don’t have to change into ghoulish costumes. Their own faces would do just fine.
Sunshine
After Sunday mass, Mario and I decided to see a DVD of scary proportions at his place. I suggested The Exorcism of Emily Rose at first, but we couldn’t find the copy. We settled for Sunshine, thinking it was somewhat like Event Horizon. What a huge disappointment it has turned out for a Asian-horror-flick-junkie me! I loved the filming though It contained so many ironies that it actually made the viewers think. It’s not really a “scary” movie per se, but it would do if you want to pass the time. I’m giving it 2.5 stars.
Tear-jerker
See the familiar photo? LOL 
Toni took this one. Different photographers, same ‘effin effect on me.
NOT!
1 Corinthians 13 October 22, 2007
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The Bible has beautifully illustrated love as thus:
“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor, and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.”
I should be ashamed of myself.
Whenever something goes wrong, my finger goes on automatic pointing to anything I could possibly blame on, except myself. Although there are things that I am really partly to blame for, I seldom recognize that I am also accountable for its mal/disfunction. This attitude isn’t as extreme as drug addiction or nymphomania, but if it often hurts the persons you care for and love most, the selfishness becomes as evil as all evils in the world combined.
Last Friday, Mario and I went to Mario’s friend’s wake. He didn’t tell me it was going to be in Sta. Rosa, Laguna and assumed that it was okay for me to go home at wee hours in the morning. This obviously irked me, coupled by the fact that traffic was heavy along the SLEX and that he forgot to say thank you when I bought him food. I know, the last one was a trivial thing, but if combined with other trivial things, it becomes an unshruggable deal. Anyway, we got to his friend’s house at around 11:45 pm. At that time, I was already on auto-shutdown and moody/sleepy/hungry mode – a crank, to put it bluntly. I felt so alone with all of his friends that I entertained myself with my cellphone games. They, on the other hand, played cards until 4:00 am. I forgot to mention that all the while, he kept lecturing me about how he didn’t mind hanging out with my friends (so I shouldn’t mind hanging out with his), how he’s okay to tag along with me while I window-shop (so I also should be okay when we check out battle-guns-armour stuff) and how he is obliged to go to Church with me (so I shouldn’t be impatient when we stayed out late that night, especially since he was in his friend’s wake).
I think he also had a thing against me not asking questions about his army magazines while we were at the mall (the day before the wake). According to him, I didn’t even try to look interested. What am I to do? I can’t pretend I’m interested over something I clearly am not keen in. He told me I was being immature and selfish. Yun lang naman reklamo ko sa yo, Haze. Ouch.
Back to the wake: he told me all his sentiments, while I yelled back mine. Immature. Immature. Selfish. Selfish. That was all that’s ringing in my head. I don’t exactly remember what I retaliated back, but all I could hear was him calling me those two words. It’s not a character attack Haze. What do you call that, then? A character uplift? While they played pusoy outside, I stayed inside Mario’s car. They finished playing at 4:00 am; I got home an hour after. I did not talk to him for the entire trip. When he tried to talk to me in front of our house, I just shushed him. I do not want to talk to you. I closed the door at his face.
Two nights (of no communication) after, I realized that Mario is right. It doesn’t matter if he did things that annoyed me. It’s the way I react unreasonably and irrationally that is unforgivable. I never want my change to be too late. I’m sorry. I guess I kept doing all the things I did because I treated it as payment for utang-na-loob, etc. I’m really, really sorry.
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.” Love is all these and more. I realized that it’s also about sacrifice and compromise, like you said.
I’m putting the verse up against our wall to help me remember. If I still don’t, you know what to do…
Confrontation Shmonfontation October 17, 2007
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Ang tapang mo bata!
If my friend (who is fond of saying that with much gusto) saw what I read from one of my org’s e-group, he would have rolled all over his pants laughing. Never in my wildest dreams have I imagined all the drama would come from this org. Actually, I was expecting it more from my sorority. I can’t blame my closest orgmates from defending the decent members staunchly; heck, I’d do the same if I was in their place. From a reader’s point of view, they were just reacting to a very ugly and stinky stimulus.
Hay nako day, I should have trusted Marian’s instincts about this stimulus girl. “There’s something about her that creeps me out,” she once told me in college. Well lookey here, that thing that creeped her out is splashed and saved on my computer. Ganyan pala ugali nya. Akala mo umiikot ang mundo sa kanya. This is the kind that may excel in school, but beyond that could do nothing more. I’m excited to know what lies in her future (if there is one). The world is mighty tired of ass-wipes like her.
On using the e-groups as a medium of confrontation, I give all the effort a measly 2. What you write will be etched forever, even in the digital world. Everything written there may be used as evidence for libel, susmarya! Teka, a little review on libel:
“Words calculated to induce suspicion are sometimes more effective to destroy reputation than false charges directly made. Ironical and metaphorical language is a favored vehicle for slander. A charge is sufficient if the words are calculated to induce the hearers to suppose and understand that the person or persons against whom they were uttered were guilty of certain offenses, or are sufficient to impeach their honesty, virtue, or reputation, or to hold the person or persons up to public ridicule. . . . ” [Lacsa v. Intermediate Appellate Court, 161 SCRA 427 (1988) citing U.S. v. O'Connell, 37 Phil. 767 (1918)]
Lagot ka, bata!
Laugh Trip September 10, 2007
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Pardon the cross post from John’s email, but it was too funny to pass up on!
“I stay awake in the coldness of the darkened sky contemplating why, for some reasons, has my emptiness made itself manifests, extending to that niche where I was given life and growth, that because of austerity I was made separated from…”
- Inday… hindi makatulog dahil nahohomesick
“I am solitary. I find it hard to succumb into slumber, though the downpour of rain should’ve made it easy. This exuberant emotional glue I have for you, cannot be simply washed away. The multiplicity of what I feel for you is inevitable. This isn’t platonic. It’s real, true romance.”
- Inday, nageemote sa may bintana, habang iniisip si Dodong, ang boyfriend niya
“The statute restricts me to love you but you have the provocation. The way you smile is the proximate cause why I love you. We have some rules to think of. We have no vested rights to love each other because the upper household dismissed my petition!”
- ganito nakipagbreak si Inday kay Dodong (driver ng kapitbahay)
Amo: Inday bumili ka nga ng mga isda.. o nga pla inglesira ka… would you please purchase many fishes for our this week’s meals?
Inday: Judging from your statement I believe you meant a variety of fish. The term “fishes”, although rarely and even erroneously used, connotes a plethora or an array of different kinds of the aforementioned gilled creatures. But the more pressing questions before I traveresed the road to the wet market would be: What certain type of fish? Fillet or not? Frozen or just right smack the day’s catch? (Pauses) Aaah… by manner of careful extrapolation, given the meager budget in this houshold’s quasi-peasant middle class taste, I assume then I will source the staple “galewng-gowng”. Am I correct?
Amo: Leche!
Inday: You meant the freshwater milkfish? Then the “ba-ngooz” is it!
“La vida no es una broma actualmente. El dinero es tan duro de pasar. Puede usted bajar el precio parci mi? Soy ya su compradora avido diario por favor?
- si Inday tumatawad sa merkado ng isinama siya ng amo sa España
*Drunken shrimp and blue lobster meat with caviar serve with milagrosa rice (red avriety) and apricot sauce
*Vegetables in balsamic vinegar splashed with extra virgin olive olive
*Lychee and peach salad with sour cream cheese topped with lemon zests
- baon ni Junior sa daycare na inihanda ni Inday
“Bloody hell!!! What the f*ck did just landed on my cutie top? I mean I’ve spent all day just to make myself look fabulous. I think I’ll have this eewy thing removed in a whip wham of time!”
- reaction ni Inday nung natalsikan sya ng mantika habang nagluluto ng tilapia
“Ipomea aquatica has become the constant ingredient to this Filipino delicacy which is very helpful in the digestion during the peristaltic process of the food we intake. Due to the continuous rains and floods, the harvest of the said vegetable has lessen the production in the market.”
- banat ni Inday kung bakit walang “kangkong” sa nilutong sinigang
“Heavy fire that exerted by the stimulus affect the best conductor of heat which is the steel, causing the “oriza sativa” which is the scientific name of rice to change its state of color, smell as well as the taste.”
- sagot ni Inday nang tanungin siya ng amo kung bakit nasunog ang sinaing
“Off you go! Under no circumstance this house would relent to such unabashed display of vagrant destitution!”
- si Inday, pinapaalis ang makulit na pulubi sa gate… (Taray talaga ni Inday!)
“Allergens triggered the immune response. Eosinophilic migration occurs to the reaction site and release of chemotactic and anaphylotoxin including histamine and prostaglandins. These substance results to increase circulation to the site promoting redness.”
- sagot ni inday nun tanungin ni sir kung bakit may rashes si Junior
Amo: Day! Bakit may bukol si Junior?!
Inday: Compromising safety with useless aesthetics, the not-so-well engineered architectural design of our kitchen lavatory affected the boy’s cranium with a slight boil at the left temple near the auditory organ.
Amo: (Di nakareact)
- – - -
“Dear Mom,
Had it not been for the smelling salt, I must have collapsed moment ago. Junior has become a little monster to me. Remember the head accident he had? As if it wasn’t enough, he was summoned by the principal of his shabily run academe. Oh such an erudite bunch of baboons! I never lot being a governess can be such a strenuous employ.
Your daughter,
Inday”
“Dear Inday,
Walanghiya ka! Magpadala ka ng pera! Nasa ospital nanay mo, dumugo ang ilong kababasa ng pesteng sulat mo!
Tatay”
- – - -
Mister: Bakit tuwing pag-uwi ko, nadadatnan kitang nanunuod ng TV??!!!
Inday: Because I don’t want you to see me doing absolutely nothing!
- – - -
Amo: Inday di ba nanood ka ng The Buzz kahapon? Bkit daw umalis si Angel Locsin sa GMA7?
Inday: Sometimes people choose to leave not because of selfish reasons but because they just know that things will get worse if they’ll stay. Leaving can be a tough act and it’s harder when people can’t understand you for doing so.
- – - -
“Physical stress and excessive work may result to serious damage to one’s body. It is therefore essential that once in a while we take a break from our usual routine to replenish the lost energy we once had.”
- sabi ni Inday sa amo noong humingi siya ng dayoff
- – - -
Misis: Inday, bakit mo binenta yung sirang silya?
Inday: I have computed the chair’s fair value less cost to sell, and the value in use using projections for 5 years and a pre-tax discount rate. Accordingly, the value in use is lower, so I decided to sell the chair. This in accordance with PAS18 on Revenue, PAS16 on Property, Plant, and Equipment, and PAS36 on Impairment of Assets!
Misis: ADIK ka talaga Inday!
