st. ives

friday na, di pa ako nakakain ng munggo.

pero palabas pa rin ang CRASH. pwede pa humabol ang di pa nakakapanood.

balik na ako sa national center, mula tuesday ng hapon eh sa eurotel ako nagtrabaho, ginawa kong office ang rm. 525 na me view sa farmer's plaza na inuulan ng tatlong araw.

me natutunan akong masarap gawin, magshower na nakahiga sa bathtub. actually kwela rin na nakalubog sa bathtub tapos nakabukas yong shower.

channel 100 ang asian adult channel sa eurotel, channel 106 naman ang american/ european. yong channel 100 eh naka-connect sa PC kasi me cursor pa. minsan kapag tamad yong operator eh nakaminimize yong screen at makikita mo pa ang desktop screen.


me libre na namang live jazz mamaya, mishka adams and the blue echoes uli. pero sa gateway naman, hehe kaya libre pala kapag tumambay ka lang na nakatayo, mapapa-gastos ka din kapag gusto mong umupo kasi sa cafe havana o sa italiani's ka uupo. sayang yong aug 27 cookie chua with infinity, demet, me kasabay na prosecution conference sa ilo-ilo.

meron ding screening sa bukas ng hapon ng willy wonka and the chocolate factory, yong naunang version na si gene wilder ang gumanap ng willy wonka.

yong DEKALOG ni kryzstof kieslowksi ay palabas pa rin sa sm megamall. 10 storya na base sa ten commandments na ginawa ng direktor ng bleu, blanc at rouge. bale 5 films na me tig 2 storya.

wish ko lang makapanood ako eh hanggang leeg ko ang kelangan ko pang isulat na trabaho. hintayin ko na lang lumabas kopya sa quiapo. mamaya maghahanap ako ng munggo.

thank god it's munggo

naghanap ako ng munggo kanina sa turo-turo na katabi ng 7-11 malapit sa lrt 2 station sa cubao, sa kanto ng st. mary at aurora na kapag gabi ay sangkatutak na babae ang nakatambay na iaalok sa akin ng kanilang bugaw, na madalas ay matandang babae, bakla o babaeng tomboy ang itsura, "chicks sir?" "kuha ka ng babae?" "sir ilan?", marunong din sila dahil kadalasan akong maalok kapag galing ako sa atm ng bpi na katabi ng 7-11, sigurado nga namang me pambayad ang bagong withdraw don, minsan naringgan namin ni cheryl magsigawan yong mga bugaw ng "hoy dito na yan, tatlo ang kelangan dito!" "ah hinde, nauna na dito", kahit nga iyong turo-turo na sinasabi ko eh inuman talaga yon na nagtitinda lang ng ulam kapag tanghali, pagkatapos non eh patuloy ang pagiging inuman niya na me bidyoke, na me mga babaeng pan-table, hindi ko pa nakitang magsara yong puwestuhan na iyon, gabi, madaling araw, umaga at hapon bukas siya, hindi nawawalan ng customer na naghahanap ng ka-table, napansin ko din na mga kuwarto kuwarto pala ang itaas ng lugar na iyon kapag tumingala ka sa labas, kamot din ako ng ulo ko na bakit matagal kong inisip na apartment ang asa bandang taas ng maliit na building na iyon, syempre kwarto kwarto, bakit ko inisip na pang-table lang ang ka-table, kapag gabi me manang don na me isawan, na kapag maaga aga pa eh yong mga babaeng nakatambay sa kalye at pang-table na wala pang ka-table ang kumakain ng mga binabarbekyu niya, kapag bandang hating-gabi na ay hapo nang nakakatulog si manang na nakasandal sa pader na hawak ang pamaypay niya para sa isawang uling na unti unti nang namamatay sa pagmadaling araw.

bakit kaya biyernes nagluluto ng munggo ang mga turo-turo at karinderya?

CRASH

i got this in the e-mail last thursday:

"CRASH" Excellent film.
No further explanation needed.
In cinemas now.

NIZA

i saw it last night, and i so very much agree, if you are to watch only one film until the end of this year, let it be CRASH.

happy birthday....

...richiekins!!!

war of the skies

i saw mishka adams and her band sa bistro 70s two tuesdays ago, galeng. jazz na pala ang tuesdays ng bistro. we should count our blessings pagdating sa accessibility ng world class music acts sa atin. for P150 pesos pwede ka nang makarinig ng live jazz, sus me consumable amount pa para sa pagkain.

ang mahal kaya ng kelangang ibayad sa north america at europe para makarining ng kasing calibre ng the jerks. eh dito P100 entrance lang. ganun din dati nung pinanood ko ang lampano alley, shites, ang mahal kaya pumasok sa blues bars sa ibang bansa.

another thing that we should be thankful for - the price of beer. magkano lang dito sa mga pwestuhan, P35 ang pale, kahit light. eh sa bangkok nga 90-150 baht ang isang bote ng beer. at...AT san miguel pa ang beer natin!!

galing ng live jazz, demet. to the uninitiated: what the musicians do is go through the regular rendition of the song and then lalarga na sila isa-isa sa pag improvise, halos di mo na makikilala ang song pero yon pa rin yon, parang platform lang yong song para lumipad sila, and then after nilang pumunta kung saan saan they all go back to the song. clap clap clap!!! whew.

outrage!

i usually don't do this in my blog but i think you may be interested in reading this urgent action from AI:

IRAN EXECUTES GAY TEENAGERS

Two gay teenagers were publicly executed in Iran on 19 July 2005 for the 'crime' of homosexuality The youths were hanged in Edalat (Justice) Square in the city of Mashhad, in north east Iran. They were sentenced to death by Court No.19. Iran enforces Islamic Sharia law, which dictates the death penalty for gay sex. Shocking photos of the execution are at the links below

http://www.outrage.org.uk/imagezoom.asp?file=37 http://www.outrage.org.uk/imagezoom.asp?file=38 http://www.outrage.org.uk/imagezoom.asp?file=39

One youth was aged 18 and the other was a minor under the age of 18. They were only identified by their initials, M.A. and A.M.

They admitted to having gay sex (probably under torture) but claimed in their defence that most young boys had sex with each other and that they were not aware that homosexuality was punishable by death.

Prior to their execution, the teenagers were held in prison for 14 months and severely beaten with 228 lashes. Their length of detention suggests that they committed the so-called offences more than a year earlier, when they were possibly around the age of 16. Ruhollah Rezazadeh, the lawyer of the youngest boy (under 18), had appealed that he was too young to be executed and that the court should take into account his tender age (believed to be 16 or 17). But the Supreme Court in Tehran ordered him to be hanged. Under the Iranian penal code, girls as young as nine and boys as young as 15 can be hanged.

Three other young gay Iranians are being hunted by the police, but they have gone into hiding and cannot be found. If caught, they will also face execution. News of the two executions was reported by ISNA (Iranian Students News Agency) on 19 July. A later news story by Iran In Focus, allegedly based on this original ISNA report, claimed the youths were executed for sexually assaulting a 13 year old boy. But the ISNA report does not mention any sexual assault. A report of the executions on the website of the respected democratic opposition movement, The National Council of Resistance Of Iran, also makes no reference to a sexual assault.

The allegation of sexual assault may either be a trumped up charge to undermine public sympathy for the youths (a frequent tactic by the Islamist regime in Iran). Or it may be that the 13 year old was a willing participant but that Iranian law (like UK law) deems that no person of that age is capable of sexual consent and that therefore any sexual contact is automatically deemed in law to be a sex assault. If the 13 year old was sexually assaulted, why was he not identified and also put on trial (under Iranian law both the victims and perpetrators of sexual crimes are punished)?

"This is just the latest barbarity by the Islamo-fascists in Iran" said Peter Tatchell of the London-based gay human rights group OutRage! "The entire country is a gigantic prison, with Islamic rule sustained by detention without trial, torture and state-sanctioned murder. "

According to Iranian human rights campaigners, over 4,000 lesbians and gay men have been executed since the Ayatollahs seized power in 1979. "Altogether, an estimated 100,000 Iranians have been put to death over the last 26 years of clerical rule. The victims include women who have sex outside of marriage and political opponents of the Islamist government. "Last August, a 16 year old girl, Atefeh Rajabi, was hanged for 'acts incompatible with chasity.' "

Britain's Labour government is pursuing friendly relations with this murderous regime, including aid and trade. We urge the international community to treat Iran as a pariah state, break off diplomatic relations, impose trade sanctions and give practical support to the democratic and left opposition inside Iran," said Mr Tatchell.

Protest to the Iranian Ambassador: info@iran-embassy.org.uk Tel: 020 7225 3000 Fax: 020 7589 4440 Iranian Ambassador Embassy of Iran 16 Prince?s Gate London SW7 1PT If you live outside the UK, protest to the Iranian Embassy in your country, and press your government to break off diplomatic relations and impose trade sanctions against Iran. Email this news release and photos to your friends. Urge them to protest.

songer-guitarers

galeng kagabi, enjoy ako na nag-gitara si k-anne, kumanta si che at gumitara't kumanta si dburns.

sona

sona mob na naman, tulad nung nakaraang taon, next year uli, kitakits na lang.

hard core poetry

coming back from nepal, i kept thinking if i gave a satisfactory answer to why human rights organizations in the philippines do not document human rights violations by both government and the maoists.

at first i could not understand why they had a problem with the 'mouse' in nepal until i got accustomed with how english sounded there. but i digress, i still want to know if i am still enamored with 'the revolution' to think that we have better maoists here, real genuine true blue maoists in fact, serve-the-people-never-take-a-single-strand-of-thread-from-the-masses maoists.

or maybe i just need to think that way of my dad.

when i was still in pre-school he used to have these bulky eight track cartridges that he played in the living room on a car stereo connected to what i remember to be turntable speakers. we lived in the visayas then, when he still worked as a medical detailman (now called med reps) for united laboratories.

i would know dad was home when chicago's colour my world would drip from the make-shift stereo system to wherever i was playing in what seemed as an endless stream of houses we moved in and out of then. i get vague recollections of distant corridors, hazy rooms, stuffy closets, forgotten hiding places and sepia toned playgrounds whenever daniel is leaving at night on a plane and the red tail lights are heading for spain and one can see him waving goodbye.

coming back from nepal, and thinking about the end of relationships, my friends' and mine, my dad's eight track stereo again comes to mind. i didn't know emily dickinson then nor read robert frost, but it sang to me then...and I only kiss your shadow, i cannot feel your hand, you're a stranger now unto me...lost in the dangling conversation, and the superficial sighs, in the borders of our lives.

the maoists ain't so bad if they have people with so much music in their hearts. to my dad who would now like to encircle the cities from the countryside i hum hardcore poetry.

'coz there's music in the city
if your ear is to the ground
only non-believers never hear a single sound
this is a song not necessarily sweet
i pass it on to folks i never will meet
and if my words don't make history
just call it hard core poetry

xty at dburns

kathmandu you

i'll be in nepal on sunday. this is what the lonely planet has to say about the place:

Warning

Nepal has plunged into a constitutional crisis following the dissolution of the Nepalese government by King Gyanendra. Long-standing tensions between government forces loyal to the King and Maoist rebels have resulted in sporadic violence across the country.

While the safety of travellers isn't directly under threat, the tense environment could deteriorate rapidly and leave visitors stranded. A recent state of emergency saw the King invoke eergency powers including complete censorship of the media and the suspension of civil rights. Some travel advisories are urging travellers to avoid going to Nepal until the political situation is resolved, however, tourist numbers are on the rise.

A Maoist 'people's war' was declared in 1996 in response to government corruption. A ceasefire temporarily halted hostilities, but negotiations faltered and on August 27, 2003, the ceasefire was called off. Bombings, including several on the same day, have hit Kathmandu and the surrounding valley.Maoists have threatened tourist facilities throughout Nepal, and Maoist leader Baburam Bhattarai warned travellers that they could be 'caught in the crossfire of the contending armies', while perversely encouraging them to visit anyway. Travellers to Nepal are urged to remain vigilant, keep a low profile and avoid demonstrations.

Check travel advisories for possible bandhs (strikes) that may be called at short notice. If a bandh is called, do not travel during it and keep an extra low profile until it is over.

Official curfews can be declared at short notice, in the capital and towns throughout the Kathmandu valley. Soldiers loyal to the King have the authority to shoot those disobeying curfew. Army and police checkpoints can make travel slow, and there are reports that rebels threatening violence - and bandits posing as rebels using actual violence - are sporadically targeting travellers for revenue-raising purposes. The districts of Banke, Dang, Syangja, Surkhet, Rukum, Kalikot, Jajarkot, Rolpa, Salyan and Gorkha are considered especially dangerous.

spank it!

what you could do for peace.
what you could do with your phone.
what to do at home.
what they do.
what to call what you do girl.
what to call what you do man.
what you do could kill you.

sorry

when i was still small, i thought i was a kind kid. now i remember throwing sand at the face of this new kid who tried to talk to me while i was making sand castles in a playground sandlot in one of the thousand places we lived in that time.

whoever you were, wide eyed kid with straight hair and a kind face, i'm very very sorry.

monkey versus penguin

just thought you'd like to see the screen saver of my phone, voila! penguin didn't stand a chance, tsk tsk tsk.

sige pakasal ka

just the other day i read sa amnesty international egroup newsletter that canada became the 3rd country to allow same sex marriages. great news, but still, nagulat ako that canada was still just the 3rd pa lang after netherlands and belgium.

isip ko ang bagal naman ng gulong ng sibilisasyon, tapos this morning nabasa ko as inquirer "Spain's parliament approves gay marriage". i went like...ha? hanep! spain? ang nagdala ng katolisismo sa pilipinas? asteeg!!

kumusta kay san pedro

this day last year, napaisip akong kwelang habang unti-unti na akong nalulunod at kumakaway ng saklolo eh nakangiting kinakawayan naman ako ng mga kasamahan ko na akala ay enjoy na enjoy ako sa paglubog-ahon sa tubig dagat sa baliangao. isip ko eh, so ganito pala ako mamamatay, na masaya silang kumakaway sa akin.

itong buwan na ito, two years ago ay nakasama ko si girlie sa isang DAR consultation sa cagayan de oro, kasama niya nanay niya na ipinasyal namin sa nakakahingal na eco-park something sa cagayan. di ko na nakita uli si nanay after that dahil nauna na siya pagkatapos siyang masabit ng school bus nitong simula ng 2005.

naging sunod-sunod na ang mga namatayan - tatay ni salome, nanay ni misty, tatay ni atty. bombi, lolo ni daniel, lola ni idak at ang tatay ni jerome. balak sana umuwi ni jerome sa ipil nuong pagkatapos ng training sa dumaguete kaso pumalpak yong kwentada sa budget kaya di siya nakasama sa dumaguete. kaya nuong nakauwi siya eh libing na ni tatay.

me pambawi naman, dahil ilang oras pagbalik niya ng maynila ay nanganak naman finally ang asawa niyang super-overdue na. suspense agad dahil ayaw umiyak ng bata kaya bitbit kaagad ni jerome ang baby habang angkas sa likod ng scooter papunta sa bahay ng kumadrona dahil di nadala ang gamit na kailangan para sa ganoong sitwasyon. umiyak naman, kaya kasama na natin ang pangatlong maria ni jerome na si jea anacleta (from lolo anacleto)!



meron ding mga kasama pa natin pero muntik muntik na, tatay ni xty na isinugod sa ospital (halos kasabay nuong asa ospital tatay ni bombi), si cheryl na nakipag kead-on collission sa truck ang bus na sinasakyan, si castor na binaril ng mga would be assassins na style DDS sa tacloban, at si max na asa heart center pa rin ngayon.

muntik na rin ako uli - at si ayi at kai at len at ina at lisa at jonal at iba pang pasahero - nuong pasko ng pagkabuhay, nuong muntik sumadsad sa dagat sa pagkakabiglang liko ng sinasakyan naming 'boat' galing marinduque.

pero ngayon, eto pa rin, isang taon na nga ang blog, at gumawa pa ng bago.
sige, hanggang sa sunod na taon uli.

accidental photoblogger

there's a whole lotta bloggin goin on sa national office! everybody's waiting for the latest post sa ratatitat journals as well as nag-aabang kung anong klaseng blog kaya ang mangyayari sa blog!...aray! and makatang lito.

dahil dito, i made a new blog! the accidental photoblogger, no long posts, only pics, check it out sa ikabodikpics.blogspot.com.

oh....spurs....woohoooo! spurs!

hokey, this is so me, kung sino kakampihan ko e yon ang matatalo. kung sino gusto kong maging masaya eh siya'ng olats sa huli.

oh well, kung isang serye naman titingnan ang finals eh outscored ng pistons ang spurs ng 607 - 594. nagawa nilang dalhin sa game 7 ang spurs kahit natalo na sila sa unang 2 games. tinambakan pa nila spurs ng 102-71 sa game 4. in the process ay gumawa pa pistons ng nba finals record sa lowest turnovers na 4 at pinakitang hindi invincible ang spurs sa homecourt nila kahit na game 6 pa. kahit hindi sila nanalo mas devastating yong mga losses na ginawa nila sa spurs.

love ko ang pistons!

the finals

with only a few hours to go, napagkaisahan ko na - GO PISTONS GO!!!!! WOOHOOOHOOOOO!!!!!

irreversible

bakasyon!


i’ve been back sa office for two days na, i wish i could get back to work na rin. sabi ni richie mga 3 days pagbalik sa aming bakasyon before she did anything really productive. eh bumalik siya ng mas maaga kesa sa akin, so siguro mga one week pa akong spaced out.

richie, che and i had our vacation leaves together, magkakasama kami sa dumaguete, apo island, siquijor, ozamis at cagayan de oro.

sarap buhay kahit ubos pera. sulit yong salary loan ni richie. 11 days na walang palya sa red horse at strong ice. nakainom pa si richie ng tuba sa siquijor at tumungga ng red horse sa laot ng ozamis sa hating-gabi. nakapag-snorkel pa siya sa marine sanctuary ng apo island, asteeg.

funny iyong time na nakasama namin si rommel y at idak sa coco amigos sa dumaguete, lahat pala kami eh nakatanggap mula sa aming mga karelasyon o naka-relasyon, ng iba’t-ibang versions ng “masaya ka diyan habang andito ako nalulungkot” or “andami mo nang napupuntahang hindi ako kasama na nag-e-enjoy ka” hehe.

comic relief para sa amin na we all share the same fate pala. ang isa pang nakakatawa eh yong different versions ng “pag-isipan mong maigi kung bakit galit ako sa iyo, pag-isipan mo!”

kaya ayon, halos autistic na si idak sa kate-text. si rommel y naman ang unang nagkaron ng long and dramatic phone call, then ako na tatlong mahahabang installments, tapos si Cheryl na me matching hagulgulan pa sa kakalyehan ng dumaguete. si richie naman eh nakataas parati ang kilay at ilong sa naka-ambang “mag-usap tayo pagbalik mo ng maynila”.

pagbalik maynila eh wala naman palang pag-uusapan sila richie at i, pinapatapon lang yong picture namin ni richie sa silliman farm na magkayakap kami sa higaan. sabi ni cheryl nag-text na raw si gordie na pagkatapos ng ilang buwan ay finally tanggap na raw niyang hiwalay na sila. ok na rin kami ni len, kasi nagdesisyon kaming friends pala kami kesa mag-asawa o magkarelasyon. si rommel y eh inaway daw ni apple habang nakikipag-inuman siya sa isang matandang babae sa boracay at hanggang kahapon ay di pa sila nagkikita. sabi ni richie pagkatapos daw ipakita kay erwin ang mga pictures namin kasama si idak ay nagsabi lang daw ito ng “nag-enjoy talaga kayo doon ano?”