I don’t think this is a question that we should ask Mother Nature. I tell you, if you ask this question to her, you would really wish you haven’t asked the question. Or even thought about it. What recently happened in Haiti and to the rest of the world only means one thing. Our planet is having a hard time of keeping up with the things that we’ve been doing to it. Right now, we are not just depleting our natural resources, we are also filling it up with our wastes. Wastes that came from acquiring things that we don’t really need and things that we get tired of in the long run which ends up in the sanitary landfill. Things like cell phones, mp3 players, clothes, shoes, cars and the likes. On cell phones alone, how many times have you changed your cell phone? Or better yet, how many cell phones do you have? Do you realize that multiple phones would mean you are using up more energy to sustain them? And the sad pary is, after a period of time, you throw it away once it’s broken or you grew tired of it or worse, because you don’t want to be left behind and always prefer a new model. I can think of several ways on how to save the Earth few of them are to stop our consumerism and let us let go of the notion that everything is disposable. Let us buy the things that we need not the things that we want. That way, manufacturers won’t have to make more than what is necessary. That way, we can control the use of our natural resources like our fossil fuels which would in turn lessen the production of the green house gases. How can Mother Nature do this to us again and again? Instead of asking this question, take this as a wake up call. The things that are happening now is a desperate call for help. Mother nature is not avenging against us, it’s crying out to us. Crying out to us for us to act. Act to change our ways else, she will be forced to fixed things her way. El Nino, floods, earthquakes? They’re nothing once the Earth shuts down. Remember the ice age? There will be a great possiblity to have that phenomenon if we don’t change. Let us try to restrain ourselves from wanting to have what’s more than what we need regardless if we can afford it or not. Let’s do our share. Donating money to organizations to help the needy during calamities is one thing. Doing our share to help reduce wastes is another.
I went out last night with some friends and got home at around 5AM. I went online for I wasn’t sleepy yet. I opened up my Windows Live messenger and guess who I saw in the lower portion of the main window? It’s no other than Cristiano Ronaldo! My idol, Giorgio Armani, has chosen him to be the model for his jeans and underwear collection. And it was a good choice. Ronaldo is a great soccer player, according to some of the soccer fans I know, and looking at the ad, he has a great body too! It’s sad though, for the guy seemed to be too full of himself.
Today, is the day when I had my worst traffic experience in my four years stay in Cebu. By God this issue is getting worse each year. Actually the bad experience started last night. I guess it was attributed to the concert of Regine Velasquez, the Asian Songbird, in the Waterfront Hotel, which is like a building across Asiatown, and was made worst by the rain. According to my friends the traffic started at around 7PM last night, January 15, 2010 and lasted until 12:30AM of January 16, 2010. I left the office at 12PM today and went to SM to pay my bill and started my trip home at 4PM. Imagine 4PM and I arrived home at 6:20PM. Shoot, the trip home would usually take 30 minutes but today, it took me more than 2 hours. Imagine if I didn’t walk from the corner of Guadalupe and Banawa to our house, it would have been longer. In my four year stay in Banawa, this is lik the first time that the traffic really affected Banawa. The Cebu City government should really come up with ways to resolve this. Man, businesses will be affected by this. Especially the BPOs that brought a lot of business to Cebu. Imagine, even Penni was late for 30 minutes last night when he has never been late since forever. Hay… Anyhow I have learned 2 lessons from this year’s Sinulog. First,file for a leave on the Friday before the Sinulog day and God forgive me but I suggest that don’t ever leave the house during the festivities if you don’t want to be caught in the traffic.
Did you know that there is an ordinance about repecting the senior citizens in Cebu City? I was riding a jeepney earlier when I saw a yellow sticker with this ordinance which reminded me of the guy I rode a jeepney with last Friday. See the patron saint of Cebu is the Holy Child Jesus known to the Catholics in the Philippines as Sto. Nino (pronounced as nin-yo) and people would usually come to worship him in the Sto. Nino Church in Colon. So every Friday, a lot of people would ride the jeep to Colon. Especially now that the Novena for the Sto. Nino has started, a lot of senior citizens who are devotees of the child Jesus would really make an effort to go to the church. So the jeepney is almost full when he boarded. When he came on board he arrogantly said “move” to the people who were already in the jeepney. Now one of the passengers who was an old man replied “why are you the commander here?” and the man who just rode the jeep said something in reply. I was so freaking furious with the guy, I guess everyone in the jeepney felt the same way. Like haller! Respect for elder people duh, like didn’t anyone taught you that? I just raised my brows and almost said who do you think you are? Who are you to command people? If you are a paying passenger, so are we. Duh! Anyhow, nobody moved to give way. I guess it was to show their disgust to the guy. He was completely ignored. Haller! If you would do that to strangers all you will get is hostility. They will never give you what you want. But if he could have asked more politely like saying could you please move for my legs are painful so I can’t go any further instead of shouting “move”, he could have gotten a better response. Anyway, if he saw the sticker would it affect him in anyway? Does he know that there is an ordinance like this? If he knew about it, would he act differently?
I’ve been feeling lonely since I got back to Cebu. Damn, never thought I’d feel this way when I get back. I hate times like these for it makes me think about how I get along with other people and makes me ask if I am born a loner or was it by choice? Either way, it’s a sad thought. Because it all boils down to how pathetic my life is. Born a loner would mean people can’t stand me, a loner by choice would mean I can’t stand other people. The end result, I don’t have anyone that I could hang out with anytime that I want to. The people around me has their own lives and I definitely wouldn’t want to get in the way. For some, well, it’s true, I can’t stand them at times for all we could talk about is work or worse, they would usually talk about themselves. I couldn’t blame them though, for most of them are from work and we don’t have much in common aside from work and the rest well, some people couldn’t help themselves. I am guilty of the crime every now and then too. Sometimes, I just want to have someone who won’t talk about work and not talk just about themselves. Well, yeah I know that it’s tough to come up with things to say but you know sometimes some people would just want to have someone to sit with. I guess I crave for some mind stimulating conversation every now and then or hang out with someone but just sit there without saying anything. Sometimes people get comfort on knowing that someone is there with you but are technically not there for they don’t say a word. I don’t know if you get what I mean for I don’t think I was able or will be able to put it in words. But don’t you just wish to sit outside and watch people go by and not say anything but you feel secured for someone’s there sitting beside you? I guess this is the reason why I like putting extra hours at work. For it makes my mind work and takes my mind off these things.
My health isn’t going well… I have a bad case of colds (been over a week now) and have rashes due to my allergy all over my body. I can handle my colds but my rashes are pretty bad. I feel really warm and my body feels itchy. I wonder if I can get to work today…
I learned that he has a girlfriend today and boy, was i disappointed. Well, he’s cute so I had a notion that he has a girlfriend but getting a confirmation that he has sure did affect me and my day. Now, am really thinking, how come I can never have someone that I like? Is this what I get for being choosy? Imagine, this is the first time that I truly like someone who is within reach and yet he isn’t available. Although, it’s not an assurance that he’ll be mine even if he doesn’t have a girlfriend but I’d be happier if he didn’t have any. I am thinking maybe, this is my life. I am bound to be alone.
I love to eat basically to know how a food tastes like. You could say that it is part of my learning experience to be a better cook. One of the recipes that I am very interested in is lumpiang shanghai (meat roll) and I have tasted a lot of good tasting lumpia. But I also had some bad tasting ones. Like the one that I am having now. The wrapper is crispy, you can smell the meat but it tastes salty! Too bad… Sometimes I wonder why some people can’t get the fact that salt is there to add or enhance the natural flavor of the food, not to over power the taste. Tsk, tsk, tsk…
A friend approached me to tell me that she likes someone. Funny, but you know how girls are. They would usually talk about the person they like. Maybe I’m the only one who doesn’t have the guts to tell other people that I like someone. But I’m wondering what if one day, because I don’t like talking about the person I like or couldn’t even dare say the name of the person I like, someone comes up to me to tell me that they like the person I like too? Do I have the right to get mad? I guess not, in the first place, that person didn’t know that I liked the guy and then, I am not in a relationship with the guy so I guess that gave me no right to be mad. However, how should one react if one is placed in that situation? What if I liked the person that she likes too and she told me about it? Should I just keep quiet or should I say I like him too? Hmmm…