I Can..

WOW! it's been what, forever?

yep, got caught up with a lot of things. like a lot.

the work had been nothing but...

about two month ago(?), i've been holdin' office upstairs. we have this renovation going and it's taking eons!

so, what happened? about three or four departments had been fused all together. we are all shacked up in one big room. nice, huh? boy, it's been HELL.

most of these are ladies... and LOUD. my ears are bleeding!

thank God for earphones. but even then, it's still a pain in the ass. it's like listening to degenerates.. i feel dumber each day that passes.

and the renovation isn't gonna finish soon either... thus, i'm stuck with the loudmouths! it's soooo annoying, man.. i hope we can move back to where we've been..

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my older brother whose been on rehab for almost a couple of years is back with us. good to see him making improvements.. big ones!

i hated him when i was younger for all the stupid things he pulled. but now, i have nothing but love for him. it's good to have a brother around the house. even my elder half sister is with us now. the house she's been staying since her childhood days had been sold. she's got nowhere to go, so she's here. like i have a choice, huh?!

anyway, we're one, big, quirky family now! what's really odd about this whole arrangement is, both of my siblings aren't married, my wife's brother is just as single.. even my older sister abroad is still single too!

here's hoping for the best!

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speaking of sister, big sister is coming home this year. we're all excited. our nanny and her nephews (daughters of my dearly departed nanny) are also coming over. they've been residing in Manila for years now. they aren't exactly, ya know, well off there but they'd rather be there so sister's bringing them here for some RnR.

another thing to be excited of are the presents.. hehe.. little brother had been asking about our sizes. he always buys the good stuff.. sister's kinda cheapskate on stuff, but when it comes to goodies, she brings it.

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workout had been so-so. i was gonna start running.. do some interval training but had an unfortunate mishap. i was at the mall to buy some compression shorts for my grand plan - run around IT Park after office hours. while walking to the parking lot, i stumbled on some hump.. all because i was looking at this dog the guard was walking around. i fell hard on my right knee.

boy, i couldn't care less about the embarrassment. the pain was almost unbearable!

iced it after arriving home. next day, deadlift some three hundred pounds. stupid! i thought it's nothing cos i can bend my knees. next thing i know, it just swelled like there's a small ball stuck inside my knee. i could not bend it anymore. fcuk me!

t'was a nightmare.

could hardly walk but managed to get inside the bathroom. good thing i got some guy to buy me some ice and iced the area for an hour.

for almost a month now, haven't done any leg exercise.

this week, i managed to walk in the treadmill and do some stationary bike. at least it's healing up.

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Sinulog's comin' up. my pal who shares my namesake will have a party at his house a day before the festivities. he does it annually... what usually happens is, i get hammered the night before and i don't get to go out the next day.

it's gonna be more fun now cos we have this new pal who came out of nowhere and is a mighty made guy. if you're familiar with the Italian mob, you know what a made guy is.. otherwise, google is your friend!

if i have it my way, i don't really mind not going anywhere. i'm pretty set at home with all the fun stuff i managed to amass... that is, modesty aside.

but, it's also nice to go out , let your hair down, loosen up, get wasted with your pals. although you scorch a few brain cells, you get to stimulate it at the same time.

so, lets say, we'll just roll with the punches.

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anyone seen that awesome movie, Lone Survivor movie yet? very nice!

i don't know about you but i'm sleepy, tired and bored... so, 'til next year?

the three stooges - episode I

we don't go out on fridays anymore, but.. we did last week.


my ex-office mate invited another ex, and the latter invited me. it was fun! we had our usual poison of choice - red horse beer (explains why i'm bulging like a balloon).


this ex-office mate is my drinking and smoking buddy back then when he was still employed at my workplace. we would smoke very often and drink almost, like, everyday! so, when he was given the pink slip, he found work at some call center and met new friends and all.. we barely hangout anymore. i guess he got caught up with some pals that are really at his level of ya know, highly sociable kinda people. he sorta spent more time with his work and his new found friends and eventually we've taken different roads.


this other pal with whom i often hang with during weekends, well, we did have our own little "issues". i've wrote about it here sometime ago. only this january did we started to hook-up again after over a year of ex-communicado. lol!


it's always been my nature to wait and not start, ya know, yapping "what's up?" and "how's life?" i mean, i do miss the good ol' days but it's different now. we all have our families and if we don't hang out, i just channel my energy somewhere else close. like my kids, the dogs, etc.

{i've got four minutes to finish this episode and hope to continue tomorrow}


anyway, we had a good laugh, as always! we talk a lot things and boy, this dudes, their lives are really taking off.. i mean, they talk about vacations and stuff.. going abroad! geez man, i haven't been out of the country since........... birth!


so there.


time is up.

of graduation, booze and the children

soooo effing tired today.

at this early, dreamland is tempting.

that had been life for me this far... it's peaks and valleys.. then downhill all the way!

some people are gonna get bored living this way. i ain't though.

i mean, i had my time partyin' it up.. going places.. adventure.. the lot!

this is me now.

guess i'm getting old. no more energy. zest for fun, zit!

i don't even play PC games anymore, WTF?

most of my beer bud, gone.

perfect!

i was at the grocery earlier and was watching all those beer-in-cans, ya know, the six packs, then passed by the liquor area.. thought half a sec - then went straight to the beverage section and got me some Chuckie. that yum-yum chocolate milk drink, that's what i'm pouring in my cup right now.

anywho, alcohol is bad for recovery as it increases cortisol, that muscle wasting hormone that does nothing good to your physique, so better avoid it especially these days when i'm supposed to waste lotsa fat and keep 'em muscles.

i'm not saying nada tho.. i just had some rum-soda last thursday as it's my officemate's son graduation. "drink moderately" was in effect that night. LOL

meanwhile, Neil graduated from elementary too. boy, the kid is a handful, tell ya that. i hope he'd find something good where he can focus his attention to and not on something useless.



i dunno but maybe my little angel mitch is also one of the driving factor of why i'm "cool" these days.. meaning, i'm not partying up and go crazy. instead, i've been workin' hard, exercise, rest well and do something meaningful in life rather than waste away in reckless abandon and not a care in the world.



dunzo.

breakfast at tiffany

ey!

well, it's early in the morning.. been waking up this way for eons now.. i would wake up otherwise if i had a choice..

sad news. a buddy of mine just left for the US yet again. didn't i mentioned a few post ago that most of my pal ain't here no more??

what can i say?? looking for a greener pasture, i guess.

well, his family (wife and son) are there already, so it's exciting for him to go while in most cases, they have to leave their families behind.

anyway, i'll miss that guy cos he used to be my gym buddy. we both have so much respect for each other.

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meanwhile, i've gotten really stronger in the gym, thank you. i guess when you put your mind into something, you're really bound to go somewhere, yeah?

what's really amazing or shall i say a feather on my cap, is that i got there training with a little help and not much supplementation.. i do have a double servings of caffeine and ten grams of creatine a day. that's about it.

eating five to six meals a day is a routine.. if i skip a mid-morning/afternoon meal, i'll be damn.

i wish it'd be simpler.

anyway, thanks to torrent, i can finally watch the Eraserhead's reunion concert.

SSsssssssshhhhh...

chowin' out!

rant rampage

what is with this ghey people asking stupid question during a beauty contest? crap man! ya quote the great leaders before and i'm betting my house they won't agree with what yer fighting for!

equal rights my a$$!

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speed demons on the loose!

well, a bus fall off the hill this week killing two.. my officemate crashed his bike breakin' his darn foot.. most of my peers says he loves to speed up goin' in and out of the office.. did i mention he's a member of some bike club slash speed advocates??

figures.

more people crashin' out.. earlier a PUJ (public utility jeepney) went berserk and rear ended a taxi.. rumor has it somebody perished from that accident. whew!

a car burst into flames after it went wackin' straight to an electric post.. killing yet again, two people... teenagers at that.

pity.

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i haven't seen most of my 'close' pals as of late.. i dunno... even my best friend's shadow, nada.

guys, you're bunch o' wuzz!

quite frankly, you're good for nothing.

i take that back.

you're good at something.. right...

when we're boozing it all up!!!

oh, i did met/encounter a few this week. eugene who just arrived from london came by the office.. he's our former service director.. that's like tops, dude.

guess what? he lost 100 pounds after a year of hiatus.

unfortunately, he's sagging all over... he did lotsa cardio like swimming and walking.

there.

a friend texted earlier... we're supposed to have dinner at his house.. bad news: i erased the number of those who choose to not keep in touch... now, i dunno him from adam.

ok, i have a slight idea, but when i ask for his name he choose to snubbed me.. hhhmmm.. are you hurt i wiped your name out of my phone book, hombre?

newsflash: i've been able to roll without you 'pals.'

there ain't no way i can't pressed on s'more now without yer company, dontchathink?

so, i decided to go straight - to my home.. not yers, braw.

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another friend who i spend most of my drunkin' weekends with, went brrrrrr for months now.. again, i dunno what's the deal.

but lemme tell you something... it's all good.

been able to concentrate on my quest and right on the money to reach my goal.

thanks y'all for not bothering me.

it's pretty boring though... this road i decided to take, it's all routinary.

you win some.. you lose some... got more friends in the gym these days, however.

no, i didn't bought them alcohol.. i simply bust my chops and earned their respect.

yes homie, these days, that's the place where i get to socialize.. the gym.

clean fun, eh?

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rant over.

come together now

hey yo!

took a leave today... what can i say, i oversleep, dam'it!

the culprit? it's the darn brandy!

i got carried away..

sipping my poison while watching the pictures of my former officemates who had since went on their separate ways, i felt nostalgic.. wow, it's almost surreal.. it'll be my 10th year this year working for the same old company that my boss' started with me and a handful of gals and guys on-board as a pioneering employee..

now, we've grown leaps and bounds.. like we have branches all over the place.. many had come and go, but here i am, still standing among the few who were there from the get go.

why i'm still here? read back, honey!

guess i miss a lot of things... my former forum-mates, the guys i've worked with before, the beach, my brothers, a sister, my late ma and pa... hhhmmmmm.. i can go on forever.

lights out.

mine your business

SRP.. finally, somebody bought a piece of it.. incidentally, was driving there a week ago doin' a "flying lap" using a Ford Focus hatchback... damn, didn't wanna watch the speedometer or i might freak out.. months ago, a Mazda got totalled doing exactly that.. four on the floor, dark, driver must've been tipsy... he went zoom-zoom-zoom, maybe he swerve a little or too wide, the car literally flew off the road and flipped a number of times before coming to a halt. good news is, the driver lived... dunno his condition afterwards, but i figured, with a whackout car like that, he's probably effed up.

something about this road that people tend to overspeed yet they tend to lose control of the vehicle when the car's engine reach it's peak.. i'm betting many more accidents happened there but the city government would rather that it don't reach the media... it's bad publicity for prospective investors, homs.

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meanwhile, more of my office comrades had left.. at least three sales guys resigned... dunno if it was forced or voluntary. a gal didn't made the cut.. tsk.. tsk.. if i add all of these former officemates to my Friendster, i'd probably have a thousand of 'friends' in there already.

but that's just how things roll in a company like mine.. people just come and go.

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a friend of mine had been nailing two birds with one stone... ha ha!

everything was cool and dandy.. he was having a great sex, err, i mean, time even though he was short on finances.. tsk.. tsk..

i've had more hard-ons listening to him while he narrates his "FR" than watching porn.. LOL!

anyhoo, as always, all good things never last. one fine day, someone from his circle who happens to have plenty of time on her hand, spilled everything out to her girlfriend, who, by the way, lives somewhere north in another island.

all that 'good time' went to a sudden screeeeeech!!

i got dragged along the way... i kinda chipped-in to his "success" nailing the other girl.. i gave him some sorta logistical support... not that her girlfriend knows that, but just the same, felt guilty after hearing her wail on the other line.. i got teary-eyed, honestly speaking.

why she called me, you ask? my friend had been avoiding her.. he's probably figuring out a perfect excuse.. the problem however, the girlfriend was agressively contacting him through calls and text...

ENTER: Me.

she wanted me to be the go-between 'em.

anyway, the girlfriend came to town and fought for her right.. gotta give her credit for doing what she did.. not too many femmes can do that these days.. especially, in the case of my friend who isn't a hubby material.. considering he hasn't tied the rope at his age and the many years they'd been ON with her girlfriend... not to mention, the, uhum, ya know what. if i were that girl, i'd probably cut my loses and friggin' move on and find somebody who would take me seriously.. but my friend, i dunno what's this guy's mojo, but he's kinda chick-magnet.. ya know, he doesn't have to spend for lavish gifts, flash you with a nice Rolex, car, jewelries like a size of a dog's chain or do all that mambo-jambo thingy to get laid... he just opens his mouth and the girl opens wide or bends over... whatta guy, eh??!

we have yet to discuss how he went about dumping the other and appeasing the girlfriend... last time he text, everything seems to have been fixed.

Mr. Suave in the works, i guess.

update ya later, crocs.

lights out.