NBI

I went to NBI this afternoon, was interviewed, submitted my DOST certification, signed the affidavit and received my clearance after a few minutes. As those parts are concerned, my experience is a lot better compared to last year. The interviewer now looks descent, unlike last year who was shirtless and smelled so bad. Though he was smoking while speaking with me, but I could tolerate that.

But when my name was called to receive the clearance, I wasn't aware that I had to fall in line, and would need to wait for their assistance for my thumb mark to be printed. There wasn't any directions posted which told me to do so, and I was the first one who received the certificate as the first few people before me are in the hitlist and were advised to come back after 3 weeks. Yes, I was reprimanded, by a bossy person to wait for my turn (since my impatient being just dictated myself to place my thumb on that gadget and print my thumb mark). I just said sorry, I don't know their new rules. Fine, it was ok but then, after I've thought everything was finished, he was commanding me to buy their envelope worth 5 pesos. I immediately said no, got my paper from him and walked away.

As I was in the motorcycle, I've realized how unbecoming of a public servant he is. He shouldn't be treating the people that way. The rest didn't have a choice but to buy the envelope. His voice was domineering that people thought purchasing his envelopes (which are overpriced anyway) is compulsory. I'm really passive that my reactions were too delayed. My heart was pounding too fast and I've found it difficult to breathe. I needed to do something to straighten things out.

When I reached Gaisano, which was so hot and their escalators weren't working, I looked for the nearest phone booth, called their office, and reprimanded them for their bad treatment to the people. I've added that if they won't stop selling envelopes in a compulsory way, I'm gonna call the Ombudsman and report their abuse to us.

That was a sigh of relief for me. Everything happened the way I wanted.

To the Most Important Man in my Life

Wake up young man
Feel the the warmth of the sunshine heating up your cold room
Get organized, clean your room hit by a tornado
Reinvent, pave way for the air to move

Yesterday might be a total mess and everything went wrong
But today's different, it's time for you to make them right
And tomorrow's gonna be a better day
So cheer up, wake up and smell the warmth of the air

So, you failed to reach for your so-called Proxima Centauri, huh?
It's not the end of the world, there are billions of stars in the heavens
They might be some light years farther
But they're more worthy than aiming for your star for a lifetime

Thank goodness you've realized how impossible it is to win her love
And you've seen that the probability of winning her is approaching zero
She's nice and that but you don't deserve her
Find somebody who could make you happy and love her more

It's nice to see you smiling, this time it's for real
As it opens a parenthesis in your face
It's great to hear you laughing again
And this time, I could sense you're not faking it

Get a life, it's not the end of the world
The world is not just round, it's a sphere
The darkness is gone and now it's light
So cheer up, wake up and be happy

Feliz compleaños!

Fuck You!

My Wishlist

I want to witness Gloria murdered
or at least being beaten by her citizens.
I wish I could see our fuckin' abusive neighbor beheaded
or being stabbed all over his body.
I want to see my other noisy neighbors electrocuted
as the mic they're holding and the equipment they're using explode.
I want to see all corrupt officials behind bars
or be kicked out of their position and tortured that they wish they were never born.
I want to flee out of this damn country
a place where hope does not exist and prosperity is only given to those who steal.
I want to see this land get busted
and have everybody get burned.
I'm dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before
and this nightmare haunts me to my death.

Las Nieves

I'm still suffering from muscle pains due to my trip yesterday to Las Nieves. My sister tagged me along for her field work in order to take away my boredom (well, nice try) and expose me to a different environment. It was almost an hour of riding on a habal-habal to Tungao and then a five-minute bangka ride to Florida crossing the Agusan River and then another habal-habal thing. 'Twas totally exhausting and I didn't enjoy it that much knowing that I had fever on that day before and my head was still aching for some stuck mucus in my head and nose.

Anyway, people's lives there are uncomplicated. They are too warm. I just laughed at myself remembering how I greeted their Vice Mayor. I just forced myself to smile and said "Hello." It was too late for me to know that he possesses a high position in their municipality after my sister introduced me to him. I knew my sister's look meant that she's thinking "Here's this trying hard elitist again," and my sarcastic look to her said "I told you I'm not good at meeting people and I can't make a politician out of myself. It's not that I'm an elitist. I am anti-social in a way that I hate social people. hehehe."

Generally, it was a nice trip. I just took my sleep while they where having a meeting with the Municipal Cooperative Development Council.

We arrived home at 6:30 p.m. and I was ailing for my body pains. Good thing our neighbor is a good masseur. =)