I try to make New Year’s resolutions but I’m ashamed to say that I have rarely kept any of them. I hope for peace and happiness..the real deal. I hope for all of us, inhabitants of this planet, to make an effort to work things out first before we start lighting cars and structures on fire and hurting other people. Let us all talk first. We have the beautiful ability to speak but we are losing the ability to understand and compromise. The only thing to do is keep moving forward and hope that we can all get it together. Well, not to sound like a hippie but that’s how I feel...what else can i wish for? Oh, and i want Mama to come home with Raghad.
Food list
My version of The Food Lover's Write-Off :
I just love to eat
1. Soft Drink: Sprite
2. Ice Cream Flavor: Vanilla
3. Fast Food Restaurant: McDonald’s and KFC
4. Type of Pizza: Full of cheese with hot sauce and pepper!
5. Dinner: This is hard...Pizza or maybe Kare-kare with bagoong
6. Snack Food: hamburger, donuts or chips, fries and juice
7. Side Dish: Mashed potatoes
8. Food to Eat While Driving: I don’t drive...yet
9. Food for Breakfast: bread, peanut butter, scrambled eggs, milk, and coffee.
10. Sit-Down Restaurant: Saisaki, Lolo Dad's, Cibo, Old Manila ...
11. Italian Dish: pizza and pasta
12. Chinese Dish: noodles
13. Sandwich: peanut butter, tuna, Subway's sandwich.
14. Cheese: white cheese..all kinds
15. Donut: The one with a hole
16. Type of dessert: kakanin, fruits, cake, ice cream except pure chocolate ice cream,
fruit salad, All kinds of dessert.
17. Type of Cake: Braso de Mercedes, Black Forest.
18. Vegetable: All kinds of vegetables except ampalaYUCK!
19. Fruit: All kinds of fruits especially watermelon, pineapple, banana, and kiwi
20. Food In Bed: cookies
21. Beer: ehem...
22. Drink With Dinner: water
23. Fruit Juice: pineapple
24. What is your favorite meal? Most definitely the complete meal, Pizza!!! Mmmm..pizza
The Cyclopean Arch
This is supposed to be the prologue for our year book made by my friend Cedrik. It all depends now on the editors if they want to publish it. But I think that the Theme of this prologue fits just right for our batch.
The Cyclopean Arch
The Parthenon, the Pantheon, temples, and other ancient Greek structures were formed from stones of different shapes and sizes that perfectly fit to form the very foundations of the structures that are still to marvel until this century. There were no cements to hold them together, they were irregular stones piled up into an arch; the larger stones form the base and make up a great part of the arch. The smaller stones fill up the gaps of the larger stones so that altogether they form a sturdy arch that can last through the ages.
In a batch made of very fine stones, every single piece is important; the small ones as vital as the large ones in forming a structure. Like the Cyclopean arch, the great ones who shine in the batch are as important as the ones who normally go by. These simple ones make up for the lack of the great ones. Sometimes, these simple ones are those that make the great ones shine. But a structure is not viewed by the quantity or the quality of its stones; it is viewed as it is a structure. The same is true for a batch of fine stones, it is not assessed by the achievements of one man, or the success of one group and it is viewed as one batch, which accomplished many great things, things that shall be remembered through the ages.
Each and every person in a batch is important, as each and every stone in an arch is important. And like the Parthenon that still stands until this day, the batch of fine stones may live on to be marveled at through the ages.
The Cyclopean Arch
The Parthenon, the Pantheon, temples, and other ancient Greek structures were formed from stones of different shapes and sizes that perfectly fit to form the very foundations of the structures that are still to marvel until this century. There were no cements to hold them together, they were irregular stones piled up into an arch; the larger stones form the base and make up a great part of the arch. The smaller stones fill up the gaps of the larger stones so that altogether they form a sturdy arch that can last through the ages.
In a batch made of very fine stones, every single piece is important; the small ones as vital as the large ones in forming a structure. Like the Cyclopean arch, the great ones who shine in the batch are as important as the ones who normally go by. These simple ones make up for the lack of the great ones. Sometimes, these simple ones are those that make the great ones shine. But a structure is not viewed by the quantity or the quality of its stones; it is viewed as it is a structure. The same is true for a batch of fine stones, it is not assessed by the achievements of one man, or the success of one group and it is viewed as one batch, which accomplished many great things, things that shall be remembered through the ages.
Each and every person in a batch is important, as each and every stone in an arch is important. And like the Parthenon that still stands until this day, the batch of fine stones may live on to be marveled at through the ages.
Subic (Enjoyable Pandemonium) II
We did nothing much on the first day of the plant visit. After that short visit to Hitachi we went straight back to our suites. I like the place. The room is cold even if the aircon is not set to high, the beds were enough for our group. I also like the soft couch, and the carpet flooring. Although the bathroom seemed a little too kinky with the opaque sliding door. The toilet bowl was comfortable. And was the most favorite of the group. Well, I have to agree because when you sit on it, it's so comfy that sooner or later you might fall asleep. When we arrived at the suite, we immediately unpacked our stuff, then one of my classmate violated the clean and sparkling toilet. No wonder earlier that day he felt a little nauseous. There were ten of us in the group. It should be eleven inlcuding a prof. Luckily, he didn't come with us in our plant visit. It wont be fun if there's someone older like Dr. Nilo watching over us. We all had planned for each persons food assignments and contributions for the group because food is not provided. One of us brought his PS2. While some of us were unpacking our stuff and setting the table for lunch, Mike was in the sala setting up his console. The rest were eagerly waiting for the PS2 and lunch. I brought the adobong manok i cooked the night before the plant visit. And guess what, so did the other two of us in the group. Kevin had his three kilo pork adobo prepared by his yaya. hehe. Gerome, also brought adobong manok but his was special 'coz it had boiled eggs. But, of course, my cook the best and was the supreme..naubos kaagad.. hahaha. Anyways, The plan was that me and Kevin are responsible for Thursday's lucnch. On Friday, the breakfast by Art, Gio and Wanda, then we have lunch outside and our dinner by Gerome and Mar. Mike's contribution was for entertainment. Rd brought some extra food and some of his group leisure games. And for J-than..well he had a plan for the final day. We all brought our own fun stuffs, utensils and snacks. hehe.. So, Mike immediatly set-up the console and inserted the Budokai Dragon Ball series. He brought a lot of games but it for our whole stay, that was the most played. Most of us were gamers so on the first day the PS2 was running for several hours. Gio who always watch UFC and the news wasn't given a chance to flip the channel. I took out my cam and record a few scenes on the first day we did in the suite. A few minutes, some classmates went to our room and paid a visit. On the first night, i heard that there was inuman but nobody got drunked...yet. Of course, nobody would dare to be drunk on the first day because we still have a plant to visit on the next day. For dinner we had, (what else, but) adobong baboy. Basically, we hooked ourselves in the TV (not giving a damn on what's happening outside the room) and played video games on the first day. Well, i visited some of our classmates on the other room and had a little shooting practice at the court. The second day was the most awaited. This is when the bonding while drinkig began. hehehe. Sarah's dad who was responsible for the contacts of the company we visited was kind enough to give each of us sandwiches for breakfast. Actually, the drawer for foods, snacks and canned goods were full. And we had enough food that could last for a week thanks to Gio who had the biggest bag from the group it was like he's leaving home for a week. hahah. Skip the plant tour part, it didn't took us long to finish the last plant (which i didn't expect to be the last 'coz it we finsihed at around 11 am, i mean, there has to be another one. What are we going to do for the next seven hours?). Well, after that all of us took luch at Jollibee and then we went to our suites and was told that we won't stay for long because the company we just visited earlier that day gave us free tickets to Ocean Island. I've already seen that place so it's not new to me. It was hot and boring. Some just wanted to stay at the suite, probably they were lazy, in fact all of us were tired. They have a sea lion and false killer whale show at four in the afternoon but it was just around two in my watch. We spend the time roaming around the place. Some were taking pictures, buying suveneirs and stuff. I got to see the acquarium again but this time the tank that had nothing in it before was already filled with sea creatures. My favorite stone fish was still there along with his buddies Nemo and company. It was boring. Then the show started, at least there was a little entertainment even though i've already seen the show. Sea lions were performing their tricks and so did those stupid false killer whales (just kidding, they're not stupid). Some of the girls had their picture taken with the sea lion having a fish in his mouth (by the way they said the sea lion is a playboy). So, the second day turned our to be a field trip. The show ended and we decided to drop by at Duty Free to buy some pasalubong (unfortunately, i didn't have money) and on our way my stomach was aching. Before going to Duty Free, we had a vote on who wanted to go back to the suite first or to Duty Free. That's why i chose to go back, i might, you know...explode down there. I think it was because of what i ate in breakfast, the sandwich that came from Sarah's dad or the adobong baboy of Kevin. So, for almost one hour i was holding it hoping that i could hold it long enough for our stop at Duty Free our ride back to the suite. But, nature prevails and i couldn't hold anymore. So i ran inside the mall and found my refuge at an awkwardy situated comfort room located in the chocolates section. whew! I wanted to borrow some money from my classmate to buy pasalubong but i felt my stomach ache again. It made me look for some medicine but there was no drugstore in Duty Free. Then i saw J-than with two cases of red horse and one case of san mig light. He added some more to our stock. After that we went to a shabu-shabu restaurant for dinner which means no special adobong manok of Gerome that night. This again was charity by the plant we visited that morning. We arrived at the resto but i asked Ms. Karen (our prof. who looks like a student) if i could use the coaster to look for a drug store. So I went back and they were all eating. I wasn't feeling good that night. It was a wrong timing for that to happen. I know that later that night we're going to have some good time, if you know what i mean. I don't want to be a kill joy, it's J-than's birthday. Two capsules of Loperamide did the thing and the pain was gone. Everyone was full from the dinner but me. I lost my appetite. heheh. So, after the free meal we left the place and thanked the owner of CSI (the plant we visited) who paid for the bill. We said thank you to him in Korean but i forgot how it's pronounced. Anyways, the time we've all been waiting for is almost near. All of us in the bus were singing "happy birthday j-than" on the way to the suite. We arrived at eight-thirty had some rest and played PS2 'coz on ten pm the fun is going to start. Our room is going to be jam-packed. Well, I don't want to reveal the good stuff here so let me just tell you the drinks that we had - Cuervo, Gilbey's, Fundador, Emperador, Red Horse, San Mig Light, and San Mig Stong Ice. And thanks to J-than most especially Rd who made us all drunk. Could you just imagine mixing everything except the Cuervo and using it as a chaser. Nice one Rd..sira ka talaga.heheh. It's really funny to see people when they're drunk. The way they talk, act and laugh changes, and sometimes share stories. Like what i did with Mar and Clang. Wanda was hilarious when he was acting like a bouncer and sying "step-in" and giving a drink to anyone who passes the room and not even entering the door. hahah. I also heard Mike's weird and funny high pitched laugh. And Gio's concern to Mike that he might jump off a cliff. That's why he didn't let Mike leave the room. Some, like Da went back to our room to have a drink. I didn't know he was a hard drinker. But some of our classmates didn't enjoy our drinking. I think they should just be a little open-minded. And, i think nothings wrong with what we're doing 'coz it happened at the right time and in the right place. I, myself only drink occasionally. And it was during this time that i puked (even twice), had a hangover, and woke up eleven am forgetting that i had puked the second time and left it uncleaned in the bathroom sink. I made the guys cleaned my own puke. Anyways, everyone else puked. hahah. It was fun...a sure fun. Too bad Herbie wasn't around that friday. Anyhow, I'm looking forward to our next plant visit. I heard it might happen at Cebu or maybe at Singapore (sosyal ei).
Subic (Enjoyable Pandemonium) I
I feel so embarrassed after knowing what i did on the night of Friday, Oct. 14 last week at our trip in Subic. It wont happen again. Yeah, that 3-days-to-nights plant visit I got one word for it - masaya (!). It was fun, i can't wait for another plant visit to happen again. I heard that next term it's going to be at Cebu. You can just imagine how much we're going to spend for the tickets. Defenitely, it's much expensive than the eight hundred peso trip to Subic with free lodging at a hotel. On our desire to budget our allowance, we decided to use a coaster than a bus. I have a thing with coasters. When i see one, bad thoughts comes into my mind like it might stumble or fall when it turns into a corner, or it might get crashed. Things like that. It's really small! It's really small, really, really small like a bean. hehe. Although it's cheaper, it can only accomodate twenty-eight people. Did i say it was small? So, some of my blockmates brought their own cars but still have to pay for the coaster fee. So unfair. Anyways, I think it was on this trip that all of my batchmates were present. Complete attendance! The plant visit that should be educational turned out to be a recreational. Haha. I knew from the beginning that this is going to happen. I figured that it was going to be a bonding experience. Just imagine, six plants / companies to visit in two days? And, we were expected to write a reaction paper per company after the trip. Well, yes it's possible but i doubt it'll happen. And, i was right. We only visited two plants. One Taiwan based plant on the first day that brought their company here along with their Suppliers because labor is cheap in the Philippines. And another foreign-based plant on the second day. It's a good thing we visited the Suppliers or else we wont be able to write a reaction paper for six companies. Although, we almost wrote nothing on our papers because there wasn't interaction at all and we just passed by or looked at the things that's happening in the plant. Anyways, i guess that's what happened in the educational part of the trip. We just annoyed the owner and the workers in the plant for visiting and meddling them on their job. hehe.
Well, i learned something that they have high tech manufacturing devices. And it gave me an idea on how manufacturing companies work. Wait 'til i tell you about the recreational part, the gooood part. I'm going to bed now. Got to catch some Z's..
Well, i learned something that they have high tech manufacturing devices. And it gave me an idea on how manufacturing companies work. Wait 'til i tell you about the recreational part, the gooood part. I'm going to bed now. Got to catch some Z's..
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