Correcting my Philippine birth certificate

1. NBI clearance (PhP 165.00)

2. Cedula (PhP 59.40)

3. Affidavit [of unemployment] (PhP 150.00)

4. Local birth certificate (PhP 30.00 per copy)
Bring: ID

5. PNP clearance (PhP 160.00 - PhP 210.00)

6. Voter's Registration Record (PhP 75.00)
- Mother

7. Voter's Certification (PhP 75.00)
- Father & I

8. Notary for Petition (PhP 150.00 each)
- 2 for me

9. Newspaper Publishing - Remate (PhP 1,700.00 per issue)
- 2 issues for Change of name
- Mistake: 2 issues for correction of entry

10. Notary of Publish (PhP 50.00 each)
- 2 for me

11. RA 9048 Payment (PhP 3,680.00 for double petition)

Fifteen Goals for 2011

Fifteen Goals for 2011
1. Own a camera
2. Get a job
3. Be Proficient in Finance
4. Pay people back
5. Conceptualize my business
6. LEarn to cook
7. Find a girlfriend
8. Learn to sing
9. Establish business & non-business connections
10. Inspire people - Join Red Cross or something
11. Be proficient in the usage of English (writing and speech)
12. Be environment conscious
13. Develop my core (Abs)
14. Change may first name in my birth certificate. Have my birthday on government IDs revised
15. Attend church for four consecutive sundays

My 15 Goals for 2009

1. Do volunteer work - International Coastal Cleanup 2009
2. Major character change - Still working on it
3. Workout four times a week - Pending
4. Go home after office hours. No more DoTA - Resigned from office
5. Fall in love and love deeply. [Pathetic. Hahaha!] - Pending
6. Go back to the university and take graduate studies. - took MBA
7. Acquire "the DSLR" & a laptop - Bought both but camera got damaged
8. Study another language besides English & Filipino. [I'm currently thinking of Spanish]
9. Improve my writing skills in both Filipino and English.
10. Save the environment and this planet.
11. Attend church. [Pending..] - occasionally
12. Advocate my ideologies. [Volunteerism, Environmentalism, & ] - long way to go
13. Learn to cook extraordinary food. - pending
14. Have my birth certificate revised. - Won't happen. Too much bureaucracy in the Philippines
15. Take life one step at a time. [What if today was my or someone else's last?]

This is how I study

While cleaning and organizing the files in the laptop, I stumbled upon a picture I took when I was cramming for the 3rd term finals of my Master program.


That's a lot of paper and I wasn't even able to go through them all because of time constraints. HEHEHE XD I would probably read them over the summer so that I would be better prepared for next term's lessons. I hope I get to have enough time given that I'm planning to undertake full time work at the same time with my full time academic load.

Tragedy at Japan

I've just recently read a compilation of tweets from Japan about the recent disaster.
What I read made me realize that people (the human race) don't thrive [other adjective here] during prosperous times. Some of our greatest capabilities are being able to stand out, rising to greatness, and being reliable when we're faced with great challenges.

Read here >>
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oR7mRBNCog-FeVrtl0dD4Suoi2hL0XE4YOoAPdCyZ3w/preview?hl=en&pli=1&sle=true#

Quotes to remember

I keep forgetting the quotes that I like and end up having a hard time recalling them. So, I decided to post them to keep track of my favorite quotes.

1. "Sadness shared is half the sadness, happiness shared is twice the joy"
2. "The greatest from of charity is to make yourself obsolete" - Heard this from Iliac Dia
3. "You'll regret the things you didn't do more than the one's you did."

Sexy Dream

Woke up remembering certain parts of a dream.

I was with a pretty girl and guy friend.
I have a crush on this girl for sometime now.
We were lined up for some popular guy's autograph when suddenly the line stopped moving.
So, we waited and I asked for my friends camera to play with while we weren't doing anything.
Asked her to have a picture with me.
She posed and I snapped the shot.
Then she posed along an alley, I don't know how it happened it just did.
While I was capturing photos I noticed she wasn't wearing any underwear.
I don't know why but I switched from camera mode to video mode and then showed the recorded shot of her. She smiled and said, "That's Ok."

Childhood Crush

Actress: Kanako Maeda
Character: Pink Mask in Maskman

I wonder what happened to her.
I can't find any recent article.

Early Morning Thoughts

1. I always have lots of ideas every time I wake up.
I've decided to write them while its still fresh and I haven't forgotten about the details
2. My dream: Most of the time I wake up with smile on my face. My dreams are mostly about people that I know whose company I enjoy.
Elaborate: There's this girl that I like and she's WAY younger than me. Rule of the thumb is "YourAge/2 + 7" is the minimum age of the person that you should have a prospect on or else it becomes creepy. I'm 25 and no matter what I do with the equation, I cant make the min. age go below 19.
The dream started with Bia losing some parts of her pen [or was it a pencil?]. She tried looking for it but for some reason did not bother to look at the table where she could have probably lost it. I ended up checking the area for her and retrieving the lost parts. I was happy that we got to talk. We are not that close in real life because of the lack of topics that we can talk about and were not properly acquainted. Plus, it might look creepy to others.
3. Messed up body clock. I slept at 1, fell asleep at 2:30 then woke up at 6AM. Body clock needs reconditioning
4. Might be coming down with something. Can't get sick this week - A lot of academic requirements
5. Opportunities exercises
A. Spot an opportunity at a moments notice
B. React on identified situation. Build confidence on self by doing something about it (Take adv, etc..)
6. Important things to learn while a student
A. Quote article I read in newspaper

Fifteen Goals for the Year

1. Do volunteer work
2. Major character change
3. Workout four times a week
4. Go home after office hours. No more DoTA
5. Fall in love and love deeply. [Pathetic. Hahaha!]
6. Go back to the university and take graduate studies. [Haven't decided yet on what to take.]
7. Acquire "the DSLR" & a laptop
8. Study another language besides English & Filipino. [I'm currently thinking of Spanish]
9. Improve my writing skills in both Filipino and English.
10. Save the environment and this planet.
11. Attend church. [Pending..]
12. Advocate my ideologies. [Volunteerism, Environmentalism, & ]
13. Learn to cook extraordinary food.
14. Have my birth certificate revised.
15. Take life one step at a time. [What if today was my or someone else's last?]

Dissapointed

Ok.

I asked her why she was being kind to me.
She said "Ang liit kasi ng balakang niyo, tapos mas bata pa kayo sa akin. .... I might have been looking at you like a younger brother?"
Which translates to "You have a small waistline and you're younger than me. So .... i might have been looking at you like a younger brother?"

I feel discouraged. A younger brother.. A younger brother..
Why a younger brother? Arr.. Goodnight

Ang Sagradong Paksa ng Pag-ibig

Kamakailan lang ay nabighani ako. Ewan ko ba. French Fries lang yun pero ang lakas ng impact sa akin. Nagulat pa ako noong Christmas party ng kumpanya pagkat sino ba namang mag-a-akalang ganun ang magiging itsura niya. Napanganga talaga ako. Yun nga lang, dahil sa aking ethnic roots mukhang napakaraming magiging sagabal sa akin.. Ang landas na aking tatahakin ay susmaryosep. Hayy.. Bakit ganito? Mhaammmeeeee!!

Cramming Gift Purchasing

Today, I was planning to go to the gym. Unfortunately, I was still tired. I made up for the this weeks lack of rest and eventually started some of my chores at 11:30 Pm, but not before checking my plurk account. Hihihi

After finishing all the tasks at home, I traveled to SM Megamall to buy gifts for the relatives and the exchange gift later. It took me a while to reach a decision on what to give, luckily, I passed by a heritage shop that was selling old Filipino bills. I bought five(5) old five-peso bills and one(1) very old one-peso bill. I wanted to keep the one-peso bill but somehow destiny already had a plan. I also acquired a nebulizer and new filter replacements for the water filter. I still need to find something to give to my father, sister and a friends kid.

I was already late for the Christmas party, but when I arrived, it seemed that a lot of people were ill-informed. A lot of people did not show up. We ended up having an exchange gift with only 5 participants, including me. I received a Nestle gift certificate but lost the one-peso bill.

Arrived home tired but I was still able to check the plurk account and register to phplurk. Noticed that the status of 'object of my affection' said "had a sugar-rush, and shivering". Grabbed the opportunity.

Company Christmas Party

I've been working for a long time now and it's been a while when I last wrote anything. Not just an entry for this blog but in general, including my daily activities. Therefore, I thought that I need to refresh and hone my skills becuase I'm afraid it might deteriorate if I don't use it often.

So here's my entry after some (n) months, where (n) is grater than 1 year.

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Today was the company's Christmas Party. Wait.. it was yesterday since its already morning.

I began by waking up late beacuse of the exhausting week. So, I rushed everything. I wrapped the gifts, packed the clothes and took a bath. It took me a long time, considering that I needed to be early in the office beacuse I had a deadline. *A deadline due on the company's Christmas party. Yup, unlucky me! Hihihi.*

Travel time was long, about 1 hour and 30 mins. It was kind of exhausting. I had with me a plastic bag full of cookies. About sixteen-750 ml containers. I arrived at the office at 11:30 AM.

I was out of time. I needed to finish the task due by 3PM becuase it needed to be bundled with my other teamates work and passed to the prject manager. Plus, I haven't had breakfast yet and lunch-time was approaching. And, to add to that, I have to give a gift to my friend DJ.

I was able finish everything, barely, but I wasn't able to write Christmas cards for my officemates so I ended up postponing the handing of the gifts away. We needed to rush to the party venue because it was far and, also, traffic.

The event was great, though, it still had room for some improvements. I think it would have been better if it was held at the office. By the way, I won a dry iron which I thought I might not be able to use. Hahahaha! Everyone was dressed well, except for some of the admin because they were not informed. Tsk tsk tsk. Some were mesmerizing since nobody has ever seen them wear glamorous clothes before.

The event ended at more or less 11 PM. There were a lot of things for us to bring. And heavy too; Christmas package, Kris Kringle gifts, clothes we wore earlier and the prizes we got. I ended up changing my plans to go home. I decided to pass by the office to drop off some of the heavy load. I got home at almost 2 PM with a basket of goods and a very large and heavy bag.

More than one year

Hahaha! I'm not really made for blogging. Imagine, my latest post was 14 months ago. Well, I wasn't really going to write any entries, it was just that I passed by someone's livejournal. It is those times when you want to find out about some individual that you think is interesting and at the same time, mysterious. This site really has a pretty powerful search engine. "Akalain mo nga naman, isang keyword lang nakita ko na hinahanap ko." Now whose livejournal I stumbled upon?

Well she's very different from any other individual. She radiates the kind of aura that you would feel when you are on the shores of an isolated beach, witnessing the most spectacular but silent scene of sunset. Slow but graceful, that never ceases to amaze anybody. You can look at it more than once and yet the emotion never wanes down. It's just sad that almost all her entries revolved around two things: sadness and loneliness. I wish we had more common ground to talk about, but the only thing that I can speak of that makes her laugh is about the guy that she really likes that, by the way, has already offered his heart and soul to a different woman.

Double-Edged

Me Una Entrada

This has been one of the most exhausting semesters that I have encountered. I have taken lots of commitments way beyond my threshold. Well, its a goodway to avoid thinking about other things when they are already getting way out of control. I know that such measures are not the right choices, but I can't help it. Things just got way out of hand and I don't know how I'm going to handle them. I just want to go. Run from it. I don't want to face it. Because Im so terrified of what might happen, of what I might lose. Even though I think I've already lost a lot. I don't want to think anymore. It's robbing me of my time that I could use in other things. I can't concentrate. I can't concentrate. I can't study. I would like to blame the person responsible though I was the one that started and did this to myself.

What have I done!? I just cared. I didn't expect to get too emotionally involved. As a matter of fact I was keeping my distance. I was afraid, terrified, mortified of what might happen. Even though I was... no... ,not was but still, enjoying every thing that happened. Every moment that passed and passes never gets forgotten. I would like to forget though I know I never will. Because I saw something different. Something unique that still makes me want to hold on even though "my friends keep telling me that if I really lover I've gotta set her free." Baduy!? Oh well.

I just don't know what to do. I've thought about every situation that I can think of, and I always arrive in a conclusion and solution that I know i'm not capable of. I need to change. I really need to change just to fix this. I like her so much. Please... I already know that I don't deserve a person such as her. I even feel that Im not fit to be near her. My feet trembled when I talked to her. My voice shivered at each statement I let out. My pulse raced when she held my hand. Everything just felt different, something I never expected. But such things would take too long to tell.