Archive for October, 2005

Bakasyon

Mga hindi ginagawa ng nagbabakasyon (a.k.a. unpaid vacation leave):

1. Hindi gumigising ng maaga.
2. Hindi sumasagot ng cel kung opisina ang tumatawag.
3. Hindi nagbabasa ng office email.
4. Hindi naliligo kung hindi lalabas ng bahay.
5. Hindi nagmamadaling tumayo pagkagising galing sa siesta.
6. Hindi na nagsusuklay kung walang ibang tao sa bahay.
7. Hindi nagmamadaling kumain dahil toka na [...]


Into a Time Warp

Unang araw ng 5 days unpaid leave ko ngayon. Ginamit namin ni Sam ang panahong ito para kunin ang inaamag kong NBI Clearance sa Carriedo. Nuong 18 August ko pa dapat kinuha ito pagkatapos ng tatlong araw na waiting period sa pagpapalit ng apelyido, pero naging sobrang busy na sa trabaho kaya panay pagpapaliban ang [...]


Mahal na mahal

Nakita ko ito sa likod ng sandalan ng isang bus na nasakyan ko papunta sa opisina. I couldn’t help it, piniktyuran ko talaga kasi feeling ko ang tindi namang pagmamahal kay “M” ng kung sino mang sumulat nito. At kung ia-analyze mo pa … mag-on pa rin ba sila? Ano kaya ang nangyari at [...]


1935

In 1935 the Commonwealth of the Philippines was formally established. The first commercial Clipper flight across the Atlantic Ocean was made, with the China Clipper stopping in Manila along its tour. 1935 was when Eastman Kodak developed Kodakchrome color film, although it was more than a decade after that before Filipinos would be using color [...]


Time Flies

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. She’s growing like a weed.


Men Discussing Politics

Men Discussing Politics, by Atanur Dogan, a watercolour artist and sculptor living in Izmir, Turkey, although he spends each summer with his family in Canada. He is a graduate of the Fine Arts program at the Dokuz Eylul University in Buca, Izmir, where he specialised in watercolour and sculpture.
A long time ago, I exerted some [...]