LIB-UG

With only a few weeks left, the madness continues. Its hard to come from a small town where everybody knows everybody and are somehow related to the other in more ways than one. But we vote by conscience and by the way we see that person dealing with the trial up ahead. It may all be games right now but when the reality sets in and the names are announced, thats when a lot of hurt can happen. You think a lot of people have gotten hurt na? You haven't seen anything yet if the people we vote for fall flat on their faces.

Best example I think is Obama. Americans practically worshiped him! The rest of the world fell into the spell of the whole Obama-ism movement. Months into it, what has he done, really? More talk and no work. Bush may had been a clutz and a simpleton but at least he did something. Sometimes not the right things but he did take action the best way he knew how.

I'm scared that people in the Philippines are so caught up in the moment. The mythology of it all. I pray for all to wake up and finally go where their minds take them. Its not a matter of whos popular or unpopular. Its about whats right. And we all know right is not always and never will be the popular choice.

Vote wisely. God as our guide. Only He knows whats up ahead.

Green state of mind

the girl with the unforgettable personality

The earliest memory I have of Valerie Gustilo was when my brother and I were back in Assumption. I was maybe in 6th grade, my brother in 2nd. Valerie was Joey's classmate. She was the girl with the Beauty and the Beast stuff. She had the lunch box, the ruler, pencils, you name it. And one thing about her in that age even then was that she was quite a fun character and very hard to miss.

A few months later, she was known to me even more as the daughter of my dentist. Memories of braces come to mind quickly.

A few years later, after graduating from college at UP, I got to meet up with Valerie again during the MBA days (my gawsh!). She was always the center of the laughter and the best person to just dish out the tsismis with when things would be blah. She was still definitely quite the character.

They were just about to graduate from highschool and as the "manang" I did what I could to share whatever common sense I had learned during my college years. But when they went off to their own colleges, I went back to the life that I was just then beginning to make for myself. Since then, I would bump into her once in a while. Text her every now and then. But never like the days we had way back. You really miss those days.

Last week I heard she needed blood. She was B positive. Very hard to find. But I had no idea she would be passing away this soon in the prime of her life. Last Thursday, April 22, Val went back to our Lord, leaving a hole in our lives that only she could fill. We will miss you, Val. WE already do.

Sex and the City 2!

Tweetie

I hate to say it, but I finally got on the Twitter phase. The chismis you can get! Oh wow! Where have you been all my life?! I am so manol!

On the bad side though, just realized my phone automatically went on 3g mode on its own, so my Globe bill hit around the P16,000 mark! Crap! Sniff! I'm usually around the P4,000 area. Shucks! Made my knees weak.

When B met C

"When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. " - When Harry Met Sally