Getting My Driver’s License
For the first twenty-three years of my life, I had a perennial headache. I thought that I was simply frail or delicate (Frail or delicate? Moi? Hrhrhr). Then suddenly, my headaches stopped? Why? I learned how to drive. I realized that the culprit is the driving of Manoy, our family driver of more than thirty years.
Note: You may be wondering why twenty-three years, when Filipinos could get a driver’s license at eighteen. Well, I’m such a klutz and slow learner that I had to renew my student’s permit for five years.
Don’t get me wrong about Manoy though. I love the old guy. He is fiercely loyal and dedicated to our family. Before I got married, I think I’ve probably spent more hours with him than any other person in the world. He took me everywhere and waited for me for endless hours – school, piano lessons, swimming lessons, piano recitals, swimming competitions, parties, soirees. He made sure that my feet never got wet when it rained and that not-so-acceptable boys kept themselves at bay. He was also my own personal assistant when I took the Philippine bar nine years ago. So never mind if he’s a clutch driver who is accelerator hungry complimented by his love for sudden brakes and driving too near speeding jeepneys.
So now I am back in this crazy great city of Manila after six years in Cambodia. I can choose to go around this city by a) enduring Manoy’s driving, b) getting myself pushed and kicked around in the MRT, or c) driving myself. I chose c. Unfortunately, my driver’s license has been expired for 5 years. When I was still living in Cambodia, everytime I visited the Philippines, I refused to renew my license because a) I didn’t want to take the disgusting drug test and b) I didn’t want to take the disgusting drug test. But now, unless I either wanted my childhood headaches to return or pack myself like a sardine in an MRT car, I had to take the disgusting drug test.
Read more in Toe’s Kurokuroatbp.
Funny Whatever Expression of a Baby
I saw this funny video from a friend’s blog. The baby in the video keeps on saying the word “whatever” with a funny expression on her face. What’s more amazing with this baby is her hand gesture while saying “Whatever!”
It’s really nice to have a baby in the family. Can’t wait to see my niece!
Funny pinoy stuff
Sense of humor is important on a day to day basis. It’s been said of the Pinoys that we are pretty ingenuous when it comes to making light of things, not because we are escapists, but maybe because we are a “happy” people … as ordinary people we don’t resort to guns to solve our problems. We tend to see the lighter side of things. One display of a Pinoy’s sense of humor is in the play of words. Common words and familiar trademarks and expressions are re-invented to make it truly Pinoy sounding. Read more about this in the blog I wrote entitled, Time for some funny stuff …
Funny Inquirer.net Headline
Definition:
mil·len·ni·um (m-ln-m)
n. pl. mil·len·ni·a (-ln-) or mil·len·ni·ums
1. A span of one thousand years.
2. A thousand-year period of holiness mentioned in Revelation 20, during which Jesus and his faithful followers are to rule on earth.
3. A hoped-for period of joy, serenity, prosperity, and justice.
4. A thousandth anniversary.
How old is America?
If by America, you mean the United States of America, then you can consider it officially established in 1776, when the Thirteen Colonies declared independence from Great Britain. That would make it 232 years old in 2008.
From wikiAnswers
The Most Touching Divorce Letter
Dear Wife:
I’m writing you this letter to tell you
that I’m leaving you forever. I’ve been a good man to you
for seven years and
I have nothing to show for it.
These last two weeks have been hell.
Your boss called to tell me that you
quit your job today and that was the
last straw.
Of Packing and Unpacking
So you see I’m supposed to be stuffing those boxes at the right with clothes and books and cds and all my personal stuff. And instead, I’m watching a marathon of How I Met Your Mother on the pirated DVD channel, playing Freecell, and YMing all at the same time. You might be wondering what the heck is the pirated DVD channel. It’s a local channel here where they show pirated DVDs all day complete with the blue Sony screen where where they show the eject button, choose language… and sometimes, the operator falls asleep right after he accidentally presses the pause button or the fast forward button… usually happens when I’m riveted with a movie in the middle of the night. Anyway, the pirated DVD channel is totally not my topic. So you see… I’m procrastinating packing so much that I’m even procrastinating blogging about packing.
Read more here.
I Plead Guilty To Murdering Santa Claus
One of the perks of being home alone is the chance to think about things that I normally don’t think about. Or refuse to think about, whichever is applicable. I ransacked my fridge hoping to find something edible but which requires no cooking. All I got was a pack of lobster sticks that had expired approximately a year and a half ago. Everything else in the fridge required heat before ingestion. So I opted to starve instead as I saw no point in cooking and then eating all by my lonesome self.
Then I thought about the most interesting person I could think of at this very moment–ME. The gods must have been waiting for this move, this introspection, because they decided to create the best ambiance for me. Rain clouds suddenly chased the sun away, the temperature dropped a few degrees lower, and birds stopped chirping (the gods probably know how I hate those silly lovebirds my brother kept and how I have long wanted to twist their puny little necks to forever silence them). READ MORE…
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Makoy is 26 yr old IT guy who loves to write, thrilled with movies as much as his favorite American food, fascinated with politics, current events and money matters, an entrepreneur in the making, and a certified Ortigas blogger.
