omg, after a cat talk last week, i can’t believe i actually ran over an orange cat today —- accidentally (promise!). 

unbelievable.  i was just going 30kph along merville access road when zoom, the cat headed straight for Wudju’s wheels!  i didn’t even have time to react (to think i was really minding how i was going, not even texting nor talking on my mobile phone, or twitching with my nano/radio); i just felt like i hit a small bump on the road with a corresponding ‘thug-dug’ sound.  however, when i looked at my rear view mirror, nothing was left ’splattered’ on the road…so i didn’t stop na.  when i got home, ‘nothing’ was stuck in my wheels din naman. 

so i guess i just ‘crippled’ the said feline.

ey, please let me believe that… i’m still shaky with the whole experience.  shucks.

Since mid-June, I’ve been asking about my “transfer” papers in the office, to which I get the reply: “sa admin, sa admin.”  Not wanting to be a prima donna about the matter, I became less persistent about my follow-ups.  However, last Friday, my officemate from HRET, who was transferred as I, already got her clearance sheet (to think that came all the way from the HR in QC).  Baffled, I finally inquired directly from the admin about my clearance (to think PET is part of SC).  I was told they no longer have it. After a series of calls, I finally traced the blasted paper in the Property Office.  It had been there since June 19 — almost a month ago already! Wha da?!  Arg talaga, no one even bothered to inform me about a certain glitch in said department despite me previously asking about my clearance sheet.  Today, I called the Property Office to make sure everything was ironed out already as I was told and to inquire na rin where my clearance sheet will go to next (so I can follow up from that office din).  The answer: they do not know as the person in-charge wasn’t around.  And so I asked around, customarily, where do clearance sheets go after the Property Office.  The collective reply: "I do not know."  To think, I’m not the first person in our office who ever underwent this kind of transfer.  Arg!  I’m at my wits’ end na talaga; ako na nga maglalakad ng papers ko, but no one can even point the proper direction I should take. 

Government bureaucracy at its purest form — in my very office, in our very institution!  Hay, trust no one to do something for others properly and with expediency.

Gawd, I wonder when I’d be over this whole “transfer” process?  It’s been almost two months! Yeah, obviously, I’m so pikon right now L.

Resolution:  guidance from Jove’s office….again!  I just can’t believe this!

2hours and 20mins long.  having read the book is a plus to understand the story and remember the characters (dumadami na rin kasi).  somewhat entertaining, but i’d hedge it’s not captivating enough for non-readers-of-harry-potter-books to enjoy. the kids have grown!  hmmm, i wished for a prettier cho.

when we came out of the movie house, i only had one thought in mind….Transformers pa rin! hehehe. 

woooohoooo!  friday the 13th!

happy birthday, Captain Picard!

between japanese and korean, it’s easier to sing the former.  try it when you’re as bored as i (hehehe):

WISH (HANA YORI DANGO LIVE, BY ARASHI)

Machi ni ai no uta nagarehajimetara
Hitobito wa yorisoiau
Kagayaki no naka e boku wa kimi wo kitto
Tsurete itte miseru yo

Koi wa todokanai toki wo keiken suru uchi ni
Tsuyoku natte yuku mono da ne setsunai mune sae

Kimi ni niai no otoko ni naru made kono boku ni
Furimuite wa kurenai mitai tekibishii kimi sa

Sugiteku kisetsu wo utsukushii to omoeru konogoro
Kimi ga soko ni iru kara da to shitta no sa
Ima koso tsutaeyou

Machi ni ai no uta nagarehajimetara
Hitobito wa yorisoiau
Kagayaki no naka e boku wa kimi wo kitto
Tsurete itte miseru yo

Yasashii otoko ni narou to kokoromite mita keredo
Kimi wa sonna boku ja marude monotarinain da ne

Kaze atari tsuyoi sakamichi mo nobotte ikeba ii
Futari de ikite yukeru

nara

boku ga kimi wo mamoru
Chikaou

Machi ni ai no uta nagarehajimetara
Hitobito wa hohoemiau
Kane no oto hibiku toki boku wa kimi wo kitto
Tsuyoku dakishimete iru

Machi ni ai no uta nagarehajimetara
Hitobito wa ai wo kataru
Kagayaki no naka e boku wa kimi wo kitto
Tsurete itte miseru yo

Kimi wo ai shitsuzukeru

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zEupFpZNcaI&search=Hana+Yori+Dango+2.4

PERHAPS LOVE (Goong OST)

uhn jeh yuht duhn guhn jee gee uhk nah jeen ah nah
jah kkoon nae muh ree gah nuh roh uh jee ruhp duhn shee jahk
hahn doo buhn ssheek dduh oh reu duhn saeng gahk
jah kkoo neul uh gah suh joh geum dang hwang seu ruh oon ee mah eum

byuhl eel ee ah neel soo eet dah goh
sah soh hahn mah eum ee rah goh
nae gah neh geh jah koo (neh geh jah koo)
mahl eul hah neun geh uh saek hahn guhl

sarang een gah yo geu dae nah wah gaht dah myuhn shee jahk een gah yo
mahm ee jah koo geu dael sarang hahn dae yo
ohn seh sang ee deud doh rohk soh ree chee neh yo
wae ee jeh yah deul lee jyoh~ OOH~
suh rohl mahn nah gee wee hae ee jeh yah sarang chah jaht dah goh

jee geum nae mah eum eul suhl myung hah ryuh hae doh
nee gah nae gah dweh uh mahm eul neu kkee neun bang buhp ppoong een deh

ee mee nahn nee ahn eh eet neun guhl
nae ahn eh nee gah eet deu shee
oo reen suh roh eh geh (suh roh eh geh)
ee mee geel deul yuh jeen jee mohl lah

sarang een gah yo geu dae nah wah gaht dah myuhn shee jahk een gah yo
mahm ee jah koo geu dael sarang hahn dae yo
ohn seh sang ee deud doh rohk soh ree chee neh yo
wae ee jeh yah deul lee jyoh~ OOH~
suh rohl mahn nah gee wee hae ee jeh yah sarang chah jaht dah goh

saeng gahk hae boh myuhn (saeng gahk hae boh myuhn) mah neun soon gahn sohk eh (sohk eh)
uhl mah nah mah neun (YEAH~) suhl leh eem ee ssuht neun jee
joh geum neu jeun geu mahn keum nahn duh jahl hae jool kkeh yo..

hahm kkeh hahl kkeh yo choo uhk ee dwehl gee uhk mahn suhl mool hahl kkeh yo
dah sheen nae gyuh teh suh dduh nah jee mah yo
jjahl beun soon gahn joh chah doh bool ahn hahn guhl yo
nae geh muh mool luh jwuh yo~ OOH~
geu dael ee ruh geh mah nee (geu toh rohk mah nee)
sarang hah goh ee ssuh yo (geu dae yuh yah mahn) ee mee~

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FuBkMjOfQiA

it’s been a long running joke already that i was really born under an unlucky star that it’s quite usual for "bad luck superstitions" to follow me like i’m some kind of a magnet for them.

case in point (as i mentioned in my previous entries): on my way home (both in our present house and in our old apartment before), a black cat would always run across the road in front of me.  funny, ‘coz i really feel someone employs these feline and cues them to run when they see me approaching na (no matter what vehicle i am into).

anyway, going to the point of this current entry:  tonight, no black cat ran across the road; rather an unmoving black cat lay in the middle of our street.

hala! namatay na isa sa kanila!

hep, hep, hep!  before you point an accusing finger towards me, i vehemently deny having anything to do with said death. 

my theory — siguro sobra nang na-guilty yung cat na yun sa pag-ha-harass sa akin kaya nagpatiwakal na. ha-ha :o)

just the same, i strongly believe no bad luck can ‘destroy’ me now……lucky year ko ngayon eh!  boooyeah!

funny forward from jax:

my nano is prolly sooooo confused right now — blasting korean, japanese, spanish, hawaian, and beatboxing music in to my ears! riafanaticism, to the next level nanaman :p

I sat through an episode of Grey’s Anatomy Kris was watching last month (I reiterate, I am not a fan).  The said episode was the one where George O’Malley’s father died (Six Days, Part II - Release Date: 2007-01-08).

I couldn’t help but cry when George’s family took the life support off the elder O’Malley.  The scene was so achingly familiar — hearing the continuous beeping; seeing the flat line; everyone gathered around the hospital bed, helpless and grieving…

I was with Papa when he fell into a coma, when the last of his life-support medicines dripped, when they covered him in white hospital linen, and when they wheeled him out of his room in the hospital the final time. 

Happened almost four years ago already, but it’s still pains me when I remember the whole episode.

CRISTINA: "There’s a club. The Dead Dads Club. And you can’t be in it until you’re in it. You can try to understand, you can sympathize. But until you feel that loss… My dad died when I was nine. George, I’m really sorry you had to join the club."

GEORGE: "I… I don’t know how to exist in a world where my dad doesn’t."

CRISTINA: "Yeah, that never really changes."

http://www.greysanatomyinsider.com/quotes/episodes/six-days-part-ii/page_2.html

What Cristina said is true.  In my barkada, Lains and I are doubly bonded with our respective losses of our fathers, being Papa’s girls at that. 

Like George, I also didn’t know how to exist in a world where my dad doesn’t.

Now, I know that world.  I still don’t like it, but there is nothing I can do but to exist in it.

Happy Fathers’ Day, Papa.