tamper-resistant

back from subic...with a TRAFFIC VIOLATION TICKET and an additional remark of "disregarding officer's whistle"

yes, the passenger wasnt wearing a seatbelt so i'll pay the P300 fine. but to put in that i disregarded an officer's whistle?!?!?!? hello?!?! we were singing our hearts out with adam (of the maroon 5 fame) so we couldnt have possibly heard your whistle, you nitwit! e sana kinumpay mo yung kamay mo, titigil pa sana kami!

and it was the principle of the thing, you see, so off we went to the LED and filed a complaint!

all the while my brother was smirking and whispering, "ate, buti na lang sa manila hindi ka pa hinahabol ng mga tinatakbuhan mong MMDA!"

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subic was fun.

had a nice chat with chairman payumo in jest camp. said they're opening a safari theme park in a month's time. but to be safe, i'll give it a few more months before we check it out.

chat was mostly how'd you like the place, comments, what else can we do to help the tourists etc. and in between, calls (with an aide to dial the number) to respective personnel to sound them off re: our comments and that they should do something about it ASAP.

observation: chairman payumo is a consumate politician.

but then again, he might just be really nice.

hmmmm

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you work yourself to death so you decide that you absolutely need a break.

so you go off on a vacation.

to relax and unwind.

but still you end up tired because you try to cram everything in a few short days.

tsk. the life of the corporate slave.

BUT subic was fun.

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Have a hakuna matata new year!

posted by rochelle @ 4:07:00 PM

im such a wimp!

spent most of the night deliberately avoiding a particular table which sat two smart, stable, and yes short brothers. i couldnt wait to get the hi-hello's over with. went flitting around exchanging nonsense with just about everyone instead.

why?

because i think i can like one of them.

gulp. no, we cannot have that.

and so i watched them laugh with my brother...my mom...and my dad...

i am such a w-i-m-p!

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just the thought of a great conversation with either of them terrifies me!

again, why?
1) they're both attached
2) they're both flying away soon (ahem ahem)
3) they're both so bland, they can be adorable

hence, we stay away.

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ok, off to subic. but first, i have to pack.

posted by rochelle @ 12:31:00 AM

christmas 2003

the days (and nights) leading to this year's 25th of Dec. were good ones. sleep deprivation and bad i-can-shoot-all-of-you-if-only-i-have-a-gun traffic can all be forgotten when you think of how fun those days were.

but i threw a tantrum yesterday. so the 25th actually sucked. i should be ashamed, right? 'twas the celebration of God's birth...His birth into our lives...and i was being a major brat.

tsk.

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my brother's leaving for a month long treck of vietnam and cambodia. yeah, yeah, ive had my share of frightful stare down contest with vietnamese immigration officials, eeeky snails, embroidered bags (and not the shiny silk ones please), a cruise down (or up, i have a poor sense of direction) the mekong river, climbed up angkor wat, bantai srei and about 12 more temples,
etc etc...but i just know he's going to have more fun than i did.

I JUST KNOW IT.

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when they said it was going to be a month long trip, i threw my water bottle down and refused to walk to the car (this was after early morning mass). they found that funny so off we walked again.

they brought it up during lunch and i casually asked my brother how he plans to leave when his knees will be banged up (by moi of course). he said that even if i cut off his legs, he'd crawl his way to vietnam. hmmm you'd fit right in with the landmine victims, i mumbled.

i went home to get a nap, freshened up, went back to my lola's house to find them talking about his trip again. kainis! so i waited for a lull in the convo and said, "nasaan ang passport mo, randy?"

that stopped them.

and then they all started talking at once. "Where did you put his passport?" "You went home to hide his passport, noh" "Ikaw naman, nagawa mo na yun e, si randy naman." and the clincher...from mee mom, "Grow up!"

hmp! all the time, i was just trying to spice things up....playing my part (contra vida) so to speak...but that remark got to me!

"Daddy!!!!! Si Mommy oh!!!!"

That was the end of it. Daddy gave me the turn-of-the-tide talk and i told him i was just acting up to make things spicier. And then i gave him a piece of my chicken joy. =)))

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but randy's coming down with a flu. hope it lasts until th 11th of jan.....

posted by rochelle @ 1:01:00 PM

whodunnit

someone deleted my blog.

i curse you with a thousand plantar warts (imagine the pain! and im not giving you DUOFILM, no!) and an overactive set of auxillary sweat glands (and no DRICLOR either!) (go check out those stiefel products, they're simply the best!)

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this is the edited version. first entry was more graphic and violent but since im trying to be good....

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my archive's gone...sniff sob sniff...oh well, think buddhism...form no significant attachment to all things material or otherwise....

(26/12/03)

posted by rochelle @ 8:03:00 AM