Grrr of the Day

NAKAKAINIS ANG GLOBELINES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Johari Window

I remember the "Johari Window" concept from my elementary religion class. It's said to be useful in understanding a person's interpersonal relationships. The Johari Window is similar to a cross-type window pane, with four little windows (imagine a giant square divided into four):

1. Aspect known to to self and to other people (something everybody knows)
2. Aspect known only by yourself (your secrets)
3. Aspect known only by others (your blind spot)
4. Aspect not known by anyone including yourself (uh....top secret???)

Usually what's of interest is the "blind spot" area -- things that other people know about you which you don't know about. Sure, we shouldn't really care what other people think, but...wouldn't it be nice to know what other people think about you? Plus, you can better understand how to improve yourself so you can better relate to others.

So please...help me fill out my Johari Window as well! Hehe. Click this link. Thanks!

2006 Dragonboat Regatta, 2nd Leg

2nd Leg Regatta

Some scenes from the second leg of the Dragonboat Regatta held last October 15 at Manila Bay. For the Men's Category, the Bicol Boys (Camarines Sur) beat the PNP team. For the Women's Category, PNP was the winner, with Aqua Fortis finishing a very close second.

I didn't get to catch the PYROS boys though. Bok and I came late, and we only caught the finals of the men's category. Some more pictures here: click this, or you can click on the picture above for an enlarged version of the montage.

Commercial Muna

If I had time and money, I would join this....

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***got the ad from a Mabuhay Miles email....

Raise The Roof

Workmen repair our ceiling...hindi pa entirely tapos though...

My Kind, from My Fair Maladies

I bought the book a long time ago (well, not so long ago), but before I got married and had to scrimp on every penny (hindi naman ako bitter???). Well in short, I bought the book and there it rested on the bookshelf, untouched until the day of the typhoon when we became refugees from our own home. Well, sosyal na refugees naman kami, kasi naka-tambay kami sa ChowKing at Jollibee habang nagbabasa ng kung ano-ano pampalipas ng oras.

So, in short, this is a terrible intro to a poem I read from the collection of essays called "My Fair Maladies", subtitled "Funny Essays and Poems on Various Ailments and Afflictions", edited by Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo, and published in 2005.

It's a book filled with essays and poems by different authors describing their ailments in a funny light. One of the poems there (the last paragraph made me chuckle deep deep inside)

My Kind
by Ralph Semino Galan

I have no oven large enough,
Dear Sylvia, to roast
my head like a lamb for dinner.

Not a brand-new car parked
in a garage, Dear Anne,
to etherize my soul.

Nor stones heavy with sin,
Dear Virginia, and a river deep
as forgetting to drown myself in.

Nor do I live in a building,
high like the bluest
of skies, Dearest Maningning.

Sisters in rhyme, in crime,
how then shall I make my quick
and extraordinary exit?

Or shall I kill myself slowly
with beer and cigarettes,
bit by bit?

Forces of Nature

Typhoon Milenyo (international name Xangsane), dropped by Metro Manila and the rest of Luzon last Thursday, leaving behind fallen billboards, overturned trucks, uprooted trees, and almost a hundred people dead and thousands more displaced from their homes.


Our ceiling during the typhoon:

..with every strong gust of wind, the ceiling heaved and hoed and we honestly thought the whole building was gonna cave in. Well, it turns out it was only the ceiling of some of the units in our building...some architectural defect that the management was supposedly going to sue the contractor for...but of course during the height of the typhoon that was not exactly a comforting thought.


Our ceiling after the typhoon:

...some workers came in to strip the plyboard off the ceiling, so now it's bare and we have the whole "industrial" look going on. We still don't know when exactly they're going to fix the ceiling..."we'll schedule it," management keeps telling us...hopefully it will be before the next big typhoon...


And To Yet Another Force of Nature...
...it came and it went. I am still confused, bewildered by how sudden it came and went, but to everything there has to be a reason. The reason is out there, somewhere. I have no choice now but to say good bye.