Jay Halasan's YM

Kanina during Philo class, my good friend Jay Halasan was suffering from another drawback in his quest to pass Ateneo 3rd year. He has a lot to cram tonight, yet how would he be able to attend his marketing meeting on YM?

Answer: ask enchong to attend his YM meeting.

Which I did. I was going to be using the pc all night anyways, but how was I supposed to be part of a marketing meeting? Marketing consists of a project where everyone has a bit of info on little pieces of data.

Jay said.. just be general.
General meaning that I had to say only 4 things: "huh","yep", "hehe" and "cge"

here's bits and pieces of a copy of the ym conference transcript:

alyssa teng: tapos sa galvanized 6, 10, 12, 14, 16
alyssa teng: i think andun naman na
alyssa teng: jayy
Jay: yep
alyssa teng: ung sa cycle time
alyssa teng: mern comment si sir there
alyssa teng: kelangan mo ispecify kung hours ba or minutes
Jay: hehe
Jay: cge


alyssa teng: ung mga gnon lang
alyssa teng: teka pinapatype ko ke john ung comments
Jay: hehe cge cge

John Victoria: comments ni sir: industry size sa exec summary, technical specs sa "needs" part, put tables sa appendix, combine some of the charts, may malaking question mark sa qfd house, yung iba sa part ko na so ako na bahala dun
John Victoria: tsaka marami rin sya comments dun sa line balancing pero ok yung cycle times
Jay: cge
alyssa teng: ano comment nya there?
alyssa teng: para maayos ni jay


alyssa teng: shit ung QFD
alyssa teng: oh nooo
alyssa teng: pano natin gagawin un?
John Victoria: tanggalin na lang natin
Jay: cge
alyssa teng: hindi
alyssa teng: kelangan yon
alyssa teng: WHAHAHHAA
Jay: hehe
alyssa teng: LLO
alyssa teng: LOL

alyssa teng: what do we need ba there?
alyssa teng: wait jay do na muna ung cycle time
Jay: huh?
Jay: cge cge

JONATHAN HALASAN... ang sarap ng buhay mo sa marketing!!!

Where the stars come to play

You know its gonna be a busy week for the Hibachi. But after Monday... after Friday... the stars of the carpool will come to play in this culminating activity that's been building up for months.







One night of Halo. One night of determining the ultimate Halo 3 power. Could it be the usual Carls Gone wild? Can Kyle (supot walang gamer name) cause another comeback? Could Lazren, Scrappy or Bachi force an unlikely upset?

THIS SATURDAY
ALABANG HILLS
8 PLAYERS
2 XBOXES
ONE BIG SCREEN

LET THE GODS DECIDE!

What destroy's valentine's?

I am single.

Are you aware now?

I am alone. Loveless. Momentarily a Virgin. I have been feeding on my own saliva for the time being. I walk holding cellphones, not hands. I don't give flowers. I don't get flowers.

Are you aware now?

Single awareness day... well, yeah, it's a way of single people to make fun of their situation. I get that shit. But why go die-hard and announce it to the world? First up, and don't get me wrong, I'm proud of you acknowledging the fact that you are alone. Good job. Not a lot of peeps have the guts to do that shit. But don't do it on valentine's.

You destroy the moment that our brothers have been working on for about a year. They've been making kwento whatever to their buddies "Ito na pare.. tatanungin ko siya sa Valentine's". He even bought a nice red shirt for the occasion. Classes are about to begin and he goes to Ateneo. I, personally, do believe that Ateneo (next to UP) is the best campus in the country. Falling leaves, trees, our new red brick road. It spells guy-asking-girl-out-for-siomai the moment you see it. Anyways, so the guy gets to school. And then you people. YOU HAPPEN.

You take all the love out of the air. You try to make the whole world appeal to you. Feel pity for you. Although you may not notice it.. greeting other peeps "Happy Single Awareness day" is the ultimate and official Feb.14 catchphrase of Loserness.

Last year in Ateneo, you had people saying loudly "Happy Single Awareness day". They said it loudly and it eventually replaced the "kita tayo sa caf" as the most expressed words in the University that day. I haven't felt so masa in my life. Poor people do that shit. Not the elite!! You have all this Happy Single Awareness Day bullshit, saying how miserable you are, yet proud of it at the same time. You destroy the magic of Valentine's and serenity of Ateneo. You destroy Valentine's (period!!!). Parang palengke na ang skul ko mehn. If you have nothing nice to say, keep it under your shorts. Ateneo last year, when people greeted me "Happy Single Awareness day". I'm not ashamed to be single, but dude! Don't do that shit to me. Fuck I don't even know you now.

Let the couples be happy. And let everyone just be awkwardly silent.. the way it always had been.

Single Awareness Day destroys the Magic of Valentine's
and I pray that anyone (except for Andre Navarro who is a friend and who's had it as his YM status for over a week now)... I pray that anyone who greets me that bullshit today may be single and aware for the rest of their lives.

Beatled

"Happiness is only real when shared"
-Christopher Mccandless

What the fuck is wrong with you Enchong? First you do some gay-ass valentine's blog, now you have one with an inspirational quote? Jesus man... did you take some plants or something?

Okay, okay. I do screw around this blog sometimes, but there are just some days like this. You see something and you say "aww... now that's cool. Fuck man I gotta do that". I've gone movie-ballistic for the past couple of hours, so where else the fuck do I draw inspiration? There was Across the universe, which is an excellent movie by the way and I'm saying this only because I really dig'd the choreography and I'm a Beatles fan. So now I'm in Beatles LSS-mode. "Something in the way she moves... too toon too toon toon toon". Yeah it's playing repeat on iTunes if yer wondering.

So the quote kanina... yeah that was from the movie "Into the wild" starring that dude from Lords of Dogtown and Girl next door. I'm too lazy to research his name, so I'll have to trouble you to do that on your own. It really struck me hard because it's the type of thing you wait all movie to hear. It's like "what is essential is invisible to the eye" from Little Prince. And "I am your father" from Empire strikes back. So no matter how deliberately uncool they sound, the fact that you watched 2 hours of screen for that quote makes it worth something.

"Something in the way she moves. Attracts me like no other lover. Something in the way she woos me. I don't wanna leave her now. You know I believe her now."


Happiness is real only when shared. That's the type of thing that keeps your bags unpacked. No matter how ready you are to spread your wings, or so to speak, you tend to cling on to home. As i do. For the three months i have to endure in school. I am ripped and torn. But this is the space that nobody can have. You can't buy this. All I have to do is go home and hug every single person who I see at home. I am safe. There are those that drag me to drink with them, or play ball or just hang out in Ayala Alabang. Why go to Malacanang Palace to get a medal of honor when you could drink ice cold beer in a gas station? I love incorporating everyone else lives into my own. That truly makes me happy.


What I wrote has absolutely nothing to do with the quote.
I just hope you were smart enough to see that.

"Don't wanna leave her now. You know I believe her now"

a Pre-valentine's showcase of the immortal loser

My previous blog was about how shielded we are from the true state of welfare in this country. Let me just continue by saying "That's life". We're rich. The fact that you can read this blog means that you have access to a computer. That's something that 87% of the country can't fucking have in the shithole homes that they have to live in. Little things like this we take for granted. So when somebody finally tells you "You suck" or "You're not good enough", our world comes tumbling down. We can't deal with failure like the "masa". We have it good, so little things really bring us down. Love, academics, relationships, careers, these are the things we go all drama for. Selfish for the poor isn't it? Nowadays I laugh at myself when I exaggerate my problems. But fuck the poor... I didn't ask God to make me feel like roadkill now.

When you got shit-ass cards right now. When you got nothing but momma's brownies after dinner to look forward to...

...you turn to the click.

The funny thing is that humans are born with only two fears. The first being a fear of loud noises, the second, being a fear of falling. All others are learned. Fear is probably the largest inhibitor in a person's life. I'm not speaking about true phobias: agoraphobia, xenophobia, arachnophobia. I'm talking about your more subtle, yet still debilitating fears. The one's you probably would not seek therapy for. Fear of rejection and embarassment, for example. All of the fears that cause you to think "What if?"

Dude it's valentines day next week! And you know me (well, you probably don't, but) I get really nervous in matters like these. This is different from having to make a presentation in front of 90+ people (oh hell its worse!). This isn't the week before prom. This is completely different. This is a woman. a female. A creation from God to make men lose all feelings in their arms and legs. And to me she's worth it. So why the fuck am I having this panic attack right now?

I recently noticed that I talk to myself. Okay, when I say noticed, what I mean is that I admitted to myself that I do it (probably aloud), and I am officially more like my brother. Growing up, I could always tell what he was thinking about or upset about because he’d talk to himself about it. And now I do it.

Usually it’s not like, a full-on confession or anything. It’s just something like “Seriously, I need more sleep in my life” as I intentionally mess-up my hair after a shower or “You have GOT to be kidding me” when I get a really messy document to edit right before lunch that needs to be finished pronto. You get the idea.

Anways.. Back to the topic! So, now, whenever we brush shoulders and I look back at her after our "hello"s, I get all freaky. I get schizo, you know.

My brain: Enchong, why the fucking jesus didn't you make more of that?
Enchong (whispering and answering to his brain): I don't know

I don't know why the world stops and the next words that come out of my mouth are life and death. I don't know why every little thing I do would become something to make kwento a couple of months from now on how much of an idiot I was to do that shit. "Oh Lord, why didn't I wear the red shirt that day?". Hahahaha. Di naman ganun, pero you get the picture.
I know that people say, most guys get rejected 7 out of ten times. I'm not most guys. I do have a sense of pride, last time I checked. I also know that most people say that you should go out. Go to a club where people pay good money to wake up in somebody's bed the next day. I'm not most guys!! I don't go clubbing. The closest thing i got to a club was bopping my head to 50 cent while doing a paper. I've always said that finding the right one is something that should be taken with great care. So, yeah, I'm really cautious about shit like this. I am a loser. I get that, so...

What do I have to lose? Nothing, I guess. Common friends who would eventually hear about this would talk about it. I don't think I'd care. It'd sting a little. There'd be the awkwardness in between us from now until Armaggedon or something. I'll deal with that. Hey, if you're not good enough to take the risk, you think that kinda person is good enough for her?

(Fuck. My friends, I am so sorry for this shitty post. I know I'm supposed to be 20 years old and clubbing to get girls, but I am old-fashioned. My balls started to grow only after 2008. To those who look up to and respect me, I am so sorry for destroying that respect. I am human after all and a wimp. )


What have I got to lose?
my confidence and reputation. Something shitty, yet things I still hold in pride.

Condo boys can talk you into doing shit we never knew possible. We egg-bombed the parking lot of Kenny Roger's you know. From the 20th floor of Prince David.

But for all it's worth... let's just see what happens.
Hopefully she finally sees me.

Slave 4 U

I’m really glad America outlawed slavery because, man! Who wouldn’t want a slave?

Invisibility. Lawlessness. Chaos. Ultimate control. The dream of every individual with stacks of unfinished requirements that need to be passed tomorrow.

Everyone should be entitled to their own day of no rules.



How bout we send God our petition?

For the good of Mankind

Ralph Waldo Emerson said that "The characteristic of heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits, and starts of generosity. But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic."

Last week... TEAM UNICORN saved the economy by joining the Fort's "Run for the stock exchange". This week, we saved the world again by joining U.P.'s "Run for the environment". By our powers combined who knows how many lives we can save.

We are uncommon.
Heroes live among us.

They put their bodies on the line for the well-being of society. They endure the hurt, the pain and every obstacle. They keep the faith that gives us strength and bleed for us.

That is the hurt right there.

Heroes are modest and noble. They cover their faces to take away everyone's vision of goodness and dedication. It's to give the impression that anybody who you see walking down the street could be a hero. They keep their identity secret.

??????

Heroes do not care about glory and recognition. The fact of the matter is that they live among us. Their pain, sweat and tears live on through the memories of those that witnessed their greatness.

Run! Run for the planet!

Save the world


-Hibachi 17:99

10 things I hate about you

Pretending to be engrossed in an important-looking book in public won't get you laid. I imagine being able to read probably was enough to get you laid back in the 14th century. I bet it still is in the Third World. (The Philippines is "developing" now if I'm not mistaken) 

All I'm saying is, if you went to Tutobekistan or some shit country that sounds like that, sat on a park bench and read a business studies manual, you’d get a hand-job out of it. But not over here. Not now. 

You know the Heath Ledger singing "Can't take my eyes off of you" bit in 10 things? You know the Anchorman Ron Burgundy doing weights in his office? You know the bit in Teen Wolf where Michael J Fox gets his friend to drive a camper van down a main road while the Wolf stands on the roof, performing back-flips? Or even Daniel fucking Larusso juggling a soccer ball in the beach during a sweet mellow campfire hangout? That shit gets you laid. Not reading in public.

So fuck you handsome guy reading outside, lemme say it again, OUTSIDE the library kanina. You're so close to the damn airconditioned library, where it's designed to comfortably read. And you slog off there in the concrete stairs. Just to get noticed.