Today is my Dad’s birthday! Tomorrow we will be celebrating it at Dish, Quezon City because he wants to watch Bloomfields. In case you do not know, Bloomfields are mostly known for their covers of Beach Boys songs. However, do not have a misconception that Bloomfields are composed of members that are in their 40’s. In fact, they are around my age. They are composed of JJ Lozano (on guitars), Louie Poco (on bass), Pepe Lozano (also on guitars, Lakan Hila (on keyboards), and Rocky Collado (on drums). Surprisingly, Lakan was my classmate in one of the general engineering subjects (Strength of Materials) way back in college. Our block was merged with their block (Industrial Engineering block) for that particular class. By the way, all of them hailed from La Salle Greenhills. Join their Yahoo!Groups if you want to know more about Bloomfields and also get to know some latest updates from the band.

My nephews and Carol was discussing earlier about how they are good in swimming. It’s like one of those “payabangan ng lolo” sessions but they are really referring to about themselves. They are really funny. They were even demonstrating it. For instance, they were doing the popular shark swim style. In my childhood days I usually do that one. Well, almost all are doing the shark swim style as a joke. Then, they were asking Mom to go to our Uncle’s house so that they could swim. Then my Mom said yes and they were screaming their hearts out, “YEHEY!” while they were jumping. Then, when my brother arrived my nephews told him that they wanted to go swimming. However, their excitement was turned to frustration when he would not let them swim. Afterwards, Justin was all quiet and was making ala Puss in boots face. With that, my brother gave them the permission to swim at our Uncle’s place.

When I was in High School, I didn’t suck at playing badminton. Before, badminton was not a hype and I didn’t suck in playing the sport. Now, I am not good in playing badminton. This was witnessed by my officemates last Saturday when we played at MetroBadminton which is located at Pioneer Street. With serving the shuttlecock, it was not a problem. Then, there’s as if a big hole in the racket that I was using that I was not able to throw it back to the other side of the court. If I could just hide in a shell just like turtles I would. I became confused whether to use a backhand stroke or a forehand stroke. I guess it’s just that I don’t play the game as regular as before that my skills became pretty rusty. When it was already the middle of the game, my performance got a bit better since I was able to execute some smashes and almost dived towards the floor just to send the shuttlecock to where it came from. And so, I was the Queen of Airballs and later on, was demoted to Princess of Airballs. Nevertheless, it was fun playing. At least, my physical activity increased which is aside from walking to the office from Greenbelt and walking towards Landmark from the office. Hehehe!

Before I was able to use the Ladies CR at Shell here in Better Living, I asked for the key from the Select cashier first. Then, I was told to go to the gasoline station cashier since the key was not with her. Then, I politely asked for the key from the cashier. She then gave me this key with an unusually large key chain. When I got it I could not help but react. Hehehe! When I got inside the Ladies restroom, I immediately took a picture of it. Hehe!

Pinoy Big Brother: Ang Teleserye ng totoong buhay

The first person that popped in my mind upon hearing the tagline is Jim Carrey. Then, the film The Truman Show followed. The film, The Truman Show is something about a reality TV soap opera where they followed Truman’s life (Jim Carrey). The difference here is that, he was not aware that there are cameras around him and that his life is being shown on TV. The funny thing about this movie is everytime an “advertisement” shows up. For instance, his wife suddenly takes the pose while holding a pack of milk.

In PBB, everyone’s aware that there’s a camera and of course, they are all competing for the prize. Of course, they could have been acting differently because they are aware that there’s a camera and that they are in a competition. Thus, is it still valid that it is a “teleserye ng totoong buhay”?

Well, so much for Franzen for being the most favored “pasaway”. He has to pack all his things and leave this Saturday. I guess Cass knows him too well that she’s confident for asking a voluntary exit and eventually, she’ll soon be favored by the voters if their impression towards Cass will change.

I seldom watch PBB, but due to the controversy where my friends told me that there’ll be another one who’ll get automatically nominated for eviction because of breaking a particular house rule. Then, I was able to see Franzen in the confession room (of course on TV) and he said that there’s some impersonator out there playing baseball with Jason.

Again again again…

Impersonator!

Okay, I think we need to rewind the footage again and press the Play button.

You see, it’s already on tape and unedited and then you’ll get a remark from him that he has an impersonator who wants him out ASAP? What the?!? Is he just being sarcastic or what?

Another random question, do you think that there’s a possibility that Cass is experimenting with something? Hmmm… something like getting the charisma of the text voters? Could it be that everything that she said is just a show or a “tactic”?

It was my first day to teach in our training center. Currently, I am teaching Autodesk Inventor Level 1 which is for the novice users. Thus, for those who have known AutoCAD, they were both owned by Autodesk. My first teaching experience is when I became a student teacher in IHMS. I was teaching Math to grade 3 students and became a substitute class adviser for a particular section. And who said classroom management was easy? Not really if you have 40 students under you. My next teaching experience is in college during my stay at DLSU. I was part of the Academics Committee of the Engineering College Assembly. I became one of the peer tutors there where I was the only one talking to around 20 people listening to me. And the subject was Engineering Algebra (known to Engineering students by the course code ENGALGE). It’s even harder than simple arithmetic. Then, my next teaching experience after that is right now. And yes, it’s really challenging since this is not just another Algebra101 tutorial where all of my tutees were younger than me. Now, this has something got to do with my work.

To be honest with you, I was really nervous at first especially before the class started. Then, as I started talking, the “nervous side” of me had been wiped out. I was cool then. Certainly, that challenge was just the start of it. The challenge after that was even harder and will be harder for the coming days. On the contrary, it’s a great learning experience for me.

Friend is what my nephews call him. He’s our neighbor who’s around 3 years old. And because I don’t know his name, I also call him Friend. After arriving home from work, I usually see him staring outside their window. There’s also a time when me and my brother arrived and he was playing with his mini bicycle, by the time I opened the door, I was surprised to see him that he’s already just approximately two feet away from me. Just recently, I mentioned it to my brother about our neighbor. Then, I just learned from him that the kiddo’s name is Renz. I guess he was just too observant of the people around him that even before going to bed, he would still take a peek at their window and see who just arrived or who’ll be going out.