i suppose it's true..

when my mom came home with her friend amidst the strong rains to tell us that the flood was already chest deep where they came from, i just thought to myself, "whoa!! for real!?" and then went back to using the computer..

when the water started entering our house i just helped to move the furniture a bit and then escaped back into the internet.. honestly if the power wasn't cut i probably would have just continued surfing all day long..

seeing the news the next day and overhearing the stories of my mom and sister's friends who came to our house for refuge i just thought, "that's really too bad"..

and while all my family and friends are donating or volunteering to help out.. the thing i did when i finally went out of the house yesterday was to go to work..



out there i saw
never-ending traffic jams..
garbage, ruined furniture and clothes waiting to be disposed..
mud that still can't be contained..
dust that flies everywhere everytime a car passes by..
houses and cars that have traces of mud or garbage up to the roof..
stretches of roads that are pitch black if not for the headlights of the passing cars..
shirtless guys (meaning they still don't have clean clothes)..
people lining up just to get a small plastic bag of rice..
women washing a ton of clothes by hand outside a laundromat (because there's still no power)..
vendors trying their best to earn a living in the dark..



the typhoon came on Saturday yet it was already Wednesday and the damage is still as visible..

277 people dead.. 42 missing.. and countless have lost their homes, gotten sick or do not have anything to eat..

and yet here i am.. acting as if nothing happened.. preparing again to go to work..

the other day i went drinking with some friends and i was shocked at the difference between Filipino and Japanese cultures..


one of our friends got so drunk that he can barely stand on his own.. and he also felt like throwing up.. but he kept on saying that he could still drink.. i thought that we should induce him to throw up.. or at least wait for him to do so.. but one of my Japanese friends said that since he said he could still drink, we should just let him..

but everyone knows that he only said that because he was too drunk to realize that he can't drink anymore, right?? i mean, insisting that one isn't drunk is, after all, a sign of being drunk, right??

so i can't understand why they'd just keep on letting him drink.. shouldn't a friend be worried and be the one to control him??



also, when a Japanese guy and a Filipina who were with us suddenly(?) hugged and kissed, that same Japanese friend said something like, "Well, no one really minds so it's okay."

i mean.. i'm not really known to be conservative.. but does he honestly not realize that people actually do mind!?

i was doing the telop for OPM songs in the office today..
one of the songs was by RJ Jimenez (of PDA)..
it's title was "True Love Waits"..

never mind that it had such an unappealing melody..
and that it uses such awkward lyrics..
i just find it so weird for a song like that to come from a guy.. XDDDDDD

and then the next song was "Dahil Mahal na Mahal Kita" (Roselle Nava original)..
but the one in our files is a revival by Zacariah.. (some Filam sounding dude)..
that's just so wrong!! XDDDDDD


the other day i rode a jeep home and kept hearing weird frog-like noises..
i looked around and saw that it was the lady beside me who's producing all the noise.. XDDDDDD

so the first thing i thought was that
a.) she ate a live frog and she hasn't been able to swallow it yet.. or
b.) she herself is a frog!! (omg scary!! XD)


the other day i had a dream..
we were in the transformers' world and megatron was chasing me and some other people..
so hoping that he'll overload and blow up, i took his plug and plugged it into a socket.. XDDDDDD
but it only gave him infinite energy..
so now he's making his way to Earth (still plugged.. XD) to destroy it..

and i chose to spend the few minutes left of my existence.....




having PDA with the person beside me.. XDDDDDDD
who turned out to be Tiff.. XDDDDDDDD

Tinikling
Girls: Shin, Megu, Trisha
Boys: Jayvee, Ryo
Bamboo: Edward, Morgan, David, Abby


Karatong
Girls: Aura, Megu, Acchan
Boys: Dai, David, Yuto


鱗～うろこ～
Vocals: Hiroki
Gutiar: Yzzy

the following blog is translated from my japanese blog.. so pardon the unnatural english.. XDDD

so many things happened this past few weeks...



7月27日（月）
it's over..
and here i was thinking it would last forever..




7月28日（火）
Tomo-Kai Anniversary Week!!


7月29日（水）
i was so depressed i skipped all of my classes (5 total)
but at least my mood improved during Tomo-Kai's wasabi eating contest




7月30日（木）
again i skipped all my classes (2 total)
but not to drown myself in my own misery or something like that
i decided that i had to go somewhere i've never been to before
and do something i've never done before

i joined the Basura Tour
and saw people who had things a lot harder than i do

it took my mind off my misery for a while.. but i guess it just wasn't enough




7月31日（金）
Cultural Night
the preparations were deadly..
but it was a huge success
so thanks to everyone who performed or came to watch




8月1日（土）
Cultural Exchange with the Showa University students

but i was the MC so i was really tired..
plus i didn't really get to join the Philippine games
but it was funXDDD

we also had the long-awaited デビ会 that night
i didn't get any sleep even though my schedule was full the next day.. XDDD




8月2か（日）
Marikina Tour
i'm not sure if it was a failure or a success..

due to time constraints we had to change the itinerary so many times..
so we weren't able to go to the Butterfly Garden, Pan de Amerikana and the Doll Museum..

it rained hard the whole morning, too.. the Marikina River was flooded so we weren't able to go to the Animal Trail, nor eat in one of the restaurants on the other side of the river..

but!!!

we rode bumper cars!! (this alone is enough to make the whole thing a success for me.. XDDD)
and i was able to make them ride both the jeep and the tricycle..

and the visit to the Manila Boys Town also went well..




8月3日（月）
Dinner with a model
he was a very fun person
so now i regret that i didn't get to talk to him more

and i should've taken more pictures!! XDDDDD




8月4日（火）
on my way home from work i got off the MRT at the Quezon Ave. station..
and used the overpass to get to the jeepney bay..
as i was going down the stair i saw a person struggling/crawling on the sidewalk
and everyone was just stepping over him as they went on their way..

so i thought that i had to do something cause if i didn't no one probably ever would..

me: ayos lang ho kayo? (of course not!! )
him: *groans*
me: ano ho ba nangyari sa inyo? san ho kayo umuuwi?
him: pauwi na ko e.. nasa ospital mama ko.. di pa nga ko kumakain e.. wala nga akong pera pauwi e..

at that point i thought..
shet scam!!　（←haha.. ang sama ko.. XDDD）

then another person came to help and offered to feed the guy.. so i left the scene..




8月5日（水）
no classes due to cory's death
i was supposed to write an essay due on the 7th the whole day but..
i turned on the PC and there was..
the internet
and plants vs. zombies
they were too much for me to resist  XDDDD




8月6日（木）
i wrote the essay until 4 am (of the 7th) and ended up having to submit the worst piece of crap i've ever written in my life




8月7日（金）
i forgot to collect the materials i needed for a report due on the 10th




8月8日（土）
went to DAWN and MOA with the students from Showa University
we were going to watch the sunset and the fireworks so we stayed until 7pm
but it was cloudy..
and we had so much fun in the karaoke that we didn't make it out in time for the fireworks.. XDDDD



8月9日（日）
i realized that i forgot to collect the data for my report.. so it was internet/plants vs zombies again for me




8月10日（月）
i went to UP first thing in the morning to get the data i needed..
rode a jeep to work..

while on the jeep i felt a sudden gust of wind around my privates..
and found that there was a gaping hole in my jeansi spent the day worrying if i'm being an exhibitionist by circumstance




8月11日（火）
Showa University Farewell @ Ma'am Jina's house
i was half-dead due to lack of sleep for writing the report that was due the day before but there was no way i wouldn't go!! XDDDD

however...
when i entered Ma'am Jina's house..
my professor was there

ma'am: nagsubmit ka na ba ng paper?
me: hindi pa po.. ehehe..

XDDDDDDDDDD


8月12日（水） kita kits ulit!!we celebrated our president's birthday after pissing her off and making her cry

went to watch LULU after being drawn to the poster with naked people.. XDDD
watched the Tagalog version..
at first i couldn't understand what the hell was going on but it was good that i watched on
next week we'll be watching the English version!!

nakakainis pero habang hindi pa tapos ang papers ko ay mananatiling panget ang layout ng multiply ko.. (T^T)




p.s. Aura and Janna!! Eto yung sinasabi ko, okay? :p

sabi ko hindi muna ako magp-post ng review dahil marami pang hindi nakakanood.. pero dahil nagpost na si Elia.. at mali ang review niya.. magp-post na rin ako!! XDDDDDDDDDD

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( review/rant.. thanks ginnie for reminding me about the wonderful feature that is LJ cut.. XDDD )