My ten grains' worth

earlier this day i brought josh (the bunso) with me to UP to do a few rounds around the academic oval. to facilitate his "jogging," i set the pace for him by brisk-walking a bit. however, the boy slowed down after a quarter-length, and by the halfway mark he was looking for a shortcut. well, at least he made it to three-quarters...

then we went to the tennis courts and waited for tim and ronald. that was when a text message informed me that no one will be bringing tennis balls along. good thing the club had some, and let us borrow them (heck, tennis without balls? that's frustrating).

josh was hilarious - his memory storage is limitless, much to the demise of his kuya; tim and ronald just kept on feeding him with the latest chismis about kuya gab, most of which even i am not aware of (i prefer not to disclose them here). but i had fun, and in the end, that was all that mattered. maybe i should bring him there again sometime else.

anyway, here's a nice site which i had knowledge of through mica, a vocabulary quiz formulated by the United Nations World Food Program; every answer you get correctly donates 10 grains of rice to the UN "to help end world hunger."

ten grains is almost negligible, see, but a hundred grains fills up only a fraction of the standard size cup. i tried counting and got up to five, maybe six hundred - but even that much was not able to account for a half-cup. they've collected a grand total 420 million grains as of yesterday; how many sacks would that make?

it's not enough to feed more than 85% of the world, but it's a good avenue to do your part in achieving the dream of eradicating poverty. hmmmm.

Bored?

i feel for you, so try some of these:

1) Happy Tree Friends. i'm not a fan of cartoon violence, but... there was simply no choice.
resistance is futile.

2) Jessica Zafra. what's not to love?

3) Reader's Digest. ohh, there's always room for something new.

4) banana chips and milk. chill before serving. best before sundown.

still bored? get some sleep. but before that, i'm thinking about another poll. suggestions would be most welcome.

Logically random.

random chaos eventually molds into perfect logic - anonymous

two days ago i opened my own Multiply account, mainly so that i have access to others' pictures and whatnot, but otherwise it's virtually empty. what caught my attention, however, was Mutiply's conception of a network, something i haven't seen anywhere else yet. it distinguishes a friend from a colleague, neighbor, life partner, family, and business partner. so american, pretty much like my attempt at eenglisch. funnily, however, it's the latest fad, even in the confines of the Filipino context, which is good proof of the existence of neo-colonialism. hmmm.

i sent my first five drafts to my employer-slash-benefactor today. if everything goes well, i get paid; but if there's even one typographical or grammatical error that i overlooked or was unaware of... my pay gets cut in half. and my full pay goes at Php400 per 1000-word set, which is more or less cheap labor, given the quality of write-ups that they expect... but here's hoping that i get a bonus for passing my drafts three days ahead of schedule. (heh!)

ahh, that's all thanks to this damned rain. i planned to play tennis or jog in UP today. worse, weatherpeople are hinting 'typhoons' as of presstime. (lesson learned: sembreak + rain = stagnation) so i planned to please myself by watching Prison Break's season 3, but video streaming sites deleted them all (i can clearly imagine hearing one atenean friend of mine - copyright issues? CHE!!!). same went for Heroes, and i don't want to download videos yet, i fear that something might go wrong...

which reminds me of something that actually went wrong: 1st Semester, AY '07-'08. you see, Geog 1 and 1.25 don't sound like they fit to be next to each other, right? then there's that German 11 choke - i had to take a final exam! heck. and i'm not talking about my majors yet!

anyway, enough of that. tell you what: don't mess with ol' Grampy Time. you'll end a loser - i adjusted all our house, mobile, and computer clocks to half an hour advanced; same with all the personal wrist watches. this morning i was supposed to pay some bills for my dad in the bank; me, being the ultimate procrastinator, completely forgot all about it until 2:30 pm, when he called to ask me about the payments. i lied to him, then after the call ended, i rushed to the nearest bank, which was a half-hour away from the house. banks close at 3:00 pm sharp; when i arrived there, i learned that it was just 2:00 pm... and that i was a big sucker.

with that all said, i'm off to play 3D ping pong. auf wiedersehen!

bad hair day?

my blog is not well-maintained. that is usually the first thought that comes to my mind when bloghopping. next moment, i laugh at my notions dismissively, even if its truth stands. thing is, i can only twitch this site during my spare time, which happens to be now.

anyway, my father forced me to a haircut a week before schedule. i dunno why, but 'pops has developed a monthly angst against my hair, and he always finds ways to get me into a barber shop. last saturday, he did again. while we were watching the last moments of the la salle-UP game...

pops: anong next match?
me: ateneo-feu.
p: ah, feu yan.
m: wag naman. kawawa na ateneo eh, 3 straight na rin yun.
p: talaga? sige, tingin mo ilang points mananalo ateneo?
m: siguro mga sampu. bakit?
p: ah, ganun? sige, ganito. pag hindi nanalo ang ateneo by 10 or more...m: ano po?p: hmmm... alam ko na! sasamahan mo akong magpagupit. hindi, magpapagupit ka!, tapos, dapat pareho tayo ng gupit!
m: ano???!!! seryoso? ayoko nga-
p: okey na ah! sige, magdasal ka na gabo!
m: *silently* syet!

ateneo did win... by eight points. and before i could blame kirk long or chris tiu or anyone else for missing their free throws, my dad and i were both sitting at barbers' chairs. and there goes my short hair... shortened.

moral: gambling is detrimental to your image. [hello, erap.] do at your own risk.

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