movie buff
English movie titles you DEFINITELY should NOT translate in Filipino =)
1. black hawk down – ibong maitim sa ibaba
2. dead man’s chest – dodo ng patay
3. i know what you did last summer – uyy… aminin!
4. love, actually – sa totoo lang, pag-ibig
5. million dollar baby – 50 million pisong sanggol (it depends on the exchange rate of the country)
6. the blair witch project – ang proyekto ng bruhang si blair
7. mary poppins – si mariang may putok
8. snakes on a plane – nag-ahasan sa ere
9. the postman always rings twice – ang kartero kapag dumutdot laging dalawang beses
10. sum of all fears – takot mo, takot ko, takot nating lahat
11. swordfish – talakitok
12. pretty woman – ganda ng lola mo
13. robin hood, men in tights – si robin hood at ang mga felix bakat
14. 4 weddings & a funeral – kahit 4 na beses ka pang magpakasal, mamamatay ka rin
15. the good, the bad and the ugly – ako, ikaw, kayong lahat
16. harry potter and the sorcerer’s stone – adik si harry, tumira ng shabu
17. click – isang pindot ka lang
18. brokeback mountain – may nawasak sa likod ng bundok ng tralala/bumigay sa bundok
19. the day of the death – ayaw tumayo (ng mga patay)
20. waterworld – basang-basa
21. there’s something about mary – may kwan sa ano ni maria
22. employee of the month – ang sipsip
23. resident evil – ang biyenan
24. kill bill – kilitiin sa bilbil
25. the grudge – lintik lang ang walang ganti
26. nightmare before christmas – binangungot sa noche buena
27. never been kissed – pangit kasi
28. gone in 60 seconds – 1 round, tulog
29. the fast and the furious – ang bitin, galit
30. too fast, too furious – kapag sobrang bitin, sobrang galit
31. dude, where’s my car – dong, anong level ulit tayo nag-park?
32. beauty and the beast – ang asawa ko at ang nanay nya
33. the lord of the rings – ang alahero
i wanna be a tutubi
Leadership is a choice. This is one of the things imparted to me by the Junior Officer Leadership Training Seminar last April 25-29 2008. it is, of course, not an untapped topic for me being an Organizational Communication major. But it is always nice to be reminded of the things you know you know yet you do not remember all the time. Heck, it is a common knowledge that I allot only an iota of thought to acads, dear. Thus, this is not the focus of my blog.
Because there are far more better REASONS for the existence of this blog.
Like the unusual culture shock I felt when I was put in the midst of the hodgepodge personalities. PJMA, being a national organization [yes, mhan! National to , mhan, national], is a muddle of cultures of several ends. I say unusual here because the mixture is not of the common ones that I had already encountered. Funny may it seems that of my three years of mingling with people in the metro, this was my first time to communicate with students from Manila Central University, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, University of East, San Sebastian College, San Beda University, and New Era University [for others not mentioned, sorry]. Another funny thing about this culture shock is that it wasn’t baaad. Mind you, I learned how to really think of what I was going to say to avoid insensitivity. I am not proud to say that I love to bash schools on some occasions [I am an iska, anyway (KIDDING!)]. Amazingly, though, the credit wasn’t fully mine because those when I started talking with them, othering was totally forgotten. They were really nice and pleasurable to chat with, either with intellectual chitchats or idle chismisan. These newness really culturally shocked me, that’s still the bottom line.
Activities were also clap-inducing. Not toxic yet sensible. Tiring yet enjoyable. Nakakaitim yet nakakatuwa. Thrilling and nakakabusog. Entertaining yet knowledge-providing. That candle task from Big Brother Louie and Big Sister Andrei was really nice. It added buckets of thrill to our training. Fortunately, we were able to do what they wanted us to do even though it wasn’t rated as success through and through because, unfortunately, the light died out for more than ten times. [thanks, Bry, for not making sumbong. haha!]. then I loved the adobo-cooking activity. It was really nice because I immediately went from average status to really useful one. mei and I was able to come up with a delicious mixture of ingredients named adobo. Mei manned the stove, I manned the ingredients. Woohoo!
But before the adobo-cooking show, we had this:
Them: May tiwala ka ba sa amin?
Me: Meeron.
Them: paano kung wala kaming tiwala sayo?
Me: [kunwari nagisip] may tiwala ako. [wanting to add ‘pakialam ko sa tiwala nio sa akin? Basta ako may tiwala ako ngayon sa inyo na di niio ako papatayin. Case-to-case basis ang tiwaala ko ee. <grin sa isip>]
Them: Sige nga, talon.
Me: <talon, talon, talon, talon>
Them: Sayaw!
Me: <itinaas ang kamay habang tumatalon tas pinilit kumembot kaya lang nahirap pala igiling ang baywang habang tumatalon kaya ibinaba na ulit ang kamay at lumundag na lang ng pasayaw imbis na ipagpatuloy ang pagtalon at pag pipilit kumembot. Wag na pagmukhaing tanga ang sarili.>
In addition to that, I was asked to:
1. blindfold myself.
2. spit and eat candy that was supposedly dipped in saliva of us.
3. roll over lotsa flour
4. hold the bathroom bowl.
5. hold the supposed poo which was really a chicken part [yung kinuha mula sa aadobohin].
6. jump without knowing where I would land. And jump high, I did. Result? I stumbled down and acquired bruise on my hand and barely aching knee joints and elbow joints.
7. sunbath in the tennis court
8. drink the supposed spit of everybody which was really just egg white [ansama ng lasa].
9. receive a slap in the face
I told you, it was fun! Haha! Mind you,I didn’t want to look guarded and defensive so I was always striking a confident pose during all those ‘waiting’ time. Supermodel, cami. Haha! Biro lang. Anywho, alam ko na naman talaga yung gagawin and yung mga techniques and secrets ng ganitong initiation rites so I wasn’t a bit bothered. Heck, ako nga ang nambubully sa mga ganitong intiation rites.
I am now a member of Philippine Junior Marketing Association National Executive Board [PJME NEB]. I have the position of VP for Publication and Communications. No need to ask why. You know my course.
I get to have new acquaintances and friends. Tas me nalaman ako. Pero di ko sasabihin ditto. Nakakahiya. Akin na lang yon.
I learned a new song. It comes with a dance, too. It goes like this:
I wanna be a tutubi
Na walang itinatagong bato sa lupa
Na tinuka ng manok….
[darn, nakalimutan ko yung lyrics. Aalamin ko muna ulit.]
three days of fun and excitement. Three days of learning and self-growth. Three days was a short-time, though. I am excited to extreme level to work with you, guys! I cannot wait to start the school year with you. Kahit anong hirap ng trabaho, alam ko kaya natin. Pag dumating yung time ng problema, lagi lang tayong titingin dun sa tatlong araw na yun na nabuo tayo, nagging masaya at nangakong walang iwanan.
Binibilang ko na ang mga araw na makakasama ko ulit kayo. Sa ngayon…
I wanna be a tutubi
Na walang itinatagong bato sa lupa
Na tinuka ng manok….♥
googled
it is my habit to check how many people have read or plainly visited my site every time i open my account in this website. [for those who don't know how i do this, let me tell you that i have no special, from extraterrestrial power. my blog is blessed with this "blog stat" feature which allows me to see how many people visited the site per day and how do they chance upon this blog. ] it is a mixture of joy, shame, and fear name whenever i see that many people visited the site in a day. i guess it is already understandable why i feel glad to see those big numbers. admittedly, part of the reason why i ma blogging is to let people see through my perspective. somehow, there is this feeling that i want to let people know about me and about my life. also for the benefit of those who already know me yet do not have enough time to catch up with the happenings of my life [my catching up with their life is completely another story]. the shame, i know, is kinda weird to be felt. the shame is for the incoherent thoughts and way of writing. i know i am so unpolished in jotting down things and i am not proud of it. but i thought, what the heck, the only way i can correct it is through the act of writing. so readers just have to bear with me. the fear, well, this one is just completely out of insanity. haha!
a while ago, when i opened this blog and checked on the blog stats, i saw this one thing that wholly surprised me. have i told you before that this website not only tell users how many people visited their personal but also indicates how people chanced upon the blog? it also tells the user what key words people typed in the search engines that showed your blog as results.
so what surprised me? the fact that somebody was google-ing my blog. woohoo! i know this is not BIG but so what? one reader who looks for me in the net. haha! [cross out the suspiscion that he/she is a stalker. i am just not the type who has hordes of stalkers. di bagay].
