the mungo conspiracy

To a theater near you. At the rate things are going, with his dramatic prowess in full display, it won't be long before we see Zaldy Ampatuan in a critically-acclaimed indie film. Working title, "When Harry met Zaldy". Either that or his next stop will be to sing the national anthem in, Representative from Sarranggani, Manny Pacquiao's next fight. I can't wait.

Out one hot and humid day, I found myself in a sari-sari store trying to buy a Coke. They had run out. In fact they've run out of all drinks familiar to me. All they had was this Cobra drink that was supposed to boost my energy, or at least that was what it said so in their ads. So yeah, thirsty and without a choice I got to test this new drink. Tindera handed  me a bottle and it felt cold in my hand, so I thought, perfect, just what I needed. But first the smell, just the smell and I feared the worst. But the Bear Grylls in me -- check that, parched and desperate for anything, I tried it anyway. But damn, that thing tastes nasty! So unreal. So unnatural. But then again, after I had spat out the thing and tried to hanky the taste off from my mouth, I thought, and Coke is supposed to be natural? Hmmmm... I've been drinking Coke since I started school. So from age 6, I was a Coke drinker. But no, Coke is NOT natural. Just familiar. Which brings me to another thought, it wo...

-  Live life with no regrets, never pass up on an opportunity to pee. - You have to get up pretty early in the morning to enjoy a sunrise. - Wherever you are, there you are. - Ninety percent of the time, the line for women to the entrance of any SM mall is longer than the line for men. - An atm machine is four times more likely to be offline when it is salary day compared to any other regular day. - People are 80% more likely to believe what you say when you give out a percentage -- even if it is totally made up.

Took Sustagen's Body Age Challenge. Turns out, I'm 165 years old. Somebody please contact Guinness. --------------- By the way, how many of you all think Moammar Khaddafy should start dating Merceditas Gutierrez? Parang bagay na bagay sila 'no?

Kung dati ako ay asar na asar sa mga kabataang nag-ra-rap shit, kumpleto pa ng jacket at bonnet, ngayon ko lang medyo nasakyan ang phenomenon na ito. Nanonood ako ng tv ng makita ko ang dalawang rappers na maglaban. Battle rap daw tawag nila dun. Teka muna, parang pamilyar ito a? Ah, oo nga pala. Ang unang Pinoy na master rapper ay hindi si Francis M. kundi si Francis B. Francisco Baltazaar/Balagtas. Subukan nyo, basahin ang katagang ito sa tempo ng rap, "O pag-ibig na makapangyarihan, nasok sa puso ninuman, lahat ay hahamakin masunod ka lamang." Yes, yes, yo!

Six months into the Aquino administration and 93% of the population is hopeful. This, even while the gains of the P-Noy presidency has yet to trickle down to the lowest rung of the economic ladder. Mang Pandoy is not richer today as he was a year ago. The only difference now, is the reason for hope. We, as a nation, are hopeful that we've done the hard bit.  We now have a president who was actually elected into office. A president who eats hotdogs in lieu of million peso dinners. We now have an administration that bungles (at times) trying to do the right thing. No great shakes really, but definitely a welcome reprieve from the expertise by which the previous raped the nation. But hope, strictly speaking, is not real. It is nothing more than a feeling that better things will come. Hope is a delicate flower that will wilt in the harsh glare of reality -- if that reality means no gains would ever come. And we are not asking for the moon. We are realists. It is enough, fo...

Episode IV: A new hope, was how the Star Wars epic journey began. Not Episode I, which will come much later on, but Episode IV. And as the opening intro-credits rolled out into the infinite nothingness of space, the camera panned to an empire battle cruiser chasing after a small rebel ship. We are, without any warning, right smack in the middle of it. The genius that George Lucas was, Star Wars was a recognition that life's real stories rarely begins neatly with a slow opening where the plot is set-up and the main characters introduced. This is where we find ourselves entering a new decade, with renewed hope. For we have, by way of ballot, already done the hard part. Daunting tasks still lay ahead of us, of course. The old empire still casts a mighty dark shadow and the war not yet won. And we can not, as the Jedi Master Yoda would put it, just try. For in real life, you do or you do not, there is no try. Here's to new beginnings. To new hopes. To ...

I don't know exactly how it works -- the governing rules, the rhyme or reason to it all. But tomorrow is a holiday by reason of Holiday Economics. So happy Valentines Day everyone.

Merry Christmas... happy new year! ------------------- Overwhelmed by the last minute Noche Buena grocery shopping I've decided to take the supermarket owner's association's advise and do it earlier. Next time, I'll do the grocery shopping December 24 -- one year early.

Eight out of every ten Filipinos support PNoy's administration according to the latest survey. This is in spite of the "experts" continuing their attack on the "amateur" PNoy government. And who are these "experts"? One congressman whose infamy includes getting all of congress to work overtime to pass the (failed) cha-cha initiative when a super typhoon was ravaging his constituency. One senator who chaired the blue ribbon committee chairman and saw NOTHING at all wrong in the nine years of PGMA's reign. These are the "experts" leading the charge. With apologies to the kuliglig drivers, who want nothing more than a means of livelihood, but these experts are one with them in mentality. It matters not, whether a policy will benefit the many, or if it is against the law or common sense. What matters is "Eh ano naman ang sa akin? Ano ang pakinabang ko?" Utak kuliglig. Walang pake kung tama o mali, basta ang kita ko ang ...

Ask me if I am proud of my country and I will tell you that you are asking me the wrong question. Am I proud that 25 years after Edsa the Marcoses are back in power? Maybe not the presidency, but they are definitely back. Am I proud of our PNP? The bus episode would have been really funny except that Bitoy didn't reveal himself in the end. Am I proud that our government is known in the world as one of the most corrupt? So corrupt that our chief export is now manual labor? Am I proud that hunger exists at all in a country so blessed that kamoteng kahoy will grow anywhere one would care to stick a cutting in the ground and not even bother to take care of it? Am I proud that a despicable noon-time tv host is allowed to resurrect his career on primetime? And that our local televiewing choice has all but been reduced to either that despicable host or a Koreanovela, or worse, a local remake of a Koreanovela? I can go on and on with this list. But I'...

10. In 2004, the US briefly entertained invading Argentina when the Argentines won the Olympic basketball gold. 9. Secret sauce? Ketchup and mayo. 8. Barack Obama not really black, only half black. 7. Citing national security, the CIA has hacked into Santa Claus' list. 6. Kim Jong Il, in exchange for ceasing their nuclear program, demands that fresh episodes of "Friends" be aired in North Korea. 5. Al Gore actually thought he invented the internet. 4. There are only 48 stars in the US flag. No one has just bothered to count. 3. Elvis is still somewhere in the building. 2. Victoria's Secret? She's a tranny. 1. US Secret Service codename for George W. Bush? Dumbass.

photo from here Should I feel ashamed that I am a race traitor? Am I the only one? Just once, I'd like to see the bull win the fight. Hey, in my defense, it's not like these matadors don't have it coming. Those tight pants alone deserve a good goring or two.

Militant student organizations have been protesting since Lapu Lapu killed Majellan (they figure, they would have done better using diplomacy). They will continue to protest... whatever it is government decides to do. Here's a list of what they will protest next. 1. Not enough visual aid in the RH Bill. 2. Un-fix the FPIC fuel line. Free diesel in Makati! 3. Regulate the oil industry. Oh wait, didn't we protest to deregulate that some time ago? 4. Not enough pork -- in pork and beans. Needs government regulation. 5. Smart Gilas basketball team sucks. 6. Joma Sison dies of natural causes -- while vacationing, err, on self-exile in the Netherlands. 7. Somebody hit the lotto jackpot already... the suspense is killing me. 8. Congressman Emmanuel Pacquiao should have gone for the kill and knocked out Antonio Margarito. Come on Manny, he would have lost an eye. He wouldn't have been killed. 9. The presidential comb over. 10. Free tuition fee in all state univ...

Hey, it's now less than a month before Christmas. Done your wishlist for Santa and gift-list for your ina-anaks yet? Or are you one of those hypnotized by SM's Christmas carols (since early September) and have actually started your holiday shopping 3 months ago? That's all well and good, I guess. I've nothing against tradition. Let me remind, however, in the holiday rush, not to forget whose birthday it is. You might want to include Him in your list. So what's your gift to Him? It's not Xmas, after all, it's CHRIST mas.

First thing I'm gonna do when I win the half-billion-peso lotto jackpot is buy myself a tricycle. That way I no longer need to pay the exorbitant 14 peso fare for the short trip from the wet market to my apartment. --------------- "Pilipinas Kay Ganda". Clearly we have geniuses running the Department of Tourism. These people deserve to work in government. --------------- "Willing Willie" will wilt, I predict, under the intense competition on the prime time slot. Sure, the show posted big numbers when it opened. But that is an aberration. Nothing more than curiosity for a new thing. I am giving the thing 6 months. What the geniuses at TV5 do not understand is, for households with only one or two TVs, once the amo gets home, the chima-ah no longer holds the remote. This is what prime time competition is all about. If I have to explain to you why the chima-ah audience is crucial to Willie's success, then forget it, you will never understand. --...

Far too many loosers on the internet right now who can't even spell loser. That's either a failure of the educational system (again) or not enough right fitting clothes in the world.

The Philippine National Police recently announced that Santa Cops will not be patrolling the malls this Christmas season. Greatly disappointed. I was so looking forward to that. Which reminds me. I believe we need at least one more punctuation mark. Aside from periods, question marks, and exclamation points, we need one that indicates sarcasm. ------------ Much respect to Antonio Margarito. Mexicans should be proud of his effort. "I am Mexican, we fight to the end." was his only reason why he didn't quit when the final result of his fight with Manny was no longer in doubt. Floyd Mayweather should learn a thing or two about COURAGE from this man. ------------ Getting a little irritated with Facebook at the moment. The thing keeps on asking me "What's on your mind?" every time I log in. ------------ Curious, I checked out (founder of Facebook) Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook page after watching the movie "Social Network". Cool. Was a litt...

This is not an abandoned blog.  I'm just real busy right now with, among other things, making my new apartment live-able (I moved back to the city last Wednesday). It's nearly there and the SO is very happy about it. But I need to fix everything by tomorrow because I will again go on a road trip, break of dawn, Tuesday morning. Be back Thursday or Friday. Then there is the Sunday whole-day thing with the new client. But hey, it's not so bad. Meeting will begin with the Pacquiao-Margarito fight and will end with the Formula race to be shown live in one of those plush Makati sports bars. Free food and drinks, yey! And yes, part of my new (second) job is to watch live sports coverages. Be blogging about those soon. Till then, I will let Zynga carry my blog. Believe it or not, I am still getting my hits if only because of Zynga. Who would've thunk it! :)

My GF found the t-shirts above for sale on her FB account. Cute 'no? But before all you female readers suffer from an epileptic seizure over the "cuteness" of the thing, let me say this one bit of warning, good luck in making your husbands/BFs wear the t-shirt. I can -- if she's not wearing the counterpart. But that would be missing the entire point now, won't it?