Signed, Sealed, Delivered

When I left for Manila last Monday, my prize from ChristianPF.com was delivered! It was a three-piece spatula/scraper set from Pampered Chef.






Now, all I need is an oven.

Too Much To Ask

Just one more day and the whole Chinese community will be celebrating the Year of the Ox, which, I heard on TV, will bring luck to those who are under the Dragon zodiac sign. Count me in!

Actually, even when the year of the Ox hasn't arrived yet, I can already feel the luck on my side! Haha. Woops, I apologize for the exaggeration. Well, it's just that I received an invitation for a job interview for the first time. But I'm not really excited as what my writing seems to imply. The company that responded to my application a couple of days ago is located in Pasig! Just one of the places I never planned to work in. It's quite far for me. And I really find it inconvenient to go to. And I don't imagine myself renting a place there to ease the hassle of commuting. The place just makes me feel like I'm in another world.

In case this company is going to buy me, I'm not really sure that I'm going to let myself be sold. And even when I already know someone there--my old roommate--who's going to be a sure bud, I am still not very confident. And even when the recession is said to worsen as time goes by and that the company looks really desperate to fill in the positions recently left by a bunch of old employees, I will still need a lot of thinking... Unless it doesn't have contract or bond of at least 6 months, meaning I can go anytime I want to and that I can still have hmmm a week of absences (is that what you call it?) and that I could prolong my palamunin days and opt to start work (if ever) on the second half of Feb... That's when I'll have myself be sold.

Haha. Gawd, I'm asking too much, I know.

Grade School Lesson

It's not just your civil status that can be described as complicated, because English grammar is just another case of "It's complicated."


English is not an everything-I-need-to-learn-I-learned-in-kindergarten thing. So even when we were taught in grade school and high school the correct English grammar and that not all words need an additional "s" at the end or a change "y" to "ies" to be in plural form, we still tend to say stuffs like baggages, luggages, evidences, jewelries and equipments.


Early this week, I read a Philippine Star article about top 5 annoying Pinoy expressions which included grammatical errors I have mentioned in the preceding paragraph. Yes, those words I italicized are said to be common mistakes of pluralizing words. If I weren't taught in college that words stuffs and equipments don't require "s" at the end to be in plural form, I guess I didn't understand the author of the article's sarcasm at all when he wrote, "Stuffs, equipments, jewelries, evidences, baggages, luggages. Who said we didn't know our grammar? Add 's' to form plural, right?"

Obviously, the other words mentioned by the author are new to me. When I looked them up in the dictionary online, it shows that there are no such words as jewelries, baggages and baggages. But when I typed in evidences, I was directed to the page of "evidence," meaning that it actually accepts the word with "s" at at the end. But, of course, I needed to double check it in other sources. I googled it and found a much reliable source which helped me clear the confusion.

So, "common uncountable nouns" is what you call them. That helped me remember a grade school lesson.

See ho complicated English is? If I didn't know these, then there is a great chance I'll be saying something like this, "Those luggages and baggages contain some stuffs, that will serve as evidences that I came from abroad, such as Japan-made equipments and jewelries.

No batteries needed.

If Mariah Carey has this shinning-shimmering-splendid microphone and a shinning-shimmering-splendid microphone stand (right) that she uses wherever she performs, Raymond Marasigan has Echo Mic.


Echo Mic, which debuted in Pedicab's new video entitled FX (below), is just one of the toys my fellow interns and I bought as a prize for the Halloween Party of the ad agency where we had our internship. Amongst the prizes, I like the Power Puff Girls (PPG) Echo Mic best. It's not the typical toy microphone that just made to be some sort of a mock up. This one's useful... and doesn't require battery nor electricity. It can actually make voices... louder. Haha. As you have guessed, it echos. Hehe.


If I get lucky when I visit a Toy Kingdom and PPG Echo Mic is still being sold, I might buy one for my own. Why not? Its tag will most likely say "for 3 years and up." Besides, Raymond Marasigan has one.

Missing Manila

Hola, Amigos! I know it's been quite a while and that I wasn't even able to greet you a happy new 2009. Calm down people, I'm not holding my first entry for this year any longer, 'cause here it goes!

As most of you know, I left Manila on December 8 to face the fact that I'm done with school and that I'm actually, officially an additional burden to this country's unemployment predicament. In effect, I have been, aside from submitting job applications online, joining online contests! So you see, I'm not totally loafing or idle. Besides, I am spending time writing this blog entry. Oh well, I guess this is what you do when you have nothing to do. I remember a cousin who's also into joining contests on the radio when she was unemployed. So it's not just me, people! But I couldn't really conclude that it runs in the blood. Haha. Do you want to know the fruits of this precious labor, if there is any? Remember my last post? Well, that one's an entry to an online contest. And guess what? I actually got something out of it! It's the Silicon Scrapers from Pampered Chef. I haven't gotten the prize yet. And since I think the host or the sponsor of the contest is US-based or somewhere else in this universe, it'll take a long time for me to receive my prize, or worse, might not even be delivered to me. I don't know. I hope not.

Moreover, a friend confessed to me last week that she missed her movie buddy, which happened to be me. And honestly, I miss her too, and our routine of watching movies together, but I miss the cinemas in Manila more. Hehe. Gawd... It's just one thing that I desperately want right now. I want to watch a movie. I want to watch "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," but unfortunately it's still not showing in our province. I want to watch in a cinema with a comfortable chair, with a nice sound system and one that doesn't smell. Oh I suddenly thought of something! An SM is built and is already open in our province, particularly in Carmen, Rosales, a town that's more than an hour away from our city. I'm wondering if it has cinema that shows movies the same time as movies are shown in Manila ('cos we're usually behind the "normal" opening). Anyway, I'll keep my fingers crossed that I could watch movies like Brad Pitt's or Kate Hudson & Anne Hathaway's Bride Wars or a Zac Efron's Seventeen Again, which is totally a Vanessa Hudgens-free one (How'd you like that? Anything that doesn't have Vanessa Hudgens is a love, I should say.).