is your candidate MAD?

 I still do not have a list of 12 people whom i will vote for as senators this coming May 14. i haven’t really checked out profiles and records, for me to really know who among these aspirants are worth my precious vote. There are some very good people at the present senate and i’m actually content with all of them. Somehow i do not trust a lot of the candidates. I’m neither for the admin or opposition parties. I hate it when they bicker. I wish these people will just focus on letting us know why they’re worth our votes instead of hurling accusations and trying to discredit each other. I do not like our president, but i just find it disgusting that the opposition’s main objective once majority of them are seated is to impeach her. I mean, what the fuck. Like another impeachment or people power can ever do anything to improve our situation.

Meanwhile, there are lots of dubious characters in the admin party. It’s not to say that the people from the opposition are saints. In fact a lot of them are purely lip service lang. Being an eloquent speaker will make one a good lawyer, maybe, but not a good public servant. 
 

I wonder if these candidates can come up with an honest, believable, sincere and worthy response when, during one of their campaigns, somebody pulls them aside and asks them “why should i vote for you?”. I really want to know. Because a good friend actually did ask that, to a supposed “sure winner”, who banks in his eloquence. I was actually quite impressed by this person before, i thought he was good. But one thorough check at his background, at his supposed good track record, i realized he’s all just hot air and a lot of crap.

Anyway, back to my friend’s story. When she asked that, all the senatoriable did was smile at her and make pa-cute! My friend was so disgusted that hours after that, she sent a text message to everyone about it, asking them to think twice if they’re planning to vote for him. With a funny/mean punchline: “buti sana if he’s actually cute, feeling lang nya guapo sya! Kamukha nya kaya yung nasa MAD magazine noh!”
 

HAHAHA! Ohkay, well i wouldn’t name the poop senatoriable but if you can figure out who looks like Mr. MAD, maybe you’ll know

 

good news from my old email

I was checking my old email address last night when i chanced upon this announcement sent on Feb 24 by my good friend and fellow Matrix fangirl Amarie. Apparently she has given birth to her 2^nd child, another girl last feb 17 at St. Luke’s Medical Center in QC! I was so surprised because i didn’t even know she’s already here. She and her hubby Vicvic has been based in Hong Kong for the past couple of years, and we rarely hear from her. We, being our other friend/fellow fangirl Sabine, who’s in the country and in the same city as i (and fellow Thomasian at that! Yay!) though we never get to see each other much cos we’re both very busy. Oh my, it seems like yesterday, when the three of us would exchange emails or chat or read each other’s blogs, and meet each other regularly for dinner and movie. I even used to sleep over at Ams and Sab’s. Years have passed, we all became busy with studies, had new things to obsess about (well, we’re fangirls!) but it’s always nice to know that these things don’t really matter. When we all meet again, which i hope happens real soon – i know it’s going to be just like the old times. Speaking of meeting, goodness, i have wanted to hang out with Sabine for the longest time but my scheduel sucks! Hopefully before june.

By the way, Amarie’s new lil angel is named Meagan Victoria (her first is the pretty Madeleine) – a name which i just love cos i’ve always loved the name Victoria. I thought the name sounds really feminine, and yet has some edge to it. I have five friends named Victoria – two Maria Victoria’s, one Victoria Clair, one Ana Victoria, and lastly one Teresita Victoria.

Much as i love the name though, i don’t think it suits me. I’m really quite better off with my given name, as it is as weird as i am. Tee hee.

Anyway, congrats to proud parents Ams and Vicvic and a warm welcome to Meagan Victoria1

and here’s hoping i’d see my lovely fangirls, aka angels again!

Of Artista Crushes on Ofiice Hour YM’s

 I used to engage in marathon YM sessions with Sam when work wasnt so toxic yet and we actually stay in our office cubicles most of the time. I love our YM chats, they’re among those that really help me de-stress because we always end up talking about silly stuff, even if we would begin our chats with discussiosn about the day’s latest headlines. God knows how we always always end up talking either about food, beauty products, the good old times, crushes and uh, artistas and showbiz chismis! Anyway, i recently came across a folder in my pc where i kept super long YM transcripts. I found this one Ym session with Sam, where we mostly talked about showbiz stuff. Here is an excerpt where she was trying to guess who my artista crush is then. Hehehe

 

chasing_cloud: oo nga whos this cwushiecwush!!!

novafilipina: guess muna…

novafilipina: ayan naba-bading na naman ako!

chasing_cloud: heheheh!

chasing_cloud: game sige..

chasing_cloud: one more clue

chasing_cloud: =P~

novafilipina: not everyone knows he can sing… but he’s pretty good at it.

novafilipina: he’s got a soap opera in ch 7

novafilipina: he was once married but they’re divorced na because of irreconcillable differences daw chuva

chasing_cloud: AAAAHH sino tooooo

novafilipina: mas bagay kasi kami. wehehehe

chasing_cloud: wait wait

chasing_cloud: hehehehehe

chasing_cloud: teka ha

chasing_cloud: think think

chasing_cloud:

chasing_cloud: ian veneracion!!!!!!!!!

novafilipina: nooo!!!

chasing_cloud: he’ll be in encantadia di ba???

chasing_cloud: dennis trillo ?? from darna!

novafilipina: he’s from a political family in manila…. mayor yata dati yung lolo niya…

chasing_cloud: definitely not richard gutierrez

novafilipina: close sa isang sinabi mo…

novafilipina:

chasing_cloud: dennis padilla :D hehe..teka hmmmmmm

novafilipina: HAHA, no not REchard Gutierrez!

chasing_cloud: first letter ng name

novafilipina: dennis padila? lol

novafilipina: R!

chasing_cloud: robin padilla!!

chasing_cloud: lol

chasing_cloud: richard gomez??

novafilipina: LOL no

Dear Attorney-to-Be

Failing the bar is proving to be harder to handle than a bad breakup… 

Trust me, I know how it feels. To have labored and sacrificed a lot for the past several years…of skipped (and sometimes forgotten) meals, sleep deprived nights, yosi smoke from our sunog baga study group mates, nagging calls from loved ones who, for the nth time, we neglected to spend some quality time with…ulcer, hyperacidity, anamemia, pneumonia, migraine. All just to get ourselves ready for another three or so hours of incomparable tension as if we’re all perpetually awaiting an execution. When in fact it’s just another night of recitation, of being grilled about laws and cases. But we know it’s not just another night… we’re given an average of 30 cases to digest and study, we’ll seat ourselves in class armed with an arsenal of information, half-praying we’d get called to get things over and doen with, half-wishing against it because we’re not sure we’re ready enough. We rejoice, with a huge sigh of relief (and bottle sof booze ro celebrate afterwards) when we know we did good enough to merit at least a decent passing grade. But when we know we sucked, it’s like we want to disappear right then and there, as we doubt our self worth, and at times, contemplate suicide. Or homicide.

 Who said law school was easy? 

I cannot help feeling if I ever did well, or if ever was good enough. I wonder what I did. Or didn’t do…why did I fail? 

We’re all aware that over the years, the bar exams has been reduced to a mere licensure exam, and not a measure of how good one is. It’s all now just a matter of luck, not of brilliance.  Do you remember when we interned for this firm and we had to endure hours of headsplitting headache after reading a bunch of pleadings written by lawyers, who supposedly landed in the upper 30% of the bar? How we thought that whoever wrote them, would be better off writing for either a teleserye or a trashy chick flick? Please don’t think that failing is your karma. The thing is, you’re good, no, you’re great. I am just reminding you of those horrible pleadings to make you realize that nailing it doesn’t necessarily mean they’re good. They were simply lucky. 

So good for them.  

I do not want to sound like I’m sourgraping, but look at ________ and _______ and ___________, they practically slacked their way through law school. They don’t even digest cases. They photocopy our notes sometimes, they barely pass exams…they, I hate to say this, suck at moot court. And they passed!I know, and we lived the typical, poor, hungry, sleep deprived, sick law student life. You excelled in everything. You interned for top law firms and courts. You edited the law review. Your heart, I know, is clearly in public service. I know you wanted to pass the bar because you can’t wait to serve the people. You possess all the right and noble motivations to make it. We all wanted for you to just be there, our kickass super smart and good hearted public attorney. As much as you despised the common lawyer goals (money or power, or both) you respected those who wanted fame and fortune. You are one of those who do not want to be in public office or out in the streets to serve or make her voice heard. Why, you even turned down my offer to be running mate when I run for president in say, 20 years.  

We all truly admire your capabilities, your intentions, your idealism despite ours having vanished into thin air ages ago. Yet we cannot say others do not deserve to pass for any reason (except if they cheated…know that their vicious souls are roasting in hell right now)… you may have not nailed it the first time, but I am sure you will eventually. Because if there is anyone who is truly deserving of that license, it’s you. 

I keep myself busy so that I won’t think of it. Because God knows how hard it is not to cry each time I remember. And you know I don’t have tear glands. I don’t cry! 

It’s hard not to think of it. But know that not passing the bar now doesn’t mean you’re not good. Again, you’re great. I can’t tell you not to feel bad, but please do not ever doubt whatever it is you can do. You have a good heart, and you’re blessed with all it takes to make it. This is just one thing you should conquer, you may have failed now, but you will nail it eventually.  

Never say die, baby

Dear T

 Do not think that i am on your side. We’re great friends and i know as your friend slash surrogate sis i should be supporting you. But you yourself said, that with the many impulsive decisions you have been making for the past months, that you really deserve to eb seriously harmed physically. Just to knock some sense into your head. Maybe my martial arts skills will do.

But you know that as “feeling” Buddhist we advocate non-violence, and therefore believe that the right words can do the trick. So you have been in deep shit lately. Something happened and i never found out till a week after. Maybe i was too busy, maybe i just deplore local showbiz that much that i do not really care what goes on in it. Much as i know that eventually you’ll get yourself in deep showbiz shit i never expected it could be of this nature. Stalking? Grave threat? They have some nerve, sis. I swear.

And once more, you have amazed me with your carelessness, how could you have allowed things to just happen to you like that? I know you’re impulsive, and crazy and nasty, but you will never ever intend to inflict harm. I know how you operate, i know how you talk, i know sometimes how you feel and what goes on in your crazy head, you can be a real brat sometimes. But i know for sure you do not deserve the way you have been treated by the media, and the people who accused you. They’re all getting just one side of the story. So you have chosen to remain silent, not as an admission of guilt but to protect people that matter to you. But it is unfair that they’re all coming up with these speculations, and judging you, without even thinking that there are always two sides to a story.

I am not on your side, but i am your friend. And i am here not to cheer you on, on bitch about the people who have been the reason for your pain over the past couple of weeks. But i am here to try my best help you what to do. So it’s all legalities now. We cannot undo what has been said and done, but hopefully we can do something to clear your name.

You are not as grave as the criem you are accused of, nor are you any of the things the media perceives you to be.

summer unleashes my hot temper, and one reason is…

I cannot believe how scorching hot this year’s summer is. Since the equinox on march 21^st, it’s pure hell anywhere you go without the mercy of an airconditioner. My room feels like a sauna, and that’s even withair blasting from the fan. I wanted to live in my office now, where i can turn the AC up, while feasting on ice cream or frozen fruits. Speaking of ice cream, i eat the stuff every single day now, just to beat the heat. Drinking lots of ice cold h2o isn’t enough, so i stock up on Gatorade or Rush as well and is slowly becoming addicted to the stuff.

I keep the shower gels, lotion and cologne in the refrigerator to help me cool down when i use them during and after taking a shower. I put cold compress in my forehead and neck too. I walk inside the mall when i have the time just to keep myself cool. Because i swear, the weather has an uncanny, and sometimes dangerous effect on me. LOL

So if anyone has any more suggestions on how i can beat the summer heat (trips to the ebach not included please, i don’t wanna get fried!) just let me know!

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Having been exposed to the field of HR and having been in the ahnds of good companies and employers, i have gone through evaluations several times and each one of them had been very enriching experiences. Granted that that is where my performance is dissected, poked and prodded, i never felt as if i was being unfairly treated, nor did i ever felt that i was ever personally atacked. I have had my share of negative criticisms, but they were all said in a diplomatic way and proved to be very constructive.

I have always had the impression that people who do the evaluation are capable, mature and professional individuals who are credible enough to be given such task. They are unbiased, they do not have to be very eloquent in their speech but they’re sensitive and know which words to use. So it still surprises me that in this day and age, amidst evolution and progress, we still have people who are seemingly backward in their views and are not exactly credible and capable as evaluators. And to think they are in positions where they’re expected to be worth an employees trust and respect.

But who would respect supervisors who just spew out criticism after criticism using the most inappropriate of words, unfounded accusations, and even direct attacks without even explaining to the employee why they said those in the first place? And how about unnecessary remarks as “you always go to work early. You’re probably just putting your best foot forward, i doubt you’ll stay that way once you’re regularized.” WTF?? These people clearly need to take exposure trips to companies like ADB, Jollibee or GMA-7 where they can see employees eager to go to work early and even do OT because they are treated real good by the company that employs them.

And to think these asshole supervisors are from this service-oriented company which is supposed to be well-respected and “most preferred”. I do not want to generalize and say that it’s the same case in every country where this company operates, but well, their Philippine counterpart sure need to undergo tons of training in HR management and employee relations first. I am tempted to say the name of the said company, but my friend who was a victim of such unfair treatment pleaded for me not to.

And now, i wonder how they should expect my friend to act as if nothing happened. Sheesh.

I know how my friend works, and she loves her job! So its really disheartening to hear comments like she’s rude,self-righteous and that her smile doesn’t look genuine. What a nice way to bring a person down, huh?

I just wished that instead of breaking down, my friend asked questions tried to say something about the comments. But i guess she never expected she would have so many negative remarks, regarding a job which she really enjoys doing.