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Hope to see you all in our coming gigs:

December 5, 2009 (Saturday) - 10:30 pm

Guesting on Usapang Kapatid

dzMM, 630 on the AM band

December 11, 2009 (Friday) - 7:30 pm

To Love & Serve ALBUM LAUNCH/CHRISTMAS CONCERT

Church of the Gesu, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City

ADMISSION IS FREE.

December 13, 2009 (Sunday) - 3:30 pm

Guesting on Art 2 Art

dzRH, 666 khz on the AM band

December 19, 2009 (Saturday) -7:00 pm

Mini-Concert and Simbang Gabi

Church of the Gesu, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City

Admission is free.

December 23, 2009 (Wednesday) - 7:00 pm

Christmas Concert

Eastwood Mall, Libis, Quezon City

Admission is free.

I have always believed in the greater good. And as Sarah Geronimo puts it in the movie A Very Special Love, “Maniwala na lang kasi kayo sa goodness!” I always believed that people in this world are innately good or at least, some people remain to be good and kind-hearted. My experience when I lost my iPhone taught me this interesting lesson on timing and goodness.

To make the long story short, I lost my phone in Morwell. I didn’t realise that it fell on the ground while I was getting out of the car. I didn’t know my iPhone was missing until Tita Merly’s neighbour called up to ask if anybody dropped anything on the road. Apparently, the neighbour saw an Easypick Garbage truck park in front of her house. She was surprised to see the driver go down the truck, pick up something on the road, put it in his pocket and suspiciously drive away! Lo and behold, it was my iPhone!

And so there I was – dumbfounded by the event. I suddenly remembered the day when I first got my iPhone. The guy from the Telechoice Optus shop was offering insurance for my iPhone. “We can replace your iPhone if it’s damaged, stolen or lost!” the salesman said. I am well aware of my tendencies (read entry on how many phones and iPods I’ve lost and I lost them), but I told the salesman, “No. I will not pay 8 AUD/month for this. I will NOT lose this iPhone.” Well, the inevitable occurred. I lost my iPhone because I was, for the nth time, careless.

I had to make some calls to have the sim card barred, as well as the iPhone blocked. I did stay calm throughout the whole thing. The call centre guys I spoke to were the ones who were really affected.

Call Centre Guy 1: How are you doing?

Me: (very calm & collected tone) Not to good.

Call Centre Guy 1: Oh, ok. May I know how I may help you?

Me: I’d like to report a lost phone.

Call Centre Guy 1: Ok. May I know the model?

Me: It’s a black 16 Gb 3G Apple Iphone.

Call Centre Guy 1: OH…MY…GOOOOOD!!!! I know how you feel!

(Yeah right?!)

Call Centre Guy 2: How may I help you?

Me: I lost my phone earlier today and I’d like to have the line barred in the mean time.

Call Centre Guy 2: Ok. May I know your mobile number & the phone model so that I can look up the IMEI number?

Me: Ok. It’s - - - - - - -  and the phone was a black 16 Gb Apple Iphone.

Call Centre Guy 2: OH MY GOD! Wow. An Apple Iphone. Wow. OH My God! Are you Filipino?

Me: Yes?

(hahahahaha…may ganun?)

These call centre agents were really hilarious. There were really sympathetic in all that. Well, more like borderline sympathetic & pathetic :P Aren’t these calls being recorded?! hahaha

Tito Ross & Tita Merly were kind enough to bring me to the Police Station. We had to report the incident to a Constable (whose name was Sam Miller). At that point, I did lose hope. The world is full of people who are evil. I sent a text message to my phone asking the “finder” to kindly return it to Tita Merly’s house. But what are the chances that my iPhone will be returned? Hay…It was Australia’s money anyway..and it was an Aussie who got the phone (according to the neighbour). So I guess that’s quits.

Being the silly girl that I am, I got a student loan and bought a new iPhone yesterday (Tuesday). I even bought a new case for my new iPhone. It cost me 900 AUD to get a new iPhone! Hay...What’s interesting is – SOMEBODY ACTUALLY RETURNED MY IPHONE! Tita Merly just called me this afternoon saying Michelle saw my iPhone inside their mailbox. Whoa! I never thought this was possible.

I guess what I’m really trying to say is this – In life, we are always faced with choices and often times, we rush into things or get ahead of ourselves. We fail to evaluate consequences of what we are about to do. If only I had waited for a day, Our actions have a ripple effect. They sometimes call it the “butterfly effect”. If I didn’t rush into buying a new iPhone, I wouldn’t have applied for that loan, I wouldn’t have bought a new unit and I wouldn’t have this  dilemma of how to dispose of the other iPhone (hahaha..silly dilemma, if you ask me!). I can’t believe (and I hate myself for this) that I gave up easily on hoping that there is goodness in this world and that someone would return my iPhone.

Judges like Jason of SYTYCD have commented that some dancers are often skilled but they miss timing and that ruins the whole routine. Timing is everything and indeed, there are these stories:

..of being late for class because you missed the tram after you pressed snooze on your phone and slept for a few more minutes due to an all-nighter paper which you should have done a few weeks before the deadline.

..of coming clean & telling a friend of how you felt --only it was a few years after

…of discovering mutual feelings between you and another person a few days before you leave for another country

Yes, it’s all about timing. You have to be at the right place, at the right time.

But this doesn’t mean that we should despise failing to seize the right moments. We should see these situations as reminders that 1. There are many things to consider when we make choices 2. Not now doesn’t mean not ever. It really means, not now. 3. There is a perfect time for everything..and when it’s time, everything will fall into place.

There are 2 things we say in anger: those that we don’t really mean, but we say them just because our anger blinded us, and those that we secretly mean, and it only came out because rage disabled our edit button. Honestly, I don’t know which is worse…

February 19, 2008 → The Top Ten Things We’ve Said In Anger

1. Joanna - To my quasi-boyfriend: “Sana makulob ka sa sarili mong utot para malaman mo kung gaano kasama ang ugali mo!”
2. Em-em unggoy - An angry yaya scolding her makulit ward: “Ay told yu nat tu du dat, yu du dat! Naw luk at!” (Translation: “Sinabi kong huwag mong gawin ‘yan, ginawa mo pa rin. Ayan, tignan mo!”)
3. No name - My sister was so mad at me for teasng her that, red in her face, she shouted: “You..are such..A BARST PERSON!” Hindi siya makapili between bastos and worst.
4. Doctor On Call - When I found out that my boyfriend was cheating on me, I told him: “Kaya nga ako nagboyfriend ng pangit dahil ayoko ng may kaagaw!”
5. Ruby - Out of frustration, I said this to my husband: “Inaano ba kita, bakit mo ko inaano!”
6. No name - My super nice but legally blonde-ish friend got into an accident. A truck smashed into her Fortuner. The truck driver didn’t take her seriously and in fact kept laughing at her because of her super kolehiyala way of talking. When they got the police station, the truck driver kept laughing and mocking her. In my friend’s anger, she screamed: “Gusto kita sampalin, but your face is so oily!!!”
7. Maricon - After I learned that a “Christian” friend was telling common friends a false version of a situation that made me look bad, I told him these exact words: “For you to claim that you have Jesus in your heart is tantamount to blasphemy!”
8. Regine - Everytime gagabihin ako ng uwi sa bahay, my angry mom would always say: ”Pinapanalangin namin ng papa mo na sana pag nagka-anak ka, haliparot ding tulad mo!”
9. No name - I told a grade one bully who bullies my grade one son: “Do you want me to kill you? Do you want me to kill your whole family? Get out of my son’s face!”
10. Billie - “I’ll kill you until you’re dead!”
11. Dox - My brother and I said this when our dad was being a lame ass again: “Sa susunod na subukan niyang magpakamatay, hayaan na natin siya.”
12. Tani - When I was in high school & got angry with my group members, they accused me of not calling them up. In front of all our classmates and our male teacher, I yelled: “Anong hindi tinawag, eh halos lumawit na yung tinggil ko sa kakatawag sa inyo!!!” (What I wanted to say was, “lumawit na yung litid ko”)
13. Dark Fader - Overheard from an angry girlfriend in Starbucks: “Where did you…Where have you…Saan ka ba galing?!?”
14. SPY Shadow - I’ve told this to an annoying old maid customer in our sari-sari store: “Ano ba, bibili ka ba o lalamutakin mo lang ang itlog ko?!?”
15. Kobe Kong - In the heat of gitgitan on the road: “Sige, gitgitin mo pa ako para magbanggaan tayo! May apat pa akong magagamit habang inaayos kotse ko. Eh ikaw?”
16. Phoebechikay - When I was in c0llege, we made assumpti0ns regarding what happened to my friend. Angrily she blurted out: “Ang hilig niyo kasi mag-ASSUMPT!”
17. Wendy - When my mom told me: “Why is it that your cousin does a lot better than you?” I answered: “Maybe because auntie is a lot better than you too.”
18. Judgedave - My ex: “Sasampalin mo ko, no? Naiinis ka na no? Sige, sampalin mo ko! Sige! Sampalin mo ko!” (PAK!) “Sinampal mo ko…bakit mo ko sinampal…?”
19. Shoao Da Brat - When I was being harassed by this school guard when I was in college, I blurted out: “Kung di ka pa tatayo diyan ng pitong beses kada linggo, di mo pa mapapahigop ng sabaw ang pamilya mo!” I felt so guilty afterwards.
20. Doctor On Call - My friend told our calssmate: “Nakaka-offend na yang kilikili mo, ha!”
21. Gabriel Knight - Back in high school, my classmates were caught peeping on our pretty young teacher when she saw a small mirror under her desk, just below her skirt between her legs. The next day, our old maid teacher burst into the room, arms outstretched, legs wide open, shouting: “Matapang kayong mamboso pag nakatalikod ang biktima nyo, ha! Sige, ayan, nakaharap ako! Sige, BOSOHAN NIYO KO!”
22. Gaile - This is what I said to my boyfriend during a fight: “Yan kasing utak mo, mas maliit pa diyan sa titi mo!”