THINGS I REALIZED LATELY

1. I was wondering why the rootbeer float in my high school canteen is sinking at the very bottom while staring at my Mcdonald's Coke float. But hey... the ice cream is resting on the ice!

2. I learned this during my trip to Xiamen. My nephew Jason wanted to pee on the plants in a park. I was forced to cover him up, which is really awkward for me. The only thing i wanna do is to have him finish his thing. Then I told him... "Jason, stop playing with your *tooooot*!" My sister started laughing and told me that males who shake their thing after a pee are toilet trained. So that's why men don't use tissue!

3. There is such thing as a papaya soap with real papaya cubes inside. It looks like a gelatin thingy actually. I wonder how people use that.

WHAT IF

In relation to my previous entry, this is one of our non-sense discussions.

According to Janrey, one of our batchmates, Bridget, if he remembered it right, mentioned that, what if the masses or the poorest of the poor were deported to North Pole in large ships to decrease population and poverty in the Philippines?

Here are the reactions:
1. From Mikey: The masses are important to us. Without them, we will not have workers such as maids, drivers and construction workers.
(True. Reasonable.)
2. From Janrey: How can the masses survive in such a cold whether?
3. From me: Of course they will survive! They will be able to develop penguin products industry. Penguin sushi, sinigang na penguin, adobong penguin,… and the penguins will become endangered species.
4. From Janrey: Oo nga. Tapos yayaman sila… and the middle class left in the Philippines will become envious.
5. Also from Janrey: It’s not feasible. If we move the masses there, it will be our tragedy. What if mag-wee-wee sila dun tapos matunaw yung mga ice,… babahain tayo dito.
6. Michelle: (no comment… tawa lang ng tawa)

TAMAD

yesterday, sobra na akong tamad. i knew that the topic is building laws,... and the lecturer of course is you know who. so i deliberately woke up at 11am (and my class is 8am). di na sana ako papasok. pero sabi ni janrey, oks daw yung lecture, medjo boring pero may content. so fine. pumasok ako ng hapon. sobrang boring talaga, na di na kami nakikinig. nagkukulitan nalang kami dun. during break time, we bought nagaraya and flat tops na pinagpyestahan namin para magising. kalat-kalat ng table namin. after class, tumambay kami for a while sa house ni mikey. ayun, kulitan like before. hay... sana di na ako pumasok! wala ata akong napala.

TRIP TO XIAMEN

I brought penguin along with me. On the very first day, i found a kiddie hand print on penguin's tummy! Grrr... that little devil! Eventually, I realized that my 5 year old nephew was also in love with penguin, just like many other friends. He would often tell me, "Penguin is so cuuuute, faaat and cuuuuddly..."



This is one of the places by the beach where the island of Taiwan is visible.



These are the famous universities in Xiamen.
Take note of the seawater pool. I actually saw half naked men swimming in that dirty pool. it's not that dirty, but it doesn't look like an ordinary pool na blue. it;s more of natural lake na may lumot and all but tiled all over. (kung gwapo lang sana yung mga andun... pero.... wag na, di bale nalang.)






This is the most commercialized tourist spot in Xiamen. Tourist guides can be hired at 10-20RMB (70-140Php). This island has the highest ratio of resident to piano.



This is a rock mountain within the city of Xiamen, and also the most challenging task in all of our destinations.



Tsinoy pala si Rizal?! haha, i used to think that this is just a rumor or what not. His province is next to my grandparents'. He has a munument there with a better landscape than the one at Luneta.



This is a province... though it looks more like a city. If you want to buy wholesale garments and sell it to Divisoria, this is the place to be, the home of garments factory in China. This also happens to be my dad's province. Andito rin yung mga maiitim and not so fair-skinned Chinese. So now i know where i really came from.



and finally, i was able to see my ancestral house!