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I know, I know. Thanksgiving is a month away and we don’t officially celebrate Thanksgiving Day here in the Philippines, but what the hell. This year, Blog Action Day (with the theme Poverty) is my Thanksgiving Day. For Blog Action Day 2008, I’d like to talk about me being unaware of how blessed I am living a very comfortable life. Don’t worry, this isn’t going to be like my Blog Action Day post from last year. I’ll try not be retarded.

I know I complain about the most trivial stuff, and I guess this is the perfect time to fully acknowledge that pathetic truth. I have a lot to be thankful for in terms of material belongings and awesome Internet Age conveniences.

I’m thankful for having a roof over my head. A soft bed under my body. A healthy family around me.

I’m thankful for gas for my car. Food for my stomach. Beer for my bleeding heart.

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It’s Holy Week, the last week of Lent. I’m not a practicing (whatever that means) Catholic, but I do respect the reflective atmosphere of this week here in the Philippines. On that note, I would like to let you all know that I shall observe blog silence here and in Face Rockery until Easter Sunday.

Anyway, in the spirit of this week’s reflective nature, I present to you some of my “reflective” blog entries:

“END OF THE YEAR” SUMMARIES

• The Oh Six
• Baddie 2007

ROMANCING THE CALL CENTER

• Now This Is Nostalgia
• Call Center Baddie
• The Specialist

BIRTHDAYS

• Quicksilver
• Party Boy
• Birthday Recap

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All is fun in a restaurant na ako lang ang kakain! [All is fun in a restaurant where I'm the only one who will eat!]

Good times. Hey, I’m sure you guys (well, at least you guys in the Philippines) have been hearing this kind of singing since November and you’re probably sick of it by now, but let’s all bask in the silliness of this raped song to spread some holiday cheer.

Direct your friends to the video’s YouTube page to help the kids get the frickin’ words right. Let’s do the Lord’s work, people! Chop chop!

That image pretty much sums up what I feel every time I get stuck in traffic. That happens every day on my way to work and on my way back home. See, I work somewhere in Pasig City, and I live in Sta. Rosa City, Laguna. More than one hour is the average time it takes for me to drive from one city to the other without heavy traffic. When the rehabilitation of the Alabang viaduct and some parts of the South Luzon Expressway started, a day without heavy traffic became a thing of myth and legends. I can bitch about it and curse it like it slaughtered my friends (all four of them), but I’m not gonna do that.

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Earlier today, Euri forwarded a link to me on YM. It’s a link to a video (embedded on this chick’s Multiply site) featuring two house lizards and the tragic end of their romance.

The video is a Shera flexy board ceiling panel commercial from Thailand. The ad is a lot of things. It’s whimsical (come on, two lizards sharing a passionate hug?). It turns into a suspenseful adventure thriller as one of the lizards tries to save its lover from falling into a sinister chess board after the ceiling panel they’re on starts to crack and rip apart. And it finally turns into an awkward mix of hilarity and tragedy. It’s a beauty.

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