Animo San Beda!

Finally, the Bedistas won't have to just yell teases and insults like their infamous "pangit kayo, pogi kame" line to every opponent and spectators after losing a game. Because they've already bagged the trophy. Yipee! But I sure will miss them shouting, "iskwater!!". he he Boys will be boys.

I was only able to watch their games live twice (first was the opening, June 24 at Araneta Coliseum and 2nd was during 1st round elimination vs. College of Saint Benilde, July 3). But I never missed a single game (thanks to my video cam). I had a friend recorded all the games of the Red Lions and I watched each game every after my shift. I've learned to love the team since 2000 when Arjun Cordero was still playing for San Beda. I just loved their line up, although they were not able to make it to any championships. I especially admire Bombeo and Hudencial (sorry if I mispelled). And last year, was when I started noticing Yousif Aljamal as a potential MVP. Why, he is so damn handsome! oops. uhm I mean he was a three-point shooter, so I thought he has the potential. Now, although he only won one award since Sam Ekwe swept all the 4 awards, he has proven his worth as a player and bagged the finals MVP award.

When NCAA season 82 started, I was kinda shaky that they might not make it to finals again. But, luckily they fought their way to the championship with just one loss. With the championship that's 2 losses (both defeated by PCU). Coach Koy Banal made a really great work with the team. They just deserve the win. Oh my gosh! After shock is still on the feel til now. I just felt that it's just meant to be. Imagine they already left the Dolphins behind by 20 points but the Dolphins bounced back trimming the lead down to 5 then 3 then 1! Whatta breathtaking game that was! Plus the fact that most of the Red Lions are rookies compared to the vets of PCU who already had tasted how it's like to play in the finals (they were 2004 champions). The Red Lions were only able to make 1 field goal and 1 free throw (by Ekwe) during the last 5 minutes of the 4th quarter while the Dolphins were consistently making points and steals. Damn, that was tough! I was like about to cry. But, luck happened to be on the Lions' side. While Castro relentlessly made points and steals and rebounds for the Dolphins, some erratic players just screwed up and missed their chance of winning. It was really a good game by Dolphins. But, the trophy was really for the Lions. Sorry. The Red Lions won by 1 point, 68-67. It really doesn't matter how many points, anymore. They're the 2006 NCAA champion. True to their battlecry, "END 28 at 82", they made all the Bedistas proud. Congratulations!

Finals scores:

SBC (68)—Aljamal 23, Escobal 15, Angeles 8, Ekwe 7, Menor 5, Evangelista 4, Maggay 2, Hermida 2, Gamalinda 2, Tecson 0, Taganas 0.

PCU (67)—Castro 25, David 10, Belga 9, Espinas 8, Navarro 7, Graham 4, Garrido 2, Amparado 2, Chien 0, McCoy 0, Santos 0, Vidal 0.

Quarterscores: 15-19; 36-30; 61-44; 68-67.

San Beda Red Lions Roster - NCAA Season 82

• Aljamal, Yousif Jr. - Forward (9) (Finals MVP)
  
• Angeles, Alexander - Point Guard (7)
  
• Antonio, Martin Lloyd - Forward (12)
  
• Canlas, Eduardo - Guard
• Ekwe, Samuel - Center (13) (Rookie of the year, Defensive player of the year, Mythical 5 first team and Most Valuable Player)
  
• Escobal, John Paul - Guard
• Espinosa, Kevin - Forward
  
• Evangelista, Micah - Guard
• Gamalinda, Riego - Forward (16)
  
• Hermida, John Carlos Jr. - Point Guard
• Maggay, Raymond - Forward / Center (4)
  
• Menor, Rogemar - Guard / Forward (15)
  
• Taganas, Jay-R - Center (14)
  
• Taupa, Kristoffer - Forward
• Tecson, Eduardo Jr. - Forward (8)
  

• Head Coach : Enrico "Koy" Banal (Coach of the year - 2006)
  

The hours I've spent aren't enough to pay rent...

I could've been a billionnaire or richer by now.

Have you received email messages like this one?


Damn! I hate them. When you receive something like this for the first time and you're desperate or bankrupt, you'd somehow bite into the scheme. Imagine someone offering you to help him keep huge amount of money! On the other hand, you'd think twice. Such a too-good-to-be-true BS! The person doesn't even know you and he's entrusting you millions of dollars! Damn! When a lot of people are wide-eyed dreaming to become wealthy! Rich people are actually too greedy to share their wealth! So, what is this about?!

I've been receiving similar messages for 3 years now. And I hate that I always have to clear my inbox because of spams. Save it. I know you'd suggest that I use the filter option. I already did. Didn't work. What needs to be done is to track down those spammers and put them in prison. ha ha (joke) We can never tell how many people they've already tricked into sending them money for whatever process, they say, needed to transfer the million dollars they're boasting about. Sad thing is, there really are victims of these email scams. Can't blame them. It's hard to earn money.

You would know it's a scam if you see (any of) these:

1. "Awaiting for your kind response" I don't know but these scammers always use this sentence as subject. As soon as you see this, don't think twice...just tick that delete button so you won't get tempted to read through the entire thing and in the end become somewhat convinced it might be for real.

2. Email scam normally includes contact information and if you check the website, it will tell you that it is indeed a legit company. But never never settle just checking their website. If you really want to know whether it is for real or not, go an extra mile and dial the number. It should prove to you what you need to know.

3. It always involves a big time person who had died leaving huge amount of money but no next of kin is known. Isn't that stupid? No relatives whatsoever? Not even a dog?!! No rich person would do without a will ready in case something bad happens to him...idiot scammers! But whatta way to lure.

4. When I say huge amount of money, I mean millions of dollars waiting to be transfered to anyone's bank account. The first of this kind I received involved 60 million something dollars, which according to "David Kangu" (the sender) he was willing to share 10% once I agree to receive using my bank account. That was US$6 000 000! When converted to Philippine peso, it's a whopping 336 000 000. So Too good to be true, aye?!

5. You should also notice how grammatically problematic the email letter is.




Bottom line is...just don't believe in anything that sounds like too-good-to-be-true. You can't just trust anyone who sends you an email asking for assistance involving money. You know if you were in his shoes you wouldn't even tell anyone about the good fortune you just got. Like when you win the lottery. Would you even tell your neighbor you won?! Damn, you're gonna die sooner if you do. Everyone is after a more comfortable life we all know that.

Sometimes Boredom Just Has To Set In

Wishes can come true, aye? How I wish they can! Like that in fairy tales and movies. You wish upon a star…then even the impossible can come true. Of course, this is plainly wishful thinking. How can things in the movies happen in real life? Say, a young man walking in a busy street then suddenly he bumps into a beautiful girl but the girl went away, swiftly. He go search for her all over but he couldn’t see her anymore in the crowd but he keeps on looking. The scene ends there with the hopeless guy standing in the middle of the street with both hands on his head, dismayed, he wasn’t able to ask for the girl’s name. She remains on his memory til one day they meet again.

How unrealistic. Especially if it happens in New York or any major city with a population double its size. I dunno, but in my life, so far, I haven’t really experienced seeing one person in this place and then the next two days or maybe a week, I’d see the person again in another place or the same place. *thinks* Hmmm… yeah, it really never happened to me yet. And hopefully if it’ll ever happen, crossed fingers, I hope the guy who I saw in Jollibee-kalentong last week (September 9) would be the one I’d always chance upon in that corner where I first saw him. *day dreams*

That was a Sunday. It was not a very good day since my day started with sad news. Let’s just not discuss about it anymore. *sigh* It was around 1:20 in the afternoon, inside a cab, I was leaning by the window, staring at just about anything. When I noticed this pretty boy already staring at me. He was in a jeep at the rear end. His eyes were wonderful. I loved the way he stared at me. Yes, I stared back. For about less than 30 seconds we were just staring at each other until the cab moved forward leaving the jeep behind.

I didn’t look back. What for? The 30 second attraction won’t have any continuation because I don’t believe what the movies are instilling into the viewers’ minds --- that love conquers all. That a guy would really exert effort to find a girl stranger just because he falls madly in love with her at the first glance. Now, I know some of you would react on this statement. You’re welcome. But lemme tell you that this is just my personal belief. My experiences are different from your experiences and maybe…one day…I’d start believing that love can do so much…if I get to experience your experience. But for now, I just don’t believe a lot of things.

C’mon now! I am not bitter or something ...this is the reality I know.

What if I see him again? This time we get to talk (which is impossible because he saw me inside the cab. Unless he waits for me everyday in that corner and when he sees me he’d jump off the curb and stop the cab right at the middle of the narrow street) then he gets my number and all that. OOOohhhh it’s damn hard to explain! But my point is, attraction (physical) is just attraction. The moment I find an imperfection in him or him in me, that’s the end of it. Unless, if what they say is “true love” works for us, maybe we can move on to another stage. I know what you’re thinking…I am sooo skeptical! All I can say is, “Don’t judge a blogger by his/her blog!”

Picture this…he would wait there everyday, right at that stinking corner crammed full of light posts, sign posts etc…just to see me again. Is that even sensible? When there’s what? Zero probability that he’d ever chance upon me again! …Ok, I’ll try to be a little positive… he is really that attracted to me that he couldn’t sleep at night and his eye bags are now prominent. So, he waits in that corner EVERYDAY. Like his got all the time in the world to waste away! (Here I go again) Then one lucky day, he spots me inside a cab, but the cab is moving fast. What he do, he jumps off the street and stands in the way of the cab. So, the driver hits on the breaks then the cab’s tires ear splittingly squeak that people around check to see what happened. He stands there half an inch away from the cab’s mouth. That’s the scene. Isn’t this familiar? For some seconds he remains right there. Everything’s immobilized. No reaction from the driver when in real life, the driver could’ve had already yelled curses at him. And since we’re at the middle of a narrow street, traffic starts to build up causing more irate people. Only because of what? So, no. I just don’t believe he even thought about it even for a sec. So, delete all that stupid imagination! But hey! There’s nothing wrong in wishing. *wink*

What a crap! Here’s some trivia so this’ll make sense:

~No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.

~"Rhythms" is the longest English word without the normal vowels, a, e, i, o, or u.

~The last thing to happen is the ultimate. The next-to-last is the penultimate, and the second-to-last is the antepenultimate.

~The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

~The ridges on the sides of coins are called reeding or milling.

~The two lines that connect your top lip to the bottom of your nose are known as the philtrum.

~The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.

~An albatross can sleep while it flies. It apparently dozes while cruising at 25 mph.

~Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.

~All clams start out as males; some decide to become females at some point in their lives. (COOL!)

Flibbertigibbet

Out of boredom and sleepiness, I came up with searching for strange words. Words that were at one point in time had been used in everyday conversation. I was just browsing and I remember I have been planning to make a list of weird/obsolete words which I want to include in my next blog entry. So, here they are (in alphabetical order):

~ Agelast
Meaning: a person who never laughs

~ Agonous
Meaning: Struggling

~ Antapology
Meaning: a reply to an apology.

~ Autophoby
Meaning: The fear of referring to yourself. The fear of using the pronouns "I" and "me".

~ Bablatrice
Meaning: a female babbler.
Comment: Imagine?! Even words can be sexist.

~ Bever
Meaning: a snack between meals.

~ Calamistrate
Meaning: to curl the hair

~ Chaston
Meaning: the part of the ring that holds the stone

~ Diazingiber
Meaning: a kind of ginger candy

~ Dignotion
Meaning: a birthmark, tattoo, mole, just any sort of distinguishing mark or sign.

~ Drawcansir
Meaning: a person who kills both friends and foes

~ Echopraxia
Meaning: mimicing the moves of others whether conscious or unconsciously


~ Emacity
Meaning: a fondness for buying things

~ Emunctory
Meaning: relates to the blowing of the nose

~ Expergefactor
Meaning: alarm clock or anything that wakes you up

~ Gaberlunzie
Meaning: a beggar

~ Gallinipper
Meaning: a large mosquito


~ Heterography
Meaning: incorrect spelling

~ Hodmandod
Meaning: a strange person

~ Hoghenhine
Meaning: a member of one's family

~ Hookum-snivey
Meaning: a con, deceit or fakery

~ Huderon
Meaning: a lazy person

~ Indagatrix
Meaning: female searcher or investigator


~ Infucate
Meaning: to put on make-up

~ Jentation
Meaning: breakfast

~ Jettatura
Meaning: bad luck

~ Jollux
Meaning: a fat person

~ Knackatory
Meaning: a collectibles store

~ Mammothrept
Meaning: a spoiled child

~ Mesonoxian
Meaning: pertains to midnight

~ Moirologist
Meaning: someone who has been hired to mourn at a funeral

~ Mungo
Meaning: a person who retrieves valuables from the garbage.

~ Mututatial
Meaning: something that is borrowed

~ Nabocklish!
Meaning: similar to "leave it alone!"

~ Nightwhat
Meaning: nearly or almost

~ Noceur
Meaning: a person who stays up late

~ Nudiustertian
Meaning: the day before yesterday

~ Otacust
Meaning: an eavesdropper; spy


~ Oxter
Meaning: armpit

~ Pelmatogram
Meaning: footprint


~ Pregustator
Meaning: a person whose job is to taste meals and drinks before serving them

~ Quadragenarian
Meaning: a person who is 40 years old

~ Qualtagh
Meaning: the first person you meet after leaving your house.

~ Rastaquouere
Meaning: a social climber who tries hard to be in fashion

~ Retroition
Meaning: the act of returning; reentrance

~ Savernapron
Meaning: a table napkin

~ Scevity
Meaning: bad luck

~ Semiopathy
Meaning: the tendency to read humoruosly inappropriate meanings into signs

~ Sitooterie
Meaning: a summerhouse or gazebo; or an out-of-the-way corner to sit with your partner during a dance

~ Tilly-vally
Meaning: an expression that means nonsense

~ Torschlusspanik
Meaning: mid life crisis

~ Tractatrix
Meaning: a female shampooer

~ Tragematopolist
Meaning: a seller of candy

~ Winebibber
Meaning: a person who drinks a lot of alcohol.


~ Woofits
Meaning: an unwell feeling, esp a headache

~ Yestreen
Meaning: yesterday evening

~ Yisel
Meaning: a hostage

~ Zoilist
Meaning: a person who takes joy in finding fault

Some words in the list, are good for code names, you know what I mean? Cute and interesting. ha ha Like "callipygian". It means having shapely buttocks. So, if you have a butt like J.Lo's, you are a callipygian. What a nice way to describe yourself. Or must I say, it's such a nice thing to be said about you. he he "Hey PaperTiger, what a callipygian you are." On the second thought, I rather not be told that. Especially by men. Just imagine where they are looking? And how long have they been looking. I'd surely feel uncomfortable walking past a crowd of men after.

Here's another one..."Can you hand me a savernapron? My hands are sticky." ha ha ha When you can just actually say, "can you hand me a napkin?..." I wonder what if I use this words in casual conversations. Like, "Yestreen, I went out with a winebibber. We settled in a sitooterie because he didn't want to be seen by Zoilists." ha ha I think I sound like a novelist or something. Bookworm maybe. Only not even novelists use these words anymore.

3 Days Left To Live

I thought about this question countless times. While i was trying to list all that i plan to do within the 3 days, i asked myself, "why wait til there's only 3 days for me to live and do all the things I've been meaning to do with little time?" That's too much of a time constrain. I'd rather live my life as if it's the last 3 days of my life, then.

Here's a list of what i will do:

-build a charity asylum for the needy, sick and aged
-compose a song about my life





-travel the entire country
-visit switzerland
-revisit amsterdam, vienna and norway




-learn to speak at least three different languages (make it 5)
-write my mom's life story
-create a website from which I can get funds for my charity activities (and I mean I'd create it myself without professional assistance)
-work as a psychologist
-work as a teacher and educate the out of school youth for free


-write books about people who inspired me
-write books about people who made my life less comfortable
-work as a philanthropist

and still a lot more...

Of course I can't do all these in 3 days. And what's the use of waiting when I can start doing them now?

Ok, 3 days. What can I do/accomplish in 3 days?
-organize a soup kitchen to different areas around the Philippines.
-reach out to people who have done me wrong and who I think I have hurt





-share my faith to people experiencing deep waters
-donate all my stuffs to the needy



-spend my remaining time on earth doing charity work
-live like a philanthropist

There are still more. I'll post them next time.