Happy Halloween! (2009)

Wow, what a way to start Halloween 2009!  Last night, we forged ahead with our Halloween party at RX at Guilly’s, Tomas Morato, and it was a BLAST!  One of our best parties in a long time! We feared very few people would come because of the storm signal #3 hovering over our heads courtesy of Typhoon Santi.  But lo and behold, people did fight for their right to partay!  It was crazy!  From the gyrating pole dancers, to Rico Robles locking lips with another guy (it was for charity), the energy of the crowd was simply electric.  By the way, thanks to the Rushers who bid during the auction and for partying like it’s 1999!  You guys rock.  You wouldn’t have known that a storm was raging outside based on the crowd’s reaction.  Eventually we had to leave, to get whatever sleep we could before we troop to RX for our boardwork.  It was raining much harder coming home as it was going to Guilly’s.

By the time I woke up at 5am earlier, the wind was already howling maniacally outside my window and I had to make a last-minute decision to stay or to go.  Delle already texted to say that she won’t go to work because of the strong winds, so I got into my car and drove hesitantly to the station.  Inside our village, the winds were strong, but not end-of-the-world strong, so I wasn’t too scared.  But once I reached Ortigas, it was some SCARY apocalypse sh*t.  I was literally zigzagging, not to avoid branches on the ground, but to avoid branches falling from the trees!  A couple of times some branches fell on my hood as I drove (thankfully not big enough to make dents).

Not having brought any food or drinks, McDo saved my life by delivering breakfast even through the storm.  I wouldn’t have survived without food or coffee.  It was difficult boarding with no sleep, no food, and worrying about how I’ll get home after work.  Thank heavens we have such nice songs on the playlist, which helped me through the 3 hours on board.  So thanks Miley, The Script, Janet, and Tiesto.

Funny though, we only go on board during the last Saturday of each month.  The last time we boarded on a Saturday, was the Saturday Ondoy ravaged the country.  This is the next Saturday, and this time it was Santi.  Thankfully the storm seems to have passed, and I truly hope it’s the last one for the year.  I’m all typhoon-ed out.  But it’s not even lunchtime yet as I write this, so there’s still hope that this year’s Halloween can still be salvaged.  Tonight, we have a Halloween party for the family, so I’ll see the kids all in costumes; actually we’re all required to wear costumes.  I have no idea what I’ll come as.

Anyway, let’s enjoy whatever’s left of Halloween and party on!  Stay safe everyone, and Happy Halloween!

Photo Tips For Monsters

Perfect for Halloween.  If you’re a monster.  But funny as it is, I really love this ad because it contains a lot of actual tips for better photography.  Editing and simplifying is one of the essential steps for better photography.  Sometimes just by cropping a few inches here and there makes the difference between a regular photo and a great one.  It’s one of the most important lessons I learned in photography: to take away everything that doesn’t contribute to the photo.  You can do this while framing the photo or during your post-processing.  Of course they just did it in a funny way.  And speaking of, don’t you just hate avatars that misrepresent their owners?  They always look so hot in their avatars but they look sooo different in person?  I don’t mind putting your best photo forward, obviously we all do, because posting an ugly one doesn’t make sense (although we did, but that’s beside the point), but it’s the ones that don’t even look like you anymore.  It’s the difference between choosing the best version of you and outright lying.  Very much like in the video, cute pics of scary monsters.  Love it.

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I wasn’t able to have the ugly pic runner-up photos because they were charging me 70 pesos per picture!  WTF?  I have a scanner at home that I haven’t used in ages, so I’ll just have to get it out of the box, install it again, and hope it still works.  Promise, by next week, maybe Tuesday, I’ll post the rest.  I guarantee you won’t be disappointed.  Anyway, it’s perfect timing that this should be the Top Ten next in line.  It’s perfect for the coming Halloween weekend.

February 2, 2009 → The Top Ten Signs That You’re Going To Hell – SC

1. Greg – If all the girls you’ve “been with” screams: “Demonyo ka, ang sarrraaaaaaap!!!”
2. Blitzen – If you’re bitching about the hot weather and and old woman hisses at you: “Masanay ka na…mas mainit sa pupuntahan mo…”
3. SC – If everytime you try to enter a church, the guard tells you: “Sori ma’am, bawal po pumasok ang mga spawn of Satan.”
4. No name – Pag nag-asawa ka, ang asawa mo dala ang langit, ang biyenan mo dala ang impiyerno.
5. Espeks – Everytime you kill anything, you feel a pat on your back and a soft whisper tells you: “Job well done…”
6. Specialist – Everytime you do something abhorrently evil, you feel warm and fuzzy inside.
7. Cheyenne – If you’re “horny” and you use your long hard “tail” to bitchslap your women.
8. Paolo – You’re going to hell if ang favorite mong  sapastos ay…high hells. (har har.)
9. Doc Rod – If your corpse won’t burn in the crematorium.
10. Cutepasaway – If someone asks you who your favorite angel is, and you answer: “Lucifer”.
11. Acer – I’m probably going to hell because the concept of heaven and hell that society insists on freaks me out.
12. TwistedSaint – If everytime you watch a horror movie like “The Exorcist” or “The Omen”, you find yourself rooting for the devil.
13. Cutepasaway – If every now and then, small demon-like creatures enter your room, salute you, then say: “Reporting for duty, master…”
14. Loi Pogi – Pag lagi kang dine-demonyo ng kapitbahay mong bading.
15. Buck/Hayud – If you’re a politician.
16. Ed/Juno – Every single day without you is a living hell.
17. No name – I’m Born Again Christian but I have 4 girlfriends who don’t know I’m four-timing them. I’m going straight to hell.
18. Dru – You don’t see the point of even trying to resist temptation.
19. Argento/Garfield – If your mom texts you: “Anak sori na me, pero binenta me ang kaluluwa u kay s8an para may pambayad me ng utang. K? Txt-txt!”
20. GaylYashie – Dante Allighieri: “The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in the midst of moral crisis.”

Ugly Pic Winners!

Well, the search for our ugliest old pictures has finally ended. And congratulations to our 2 winners, Cherry Dean and Glace Ocampo! They each get an iPod Nano, as we promised, for their efforts.  Since I got to see which pictures belonged to whom, we decided that Delle will choose the worst pics so that the choice won’t be hampered by who sent in the pics. So when she chose among the pictures, she had no idea who they came from.  The Delle ugly pic was spectacularly unanimous.  The day I received that photo from Glace, I instantly knew it just had to win!  Mine was a little harder to pick.  I don’t know if this is good or bad, because it could only be one of 2 reasons: not enough ugly pics, or too many to choose from.

But anyway, you’ll still accept us, no matter what, right?  Hehehe…here are the winners. I’ll post the runner-up pics later:

Chico

(Photo sent in by Cherry Dean)

Delamar

(Photo sent in by Glace Ocampo)

Hahaha, I can’t believe we’re putting these out there. Trust me, there’s more! I’ll post them once I get to scan some hard copies that I have.  This doesn’t help our shaky self-esteem any better. But we did ask for it, so we’ll take it all the way!

Monsters Scholars 2009

(photo courtesy of Raffy B: our monster scholars – Erica, Karchelle, Ada, and Greg)

I believe everyone in the station will remember this morning for a very long time.  I’ve never seen anything quite like it.  When we were told that the announcement of the Monster Scholar was this morning, we thought it would just be a simple awarding, heartwarming, then we move on.  But until now we’re all still haunted by the stories of our finalists and the whole experience of awarding the Monster Scholar for this year.

When the station decided to do something different this year and give away a scholarship for a semester, we thought it was a nice idea, but we never thought the response would be this big.  We received more than 400 emails from people wanting to avail of the scholarship.  And when we started airing their stories, it hit people’s compassions harder than we expected.  And what our finalists and listeners didn’t know, was that other people who heard some of the stories on air also wanted to help out.  They were so touched that they couldn’t bear the idea of just one person getting the scholarship while so many deserving ones are left unhelped.  So a donor from the Jaycees and batch 1979 of San Beda high school each sponsored a student for the coming semester.  Plus, even before that, the RX management already decided that it will award not just one scholar, but two, bringing the total to four.

So when the four finalists were asked to come to the station this morning, what they didn’t know was, that they were all winners already.  When we interviewed them on air, their stories broke everyone’s heart.  There’s Erica, who’s dad was deported due to an expired ID. He wasn’t paid for three months, so they resorted to borrowing money for her tuition.  They ended up with debts they can no longer pay, and no money for Erica to continue her studies.  There’s Cheryl, who nominated her sister Ada.  Cheryl was able to finish school, but not Ada, because Cheryl lost her job and can no longer finance Ada’s tuition.  Their parents have no money to put her through school, plus their mom contracted breast cancer to even complicate things further.  There’s Karchelle, whose dad is a policeman who takes home only about one to two thousand pesos every payday, because of the deductions for the loans he took for Karchelle’s education.  He’s got only about 2 to 3 years left to work and so Karchelle would love to finish school so she could start working and putting the rest of her siblings through school.  There’s Greg, who had a 100% scholarship until last summer, when he underestimated the difficulties of the major subjects and got low grades, reducing his scholarship to a mere 10%.  They live in the squatters area and his mom has resorted to borrowing money from 5/6 lenders just to let him finish his schooling.

Everyone in the station were practically crying hearing their stories.  What really broke my heart was when Erica’s dad said something like, “Nahihiya nga ako sa sarili ko dahil ako ang ama diba? Katungkulan ko dapat ito.”  What a lot of people don’t realize is how difficult it is to ask for help.  I guess that’s why our hearts bled for the 4 finalists and their families.  They had no sense of entitlement at all, they all conceded that the other 3 contenders needed the scholarship just as much as they do, if not more, and they humbly submitted their fates to the decision of the RX management.

So imagine their surprise when they found out that all four of them were going to be given scholarships for this semester.  They actually cried more after they found out they all won, more than when they were making their appeals.  There was no dry eye in the office when the scholars and their families were profusely giving their thanks to everyone.

But what made the whole experience so special, was the reaction of our listeners as we were interviewing the finalists.  I cannot even begin to tell you just how flooded we were by the deluge of messages we got over our textline and Twitter accounts.  So many people offering their hard-earned money, offering to give whatever they can, just so the other 3 finalists would also be sponsored (this was before we announced that they all won).  It was just so heartwarming to see such an outpouring of goodwill for the 4 finalists, from people they have never even met.  It was just nice to be reminded that there is still a lot of good in this world, despite all the negativity around us.  So many people wanting to help, even those who don’t have a lot themselves.  It’s definitely my feel-good moment of the year.

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I have never cheated on someone I was in a relationship with (knock on wood).  I have never been cheated on by soemone I was in a relationship with (as far as I know, knock on wood).  So cheating for me is the big evil relationship bogeyman that I’ve always feared.  I count myself blessed for not having experienced this, and I pray I don’t ever have to, whether as the cheater or the cheatee.

January 30, 2009 → The Top Ten Things To Say To A Loved One Who Cheats

1. Undoy – “To SYPHILISLANDIA with you, you horny bitch!”
2. Mr. Perk – “Okay, quits na tayo.”
3. No name – “It’s sad that you cheated on me, but what’s sadder is that I still love you as if it never happened.”
4. Starbuko – “If you’re going to cheat, sana man lang level up, not level down!”
5. Mr. Perk – “Of all the lies that you’ve told me, “I love you” is my favorite.”
6. YñaKì – “Nangangati ka lang pala, pinakamot mo pa sa iba!”
7. Cheyenne – “Ha! Read our pre-nup, LOSER!”
8. Oscar dela Hopia – “Sorry is not synonymous with I won’t do it again.”
9. Umerz – “Sa pangit niyang yan? Go. Sure ako, true love yan!”
10. Geyp – “You’re like baboy na nag-swim sa mud. You’re like, ew.”
11. Neil – “You lose. I’ll find someone I’ll love as much as I loved you. But you’ll never find someone who’ll love you the way I did.”
12. Toytuner27 – “You cheated on your husband to be with me. So I expect nothing less from you.”
13. Eien17 – “If love is a game, I demand a rematch!”
14. Pasturyo – “Ang pagmamahal ko sa y0 ay parang talaba…patay na, nakakapit pa!”
15. Espeks – “sabagay ganito yata talagaTama ang sabi nila…pag madaling nakuha, madaling agawin.”
16. Loipogi – “I understand. Sa bagay, I’m sure nakakasawa din ang guwapo, kaya tumikim ka naman ng pangit.”
17. Mama K – “Diba sabi mo noon mamamatay ka pag nawala ako? Puwes, simula mo na!”
18. Lee Marvin – “Hon, may naghahanap sa yo. Karma daw?”
19. C.VanillaBen – “Ano, nawala ba naman ang kati?”
20. Andi – “If you can’t be faithful, I hope you were careful.”
21. Cheryl – “Sabi ni Andrew E. humanap ng pangit at iibigin kang tunay? Eh bakit ikaw?”
22. Dru – “Hell hath no fury like a diva scorned.”
23. SC – “Revenge is a dish best served cold.”
24. Doc Cameron – “A perfect match: a dog and his bitch.”

Inspiration

Delle and I were walking around Eastwood, when we passed by the photo exhibit of the prestigious Camera Club of the Philippines.  We quickly glanced at some photos and as we skimmed through them, I saw a picture that was vaguely familiar:

I actually passed by it already, but something about it made me come back for a second look.  It’s like those moments when you see a person walk by, and you have a nagging feeling you know them from somewhere, but you can’t place where?  I took a second look and I realized two things: that one, it was a photo by the late Francis Magalona, and two, that it was the one photo that inspired me to officially start my hobby in photography.

Let’s go back a couple of years.  For whatever reason, I was trawling on the internet, and accidentally stumbled on a website with samples of Francis Magalona’s photos.  At the time, I didn’t even know he was a photographer.  Since I was a kid, I’ve always wanted to try photography as a hobby, but being a technophobe, I was always overwhelmed by the idea of handling the seemingly complicated SLR.  The very idea scared me.  I remember being drawn to this one photo, taken in Boracay, with a boat framed by coconut trees.  I was beyond belief how someone known more for music, could turn out such a remarkable image!  So when I saw this particular picture, I distinctly remember telling myself, “If FrancisM could learn how to take such a stunning photograph, maybe I can too!”  In short, I was inspired to take thought and turn it into action.  I eventually bought my first DSLR, a Nikon D40x, then a couple of months later I took a basic course on photography, then another class, then another.  Before I knew it, I was completely addicted to photography.  I never saw that picture again until I ran into it in Eastwood.  I didn’t even remember how it looked like.  All I remember was that it was a photo by FrancisM, that it had coconut trees in it, and that it was taken in Boracay.

I guess the whole point in all this is INSPIRATION.  It’s a funny thing.  Who would’ve thought that I’d find inspiration in a photograph by the late master rapper?  You’d think I’d find it from a picture by some famed photographer like Ansel Adams or Annie Leibovitz.  Inspiration hits us from out of nowhere, and there’s no way you can predict what and where you’ll find it.  But when it hits you, it’s like a spark that ignites a fiery maelstrom.  It stirs up something inside of that begs for actualization.  I’ve been THINKING of getting into photography for years, but seeing that one photograph pushed me to actually DOING it.

Literally, the word inspiration translates to: “breathed upon”, as in the gods breathing the inspiration upon you, breathing life into your ideas.  And there’s something divine in the experience of inspiration.  Many people believe that when people create great art, they become mere vessels through which the Divine works.  It’s not so much the man, but God working through you, and inspiration is the divine breath that fuels the creation.

Looking back, I owe FrancisM a lot.  Had that picture not galvanized my passions, I would still be just daydreaming about an artform that I ended up being so passionate about.  Inspiration has everything to do with creativity.  It’s the soul that animates craft into sublime art.  I’m pretty sure each of the great pieces of art throughout history has it’s own story of how the artist was inspired to create something that stood the ravages of time and taste.

But for regular people like us, inspiration is a true gift.  We may not have the output of history’s masters, but it provokes us with an infectious joy to create something that we would look back on with love and pride.  And I guess even better, is if you were inspired to create something, that in turn inspired someone else.  If what I do inspires even just one human being, even with just a fraction of how FrancisM inspired me, I would consider myself truly blessed.  Not so much for the sake of my ego, but to be able to pay forward the generous benefaction that had trickled down to me.

Here’s a link to the photograph in Francis Magalona’s multiply website, A Free Mind: Click HERE.

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I’ve always been a scaredy-cat.  I’ve always been less scared of robbers than I was of supernatural beings.  You can kill a man, but you can’t kill a ghost or a vampire or a demon or an aswang.  Well at least that was my logic as a kid.  I’m glad we never had a “haunted” house, or at least one that we think was haunted.  I guess that’s why I had such a fascination with horror movies when I grew up, it was some kind of masochistic pleasure to scare myself silly.

January 29, 2009 → The Top Ten Signs That Your House Is Haunted

1. Jeanel – In our house in the province, my brother walk by, said goodbye, then walked out the front door, the only door in or out of the house.  A few minutes after, my brother walk by again, said goodbye again, then walked out the front door AGAIN.
2. Noel – Once our choir was recording our song for a cd project. When it was the sopranos’ turn, they went into the small booth and sang into mike. When they played back the track, there was a distinct extra voice singing with them.
3. Banatero – In our old house, time and again I’d be awakened by 3 loud knocks on my bedroom door.  I’d open it, and no one would be there. And when I check the clock, it’s always 3am.
4. Awsom – Nung nag-iinuman kami sa house ng friend namin, tuwing tatawa kami, may madidinig kaming boses ng bata na nakikitawa sa amin.
5. No name – Two years ago my dad was deathly sick. During that time, my nephew (brother’s son) would always be awakened at night, around 3-4am, by a small black creature saying, “pagagalingin ko lolo mo, pero sasama ka sa akin…“
6. The Temptress – I sleep wearing only my undies, with the clothes I’ll wear the next day beside my bed. One night after sleeping, I woke up after 4 hours fully dressed.
7. Neil – My cousin is driving somewhere in Angeles when he passed by a hospital in a remote area. Then he heard a loud distinct yawn from the backseat. He was alone in the car.
8. Specialist – In the dorm I lived in back in collage, I’d see silhouettes of people walking around, reflected on shiny surfaces.
9. SC – My sister is a nurse at a popular hospital. She heard stories about a child that appears at a certain operating room. And they say when this child appears, the one being operated on, will die.
10. Miah – This happened to our friend who was in Canada then. He was chatting with his fiancee via the webcam when she asked him who was the lady who was with him in his room.  He freaked out because he was alone, so he ran out of his house.
11. No name – My friend was recording her voice on her cellphone while in Baguio. When she played it back, there was a voice in the background pleading, “tulungan mo ko…“
12. Simon Walker – One time our kasambahay told me she sees a white lady in my room. I joked, “sabunutan ko pa yun eh!” The next morning, I woke up with scratches on my face.
13. Ilyang – Our lola  owned a dresser that we kept in our house. Housemaids who would tell us that they’s see our lola inside the mirror of the dresser, eventually were proven to be thieves. It’s as if our lola is warning us. So now, the moment a maid says she sees our lola, we let her go, no questions asked.
14. No name – There’s a little girl who’d knock on my door from 3am to 3:15am. I just leave her alone, then she eventually stops after 15 minutes.
15. AssumptionistLalala - Anak: “Tay, totoo po bang may multo?” Tatay: “Anak walang multo! Bakit mo natanong?” Anak: “Sabi kasi ni yaya may multo raw!” Tatay: “Anak, mag-impake ka na. Langya ka, wala tayong yaya!”
16. Louise - An officemate who went to HK on a business trip stayed in this decent motel. One time, while she boarded a lift, the lift stopped midway between floors, the lights fluctuated and the buttons became pure Chinese characters.
17. Specialist – Every after taking a bath, steam forms on the mirror with a message, “I can see you…”
18. Annepotpot – Me and my officemates had a sleepover, and in the middle of the night, all the members of our team woke up gasping for air. We all had the same dream: that someone was suffocating us with our pillow.
19. Ray – My friend’s 4-year-old son was playing in his room when the kid told him, “can you watch over my playmate?” He freaked out and asked, “What playmate?” His kid told him, “that black kid beside you.”
20. Eric – In a boarding house in Calumpit, the owner warned us not to mess around with the room at the end of the corridor. One night, our friend got too curious and peeked inside the keyhole.  All he saw was red. The next morning he couldn’t resist so he asked the owner why the “secret” room was red. She stood up, led us to the room and opened the door.  It was all white. She said her daughter died there with her eyes open, all red. When our friend was peeking in, her daughter was probably peeking out at the same time.

World Vision

Last week, we interviewed Pam Kitane-Millora of World Vision on our show, to talk about the relief efforts of the organization.  We thought it was just the usual interview, then that’s that.  But after, Pam stuck around and asked if she could tell us more about World Vision and what it does outside of the relief efforts; it’s day job, so to speak.  I’ve actually heard a lot about it, and I’ve long wanted to check it out, but I’ve never gotten around to doing it.  I guess the time was ripe.

Pam explained how people can sponsor individual children.  For a monthly donation of P600 per child, that comes to P20 per day, you get to impact the specific child by giving him access to school supplies, uniforms, health care, children’s rights protection, and even help out the community that your sponsored child lives in.  You can actually write to your sponsored children and if they’re up to it, they could write back.  The whole process may take months, but they can make it happen.  Some even set up visits to meet the kids in person.  And twice a year, you get something from them: an annual progress report on how the child is doing (including his latest photo, his grades in school, and updates on the community he lives in) and a Christmas card.

It really made a lot of sense to me.  You know how sometimes you’d like to give to charity but you don’t know exactly where the money goes?  But when there is a name and a face that goes with it, suddenly you’re giving it to someone specific.  Pam brought with her the pictures and bios of some of the kids who haven’t been sponsored yet, and my heart just melted.  It’s one thing to know that many kids are suffering with not enough money for food and education, but it’s another to actually “meet” them, even if only through a bio-data.  Suddenly there are pairs of eyes staring back at you, as if asking for much needed aid, help that would cost, for someone who has a stable job, a very easy 20 pesos a day.  To know that for such a small amount you can change their lives forever, changes you forever.

Delle and I sponsored 2 kids each, one boy, one girl.  I chose the youngest ones in the bunch.  Meet Frank and Jaymaya:

This whole process touched me in very unexpected ways and degrees.  I find myself looking at their pictures very often, hoping that they’re okay, praying that I can keep up my end of the bargain for as long as I can, and awaiting the day that I’ll hear word from them.  The gift of giving truly is a gift as much for the giver as it is for the recipient.  It’s a gift because it is a reminder of how blessed we are that we are in a position where we have a lot, enough to share what is surplus to those badly in need of assistance.  It’s a gift because it gives us an opportunity to get in touch with our own humanity, however buried it might be in the wheelings and dealings of our quotidian rat race.  It reminds us of the compassion residing in each and every one of us, muted by years of learned distrust in our fellow men.  It’s the same call heeded by many during the calamity brought on by the twin storms.  It’s in all of us; sometimes it takes extraordinary circumstances to awaken ordinary heroes long dormant.  I’m not trying to preach here, I’m just sharing the thought process that I’m going through as I thresh all these awakened emotions inside of me.  And if I could share the remarkable experience that it is, I would.

It’s not so much patting yourself on the back for the display of nobility, but more of always wanting to help, then finally being shown how.  I’m pretty sure we’ve all had that moment when we said, “I’d love to help out, but what can I do?”  So when the opportunities present themselves, it’s time to walk the walk.  And like I said, it’s for a fraction of the price we willingly splurge on the finer luxuries in life.  Nothing wrong with that, but the experience will be twice as rich if we could share the blessings that come our way, with those much less fortunate.  For me, it’s not so much giving, but sharing.

If you want to know more details, or maybe you have questions about the organization, you can call their Donor Service Hotline at 02-3727777 or you can visit www.worldvision.org.ph.

This isn’t really a plug, but more of a testimony.  It’s an enriching experience to know that so little of your money can impact a child’s life so significantly.  I really look forward to getting updates on Frank and Jaymaya, to hopefully slowly seeing the quality of their lives improving.  It’s an empowering joy to know that we can make a marked difference, however small, into improving lives of our fellow human beings.  It’s as if collectively, we really do have the power to literally, make this world a much better place.

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This is like the mirror image of the last Top Ten, like the bizarro versions of the inspirational quotes.

January 27, 2009 → The Top Ten Shameful Quotes – Louise

1. Benargirl – “I LOVE YOU has eight letters. So does BULLSHIT.”
2. Dianne – “We are all fate’s bitches. We might as well bend over for destiny now.”
3. McDenzel – “You don’t wanna think positive after an HIV test.”
4. Astroboy – “If there’s a will, there are anxious relatives.”
5. Kid Bukid – “It’s hard to soar like an eagle when you’re working with turkeys!”
6. Mommy Ming Gere – ”Ang taong gipit, sa bading kumakapit.”
7. Zac Apron – “What’s the difference between c0mplete and finished? When you marry the right girl, you’re c0mplete. But when you marry the wrong girl, you’re finished.”
8. Ian024 – “Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.”
9. Nekosci – “The roses are wilting, the violets are dead, the sugar bowl’s empty, and so is your head.”
10. FK Gurl - “Opportunity knocks only once. Temptation leans on the doorbell.”
11. Ian024 – “Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”
12. Astroboy – “It’s hard to do nothing, you wouldn’t know when you’re done.”
13. Speaks – “Kung ang fishball gawa sa fish, ang squidball gawa sa squid, saan gawa ang kiki-am?”
14. Lexie – “Matitiis ang hapdi, ang kati hindi.”
15. EMR – “Ang syota parang tinola, pag mainit, masarap. Ang kabit parang paksiw, habang tumatagal, lalong sumasarap. Ang asawa parang sardinas, binubuksan lang pag wala ng makain.”
16. Glenford – “It’s better to lose a lover than love a loser.”
17. Feb15 – “Ang pag-aaral ang pinto ng tagumpay. Pero ang pangongopya ang susi sa pinto.”
18. Feb15 – “Mahirap labanan ang katamaran, lalo na pag tinatamad kang labanan ito.”
19. SPY Shadow – “You will know your kids are growing up when they stop asking where they came from and start refusing to tell you where they’re going.”
20. Feb 15 – “Why do couples hold hands during their wedding? It’s formality, just like two boxers, shaking hands before the fight begins.”
21. Your Highness – “You know you’re approaching middle age, when the narrow waist and the broad mind begin to change places.”
22. KiD BuKid – “Marriage is a very expensive way to get your laundry done.”
23. Gracia – “Walang baklang pangit sa lalaking gipit.”
24. Mr. Perk – Enjoy life. You’ll be dead longer.”
25. Twylyt – “Ang tawag sa gumagawa ng tubo, tubero. Ang tawag sa kumukuha ng basura, basurero. Ang tawag sa mahilig sa gimik, gimikero. Ang mahilig sa babae, babaero. Ang tawag sa laging nasa sa kanto…eh di tambay!”
26. Twylyt – “My wife dresses to kill. She also cooks the same way.”
27. Dru – “Ang utak, parang kotse yan…walang kwenta pag mabagal.”
28. Geyp – “A secretary is not permanent unless screwed on the desk.”
29. Talisay - “Before marriage: when a man holds a girl’s hand, it is love. After marriage: when a man holds a girl’s hand, it is self-defense.”
30. TReiz - “Man who runs in front of car get TIREd, man who run after car get EXHAUSTed.”
31. Marco – “You’ll never know what true happiness is until you get married. But by then, it’s too late.”
32. Forg – “Confidence: The feeling you get right before you understand the situation.”
33. No name – “First love never dies, but true love can bury it alive.”
34. Geyp – “There is no such thing as rape, because a woman w/ skirt up, can run much faster than man w/pants down.”
35. Your Highness – “The trouble with being the best man at a wedding is that you never get to prove it.”
36. No name – “It’s not about winning…it’s about making other teams lose no matter what.”
37. Oscardelahopia – “Many books in this world – the Bible, the Quoran, the Guru Granth, the Gita – all teach us to love one other. But only the Kamasutra explains how!”