Monday, December 29, 2003

i went to the SLAMMER’S JAM. Yeah right, it would be more appropriate if I say I WATCHED the slammer’s jam.

Yes, I didn’t slam or jam. just like the other slammersKUNO audience who just sat there and watched the performers scream their heart out. Tunganga, in tagalog. Hello, it’s supposed to be a concert for slammers pero wala eh, everyone didn’t seem to be in the mood to freak out and be wild.
Yeye, my close friend and I came there in the mood for wild acts –fully energized and charged kumbaga. Hehe. That’s what we call natural high. But hello, we weren’t that convincing and powerful enough to disperse our energies with the other people there. We were drained by them instead. Hey, mas marami silang tulala.

Oo nga naman, pay special attention to the name of the concert – SLAMMER’S JAM. Slammer – so that means that only one person gets to slam. Slam one at a time. Hehe. Hinde, parang ganon. That’s why the people are ASHAMED to slam kase they are waiting for their turn. Hehe. Labo ko. gets ninyo ba?
But thanks anyway to that gig, I got to drink a cup { hehe} of ice-cold draft beer. The reason I really love the local gigs here in Baler, san mig always is the sponsor. Yippee. Beer-thirsty kid.
My suggestion would be –the next time they organize a slammers’ jam, there has to be an audition. I mean, before one gets to buy a ticket, he has to prove first that he COULD slam. By this I mean slam hard, man. J

Posted by tengcorrea at 12/29/2003 09:35:00 AM

0 comments Thursday, December 25, 2003

ChRisTmaS FeVeR

It’s Christmas all over the world tonight. [hehe, it's a song. LSS ]
The Christmas spirit is so in me. hehe. La lang. I specifically can feel it when I wrap gifts. Hehe. Sobrang enjoy ako wrapping gifts. Dream job. Wehehe, I shouldn’t be studying na cguro if that’s the case.
Hay, my inbox is also filled with MERRY CHRISTMAS greetings. I love it. it’s such a sweet feeling if people remember you on special occasions such as this di ba? No room for mga kuripots sa load. hehe. La lang, saya.saya. o ha, even the person who hasn’t been replying to my txts lately sent me a –merry.christmas- message which I really wished to be more personal sana. Hehe, huwag na. [teng, be contented ‘cause at least, di ba? J ]

MERRY CHRISTMAS everyone!

Posted by tengcorrea at 12/25/2003 10:46:00 PM

0 comments Tuesday, December 23, 2003

you won't want this to happen to you!

you surely wouldn’t want to be traveling for 30 hours. Well, I also don’t want to. UNFORTUNATELY, yes, I traveled for around 30 hours on my way to Baler, my hometown.
The already LOOONG 8-hour trip tripled and became extra LOOOOOOOOOOONG. Ha, it sucks, man. imagine that. Cool. Haha.

Here’s a recap [ I promise I won’t make it that long. Hehe ] we left las pinas at around 8 am and went to fetch our tito and his baby somewhere in BF also. We got stuck on a traffic jam I guess somewhere in the market area of paranaque. I had no idea how we got there but probably it was tito buboy who gave all those short-cuts to papa – short-cuts which got us to that hell traffic. Har, it was hot outside and our aircon, as usual, was in a state of malfunction. [good luck] that was just the beginning. Since then, the car started overheating and we had to stop even on the main roads [ it’s a good thing, however, we weren’t towed since may shoulder naman daw dun sa road]. Papa had to pour water into the “so-hot-that-you-could-boil-water-and-fry-egg-with-it” radiator.

We stopped over bulacan since we had the radiator fixed. While waiting, we discovered Walter Mart, which we first thought to be a grocery but we realized that it was a Robinsons place mall [?]. it was like a world in another dimension 'cause you wouldn’t really a mall exist in such an area. Hey, there’s even a not concrete road there [hehe, dunno what you call it eh ]

The prob didn’t really end there [woo..] cause we started overheating again after hmmm, 20 minutes. It even became worse that the engine gets hot every 20 minutes that we had to stop every gasoline station on every town. Another misfortune, nasira yung fran belt [ not sure of the spelling. hehe ] naalimpungatan ako and i heard papa was almost giving up [poor papa he had to stay awake and drive all night .ay.. ]

Nakatulog ako and when I woke up, children were looking at us, knocking on the car windows. i realized papa slept for a while lang and we were at the foot of the mountains, sa bongabon na pala. Ha, three hours na lang, I said to myself and it’s over. Well, three long hours na naman, pahinto-hinto pa rin kami. [good luck] NOTE: Im sorry for not keeping my promise. Tang.ina, my recap is long ata. Sowee.

By 12 noon December 22, we were home at last. YEHEY. YIPEE. Jump. SHOUT FOR JOY. But tang.ina, nah ah, I was ‘welcomed’ by a bad news that made me cry so hard – dino, my puppy is dead. – how hard could that be. after a freakin exhausting trip, iyon pa ang balitang aabutan ko.

GRABE, GOD loves me so much HE gives me so much pain these days.

Posted by tengcorrea at 12/23/2003 08:41:00 PM

0 comments Thursday, December 18, 2003

a charmed poem

candles i have lit
chants i have spoken
your name i have written
paper i have burned
ashes i have kept
yet the message still unsent.

basically, the poem narrates how a love spell is done. we have the essentials - paper, candles, name of your kaawa-awang victim, and a chant, of course.ok, it's mushy. the words are freaking simple and ambiguous. but please dont just try to read it on the surface. feel.

i dont know if the heaviness, the sad feeling the poem carries is clearly communicated.. the first few lines seem mere narration of a love spell. but the last line,i guess, says most of the message. the persona is helpless for 'magic' cant even 'send the message' - which is obviously, since it is a love spell, a a message of love or maybe probably of a mere wanting to be noticed. the persona is desperate to have that person even as a friend.

i know this is quite not a good thing in poetry associating the author and the persona. but im telling you, the persona is I.

the ashes are now gone. the message is still unsent. and the persona is hurting and crying.

{shet,i write crap. hehe. im not gonna make this a public blog. }

Posted by tengcorrea at 12/18/2003 09:18:00 AM

0 comments Wednesday, December 17, 2003

**bit f*cked up**

DRUNK-ING is really the best way to spend your nights. hehe. (do i sound like a drinking session advocate?)

well, my roommates and an adopted one [ hehe ] , had a drunking session last night - at the dorm. that was our so-called christmas party. we started the bonding thing really late already 'cause kare and i came to watch the lantern parade at up.

we had a botle of san mig light (take note: only one. it was mine, btw.), a bottle of ginebra gin, pomelo {yuk, the taste sucks} and around four bags of gigantic chips. talk about hyperboles.

the thing last night is another proof that i have a very low alcohol tolerance. just one bottle of beer LYT and a few sips of the gin (without pomelo) and i was already having a hard time keeping my head up and i was starting to speak in conyo languange (hehe.) which isnt so me. llane also told me that i was pulling her hair. [woo, violent person ha]. well, that's how im really like when im ' a bit' drunk. i talk more, i express myself more. i also have a tendency to harm SLIGHTLY other people, by throwing things at them or yun nga, pulling their hair.

the unusual thing that happened last night was that i threw up. hey, i find that weird cause i get tipsy but usually not to the extent that i puke. it's probably because i ate lots of pulutan. and here's an added catch, ive realized that i even told the person i was texting with (chase, btw) that i threw up. i kind of gave him an account of stupid things that i was doing. eewww, that's embarassing right? u dont normally tell anyone that you throw up coz it's disgusting. anyway, it;s a good thing i didnt text HIM ( referring to this extra special guy i choose not to name )
that's how i am when im a bit drunk. i just like to share --. hehe. --
care drink with me? ow, you would WANT to. guaranteed fun and entertainment.

Posted by tengcorrea at 12/17/2003 09:46:00 AM

0 comments Saturday, December 13, 2003

ive watched the AJMA and RX 93.1 concert at the cov courts last night with kt, chase and gelo. it was a JAM-PACKED concert, [ talk about irony] i should say. it's just that the place was so big for like around 30 peeps. wooow..
but in fairness, the line-up of performers was really cool (though im really not familiar with most of the bands ). The bands played really great and the good thing is that despite the RESPONSIVE and ALIVE (harhar..), the bands went on with their ROCK thing - that is, they still gave ultimate performances. :)
a concert is still a concert. yun nga lang, the concert needs some extra life. no one of the few people dared to breath enough life to it, unfortunately.

Posted by tengcorrea at 12/13/2003 01:05:00 PM

0 comments Thursday, December 11, 2003

shit, i dont understand why i cant post and edit my profile in batangbaler. it sucks, man. i was already a junior member having 282 posts, i guess, but something wrong happened and i came back to being a new member with unknown [as in blank] number of posts.

by the way, ive found my new tambayan. im here at the rizal.. rizal.. hehe. i dont know exactly what it is called. but im here. it's not a bench or something. it's a computer lab. hehe, being the internet person that i am, this place is heaven for me unless if the server is down or in a state of malfunction. it is the fourth time that ive changed my 'tambayan', actually, since i got into college. hehe. first, it's in the sec a computer lab. then,i discovered ctc 101 [ the printing station ] and recently, in the ctc 116. whatever. my blockmates know this because these places are to be blamed for my not spending break hours with them.

i said to myself i would avoid talking about academic stuff here. but.. i just cant cause you know, acad things basically occupy most of my empty brain. i have two quizzes tomorrow. english and poetry (and it's a long test. man )

im excited tomorrow. there's a concert at the covered courts sponsored by this radio station and AJMA. ha, it's a 'no-beer' event, i suppose but at least, i have to do something on a friday night. ;-)

Posted by tengcorrea at 12/11/2003 12:57:00 AM

0 comments Wednesday, December 10, 2003

i promised myself that i won't be keeping a blog because i wouldnt want an extra writing thing to do. required papers seemed enough for me. i am not really writer. i find it difficult to write. it is just quite ironic that i decided to take up communications. and so i thought that keeping a blog would simply be a burden to me. besides, i really had nothing really cool to share cause i live such a boring life.

i am not very good at expressing myself - whether it be through writing, speaking etc. i post in a messageboard of my hometown but im not really into it these days because my accout there is fucked up.

there were rules to follow and rules kind of piss me off. no quoting messages preceding you, no text lingo [ although, ive realized that posts with text lingo sucks nga naman ]. but the thing that i hate most there is that people mind your busines when they shouldnt be. why the hell would they care if i love the word 'tang.ina'. it's just an expression. im aware that it's a not-so-good sound coming from someone's mouth. but as ive said, it's mere EXPRESSION. and when you express, you dont care if people will understand you or not. you shouldnt care. well, i dont care. or maybe, i care a bit. ok, i admit i care so much about what other people think of me [ i can even let others rule my life]. because of that, ive decided to quit posting there. [ well, temporarily, i guess ]

and so here i am now, breathing life to my new 'baby' - my blog. my blog, just like a baby, couldnt talk. it would just be here to listen and absorb my spilled thoughts.

NOTE : expect lots of tang.ina and never mind those shits. those words are simply just part of me.