The race is on

If you have noticed, there is a number in my Pinoy Top Blogs icon in the side. The number means that is my current rank in the Pinoy Top Blogs. The more people who go to my webite the bigger will that number... so the race is on, I am hoping to come up with interesting topics to write about to keep on feeding you people with the information you want. I am hoping that you will make it a habit to check my blog as often as you can. I also wish to hear from those who read what I write, tell me what you think. To everyone, thank you for visiting and hope to see more of you in the next coming days...

PMA amidst a chaotic political scenario

Last Friday, the President announced a National State of Emergency. The news did not reach the cadets until about lunch time when some of the instructors were able to share some of the news. By noon time, the Superintendent dined with the whole Corps, somehow we knew what was coming. Even when he was Commandant of Cadets, he always went to the mess hall and talked personally to the cadets whenever issues of importance come out. When the issue that the cadets walked out en masse allegedly in support of BGen Gudani, he allowed the press people to enter the mess hall during noon mess, talked to the Corps and asked the state of the morale of the cadets... the answer was of course a resounding "High Morale, sir." He even bragged to our Australian visitors at that time how good we, cadets, go on parade emphasizing that we are BETTER than them and that they can not complain because they are in his turf and that he is a general... hehehe. And so in Friday, he was there in the mess hall, he asked all of us to go near the OC's porch (it's actually a stage in front of the mess hall) and talked to us lake any commander would do to appraise the state of his men. He placed emphasis in the chain of command with the words "Follow the chain of command, study, study and study; Leave politics to the politicians." He gave specific instruction for us not to wear the usual BDA (Battle Dress Attire, fatigues to the civilians) as customary when the alert level is on red to normalize the situation in PMA. That night, as Manila was in chaos, the Cadet Corps was watching dancing scholars from the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (PLM) giggling as the beautiful dancers were strutting their tinikling, pandanggo sa ilaw and other clutural dances. To top it all, the Superintendent himself wowed the crowd when he danced the tinikling. During his speech, he was still panting after the dance number but was able to regain his composure, even joking that the chaperone of the ladies should watch out for their dancers, they do not know what cadets can do causing the whole crowd to laugh out loud. The next day was the usual saturday inspection, our visitors? The dancers who entertained us the night before. By noon mess, the dancers dined with the Corps and again in the speech of the Superintendent he gave specific instruction to the cadets sitting beside the dancers to do the vaultfiles. The next day was the Close Order Drill Competition where Charlie Company became the surprise victor, sadly my company was again the goat... for the nth time. And then back to classes.

The point of narrating all these it so assure the public that the Philippine Military Academy, especially the cadets are not affected by the chaos that is happening in our capital. Not that we are not concerned because we are... very much concerned. We talk about it, watch the news, even wait for our turn to read the newspaper. But as the Superintendent always said, our mandate as cadets is to study and that is what we will do. Our commander tells us to maximize the last two weeks of Academics and as professional soldiers we are doing just that. PMA is still the country's bastion of Courage, Integrity and Loyalty and rest assured when the cloud is clear, we will be proud to graduate from this halls fully equipped to tread the right path towards a lifetime of selfless service to God, country and people. I hope that those who read this will spread the word. Let us do our individual roles, let us not involve ourselves with issues beyond us. Let us all work for this country not against it.

Huh?... the people in my friendster

I have this rule in friendster that I will only add people that are really my friends. I reasoned that as long as I follow that rule I will get all the benefits of the website, it is in fact for reaching out to friends and considering my situation, it keeps me sane when I am able to see friend even if only in friendster. I have been noticing this for quite a while but never really wrote about it so now is the time.

A while ago I was looking at the account of a classmate in high school, lo and behold he was hugging another high school classmate... they are now a couple. The thing is the lady was my classmate from 2nd year to 4th year and we were, may I say, close. We have this routine to cut every social studies class. In the first few days, we had ideas where to go but then after sometime we just walked and walked and just returned for the next class. As a result, we get to talk about a lot of things and became close. We were not bad student who did not attend classes we were just very good at social studies that the subject became (pause) BORING... can you blame us? Now the guy, at that time, was with another girlfriend and although they were friends, there was never a time that I thought that it would turn romantic... and then we graduate and I did not see them anymore... only in friendster.... and this time they are a couple and it seems that they are inseperable... its funny how things change, I still have to talk to them and ask what happened, I hope that time will come. Then there is also this another classmate who now has picture of her from the great landmarks in the world all over her friendster account. You see in first year high school, I did not know how to speak Cebuano, I was a genuine Tagalog then. Luckily, there were three of us in my class who were from Manila and one of those three is that classmate. Now, in second year high school this classmate was elected President of my class but after sometime there was a revolt and another President was installed... and guess who... it was me. I wasn't a leader really, I was just brave. Being high school brats then, we always wanted to do crazy things and it was me who always had the guts to go to the Principal's office and defend our misdeeds even if the reason is invalid. My classmate was ousted because she simply was not somebody who shared our idea of fun. One time, I told all my classmates to cut class in one subject. All of us just went to some place and just hang-out but then this girl went to class together with her disciples. On that day there were only three of them who went to class, the rest of us were in some place having fun. In short and simple words, I tormented this girl in high school... no, torment is not the word, I made her life somewhat miserable, the class hated her and most of the time it was because I placed her in a situation that was "hatable." But now, she's a flight attendant travelling around the world. Now speaking of flight attendant, another classmate is also travelling the world as one. This girl is different from the other one, she was in fact a very good friend, I use to go to her house on weekends just to hang out, if I am not mistaken I may just be the only guy who is able to go inside her room and wreak havoc. I think I might even be the one who introduced her to the likes of fishball and kikiam. Now, she's so pretty, travelling the world and I guess rich. I do not know how she is now but I kind of wonder how her life is, I last saw her 7 years ago while flying to Dumaguete from Manila. I hope we see each other again. See the wonder of friendster.

Of course there are also my new friends. There was this one girl, that I keep on bugging about her boyfriend. She is like a sister to me and I can not really stomach the treatment she is getting from her boyfriend. So everytime we have the chance to talk all she hears from me are ramblings from a "pakialamero." Not that its unwelcome, she thanks me even if I make her cry, I bet if you know the story you will share the same sentiments with me. And then again in her friendster account suddenly she changes her status to "It's complicated" ang taray.... hahaha.... but I really hope she leaves her good-for-nothing boyfriend she deserves someone better. And then there are the Lipa Girls, three of them actually. Every now and then I look at their accounts and see what has happened to their lives. Just a while ago one of the three posted something in her blog... well I won't say a word about it but it was actually the same blog entry she posted around three or four days ago but this time the letters are bigger. The title is like "Sa mga nagrereklamong hindi nabasa yung blog ko" hahaha, I was laughing but the observation was true because when I read it I had to copy the whole text and paste it in notepad (see my brilliance?).

Well, I think I just miss all these people especially when the break may not happen if the political crisis will not end soon. Thanks to friendster somehow it gives me some assurance that the people I love are just out there. Every now and then I see pictures added with happy faces, I see status changing from single to its complicated to married to single again and I smile. I read blog entries that kind of reminds me of these people somehow hoping that I might spend some time with them in the future. I almost want to cry when I see a new picture of my niece, she's so pretty I miss her so much. I have my ways in dealing with loneliness in this prison and I would like to think that despite of the times that I hate the fact that I have no choice but to be here, I am coping up. I really hope that my friends who read this will feel the loneliness that I am saying and just maybe will try to cheer me up... I'm begging you people... please...

Updates

I do not know if those who come to this website have noticed this but I have added several things in this website that you might want to be aware of. As I said before, I listed this website in Pinoy Top Blogs and I must say a lot of traffic is coming in something like in the first 5 days there were 110 unique hits on this site its now on rank 409... not bad considering that its only in the list for 5 days and the others have been there for about a month now... but I hope people who read and enjoy this site will also tell their friends about it. I also hope that you put your comments in the chatbox on the side or better yet click the icon on the side and vote for this site.... Well, I have to go now, I still have to tidy up my uniform for my evening mess (that's dinner by the way).... I'll just write something later....... I love you people

Interesting...

I have some kind of developed this routine already when I go to the computer laboratory these days (our computers in the barracks do not have internet connection, the administration said that they are working on bringing the internet to the barracks... that's what they said). As soon as I log in to my account I open three windows, one for friendster, one for hotmail and one to check the traffic of my blog. I reply to messages, add friends, approve testimonials, delete spams and then I do the thing that I was supposed to do in the computer. These days, I end up typing the so many requirements I have for my subjects this semester. There are also instances that I just enjoy browsing through different pages and my discovery of the website Pinoy Top Blogs proved to be useful. I wanted to know what's interesting in the sites that are ahead of me in the list and also to look for some tips in increasing the traffic of this website. Surprisingly, I found most of the blogs interesting in different areas. I found this blog about a couple in Japan who will be having their first baby and currently the content is basically about their on going pregnancy. And then there is this blog about a young lady who's ex boyfriend had some kind of sickness that only she can heal... the thing is she is actually baby sitting her ex boyfriend... you should read the blog to understand why its interesting. In some way, I have come to realize that the reason why this blogs are interesting is that they practically give as a view of how lives of other people are lived. I mean, of course one has to know how to tell these stories but I think this is the same reason why reality shows are popular these days. I believe that pretensions are little by little becoming old and this generation is more interested on individuality, on how people go about their lives just being themselves like ordinary people.

Now I have one story about individuality that just superimposes my point. Last night, just when I was about to sleep an upperclass went inside my room to borrow the headphones of my room mate. Unfortunately, my room mates head phone was no longer with him and for some reason what was to be a simple request became a conversation about things that we encounter daily. Before I continue with my story, let me describe this upperclass I am referring to. Although, he treats us very well, he is this type we call in our jargon as "siga." He does not want to go to mess, drill, parades and other activities that are basic in our life here in PMA. In some way, I kind of do not idolize him because of how he is. But this time, as he goes about telling us stories he revealed an individuality that was not quite expected for someone who was "siga." Our topic diverted to the women in our lives as cadets. Honestly there really is a lot of women out there wanting to be with us... we are actually in demand to a certain type of women. This was something that we barely talk about because I almost always do not want to talk about this matter with my room mates (the two who had lots and lots of girlfriends... kindly refer to Annoying conversations... chauvinist PIGS!!!) And then he narrates something that is just marvelous. The converation went like this... kindly bear with the cadet lingo

Upperclass: Ano ba ang mas masama yung nagbayad ka para makabuga (sex) o nangligaw ka para makabuga?

Me: syempre sir mas masama yung nangligaw ka kasi binola mo yun kung ano ano sinabi mo tapos chuk chak(sex) lang pala habol mo, at least yung pokpok alam nya na na yun lang talaga ang habol mo

Room mate 1: snappy kasi sir yung sinusuyo mo pa ba tapos bibigay din

Upperclass: alam mo ba na pag nakipag sex ka you are giving something of yourself

Room mate 2: meron naman kaming binibigay sir ah

Me: nanggagago ka naman alam ko na ibig mong sabihin t*m*d yan

Room mate 1: (laughs)

Upperclass: ungas hindi yun ang ibig kong sabihin... kayo kasi kung ano ano iniisip nyo pag nakipag sex ka hindi lang katawan ang binbigay mo you give the girl your mind and soul at sya rin. You do something that is irrevocable at pag ginago mo its irrevocably damaging

Me: oo nga alam nyo ba na kahit yung pokpok pag nakipagsex ka sa kanya meron kang sinisira

Upperclass: sa akin lang naman to ha... pananaw ko ba... pag nakikipagsex kasi hindi pwedeng dahil lang gusto nating isatisfy yung urges natin kasi pag ganun ang ginawa natin parang iniinsulto natin yung pagkatao natin... parang umaamin tayo na ka level lang natin yung mga hayop na bumubuga lang kung kaila nila gusto... kaya nga sila hayop kasi ganun sila at dahil tao tayo magpakatao tayo.

For the first time I saw my two room mates unable to say something about that remark from my upperclass.

The point is people do have their own individuality and we can not judge them by the way we see them, we really just have to dig deeper into a person to know their value as moral people. I guess blogging can teach me a lot of things as I go on, yes blogging is interesting because people are interesting... because life is interesting