My Weekend Of Sports, Tweets and Fashion

I just finished meeting with my bosses from the US. Yes it is the weekend so I have to take my days off. I wonder where I should go now. I am contemplating on going to MOA alone because of the SHONEN KNIFE concert at San Miguel by the Bay. Aside from that I think I promised to go to a basketball game with people from the Red Tribe. There is a COSSACK Cobra game and some of the people from the UE Red Warriors play in those teams too. I guess they are from PBL.

I have been tweeting a lot lately because I have been able to get my blackberry online. With Alexandra DeRossi and KC Concepcion replying to my tweets it is just incomparable on how exciting this part of my cyber life is evolving.

Aside from that, there is another event that caught my attention. The hallways of MOA will turn into catwalks as Japanese and Filipino fashion come alive with this sting:

Now you tell me... who can resist not to go to MOA on that day! =)

I Am Not A Millionaire...

It looks like I am wasting my hard earned money again. I never print anything at home because of the fact that my actual printer is a little inferior and could not print photos. My Mom usually asks for them so she could get copies and put them into an album but I am a little bit contented just putting them onto my social networking sites. My sister forced me though to purchase ink cartridges yesterday so she could print a few documents at home. She is currently carrying a cast because she got her foot hurt in a freak accident. She chose to work at home because of this but it looks like this is also going to cost me a lot. My previous purchase of original cartridges just printed out 20 pages and just dried up after a couple of weeks. It's not the cheapest thing to buy at around $40 just for the black one and $45 more for the colored ink. Where am I going to get that money just so she could print a couple of old documents she should be just sending through office email in the first place!? She just wanted hard copies for crying out loud and she does not want to spend a single dime for it.

I do not want to take it against her because she is in that condition, but if I want to buy printer cartridges I would rather go with the cheaper ones available on line like what INKGRABBER offers. I do not mind getting one but it has to be reasonable. I would really want to help her in any way that I can but spending that much on printer ink is not justifiable. I wonder if it would be okay to ask if I could use her credit card instead ha-ha! I think that would be an awesome idea!

Water Shortage In Manila

It looks like the inevitable happened. There is a looming water shortage in the Philippines and currently they are already rationing water supplies in some parts of Visayas and Mindanao. I wonder what led to this mess aside from the EL NINO phenomenon. Way back then, it was already a big joke if you tell people that we will pay for bottled water. It was such a preposterous idea but look at us now... even kids nowadays do not drink straight from the faucet because of the dangers concerning its potability.

My brother got stomach ache his whole stay here 2 years ago because he just had ice that was made with water off the faucet which would mean there is already something wrong with it. It does not seem to be getting better every day. If in a few months and we do not get rain in the La Mesa Water shed which supplies around 80 percent of our drinking water in Manila then it would mean disaster to all of us. I wonder what the government is doing aside from rationing, people need to do cloud seeding and stuff like that to start rain as soon as possible. I don't know where we are going to end up now that we have this problem with water. This was supposed to be a joke a few years ago and look at us now. Even electricity is going to be scarce. We should get something sourced now through NUCLEAR or Hydroelectric or solar since we are in a tropical climate. Someone should think about this and do some measures now before its too late!

Think About It!

I have been a witness to various hardships of special people. Since I was a kid I was brought up by my folks with an entirely different outlook in life. I have a cousin I always tag along with that had special needs. He had irreversible brain injury because of an accident and his parents had to resort letting him undergo rehabilitation and therapy. It was all they can do because at that time there was not much information about his condition. There are currently no organizations even today in the Philippines that could help explain things. Heck there was no Internet connection then when this all started. I wanted to help them too but I can only do much. Today I can only say that only the organization for CEREBRAL PALSY and AUTISM has gone main stream; the rest probably had no funding and capability to organize.

I feel terrible that this had to happen to one of my own family member and if you think about it, no one should suffer this way. I am glad and happy though that even in the midst of adversity there has never been any less love for him. I really felt that things are better now; and if it was easy to deal with this condition it was because everyone helped a lot. The acceptance was secondary to watching how his family worked to make things bearable. I am proud of what they have accomplished and this for me has been a learning experience in one way or another. Do you have family members who are in the same condition as my cousin is?! How do you deal with it?! Let me know what you think!