---during my time, i remember the wonders of 'technology' revolved around pencil cases that had so many designs, automatic ones with colorful 3D pictures. then came the lunchboxes/lunchbags that came in tin can designs or plastic with embossed pictures of walt disney characters or fairytale designs. mine was thermos brought home by papa from abroad. i always had hot milo in it. there were dolls - walking/talking/crying dolls of different sizes. talking teddy bears. toys galore - running, crawling, flying, some even crashing!
---let's fastforward to electronic gadgets - my jaws dropped when i took the typing test at citibank. they were using the IBM typewriter while i only knew how to operate underwood & those rusty electric typewriters (or what is available). so imagine my surprise when i had my hands, first time on an IBM typewriter. look ma, no carriage return! and i don't see any keys (alpha/numeric). they had balls - courier, italics, different fonts, different strokes! as expected, i failed the first typing test. honest as i was, i bragged about perfecting it if i was to use the old, rusty ones. but that was citibank & they threw away all their old typewriters. my second try was a success - i levelled at 60WPM (on an IBM).
---double fastforward to "now" technology. i marvel at the words - upload/download/copy-paste/bluetooth & a lot more which i'm not familiar with because i'm not using them as yet. but imagine the capability of one small camera to take so many pictures because of the technology of the memory card & transferring them later to your computer because of another technology called the memory card reader? amazing!! i remember again during my time, we had the instamatic camera. buy a separate flash bulb if you intend to use it indoors or evenings. go to a photoshop to have your pics developed (either colored or black & white). buy an album so you can store them & let these albums be a center of conversation during gatherings. aww, those were the days of our beloved canon instamatic. we used it last during carmela's highschool graduation when everybody around us were already using the digicams! it was embarrassing but proud to say that, that canon instamatic served us well in all occasions -parties, weddings, baptisms, birthdays, funerals, and even on no occassions at all, when we just wanted to play "kodakan" at home.
---my favorite is the bluetooth. imagine sharing a photo that would only take seconds to have in your phone. whoever invented this technology is a genius! and i don't even know why they named it bluetooth (when no tooth is even involved or have you seen someone with a blue tooth?). as i'm writing this, i now can't help but to marvel at another technology called the "router". mhelai's active laptop (named "bibi") is the one we're sharing now. "lilli", is the notebook i bring along anywhere (this was our gift to her which eventually became officially mine now). i can't use lilli if mhelai is using bibi not unless we use the smartbro USB,but we have to load it a lot if i want to use it for long hours. so last sunday, we thought of finally buying a router to be able to use bibi & lilli at the same time, thereby saving a few pesos on smartbro load. it was a good buy, after all - imagine, now we can use bibi, lilli, mhelai's ipod and fone simultaneously!!! wow!! and as i'm writing this, i'm situated away from the computer table, around a simple corner of the house where i can buddha-sit, the electric fan kissing my face & most of all being able to use lilli again after a long time..
Monday, June 21, 2010
Friday, June 18, 2010
and life goes on and on and on....from music to sports.
---i've never been an NBA fan. i have always admired the locals (PBA and UAAP). my passion for basketball dates back highschool days when san miguel team was the crowning glory of all teams. now i can still remember ning ramos at the helm, hah - my memory is still good (but bless his soul, he's gone now). i've always hated crispa! followed by toyota - anywhere robert jaworski was, i hated those teams (sorry jawo, i just don't like you).. there they were - paner, estrada, miego, ohhhh, i love those guys!!! ah, but those were the years.....
---then my attention switched to the next generation in basketball - alaska. it has always been alaska team for me. well, besides those good-looking guys tim cone (coach) and joaqui trillo (team manager), who wouldn't fall for this team. not to count out alfred uytengsu (owner). my craziness over this team has led me, my daughter & eventually my husband follow them, from the games at the araneta coliseum to the dugout, onto the gates where players, officials, referees, wives, kids, relatives of the players exited. i knew each & every players' car model, even their plate numbers. i had each and every autographs (never mind if they were smelly after a game, heh heh...but they always get a good shower after every game - i think.. but i was never a stalker. who would stalk a basketball player, anyway? ewwww!
---then when mhelai was in college, and just as i lost interest in basketball, she took my energy & passion of being a UAAP fan. naturally, it had to be LA SALLE! well, i like la salle because firstly, my godson, bernardo "bo" de leon, jr., graduated there with a degree in economics (yes, la salle taft). but my favorite color was blue! but if i chose ateneo, there would be chaos inside the house... so la salle it is... joseph yeo, mac-mac cardona, jayvee casio, mike cortez & rico meirhofer, to name a few were familiar household names. another trip to araneta's exit gates and we had their pics & autographs too. we followed la salle's games anywhere. mhelai even went to the extent of applying as a courtside reporter but studies had to come first.
---in one of her subjects, she was required to interview a bunch of basketball players and surprisingly her feet took her to the moro lorenzo sports center. and later in the evening we had to fetch her and it was also a good excuse for me to get a glimpse of those ateneo players whom they called "gods", hah hah. oh my goodness, tenorio was super friendly! chris tiu, jai reyes were among those ateneans. i had to call chris tiu to make a 360 degree turn just to get his autograph. but we're still la salle at heart.
---and after a very long time and these famous UAAP players went pro, i must have gotten tired of basketball and switched to a lot of things. in college, i made myself present in st. paul university's sportsfest. oh wow, i had a hero in basketball. one from the HRM dept. her name was stacey black. she was like - kobe bryant!!! weh! but sadly, there's another story behind this basketball star.
---back to NBA, i was hooked for a while when john stockton and carl malone were big names. what teams were they? memory gap. rockets? only because malone's face reminded me of my husband, hah hah
---and i forgot sports for a long time. well, i enjoyed watching the women's volleyball on TV. of course it will still be la salle. i remember illa and the carolino sisters. i remember mhelai & i sweating it out at the rizal memorial coliseum for the championship games.
---then my love for sports turned to music. so it was one evening at the MOA when husband asked me to look for an alternative to bocelli music in the car. i browsed upon the CDs under classical music and i got attracted to the pictures of these cute boys on the CD cover. "eternal" it says. while i thought it contained children's songs. so while walking towards the car, i read the list of songs - ave maria. i like ave maria but it was not the ave maria i knew when we played it. boring.... so we put it aside. came typhoon ondoy, my foot infection, mhelai's free tickets to libera concert...and that was the start of a beautiful friendship & admiration for libera & libera fans i met on the net. the rest, as they say is history....
---then my attention switched to the next generation in basketball - alaska. it has always been alaska team for me. well, besides those good-looking guys tim cone (coach) and joaqui trillo (team manager), who wouldn't fall for this team. not to count out alfred uytengsu (owner). my craziness over this team has led me, my daughter & eventually my husband follow them, from the games at the araneta coliseum to the dugout, onto the gates where players, officials, referees, wives, kids, relatives of the players exited. i knew each & every players' car model, even their plate numbers. i had each and every autographs (never mind if they were smelly after a game, heh heh...but they always get a good shower after every game - i think.. but i was never a stalker. who would stalk a basketball player, anyway? ewwww!
---then when mhelai was in college, and just as i lost interest in basketball, she took my energy & passion of being a UAAP fan. naturally, it had to be LA SALLE! well, i like la salle because firstly, my godson, bernardo "bo" de leon, jr., graduated there with a degree in economics (yes, la salle taft). but my favorite color was blue! but if i chose ateneo, there would be chaos inside the house... so la salle it is... joseph yeo, mac-mac cardona, jayvee casio, mike cortez & rico meirhofer, to name a few were familiar household names. another trip to araneta's exit gates and we had their pics & autographs too. we followed la salle's games anywhere. mhelai even went to the extent of applying as a courtside reporter but studies had to come first.
---in one of her subjects, she was required to interview a bunch of basketball players and surprisingly her feet took her to the moro lorenzo sports center. and later in the evening we had to fetch her and it was also a good excuse for me to get a glimpse of those ateneo players whom they called "gods", hah hah. oh my goodness, tenorio was super friendly! chris tiu, jai reyes were among those ateneans. i had to call chris tiu to make a 360 degree turn just to get his autograph. but we're still la salle at heart.
---and after a very long time and these famous UAAP players went pro, i must have gotten tired of basketball and switched to a lot of things. in college, i made myself present in st. paul university's sportsfest. oh wow, i had a hero in basketball. one from the HRM dept. her name was stacey black. she was like - kobe bryant!!! weh! but sadly, there's another story behind this basketball star.
---back to NBA, i was hooked for a while when john stockton and carl malone were big names. what teams were they? memory gap. rockets? only because malone's face reminded me of my husband, hah hah
---and i forgot sports for a long time. well, i enjoyed watching the women's volleyball on TV. of course it will still be la salle. i remember illa and the carolino sisters. i remember mhelai & i sweating it out at the rizal memorial coliseum for the championship games.
---then my love for sports turned to music. so it was one evening at the MOA when husband asked me to look for an alternative to bocelli music in the car. i browsed upon the CDs under classical music and i got attracted to the pictures of these cute boys on the CD cover. "eternal" it says. while i thought it contained children's songs. so while walking towards the car, i read the list of songs - ave maria. i like ave maria but it was not the ave maria i knew when we played it. boring.... so we put it aside. came typhoon ondoy, my foot infection, mhelai's free tickets to libera concert...and that was the start of a beautiful friendship & admiration for libera & libera fans i met on the net. the rest, as they say is history....
Monday, June 14, 2010
...the brighter side of life....
---i thought i'd be dead after my unpleasant encounter with some people i'd rather forget now but it pays to be silent for a while. i cleaned my contacts on FB, refrained from making comments, posting shoutouts and even strayed away from the chatbox (except for a few encounters with leo jap who somehow lifted my spirits during my down moments); jake evasco and rommel jerno who popped up unexpectedly and offered kind words & gave me links to view; the de castro family - jon, kojie and mom, mila who are natural comedians, this family never fails to bring out a hearty laugh from me even in the wee hours of the morning; mitch young, who has always given me words of encouragement & support; romina enopia who has left me for a better job in davao; sofia rodriguez who at a very young age (at 13) never fails to make me cry because she has always been there for me, offered words of comfort during my lowest days and lately, ericka flores (whom i accidentally deleted while cleaning up my contacts).
---after that incident, i "left" libera matters for a while. never went back to my pics, links, and vids. i kept my CDs and has switched back to andrea bocelli in my car. i pretend i don't see the poster mounted on the wall and if i did take a look at it, my vision got through. joshua madine's face didn't create a spark anymore, nor did cassius'. i hate to admit it but my admiration for tom cully has changed - so much so that during the time when everything was okay, it was so hard to find him - and after all these had happened, there he was - in the company of the people who hurt me. up until this moment, i still haven't gotten a reply from alan totten on why i'm banned on yoodoomusic. i never did anything wrong nor violated any rules set by him on that site so i deem it to be so unfair on my person for him to just "throw" me out, just like that. but i couldn't care anymore. my conscience is clean and i won't go on wasting time & effort to find out why.
---the games on the internet kept my sanity. pacman was back and i never failed to take a cut on the board but until this time, i still haven't got through level 7 but i'm proud to announce i've reached a score of 30 thousand plus. another game is brick shift which plays similar to collapse; tower stack is another good game & tonight, i finally beat my old score & has reached the 40thou mark. but leo jap's score still makes me dizzy....hah hah i finally had time for my cafe world which i neglected during libera days. i have missed getting in touch with a lot of people outside libera. i never realized how i spent much of my time on libera that looking back, it also became my "world". mitch young was right, life doesn't stop with libera - i thought i have moved on but dealing with those fanatics proved me wrong- i just moved on "a bit"..
---last night, i have finally reconnected with ericka flores through mitch, who was kind to have explained to her about what happened & why she suddenly vanished from my contacts. and eri was a barrington/madine fan. my libera album, which i have kept from public view has once again been opened - since i wanted to tag eri on my photos. i felt good looking at all of them again - some of which i have already forgotten. i also needed to untag those people whom i'd rather forget now but the memories of the meet & greet and the RCBC concert has once again livened me up. i missed their voices suddenly so maybe later in the day, i'll drown the house with libera music once again.
---there is life after libera...and now, i'm seeing the brighter side. now i can say, i have moved on...
---after that incident, i "left" libera matters for a while. never went back to my pics, links, and vids. i kept my CDs and has switched back to andrea bocelli in my car. i pretend i don't see the poster mounted on the wall and if i did take a look at it, my vision got through. joshua madine's face didn't create a spark anymore, nor did cassius'. i hate to admit it but my admiration for tom cully has changed - so much so that during the time when everything was okay, it was so hard to find him - and after all these had happened, there he was - in the company of the people who hurt me. up until this moment, i still haven't gotten a reply from alan totten on why i'm banned on yoodoomusic. i never did anything wrong nor violated any rules set by him on that site so i deem it to be so unfair on my person for him to just "throw" me out, just like that. but i couldn't care anymore. my conscience is clean and i won't go on wasting time & effort to find out why.
---the games on the internet kept my sanity. pacman was back and i never failed to take a cut on the board but until this time, i still haven't got through level 7 but i'm proud to announce i've reached a score of 30 thousand plus. another game is brick shift which plays similar to collapse; tower stack is another good game & tonight, i finally beat my old score & has reached the 40thou mark. but leo jap's score still makes me dizzy....hah hah i finally had time for my cafe world which i neglected during libera days. i have missed getting in touch with a lot of people outside libera. i never realized how i spent much of my time on libera that looking back, it also became my "world". mitch young was right, life doesn't stop with libera - i thought i have moved on but dealing with those fanatics proved me wrong- i just moved on "a bit"..
---last night, i have finally reconnected with ericka flores through mitch, who was kind to have explained to her about what happened & why she suddenly vanished from my contacts. and eri was a barrington/madine fan. my libera album, which i have kept from public view has once again been opened - since i wanted to tag eri on my photos. i felt good looking at all of them again - some of which i have already forgotten. i also needed to untag those people whom i'd rather forget now but the memories of the meet & greet and the RCBC concert has once again livened me up. i missed their voices suddenly so maybe later in the day, i'll drown the house with libera music once again.
---there is life after libera...and now, i'm seeing the brighter side. now i can say, i have moved on...
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