Teban at the Cebu City Sports Complex


My aim for a better health made me decide to take swimming as a new habit. 10 days to go before I hit my first quarter of a century and with that I want to make sure that before that day comes I would be fit and good as new. The digits that always go up and never comes down does not really bother me at all because for me they're milestones of my journey.

I've bought myself a new swimming trunks, a new swimming cap and goggles three days ago. It's an advance present for myself on my upcoming silver year. Yesterday I had them baptized at the Cebu City Sports Complex. I went there straight from the office and hit the pool. It is my first time to be inside the complex and it seems that everything is well maintained. The shower is clean enough and the pool is of course as expected chlorinated to keep the germs and bacteria away.

After warming up I took a dive and did some laps. On my second lap I started to feel the effects of my semi-sedentary lifestyle in the past few years. It used to be easy but well things have changed over the past years and that includes stamina. I never expected it to be very easy but being there in the pool is already a good start.

On my sixth lap I almost  run out of breath so that made me stop and take a rest. I've bubbled until my heart eased itself from knocking my chest too hard. I spent 30 minutes looking at the people by the pool. I  saw people that I think obviously older than me and a lot of kids who are trying their best to learn how to swim. 

I went out of the complex with a thought that first days ain't that bad at all!

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Bonnie Bailey Live in CEBU

Bonnie Bailey is coming to Cebu on August 28, 2010.
The queen of House Music is going to perform and party live at the Mariners' Court convention Hall. An all night sexy house party brought to you by 93.1 Club Radio.

Bonnie Bailey is the one who sang our all time Beach/Club party music Ever After. To all Bonnie Bailey fans out there let us go out and show our love to Bonnie. Reserve your tickets as early as now. You can reserve your tickets  at BonnieBaileyCebu.com. I already have my ticket so friends, see ya there!!!

Here's a word from Bonnie herself. Go Bonnie!




 
 

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the RED XP-rience



After four productive days in the office I finally get to escape and did something that I always love to do... FOOD TRIP!

Together with my friend Shara we hit the Red Kimono at the Terraces in Ayala Center. Just right on time for dinner when we got in. Since it is our first time to try out the restaurant we took our time looking at their menu. Everything looks tasty and the pictures on the menu makes my mouth water as I read through from one page to the next.

Just like any Japanese restaurant they serve sushi, stir fried vegies,  noodles and rice rolls, best known as maki.

We settled for the crunchy ebi maki (rice rolled in crisy tempura flakes then stuffed and topped with ebi with ebiko and Japanese mayo), pork teriyaki (pork grilled in a sweet soy sauce marinade), and mixed Kamameshi (authentic Japanese kettle cooked rice with seafood, shitake mushroom and mixed vegetables).

15 minutes of wait time is not bad. While waiting we took a few pictures and I played with the chop sticks. The maki was served first and it was delicious. The rice was sticky enough to hold the roll together when you pick it up with a chop stick, the crunchy tempura flakes adds the texture and the sweet 'n sour taste of the ebi mixed with the Japanese mayo is splendid.

The pork teriyaki as expected is sweet and good, though I can't find any distict taste from the teriyaki that I've tasted before.

When I saw the waiter bringing in the kettle, I was amused. The Kamameshi was ambrosial. Vegetables are crisp enough to complement with the rice, the shitake mushroom and shrimp gave it a sweet and delightful taste.

Shara and I agreed that it was indeed a hearty dinner. The bill? oh well we got it 50% off. Thanks to our friends from Smart Concept who sold me the discount card for 299 PHP.

We paid 325 PHP for dinner which is extremely worth every cent!

Looking forward to another dining XP-rience. 

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New Hope... Collective Leadership

12:00 noon on June 30, 2010 starts the new administration. The 15th President of the Republic of the Philippines sworn himself into the office to serve the Filipino people.

With all honesty I did not vote for him during the election. I voted for the person whom I think would serve the country well. The true spirit of democracy is to hear the voice of majority. The country have spoken and made their choice and comes the new President of our country.

The new President have spoken on his speech to the nation "Kayo ang Boss ko!". A statement and a promise that the voice of his people will be heard. He calls for an administration built on collective leadership. Everyone is equally responsible for the success and failure of our goals towards change.

With the new administration comes a New Hope (Bagong Pag-asa) but hope is not enough to sustain the needs of this country. Let us turn this hope as a fuel towards our our goal of change. It is time for every Filipino to do his share of responsibility in bringing that change to our society. This is the time that we should stop belittling ourselves on what we can do. Collectively if we do what we think is good for this country we would be able to do something bigger.

Just imagine if our farmer plants more then we could fight hunger. If our teachers dedicate themselves and be more passionate in teaching we'd be able to fight illiteracy. If our entrepreneur invests on local trade and industry together they create millions of jobs. If we dispose our garbage properly and be responsible enough to recycle we could fight the problem of pollution and be able to address the growing problem of climate change.

These are just examples of what we can do to drive that change. It's time or us to stop pointing fingers at each other on whose to do what.

Let me just give a very concrete example from my personal experience which I think most people can relate to. At the age 15, I've been doing my own laundry, can cook and can do the chores around the house which makes things easier for our mother. If we can do the same things to our country on a different level. If we know our ways around our own responsibility then we can make things easier for our leader.

We vote for them to lead us and leading they must do. We did not elect them for them to do our responsibility. We should learn how to differentiate the two. Just picture yourself doing the latter, if 92 million people can't do their share of task, what's the chance of one person doing the task of 92 million people on his own. Logically speaking that's impossible.

NOW is the time for us to take action. We have pledged loyalty to this country therefore it is time for us to take that pledge seriously and that means we have to give our full support to our leader whether we voted for him or not in the past elections. Our loyalty to our country comes our loyalty to our President who represents us the FILIPINOS.

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A Trivial Day

I came to work 15 minutes early today and before I get to sit on my desk I was faced by someone who is having a problem with his leave. So I  then ask what's the problem?  He answered: "I'm having a problem with my leave application. I can't file for a leave tomorrow because the system won't allow me to".

So I asked for the reason why he is applying for leave and he said I am going to join tomorrow's soccer game. Out of the blue I flippantly said: "I don't like soccer and I'm not a big fan of the sport so I will not approve your leave". 

"Please approve it for the sake of the team" said he. 

With a game face I said "If you could answer my question then I would approve your leave. I know this is gonna be easy since you are a soccer player and a fan." 
Then I asked, "Where is the word soccer derived from? or how did the word soccer come about?" 

He asked me if I am serious and I said yes. The look on his face is priceless. So to give him hope I asked him that he can call a friend to help him out. To cut the story short he Google the answer for I did not say he can't Google it.

He got the answer right after 15 minutes of asking around and with the help of Google search. He made my day and I made his day with a trivia. The word soccer is derived from the word association. It's an alteration of th word "assoc" as in Association Football.

The use of the term can be traced back to about 1880: it's documented as soccer or socca in 1889, and socker in 1891. Soccer seemed have become the most common phrase by 1895. Originally it was only university slang; it was habitual for English university students in the 1880s to abbreviate any word and then add on 'er' or 'ers' to it (so breakfast became brekkers, or rugby became ruggers).

I dare him to ask his friends in the soccer team to answer the same question and I am pretty much sure that barely 1 out of 10 knows the answer. The thing is it does not hurt if we get to know the things we like a little bit more. As what the late Ka Ernie Baron said 'Knowledge is Power'.

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Waking up from Dormancy

It's been a while since I posted an entry in my blog. There's been a lot of things going on in my so called life. The heat of summer must have dried up my brain cells and have lost my inspiration at some point. Needless to say that I am not a very good writer thus I need a lot of inspiration for me to go on.

The rainy season had started and everything is starting to go green. The dried up grasses are now turning their blades into green (one of my favorite colors). Drops of water from our tin roof is streaming down the gutters then into the side-walks.  The long forgotten streams are now flowing and starting to confluence themselves somewhere. So is my dormant thoughts are now starting to be awaken from a very long and dreamless sleep.

Today I feel happy because things at work are going great, though it's another crazy and busy day but I found tranquility amidst the hustle and bustle of my daily routines. Much of this I owe to the people that I work and interact with everyday. Thank you guys for understanding me and keeping up with me on my worst moments and for making me smile everyday. Our 1 o'clock habit of intellectual discourse and humor that some people finds out-of-place; yet the part where everyone is lively interacting takes the stress away. 

To the people who appreciate my work and people whom I interact with daily personally and virtually through the cyberspace you are indeed a source of my inspiration. So are my critics who bluntly speaks of their opinion, you are the flickering source of light in dark alley that points me through the right path. 

Waking up from dormancy has its perks for now I feel every waking moment of my life as a motivation to post regularly. Next on queue a narrative of my 2010 life during summer.


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