The MINGOL!

21st

2011-10-13T07:09:00.002+08:00

On the 21st.

Yap, on the 21st of this month the account I'm currently positioned with here in Sitel (Philippines) will be totally pulled out. DELL-XPS will again be just a part of my resume 8 days from now; it will be listed along with my previous campaigns Bellsouth and Sony. What's going to be next?

Another account?

Another company?

Nope. School is going to be next. College to be specific.

Well, I can say that college would be another campaign for me though. Good luck.

It's a Choice

2011-09-23T06:12:00.000+08:00

I am going to begin the countdown of days for my stay here in the company I work with. I will be going home to continue the education I left last 2005. This is a matter of choice, a rather one-sided decision of mine. A choice between staying here in Manila to serve Sitel or to go back to Kalinga and finish college. Deym, I should have graduated a long time ago.

This is something that I've been planning a long time ago, and could have done a long time ago; but there have been a lot of factors that crossed my path that had me kept my job instead. Friends, money, and being independent are just some of them. But this time they will be treasured and never be forgotten.

I know I will be going back to my hometown; but it's not same place that I've left before... well it's not really 'left' as in I've never returned, I always had some vacation though. Tabuk is a city now. There were lots of changes especially about infrastructures. Kalinga province is fast-progressing now, I think the public servants are better these days... hopefully.

So, this would be the beginning of the countdown.

Along came the spider, there goes the spider.

iK: Sari-sari Shop

2011-09-01T05:39:00.003+08:00

Visit our store iK: Sari-sari Shop which is located at Bulanao, Tabuk City. Infront of St. Toni's, across the highway. It's beside a computer shop. We've got a lot of merchandise. Thanks.

I am Terror!

2010-08-03T19:55:00.004+08:00

iKALINGA 2010

2010-07-09T12:23:00.001+08:00

Just a photo, iKALINGA rocks!

Old School: JRM 1988

2010-06-21T16:45:00.002+08:00

This my childhood picture, snapped thru a cellphone cam and edited with Light Room. Old school yeah!

Back

2010-06-15T19:55:00.000+08:00

I'm Back!

End of the Earth

2010-06-10T16:02:00.001+08:00

The dust and the wind are my companions, the end of the Earth is my home.

I will be going back to my beloved homeland today. Kalinga here I come.

2010 Elections

2010-05-09T18:02:00.001+08:00

Vote wisely. Our choice, our country's future.

Prayers and Politics

2010-05-05T16:52:00.003+08:00

Prayers and Politics [click to read]

Vampire.Blood.Vampire

2010-04-04T12:12:00.004+08:00

What's up with vampires these days? They just don't suck blood and kill people, they even fall in-love.

My girl seems to be hooked up with vampire stories (books, movies, TV-shows): she had finished reading all the books of the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer (even the unpublished one); she had watched the movies Twilight and New Moon (Twilight Saga) and had plans to watch Eclipse this summer. Now she's hooked up in watching The Vampire Diaries that we had purchased last week; in a DVD with the complete first season.

Well, I'm hooked to it too. Arrggh! I had to accompany her watch, no choice though; then it's sleeping time on 3AM. Well, we're done with the season 1 so we've gotta look for the season 2 DVD.

iKalinga T-Shirt (again)

2010-03-23T13:20:00.003+08:00

Here is the latest iKALINGA T-Shirt design in bloody-red color.

Ang totoong mahirap eh di gumagasto ng milyon!

2010-03-16T16:33:00.002+08:00

Nagkalat ang mga campaign materials ng mga national candidates for office para sa 2010 eleksyon; nangungumpanya sa telebisyon, sa radyo, sa newspaper, sa kalye at kung saan saan. Nakaka-irita na! Lalo na sa mga pilit nagmamalinis para lang makuha ang sympatiya at boto ng nakakarami.

Sinasabi nyung gusto ninyong tulungan ang mahihirap pero sa campaign ads nyu naman eh gumagasto kayo ng milyon-milyon na salapi. Mapapanood ba yan ng mga mahihirap na walang telebisyon? Kung napanood man nila sa kapitbahay, mawawala ba ang kanilang kagutuman? Siguro naman eh sapat-sapat na ang isandaang milyong pera para bigyan ng kahit konting pagkain ang totoong mga mahihirap; kesa naman ginagamit sa pangungumpanya. Siguro naman alam nyu na na ang ibinayad nyu na milyon-milyon sa sa kumpanya ng telebisyon para sa inyong campaign ads eh hindi napupunta sa mga mahihirap; obvious naman di ba?

Magpaka-totoo kayo!

It's Been a Year

2010-02-27T16:57:00.003+08:00

About a year ago we lost a colleague, a friend. We've missed her a lot; her smiles, her jokes. Now we know that she's up there looking over us. Roseville, it's been a year now.

Feeling good for my iKALINGA T-Shirts

2010-02-20T18:48:00.003+08:00

I sold about 75% of the merchandise and yet there are still orders from those who was not able to buy their won t-shirts. I just feel good about this and hopefully this would elevate to what I always wanted, establish my own store for iKALINGA stuffs.

Again, the table is still open for orders. Thanks.

iKALINGA T-Shirts and the Ullalim Festival

2010-02-17T17:36:00.002+08:00

I congratulate my fellow iKalingas for having a successful Ullalim Festival for this year and hopefully we will be having a better celebration next year.

Though I was not able to go home, again, to witness the entire festival I still managed to get updates from my friends and siblings there in our province. As for my merchandise, the iKALINGA t-shirts, I could say that its market was OK. I want to thank those people who bought their own shirts; and also to those who had come to know it.

The iKALINGA T-shirts are still available and there will be more designs to come. Watch out!

Ullalim Festival | Valentine's Day | Chinese New Year

2010-02-14T13:09:00.003+08:00

February 14 holds a lot of events; local, national and international celebrations. Kalinga Province is currently celebrating its foundation day, the Ullalim Festival. Congratulations!

Today is also the celebration of the Chinese New Year. 一夜连双岁，五更分二年 (Kung Hei Fat Choi)!

Also, happy Valentine's Day to everyone!

iKALINGA T-Shirts is now on sale!

2010-02-10T19:40:00.003+08:00

The Kalinga Day (Ullalim Festival) celebration opened today; too bad for me I cannot be there. I always wanted to participate for the activities there; like the street dancing, join my tribe play the gongs. Anyways, I'm proud to be a Kalinga and am very thankful to all those people who had made the Ullalim Festival as good as it gets.

On the other hand, the iKALINGAt-shirts that I've designed is now on sale there in the trade-fair area. So go and grab yours now.

iKALINGA T-Shirts

2010-02-09T18:14:00.005+08:00

For sale on Kalinga Day!

iKALINGA T-Shirts for sale on Kalinga day!

2010-02-08T12:47:00.003+08:00

Despite me not going home, again, for the Kalinga Day (Ullalim Festival) celebration this coming February 14 the iKALINGA t-shirts would be there though; lucky t-shirts. Sigh.

The iKALINGA t-shirts would be displayed in one of the booths at the trade fair area. Please support. Thanks.

No Leaves for Kalinga Day

2010-02-06T13:39:00.003+08:00

I'm so disappointed and sad for the leave that I filed for the Kalinga Day (Ullalim Festival) was not approved. Sigh!

Nevertheless, I would still have to sell my iKALINGA t-shirts. So, hopefully, my merchandise will all be sold-out.

Kalinga Day | Valentine's Day

2010-02-02T13:44:00.005+08:00

The Ullalim Festival (Kalinga Day) is fast approaching and yet my filed leave is not yet approved. I'm thinking that there's a slight chance that it would be approved since there are a lot of agents that filed their own leaves as well for that week (Feb 14-20) not because they will attend the Kalinga Day celebration but to have their own dates, it's Valentine's Day! Ouch!

Though my filed leave may not be approved I will still try to figure out a way to go home; attend the festival and of course to sell my merchandise, the iKALINGA t-shirts.

Movies: Dorian Gray

2010-01-30T19:28:00.003+08:00

In the office doing nothing, while waiting for calls we decided to watch Dorian Gray.

A naïve young man. A lovelorn artist. A corruptible Lord. A deal with the Devil. It all paints a dark picture of a Victorian London and how the rich and infamous party at their peril. Here, the telling of time and its consequence of experience for life's treasures' takes its toll on the body, mind and soul. The haunting and bleak tale of power, greed, vanity and inevitable self-destruction is ever present amongst the deceit, opium dens and sin.

Fresh-faced and innocent, Dorian Gray arrives in London to move into the house he has inherited. Almost immediately he falls under the influence of amoral and calculating Lord Henry Wotton, leading to a life of increasing debauchery and even violence. Through many years Gray stays as young-looking as ever, while a portrait painted when he arrived grows old, reflecting his increasing excesses. Eventually the picture, now secreted in his attic, becomes almost hideous to behold. When true love finally enters his life he realises he must guard his secret at all costs.

There She Goes

2010-01-29T13:03:00.002+08:00

It was late night on the 22nd of January (this year) when she finally joined the Lord up above; my grandmother was 90 years old and happy when she'd decided to be with our Creator.

I love you lola!

Blessed

2010-01-22T14:37:00.000+08:00

I was able to talk to my grandma earlier over the phone; she wasn't talking back though. I've told her again that if she needs to go now it'll be OK for me. We can take of ourselves already. GOD and my mother, maybe, is waiting for her.

Grandma has been with us ever since my parents got married. She'd been taking care of us for the rest of our lives.She, maybe, had done more than what other grandmothers could do; there are a lot of things she did that it would make a book.

As I was talking to her earlier I felt that she wants to talk to me. My sister, who was holding the phone, told me that grandma is trying to open her mouth to say somethings, she was even trying to move her fingers; I cried knowing that. My siblings and our relatives had even talked to her; they had given her their blessings; but grandma seems to be still fighting for her life. Maybe she doesn't want to leave us yet knowing that she had been telling me before that if she'll meet death she preferred to be buried in her native land, Pantikian (Balbalan). Was it too early to tell?