Crippled

When I said that I'm on semi-hibernation, the Universe must have taken it too seriously and willed the most used communication device in my life to disappear. For that was what happened. One moment my cellphone was there, the next it was gone. With it, I lost a calculator, a watch, an alarm clock, a radio, birthday reminders, phone and address book, notepad, not to mention my hand exercise machine. That is how crippling losing a cellphone is. My hands suddenly felt so empty, as if they didn't know what to do, as if they lost one of their fingers.

Needless to say, I'll be needing all of your contact details again. I'll be using the same number as before but as I don't have a phone yet, please email or PM them to me as soon as you read this. Hopefully, I would have my cellphone transplant by early next week.

Unbelievably Challenging

The biggest challenge about being unemployed is the discipline to stay unemployed. Let me clarify that. I have yet to finish the second draft of my novel and I vow to finish it in a month.  (The second draft, we have a long way to go until the final one.) Still, there’s always the temptation to find a job instead. And typically, finding a job is what a normal functional member of society is supposed to be doing in between jobs, thus I have to constantly remind myself that I am unemployed for a reason. I do have to find a job but it just has to wait a few months. There is of course that voice in my head still shouting, almost hysterically now, “Ayokong maging dukha!” making it even harder for me to not run frantically to the computer and start sending my resume to every other employer I can find. It’s no joke how I convince myself each day that jobs will be there even after I finish my degree and I need only to be patient so I can finally start looking for them soon.

The next biggest challenge about being unemployed is getting out of bed each morning.

My Last Few Days at Work

I took these photos during my last few days at the office. These are some of my favorite people at work. I wasn't able to take pictures of my boss Kathy (whom I really, really liked), Herbert (who loaned me a hundred bucks when I left my wallet at home), and Henry (who's funny and weird so I like him). Oh well. Here's to unemployment!

Cai's Despedida

Because I couldn't find an internet connection sooner, by the time I post this, Cai must be somewhere in San Francisco. Giddy with happiness, we hope. Here's one last look of our dear Cai in Manila.

Celluloid Obsessions - Ragnarok Online - "HOME VIDEO"

http://paolody.multiply.com/video/item/13
Because I'm a closet movie-star-wannabe and my sister works in production, I sometimes get bit roles in commercials or AVPs. Here's one of those. This was done maybe more than two years ago.

If you want to see me, then you are not allowed to blink.

Back in the Game

So that (scroll to bottom of page and read the last few comments) didn't go exactly as I hoped it would. I was depressed for a week, okay, more than a week, but I'm up and about again (at least most of the time) and shouting, forefinger up in the air and an expectant look on my face, "Next please!"

Please don't ask what happened because I'm not telling. (That makes you want to know more, doesn't it?)

Unpublished Sagada Photos

It's been more than half a year after Artie, Daniel, Lolit, Maklet and I had our Sagada trip when I finally got copies of the pictures taken from their cameras. I was hanging out in their office one late afternoon and browsing through the pictures in their computer. "We were so happy!" I observed. That would have been okay but I had to continue and wondered out loud, "When will we ever be this happy again?" That made everyone sad. I'm contagious that way.

So here's Sagada again. (Previous Sagada pictures are here: http://sanapakaininmoko.multiply.com/photos/album/114)