"Dove Slaughter"

Just in case you didn't notice, I added a Greenpeace banner on the left of my blog's page in support of their campaign against Dove's evil plans on the rain forests of Indonesia. It won't hurt if you'll click the banner and learn about the "Dove Slaughter" campaign of Greenpeace. I had already signed the open letter, I hope you do, too. Please have the heart.

And to those who use Dove products, like AJ ^__^, please, please, think about these:

1. Indonesia is losing its forest faster then anywhere else on Earth, driving species like orang-utans to extinction.
2. Due to the destruction of rainforests and peatlands, Indonesia is currently the 3rd biggest greenhouse gas polluter in the world (behind only USA and China). And palm oil plantations are causing much of the deforestation.
3. Unilever is one of the world's biggest users of Indonesian palm oil for many of its products. About half of Unilever's palm oil supply comes from Indonesia. As recently as 2005, Unilever purchased 1 in every 20 tonnes of palm oil produced in the country.
4. Indonesian palm oil is used in products like Dove, Knorr, Walls, Ola, Persil, Omo, Surf, Flora and Becel.
5. Demand for palm oil is forecast to grow quickly. According to the UN 98 percent of Indonesia's lowland forest will be destroyed by 2022 if trends continue.
6. Unilever has failed to take any effective action to ensure its palm oil is sourced from sustainable sources. It also heads the Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) which has overseen the situation continue to get worse.
7. Unilever, as a major buyer of palm oil, and leader of the RSPO, is in a unique position to help save Indonesia's rainforests.
8. At the moment the RSPO is little more than a greenwashing operation because RSPO members continue to be involved in the destruction of Indonesia's rainforests
9. Greenpeace investigations show that it is Unilever's own palm oil traders and producers (themselves RSPO members) who are leading 'aggressive expansion' of the sector that results in the devastation of the last remaining orang-utan rainforest and peatland habitat in Borneo.

New Do, Same 'Ol Gayness

I usually get my haircut every 3 months or every end of a Mapua term, and that kinda continued on after grad. My last one was around the 3^rd week of January, so that’s already three months. Harhar.

Now here’s what happened yesterday. The original plan was to get my hair cut during the lunch break of Tuesday. I even told Ceejhay already a few minutes before the lunch break that I would not join them for lunch because I’ll get my hair done. But sloth overcame me again and it did not happen, and if it did I wouldn’t be in this picture. The complete GYC class picture, minus Vinny who took it. Harhar.

So the plan was moved to yesterday’s lunch break. Ceejhay said she would knock me out if it won’t push through, so harsh of an Amazonian, so I got scared, harhar. And besides, I would really be out for lunch because I’ll be meeting AJ. So around 11:30 AM I ate half of my packed lunch and then went to Vinny’s cube to tell him I’ll be out to get my hair cut. And then, being the concerned big bro he is (wooot!), he said he wouldn’t want me to look uber-emo and everything and halted me from leaving just to find me pictures of Japanese bands with hair he wanted me to have. He said he doesn’t want emo hair on me, but he gave me pictures of J-Rock people with fashion core hair which is the origin of scene hair, and scene hair is sooo emo hair. And by the way, I was really planning to get scene hair in purple highlights. Vinny said he’s with me in getting purple highlights although Ykai and Ceejhay didn’t want me to, harhar. Grrr. I really want purple highlights.

So, there. I left the office at approximately 12:10 already and Tiendesittas is like 10 minutes away. That’s 10 minutes plus the time it takes to walk from Gurango to where the jeeps are, plus the time I have to walk from IPI to SM Hypermart. So I decided to take a cab, but for some effin reason, there wasn’t any. So I wasted about 5 minutes already, under scorging heat, on waiting for a cab before I finally managed to just ride the jeep and walk from IPI to Hypermart. Grrr.

In a total dugyot-look, I arrived Bench Fix at around 12:30 already. Haircut was done at around 12:45 and then……

I told the stylist that I want purple highlights and that I got a Bench receipt and want to avail of the 50% discount on L’Oreal hair coloring thingies. To my surprise, he gave me that thingy where you would choose the color you want for your hair. Then I told him again that I want purple highlights. He answered, “Ay, FURFOL. Walang FURFOL sa L’Oreal eh. Dito sa isa meron pero hindi siya 50% off pero masmura naman ‘to.” OKAAYY. Hahahah.

When I saw the only FURFOL hair dyes they got, I was kinda dismayed. It was not as bright as the FURFOL I wanted but then I thought, this is better so as not to make my mom so effin angry. Harhar. So, there. Now the effin gayness it resulted to.

Oh, well. It wasn’t really so bad. But now my officemates call me emo. Harhar. After 3 months I would get the real FURFOL highlights I wanted. Grrr.

1 Down, 3 To Go

SATURDAY

One outing down, 3 to go. Harhar. I almost removed that outing with Pampers from the outing queue without even going there. My mom didn't give me permission until the morning of the outing, and was really angry at me on the night before. Then she came up with an agreement that I can join the outing but not overnight, leave at around 9PM and that I should come with them to Tagaytay the following day. OKAY. Makakapalag ba naman ako kay bossing? Hayzz.

Loreland was okay, as opposed to what I originally thought. I thought Loreland is a resort with all the colorful rocks I really, really effin hate. Those rocks or other thingies made from cement, like log-looking tables and benches colored in pink, yellow, blue, and other unearthly colors. I just hate those. The crowd was also a little less than I expected. Although pool water is a little hazy, Loreland is generally okay. And by the way, it was not in Taytay, it was in Antipolo. Stupid me. Harhar.

Entrance is reasonable at 160Php, but not for me and AJ. Grrr. If you’ll only stay there from our arrival time of 6PM to my promised 9PM, plus the 120Php share each for that effin 800+Php hut, plus my food share which is 66Php for 2 kilos of rice. So that’s about a hundred bucks per hour.

SUNDAY

Finally, my mom was able to drag me to her recently acquired abode. I know newly acquired properties are to brag for especially if it’s a new house but I don’t know why my mom is, like, overdoing excitement. Harhar. That house was nice. I like the small pool with that mosaic sun in the middle and the Jacuzzi, but they still need to be fixed and is still unusable. The place was so breezy, but the sun is still scourging, although not as scourging as the Manila sun. But if we didn’t went to ukay-ukay after we had lunch after our early morning mass, I would have anything to do there. For my whole stay there, I was just washing clothes Patt and I bought from the ukay-ukay. If not, I would have grown roots and my eyes had turned all white. And speaking of ukay-ukay, I scored a really nice Puma jacket. So so so so keeewwwl! That’s the only thing I loved yesterday. Harhar.

Wasted Earliness, Grrr

All my efforts on waking up early to be in the office for the 7AM shift just so I can be out at 4PM were all put to waste. I shouldn't have exerted effort. I should have trusted my instinct that this is what will happen. It is already 4:48 PM and I’m still at the office waiting for AJ who is still in a bus from Intramuros. And on his last update, he is still in Sta. Mesa. Hayzz. I just hope he gets here before 6 PM or else I’ll be really upset already, I won’t feel like talking to him again for a few minutes. I know it’s PARTIALLY not his fault because Ms. Carreon checked their thesis really late, but he could have just rode the LRT 2 to Cubao and then jeep from there rather than taking a bus from Intramuros to IPI in heavy traffic. He could have been here already. Grr.

I'm A Yellow Corel Alien, So What?

I'm so effin early for work, harhar. It's only 10:16 AM and I had done minutes of petix and finished watching The Bee Movie. If all goes well today, I can make landeeh with AJ as early as 4 PM today. I’m so happy. ^___^

Photoshop day again? Grrr. I really am so impatient on shifting from what I am used to into something new, like my so wished for transition from using Corel Photo-paint to the oh-so-loved and so effin famous Adobe Photoshop. I always get comments saying I can “photoshop” and when I tell people I don’t effin know a thing in Photoshop their eyes widen like I suddenly turn into a big wobbly yellow alien, especially when I tell them I use Corel on my shits. Adobe Photoshop has been a real deal to people that if you’re good at it people would so look up to you like a god or something. Maybe I long for doing the transition from Corel to Adobe because during the time that I was looking for a job, I sometimes look into job posting related to graphic design. Wala lang, bakit ba? Harhar. And to what I noticed, number one requirement is knowledge in Adobe Photoshop. It was very rare to see Corel in the requirements list. Grr.

I know, and am not ashamed to admit, that I’m not at all any good at graphic design but who knows, maybe one day my wind shifts into that direction. Harhar. I wanna learn Adobe Photoshop just so I know its workaround and won’t look like an ignorant or whatever, but I still won’t give up on using Corel Photo-Paint. So, yeah, when I don’t feel sloth when I’m home I would try to look for my Corel installation CD and copy it here in my office machine. Day count from that day starts today. Hmmm. Maybe a week count would work much better. Harhar.

Oatmeal. Petix. Photoshop.

I missed three days dose of my oatmeal, and now I’m finally looking forward again to easy pooping. My Yakisoba addiction is now over and now I’m addicted to instant oatmeal in coffee, instead of hot water. DROOOOL. Oh, wait. I’m currently eating coffee oatmeal. Harhar.

Another petix day at the office, grrr. I’m getting paid for growing bum fats in my tummy in front of this monitor for hours doing nothing work-related. Harhar. I’m a little early today than my usual arrival in the office which is a few minutes after 10 AM, and by a few minutes I mean less than 10. And here in the office, arriving at 10:01 already equals a minus 60 in my weekly pay slip, and my weekly pay slip usually has around -180 under time pay. Harhar.

Finally, I fought sloth in trying to teach myself the basics of Adobe Photoshop. What a great miracle it really is for me to actually be reading tutorials. Harhar. Basic of all the tutorial basics, how pity. Hahahah. Let’s see how this miracle would turn out. Let’s see in a few days if I still see myself installing Corel Photo-Paint in my machine, as originally planned before I accidentally learned that Willy has an Adobe Photoshop CS2 installer in his machine. Now enough blogging, Photoshop mode again….. ^__^

Summer = Wallet Dehydration: I Need MONEEEY!

April's here and everybody knows what it means. It's effin summer already. The hot sun is so scourging and walking from Monarch to Topy's is like a 3-minute trip to hell everyday. So, what more for my 20-minute tricycle-please-please-come moments in front of our gate at the very beginning of the day every single weekday? Grrrr. Nasa tapat pa lang ako ng bahay dugyot na ako kaagad, shitfuck.

And adding to that shit load of effin grrness, SUMMER=SWIMMING! Four different outings are scheduled for me this April to May. Grrrr.. I effin need lots and lots of money.

First in the queue is the Pampers get together swimming in Taytay. On the last update I was told, it will be on April 12 somewhere in Taytay. Patty said we just need to prepare 150 pesos for the entrance and then more money for food. Cheap entrance on a summer Saturday in Taytay, God knows how many people will be peeing with you in the pool. Harhar. =)

Second on the queue, PUERTO GALERA on the first week of May with James, Brent, and...... I don't know who else, yet. Hahah.. They were talking about this package that would make our wallets bleed more or less, I guess, around 7,000 pesos all-in-all. That much because we were so so many, harhar. =) And because of it, I thought of a plan.

The supposed last outing queued for me this summer is the evil plan Ren and Ykai plotted for the GYC couples. And by GYC couples, that only include Ren-Ykai, Vinny-Angel, Pam-AJ and the official-yet-technically-not-yet-couple Ceejhay-Ivan. There was supposed to be an outing on the third weekend of May but for so many reasons, primarily financial issues, harhar, it was cancelled. Then now Ykai and Ren had plans on going to Galera with Ren’s friends and was asking me and Vinny to come with them, but Vinny now has plans on going to Baguio with Angel, and I and AJ are also going to Galera with James and Brent; again, financial issues. Harhar. Then I thought of just merging Ren and Ykai’s Galera escape with James and Brent’s. Besides, it will be favorable to both parties, well, in my opinion, because going to Galera in a big group means less wallet bleeding for each and every one of us. So I told Ren about my plans, we discussed it already with his friend and now all that’s left to do is wait for James and Brent’s reply. Harhar.

Back to the outing queue, next in line is the Gurango company outing. Thanks to this heaven sent event, another outing in the queue was dissolved. GYC was also planning for our next outing, and because of the Gurango company outing, it was called off. So that’s a really big relief for my bleeding wallet. I heard the company outing would be held this June, but it’s still ok. Harhar.

According to my computations, I would only have around 3K per month to spend on these outing eklavus. And that 3K can only be acquired by intense self-control over shopping! Grrrr! If only I’m not paying 4K a month for my new Canon Ixus 950i I could still shop and swim without worries of wallet dehydration. Grr. I want that big bag from Puma, and it’s 1.7K, or that big bag from Nike, which is 1.3K, or that super pretty big white Sisley on Segue which is 2.5K. I also want that cool everyday backpack from Rip Curl which is 1.89K, and that uber pretty red and black wallet with metal Rip Curl logo, which is for 1K. And also that long overdue white and gray Ipanema slippers for 800. Grr! I NEED MONEEEEEEEEEEEEY!!!