In times like these...

The above video is the a commercial ad for Lead India. Both touching and moving, I think we can all learn from this video. With the rising number of our kababayans affected by the storm, I don't think all relief operations would be able to reach them all. A rising number of 200,ooo - not people but families affected by the flood needs all the help they need. We can all help by:
1. Donating to legitimate groups like the red cross, la salle and other centers.
2. Reach out to our own neighbors, friends, families in our own private ways.
3. With a lot of people going out to work, and having a few PUVs are in the streets, we can help them out by offering a ride (of course risk and all) if we have some more seats in our car to spare, car pool galore, malay mo, andun love of your life... LOL
visit www.redcross.com.ph
call 413-26-67 and 416-03-87 Sagip Kapamilya Hotline
NDCC #s: 912-56-68. 911-50-61. 911-14-06. 734-21-18. 912-26-65. 734-21-20. calls for rescue and follow ups
Other lists can be found at http://sariwawek.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/superstorm-ondoy-hotlines/

Still
Words and Music by Reuben Morgan

Hide me now
Under your wings
Cover mewithin your mighty hand
When the oceans rise and thunders roar

I will soar with you above the storm
Father you are king over the flood
I will be still and know you are God

Find rest my soul
In Christ alone
Know his power
In quietness and trust

British Got Talent - Charlie Green

Filipino talent conquering the world. Half Pinoy Charlie Green joined "British Got Talent" and sang "Summer Wind". And based from reports and well, his choice of song, he likes Frank Sinatra and Michael Buble (and Leona Lewis). hehe. Nuf said. Just watch.

The most unusual Singapore Trip

I've been to Singapore more than 5 times I think. But this beats my other experiences. Before it was limited to those usual misadventures. The almost crashing of Philippine Airlines due to a defective turbine (don't know the term, its the one that turns really fast for the plane to move). We landed almost safely, but the plane had to be towed to the dock, well, almost.

Getting to Singapore was rather unusually quiet. Void of any drama, minus all the fireworks. I had an investigator's meeting and some went a day earlier so I had to show them around since it was their first time. The night of our first day, I had a fever. Possibly due to the exhaustion that I felt. I was shivering and couldn't sleep, thus I decided to get some artificial heat in the hotel's sauna, which did my fever quite well, coupled with a dose of acetaminophen.

The meeting commenced the next day and ended last saturday. During those times, I didn't know that a big (well, not really, just an exhagerated hype by the govt.) commotion was going on back home in the Philippines (let's save that for another post). So, no curfew for me, just four days of meeting, shopping, and strolling around SG.

Now, coming home was quite special. Those who know me personally would know that my trips would always include some misadventure of some sort. Well, this was different. I was upgraded to business class (hahaha!). It turns out that they accidentally had double checked a couple of passengers in one seat, and I was one of them. So they had to transfer one to business class, again it was me. So another first good weird thing that happened.

I hope new year would also be filled with good surprises.

(till next ish, I'm still rather incoherent)

Taiwan Trip

I still don't have all the pics but here are some... and yes that's my bathroom on the background. My room was really cool and the bathroom was all glass. It was kinda freaky seeing the shower directly from the bed, thus it was such a good thing that I shared the room with no one. hahahaha!

12 November 2007

I flew in and arrived in Taiwan before lunch. Checked in at Grand Victoria Hotel. It was fairly new, designed in such a modern style, minimalistic and posh, modern victorian. The chair in my room was clear plastic that looked liked glass. The bathroom was all glass... freaky, but cool. It had an automatic drop down blinds that covers up the whole bathroom glass wall, so 'twas ok. hahaha!

13 November 2007

Meeting day. Nothing much to say. Toxic. Nosebleed. Too much information. hahaha!

But night time was different. We had our Hub night and the theme was Taipei Rock. Since Nathalie and I were new comers from the Philippines we had to have our share of a presentation. We sang like 5 spliced songs from Highschool Musical (the 1st one), with the movie presentation as shown on the before post.

14 November 2007

Another whole day of meeting... again... nose bleed.

But we did rode the ferry's wheel on top of a mall. It was so big it took us almost half an hour just to get back to the bottom part and back again.

15 November 2007

We went to this place where they make glass arts. As usual, first actiity was the boring part, HISTORY. Didn't listen much. Next was a demo on glass making. They showed each step from getting the liquid glass thingy, to blowing bubbles in it, to rotating it to make it look like a wine glass, and to twisting it finalizing it to become a colored plate. ASTIG! Another activity was to design our own glass. I ran out of ideas so I just painted the theme of our meeting, Taipei 101 with Asia written across.

Afterwhich, the whole group was divided into three depending on your choice of place to hang out. (1) Taipei 101, (2) Museum, and (3) Villa 32 - a spa place... I chose the Museum, which most of us did. When we saw the brochure of Villa 32, we wished we could've chosen that instead. Our big boss, who also chose to be at the Museum, changed her mind in split seconds and went for the spa experience. As for me, all I saw in the museum were ceramic plates, jade thingys and whatever historical stuffs. Darn!

16 November 2007

Flew black to Manila. So tired.

Another trip...

Tomorrow I'll be flying off to Taiwan. Another Trip yeah! But somehow I'm worried and have this weird feeling in my tummy (and I'm not even having LBM hehe). Why? After 7 months of working for this new company, (just transfered last April), I have this feeling that people are already assessing my performance. And its killing me. I know I can't please everyone, but these are some of those instances where I would just want to back out, though I never did once in my life (for any endeavor that I've ventured into).

Basta, I'll update nalang by the end of the week. Zaijian!