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During one of my blank spells, (e.g. when I’m just staring into space doing nothing) I started, to remember/reminisce, about a few of the old funny/memorable quotes of the earlier part life, Yak antanda na. Anyway, I started to laugh, on my own, which I tend to do a lot these days, so I thought why not write them down, so here they are, some from quite a long time ago and some quite recent.

Legend

Q= Quote;

RT = my reaction which I didn’t say out loud

RM:  the reaction which I or someone else voiced out ;

S= Situation;

U= happened at or with UP friends;

H= happened at or with friends from home

L = happened at or with friends from Laco

Q: Solar Power
S: Sinasabi pag bumibilis ang lakad ng isang tao (usually si Sheng) dahil maaraw

Q: “Kamukha nya si Usher”
RT: Oo nga noh, now that I look at it.
U

Q: Tignan mo si ___ gumagawa ng MTV
S: Isang guy nakatingin sa labas ng bintana ng classroom during recess, alone, drinking sprite.
L

Q: I would like to be a door. (the “a door” part sounding more like Ador)
S: A quote said by one of my teachers, who well has excessive bone mass around the chin making it pointy. This was said during our homeroom period, at the time of the height of Ador Mawanay’s expose. (remember him?)
L

Q: Talaga walang pasok?
S: She said this after reading the announcement in front of the building that class was cancelled.
RT: Duh! Ano ba binasa mo ba?
U

Q: “Napanaginipan ko, papunta ako sa bahay nila Ruth, tapos maraming tumpok ng maliliit na bato sa harap ng bahay nila, pagpasok ko sa bahay, panantos pala ng bingo ung mga bato.”
RT: Bwahahaha
H

Q: “Payag ka bigyan kit ang Kotse, ung prang kila Mau, (Mitsubishi Lancer GSR) pero pull back.”
RT: DI ko nun alam ung pull back, pero inexplain nya saken un, lam nyo ung mga laruang pambata na kotse, na kelangan iatras mo bago umandar? Ung ung pullback na kotse.”
H

Q: “God’s Plan yan”
S: Lagi itong sinasabi ng Values Education Teacher ko nung 4th year high school.
RT: Ngaun ko lang nagets ang gravity nitong statement na toh.
L

Q: “Ok Miss Fernandez, answer the question on the board.”
RT: Ma’am naman Hernandez po, HERNANDEZ! (teacher ko sa math)
L

Q: “Ano nga ba yun, yung fish dip?
RT: Benjo, Dip sea yon, DIP SEA! (chichi na tigpipiso na nasarapan kami)
Q: “Ang kapal ng mukha, di na nahiya, dapat sayo paduguin ang mukha, ulo-ulo lang di kasama katawan, pag kasama katawan, sabog pati laman.”
S: Chant yan, pag masyadong makapal mukha mo, automatic, kakantahin yan sayo ng mga kausap mo, well at least nung bata kami.
L

Q: “Ay papansin, di pinapansin, kumuha ng kutsilyo, sinaksak ang sarili, namatay, binurol, saka nilibing.”
S: Chant din, ang morbid noh? Hehehe, para naman sa mga papansin.
H

Q: “Wala naman yang contact lens eh, pampaganda lang ng pilik mata.”
RT: Ano daw?
H

Q: “Mageextend pa ba tayo?”
S: Sinasabi ng character sa counterstrike, hehehe also a question asking kung mageextend pa kau sa nireserve nyong one hour.
L

Q: P#tang &na mo _____
S: Usually na sinasabi pag napatay ni _____ ang speaker, sa counterstrike
L

Q: “Ito ay di piknik, ito ay inuman”
S: Pachant din sinasabi, para sa mga taong pumapapak lang ng pulutan at di umiinom sa inuman
H

Q: “Akala ko kasi muslim sya”
RT: Oo nga noh, mukha nga syang muslim
U

Q: “Kami din may alagang Hipon”
RM: bwahahahahha
RT: Yocz, ibon ang pinaguusapan
S: Naguusap kami about sa pet ni tere, which is isang ibon, rinig ni yocz ay hipon.
L

Q: “Amoy Eucalyptus!”
S: Mei isa kasi kaming kabarkada (dis is like 1st year high school) na may B.O. tawag nila sa kanya amoy eucalyptus.
H

Q: “Ang kati naman ng twenty mo”
RT: Oo nga ang kati
S: Pag luma kasi yung pera, makati tawag namin.
L

Q: “Pag ito nabuo ko magugulat kayo”
S: Naghuhulma si Tiu ng clay sa isang hulmahan, pinagtatawanan sya nila berns at benjo kasi di niya mailabas yung clay sa hulmahan, he said the quote, kasi pagkatapos nya mailabas ung clay na nashape na, ito ay isang kotseng kuba, at binatukan nya si berns at benjo.
L

Q: “Ten feet!”
S: With matching intonation, term ang “ten feet” para sa “ayan nahulog”
H

Q: “Eh sabi nya kunin ko daw eh”
RT: Huh?
S: Sister ko, nagsli-sleep talk
H

Ayan, yan ang naalala ko, hehehe, di siguro gets ng iba, pero wla fun para saken, reminisce ulet, namimiss ko na kasi matuwa.

Haaay! I finally got to touch my keyboard again, it feels great. I mean after what four days of computer celibacy, its no wonder the first thing I did was make a blog entry.

Well the past few days have been harsh, trying to catch up on lessons, going here and there, raket, studies, application, I barely get a decent hour’s sleep, but I think its all worth it, at least I’m happy. Yak! Drama

Anyways, last Saturday, the 3rd of September, Sheng’s 20th birthday, (sorry Sheng) as an activity of the org, (UP ALCHEMES) a few members and applicants, me included, volunteered to help out at the Habitat for Humanity in Ynares Village, Antipolo Rizal.

First thing I want to say about the experience… Ang LAYO!!!! WAhahah we we’re actually joking about already being in Baguio, since we we’re traveling along Marcos Highway. The travel was torture, we were riding a rented out jeepney, at least it wasn’t sweltering hot, and we got to catch up on chismis and what not.

When we got there, the grass was about five feet high, imagine, we could just jump out and get lost in the foliage, the site of the houses was really isolated, makes you want to set up barbed wires all around your house, because the site looked like the NPA could survive there without being discovered. The people, as we found out, were relocated from, hmm, from where exactly? I forgot where they lived initially, and Habitat for Humanity, if I understood right, is a project of the government.

Well since we can’t actually build houses because we’re inexperienced volunteers, we did the dirty work, and indeed it was dirty, we did the back filling, I dunno if I wrote it down correctly, I’m not much with those construction terms, but remember those “Libreng panambak!” signs that you see around metro manila every now and then? Well that’s essentially what we did, we dug up dirt from the surrounding places, and transferred them to the foundation of the houses and filled (well tried to fill) them. Imagine, it was about a 20-25 meter walk to transfer the buckets of dirt.

Well my job was, more enjoyable, although more tiring, I got to use the pickaxe to loosen the dirt, the others shoveled, the others transferred. But we, the stupid inexperienced people, we’re digging up, well mud, and mud’s a lot harder to shovel because even if you loosen it, they go back and reform themselves, it was more like clay actually. Imagine trying to shovel a clump of clay the size of your head, its hard because not only was the clay hard to separate into shovellable pieces, it was also heavier than usual.

Thankfully, later, the real construction workers dug up a drier patch of dirt, and since there were a lot of us there, we formed a kind of assembly line of dirt bucket transfer, from the digging site, to the filling site, it was kinda fun. (Yak nagenjoy) It didn’t last long though, it started to rain at around 4:00, and we didn’t have the chance to do work again, and went home at around 5:15.pm. But not before manang what’s her name told us about the government’s “participation” in their efforts.

Manang is one of the people who already live there, and their trying to build 16 more houses by the end of this month, but well read on.

They told us about the government’s lack of funding, I thought relocation sites were supposed to be free, but noooo, they pay for the houses, well the government lends them money, without interest but that’s just not enough. The last bit of money that they got from the government was Php 10,000 no the zeroes aren’t wrong, its ten thousand pesos, and what could they do with that? They’re building houses for God’s sake.

But from what the lady there was saying, the government recently gave them, used, or rather very very used hollow block making machines, so that they could make their own blocks and wont have to buy them, which reduces their expenses substantially, then recently, the government has agreed to lend them another Php 50,000, a lot better than what they were lent before, but, they haven’t received the check yet.

I don’t know much about the government projects or how they run them, but from a layman’s point of view, more essentially, my point of view, shouldn’t there have been a relocation site before they were evicted from their homes? It’s unfair to uproot them form their living spaces and then transfer them to a place in the middle of nowhere, without even the guarantee of proper homes. And they have the guts to show the houses they built on T.V. In addition to that, they weren’t even given proper livelihood options; they were just moved and then well slightly forgotten. As I said the place was in the middle of nowhere, the money they earn won’t even be enough for their transportation to and from work.

Haaay, this makes my head ache even more than it does. Anyway we arrived at U.P. at around seven o’clock, and since I lived on the other side of Quezon City, I had to travel, yet again to get home, I arrived at 9pm. Great huh? At least I got to help, even just a little bit, but the next day, I woke up to searing pain in my arms, back and legs. WAAAaaaAa. I’ve never felt this much muscle pain before, its like going swimming for 50 laps non stop and than running 50 more laps around the track, without warm-up, although I haven’t done that before, I have the feeling it’ll hurt just as much.

Now I’m trying not to move my arms and leg much, because they hurt like hell, and I’m taking pain relievers, to ease the pain, but I’ve still got a half a dozen things on my to-do list, and about three quarters of a dozen of articles to pass, all overdue, haaaay, I just hope that by the end of this sem, I’d still have my arms, legs and eyes and brain cells intact.