tony

Wala akong date this weekend kasi out of town si bhe. Buti na lang ginising niya ako kaninang 9:00 PM kasi talagang pinlano kong panuorin ang Tony Awards. Wala naman akong gala sa labas. In fact hindi pa nga ako lumalabas ng bahay simula kahapon ng Biyernes na naka-leave ako.

Kakatapos lang ng progrma habang sinusulat ko 'to. Ang haba ah tatlong oras 'ata pero sulit naman kasi kahit na-enjoy ko ang mga performances. Hindi na 'ko nakapanood ng teatro simula nang magdrop-out ako sa college. Earlier at least I was able to catch a glimpse of what Broadway has to offer. Kelan kaya ako makakapunta ng New York?

Bakit nga ba hindi ako nakakapanood ng local theather productions? Ay maharlika ka nga kasi eh.

Anyways here are some of the notable things I have seen in watching the awards.

• Hugh Jackman hosted, he's great and I love him. If they created Rocky the musical (which is so gay lol), they should come up also with Wolverine the musical. For the win!
• Si Fran Drescher (The Nanny of course) ay may play. Award. She hasn't age I think and yes she still has that unmistakable one of a kind voice of hers. Co-presentor nya si Ethan Hawk (Dead Poet Society, Reality Bites) na tumanda ng three times! My gosh I used to have a little crush on him. I haven't seen Great Expectations (1998) yet pero dun ko siya bet na bet. Hay kabataan! Lol.
• Idina Menzel (If/Then) performed and oh my she was on her elements (as if naman napanood ko na siya ng live dava hihi). Tagal ko kasi makaget-over sa Oscar performance nya na sinumpa 'ata ni John Travolta.
• Kamukha din ni Idina yun kasalukyang Elphaba huh. I was enjoying her duet with Glinda but the signal was gone for about a few minutes. Anong problema nyo Sky Cable. Kaloka. I thought I wouldn't be able to finish the whole award show.
• Sting performed but I couldn't understand him. Sorry.
• I enjoyed the snippet of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder. It won the Best Musical. I would love to see it. Yun ata yun play the may Pinoy producer. Taray. Sigh.
• Walter White won! I mean Bryan Cranston (All the Way). They have shown few seconds of him playing the part of President Johnson. Parang si Walter lang din naman 'ata with Texan accent lol. Impression ko lang naman yun from those few seconds.
• There's this musical about Carol King and the lead actress, Jesse Mueller, won. Ganda ng boses nya ah. In fairness nagandahan din ako sa boses  sa nominated na si Sutton Foster (Violet). Kala ko nga si Sutton mananalo. Taena. Kung makapanghula ako eh no kala mo napanood ko yung mga plays. Lol
• Dr. Doogie Howser won! Of course I mean Neil Patrick Harris for Hedwig and the Angry Inch. I haven't seen much of How I Met Your Mother so he would be always Dr. Doogie for me. Hay ano ba kabataan moment na naman ba lol. His perfomance must be so taxing seeing him perform one of the songs from that musical. Mum was watching with me and I was about to explain to her what musicals and theater is all about (since I had joined the university's repertory-for two weeks only lol) but Neil kissed some random guy from the audience! In the mouth! Mum got bored and went to sleep hahaha.

So there. You know why I love watching awards shows like this? It gives me inspiration. Old and jaded as I am, somehow it gives me a little push- who knows someday I would be getting my dreams as well.

Winners say dreams do come true. I would love to believe it too.

teki-teki kunwari

Sa madaling araw lang kaya ako nakakapag- Youtube. 'Eto naman kasing Sun Broadband sa mga ganong oras lang mabilis at halos hindi mo na magamit sa araw. Ironic. Buti na nga lang yung promo nilang unlimited for three days eh unlimited talaga. Hindi katulad sa Globe, yung una kong stick na nabilli, pagnaka- 800MB ay sorry stop ka muna. Isang taon ko kayang pinagtyigaan yun at hindi ko man lang nakuha yung Globe Points ko dun. Tanga lang.

Last week nanuod na naman ako ng mga videos tungkol sa Mac OS. Siyempre pangarap kong magkaroon ng Mac. Ewan. Feel ko lang. Feeling mayaman that is ha ha. Pero wala akong balak pag-ipunan ang isang MacBook Air kasi overpriced kaya siya sa isang dukhang katulad ko na gumagamit lang ng laptop para magsurf sa net at maglaro ng mga apps na pambata (I'm not a gamer.) 'Pag can afford na ako bumili nun ibig sabihin milyonaryo na ko. Sa kasalukuyan masaya na ako sa sa Acer ko na 'to kasi touch-screen na at may dvd writer pa (old school, para sa mga nahihiram kong dvds ha ha). At hindi tulad ng iba, I am loving Windows 8.1. From Windows XP ba naman sino hindi matutuwa 'di ba. Ang bilis! Effort nga lang sa umpisa na pag-aralan lalo na yung unang labas na version. Kalerkey. Buti na lang touch-screen nga ito dahil mawiwindang din ako pag-track pad lang ang gamit.

So ayun nga I had this laptop mag-iisang taon na. Ang lagi kong ginagawa kung magra-right click eh pindutin/diinan 'tong kanang babang bahagi ng touchpad. Eh para dun naman talaga yun 'di ba. Sa instructional youtube vid na napanood ko, sa mga Macs daw ang right click ay pwedeng gawin sa pagtap sa trackpad ng dalawang daliri sabay. Sinubukan kong gawin sa akin aba ay gumana. Biruin mo all this time ay hindi ko alam gamitin ng maayos itong laptop ko. Kamote. Well, sinilip ko ang users manual habang sinusulat ito at wala naman pala talagang nabanggit ukol dito. Not entirely my fault. So ayan tap galore with two fingers ako since then.

Wala akong anti-virus program hanggang ngayon. Pinagpaubaya ko na lang sa Windows Defender. Sa luma kong laptop, na-try ko pareho ang Avast and Avira. Parehas lang naman. Parehas lang may nakakalusot na malware. Mahusay din ang Malwarebytes. Hindi na nga lang talaga ako nag-install ng kung anu-ano baka kasi magcrash lang. Nagpapabagal pa. Siguro infected na 'tong laptop. I wouldn't know. Sana hindi. Bukod sa mga apps sa Windows Store eh wala na naman akong dinadownload na programs. Ewan ko na lang sa mga hihiram kong usbs.

Sa youtube video na nabanggit ko, natutunan ko din ang isang extension na mahusay: disconnet me. What it does is that it would disconnect those sites who are known to track users for whatever intensions, usually for ad purposes. Sana available din na yun sa Internet Explorer. Yes I use IE from time to time dahil well wala lang. Maiba lang ng interface. I use the modern version para full screen siya. And good this there's this app called Read it Better para i-save yung mga articles for later reading.. Yung Microsoft own's Reading List kasi hindi mo mababasa ang mga saved pages offline.

Ang next phone ko sana isa sa mga Lumia models. 'La lang love ko na ang Windows eh. Sana i-manage lang nila ng todo an kanilang app store hindi katulad sa Google Play na ang dami-dami ngang apps karamihan wala namang kwenta. Iba't ibang versions lang ng same shit. Buhay pa naman 'tong Galaxy Y ko at matatapos na contract ko sa Globe. Nauna na pala si jowa magrenew, Galaxy S5 ang kinuha. Sosyal kasi yun eh. Sana gumana pa yung ipapamana nyang S3 sa mama nya. Nalubog kasi nung nagseselfie sa jacuzzi. As for me ipapamana ko din itong Galaxy Y ko kay mudra. Nakuha ko itong i-root so baka hindi ko na ibalik sa dati ma-brick ko pa.

just another shift

So, a few hours from now it would be 2014. I just feel too old, too jaded to welcome another new year. But conformity dictates that everyone must be happy and hopeful later when the clock strikes midnight. My shift is exactly by twelve am however. It would be queuing I imagine. I assume I would simply return my office mates greetings as courtesy.

I am so used spending the holidays on the operations floor. Tonight would be a little different though because I can't go out to watch the fireworks at least.

I have made one public new year's resolution though. I would attempt to quit smoking yet again. I made that sacred pinky promise to one of the very few friends I have at work. This year I only managed to stop for four months. Depression took over so I didn't overcome my addiction.

I made other promises to myself too. Things that I should have been doing a long time ago but couldn't bring myself to do. I should have the words discipline and commitment tattooed on my arms.

I don't see myself as a pessimist. Realist perhaps. The great paradox is I never get tired of dreaming. Even all of them remain just that- dreams.