Damaged

And so it happened again. 19 October 2007, around 1:30pm, Glorietta2 was hit by unconfirmed bomb-like blast, killing few people and left several wounded. This tragic event did not only devastate the place, but more importantly the lives of the victims and families they left behind.

I paused. I thought, what was I doing that same time? I was in my home, lying on the carpet, so bored I don't know how creatively I can kill time. I was on sick leave for almost a week but I know for sure I can recuperate and welcome another challenging days to come. But these people, seemingly clueless of what to happen, only thought of having lunchbreak with friends in the mall, or maybe will just pick up something in a store, or simply wants a cool breeze and mosey around, will never see another sunshine, or traffic jam, or christmas lights beaming every city streets by this time.

Every time this kind of disaster happens, I would always give myself a short serious cognition. How can someone yield to such violence? How can some radical people equate love and loyalty on their faith to fatal blitz? Why do they need to claim lives and dreams when they long for justice from an unexplainable complaint? I came to a point where pondering is truly meaningless. These terrorisms (if it is), the people behind it, and their beliefs are far wide enough to comprehend and deal with. While they cry to do that out of love, loyalty, chivalry, or even faith, I think of them more as adhering to a fallacy of having an intrepid spirit with a depraved soul. I will never ever find any angle of depths to their claimed act of valiancy or religious heroism for that matter. And I am just so glad my god is a God of Life.

Now, there is no other way than moving forward. Yes, it is painful and heavy, to all the witnesses of traumatic tragedy and loved ones of the victims. But despite distraiting memories, God has provided us the panacea for all these deep pains and hurts - prayers. Trust that God is always in control of things beyond ours and blessings will surely come to those who remain faithful to Him. And that is true faith.

My sincere prayers to all the victims and their families.

MC

I woke up with swollen tonsil yesterday morning and I'm not surprised. I know it would occur since I had some overnights from Octoberfest in Clark Quay and my friend's house in Melville. Lots of beer and vodka that is. It was my first time to try dark beer.

Anyways, it still is not self-induced. I was not supposed to go to work yday but I guess I didn't have a choice coz I got classes too late for me to call off. Or maybe, that's the choice I made, to go to office. So during lunch break I went to my usual doctor who always seem to be in a hurry when he checks me up. Well this is just my two cent, but most of doctors I have met here behave that way. I said I have tonsilitis. I open my mouth and there, he gave me prescriptions. He didn't even care to let me know how bad it is. And before you knew it, he's on for the next patient. But that's not all. He gave me an MC (that's how they call sick leave here, for medical certificate) for that same day til today. That kinda sucks because I lost my first day MC since I'm already in the office and there's no way he can re-date it. Sigh. You don't enjoy your leaves here the way you should. So bottom line, it's like I'm just off for today and that's it. Yesterday's was forfeited.

And I did some pretty funny thing last night before I went home. Despite feverish feeling and dizzy head and swollen tonsil, I went to see my hairstylist hehehe..at least I get to have a new hair while absolutely indisposed.

While on my way to MRT, MC (my former boss in Pinas) phoned me just to let me know that Gaffy (our former officemate) is getting married this December 15 and he's inviting her to be their Ninang. hahaha Of course she goes like what the #$*&! My beauty is for abay not for ninang hahaha but she can't help it. She's like our mom in MITc. And of course we had the opportunity to chat some latest events in our lives. Kakamiss.

Now I'm such a bum today and alone at home. And I like it.

Flat

Last Saturday, I woke up late at hindi ako nakapasok sa office. And even if I could, I decided not to. So I just did my laundry til 2ish and prepare to leave for our Lord's Day in Sts. Peter and Paul. I was really late I know but at least not too late for my PraiseFest.

My friends keep teasing me about my new shoes. They said I bought it in time for my PraiseFest hahaha. Well the truth is, I just grabbed my desire while it last. I am such a fussy man when it comes to footwear. I would search the entire universe before I get to buy what I like the most, though sometimes I end up for nothing. Coz here in SG there's a quite a limited selection for men shoes and it's that expensive, unlike in Pinas where I can be as impulsive. So anyway, I did buy one last Friday coz I feel like getting it apart from the fact that I trusted my friend's judgment that time when I bought it. So that's it.

After the Lord's Day, we attended the mass on the same church. It was humid yesterday. Well in fact almost everyday. We went to The Coffee Club afterwards, with the Discovery Weekend Green Team.

I didn't join the group though in the movie coz I need to catch up with my friends at Lenie's place in Sengkang and so I did.

Well it's Lenie and housemates housewarming too aside from her birthday celebration. She just came back from 2-week vacation in Japan that's why we celebrated it just yday. We went on videoke til 3am.

Sunday morning came and I woke up 8ish because my household was assigned to do flyer distribution at St. Vincent de Paul. We're gonna have a new CLP there on the parish so we sort of inviting young parishioners there. We had our lunch in Yishun then went back to the parish til 4pm.

Then I meet my friend Ella and Emar in Yishun again for bowling. I was supposed to meet Reggie and Kuya Angel in Khatib but I just decided to go home ahead coz I am really exhausted and it's pretty obvious with how I have tried so hard to finish this entry.

I hope to have a great week ahead.