[A Story] Ch. 5: An Angel in Disguise

The next day, he feels so exhausted. He is not in the mood to go to the office. He had a hard time to wake up. As a result, he arrived late in the office. At work, he cannot concentrate the way he does in the past few months. A glimpse of a wonderful future is currently on his mind. He is thinking and dreaming of having a beautiful wife with 3 little angels. He is dreaming of a happy family with full of love. All day he is dreaming and wondering what his life would be. Clock is ticking away. It seems every hour is a minute, every minute is a second…time is taking so long. Then, finally, it’s 3PM. It is time to go home and leave the damn office.

Usually, when Ryan is sad, he will spend a lot of time in the arcade. He is cheering himself by playing Xcube and Niendo computer games. But sometimes, if he can’t win against the computer, he gets frustrated. That day, he felt that it is not his lucky day. So, he left the game shop and went to a cinema house to watch a movie. He was lucky that he just arrived on time to watch his favorite comedy actor, Owan Akintson, the ever famous Mr. Weewee. However, in the movie house, after a few minutes of showing the movie, the screen went black. The machine went down and a voice was played saying that “We are currently experiencing technical difficulties. Sorry for the inconvenience. With this, we will be giving away free popcorn and soda drink. You can also exchange or refund your ticket in the machine outside the cinema. Again, sorry for the inconvenience caused.” Ryan got very irritated and immediately went out the cinema house and kicked out a can of soda.

The sun already went to sleep and the moon wakes up after watching the movie. There are no stars yet, only the crescent shape bright thing in the sky. As he walks down the street, something hit him on his right thigh, and then right chest. At that point, he couldn’t hear anything except a screeching sound. He couldn’t see anything except the bright moon. He feels he is flying in the air until he hits the ground. Doooge!

A blue ambulance and red police cars have arrived. Sirens sounds are everywhere the place. After a few moments, the blue ambulance runs as fast it could. It is carrying a man and a woman, both of which are on their mid 20’s. Both of them are in unconscious. They arrived in the hospital. Both of them were given emergency attention. The woman suddenly barely opens her eyes. She is crying and she asked the doctors, is he …. ok? The doctor said, “He is going to be alright. We will take care of everything”. Both of them were brought to the emergency rooms. The woman suffered some minor bruises and wounds. She seemed ok but still worried about the man, which is Ryan.

Three days had past but Ryan remains unconscious. Everyday, the woman visits him to see any progress. The doctors will always say that he is just sleeping but finally they tell her their findings. The doctor said, “We are really surprised that there are no broken bones. He is perfectly healthy yet he remains unconscious. I think he is suffering a depression syndrome, a sickness where the body is alive but the mind is dead. If this will persist the body will slowly become dead.” The girl asked, “Is there anything that we can do”. The doctor answered, “He (Ryan) is the only one who can decide if he wants to live or not. There’s nothing that we can do.”

Trisha, the lady who hit Ryan with her car, got from jail by bailing out. She felt so guilty about what happened to Ryan. She is worried that the guy might die because of her. So, she is praying that Ryan will get well soon so that she can ask for forgiveness.

On the 4th night, Trisha went to the hospital to see Ryan. She began to talk to him even though he is still unconscious. “I don’t know if this is interesting to you. But I will tell you anyway. When I was in 4th year high school, I was so deeply in love with my professor. I loved him because he is intelligent, gentleman, and funny. In our class, you will not get bored because he always tells a joke. He always makes sure that his audience has interaction with him. One time, she called my name and I didn’t stand up because I am so busy staring at him. I thought she’s calling someone else. My face gets red and my classmates tease me. The prom comes and I wasn’t expecting my professor to ask me for his date. I was so happy at that time. I felt that I was in heaven when we’re dancing together to the tune of sweet and sentimental music. I just lean my head to his broad shoulder. After that, we began dating secretly because in school, teachers and students should not get themselves in an intimate relationship. We don’t want to be the topic of gossips in school. I remember the time the first time we kissed…It is so full of love…(sigh with some tears on her eyes). But it didn’t last for long. We have to go separate ways as I continue my studies in college while he stayed to be a teacher in my secondary school. When I started studying in college, we see each other weekly, bi-weekly, monthly and then once in 3 months. I emailed and sent her love letters almost everyday just to tell him how much I love him. But after several months, he broke up with me. He said that he can’t do this anymore because he wants to focus on his career. But the next day after we broke up, I saw him, with another woman. She’s quite tall, sexy, beautiful and on her mid-20s. To my surprise, he passionately kissed the girl. To my anger, I approached him, punched him and kicked him on his sensitive part. Then, I ran away and went home. I cried all day in my room. I think I would die on that day. I couldn’t eat and sleep. As a result, I got weaker and weaker. I lost a lot of weight. I stopped going to school. One day, when I didn’t go out from my room, my parents got worried. They found out me lying in bed unconscious. When I woke up, I saw myself lying in a hospital bed. My mother and father were there. I also saw my brother and sister and a couple of my friends and my best friend. I saw a lot of flowers and fruits in the table. My mother spoke “thank god you wake up. If you have problems just tell me. We are here for you. We love you so much” My mom hugged me while she cries. “Please get well soon ok. Eat your dinner so that you will get better” she said. At that point, something hits me. I realized that there are a lot of people who love me, whom I ignored for the past several months. I always spent my time loving that guy and disregarding those people who love me. I still haven’t showed my love for them. So, I asked my mom, “Do we have carbonara pasta and Caesar salad?” She just smiled and served my favorite dishes.

“Ryan, don’t give up your life. Your parents and siblings will come here soon. I called them yesterday and they are worried so much. You see, they will do anything for you. They love you so much. And I think you’re still young. You still need to experience how wonderful life is. There are so many things to enjoy. Maybe we can go skydiving together once you get well? I did once and it was fun. Have you also heard the new arcade game, the galactic dance evolution? If you like to dance, you will love this game.”

Suddenly, Ryan’s toes move. His fingers begin to move a bit. He begins to shake and move his whole body. A wiggle…it seems that he fell from the sky and wakes up. When he opened his eyes, he saw Trisha. “Am I in heaven? How come you don’t have any halo above your head” Ryan asked while Trisha is smiling at him. Trisha answered “Because I have horns and a tail instead.” Ryan got frightened. Trisha laughs and said. “Just kidding! Thank God you come back to life. Give me a moment I will call the nurse and the doctor.”

[A Story] Ch. 4 Not So Interesting Life

Finally, after 1 week of searching for a job, he finally landed a good and exciting job. He is now working in the B city, where you can find the tallest blue and silver buildings. Almost every building in this city has a small shopping center.

He also found a place to live in. He is staying in a small apartment in a small town in G city. It takes only 5 minutes to reach his office from his home. He is so happy that he found this place because there are some parks where he can breathe fresh air. Below is his daily routine.

8:00 – wake up and prepare for work
8:55 – travel from home to office
9:00 – open my computer and think what I should do for the day
12:00 - lunch break
12:30 – continue working
3:00 – take off from work and go to the gym/or roller blading
5:00 – relax and rest
6:00 – prepare and cook dinner
7:00 – dinner while watching TV
8:30 – surf the net and play computer games/watch or dvd/tv series.
11:00 – go to bed and sleep.

One boring night, around 8:30PM, Ryan starts reminiscing the old days. He started remembering those unhappy days in his childhood. He used to play with his neighbors. Most of the time, he always get himself into a fight. The reason is he thought that his opponents don’t play fairly. At that point, he started to become a home and school loner. At home, he either study or play computer games. He goes to school and then go straight to home.

But on his 5th grade, something has changed his life. It was the time when he was supposed to be a contestant of a mathematics competition but he was never selected because he thought that competition was in the afternoon. At that moment, he went home frustrated and cried a lot. That is the turning point during his grade school days. He persevered and started to achieve his goals. He started competing in competitions not only in Mathematics but also in other subjects. He began to gain self-confidence. He became sociable by joining several school organizations. With this, he became famous and started to have some kind of appeal towards the opposite sex.

He remembers the girl who caught his heart. At first, he heard from his classmates that this girl liked him. So, out of curiosity, he made a move towards this girl even though she has an on and off relationship with this handsome but stupid guy. He wondered why this girl is so famous and many boys have a crush on her. So, when he started to court her, he found out that her internal beauty makes so attractive. For him, she was just an ordinary girl who possesses a great smile and kind heart. He remembered that they always talking on the phone for more than 2 hours. Ryan will always give her 3 small chocolate bars (examples are those chocnut, goya chocolates bars and cloud 9). Debbie, the girl, usually appreciates this even though it only cost a peso at that time that was a big “pogi” points. She chose a song for them, “Too Many Walls” because she felt that there are many people tearing them apart. At first, those people were unsuccessful because of the puppy love enveloping the Debbie and Ryan’s hearts. They like each other so much that no one could ever break them up except themselves. Unfortunately, it did, Debbie began to dislike Ryan because he became boastful and over-confident with himself. Just after a few months they broke up. Ryan’s life was devastated at that time. He became thinner and duller because he couldn’t eat and sleep. He always thinks what he had done and what he should have done to stay with her.

After a few months, he recovered from love sickness or should we say infatuation sickness. He wondered if he should have just focused on the other girl, Chichi, instead. Chichi was his all time crush among his crushes because he began liking this girl since kindergarden. But on the fifth grade, she left the school and moved to another place far from the city where Ryan lives. In that year, before Ryan courted Debbie, he was beginning to make a move by going to her house (which is near the school) after class. He remembers the days when they were playing “piko”. He imagines her smile, her red lips, her fair skin, her red ribbon. He sighed and asked himself, why he didn’t write her a letter to see how she is? Now, it was too late. Ryan came to know that she is already married. At this moment, there is nothing he can do. He wonders what if he followed her and confessed his feelings.

When he went to high school, he continued to pursue the profound feeling of tender affection for or intense attraction to another person of the opposite sex *. He tried to change to a better person, to be a humble person instead a boastful person that people hates. Every year he always meets someone special. To please this special person, he always starts to give her love letters and then gifts (usually stuff toy) on special occasions. Most of the time, it never last because there are no communications and no connections. It was just an infatuation. But there was this girl that he will never forget. Her name is Jean, a typical girl with beauty and brains. She has a beautiful smile and eyes that will melt you down if you see it. She is a girl who possesses a strong charm and appeal towards boys. She can dance and shake her booty very well. One day, he asked her to go to the creek in school. His intention is to ask her to the prom but without knowing, he confessed his feelings for her. He touched her so that he can see her beautiful face. He tickled her to make her smile. He looked to her charming eyes to see some answers. She just smiled but Ryan didn’t know what was going to her mind.

After that, things have changed. Jean began to avoid Ryan. She felt uneasiness every time he approaches her. She rejected him when he asked her to dance in the prom and Christmas party.

At this point, Ryan stopped thinking. He doesn’t want to remember the unhappy days. He closes his eyes for a minute and thinks nothing. Suddenly, he heard a voice…and then 2, 3 or 4 more voices. Some are saying “you should start as friends first”. Some whispered, “You should always be there for her, be confident and be yourself”. Some said, “You must get into her comfort zone first before you confess”. I listened to them but I forget. That’s what Ryan told himself. With a sudden outburst, he punched his bed and prayed to God, “Why people that I loved most, don’t love me back. Why is it hard to find that someone who will make your life colorful? My life is so boring. What I am going to do. Please give me some directions. Please…please please give me a guardian angel. Thanks.”

[A Story] Ch. 3 Ryan in SGW91580

Ryan just arrived in SGW91580 via a jumbo rocket plane along with other 1500 passengers. It only took him 1 hour to travel this 6,000-mile journey. Upon getting to the airport, Ryan was amazed of what he saw. The airport is full of robots assisting the incoming and outgoing passengers. Non-citizens are inserting their passports and bag tags in the slot while undergoing security checks. After a few seconds, passengers will be cleared from the security checks and can immediately get his passport from the slot on the opposite end. On the other hand, citizens just pass thru the security checks without inserting any kind of passports. A few meters away from the security checkpoint are the baggage claim. Ryan was surprised on the way they handle all bags and luggages. All of the luggages have been sorted and grouped according to the passenger by the speedy, small robots. All you can do is to recognize your bags and pick it up. Ryan noticed that some of the bags walk away by itself after he heard snapping of fingers. To his amazement, he curiously asked one of the citizens who just snapped his fingers to call his baggages. Ryan asked: “How come the bags approached you by itself?” The guy answered: “I have a small chip inside my middle finger. If I snap my fingers, a sonic sound will be sent to the bags and decode the identification number of the source. If the bag’s ID number is the same as mine, it will try to find the source by searching the nearby human beings who have the same ID number”. “It is very fascinating. Your country is very advance and wonderful!” Ryan replied.

Ryan proceeds to his hotel. He will be staying for one week in a 3-star hotel. Upon his arrival, he looked up and tried to count how many floors there is. He went to the receptionist. The receptionist asked me to wear a funky sunglass. After some time, a bright light appeared from the sunglass. The receptionist gave me another sunglass but this time it is dark blue, the one before is dark red. At first, he hesitated to wear the dark blue sunglass because his vision becomes blurry. The receptionist told him, it is normal and he should wear the blue sunglass so that his vision will become clearer again. So, he followed the girl’s suggestion and to his surprise, he can see the charming smile of the receptionist again. The girl said: “Your room number is 88-7205. Just look to the two holes in front of the door and it will open for you. Have a pleasant evening sir”.

So, he went to the elevator to go to his room. When he entered the elevator, a recorded voice was played. “Please fasten your elevator belt”. So, Ryan fastens the elevator belts, one for each side, in his body. Then, he pressed the 88 button and an engine-sound was played. Ryan gets scared but he just closed his eyes. In several seconds, the elevator stopped and the voice said, “Flat Number 88”. Ryan removed the belts and search for his room. Just near the elevator, there is a mini-kiosk to search for the rooms. So, Ryan used it and a small compass appeared from the slot. The small compass is talking to the right directions. “Face to your right….go straight …. Turn to the left … go straight…. Turn to the right and stop on the 2nd room”. The compass speaks again, “You have reached room number 88-7205”. Ryan threw the compass in the slot near the door and followed what the receptionist told him to open the door.

The room is very clean but a little bit cozy and narrow. There is only 1 small table, 1 cabinet, 1 small bed tube, 1 small toilet. It is around 25 sq ft. Ryan noticed several buttons in the touch screen monitor. He saw that it is a food menu. He is already hungry so he ordered a pizza. The screen prompted him to enter the size of the pizza, flavor. In 5 seconds, a pizza appeared in the food slot. He also ordered vitamin soda which has similar taste with Pepsi.

Before he sleeps, he was looking outside thru his room’s window. He was thinking what would be his life in the future. Would he able to cope up and adjust accordingly? Would he find the one that he is looking for his life? Would he find happiness? How his life will spin around in the new world?

[A Story] Ch. 2 - SGW91580 The New World

SGW91580 is a small country which has the most advance science and technology. In this country, you can see several bullet trains without a driver. Almost every town and city in the country has a train station. However, nowadays, these trains are becoming obsolete because of the new rainbow catapult transport system.

This rainbow catapult will shrink you to become a light particle so that human beings can travel at the speed of light. In a few seconds, you will reach your destination. Once you reached your destination, you will return to your original size. It is very convenient because you can easily remember what sub-light highway you need to take. To go to a place which is near to the any of the 7 major cities namely R, O, Y, G, B, I, V, you must take the either Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo or Violet tube and touch the place in the mini-LCD screen where you want to go. Almost all of the places in SGW91580 are accessible by the rainbow catapult except those military installations, prisons and other secure locations. If the place has a lot of opaque buildings, it will take several seconds to reach the place.

Aside from technology advancement, science in the country has achieved great breakthroughs such as genetic engineering. The country had been creating cute and furry pets (called Mojackos) that brighten the day of any human being owner. These pets have been invented in order to help eliminate stress of the owner as well as the people close to the owner. Statistics shows that 99.99% of Mojacko owners have been performing very well in their work and don’t show any signs of stress in everyday life. Another great breakthrough is the discovery of the cure of AIDS. Several group of scientists discovered that the plants growing in the planet Xesevol contains elements that can destroy the AIDS viruses. So far, 90% of the AIDS carriers in the country have been cured while the rest have showed unexpected complications such as unlimited sex drive. Some of them become impotent. Scientists are still researching the factors that resulted to these complications. Previous experiments on dogs and selected human beings don’t show these complications after taking the cure.

[A Story]: Ch. 1 - Ryan Sullivan

[A Story]: Ch. 1: Ryan Sullivan

Once upon a time, there is a young guy named Ryan who is always serious about everything he does. He is an I.T. professional who have been working with a consulting firm for more than 5 years now. He established a good reputation in his company because of his hardwork and good performance. He always delivers high quality software enhancements that resulted to excellent satisfaction from the customers. He receives praises from his boss from time to time. He received several awards and recognition from his company. Nevertheless, he remains humble and always looks back from where he was before.

However, Ryan is not satisfied with his career. He feels that he needs to move on to fulfill his dreams. He believes that by leaving the firm, something will change on him, emotionally, financially and spiritually. He has faith that somewhere outside his mother country, there is a place where he could be the happiest man on earth. So, he went to Tekenisiosus to start and make his destiny.

The Birds Return

I woke up early today. I am bit surprise on myself because usually on Mondays, it is hard to get away from my bed. So, I started preparing myself to go to work. I went out early to catch the bus. But when I looked down on my pants…holy sh*t…the birds attacked me again…damn it… I can’t go back to change my clothes so I went to the nearest toilet which is 5 minutes away. After I cleaned my pants, I remembered Mr. Bean who dried his clothes on the hand dryer. So, I lifted my right leg so that the warm air can reach my pants. But I have to leave immediately because someone could have seen me and I need to catch the bus. So, I went out from the toilet while covering my right leg and it’s so ironic, the bus is already leaving while I was 200m away. Grrrrr!!

I just hope that today, something will happen to cheer me up. I wish I won the lottery yesterday…hehe.. Oh well, at least I have time to create a blog today… no much tasks today…hehe…

Bday 2K6

Sep 15 na naman, ilang taon na lang 30 na ako....waaahhhh!! :p My day wasn't that bad. I started the morning waking up late... (because I didn't sleep well last night...I think someone is thinking of me...haha). As a result, my eyes are hurting...until now... Lucky for me, I don't have much work to do today... So, I went off early from the office and I went to Orchard... How I wish that someone is with me to have fun but I decided to be alone... (wala loner pa din ako...hehe). Neway, I quite enjoyed the night because I saw a lot of beautiful views including sports car...(dami dun sa may scotts road...didn't notice the hotel because the cars caught my eyes). I just hope that this coming year, my life will be much happier. :)

Birthday Greeting Statistics:

SMS: 18
Email: 2
IM: 2
Phone Call: 1
Pasabi greeting: 2

How to Get There?

Yeah ... our place is located in the small town of Singapore called Pasir (pronounce as pasay..hehe) Ris. To go to our place, I suggest you just take MRT and alight in Pasir Ris station. Then, go to the bus interchange and take bus service no 354. (WARNING: Be patient! Sometimes you have to wait for a long time before bus 354 arrives... kainis grrr!!

Then, alight on the 2nd bus stop, opposite of downtown east in Pasir Ris Cl (I just found that Cl means Close... kasi nga dead end sha..so close na yung road).

From this bus stop, you can see this beautiful condo.... ooooppps.... not yet... that's not our place.




So just go inside the Jalan Loyang Besar road (along the side of Loyang Garden condo shown above). Just keep on walking to the forrest ..don't look to the right baka may makita kau...hehehe... It will take you around 5-7 minutes before reaching our place.




You can see this signboard and just tell the guard (either si Mario o si Luigi..hehe...mababait nyan mga guwardiyang yan) that you will be partying with the most handsome guy in Sandy Palm condo...They know already... :p