Quitting Nicotine Addiction

       This article is not intended to help people quit smoking, but for those who just care to know about this story of me and cigarettes' long history. 

I have embedded one of the best anti-smoking campaign

 video I have ever seen so far. In the intention of promoting

 a smoke free society (I am Shooting at the moon).

       I started smoking at an age of 14, my parents probably know or maybe they don't, we did not argue about this thing, except when I was around 28 and they somehow started to worry about the quantity of sticks I take per day, that I heard them telling me about it. I have an unconfirmed mental disorder but no I am not crazy, I never really complained about it, my parents were too occupied with working for our living and I did not dare bother to add up to the burden. When I was in grade school I had noticed an overactive mind, experiencing insomnia-like problem, never had no medical confirmation of what this problem is, I did not feel a threat of having it, except the annoyance of not being able to sleep at the right time, and so I just let it be. This disorder have had some noticeable effect which some people may have noticed starting back in my high school days. Whenever I am hyper or excited, in which my mind is overactive, I tend to speak too fast that almost no one can understand what I am saying and it would sound funny. That was one noticeable effect, it was not much of a problem, the problem I find hard to overcome was when I needed to study. My mind cannot absorb everything I try to study about, it happened almost every time I would go review for exams. It was tiring to read a 5 page chapter, and try to keep them in your head, when your head is thinking of so many things. I remember having this review in a history subject in which during that time the thought of how to make a dynamo-driven mini-boat go faster. I failed that exam I blacked out during the test and remember the answers right after I submitted my paper. 

Falling In-love at Thirty

A 30th Birthday Special -  A No Photo Break: There will be no photographs on this one, so it's up to its readers to picture it out. 

Why are you single? or those similar questions that I have answered sarcastically, answers which I will not mention in here. Those questions that were mean for some time until you get used to it and find that egoistic courage to respond to these questions of finding that love in your life.

Single

I was out of it for the past 5 years or around that time, but did try to break it along the way. Though nothing seems to just have worked, never did I gave up and just  kept looking and anxiously hoped for the best. I had noticed my standards seem to be in proportion with my age, as I grow older which I mostly deny for the same period of time as being single, the demand for finding an awesome personality for a partner in life has grown way high that it makes it harder to find a desired one. I'm not sure why, if I was asked three times of the same question in different times at around three months interval I would probably have three different answers but can't really be sure. Answers that come into my mind is that I wanted someone better from the last one, maybe to be able to move on in a good way. Another reason maybe is the fact that I waited long enough, therefore she has to b better, and lastly, I had thought that my remaining time on earth is shorter than that of five years ago, and so I have to make up for those lost years and find the best of them all, and hopefully that she be the last. But whatever reason my subconsciousness has is not that much of a big deal, It's the heart that requires attention and the way I feel it, my heart agrees to my brains so why ask questions? It may be a big leap but I was ambitious in the first place, so things are normal, my brain is still in place.

Kabul Nights: A strange feeling (A year in the making)

Started Oct. 20, 2011 at around 11pm in one of the Rooftop in a Mansion in Wazir Akhbar Khan, Kabul, Afghanistan

Eleven degrees Celsius at around 11pm

The moon's at it's half shape not much illumination

Wind is blowing from the east

It's good to be back to my senses. 

Yes I must be, or maybe not

This bottle of whiskey's getting into my head

But that's a different story 

My chest still feels heavy.

I for once can be categorized to gifted if not genius

But then that I doubt, It was just my confidence.

It was tiring having to prove something

Even as everyone knows it's not something.

Summer Destinations 2010 - Stop Caramoan

"There is no place like home.." that is Caramoan for me. First Trip: Town Fiesta I had made a promise to a friend who is working abroad, that when she got back to the Philippines, we will go to the beach, and satisfy our need for Lakwatsa (wandering around), our first plan was to go to Boracay, but my early commitments made it hard for it to fit in my schedule, so I thought of finding alternative ways to fulfill that during my vacations, to insert some stops that would cater my promise to her, and that leads to stopping by Caramoan. My old neigborhood-barangay in the province of Camarines Sur, shared the same district as Caramoan, and also almost the same feast day, as Caramoan is just a day late. So I had made up my mind to add Caramoan in my Homecoming-fiesta vacation, a few weeks before the feast day, I have already told Let about it and she agreed, and there started the plan. We needed a place to stay, but since we'll be there during the feast day, accommodation sure had become easy, I asked Camia, a college friend, local of Caramoan, if she'll be going home for the fiesta, and she said yes, so I asked her right away if she can accommodate us, kind hearted as she is, no was not in her vocabulary. I am pretty thick-faced of a friend, almost shameless, which I realized after she said yes. Who cares really, we are good friends anyway, funny thoughts of mine. Thinking that it would be boring if there were few people for this trip I have also asked Nacky and Joy if they wanted to come and join us, and they never had second thought, the Yes comes right after they checked availability of their schedule, I already mentioned being thick-faced so I am bringing some more people, to make the most out of it. May 8, the town's feast day, a day after I have spent all day of drinking from our own barangay's feast day, and 2 days before the country's national election, was also our first day of the trip. Harry is the Name (Getting there, take One) We all agreed to meet in Naga. Me, Nacky & Joy, and Let and her friend. From Naga we took a FilCab Express ride that is Naga - Sabang bound trip. The van ride took about an hour and a half before we reach sabang port, the van's terminal is just a few step off the shore. It was my first time to go there, and a lot of other firsts. One of which is boarding the 70-seater locally made boat, Harry is the name, via man-carry, yes, literally man-carried-manner. The boat ride took about 2 hours, we left at almost 9am, although it was a 2-hour trip, It doesn't feel that long as Harry showed us the fantastic views of the peninsula's coastline, as well the fine little island of Aguirangan along the way, together with the gentle sea winds, and before youknew it, you'll be able to spot the pier of Guijalo, or Guijalo port, then touchdown mainland Caramoan. From there, we hired a tricycle going to town proper, where our host-friend lives.

Summer Destination 2010 - Stop CME

Summer starts early for the likes of me, when a scorching sun touches my skin, I would start to get hyped off of Water. As early as March plans were already set, destinations named, But the nearest is the priority. Me and my officemates have so many destinations discussed when we started talking about going out during the summer, but we opted to chose the nearest, since there are factors we have to consider, including the ease of access to the destination, that end us up with Club Manila East in Taytay, Rizal. We also have chosen a date most suited to everyone in the office so that most of us will be able to attend if not all, we also invited some ex-officemates to join us but ended up having only one shows up.