CAREFUL AT TERRACES
POSTED AT 09:33 PM

budzter

or wherever, since it could happen anywhere.


After grocery shopping, mom and I decided to go to Gelatisimo for ice cream. We were sitting outside and we were the only ones there until this kid sits one table away from us. I made a comment about how he looked too yagit to be sitting there.


Then this man walks up to us holding a book that looked like a Bible. He was right next to our table and I thought he was gonna solicit or whatever, I was about to tell him off when he dropped the book and bended to pick it up, then walked away. My mom and I were like "what was that about?!". When we turned, my mom's bag (Coach which my brother brought as pasalubong from the US) was gone.

My mom was getting frantic. Our first impulse was to run after the man, but he wasn't holding anything, so it couldn't have been him. My mom started going "KAKITA MO UG NI AGI DIRI? KAKITA MO SA AKONG BAG"... No one saw anything. Then this guy in plain clothes comes running out of Ayala's entrance. My mom was still getting frantic when this guard and another guy in civilian clothes approach us holding a kid with a backpack. My mom goes on about her bag and all. The guy in civilian clothes told us to follow him to the security office.

My mom's bag was in the kid's backpack.
The kid said he was 16 years old.
The kid had nothing on him, not even an ID or money or whatever.

The guards told us they caught him only seconds after he got the bag. According to him there were 7 of them, but they ran after the one with the backpack. He said he noticed them come in and was automatically suspicious since there have been several incidents of theft in the Terraces area.

Apparently, putting up a distraction is part of their "system". This time it was a book. Other times, the old man dropped a bunch of coins, etc.

We brought the kid to Mabolo Police Station and filed a case against him. But if he really IS 16 years old then he's a minor, and since the crime was minor too, he'd be out in a couple of weeks. Apparently that's really how they work -- they get minors to be the last to hold the stuff they steal since minors can't go to jail.

So yun, that's how they work. Careful, people!


Buti na lang the guards at Ayala were more attentive this time. But this kid was just one of them. One of their pawns. Who knows exactly how many there are.

POSTED AT 08:06 PM

budzter

dayumn, haven't written here in the longest time, huh.

 

 

well i've been kinda lost anyway. but here's what i've been upto:

 

March 26- blue roast.

March 28- graduation

March 30-April 19- Inumans, packing the condo up, hanging out with cousins and friends and relatives and embassy interview.........

April 20- left for spain

May 25- got back from spain

May 26-now- BUMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

yeah, i have not done anything productive for one whole month. i'm hoping to get to do some more traveling but dayemn my family for being so malabo.

 

my current goal is to find a business venture that would make me a millionaire by 24.

why by 24? cause i wanna get an MBA abroad. and it's gonna be hellllaaaaexpensive. and i dunwanna ask my parents for tuition money for that anymore.

why business venture? because i can't work. seriously. if i get a desk job i'll end up fatter, drunker, and depressed. with a damaged spine too (i have physical manifestations of stress- the back of my neck hurts like hell and my spine just stiffens).

 

 

POSTED AT 06:52 PM

budzter

i'm on major panic mode.  No. you can't possibly understand.

 

 

Pressure's to the top of my head...

 

worried and i'm not sure if it's within reason.

 

 

going psycho...

 

 

bring out the beer. I'd rather be drunk than go back to this.

couple o' hours before theo and what are we doing?
POSTED AT 12:13 AM

budzter

NAMES have been  "changed" to protect the identity of the psycho persons involved. bold fonts are mine. ahaha

 

 

J: for only $1.99 you can avail of an instant boyfriend brought to you by...
d: ahahahahhaahaahhahaha

d: j i love it
d: 1.99
d: dapat ano
d: 49.99
J: haha
J: pwede din
d: you heeeaaard it right floks
J: 49.99
d: folks
J: and there's more
d: 49.99
d: but wait
J: if you call now
d: there's more
d: if you call within the next 15 minute
d: s
J: that's 555-i-want-bf-now
c: i love it!!
d: not only will you get an instant boyfriend
d: you'll get a box of free frenzy condoms
J: haha
d: you can never go wrong, with frenzy condoms
 
J: hahaha
d: fine print in the add
d: "since they're free, some may be factory rejects"
c: are u serious???
c: hahaha
d: of course not
c: aral na tayyoooooo
J: aral na kayo
c: pero inaantok na ako haha
J: bukas na ako aralll
d: 15 minutes
d: pwede??? 
J: 15 minutes aral?
J: pwedeng pwede
d: nooo
d: 15 minutes of this
d: and then aral
J: haha
d: can i just like
d: drain out
d: all the water from my brain

J: 15 minutes of aral. then this ok lang din
d: so you know
d: i get to keep the solid, working parts
J: lol
J: paano kung nadrain with  the water yung solid parts
d: then i'm screwed

when you haven't been going to class...
POSTED AT 02:41 AM

budzter

you have lines like...

 

"WAIT! long test na pala bukas???"

 

while reading your email.. wahah.

 

 

 

thesis defense is DONE DONE DONE!!!! i love you paul!!!!!!!!!  

Thesis sabawness
POSTED AT 12:17 AM

budzter

chill latini:
chill latini: kaya yan
chill latini: haha
di blanco: hmmmn
di blanco: favor
di blanco: download mo yung jeopardy tone
di blanco: yung
di blanco: dum dum dum dum dum dum
di blanco: ay teka
di blanco: walang tono yun 
di blanco: =)
chill latini: onga eh
chill latini: hahaha
di blanco: ANG TANGAAA KOOOOO

 

_____

paul cheng: then dun sa sinend mo sakin, I just add in the biblio that one book, patients and healers... wala na?
di blanco: huh
di blanco: may isa ba
di blanco: pa
di blanco: yung mamae
di blanco: babae
paul cheng: mamae--haha, natawa ako dun

 

harrrrumph
POSTED AT 11:22 AM

budzter

Break Break Break.

 

Creative energy flows when i'm angry.

 

I'm not writing.

 

I'm not angry.

 

 

YEY.

 

 

Hmn.

 

Dec 20 - Inuman at Cantina. Anj, Uzz, Dainiel, MM, Ja, RJ.

            - Anj sleepover. RJ nakitulog. Gen and Krista making Thesis

              Chapter2

 

Dec 21 - Philo class. Head home. Condo chaos.

 

Dec 22 - bum.

 

Dec 23 - Last minute shopping.

 

Dec 24 - Lunch with Blanco side, dinner with Veloso side family.

 

Dec 25 - Lunch with mom's bestfriend, dinner with dad

 

Dec 26 - All afternoon at mom's cousin's house.

 

Dec 27 - head for Leyte

            - overnight at the farm

 

Dec 28 - Sims ALL DAY

 

Dec 29 - Sims all day

            - inuman with high school friends at night

 

Dec 30 - All day at the farm

            - Head for Cebu at night

 

Dec 31 - Spa with mom.

 

Jan 1 - day with dad

 

Jan 2 - bum.

 

 

4 days to go! i miss my car.

 

will prolly look for new sidemirror for Car tomorrow. yey.

 

 

saying goodbye to emo & psycho - ness.
POSTED AT 03:45 AM

budzter

 

Thanks, friends, for virtually holding my hand while crossing that sort of feat. Your help and advice helped me a lot.

 

Most of all, thanks MITCH! Your words woke me up, cuz. Thanks.

 

 

The words that hurt the most are the ones that slap you back to reality. hahaha. I LOVE IT when things like these happen. 

POSTED AT 11:46 PM

budzter

Eco majors talking about ...

 

Di: Kasi it's bad financial management to put all your investment in one asset. You can only do that when you're 100% sure about the ROI. Pero so far it looks as though negative ROI ako with this guy, kaya might as well withdraw.

 

Gen: So may Capital Flight siya ngayon? His own version of Asian Financial Crisis? Pero yung investment thing depends on whether you're risk averse or not.