The night is cold. The sea breeze strongly blows. The pitch black sky is decorated with a golden yellow moon and silver stars.

I am on the shore. Lying on a thin blanket of green and red. The blanket seems to flow – like the waves in the sea – as it is blown by the wind. The moon shines on the blanket reminding me of the good old Christmas.

I see two shooting stars. I bother not to make a wish. I have been tired of making one for my old wishes never came true.

I pull out a cigarette, instead. Light it as soon as it touches my mouth. And enjoy the comfort it gives.

I saw this hilarious picture in Friendster through my high school friend, Jasper. In the picture are Melvin, Jayson aka Wiwi, me aka boy palaboy and Joseph(L-R). Not in the picture are Jasper – probably the one who took the picture, Jason and Omar. Yup, we call ourselves the Magnificent 7.

This really made me laugh.

I have been silent.

I have been busy.

I have been sleeping early.

Chill!

Early this month, my brother passed the ECE Board Exam. Today, it’s my sister’s turn. She has just passed the Licensure Exam for Teachers.

How can I not be proud of them?

See the results here.

For the past month I’ve been checking the exam results section of the Philippine Daily Inquirer to see if my sister passed the Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET). She took the exam last September 28. That is more than a moth ago. And yes, I’m starting to get pissed off. Why should it take that long? How come the result of my brother’s ECE Board Exam last October was released way earlier than the LET. Isn’t it illogical? Are they checking it manually? How pathetic!

On a lighter note, I’ve been thinking of ways on how to make profit out of these Board Exam results. This is how:

I will put up a website with a very simple interface. It will have a banner which says

Get the Board Exam Results by Text Message Alert Sent Directly to Your Cell Phone.

And some details

Why check the newspaper or the internet each day to see if the board exam result is already out? Now you can have it sent directly to your cell phone via text message alerts!

Cell phone service providers include: Smart, Globe, Sun Cellular, TalknText, and Touch Mobile.

Users can enroll their mobile phones together with the board exam code and the name of the examinee they want to check. Once registered, users will receive confirmation. They will need to reply back to validate that they are the same person who transacted online.

Users can also register via cellphone. It would be something like

Type “BRDEXMRSLT Boar Exam Code <space> Examinee”  and send to 666.

I’m just not sure if there’s already a service like this in the Philippines.

When you ask for a favor from someone and get an unfavorable response, would you still say “thank you?”

My answer would definitely be “yes.”

But for some people – the kapalmuks – saying “thank you” is just a waste of time.

I have two separate encounters with two different people just this month. The most recent was just this morning. Kapal ng mukha. Sarap i-umpog sa pader. Badtrip.