paolo berdin

traumatized
5.31.2007

i have just experienced one of the most traumatic incidents in my life.

my family and i had dinner at that binugoy restaurant in mabolo since my tita honey wanted
to eat filipino food in a, well, "binugoy" manner before she goes back to the states
tomorrow.

my tita noticed this man in a pink polo shirt who kept on staring at my mom, but didn't
actually think of it as unusual since "grace gets that a lot," she said.

all of a sudden, i hear my mother scream, see her stand from her chair and run after a man
in pink who was running away with my mother's bag in his hands. everyone also started to
run after the thief - the gay guys beside us who started screaming in swardspeak, the
waitresses who tried to hit the man with their order slips, the "standbys" and of course,
the "bugoys". it was amazing, really. even people who didn't know what happened joined
running and all the cars stopped and stared. my mother got hysterical and cried (imagine,
her rolex and almost 40,000 pesos were in that bag). the thief should be tied to a post,
coated with sugar, and be fed to red ants for making my mother cry and then burn in hell
for being the fucking thief that he is.

the culprit was caught and beat up - serves him right - and brought inside a police car.
everyone was trying to hit him - there was this guy with a huge piece of wood who used it
to poke the bastard, and best among the rest, my tita picked up this huge rock from the
ground and hit the thief's head with it.

the thief must've had a little experience in theft since he dropped my mom's bag even
before he got out of the restaurant - he probably panicked because the gay guys screamed
sooooo loud.

right this very moment, my mom is at the police station. she called and said that the thief is still 21 years old and askin for forgiveness, but no one falls for that shit anymore. too bad.

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seventeen
5.30.2007

i'm already seventeen and 2 days old.

i used to dread turning seventeen. there's just nothing special about it, you know? sixteen is neither too young nor too old. eighteen means beling legal. but so far, it's been fun, which really isn't saying much since it's only been two days.

i went to the beach with my friends to celebrate my birthday last monday.. and contrary to how i thought it'd turn out, it was great. it was probably the best day of my summer. see, that was the first time i ever celebrated my birthday. i used to have this fear that no one would show up and i'd just get disappointed (that "this is my party and i can cry if i want to" or however that song goes then plys nonstop in my head). but everyone came - or at least ALMOST everyone.

so i started that day by waking up at 4:30 in the morning because it rained. i prayed for it to stop, even. you should also know that i went to church last saturday and lit 5 candles for a disaster-free birthday. but the rain did stop, thank god, although we could've used more sunlight. anyway, i picked up some of my friends and we headed for the beach. people arrived and arrived and arrived and we had lunch and drank and danced and drank and swam and drank some more. rico passed out, oh yes he did. looking at him made me feel afraid - he looked like a dead body and since the alcohol in my system started kicking in, i couldn't stop asking everyone i saw "what's wrong with rico? is he gonna be okay? is it my fault". that's what you get for guzzling a bottle of tanduay, which rico did, ladies and gentlemen!

i don't know what else to say, words cannot express how thankful i am.. HAHA no, i'm kidding. but really, it was so much fun. thanks to everyone who came. it's about time i say that i have the best bunch of friends. i love how everyone loves me. and again, i'm kidding.

(click the photo above for more pictures)

it was gia's debut last sunday at the parklane hotel. i'm looking for the english equivalent of "bongga" because that's the only way i can describe it. grand? amazing? wowowee? AND the fact that i danced to that "kembot" song made it so much better. hahaha. (that was half a joke)

pictures here.

i'll end here. i have to go put medicine on the cut on my foot. it's killing me. it's red and green and pink and i can't walk because of it. tsk, maybe i shouldn't have drank too much alcohol. hmmmmmmmmmmm.

5:29 PM
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sad
5.26.2007

my cousin marla's grandfather passed away last thursday.

even though he wasn't my grandpa, i feel terrible. i hate it when old people die, especially since he was always so nice and happy and generous and his voice was so little (which isn't exactly a good quality but i found it to be nice haha) and during those days when we used to go to bohol a lot, we'd go to his big-ass fishpond and eat crabs and fish and all sorts of seafood and steal candy and go fishing.

most of my family is going to bohol on the 28th for the funeral, but i can't since that day's my birthday. i REALLY want to, though. it's been years since i've last been there (next time will probably when marla and her family get back here).

..and it's unbelievable but bohol ran out of flowers and people had to order from cebu. that's how amazing a person margarito lim, sr. was.

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abandon ship
5.24.2007

keira knightley, johnny depp, orlando bloom + chow yeun fat all in the same movie = pirates of the caribbean 3: at world's end. "what could be better?" you think.

a lot of things, that's for sure, like the first movie or a glass of iced tea on a ridiculously hot summer day.

don't get me wrong - i'm not saying i didn't like it (because that would be a terrible lie), but it just wasn't BIG enough, you know? lots of useless parts, and some of them cheesy. sam and i even felt sleepy, and nobody's supposed to feel sleepy watching just the most awaited pirate movie ever.

but wait! let me talk about the trailers first. there was one for the 4th harry potter movie, "the oreder of the phoenix", which i am going to watch on the day it comes out NO MATTER WHAT. there was also "meet the robinsons" (an animated movie set in the future - and all of a sudden i'm starting to miss the jetsons ), "ratatouille" (another animated film about a rat who says the only thing that's keeping him from getting good food is the danger that's in it), and "underdog" or something like that (a dog superhero - how ummm interesting).

so where was i? oh yeah, about "pirates 3". chow yeun fat and his men aren't chinese, they're singaporean. i couldn't stop laughing at calypso and all her facial expressions and how she'd always suddenly appear and say something in all wisdom and mystery. also, since i was not contented with the movie, i want to make you feel awful and spoil it for you! do not read the spoiler that comes next! will turner (bloom) and elizabeth (knightley) get married in the while clashing swords with their enemies (complete with a slow-mo kiss, which made me wonder why no one attacked them while they were locking lips). then then, will is stabbed in the chest! but he does not die because jack sparrow (depp) makes him stab that big ugly heart that belonged to mister octopusface.

come to think of it, that spoiler wasn't that bad, huh? but anyway, here's something nice to know: wait until the credits to end for a tiny surprise (thanks to aiess for telling us).

8:23 PM
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bored in ayala
5.21.2007

hello. i'm in netopia ayala right now. alone. i was with my friends just a few minutes ago because we were supposed to watch shrek 3. we were late for the 3:40 screening so they decided to watch the one at 5:10 instead and i wasn't able to join them since it's my stepdad's birthday and we're having dinner in an hour.

so i'm talking to my mother on the phone, who is telling me about the weddings fashion show last night at marco polo, about how she met philip rodriguez (who she used to model for) again after many, many years and how he still remembers her and where she used to live ("ang ang, ilado biyah kaayo ka sa una dai"). someone please magically appear in front of me and save me.

DING! (bell sound haha) i just remembered this conversation between my little brother and i.

me: mik, do you remember how you destroyed my disposable camera years ago?
miko: really? how?
me: you put it in the water
miko: in deep water?
me: di uy! sa bat-room gud!
miko: what? bat-room? bat-room or bathroom?
me: *silence*

check this out, The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–2000. i've only read about 7 and a half of the books on the list, which makes me feel that there's so much i've missed out on. i need new books! it's a week until my birthday so you know, just in case you feel generous, you know what to get me.

talking about books, the last one i read was "'tis" by frank mccourt (of "angela's ashes" fame) and i finished it about 3 weeks ago.

i hate not having anything to read, i get this feeling that i haven't been using my brain right.

5:35 PM
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lola golfer
5.20.2007

i was at country club yesterday afternoon for my cousins lara and kayla's birthday party, and i found this:

just in case you're wondering how this is connected to me, lita b. trinidad is my grandmother. after she won 5 times straight, all the other lady golfers had a meeting and decided that none of them would join the next tournament if my lola would be playing in it because they were sure that she'd win. so yeah, she was inducted into the hall of fame because of that.

maybe i should get myself into golf. HAHA.

3:15 PM
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late, late summer
5.16.2007

my summer classes end tomorrow and thinking about it makes me feel great.. probably the best i've felt in a while. i haven't been doing well, though, especially at chemistry. awful awful. and a friend told me that another friend told her that "wa koy klaro and walay future" (nursing-wise) because when they look at me, it looks like i don't care about school at all. *positive feeling turns negative*

i DO care about getting good grades even though i want to act as though i couldn't care less about nursing. the main reason why i do not want to fail is not because i actually want to finish this course, but because i don't want people to think that i'm dumb (because i'm not HAHA). but whatever.

it was mitz's debut last saturday. i hosted it with pedro, and contrary to what he put in his blog that i was there simply as his buffer, i was there as his co-host AND buffer. there's a difference, ok?

(click photo for more pictures)

moving on, there has been a sudden sprout of friends on billboards lately. there's kris for maco, jiggy and triszha for blue camp, and mitz for city sports. and oh oh my little brother's doing something for metro. HAHA.

i don't know what else to talk about, so i'll end here.

6:17 PM
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ninety
5.08.2007

my grandfather turned 90 last sunday.

(lolo, tina, me, tita honey and lara)

happy birthday to the epitome of health, my lolo didoy.

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