Optional Holiday!

Sunday, August 28, being the last Sunday of the month, is National Heroes Day. And in line with this, Press Secretary Bunye clarified last Friday that Monday August 29 (today) would not be a holiday. Along came Saturday, and Executive Secretary Ermita announces that the President has decided that Monday would be a holiday. This statement in itself was not a pronouncement as the official announcement would come later. Sunday, the Office of the President decides to release the announcement that there would be no classes in public and private schools, as well as government offices. There would be work in private companies. Monday morning and I think they did this just to muddy, perplex and confuse an already confused citizenry, they qualify that it is optional. And the morning hasn't fully started yet, and they have a rejoinder that if it isn't too late to announce, then the private companies can call it a holiday.

Now I ask, is the President just PMSing or does she have Alzheimer's?

--andoy
29 August 2005

Mag'irgo Tamoyna Nin Binubolinao

Mag'irgo Tamoyna Nin Binubolinao

And the Bolinao website has its own blog site, too!

--andoy
22 August 2005

A Bolinao Website

This website is still under construction and is being created and maintained by Josue Castellano.

If all goes well and if the support is there, this should become a great resource for the Bolinao language.

--andoy
22 August 2005

[SHARE] the day you said goodnight, by Hale

The Day You Said Goodnight
by Hale

Take me as you are
Push me off the road
The sadness, I need this time to be with you
I'm freezing in the sun
I'm burning in the rain
The silence I'm screaming
Calling out your name

And I do
Reside in your light
Put out the fire with me and find
Yeah, you lose the side of your circles
That's what I'll do if we say goodbye

To be is all I got to be
And all that I see
And all that I need this time
To me the life you gave me
The day you said goodnight

The calmness in your face
That I see through the night
The warmth of your light is pressing onto us
You didn't ask me why
I never would have known
Oblivion is falling down

If you could only know me like your prayers at night
Then everything between you and me will be alright

She's already taken
She's already taken
She's already taken me
The day you said goodnight

-=0=-

This is quite popular these days. And I catch myself humming or singing snippets of the song. Keeps on running round and round my head. Must be the blue skies and dark rain type of weather that we're having. Downer.

Good song though.

--andoy
9 August 2005

Sick Leave

I was absent yesterday. Several times I woke up in the middle of the night, coughing hard because I couldn't breath. And when morning came, my body hurt, I had sore throat, no voice, thick phlegm in my throat. I could have gone to work, but since we'll be very busy the next month or so, I thought, WTF, I'd go on a one-day leave, get some rest, get better, and hopefully don't get a relapse when I go back Wednesday.

Maybe I need to move my things to another location, the airconditioner always goes full blast pointing at my back. And the thick (anorak) jacket doesn't help. I think I'm going to have the flu.

--andoy
3 August 2005