Archive for 'Failures'

Flu. Aftermath and Apologies

I’ve recently just gotten around to pulling up from a very bad case of flu that hit me before the weekend. I’m not totally well yet and, in fact, my head feels like a Fairview billiard hall on happy hour:  ten 9-ball matches being played by obstreperous construction workers replete with the drunken merriment that [...]

Sup, Soap

Friends, I have a confession to make: for close to five days now, I have been coming in to work without taking a proper shower. Now, before you judge me, let me clarify: It’s not that I don’t shower shower, it’s just that recently, I’ve ran out of bath soap and I’ve pretty much exclusively [...]

Getting in the way of poop

I’ve been working in the office building I’m currently working in for almost three years now, and over that period of time, I have pretty much lifted the entire fog of war in the immediate neighborhood as far as restrooms I can comfortably take a crap in is concerned. So far, I have: The restroom [...]

Engagement Post-mortem: Lessons

Two weeks ago, if you haven’t heard already, I got engaged to my long-time best friend and girlfriend for almost two years, Maffy. What I can tell you right now is the euphoria one feels right after one gets engaged gets washed away just as quickly with the stress and pressures of wedding talks and [...]

Ugh! Kids nowadays!

Last week, I along with a couple of friends from the office went to this bar in the Ortigas Home Depot complex to de-stress and pop a few bottles. I’m not going to regale you with a colorful account of how we got a good buzz going, exchanged lame jokes about midgets and threw 80′s [...]