Does that title make you cringe with all the cheese in it? LOL! I’ll try my best to keep this short, okay?

Since who-knows-when, I have always wanted to be a barista. There is something about that role that instigates so much curiosity and awe put together. I had such high regard for baristas that even managed to write an ethnography on them with my college best friend. As I learned more about their responsibilities, it was slowly engraved in my mental to-be (not to-do) list.

So a couple of years after writing that A- (woe to those grammatical errors we failed to double-check during crunch time) paper and fresh out of college, I applied and landed my dream job! Bam!

June 14, 2005 was my first day inside Starbucks G4…yes THAT branch. Amidst all the chaos of the “rush” of post-lunch customers outside, I was silently working on written exercises at the backroom. A couple of hours later the “closers” started to arrive and punch their timecards. Then this tall guy in khaki shorts and white (or was it black?) logo-shirt with glasses and a #2 cut came in and greeted the two of us new hires. He was all “Pare, kumusta?” and his usual quasi-politician persona. I learned three things about this guy on that day. He’s from the OTHER school, he loves basketball and his name is RANDY.

This is NOT the Daily Offering design that I will refer to if you read further…

Naturally, the “school” topic came up when he learned where I studied. And honestly, at the very moment I found out where he graduated, I knew we were going to get along quite well. The getting-to-know-you stuff (at least from my part) halted when them boys started to talk about basketball. Despite bagging the 2004 title, the Lakers (”his team”) never made it to the finals that year. So I totally forgot what they were talking about exactly.

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It all started with Freya’s tweet which reminded me of that song by Arkarna back in the 90’s. So I replied with the succeeding line of lyrics without knowing I was in for a surprise the next day.

I was like “Seriously? Totoo ba ‘to?” But I replied with an RT (twitter lingo: ReTweet. It’s like forwarding a tweet) anyway. What the heck db? Thinking that was it, I put the thought to rest but lookie here…

(Don’t be confused by the time in the “header” of the photos. I captured this screen before the first one in this post)

For real?

Notice that I still replied?

Hahahaha!

Is this a semi-starstruck moment because I do not know how to make out of it?

As in? D nga?

(Sa atu-a lang ni ha. Pero mao ra jud na akong nahibal-an na tugtog nila. Ayaw saba.)

/*Kung ninanais mong maunawaan ang pangungusap sa ibabaw, i-way-em mo ako*/

LOL!

If you see me take out my wallet, you might think “Wow! Ang kapal ng wallet! Daming pera!”

Sorry…hindi eh.

It’s actually full of receipts!

Cab.

Starbucks.

MAC.

Bread Talk.

Etc.

Etc.

Etc.

That’s one of my bad habits - stashing receipts into my wallet or my bag’s pocket. Thereby creating a mini-basurahan that I carry around wherever I go.

I wish these receipts can transform into actual money! Hahahah!

I’ll sleep now and this might just come true in my dreams!

I exercised yesterday and I will continue to do so in the succeeding days.

Yey!

Good job, me!

I’ve been dragging my lazy ass the past week. Tamaditis has hit me BIG TIME!

Yesterday, I looked at the mirror and noticed that my face seemed to have widened. Yikes! Can’t even get a decent picture without my double-chin. Hmph!

I love food but I also need to be healthy. I do not wish to have a body like a model. I just do not want to get tired easily with simple activities such as going up the overpass. (I know, right?)

I’ve had enough of this. I will exercise today. Mark my word!

Randy asked me “How come you don’t blog anymore?”

This is for you, Babe..

Photo by Mitch dc

Hahahahah!

OMG my face! Hahahahaha!

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When will camera inventors come up with a camera with wi-fi or 3G network kaya? (talagang “inventors” ang term noh?)

Wala lang.

OA noh? As if kulang pa ang teknolohiya ngayon.

Sometimes kasi I take funny pictures of people I know and I want to blog about it agad. I can take the photo through my phone naman and blog about it but the quality will not capture the moment. *naks*

Or maybe, I can buy a network adapter that I can just plug in to Holly Golightly. I’ll just look for a wi-fi zone and upload the shots to Flickr. But there is no such thing naman dba?

Whatevs.

Back to work!

I just need to share this.

Itago na lang natin sa pangalang “boytoy” (by request nya yan kasi feel nya eh! Hahahah!)

Cel: date != relationship
Cel: geekness
Boytoy: ang geek mo Cel!
Boytoy: kelangan tatak ko yun sa isip ko
Boytoy: date != relationship
Cel: ang alin?
Cel: isa ka pa eh
Cel: geek ka rin
Boytoy: nagiisip na ko ng mga if statements ngayon
Cel: ewwww
Boytoy: may naisip na ako
Boytoy: pero di ko na ipopost dito
Boytoy: nakakahawa geekness mo Cel
Boytoy: arggh
Cel: if (girl = pretty ) AND (girl != taken) { date = ‘YES’ }
Cel: else { date = ‘NO’ }
Boytoy: pwede pwede
Boytoy: anong program ba ginagawa natin
Cel: java
Boytoy: gawan natin ng class
Cel: public static void main(String[] args)
Cel: kadiri ka Boytoy!!
Cel: ang geek mo!
Boytoy: class BoytoysFutureGf extends Girl
Boytoy: tanggalin ko na implements throwable kasi ayokong magthrow
Boytoy: ;p
Boytoy: potek ayoko na isipin
Cel: dapat pala meron ganito…
Cel: System.out.println(”Hi, my name is Boytoy”)
Boytoy: wala kang delimiter
Boytoy: fail yan
Cel: sorry naman
Cel: System.out.println(”Hi, my name is Boytoy”);
Cel ewww
Boytoy: eww Cel
Cel: ibblog ko ‘to! pero i will hide your identity
Cel: ano gusto mo psydoname?
Boytoy: itago mo na lang ako sa pangalang [insert-spam-attracting-name]
Boytoy: or Boytoy

NOTE: I removed all the “Hahahah,” “Wahahaha” and “Hehehehe” …There are just too many of those.

I bet Weng knows who this is already! Hahahahaha!

For Cel’s future reference

How to go to a line number in UNIX when using less

Option used

-N or –LINE-NUMBERS
Causes a line number to be displayed at the beginning
of each line in the display.

Syntax:

less -N filename
:N###

where ### is the line number

Example:
go to line number 999,999 of file today1.txt

less -N today1.txt
:N999999

Waaaaaaaaah!! I’m sooo happy I know how to do this now! The downside? It can take a lot of time since it will scroll from the beginning of the file. I guess I can go to the end of the file first. I will have to try that some other time.

Geekness!