See? I Told You, Taglish-ing is Stupid
Gwapo, ‘no? Pero wala naman siyang konek sa post na ito.
Hindi ko alam kung ano pumasok sa kukote ko para mag-Tagalog sa blog post na ito. Matagal-tagal na rin akong hindi nakakapaglathala ng tribute post ukol sa pagdiriwang ng Buwan ng Wika. Tingin ko kasi halos lahat ng mga bloggers na nag-i-Ingles ay nananagalog kapag birthday ni Quezon. Nakakawala tuloy ng ganang magtype. Kaso nung mga panahong ‘yon, tinamad lang talaga ‘yung utak kong i-operate ang sarili niya. In short, nagbulate-bulatehan lang ako’t kuno ay busy sa aking thesis dahil mas abala ako na ibalandra sa madla ang aking mga taghiyawat sa mga mag-aaral ng KabSU. Hindi ko na pinost ang tungkol dun dahil masyado nang high ang buong pamantasan noon nang nanalo ako ng laptop sa Eat Bulaga. Continue reading ‘See? I Told You, Taglish-ing is Stupid’
S2PID Analysis of our (Formerly Unpaid) Meralco Bill [PART 1]
I wrote this very long post last Thursday at 1:45 am. I was really having a hard time sleeping until I found this green dusty notebook under my bed (yeah, like it was so dark and then I just felt like putting my arm underneath my bed and boom! I started writing with a candlelight and two mosquito coils beside me.) For the record, it’s been a while since I last had an article handwritten. My girly handwriting missed my notebook so much.
Issues about the government’s plans on taking over Meralco, in my opinion, are something I’m really scared of. Perhaps their scrutiny on the out-of-this-world charges of Meralco to us (or technically to my mom, for that matter) consumers may have rang the bell. But as I see it, it’s the government, along the corporation’s shareholders and other unlikely people trying to squeeze in, who has kept on allowing such ridiculous policies to be implemented. In the upcoming days, or it might have been predicted earlier as expected with the media buzz around, it’s another numbers game for the administration of this electricity monopoly.
Having said that, the options that the votes should be contending are both atrocious. The Lopezes and the Arroyo government. Choosing between the devil and the deep blue sea. But if the people are to be asked who they will entrust the unprogressive overcharging fate of Meralco, with the popularity of Hana Kimi and Piolo Pascual I guess you already figured.
Yeah whatever. I just couldn’t sleep so without knowing how long my candlestick will last, using a pen I stole from Theresa Pangilinan (hehehe) I dribbled and scribbled on this notebook (hi notebook… miss you).
Apparently I don’t have much intellect to ponder much about the takeover ish. What I’m gonna do now is something Kuya, my mom, and I were babbling within the darkness of our home a while ago (umm yeah, I think we talked about this and I distorted the facts). Everyone is sleeping already when I came home (after Internet-ing on the other side of our block to… well… argue with someone—LOL). What was I talking about?
Umm, I was looking at our electric bill (with the disconnection notice—unstapled and in effect) and tried to evaluate (using just our awkward selves) how Meralco was brutally gluttonous enough to charge us a whopping Php 1221.05 that eventually led to our disconnection (har-har-har… buti’t malamig ngayong madaling araw) of our power supply to our (1) desktop PC (2) a rarely opened TV (3) a small electric fan (4) a 50-pesos worth ceiling fan (5) a 3-ft fridge (6) a wireless flat iron (7) a rarest-than-rarely used component system (8) seven 10-watt CFL light bulbs, two of which are regularly lit for approx. 6 hours nightly.
DISCLAIMER: Please note that this stupid lambasting analysis of mine is completely biased. Any misinformation or false definition/misusage of the terms on the Meralco bill used by me (because they defined it according to their scientific hullabaloos) should be treated at your own risk. Any sarcasm that can be encountered on the course of reading is either unconsciously written while I was half-sleeping or that I’m just plainly sarcastic since the beginning of my writing here on this notebook I got from our employment seminar a year ago. Complete with message for Neil faggotry at the back. Wait, I should have deleted this part
GENERATION
Okay. I know very well that Meralco is (unfortunately the only one) supplying us electricity in the whole archipelago. And since they are the ones who generate electricity… oh wait, it’s NAPOCOR and… what was the other one? I dun care—isn’t it presumable that before anything that reaches our appliances has already undergone “due process”? So here’s the generation charge… where everything that has been processed from NAPOCOR and I don’t know what, paid whatever and all, is charged to us. And these equates to the kwH of our consumption. To begin with, it’s enough to pay everything. The effing note that my 0.4 point gel pen’s whining about is its share on the whole bill. Only half of everything? What are you thinking? Isn’t “Generation” enough to cover everything up?
Behind our bill is a rather broken down partition of the generation charge. And then my eyes went o_O after I read that… wait, you call this PowerAct deduction? For me, this Liliputian subtraction they call PowerAct is just stupid. Like me. As if a deduction of 9 pesos will help uplift my unemployed Dad’s morale because of a measly point something percent discount. And what’s this adjustment? Like they’re migrating to the US and had to adapt ourselves with the new environment? Wait… does Meralco have this big volume adjustment knob somewhere in Dasma? Gawd, I so wanna see if they are being charged by turning the know to “increase adjustment charge” or “decrease adjustment charge and augment the deducted amount somewhere within the bill unnoticed so it’s still a win for Team Meralco” option.
TRANSMISSION CHARGE
For what my gradually deteriorating neurons know, transmission is a noun (I’m not even sure about that… is it a preposition?) of bringing something from a source to its receiver, as if you’re delivering a pizza and then charging your customer two times the original price. Convenient transmission, eh?
SYSTEMS LOSS CHARGE
Ummm…. Wait a focking second…. Yeah I mean 3… 2… 1, err wait that’s three… anyway. (Erase Erase Erase). So you mean when we are having brownouts or something, you still farking charge us with a hundred farking bucks? Whatdafark is this Meralco/Lopezes/Wowowee? Isn’t it YOUR faut for having a crooked corporation setting up crooked electric connection with crooked services, crooked over charges and what have you? For crying out loud, Meralco. Don’t tell me your overcharged and other extra-curricular activities would not suffice everything if you farking brag to all of us. If you would have charged us with full honesty and sincerity, people of all ages would have paid you in full amounts instead of resorting to jumpers that you assessed a major hunch of your so-called “system loss”. Don’t even farking tell us that’s it’s our farking fault. Ferkrisessake, as if those wiretappers have brought one of your largest transformers and generators and whatever-you-call-them to farking smithereens. Ain’t you charging us your efforts to generate (GENERATION) electricity and then deliver (TRANSMISSION/DISTRIBUTION) it (SUPPLY) to us (METERING CHARGE)? With all these crap scattered all over our bills with ridiculous percentage distribution, I won’t ever buy your sheesh that you’re not having a fare share with us consumers. If you call it “nalulugi”, ano pa kaya kami? Dumudutdot ng kulangot sa putikan?
And I’m not done yet with my stupidity.
Not-so-well-written Insights about Dyesebel
Carlo J. Caparas’ “Dyesebel”, just so you know, is a Little Mermaid-y love story between an unknown business tycoon heiress named Marimar and an unknown heir to the dormant kingdom of Sapiro named Sergio Santibanez casted in an Ocean Park-like setting somewhere in the beautiful country of Pangasinan. You won’t see dancing mermaids in the series, by the way, and I absolutely have no clue how Joyce will manage to put these beautiful exotic hybrids to dance Chichiquita (pseudo) underwater.
Seriously though, Dyesebel is a follow-up of the renowned loveteam of the haphazardly-murdered Marimar (yeah, I still want to throw a big rock at Dode Cruz, whatever his name is spelled—fark), which fortunately skyrocketed its stars Marian Rivera and Dingdong Dantes into instant stardom. Yes, above all the inconsistencies and the godly impossible twists and turns of Marimar’s latter episodes for the sake of its extension (at talagang masama pa rin ang loob ko sa writer…. Hehehe)
Now for my cut.
In spite of the ridiculous editing and the ridiculous storyline where the first few episodes, or just simply everything were ridiculously fast paced and compressed and… okay, everything was rushed to begin with, I just enjoyed watching every episode of Dyesebel for reasons that cannot be supported by logic or common sense (*fanboy giggles).
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WHR
My webhost has been very generous to me for giving me adequate space and bandwidth when I needed it (until I reached the point where I was asking for more and nearly called it quits). I salute her for sharing her blessings to us bloggers. It took me a while before finding her to host my website. For the record, I absolutely had no idea how to build one and how to maintain it. Good thing she was so kind enough to explain to me the basics of web site building. Plus, looking for articles on the net and seeking help from my blog acquaintances contributed a lot to the success of my site.
That’s why articles like those on Webhostingrating.com really help neophytes in their search for the best and most affordable webhosting services available. Not only that they provide tutorials and tips, they might even point you elsewhere where the best web hosting security and the most affordable hosting services is.
boist hoist
This is kind of weird, but it is when we pay a visit to a relative in Manila that I’m able to see boats in real life. Well yeah, the images that I see in our reference books does not count in my exquisite enjoyment whenever I get close to a boat, small or large, and actually ride on it. The last time I rode on a boat was 5 years ago, in Baguio City. The feeling of your floor moving whenever you move is really fun while the rest of the clean, sometimes murky waters, deep waters all around you… like you are no where to escape.
But boist hoist (or boat hoist, pun intended), I can just imagine how it is really strenuous to lift a boat from one place to another, right? At this rate, sometimes you would actually need another boat, or more expensively build a deck or rent on a slot at a bay to move your boat out. For Marine TravelLift to provide the best equipment in terms of your boat transportation, I think it took them a long while to study everything in order to ensure boat owners on lifting their boats, eh?
