What is THIS? Some Kind of SICK JOKE?

This post is an emotional mess

I realized the reason why I didn't read a book only after FIVE years and during a funeral wake. a tear jearking epiphany.

Fate has a funny way of getting back at you like a sick joke.

• "That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays."

2003 the first job I had was at a small allied medical studies school I met a philosophy teacher who told me to read "Tuesdays with Morrie" a book by Mitch Albom, it recounted the story of a Dying teacher and his relationship with students.

I didn't read the book of course, knowing my anti sell out attitude I would always go for the one less popular I do not follow the trend, I set the trend.

2004 I saw a newly released book of Mitch Albom, "The Five People You Meet in Heaven", I planned to read it since then but I never had it in me to even go beyond the first page.

Every year I would have an electronic copy and promise to read it but I just couldn't read it. I wouldn't call myself lazy because I read a more than four books a month. Three of them would be of apathetic technical books.

Five years later at the funeral of my second mother I searched my old hard drive for something to read over night, there is was like a treasure stashed away just for me to find... "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" beside it another book "Freakonomics", I choose Freakonomics at first copied it to my multimedia device for reading, turns out I placed the other book instead.

I would like to contradict myself for not being lazy a few paragraphs back... I am too lazy to get Freakonomics and just settled for "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" a book I wasn't able to read for five years.

FIVE PEOPLE... FIVE YEARS.

A FUNERAL... A Book about the afterlife

The symbolism just keeps piling up.

"The story begins at the end, when Eddie dies from an accident"

He meets five people, recounting five memories that made a meaning to his life... this is Heaven.

The main character limps like my Mamang

his father died of pneumonia like my Mamang

his wife had a brain tumor like my Mamang

the past owner of the the place he worked at met her rich husband in a bar just like my Mamang

"One withers, another grows."

I read everyday since the start of the wake... I read anywhere I can... the last day I was reading it at the fourth day of the wake at a ride to work tears automatically flowed I don't care anymore of those people around me, I just wished mamang was in a better place.

At worked choking at every word I say a student went to me and said "Sir was what you wrote on your blog about having a brain tumor true? Because I also have one"


"All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you." Eddie was skeptical. His fists stayed clenched. "What?" he said. "That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind."

AMA Computer College is now part of the Kamote Empire

Kamote gave a Linux Seminar to AMA Computer College, hope they learned a lot and got their money's worth because I sure had a great time. Sorry for the much delayed upload of the pictures... three months delayed...

Bad News I Have a Tumor in my Brain... Good News is I have a Brain After All

(This sketch was done by a neuro surgeon as to describe to me the tumor, since I cannot afford a CT Scan I just scanned the paper that he threw away)

Neuro Surgeon: (Christmas is coming and I need cash to get three more cars which I won't use). We have three ways of going through this:

1. One! We give meds and wait as you suffer an unbearable pain in the head like a thousand needles sticking in and out. Banging on any surface harder than your skull won't help. The advantage is it's cheap and quick depending if you are a pessimist or an optimist. No pain no gain as they say.

2. We go with a $50,000 brain surgery (YES! MONEY!) but there won't be any guarantee that it would do any good, you could even end up worst than what you are now. I play around your brain hoping to remove the tumor. If in case I opened you up and see that the tumor has grown tentacles as in what I drew then I'll stop and put the piece of your head back to what it was, are you crazy? I'm a neuro surgeon not a miracle giver. But in my opinion (cash registry sound) this is the best option, I would give you a 60 - 70% chance. BUT considering you have only one kidney, you have diabetes, you have hypertension and pneumonia... I'd say by the time we put the general anesthesia... your off to a better place. BUT then again its worth a shot (KA-CHINNGGGGG).

3. Number three option is we give you a $100,000 neuro radiation. Its expensive but we won't open your brain, instead we nuke it. There is only one place in the Philippines they have this facility and its VERY VERY VERY far from here. It won't remove the tumor but it will stop it from growing. In a sense it is an absolute waste of your money, why not go with the operation (KA-CHINNGGGG).

(YOU have been warned)

Family Portrait

Happy Family (Their smiles and the baby is the cutest thing)

Mr. and Mrs. Tobi with their future world dominator offspring Tobi Chan

I Perfectly Understand

I swallow hard because I perfectly understand
I bite my lip to try to stop it from shaking
The teeth have broken the skin
And the blood tastes cold to me
I Used to Hold my Breath Just to hear you sleep

I must admit I saw it coming,
The air between us had gotten harder yet to breathe.
I'd run away if I could help it,
But I can't remember to forget your face

I recent your smile

take this paring knife,
and thrust it deep, so deep into my side.
And be sure,
when you draw it from my skin,
that my eyes, they meet yours,
and you grin.

Let's toast.
Pour one last drink to us.
Make mine one part tonic,
two parts poison.
And be sure,
when the glass falls from my lips,
that my eyes, they meet yours,
and you grin.

Just what do you have planned
for what is left?
Take whatever you need.

Oohhh A Sparkling Vegetarian Vampire

(New Moon at SM Pampanga, Oh Edward show me those Fangs of yours, the better to eat me with)

"Today, my girlfriend dumped me proclaiming she wanted someone more like her "Edward". I asked her who Edward was. She held up a copy her "Twilight" book. She was talking about a fictional vampire."

Here is a bit of a shocker that even Mooch doesn't know, "I DONATE TO CHARITY EVERY MONTH FOR AS LONG AS I COULD REMEMBER" (everyone is awed). I donate to different charities as much as I can and I always put it as anonymous.

Here's another shocker, "I READ THE TWILIGHT SAGA AND... (wait for it...) I WATCHED TWILIGHT THRICE LEGALLY". (everyone's jaw droppped)

Twilight is a good literature and that is all there is to it. The books were a good entertainment. . I wouldn't say that it was a classic nor a great book, it is a modern Romeo and Juliet with fangs and vegetarian vampires, I still don't know what I learned from the books.

It is not well written but very easy to understand that is why though accidentally teenagers were the majority of the audience. A closer understanding of the book and you would realize that it is not about vampires but about two people who are completely different but love each other and don't give a damn of what other people think.

In Twilight Bella came out of nowhere and annoying, I read the next 20 pages describing how cold hearted Jacob was, and another 40 - 50 or so describing how handsome Edward was. That description went on and on until I transformed into a glittering vampire myself. New Moon, new vampires yey, big wolves yey. Then on Breaking Dawn it went on talking about the baby from page one to page whatever. Uhuh I read literature and I understand why this book is a coping aid for confused pubescent girls.

The movie wasn't as a landmark as you would expect It did had some good parts like the diea of a family vampire trying not to eat Bella and trying to live normal(?) lives, it was hilarious (I think I'm the only one thinks Twilight the movie is under the Comedy Section). Then the piggy back ride up in the trees, that was a scene to behold. Too bad a lot of trees died in the printing of the books, tsk tsk tsk.

On the other hand it turned out to be a populist tripe which takes stalking to the next level (so stalking and staring at someone sleeping IS ROMANTIC), it glorifies domestic abuse (I will make you suffer LIKE MEEEHHHHH GAAHHHHH), and redefines pedophilia (age never did matter even if you are a hundred years older or so, or seventeen years to a one year old).

I am not anti-Twilight, I am pro-Literature

Ganbatte Moochi

Akatsuki Rules the National ICT Summit 2009

(Akatsuki inTraining Sgt. Keroro, Tobi, Zetsu)

Novermber 6, 2009 Akatsuki Rules the National ICT Summit 2009

Champion - Tobi
1st Runner Up - Sgt. Keroro
2nd Runner Up - Naruto

Heaviest Costume award - Akatsuki Zetsu


LOLS Zetsu Cannot teleport to the front because he is dehydrated (my favorite picture in the event)

Zetsu Serious because his plant might fall if he smiles

Akatsuki will Rule the World

Creation of the Zetsu Fly Trap

Kamote Keroro

Ma'am Shame Keroro

Akatsuki in Training Sgt. Keroro Kamote

Plant Head

Dress Rehearsal for their first ever Cosplay Competition

Chris and Kamote meets a random half naked man

Leader of the Wood Tribe

Untold Love Triangle of Malakas, Kamote, and Maganda

Olongapo's Finest Graphic Artist

Childrens Party Fun at the Van

Zetsu with his relatives

Akatsuki and Naruto are buddies

Mr. and Mrs. Tobi with their baby Chibi Tobi

Akatsuki with Johnny Revilla from "Tayong Dalawa"

The Battle Begins

Naruto kicks Akatsuki Butt

LOLS (my favorite picture in the event)

I lost my lunch

Congratulations Team Gordon College