The Last Mon Standing

according to some people i am an attention seeker… someone even dared to ask me if i have a KSP syndrome.. lol

but, should i be blame?

no…

certainly no…

then who’s to blame?

the people around me of course… (i daresay i acquired this attention seeking behavior from the people around me)

want a proof?

i am currently in my friend’s com shop… kuya kevin…

now, since i am enjoying a heavily discounted internet access, he asked me… or rather he requested, to post something that is dedicated only to him..

now, who am i to deny him of a little portion of my blog… hmm… a little "publicity" lol

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KEVIN PAUL GAROTE

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his friendster profile is not that informative so i’ll just give some brief information about him…

1. he is a computer something graduate.

2. he owns a com shop.

3. he is about 5"8′ or 5"9′.

4. he loves miss p.

5. he is 23 or 24 years old.

hmm…

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Kuya kevs is one of the few people in my school whom i can get along pretty well… he is a sooper-dee-duper down to earth type of person… he speaks mildly, (havent heard a single foul word from this man)… and… and… an attention seeker (he asked for this post, remember? he even instructed me to post his picture here)…

PS and would i ever forget that he once contended for MR. COLLEGE OF NURSING title in our school, too bad, he didnt made it though… lol

one time…. mug told me about a fortune teller online that supposedly predicted accurately that she’ll receive a huge sum of money that day, so she forced me to try it out… so i tried…

and i hate myself for doing so… the first letter that i received from her (sarah freder), she told me that something really really bad will happen to me… she said that it will change the course of my life forever… at first of course i was scared, but then, it turned out that she just wanted me to buy different amulets and… guess what… her own picture… man…she wanted me to buy her picture then put it in my wallet… according to her this will make us closer together…

from then on i receive incessant messages from her… and her most recent message was this..

check this out..

Dear Richmond,

I came across ! I have seen it !
Yes, I came at last upon the "REMEDY" you need !
Yes, I found the "Miracle Remedy", and I know it is going to be for you the solution to all your problems!

AND THIS MIRACLE REMEDY, I INTEND TO OFFER IT TO YOU AS A PRESENT

to be able to see her letter click here

i am playing a game with my classmate clarise… we were actually counting how many time our profiles here on friendster were viewed (LAST DECEMBER MY PROFILE WAS VIEWED 187 TIMES LAST JANUARY IT WAS 293)… the higher scorer wins…

to make the story short, as a strategy, (this give my friends a feeling of curiosity) and make them view my profile, i always post in the bulletin board how many times i was viewed…

today… one of the people on my list, KRISTINE was her name, posted this on bulletin..

Profile Viewed: 754 times since 02/01/06

that cannot be possible… clarise always receives five or six messages from unknown people and yet she has never win a game from me… (clarise is really pretty fyi).. that’s why i couldn’t believe it… is kristine cheating? i dunno… does she view her own profile? i cant tell… but 754 times, i daresay, that is impossible..

this kristine’s primary photo by the way..

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and this clarise’s other, not the primary,  photo..

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now the issue… who’s hotter?

FROM THE YAHOO NEWS

MANILA, Philippines - President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declared a state of emergency Friday, saying she had quashed a coup plot but that the Philippines still faced a "clear threat" from treasonous forces.

Clashes erupted as riot police used water cannons to disperse about 5,000 protesters defying a ban on rallying at a shrine to the 1986 revolt that toppled dictator Ferdinand Marcos.

Police then used truncheons and shields to roust a stone-throwing group trying to gather for a second protest. Several people were arrested; others were left bloodied.

Amid a massive security clampdown, the military barricaded its camps to keep troops from joining the demonstrations and detained an army general allegedly involved in the takeover plot. The military has played major roles in two popular uprisings and has a recent history of restiveness.

While she vowed she was in control, Arroyo clearly was worried about events getting out of control as her opponents tried to hijack events surrounding the 20th anniversary of the revolt against Marcos.

The commemorations were canceled, presidential spokesman Ignacio Bunye told a news conference, adding that the military has been ordered "to prevent and suppress lawless violence."

Many Filipinos see the four-day "people power" revolt on Feb. 25, 1986, as their country’s proudest moment.

Arroyo, who survived two earlier coup attempts, said her action was the result of ongoing efforts by the political opposition, along with both the extreme left and the extreme right, to bring down the elected government.

"I am declaring a state of emergency because of the clear threat to the nation," a defiant Arroyo said in a taped, nationally televised statement.

"This is my warning against those who threaten the government: the whole weight of the law will fall on your treason."

Appealing for calm, she claimed the military had quashed a coup plot by some military officers and their men. The military has played strong roles in the two "people power" revolts and has a recent history of restiveness.

"There were a few who tried to break from the armed forces chain of command, to fight the civilian government and establish a regime outside the constitution," Arroyo said. "We crushed this attempt."

She stopped short of declaring martial law, a sensitive issue as Marcosused it to rule by decree.

Her chief of staff said the declaration will not include a curfew but bans rallies, allows arrest without a warrant, permits the president to call in the military to intervene and lets her take over facilities — including media outlets — that may affect national security

MY COMMENT

are we really in to this again?

cmon… the philippine peso-dollar exchange rate last tuesday was 51.49 that was waaay better  than last year…

what i really mean is…

i am so against the coup attempt…

if we filipinos keep on doing this… the prosperity that we are all looking for would be just a figment of our imagination…

cant we just stop talking and start working together?

a new people power cannot do us any good… do you think the opposition willl let our vice president , noli de castro, to be the new president…? no… what is happening right now is pure politics… the essence of EDSA revolution is not in this one…

let us pray for our country..

GOD BLESS US!!!

they say that first love never dies… what i should say is, a great cheesey romance will always survive. it will live through the worst and most violent storms and calamities and even through the treacherous consequence of aging- that is forgetfulness…

hear my granny’s love story..

if you would ask me a single word to describe my garndmother, i should say the perfect word would be… VAIN. you cannot blame me if i describe her as that… since i grew up seeing her comb meticulously her long, coconut oiled, ashen hair and apply those baby powder on her face…

her long well-maintained hair, together with her white complexion and pointed nose (which she inherited, unfortunately we didnt,  from her spanish ancestors) were the only memories of the beauty that was replaced by her wrinkled skin and stooping figure… (and of course her teeth were still pearly white and complete)…

her beauty that she once bragged has since long been gone and so was her memory…

one time, she told us about her favorite son’s children… she told us that they were all girls but one… but actually, they were 7 boys and a girl…

alzheimer’s disease? hmm… i cannot tell you. my parents didnt have the chance to take her to a especialist, not that they tried… but even through her memory’s illness, sickness, ailment (i cannot find the proper word), she can still vividly retell her love story…

she said that her first love and boyfriend was not my grandfather. but because she is pretty, beautiful, gorgeous, sexy, alluring, goodlooking, cute, hot, and all the synonyms, she still had a lot of suitors. and one of these was my grandfather- julian.

she did not dare set her eyes upon any of these guys since she was deeply in love with her boyfriend..

my grandpa saw that he has no chance to win. but his burning passion finally took over him and made him make a very bold move…

since he was a rich man from way up morth in ilocos, he was not afraid to commit crimes.. that is how they are in ilocos, right?

no im not telling you that he murdered my granma’s boyfriend. he just kidnapped my grandmother.

YES HE DID!!

"by hook or by crook", this must have been my grandfather’s motto. he kidnapped my grandmother and ran with her to pangasinan, since my grandma didnt love him, he forced her to marry him in there…

she was devastated that day… she cried for her life… she wept for her love… and she mourned for her future…

but there was nothing she can do. my grandfather was a friend of the priest.  since she acquired the naive and helpless characteristics of old fashioned Filipina (it was the trend of her time… to be demure), she said yes, with a great sob, to him on their wedding day…

months passed, but her real boyfriend did not lose hope until he found her… he knocked on her door telling her this;

"iwanan mo na sya… kahit na may nangyari na sa inyo, tatanggapin pa rin kita.." ("leave him now… even if something has already happened between the two of you, i will still accept you with open arms..").

but my granny bitterly refused.. she claimed that she cannot allow herself to marry two men… (told’ya she’s old-fashioned).

and she again went back to her room to cry… and maybe curse my wretched grandfather (who i am so proud with).

she would tell us her most treasured story repetitively… whenever we sense that she is being upset or is losing her temper, we would ask her to tell her this… and she will be there recalling her uhm… romance to us with great gusto. her ancient face wil be then lit up by her warm smile.

we didnt dare ask her if she later on fell inlove with our grandfather…

the evidence is clear (she had a lot of children)… anyway, this was the only set of memory that she can accurately remember until she died at the age of 82…

"o ang pag ibig… pag nanasok sa puso ninuman, hahamakin ang lahat masunod ka lamang.."

now, she finally got what she was asking for… OUR PART TWO.

remember the girl who had "her first time with me"? well, she already got the sequel of the thing that she was really, really dying about…

as what you might remember (if you have been reading my blog since then), she told me the previous year how much she enjoyed our little adventure in the grocery store…

she told me how much i made her feel "so high" and how much she anticipates for the second time that we’re going to do it…

last january, she asked me that again… while we were shooting our supposedly midterm exam film documentary in philippine history…

she said, in her sooper-dee-dooper icy voice, "erm, have you finally made up your mind?" she shooked her eyelashes a couple or three times, then she gave me again that daring and almost suffocating smile..

but again, i was clueless..

"what are you talking about? i already made the script and it is final.." i insisted, thinking that she was talking about her script in the MTV that we’re doing. she is our VJ…

"no, not that one, silly" now she was talking in a sooper-dee-dooper exaggerated know-it-all voice.. she was talking as if that was the most obvious thing on earth, that i was too stupid that i didn’t even get her message..

"then what?" i asked, perplexed..

"well remember the first time when we…" she didn’t have to finish the sentence, i already know what she was talking about..

"no way", i said, remember the last time when we do it? man, everyone was talking about us… the shame.. the shame…"

" i was just actually wondering if we can do it again, you see, with these cameras and film paraphernalia, i am really thinking of taping us doing it…"

"WHAT?!" i screamed in disbelief… i know that she is always game and i proved it the last time when we’re in that store… but now… she wanted us to be taped.. "no way! are you insane..?"

"c’mon, just for today, anyway, our professor will be the only one who’s bound to watch our docu… don’t tell me you’re chicken… what did i say again? er.. CHICKEN?"

that’s it… NOBODY can call me a chicken…

so next thing i knew… the whole class was watching us… watching HER SECOND TIME WITH ME….

we just had our return demonstration about TESTICULAR SELF EXAMINATION and BREAST EXAMINATION… (purrrfect for the occassion (valentine’s), isn’t it? lol). boys and girls were paired to each other, after the boys do the testicular self examination, the girls will then take their turn to palpate the boys… then vice versa with the breast self examination, (joking) of course we didn’t do that… we used dummies… nevertheless, since i am now knowledgeable about the subject, i think i ought to teach them to you…

HOW TO DO THE TESTICULAR SELF EXAMINATION?

1. stand infront of the mirror… check for any swelling on the scrotal area…
2. examine each testicle… place the index and the middle fingers under the testicle with the thumb placed on top. roll the testicle gently.note the size, shape, and tenderness- DONT BE ALARMED IF ONE OF THE TESTICLES IS SLIGHTLY LARGER THAN THE OTHER- THIS IS NORMAL.
3. find the epididymis. dont mistake this as a suspicious lump. cancerous lumps are ussually found on the side of testicles but sometimes up on the front. lumps on the epididymis are not cancerous.
4. if you foind a lump, see a doctor. the abnormality could not be  cancer; it may just be an infection.

HOW ABOUT THE PENIS?
1. inspect the skin… if not yet circumcised, retract the foreskin. this is essential for the detection of chancres and carcinomas.
2. the glans- check for wounds or scars. pinch the tip if there are some discharges…
3. palpate the shaft of the penis between your thumb and first two fingers. note the tenderness
or indurations or swellings….

HOW TO DO THE BREAST SELF EXAMINATION?

1. do this one week after menstruation.
2.  in front of the mirror, with hands on the side, observe the skin color, size and symmetry of the breast.
3. raise arms then compare the changes… look for the shape, irregularities, wrinkles and inverted nipples…
4. perform the ways of palpstion
(a.) wedge-
palpate from top to the nipple then to the upper side part to the nipple, side to nipple, lower side to the nipple until you finish the process….
(b.) vertical-
palpate from the upper side nearest to your armpit then palpate downward, then upward then downward do this until you’re on your cleavage…
(c.) circular-
palpate the sides circularly(counter or clockwise)… then palpate a little bit nearer to the nipple… then a little bit nearer gain… until your done.
after doing all of these, press the nipple between the thumb and index finger for any discharges…
5. lie down and relax..
6. repeat the procedure… put  the trochanter at the back of the shoulder opposite the breast you are examing..
7. note for lumps..

THEY ARE NOW BOTH NOMINATED

last saturday night in pbb celeb edition, the first nominees for eviction was finally announced, and two of my 5 new bets (keanna, bianca, buduy, roxanne, rico) were nominated… please let’s help them

let’s help them

BB<space>Rico 

and send to to 2331 (Globe and Sun Cellular) or 231 (Smart, Talk N’ Text & Addict Mob) 

BB<space>Keanna 

and send to to 2331 (Globe and Sun Cellular) or 231 (Smart, Talk N’ Text & Addict Mob) 

A REGISTERED nurse, Rico Robles, 25, has chosen to become a radio jock instead. He has been with RX Radio for five years.

“Nursing is depressing,” he explained. “I like taking care of people, but I guess it’s not the right time yet. Teenagers are not really caring nowadays. But when my parents get old, I wanna take care of them.

“But right now, I’m making a life, not a living. I’m living my life.”

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BB<space>Keanna 

and send to to 2331 (Globe and Sun Cellular) or 231 (Smart, Talk N’ Text & Addict Mob) 

She has since become the face of prostituted women in the

Philippines

. The militant group Gabriela has taken her under its wings. Keanna became popular that she couldn’t go to malls without being hounded by people who wanted her autograph. Most of these autograph seekers were school girls, she said.

“They said they admired my courage. Finally, nagkaroon ako ng mga fans. Dati, wala lang. Kayod lang. Gustung-gusto ko mag-artista para makaahon sa kahirapan,” said this mother of two.