infinitepossibilities

the later part of 2006 was a pretty trying year for me. what with people insinuating that they’d stop at nothing to have me behind bars or to have me criminally indicted. plus, to see projects slipped out of my hands merely because clients pulled out is more than enough to cause me torment. that’s because it costs me the organization that i’ve fought with blood <literally> and sweat. but then again, i couldn’t fault clients to make such a rash decision. in fact, i take full responsibility as i relied so much in the goodness of people. haha, naive me still believe that people are innately good. as soon as that fateful day, i was tasked to report on the status of our projects. surprise, surprise… i learned that i was given misleading reports. i was confident that we’ll be able to pull off our impossible deadline. but voila… what were reported to me as done were in truth untouched. it still beats me how such a person dared to led me on when the person knows that the work involved is that which will provide bread on everyone’s table. lastly, which to me is the most grievous offense that DID IT all, was the atrocity done on the contents of our programs. or should i say, the "nonexistent contents." shocked was an understatement at what i uncovered when i opened our program and found that only few data were left intact. the rest of the items, which i religiously checked before and found to have indeed been done, were EMPTY. it couldn’t have been a bug in the program because there was a pattern in the missing data. imagine the surprise of the paid subscribers.

but let bygones be bygones.

acting on that and the idea that you could only be tormented if you give your consent to mental suffering, i chose to spend the rest of december in northern luzon together with L and L. yup, i capped the year away from home. late morning on december 25, i and two others hopped on the ship SF2 bound for manila. we arrived in manila a little over 3 in the afternoon the next day. we then proceeded to the victory liner bus terminal in pasay city to learn what we’re supposed to ride to get to sison, pangasinan for the wedding of L’s cousin. wanting a little taste of manila, the three of us checked in at the gran prix econotel right next to the terminal. after freshening up, we braved the streets of manila. hopped on a bus bound for <was it baclaran? i forgot> to get to sm mall of asia. haha, ignoramus us craved stepping inside the

biggest mall in the region. after an hour or two, we headed to the famous baywalk to grab dinner. the place was packed with people and it took us some time to find a spot and satisfy our growling stomachs. soon after we walked the stretch of roxas boulevard to head and see for ourselves if the luneta postcard is real <LOL!> true enough, there was good old joe. took some pix and headed straight in search of the famous walled city in intramuros. ping, it’s past 9:30 in the evening and yet we’re eager to set foot on intramuros soil. haha, we’re lost and couldn’t find the darn wall seen on the postcard. what we found instead was the manila cathedral and the impressive manila provincial capitol. persistent, we continued our search only to arrive at the fort’s exit. it was a consolation that intramuros has a quaint feel to it which left me with nothing but oh’s and ahs. but since it’s about 11 pm, we decided to give the search of the wall a rest. we got on a taxi to get to gran prix econotel, who bless the driver!, took the long route and we ended up seeing the night lights of makati. we checked out at 1 a.m. and took the baguio-bound victory liner bus to reach sison, pangasinan. [vet - dec. 25 am - dec. 27 1 a.m.]