Tomorrow is Feb 14…

Some of you who might think that Valentine’s Day is nothing more than a commercial event might not bother to do something with your Significant Other. Well, that or you do something not so commercial… But as one of my friends has SMSed me, it is one of the days in the year that you have an excuse to be mushy. Well, whatever – in case you plan to do something about it tomorrow, you better hurry!
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I was surprised when my friend Carl told me that they sell salad at 7-11. I haven’t seen any branches that did until the other night. I asked and found out that a pack of salad is Php 50. Well, at least there’s garden salad within reach when I want sort of fresh veggies in the middle of the day.

* I saw that in the 7-11 branch along Valero, the one near Chatham House.

Fastfood branches here in Makati have been open 24 hours. Take for example the KFC branch along Leviste (near Valero, Rufino) and some Jollibee branches along Ayala.

I guess that there are more and more people who work over time or there are just so many call centers here in the Makati CBD that there has to be places wherein people could go eat, aside from the usual Ministop or 7-11 meals. I recall my friend who called me up at home one time and told me that he usually has dinner at 9am these days but he did tell me of people who would have shifts that end maybe in the middle of the night.

There have been nights that I stayed really late in the office and I am sure glad that KFC was open then. It would have been so bad for my stomach if I still waited to get home before eating dinner.

This is the commuters’ dilemma : the dependence on whatever public transport has to offer.

And this morning, on my way to work, the shuttle I was riding had a flat tire. I was late for work because of that. It took a while before another shuttle from the same terminal passed by to rescue from distress. The dilemma was terrible because we were in one of those inner roads from North Caloocan to Quezon City.

Oh well, thank God for mobile phones though=) If not for mobile phones we would have been stuck there for a longer period.

FEBRUARY 13: MONDAY
06:00 No Fairmit, No Rally
Featuring Sugarfree, Kitchie Nadal, Brownman Revival, Radioactive Sago Project, Giniling Festival, Up Dharma Down, Stonefree, Indio Eye, Reggae Mistress, Lokal Grounation, Mobster Manila, Opressed, Woodland, Humble Sauce, Nail Polish, Dayhike, Soapdish, Cheese, Greyhoundz, Kapatid

FEBRUARY 14: TUESDAY
06:00 Love is in the Air: No Fairmit, No Rally
Featuring Orange and Lemons, Moonstar88, Kamikazee, Blue Ketchup, Hale, Sugarfree, Brownman Revival, Imago, 6CycleMind, Pedicab, Itchyworms, Giniling Festival

FEBRUARY 15: WEDNESDAY
06:00 POP-fiesta: No Fairmit, No Rally
Featuring Cheese, Kamikazee, Moonstar 88, Parokya ni Edgar, Brownman Revival, Kjwan, Queso, 18th issue, The Youth, Mayonnaise, Itchyworms, Soapdish, Typecast, Valley of Chrome, Agape, Kampai, Aizo, Tsuper Trios,
Balaraw ni Miguel, Nimb, Naima, Frustrated Valentine, Cashmere, Concrete Sam, Tio Pilo, Candy Audio Line, Tether, Apollo Creed, Guilty by Cause, Dystopia, Monkshood, Giniling Festival

FEBRUARY 16: THURSDAY
06:00 Sisfire4: No Fairmit, No Rally
Featuring Bamboo, Hale, Cueshe, Spongecola, Kitchie Nadal, Barbie Almabis, Cheese, Sugarfree, 6 Cycle Mind, Dicta License, Pupil, Kwjan, Mojofly, Callalily, Milk N’ Honey, Protein Shake, Blue Ketchup, The Brew, Aizo, Butterfiner, K8screw, Blazing Bulalakaw, Los Chupacabras, Delayed, Blistrata, The Brockas, Lady Bedspacer

FEBRUARY 17: FRIDAY
06:00 SchizoFAIRnia II: No Fairmit, No Rally
Featuring Parokya ni Edgar, Bamboo, Kitchie Nadal, Hale and Rivermaya

FEBRUARY 18: SATURDAY
06:00 CPR: Calibrated Pinoy Rock
Featuring Matilda, Kamikaze, Karatula, The Jerks, Imago, Brownman Revival, Machinegun, Giniling Festival, Radio Active Sago Project, Datus Tribe, Juan Dela Cruz Band, Kiko Machine, Parokya ni Edgar, The Wuds, Up Dharma Down, UP Underground Music Community Bands, UP Music Circle Bands, College of Fine Arts Bands, College
of Music Bands

Apparently, ABC 5 loves endorsing Kris Aquino and her product endorsements! I’m currently watching the PBA finals between Purefoods (Go Purefoods!) and Red Bull and every single commercial break seems like a Kris Aquino moment.

Jeepneys to cut fares by P.50 starting Feb. 10 .

SOME 40,000 jeepneys in Metro Manila will cut fares by 50 centavos from Feb. 10 to 17 to offer the public some form of relief amid increasing commodity prices, according to transport groups and the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB).

The question is, will ALL the drivers of the participating groups actually follow this?

Details on the discount, here: Inq7.net

If you were one of those people who used to rush home on weekdays to catch the Chinovela Meteor Garden, this might interest you: QTV 11 is now airing the series Mars, starring Vic Zhou and Barbie Xu. It’s on during weekdays from 7:30 to 8 in the evening. The pilot episode was just shown tonight (Monday), so it’s not yet too late for you to get into the story.

Just a bit of warning though: this one’s darker than Meteor Garden. For example, the Barbie Xu character is being sexually harassed by a professor.

But on the upside, Vic, who was on the skinny side in MG, seems to have buffed up! He’s looking pretty hot in the series, if I do say so myself.

Pinoy Big Brother Celebrity Edition, which was postponed last night due to the ULTRA incident, will have its premiere tonight at 9 pm. According to Star, here is the list* of the newest housemates:

• Budoy Marabiles – lead singer of Cebu-based reggae-band Junior Kilat

• Rudy Fernandez – one-legged tri-athlete
• Gretchen Malalad – three-time SEA Games gold medalist and Bb. Pilipinas ‘03 contestant
• Mich Dulce – a fashionista, lead singer and specialty store owner
• Rico Robles – “heart-throb DJ” from Monster Radio RX 93.1 and also a “registered nurse, rapper, producer, frustrated boxer, poet and an architect for change” according to this news article
• Aleck Bovick – sexy star
• Keanna Reeves – sexy starlet
• John Prats – as if you don’t already know him :P
• Zanjoe Marudo – Bench model
• Rustom Padilla – uhhhh…he looks scary. What “daily workout” is this article talking about???
• Roxanne Barcelo – “divang kolehiyala” – (eeek, we went to the same high school then..) she went off to MC
• Bianca Gonzales – MUB/Y-Speak host (and my favorite celeb blogger just because she’s so passionate about it)
• Christian Vasquez – certified Papa (as in Pa/pop/daddy/father!)
• Angela Calina – Cebuana TV host

*I’m just not sure how accurate this list is. :P Apparently, it is. :D (Thanks Yen!)

The news report is shocking. There are bodies lying everywhere and people just gawking. Why aren’t they bringing it to the hospitals or morgues? There are enough ambulances just standing by to move the bodies.

More people are even coming to the area including the relatives of those who may have died. Apparently the game show “Wowowee” is celebrating its anniversary.

Television network ABS-CBN is asking people not to come to the area but instead call 4152272 at local 5911 or 5323 to inquire about family members.