Pagalon man magisip marhay pa ang patal.

Mapagal ang buhay, klarado yan. Pero, nuarin pwede magtiklop na lang sana? Dae ka ogma, dae ka man mundo. Nasa tahaw ka sana. Minsan ma na pagmati. Bako ngani manhid, ta pagmanhid ka aram mo na mayo ka namamati. Iba ini: aram mo lang na mayo ka talaga namamati! Halat medyo maribong to ha. Basta. Maiintindihan nindo yan gabos pagnamatian mo na yan mayo na yan. Nabubuhay ka na lang ta nabubuhay ka. Ma ka sa taas. Ma ka sa baba. Nasa tahaw ka sana kang gabos. Masaen ka? Dae ka makasakat and syempre dae ka mo man gusto mahulog. Dae mo ngani aram kung masaen ka, lalo ng dae mo aram ang gusto mo.

Mapagal ang buhay. Mauli muna ko. Maisip pang lalo. Minsan, masmarhay pa siguro ang patal daeng gayo nagpaparaisip. Pati ang sobra patal ta malamang maski pagmati dae nya na naiintindihan o pirit na dae minamati.

Kasta ang buhay kasta ang buhay. Ok lang kudta yan kung yaon ka lamang kaso mayo. Mayo.

House of Ooops

We've come to that point again. The End. All things find theirs one way and the other, so one should just take it, eh? Leave it all behind as people treat their past and just move on, right? We aren't even talking about relationships and people here for we are talking about a TV show. It might not be popular, it might not get the ratings we wish but still it is OUR TV show.

House of Hoops, meet The End.

Sports Desk got the boot then Finish Line found the same fate (Heck, The World's Most Amazing Videos also flirted with a little bit of air time) but all of the above eventually hit the wall.

Is it the ratings, really? Is it even the quality of the show? (i say, doubtful. i challenge thee.) Is it other things that we, the production team have no control? i really don't know. i am even at a loss on their future plans (Them, meaning the bosses and powers-that-be) for this certain show. Of course, somewhere deep down the most basic basketball fan in me wishes that the show will make a return next season. The fact is the show is the only basketball authority on Philippine TV that is complete with highlights, news and features which of course is everything and anything under the NBA.

Vito Lazatin, Bobby Yan and Lia Cruz are some of the better (basketball) hosts as well. Yes, despite Vito's infatuation with Chris Webber, Bobby's bias with the Boston Celtics and Lia's seemingly childlike appearance, they DO know their basketball. And i'll just leave it at that.

House of Hoops airs its final episode tonight over ABC. And i still hope, final for THIS SEASON only. We will see.

Random Rants: Over the overwhelming weekend...

The weekend that was was overwhelming to say the least. In between depression and being down in the doldrums and a lot of other activities,it was interesting in a rather special way.

Mired in Mediocrity
Thursday night (my weekend starts with that day)... We lost out the "big game" in a very disappointing manner... Trailed by as much as 12 points for the first three quarters... Grabbed the lead with a little over 2 or 3 minutes... Lost the game* by 4 points... Meaning we are now out of the running for the Solar Antipolo Basketball League championship... Simply put, it... hurts. Despite holding the twice-to-beat advantage going into the semifinals match-up, we were dominated (one way or the other) in the series (From twice-to-beat to twice-beaten. Ouch.) and lost to the better team, which happened to be the defending champions...

All in all it was another disappointing (no better or more apt word) end to this conference. There's always next season (or conference) and the pessimist says mediocrity is awaiting my team once again. Play on... We'll be fucking racking up the L's next time but so what, we should be fucking playing once again. That is the good news.

*Stats: 1 point (0/5 FGs, 1/2 FTs) maybe 4 assists... 7 turnovers (pessimism settling in, am not sure if it is that exact number... Nonetheless...)

Random Ranch!

Last Saturday, i was invited to visit a ranch in Bulacan a (new) friend owns. i don't know which was more overwhelming; finally meeting Pau (Yeah, same as Gasol of the Los Angeles Lakers) or being in that vast land of a place (And to think it was, undeveloped) In between the horse back-riding (first time) Jollibee (Yum with cheeze lang kasi libre...), yosi (Yey, pareho Marlboro Gold) and pangit-dog-walking (Pangit, that's her dog's name), it was such a nice afternoon.

New friends, new places. Your weekend can't go wrong with that. Would love to post the pictures of the trip but that's quite dependent on Pau herself for i forgot to bring a camera (Low quality phone shots posted on the left) but she brought one...
Anyway, i had a few realizations here and there but it seems i forgot about all of them all of a sudden. Intentionally forgetting them maybe... Life is unfair, life is unfair, life is unfair... i will stop now.

(And oh, Thanks, padod Pau!)