May 17, 2012 17:14
It was last Monday morning after my bank duties that I saw this Ate selling nilagang mani outside.
I know, I can hear si Mama saying "Hepa-B, Hepa-B". Haha!
Pero sobrang nakakaawa si Ate kaya I decided to buy kahit isang tasa lang. 1 cup is P20 lang naman at bwena-mano pa daw ako. Maswerte akong bwena-mano! After nya akong suklian, pinagpag nya ng pera yung mga mani - pampabwenas! Haha!
Ang kaso pag-uwi ko ng bahay, bulok naman lahat nung mani na nabigay sa akin. At opkors, hindi ko na ni-planong ibalik at papalitan coz I'm sure bulok din lahat nung naiwan dun sa kariton. Saka soooooobrang inet to walk outside.
So I got so frustrated that come Wednesday am, I told Neil that I should buy peanuts along with the other items in my grocery list. And so I did. Nilaga ko na pagdating ko ng bahay, ang kaso, nalimutan ko sya alisin sa tubig after. At naiwan ko syang nakababad the entire night. Now the entire thing smells really awful, haha. It's either napanis sya, or I did something stupid.
Tinikman ko pa eh, pero wala na - HINDI KAMI DESTINED NG MANI kahit na sa anong kalagayan.
Sayang coz I was having this dreamy scenes pa naman na mani habang nanunuod ng Season 4 ng The Big Bang Theory.
This summer is the most loser summer I have since I started working. It started raining already signalling that summer's almost over, and yet, wala pa ako ni isang summer destination. You don't count a halfday tour to Corregidor a summer getaway, right?
Anyways, I was supposed to go with my Ate and her family to SG but the trip was moved to July, kasi my Kuya had this thingy that cannot be moved to another date. So purnada na talaga ang summer of 2012.
Today is the second day that I'm on leave from work.
I was supposed to go home to Daet but I had to renew my NBI clearance.
So you hear the horrors of securing an NBI clearance, right? Pero the other day, my office mate said the best way to go is via online. You'll pay daw via GCash and then they will give you an appointment date. You get to surpass all those who are in line pag me schedule ka. Yun nga lang, you have to go to their Manila office to do that.
Another officemate said that he was able to process his in less than 30 mins. Dito sa Alabang!
So off to Alabang I went!
I got to the offsite branch around 745am. Sa numbering, I was customer # 100. Ang init init sa pila kahit pa it was inside this commercial center. Wala kasing aircon and the big, industrial fans were just in front. Hindi umaabot sa dulo. Tagaktakan ng pawis ang labanan. But wait there's more...yung Kuyang nakasunod ko sa line started playing his MP3 player really, really loud.
Siguro yung concern nya is para malibang ang mga tao. At successful naman sya!! Sa 2nd line pa lang nung song ni Kuya, sumasabay na yung mga tao...and what do you know??? Pati ako nakikikanta na ren!!! (Sorry I forgot the lines na...). Now the thing with Michael Learns to Rock songs is that...para syang April Boy Regino. Alam sya ng mga masa, at alam mo sya, ang problema, di mo alam kung baket! Haha, basta lang alam mo yung lyrics diba?
So going back to the pila...
At exactly 8am, this Kuya from the NBI was going around the line at nangta-tatak sya sa right arm ng "NBI Munt" na mark. Then he handed us a small piece of paper saying "1130am"...tapos he left.
I was like --- "ano to?".
I turned around to see if I can ask some other people but the mass of people behind me got dispersed as soon as they got handed the papers, ang tanging naiwan was the Michael Learns to Rock na Kuya and I thought it best not to ask him...Hahahaha, so I had to run after the NBI Kuya and ask, yun pala I didn't make the cut for the first 50 people na ipa-process, so I had to keep the small piece of paper and come back by 1130am.
So diba nga, this offsite branch is located at the heart of the Alabang Palengke. As in paglabas mo ng building, andun yung mga tindahan ng balde, kawali, palanggana tapos lakad ka lang ng konti pa mga prutas naman tapos konti pa, karne!
Me dala akong libro, at naisip ko na open na yung Krispy Kreme sa Festi, kaso hindi naman ako in the mood for donuts. Nahirapan akong mag-decide where to wait for almost 3 hrs kaya umuwi na lang muna ako. Tutal the house is like 20 mins away lang naman.
I came back around 1045am, (yes, I like being punctual like that) and was entertained naman right away, yipeeee!
So I saved time waiting. Very efficient ang process, I was able to complete the entire thing in less than 30 mins, kaya lang naman, that office is like a humongous oven. Sobraaaaaang init kahit bukas na ang aircon! Siguro kasi ang daming tao sa Comelec at sa NSO.
I was thinking, si Pnoy kaya or other politicians pumipila din ng ganito when they secure their NBI clearances? Kasi they wouldn't know na mainit if the don't experience it diba? Ang sabi kasi ng tax ko, dapat daw aircon pati ang sidewalk pati hintayan ng mga jeep.
So that's it for now...I still have Season 2 of Body of Proof waiting.
summer,
body of proof,
nbi