Howls of a Gambler

Dear Kimmy,

Share ko lang po yung problem ko with my bf. Kami po for almost 3 years and we are thinking of settling down pero ngayon ay mukhang di na yata yun matutuloy. May maayos na trabaho naman ang bf ko pero yung pamilya niya ang problema. Napaka adik na po nila sa sugal. May point na buong sahod ng bf ko ay napunta lang sa utang nila sa sugal. Lahat ng kamag-anak nila ay galit na sa kanila dahil nautangan na nila. Pati kapitbahay nila ay nagagalit na din kasi pinagbibintangan silang sila ang nagnakaw ng aso para maibenta at may maipangsugal. Ang mali sa bf ko ay hindi niya kayang suwaying ang parents niya. Mahal ko siya at gustong intindihin pero di ko alam kung saan lulugar. Payuhan mo naman ako.

Sugal sa pag-ibig

Dear Neng,

Naku sorry po mali ata napagtanungan mo. Wala po akong binebentang mga gamot para sa kaadikan sa sugal. Tanungin mo yang mga nasa MLM sakaling may miracle cure all drug sila na angkop jan. Ako mismo ay hindi batid kung paano nagagawang magsugal ng ibang tao kahit mabaon sila sa utang. Sorry din at di ako nagpaparenta ng bahay na maaring gamiting hideout kung sakaling tugisin man sila ng pinagkakautangan nila. Maari mong iask si Mareng Denisse kung may mairerefer siyang lungga.

So very true. Ang sugal na yan ay marami ng winasak na tahanan. Kayrami na ding matang pinaluha at pusong sinugatan. Pasok "Tukso"sa background. Pero napakatindi nga ng situation niyo. Ganun kalalim at pati aso ay nagawang nakawin sa ngalan ng sugal? Balaan mo na yang bf mo na baka siya ang sunod na ibubugaw para lang may panustos sa bisyo. Pwedeng ikaw din ay ibugaw nila.

Ang maipapayo ko lamang sa iyo ate ay sumangguni ka sa kinauukulan. Isiwalat mo ang mga gawain nilang ganyan. Ibayan mo, Ipatrol mo o di kaya ay ipa Tulfo mo. These days parang yun yata ang fad. Maari ding isama mo sila sa face to Face kasi balita ko ay may bayad daw dun.Kung sakali nasolve mo na problems niyo, nagkapera ka pa. Pero kung gusto mo ng solusyon na may personal touch, gawa ka ng karatula sa gate nila saying "beware dogs" para malaman ng mga aso na may maaring masamang mangyari sa kanila sakaling gipitin sa sugal ang iyong mga hilaw na in-laws.

Ezkemerang Palaka

Dear mars,

I was robbed off my hard-earned money just a few months ago. I prayed that I will let it go easily but I am always reminded of how hard I toiled for the money only to be taken away from me. Yes I do admit that I am part to be blamed since I trusted this person. She says she is from UP so I trusted her. When I searched for her on FB, she is one of our common friends. I trusted her because we know a lot of people in common and her personality is just so nice. I just graduated a year ago and have been saving for a new gadget. I have to forget that gadget too because I have invested instead on her beauty products. My mother calls her scheme pyramiding, she prefers to call it MLM. She promised to assist me earn just like her. The help never came. I am not sure if I can also do it in the long run because I can not take it that I will be earning because of the people I asked to join. It was my choice. It was a bad choice.

UFaked student

Dear UFaked student,

Ay sorry ka dear pero di ko gagatungan ang katangahan mo by taking your side. If ever man na niloko ka yun ay dahil nagpaloko ka. Sabi nga ni Zenaida Zeva ang ating kapalaran at hula ay gabay lamang, meron tayong free will- gamitin natin ito. hahaha. Looking at it closely, if you are not determined to enter MLM then you should have not invested in the first place. You can not just retract things at your bidding. Believe me, being from UP is not a guarantee of the good moral standing of a person. I have been deceived a lot of times by fellow iskos and iskas. In my line of work, I also encounter a lot of iskos and iskas who leave me disappointed. How can you be so naive?

I honestly do not have anything against MLM. Kanya-kanyang diskarte yan. E kung jan nila nakukuha ang kinabubuhay nila eh. Balik tayo sa sabi ni Mama Zenaida, may freewill tayo. The internet is a good source of feedback for anything that you want to get into. Minsan kasi nasisilaw tayo sa grandeur, sa pera, the liit ng effort na eexert natin and we disregard everything only to regret it towards the end. Lahat yata ng tao alam na kakambal na ng MLM and networking- those who can gather earns better. There are some who believe that it is not sustainable since you are exhausting a finite set. Once the finite set is saturated with members, what will you do to the products? These things you could have easily seen if you have done your researching prior to investing. It is what good investors do- they know where they are investing.

Love,
Kimmy

Sino Ka?

After a lengthy hiatus from this blog, I decided to answer this email coming from an old "friend"daw. hahahha.

Dear Kimmy,

Kumusta ka naman? Bakit matagal na yatang hindi ka nagpopost dito. This is my second letter. My first letter was never published for reasons na ikaw lang po ang nakakaalam. We used to talk a lot pero hindi na ngayon. Siguro kasi after college nag-iiba na ang circle of friends at priorities sa buhay. We used to go around the oval talking about other people. Doon ka naman talaga magaling ang pag-usapan ang buhay ng ibang tao. Nagbago ka na ba? I miss your pagiging straight-forward. Kahit sa personal problems ko ay nahihingan kita ng payo. Remember when I used to ask possible solutions for problems of a friend? sa katunayan buhay ko talaga yun. Nahihiya kasi ako nung time na yun kasi di talaga tayo close. Of all the gay people na kilala ko ay sayo ako pinakarelax kasi wala kang kati sa katawan. I hope na through this letter ay mabuild ulit natin ang whatever we had. 

Reminiscing,

Mr Heartthrob 2005

Dear Mr Heartthrob 2005,

I am very happy to find an avid fan here kahit alam ko na nag-iisa ka lang hahahha. I have forgotten about this blog until your email came. I have to apologize kasi di talaga kita maalala hahahahha Ang naalala ko lang na kausap ko while going around the oval ay ang mga bekbek ko na friend. At ang blog ko po na ito ay sanguinian ng mga problema. Parang wala ka namang suliranin. Inokray mo lang ako na mahilig mangialam sa buhay buhay.

Natatakot ako actually kuya kasi di kita maalala. May nalalaman ka pang rekindling what we used to do. Alam mo ba na ang selective amnesia ko ay para sa mga taong nanakit sa akin? ikaw ba ang ama ni Andrew? ayaw ko nang balikan ang masamang ala-ala nung pinanganak ko siya. Magkikinder na ang anak natin- hindi ako humihingi ng sustento, kaya ko siyang itaguyod, wala akong balak na guluhin pa kayo. Wag na wag mong ilalayo sa akin ang anak ko. Tinatanong mo pa kung nagbago na ako? oo Nagkabilbil na ako kasi shinota mo ako at binuntis pa. Hahahahahha

Nasa FB lang naman ako. we can always reconnect. Pero i have to warn you that if you have any romantic feelings towards me, please forget it na po kasi I am not interested hahahahha. Honestly I am thrilled to see the face of the Heartthrob. Feeling feelingero kang gwapo ka kasi mga kapangitan usually mga kilala ko na sumasangguni. I remember right kasi ang payo ko usually sa kanila ay wala na tayong magagawa sa suliraning kapangitan.

Love, love, love,

Kimmy

The Wedding Enterprise

So one of my closest friend is getting married soon and she promised me that regardless of the groom I will sing for her wedding. But good friend that I am, I am going to the full extent of creating the perfect wedding for her. I am making these very brilliant suggestions for her inspiration. This friend likes things simple so I believe her wedding should have that motif.

Starting off with the dress that she will wear, I think no other than Sagada Weaving can craft the best wedding dress. I would suggest that they will make a dress that is of a jumper type and using the usual weaving designs common among the backpacks of the locals. The designer is free to add pockets if she so desires so that the dress will be fully functional. Friendship can wear that dress to the market where the pockets can serve as her basket or the pocket for the collected money. Oha being environmental at that since you are bringing your own eco bag. Very brilliant indeed. Or if friendship thinks of cutting the fabric and making it into purses or bags or slippers, that would be a great way to get back what she invested on it and maybe more. Very convenient to sell it to tourists at a high mark up knowing that her sister has a stall for such purposes. Very brilliant really. Not only is the theme very central with the ethnicity of the couple but also with the dress code that the elders of the community desire to see despite the movement of the wedding ceremonies to modern terms. Oha oha. Better yet, we can strike an xdeal with sagada weaving and ask for a cheaper price for the dress since we will be featuring their logo on the invitations and on the dress itself. Imagine that, after the celebration, Sagada Weaving will be on its way to garment production ahahhahah charot oha!

And of course, we must not do away with the three day wedding celebration in consonance with the tradition. Regardless of the menu, people near and far will come for the food. To save up on the expenses I would suggest that instead of giving give aways, we will be erecting stalls that will be selling souvenir items from the wedding. The usual prints on tourist shirts can be used like; I got this shirt from chevas wedding, I conquered chevas wedding, my son went to the chevas wedding. Very brilliant. We can also invite concessionaires to set up their stalls around the venue (of course at a commission from their total sales). If we ever do that, I suggest we serve bland food so that they will be forced to patronize baba shawarma, rodics, liklik silog, bentelog and the likes. The lot beside the reception venue is big so it would not be a problem if the wedding would look like a bazaar. I bet the stall variety would beat the offerings of the midnights market in the metro. Very brilliant.

To entice more people, we can strike other  xdeals from other companies for gift certificates; one month supply of kimbies or durex or ky jelly or so-en. Who would not love that especially at this age of tag gutom? We can arrange a guest speaker or a performer every night to motivate the people from pouring in. That is very very much convenient since the community is expecting pasayaw every night. The raffle draws will be something to look forward to. I am sure that friendship will not take it against me if all the gentlemen will be inviting me for the dance. I am making it clear this early that I have no intentions of upstaging the bride. As a matter of fact I am having my dress made by Rajo Laurel so that it will be no match to her Sagada Weaving regalia. Maybe to make the event more profitable, I can allow friendship to place one of my provocative pictures on the tarp and invitations to entice the rich miners from the barrios. I am sure that the miners will fill the coffer for days.

In the event that this will prove successful in 3 days, we can always extend it up to a month with tags such as NOW on its 3rd week. Oha oha. Once the spectacle is waning, we can also venture to selling DVD copies of the event. It can also include a documentary of the lives of the bride and groom prior the event.  They can include special tracks of my songs to boost the sales. So much for humility hahahhahaha. Wow let me think of over brilliant ways to make your wedding wonderful.

Sosyal

Dear Kimmy,

I am hoping that this letter would sound interesting to you, interesting enough to deserve a reply sa blog mo. I am so much like you sa pagiging echosera. I am sure na pag magkakilala tayo ay magiging close na mag mars tayo. My story is all about a workmate of mine na malakas maka social climber. She is extremely inggitera kaya naman she is living beyond her means. Kapag may nakita siyang mga sosyal na kagamitan ang mga katrabaho niya, sige at bili siya. Pero most of the times she can not afford it. She also pretends to have a rich boyfriend who can supply her luxuries but I doubt it. She is a pretentious user nanakikipag kaibigan lamang sa people in power. Ambisyosa, nagmamayaman, nagmamaganda at napakalandi all rolled into one at siya nga yun. Nakakairitang kasama sa opisina ang ganun. Give me good tips para maayos ko ang discomfort ko na to.

Thank you in advance mars.

Vinvin Bakla

Dear Beks,

I can completely relate to that kainisan levels darling kasi I know someone na ganyan din. Well for me, let them be. It is how they live their pathetic lives. They are practically leeches. If we allow them to suck away our enthusiasm off our jobs- hinahayaan lang natin silang magtagumpay sakanilang misyon. Angmisyon nila dito sa mundo sakaling you might not be aware of ay maghasik ng insecurities. Hahahaha If you are secured sa sarili mo at confident ka sa kakayahan mo, do you need to do that? I believe that aggressive people work their way to success faster but I do not personally endorse that type if kaepalan is a better word to describe it?

I do not think I can give tips  na makakatulong upang iease yang discomfort mo kasi dapat that is something personal. Mindset lang yang nabobother ka sa ibang tao. Ako I do not let those low level bitches get into my systems. Ganda ganda ko papalaspag lang ako sa mga kagaya nilang mukhang multo? Puhhhlease lang. Binigay ng Lumikha ang kagandahang ito upang ibahagi sa mga mas may kailangan.

Maiba ako.I can sense that the bitterness is deep rooted kaya ang hinuha ko ay naagawan ka ng booking ng climber na ito. Doon mo ba hinuhugot ang galit na ito? ahahahahha Mamatay na silang lahat na social climbers. Sabihan mo yang friend mo na magtatag ng special interest group at tawagin nilang the social climbing group. They must aim to climb the Everest level of kasosyalan kaya try and try until you run out of money. Try and try maging sosyal hanggang sa kaluluwa niyo naisangla niyo na din sa demonyo. ahahahha Wag naman tayo selfish teh kasi echosera sila kasi gusto nila mareach ang goal nila sa buhay na magmukhang sosyal kahit sa katotohanan ay hindi. Sabi nga ni Maslowe ay self actualization ang rurok ng mga pangangailangan at sa kanilaay ang katuparan ng social climbing nila ang self-actualization nila.

Hayaan mo lang silang mamuhay sa mundo nila ng price tags, ng mga brands, at ng mga minsan minsan nilang nakakainang sosyal na restaurant.  Minsan lang sila masayaran niyan kaya yaan mo na. Live and let live.

wrUng SenT

Promise, witty lang ang makakapick-up dun sa title.

 

Dear Kimmy,

I am writing this letter to share how deeply pissed I am with the UP people after the 2012 UAAP Cheerdance Competition. I heard you are a fellow Tiger kaya siguro naman ay nakikiisa ka sa aming observations regarding sa matinding pagyabang nga mga taga UP. For so long the SDT held the spot for the most wins and even the 5peat feat is still to be equalled by any other cheering squad.  Did the other schools hear from us na nagyayabang? Hindi diba. I have my elder brothers and sister study in UST also and we have observed that di yumayabang mga students dito when nanalo. Tapos idagdag pa jan ang sinasabi ng marami na dapat daw La Salle number 4 at di ang SDT. Ano ba? Ano ang big deal dun? Maganda din naman at competitive ang performance ng SDT ah? Bakit andami bitter? In my own opinion ay di kami katulad ng ibang cheering squads jan na nanggagaya ng routines at style o kahit theme ng mga kalaban during the previous seasons.

May mga kaklase ako from highschool who studied sa UP and they are so proud to the extent of bullying us UST students for a poor performance daw ng SDT. May mga nagsasabi daw na palaos ng palaos na sila. I think na hindi naman ganun kasi maganda nga ang nagging performance nila. Minsan nga lang ay iba-iba din ang taste ng judges kaya natural na minsan nanalo at minsan natatalo. Ok lang naman sa akin ang maging proud pero wag naman sana yung nang-aasar pa kasi nakakainis na talaga eh. Given the chance na I can dance talaga, sasali ako sa SDT at ipprove jan sa mga ibang schools na di pa kami laos.

Kahit na 4^th na lang ang SDT this year, very proud pa din ako sa kanila.

Little Miss Growling Tiger

Dear Little Miss Growling Tiger,

Before I start reacting to this letter, let me clear a confusion here. Although I am flattered that some may think that I am from UST and true enough- a part of my heart ONCE resided in UST (hahaha charotness wag na pangalanan at may magseselos ng matindi) but I cannot denounce my ISKA citizenship (mabaog ang kokontra) dahil magagalit ang aking boylet na isang isko (from the College of Engineering- Department of _____ Engineering to be exact). Given the opportunity na makakita ako ng isang Tiger na kasingtalino, kasing gwapo, kasing bait, kasing sipag ni Chovako ay go lang ako na magchange ng citizenship. Ganun naman di ba yung mga babae pag nag-aasawa, sinusuko ang kanilang mainden name? Feelingera lang ako eh. So here I am caught between the urge to bash you since you have pointed out that my fellow iskos and iskas are naging mayabang at alaskador right after the CDC and the desire to remain neutral as a blogger na hinihingan ng payo ng isang eklatera.

During my time as an undergraduate student at UP, the greatest rival we have when it comes to CDC ay ang UST- no doubt with that. So let us trace back my dear ano.. so dati-rati ay isa ang SDT sa mga namamayagpag sa CDC at ngayon ay number four na sila and still riddled with a lot of jeers pa kasi may mga nagsasabi nga na La Salle dapat (Sayo galing tong info na to na vinalidate ko by lurking sa PEX- very credible diba). So ano ang tawag mo doon? Graceful pagdausdos? Uhm pansamantalang pamamahinga ang #difeelngjudgesangdrama? Or pwede ding #kakaumaymanalopatalonamanminsan? Hahaha BukoJuiceko Maria tama na yang maang-maangan portion mo at magising ka sa katotohanan- ang term ng mga Tagalog sa phenomenon na yun ay pagkalaos. Go lang correct me if I am wrong. Pero ayun nga marami namang mga boldstarlets noon ang nagawa pa din sumikat sa showbiz kahit laos na ang panahon ng bomba sa Pinas dahil sa pagsulpot ng mga napakadaming aspiring pornstars. Guyabano Juiceko Matilda ayaw ng boylet ko ng ganyan kasi madasalin siya. Haha Kaya never too late para sa SDT na bumangon muli at durugin ang ibang school wag lang ang UP PEP. Hahaha Walang halong bias jan.

On the suggestion that given na magaling ka sumayaw ay sasali ka sa SDT- wow lang naman please let me react. Teh naman kahit anong gawin mong kakasplit dun. O kakatumbling o magpyramid ka mang mag-isa or magngangangawa ka- ano naman ang magagwa mo sakaling andun ka na ikaw lang ang makakagawa? Di ba the dance is supposed to be a group effort. Di ka pa nga member ay feelingerang pa-star ka na agad? Ayaw ng SDT sa mga primadonna sabi sa akin nung friend ko sa La Salle. I would not vouch for the credibility of that statement ha. 

On the point na hindi marunong mangggaya ang SDT- hmmm tahimik na lamang ako jan at walang sasabihin. Although the festive theme na Brazilian din daw I think was evident from a UP Pep performance a few years back. So are the other stunts that are being recycled and tagged as their own. Aside from that no comment na talaga. And wait lang pala, bakit naman hindi magmamayabang ang kasikohan at kaiskahan e nanalo nga? Magtaka ka na lang kung natalo nagyayabang pa. Yun na ang masama day!

Kung ako lang ang tatanungin at pwedeng magmagaling- just for one lang please. I would suggest that SDT should bank on their strengths in order to recapture their slot on the top 3. Since bahain naman jan baka naman nagmutate na kayo to adapt with the floods at gumaling kayo sa sisiran or pamamangka so why not gamitin yun sa mabuting paraan. Magtrain na lang kamo sila para sa dragonboat team at swimming team at sakaling makapasok ulit sila sa top 3 ng swimming at rowing. Oha san ka. 

Title pa lang maipilit lang.

uMaaRTe lang

Hellers mga readers, I have to apologize for neglecting my duty to update this blog. Been to busy with life given na sandamakmak ang aking mga commitments- sa UN, sa Embassy, sa New York.. hahahaha.

Kidding aside, I would like to feature this letter which was sent last April pa but I was not able to respond to it. I hope our readers can pick up something out of this. I think I should have posted this at my other blog site (MRTales but I will for the mean time feature it here.) Enjoy!!
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Dear Kimmy,

I was riding the MRT on the way home when I came across some guys who are so noisy. They were talking about the girls whom they get to know through the MRT. One was noisier than the others and keeps on bragging that he is pursued by the girls he meet on the train. He shared that one time while on the train, a girl smiled at him and suddenly asked for his number oblivious of the crowd around them. At first, I thought the other guy is not sort of a braggart as the other but I am very wrong because he is as bragging as the other guy. He shared that once he encountered a married woman who asked him for a quick time at a motel near a station. All the other guys with them kept laughing and smirking as if the other two made great feats.

I was very much shocked with what these two guys are talking about. They were very noisy and they were disturbing me. I was very irritated because the topic should at least be hushed for other venues. I was harassed at the train. I think the trains should impose a rule for proper decorum among its riders.

Form,
Artnail

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Dear Artnail,

Yes I have to go with you that there really are a lot of insensitive people on the trains whether it be on the MRT, LRT or the PNR. Well I am not so sure with the PNR since I only tried it once and was appalled by the barbarism of some people. I am not very sure if I am drawing a very accurate conclusion from your observation as I can not profile the wrongdoers effectively due to your messy sharing of a story. Napakagulo day! Subra subra man talaga.. ansakit sa ulo.

You should have made the effort to provide some details whether these guys are kids out from school. That in itself can be categorized further into schoolboys from K-12 or highschool maybe or college or TESDA or the likes (soldiers from training courses or policemen).. hahahaha Kasi if you overheard some kids (K-grade 6/7) I can say that that was fully bragging. The idea is just so far fetch and these kids are just plainly ambisyoso. Well you might say that what a stupid blogger I am for not being able to segregate boys from guys- I would say that in my defense I am thinking that it might be you who posses a loose capacity to distinguish between guys or boys.

Nwei if ever naman na kabinataan yun. Pareho lang din ang aking masasabi na mga ambisyoso sila. Unless mga gwapo to the level of the heavens ang kanilang face and body value, only then can I agree that maybe truelalo at walang halong eklavo ang kanilang claims. You see kung gaano ka kawalang kwentang letter sender? the details are just so lacking that I can not judge the situation objectively.

Malay ko ba baka naman mga bakla ang mga nakaengkwentro mo at nais lang nilang imalign ang reputation ng mga bilat kaya they seem to make it appear na girls riding the trains are just so cheap to strike on boys. Well if they have made the effort of broadcasting it to everyone on the train, my theory is very plausible. Mga baklang maninira sa reputasyon ng mga babae. Kais look at it, either they benefit from it by making it appear na mga macho guys sila na katilam-tilam or that they want the other guys on the train to be disgusted with the girls. Sounds far fetched? I do not think so.hahaha

If indeed these guys are hot as they claim, why have I not seen them? Why have they singled out those girls while in fact some gays and guys (pretending to be guys lang) are more agressive when it comes to making it known to the opposite sex about their attraction. Kaya isang napakalaking Nannette Inventor award and aking igagawad sa mga lalaking yan. Kung mali man ako, next time naman na maencounter mo ulit sila pakiusapan mo naman sila na icontact ako ng makita ko naman for myself and pinagmamayabang nila.

Sa lahat ng readers should you face a similar situation,  confront these feelingeros and tell them straight..

"malaglag man bayag mo kung di totoo yan?"

promise, nothing can disarm feelingeros better than this!

To close this, in the name of fair blogging I would like to say that my blog is open for the accused perpetrators to send back their notes to refute whatever is here. 


-Kimmy at your service
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