Yoshinoya rant
Gad, Yoshinoya is coming out of my ears…That and McDonald’s. Why can’t they open a Yellow Cab or even just a Wendy’s in this building?!
Had a late lunch. Nearly broke my chopsticks as I sticked (not spooned, haha) the ramen into my mouth — I was so hungry. It’s 4pm, and I thought of running to Central to eat at Jollibee’s (they have daing na bangus), but I was afraid I’d collapse from hunger before I got there.
So I ended up eating at walang kamatayang utang-na-loob-sawang-sawa-ako- Yoshinoya. We eat there at least, gad, three times a week. Hence this mini rant. However much my workmates and friends and I bicker, bitch and moan every lunchtime ("Naknam pucha, Yoshinoya na naman?! Kumain naman tayo sa iba!!!’), we all end up eating there.
We line up in front of the counter mumbling and grumbling about how sick we are of Yoshinoya (beef bowl, chicken bowl, beef and vegetable bowl, chicken and vegetable bowl, tobiko salmon bowl…) and then we sit down to steaming bowls of, you guessed it right- beef bowl, chicken bowl, beef and vegetable bowl, chicken and vegetable bowl or tobiko salmon bowl. We break the monotony sometimes by adding sidings of steamed mushrooms, chicken yakitori, and extra kimchi. Otherwise, aaaaargh, Yoshinoya is coming out of our ears.
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This issue we’re putting out (the paper will be distrubuted Friday morning) is my penultimate issue. I cease to be editor by September 15, and I will go home to my husband and doggies a few later (cross your toes and fingers). I have been asked to maintain three sections (features, kultura and OFW world news), and I’ll only too glad to do so; after all, I did put up these sections and gave each a firm orientation.
Not to be a bitch, but I really don’t want the paper the revert to its former orientation when I leave…
To be fair to David Chen, I still wouldn’t have been able to stay even if he were less of a 32-year old brat. I would’ve still left by October.
Anyways, I don’t feel too bad about leaving the paper because I will still be able to contribute. I even have an official Hong Kong News correspondent ID (hahaha- like there’s a lot of us here. In any case, it’s a cute ID patterned after my ID from the House of Representatives).
There are 120,000 OFWs here in Hong Kong, and since I got here I’ve felt such a weighty responsibility to make sure that I be able to contribute if only a little to their knowledge and awareness of what’s truly going on back home.
And what am I going to do when I get home?
I’ll dream a little dream and pretend that there’s a real cool job as a Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf barista waiting for me. Or as a chief clerk at a big Filbar’s branch. Or — and this is my favorite daydream -I’ll be a staff of the International Red Cross and I’ll help give health and nutrition talks (and maybe innoculation shots) to communities and barangays in the farflung provinces.
I’d also willingly dig ditches for water supply systems in the provinces. At least I’ll try my darnest.
Other things I wouldn’t mind doing (and maybe I could even be good at them):
1. Being a florist
2. Taking care of dolphins
3. Being a merchandiser for Toys ‘R’ Us
4. Painting school houses and school rooms
5. Teaching Kindergarten
6. Being a relief worker
7. Covering books for public libraries and protecting them from silverfish
8. Running a fish pet store
9. Cutting grass and maintaining lawns
10. Shining shoes
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I hate the Macapagal-Arroyo government with all of what makes me me. If I had the power to wish anyone dead… And the same goes for Jovito Palparan and his henchmen. Not a day goes by when I don’t wish for a ten-ton cement wall to fall on each of them.
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What a dink Macapagal-Arroyo is! There’s this story a friend of mine spotted in a Canadian newsserver (I have to ask him for the link) that says GMA is asking the international community for donations of, get this, hair and feathers. The story also came out in the Manila Bulletin, I think.
Hair and feathers to clean up the oil spill in Guimaras!
I mean, I suppose they work, but jeez… Raymond nearly choked laughing. He comes from a First World country and has background in environmental issues and campaigns, and he said that execs of Petron and GMA should be tarred and feathered for not taking swift action to soak up the oil spill and clean the affected areas. More than two weeks have passed and jeez, we can all kiss Guimaras goodbye.
He saw the oil spill in Cancun, Mexico a decade ago, and he said that the beachfront was never the same. The sand and the soil were permanently oily and had a sickening black and brackish sheen.
"The employment of hair and feathers as an oil ‘absorbent’ in the Philippines marks a low-cost strategy for battling oil spills. Traditionally, booms, skimmers, and chemical dispersants are used methods to clean up ocean oil spills"
The Philippine government won’t even lean on Petron to immediately shell out the money for an honest-to-goodness clean-up drive and to rehabilitate and revive the detroyed areas. Let’s not even talk about the damage to the health and welfare of the affected residents.
