MOVING ON

I only happened to be around a gathering during the fight between Pacquiao and Marquez where the iconic Filipino fighter was defeated. And it was because we were having our annual Christmas party among alumnis of the University of the Philippines (UP). I wanted to go home before the game started but I decided to stay even if I was turning to be a sleepwalker while watching the fight from the huge TV screen. Honestly, I soon realized that Pacquiao's a loser that night; he was looking lousy that night. I had an inkling it won't be his night and I based it on the incorrect way of singing the Philippine national anthem, which is set as a march; the anthem was composed during the revolutionary period of the founding of the Philippine state. It served as a badly tune prelude to a stunning defeat of Pacquiao; I do hope organizers and spectators will always keep in mind that this particular anthem has to be sung just like we listeners are watching a brave, helpless but exc...

One of the freelance part time jobs I do from time to time is helping in the design, preparation, installation and dismantling of floral designs. These days, I'd do this mostly for religious events for church activities thru my network of friends in the place where I'm located. I've never done floral designs ever before back in the Philippines. It's one of those opportunities that presented itself to me to be able to get into hardline creative works. Boy, I tell you, it's one tough job, to the say least. It starts with doing cleaning tasks. This is to make sure the flowers, the branches and fillers are all cleaned up. They have to made sure all the necessary parts of the flowers are kept in place, and those unwanted parts are removed and thrown away. It's time consuming, actually. You will have to bring in buckets of water, you will also have to throw them away when not needed. It does not make it even easier to use artificial flowers, branches and leaves,...