GM Experience: Exploration of KTV Through a Balikbayan's experience.

Recently, an old friend and co-worker from my previous work sent me an private message on Facebook. I was thrilled to find out about his message on his upcoming arrival in a few weeks from abroad. I am truly looking forward in meeting up with him and his immediate family. He has been living happily in the United States for the past four years with his lovely wife and two young boys ages two (2) and four (4). He was asking me one time that we should go out and grab a couple of beers and eats some balut and chicharon like what most typical Pinoys who have not have eaten the local street foods in a very long time. I told him "Why don't we paint the town red? when you are in-country".  He said Okay bro!

Local Sex Trade: A Brief Introduction.

From: Esquire.com

The International and Local Sex Trade is big and there are many Filipino women working locally and abroad in the flesh trade as sex workers whether it be in the streets of Manila to Wan Chai District in Hong Kong, Singapore's Geylang area and some brothel in the African country in Ivory Coast for example wherein they are mainly catered to fellow Filipino expatriates (OFWs) or Asian men (Mainland Chinese or sometimes European expatriates to be exact) only just to name a few.

GM Experience: The Pros and Cons of Being a Nutty Instructor.

This happened a few years ago, I was a newly hired as a part-time college instructor in one university somewhere in the Metro Manila. I was a young guy just fresh from the intricacies of corporate world and had recently completely at least 33 units of graduate studies in one of the top university in the country. I was looking positive in this new job of imparting and teaching something for my students and incorporating some of my knowledge gain from my years of experience with the company..

Optimism was on my side and I felt totally nervous on my first day of classes. I was given a class of 44 college student and on the first day of classes I sat on one of the student's chair. Waiting for the class to come and was so excited about it. On that occasion they were waiting for their instructor not knowing that I am the instructor because they were mostly not wearing their uniforms and most of the are on their civilian outfit. I was silently laughing pretending I was just a transferee student or irregular student from their block section sitting at the farther back of the class chairs. They were talking and laughing till I decided to take over and stood up. It felt like the scene from Catch Me If You movie (2002) minus the pushing and the old woman berating me and being the substitute teacher. See below:

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT: Dilag's Story!

A few days ago, a reliable source among the community told me of a recent stake-out of cops from one particular city in Metro Manila. Let’s hide her name as “DILAG”. The law enforcement agents made an entrapment operation on some of the ladies who have posted their wares on a notable foreign-based website who are plying the trade online. She was caught with this undercover agent in last week were she was held in detention for a few hours without bail.  The police effort made a large effort of cracking a case and arresting her and the rest of the ladies as it lead from one arrest to another.  Dilag and the others were being coerced by the cops on a trump up charges of being a pimp or as a human trafficker and trying to use the “PALIT-ULO Technique" (or telling them the whereabouts of other John /Jane Does in exchange for her freedom and vital information she has). 

They were interrogated and questioned by the cops who arrested them. The poor ladies were threatened with such harsh words of being imprisoned, being used as bait or as informants or assets to their next operations on arresting perpetrators such as drug dealers, prostitution patrons of those who were part of some gatherings or happenings by the so called JOHN DOES roaming around the city. If she will be caught either she will incarcerated on the charges or will be sent to Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) for rehabilitation depending on the severity of the case. Their mobile phones and some cash were confiscated by the cops. 

I am gaining weight again.

To tell you, I have lost track of playing sports for the past few weeks. I really never like the idea of hitting gym but I tend to do running twice a week to maintain my ideal weight and at the same time to be fit but lately, I was pestered with a different working schedule wherein I need to supervise my colleague at night time plus the heavy rains and thunderstorm affect the running park where I make 30 to 45 minute runs is all wet and dirty.

Being the senior and leader of the team is a very stressful situation for me. Making sure things are going smoothly during my shift and no incident reports of whatsoever pass to the higher echelons of the company I have worked for 7 years and counting.

Back then, I was typically a average Pinoy size when I was in college after tremendously tons of this hard baby fats where gone after tremendous work out and sports activity in my youth. During my junior year in college, I didn't go home for two straight months in my flat and my mother haven't seen and was very worried about me living away from them for the first time. I chose to be secluded to concentrate on my studies. I was then taking up my pre-medical course in college with the hopeful thought of breaking out to medical school.

I remembered those words: "Gosh son, what happened to you?". I was skinny thin then and turned dark from being out of the sun at that time. Because school and house was a mere 500 meters but the heat of the mid-day sun turned my skin complexion at bit tanned like I was on a beach for the past few weeks.

Recently, I was preparing for a 10 kilometer run this April but it seems my schedule has taken it's toll with the work, projects outside of this realm and it seems it is eating up my other extra-curricular activities.

For the time being my I need to rethink and refocus my priorities in getting back to shape again.


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