I heard and received news last night that a relative who I am not that close to, but who is very close in terms of blood got shot last night in the head by an unknown person back in a town in Cebu very late at night....
my mom and I were up and about trying to find out the details and contacting the father of the youth...
in the middle of this, I am supposed to move, but something is wrong with the plumbing in the new unit so have to have the supply of water turned off...ever heard of moving to a place without water to use in the meantime?
due to one reason or another (Murphy's law) all of the activities listed next are to be done tomorrow - its like all the schedules I had set got thrown to the wind...
the cable tv is to be set up by cable company peeps who won't give the hour of arrival and setup,
the pldt dsl is to be set up completely and activated for the work I do to continue (lucky the modem is there already) and I have no idea if they can activate it early enough,
the locks and other putting up of the fixtures is to be done by lunchtime by the maintenance guy whose available schedule is only that slot (locks to be transferred from my unit to the new one, mirror, hooks, bathroom fixtures, wires etc are to be completed),
the delivery of the cabinet I have bought was moved to Tuesday because all slots are closed (I was hoping to move all my clothes already when the cabinet is in place)
the plumbing and sink is to be fixed by contractor (who can't find the faucets today for the ones he ruined the other night),
I have to go to the phone company again to apply for long distance dialing due to the work I do (again, another tale why it wasn't activated),
and I have to move all my stuff supposedly because the 7th is (acc to my mom) the last auspicious day to move...
I have to coordinate the communication between parties concerned for what is to be done for the boy who died...
and all this while I am supposedly still working the increase workload because 3 of my teammates are out of town and on vacation...
lesson: if you have a semi-furnished place to rent, even if you plan as much as possible, problems still crop up...
this is good project management practice...lucky I have some backup and contingency plan for some of the activities...*sigh*
I am just using this place to try and organize my thoughts on half of what I have to do tomorrow :-)
I have heard some bittersweet news on this...just popped in to add it to this entry...
the young common-law wife (they are very young see?) of my relative just gave birth today..I have no other details but she was due to give birth late July 2009.
to be more precise, what happened early this morning was that we were given a ray of hope and the relative of mine was given 50-50 chance to live...
this afternoon, I was told that at 5 pm, they took him off the machines for life support...
I don't know if the wife knew about her man getting shot at or was in the decision to let him go to permanent sleep...did she give birth before, during, after? I don't know...
I'm not ranting - really...
I'm exhausted and still damp (got stranded in the sudden gust of rain while walking to the office for about 45 minutes),
too hungry (only had lunch at 3 pm, no merienda and no dinner at 12:02 am like right now, I'm just realizing),
a bit irritated irritated (work-related complicated situation arising which I have to find a way not to blow up in our faces when it could just have been a simple meeting early in June which could have prevented the problem and where is the person who is the reason? ....off on vacation)
but most of all maybe...I am just awfully, terribly sad and disappointed as to why they took my relative out of life support, just when we had news that money was to be sent for financial aid...
.... and now I have to tell the father about the news - imagine me doing that - Congrats you are now a grandfather (one millesecond later), but I am sorry that you lost your first-born son...
I don't feel anything except the hunger..that's all. Strange? or maybe I'm now too cold...and immersed in too many things to do...
it actually helps me if I write things down....even though I can arrange and figure things out mentally sometimes, the joy of making checklists and scribbles and ranting about something relieves me...
it was done late at night, near the municipal hall...and the sad part is that he wasn't supposed to be there at all, though they said he got a text to meet somebody in the town preceding the town he was to be returning home to...
I only saw him probably like a handful of times...but I feel its such a waste...I heard he sort of straightened himself a little bit when he found out he was going to be a father...
There you go. There's simply nothing that can't be beat by food. Sabi nga ng yumaong Fernando Poe, Jr., "isang subo ka lang," (este..."isang bala ka lang" pala dapat yun).
thanks Ozz...time does go by so fast..they are now talking of burial this sunday...and for my list of tasks above, at least I've ticked off 4 of them..sadly the water is still flowing down the sink of where I will be moving to..tsk..tsk...
They are all over the place. The cops in South Carolina just shot and killed a serial killer who killed 5 people (A peach farmer. A woman and her elderly mother. A furniture store owner and his teenage daughter) in just 6 days. Authorities can't determine the motive for the killing. I think he is just a sick person who has had several run ins against the law.
and there was no pattern at all, common to the victims? People have frustrations but in society there are laws...if I remember correctly in my CLF and Ethics subject back in high school, there were supposed to be levels in one's being abiding, not just laws but personal rules...of course the highest is that you do it because of God...
...and honestly also, I cannot also say that people who do this or have a pattern should just stay in prison.....ewan..
....ako I believe may inherent goodness talaga in each person regardless of the bad deeds he has done, call me naive, but even if its just the size of a small grain of sand ang good part, I can't say a person is totally bad...*taps head on wall*
hehe..kc sabi mo over na for the people...kaya I was being tongue-in-cheek with that post...
thanks for the links...
personally, I think its letting them off easy either killing them or shooting them...dapat yata i-bury sa sand tapos kagatin ng humongous ants as punishment..day by day, tapos gamutin, tapos ulitin naman sa susunod na araw...grrr
I have to say amen to that Joey...when bad things happen, that is my only comfort...I always chastise myself when I sometimes whine - good health and sanity, and peace of mind are very important things than money...
I heard and received news last night that a relative who I am not that close to, but who is very close in terms of blood got shot last night in the head by an unknown person back in a town in Cebu very late at night....
ReplyDeletemy mom and I were up and about trying to find out the details and contacting the father of the youth...
in the middle of this, I am supposed to move, but something is wrong with the plumbing in the new unit so have to have the supply of water turned off...ever heard of moving to a place without water to use in the meantime?
ReplyDeletetomorrow, its all piling up...
ReplyDeletedue to one reason or another (Murphy's law) all of the activities listed next are to be done tomorrow - its like all the schedules I had set got thrown to the wind...
the cable tv is to be set up by cable company peeps who won't give the hour of arrival and setup,
the pldt dsl is to be set up completely and activated for the work I do to continue (lucky the modem is there already) and I have no idea if they can activate it early enough,
the locks and other putting up of the fixtures is to be done by lunchtime by the maintenance guy whose available schedule is only that slot (locks to be transferred from my unit to the new one, mirror, hooks, bathroom fixtures, wires etc are to be completed),
the delivery of the cabinet I have bought was moved to Tuesday because all slots are closed (I was hoping to move all my clothes already when the cabinet is in place)
the plumbing and sink is to be fixed by contractor (who can't find the faucets today for the ones he ruined the other night),
I have to go to the phone company again to apply for long distance dialing due to the work I do (again, another tale why it wasn't activated),
and I have to move all my stuff supposedly because the 7th is (acc to my mom) the last auspicious day to move...
I have to coordinate the communication between parties concerned for what is to be done for the boy who died...
and all this while I am supposedly still working the increase workload because 3 of my teammates are out of town and on vacation...
lesson: if you have a semi-furnished place to rent, even if you plan as much as possible, problems still crop up...
this is good project management practice...lucky I have some backup and contingency plan for some of the activities...*sigh*
I am just using this place to try and organize my thoughts on half of what I have to do tomorrow :-)
I will come back after I've got all this straightened out....
ReplyDeleteHi Cat,
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry to hear of all your stress and so many things going on. How horrible about your blood relation!
Thinking of you.
hang in there cat. everything will fall into place somehow.
ReplyDeleteKayang-kaya mo yan Cat. Throw a cat any which way in the air and it still lands perfectly.
ReplyDeleteHahaha, and you can still blog about all these! Proof that you are on top of things nevertheless. ^_^
ReplyDeleteNot another youthful victim of senseless violence!
ReplyDeleteSad. Our sympathies to your family, Cat.
ReplyDeleteI think Boboy nailed it on the head. These, too, shall pass.
ReplyDeleteHere something for you, Cat. Hope it helps.
http://www.sarafrazan.net/ThreeThings.pps
I have heard some bittersweet news on this...just popped in to add it to this entry...
ReplyDeletethe young common-law wife (they are very young see?) of my relative just gave birth today..I have no other details but she was due to give birth late July 2009.
to be more precise, what happened early this morning was that we were given a ray of hope and the relative of mine was given 50-50 chance to live...
this afternoon, I was told that at 5 pm, they took him off the machines for life support...
I don't know if the wife knew about her man getting shot at or was in the decision to let him go to permanent sleep...did she give birth before, during, after? I don't know...
I'm not ranting - really...
I'm exhausted and still damp (got stranded in the sudden gust of rain while walking to the office for about 45 minutes),
too hungry (only had lunch at 3 pm, no merienda and no dinner at 12:02 am like right now, I'm just realizing),
a bit irritated irritated (work-related complicated situation arising which I have to find a way not to blow up in our faces when it could just have been a simple meeting early in June which could have prevented the problem and where is the person who is the reason? ....off on vacation)
but most of all maybe...I am just awfully, terribly sad and disappointed as to why they took my relative out of life support, just when we had news that money was to be sent for financial aid...
.... and now I have to tell the father about the news - imagine me doing that - Congrats you are now a grandfather (one millesecond later), but I am sorry that you lost your first-born son...
I don't feel anything except the hunger..that's all. Strange? or maybe I'm now too cold...and immersed in too many things to do...
thanks Ted...I am humming....I get by with a little help from my friends...
ReplyDeletedaghang salamat Pat...as my mom said, there is always a reason why certain things happen..
ReplyDeleteI don't think a cat who is almost pushing 40 can do that kind of thing Sir B...and I am really referring to the animals...
ReplyDeletehmm.. I don't think cats can reach 38 anyway..so maybe I should just throw that argument away :-)
very astute Ms. G.
ReplyDeleteit actually helps me if I write things down....even though I can arrange and figure things out mentally sometimes, the joy of making checklists and scribbles and ranting about something relieves me...
I have no idea until now who did it...
ReplyDeleteit was done late at night, near the municipal hall...and the sad part is that he wasn't supposed to be there at all, though they said he got a text to meet somebody in the town preceding the town he was to be returning home to...
thanks Ms. G...
ReplyDeleteI only saw him probably like a handful of times...but I feel its such a waste...I heard he sort of straightened himself a little bit when he found out he was going to be a father...
Thanks Fran...I think reading the three things for each category is a perfect end to my day (or start of the morning coz its now after 12 am)...
ReplyDeletethis too shall pass..and I shall bounce around like a rubber ball once I get off this chair and eat something...like an hour from now..
There you go. There's simply nothing that can't be beat by food. Sabi nga ng yumaong Fernando Poe, Jr., "isang subo ka lang," (este..."isang bala ka lang" pala dapat yun).
ReplyDeleteSad to hear this....nakikiramay kami.
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear bout your relative & all tat's troubling you. Take a deep breath & count to 100.
ReplyDeleteeating does improve one's disposition...very busy day...
ReplyDeletethanks Ozz...time does go by so fast..they are now talking of burial this sunday...and for my list of tasks above, at least I've ticked off 4 of them..sadly the water is still flowing down the sink of where I will be moving to..tsk..tsk...
ReplyDeleteMommy V...muchas gracias...am counting to 200, and then I hope to fall asleep...but not before I finish eating..I hope :-)
ReplyDeleteSorry about this Cat. I hope they are able to find and arrest the person who shot him. Chito is right. It is a very senseless violence.
ReplyDeleteLooks like he was set up. That's really sad.
ReplyDeleteI am so sorry to hear about this Cat. I'll pray for the family so they'll have strength, hope and courage while they deal with this situation.
ReplyDeletegrrrr...it seems to me that bad people are just sprouting up like weeds these days..
ReplyDeletethanks Joey...
ReplyDeleteThey are all over the place. The cops in South Carolina just shot and killed a serial killer who killed 5 people (A peach farmer. A woman and her elderly mother. A furniture store owner and his teenage daughter) in just 6 days. Authorities can't determine the motive for the killing. I think he is just a sick person who has had several run ins against the law.
ReplyDeleteand there was no pattern at all, common to the victims? People have frustrations but in society there are laws...if I remember correctly in my CLF and Ethics subject back in high school, there were supposed to be levels in one's being abiding, not just laws but personal rules...of course the highest is that you do it because of God...
ReplyDeleteSimilar to pareng Val's nephew. He also got a text message to meet somebody and has never been found ever since.
ReplyDeleteTrue, absolutely!
ReplyDeleteMy thoughts and prayers go out to his family, his wife and newborn child.
ReplyDeleteRelax Cat. Take things as they come. Don't worry too much over things beyond your control.
To this date, they still don't know what his motives were. I believe he just got out of prison not too long ago.
ReplyDeleteI still remember that...and it was in that time of the season pa...*shakes head sadly*
ReplyDeletethank you BNK...
ReplyDeleteI kept repeating to myself over and over these stressful times that the time to relax is when I don't have time to relax...:-)
...and honestly also, I cannot also say that people who do this or have a pattern should just stay in prison.....ewan..
ReplyDelete....ako I believe may inherent goodness talaga in each person regardless of the bad deeds he has done, call me naive, but even if its just the size of a small grain of sand ang good part, I can't say a person is totally bad...*taps head on wall*
and amidst all the replies here....HOW ARE YOU NOW?!
ReplyDeleteOMG! lots of things happened already... so sorry for the lost...
things will be in order, with you on top of it...just don't be hard on yourself.
keep some down time....as we always expect wrong turns along the way.
Good luck! and hope all's well by now...
Thanks for understanding me, Cat.
ReplyDeleteDead ball na itong serial killer na ito. So it is over now for those towns people in South Carolina.
ReplyDeletemay anak ba tong serial killer na to?
ReplyDeleteDon't know? Here are the links to that story.
ReplyDeletehttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_re_us/us_sc_killing_spree
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/06/south.carolina.killings/index.html
hehe..kc sabi mo over na for the people...kaya I was being tongue-in-cheek with that post...
ReplyDeletethanks for the links...
personally, I think its letting them off easy either killing them or shooting them...dapat yata i-bury sa sand tapos kagatin ng humongous ants as punishment..day by day, tapos gamutin, tapos ulitin naman sa susunod na araw...grrr
sana naman may serial angel...I'm just shaking my head at getting those kinds of headlines...
ReplyDeleteDapat nga ganun ang gawin. Huwag na lang gamutin, hayaan mo na lang magka infection so he'll suffer more..he he he
ReplyDeleteI think there are a lot more good things that are happening that bad..Let's count our blessings.
ReplyDeletehahaha! my golly ang sama natin!
ReplyDeleteI have to say amen to that Joey...when bad things happen, that is my only comfort...I always chastise myself when I sometimes whine - good health and sanity, and peace of mind are very important things than money...
ReplyDeleteI agree to this one. It is priceless!
ReplyDelete