summer officially starts today and it is also hero's day in bermuda... it kicks off hot!!... well, early this morning i caught a glimpse of soccer match between portugal and north korea... i didnt really stayed glued because i was busy with other things... it was a great triumph for portugal scoring 7 to nil... they showed no mercy... i felt bad for north koreans... they played well defensively in their first match but i guess games can be psychological also.. they knew that portugal is a strong team and i guess the north koreans were "intimidated".. their goalee couldnt anticipate a goal and he was just playing "clumsy" i think.. well, i would always choose the underdog in any matches unless i have my own personal favorite..so after the match, we could hear the portuguese blowing their horns on the street..im sure they were very proud to win BIG... and i think it is a first in world cup history...i didnt have any plan to go out today but my niece urged me to even if she was from night duty.. she asked me to wake her up at 1pm which i did... well, since i didnt have the (borrowed) car with me, we were left with no choice but to take the bus... holidays here are a hassle to wait for the bus because they come at the very least an hour or half an hour if you take the route down our place.. we waited for more than 40 minutes when the 1st bus came but it was jam-packed with tourists.. we held our patience and it was like counting all the cars, bikes, trucks, taxis that passed us by... then it took another 40 minutes or so til the next one came but it just passed us by like the first one.. still loaded...gosh.. it was sweltering hot... so my niece decided to just go home..it was almost 230 in the afternoon.. and we were planning to have a road trip on the other part of the island.. since we needed to catch another one in town which leaves every hour, we knew that we couldnt make it.. so we took a hike...hahaha... our house is just right on the block but we were so thirsty that we decided to walk past the house to get some icecream in the nearest convenient store which is about more than 5 meters ... so off we went under the heat of the 1st summer sun... as we were walking we were not even sure if the store is open or not coz most stores here (even gasoline stations) are closed on holidays... so we are trying to "punish" ourselves more... but as we saw many cars parked by the gasoline station (the store is just adjacent to the gas station), we were sure that it is open... i grabbed a bar of icecream.. and since my niece didnt have lunch yet, she ordered a few hot wings with wedged potatoes... later we had some smoothie... i chose mango smoothie but it was sour... i felt that it was just loaded with sugar but it couldnt masked the sourness of the mango.. well, i wasnt that expectant coz their mangoes here are in no comparison to the sweetness of the mangoes we have back home... every time i see it in the grocery store, it wouldnt interest me for i know that i would just waste my money buying it..T.T.... we stayed there for half an hour... until i realized that the soccer match between spain and honduras is about to begin on tv.. they have an HD tv down at the store... well, we were just killing time basically so we decided to run across the street and check out a fishing spot by the water... you see, anywhere you go from here is water... i have been eyeing that spot every time i would drive down to the grocery store... we just made the most of our "spoiled" time.. we took some pictures despite the unbearable heat ... i hate being out in the sun.. but i couldnt deny how lovely every side of the island is... it is always worth taking a picture...
.... as we were waiting in the bus stop..
these are soccer banners hanging in the convenient store... people here are football fanatics...
especially for a great number of Portuguese living on the island...
i am rooting for Spain but I dont know why Raul is not playing... T.T
we took random pics of anything we find worth picture taking on
our way home....
notice the white-colored roof tops of the houses in bermuda
our plan turned out in a different way but it was still nice and fun in its simple way.. Welcome, Summer 2010... !
I was never an athletic person.. i just want to watch on the sidelines... but while growing up i had many "manly" influences in life...and at home,whenever there are ball games or sports event on tv, both my father and brother would take total control of our tv set... since my mother doesnt care about those things, the vote wins in their favor... so i have no choice but to join them...i would watch everything from basketball to boxing to wrestling... thus i believe in the saying that love can be develop..hehehe..hence i developed a love for any thing "sporty"... but i wouldnt dare play any ball games..uh..uh..not me!...i can scream to my heart's delight sans the perspiration...i think i did play baseball when we were in elementary.. well, in high school we had volleyball as our P.E. subject...gosh, i hated it... i was so afraid whenever the ball flew into my direction.. i would scamper away before it lands in my post... i dont know why i behaved that way.. i dont want to be scratched and i think it is too heavy for me to handle... there was even a time that i was walking down the field in school and my male classmates were playing basketball when suddenly the wind blew and up went my skirt.. after that, i realized that my classmates lost grip of the ball and it went hiding underneath my skirt.. it was so embarrassing because it was PE time and all the students gazed at my direction.. maybe this was another reason why i dont like to play any ball games.. however, i came to love basketball- as a fan!!..and i think filipinos are a sucker for basketball... just like this past few weeks when all the world is all agog over the World Cup in South Africa.. but most filipinos stayed focused on the NBA championship... Lakers vs. Celtics... i still remember this NBA fever back home.. my brother would be so into it.. if we couldnt get a live feed on tv, he would listen to the annotations over the radio..there was a time when i became a fanatic of one basketball team.. I was an Alaska fan... I so adored Johnny Abarrientos.. small but terrible Johnny...and when they were in the championship, i would include them in my prayers to win the championship.. i had even sacrificed a hefty saving just to watch them play in Iloilo and i didnt mind being absent from duty even if it meant 24 hours of extension just to see Johnny "the flying A"...but unluckily he wasnt able to play in that provincial tour because of some last minute health problem.. but I saw Danny Siegle.. another favorite and my brother's favorite..all of these things came cascading my mind as I was watching World Cup this week.. I wasnt aware of what World Cup is until I worked in the agency-nope, not the CIA^^...whenever we have students, they would pick English names for "easy communication".. some names are just common English names which became repetitive at some times..jennifer 1..jennifer 2..jennifer 3...just to distinguish one from another..however, male students would pick names like Raul...Zidane..Rooney...Gerrard...Steven... whenever you ask them, why they chose those names, they would give me quizzical look as if I were playing dummy... they would answer back and say, don't you know soccer?? Real Madrid? Manchester United?..and I would just give them a blank stare...duh!... so to make a counter-attack, I would say, how about basketball? don't you know about basketball? but they will just reply, basketball is not a popular sport in Korea.. I didnt know that those names they have chosen are "power house" names in football.. "stars all around me"... so most Koreans have a penchant for football.. they love it..they live it...their answers gave me a feeling of dismay just like when the Philippines lost to South Korea in 2002 Asian Games in Busan... boy! we were so close in our goal to play for gold with China.. only half a minute left for that matter..we were 2 points ahead of the South Koreans...Rah rah Racela was dribbling the ball hoping to keep it up until the buzzer sounds but he was "intercepted" by that ever-valiant Lee Sang Min..he got hold of the ball with only a few seconds left...threw it in mid-air (in the middle of the court) until the ball hops perfectly into the basket giving them a buzzer beater 3 point shot..korea won by half shot.. it was a great disappointment to all expectant Filipinos... which left tears not just to Olsen Racela's eyes but many to kababayans.. it was a very sad moment for everyone.. I still remember it vividly.. then all of us were put to hush.. from that time on, I seemed to have lost heart as well.. a few years after that, a new word came into my ear- football... then I remember a cousin of ours who played for CPU football team.. I was still in elementary when they competed outside of the country under his university's team... my aunt even gave us a souvenir from Thailand because he went there to play football.. when I was also in UP, football is a great part of our sports fest... my hunkable classmates would proudly carry their uniforms and shoes to the football field and played with all their heart..but as ive said, i was never physically involved in any ball games.. sports fest is a good excuse to roam around the city and go home... then i heard about the great "Tamasak" team from Barotac Nuevo.. a schoolmate in UP who is from that town was very proud to share stories about his Tamasak team... as the years have gone by, i wonder whatever happened to the CPU football team and the "legendary" Tamasak team from Barotac Nuevo... can't we bring them back to life?? watching all these teams in the World Cup is very interesting...with their supporters don in their creative costumes.. i was watching the game between North Korea and Uruguay early this week and the North Korean team captain was crying uncontrollably when they were singing their national anthem... today the algerian coach was a bit misty-eyed while singing theirs.. how about if there is Philippine Football team as well? wouldnt we be proud to sing our national anthem in front of the world?? I know all of us are proud to sing our national anthem in every manny pacquiao fights... and manny has proven himself that he is no little brown man from the Philippines.. People here are curious about our sport. I would often say we love basketball although we are "vertically challenged."... We want to believe that "We can do it!" just like the shoe commercial... but how about if we develop our skill for football.. this game doesnt need height..it needs speed, endurance, strength and a degree of intelligence and we certainly have those as proven by manny in boxing... i still remember when the late President Marcos was in attendance to watch Rolando Navarrete's fight in Hawaii and the Bad Boy from Dadiangas won the fight.... in the stands today, princes William and Harry watched the game between England and Algeria.. and there are only 3 teams representing Asia in this world cup- North Korea, South Korea and Japan... Japan is ranked 80th+ in world standing... but they stood tall against Cameroon... I think it is time for us to take part not just in football but also other games like tennis and golf and cheer our own players and team... it will be our honor and pride if we can carve out our niche in these games. Let's pave the way for somebody greater than Pele, Nadal and Tiger Woods... If Manny has successfully toppled those big and mighty (even if some played "dirty tricks") men from the West, for sure we can do the same in these fields, too. There is still plenty of room left and we have the 'balls' for it!! Go Pinoy! Go, go Pinoy!!
1. You have a relative,friend or siblings called "toto," "nening," "nonoy," "nene," "inday gamay, tiyay bulak, 'nong boy, 'nang baby, tita daku."
2. You scare children by telling them, "hala may kama-kama," "kuhaon ka sang ati," or "may kapre gapanabako sa likod kahoy."
3. When you're having a slight cold or you're under the weather, you refer to it as "ginasuro-sangko."
4. When children have cough mothers are prompt to say, "may kibit."
5. If you have an unexplained illness, it could be "may nasalapay ka nga mariit, gintandog ka sang kalag, gintuyawan ka, or may nasugat-an ka nga malain ginhawa." I wonder how bad it is^^
6. When you are working too hard- "naga bugas-bugas ah."
7. If asked, where are u heading to? You reply, "mangita sang kinawala" (which is already an oxymoron!)
8. You call loved ones as "pangga, 'ga and little children "tata."
9. If a bad thing happens to a person you hate, you quickly twitch your mouth and say, "ti man gingabaan."
10. If you are itching to hear news from others, you keep saying, "ti ano pa gid? ano pa gid kuno?"
11. When you size up someone, you talk at the back of your mind saying, "tan awon ta sa kurbada."
12. Daring and pachydermic persons are called "kabalan," "bongga-itan."
13. Naughty girls are despicably labeled as "B....."
14. Dimwits are poorly called "langka," "langto" or a much subtle term 'pobre espirito" while naive ones are emphatically commented as "waay gid buot."
15. We have some lingual-lapses especially as to the vowel sounds: Dunna - for Donna Penk - for Pink Un - for "on" Lulu - Lolo Root - for Ruth Juju - for Jojo Ahyan - for I(Ee)an Lula - Lola
16. "Bulang" is an equivalent of World Cup among middle-aged men and elders.
17. You have a "sinamakan" at home to "su-su" your grilled fish or meat.
18. You get your bread from Tinapayan, Wewin's, JD Bakeshop or Julie's.
19. When you ran out of food at home, you can have cooked rice and "butong- butong" or rock salt.
20. You crave for batchoy, inasal nga manok, pantat, talaba and dinuguan.
21, Your greens on the table consist of apan-apan, adobo nga takway,amargoso nga may itlog, alogbati with baringon, linutik nga labog, puso ka saging nga may baboy, tambo and tugabang.
22. When having a feast and your budget is not enough to serve the whole baranggay KBL is the answer.
23. You like pinasugbo, barquillos and biscocho.
24. Iloilo Fastfood icons are Roberto's, Dinagyang siopao, Ted's La Paz Batchoy, JD, Summer House and Kongkee restaurant.
25. You've watched a flick or two at Allegro, Regent, Crown and Cinema.
26. Grocery Shopping is done at Ledi Supermart or Iloilo Supermart.
27. In going South, you hold your breath while traversing that long bridge in Guimbal so your wish can come true.
28. Joyride means taking a Jaro CPU or a Molo City High jeepney.
29. You buy shoes at Sam's.
30. You stroll down Calle Real if you are looking for bargains.
31. We give nicknames to certain group of people in our province like "first class ang ticket" for Lambunaonons, "daw taga-Dumangas ka" if you are moving to slow in waiting for a jeepney, "taga-Interior" if you are speaking a "crackling and fast" dialect.
32. If Koreans use 'yo' or 'hamnida' in every word, sentence or phrase, "ang mga taga-siyudad" end theirs with 'ya'..."na ano na sya ya?" "indi ko ya," "wala na ya," "pabay-i lang ko ya," "labot mo ya."
33. When we are so incensed, we call forces of nature "linti," "kilatan ka tani"
34. You have played pityaw, Ins, Baggle.
35. You can find a multitude of XY chromosome at John B and WIT.
36. You don't know what's inside the Iloilo Museo because you havent been there all your life or you made a random peek in preparation for a foreigner friend coming.
37. You are familiar with Graciano Lopez Jaena, Franklin Drilon, Miriam Defensor-Santiago, Niel Tupaz, Dr. Rolando Padilla, Dr. Greg Tirador, Dr. Alejandro Rivera,Eddie Laczi,Quido Parcon, Jenil Demorito,Roding Ganzon, Rogelio Florete, Noring Espanola but you have no clue as to who Gen. Martin Delgado was. All you know is that Delgado "twinkles" at night and he's friends with Mabini whose neon lights invite throngs of "hungry souls."
38. When ask for a historical landmark, all you could think is Miag-ao church.
39. Our "sugat" never hurts nor bleeds.
40. Our "pating" flies and never swims.
41. Our "usap" can be crunchy or loud but devoid of words.
42. We wear 'bayo' and 'kamiseta' all the time without costing a fortune.
43. You've tuned in and listen to "Sino ang May sala?,", "Toyang Ermitanya," "Provincial Jail," "Dear Diary," and "Hutik sa Kagab-ihon."
44. You are alarmed upon hearing the name of "Tinyente Guimo."
45. Bombo Radyo's Hot Panawagan was once a substitute to sending a telegram or a text message of this era.
46. When the weather gets too hot, you go to SM City "para magpalamig."
47. When you take a jeepney in Manila and you want to signal the driver to pull-over, you shout "sa lugar lang," or "break...break."
48. When you feel aggrieved, you'd quip "Isugid ta ka kay tatay/nanay or sa magulang ko."
49. Drinking spree is called "priming."
50. Carinderia thriving on every street corner is called "mikels," and you are fond of buying peanuts along the street plus telling the vendor, "damua bi ajos ko 'nong."
.... as we were waiting in the bus stop..
these are soccer banners hanging in the convenient store... people here are football fanatics... 
i am rooting for Spain but I dont know why Raul is not playing... T.T
we took random pics of anything we find worth picture taking on 
notice the white-colored roof tops of the houses in bermuda
our plan turned out in a different way but it was still nice and fun in its simple way..