On My Way Back Home
For me to get back home, it will be either I have to hop on three different jeeps. Jeeps in Angeles City could be really confusing especially if it’s your first time to take a public vehicle there even though they are color-coded (e.g. If you are in SM City Clark and you want to go to the City Proper, hop on to a blue jeep). Or I have to ride a tricycle and one jeepney.
I prefer the latter option because with that, I can get home earlier. Traffic in Angeles City, especially in the City Proper is terrible!
I spend thirty pesos just to get back home. Pretty expensive, eh?
On the jeepney ride back home today, we (that’s I and some of my blockmates) were talking about our latest topic in Ethics… family planning. Our voices were a little bit louder than usual, but I didn’t notice if the other passengers were looking at us. You know, we were talking about various methods of contraception. And what we’re discussing is like crackers, everybody likes talking about it. So it was a bit strange that nobody was looking at us.
Christian: Alam mo ba na puwedeng tawaging prophylactic1 ang condom? (Did you know that you can call a condom as prophylactic?)
Digi: Talaga? (Really?)
Ruiz: Ay, gusto ko ng ganun. Matagal na akong hindi nakakatikim ng ganun! (Hey, I like that. I haven’t tasted that for a while).
Christian: *shocked, eyes are bulging* ANO? (WHAT?)
Ruiz: Ang sabi ko, gusto ko ng Tofi Luk. (I said that I want a Tofi Luk.)
Christian: Ah, prophylactic or condom ang pinag-uusapan namin at hindi Tofi Luk. (Ah, we were talking about prophylactic or condom and not Tofi Luk.)
That conversation was really crazy. I thought my friend was missing the taste of a condom. Haha. But it turned out that he misheard me and thought that what I said was Tofi Luk (it’s a chocolate bar, by the way for those who don’t know it) instead of Prophylactic.
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I’m back at home, in our kitchen, surfing the internet. Roar. I really hate this. If you’ve been following me on Twitter, you might have noticed my complaints about my loss of privacy.
Recently, our phone line was busted. It looks like those people who fixed our gate had cut our phone line accidentally. My father reported it, and it took PLDT’s linemen two or three days before they got here. They said that they can’t do nothing with our phone line (Eek! Excuse me? You can’t? Why? You are incompetent, right?) so they created a new line.
And now, since we can’t use the old line, I have to go downstairs in our kitchen, where they put the new line just surf the internet. I hate it because I don’t have any privacy. My siblings could see what sites do I visit. And my parents are complaining why I am using my notebook, Snidget, for hours in just a single day and my father is asking my what sites do I visit. On the other hand, my mother has been asking me if I still study because I use my laptop excessively.
I badly want our old line fixed. What’s more is that I can feel my back aching because I don’t have a backrest here in our kitchen. It’s really uncomfortable!
- I’ve known about this back in summer when I was watching Daniel Radcliffe’s performance in Extras where he played as a boy scout. In a particular scene, he was holding a prophylactic. It was really funny. [↩]
August 21, 2007 @ 10:41 pm
I remember two years ago, months before our graduation, four of my college friends and I were at the MRT. Because we hate uncomfy silences, out of the blue, this overly chatty friend blurted out something about Gretchen Barreto and her primadonna slut-itude (bio students as we were, we just couldn’t talk about science and school stuff in public ’cause we’re not that g33ky, unlike you lol), and we all ended up giggling like some kind of retarded school girls the entire freaking time, well, until the MRT stopped at our destination, which took about 10 minutes, so imagine all the pointless talks and funny ha-has and stuff. The awestruck looks on people’s faces were priceless beyond all telling.
August 22, 2007 @ 4:00 am
Matagal ko na rin di natitikman yung tofi luk
I’ve always wondered why condoms have flavors, not scent
August 22, 2007 @ 9:35 am
nice word.. prophylactic. I better use that on my friends and see how clueless they are after they hear the word. lol.
Oh man, i hate it when my mom looks over my shoulder to see what me and my chatbuddies are talking about on y!m. ARggh. hahaha.
Buti ka pa naranasan ang pag jejeep. nyahaa. i wanna do that so badly. >.
August 22, 2007 @ 10:51 am
wow gusto ko rin nun! ng condom! JOKE! hehehe tofi luk! fave ko yan kahit nung 4th year plang ako… (5 years ago :P)
August 22, 2007 @ 1:25 pm
I know how you feel. ang gastos. I spend about 70 pesos for my fair from out house to work. I work inside Clark, btw.
August 22, 2007 @ 4:36 pm
My roundtrip to school costs P13. Haha! Mang-inggit ba.
Anyway, ano bang sites ang pinupuntahan mo at ayaw mong nakikita nila? Hehe. And about your Mom, hay nako, ganun talaga sila. Hasty generalization is a built-in feature, haha!
August 22, 2007 @ 8:09 pm
i spend 53Php going to school and 60Php just to get home. college is pretty expensive. LOL especially when you go to some pretty far university. btw, what college/univ. do you study?
lol i wanna watch that performance of Daniel Radcliffe.
August 23, 2007 @ 12:33 am
oh.. so condoms can be called prophylactic.. never knew that..
and with regards to your phone line.. you don’t need a separate line to have a separate internet connection. Just a very long patch cord so you can connect from your room. Last I checked a utp cable costs around Php20/meter and Php3/piece for rj45’s..
August 23, 2007 @ 5:09 am
ang mahal naman ng pamasahe sa inyo, laki siguro ng allowance mo?
try mo kaya maglagay nalang ng wireless router.
August 23, 2007 @ 5:37 pm
Hmm.. So you live in Angeles City? I go there because of AUF
. I wonder if your friend used Tofi Luk as an emergency excuse 
. Yeah, can’t browse through good sites when people are around.
August 23, 2007 @ 7:38 pm
vetzky: I could do that. Kaso, masyadong malayo ang kuwarto ko sa kitchen namin, pangit, nakaexpose ang cord. I’ll just wait for a technician to repair our old line.
iskoo: Mahal ang wireless router! Eek!
Arlo: Oh, I don’t live in Angeles City.
August 24, 2007 @ 2:09 am
I’ve always wanted to use that other term for condom but whenever that chance arises, I always seem to use condom! Haha!
Parents can be irritating. Its part of their job descirption. hehe!
August 25, 2007 @ 3:58 am
I badly want to ride jeeps. I miss it. haha
August 26, 2007 @ 4:15 am
Whenever I go home from my school, I take the LRT ride from Vito Cruz to EDSA, MRT from Taft Avenue to Shaw Blvd., jeep from Crossing to Pasig City’s cathedral then a tricycle ride to my humble offline acre. Talk about a long ride.
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My mother is fine with me surfing the Net for hours. As for my father, he thought that I’m getting my mind infested with hardcore porn. Well, I’m getting my mind infested with the Web but not with movie clips featuring sloppy lip-locking and sex-like-there’s-no-tomorrow. Just blogs and some websites that satistfy my craving as a kid of many hobbies.
August 26, 2007 @ 2:56 pm
nakakapraning ang ethics at sobrang interested din ang mga classmates namin.. hehe. chika tayo ulit minsan sa skul!