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Last week as I was on my way to the last of the Zumba classes I’ve enrolled in, I saw a lot of people lining up in front of a mall even before opening time.

I got curious of course especially since there was a TV station van near the long queue.

It turned out that there was a job fair in the mall and the people lined up were there to look for and apply for jobs.

Such is the life of newly graduates, trainees whose contract have not been renewed and even those who are looking for better opportunities of getting better work and the perks that go with the better position.

Years ago, looking for a job was not that difficult. The ballooning population had a lot of graduates and non-graduates with very few jobs to apply to.

I remember attending a month-long course and training after I quit my work of one month in the hope of getting into teaching. A few days after the month-long course was over, I got hired not because I applied but because there were plenty of teachers there for a few vacant positions from different schools looking for teachers.

I don’t know if I’d be able to stand in a long queue for hours to be able to hand in an application form or a curriculum vitae. Maybe I’d be able to, for the sake of finding work and better opportunities to make my life better.

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I watched a show from a local tv network this afternoon and found myself melancholic afterwards. The show featured two young people, a six-year old girl and champion motorcycle racer who was in his early twenties.

The little girl was violated and later on killed. Not that she was wearing  slutty costumes that made the suspect see something else other than an innocent little girl but she was enticed to go to a nearby carnival (peryahan) because it was their little village’s fiesta.

The young man, on the other hand, a champion motorcycle racer who is making a name for himself in international circuits had his life cut short because of an accident due to negligence on the race track and rescue people.

Both lives cut short. Both situations different from one another but nonetheless painful to accept and difficult to understand. As a mom, I don’t know if I would be able to bring myself to deal with these kinds of situation.

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Got half a kilo of siniguelas when we bought several bags of Vienna Bakery Hopia last Sunday. There’s a bag of those hopia beside the water in the photo.

I wished I bought more siniguelas though. Those in the photo are not everything in the batch of the half-kilo I got. Hubby said that half a kilo we bought seemed few. In other words, madaya ang kilohan.

Naku, alam nyo naman sa Quiapo, kahit nasa harap ng simbahan eh… yun na yun.

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Paranoid. Yes we are like that about home security.

We lock all doors at all times even if we are all at home. We lock the gates from inside when we are home. We look out when the dog is barking.

In fact we have been talking about getting home security systems since one of hubby’s clients is installing cctv in different public places. If it’s possible to get these services that has monitoring services and smoke detectors too at an affordable budget, we’d be investing in it.

Why would we not be paranoid about securing the home when we see people around who don’t look like they can be trusted. In fact some of these people used to hang out and drink (hard liquor) under the trees beside our home and thank God they haven’t been doing that for a while now.

There are gangs in the neighborhood, people who live a block away, beside the river where they’re not supposed to live. Why, just last month, the NBI (National Bureau of Investigation) did a raid on the house across ours because the ones renting apparently are doing some kind of counterfeiting of bottled drinks. Sigh…

I know it sounds like I’m a judgmental person when it comes to these matters, I’d like to think I’m just concerned with the security of my love ones.

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Bangusilog from GoodAh!!!

Hubby and I were looking for a place to have a super late dinner after we had our movie spa date. He suggested we check out the not-so-newly opened GoodAh!!! branch near us.

There was a wall there with old photos of their branches and this got the hubby and me reminiscing about the few times we went to have late dinners there while we were still dating.

When we got our orders, the food smelled and looked the same except of course, the sizes but now smaller. Hubby’s order of longsilog was a bit of a disappointment because what used to be big longganisas (there used to be three or even 4)  are now reduced to a third of the serving they used to serve. My bangus looked like a young one, only cut in half.

It became a place for reminiscing the old times, and that includes thinking about the food servings then.

Oh well…

UPDATE 10:30pm I asked hubby if he still wants to go back there, the answer was “yes”.

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