Flynn's Paws: My Thoughts, My Gripes

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Describing my immediate surroundings towards the beginning and a twist to the tale or possible solutions to issues towards the end of some blogs and how they relate to my expectations of the world at large.

  • Regular House

    At around 5:00pm, I arrived home from work where I found the twosome. Both just came home from two or three doctor’s appointment. For one hour, Maw and I prepared the “pancit noodles” for everyone to enjoy. None of the noodles was left when Paw and I left the party at around 10:50pm tonight.

    The Christmas party was held up in Pleasanton, CA off the Livermore 84 (21B) exit from HWY 680. I actually “veered away” from the exit initially and had to travel an extra two miles one way, just to get back to the mysteriously missed exit. That took about ten minutes of travel after one hour and fifteen minutes of traffic in the rain STORM earlier.

    The Livermore exit was long and winding and very dark. There were no streetlights to mark the ways and the first intersection with a four-corner streetlight marked the area of a gated community. There were not high electrical towers either. Only the bright and blinding headlights coming from the opposite direction made driving less safe.

    After making a left into the gated community, the security guard took down my last name and looked into her computer, smiled back at me through the window and raised the arm blocking our way in front. We took another left and saw the well lighted front house of blue reindeers and such.

    Roy, his wife and child seemed to be waiting in the darkened front porch. The door bell works off and on. Paw and I waited in line to be let in and of course the guest host was John. He was a great host, offered cream for my coffee, which he helped dispense too. The wife didn’t know us and didn’t bother talking or entertaining us shorter minorities.

    Paw and I sat at the quieter dining area with Erica and her white husband. Bobby and JenJen later joined us with Gary munching happily away at one miniature cupcake. I found out he went through two divorces and one girlfriend four months ago. I’m good at triggering people’s vulnerabilities.

    I swear JenJen needs the job to support her family. I don’t think Hoan could get along with JenJen. For whatever reason, the guy didn’t make the party but seemed to only make a decision after I provided him my thoughts after emailing back and forth. In one email, he wanted a carpool, which Paw wouldn’t appreciate. There is something terribly wrong with Hoan – a persistent little pest.

    Tomorrow the three of us, including Nam, will be working to work on a backlog of work. I take that as a cue to leave early from the party so that we could rest for the next day.

  • 20101217-More Spooks

    No hello but more ‘bastos’. I guess that what Tess K. does best. While waiting in line for her to finish getting a cup of coffee, she continues to talk to five, tall dark “purple-colored”, good-looking South Asian Indian guys. She had her back turned to me and I gave her my back and the bottom of the right shoe while the guys looked on from the hallway. There is terribly something wrong with her or maybe she’s being traditional in the Asian sense by ignoring me. Maybe being ignored is a good standard. I may need to sign up for a cross-cultural crash course to better understand the differences so I won’t be too easily offended. My bad in advance!

  • Early Morning Mass – Day Two

    This time I did not feel wide awake. I kept my eyes closed as much as possible during the “Simbang Gabi Mass” at 6:00am and tried to sing along the choir with three pages of songs. Refreshments were cold mini-pandisal rolls with butter (or half chicken sandwiches), warm rice porridge with chicken and tofu and cookies. Hot coffee and hot tea washed down the food. Again, I helped to collect the folding chairs and talked with some parishoners. Then I went to work early and found the stupid email to the direction of the VP’s place for the X-Farts’ Party. I wonder if I could bail out of the party because it is raining! I really don’t care about hanging around with these creeps.

  • 20101216-More Spooks

    So the whole place where I work has a tag team of spooks — from JenJen’s poker face professionalism (much to Steve’s chagrin) to Hoan sanpku-eyes of personal issues.

    As far as I know, both email each other. Hoan continues to email me. JenJen continues to work in her usual “controlled” pace. John is a brassy, loud-mouth unprofessional with a butt load of alcohol in his mouth. The rest act Asian or white if they dye their hair lighter than natural.

    Of course, the auditors were nearby and the balding Steve claimed that one activity was done by accident. I looked at the history of all those ending in the letter “R” and sure enough I was made a scape-goat. So Phan emphasized a process rather loudly as whizzed past my desk and probably whispered to Nam in his language to come to my desk and got louder still.

    I too got loud because JenJen had mysteriously printed out a hard-copy of the quantity and reel standard a few minutes earlier. Most of the entries were done by the full-time staff. I played along and it didn’t bother me because I know what the auditors are looking for. So there! Nyah!

  • Dryness Cornea

    Well for the past few days, my left eye has felt dry. For whatever reason, there feels like something inside. This morning it felt like something inside.

    The grainy or sandy sensation withing my left eyeball occurred after pooping really hard two days ago. Or that perhaps some crumbs from my finger, encrusted with cheese, probably landed inside my eye.

    I flushed well with water several times that evening and thought maybe it was a bad allergy from walking around during the day of the freak storm later that evening.

    I don’t know why it feels weird but kept drinking, hopefully, enough water to keep hydrated. But I noticed that my water bottles of usually three have only been used twice. So that means I’m lacking another bottle of water during that day.

  • Dryness Patch

    For the past month or so (I do not know exactly), I’ve acquired a mysterious patch of dry skin right over the area of my right kidney. It is located towards the back and close to the side rib cage. Maw has been putting Vaseline ointment on that area once in a while and has done so a few minutes ago.

    I asked her where the general area of my kidney would be located by point to my back. And sure enough it was right where the dry skin is. I then made comments about how “aliens” were either trying to harvest my right kidney or they were repairing some damage to that area.

    Because I do recall blogging about “pain” underneath my right rib cage and sometimes towards the back. And mysteriously enough the general pain no longer seems to exist. I thank them if they are the kind souls to help me in that manner.

  • Uncle Possessed

    To the Shillster: Uncle Gigolo is nuts and needs to be submitted to the padded room with other nutballs. A couple of days ago your Paw answered my Paw’s long distant phone call. Apparently, the BitterOne tries to avoid headaches and troubles from the likes of us.

    Your idiot Paw boasted about fighting with women at the burial of your deceased paternal Grand Uncle! One was the long time caretaker and the other was the sister. Instead of asking forgiveness for being ignored by the twosome, he embarrassed himself once again in public. When will you and your Paw stop being insane?

    How dare you boast of being on top, too, just like your ungrateful Paw! You must be nuts, too, to separate the friendship between you Maw and my Maw by claiming that your Maw hates us for getting along with your step-Maw.

    “Mag-ingat! Take care in driving!”
    ~Auntie Ching (with a good heart) the last time we said goodbye from your dog house…

    You are a loser! If only your Facebook friends know about your past and how your parents borrowed money from my parents even before you were born! But you are winner for “fighting your own fight”.

    Look at your Paw. He reminds me of a Satanic follower: Sammy Davis Jr.

    • -Dark complexion.
    • -Narrow jawline.
    • -Dark, red shades.
    • -Dark cloths.
    • -Smoker.
    • -Drinker.
    • -Socialite.

    However, out of fairness, he did built your nutball Auntie Malnorm a shed in the back of her apartment to store her useless junk from a hoarding sickness of her. That makes him prone to additive habit out of his creative DNA. Whatever the case may be, he is possessed.

    No one heartless enough would divide family from relatives, friends from strangers. You know who you are.

  • 20101213-Weathery Ways

    WTF? According to Maw, the sunshine was very bright.

    “The sunshine was very bright. I have a headache!”
    ~Sadaf S. cluching the sides of her temple area with both hands around 3:30pm.

    When I went walking during lunchtime at around 12:15pm to 12:45pm, the sunshine was still glorious against crispy clear blue skies, not a cloud in the skies! Then as I made my way back to work from a counter-clockwise direction at the corner, I saw in the distance, some white horizontal, high altitude clouds over the Pacific Ocean, just behind the blue/black mountains located westward. Elsewhere was still crispy, clear blue skies.

    Now it’s cloudy and cold. Since I woke up too early this morning, I felt sleepy around 4:00pm. Then I left at 4:15pm and arrived at home 4:30pm. I should go to bed and take a nap but will end up ruining tonight’s sleep. For the next nine days, I’ll be waking up early to attend “Simbang Gabi”.

  • 20101216-Being Bored

    It’s around 8:46am and for one hour I managed to generate three reports: One is for “on hold”, the “other” one doesn’t have any new schedules on it, my “arm” has been completed. I even had time to get a cup of hot chocolate. I’m still running the report for AVR. Now all I have to do is wait and help JenJen, who is not yet here, and only if she wants.

    For today, I’ll enjoy the weather during my breaks, call the thugs who are accuring interest for takng too long to settle my debt and hopefully be happy.

  • Black Heart – Fire Gods

    In recent news:

    Despite bloodshed, U.S. reports Afghanistan progress
    By Missy Ryan – 40 mins ago

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A review of President Barack Obama’s Afghanistan strategy reported on Thursday that headway against insurgents likely will allow the United States to start pulling out troops next year as planned even though major challenges remain.

    The foreign forces in Afghanistan hope to hand security control to Afghan forces by the end of 2014, as agreed with Karzai at a NATO summit in Lisbon in November.

    —

    Black Heart
    Filipino U.S. soldier with Black Heart on helmet

    Notice the black heart on the helmet of the Filipino U.S. solider. Notice too the ball of orange fire burning behind the solider, who carrys a weapon that “fires”. The fire gods have returned to “clean house” in war-torn, Middle Eastern countries.

  • Early Morning Mass – Day 1

    Today the three of us attended “Simbang Gabi”. Traditionally, Filipino families from the old towns would wake up their children to attend mass as early as four o’clock in the morning.

    Maw was already dressed, walked through the small hallway, announced to moi that she will drive herself to mass, went downstairs to wake up Paw and had to wake up around 5:00am as a result.

    Thank you for allowing me to have a restful sleep that night. Otherwise, I would be quite tired and irritated during today. That gave me enough energy to sit through the mass, to greet people with some effort in smiling and to fold some metal chairs later on.

    So we sang Filipino music in the language and all sorts of people attended. The mass was held for about thirty minutes and then refreshments of coffee, tea, mini-pandisal with either butter or cream cheese, corned beef, soup of chicken, corn, and beans was served.

    The tall Filipino guy with missing front teeth announced three set of names for their generosity: Fred, Emmer and his wife and of course Maw and Paw! Last night, I too have been generous to a fault without thinking and being clueless.

    Andd as a result, “my family” will get to eat and I will get a nice surprise in the mail! (Jumping up and down).

    Since I’m wide awake, I decided to go to work early, emailed the boss and hopefully will get to leave early in time for Christmas shopping or a facial hair removal job in the mall!

  • Emailing Pieces

    Well, today has been mostly emailing JenJen and Hoan. A lot of the email is about “crank” and clarification. Of course, I play the devil’s advocate and talk “crank” behind their backs. What can I say? My bad! I have nothing to loose but did express that hopefully both will get a full-time job. Frankly, I don’t want the job. But I need a job.

    As I tried to make peace with my inner demons, the sunshine came out! It was amazing work to see fluffy, puffy clouds of white and crispy clear blue skies after a few days of storms. I picked up later on in the afternoon to remember “gifting” some more. It’s all I know how to do at best. If I could come up with some other creative way, then that will have been made possible, someway, somehow.