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Working Title - by Hazel Castillo

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I have NEVER ever been interested in politics. Not in my home country and definitely not in any other countries.

Enter: US 2008 Elections

What can I say? the whole action AND drama just captured me! I've grown pretty sick and tired of W being the butt of jokes on almost any form of comedy and talk shows. How can a powerful and most influential nation put up with their president being the number 1 topic EVERYWHERE for the wrong reasons?

Anyway. Seeing all the Obama-McCain campaigns, even from the Obama-Clinton battle, I got so intrigued and for some reason, I was interested in politics for the first time.

Now, I'm not only interested in it, I'm rooting for a candidate I can't even vote for! hahaha

oh well.. right now i'm watching CNN online and chanting OBAMAs over on my side of the world

Obama! Obama! Obama!

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November 5th 2008 @ 04:25

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When I'm In over my head

As I've endlessly blogged about in here and practically all of my other blogs, I'm in a roller coaster ride, dealing with issues with my husband and our marriage.

We've faught, we've made up, we've talked in whispers, in rage and in caring tones all within the past 4 months and yet we're still here. Unsure of where this marriage is going and what we're going to do.

Often times we start out fine. We start talking to figure out what we should be doing with our situation. Civil towards each other. I'm not mad at him, he's not mad at me. Then within the conversation we start not making sense or one gets annoyed by the tiniest bit of things and before we know it we're raising our voices or saying insults to each other.

For months I thought I could control myself. I can be mature enough to NOT take whatever he's saying too personally because professional counsellors have explained that he's a little lost and confused within his emotions and his head that sometimes he says things out of resentment and he can't distinguish if he meant it. It's a result of

Sure, most of the times I am able to stop myself and just take it in, even if it hurts. Sometimes I'm way in over my head thinking I can ALWAYS do this. Thinking I can always be patient and take these words and not take them personally. Then again, I'm only human. I have my own feelings that start to boil when I'm not in the right mind.

When I'm In Over my Head... I start to falter. I start to get paranoid. I start to break. I start to crumble. I lose sense of what's right and wrong. What's hurtful and what's not. Then we start going through a literal roller coaster of spats and sorry's and raised voices and silence.

When I'm In Over My head -- I become the monster wife.

I become a nagger

I can't seem to accept that I can't control what's going on and I have to let it go and take a course of its own.

I'm a mother and the eldest of four daughters. I have always had the tendency to "lead" and "take over". I can't take it when things don't go my way. I can't always accept that things aren't exactly how I planned them to be.

Sometimes we just have to accept that they don't go EXACTLY how we planned it, but we can still get to the same results... I know... but I'm having a difficult time accepting that.

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September 20th 2008 @ 02:30

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Manila Traffic

Manila Traffic is Terrible!

I know it's already a fact, but it's never become this stressful to me before because I never traversed EDSA (the main road traversing Metro Manila) regularly especially not on rush hours.

Now that I've been working in Makati, I have to travel from far north (Quezon city) all the way to Makati.

Few people will understand what I'm talking about as this isn't in Australia

but let me give you an idea.

From my house to the office building, it's a distance of about let's say 12kms. Approximately. Now, if I'm traveling at a speed of 60kph, I should get there in 12-15minutes. Basic mathematics.

If I leave early, say around 615am (my work's supposed to start at 8am!), I get to Makati at approximately 30minutes. That would be fine with me, except I'm at work more than an hour before anyone opens the office!

If I leave at 7am however, it'll take me an hour to get there! can you believe that?! a 12km difference and it takes me an hour to get there.

Now going home is another story. The past 2 days it's been taking me an hour to get home -- regardless of what time I leave! Two weeks ago, if I leave about 4pm, I'd get home in 30 minutes. today I even left at 230pm, I got home at past 330!

Worse, I was in traffic for 50 minutes from Makati to the Ortigas flyover, that should be about half of my travel. Right after the bridge/flyover, I got home in 12minutes!

How crazy is that?!

Ugh! I studied, worked and even partied at places about 15-30 minutes away from the house so I never was used to this kind of traffic --- especially when I'm the one driving

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September 3rd 2008 @ 10:27

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Spanish Basketball Team Going Chinese

I was on my way to work yesterday. Listening to the morning radio show, I heard about this picture that the Spanish Basketball Team for the Olympics had taken. They pulled back their eyes to make it look slanted or chinky or in short Asian/Chinese.

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August 13th 2008 @ 13:10

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Been on Sabbatical (or have I?)

Forgive me for my absence the past week, when I promised I'd post daily for a more consistent blogging experience, things happened -- one of which was my child getting sick so I couldn't do much then. I would rather sleep when he was all better than go online and post.

Then I had a sort of farewell party come the weekend so really, I had no time in my hands despite being employed for the first time since I graduated college

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August 7th 2008 @ 11:11

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The Tonight Show WITHOUT Jay Leno?!

I was just reading this on CNN.com and it kinda makes me sad. I always watch those three -- Jay Leno, David Letterman and Conan O'Brien but if i'd have to rank them Jay Leno would be the first and Conan last.

To be quite honest, I find some of Conan's antics and one-liners to be trying too hard and Jay Leno's come quite naturally. I'd say those are gonna be big shoes to fill. I used to really watch Jay Leno every night especially since they play it here on cable just about 12 hours late so it's not bad

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July 26th 2008 @ 14:39

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Your Goals when Blogging

Everytime I blog, I blog for a reason. Either I want to just release any emotions or random thoughts in my mind or to simply share an experience or event I just had.

Most of the time, it's the latter

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July 21st 2008 @ 17:16

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Now you've pissed me off!

A few months back, I posted something ranting about my "new boss".

Now I'm gonna need to rant even more

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July 11th 2008 @ 20:06

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My new companion

Today, I took the courage to spend some money on another luxury.. Yes I know, prices are going high, fuel prices are skyrocketing and won't be stopping anytime soon. I also just resigned and will be out of the company I've been working for, for 5 years by the first week of September...

This however is a sort of "gift" for myself... after 5 straight-n0-break-from-school years of working, I have bought only 2 other things I'd consider a luxury... one is this laptop -- a Toshiba Satellite and the Nintendo Wii

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July 10th 2008 @ 08:21

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