Help Needed

An Autralian writer based in the Philippines is currently looking for an assistant to work on a part-time basis (3x a week, 4 hours a day). He is generous and very considerate.

If you have some aptitude in writing, common sense and love for technology, you'd fit this post comfortably. Please get in touch with me, if you are interested.

=)K

My New Baby

man, i love my mom!

she's sick and all yet she still finds a way to help me out in my direst times.

i've been out of a job since March. Times have been very tough. I barely made it though enrollment and the mounting monthly bills... all thanks to her and some help from my brother and some friends.

For my birthday, she again came through and helped me get my hands on my new toy -- a P2 300 IBM Thinkpad.

Yeah, I know, it's an old notebook but it's got most of what I need. With this baby, I can get by with my free-lance work and be mobile. I had the CD-ROM upgraded into a combo drive, the 6gb HDD into 30 gb. I also got a wifi card, an optical mouse and a USB hub (since my new toy only has one USB port).

It has encountered some problems already for which I harrassed the Open Pinoy tech support. Then I learned i can tinker with it and get results faster, less the hassle of trekking to Greenhills in the Ortigas Ave. traffic through LSGH.

Anyway, I'm just raving about my mom. She's my life-saver.

And I say it again -- man, I love my mom!!!

Philippine Graphic/Fiction Awards

Sigh... I guess my imagination isn't rich enough! My entry didn't make it to the finals of the Philippine Graphic/Fiction Awards.

Oh well... life goes on.

In any case, below are the finalists and they are eligible for both the top awards and The People's Choice Awards.

The winners will be announced on July 15 during the SF-Fantasy Convention at Rockwell.

A Song for Vargas
A Strange Map of Time
Stella_for_Star
The God Equation
The Great Philippine Space Mission
The Omega Project
Monstrous Cycle
Atha

To vote, go to:
http://www.fullybookedonline.com/eventdtl.php?id=10

Bring a home-made mask and be eligible for a special prize for the best mask!

To pity or not to pity...

Over the weekend, I passed by ortigas Ave. in Greenhills. While stuck in traffic near the Santolan intersection, I saw this young man in his early teens with deformities on all four of his limbs. He was selling Sampaguita garlands. From afar, I thought, "wow, that's very industrious of him, given his physical limitations."

When he got to me, his height reached only just above the lower part of my window. I politely shook my head and waved him to move on.

Now, this part is disturbing.

He looked into the car and looked straight down to my legs. I was wearing walking shorts so half my thighs were showing. Then he licked his lips, looked at me and started leering and making facial expressions as if to tell me what he intended to do with me.

Note, he never offered his garlands again after looking in.

I felt so violated. All pity evaporated. Instead, I felt utter disgust!

I waved him off with a stern expression on my face, but he just went on with what he was doing, occasionally looking down to my legs. So, I just surged the car forward. Thankfully, he went away after that.

He was practically a quadruplegic and he had no manners whatsoever! It was like his physial appearance simply mirrored his disgusting behavior.

In the end, he was a guy afterall, with his lower head working more than the higher one... Why are there too many of those around?

=)K