7. OFW

ORGULLO
O N L i N E
10 July 2004

Hola kids! Here we are once again and we are face to face, breathing as one, changing the course of destiny…. Okay… not really… but we’re so glad to see ya! As promised, this is the much-awaited 2nd episode this week, which makes this our issue#7. Yay! Panalo! But before we celebrate, we want to admit that we made a goof last week when we forgot to mention our ever adorable and studious future lawyer, Marita Mina. What is legalese for "our fault"? Wea culpa? Cute.

This is issue #7:

Marita, we miss you na. Hope you are at least enjoying law school even if you allot 3 hours of study time per class. And yeah, about your prize, we really have to work out a schedule. You never know, it has earned an interest already…. Hehehe.

As you know, Orgullo, like our country the Philippines, also has many OFWs, meaning Overseas Filipino Were-students like Niña and Jiji, who are in Italy and Spain right now, respectively. Why were-students? Like a werewolf, which is not a complete wolf technically, hence, were-students, i.e. Niña and Jiselle, are in other countries supposedly to study, but we think they are having more of a good time there then immersing themselves in the academic world. Which is fine, because this is just an assumption. Wait, does it sound like we’re bitter because some of us never made it past Luzón? Yup…. Good luck there and we hope you bring us pasalubongs. Niña arrived in Reggio Calabria, Italy after almost a day of flying and driving around. Meanwhile, la prez Jiji is in Spain, basking in the heat of summer sunshine like nobody else. Don’t worry. Jiselle, we all know what the weird Spanish sun can do to your piel morena. Right, Nins?

A previous OFW in Japan, Diday, celebrated her birthday on July 7. Best wishes and magpa-canton ka naman.

Another former OFW in Madrid, Karina, was officially proclaimed "Certified Multilingual CSR" at Source1Asia last Wednesday morning. Congratulations!

And yet another former OFW in France (I guess you now know the major trend this episode), Rio, has this message to Henz: "Langya ka naman, kinalimutan mo ‘ko." Of course, she was just making lambing as Henz did not intentionally forget her.

He is not technically an OFW in Cali but an immigrant. Ian, ano na kaya’ng happening d’yan, Amboy?

Now she is not an OFW, not even an Orgullosa (yet), but we still love her. Nikki, the beloved speaker of the CAL grads this April, is rumored to be in Europe, and we think it’s France. Really…one of these days one of you girls is going to have to bring us Pinoy folks to Europe or somewhere.

Well, Batanes would be nice, but according to the Inquirer, it may cost a person 13-15 grand to travel there. No kidding. But it would be nice to go there, Allan and Niña think so, because it would look and feel like we would be in an episode of The Lord of the Rings.

Speaking of, today is July 10, and it’s Allanski’s anniversary at work. (Fireworks!=) He is a little enfermo but still went to work. So dedicated. Hahaha.

Our next birth anniversary celebration is a triple treat. On August 27, Mye turns 21, Blossom turns 21 and Mel Fresno turns 22. Lookin’ forward na!

Some of us are also looking forward to two days after the day after tomorrow because it’s salario time once again!

We are also looking forward (my, we have two trends this week) to Rhoda’s and Rona’s respective updates on their semi-charmed lives.

Not so looking forward to every morning are Bingo and Eky, who are still being tortured every time they have to take La Lola Verano 101. But at least Eky is not as afraid and imbyerna with La Lola as in the past. May time pa siyang tapusin ang UP Círculo Hispánico recoginition papers this week, AT makipag-tutor-an sa mga kalahating ‘kanó who are going to stay in UP ‘til August. We are so looking forward to meet ‘em! Eky, introduce us naman!

Now, in Cybernews: Dimple, overflowing na ‘ata email mo, medyo mahirap ‘atang magsend at pinagpapawisan si Mailer Daemon Bradley! And y’all people might wanna check out the chuckle e-mail Don forwarded.

Spotted last week in Eastwood were Mel Espiritu and La Joya Preciosa. Echamos de menos, guys!

Armis, ano na nangyari? Si beybi?

Irene, meron bang balita? You know… since you’re part of Orgullo and everything…. All we know, is that you work at Hotel Intercon.

Final words

There is an ad at the Dept. of English and Comparative Literature from an all-boys high school in Kamuning, QC looking for a teacher in Spanish. Interested parties might wanna check it out! (O, Niña, all boys daw, it’s your chance…. Ay, nasa Italia ka nga pala’t nagpapabundat sa pasta.…)

Movie of the week: Mean Girls. A lot of fun, a lot like Jawbreaker and Clueless and other teen movies. But fun.

Right now we’re telling you na episode #10 will be an episode to watch out for.

Dahil dito sa Orgullo News Online, up-to-date ka. Kahit wala kang alam, tulad ni Mike, kahit pagod, nagsisimba. Kaya’t sakay na!

Next issue: Obsessions.