Clouds in My Coffee

It was Jeunessa, my sister-in-law-to-be, and Omar, my brother, who broke the news. Jeunessa: Omar, what can you say about this blouse? Omar: Tanunigin mo si Jay. Me: (Lifting an eyebrow) Well, mukha syang pang -80's. At bakit may garter? And you bought 2 blouses with the same style! Omar: Pambuntis yan. Me: ... ha ? Jeunessa: I'm pregnant! Me: Huh? Jeunessa: Ay, ayaw maniwala ... (bringing out the ultrasound result and two pregnancy test kits showing positive results) ayan ... I'm pregnant! Me: What are you doing??? (Still startled) Omar: We're telling you, she's pregnant! Jeunessa: We're going to have a baby! Me: Whaaat!? A few minutes after, Miah, my close friend in high school, called and I started spilling that my brother is going to have a baby. Miah: Uy exciting yan! Syeeet Oscar, kelan ang kasal? Me: Hindi ko nga alam eh ... Miah: Kelangan paghandaan yan, engrandeng kasal dapat! Naku Oscar I'm so happy for you! ( Parang ako yung magkakaanak! ) Ke...

I, together with three of my officemates, were called by our big boss. She scolded us for storing gigabytes of movie files, personal files, in our hard drives, assuming that we were watching them all the time and being negligent in our work. The HR provided printed screenshots showing the folders where we kept our files. "I am very dissapointed in you, lalo ka na Charvie, mataas pa naman ang expectations ko sa yo! " I crippled. I have been called by my big boss twice. The first time was because I saved a folder of wallpaper pictures in the shared network folder. And the second time, this time, because I stored movie files in my hard drive. And for that, I've been so disappointing to my boss. I, of all people in my office who, most of them, listen to music, view personal pictures, watch movies and even play computer games, was pointed at by the HR twice for being unprofessional by storing files in my computer. At first, I was silent, but when I felt that it was enough, tha...