20040929
screamfest faded
mwahahahaha... sorry. i think i shall start all my xanga entries for this week with a laugh. 
but can i get a holla from those who still live at home with their parents! i arise to yet another day of hollering, this time about my lost passport.
yipee - could be the first reason for deportation? coz of course it is the first thing on my mother's mind, she who is addicted to CNN and all things news. the joke in my family is that she is so news savvy, she will beat the CIA and the FBI and the whole of the u.s. military might in finding osama bin laden.
"it's hard to get a passport issued to you these days because of these hard times," she admonishes, referring of course to the current wars in asia.
so i hop online to look for a phone number and talk to the peeps at the philippine consulate to ask for advice. she who is new savvy yells at my other ear, "you are a u.s. citizen! you don't have nothing to do with the philippine consulate anymore."
"depending on the city, it takes just two days to get your passport," the lady on the other end of the phone was telling me.
oh the joy of it all, having your attention pulled one way and another. to make me laugh i check e-mail and blogs and forums i've been waiting to hear from. i extricate myself from those and then look for the ________ consulate's phone number. i call while rummaging about the basement, my mother's jackets' pockets, and running up and down stairs.
"you're not required a passport, just a naturalized certificate if you have one, and your birth certificate," says the sensible person on the other line.
i tell my mother and show her my birth certificate, who lightens up and says, "your doctor's name was FOR-TU-NA-TA. you know, you were a mere 32 pounds when you were born. aehehehehehe."
she calls the bus company for her first long trip bus ride ever. CNN shows a british worker chained hand and foot. "why are they treating him like that, he's not even a soldier!" she tells the newscasters.
and here i go, blogging, going, "i've been there before, but canada always rocks. i'm going to toronto!"
¶ 9/29/2004 01:29:00 PM 
but can i get a holla from those who still live at home with their parents! i arise to yet another day of hollering, this time about my lost passport.
yipee - could be the first reason for deportation? coz of course it is the first thing on my mother's mind, she who is addicted to CNN and all things news. the joke in my family is that she is so news savvy, she will beat the CIA and the FBI and the whole of the u.s. military might in finding osama bin laden.
"it's hard to get a passport issued to you these days because of these hard times," she admonishes, referring of course to the current wars in asia.
so i hop online to look for a phone number and talk to the peeps at the philippine consulate to ask for advice. she who is new savvy yells at my other ear, "you are a u.s. citizen! you don't have nothing to do with the philippine consulate anymore."
"depending on the city, it takes just two days to get your passport," the lady on the other end of the phone was telling me.
oh the joy of it all, having your attention pulled one way and another. to make me laugh i check e-mail and blogs and forums i've been waiting to hear from. i extricate myself from those and then look for the ________ consulate's phone number. i call while rummaging about the basement, my mother's jackets' pockets, and running up and down stairs.
"you're not required a passport, just a naturalized certificate if you have one, and your birth certificate," says the sensible person on the other line.
i tell my mother and show her my birth certificate, who lightens up and says, "your doctor's name was FOR-TU-NA-TA. you know, you were a mere 32 pounds when you were born. aehehehehehe."
she calls the bus company for her first long trip bus ride ever. CNN shows a british worker chained hand and foot. "why are they treating him like that, he's not even a soldier!" she tells the newscasters.
and here i go, blogging, going, "i've been there before, but canada always rocks. i'm going to toronto!"
¶ 9/29/2004 01:29:00 PM
