Vending Machine (Tagalog)

Originally posted on my friendster blog, September 8th, 2009 at 2:34 am 

Kung inaakala mong pare-pareho lang ang mga vending machine, dyan ka nagkakamali. Meron vending machine na marunong mang-asar sa Batha (lugar sa Saudi) na malapit sa City Food Court (Fast Food) na talagang mapapaisip ka kapag ginamit mo… As in talagang magtataka ka, baka nga mapagamit ka pa ng logic eh, tulad ko na may palogic-logic pang nalalaman hahaha!

September 6, 2009.. Mga pasado 6:45pm ay nagpunta kami ng pamilya ko sa Batha. Dahil medyo gabi na yun, nagugutom na kami kaya nagpasya kaming bumili muna ng makakain sa City Food Court. Jumbo shawarma ang pina-order ko para sa akin. Tinanong kami ni mama kung anong drinks ang gusto namin ngunit dahil ang mga soft drinks sa City Food Court ay pepsi at mirinda citrus lang at may nakita akong vending machine na malapit sa City Food Court, nagpasya ako na hindi na umorder ng inumin at pumunta doon sa vending machine para bumili ng inumin.

Ang naalala kong choices doon sa vending machine ay pepsi diet, shani, mirinda apple, mirinda strawberry at mirinda orange (exact order) na makikita doon sa babang pilian sa vending machine. Yung sa taas na pilian ay di ko na matandaan kung anong meron sa sobrang dami.

Hmm.. shani, long time no taste. Yun sana ang pipiliin kong inumin hanggang sa nakita ko ang mirinda strawberry na nakatukso sa akin. Dahil madalas hindi yun available sa mga tindahan na pinupuntahan ko at isang beses ko pa lang natikman yun. Yun ang pinili kong inumin.

Pinindot ko na ang pindutan para sa mirinda strawberry at may lumabas nang softdrinks in can sa vending machine ngunit nung kinuha ko na, laking gulat ko ng makita ko na mirinda apple ang lumabas.

Napaisip tuloy ako, “Mirinda strawberry ang pinindot ko ah… pero bakit ito ang lumabas? Nagkamali ba ako?… sigurado akong hindi”

Pero dahil hindi pwede magreklamo sa vending machine, hindi na ako nagreklamo at tinanggap na lang ang mirinda apple. Sinabi ko na lang sa sarili ko na masarap din naman yung mirinda apple”

Tapos na gawin ang mga inorder namin, kinuha na namin yung mga inorder namin at umalis na sa City Food Court. Lumipat kami sa ibang building at doon may hinihintay yata papa ko at may pinuntahan ang mama ko kaya doon muna kami tumambay sa bench doon at kumain ng inorder namin na shawarma at jumbo shawarma.

Hindi pa ako tapos kumain ng jumbo shawarma nung bumalik na ang mama ko at tinanong kami ng papa ko kung gusto namin sumama sa kanila mamalengke. Dahil ayokong maglakad habang kumakain, sinabi ko na doon na lang ako maghihintay sa bench sa kanila at dahil nagdesisyon akong magpa-iwan, nagpa-iwan na rin ang kuya ko para samahan ako.

Ubos na ang kinakain at iniinom ng kuya ko habang ako ay medyo kalahati pa ang jumbo shawarma kong kinakain at ang laman ng iniinom kong mirinda apple. Maya-maya ay nagyayang bumili ng inumin ang kuya ko ngunit sinabi kong “sandali lang uubusin ko muna to” (referring to my jumbo shawarma).

Dahil siguro alam ng kuya ko na mabagal akong kumain, nagpasya siyang bumili mag-isa at sinabi nya na sya na lang bibili… babalik na lang daw siya. Sinabi ko na may malapit na vending machine sa City Food Court, at dahil abot-tanaw ko naman yun, itinuro ko na din at agad siyang umalis.

Maya-maya, bumalik na ang kuya ko na may iniinom na shani na kina-inggitan ko naman kaya paglapit ng kuya ko ay agad ko syang kina-usap. “Yan dapat ang bibilhin ko eh… Kaso nakita ko yung mirinda strawberry. Yun pinindot ko, ito lumabas”. Inangat ko pa ang ininumin kong mirinda apple nang bigla naman natawa ang kuya ko at sumagot na “yan ang pinindot ko, ito lumabas”. “Oh? hindi nga?” Bigla kong naitanong.

Akala ko niloloko nya lang ako nung una pero mukha siyang seryoso. Sabi nya pa “subukan mo.” kaya naniwala na ako. Dahil ubos na ang iniinom kong mirinda apple at na-iinggit ako sa shani ng kuya ko, niyaya ko ang kuya na pumunta doon sa may vending machine para bumili ng inumin ulit.

Nagdesisyon ako na pagdating namin doon na mirinda apple ang pipiliin ko para shani ang lumabas. Ngunit ng pagdating namin doon, natukso nanaman ako sa mirinda strawberry. Oh the temptation, I can’t resist it hahaha! So nagbago ang isip ko, gusto ko nanaman ng mirinda strawberry.

Pinasok ko na ang 1 Riyal sa vending machine at napaisip, “teka, baka iba nanaman ang lumabas… kailangan ng operation logic”. Mukhang desperado na ako sa mirinda strawberry ah. Grabe na talaga ang temptation. XD

Sabi ko sa kuya ko “Baka iba nanaman ang lumabas. Kung mirinda apple na nasa left ng mirinda strawberry ang lumabas nung mirinda strawberry ang pinili ko at shani naman ang lumabas na nasa left ng mirinda apple na pinili mo, ibig sabihin kapag pinili ko yung mirinda orange, mirinda strawberry ang lalabas dahil nasa left yun ng mirinda orange.” “Siguro.” Sagot naman nya.

Dahil yun ang natutunan ko sa logic, sigurado na akong yun ang mangyayari. So pinindot ko na ang mirinda orange at may kumalabog na sa vending machine takda na merong nang lumabas na inumin. Nanlaki ang mga mata ko nung nakita kong mirinda orange din mismo ang lumabas! Tawang-tawa ang kuya ko sa nangyari at ako naman ay hindi makatawa dahil ako ang iinum.

Pero sabi nga nila, there’s always a bright side. So what’s the good, the bad and the ugly?

The good or the bright side is at least I got a drink.

The bad is, it’s not the drink that I wanted.

The ugly is me hahaha! Joke lang yun. Kita mo natawa ka, ibig sabihin joke lang talaga yun. Huwag mong sabihing hindi

My drawings.

Breaking News

(This is also re-post from my frienster blog, original date is Jannuary 4, 2009. This is just a joke :D)

Dimuel and Batumbakal were best friends. They’re both in Batumbakal’s house watching their favorite show waiting for the New Year to come. 11:50pm of Dec 31, a breaking news interrupted their favorite show.

“Good evening everybody, I mean not really good evening. I’m Kim A. Tayan. We interrupt our scheduled program to air a horrifying news. NASA broadcasted a while ago that their satellites have spotted a great comet heading towards the Earth. The Comet is estimated to hit the Earth in about ten minutes from now. Astronomers believe that the said comet is huge enough to destroy the world!”

After the broadcast, their favorite show was restored and Dimuel panicked…

Dimuel: Oh my God! Oh my God! What do we do?

Batumbakal: Calm down, don’t be stupid!

Dimuel: How do I do that?!

Batumbakal: Just don’t be yourself… Just do whatever you want while you still have time so you’ll die happy when the comet hits.

Dimuel: Uh… I just can’t think of anything I want to do right now. All I know is I don’t want to die being crushed by a comet.

Upon hearing what Dimuel said, Batumbakal quickly grab a knife and stabbed Dimuel at the heart.

Dimuel: W-why did you do that?

Batumbakal: Well, you said you don’t want to die being crushed by a comet and I think it’s more painful to die that way and feel the explosion of the world than being stabbed by a knife so I decided to do that.

Dimuel: Thank you, you really are my best friend

Just when Dimuel can hardly open his eyes and is about to die, their favorite show was once again interruped with a breaking news. “It’s a false alarm! Another comet hits the comet that were supposed to hit the Earth. Pieces of comets scattered and it both changed direction. None of the comets were heading towards the Earth so the world is now safe. I repeat, it’s a false alarm! This is Kim A. Tayan saying good night everybody and a Happy New Year!”

Vending Machine

(This is a re-post of my friendster blog. This is back in September 2009.)


If you think that all vending machines are just the same, you are wrong there. There’s a vending machine near the City Food Court (A fast food) in Batha, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia that knows how to mock its customer. As in you will really wonder when you use it. You might even use logic. Like me, who even use my logic on figuring out how that vending machine works.

September 6, 2009. It was past 6:45 PM when I and my family went to Batha. Because it was almost night, we were hungry so we decided to buy food in the City Food Court. I told my mom to buy me a jumbo shawarma (Turkish food) and she asked what drinks I would like to buy. But because the drinks that are available in the City Food Court are just pepsi and mirinda citrus and I saw a vending machine nearby, I told my mom not to buy a drink for me and decided to buy a drink from the vending machine.

The vending machines have two rows of choices. On the bottom row, from left to right, the choices are pepsi diet, shani, mirinda apple, mirinda strawberry and mirinda orange. I don’t remember the choices on the top row since there are too many drinks for me to remember.

Hmm... shani, long time, no taste. I was about to choose it when I saw mirinda strawberry that tempted me to buy it. It’s not always available in the store that I always go to and I only have tasted it once so I decided to buy it instead.

I pressed the button for mirinda strawberry and I heard a thud from the inside of the vending machine which means it’s already out and ready to be picked up. But when I took it, I was surprised that it was a mirinda apple that came out of the vending machine.

So it got me thinking, “I pressed the mirinda strawberry button but why this one came out? Did I pressed the wrong button? I’m sure I didn’t.”

But because you can’t complain on a vending machine, I didn’t complain and just accept the mirinda apple.  I just told myself that mirinda apple is good too.

Finally, our order was done. So we took it and went away from the City Food Court. We transfer to a different building. There it seems like my father was waiting for something and my mother went somewhere. So we sat on a bench and ate our shawarma and jumbo shawarma.

I wasn’t done eating my jumbo shawarma yet when my mother came back and my father asked if we want to go buy grocery with them. Because I don’t want to walk while eating, I told them that I would just wait for them on the bench. My elder brother decided to stay with me.

My brother already finished his food and drinks while my jumbo shamarwa is still half and my miranda apple is still half-full. Later on, my brother asked me to buy drinks with him but I told him that I’m going to finish my food first.

Because of that, he decided to buy a drink alone. He told me that he’ll just come back. I told him that there’s a vending machine near the City Food Court and because I can see it from where I stand, I point it out for him and he leaves immediately.

Later on, he came back drinking a can of shani in his hand that made me envious. So when he came close to me, I immediately spoke to him. “I was supposed to buy that… But I saw mirinda strawberry. I chose it, this came out” I raised the can of mirinda apple in my right hand when he suddenly replied “I chose that, this came out”. “Huh? Really?” I asked in an instant. I thought he was just kidding me at first but he looks so serious. He also said “Try it.” so I believed him.

At that time, my mirinda apple is already empty and I’m envious of my brother’s shani so I asked him to accompany me to the vending machine to buy a drink.

I decided that when we get there, I will choose mirinda apple so a shani will come out. But when we got there, I was once again tempted by mirinda strawberry. Oh the temptation, I can’t resist it hahaha! So once again, I changed my mind. I want mirinda strawberry again.

I inserted one riyal on the vending machine and said to myself “wait, maybe a different one will come out. This calls for operation logic”. I was really determined to get a mirinda strawberry; the temptation is just that much. XD

So then I told my brother “Maybe a different one will come out. If mirinda apple which is at the left side of mirinda strawberry came out when I chose mirinda strawberry and shani which is at the left side of mirinda apple came out when you chose mirinda apple, that means if I chose mirinda orange, mirinda strawberry will come out as it is at the left side of mirinda orange.” “Maybe” my brother answered.

Because that’s what I learn in logic, I was certain that it will happen. So I pressed the mirinda orange button and I heard a thud again from the vending machine which means it’s already out. My eyes grew big when I saw that mirinda orange also came out. My brother burst into laughter when he saw that while I can’t even laugh because I’m the one who’s going to drink it.

But like they say, there’s always a bright side. So what’s the good, the bad and the ugly?

The good or the bright side is at least I got a drink.

The bad is it’s not the drink that I wanted.

The ugly is me hahaha! That’s a joke! You see you laugh there, that means it really is a joke. Don’t say you didn’t. L

Doomsday

Harold Camping predicted that the end of the world will be tomorrow, May 21, 2011. But why is everyone laughing?

It's because all sane person take it as a joke.

Well, maybe Harold Camping is the best comedian after all.

Imagine, he made billions of people laugh with a single joke. Not only that, some even bother to spread the word on the internet and made their own spoof about it.

That's how brilliant Mr. Camping is, he even make me post a blog about it.

But why did I make a blog out of it?

Well it's because it brings back memories of the good old days.
Back in 1995, when I was still seven years old, there's already a lot of prediction about the end of the world.

The most popular one at that time was the "year 2000 Armageddon".

Raymond, a guy who is 3 years older than me and our neighbor at that time made his own prediction too. He said that the end of the world will happen in the year 2000 because there will be a clash between Dragon Ball Z and X-men.

I was like "huh?" I can't believe it. Not because it was unbelievable for me as a kid but because he did not include "Street Fighter" which was my favorite fantasy fighters.

So I came home disappointed. Because of that, I grabbed a pencil and a piece of paper and drew the most powerful being on Earth that can rival both the X-men and Dragon Ball Z, Chow-chow Power! A super hero with a triangle-shape face, has drillers on both his shoulders and wears a cape.

He can fly! He's invulnerable and powerful.

I then showed Raymond my drawing. I told him that in year 2000, Chow-chow Power will destroy the X-men, Dragon Ball Z and the world. He was like "huh?"

See? Even kids can make prediction like Harold Camping did.

So tell me, do you believe him?

Blog Introduction

Hello, welcome to my blog.

All post here are made by me and me alone. In other words, it's just my thoughts in written form. :)

I'm an aspiring writer. I may not be a good writer for now, but I will be someday.

I also want to be an artist, a manga artist to be exact... or not lol. Maybe a graphic novelist or something but I think you get the idea. An illustrated story writer. So this blog will also contain my drawings and art works.