About Kuya Joey

About TECHGUY :

• grew up in a tondo-caloocan slum area for the first nine years of my life, saw actual slum riot, gun shooting and death by balisong before i reaches my ninth birthday……..i know how the maralitang taga-lungsod live and die………they die with their eyes open, with empty stomach, with dilapilated make shift house and worst……..they die and……..they die together with their dreams……..unfulfilled………and the people in Malacanang never cares……..

• learn to read @ the age 0f 2 (komiks and liwayway), komiks are free in slums area, borrowed from kapitbahay

• learn  to add numbers @ the age of 5, learn from playing baraha (lucky nine and reading “dividendazo”-San Lazaro/Sta Ana Race Review Booklet)

• learn to play dama and chess @ the age of 3, i almost grew up in a barber shop

• my 4th son is a gifted-child

• board 5 champion in Dama and Chess during my telecom day in the Phil.

• my 5th son is an area chess champion in Toronto 

• graduated number 8 in my elementary ( Public school ) class of  1973 (age 11)

• almost passed Phil Science High School Entrance Exam, missed it by  1%point, siguro kung nakapasok ako sa PSHS baka “sayang-tist” na ako sa NASA………hehehe

• almost made in to US Navy, failed in the medical exam, sabi Uncle Sam mataas daw ang high blood pressure ko.

• graduated 2nd honors in section 11 class 77 Caloocan High School(age 15)

• frustrated lawyer – i was already enrolled in Letran AB English pero sabi ni Tatay mag-engineering na lang ako………siguro may premonition na siya i will see the world free and meet my future wife that will eventually gave him five great apo and the rest is history……..

• frustrated writer – i never missed to submit my literary piece to THE VOICE – my high school newspaper but they never published it……..

• frustrated singer

• hindi “alaktrical engr, malakas lang sa pulutan”

• finished M.E. (medyo engot) 1982(age 20/21)

• finished ECE 1991

• almost completed Master of Engg in Telecom(1991-1997) @Stockholm, Sweden/Paris, France but i migrated to East Coast in 1999

aka kuya joey……..sabi nila pinanganak ako suwerte (sabi ni Aling Taleng na manghi-hilot e full moon daw at a-ocho pa) pero hindi ako gwapo, katunayan lang ng buhay ko e me kakambal na OCHO(8), dati kong address e 88 tabi ng poso, maraming aso, Boso-Boso, Bangkusay, Tondo, ngayon taga toronto ako…….. toronto based telecom engineer,an accidental tourist, world traveller which is related to my telecom job with too many emotional baggages, i have been to few countries in the world, mostly my travel was funded by my company, i may say……..job related, i have  travelled the Philippines from Batanes to Jolo as required by my telecom company in the Phil. With my love/hate relationship with the people in the goverment, I am still in debt with them because they partially funded my engineering scholarship in Europe from 1991 to 1997.  25% spanish, 25% chinese, 50% pinoy(25%cebuano,25%bicolano), ey……..now a canadien……..I wanna wake-up each morning and breathe, cherished my little corner of my small world, and to think that i have six people near me ( my beautiful wife and five great sons – sa kanila lang umi-ikot ang mundo ko), and all the things i have accomplished………and promised not to asked for more……..I was born on the 8th minute of the 8th hour in the 8th day of the month on a friday morning as the star constellation Sagittarius rises on the horizon that falls on a full moon (14deg35min-north/120deg59min-east), planet Earth,Milky Way Galaxy, in the year of Dirty Rat……..in the zodiac sign of Cancer.Present Location -43deg41min /79deg38min West, Oh, come on, I am a relentless self-absorbed workaholic just wanted to be anonymous, unwanted and sleek but aggressive. I hope i have satisfied your cravings. batang tundo at kalookan: dating jeepney driver: Sangandaan-Divisoria, Divisoria-Recto-Morayta, dating engineer ng biggest telecom company in the Phil: ngayon, Professional Engineers of Ontario member, wireless telecom  engineer pero walang mobilephone……..OF COURSE I HAVE AN EAR FOR A BROKEN-HEARTED SOUL……..

nothing else matter

is love selfish?
you just need someone just to fulfill your needs
or you just to fulfill someone needs
sometimes you never care about your self
or someone to be cared for
i know now what the real meaning is?
is when you don’t really care about yourself
and you don’t really care what tomorrow will bring
or nothing really else matters
just everything about “HER”
and it seems she really is your center of your universe
parang sa kanya ka lang nabu-buhay
sa kanya lang umi-inog ang mundo mo
parang hindi mo kayang mag-isa pag-wala siya
at paano pang tutuloy ang buhay mo
ng magisnan mo isang umaga wala na siya sa tabi mo
You call and then nothing else matters
even knowing tomorrow
you’ll be gone
when I need you.
Inside, I know nothing else matters
and the time if I’m lonely
I still can live without you
and and you tell me you love me
Only yesterday I swore I would leave
but now nothing means anything
when you’re here with me.
I’ll stay because nothing else matters
and if I had to share you
at least some times I’d hold you
Just smile and then nothing else matters
all the tears I’ve been crying
dissapear when I see you
and you tell me you love me.
Only yesterday I swore I would leave
but now nothing means anything
when you’re here with me.
(Instrumental)
When the morning comes
I’ll wake up alone
and I feel the hurt inside me
seeing that you’re gone.
I love you and so nothing else matters
and the times that I’m lonely
I’m still dreaming about you.
You’re here and now nothin else matters
and you tell me you love me
even knowing tomorrow
you’ll be gone when I need you.
You call and then nothing else matters
and if I had to share you
at least some times I’d hold you
You’re here and then nothing else matters
and I’ll love you forever
and I’ll wait here to hold you
for the rest of my life.
(Instrumental)