Why would 2 guys take the trouble of going through 4 branches of Jollibee in the Makati business district within 45 minutes? The answer is: so they could complete the Kiddie Meal toys which happened to be Voltron Lion Force action figures that could be combined to form a giant robot. Well, a tiny giant robot.
Since the start of tonight's shift, Kiko had repeatedly mentioned that he wanted to go to Jollibee for the Voltron toys. Since our lunch break falls at the same time everyday, I joined him as we trekked to a nearby Jollibee to get ourselves the toys. As luck would have it, they only had the Green Lion.
Kiko, refusing to be defeated by the initial setback, wanted to try another branch. I suggested a branch near Enterprise which was 3 blocks away. 5 minutes and a short cab ride later, we found out that that branch lacked some of the Lions, too. Same thing when we crossed the street to the Insular Life building branch.
The frustration over not getting the Black Lion (the most important piece to connect all the other Lions) made me suggest that we try the Pasong Tamo branch. Another cab ride brought us to the Export Bank building but the Black Lion remained elusive and we're left with 2 robot arms and 2 legs without the head and body to combine them.
Kiko resolved to comb various Jollibee branches after his shift so he could get the 5 Lions completed. No, really. We go through these lengths to satisfy 80s cartoon nostalgia.
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am familiar with that kind of urge. got myself into the McDo snoopy-in-different-attires binge years ago, and jollibee's bee movie characters.
Ginagawa din namin yan ni Adrie. The key is waiting it out. It's usually that only a specific toy is out for a period of time in all branches. Baka next week may black na!
Wow. Its like scoring :P Voltron is so cool! 5 huge cats connecting to to form a larger Robo-Cat...and that huge and brutal sword.:P
I don't remember them having any other weapons though. mmmm . Just that huge sword and maybe a couple of daggers?
do i get your drift or is it just me reading phallic symbolism in your comment?
you're lucky that jollibee opted for the voltron lions than the voltron 13! imaginin mo na lang kung san mo hahanapin yung ibang parts nun sa dame diba? kukulangin ang 50 na jobee, as in! ahihihi.
sa kabilang dako, i think may gagawang movie about voltron lions adaptation sa states... i sure hope it will not suck to death!
enihu, gudlak sa lion hunting. :D
If you look at it on a different context... you're probably right.
ampootah! asan yung lions ko? LoL
PLANGGANANG PULA! LoL
and your original context being?...
I want this!!!!
(I can already here Peter Cullen's voice narrating.)
hey, jayvee, what's plangganang pula?
i think i still have the astronaut and sailor snoopy toys among my stuff sa bahay ng parents ko. :-)
kasi dun sa star wars happy meal toys, all the toys are available in that mcdo sa building namin. everytime i go there.
so i was able to get 2 yodas, 2 r2d2s, and 2 darth vaders without any problem. (i didn't get the anakin toy.)
i think thats the reason for the toy. they're riding on the voltron lion franchise. hahaha, 80s cartoon geekery galore to!
the huge sword looked like a manual can opener. seriously.
hahahaha...
i could still remember when i was a kid that my dad would ask me to say the "form feet and legs, form arms and body....and i'll form the head!"
coz i have my cousin's cousin who knows a declamation piece.
and when we were at my tita's house in bulacan, they asked her to perform her piece.
so they bullied me to say that as my declamation piece!
what a loser! hahahaha! =)
isn't it uncanny for a gay guy to be into robots? thought they're more into barbie dolls.
not really. most of my gay friends are geeks - they're into comics, fantasy, anime and mecha. i only know one gay guy who's into barbie, and that's because he's a collector.
literally, red basin.
taking things into context, plangganang pula should mean "right you are!", a statement stated to affirm what was said. basta yun yun. :)
***LATEST UPDATE***
i see four lions in our living room, and i'm not really sure whose they are. at, wala pa rin ang BLACK LION! LoL
we will get the black lion. we will. the fate of the galaxy depends of it. we shall not fail the galaxy alliance!
sure... lemme place here the creed...
from days of long ago,
from uncharted regions of the universe,
comes a legend.
The legend of Voltron: Defender of the Universe!
A mighty robot.
(roar!)
Loved by good,
feared by evil.
As Voltron's legend grew,
peace settled across the galaxy.
On planet Earth,
a galaxy alliance was formed.
Together with the good planets of the solar system,
they maintained peace throughout the universe.
Until a new horrible menace threatened the galaxy.
Voltron was needed once more. (roar!)
(ba-bam... pam-pam-pa-pam!)
This is the story of the super force of space explorers.
Specially trained and sent by the Alliance to bring back Voltron: Defender of the Universe.
(enter fanfare...)
(enter stupid electonic voice...)
Voltron: Defender of the Universe.
you're being keen, aren't you?
di naman. di ko nga sila kilala eh. LoL
my brain hurts.
oh, like "bingo!"
exactly. :) "PP" sounds crazier, though. :)
***UPDATE***
the robot is finally complete. hooray. period.
back to work...
i dunno with you guys but i go for transformers. there is that part in the movie where they showed this Indian telemarketer going at it like a space cadet, never mind if the guy on the other end was in the middle of a war or something. and the Indian was imperviously picking his nose at that.
i found that scene funny, but at the same time depressing since i came from the same industry. hahaha.
transformers was ok. they tried so hard to make it look "adult" and all -- but was it necessary to give optimus prime a moving mouth?
well, even some talking dolls have got their mouths moving now, so there... i guess in flicks like that, we just hafta suspend our disbelief to enjoy it.
i dunno. pardon me for the comparison, but his mouth looked like a gaping vagina before reconstructive surgery.
nyahaha! like you've seen one, eh?
well. we've had clients who specialized in vaginal reconstruction. i've seen enough before and after photos to give me nightmares for a month. hahaha.
i still wonder how did their vaginas end up looking like those photos. :-/
what have they been doing to their twats to have them reconstructed anyway?
that Indian telemarketer bit was just one for the laughs. i heard telemarketers do even worse. but my hats off to you people. you take in so much muck from people and stay up on your toes all night.. now, that's one heroic feat. but then of course, you rake in so much moola for it, too. or so i heard.
used 1.5 liter softdrink bottles as dildoes? for 10 years? then giving birth to a dozen kids? i honestly have no idea. :-))
you probably heard the exaggerated figures. we earn ok, but it's not that big i could assure you. i can't even save up for a fridge.
but don't ya wish you have one? :-)
what do you mean? a fridge or a vagina? :-D
the vajayjay
er. no. i'm still happy with my penis. :-)
are you an agent or a super or something?
i'm an agent. just a regular phone monkey here. :-)
what would it take to get you the promo?
(1) there should be an opening.
(2) i should apply.
(3) they accept me for promotion.
unfortunately, condition #1 is not yet available.
it will come. bet you got all it takes.
problem is 5 or more highly qualified people are waiting for promotion but only one position will be available. that makes competition pretty fierce.
oh, the more, the merrier.
not in this case, it isn't.
LIAR!
if you were just an agent, just a regular phone monkey...
then I WOULD BE AN UNDERPAID, OVERWORKED PHONE MONKEY.
jade is actually a sooper-dooper Level-2 technical support specialist.
the more, the mannier then?
what's a technical support? he fixes computers?
nope. but we work on websites and emails.
wow. two pages na yung comments. musta naman?
technical support representatives can do a lot of things, depending on the business need. he's a webhosting specialist. i just clean the bathroom during rest days.
sounds pretty complicated. real geeky.
i'm beginning to think "the boyfriend" is his PC.
it could be, but it's rare you get uber geeky calls.
but then we're a household of geeks. you should see our apartment. hahaha.
who's the PC's boyfriend?
if i do that, i'll think i have stepped on the twilight zone. :-)
jade, boyfriend mo ba yung pc ko? LoL
monkey boy refers to his boyfriend as "the boyfriend." with him being geeky and all, "the boyfriend" must be his pc. :-)
now you're just hyping things up. what did i tell you about unnecessary hyperbole?
oh, wait. wala pa pala akong nasasabi. remind me to tell you about it later. hahaha.
surprisingly, i don't own a pc. the computer at home is jv's.
the boyfriend (or previous boyfriend rather) is a real person. he's also a major geek - games, anime, comics, intarwebs and all.
his pc's practically dead. the only living, working, almost talking and walking and dead pc back in the apartment, is mine.
but he's still a geek, despite. you should charge him for using your pc.
he's my friend. i wouldn't charge him. unless we're talking about business talaga, then i wouldn't. besides, he rarely uses my pc. in fact, we don't use it that much. each of us would either spend a lot of time sleeping, or watching tv, or just doing some other stupid stuff.
sounds like me. and pray tell, where are you now? at home taking turns on the pc?
i'm at work. he's at work, too. i believe he got in just about three hours ago... i'm on overtime. will be out after a short while.
with that said, we work for different companies. he used to be a coworker. i moved to another company.
call center career is really fast-paced. haven't heard of any call center guy who stayed put, either in the company or in the position. it's reeling.
yeah. but, mind you. he IS still with the call center industry. not me.
what does that mean?
mind you. that's because we don't have intarwebs. :-D
you really sound g(r)eek to me. intarwebs? boy, i'm lost in translation
that means i've been a monkey in the same company for 4 years now. hahaha.
intarwebs = internet
it's a geek corruption of the original word.
oh, i thought it's an online game or something
Pronunciation:
\ˈgēk\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
probably from English dialect geek, geck fool, from Low German geck, from Middle Low German
Date:
1914
1 : a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken or snake
2 : a person often of an intellectual bent who is disliked
3 : an enthusiast or expert especially in a technological field or activity < computer geek >
nah. surprisingly, none of the current housemates are into online gaming. the only gamer is kiko, who played magic sometime back. he still have his deck obscenely displayed in the living room.
like that offends you?
like the digerati, to which you two belong i guess
uh, quite a modern word. in a manner of speaking, you can say that.
really now. we know what "geek" is, you know. they're those people who wear bedsheets for clothes and run around naked from their bath.
i was making a pun earlier.
nah. i still love some analog stuff. i enjoy pen and ink drawings and amateur (photocopied) comics. and i read paper books, not digital books, unlike some people i know. *smirk*
who reads books? remember. i'm illiterate, you said so yourself. LoL
nothing like the basics. but then again, x-men 3 wouldn't have come out that cinematic sans cgi.
true. but i also like wallace and gromit. there's something about artisan crafts like handdrawn or clay animation that makes them even more impressive.
although movies like ratatouille proves that digital animation need not feel cold or too high-tech looking.
like... you? LoL
boy, somebody's sounding like he has an axe to grind.
true true.
cook dinner later ha. :)
and i wish to combat illiteracy. READ!
i am reading your blogs and stuff. duh.
kaw ba... can you read my mind? LoL
i have the feeling i'm getting caught in a crossfire. :-)
nah. this is normal bickering for us. no need to panic unless i start throwing knives or my cast iron skillet.
view this so you'll understand better.
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