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what i really want for christmas

2006-12-18T18:31:00.000+08:00

so as christmas comes nearer, i realized that my previous posts about all the material things i want -- ah, yeah i dont really want them, and i dont really need them. if i wanted them so badly, then i should have got them na, but no.. hindi pala yun ang gusto ko. and there is only one thing i want, if i need to sacrifice anything, for that to happen, i will. i promise i will do it, wholeheartedly. and i am going to do it now. i am going to start sacrificing for the sake of that thing.

anyway, i promise to get over some things in my life.. and start living my life the way i was supposed to live it. the way i dreamed to live it. enough about the people, enough about what i had back then, i guess its time to move forward and go on with my life. during last nights conversation with a friend over sushi, i realized, that i was just holding on to nothing, holding on to something i dont even have control of, and even if that is something, i am holding to it too much that i just cant enjoy how things are supposed to be. so enough about the whole hoolabaloo. things will get better.

so shucks. actually my post is contradicting. pero bahala na si batman. basta i gotta do something.

i am excited to post pictures from our adobo party last saturday.. ayayay!!

ho-hum!!!

2006-12-16T16:51:00.000+08:00

i long to see that face
something warm, familiar and pretty
i long to breathe the same air
that unite's, uplife's and rejuvenate's my soul

it may seem that everything is in order
but i am not
a dysfunctional system
with only distant memories

life is a miserable joke
once there, looking for another
life is a wandering soul
looking for a place that one's call home

i am neither happy nor sad
i guess im trying to ignore and block it away
i am neither strong nor weak
i guess i just grew up a little too soon.

tooo sleepy tooo function

2006-01-16T09:16:00.000+08:00

i am too sleepy since i woke up really early to be here at the office by 7am... i went to my lola's birthday party with guest i dont know who. anyways, im here right now... last sunday, i got to see enteng kabisote at the boob tube since i havent seen it in the cinema (thank God), my dad was making fun of me in a weird way because why do i want to watch that kind of film daw.. it was number 1 in the box office nga nung 2004 MMFF. hehehe. hey, enteng kabisote is a pinoy icon, for me ah. i consider him to be one of pinoy's greatest fantasy/comedy.

well, 2005 was such a great year, with great music and movies too. i guess, i gotta list down the list that does it for me:

1. kelly clarkson rocked 2005. at first i really didnt like her or was not impressed.. but with since u been gone-behind these hazel eyes releases. i totally am converted to enjoy listening her music.
2. black eyed peas' (monkey business) featuring the single: dont lie - one of my favorites. basically, i just enjoyed listening to their album.
3. rob thomas going solo, does this mean that matchbox twenty will be gone now.. i better get their albums na.
4. marron 5's live album.. i will borrow it from carla and burn it. hehehe. great tracks include: sunday morning and must get out.
5. gwen stefani - what will happen to no doubt?! aarrghh! hollaback girl and cool are great choices for this year.
6. mariah carey - her "we belong together" swept me and still makes me want to listen to it over and over. how pathetic!

haay. see ya next week.. im off to singapore.

back to basics

2006-01-09T08:25:00.000+08:00

it took me a really long time to be able to think and write down my first entry for the year... i guess i just waited for my mood to get a little bit brighter. i was so drowned and swamped with things to do at the first week of the year that i was afraid that it might be 2006's trend, which i hope not. i mean during that vaca, i needed to bring the laptop sa province. its not that i'm complaining, i just want everything to go smoothly, well planned... as it is, super puno, and i know naman that people know cause super puno ang boards with meeting and scheds.. i just hope this year will be better..

i guess, im in the right mood now to write all these stuff.. i just find it so refreshing to get out of the office, grab some snack or late lunch whatever that might mean. and to be able to make kwento's lang.. haay.

i'm just really looking forward to my trip next week. although i'm thinking of getting back na at the 30th, which means i need to take a 8-day leave.. hahaha.. but, thinking about it, there are so many things that i need to do, unfinished work, conprobe here and there, sometimes i even doubt na whether i really like what i'm doing.. i think my trip will do me good, and maybe when i get back, i do have the answers already. or maybe indications even.

christmas day is over

2005-12-29T09:19:00.000+08:00

24th of december
our christmas turned out to be realyl a different one this year. usually dec. 24's dinner is held at my uncle's house, with my ama-"lola".so we had our usual dinner composed of pancit malabon, christmas ham, roast chicken and soup - the one with fresh ingridients that you will put in and wait for it to boil. i forgot how we call it, but its good.
after dinner, together with my sibling, we went to hear mass at the village's church. the problem was the mass went on for about an hour and a half. i hated every minute of it. mass should stick the 40minute or 60minute rule. people has their own limits you know...

after hearing the mass, and saying goodbye to my mom's side of the family, we walked a few blocks and went to dad's side of the family.. in time for the noche buena. there we had lechon, steaks,penne carbonara (which i cooked) ehm!, relenong bangus, and many more. i didnt pay attention to itsince i was so damn full that i could hardly think of food. but when dessert came, i had to get my share of buko salad - it was a family tradition, and i had to do my part of eating it. haha!

after, together with 6 cousins of mine, we played poker.. i won. i think its the first time i wonin that game, although we seldom play na din.. last time i was 3rd place, and now i won a total of Php400. My aunts naman during that time was playing mah-jong, i think it was uncle chiok who won.

25th of december
usually, we would get up late na and tired from last night, but last 25th was different, since we had to wake up mga 10am, we went to tagaytay. by 1130 am we were leaving, and we arrived 230pm na in time for our lunch, we were super hungry na by thattime that we have to go get candies na.had lunch at max's tagaytay, we were suppose to be in josephine's but ang daming tao.

after our late lunch, we went to tagaytay highlands' at tumambay lang kami dun. we went to the highest peak, where there is a coffee shop, all of us ordered coffee or hot cocoa. believe me super lamig. i needed a jacket, buti na lang my uncle lent me one. after went to a resto that was similar to pop tate's if ever yuo are reading archie and the gang.. i think its name was geraldine's eh. it was cool, parang relieving the past that di ko na inabutan. wasting our time in tagaytay. we went back to manila and had dinner at century park hotel.

christmas day was exhausting, i wasnt the one who drove all the way there, but staying inside the car with the traffic in tagaytay and south super - ate up all my energy.

my last post before christmas day

2005-12-23T08:37:00.000+08:00

this week is one crazy week, the past few days have been so much fun. from the accounts/strat dinner we had last monday at people's palace and inuman session in segafredo afterwards.everything was going light and fun. christmas definitely makes people happy.

our freakshow themed chrsitmas party was a blast, may i say.. everyone was dancing come the end of the night, objective achieved. hehe! its the time when people let loose of themselves, start to be tipsy and drunk! suddenly speaks straight english, partied like crazy... and that described us during that night.

imagine all of us partying with our president, coo, strat planning director,executive creative director, business manager and coo of media. and they were also dancing like there will be no tomorrow. i havent had that kind of fun for the longest time, last i remember was during our cebu trip with the college barkada. we danced in the bar like we owned it. so i thank people who did cooperate in shaking people out of their senses and transformed them into dancing kings and queens.. to juls,angel and kaye.. you guys are the best GRO in town.

(LtoR: me, kaye, julette,paulo,cholo,ana,enzo,mr.manny)

this week also, i received tons of gifts.. and i love every single bit of them. so i am grateful to all those who have remembered me and put so much thought to those beautiful things. i wont write down all in here, but some na lang..

julette - ang ganda, promise. alam mo ang taste ko ah, and even my siblings liked it.

kaye - maraming salamat! cute red shirt.

joan - super salamat.. na-touch talaga ako, kasi with it maalala kita parati.

pau - your weird/crazy but cute taste reflected sa gift mo. salamat. kelangan ko nun.

ags and cho - thank you for the bastos-written text in my shirt. and sa cd shempre.

also, there is one thing that i am really grateful for. thank you to the GASSO and CLUBMEDIA mancom. for recognizing my contribution and acknowledging me as the "rookie of the year". i will treasure that feeling and appreciation. and million thanks to people GASSO and CLUBMEDIA officemates and friends who have taught me so much and made my past year in GASSO fun. to the officemates - becuase you guys are so kind, helpful, considerate and understanding. and my firends - for our field trip's, lunch outs, veranda talk, ym's. kwento, dinner out... thank you. :)

merry christmas to everyone...

season's finest

2005-12-19T17:12:00.000+08:00

this is the season to be jolly.. la la la la la, la la la la....
i love christmas -- especially this year, when everything is going right.

last friday, i had dinner with my high school classmates (jas,bon,bede&jc,jeff,les,tim) in redwood in morato... then we were looking for a place so we can transfer to a much quiet place. we were supposed have dessert at conti's in connecticut but its closed na, so we had it at chili's na lang. all time chili's.. hehehe. so everything was fine although i find it kinda bitin nga lang. sayang, we should have talked more, pero okay lang. we'll see each other pa naman, especially (les,jeff and bon) - we're having the massage!! haha.

that saturday, one thing that signals christmas is how traffic it can get. from my place in qc, we went to poduim, and it took us 1 hour and 30 mins.. so we just went around, and got to eat (again) floss from breadtalk.. thank god for breadtalk.. it saved my life from walking the whole strech of megamall, and with so many people window-shopping. both my siblings were trying to ask me what i like as my christmas present cause they were finding it very hard to look a gift for me. so we went to topman, and after a much debate, got a shirt. they also got me a christmas cd. i love christmas songs, and it sucks not to listen to one in the car when its that time of the year. - at least now i get to listen to it all the time. so i got my presents from my whole family. of course my parents gave the 3 of us money, in my case, out of awa cause they were saying that my christmas shopping left me broke daw. hehehe. - and take note these things are not for me. :)

sunday - had lunch at san bashi. this is a japanese resto beside pantalan ng maynila in roxas. i swear that i am not a big fan of japanese resto's with kimpura in mind, but they just have good food. i lovetheir mushrooms with garlic. i also love their kobe beef and this fish that i dont know the name cause it sounded weird that is available to few certain places lang is soo good.!!! so there. that lunch made my day. hopefully the rest of the week as well.

my pictures

2005-12-13T14:49:00.000+08:00

i just attached in my links section, my flickr account where you can view recent pictures. :) please visit na lang if you like.

my list is done

2005-12-13T13:27:00.000+08:00

over the weekend, i finally finished my christmas shopping, my list seemed so long.. well, not really long but i had a hard time finding gifts for people.. whew.. that weekend was good/bad na din...

friday, 9th..
the five of us (kate,orange,obee,cheryl and i) had dinner at hyatt hotel and casino manila. we had buffet, priced at P1,093 per person. the food was great though, they have italian - pasta's, salami's, different kinds of cheese and bread, olives... japanese, chinese, ribs and steaks, salads, fresh seafood - oysters, calamari and of course dessert - fruits, pastries, etc... ah. i swear that i grew 5lbs after having dinner, by the way we had dinner at 8.45PM na. shucks, im mostly excited about the dessert though, may choco fountain, fudge brownies.. haay. the funny story here is that our table was overflowing with plates, that when waiters would come by, they have this smile- which annoys me but then again, i couldn't care about them. i was too busy finsihing my plates(ss) the only thing i did not like in that place is the parking - their valet parking is full, is that even possible?!

saturday, 10th.
went to angel's advance birthday party and got wet. (paulo kasi pinaghintay ako sa labas ng kotse niya, eh ang lakas-lakas ng ulan) hehehe. my jeans were soo wet, also my socks.. eck feeling but alangan naman magtanggal ako ng sapatos sa bagong bahay nina angel. hahaha. got to see vinsy... that cute poster boy. actually, pwede siya sa commercial ng bibbo hotdog o cdo ulamburger.. hahaha. i had a lot of fun. --> happy birthday angel!!!

sunday, 11th.
met cheryl @ her house, when i saw her she was crying and nanginginig. some mother fucker (mf) snatched her cellphone. she was riding a pedicab kasi, and this mf went inside with her, she was pushing her daw, and hinila din daw siya palabas ng pedicab, so nalaglag siya sa streets. puro scratches ang tuhod at kamay niya, the mf got her whole bag, pero hinabol daw niya, and sumisigaw daw siya, so the guy threw the bag and just got the cellphone. ibang klase to.. she cant let him get the whole bag daw, cause she has about 2,000 cash and 3,000 worth of receipts to be reimbursed, with her credit card, drivers license.. please next time if anything like this happens, just give everything at wag ka na makipaghabulan. please?!

after, few moments of drama and action inside house, we went to world trade center, nagpapasama kas siya to shop in tiangge and bazaars.. as if nothing happened, off we go to WTC. by the way, i recommend WTC, galing at madaming magandang stuff, there's food inside - dont buy outside na, lots of good eats inside the center. after, finishing the whole place, we went to robinsons ermita to shop pa din and go to the grocery. they have nice stores pala there - like may polo, diesel, topman, dkny.. i jsut never thought there were shops like this there. discriminating ba?! we also had an hearty dinner at chef d' angelo's - love their pasta paella. yum!

well, i will just post pictures of the buffet and angel's bday in my next post..

dead feet still hurting

2005-12-07T15:46:00.000+08:00

watched maximo.. funny movie with social relevance. all pinoy movies are like that. sayang lang cause kaye had to leave early dahil nasusuka siya.

also, just this lunch i had this adventure with julette - kaya unti-unti ko ng nararamdaman ang pagkamatay ng paa ko. we were out by 12.30, and back at the office ng mga 3PM. just thinking about it, 130pm pa lang, we were trying to find a cab na to go back ot the office, but wala and ayaw nilang magsakay since dadaan sa ayala - eh may lintik na celebrations for sea games victory daw... ewan.
so from glorietta 2, naka-abot kami hanggang wendy's in greenbelt 1 (we stopped at each place to find a cab) - pero wala pa din. so as we were walking sa may rolex building, biglang swerte cause we found a cab, but as soon as we were in it, ayaw magstart.. the driver has to check his engine pa, ang init pa sa cab... sheettt... thank god, gumalaw naman kami, kaya lang pagdating namin sa shell maya - suddenly out of gas na yung cab, and kailangan pa niyang itulak yung cab. leche naman. kaya from there naglakad na lang kami to the office, ata kaya din unti-unting namamatay ang paa ko ngayon.

this day is unbelievable, and all i was able to buy was 1 item, not even for me. babawe ako sa saturday!

time to get flabby once more

2005-12-05T17:28:00.000+08:00

christmas is the perfect excuse to eat all the food you want, to have desserts at the end of every meal. well, that is the case for me but my christmas starts october pa.. haha, so this idea of mine spans for 3 months now. haha!

as for this post, i share with you pictures with my college barkada or "12". we call ourselves that becuase that is how many we are in the group. the first plan was to actually have dinner at n(enye) restaurant in rockwell, i called in the morning and learned that they have a private function, so i moved our dinner at teak bar and bistro. i really wouldnt know if that is a good or bad idea, but i guess it was okay, the important part there was seeing them. its almost a year since i last saw some of them. anyways, after being with them, we had so many plans, on where to go, the next time we are gonna meet up..

- on the 9th, dinner @ hyatt hotel in pedro gil cor mabini (excited about this one, after we might go to music 21 or just go play in the casino - my first time ever.)
- on the 17th, the chocolate buffet @ manila pen or makati shang.. not decided where though..
- on the 2-5th feb @ bataan c/o louie - thank you louie!
- on the 13-16th of april - bacolod trip c/o obee

am i excited or what? che and i was just talking on the way home and said that she missed all of them, well its fun to be able to see them again. i hope we can regularly see each other naman, and this will turn things around. missed them all, and its nice to sit at starbucks with almost no one in sight and laught about our katangahan, kakengkoyan, and like how we owned la salle during our time. -> owned meaning wala kaming pakelam with other people.

i would love to show the food pix in here but maybe ill reserve it for another post na lang. just to share some pix..

outside teak

@ starbucks in rockwell til 1.30am

12 @ teak bistro

good combo's for me

2005-12-02T09:52:00.000+08:00

for the past few days that i have been around places, i tried to maximize and enjoy every single experience of it. and i celebrate them together with my teammates and the food i have experienced - good for my soul that is, it uplifts me in a way, and definitely made me enjoy every single moment of it.

my first stop - cafe milano in united nations avenue. beware though, it doesnt look so pricey but once you sit down and get the menu, prices ranges from 300-700. i remember a few post ago, i uploaded a picture of their gelato, and now the meals are here.. i recommend them because they serve good italian cooking, the price is all worth it, and their service is excellent, although malu and i are the only people having dinner there.

(clockwise: combo seafood - crabmeat pasta,vegtable in wine and fresh lapu lapu in white wine P340, bag of breads, combo chef - pork loin, grilled vegtables and penne with 4 cheese P260, and zora inglese cake P180)

i am not a big fan of cinnamon rolls, but this combo is good. the mocha drink si better than starbucks' pa. bu the pecanbon is just too sweet for me, i wish i did get plain.

when its christmas, starbucks is a good place to stay to.. they have this new creme brulee frap or toffenut frap, but i got the toffenut hot and chocolate cake... good combo may i say. never mind the flu and cough.. all worth it.

sickness is in the air

2005-11-30T13:00:00.000+08:00

everyone is sick. people in the office are also getting sck. i hope they get better. for me, ill have to rest for 2 days daw (friday and monday) as my CDO or complusary day off, since ive been salve-driving myself na for this project. and good news, it will all end soon. ill defintely have more time to refocus my time on other projects, not that there are few projects but at elast mawawala ang isa sa pinakamabigat. i wonder if ill be excited with other projects since naranasan ko na ang hirap na ito.

about that CDO, i think ill avail only 1 day, kasi medyo madami pa nga work na i need to do.. ayaw ko lang magpatong-patong, or if i get sick pa, ill avail both of it na din.
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off to another topic, lately ive been praying so hard, for malu and her mom in law... i hope she gets well. not just that, they need to produce 1 million in a weeks time for the surgery. she texted me last night, that God is always with us. i am just amazed at malu's spirit and faith. i dont how i will react if i was the one in that position. oh my.
i am just praying that malu and her family will be strong in this tough time, and i hope financially they will be okay. guys, please pray for her too... :) thanks!

an early christmas deed

2005-11-25T09:31:00.000+08:00

i always wanted to join an organization where i would take time off and help people (kids or elders).. but parating nauudlot.. before i was thinking of joining "tzu chi", this chinese organization where they help people, they also do medical missions, my friend works there actually and she is the one encouraging me to join, pero parang ayaw ko dun, i just dont know why..

well, i heard that sheryl, goes to carriedo to teach kids every friday, after which she provides food for them. so, i was thinking of joining her, maybe on the 2nd since my sched is just booked already. i also thought of throwing a christmas treat for them. maybe ask them what gifts do they want to recieve for christmas.. and them maybe i could buy it for them - be like santa to them. my problem is that there are around 400 kids, and i dont know how many i could sponsor...

i always think of something like this every christmas time.. i just wish i'd think of it more often.. i did one also last christmas where i gathered gifts and gave to those kids who had wishes.. ranging from slippers, bag, watches and gave it to them.

now is the time i feel that i should give more since i have been so blessed this year.. i just graduated with honors, had a best thesis award, had a job.. i feel 2005 was my year and this is a way of showing my gratitude for everything.

this christmas defintely is a busy one, i have a lot of things to do pa for the christmas party and preparing for my deed.. but its fine, i like what il be doing, its reason enough.

feast and festivities

2005-11-21T07:51:00.000+08:00

its been such a long time since i went out on a friday night.. and usually, my friday night would consist of conprobes here and there. and if i am not working, i'll be home enjoying my home cooked meal. last night was exceptionally different..

we(chery, tracy and i) planned to meet up after a long time of not seeing each other, about a month or so.. we initially planned to have dinner at hyatt in manila meaning that i would be wearing slacks and polo but i was not in the mood for any of it.. thus i went back to wear my old t-shirt, jeans and rubber shoes..
(take note: the dinner in hyatt would be free since cheryl had them as gifts, so we'll have free buffet dinner daw)
i cancelled that one and planned it for next week na lang since it will last til november naman. dinner was at mylk in greenbelt. i was hesitant at first cause i heard bad comments from julette. but nevertheless, i was my "lets-try-it" self, so we did. we ordered: grilled tuna salad P100+, chicken fingers P220, fried tilapia P220, prawn garlic linguine P250.

well, the salad was great. i love the white or goat's cheese maybe that is in there. the prawn garlic linguine was also good. i love oil based pasta, they are so tasty.. and the prawns were really fresh although there were only 2 at the top. the fried tilapia was good too, you know how fried fish absorbs all the oil, therefore it is more fattening.. the tilapia was fine, the sauce and veggies under it was complentary. but the chicken crispers, i recommend you get it na lang from chili's,, hindi masarap yung chicken nila. blech. (sori, i had no pictures, my cel/cam's lenses were madumi pa, so not good pictures)

after a satisfying dinner, that left us full stomachs.. we were all trying to find sweets. and after going through the whole greenbelt (cbtl, starbucks, seattle's, bizu, global cafe).. we finally decided to get dessert it in m cafe. i remember we tried to have dinner there the last time but it was full and we settled for bizu. but now, it really has to push through..

mocha blended coffee P110, guava sherbet P98, pastillas cheesecake P185. i love their cheesecake, it has one huge slice. most of all, i loved their plates.. cool!

anyway, we were talking about christmas.. and decided to have a christmas dinner for our barkada ("12").. we were thinking if we are gonna be complete, but im guessing not. people nowadays are just so hard to find. thus we had a bet, that if 8 or more shows up, i win.. and if its less than 8, they win! im still currently thinking of what to get as my prize.. but both cheryl and tracy already knew what they wanted from me. tracey wanted me to bring her to a nice,good dessert place which is not hard at all.. easy. but with cheryl's consequence.. i need to go with them to a gimik (the partying til dawn type).. she really drives me crazy, she knew that i hated that kind of gimik. nevermind, i know i will win this bet.

anyways, i suggested we go to enye(rockwell) for our xmas dinner. havent tried this though, but i heard they have good roasted chicken.

well xmas is just around the corner, so advance merry christmas to everyone! :)

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2005-11-18T15:12:00.000+08:00

im so happy with the new painting i have. buying it myself would be okay, cause i regretted not getting it nga eh. but with "people" who gave it to me.. it makes it even more special. its the first painting i will put up in my place in the future. looking forward to it!

let's go... getaway...

2005-11-16T11:41:00.000+08:00

im praying that november will soon be over... its just that i have so many things to do and i want to get past it na.. december will be much more maluwag for me siguro(?), not that i dont have work, meron pa din. mas maluwag lang. im so much looking forward to december that i want next week to be done na (most hectic week) exception na lang ang nov 23 cause its julet and pau's bday!

but im much more excited for january to come. my family is planning a boracay getaway for the first week of january.. maybe the 6th to 8th.. i have no compains cause any vacation will do me good. i just hope it pushes through.. also, im excited na about my trip to singapore - this one naman is sure na! i'm booked for the 18th to the 25th.. so i might be out for a total of 7 days leave. hehehe! im gone for 8 days and im staying in a foreign lang. well one of our itinerary is to go to KL over the weekend... that sounds like fun. cant wait na tuloy. im eager to try their food na...

while looking at my cousins yahoo photos, thy recently posted their trip to hk and disneyland.. mukhang okay. almost everyone i knew visited disney na. buti na lang im not a big fan of disney! whooo...
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anyways, my plans next year should push through but im doubting it na. sana lang i get convinced again or something will happen that will surely change my mind. but before i do that, i want to list down my itinerary for next year!

jan - boracay/singapore
may/june - bohol/bangkok
* i dont know when but i want to go to pagudpod din, inspired by joan's kwento...

uncertainty

2005-11-14T11:59:00.000+08:00

weird incident from yesterday:
while on the way to a conprobe (yes,on a sunday!!!) my mom told me:
"ton, maghanap ka na kaya ng ibang trabaho.."
so i was surprised to hear this from her, and i was on my way out already so i told her...
"sabi mo yan ah.."

after my conprobe, we small-talked:
"sabi ng daddy mo, bakit ganyan yung trabaho mo, pati saturday and sunday..."

i was worried cause my dad never commented about my work, my school, they have always been so supportive to what i want to do, but for him to comment something like this. it might be wrong. im just guessing though, i have not talked with them about this pa. the funny thing is that i have been thinking about this all along na din... a weird coincident maybe. its also funny when my parents say stuff, like they told me to accept na GASSO's offer, i did because i know they will support me. ayaw ko lang marinig ang "i told you so" or something like that. i dont want to be blamed for things that i am uncertain for. well, it may sound na all along i am dictated pala, i just need them to say things i cannot say myself, pero these things are yung mga totoong gusto o naisip ko. in times of uncertainty, i always ask for people's advice. but now, i really dont know. whoah, thats uncertain.

i dont want to discuss this pa naman, becuase it might be an impulse lang naman, or baka seasonal lang. i dont know. this is my first job, so i am just experiencing new things pa lang naman.

more "cake" trip from last week

2005-11-10T09:21:00.000+08:00

cakes are such good things and having ice creams makes it more heavenly, but ice cream cakes are defintely the thing that i miss most. well, when i was young, i remember myself getting excited for my birthday becuase i can get a whole ice cream cake from magnolia house in horseshoe.

now, i do get my own whenever i want. well, i've been meaning to try this cake place i have heard which is cake2go, i just thought they are the same as the bakeshops around. but i was surprised when i got to eat it, that these are ice cream cakes. and it was good. my sister who is not a fan of cakes nor ice cream loved it, and asked me if we could go back to get more. i ordered 2 of their best sellers which are: tiramisu and toblerone

well, for my mom's birthday my aunt sent her a cake, a caramel cake with a distict description that says.. not too sweet just right for a caramel cake. it was good. it actually tasted like dulce leche but not that sweet. so if you like that kinda stuff, its best for you to try them. i actually got a number of that place, its called estrel's and it is somewhere in the scout areas of morato.

edna's cakeland

whenever i go home in the province, i'd always pass by edna's cakeland to get delicious baked goods. they have wide-array of products, from baked spaghetti and lasagna to cakes and pastries. but their best sellers are bars, butterschotch bars, brownies, marshamllow brownies, cheese ensaymada, etc. i just love the taste of their baked products. although the down side is that i'd only get these whenever i go back in nueva ecija, which is about twice a year and also when my uncles or aunts arrive from there, i have them as pasalubong. so whenever you go up north, its somewhere in kapitan pepe subdivision in cabanatuan, nueva ecija.

cheap and cheerful chinese restos

2005-11-08T14:52:00.000+08:00

this post is dedicated to ever growing number of chinese restaurants around the metro. in this post, i am not talking about chowking, north park nor gloria maris.. this reto's are offers the best food, meaning delicious, yet inexpensive cuisines.. and i have explored them all with the help of my family.

polland's - ku chay ah
this may look and sound weird but i swear its good. its like chicken pie, but there's no chicken so more liek a pie. its all vegtable inside, carrots, to potatoes... basta all veg... im sure kaye wouldnt dare eat this.

ma mon luk
ma mon luk is an old old family tradition, it has only one branch in banawe in quezon city, and it offers the best noodle soup in town. at first, it may taste really bland, but you gotta put their sauce. that is the magical thing about it, it makes everything good. believe me. ifyou were given a chance to do somwethnig with your car, you better go there na din. its worth it, although there is no aircon.

jona's
jona's started out as a small pares/mami house, and now - they have their own building already. starting from scratch huh? well, these are the few thnigs they offered. (siopao, beef and chicken noodle supreme, and of course the famous pares) their noodle supreme i think cost for about P80 which is cheap cause it fed 2 people. the pares was P68, its cheap na din, and its good. their broth was so good that i asked for extra.

stressed = desserts

2005-10-27T10:03:00.000+08:00

desserts (cakes, ice creams, cookies, brownies - anything sweet) has always been my saving grace. and now, i have all the more reason to get them! haha! well, apart from having a bad weather, it is also my moms birthday which means i can enjoy her cakes.. (take note: i am the one in the house who enjoy these kinds of desserts)

a funny text came from my mom this morning:
"ton, mag fiesta ka sa cake, nagpadala si akim baby (auntie in chinese), bagong cake mukhang masarap, made to order."

now, that is the real reason why i want to go home na!

TREATS

(clockwise: dulcinea's churros, starbucks fudge brownies, nypd's choclate chip cookie, and ucc's choclate ensaymada)
dulcinea is one of the retaurants my family enjoys na hindi chinese food ang sine-serve. surprisingly my dad loves to eat there because of theri paella, and of course after every meal we get churros. now, they have take out counters for their churros na in the poduim and megamall. makes it more accesible.
starbucks' fudge brownies, i love their butterscotch fudge but i love this even more.
nypd's choco chip - obne gigantic cookie, worth P40.. i remember , mga a year ago, it was only P20! doubling the price?
ucc's choco ensaymada - it was good, but i recommend you to top it with whip cream.

(clockwise: dulce lins' mango torte, hizons caramel cake and chocolate cake, the dulce lin box)

dulce lin's mango torte is soo good. i dont like magoes so i just eat the cream and the crust. hehe. i think it is better pa nga than the one in san lorenzo eh.
hizons naman are really known for their cakes, in every chinese birthday party i go to, meron niyan. so i get to take home and eat ti all by myself, but now aggie likes it na din so may kahati na ako.

(clockwise: amici's choclate with assorted nuts, ucc's chocobanana smoothie, cafe milan's tiramisu gelato, and cold rock's cookie dough)

amici is still the best gelato i've ever tried, i cant really say that it is real and genuine but it soothes my taste buds.
the other are not worth mentioning, sayang lang yung picture that is why is posted it na din.

now, that there is a cure for stress!!!

semi-crisis

2005-10-25T08:57:00.000+08:00

this is one of the few moments when i get anxious about my future not in my life per se- cause im done with that. its all about work - whenever i think what will happen in the near future like next week, next few months, na-ppraning ako. it will be only just the two of us, as of now our hands are full of things to do.

so you might wonder why do i have the time to blog pa? well, kasi im still waiting for the respondents to arrive. for today, i have 3 groups, on wednesday i also have 3 groups.. on thursday and friday i have one on one interviews and on top of that i need to make presentation on thursday plus transcription in a flash for all these.

buti na nga lang ena is still here pa - last week. and everythnig will be left na to us. i hope i can handle things well. i know it will be hard for me the next few months but im optimistic naman that i'll survive this semi-crisis we are facing.
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my mom asked me when should we have dinner on her birthday - thursday talaga ang birthday niya, oct. 27 - ang sagot ko - "di ko alam eh." this is the time when i feel really sad about what i am doing. i need to sacrifice family time for work, and that's dinner ah. oh well, i wonder when will this stop?

another funny incident.. last saturday, i was having a quiet brunch all by myself when "manang" - our pakealamerang manang but in a good way though.. approached me and said.. "na-mimiss na kita, di kita nakikita sa umaga, di pa kita nakikita sa gabi" - i should feel weird. why should she miss me? if they feel that, how about my own family? parents? siblings? i think everyone goes to this stage.

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2005-10-20T13:15:00.000+08:00

i better not write, what i just wrote. i should not think about it anymore. i dont wanna get distracted. but dont be surpirised if things change.

prolonging

2005-10-19T15:10:00.000+08:00

for the past few days, i've been watching the first season of desperate housewives with aggie and cho. i got this last month pa, but i just started last week, and im still in the fifth cd. i like to watch it when im not stressed or if i have nothing better to do. so, ive been doing that lately. i think i like to prolong things, not to finish it all at once. i mean i dont want to finish it naman in one watching, i want to reserve it for the times, times of uncertainity and nothingness. i like it that way. same goes with the books ive bought in national bookstore, cubao 2 months ago, they are all stuck in my shelf. before, i get to finish one book a week but now, the last book that im reading, i had it for a month now, inside my bag. so it makes me feel comfortable that i still have 3 books waiting to be read. i can read it naman if i have spare time naman diba?

also, my acquiring habits have been declining lately. its not that im saving a lot, im not believe me- i want to!, but im not. ive seen a lot of things that i want to buy, like the wallet i saw in topman, the bag i saw in esprit, the shirt i saw in.... i know na di naman siya masyadong mahal but i want to learn to control myself and be diplomatic in the way i deal with it. before, whenever i would see something i like, i get it agad. impulsive?? but no i guess ive seen the value of money na. pero there are some things that doesnt require me to think twice - food, music, books.. i think kasi when it comes to shirts, shoes and bags - i have so many of it that i can definitely live without having another. im just trying to control myself though.

hey - i need desperate measures to save up. im thinking if my plan would push though, which should push through, i need to pay it on my own. i cant expect my parents to still pay things for me. so i need to take that into consideration - BIG consideration.
i have two reasons for my upcoming trip:
1. my 23rd birthday
2. my first year here in the office
- i know these are dull reasons, but these are the reasons for me to enjoy and celebrate. hahaha.

one more thing, im getting bigger na here sa office, the "sumpa" must be true, but i wont let that happen. i need to do something. maybe trying new food isnt for me.

happy weekend

2005-10-17T11:32:00.000+08:00

considering my past weekends, this seems to be a good one. for one, i consider friday as a part of my weekend - my lunch was fun, went to cibo, and had fic for snack. i like fic especially pistacio, raspberry and strawberry... durian is not for me.(haha) that evening, i was suppose to go out with iya, julette, etc but had to prioritize family. so we just went to my aunts' house and celebrate her birthday. it was a small gathering but fun!

julette told me that i should try lokaldero at the fort - it was like dencios daw pero upscale and it has nice interiors daw. well i should try it although i find the fort really far from the my place.

that saturday.. i went to greenhills with my mom, my brother was having this chinese oral test that thankfully during my time was non-existent, since his school is near grenhills, my mom and i decided to drop by na din. just the thought of it makes me happy that i have graduated. hehehe. we had lunch in the house, which my mom and i regret, sana we had lunch out na lang. so, we just decided to eat dessert at bizu. (blueberry cheesecake and lime cheesecake)

yesterday, the 16th was my sisters birthday! happy birthday aggie!
when it comes to food, my family is not so adventurous, my dad does not eat italian and american food, he also does not eat beef.. well what he loves to eat are chinese and japanese food over and over again. so for my sisters birthday, i mentioned that they try heaven and eggs (for me, i have tried it na) - i can see that he is okay trying it for the sake of my sister. hehehe.

(top to bottom) angus beef tapa, manila spare ribs, grilled prok chop and eggs

(top to bottom) mom and kids; mom and dad; mom, dad and my brother; the three of us; ags and me clowning around.

family affair

2005-10-13T11:28:00.000+08:00

my angkong (lolo) celebrated his brithday last oct 2, while tita bebs celebrated hers naman last oct 9... this sunday, the 16th, my sister - aggie naman is celerating her 21st birthday.. how time flies.. parang ang tanda na namin.. pero wala pa akong gift sa kanya.. shit. i better go to gb or glorietta to find stuff, pero i have no idea what she likes... she likes this bag sa esprit thats worth 3kiaw, yung gusto ko nga na bag dun 1.5kiaw, ayaw ko pang bilhin eh. hahaha! ang kuripot ko na talaga. im trying really hard not to be as impulsive as before. but, back to the topic...

happy 88th brithday angkong!!!

here are all my cousins with my lolo - i can just see in his face how happy he is. sa totoo lang minsan ko na nga lang siya makita na naka-todo smile. and these are during family occassions, so i never miss one. i actually am learning a lot from him, he would give me these advice/aral- the problem is semi ko lang naintindihan yung mga kwento niya before. but i appreciate it a lot.

these are my aunts/uncles (which includes both my mom and dad) - the 5th girl (left to right) is my mom and the guy beside him is my dad...

happy birthday tita bebs!!!

tita bebs is the youngest girl from my dads' side. we semi-surprised her with the gift, flowers, and a box full of letters - parang palanca box (if ever you guys know days with the lord).. we all lover her because of her antique ways and how freindly she could be...

for instance, when she met regine tolentino sa tiangge in greenhills... katapat na niya ah..
"ay si regine" - tita bebs
regine acknowledges her with a smile...
"regine velasquez!!!" - tita bebs
regine tolentino suddenly didnt know how to react.

here are also some pictures with my cousins... somehow, i am thankful that we grew up really tight. we do stuff together, we joined clubs, we go out of town, we went to the same school, we car pull, we all live nearby, we went to the gym together, we play badminton... i am thankful for that!

credits for planning tita beb's birthday surprise:
all cousins for donating cash! hehehe!
achi mich, aggie, chicho, tristel... im sure we made tita bebs feel really loved. :) mission accomplished!

bliss de lys

2005-10-11T14:22:00.000+08:00

ohhh my! finally, i got out of the big con - i was there from 10AM to 5PM - it was too cold, poota ang lamig talaga, nagpapainit na nga lang ako ng kamay using the projector... at buti na lang may mga cookies na sinerve si chay to appease my restlessness (ang daming s).. finally, tapos na! anyways, ill blog about my adventure last saturday...

i've been trying to convince tita bot and aggie to accompany me and try fleur de lys. i have heard that this was place was good daw esp with their desserts. but my charm would not work with them, they just dont like eating desserts, cakes and stuff.. so, after my staurday probe, we went there to end the night. saturday was always my lazy day but the last one was not.. so i've finally decided to treat myself and end the night with desserts and a cup of tea.

a wide selection of cakes and desserts welcomes you to the store.

we ordered "the next best thing" - super chocolatey, the french vanilla ice cream was too small though. the inside was soft, it melts literally in one's mouth.

their creme brulee was okay, it tasted weird though because its flavor was coffee. that was the first time i've tried a coffee flavored creme brulee. dome's was parang leche flan kasi, so i was kinda disoriented with that thing.... i already miss the "tea" kasi ang lamig dito sa office.

always cancelled

2005-10-10T14:22:00.000+08:00

in my line of work, there are things i need to sacrifice, like working on weekends and stuff like that. its just really hard to manage other people's time, especially with the respondents. they back out, cancel, anytime they like and it leaves me worrying about my deadline. - so that one is cancelled - it was resched and cancelled again, we pushed thru though on sunday 10am at starbucks pearl.. yes. sunday at 10am, i was supposed to be still in bed but hey, my job!

anyways, my friday was weird. i went to conprobe at delifrance in valero, and i swear i wont go back there anymore, staff were all masungits.. i hate it when people are masungit esp if they dont have any reason or right to be. so moving on, i've got home a little around 7pm, and was still kinda full, but when you are given squid balls and kikiam - who can resists that??? this has been my food of choice during my initial break (jan) before i got to work. mom also got seafood puttanesca for me in (im not sure about the resto's name - the one beside steak md in morato). i also got the chance to sample their seafood pesto which was okay too.

for my saturday probe, i kinda figure out i need to give something to bede's family for allowing me to conduct the probe in their house. i mean, yeah we have been friends for a long time now, but still, last saturday was the first time i ate dinner there. his family was soo cool. pramis! ang galing! hehe. thanks auntie bonita for the great food. uncle - for the kwento's, beau and dichi - for being nice... thanks!

guess what, i went to chocolate kiss' for that dessert i was suppose to bring and got them sansrival and devils foodcake. also shown below is the chocolate chip cheesecake. aah!

chinatown's treasures

2005-10-07T10:17:00.000+08:00

for the past 2 sundays, my mom and i went to ongpin in manila. primarily, we went to buy jewleries (for re-selling purposes).. everytime we go there, usually we have something planned already, or else i'd get so lost with all the things i wanted to see, and all the stores i wanted to go into. its like shopping heaven for chinese, everything you need is around the corner.

first is the good old mamang kutsero - when i was younger, like 2-5 years old, id go with my mom and ama (lola) and aunts around ongpin riding in a kalesa. i was really frightened at first, but you'd get used to it, whenever you're there on a weekly basis.

ongpin also has good source of fruits, in any "kanto" you will surely find stalls at much cheaper price, of course one would need to bargain - and that was my mom's course in college, she's so good at it, that we get things cheap, although sometimes nahihiya na talaga ako.

we usually go to ongpin around 10 to 11AM so it wouldnt be too hassle, kasi ang traffic, we would usually park in a small parking space, and we'd go around walking na. our stop over was "ang tunay na beef house" - both my parents love the chinese-black chicken soup (the one in the right) - i didnt even dare try it, the smell was awful, although i had compromised with my mom that i'll taste pero the meat of the duck lang. - actually that soup is usually prepared for mom's who just gave birth - pampalakas daw ng katawan yan eh.

while i had the one in the left, oysters with tausi sauce, squid with chili peppers and spinach with garlic and "kiampung" - or chinese fried rice na "malagkit"..

the pictures above are the chinese groceries we went into, i was dumbfounded with all the colors there is - i cant even seem to focus to one specific spot. there were different kinds of candies and noodles from taiwan, china, korea... i was tempted to buy, so i just bought myself chocolates (pictures to be posted on the next post)

i'm sure everyone have heard of DEC or diao eng chai - its a chinese food store that sells almost everything.. chicken pie, chiffon slices, mamon, puto, siopao, kutsinta, taiwanese bamboo shoots, siomai, tikoy, rolls and cakes.

this is my favorite - it is called "hopia dice" from bakers fair - one dice would cost of P2.50 - kinda cheap but considering the size... a box of P20 will cost about P55 or P60 - i forgot the amount i paid for but everytime i get to go there, i will surely have ine tray of this.

well, my mom is asking me when will our next trip be...

me = organizer/alalay

2005-10-05T13:50:00.000+08:00

sometimes i do get the feeling that i am a "dakilang alalay", to my friends, cousins, family.. etc! lets not term it that way, not actually alalay but "organizer", "tiga follow-up" at "tiga-ayos ng lahat ng bagay" especially when people cant handle it anymore. actually, i dont dread or hate that feeling and what im doing though. i do like that, i like being in control of things and being on top of certian situations.

some situations as example:
1. whenever our college "12" barkada would have dinner, it is usually becuase of me - my initiative. or people would ask me to arrange something.
(uy birthday ni "*&%$#" meet tayo, ayusin mo)
(uy ayos ka ng dinner, sayo lang naman susunod yan eh)
- i guess that is why they placed me "on the top of the heirarchy"

2. my high school friends
(B texted me to arrange something for dinner and invite our ibang barkada, nung ayos na ang lahat, he texted me nung afternoon na wag na lang daw since he had so many things to do - which is a palusot kasi nahuli ko sya, i knew him too well, he was just waiting for a call dun sa nililigawan niya - i was irritated at him) i did understand the real reasons but i thought it was just so inconsiderate. after all it was him who asked me to do such a thing.

3. family
a. i remember it was my cousins 18th birthday, his "ahya = kuya" was suppose to plan something for her, "mala-surprise".. her birthday was on the 20th, and nung 18th tinawagan ako ng kuya niya to ask for help.. sabi ko "okay, ano magagwa ko.. ano na ba status, ano na nangyari, sino na nakusap mo?" - and his answer was "wala". all he had was the intention to throw a surprise party.

b. mooncake festival. last year the whole clan played dice, of course we planned it (ahya ichi and achi mich) included. it was fun buying stuff and preparing for the day itself.. for this year, one of my cousins was suppose to plan, and my aunt told him na din, na he should do it, kasi he was the big winner last year, eh walang nangyayari.. my cousins really wanted to play though, so one of my uncle said, "si ton na lang gumawa, busy kasi si P eh." - as if hindi ako busy???

dont get me wrong here, im not furious for doing all these things... sometimes i really wonder if life was really meant to be this way?! that there is such a person like me who does this...

cheap and cheerful

2005-10-04T15:24:00.000+08:00

halfmoons' bibingcrepe
last friday, john, che, trace and i had dinner at JT's Manukan.. after we deicded to have dessert, and i blurted out that they should try bibingcrepe.. they were really eager to try it since they havent been there and havent tasted the bibingcrepe yet. we were delighted that evening, the hot bibingcrepe matched the rainy weather. but just an advise, this bibngcrepe is for sharing.. P75 to P120. my loved flavors: chocopeanut, chocobanana peanut

food channels' shawarma
shawarma is the food i enjoy eating, it is easy and messy.. thats why i enjoy it. (weird) beofre, food channel was located in virramall in greenhills, they also sell the best squid balls, etc. after virramall closed, my sister and i couldnt find any stall like it. we were craving for it, until i finally found some places in makati that has food channel...

goldilocks' banana muffin
the best muffin so far, i mean price wise, its less than twenty bucks and still you can enjoy a great tasting muffin. i like it better than starbucks or coffee bean pa nga. defintely cheap and cheerful for P18.

quickly's taro ice, with taro pudding, sago and nata
quickly is one of my old favorites. i remember, that i would usually walk to get my fill of taro drink from quickly. when its really late at night, i would drive, a 2 minute drive from my house just to get these. but now, almost all the quickyl branches i know is already closed, the one in valero na lang is the one open. for P40, yes it can qualify a bit.

ube delight
ube is one of the native treats i enjoy, same with leche flan and yema. i;ve tried so many ube's before but nothnig comapres to this. i just enjoyed this dessert i had. well, the hard part is that it came from our province pa in nueva ecija. some "manang" makes ube for P40 a tray. i mean its cheap, i would pay P100 for that, but i guess i can get two and a half for a hundred pesos. hehe!

a delayed post

2005-09-30T16:30:00.000+08:00

i had no time to blog for the past few days, and as friday comes to an end, i finally found the time. actually, it just wasn't about blogging, i even had no time to talk to julette and kaye, and that is unusual especially here in the office. so here are some of our adventures together, and a surprise below!

brazil brazil .. finally.

i remember that i was sick that day, but the thought of being dissapointed over my much anticipated dinner would be too depressing. so i went, and actually i was not too feverish by dinner time.. this is what i can promise, if you love meat, and your body can actually eat a lot of it, then go there. your P545 would be "sulit" as what they say in "eat all you can" fashion. haha! and it was sulit for me, julette and kaye.. although si ryan parang mahina siya kumain that time. i also love their paella and pasta with meatballs. the fish was good too, but the pork loins and sausages were still the best!

heaven and eggs

if you love breakfast especially the american type... go to heaven and eggs. i've been hearing that place for a couple of months now from my friends in abs and gma, and that made me curious.. thus i wanna try. so who else will accompany me on my food trips - yes. you've guessed it right! julette and kaye! hahaha! shempre si ryan din pala. if you go and eat there, for sure busog ka.. the pancakes will make you crazy, ang laki, and i recommend you guys to share. the potato wedges are masarap.
a warning, i know there is no harm in trying, but the maple syrup is the only one that can go with the pancakes, yung iba i tried, muntik ko ng isuka. the yellow one is pineapple, the see through is buko, and the orange one is peach. they all taste like plastic. hindi bagay!

models

so i end the week with this post... julette, kaye.. san na ang next target natin?! see ya soon.

attempt number one

2005-09-26T08:53:00.000+08:00

my saturday was one of the most boring. i really planned on doing nothing becuase i know that it'll be busy with work.. the end result - ive accomplished nothing, actually i did accomplish something but it just wasnt enough yet. the weather really made me want to sleep just the whole day. it was calm, quiet, peaceful, and cold! thank god.. ive been wishing that there would be a weather where it would be cold -- walang ulan ah.. cold lang.

so without anything to do, i just did mirienda for me and my cousins... *tadaaah* french toast but we have no mapple syrup so instead i thought why not ice cream (magnolia's double dutch) - it will be much better!
hot toast plus the ice cream would be a perfect combination for such a gloomy weather.

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what made it more fun that there was everyone.. in just 45 secs, the plate was clean.

(L to R: chicho, jaja, kyky, tristel, keken, ags, kev)

i had fun maknig this dish for them, they all enjoyed it anyway.. :)

drained. what weekend?!?!

2005-09-23T11:41:00.000+08:00

im tired, so so so tired.. yesterday was too draining for me.
i found myself na "nakasalampak" sa floor when i arrived home yesterday ng mga 930pm.

thurs morning, i did all my desk work, i did some powerpoints for next week, i emailed client for feedback, talked to them... and all that stuff. for lunch, i had to go to pearlbank for a conprobe.. it was all a mess, actually i got what i wanted but was too unprepared becuase it was a short notice. we were talking in their reception with a lot of people going in and out. suddenly there was a commotion, they were asking me if i could pull the plug of the laptop, hide the recorder, close it.. hide everything.. all in a split second. it was such a rush that i lost my trail of thought. booh!

after that, i went straight to paseo bought some tokens, went to cristina condo, went to park square, went to greenbelt (bought items in the grocery, food, tokens.. ect)... went back to condo, fixed the living room, prepared for the evening conprobe. all of them were suppose to come by 6pm. only 2 did, and the other 2, went about 730pm. --- the only thing i liked about these was i went to sakura, the japanese grocery i wanted to go to in arnaiz ave/ pasay road. i got japanese chocolates for me! yumyum!

after that, all i could think of was "i want to go home now!" so i did and arrived 9 plus na. rested for a bit (watched desperate housewives and friends) then went to do my rituals before going to sleep.

oh, we also have a conprobe today, 8pm at UP.. i havent even finished transciribing my tapes, havent even read my research for vietnam, havent even done the powerpoint for vietnam... and there's tons of it here piled. also there is this jo for a new account... i need to submit topline of yesterdays probe... i wish this coming weekend will be for about 4 days. i need to do all this by monday! God help me! i really need this!

animo la salle

2005-09-19T11:10:00.000+08:00

D -- L -- S -- U
animo la salle
score: 79-67

congratulations to the green arches for placing second in the UAAP final four. the game versus the red warriors was one of the best games i ever saw.

the patron was full of green, so was the lower box.. i say that 70% of upper a were DLSU supporters and only 30% were wearing red. most of UE supporters were in the general admission. --> i guess this situation had some effects to the players. most of their free throws failed, i think only 50 to 60% went in. while green archers' free throws went in 90% of the time.--- some rationale, eh?!

again to the team, thanks for winning, thanks for not wasting my 110-peso ticket. hahaha! it was all worth it, even i dont have my full voice right now... :)

cream puffs

2005-09-15T10:28:00.000+08:00

when it comes to cream puff - beard papa gets my vote! it was bon who introduced me to this, this was way back when virramall was not yet being renovated yet, it was near the entrance and beside ice monster. now, it has a better location - the promenade at greenhills.

now, it has different flavors or toppings that one can chose from, i personally love chocolate and nuts combined.. so this was definitely heaven for me. my brother, also love their cream puffs. everytime we would go to catch a flick, my sister would buy figaro iced tea, and my brother would defintely get a piece or two of beard papa. my mom who is not a big fan of desserts, only love 2 types of dessert: this big papa (haha!) and san lorenzo's mango torte.

beard papa started in japan, with its famous custard cream, and now.. you can have it for P50-55.. medyo mahal siya some people would say. i do find it quite expensive too, but i try to "see" it as a treat.. a treat every weekend, cause ive been working hard all week, then its okay to treat yourself.... and its worth it naman. hahaha! always nice excuse to eat something.

showbiz AZAP!

2005-09-13T11:18:00.000+08:00

went to ASAP taping last sunday, it was taped already cause they wont go live next sunday, the 18th i guess...
i saw everyone their whole cast and crew..

rehearsals:
juris with the champions...
i was planning to go to tavern to watch mymp perform, but since i got to watch them rehearse, it was like watching their show pero they have guess pa. i love juris' voice, it was soothing.

nina with gary, martin and piolo
i also like the peroformance of nina, she was there to promote her upcoming concert. she performed with gary, martin and piolo. gary was still amazing, but i think martin is the better singer, he is also funny, very interactive with the audience(kahit rehearsal pa lang ah). they seemed to be enjoying themselves on stage.

opening number
rihanna's pon de replay was the first song to be played.. ASAP girls are the one singning it. i realized ang liit ng stage at ang dami nila, how could they all fit in there. the next song were the guys with viva hot babes (maui, jennifer lee, myles, and the girl with super big boobs - whats her name? na kamukha ni ruffa mae?!) guys were singing and the girls were dancing the tune of don't cha by pussy cat dolls - nice choice of songs though..

funny incidents:
- ryan accidentally knocking over sarah geronimo's jug! - her jug's color combo was the best - pink and purple - ang "nene" pa niya.
- toni gonzaga was on her way out of the set, and there were a gtoup of boys following her around and were saying "ang ganduhh!!!" it was the best statement i've heard. they were mocking the commercial or ricky!!!
- kaye taking picture of geoff eigenmann for iya!
- discovering that julette has a crush.. si christian bautista and take note.. she voted for him sa competition before. hahaha!

halo-halo thoughts

2005-09-10T22:41:00.000+08:00

i have said some stupid phrase sa office... yung wala naman sanang malisya pero pag pinakinggan mo parang ang pangit pakinggan!

sample:
"oh nag-lunch ka na?" - me to julette
"oo naman. may preprod kami sa boardroom eh" - julette
"ayy.. bakit di ka nilabasan?" - me (referring to the food, i mean sana nilabas mo yung food for us)
* i saw bede smiling sheepishly at the corner, and it did hit me that i said something. hahaha!

last wednesday(9/7) it was too traffic.. i got out at the office to meet up some friends in chilis in greenhills, mga 7:20pm yun. and 8:20 na guess where na ako? nasa rockwell pa lang. i wanted to shout and cry na talaga sa car, but i did not! i mean i have changed na nga cause before i would curse anyone that i see, and cars that surround me. buti na lang i have aggie's ipod with me. it kept me company. di ko na pinilit to go sa greenhills kasi di umaandar ang cars, i arrived home 9:20pm without dinner or anything. bwiset na mga rally yan!

yesterday (9/9) was cousins meeting. we ate at chili's pa din in greenhills, bumawi ako! haha! with lack of anything to watch, we decided to purseu brothers grimm kaysa not doing anything at all. it was okay, nahilo lang ako cause i have no idea who the hell are they. i didnt know that they are the one who wrote snow white, etc... malay ko ba?! and then after the film, pinag-usapan namin at ta-da!!! dun ko lang naintindihan yun buong movie.. kaya pala i was trying to figure out bakit may mga snippets mo gingerbread man, little red riding hood, snow white, sleeping beauty dun...

i did already finish the "22 immutable laws of branding" by the guru al ries! but i doubt him sometimes. he cant be that good?! contradicting ba?

haay. i finally was able to get the books that i wanted...
- "the curious incident of the dog in the night time by mark haddon"
- "tipping point by malcom gladwell"
- "veronika decides to die by paulo coelho"

i know next week will be busy busy busy, i see it na, sa white board pa lang nakikita ko na ang kakalabasan ko next week or namin. i'm just looking forward for friday's brazil brazil (i've waited for his for so long).. ang saturday's M deli!

cafe monaco

2005-09-08T15:07:00.000+08:00

one would guess that when i/we would order longsilog, tosilog or tapsilog, it would be for breakfast, but no.. this was for dinner.

cafe monaco has always been my favorite hang out place, cause i feel comfy there, sometimes too comfy! i go there with my pair of slippers, shorts and my over-laking shirt. i can go there with anyone and anytime. they have these couches where i can put up my legs and sit comfortably. i discovered that place when i was still in college, about 5 years ago. M and I would always go there for kwentos, i would usually eat korean to pinoy foods while M would go there to smoke and drink iced tea!

i love their tapsilog and longsilog - defintely the best garlic rice i ever tested. i also like their bibimbop - this korean dish/rice just blends well. i love the spinach and togue mixed with all korean flavorings and seafood - only problem is carbo loading to, its good for 2! i share with my mom! i am not a big fan of mango, but their mango crepe was just surprisingly good! my brother ordered it and i was there for the "tikiman" part lang, pero to masarap pala siya. they also have sizzling bangus, na good for 4 people na ata yun. i better try that too... all their coffee and lattes are good, their ice cream desserts are lovely too.

well, here are some photos to share.. the ambiance is just what i need and what i always look for. hindi siya parang fast food na kailangan mo na kagad umalis, you can stay ang lounge there for as long as you want. they also play great music, jazz type para makapahinga at relax la talaga. the service is personal, and i know na the people there. the price naman is cheap na din.. their tapsilog and tosilog, would be mga P65-70. Their rice meals go up to P150. Their crepes about P90.

always the place i go to if i want to rest-cum-eat! haha!

loaded

2005-09-03T23:23:00.000+08:00

i am loaded with work to do, my weekend was full of work, and the freaky part is - im starting to like this feeling, the feeling that i have so many things to accomplish, that i even need to sacrifce even my own time and space.. its just weird, i dont want to like this feeling cause it might backfire at me in the near future or in the future somehow....

yesterday(friday), our team went out to eat late lunch at vanilla bean. the food was okay, hindi nga lang ganun ha filling, which is okay lang, cause it leaves a space for DESSERT!!! hell yeah, my favorite part of every meal. i ordered this chicken garlic strips and applie pie for dessert. the apple pie was good, it was full of apples, hindi "hangin".
after, we went to kalentong part of the city to do field work. it was okay but it was too damn hot! we were walking the streets of kalentong, and the fear that i might get hit by a car anytime would be flashing in my mind. and sa lahat ng kamalasan, i encountered the biggest bitch of all!

"miss, pano ba ito ipa-appraise?" - me
"kailangan ko kilatisin yan (referring to ena's engangement ring)" - miss
"pano kilatisin?"- me
"may bato dito" - miss
"pupukpukin niyo?" - me
"sa iba ka na nga mag-appraise!!!" - miss

putang ina mo! appraise-in ko kaya yung walang kwenta mong mukha! ang pangit mo! wala kang halaga.. the impatient part of me wanted to say, but i kept quiet! buti na lang si ena tinarayan niya...
"kung ayaw niyo, eh di wag!!!" - ena (sabay walk out) nyahaha!
buti na lang nabawi ng DEC ang kabwisitan ko sa kanila. they still ahve the best fried siomai!

that night, i went to SM santa mesa to do rounds naman sa fast food chain, and i was there for almost an hour interviewing the manager (thanks po, ur so kind and entertaining, and thanks for the discount!). i also interviewed customers.. kinabahan ako kasi baka they would shut me out pero mabait pa din sila.. (thanks thanks!)

my saturday morning was spent in conprobing pawners na tlgang nasa d sec na. it was just a breeze but i worked pa din the whole morning, talking to 5 of them, and transcribing all the interviews. it was the first time na i talked to d people talaga. it was a reality check to me, i felt that i should not be complaining na.

*** talked to lester, and sana our new plan will turn out for the best. i just wish i could use my sp called expertise to what will happen. "fingers-crossed"***

songs for the moment

2005-08-31T14:20:00.000+08:00

since i dont want to write about stuff that is not worth mentioning and remembering... i'd just channel all these thoughts in writing my favorite lyrics from different songs...

1. " no one else can fix me, although sometimes my heart tricks me, on thinking someone else will do, but you're the only one, the only one... am i gonna be lonely for the rest of my life, unless you come around, so come around.." - rhett miller "come around"

2. "i said i dont know, if id ever been good enough..." - matchbox twenty "push"

3. "say goodbye, not knowing when the truth in my whole life begin.. i learned to let go of the illusion that we can both have" - madonna "ill remember"

4. "when you feel all alone, and the world has turned its back on you, give me a moment please, to tame your wild heart." - savage garden "crash and burn"

5. "i wish you made sense, like a joke that no one gets, its a life qithout regret, i wanted to fel that way forever.." -natalie imbruglia "wishing i was there"

6. "you can call me selfish, but all i want is your love. you can call me hopeless, cause i am hopelessly in love. you can call me unperfect, but whose perfect? tell me what i gotta do, to prove myself .. " - n'sync "selfish"

7. "i know what you doing, i see it all to clear... everyone keeps asking, whats it all about, i used to be so certain, now i cant fiugre out..." - duncan sheik "barely breathing"

8. "when the daylights gone, and you are on your own, and you need a friend just to be around,.. together we'll survive through the haste and hurry." - corrs "at your side"

9. "well i guess i' trying to be nonchalant about it, but when i would go to extremes to prove im fine without you, but in reality i'm slowly losing my mind, underneath the guise of smile gradually i'm dying inside." - mariah carey "breakdown"

10. "i believe that faith has brought us here, we should be together babe, but we are not.." - macy gray "i try"

by the way, challenge 'to.. do you guys know what songs are these and who sang it? if you want to answer the challenge, just put in in the comment box (1-10) yan!

weekend! yehey!

2005-08-29T09:46:00.000+08:00

my weekend was busy, busy, busy.. but at the same time fun!

friday (8/26) - happy birthday dad!!!
my day would usually start normal having breakfast at pantry with people from the office, the fun part was the donuts!!!, i ate half a slice of the oreo flavored donut and also half of the blueberry and cottage cheese - this was something new from cello's, but the price is double the regular donut. ang daya!

we had lunch sa oody's, malu's treat again, nakakahiya na! we ate there to discuss my pending evaluation, which turned out to be okay naman... julette and kaye's comment stuck on me lang. yun lang yung naalala ko from all the comment people made for the 360! "he snaps at people" and "when driving, please drive with more patience" - salamat for these advice hah?!
then i went straight home to accompany my mom to go to greenhills cause she was buying a gift for my dad - what a personal errand i have that i need to file a leave for it pa. we bought my dad a gift she had in mind, which was the audiovok(?) dvd player - the one which has screen na 8 inches and you can bring sa car. so she asettled for that, a gift that she will be the one who will most likely benefit from - all those korean cds will surely be played, even though not at home.

we had dinner sa congo grill, near abs - this is my favorite place for filipino food aside from masas. their sisig is just heaven.. i also loved their bicol express, although the luya was so evident from the dish. their pinakbet is a must have, their tuna belly was gigantic, their sizzling squid was good to, better than krocodile's, and their kirpsy pata was one of the best. i was suppose to have dessert pa, but suddenly i cant na. haha. we ate with some of my cousins and aunts (lin, adu, kev, tristel, juju, jaja, aunti g, tita bot, mom, dad, ags, cho and me) i just discovered that during fridays and saturdays there was this duo that plays their - kinda like mymp.. their voice sounds good naman kaya lang we need to transfer to a more private and enclosed place para makapag-usap naman kami lahat!

saturday (8/27)
i woke up early to find myself alone at gateway because i was suppose to meet julette there. all of them were running late so i just went around. julette was there earlier than kaye so nag-ikot na kami, and both nga kami tanga sa lugar at pag-iikot esp cubao - wala kaming alam dun eh. but am so proud to say that we arrived in marinika shoe expo and went sa mga ukay's.. julette got a bag, while i got alikabok in my face.

we met with "the late" ryan and kaye (joke lang) sa bellini's in marikina shoe expo.. the tri-colored pasta i had was good! the rice pudding ba yun, that kaye ordered was good too. the pizza was okay lang din, sakto lang for the 4 of us, kasi pag sobra ang pangit naman. ito sakto lang. hehehe. after nagikot lang kami inside, i got to buy 2 stuff sa grand thrift house - one bracelete na ewan ko ba bakit ko binili, but i liked it naman. and also this yosi case, na di ko din alam bakit ko binili cause i dont smoke naman. pero am super happy that i got these things. i'll be back ata there with julette, but first i plan to watch yung japanese film festival sa shangri-la. i hop hindi ako tamarin.
had dinner with ama(lola) at tramway restaurant. hindi naman ganun kasarap but eat all you can siya so somehow the food makes it forgivable. i like the duck though. was super busog. the i went at CBTL with tita bot, ags and cho, got a chai tea frapp and went straight to halfmoon for my bibingcrepe.. chococheese! yoohoo! i better go back to the gym na.

sunday (8/28) happy birthday ahya ichi!!!
cheryl invited me to try cold rock in the fort, kasi since sa selecta nga siya nag work. dapat nga niyang matikman lahat ng competitive products nila. but before that we went sa rockwell to look at the vintage bazaar, i got a shirt for myself from analogsoul. and then i was given more infos, i guess by on of the owner, who is miguel naguiat. so ill contact him na lang daw if i want more designs or so.. funny, they dont have a store, which means what?! - i dont know.
after, we looked around and cheryl got to buy naman her "ama" slippers (pang-lola kasi).. we looked around mga gamit pang bahay and we liked a lot of things, it is as if wer gonna buy talaga.
then we went na to the fort to get our cold rock, i got these aussie vanilla with dough and brownies and she got cookies and cream with snickers. - super tamis. i wasnt that happy with it, i feel like gulping sugar.
after that, we went to greenhills naman, and met my family. we ate at aristocrat - ive discovered, its better than alex III pa pala, one of the few aristocrat's left.. one in roxas diba?! but ito mas malapit ata in my place and offers the same chicken and pork barbecue which are my comort food...

looking forward for my next weekend.

in circles

2005-08-26T10:17:00.000+08:00

*** i dreamt that i resigned na daw and was about to leave GASSO?!*** weird.

Anyways...
This post is about a good friend of mine back in college. J(F) and P(M) (ex-couple) were both good friends of mine, they met because of me and it is through that, that they became closer and soon became a couple. Its been 5 years since then. Both of them are troubled in a way, J although now happily dating, didnt really tell the true reason why she broke up with P. Her reason was the same as everyone else's - "growth" - the word we use when we cant sat what we really want to say.

J would text me every so often to ask about how P is doing.. and of course i wouldnt really know, so i would text him and ask him how he is doing... so between researching for materials and making presentations for the client, i my phone wouldnt stop beeping cause im texting 2 persons at the same time. Buti na lang i mastered the art "wrong sending" - i am careful when it comes to this stuff. i heard a lot of stories about couple's breaking up bec of this..

Honestly, P is the good type of guy. He agreed to whatever she proposed(the break-up) and believed in all this hoolabaloo... He was supporting her "growth" in finding what she really wanted about her future career, plans of going to abroad and work there. But "growth" was really leading to the arms of another guy. J broke up with him becuase of thsi main reason.. that there was another one. I couldn't even tell him this fact, i know that this will crush his heart so bad. i know how much he loves her.

Here are some of the verbatims she used:
"Can i just love them both. I still care about P, and i love D. I dont know hu im better with, but i love D."
"Nasakatan ko kasi P, 5 years kong kasama yun, wala siyang kaalam-alam, di ko kayang sabihin sa kanya"
-- all i can get from this, is that nakokonsyensya lang talaga siya, and that doesnt seem to prove anything. From her mismo na nanggaling na he loves D more and cares about P na lang.

Here are some of the verbatims he used:
"Kung kaya ko lang gawan ng paraan na kalimutan niya ako at di na niya ako isipin"
"Kamusta na siya? Balitaan mo ako.."
"Kung yun yung gusto niya, okay lang sa akin. Wala akong magagawa."
-- can you get any more martyr?! i want to wake you up and tell you that there is something wrong here.

I just hope this wont happen to me, or to any of my friends.

void

2005-08-25T14:59:00.000+08:00

this week, i've been dragging myself to work. i do feel that something is wrong with me! i dont really know but it has something to do about the way i feel. lately, i just wanted to be alone, if not alone - i just want to be with a limited number of people, either one or two. i really dont have an idea why?! my attitude was always "the more the merrier" but not now.

i had lunch at new bombay(yum,yum,yum!!!) - a post on it when im in the mood na - yah lunch with.... no one. it isnt a big deal though kasi im kinda used to do that naman na! i just miss that situation, when im enjoying my food, and watching and observing people around me. im back to my loner self! thank god???!!!

SUCK! is the word that describes the mood that i am in right now. i really have no idea why?! i just try to put a smileon my face and continue with this day, week.. looking forward for a brighter one.

on a tuesday, a happy birthday!

2005-08-24T09:53:00.000+08:00

clockwise: carrot cake, chicken ala kiev, chicken and pork adobo, and kahlua cake plus walnut date

happy birthday obee! :) (8/23)
its funny cause i texted her early yeterday and asked her if she has any plans that night, so she said she didnt, so we decided just to have dinner.

unfortunately, her high school friends were waiting daw in her condo, and we didnt know what to do.. so rocky, aimee, obee and i just had dinner (all of them are her friends from bacolod, so i dont really know them) i just met them sometime ago. and i told my college barkada not to follow anymore kasi nagmamadali kami cause some people are waiting for her pa ... back to dinner: dapat sa katre, but obee really wanted to eat at chocoalte kiss! again! sawa na ata ako, so ill not go there in mga 3 weeks muna. but masarap pa din yung food, no doubt about it.
its the first time that i tried chicken and pork adobo- it was good, better than cafe bola's pa nga. the cakes were good too, and of course yung chicken ala kiev, the cream and cheese smothered inside was too creamy! carbo loading!

on a monday, i hear you

2005-08-23T09:13:00.000+08:00

clockwise: CBTL's spicy pasta salad, chinese chiken salad, me and cheryl, concorde cake(with ganache)

yesterday(monday) about 7pm, everyone left the office already except for the 4 of us (malu,jo,berlin and me).. freaky. pero okay lang alam ko naman na di ako nakakramdam. malu asked me if im going na? sabi ko na ill stay pa until my friend arrives, she's on the way na, and i told her to go na kasi she's not feeling well. but sabay na lang daw kami since she dont want to wait in the condo daw.

well, i stayed in the office for 2 reasons:
1. malu and i were consolidating research for a client.
2. my friend texted me to meet up daw. here's a glimpse of what transcribed between out texts:

"Anton umuwi k n b? Huy mt up naman tau! Nasasad lng tlga ko ng over! :)"
"And2 pako ofc, nsan ka ba?"
"La lng. Nasasad lng me. Gs2 k mkpgsalamuha sa tao hahaha :) naintndhan m un?"

- so she picked me up and after a long debate and walking all rufino, we finally decided to eat at coffee bean.. masarap yung concorde cake nila, and i learned from my friend, that ganache chocolates aare the best so siyempre we tried it. the list of restos came up new bombay, figaro, tosh, aposento, vanilla bean(closed na kasi)...
actually its fun to meet up a friend, she was complaining na di daw kasi ako nagpapakita! nakakatawa, cause nagusap kami nung sunday lang over the phone, nagkwentuhan kami ng medyo mahaba-haba. so we talked about her work (complaining again) - i really dont know if im just matiisin, cause i have no complaints in what i do, or im just damn lucky! well, ang dami pa naming pinagusapan, our plans, and the future and stuff....

so my monday a-okay! i heard her, and heard myself too!

full of cakes on a saturday

2005-08-21T11:48:00.000+08:00

i went to kevin's(cousin) basketball game in xavier, last saturday. we arrived (w/ lin & tita bebs) ng 4th quarter with only 10 senconds left. hahaha! how ironic, buti na lang nag overtime, so we get to watch the next 5 minutes of the game..

yahoo!!! to kev and teammates (including banal's son) for winning the game with last years champ, CSA. Moveover, fellas, Xavier is coming in strong with 5 wins and 1 lose, from La Salle. Next game would be versus Ateneo and thats on Wednesday, 430pm.. I was making a comment after the game that i was their lucky cheerer cause i was screaming so bad! and one of the dad (i dont know who he is) suggested that i should be present on wednesday! magleave ba ako for the game?! hahaha.

back to banal, akala ko siya yung coach! and i quote him on saying "sa PBA hindi nga ako kinakabahan, mas kinakabahan ako dito.." sige na, sure... going back to my alm amter for almost how many years brings back a lot of memories, in that gym where we had PE and CAT(yulk)... basta masaya din naman to see a whole new generation of xavierians, palying basketball, and janitors cheering for out team, siyempre home court advanage 'to.

after that, tita bebs, tita bot, lin and i went to greenhills to look around. grabe sumakit yung paa ko cause we were walking from 1pm to 6pm. ito ata yung tedious na pag-iikot eh. kapagod! pero okay lang, lin bought a lot of things while ako liked some shirts but didnt buy any. i have no more money, and i kinda bought a lot of stuff like yung mga paul smith perfumes i bought na sale last wednesday sa rcbc plaza.

i also tried kg's cheesecake - which for me didnt really taste that good, ang asim, pakla or walang lasa.. nung crust, i though it should be semi-sweet. not so sweet pero wag naman maasim. sana i tried the brazo or decadence cake na lang, baka its much better.

also for chicho's birthday, he bought a cake (siyempre for any birthdays naman) sa red ribbon, honye cake. i'm feasting on it right now, yesterday and the other day! hahaha. shit tataba na talaga ako because im eating cake 3x a day. one learning though, hindi masarap pag na sa ref yung cake, its better if its just room temperature.

and finally, we had dinner at chocolate kiss with ags,cho and (mom)?!-oops. no reactions please. but ill kwento na lang some other day! kaye was there too with ryan, got to meet her up there, and funny thing, she pre-ordered me my devils foodcake! yum yum yum. (thank you kaye!!! next time yung ensayamada ko na sa brothers. im just looking for the right timing to fill my empty stomach.) i loved the chocolate and caramel blend but di masyado yung frosting, it was too sweet! i also had gamberi which was deliscious. i hope i wasnt too full lang when i ate there, cause i ate tons of cake na nga kasi.

so my saturday was just all about cakes, hence the title... :)

traffic. gutom. tayo ka lang.

2005-08-21T11:34:00.000+08:00

skyflakes moment while going to JT's (thursdsay 8/18)
these 2 words really go well together... you always seem hungry when you are stuck in traffic. well, at least we were 3 there (kaye,julette) and i wasnt driving (thanks mang bonat)!

we went to eat at JT's, i really wanted to try this restaurant for so long already, and yesterday was just the perfect time. it was a cool evening, siyempre walang aircon dun kaya okay na malamig ang atmosphere, the ambiance naman was okay, para kang by the beach na may nag-barbecue, ihaw... ang saya! and siyempre the music was very relaxing, hindi naman relaxing na parang running water, but how should i say this, we wanted to burn the CD! hahaha!

the food we ate: paa, baticolon, garlic rice, atay and excite kalamansi juice! ang ganda nung name nung last noh?! basta masarap. kaye and ryan ordered batchoy and barbecue... ewan ko ba kung masrap talaga or were we just damn hugry, hgalit galit na nga muna kami eh.

happy birthday chicho! (friday 8/19)
we kinda punk'd him yesterday (aggie's idea).. we gave him a wrapped gift, it was a book (a series of unfortunate events which has thirteen series) the he owned, una mukha pa siyang surprised pero nung nabuksan niya, sabi niya:
"eh akin na 'to eh.. akala ko pa naman book 3 na" - chicho while looking so excited
"feeling mo naman, masyado kang nag-expect" - aggie

then we gave him aggie's real gift.. it was packed nga lang na parang basura...
"ano to, akin din ata ito eh..." - chicho
"ewan..." - aggie

fgd
conducting a focus group is always fun. but not when you get to stand up from 1 to 630pm, and along the way running to stores and buying stuff that is needed. also meals pa, na they couldnt deliver and i have to pick them up myself. hay! ako ay dakilang slave.

books bleh bleh

2005-08-18T10:55:00.000+08:00

i just finished reading 11 minutes by paolo coelho. actually parang puro reflections yun nasa story na ito eh, and bilib ako kay maria... when you are suddenly pushed through the limit, you can either go on or get out.. at siya parating fight, fight, fight.. she learned a lot, but she tried to hide a lot of things, things that deep down she really wanted. the ending was typical parang ang dami niyang pretentions kasi, minsan nakaka-inis na. pero at the end, she still had what she wanted!

---> this book made me think! not because of anything else, but just made me think all about the lessons one can pick up, suddenly i found myself afraid of what the future may bring. natakot na ako, na-praning na ako... hindi nga ako makatulog kagabi...

what was i afraid of ba? -- death, it can come anytime and without me even being prepared. and i never wanted to be in that situation, eh ngayon pa nga lang, im well prepared for my work and stuff, i never am unprepared. maybe i should be prepared in order for me to not be afraid na din. hay!!! but my best defensive strategy for that is to block it all and dont think about it na lang.

but today got me thinking na dapat ata iniisip ko na to, and i should be prepared for whatever it is that will come my way. as malu said nga na souls that are not at peace wonder and they are stuck here with missions to complete. currently, i dont think im at peace nga cause of my situtaion with my mom, we havent spoken for about 2 months na ata... eh pano kung mamatay ako, eh di wandering soul din ako. ayaw ko nga nun! bahala na.

adeline yen mah's falling leaves is a must read. kung mahilig ka sa mga may history and personal stories that goes with it. it is basically about a memoir of an unwanted chinese daughter.. punyeta! dito sa book na 'to, i just cant imagine how people can be so cruel, i can expect other people but kung kapatid mo? thats a different story. (sorry, eto yung twist ng story) i feel blessed nga na the era i was born in is not so complicated as theirs, pero malay ko nga ba talaga diba?!

it basically ended on a positive note, after all those years of struggle and finding out what is her status na talaga with her family... at least it came to a point na she found the answers to her one and only question...

maybe i should stop thinking about books that i read..

desserts galore

2005-08-15T16:30:00.000+08:00

the past week was like rest week for me, it was fun yet booooring!!! but whenever i have nothing to do, i get to read blogs, do my own and actually put pictures in it... so dont be shocked when you see tons of pictures here. hehehe!

anyway, officially, today is my 6th month here at the office! as part fo my celebration, i asked marj to treat me last friday sa chef ed's cause of our bet that she lost. the lower left was chocolate souffle i think, i forgot na the name na nga dahil sobrang sarap niya. the chocolate was gooey, yung masarap na gooey ah! basta you guys better try it! and the one sa right niya is the fried ice cream in orange sauce with strawberry puree - pucha. sosi yung name noh! well, it was good too! parang mochi balls but better, masarap na nakahalo sa ice cream yung fried crust eh. and the sauces were great! basat yumyum! gusto ko na ulit bumaba at pumunta dun, someone stop me lang cause ang mahal niya for desserts.

the left top picture was the shoes i bought, the one i was talknig about sa past blog ko! hehehe! sa super tuwa ko, i decided to dedicate a part of this for them! hahaha! parang tao ba?! and the one on the right is my friend from college pa.

kids in the house

2005-08-12T10:07:00.000+08:00

this is my cousin, ken or ke-ken, isnt he cute? :) he's turning 2 this sept 5.
i adore this kid so much that everytime i arrive home, he is the first one i look for.

well, i have always loved kids, they are just the cutest in the world! i am just lucky that we live in the same house, so that i can play with him anytime i like... i think this situation allows me to be a kid sometimes, although im the eldest in the house among the cousins. i can play with them and just joke around with them, we even buy food together and eat like nag-aagawan... isnt this fun?! hahaha.

i realized that my smaller cousins those aged 8-12 years old, really appreciate our situatuion. how would i know this? let us remember that i am a conprober, and for project bf, i asked them what are the happy moments in their life or parang party stuff for them? they said.. "tayo-tayo, when we are all here together, naglalaro ng PS2, kumakain, nagtatapunan ng unan.." and then i realized that... hey, these small things matter to them... :)

back to ken, what do we usually play?
- i tour him in the garden to look at the beautfil and colorful orchids.
- i throw him up in the air like superman
- i give him food to eat, cause he looks so funny! like in the picture while eating cello cookies and cream doughnuts! he's in a mess...
- we go to jollibee, to play at the same time eat his favorite french fries.
basta we do a lot of things that we both enjoy!

now, im faced by the fact that i am 20 years older than him, he can be my son for crying out loud! i just wish he wouldnt grow up too soon. i like him like that, uttering words like:
- "pape" = ape (uncle in english)
- "toton" = tonton (my nickname)
- "bebo" = bebot (my autns name)
- "taggie" = aggie (my sisters name)
- "tite" = tristel (my cousins name) - isnt this funny! everytime he would call her, we would all laugh!

his favorite word would be "bobe" = no in english! everytime you would ask him something, ang sagot niya ay "bobe"!!!!

i just hope they all wouldnt grow up too soon, i wish they enjoyed these moments as much as i did...

must tries

2005-08-11T12:55:00.000+08:00

i had the time to check some magazines and blogs that have so many featured restaurants in them that i wanna try... its always easy to find something new, and fortunately i have friends na pwede kong hatakin that enjoys the same passion as i do.. which is trying new stuff like food, film, shopping in ukays, desserts, etc... though im not really so much into buying stuff, it must be worth experiencing going through it. hehehe!

here goes the list of the things that i wanna try...
RESTAURANTS:
- Prince of Jaipur in the Fort.
- Brazil Brazil in Metrowalk
- Carpacho in Yakal
- Blue Bacon and Green Eggs in Cubao
- Lumiere in Makati Ave cor Ayala
- Omakase in Libis
- Heaven and Eggs in QC

SHOPPING:
- Ukays in Cubao and Aurora blvd (w/ Julette cause am not familiar in this place, might get lost)
- Anonas
- San Juan Agora Market
- EDSA cor POEA

DESSERTS:
- Cake2Go in Greenhills
- Cold Rock in Fort (wnna compare it sana with Floyd's???)
- Hoops Donuts in Alabang (have tried both Cello's cookies and cream - masarap!)
- Devils Foodcake in Chocolate Kiss' (blueberry cheesecake - heaven!!!)

Some things that i miss...
- Pantoja's cheese bread (yum!!!)
- Food Channels' Shawarma (though masarap din ang You Go Bossing)
- Krispy Kreme (someone bring me a box of Krispy Kreme)
- Nestle's Alpine White (definiteyl still my favorite chocolate inthe world)

for me, food defintely brings back a lot of memories, from way back. and i cant seem to forget them as they are stucked vivdly in my head... maybe its an addiction, or maybe its just the comfort that it gives me when im eating that same food i ate way back... in conclusion, i just love it and i defintely appreciate food!

so, do you guys have any suggestions on where we should go eat next?! but those places would be put on hold, there's a long line waiting... so little time, so many must tries...

gloomy monday

2005-08-08T13:50:00.000+08:00

its a gloomy monday - i hope this doesn't dictate how the rest of the week will go...

the weather is just perfect, i love it.. just cant handle when it rains so hard, but this temperature is okay for me. suites me just right, and even if i hadn't and enough sleep (insomia-developing), my mood is still up! maybe it was because of the white chocolate dream and chocolate muffin i had from CBTL. whew!

happy birthday to ma' friend bon! hahaha! i'll meet him sometime this week! a funny story coincides with this... we havent met for 2 years na but may constant communication naman, we met up sa starbucks in ashcreek, so i was right infront of him but he was still looking for me. he called me pa nga in my mobile and asked, where am i? i was right in front of him!!! hindi na niya ako namukhaan maybe siyempre dahil sa weight issue yan! sobrang nakakatawa, he was asking me if took drugs or shabu?!?! hahaha.

i also have a conprobe tonight @ la loma with ate roda and her daughter ela now 8 years old.. grabe i saw this them about 5 years ago pa, i was still weighing about 190+ kilos then... i'm sure they would picture me that way. im anticipating how that meeting would happen. hahaha!

rain rain go away...

2005-08-06T21:08:00.000+08:00

i had a blast.

that was the statement i had in mind in describing my saturday...

i went to greenhills, havent been there for a month plus na, which is totally nerve wracking cause before, i was there every sunday! but i havent been going out on sundays since "the incident"...

i was with aggie (my sister), cause she needs to go to her optalmologist for her contacts, i think it should be changed again... i have no clue. :)

bored to death cause i was just waiting, i tried to look around, and guess what - i was able to buy myself a pair of nike shoes! i was kinda decided cause when the guy asked me whether i wanna get it, i said yes in less than 15 secs. hehehe! maybe, it shows how desperate i was to shop and get myself some things. since mostly i buy stuff for other people, like presents, etc... so that kinda made my day.

we watched charlie and the chocolate factorty.. it was a good movie. i was entertained by it though the musical part sometimes made me wanna sleep. i think johnny depp's performance was good. i never liked him, never watched any of his movies, but this is something different. it was "unlike" him.. then again, he's an actor...

i also enjoyed my floyd's hot fudge sunday.. it was soo good. the calories was all worth it!

i had dinner at chocolate kiss.. yum! been anticipating to eat there. i ate the hickory ribs and aggie had the chicken ala kiev, i liked mine better. after our meals, i tried to order the devils foodcake, pero naubusan na... shit! so much for my anticiaption. okay lang, i had the blueberry cheesecake na lang. much better!

pasta galore. food trip. VULTURES.

2005-08-03T12:41:00.000+08:00

at long last, i had my well-rested sleep. i was anticipating for it to happen for a long time now, and it did.. last night! as soon as i lied down, i was asleep already, and woke up 7 plus na... for the past 2 days kasi i was awake by 6.30am which is kind of a sacrifice but its okay. i do feel though that i have a sleeping problem cause i really find it hard to sleep at night except when im really tired, and if my day goes for like 3 days.

yesterday, we went to BI for a dinner meeting, cause malu was kinda celebrating her birthday din there. the pasta was soo good! it was seafood marinara, the best i've ever tasted. yum! and now i had pasta again for lunch cause malu was also treating us here @ gasso. i've tried all 3 pasta's and pesto is my real favorite.. double yum!!! the chicken was good to, they were ordering it from a director - may paner, i think that was her name.

it was just good! it was a festive occassion, everyone was in the pantry, really excited for her to arrive, greet her and eat lunch.... BUT suddenly some people just need to be so irritating, that i cant even stare at them as they attack all the food there. i mean yeah, i wasnt the one who brought the food, good for them cause if was that one, ill call all the people here first and cetainly not them. i didnt even hear one of them greeted her. i mean what was that all about.. you guys ate, not even a greeting. come on.. we are all mature people in here, and we gotta have some manners. is that so hard to do?! well, i can only comment on a certain level because i am not really close to them and i hardly even talk to them. so what im saying is not on a personal basis, but more on how they acted... sigh!!! some people just need to be taught how to act properly...

car crash. spiders.

2005-08-02T08:02:00.000+08:00

while on the way to the office around 7AM... i almost bumped this jeep. whew.. buti hindi buti almost lang, kasi kundi i'll never drive any car agian in my entire life, the jeep was just right infront of me and i suddenly released the breaks.. how stupid can i get! those people from the jeep were all shocked, looking at me with their judgemental faces. i can hear them saying "ang bobo naman ng taong to.." hahaha. sori mas bobo sila, sila natakot eh. but i actually got back in my senses kasi baka matuluyan nako.

well, any other manilenos can definitely agree when i say that manila is a danger zone to most motorist. there's so many car accidents happening all over the metro - maybe because of the undisciplined jeep, taxi and fx drivers... they are the one stopping in the middle of the road at nagsasakay at nagbaba ng tao! only in the philippines, even in vietnamn, they dont do that.

after that, i saw naman a spider (maliit lang naman) sa car, and it freaked me out, i was trying to kill it while driving, so now.. i dont know where that spider is, he better be dead! and now, you can imagine how messy i was or (still) am this morning... not in terms of looking messy but i feel messy, like i didnt have enough time to rest, and still being here early. well i think i've gotten use to it. dont take me wrong, hindi ako nagrereklamo.

i'm sure that nag-german language na naman ako while sleeping kagabi, kasi yun naman ang ginagawa ko pag super pagod nako...

till my next german adventure! bleh!

august 1, 2005

2005-08-01T10:18:00.000+08:00

i got up really early today(6am- pretty early for me who usually wakes me at the exact time), to go to the office cause we have a presenataion at 10am... i know that i am not really needed here, but i still feel that i gotta do something. hehehe.
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now, ikwento ko lang what happened nung last weekend...
- last firday, i was suppose to meet paolo up cause i promised him to meet him up naman whenever i got time to talk about stuff lang, kasi nga nagbreak sila ni joyce right?! medyo naawa lang ako sa tao. he doesnt know anything, mas alam ko pa ata. but i gotta keep quiet so not to hurt him more.. complicated noh, i always find myself in the middle of relationships, although hindi talaga siya magandang pwesto... but hey, someone's gotta do it and they are my friends still...

but actually, di ko pa siya nakausap cause i had dinner @ bravo with julette, kaye, iya, anna and teri... it was teri's last day at work. we stayed at the office til mga 8PM, cause everyone was there pa, finalizing stuff for todays presentation. hohoho! so we just had dinner and talked about a lot of things, things which i cannot disclose because of certain sensitivites, but well, okay lang. ganyan lang naman talaga. its not an attack on the person naman but on work.. so wala akong ma-comment, and i felt the same thnig they felt... :)
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last saturday... naawa ako kay ken becuase he was crying, his mom left him kasi sa house, so ang solusyon sa batang umiiyak?! pumunta ng jollibee (or bee accdg to ken), we played and played and ate - so in short, nahilo ako.. yun lang.

than, i went to makati with lester, and chris(lester's friend from grade school) - nag-ikot ikot lang kami and saw stuffs that i really wanna buy, and i will buy it next week. hahaha!
shopping galore na 'to:
- a OLD NAVY shirt for my dad - its his birthday on the 26th!
- a SPRINGFIELD bag - for travelling purposes!
- a NIKE shoes - for my feet. havent bought shoes in a long time, so back to revenge!
- a PAULO COELHO book! "By the river Piedra..."

after, we had dinner in TOSH sa Valero since they havent tried that pa, and i wanted sana them to try it, i ate with che,tracy,cy,alvin,chris and lester... nakita ko pa nga si joan, kasama ata BF niya... ayaw nila maniwala sa akin na may Warner na waiter dun dati.. but the owner proved them wrong, nasa libis branch na daw siya ngayon. By this time, pinapatay na kami ng paa namin, 4 hours kaming nag-iikot. hahaha!

i think napansin din nila ang ka-weirdohan ko. doing all sort of thing.. hahaha kahit mukha na akong tanga. si chris pala nakatira sa canda, but siya yung taong medyo parehas ko, we like certain kind of food.. like japanese salad sa UCC, tofu steak sa teriyaki boy.. basta weird, pero madami kami parehas na gusto...

after the dinenr, tumambay lang kami sa coffe bean til 12mn, so mga 3 hours lang kaming nagkwentuhan abot plans, nung kabataan pa namin sa xavier... actually the 3 of them came from the same section na F, so nakikitawa lang ako cause i kinda know them naman. hahaha!

i'll just update this blog tom, or whenever i have time ulit. we'll have dinner (GASSO peeps) at Masas in GB2 for teri's despedida...

the most gullible girl

2005-07-29T08:57:00.000+08:00

i was riding the fx on the way home, and you know that when friends are in there, akala mo pag-aari na nila ang buong FX, so there were 3 of them, and they were talknig as if no one was there.

G(gullible girl), M(male), and F(female) - pero tong female, hindi mukhang babae ah! hehehe

G: alam mo ba yung ex ko, hiniram yung videocam namin, tapos hindi pa sinosoli, eh halos 1 month na?
F: talaga, baka gusto niya kanya na lang.
G: eh tinext ko na nga, sinoli naman, pero yung videocam lang talaga. as in wala yung takip, yung mga battery at saksakan, eh pano kaya namin magagamit yun?!
M: baka naman gusto niya ikaw pahirapan..
G: tarantado nga yun eh, nung nakipag-break sa akin, ang dahilan niya lam mo kung ano?!
F: ano?!
G: mahal pa daw niya yugn girlfriend niyang namatay, naawa pa ako sa kanya nung time na yun kasi sabi niya, "hindi pa ako nakaka-get over her..."
(shet, sige baka pwede pa talagang mangyari yun!!! - benefit of the doubt)
M: hindi totoo yan, namatay na eh. pinagpalit ka sa namatay.
G: sabi nga niya minumulto daw siya eh, eh natakot ako na baka multuhin din ako...
F: ay ewan! hahaha.
G: eh nalamanlaman ko na one month before kami mag break, may nililigawan siyang first year. tarantado yun. pinagdasal ko nga kay Lord eh, na sana kunin na siya.
M and F: (laughing in the FX) Sori di ko lang talaga mapigilan tumawa.
G: Tama na, naloko na nga ako eh, tawa ka pa jan.

- sa totoo lang, cute yun girl but super gullible naman ata siya. i mean okay yung attitude niya na she can laugh all about these stuff in the end and laugh at herself, pero sana hindi na lang siya naniwala sa sinasabi nung guy, tapo naawa pa siya eh pinagloloko na nga siya eh. i mean... cge never mind. i just wish her the best, and i hope makasama k osiya ulit the next time i ride fx. hehehe.

- i wonder if this happen to a lot of people: i get so stressed out whenever i drive, ang sakit sa ulo at umiinit ulo ko. kaya nga i hate driving, plus the fact that you need to spend a lota money... (speaking of money), nahuli ako ng pulis cause of wreckless driving... punyeta. i dont believe na wrekclessd river ako (although julette does) hahaha! na-hold up ako ng P500... puta! buti na lang may pera akong dala...

- kaya i came to the conclusion na: mas masaya pag mag commute, dahil
1. less gastos... (minus lagay, parking fee, gas)
2. you get to observe a lot of people and listen to their conversation, funny noh?! hehehe. baka magamit ko pa for conprobe.

my 3 day weekend

2005-07-25T01:01:00.000+08:00

its 1:09am monday morning...

well my friday was kinda crazy. i had so many things to do that my tapes (remember i am a conprober) all got mixed, so my max respodents was gone na. i dont know kung nasan na yung tape, makes me crazy trying to find all the tapes i have. my bad. i should have been more maingat! i dont want to go into the sched of the whole day cause even the white board kinda goes crazy with it na. i arrived mga 830pm na din, much better cause i have nothing to do naman.

my saturday was so-so. i had dinner @ kitchen in greenbelt3. sa super tamad ko mag drive, sumabay lang ako kay tj. dapat nga di na ako pupunta eh kaya lang punta din si tj so game na din. hehehe. i was with sina che, aileen and tracy, then a lot of people that i really didnt expect followed. i dont know all of them nga cause i seldom or never - i think this was the first time! go out with them(tracy and friends - yung group nila)

well, it turned out to be fun, cause i get to be my makulit self once again with since che, trace, aileenm super tagal ko na sila di nakakasama.

well, im looking forward to some things pa in additional to my bohol trip sa oct...

- naga! may white beach daw, and yung frend ni aileen (henry), may resort dun - so yehey! plan sa december yan! i hope it pushes through! i love going to different places lalo na pag may beach!

- i also kanina sa F yung chocolate kiss na resto. ive heard it na matagal na pero sa may UP daw. eh medyo malayo yun not really malayo kaya lang baka mawala ako eh. so wag na lang. buti na lang they opened in a new location ,sa may roces so thats near my place. i gotta eat there. thats my next target.

well, i borrowed dvd ng "if only" from tita bot, so ags and i can watch it naman. sabi nila nakaka-iyak.. we'll see.

on the 5th and stuff

2005-07-21T16:03:00.000+08:00

yesterday (7/20) we celebrated the offices' 5th year anniv... it was fun, let me start by sharing with you our lunch! okay naman kaya lang i was thinking bakit parati dun nagpapa-cater, who decides on it? well the food was okay but it really wasnt that great, although i ate a lot.. hehe. the prichon was supposedly masarap din kaya lang it was cold na. feeling ko nga napag-tripan ako ng waiter:

"ano ho masarap na sauce" - me
"eto po" - waiter
"ah sige, isa nga niya, plus hoi sin" - me
"kaya lang medyo maanghang po to.." - waiter

punyeta "medyo maanghang" eh kung saksakin ko kaya ng sili ang buong bibig niya, yun ba ang medyo! oh well, i gotta get back my cool. it was too hot and it wasnt even masarap. ano ba yung tanong ko, ano maanghang? o ano masarap?! grrrr.

well now naman, i did nothing but eat. i love the little chocolates that kaye brought, kasi parang bite size lang and mini, so it was easy to eat, not like you need to chow down the whole of it. well, it proves lang na im really addicted to chocolates, thats why i cant stop eating yung nasa ref ng office. hahaha!

what do i look forward nga ba this weekend?! wala. i'm living a boring life. i hope there's something that i can look forward to. i gotta make plans, i dont wanna be left in the house with (you-know-who) cause si aggie naman mag overnight with friends sa makati shang at si tj naman nagyayaya mag-shopping.. well it could be nice if maka-shop ako with tj and achi mich. but i really dont wanna spend. i wanna save for my trip this coming october.

the point where i dont know whats up?!

2005-07-18T09:37:00.000+08:00

friday afternoon - i hitched with my cousin on the way home, since i was early, i dropped by G4, to look at some things and if ever i could go and shop. well, its easy to shop anyway. i went to people are people, and bought new shirt. its been a while since i was able to but new clothes, so i really think that i deserve to buy stuff. i also went to bibliarch and saw this carl craft stuff which chicho(my lil brother) liked. - so i bought it and gave it to him as my pasalubong. i also bought my supply of greens and other stuffs to.

saturday lunch - marc was treating because it was his birthday. we ate a tchili's in tomas morato.everyone was late and it made us eat the nacho's (all of it) with refill. i was so full by the time they arrived that i could hardly eat. but then again i need to cause it was just plainly irresistible. i was with jeff,jac,kat,les,marc and colin. it was a lot of fun to meet them all again. hehehe! :)

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well, my weekend has been kinda crazy. i got a fight with my mom. i feel its a different thing now. i feel that i need to do it on my own without really involving anyone. well, the truth is i feel like i want to get out and live on my own, have an apartment or share a condo...

but that got me into thinking what i would have to give or what i need to do.
- i need a second job or a higher pay - coz financially i cannot handle it.
- i need to know how to cook, wash my clothes, linisin yung place, mag-plantsa and stuff which i can imagine doing with this desparation that i have.
- i would miss my siblings, sharing a laugh with them, ordering food, etc...

but guess what, i've though of a way to get out...
- applying for a job abroad.. that seems feasible..

we'll see...

is now really the best time to get a zit?!

2005-07-13T14:45:00.000+08:00

i really couldnt think of a better timing to get the largest zit of my 22 years of existence. lintik!
oh well, such is life.

yesterday (tuesday) was a crazy day, we had probes in BF, and thats quite far from where i live. pero mas kawawa si ena cause she had to go back pa there ng 8pm for another probe. Well, im fortuante that i didnt need to go there. i was out. i met with kathy to watch monster in law.. it was funny but jLo's acting sucked! hindi talaga siya marunong umarte - same same lang.

but more on to kwento's - we (malu, ena and i) had lunch sa cafe francois - which was cool kasi it was my first time to eat there. i like the ambience and stuff it was different. the food was pwede na din, i ate hamburger and french fries! whew. carbo loading to! we had fun, having lunch with them is always fun! i feel like im in a safe place cause i belong in my team. we just made kwento about our probe's on the cute kids nung nasa tutor.

i went out with kat to g4 to eat dinner and watch movie. we ate sa fridays, chicken crispers - isang damukal na french fries na naman ang kinain ko, cause i was super gutom na. so i ate the entire plate. baboy! hahaha - then watched monster in law... well, on to the topic - well, nagulat ako cause parang nag-iba na si kat, on how she would view life, i can feel her drive present talaga in every word she was trying to say. ako, i feel like thopugh im in the dust not doing anything at all in my life, buti na lang im enjoyin my work pa that hindi ako naiinggit na pumunta ding china! hehehe. she doesnt even watch piony films na cause it was somehow baduy - hindi na si kat yung nakilala ko dati na ang cute cute sa mga ways. now, she's watching cnn and the OC, trying to adapt a life which is far from what i've known. well people change - i just hope that it is for the better!

well, marc's birthday pala nung 11, and i totally forgot to text him. i texted him last night. he was planning to treat us pala on saturday and nagpa-help siya where he would treat us. we finally decided sa chili's na lang, but im still kinda thiking dahil baka gusto nila pinoy food or stuff..

corregidor trip and more

2005-07-09T17:58:00.000+08:00

well, i really am not in the mood to discuss this trip. simply put, the trip sucked. ang sakit ng ulo ko dahil sa punyetang ferry na yan. hehehe. although i do think that the trip will be liked by people who wants to see historic sights. well, clearly i know that i am not that kinda person. i envy tracey's uplifting attitude when it comes to those kind of things, becuase io certainly have no patience dealing with all those crap. - hindi namna siguro crap, but i was not just that interested on those things.

well, the only part of it na inaabangan ko was the buffet lunch which yung mga viands naman was like sa 5th floor lang. nyek! isa pang walang kwenta. shucks! i wish may FIC duon.

moving on... buti na lang while i was wasting my time there, i was texting with a friend (kat) - she got back from china, but balik din sya dun on august. it made the trip a little bit lighter for me. we made plans about going out for movie and dinner thing - monster in law! i wanna watch that film, i hope its really funny para makabawi ako sa weekend kong nawala, at feeling ko mawawala pa, kasi ang daming things ko pa kailangan gawin, which i need not elaborate.

i also want to watch pala 'tong fantastic four - feeling ko maganda. i am not a movie freak talaga but this movie made me wait for it talaga... i hope i get to catch it pero mukhang malabo na din talaga. sheesh! sayang na kasi buong saturday ko.

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well, i kinda promised my officemates (julette,apple,joan,paulo) na im gonna bring them pasta, eh wala pa akong ingridients. shucks! saan ko kaya mabibili yun? hahaha. sana magakaroon na para magawa ko na at tapos na ang turn ko! hehehe.

also, im kinda eager to try na din yung bibingcrepe that paulo's been raving about. whew!

so little time, so many things to do :)

lovin it!

2005-07-06T13:42:00.000+08:00

had mcdo for lunch. ang sarap sana ng strawberry sundae kaya lang im still coughing like hell. so no na muna, although yesterday, di ko napigilan ang sarili ko to get myself that raspberry FIC ice cream that i was craving for the past week. - ang daya nga eh cause since nung monday (when i was sick and can't even get up) my mom bought raspberry ice cream, eh ako nag-suggest ng flavor pero unfortuantely i cant even get myself to look at it..
--- kaya i promise na ngayong medyo magaling na ako, babawi ako! hahaha!

when can i watch fantastic 4 kaya?! i dont think i can kasi this weekend... shet!

continuation: my saturday

2005-07-03T02:18:00.000+08:00

well, as i have said, i slept at around 4am, and woke up mga 9.30am... i went straight to my mom and ranted why i need to wake up that early?! she just replied, "kasi sanay ka na maaga magising" - fuck. eto nga problema ko, di ako makatulog, ang aga ko pa magising. kailangan ko na nga atang mag sleeping pills. although sabi ni jeff at lester na wag ko gawin yan kasi di maganda. oh well... punyeta!

so my saturday was just okay, i had lunch sa house, yummy! sila manang and my dad knows talaga that giniling with egg na torta is my favorite! kaya ang dami kong nakain. after niyan, i went straight to transcribing again. i transcribed naman videotape. shet anf hirap kasi ang hina ng boses eh. i need to rewind it pa parati. hahaha! so, as planned (jeff, lester and i) watched war of the worlds sa greenhills. gusto nga sana namin ni jeff mosnter in law, but lester hated jlo! gusto ko lang kasi manuod ng something funny eh para di naman ako mag-isip ng malalim. the fun part was i ate 3 gonuts, yum talaga. super busog. well, si marc may labas daw kasma withthe family so he pleaded that he cant make it daw talaga since last week di na niya kasama sa family niya. after the movie, lester saw bon, ako hindi cause i was ahead and by the time i was approaching them he had to leave na. well he texted naman na sinusundan niya kasi si howe eh..

super gutom na si lester, and super dami ng tao sa promenade, so we ate na lang sa kroc grill, i wouldnt advise you guys to eat there. the food sucks.. nothing compared to dencios, gerrys and grilla. bulok sila. after a long chitchat, we began to talk about *6272* (of cors yung mga funny antics niya - yung mga stuff na i thought i was the only one who knew, ganu ndi npala pakiramdam nila, i wasnt alone pala) and *26546* ( na iba na nga siya, and di ko siya msyado "feel") sabi ni *537* halata nga daw na di ko masyadong gusto yun. sabi ko naman hindi naman hindi at all, di lang kami vibes tlaga, or whatever you call it.

we talked about a lot of things, na inabot kami upto 1130pm for something na wala naman talaga kaming planong gawin. well minsan lang din naman kami makapag-usap na serious stuff... so okay lang din.

things i need to do:
- go to any AV outlet and ask around - scheduled to be on sunday morning or afternoon, depends on which time i'll be free.
- magdaan kay milli ng something bec it was her bday! happy bday bespwet!!!
- try to relax naman, so i could be prepared for next week...

speaking about next week, ang funny cause we have this immersion thing going on, and ang sched ay the ff:
mon is 9 to 1030am, 1-6pm... so buong day ill be put of the office and duon lang ako.
tues is 9-11, and 1-3pm - so halos buong day, ill be there also. the worst thing is i need to go back pa sa ofc, eh ang lapit ko na sa house eh.
wed is 9-3pm sa cavite. oh my! someone save me
thu is 10 to 12nn - better
fri is 3-5pm - much better!
sat is 7am to 3pm - oh no.. sat na nga work pa din. haay.

but bring it on!!! :) thanks to shashie for this wonderful quote i got from her. she may not know this, pero it helps me a lot. :)

waiting... (kwento's about my friday)

2005-07-03T01:45:00.000+08:00

well, its 2am and its sunday so i guess, this is the fun thing to do. hahaha! maybe not.

currently, i am watching live 8 concert over at abc5, wala lang, cool lang. the song "don't phunk with my heart" is playing, that has a nice beat and tune naman pala, una ayaw ko nun eh, para kasing indian stuff na di ko maintindihan.

i'll just narrate what happened to me over the weekend?! parang di ko nga naramdaman yung weekend eh...

- last friday, the 12 was suppose to be having dinner @ good earth sa gb! i think its the first time we are all gonna meet up for dinner. well record breaking to, kasi ang daming nag confirm ng attendance like alv,che,joel,kate,mic,tracy,obee,mon - o dba?! but kaya lang there was this RALLY na naman! parati naman eh - so makati was in a mess last friday, so we decided to cancel or maybe shift to another place na lang. after a long debate kung saan, we end up sa CPK @ Shang! And ang nangyari, 3 lang kame, si che and alvin lang and me! well it was alvins brithday nama ng july 2 so it was kind of a pre-birthday dinner like what we always do naman every after birthdays! we end up talking about everything as usual..

like: kung sino mas mayaman?! - si richie rich or si bill gates - and the answer pala is richi rich! so there's a bit of trivia for you guys... some of the stuff that lingered on my mind at pinag-debatehan namin is kung super kulit yung guy kahit ilang beses na siya na busted, may chance ba maging sila??? - and shempre my answer was yes! not because of nangungulit kasi siya pero kasi baka nagkaroon lang ng relaization. i hate to ponder about it now though.

- okay, my friday was really one of the most ngarag days i had, although i'm kinda inspired by a co-workers attitude na "bring it on" lang lahat. hahaha! Una, looking for respondents was super stressful, i hated every part of it. hindi naman talaga "hate", but i feel that it somehow destroy relationships eh. like sa super kulit ko nagagalit na sa akin yung mga tao. tama ba yun?! super nahihiya pa naman ako sa ganun, lalo na if i was the one asking for a favor, kasi i hardly ask my friends to do a big favor for me. yung point is pumayag na sila, then some people make it really hard for all of us! nakakahiya sa iba, di naman sila marunong mahiya! hate 'em!

so yah, after my short interviews w/ officemates which ended at about 1.20pm- kailangan ko pumuntang ortigas ng 2pm for ACnielsen - which after the meeting i cant understand why i need to go through it. okay lang naman cause i want to be pro-active sana to learn, but sometimes i do need to prioritize stuff naman. di pa nga ako nakaka-tooth brush i need to leave na for my next meeting which is not aligned naman in what im doing. although i liked learning new things naman, and ive learned a lot media stuff naman.

we were late for that meeting, 3pm na ata kami dumating cause it was traffic (bwisit kas sina susan roces, cong. escudero - liked him pa naman nung start, but now ek! bro "loser" eddie, etc) - nag rally rally pa kasi, wait isama na pala nila si makati mayor - whats his name?!

so since i left my car in makati, and we were meeting at ortigas, i need to go back to the office, and go back to ortigas for another set of interviews naman.. haay! i was exhasuted na talaga. so after, nag-CPK na nga kami and went sumwer near UA&P to have tea. after niyan, i went home na mga 12mn, to transcribe the tapes of the interviews. i finished around 4am, and went directly to bed...

there goes my friday!

my saturday will soon follow, not now lang kasi ang haba na ng entry ko kasi.

feeling diabetic

2005-06-29T14:12:00.000+08:00

i guess it just hit me now na pwede ako maging diabetic or may diabetes nako?!

bakit?!

i eat either turon, banana-q, or bilo bilo with sugar (fried) everyday for my mirienda.. baka mamatay nako bigla nito! hahaha! funny pa, last night paguwi ko, super gutom ako... i ate my gulay, konting rice, the meat roll, and my favorite nowadays "itlog na maalat".. di ko nga lam pero for 3 straight days i've been eating it... straight ah! tapos i went na sa room, to find myself eating yema! ang sarap, super tamis, i'm craving for sugar parati! and then i was tempted to buy my favorite pint of ice cream! i lvoe to try magnolia's cookies and cream which is the best daw, or any selecta ice cream! basta di nestle! ewak ko bakit ayaw ko nestle, pati yung mga line of products nila, lahat ayaw ko! hahaha! biased lang siguro.

well, im happy now kasi i got these astig na ferrari key chain from ana. i neeed to beg pa for that - no not really, mabait lang talaga si ana to give it to me. yesss... wala lang adding it to my few collection of keychain from all over the world, kahit asia pa lang ang meron ako! but still will collect. sayang anam yung na-start na!

well... im looking forward to things to do during the weekend:
- still havent watched mr and mrs smith! we (aggie and i) were trying to catch it sana last sunday pero nasunog nga pala ang theater mall.. ang malas naman namin! so i just ate 2 gonuts donuts! hahaha! babuyan ang kapalit!
- will watch war of the worlds this saturday with jeff - nakakatawa, he havent watched any film since jac left. wala daw siya kasama, kaya sasamahan namin siya nila lester! and meron siya baka isama na friend... i think christopher chan yung name! dont really know him though...
- will eat out dis friday nyt sa good earth sa gb. havent tried it pa pero all of them were saying na its good daw. i hope its good nga! it better be worth it from all the traffic and hassles we are all gonna go under kasi its friday night! hehe!

* re: our dinner on friday - tracy said na bumabalik daw ang pagiging top of heirarchy ko! haha! what can we do.. at least here ar ethe people who confirmed to me their attendance on friday: cheryl, alvin, joel, obee, monica, kate, mic (louie???), tracy... ewan ko who else will come eh! ---- it all started when they were trying to figure out kung papano gigimik ang buong barkada na magkakasama kasi mga iba ayaw. .. and the one connection they found was me! hahaha. nakakatawa, pakulo to ni john eh! well, thats why i texted all of them last week to reserve their friday, they better show up sa friday kundi patay sila sa akin! joke!

addendum to RESTED :)

2005-06-29T13:33:00.000+08:00

hahaha! i just remebered that in laiya, we occupied 2 rooms - lester and i shared one room, while jeff, marc and colin shared the other. we were trying to warn colin about how marc can snore, i mean SNORE... sabi nga ni jeff, sinasadya daw namin na humiwalay ng kwarto because we all know that he snores real bad... well i think he is the only one who doesnt know that he snores! hahaha.

well, the kwento goes like this: during my brithday last january, we (jeff &jac, kat, aileen, marc, lester and me) went to tagaytay highlands para tumambay. not actually tambay - swim, eat, sleep, etc... yan ang birthday ko na i spent half of the day inside the car, we had lunch at RSM, they also gave me a blueberry birthday cake! super favorite ko yun,. i think everyone thats really close to me knows that! hahaha! pero the best part was dinner, we ate sa bag of beans - ang ganda ng place, i like the whole motif of the place. and yung food pwede na, masrap naman although it was my first time to try yung sheperds pie!

we then went to pontefino hotel to sleep. and dahil lahat kami ay pagod na and we a re all trying to get some sleep... pero kamalas-malasan naunang nakatulog si marc kaysa sa akin, jeff, jac and lester. at ang masaklap dun, di kami makatigil sa kakatawa kasi ang lakas ng hilik niya. i tried to open the lights near the dresser cause i heard jeff and jac laughing na... pag-open ko i saw lester (who is beside marc) naka-upo and was so irritated na he cant sleep. eh ako na yugn pinaka-malayo kay marc.. kaya nakipag exchange na lang ako kay lester since di siya makatulog, kawawa naman he was driving the whole day eh. at sa super ingay namin dahil nagtatawanan kami, nagising din siya which is much better, para mauna naman kaming makatulog.

well, i just remebered, it was soo funny! sa super funny, muntik na namin gawin hilik ang name ng yahoogroups namin... hilik@yahoogroups.com - pangit! buti na lang hindi na! hahaha

rested

2005-06-27T12:20:00.000+08:00

i was on leave last friday, and so were my friends. we went to balai in laiya, batangas. it was everything i imagined it to be, quiet, relaxed, and serene. those are my requirements for uber nice vacation.

my ultimate dream:
i had a bottle of mineral water, sun screen lotion, shades, mobile phone... i had everything there, but i forgot to bring something to read, so that made me view just the ocean and the people around, although there aren't too many people there. it was still okay.

i had fun snorkeling. it was the first time, i tried to do such a thing. iba-iba ang kulay ng fishes, parang yung nasa finding nemo! hahaha. we also brought bread and feed them, all the fishes are right infront of your face trying to eat from the bread. although, i was conscious that the fishes will go attack me, so i threw the bread somewhere so they could all go and get away from me. it was okay to view them, but not really to touch them. it was one of the experience i cant forget... ang galing!

looking forward for my next vacation! :) hahaha
- pagudpod and the north
- panglao island in bohol

i aint got sleep and more

2005-06-20T16:53:00.000+08:00

i have no idea why every sunday evening, i cannot go to sleep easily. it takes me forever to be able to sleep. i'd always feel that i'm still half awake. and after 4 hours of so-so sleep, i woke up to this dreadful day!!!!

dreadful because every part of my body is aching, my right leg hurt, i can't even walk properly. the left part of my neck also hurt, because maybe i slept at the wrong side of the bed, i feel my neck kinda stiff. also, my left arm is in its worst condition... because i played badminton for 2 hours last sunday morning. i played after about months and months of staying idle with no exercise at all. i hope i get back to do it regularly. as of now, my head is also aching, because of that lack of sleep. i cant seem to focus... and being on a meeting from 10am to 2pm... and a 2pm to 4pm briefing wasnt just the right thnigs to do. but well, i gotta do it.

well, on with lighter stories.
last friday... after the office, i went to pick uop my cousin (duds) from her house to go to greenhills and watch batman. i really am not thrilled to watch the movie, but that was our plan. so we sticked to it. we arrived in greenhills at about 630pm. we've waited for them (ags,teej,lin,adu&leo) until they arrive about 830pm! --- and we joked that duds is my new best friend, because we talked about everything. i mean everything...

we watched at around 950pm, and finished about 1220am. i was so sleepy already, coz i woke up really early. batman was not as bad as it seemed to be. i kinda liked the movie, i enjoyed it naman compared to "a lot like love" which is still the pinaka-pangit na movie!!! (sori kaye and julet) but ashton just can't do it!

the saturday that was... hahaha! cant really talked about this cause nothing happened. i just accompanied my aunt (tita bot) in a village and taught her to drive. not really taught, but she practised with my supervision. grabe muntik na kaming mabangga sa isang naka-pak na car, buti na lang nahatak ko yun ng mabuti kundi patay kami. we are going to be banned from that village forever. hahaha! we drove around for 2 hours.

that evening.. we went naman to one of my aunt's house (tita dawna), we ate dinner there and had some games after. well, coco was the new 10,000 peso chihuahua she bought. he was so cute, 4 months old and his color is chocolate brown. mukha siyang imported siyempre 10 kiaw ba naman. pero worth it. hahaha! well, we also played red dog after. i lost about 50 bucks... hahaha! so funny! when we weren't betting yet, i was winning everything, but when we started to bring out a couple of bucks, i started to lose. ironic noh! okay lang at least 50 lang...

well... father's day was supposed to be the day that im looking forward to but my dad was sick, so he just stayed home. i was deliberating whether i would go with my mom and brother to have dinner at the heritage hotel or i would stay home with my dad and sister. i finally decided to stay home with my dad and sister and eat chicken joy for this joyous occassion. hahaha! i mean its only logical for me to stay home, because my uncle was treating dinner at heritage. --- but the story here is, they are about 11 people having dinner, the billed total to about 20,000 pesos. who would be in the right mind to spend that amount of money for one dinner. even if i was rich, i would never spend that amount of money for a meal. maybe 10k, and the other 10k to the charity, but never the whole 20,000! its just not the right thing to do in times like these. i was just so amaze at how can one spend that much money. --> maybe its the fact that i am already working, that made me realize how hard people work just to earn money. and some accumulate them for future use, while some just spend them on meals.... that is whati call a happy meal! :)

on trivia's about myself

2005-06-16T12:36:00.000+08:00

1. HOW'S LIFE TODAY? > okay lang, got meetings in the afternoon. i had a painful morning though, woke up late, my alarm failed me again.

2. MAJOR PLANS THIS WEEK? > not much, but am looking forward this friday, going out with my sister and cousins.. dinner-movie tandem (batman-chomp2x)

3. THE MOVIE I'VE WATCHED MOST NUMBER OF TIMES IS... > wala ata. i dont repeat movies.

4. FIRST THING YOU THOUGHT ABOUT THIS MORNING WHEN YOU WOKE UP? > weekend!!!

5. WHAT DO YOU HAVE HANDY AT YOUR BEDSIDE? > discman and cd's so that i could sleep well...

6. IF YOU WERE A CELL PHONE, WHICH MODEL WOULD YOU BE? > my mobile now is k700i, so i guess that would be me.

7. what do you do when you can't sleep? > i still try to sleep.

8. WHAT MAKES YOU UNIQUE TO OTHERS > some of them say, the way i laugh. but i dont really know.

9. SCHOOLS YOU'VE ATTENDED? > xavier school, ust, dlsu

10. FAVORITE HANGOUT PLACE(S)? > anywhere that is quiet and relaxing

11. 3 THINGS YOU CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT? > my phone, wallet and my other phone!

12. FIRST THING YOU WILL BUY IF GIVEN ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS? > a trip to somewhere quiet...

13. FAVORITE SONG WHEN YOU'RE SLEEPY? > naku, basta song, di ko naman na nadidinig mabuti eh.

14. Do you know a good joke? > nope. puro sarcasm lang ang alam ko.

15. WHAT IS THE WALLPAPER ON YOUR CELLPHONE? > si ken-ken at ako.

16. Any recent funny moment? >> yah, last night when we were having dinner, my siblings and i were laughing so hard!

17. NAME ONE PRETTY WEIRD BEHAVIOR THAT YOU START DOING WHEN YOU'RE FALLING FOR SOMEONE > ewan ko lang, pero parati ata akong nakatunganga.

18. MOST RECENT MOVIE THAT YOU WATCHED? > a lot like love - ang panget!

19. GiVE ONE WORD THAT BEST DESCRiBES WHAT YOU'RE FEELING NOW... > nonchalant

20. STUCK ON A DESERT ISLAND & COULD HAVE ONLY ONE KIND OF FOOD FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE, WHAT WOULD IT BE? > vegs and fruits and of cors water?!

21. FAVORITE T.V. COMMERCIAL? > i like the new jollibee french fries tvc

22. What's your favorite time of day? > when i arrive home!

23. FIRST THING YOU'LL SAVE IN A FIRE? > maybe my drawer, everything important is in there.

24. YOUR EYE COLOR? > black ata, havent really noticed

25. Have you ever witnessed something supernatural? > nah. i wish i did

26. WHAT DID YOU WANNA BE WHEN YOU WERE A KID? > a superhero

27. WHAT DO YOU USUALLY DO WHEN THE CLOCK TURNS 7 AM? > still in bed, wishing it is a saturday

28. DO YOU KNOW A FUNNY, YET SWEET SONG LINE? > wala ata. mushy lines marami ako.

29. WHAT WILL YOU DO WHEN A PERSON BREAKS UP WiTH YOU AFTER ONE DAY? >i'll be normal, yes affected but still normal. aint the type to self destruct.

30. Finally, do you want a million dollars or love? > remains to be seen....

on being such an a-hole

2005-06-16T10:25:00.000+08:00

Here's a picture from rom's despedida. she's the girl beside me. and she's the cause of all this trouble - but i'll stick by her side. :)

Well, sino ba tong asshole na to?! sino pa? eh di ako...

Why me? Here's why...

Here is how the story goes...Lately, rom (college friend) and i are exchanging emails about her relationship (because she's already in the states), which was okay - boring. haha! But what made the exchange of email exciting, was when i found out that she's crushing on this guy (igor)... Although it is not serious, fun lang pag-usapan and she is sharing it naman with me. According to her, she's looking forward to go to work becuase of this guy. well, that's how my friend described the feeling, and of course, i was happy for her at di na siya masyadong na-stress from having two jobs and di na siya super lungkot dun... that i started asking about the info's... of course, she would email me back about how she was doing, and what happened that day, and how the guy is into him, and that she is feeling a bit guilty (siyempre may boyfriend siya) and stuff like that.

---> being such an a**hole, i emailed her that it is okay. i mean it is just getting to know each other and it is not like they are getting married or something. i mean, whatever makes her happy at the moment is fine with me. I know that she is not happy in her current state kasi eh, so its much better to incorporate some fun naman. So siyempre as friends we talked about igor and his upcoming birthday, na-invite siya out -- dont get me wrong here, she was the first one to talk about the guy. it is just that i was the person she was talking about it with...well, the ironic part is,his boyfriend hinted that something was gonig on - (ep ep, they havent even dated, di natuloy yung mga labas nila ni igor ah!) so the boyfriend checked rom's email, and found out about the exchange of our conversation. Duh-huh! 1st lesson that we all can learn about this is that you should never give your password to a friend, even worst to your boy/girl friend... Next, the boyfriend, read all our mails, which was of course hurtful for him - that is why im such an asshole! hahaha. but in my defense... 1.) i said there that i like him (for her) - that it is just about having fun and dating around. it is not serious stuff.. but i do understand the feelings of the boyfriend, i know he was hurt. that is why im so sorry about it. its just that i am totally supporting my friend. its just a little thing, crush lang yun! so dont take it seriously, as if naman may mangyari talaga sa kanila. at the same time, im sorry for saying those words. it is not the right words to say to a friend who's trying to ask for help..the funny thing also is that they are suppose to get married this september, and the boyfriend, dahil nataranta because wala siyang makausap, talked to the elder sister - (after he can't reach the girl, the other sister and even me) imagine he tried to call me din!!! now the family knows about their plan to get married, and the family doesnt approve of it, my friend is way too young (21?!).. now they even like igor better!!!

how ironic can this story get?!
well, im just waiting to the next chapter or what will happen tomorrow...-- the point here is that i am such an asshole and i am sorry for the words i wrote. it was my mistake na konsintihin ang friend ko.. but for me, the important thing is that my friend is happy. as long as she is happy, i am happy for her. even if she gets married to the guy... as long as its her choice. It's fine with me. Okay lang, kahit naaawa ako sa boyfriend niya, i'm romina's friend first!