Here i am again...

I'm using the secondary (slower) laptop this time coz i have to finish some administrative tasks for the project..im the training coordinator! Lately, i dunno why there seems to be so much work or that i don't have enough time to finish all of them... I'm pondering the matter right now, is it me or is it work? Do i chat more often? Go down to grab a bite more often? Surf other sites more often? Change msn display pictures more often? Hehehe...so you see what other stuff i do besides work!

Anyway, today, i met up with Aldrich at the office then we went to Glorietta to eat lunch. We decided to try Tony Roma's-- Famous for its Baby Back Ribs since both of us haven't eaten there before. We ordred Tony Roma's Sampler where 3 or 4 varieties of ribs were in one dish. Oh and the Skillet Cookie Sundae was heavenly!! The chocolate syrup and chocoalte chip cookie was so rich and flavorful then balanced out by the huge scoop of cool vanilla ice cream on top!

Afterwards, i felt soo full and i felt uneasy with my top- i wanted to wear something more comfy, something that would allow me to move easily and not keep worrying that my fats would show. This feeling of mine took us to the glorietta tiangge area, bench, crossings department store and finally to Plains and Prints where i finally found this really cute girly top that i can also wear in the office! I dont' really know how to describe clothes so just take my word for it that its cute and girly. THe more important thing is that it hid my fats!

However, after finally changing clothes, it was too late to follow through with our plan of painting ceramics at Color Me Mine. This is sooooo depressing...well coz ive really wanted to go paint ever since last week...no one's to blame but me of course coz i shouldve managed my time better. I had a birthday party to attend to so i had to hed home by 5pm. I think i finished looking for clothes at around 4pm! The Colore Me Mine shop in Shangrila was reserved for a party and it was too late to go to the Podium branch.... awwwww. I was so disappointed that i even cried about this when i got home.. i dunno i just felt so bad. After crying, i felt a bit better with some hope restored that the Accenture tie up with the store would stil be renewed.

THere! I just wanted to let that out, hehehe. That's what blogs are for! :)

I am hyper again! (What's new?)

I'm still up and about coz I ate a late late dinner at around 8:45pm coz i didn't want to go home and disappoint my mom by not eating my baon. I forgot that we were supposed to eat lunch out today at the office coz some ex-project friends were visiting the area..so i planned to eat my lunch during dinner time. Then, to everyone's surprise, Eddie, our ex-projectmate who went to Singapore suddenly popped up in the office carrying 3 boxes of Yellow Cab Pizza at around 430 -5ish! So there! That is also a perfect example of why im getting really fat!

Aside from my current addiction to Milky Way Midnight, i eat a lot of extra and 'yummy' foods that i'd shy away from before, hehehe. The mini Milky Way Midnight bars came from our officemates who just arrived from Chicago! It's called midnight because of the dark chocolate! Ooooh, i just love, absolutely love dark chocolate! They brought so much i felt that i could die in chocolate ecstasy and go to chocolate heaven!!!

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Oh i bought a new book! The History of Love by Nicole Krauss. I was first attracted to the cover design--butterflies! Then, the title caught my eye so i read the summary at the back and the story was interesting and unlike the usual love stories. I stil haven't read it though, coz i want to read it when i have ample time to at least read through 3 chapters!

Here's a picture and the synopsis at the back of the book .

LEO GURSKY is trying ot survive a little bit longer, tapping his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbour know he's still alive, drawing attention to himself at the milk counter of Starbucks. But life wasnt always like this. Sixty years ago, in the Polish village where he was born, Leo fell in love and wrote a book. And although he doesn't know it, that book also survived; it crossed oceans and generations, and changed lives..
Fourteen-year-old Alma was named after a character in that book. These days, she has her hands full keeping track of her little brother Bird (who thinks he might be the Messiah) and taking copious notes in her book, How to Survive int he Wild, Volume three. But when a mysterious letter arrives in the post she undertakes an adventure to find her namesake, and save her family.
In her extraordinary new novel Nicole Krauss has created some of the most memorable and moving character in recent fiction. A tale brimming with laughter, passion and soaring imaginative powers, The History of Love confirms Nicole Krauss as one of the most remarkable writers of her generation.

I can't wait to read it, i can't wait till the weekend arrives! Weekend means a lot of fun and exciting stuff for me:

• end of primary support
• movie marathon with Drich (Stealth, Machinist, Wedding Crashers)
• no work!!!
• birthday party of my sis-in-law

Hmm, to tell you honestly, im actually quite anxious about the birthday party. My family still doesn't know that i have a boyfriend already but i do hope that they have a hunch to make things a lot easier for me. Can they just not ask me directly and simply assume that i have a boyfriend already? Hehehe, yes i know, kinda immature, but i can't really get over this fear yet. I really feel uneasy when my family talks about my love life...i think my paranoia comes from my image in the family, as the youngest, the baby and i dunno why im still having a hangover over that...im having a hard time showing them my grown up side... just thinking about it makes my heart race faster already (Argh). Another reason why im uneasy is because they weren't really supportive of my last relationship, but i really really really hope and pray to God that things will be different this time.

And the there's my Dad. My chinese Dad who married my Filipina mom, but stil has chinese values, beliefs and tranditions. I also pray to God that he won't be a hypocrite...

Oh my gosh! I just want to comment on the post i made last April 27th..

I was hoping that the time wouldnt come that i'd have to choose between someone i love
but doesn't love me back that much and someone who loves me but i don't love that much.
Maybe i shouldn't choose at all. I'll just sit and wait for my perfect match...if that
someone really exists....Is my Superman born or is he made?

My answer is: My Superman was born and was made into who he is right now.

Why? Coz i finally found my match..i finally found that person that im looking for all my
life..that guy who'd sweep me off my feet with his romantic ideas, the guy who'd love me so much and wouldn't be afraid to express his feelings for me...the guy who'd love me for me, warts and all, who'd respect me, and understand me, more importantly, the guy who'd be there for me, who'd be willing to go the distance for me when im in need :)

Gosh, i just feel so lucky....I will post some of the romantic stuff that i thought would be forever kept in my dreams but became reality just a few weeks ago...soon!

I just got home from Makati and im blogging cause i have the office laptop with me...i am cursed! Cursed with the Holiday support! This means that even though GMA declared Monday to be a non-working holiday so that Filipinos can take time out to listen to her SONA (or the real reason being there might be bombings in Metro Manila or she might get assasinated or she could get overthrown from her throne, etc) i still have to go to the office and dosupport work!

I get paid extra but im not really after the money. Anyway, i guess im used to it already, i just don't like it when stuff suddenly go wrong when they shouldn't cause usually, during these unscheduled holidays, i plan something out...simple, destressing stuff like having coffee with friends or go malling or working out at the gym which will get bumped off to a later time or worst, later date if work at the office goes haywire.

So anyway, another reason why im blogging is cause i can't sleep yet. The food i ate still has to get digested a bit more before i hit the sack or i might get nightmares or more realistically speaking, get extra tricep flab or thigh flab, hehehe. Aldrich (the boyfriend!) and I had a late dinner at Teriyaki Boy cause we got so caught up with ceramic painting at Color Me Mine inside the Hobbes store at Greenbelt 3! Accenture peeps get to paint for free (yey!)--at least that makes me happy despite all the stressfull workload! Each one of us can choose an unpainted ceramic with the maximum worth of 1000 pesos per visit, meaning we can even paint two little ceramics in one day! Cool!

Anyway, we bumped into Nina, another officemate, while we were there at the store, then my team lead Michi followed. So there were four of us happily painting and pointing at each other's work in one table. Aldrich and I chose a baby rhinoceros, Nina got a birdhouse and Michi a vase with fruit drawing.

I, of course, planned to make my little rhino look girly and babyish as possible--para cute! hehehe. I chose pink, violet, flesh and all those pastel colors--we get to choose 5 colors. Aldrich, on the other hand, wanted to make his rhino look dark and menacing, which hmmmm, i can say came out kinda warrior-like at the end. The store ran out black paint so we had to make do with what's available, Aldrich's rhino reminded me of E.Honda from StreetFighter coz it had colorful face paint which made it kinda mean looking; while, my rhino had nail polish and lipstick, oh and eye shadow, hahhahaha!

I took a picture of the unpainted ones, i'll post the finished product when we get them two weeks from now since they still have to be baked and glazed to achieve that 'ceramic' look.


ALDRICH & GRACIE'S RHINO

I'll leave this post hanging for the moment coz im sleepy already...zzzzzzz

I've not updated in months and this isn't a decent update either....i'm feeling grumpy coz im hungry (sheesh, im rhyming now) so i just want to broadcast that to the whole world hehehe...

About a gazillion things have happened and changed in my life in the span of 2 months and i just don't know where to start the story!!

I will just list down what i remember and try not to expound as much as i can. I want to give the details in a different post when im in a better mood.

The list below is not in order of importance...or any other order.

1. I have pierced ears already! (after 22 years)
2. I have a credit card already!
3. I've enrolled in Fitness First!
4. I'm really, really, really, extremely fat (Read: gained around 15 lbs!)
5. Got myself decent rubber shoes..and bought it with my own money
6. Got a VCD player in my room..finally!!
7. Im in a relationship again, heheheh :) --> this actually branches off into a lot of sub-stories like the romantic dates and places that i've gone too, and why i love this guy so much, and the numerous things that we have in common, etc. ( i promised i wont' expound too much :-P)
8. Oh! and im gonna watch the Beauty and the Beast play this Friday!
9. Got involved in an auction. hehe.

That's it for now...my stomach is grumbling, but i'll workout first. Hopefully, i'll lose some solid fat with this sacrifice.

Everything under the Sun…

Is it scorching hot or what?? I think it’s almost 40 degrees outside and it’s already nighttime!! Aww, I think I will give in and finally turn on the ac for tonight, just for tonight! I’ve made a resolution since last November or December not use the airconditioning anymore and I astonishingly was able to do it! That is, until tonight, haha! I came home from playing Mini-golf at PAR 43 at The Fort with Nanah and Aldrich and the air was really humid. So when I entered my room, gloriously cool air enveloped my entire body, wow, ang sarap ng malamig!

Anyways this post will be about the three straight weekends that I’ve gone on an outing or gimik!

Office Teambuilding
The week after Splash Island was our project’s overnight team building activity at Splendido Suites somewhere in Makati. It seems that that month’s team building was the most prepared for and thought of of all team buildings that I’ve attended since I was rolled into the project! Haha! My officemates and I were divided into two groups and each group had to prepare a presentation, “no presentation no food!” Well of course, that was not followed coz once we got to the function room, we happily lined up for the buffet and gorged down our food.

After eating, we had a mini-survivor kind of activity. It was a mixture of charades, pass the message, eating contest, obstacle course and finding clues type of game! It’s kinda complicated to explain but anyway, our group won that game! We had to stuff ourselves with huge huge bananas, polvoron and then rush to another room in the condotel and look for strips of paper with clues---leaving the room as if a hurricane passed through it! After finding all the clues, we had to rush back to the function room and one of our teammates had to memorize the words written on the strips of paper in a particular order! Boy, was that hard! (I wasn’t the one who had to memorize it by the way, hehe) but was really worth it coz we won! The other team spent a lot of time looking for a strip of paper wedged between the pages of the yellow pages directory and they came back to the room without finding it, hehehe. However, it was the other group that became the overall champion in the team building activity coz they edged over us in the Bring Me and Guess What games.

Those games really left us pooped or maybe just me coz after much excitement, I crashed on the bed and went to sleep! We checked out at the hotel at noon and I had lunch with Aldrich at Oliver’s Super Sandwiches, dessert at Cheesecake, Etc then finally went home! What a weekend!

The BEACH!!!

My wish of going to the beach finally came true!! I went to OceanaDive resort, Puerto Galera with a bunch of my officemates last April 23-24! We met up at around 6am somewhere in Buendia-Taft and rode 2 vans going Batangas Pier. There, we waited till 12:30 to get a boat ride to Oceana Dive! The place was really nice! There were was a recreation area with billiards, darts, chess, pingpong and a ministore; a hut like place with pillows and comforters to lounge around, white sun bathing chairs, a hammock, a beach volleyball area, swimming pool, and a place to rent snorkeling and diving gear! The rooms were also comfy, they had towels and toiletries that the guests could use. The room I stayed in had 2 double deck beds and I stayed at the lower level.

The beach itself wasn’t really spectacular like Boracay or something. The sand was light tan in color and had lots of stones. Nevertheless, I really enjoyed snorkeling there especially in the afternoon since it was low tide. We could go to the places where there were a lot of beautiful corals and colorful fishes and still be able to reach the ground when we get tired! Oh and another astonishing realization I had there—I can float without much effort! I really don’t know how to swim and I usually panic but since the snorkeling gear allowed me to breath, I didn’t worry or panic about drowing. I just floated naturally and it felt so good! I was even able to go the deeper areas where I couldn’t reach the ground anymore but my companions called me back to the shallower grounds for safety, hehehe. I miss snorkeling already! I could snorkel every single day! I’m a water lover as long as it doesn’t pose any danger to my health and existence, hehehe. We weren’t able to go kayaking coz the place only had 2 kayak boats and there were some guests who were hogging the boats! Oh well, I just immersed myself with snorkeling!

When night fell, we went to White Beach to have dinner and enjoy the soft sand! We even lay down on the sand and I got a really relaxing massage! I even asked Richard to bury me in the sand just for fun, haha, but he stopped halfway since I didn’t have a change of clothes with me. Lying down on the beach, feeling the sand in your toes, watching the cloudy sky and looking for stars, listening to the sound of the waves while chatting merrily with friends was such a wonderful experience! I could live in the beach my whole life! Nakaka-high! Hahaha!

The next morning, I woke up at 7am to prepare to sunbathe but the sun was hinding behind the clouds! Awwww. So we decided to do some snorkeling again but it was high tide already so we couldn’t go very far. The areas where the water only reached our knees the day before already submerged us to the necks that morning! Wow! Fact of nature that I only experienced that day. When we got tired of snorkeling, Richard and I played billiards then I sunbathed at around 11am. My sunbathing was cut short because of a news report that a typhoon was on the way in the area and the time of the departure of the Ro-ros was advanced to thirty minutes! All of us rushed to take a shower and prepare to go home! Luckily, we made it just in time and managed to squeeze ourselves in a ro-ro even when there were no more seats around. Hehehe. I miss the beach already!

Tripping with Friends

Last Saturday was the day that I had waited for such a long time because it was the day when my friend Richard and I were set to raid Saisaki!! We absolutely love Japanese food, most especially sashimi! We actually stayed there for 2 hours, hahaha! We even felt that the waiters there were trying to shoo us away coz they were already giving us the glass of water even before we were done! And there was also a time when Richard hadn’t even put his bowl down and the waiter took it away from his hand already, and we just laughed it off coz we knew that we managed to maximize our buffet fee!
Here’s what we had in our crossover Saisaki, Dad’s and Kamayan buffet.

Round 1:
Tempura first since both us didn’t eat breakfast in preparation for the binge.
Round 2:
Sashimi galore! We took lots and lots of tuna and salmon sashimi and let our taste buds savor the soft texture of the fish meat dipped in soy sauce with calamansi and wasabi.
Round 3:
Meat platter and Egg soup. We tried out some of the dishes offered by Dad’s that tickled our curiosity and also had the egg soup thing from Saisaki. I sooo love that soup, whatever it’s called! It actually looks like crème brulee that’s only egg flavored and with a crabstick on top and Shitake mushrooms at the bottom! Absolute heaven!!
Round 4:
Sushi platter. I tried out the new sushi offerings of Saisaki but didn’t really like it that much. I’m still sticking with my old time favorites: California maki but also discovered something new and delicious: California temaki—that’s the one wrapped in a cone shaped seaweed covering with rice, crabmeat, Japanese mayo and a slice of mango inside! Another window to heaven!
Round 5:
Dessert! I got tiny slaces of each of the cakes served at Dads and also the profiteroles and puff pastries! That’s when I went on a sugar high from the sweet ecstasy of the puffed pastries. I can still taste it now, hehehe.
Round 6:
Ice cream! I had a combination of strawberry, vanilla and chocolate ice cream! I like vanilla the best coz it was so milky and creamy! I was sure that Aldrich would also love that type of ice cream.
Round 7:
Fruit round and a slice of leche flan, hehehe. I had papaya, watermelon and orange. The leche flan was delicious too and after I finished off the plate, I finally enjoyed my bottomless iced tea to fill up what remaining space I had left in my very very satisfied and contented stomach!

Two days after, which is May 2, a non working holiday as decreed by the President was supposedly ‘tripping day’. Aldrich and I planned to have a seafood lunch at Rockwell after our support tasks, go to Starbucks, then go wall climbing there then take a shower at his condo afterwards. We’d then head off to The Fort to play mini golf and have dinner at the grill beside it (Jaymi’s). But somehow, the odds were against me coz there was an emergency at work and everything! that could go wrong probably went wrong already! So I finished all the tasks I had to do at 6pm and we had no choice but to just continue with the latter part of our plan! Well, I was really sad at first but there’s no use crying over spilled milk as they say. I really enjoyed playing mini-golf even if I was the lowest scorer, haha! Oh and the food at Jaymi’s Grill wasn’t bad! We orderd baked tahong and the inihaw platter which consisted of grilled squid, chicken, pork (liempo) and fish! I, of course, concentrated on the baked tahong and grilled squid, hehehe. I also tried the Tequila Sunrise but found it too harsh so I mellowed it down with some water.

There! Now I’m home already and finished writing a blog entry before finishing the ‘homework’ that I brought home, hehehe, oops! ;p

Ang ganda ng moral booster sa akin ng friend ko...napa-smile ako :)

"nde mo kailangang maging sad..."
"maghanap ka ng way para nde..."
"kasi pinapahirapan mo lang sarili mo"
" walng thing na deserving para palungkutin ka..."
" so dapat wag ka malungkot... :) "

Awww....:)

Wala akong makausap about this...busy ang mga tao.

Bakit ba ganun?

Why do i feel sad when my reason tells me that i shouldn't?

Ano ang susundin ko?

Sabi ng utak ko, di naman dapat kasi wala lang un. Alam ko naman eh.

Pero whenever it happens i feel sad. I get hurt, though ngayon medyo na-nunumb na sya from too much occurrences...

This is so weird..

It's almost the end of lunchtime...i'm just feeling weird again. That unplaceable feeling--when i don't know now to react. Should i feel okay, should i feel slightly irritated, or maybe i shouldn't feel anything at all. I know im being very vague, hahaha, but that's all you're gonna get from me for the meantime.

I'm gonna update soon on the recent outings and events in our office but as soon as the pictures come out! One thing, i finally went to the beach!

Anyway, back to being moody and strange... a thought passed my mind last night. I was hoping that the time wouldnt come that i'd have to choose between someone i love but doesn't love me back that much and someone who loves me but i don't love that much. Maybe i shouldn't choose at all. I'll just sit and wait for my perfect match...if that someone really exists.

Is my Superman born or is he made? There are people whom you get along with in an instant and there are those that you have negative vibes once you see them. There are those that you don't really mind at first until you get to talk and find out that you really enjoy each other's company. Life is complex, why do i keep on trying to understand it? Why do i make myself feel miserable when i can't fathom what's in store for me?

I remember my friend who had a traumatic 'love' experience. At times of frustration maybe, this friend of mine prefers to live in a controlled environment. Sometimes i wish to have same scenario too. Of course, anyone knows this isn't possible. You can control what happens around you for some time but then there comes a point where you just have to let it be. ...

Life is weird.

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Summer Fun!

Here I am again after two weeks! (This only means that I’m on primary support again) I’ve moved cube space at work—I made myself nearer to my start group buddies Karen, Arvin and Jane! Karen and I are cubemates again, so those around us will probably be startled with hearing us talk to ourselves again, hehehe.

Anyway, when I got to work today, I was surprised to see a Hershey’s chocolate kiss sitting on top of my monitor! Mababaw, I know, pero natuwa ako! I’m like that eh, I like those sweet little things—I really appreciate them coz I’m actually like that , too. I like giving people little nothings, usually out of impulse and hope that they’d appreciate the thought, too. I’m one mushy person, hehehe.

I got a KISS!

First time ko…

I had so many firsts lasts Saturday!! It was my first time to go to Splash Island! I went with a different set of officemates—Tabs, She, Richard, Jerwin, Gilbert, Domz and Jerome. Our meeting place was at McDonald’s Quezon Ave and McDonald’s Taft. I didn’t really want to be at Taft but my mom was going to Cavite so it was the more convenient place to be dropped off, hehehe. Domz brought his Starex and drove us all the way to Laguna :)

Oh I also met my friend Ria while waiting in line at the entrance coz Globe Solutions was doing some promotions thing for the company that was having an outing at Splash Island on that same day, too. So expectedly, there was a crowd there; nevertheless, it only took a little while to line up at the slides :)



I think I was able to ride all the slides! But I chose the ones with the slower drop, hehehe. The slides weren’t really scary since you’d either just get dizzy or scratch your back from the friction but the depth of the water that you were gonna be dropped into was only 3 and a half feet and most of the slides even had ‘salbabidas’ or rubber mats to ride on so I felt that there was really nothing major to worry about :) . Isnt’ it kinda humiliating to drown in water that’s only 3.5 feet deep?!? HEHEHE.

Another one of my firsts was wearing a 2 piece bikini—and only that! My goal was to get an even tan as much as possible. Okay, maybe not a tan, but get a bit of flesh color on my pale complexion J I was of course, awfully conscious when I was about to go out of the dressing room, but it’s good that Tabs also wore a 2 piece bikini so that helped boost my confidence (a.k.a. kapal ng mukha) a bit. :)

After wading in ther river (with a current), trying to walk past and keep my bikini in place against the strong machine-powered waves at the recreated beach, sliding down 4-5 different twists and turns of slides, we decided to head off somewhere to eat a late lunch. We actually tried to eat lunch at lunchtime but the food court didn’t have enough food to serve all their customers! They told us that we had to wait 1.5 hours for the Kenny Rogers chicken to arrive so we just took a few more rides then headed of to Alabang Town Center to eat. This is another one of my firsts—going to ATC! Hahaha, very pathetic, but hey, I lived in the North part of Metro Manila for a majority of my life so that’s my excuse, hehehe.

The Girls!

The place wasn’t really big but what striked me was the design of the place where I think the roof wasn’t entirely closed. While eating, I’d get startled by birds (mayas, I presume) swooping down from the sky into the food court. It was a really nice sight for me, it made me smile everytime I’d see a bird fly by :) After hoarding down a lot of food, the group had dessert at Ice Monstor care of Domz, I think that was the change from our entrance fee at the water park. I had my staple half mandarin orange and half strawberry ice. It was actually my first time to go on an outing with these set of officemates although ive been with them to numerous lunchouts aldready. They’re really fun to be with, with the typical joking around and somehow they made me feel really welcome in their group. :)

In two weeks time, my next sun stop would be at OceanaDive, Puerto Galera!! I can’t wait! I have to get back to watching what I eat again so I’d look at least presentable in my 2 piece outfit, hehehe.

Pasalubongs Galore

I just have to mention the tons of pasalubongs I got from my friends who went out of town in the past two weeks! As a mentioned earlier, I like receiving stuff so it’s just right that I show my appreciation for all the pasalabongs I got by showing them here in my blog! They made my days really really brighter with the cute pasalubongs!

From Dublin, Ireland


Leprechaun Keychain with my name on it!


Guinness Dark Beer Coaster


Britney Spears' Perfume "Curious" Postacard


and a Cadbury Creme Egg chocolate straight from the Easter bunny!!!


From Boracay Island

Beach accessories and clothing!


Cute bag that absolutely everyone compliments!


Intricately designed colorful sarong


Beautiful orange colored stone necklace, bracelet and earrings!


Multi-colored chunky wooden bracelet


Cool black marble bracelet


Cute shell keychain with preserved crablet


Funky violet slippers


Reversible shorts with cool summer designs