time with family just wheeze by so fast..

Two things that I have been so looking forward to this year has just passed by.

1^st my graduation. Second my family’s trip to Manila.

They just wheezed by so fast but I’m so happy coz they all went so smoothly and much more exciting than expected and thankfully, nothing bad or unsafe happened.

Jenny, my pamangkin who is now 4 years old, not as chubby as she used to be and now smarter and a bit stubborn already was so thrilled being here.

When she got to my room, she can’t stop looking at the windows – kita nya kase lights ng city and she was looking at all the houses, the roads and the buildings down below.

And then when we visited a lot of the malls, mall of asia, glorietta, megamall – she stopped at every worlds of fun/ timezone space na makikita nya. And if you don’t let her play, ayun tantrums to the max sya. So we give in everytime.

Okay lang, she won’t be a child that looonggg.

And then my graduation last Saturday.gusto pala ni jenny, andun din sya. She was excited to see my toga coz she had one when she recently graduated from nursery. So my sister (her mom) had to explain to her that no kids are allowed during the rites. She was swayed naman and at dinner at fort boni, she and my little cousins were running and playing all night at the open space there – the place is really for kids. May garden, may big havaiana slippers, may ice na nakatayo with the letters ‘remember’ and there were lots of fountains – different kinds! Even us, the not so kids anymore had so much fun!

Now when we got to krispy kreme, the red lights were on, which means free donuts! So I asked my cousins and jenny, my mom, my sister, my aunt to get in line and get one. Ayun, jenny went there thrice, together with my cousin! Even overtaking the long line of people! Haha! J

And then on Sunday morning, we drove to tagaytay and had lunch at josephines, bulalo+crisp and cool air = winner!

We went to picnic grove after where my cousins and jenny spent all day, running, strolling and even riding a horse! We were back in manila by 5pm and after resting a little, we headed to amici, an Italian restaurant right inside of Don Bosco – the kids were pizza addicts to we finished 2 pans in minutes..

Wala pa pics coz my camera is with my sister. In the meantime – I just reminisce the sweet memories from time to time – when you’re with your family, time indeed pass by so fast! Ang saya pero nakakahomesick..

weekends!

the long weekend has just passed and guess what i've been doing? dvds. tv series marathon. imagine chips.lazy afternoons.quick fastfood meals.ganun ka-boring. j went home to bicol and i was left here, both scrambling for some deadlines at work and ultimately, just watching dvds.

now four of my close high school friends are in bangkok, on a trip abroad for the first time. i imagine them having such a blast! i couldnt join for two reasons, money + practicality or pareho lang ba yun? hehe. anyway, their pics just tells all - and i've only seen 4! so am sure maiinggit ako when i see some more of them.:) but im really excited they finally pushed through.

as for my lazy weekends, that includes, just this weekend hahah! all that j and i did was to again buy dvds. but this time, i enjoyed it. we had 3 oscar winning films in line - and we watched them in between desserts and tea and chips. there was michael clayton starring george clooney, juno with ellen page and atonement by keira nightley. of the 3, michael clayton was the best! :) i wouldn't preempt anything here so go and enjoy the rest of the 2.:)

but the weekends, lazy or lazy (hehe) they speed things up. march na!!! cant believe it. well happy travelling to us all - whether it's just off to the office or school or off to another country.

2008 rocks!

ang saya ng 2008. start pa lang, ang dami ng magagandang nangyayari and people have a lot of things to look forward to including those close to my heart.my highschool friends -- 4 of them are embarking on their first trip abroad! ang saya! unfortunately i cannot join. both by circumstance and by choice. hehe.and not just that, my friend from dubai is joining them and they're staying with another friend who's based in bangkok. how exciting can that be? :)

now another BIGnews. si hideandseek has a new 'sweet beginning' with a german guy, who we met last CHristmas and who impressed our friend's parents, the friends and everyone else haha!

hayyy ano pa kayang masasayang mangyayari?:) Cant wait..:)

MCDO breakfast

This is not MCDO anywhere abroad but right infront of our office…

testing js new fone and kopiroti

Bago ang fone ni j and meron pang carl seizz na nalalaman ung camera ng fone nya.i don’t know exactly what that means pero sabi nung salesguy, okay daw yun

Matest nga..

hmmm...the face that delayed a thousand ships

pasali nga.. thats somewhere at food choices where the lights were a bit hazy but then turned out okay pa rin

and at kopiroti in columns ayala avenue..

still at kopiroti.. sarap ng bun nila and the french toast dipped in eggs.

no wonder, last christmas, we kept coming back to kopiroti (shoelaces friends and myself) and we ate like its our first meal of the day. sabi ni fortywinks, how come sosyal tingnan ung iba while having their cup of cofi and their roti, pero when it comes to us, para kaming starved haha!

the power of change

I'm a firm believer in the power of change. But there's one thing I've learned. And that that the hardest part of moving forward, is not looking back. ---Sally, "Felicity"

This line came to mind when my officemate told me she was going to resign. It was both heartbreaking and confusing to hear her talk about her decision to leave. nevertheless, i shared to her this quote and it struck her. these brave things we do. these changes we do. when was the last time i had to 'change' something? it was a long time ago and indeed the change has brought something immensely powerful. changes.

three's a crowd?

Minsan, minsan lang kami magkita ng ex-tns friends ko and hence, these pics…

Buti na lang cofi bean didn’t make us pay for claiming their space for 2 hours. Haha!

The guy on the left is ngsb, if you know what I mean kaya the whole time we were bugging him, bading ka ba? Di naman daw, di pa daw sya ready. The girl in the middle has been ‘s’ for a long time, and she was bugging the guy on the left, how can she attract boys.

Ewan ko ba, but maybe they should consider looking at each other, baka pwde naman, maging sila. well no objections allowed please J

goodbye 2007and welcome 2008!

sabi ko i want my first blog entry to be this one, but of course what can be a better year-opener but the event that me and my friends loook forward to the most.Meri kidsmas! wow 2007 has just passed by just like that, ang bilis. so much has happened. and i thank GOD for every part of it. good and bad. and i certainly look forward to 2008. i'd like to do new things but which i will only bravely tell j, coz mahirap ng masumbatan if they don't materialize haha!:)

but i am soooo excited for 2008. thanks and goodbye 2007. happy 2008 and happy new life to all of us!!!! :)

MK 10th was a success!

My friends and I pulled it off together with BIG help from our families, our friends, our officemates, our friends’ friends….

So many people helped and which made the event even more meaningful

Look at our youngest philanthropist

Peanuts, peanuts, peanuts….

free time

relieved. a few hours after my oral defense. hahaha. can't get over the fact that am done. at long last. it's been 3 long years of fun and pain combined.

am saying goodbye to the busy me. and saying hello to free time. adjustments are in order. sabi ko kay j, our fate has reversed, sya na yung hindi makausap pag weekend and here i found myself actually helping him, check his students' test papers, grading them and encoding some of his lectures for him.

now free time what do i with you? hmmm.maybe some of the free time, ill spend thinking about what to do with you.

maybe ill engage in sports. not me. maybe ill join youth clubs. not exactly me but can try. maybe ill just stay in the house, find my laundry, clean up, etc. half-me so can try. or maybe doll myself up.haha not so me. hmm bahala na lang. in the meantime, i thank the Lord for bringing me where i am now. free time is YOUR bonus to me so im gonna savor it.

Merry Kidsmas!

If anyone wishes to make a kid happy this Christmas, here’s something knocking at your door J

For 300 pesos only a piece, a red shirt designed by Robert Alejandro (front design) and Ray Leyesa (back design)

Godbless and Merry Kidsmas!

liberating

I am surrounded with a lot of blessings these past two weeks. I passed my oral defense last Thursday and that signals the end of my MBA. Both happy and sad. Happy coz I’ve successfully juggled work with studies and without compromising one over the other. Sad coz school I’ve told friends had been my boredom antidote. For lack of anything new to do, ang sarap kapag pupunta ka sa isang hallway na puno ng tao from different walks of life – may entrepreneur, may careerwomen and men, may bum, may clueless and searching for what best to do, but we all share one thing in common, we are S-T-U-D-E-N-T-S, na nanginginig kapag finals na, pero tatawanan na lang after, coz its spilt milk anyway, yung magpproject infront of everyone acting like you know everything you’re about to report when you’ve just studied it a few minutes ago, beating deadlines overnight for papers na binigay two months back pa..hayy the joys and pains of an MBA life. And truthfully, what helped me through was knowing that, we were all in those joys and pains together, my friends in MBA na kapareho ko din pala, magcram, magpanic, magworry.its such a relief. The 3 years just wheezed by…and to know that its, over, it so liberating.

lots of things happening

A lot of things are happening around me and with me. Si ying has gone to Europe! And with so many pics she shared with us, parang nakita na rin naming ung paris! Take us with you next time. Pero I promised j that wherever I go, nothing beats the experience of being with him so isasama ko sya when I go to beautiful places like these, which means ung funds naming should be times 2. haha!

And then, there goes my friend’s misfortune naman last Friday, so extra careful my dearies. I might be tagged as paranoid coz you can never make me bring more than 2 thousand without being edgy. and cards and all of my ids, I never bring all of them. Bahala ng kumalat sya sa mga drawers, and sa maraming bags hehe.

And then theres’ the AD CONGRESS. I’ve been intrigued by this event. Working for some time now in market research, I’ve always wanted to be part of it and luckily this year I got to join. There’s a lot of things to be learned. The line up of speakers were a powerhouse, starting with John Gokongwei who opened the event, he relayed 3 extraordinary successes – SUN CELLULAR, C2 and CEBU PACIFIC. Wow.

And then si neil gaiman, he was very natural coz he shared what he knew and that was very clear in his message. WRITE ABOUT WHAT YOU KNEW. And his closing, it was superb. I’m not good at telling stories coz I miss the details but he basically emphasized what imagination can do, its power and how we often miss it because we are too busy..

So much for imagination, here’s one of the very few but my fave pic during the ad congress.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! :)

pasulyap-sulyap :)

the girl in the middle is jenny, my niece. boy on the right is josh, jojo's nephew. boy on the left, jacob, who's he looking at?

which one's real ?

which one's real? artistic shot care of fortywinks :)

laughter

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see how hard we were laughing especially me. i think they were forcing me to act serious, and becoz im such a terrible actor, i ended up doing the contrary. haha! sorry guys...

j, even if it wasn't a ride back home, it felt like home riding with you.

It's so hard to go on diet. Argghh. When you want to look good, my advice?
Just smile :-)
Take it from the diephobics (fear of diet).

I can’t believe I’m finished with strama. Well, almost. Last Monday was our final exams and I did review – to the best of my ability…
Mgbabasa then pupunta sa kitchen to cook something then panty to brew coffee or sa ref, mghahanap ng makakain then magbabasa then pupunta kay j, makikikipagkwentuhan then mgbabasa.
I think all in all, in my attempt to review for 2 days (Saturday and Sunday), 2 hours lang talaga siguro ung sum of the minutes and seconds that I actually sat down and reviewed.

Hehe. Sooo on the day of the exam itself, I was just praying and hoping for the best – ganun talaga pag guilty. The exam was long, it’s one case study but you have to apply all that you’ve learned. grabe, the effort of writing, i just wish maging forgiving si sir, that there are people who because of computer technology have made handwriting a herculean task.

well, 4 hours later and at long last, my classmates and I found ourselves in TGIFs, dun kami ng party. Buffet setting sya so good for us who were all dead tired and drained. I love the ceasar salad and the spag na simple lang ang lasa.
We had a great party – I saw jo in action as an events’ organizer. She got us all standing and look for our zodiac counterparts – and there I found out how rare Capricornians are – rare and precious that’s who they are :)

Here, see the group pic, they’re the toughest school kids today because of a tough teacher. hmmm, why am I missing?


Well, at least I made it on this one pic – that one big smile, you know what it all means, it’s triumph for having survived hahah :)

For the past six days, I've been sleeping very early.. early morning becoz
of my strama paper.
That's the paper you have to cross over.. once in your mba life. Its just
one pero super deadly sya.

Our prof turned it into a rollercoaster experience for us. Originally it
should be submitted on aug 13th. My charming classmates begged and begged.
Ayun, very untypical of sir, he agreed, Friday daw, aug 18th na lang. But on
two conditions, the 10 or so reporters that he assigned should report and
EVERYONE should be present on Monday.
Imagine, everyone's anxiety during the weekend before Monday, what if may
isang merciless creature na mag-absent. Grr. I guess that potentially
merciless being pitied himself if someday he finds himself murdered. Ganun
talaga sa mba. Do or die.

Now that its Thursday, im floating from lack of sleep... and finally gave in
to red bull, my 1st time to try an energy drink plus Pharmaton (doctor j's
prescription). Am in panic, I never imagined I can type this fast! And you
know what.. the unexpected happened..Nagemail si class prexy, our
phenomenally kind, caring and responsible prexy, postponed daw to Saturday!
Imagine? Saturday! Hayyy God is so good! :-)

Although agony prolonged, ok na rin yun, at least ill have time to sleep a
little bit before I write the last few sections - hirap mag-isip while
floating... thank you Lord again.