fontana

"is this the only kind of summer fun im going to have?"



despite the horrific schedule of not being able to rest on weekends... my colleagues still managed to squeeze in a company outing for us... the destination?? nowhere else but fontana... hmmm sounds familiar....





anyway, since nga it was just a "squeezed-in outing"....mas matagal pa kami bumiyahe kesa sa stay namin dun...haha! but the trip was worthwhile came night time. we played "taboo" the whole night through... my gash! naubusan ako ng english sa game nayon! mahirap cya ah! but it was fun.... yun lang muna masasabi ko...im feeling sedated na! gotta sleep coz work nanaman tomorrow! ciao!

things...

(since i dnt have the time to put entries to my blog na, religiously... this entry will be very informative! haha... well... referring to me that is...)

just got home from work 2day... (nga pala, im driving myself to work na these past few days!) woohoo! (praise da vinci!) everyday i have to pass this obstacle course jungle called EDSA... which is much more packed this summer, since the coding was lifted. can't find a point on doing that.. but anyway...so yun, im driving to and from mandaluyong evryday... hopefully i dont crash and die... but if i stopped adding entries to this blog for a couple of months or so, then take the hint.

anyway... my friend, whom i haven't spoken for a long time, called me all of a sudden in my cell, telling me that our video for ethics at PSID before, the one with the clearances and building code violation documentary... wherein ginagaya namin yung show na wazzup wazzup... WAS ACTUALLY SHOWN IN WAZZUP WAZZUP, the real show in studio 23!!! My gosh! i was so surprised to hear it, na i was actually not concentrating na on my driving... my friend told me na mga 2 minutes daw yung video, and pinapakita yung pagsayaw namin and reporting... can't believe it! tapos the intro daw was: vhong:"sikat na tlga wazzup wazzup, may gumagaya pa satin... video, INSERT!" then our actual video was being shown... i think they got it from the web, since nagpost si dottie ng clip nun sa isang website..

haay! i dont know whether to be happy or ashamed... happy because, baka madiscover....haha! pero ashamed, kasi baka madiscover..pero in a bad way... as mga taong walang magawa na gumagaya lang ng kung ano anong show sa tv... rrrk! i think im feeling more of the latter. haha!

so yun, im just surprised to know that we were exposed sa tv......
without our consent yun ah!!!
tapos it was pretty long pa... imagine 2 minutes of our video, being flashed on tv....my goodness! cant believe it until now...

but so far, isa palang nag inform sakin... so, as far as i know, sya lang ang nakakita...errk...

anyway...

work related stuffs naman... since my stay at ethan allen, 3 prominent people na visited our showroom... one is lea salongga, then senator ralph recto, then senator miriam santiago... my gash! talk about pressure on our part to assist them and also to beautify our showroom.. whew!

and boy! the assisting part is trickiest when senator miriam santiago was there!
imagine mo! my officemate assisted her, and while going around the showroom she (miriam) asked her a very confounded question (in her very known weird tone) senator defensor asked:"What is the virtue of this table?" pointing to one of our tables... syempre my officemate was stunned to her question... so she just came up with the answer na broad and not so direct to her question! it was so funny... like, who would ask that way? diba?? dont expect the people to respond accurately if you know that you have "dictionary-like brain cells" and WE, the normal people dont! weird.

well... so far, wala pako masyado nababago sa showroom...pero hopefully before the year ends, ive already contributed something to ethan allen na... like right now, we are proposing to renovate our casual section collection and focus more on the contemporary style showroom rather than the classical side... where ethan allen is known for. so it would be a totally different look to the showroom, which i will be designing... hehe!

so yun lang... mga things i wanted to share...

have a hot sunny summer everyobody! mwah mwah! till my next entry!!

lasa manila

here are the pictures we've taken during our dinner get together (of hub losers..haha!) at LASA MANILA at THE PODIUM. I've promised the guys to upload our pics, and so here it is... kept my word for it.

day-off

i was running my errands the whole day... alone... driving our car... alone... ooh.. you wouldn't imagine the joy inside. haha! its a very late emancipation. im a working citizen right now, and Im still being hatid-sundo by our loyal drivers strictly imposed by my parents to stick with me.. i guess, forever!

anyway, today was an exception... hekhek! brought the car with me, and since its my day-off, i took the liberty to buy stuffs i needed for my office. im excited, but at the same time, envious of those who were shopping for summer clothes and sun-tan lotion, while i was looking for decent office clothes and supplies. its topsy turvy day all of a sudden! but anyway, moving on, after buying the things i needed, i dropped by to a facial center to buy face-related-products. haha! its been a while since i last visited and have a facial...i only go there once in a while just to buy the topical medicine but not to have the service. i can't take anymore sadistic bastards poking my face for half an hour! and then waking up with red eyes due to the tears of pain i was shedding during the whole process!! never again!

after that, i drove through the newly opened mcdonald's in the corner to buy fries... which was an exhilirating feeling! haha! mababaw na kung mababaw...but its not everyday that i can drive alone and pass through some fastfood just to order the little things i crave... again... alone!

by the way i had this bright idea of making my new calling card layout stylized like a blue print parchment. i dont know if anyone thought of this idea already, but as far as I'm aware, I'M THE PIONEER! cute noh? haha!

bye bye bumhood

tuesday will be the start of my first and ever job, as visual merchandiser/interior designer at ethan allen.. I just got this call from their HR manager...that I made the final list...and that they just offered the job for me... many thanks to my good friend didi (now a current ethan allen employer) who sugar-coated my name, the whole time during the screening process...i don't know what she did, but maybe she lured the bosses with a seductive mockery of a geisha dance... haha! thanks didi!

well after all the long series of interviews, examinations and practical tests, I've gained a lot of experience from it, and somehow gave me confidence when formally talking to people, especially the big bosses... during the 1st part of the interviews, ofcourse I was really shaky, my palms wet, words trying to fight out off my mouth...and repetitious stuttering... ahbuhdee ahbuhdee...just like porky pig... but after that, the next ones are quite easier na for me... I can already answer their questions confidently and actually speak with sense.

so yun...im very thankful I got this job... for the state of being bum (i was bum for 4 months na!) is slowly driving me insane... shrinking and drying up my brains... and turning me to an idle, insane, person...there was even a moment where Im just staring at the google search page...thinking of what other things to search in the internet...coz think I've searched it all! haha!

though...i should still take time to catch american idol ofcourse!

p.s. go katharine and chris!

she's the man

it's dianne's day off for the week once again, and so we took advantage of it and went to, no other than "the place to be" G4.... to watch, yet again, a movie. we ate lunch at wendy's 1st tapos we hurried to the cinemas to catch the beginning of "She's the Man" starring amanda bynes. our primary reason on watching this?? the hot guys starred in it.. yep... the same old "retarded" reasons why we watched troy, fantastic 4, and brokeback...(and the list goes on)

just when the movie was about to start, michiko txted didi that she would be coming too... so we saved her a seat and watched the opening credits... ofcourse, dots and I were already hooting for the guys being flashed on the screen... then the movie started, michiko arrived, and the scene of amanda bynes going into her dorm was being shown, she opened the door, she sees her room mates... and BOOM! i had an orgasm!

(well...not an actual one...but maybe, mentally)

It was this guy Duke played by Channing Tatum... this guy is so friggin' HOT! like if the heavens once showered "sex appeal" on this planet, then this guy was actually THE Planet! haha! exaj na ba?
pero grabe...he's really a sex on a stick. couldn't ask for more... ofcourse, the 4 of us, me, dots, mich and didi, were swooning the whole time this guy was being shown... and then came the soccer scenes..... oh my golly!! BOOM! second orgasm!

anyway...enough is enough...the movie ended... and it was actually a great movie...very hilarious! i would love to see it again... you can line it up with "the mean girls"... movies that you actually see over and over again, and never get tired of it...

then we decided to sit down at the taters area and forced michiko to tell all about her break up story... she shared her heartaches, we shared our insights... we moved on... I was craving for an iced mocha that time so we went straight to starbucks... we chatted all the way... until dianne was ready to leave...

and oh, as I was walking my way to landmark, I stopped by astrovision and instantly bought the new harry potter dvd! it was only 550, so who could resist that??

(and oh..I also bought a t-shirt that costs 550... coincidence?)


(naaah... who cares...)

random pics

Big chill....greenbelt 3: my bday blow out...sadly only 3 of my friends made it...so I upgraded the libre from Jollibee to Heaven and Eggs... hehe!

sisters: sai-chi and kiwi....

dodoy da geisha! pretty is in it?

another terrible artwork of mine...for dots..

22 years... can you believe it?

the day just passed. i just turned 22 today. i'm in the point of no return. i'm getting old!

22 years old! I actually lived 2 decades and 2 years by now! a SCORE if you will. Can I be anymore dramatic right now? But yeah...I'm very much thankful to God for this life He had given me. I've got the most caring and understandind parents, i've got very good friends, unforgettable friends around me, my endearing relatives around me, and the whole nine yards. I can't count numbers on how much I consider myself blessed right now. My whole life has been a gift... a gift from God a million thanks wouldn't be sufficient.

anyway, enough of the drama. I just had a simple bday celebration tonight, my mama and tita took me out for a dinner at Una Mas spanish cuisine. We tried their buffet. A variety of tahong, and tahong, and more tahongs! yep! my stomach's filled of hard shelled sea creature's tender innards. oysters, mollusks, clams, shells, and anything that grows pearl in it. My stomach can not be anymore tortured so I took a few runs to the comfort room every once in a while. Maybe because I'm really not used to eat these kind of seafoods, (shrimps and crabs are exceptions) And so we billed out without me realizing it.. i was in the toilet, deciding whether to puke or to poop. coz i'm all filled up from my rectum up to my throat. it's all crying for "ejection"!

I wouldn't be surprised if I'm crapping a pearl of necklace from my ass hole tonight.

we didn't spent the whole night there too long coz we have to run back home, coz apparently I unintentionally brought the house keys, and papa can't go inside. so he had to wait for us for about an hour to drive back. luckily its my day, and it's a good timing to be THE CELEBRANT right now. Sparing me from all the horrors of scolding.

so that's about it. I hope there will be a continuation of celebration this weekend...sana. I would like to thank all those who greeted me today!! you're the best!

and to those who didn't...well... GO F*CK YOURSELVES!!

haha! just kidding.. can't blame you people... I too, can be very forgetful with those stupid birth day calendar mess. like, why would you expect me to memorize all those dates when your mothers pushed you out from their stretched slimy vagina!

haha! again...just kidding. i love mothers.

i even like to become one.

american idols

katherine mcphee and chris daughtry...

remember these faces...

these are my bets for this year's american idol competition...

i have loved them from day one... haha! talk about being a fanatic!!

both good, both charming, both stars-in the making!

mark my words to this... remember this entry... im confidently predicting one of them's gonna win! haha!

Happy Bday pala to my beloved tita!
TITA CLAIRE!

Where: Big Grill (or W Grill..whatever it is) Glorietta 2
When: February 8, '06
What: wala lang. normal day...
well... abnormal na, after I took a sip of beer at 2pm in the afternoon!

yeah... I've got weird friends!

after grad trip!

just graduated yesterday! woopee!



then off to the fort...

we had so much fun last night! the gang and I, (dots, didi, marla, bie, howe ni bie, aynns, harms, cocoi, and bonx) went to Euro Star, The Fort, after so much persuasion from dots, and a lot of hesitation from us...we finally decided to go after all. i was there at 6:30 na, an hour and a half late from the call time, (you know me) i was so glad i brought my jacket, i had an idea before that Global city was still a very open location, (still full of vast vacant lots) and that it would be windy...and that i would probably ride coasters with great heights...so i was right.

first stop, the ferris wheel, we were just three inside one gondola, dots, me, and aynns, and bie and her howe on the other... honestly, i rode the wheel of fate a million times, but giant ferris wheels still give me the panic effects now and then. no wonder why I clinged to the support pole the whole time.



then dots, the aggressive contender of the night, hinted that the ride "joker" was already opening. (believe me, the ride was far too larger than its name) and so she dragged me there to give it a shot. i haven't conditioned myself yet on how the ride will throw me up and down (it was as high as the ferris wheel, but much more faster, and extreme!) and so I passed on the first round. Dots rode by herself. what a daredevil! sayang nga hindi nya nakasabay yung cute french guy...but anyway, by the time she went down, she was still fired up, and wanted to go again. super sarap daw! and so, i was challenged. we fell in line again.

marla and dianne, harms and cocoi arrived very shortly and they joined us immediately while still in line. by then, i was conditioning myself, that this would be a very overwhelming ride, and that I would be haunted by tremendous regret if I didn't go for it. and so I did. what was the feeling? no feeling! i can't feel my legs and my stomach anymore! but great portions of the whole ride was awesome! it was like bunjee jumping, meets anchors away, meets space shuttle. by then, i was thinking: "who cares!? propel me to my death! i dont care!" and i said that's the kind of thought you should be thinking when you ride these silly things. to care for nothing! it was so fun.

after all the throat-shattering screams, didi, decided to go inside the haunted house. (that means more screaming!) this time, dodoy was reluctant to go...(talk about "duwag" in different aspects!haha!) and so i convinced her, because she convinced me just a while ago. and so we went in... THE HOUSE OF HORRORS! muhahaha! all of us actually, like what I expected, there were puppet mechanisms inside... but to be honest, i still got some few shockers here and there. how scary it is? twas 5 out of 10... how funny it is to go in? priceless! believe it or not i was already clinging to paul when we got out. Inagawan daw ba si bie ng howe! haha! naiwan ko na si dots (my original partner) kasi nakahawak sya ng mahigpit kay bie, tapos she was barely moving...haha! kaya yung itsura namin paglabas...we made the people outside think it was really scary inside...but it was really not! it was super funny! tapos nun we rode na the bumpcars, which was lame. i wouldnt even expound on it.



tapos after nun.. we rode the "booster". my first impression of this ride, was: "ano ba yan! walang ng awa sa mga tao!" coz, if you watch how the ride goes... you'd be surprised how people can still get up and walk after it. and so, si dots and marla muna pinauna ko... sabi ko kasi tester ko si dots eh...haha! after the ride, they willingly went for another round, this time didi and I caught up with them. didi wasn't scared at all because she was expecting this ride to have no "itlog" on it. ("itlog" was didi's term for the feeling in your stomach you get when you're free falling...para ka daw nagngingitlog) and so the ride initiated...and was didi right?! NO!! meron paring itlog yung ride!! and so she was repeatedly shouting, Shit! Shit! Shit! ayoko na!! i cant see her face, but I can see her limbs were trembling, so I pat her legs once in a while...pero natatawa nadin ako...kasi super bumabaliktad na yung ride...tapos di ka na makasigaw! kaya all you can do is laugh and think: "ano ba tong sinakyan ko?!" and so the ride ended, leaving a few buzzes and spins in our heads, i cant get up instantly, so i sat down first. then didi and I slowly went down. trying to keep our balance! laugh trip na tlga! after nun nasuka na si harms...kasi ilang beses nila inulit yung booster. (a thing i wouldn't do in my life) kaya, kumain muna kami ni aynns ng ice cream. pistacchio flavor.

after nun, bonx tried all the "perya games", first the hammer hit thing, then the color wheel (the lamest of all) and the fishing for ducks... super impossible manalo sa mga games, kaya nasayang lang money. pero it was fun playing lame stuffs too. haha! and so we laughed.

after nun, we decided to go back to the ferris wheel, para magpahangin... eh by that time, nobody was falling in line anymore, kaya what the controlmen did... well... they did nothing...did nothing to stop the ferris wheel. and so we were spinning like more than ten times na ata.. unless we signalled stop to the controlmen. kaya after ilang rounds, we decided to halt the ride, kasi it was never ending na tlga. i remember didi and i were joking na, maluwag na yung screws ng ferris wheel kaya malapit ng ma disassemble yung ride... tapos, we had an idea na dapat may emergency release button per gondola, para pag ayaw mo na, in the middle of the ride, you can just simply push the button, and mahuhulog nalang yung gondola...nice idea noh? haha!



after na nun, marla went home na, susunod narin kami after, pero dots and I decided to ride pa the water ride. and so we did. plus bie and paul pa. that was the finale na. nabasa kami! the water was cold. but laugh trip parin! after that, we parted ways na! went home, and said our goodbye's! it was a nice trip guys! one of the best! congrats ulit to all of us!

mich's party pics

where: Michiko's Place & The Fort
when: Feb 1 to 2
why: aba ewan ko!
how: sinundo ako sa casimiro nila wil
which: honda jazz ang car
whose: kay wil nga eh!!
how come: ay ewan!!!


doti, me, mich (gulat?) at "zong" the fort strip

nads plus baby hailey (if its a girl) mark, didi, me

me and michikeh

krisna, marla, didi at zong

dinner at zong, the fort strip

me, didi, wil, krisna, elviS, marla

nads, didi, me, wil, marla

didi, me, kris, elvin, mich

me, nads, didi

me, kris, william (from hip-hopper to rocker)

paparazzi

me and dots, got into this "being-a-celeb-frustration-mode" again... (occurring in a daily basis actually), after reading a lot of didi's hollywood celebrity mags and tabloids, and so we tried (or tried hard) to have a paparazzi shot of us out in the streets. (ala jennifer anniston, britney and kevin federline)

my costume was confusingly androgynous, so I created the layout page of dot's shots first...

and so here it is...

gosh! i have to include this page on my graphic designs portfolio! it's one layout to be proud of..haha!

csb grad practice

yep! this feb 4 will be my second graduation for college? weird noh? but i bet, this experience would be something different coz I have never graduated before with a full toga ensemble. Ang hirap pala! lalo na pag maliit yung cap sa ulo mo...(crap!) I have to find a way to stick this stupid cap on my head...otherwise, it would be impossible to march while keeping it on top.

anyway, today is our grad practice... and we were oriented as to how the seats will be arranged, and some run downs on how we would march and receive our diplomas...(or should I say, a scroll of blank bond paper...again) we also got our toga.. so it was fun putting it on, and it was hard for us not to make a fool out of it. (btw my toga smelled like a wet dead cat) i have got to wash it immediately or else I would be the crowd repellent for the night.

it was fun to be back at csb...it was like a reunion. Block N1Q for life! haha! andun din si william, and some of his CA friends... naki-join din sa kodakan... after nun.. antay na kami sa plaza V for our sundo...si elvin..haha! friend ni will. we did a lot of catching up with will, and his lablyf! pero secret nlang yun...kwentuhan from tapa king all the way to G4..yup! G4!! (wow! never-heard itong mall na toh ah). tapos we ate at super bowl, dami namin nakain...kaya mejo naantok agad... then we proceeded with the dirty talk (which was always a favorite topic of ours, during dinners) haha! nakakasuka na nga yung ibang topic....pero super laugh trip! lalo na si marla! super tawa ng tawa dun sa terms na sinasabi ni will...haha! e.g. "payatas!" & "fresh oyster". marla ah! can relate ba? haha! jk lang.
anyway...here our some of the moments captured by dots...





grabe namiss ko toh..bonding moments with my csb friends! ang sarap ng feeling na magmeet up ulit with them, turning our backs from the tainted relationship and differences during our exhibit. i love my friends!! *tear

now this will be a graduation I am SO gonna sob! that's for sure!