im going to mexico

guys, kahit anong sabihin nyo para lumakas ang loob ko, ayoko pa ding magpunta sa mexico. bukod sa gagawin akong interpreter dun 24/7 habang 100% sure ako na kalawang na spanish ko, un na ang huling linggo ko with my crushee boss. i hate goodbyes. im serious.

nagresign na pala sya.

e dun pa lang sa trip magsisimula ang love story namen. i would lure him with my charms at pagbalik namen sa pinas, iiwan nya na ung gf nya for me.

pero wala! after ng mexico trip namen trabaho na sya sa macau. kaya pala pinipilit na makasama ako sa mexico, kahit 45k ang pamasahe (usually it costs around 10k lang if US dadaan). pero dahil nadeny ako ng US visa, i need to transit through munich then frankfurt. bukod sa iiwan nya na ko, saken nya pa itatambak lahat ng pasaway accounts nya! mexicans are our most difficult clients, tapos dadagdagn pa ng apat na bago.

we will meet the likes of walmart mexico, at di ko alam kung paano ako aasta dun! syet.

anyway, here are my visa and my fm3 (the additional doc if you go to mexico for business).



lord, pwede bang magteletransport ako sa spain, tapos magiging photographer na lang ako by profession?

i love flickr! i love flickr!

last night, i went to the launching of the book "24 hours of flickr".

flickr, the photography arm of yahoo, is one of my favourite websites. it's like all of photography enthusiasts are pooled together to share each other's masterpieces.

grabe, ang saya saya! it was so fun meeting individuals who have the same passion as mine.

and there were a lot of good things on the side:

1. open bar
2. nice little food snippets
3. photography galore
4. goodie bag
5. flickr pro account - it costs US$25
6. i won a raffle! woot! woot! i won an adidas gc!
7. polaroid shots! yipee! yipee!

let me introduce you to some of my very good friends, courtesy of the free polaroids which i managed to hoard:

leo, my very first friend in hk


dave, my camera mentor



jon, a very nice gentleman (im writing this at gunpoint. joke)



my two hk besties

a thank you note

I take memories seriously. I remember the dates of the important events in my life. I know when I got my first period, or when I had my first kiss, or when I had my first real kiss. I also remember the date of my graduation, or when I was caught doing something indecent, my every vacation, and my anniversaries with past relationships, and the dates when they ended.

And of course my birthday.

I honestly think that birthdays were made a big deal to entitle one person the right to feel important. That is only 1 day out of 365 (or 366 on a leap year) days in a year, or 24 hours out of 8,760 – barely 0.003%.

I would like to thank Leo for spending my birthday with me. sosyalan talaga tayo sa red!

i was close to tears four hours before my day ended because most of my friends in pinas didn't remember to greet me, not even the jerk in dubai and i was slaving myself to work.

leo, thanks for saving my day.

:)

my most expensive acquisition EVER

i bought a nikon d40x dslr!

waaahhh! i drained my savings for this. and it felt so good.

when you do something you love, every moment is really priceless.

haaayyy.. di baleng dukha, basta masaya.

i hope life is generally this simple.

aug 26, 2007

what does a little girl who is five hours away from her 24th birthday feel?

LONELY. SCARED. EMPTY.

i got everything planned. i know which dates i should do my medical check ups and visit friends in manila. i know what to do on my birthday, i would just chill out and have a good time with my family - something i haven't done in a long time.

two days before my scheduled homecoming, my big boss begged me to postpone my vacation. he said that we are meeting four clients in mexico and i need to be here next week to take care of my visa so we can fly on sunday. he said it is extremely important that i go because they have big plans for me. there will be a latin american team, and i will be the one supervising it, with my assistants and all those shits. and when it's the big boss asking you, there isn't really much you can do, is there? i had to cancel my flight to the phils and reschedule it by probably november.

i want to shout. i have been under unfair labor practice and now they make me suffer even more. i just do not want to elaborate on the misfortunes that i get here, but believe me, it is really inhuman at times.

i want to go home. i do not want to spend another birthday alone here. but i guess, it's just not my lucky year. mid-life crisis is now sinking in and i think i am getting more stuck in a situation where getting out is close to impossible. i've reached a point when i think i haven't done anything that i wanted and i am wasting my energy and youth over something which i am not passionate about. my sales and marketing career looks promising. but is this what i wanted? it sure isn't.

shit. im in deep shit.

this is the unhappiest day of 2007 ever

i am not coming home.

i need to be here to take care of my mexican visa next week.

syet.

we're slated to go on the 1st of sept.

my love story

guys, this is a pic of my boss kung saan nakaplano na ang aming love story. down to our grandchildren.

with his look alike, si cholo ng stairway to heaven:




pota, i kras both. ;)

jusko, kung ito ba naman pinapantasya mo, magiging torrid talaga panaginip mo.. haha..

thoughts?

another bola line

...is it wrong to miss you?...


pota, stop pulling me back!

makapunta na ngang dubai.. haha ;)

let us save women. spread the word.

burn sweet talking men!

ever wondered why women have a great tendency to become lunatics? it's because of men who are good at playing psychology games. they are experts on women's weaknesses and get away with their jerkiness by twisting words and sweet caresses.

darn.

remember the guy who i was sort of hanging out with, who is now miles away, and whom i promised myself to forget?

he's back. he's supposed to come back this coming weekend, but i wouldn't be here. and he was twisting my words making it look like i intentionally planned my homecoming on that week so i could avoid him. i was "pissing him off".. the nerve, eh? nonetheless, i still ended up evoking a bubbly attitude. (giving myself a big spank on the head).

he said he will try to work out his trip so he can see me at least.

and i, the ever desperate girl who's afraid of saying no and lets her foolish heart dominate her little mind, kept on answering his needy messages and calls. he even asked me to go to where he is now, which is halfway around the world, proposing that he would shoulder half of my fare.

i have moved on. there was nothing much to forget and let go anyway.

and now, he's pulling me back. and i always give in. shet.

that is why i never wanted to get married. i am 80% sure that i am going to be a battered wife. i forgive easily, especially when i love the person, no matter how he'd hurt me.

good luck to me when i see him shortly.


so to the eve's (and the adam's who are eve's by heart) out there, let me hear you say:

burn sweet talking men!

once again:

burn sweet talking men!

malapit na birthday ko!!!

waaaahhhh!!! next week birthday ko na!!! woot woot!!! excited nakong umuwi.. i swear di nako uulit sa nangyari saken last year.. tama ba namang wala akong pera at kung sino sino lang kasama ko? di ko man lang mabilhan ang sarili ko ng lunch - on my birthday!

yipee!! uuwi na ako at last!! ngayon lang nagsisink in saken na mayayakap ko na ulit tataj ko. makikita ko na ulit si anjelica. makakapagcomedy bar na ulit ako. makakakain na ko ng sinigang sa bayabas! pati lumpiang shanghai ng nanaj ko na tadtad sa vetsin!!!

waaahhhh!!!

this is me...one & a half year ago minus 30 pounds

this is vanity at an all time high...

magsawa sa pic ko nung payat pa ko. at di pa ko ngarag sa trabaho ko sa thomson.

syet ano na lang sasabihin ng tataj ko pag-uwi ko sa sabado?

anong nangyari? waha!!!

new friends

yipee!!!

yipee!

i have a new set of friends.

they're from an online community called pinoyhongkong.com.

ang saya saya! videoke to sawa sa sham tseng. i got to meet new and interesting people. we're from different walks of life but we all have the determination to suceed and the passion to smile and laugh to our hearts' content. buti na lang talaga di ako tinigilan ni kuya tony hanggat hindi ako nagpapamember.

and dig this: i got to meet female friends my age! woo hoo! sure i love being around my male friends for it gives me the feeling of being a princess.. hehe...nah, im just lucky that the male friends i hang out with are gentlemen..

but sometimes i still miss talking to female friends who had just gone out of college and still struggle to adapt into the adult world.

anyway, here are some of our pics:

simpsonized

tried simpsonizeme.com, and i don't know if im happy with the resutls.

i downloaded two different photos and i still ended up with the same character.

this is how ill look like if i were a simpson:



haha, labo! hanggang dito ba naman baby pa din ako? wehe.

shits

i can only take so much.

this corporate slavery has gone overboard.

the emotional torture is unbearable. the physical exhaustion is inhuman.

have you ever felt like bursting but you know you don't have the slightest right to do so because of your position? defending and crying foul are never an option. this is the perfect recipe for lunacy.

i don't deserve this. i don't have to put up will all this crap to earn money. oh yeah, i have to.

tang inang buhay ofw. mali, expat nga pala.

shet. nakakaiyak.

this is the least sensible post you'll ever read. seriously.

bastusan na kung bastusan!

im sorry, di ako matahimik hangga't di ko shineshare.

ganito kase, crush ko ung isang boss ng company. kung totoo man ang love at first sight, sa kanya un. haha! as in! pinlano ko na since last year kung pano kame magkakainlove-an. kung pano ko sya aakitin, kung pano sya magfafall saken.. kung pano namen itatago sa office ang aming supposed relationship. kung pano namen aaminin sa conservative parents nya na hindi intsik ang mapapangasawa nya. haha! ganun ko sya kagusto! pero, torpe ako e. isang taon na wala pa ding nangyari. hanggang pangarap na lang. oh, and may syota pala sya.

anyway, kasama ko sya sa dinner meeting with my 3 clients nung sabado. 7pm ung meeting. e hanggang 1pm lang ang trabajo pag sabado. umidlip pa ko before magpunta sa pacific place. and guess what, nanaginip pa ko. ang panaginip: i and this boss making out. as in doing the deed. in full detail. super graphic.

grabe, nung dinner meeting na, di talaga maalis sa isip ko ung panaginip ko. at eto pa: sabay pa kame umuwi. di talaga ako makapagconcentrate. pero pag-ibig ay tanga nga, sinabayan ko pa sya magyosi. sosyal, dunhill pa ang tinitira.

lord, kung mabait ka, wag mo pabayaan makarating ako sa mexico kasama sya. di ko alam kung ano ang magagawa ko. true love ito. hahaha! what the bloody hell am i saying?

hay naku, kailangan ko na ng lovelife. napapariwara ako sa "minamahal" ko.. wehe. ;p

the best night in hk!

august 2, 2007
2100


guys, you wouldn't believe what happened two days ago!

i just came back from china 30 mins ago, but i would not let this day pass without writing about my best night in hk ever!

background: july 31st, i received an email from our university alumni assoc president. he said that some guests from the philippines are coming over and will do a show in a bar in wan chai. i immediately spread the word. and in 10 mins time a lot of friends confirmed that they would also go. i know that it's going to be tons of fun. imagine being deprived of pinoy music for a year. this is like whiskey to a recovering alcoholic!

anyway, i am actually a sucker for concerts and gigs. I am not really a party person, but if you invite me for a night out that consists of live bands, i will surely be there no matter how tired i am. i love live bands! i love dancing and grooving (fine, getting wild) to their music. and the atmosphere is just overwhelming. every body is just having a good time. no one cares if you do not dance well. no one cares if you sing to the top of your lungs. and yes, even if we're close to trading body fluids.

going back, i was set to go to china the following day and the meeting time is 7am. i haven't packed my stuff yet and i just finished work at 8pm since i needed to do a lot of things for my the client that we're meeting in china. it is my account and i needed to do presentations, not to mention the delegation of the tasks that i will leave behind to my colleagues in hk. the event is at 9pm.

i took a cab, grabbed a subway sandwich, which i did not care to finish since i would not want to be late, and headed to the wanch. i was surprised at first because the bar was a little empty and the band in line was a chinese jazz band. i did not see any indication that there will be pinoy performers coming. i was getting frustrated because my friends whom i invited were waiting and i thought that i should have packed my stuff instead and rested for my trip to bloody china.

after an hour of agonizing jazz music, filipinos started coming, and yes i finally saw the performers. from what i have gathered, they watched "the cure's" concert and some pinoys requested them to do a little show (5 songs each band) in a bar. they gave in. sweet.

want to know which bands came over? let's do a guessing game.

this is the first band:

first clue:



hmmm... can you tell now? too difficult, huh? it was only a guitar.

fine, ill give you another one:


hehe, like you can tell with just the rubber shoes! third clue:




sus, you still can't tell? come on, you should have ideas by now.

another one:




the above may be dark, but you can tell here for sure:



ok, last one:


you got it!!! IMAGO!!!





the best opm band with a female vocalist


how about them coming over while i just wrote about how their "sundo" affected me? my entry was just a few days old and they were there singing it live! they also sang "akap" and the best opm revival of all time - "spolarium"!



oh, i haven't described the setting of the wanch bar! it is a very small bar and the performers are situated on one corner WITHOUT a platform. they are as the same level as i am! and the bar was really jampacked. it attracted a lot of attention that even foreigners are checking what was happening inside.

of course i got the best area in the bar! at the front at the center! standing! aia (imago's vocalist) was just 2 feet away from me. no exaggeration. that close! that is so much more than going to a usual gig. i never left my area. i didn't mind if my bladder was exploding, or if people kept on pushing me, or if other people reminded me every 5 seconds that i did not have to get carried away. haha! no one could stop me from my best night in hk.

and since i have not been away from pinas that long compared to the others, or i am still young to recognize imago, i kept singing with them! aia smiled at me a few times since i really stand out. i was really carried away. they were supposed to sing another song as their last, but i really shouted at my lungs so they sing "akap". my effort was not in vain. the feeling was really beyond words.

and you think ill let it pass without getting a photo? i have never done this, even with the freestyle band given the fact that i attended their concerts seven times in a year when they were so big.

pero jologs kung jologs!! tantanan!! this is the fan pic of all fan pics!!




let's include my friends in the photo:




ok, moving on... there were three bands playing. the second band? i am not sure if the band rings a bell in pinas, but it is called "pedicab"..

here's the vocalist:


he is good looking. some are buzzing that he is the younger brother of jao mapa. im not too surprised. they really look alike.

another photo of pedicab, this time with their keyboardist:


i like this shot , it capture the keyboardist's carefree moves.



that's him again up close. but wait, can you recognize him?



you got it! it's raymond marasigan of sandwich! apparently, 3 out of 5 members of pedicab are from sandwich. it was funny when pedicab finished and said that sandwich is performing next. he pointed to the two bassists and to raymond. raymond just switched to be the vocalist area, and then entered imago's myrene and the drummer to complete the group.

and boy, it was jamming in every sense of the word! sandwich is really a crowd pleaser and everyone was having a very good time!



i didn't like sandwich because i am not really into rock music. but i love them now! woot! woot! sobrang galing! oh, and aia was there too when sandwich played, jamming with us in the audience. how cool is that? your favorite singer beside you having a great time as much as you are.

and one more thing, one of the bassists is c-u-t-e. while we were waiting outside when the show finished, i even had the chance to shake hands with him. nice guy, too.



i came home 1am. i slept at 3am since i needed to pack and make sure that i got everything. i woke up at 6am and met up my boss at the station at 7am. i was wasted all day. but it was all worth it. definitely worth it.