Sleep all...sleep all day!!!

HAPPY ROCKIN' NEW YEAR, TRIUMVIRATE!!! =)

1) Was 2005 a good year for you?
Oh yeah!!!

2) What was your favorite moment of the year?
I have to say moments...both the Kyoto and the Batad trips were the best!!!

3) What was your least favorite moment of the year?
Haay...That frightful night on our way to Wow Philippines

4) Where were you when 2005 began?
I was home =)

5) Who were you with?
Family

6) Where will you be when 2005 ends?
Still at home =)

7) Who will you be with when 2005 ends?
I'll have rocking good times with family and childhood friends =up:gucci handbags)

8) Did you keep your new year's resolution of 2005?
Only few

9) Do you have a new years resolution for 2006?
But of course, we do!

10) Did you fall in love in 2005?
With anyone, thank God, I didn't

11) If yes, with who?
Next...

12) If yes, do they know?
Ho hum...

13) Are you still in love with them?
This is boring...

14) You regret it?
Oh well...

15) Did you breakup with anyone in 2005?
Nope

16) Did you make any new friends in 2005?
Yeah! =)

17) Who are your favorite new friends?
I must say Christian (because he's just as spontaneous as the rest of my kada)...hmmm...
Well, I also bonded with the Japan girls (Mich, Fides, and Hopia) =)

18) What was your favorite month of 2005?
September

19) Did you travel outside of the Philippines in 2005?
Yep.

20) How many different countries did you travel to in 2005?
Only one.

21) Did you lose anybody close to you in 2005?
No morbid loss, thank God!
But I've had friends who fled the country in search for a greener pasture...only that.

22) Did you miss anybody in the past year?
Terribly, yes!

23) What was your favorite movie that you saw in 2005?
Finding Neverland (I'm simply a child at heart.)

24) What was your favorite song from 2005?
I can name 2: "We Belong Together" (Mariah) and "Collide" (Howie Day)

25) What was your favorite record from 2005?
Mishka Adams' "God Bless The Child"

26) How many concerts did you see in 2005?
Only Fete de la Musique

27) Did you have a favorite concert in 2005?
Fete was crazy this year. 2004 was better.

28) Did you drink a lot of alchohol in 2005?
Well, just the right amount. =)

29) Did you do a lot of drugs in 2005?
Cough syrup, yes!!!

30) How many people did you sleep with in 2005?
I can't confirm yet, baka kse may humabol for the remaining couple of days. hahaha!

31) Did you do anything you are ashamed of this year?
Of course, I did. hehehe!

33) What was the worst lie someone told you in 2005?
Kinalimutan ko na.

34) Did you treat somebody badly in 2005?
Hmmm...wala naman.

35) Did somebody treat you badly in 2005?
Yes!!!

36) How much money did you spend in 2005?
A lot. Spend to the max left and right...

37) What was your proudest moment(s) of 2005?
That I conquered Batad on my first hike up the mountains of Cordillera

38) What was your most embarrassing moment of 2005?
Kinakalimutan ang mga ganyan. =)

39) If you could go back in time to any moment of 2005 and change something, what would it be?
Haay... kindly refer to question number 3

40) What are your plans for 2006?
Be more decisive and aggressive. Be better at balancing both my professional and personal lives.

Tag yourselves.

Happy New Year to one and all!!! =)

I was feeling very sickly over the weekend until Tuesday, but thank God, I was back to being hyper again come our company Christmas party on Wednesday night. Employees from the 4 major bundles came in their favorite fiction hero outfits. I surely couldn't spend the night cavorting in tights, so I decided to just party as a dressed down "Incredible."

I didn't expect that people (majority of which are IT professionals) would just be game to don leather tights, gothic makeup, and full-size helmets and headdresses. Prizes were at stake for the best guy, gal, and team in costume. Darna, Sponge Bob, and the Star Wars ensemble took home the awards of the night. I was actually rooting for either Storm or Queen Amidala for their efforts to dress up like the characters on film, but the judges just had to choose Mars Ravelo's heroine. up:gucci bags

The party turned out really eventful. We were dancing to disco and new wave music (Imagine!) and drinking drafts and drafts of beer until the wee hours of the morning. No wonder I've been feeling hyperacidic since yesterday. (Hayreeettttt!!!)

Oh well, I'm glad that it's the weekend and the entire Christendom will be celebrating the birth of the MESSIAH. So I end my blog here as I wish everyone a CHRISTMAS that's full of LOVE and JOY =)

Looks like we both got carried away. hahahaha! =)


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I've no doubt this cold virus will spoil my weekend! Haay...
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My friends in the office are starting to notice how I've significantly lost weight over the past few weeks. I've realized this as well and I think it's mainly due to my losing hours for sleep for almost a month now. No very drastic change in my eating patterns except that lately, I fail to eat on time especially in the morning when I usually have breakfast at 10.

From this time on, I resolve to double my food intake, add two more hours in my normal 4- to 5-hour snooze, and cut my usual overtime work by at least 1 and a half hours. I'm giving myself two to three weeks to give my mind and body a much needed boost. With the Holiday celebrations coming (and the stress that go along), all it takes is an uncompromising willpower. Well, I'm all set to unleash mine. up:gucci handbags

Ang Best In Theatrics

Ang Boss at ang "Comedy Queen" Scam (Take it..take it!!!)

After the reviews, talks, and awards, we car pooled to Makati for dinner at Fridays. We came an hour late after getting stuck in traffic as we ascend that flyover from C5 approaching the Kalayaan intersection. (Horrible accident! Man in motorcycle smashed into the backside of a 4x4, stumbled on a slippery highway, and then got run over by a ten-wheeler!!! The scene was very disturbing and it would flash back every so often...)

Our group were amongst the last to arrive at the place. Witnessing such scene was haunting, but it was already 9 and I was starving to death. After a full dinner and a little more camwhoring, we went straight to Oakwood ahead of others. I was so exhausted after a long day so I needed to get settled in for a longer and much eventful night.

Around 10, we checked in at Oakwood for our year-end bonding session. Because we came ahead of THE roommates, we prepared for the morning's Big Breakfast Challenge (two teams each given 350 pesos to prepare breakfast for a team of 23!!!). I obviously didn't have any good recipe to put in so I volunteered to peel and slice the cucumbers..hehe! I tried, at least, infront of the camera to appear very domesticated. =)






And so there was singing...


And dancing...
And drinking...

Some people went on with the boozing in the bedroom, pero bagsak na talaga ako at 3:30 AM. I took the pillows and sheets to the living room at nagpaka-YAYA na naman ako sa couch. hehehe!

Morning after, we had the Big Breakfast Challenge. At kasing fresh ng morning ang mga pipino!!! =)

Syet ang sarap! Yun lang. =)

And then we were on for the Grand charades. It was all about getting to know one another, so the game host proposed that one team let the other guess some trivia out of a team members' personal experience. It was all fun to hear revelations about someone nearly entering the Carmelites, a Miss SM Centerpoint (hahahaha!), a guy kissing another guy, and bisexual threesomes. The people's candidness was extreme!!!


By lunchtime, we went senti. We were exchanging thank you notes and writing "I like you because..." phrases on one another's shirts as sweet souvenirs for this event. It was uplifting to read words of appreciation that are mostly non-work related and very personal. This momentarily relived our EcoSoc Planning Sem days...(minus the candlelit one-on-one's...hehehe!)

After a filling lunch and some more wacky photo-ops, we called it a day. I changed clothes to look more decent in pictures, but no...they took the photos while I was away. Weh 'no ngayon?!



It was really really fun, and I think in few ways, it rekindled my passion to work with the team... Hope 2006 is even more promising.

Guys, meet my workstation...Just as it is after a long and hard day's work. La lang, I'm just destressing...=)

By the way, many thanks to Folkvang for the pug screensaver!!! =) Everyone at work just adores it up:gucci handbags .





































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Just got back from a company sponsored talent search auditions a la American Idol. Of course, I didn't join because i don't have the nerve to perform infront of a music-amateur yet nastily berating spectators (read "officemates"). I was there as part of the organizing committe who shall be very busy for the next couple of weeks until the superhero-themed Yuletide bash kicks off at the Crowne Plaza Ballroom. We had so much fun gracing the auditions and I realized today how many frustrated Sarah Geronimo and Christian Bautista-wannabees at work have competitively taken the next big leap to heed their inner calling. Makes me think...

You may check out your Friendster Bulletins to get my new number. I'm temporarily using this until I get a new plan. Please identify yourselves when you send me your numbers (I prefer it complete. =))up:gucci handbags

Been slaving at work to finish off some jobs pending for the year. I have been assigned a number of relocation cases so the past couple of months have been very high touch for me. However, I'm glad that I have not been involved in new cases ever since I accepted the consulting TL's job offer to be the team's Financial SPOC.

This position was open for the longest time and rumor has it that they had searched for the right one over a period of 3 months; weeks before the former SPOC resigned to accept an offer by another BPO-company. I didn't really find budget accruals and reviews, accounts reconciliation, financial controls compliance, and all these number-crunching team projects/initiatives attractive when it was first presented to me, but I realized even if Finance wasn't really the field that I dreamt of pursuing, this would benefit me in the long-run as money undoubtedly matters in any enterprise. I'm all set for new challenges...and assuming a totally different role is what I need to stay longer with the company.
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The Greater China and Northeast Asian markets are very demanding regions, and I will surely miss working with my HR colleagues. I don't know if I will ever work with just as professional and warm people in Finance, but well, those days when I had escalated finance issues were just a nightmare! I may need a character overhaul to get down to business with them. =)

I'm glad the work week is finally over. At least for the next couple of nights I'd get at least eight hours of sleep. =) A friend has promised to fix the home PC so I'd be back to pounding my keyboard again. This is partly the reason why lately I've had very few blog updates up:gucci handbags.

I've no specific plans for the weekend, though. Maybe I'll just stay home and continue reading Dan Brown for the next couple of days. My senior associate has lent me her "Angels and Demons" but I was too busy to even read the reviews. Hmm..I could probably lift its covers should the mood allow us to.

As I have been telling people, I've promised to learn cooking Adobo and Pasta at least before the year closes. I finally got inspiration from one of those emerging casual diners (Heaven and Eggs) that serve big plates of omelette, pasta, and pancakes. The last dinner I had with friends at their Glorietta outlet, I ordered Adobo Pasta. We'll cook out our version, two in one! I 'll go scavenging the neighborhood supermarket for fetuccini, some plum tomatoes, spices, anchovies, and adobo ingredients. I've likewise spent a considerable amount of time searching the internet for recipes that I'll be experimenting on pretty soon. =) This could be one cool creative outlet that I badly need these days.

Anyway, I'll end it here. I can just wish that the weekend would be eventful for me. =)

I love this album!!!
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