Can I just say that...

I HATE MEETINGS!!!!
I HATE MEETINGS!!!!
I HATE MEETINGS!!!!

A week has passed and my PC is still not working. Bummer. I'm bringing it to my cousin already. I think a pro has to do it or I might break it even further.

Haaay... I'm so pissed off these days. I'm just glad that it'll be the Holy Week soon. That means no work for 4 glorious days! Alleluia! But first, I want to rant about the effy stuff that happened this past week. First, I hate it that they're relocating the office kitchen downstairs due to some OC person's ka-OC-han. I am not pissed at the idea that they're relocating it. I'm pissed off because we're relocating it for this one person. We're paying for most of the rent anyway so why does she get to decide where the office kitchen should be? Primadonna. Second, I just hate meetings. I guess I have to put up my own business quick cos of my aversion to formalities. I hate meetings. I hate meetings. I hate meetings.

I'm just glad that I have the bestest friends ever. Even though work has been shitty, I have my friends to make me feel better. I hung out with my BFFs for the weekend.

Friday night with Armida. Initial plan: tambay sa bahay. Then we changed our minds. We went to Shangri-la instead. After eating, we can't think of anythign else to do and we still have 4 more hours to go. Ayun, inikot namin ang buong Shangri-la.

Saturday, Juno and I went to Divisoria (suki) to eat at Wai Ying and to buy more Korean series and movies. It was scorching hot and I was also carrying this super heavy bag since I was sleeping over at Juno's . Plus, I borrowed Juno's HS yearbook and so I was carrying it with me the entire time we were scouring the streets of Divi. Happy din cos I already have the 2nd half of Goong. Kinikilig na ako! We were supposed to have a movie/series marathon of the titles we bought but we ended up watching none because I slept early. Well, we were actually watching Spanglish but halfway thru the movie, I fell asleep. But you see, I was having a terrible headache that time. Sorry Juno kasi tinulugan kita hehe. Next time uli, with the rest of the gang.

The sleepover at Juno brought back memories~ with some I'd rather forget. She asked me to bring the dreaded Conversation Notebooks. Grabe! Black mail material. I can't bloody believe that I wrote those things. Sappy. Mushy. Baduy. Parang galing sa movie ni Sharon Cuneta circa 1980s. Eeeew. I would never again profess undying love on paper. Kadiri to death. Anyway, I miss our T-parties. Once you pop, you can't stop. Mabuhay ang sabog, mabuhay si Juno.

Last Sunday, I had the greatest splurge ever.

Beautiful!!!

Anyway, I really enjoy going to work right now cos I so get along with the new recruit. We have this not-so-good habit of snacking on Coke, banana-q and pancit canton every afternoon.

This past week, we've been pooling interviewees. Only a few were interested. Maybe because we're not yet a well-known brand. But it's still work, people.

Well, it was my first time conducting an interview. Honestly, it bored the hell out of me. I was occasionally trying to steal some yawns whenever the applicant looks away. I also can't help but look back on the times when it was me being interviewed. I bet I was one of those who really looked nervous and fidgety with all those hand gestures.

We interviewed people from 18 to 22 years old. They're mostly high school graduates and college drop outs. Initially, I can't help but be empathy towards them with all their sob stories. But then I realized that they're just a bunch of rascals. If you need a job that bad, you'll take anything that comes your way and do it well, right? Sad, puppy dog eyes. I'm not falling for that anymore. If anyone tells me that he has a 1-year-old kid he has to support or their father left them for another woman... I won't frickin' care cos you know what~ it's not my problem.

Hay buhay.

Anyhoo, my classmates and I ate ate lunch together after class. "Inspired" by a classmate's recent break-up, we talked mainly about relationships. We're mostly girls so we complained about how Filipino men are spoiled rotten. As I have no experiences with relationships whatsoever, I am getting paranoid with all the stories. I think I may not want to get into relationships anymore or get married. It might be better to stay single and use my savings for travel when I'm older as opposed to using it for my future kids' tuition. Very tempting, no? This early, I am deciding to spare myself from heartaches and headaches alike. [Update: I changed my mind. I want to have my own family. I want to have kids. - 1/11/08]

Brain: Drained.

I had my examen escrito y oral yesterday. I can't say that I've done very well on them. More like so-so. I just hope I will pass level 9 and go on to level 10.

We had our written exam in the morning. Sra. Trining was assigned to another level and cannot administer the exam. Instead, Felipe (our nivel 10 teacher) was our proctor. In fairness, he's nice.

The auditiva part was easy. Too easy. Maybe because we've already had that listening exercise before. It's raining... subjuntivo! Eeeew. I forgot all the other verbs that could be used; therefore, I stuck to using te recomiendo, te sugiero and te aconsejo~ which were used in the given examples.

I made a lot of boo-boos during the oral exams but generally, it was okay. I'm just a bit annoyed cos my partner was so OC. Palibhasa, bibo kid. Our teacher was already signaling that we should finish our dialogue but Partner just couldn't get it. He brought two pictures for the soporte grafico part. There was only enough time for one picture. One. He already took up so much time talking about the first picture. The teacher wanted us to wrap up our dialogue... but NO, kailangan talagang isingit ang second picture niya.

P.S. Just wanna share that he looked like Tweedledee (or Tweedledum) yesterday.

During the 4-hour gap in between the written and oral exams, I hah lunch with aunts, sisters and cousin. I was instructed to take a taxi and "get off sa likod ng DFA." So I got in front of DFA but alas, the Paluto was not anywhere near the area. It was located in Macapagal Boulevard pala. Just imagine my horror when I had to cross the verrrry busy Roxas Boulevard. Nagmistula akong pusa na nakikipagpatintero sa mga sasakyan sa Roxas. I never thought I'd get through it alove. All this happened at 12pm. Mainit. Super.

Naiinis na ako sa Starbucks na yan ha! It'll be February soon and they still don't have those planners!

Kim Nam-jin

It's official. I am in love.

Dang! Why does he have to be so sexy? According to my googling, Kim Nam-jin was born August 8, 1976 which makes him 29 years old to date. Not bad. Still a healthy age gap. And he's soooo tall, he stands at around 6'2. He might not be uber good-looking at first sight but he grows on you. Sabi ko na nga ba I saw him before... I'm just not sure where. Apparently, it was on an ad he did with Hyori for FRJeans. I didn't find him good-looking at first cos his flared nostrils were just so distracting. But after seeing Prince's 1st Love... haaayyy. Mas marami na akong aabangan sa Arirang and KBS... Woohoo!!!

Can I just say that his body is TO DIE FOR! ;)

I can't wait to buy his other series and movies... just to have a glimpse (for 2 hours or more) of Kim Nam-jin. Oppa... choahyo! Chongmal saranghaeyo! Bwahahaha!!!

Kim Nam-jin. Just the thought of him sends my heart to a flutter. * sigh * If only Koreans who come here to the Philippines are as good-looking as him and all my other Korean boys ie. Won Bin and Jo Han-sun... Kim Nam-jin.

Ang huling kokak

The family went to Tagaytay. We fetched Auntie Madre from the convent to take her to lunch somewhere nearby. My sisters and I had a photo-op again. We could not resist taking pictures with the lush greenery as background. I loved it there. The whiff of fresh air and a view that is relaxing to the eyes. Everything's beautiful. It is just unfortunate for a tiny creature here on earth that he has become a statistic of a phenomenon we call roadkill~




The plan was to have lunch at Viewpoint but the elders insisted that we should go to RSM instead. After lunch, we went to Sonya's Garden just to look at the place. I liked it.



The cottages had an Old Manila feel. They give off a somewhat eerie feeling. Four-poster beds with immaculate white, clean sheets. Parang feeling mo anytime may lalabas na white lady.

During the trip, a family secret came out into the open. While walking around Sonya's Garden, we came across upside-down, lily-looking flowers. My daddy shared that whenever my lolo had asthma attacks, he would smoke those leaves which are known to the modern world as talampunay. Talampunay?? aka trumpets aka dungshroom?? E diba drugs yun?? Haha!!! :) Apparently, it was used as an alternative cure for asthma. It just happened that it also has a narcotic element akin to marijuana.


ang talampunay... bow!

The trip was fun though the trip back was horrendous. It took us 3 frickin' hours to reach Manila. I wasn't planning on going to the World Pyro Olympics but at the last minute, decided to go with Vicky and her boyfriend. We left the house at 8:15, reached Taft at 8:30. At this side of the city, traffic began to build up. We reached Taft corner Buendia at 9pm. Then someone sent my sister a text message saying that it would be better if we don't proceed anymore since there was only one fireworks exhibition left and traffic's really, really, really bad. We decided to turn around and just eat at McDo instead. It took us na hour to make a U-turn along Buendia. On normal circumstances, that would only take 5 minutes. Dahil lang sa fireworks...

Holiday!

I am still on leave from work. Yay!

I planned on having a DVD marathon of all the new series I bought. There are 4 Korean series waiting in line and I am not yet finished watching BuHwal. BuHwal is nice but it got a bit dragging in the middle. It's not interesting enough to hold my attention for long and since I watch it on the computer, I got easily distracted by the internet and games. After just 2 episodes, I decided to stop forcing myself into watching.

Instead of a DVD marathon, I did a little cleaning instead. Bitten by the anti-tamaditis bug, I cleaned the room, sorted, repacked and sealed my files in plastic packs, cleaned the library, vacuumed and polished the floor, organized my VCD, DVD and audio CD collection and magazines. So that was what kept me busy this week. Plus, there was this Magic Pad my sister bought from SM. It came with a free folding guide. I put the folding guide to the test and before I knew it, I was still folding clothes at 4 am in the morning. D*mn folding guide even gave me a papercut. Fortunately, it didn't hurt and didn't bleed as much.

***

The family went to Bluwave in Macapagal to watch the World Pyro Olympics. It was supposed to start at 7pm but it started around 8pm instead. We just had to live up to the infamous Filipino time, 'no? But I think it was worth the wait. The display of lights in the night sky was a feast for the eyes.

Everyone was present. It was daddy's special request that everyone should be there. We had dinner at Max's.

***

I had a dream last night. And it was the nicest dream I've had for a long time. I'm glad that I was able to remember that particular dream and it was not lost together with all the hundreds of dreams we had during sleep. This might be a premonition that the coming year would be a good year for me. Hmmm.. I hope so. Well, I had a dream about my crush and I have these two conflicting theories with regard to dreaming about the object of my affection:

(1) they will remain only in my dreams and there would be no chance of translating such into reality; and,

(2) if I dreamt about that somebody, he might be thinking/dreaming about me, too.

The first one was theorized during my Savage Garden days wherein I have never dreamed of Darren Hayes (pathetic, I know). Meanwhile, the second theory was formulated when I kept on dreaming about a crush. Hulaan na lang kung sino. Pero sa totoo lang, sino'ng linoko ko???

But I just wish that 2006 would indeed be a better year for me. I'm a Dog in Chinese Astrology and it'll be my year. I hope it'll be a better year in all aspects of my life.