When the boss is away...

I feel bad I've only made one entry for April. Sorry been really busy but today I've time on my hands for as you can see in the picture that the office is deserted. It's the ABSI outing today but the online team decided not to go -- who would update the sites???

Anyway, since there are no people here (there are some who also opted not to go, but I'm treating them as aliens *lol*) Me, Flow, Myra and Nap hammed it up in front of the camera ...



"Pigilan niyo ako tatalon akoooo..."









"A model for Renz Verano's MTV."









"Pinagsamantalahan ni Myra ang machong standee..."









Ang saya ng walang boss sa office... :)

Ivy gets hitched

The F4FU mods were invited to Ivy's much awaited wedding last March 30. After 9 years plus 2 more (It's a complicated story) Ivy got married to her college sweetheart Mike. It was a rough road for both but in the end Ivy and Mike realized that they were really MFEO (made for each other). The (ex)mods were in incomplete attendance but it was also a reunion of sorts for some of the "originals" -- Johanne, Che, Anna and Tonie were there.

Funny how we girls all met and remained friends despite the 'weird' circumstances. During the hiatus in Mike and Ivy's relationship about 3 years ago, Ivy met a bunch of 'crazy' girls to distract herself. And look where we are now. *lol* We are so proud of ya Ivy! Mike, you better take good care of her!

I was the designated responsorial psalm reader but me and Mike's cousin Claire took on double duty for the guy readers didn't show up on time! I was shy and hid behind the podium, praying I don't fumble...(Ummm wag na magreact sa shy.)Oo, Uchi nakadress ako. :P

*more wedding pics view here.
*Know Ivy and Mike's love story here.

I'm doing nothing

It's a miracle. I have freetime on my hands. Hmm...I wonder where have all the work gone...*lol*

What I did this morning:
1. Checked my lotus mail and yahoo mail. All cleared.
2. Watched American Idol 6 clips on a blog. Sanjaya's scarier than ever.
3. Just edited typos on the PBB2 site.
4. Deleted some forum posts and laughed at some dialogues and screen caps on the PBB2 thread.
5. Listened to M-flo, Jjang Nara and BoA to wake me up.
6. Currently watching the hostage taking at the Manila City Hall on ANC.

Now I'm looking forward to lunch. I have 6 more hours of free time to go. Any suggestions? *lol*

Crazy...

This is the first time in my whole life that I've been swamped with work this many! And the bosses are lining up more...

I'm wracking my brain for an entertaining entry but I'll just redirect you here for all the 'entertainment' you need. I seem to have lost my blogging touch.

Grouch, grouch, grouch.

Stressed out

Big Brother has once again struck. And he's wrecking my life!!! My sched for the whole week's whacked. Since Sunday, I've been here at the office til midnight monitoring the site. Haven't had a decent night's sleep. I have eye maletas right now (eye bags are an understatement). I'm missing dinners with Randy. And American Idol. I miss playing Sims 2 and Zuma. I can't take a vacation over weekends (that email about long holidays don't apply to me now.)I don't even have time to look after my bunny...And what's real great about this...stress makes you fatter around the belly.

Waaah...Big Brother give me my life back!

Overheard...

In a movie house, before the last full show of Music and Lyrics...
(A commercial of the Down Syndrome Association was being shown)
Girl A: (in a loud voice) Ano yung Down Syndrome?
Girl B: Ah yan yata yung sakit na sobrang depression.
*toink*

Last night, during the ride home on the MRT...
(A local band of 8 on their way to a gig)
Tomboy: O ano susunod ba siya?
Girl: Oo daw.
Tomboy: Sabihin mo sa kanya mag all black siya. Yung black boots and black mini, tapos black na t-shirt. Yung pantaas niya na blue na kumikintab, yun pwede yun...
*isa pang toink*

Happy 1 year and 6 months to us. :)

Still a fan...

Is this BoA's new album? If it is...I want!!!

Ad Intrusion

Shameless plugging again...Please get a copy of Star Studio's February Issue with Sam Milby on the cover. Cover story done by yours truly. :) Buy now and make Cherry happy. Hehehehe...

Sorry for my short (yet sweet) entries...My new job is making me crazeeee...

The day of Love

Happy Valentine's Day!

Testing 1-2-3...

http://www.truefriendtest.com/friendtest/43991

Something I found on Kai's blog. Now you go answer it. :)

10:00 AM

New designation. New work sched. February has started and this is my first entry. Talk about busy. I got in at exactly 10 AM. It was a photo finish. And some rude person stepped on my new havaianas from behind. I'm so freakin' deprived of these slippers that I'm over protective of it. Hahahaha...

My tummy's grumbling. And work (a pile of it) is beckoning so ttfn...

Clueless...

February 01 marks D-day. I've got two meetings already lined up. And I'm still like a chicken running around...headless. *lol* I have absolutely no freaking idea on what to do. And take note, I will get to have an assistant. My question to my superior awhile ago was 'What for?'. He has no clue either.

I have to be in at the office now at 10 AM everyday. Argh.

Waaa...

Dear All,

This is to inform everyone that the functions previously assigned to B____ L____ will now be handled and split between the following:

ABS-CBN.com - Flow Galindez
TV Show websites - Patty Ramirez

Domi, kindly cascade to the subsidiaries. Thanks.

- Jaja

This is it. Arghh... Wish me luck.

Baaa...

So this is what 'looking sheepish' looks like.

Me and my blogs.

My LJ's working too. Cute lay out don't you think? I'm going to try putting something diffrent there from my entries here. It's hard work maintaining 3 blogs. *sigh*

PDA (and it's not Pinoy Dream Academy)

Why can't some people stop pawing at each other in public?

On the ride to work, passed by a couple at the escalator kissing. Repeatedly. With people behind, beside and in front of them. And they're not even a pretty couple at that. Also witnessed before a guy and a girl almost making out in their MRT seat. And this was a packed train. Standing room only.

Shoot me if I ever do that.

Post New Year's Post

Yeah yeah. It's already 2007 and I'm a week or so behind from posting. But it is better late than never... so here I am.

Christmas was again spent at my lola's in Bulacan. I was taken aback to know 2 weeks later that my lola was extra glad of our stay there. She cooked the usual beef asado. There was also my Tita Muriel's bbq (I'm drooling just remembering it). Lola added her special dinuguan to this year's Christmas menu. My uncle and his family came. My cousin and his wife irritated me by telling me I should get married soon (I'm old enough to decide on this please). Surprisingly my Ate, her husband and kids made an appearance this year. There's supposed to be a group photo sent to me by the aforementioned cousin but knowing him he'll send it Christmas next year. So I'm just posting a picture of my mom's Christmas mug. She's missing Christmas in Pinas. We miss her too. *sniff*

I mentioned attending the Talent Center Christmas party. And I had the same feelings about it like last year's. They were all still my friends yet things are...different. I was already an outsider. It was fun watching them do dance numbers, have fun games, take group pictures etc. But it's real sad not being a part of those things. Ugh. Anyway, no moping now so here's me and Leah trying to look decent. Oh and I enjoyed the open bar too. :)

Katie went home for a visit again! This time we met her at Brother's Burger in Rockwell. Uchi wanted to eat at San-Sung but Katie veetoed it -- sawa na siya sa Korean food hahaha. We were one long table and exhanged gifts. I asked Katie to get me a Korean Elle Girl mag and she did! Super thanks friend :) After that it was norebang (videoke in layman's terms haha) at Don't Tell Mama (that's the name of the place, no kidding) and then a visit at the newly discovered "My Room", a place that sells Korean stuff like books, K-pop CDs (as in orig ha) and other cutesy things. Almost all of us bought a Korean spoon you can bring in your lunch box. I envied Paola who can read, speak and understand Korean after studying in Korea for a sem.

Of course the season would not have been complete if the 'sisterhood' did not have a Christmas party of their own. So Jopen, Joy and I hied off to faraway Cavite, fetched Leah then zoomed to Tagaytay. It was darn cold but would that stop us? First stop was the Tagaytay Vista Lodge. No, we did not check in. We just used their restroom *lol* Jopen really had to drive by and inquire so we girls decided to take advantage of their facilities hehehe... Then we had dinner at Bag of Beans. Their food was quite yummy. And we did a talk marathon, which we haven't done for a long, long time.

Here are some nice stuff I got and discovered during the holidays:

My Meiji stash. I sooo love the one in the middle. I got some of the chocolates as exchange gifts. So don't mind me when I complain that I'm so fat hehehehe...

Franzen and Jayson. The mug mates. The two were part of Jihan and Moby's adopt-a-fish/gift giving at the office. Flow and I joined forces and placed the tiger barbs in a mug. Sadly, they weren't part of the survivors. They've gone to fishy heaven 2 days after adoption.

This is the Elle Girl Korean edition Katie bought for me. Real cool, with a Se7en fashion spread too. Alas, I can't read any of the articles. It's all in hangul. T_T

Magnolia has this new popsicle/pinipig crunch type of dairy bar. Has a choco coating and rainbow sprinkles on it. Kinda reminds me of their goodies back then called fun-something. I totally forgot what it's called. If you can remember what those funny shaped ice cream sticks (may banana flavor, strawberry, orange pa ata yung and pastel ang kulay niya) give me a buzz. :)

A picture of my first family of rabbits. This was still taped on the fridge in Bulacan. They're real cute but I don't wanna breed them. It's already hard taking care of one, how much more a bunch.

More breaking news for the year -- My boss has finally resigned, whoopee! Bad news, someone from the outside (again) is replacing her daw. Mahilig talaga mga tao dito sa puro yabang lang sa labas, wala naman maibuga sa trabaho. Hay more of this work angst later. On the lighter side, I got kissed yesterday by two gorgeous men -- Piolo and Sam. Hahaha... galit na galit si Cors sa akin. Many would kill to be in my shoes but di ko kasi sila type eh. Friends lang ang tingin ko sa kanila. *lol*

I should stop talking now. Randy's on his way to pick me up and I still have a lot of work to do. :)

The Geisha vs. Jang Gyong (or whatever the spelling is)

Our Christmas party this year was themed United Nations. And I brilliantly remembered Freddie having a Japanese get-up so, there you are, I'm a moshi moshi anone girl. :) There's a prize for Best in Costume and sadly Ms. Jang-Gyong (Ann in real life) beat me to it. I planned on wearing a hanbok actually but had a hard time finding one. So you can just say I almost had the bag in my hands but lost it. *heh* Most of the peeps there took advantage of our boss, the gorgeous *ahem* Paolo Pineda. But I wasn't one of 'em hahaha. If you wanna view more pics of the event just visit here.

Anyhows, been to another Christmas Party with some of the guys from PEX (which we all don't frequent as much as before). It was fun seeing Francis, Pao, Chelo, Tselo, Anna and Jenneth again. We haven't seen each other in months (almost a year yung iba) so we had a lot of catching up to do. Badette and Joy couldn't make it but hopefully we'd all see each other again soon (tuwing Pasko na lang ba 'to guys?).

I have another party to attend later -- the Star Magic Christmas Party. I planned not to attend before because I had some baggages left over from being laid off. But Cherry made me realize that I should ditch the angst and get over it. Well, I guess I did.

More cam whoring to share later. :)

They want my treasure so they get their pleasures from my photo.

Me...








And my new shoes...







Wish ko lang. :p

Give me wisdom, plain and truthful...

I was in a rush to get to work the other day (I stayed up late, tinkering my Sims too much) and I boarded one of our building elevators with two men (one is pretty familiar to Cherry -- haha guess who!). Anyway, I was minding my own business but I could not help but listen to their conversation because their voices were a bit louder than the norm. Their chat went a bit like this...

Man 1: So you had a great time?
Man 2: Yeah, I did! I'm 37 years old and I haven't dated a smart girl like her in my whole life.

Then as I got off my floor, I wondered about Man 2. It was either...

a.) He's real superficial choosing dates.
b.) He hangs out at places no coherent conversation is possible.
c.) He lives under a rock and has just crawled out to the sunshine.
d.) His smart meter is waaay off the charts. He just dated the woman version of Albert Einstein recently.

You can add to the choices if you like. I can't fathom myself the correct answer.