Had a one-on-one talk with my boss today for 30 minutes (me thinks). She's the best boss anyone can have.

Stayed late today with Lynn. We left the office around 9:49 pm. No work on Monday but I am going to the office tomorrow after French class. Three more days of full office hours and I'll back on August 15.

It's VACATION TIME!!!

1st game: vs UST
2nd game: vs DLSU
3rd game: vs NU

A clean slate for the team. It may be early too say this but this year's line-up might bring us to final four. I hope. I never watched a single UAAP Live Game my entire (college) life. If indeed we get into the Final Four, I will. Anyone with me?

feel good.
funny.
serendipity.
teary-eyed.


believe in forever the second time around.



i wish i know how it feels to fall in love...

Overall, Your Observation Skills Get: D+

You know that you remembered to put on underwear today... But really, that's about it!

staying late in the office ON A FRIDAY!!! anyway, been out for gimmick the past two fridays so I guess i need a break from spending too much :) lol! last week, i watched fantastic four with rachel, etc. interesting movie. it exceeded my expectations (sana lang diba, i didn't expect much kasi). not too fantastic though. it was catchy, thanks to cris evans ¤crush¤

The other day (or was it yesterday? I couldn't recall), I left for office later than usual. [My definition of normal time would be leaving the house 6:30 am for the office, unusual being 6:45 to 7 am]. Anyhoo, I've been hooked to watching TV once again, the news in particular. I switched to Magandang Umaga Pilipinas and just before I left they featured the horoscope for the day. I don't really believe in horoscopes, I just look at them just for the heck of it. According to the manang in TV, my sign (Leo) is one of the lucky signs of the day: "Maswerte sa love and romance. Madali ang pag-travel. May mami-meet na foreigner". And so I left for work. As I was walking a neighbor saw me and offered a ride. Hehe! I saved 16 bucks that day (on fare, that is). On my way to Shell Select near Buendia station (where the bank cars are parked), I saw a car about to leave. Good thing the driver saw me, I didn't have to wait for another 15 minutes for the next car. Travel was OK. I didn't meet any foreigner though. Hehe! Ang babaw 'no?

That reminds of the days when I used to get Inquirer Libre from the MRT station and share with my office seatmates the dumbest dose of daily horoscope anyone would see. From Inquirer Libre I switched to Time Magazine as my MRT reading material. That's progress.
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Met with Oe today. The last time I saw her was on our graduation day. We had dinner at Dencio's (Paseo Center). Talked about work, plans, and reminisced about college days (as if it was a long time ago). Come to think of it, I've been out of school for more than a year already. Though our topics have matured we had a tough time deciding what to do...where to eat...Kept on pointing at each other to decide. Nothing much has changed after all. She gave me her Christmas 2004 gift. It's a wooden key chain with my name and grad pic engraved on it. Pretty.

i'm in the office right now. working. LOSER! was supposed to do over time work last saturday pero tinamad ako so here i am right now, fixing my files, replying to emails, making reports. well, i am not the only "loser" here. hehe! pagpasok ko sa door, cel (sagayadan), patty (from ateneo), and claudette (calayag) are also here. well, mas reasonable naman na ngayon mag-overtime kesa last saturday. if you think about it, meron naman talaga dapat pasok today. pasalamat na lang ako kay gloria i can concentrate on my work, without anyone "bothering" me or calling my attention for something "more urgent".

life is not as hectic as before. feeling ko, mindset lang yan. it's because i am learning to work more efficiently. dati, iniisip, kailangan mag-ot every now and then para lang matapos yung mga kailangan gawin. pero still, hindi ko pa rin natatapos. work smarter, not harder they would say. it took me almost a year to learn that. kaya ngayon, i go home early na. actually, nagugulat kahit family ko, whenever i go home early. on that note, may i just share na malapit na ako mag-anniv dito sa bank? this coming july 5. fun nga 'coz it's sweldo day.ö but whenever i think about staying that long in the bank, i would ask myself as well... until how long will i be here? one more year? two more years? God knows for how long. i am not sure if i really want to be here. but i'm hanging on. i don't have problems. it's just that i'm looking for something else. tama bang maghanap pa ko though i know that i am secured with this job? lynn and i would sometimes wish, na sana, hindi na lang mabait yung boss namin. hindi sya considerate, hindi siya understanding. it would be difficult to let go kasi eventually, should we decide to. nakakakonsensya. i am the type of person kasi who values loyalty above many things. let's see na lang siguro if an opportunity arises. last friday, i spoke with rachel. we both agreed that we are still looking for that "aha!" opportunity. haay...

next week (tuesday), i'll go to up. i took a leave so i can get my diploma and enroll for french class. so something to look forward to. my motive to learn frech class? well, i'm planning to take foreign service exam next year. am preparing for it as early as now. malay natin, that's something i'm bound to do pala. become a diplomat that is. dami nagsasabi it's a tough exam. i dunno lang which is more difficult, LAE or foreign service exam. basta, by all means i am preparing for it.

Satisfied my craving for ice cream a while ago. The family digged into a half a gallon of Selecta's Rocky Road. My dad thought we couldn't finish it. He was wrong. Haha! Sobrang init! I want to go swimming again.

Going out tonight with my family. It's my grandmother's (dad's side) 1st year death anniversary. So pseudo-family reunion tonight. Reminds me of a lot of things. I just graduated then, going to interviews here and there. I had this one interview [soluziona] which I [just] realized I flunked 'coz I was puyat from the wake. Naaah, it asn't really for me. I [really] wanted to be in consulting pa naman. It was also the time I was deciding if I would be accepting MT position in Eastern Telecom.

What's so special about Cebu today? Both channel 2 and 7 are having their shows there. Of the few times I watch TV, both shows are being aired from Cebu.

Two movies I look forward to watching [next year]: Da Vinci Code and Superman Returns. When's Star Wars showing? This year diba?

I have a four-day weekend. This and next. Actually, this weekend wasn't planned. I was just too stressed from work the past few weeks I thought of maybe, taking a break yesterday (Friday). Anyway, it's the same day as my brother's birthday I found some excuse. On Monday, thanks to President Arroyo's penchant for moving holidays, my vacation turned longer than planned. As for next weekend, it has been planned (by myself) since January having no other attractive date to put my precious vacation leaves. (Having my two-week mandatory in July, after my birthday leave. haha!). So that gives me three days of work next week. Happy. But now I'm deciding to have my four-day weekend next week moved though.

Yesterday, I went to UP. Thought of getting my diploma already. Pity me I went to BA and actually forgot about the four-day workweek for government offices due to cost-cutting. So I thought of passing by FOPC tambay instead. Didn't know that tambays are also included in that four-day workweek thingie. Tsktsk. It was a fruitless trip.

Met up with my mom at SM to buy some things for a meal I was planning to cook. Yeah, I DID cook. Surprise, surprise. Carbonara [a la chamba]. Good thing my family liked it. I'm wondering what I should cook for next week? No special occasion. Just thought of cooking something once a week.

My family and I went to a nearby swimming place. Got there around 7:30 pm and left 2 am. And right now most of my muscles are aching. I need a full body massage. As in tomorrow, I want one.

I don’t know what’s causing the headache – the movie marathon we had last night or the bottle of beer I drank? Yes folks, I drank beer. This might be surprising for a LOT of people I know and I bet the moment they found out they’d ask me why? I grew up in a very conservative family with very conservative friends and doing something like that would create a tumult. It didn’t taste good. Bleh. It didn’t make me go tipsy.

Last night we watched two movies:
1) A Few Good Men: Tom Cruise is so good-looking and I like the way he portrayed his role. Even told my sister, if he would be my lawyer, I wouldn’t mind if my case would take forever. I like watching movies like that [even reading books about that]. Court scenes, intellectual debates… Movies that have those “aha!” moments at the climax that will keep you glued to the edge of your seats.

2) Center Stage: I just watched it. Yeah, laggard. And I’m itching to go to a dance class. “Life doesn’t hold tryouts.” Irritatingly true. Either you win or lose. At the end of the day – your decisions, the risks you took – these are the things that matter.

Had a dose of funny movies as well. Watched Finding Nemo with my brothers and seeing Dory once again reminded me of Ains imitating her “whale talk” while strolling in a mall [haha!]. And Kangaroo Jack. Such a dumb movie if you ask me. But I needed it. Escape from reality once again. What’s the title of the song that played in the background whenever the kangaroo is focused? I’d like to have that as a message alert tone.ö