randomness

napapansin ko lang ha, ang kintab na niya ha. 'wag muna lord, 22 pa lang ako! (wag ka nang komontra please lang!!).
tin was kind enough to creatively crop my dark circles with the office cube divider. she just forgot to place a light diffuser on our flourescent bulbs. yeah, that's how detailed we are when we take our pictures in the office.

i was just supposed to get ice cream when THAT BROWN THING greeted me when i opened the freezer. for a moment i was thinking of possible culprits which had the audacity to leave its "surprise" inside my freezer. then i saw that red canister on the right. nestle pops pala... kala ko tae.

before we started working this year, tin, lloyd, and i went to my house to drink and make nachos. well, the nachos started with us wanting just salsa with it. then i have cheese pa pala so we grated cheese. then i made the (now famous) mayosabi dip (naks!). then i remembered i still have mushrooms, so tin made garlic mushrooms. but we forgot i don't have LPG yet so we settled for the electric griller/plate. lloyd (who had monosodium glutamate aka umami conveniently built-in inside his mouth), was kind enough to eat it. and i quote, while dipping the nachos: "ang sarap niya!!"

during a break from last year's annual planning session, my boss obliged to be my bolang kristal. i borrowed mai's pashmina dash-cum-slash (really big) scarf. of course, we just have to take a pic. duh!

most recent: EFFIN' RATS!!!!!! remember this?? now they did this!!! i used to have one really long-wired mic. it came with the webcam i bought eons ago. it was just recently that i used this mic because my other headset kinda gave up on me. i was supposed to record a song in my head (a usual past time when i'm bored, not that it's any good thank you very much).
when i picked the head of the microphone (see illustration, labeled 6) i thought i picked up the wrong thing. but no!!! as soon as i found pieces of the wire on the floor, my eyes went straight to the socket at the back of the CPU (see illustration, labeled 5) and that's all i found! my once SINGULAR microphone became a 6-piece whatever's-left-of-the-mic. FOCKEN RATS.
it doesn't end there. having found out that the rats had a feast on the wires of my mic, i think it also follows that I HAVE RATS IN THE "COMPUTER ROOM!" and when i say rats, i don't mean the "regular mouse" i usually see running around the house. i mean rats as in RATS THE SIZE OF CATS! ponyeta.

speaking of rats, read this: Was it a rat I saw?
and this: Rats live on no evil star

now read them backwards. cool eh? palindromes, that's what they're called. now you know.

now, shoo!

ciao!

happy silver!

sa nawawala kong bespren, kasambahay (hindi katulong), kaklase, kalaro, kaibigan, kabarkada, kapuso, kapamilya, kakulitan, kasama sa kung anu-ano at saan-saan man...


yuri pakita ka na! (moomoo?!)

of pillows and pimples

i haven't been changing my pillowcases for almost a month now. i don't usually keep track. i just go with how it looks. if it looks dull and the smell reminds me of my daily walk along edsa, then it's time for changing.

but the other night when i inspected my pillowcases, it was still clean - the color seems normal, the smell... well it still smells of the fabric softener i used.
well yeah, why the hell would i tell you about my dirty pillowcases?
see, i've been getting these weird pimplettes (small pimples :D ) on my right cheek. and i remembered, i've been sleeping on my right side lately. i thought dirty pillowcases may be behind my developing pimplettes. now, that's the reason for the sudden inspection of pillows the other night.
now, i have no idea what exactly caused my right cheek to "break-out."

see, i only get pimplettes when i'm in a bit of stress and panic for consecutive days. i get monster-sized zits in nooks and crannies of my face when i'm emotional. but this time, i'm in absolute stress-less situation. in fact, i am quite happy. no, scratch that: i'm REALLY happy. the universe seems to be pretty generous to me right now that at the back of my mind, i'm thinking this is getting a bit too good to be true.

anyway...

i was about to sleep last night and thought about the pillowcase. looking at the pillow brought back memories of my childhood. we were still living in our old house (the house beside the house i'm living in now) and it was only my papa and i. mommy was working overseas then. i remember how every night i would prop my head through the stairs while looking down and see my papa and my tito toto have a drink. it is normal for me to see my father cry while high on alcohol during those times. i don't exactly know what they were talking about but i always remember my papa tell my tito toto, "hindi ko na kaya..."

by then, i would be carefully sneaking down the stairs and innocently ask tito toto why my father's crying. he would always say, "namimiss niya na si mommy mo, patahanin mo si papa mo, 'nak."
i would just stare into my papa's face while he's all red and his face wet with tears and eventually say, "papa tahan na, tulog na tayo, antok na ko." i think that's their cue to cap the night off and go up to sleep.

minutes prior to sleeping, my papa would put my favorite pillow inside the fridge to make it cold. we had a fridge inside our room and there was nothing inside except a bottle of coke and water, there was just enough room for my pillow.
when everything's ready, my papa would get it from the fridge and gently place it between my arms and legs. i would hug it and feel the cold on my young skin. it was wonderful!
in minutes, i'd be in dreamland.



a few moments later i was sucked back to reality and i realized that i was just staring blankly on the wall inside my room. oh, the nostalgia...


and yes, i am really happy. thank you.

ciao!

cuteness

just this week when i got home from the office, i saw my inaanak, raf, outside with nanay, my lola. i normally would just kiss child-relatives and play with them a few minutes before going up my apartment. while playing with raf, nanay jokingly told me to play "yayo" for a while because she's going somewhere. the yaya was also there so i told the yaya that i'll bring raf up and cut his hair. i also told nanay that i'd be doing a mohawk on raf. she laughed.

but i was serious.

so i propped raf on the table on my terrace and began shaving his head. i instinctively put the clipper to "0." it never occured to me that the cut is too close until i started on raf's head. i had no choice but to continue and this is what happened.

warning: cuteness overload!

raf with my cousin gerald
(yes, the boy on the right is raf's uncle!!)

so after that i was PERSONALLY satisfied. since i couldn't do it for myself, i did it to my nephew slash godchild. i was happy!


... until i remembered nanay.

i swear i felt so uneasy because i thought nanay would freak out and give me a severe tongue lashing when she sees raf. fortunately for my selfish arse, nanay was just cool about it the next day.
she goes: "papagupitan ko na si kolokoy!"
me: "nanay, 'wag muna! ang cute kaya!"
nanay: "eh bakit kaya hindi mo sa ulo mo gawin yan?!"
me: "eh bawal kaya sa trabaho!"
she looked at me with her brows raised and then i smiled at her. hehehehe.

anyway, that's all for now.

ciao!

belat!

settling dust

it's sunday morning today and i feel just fine. the dust, i think, has finally settled and everything seems clear to me now. as old and as ordinary as everything is, so i feel fresh and excited about everything. dark greys are now becoming greens and reds and yellows -- bright becomes everything. in retrospect, i think sundays have always been my day.

I can see clearly now, the rain is gone
I can see all obstacles in my way
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind
It's gonna be a bright sun shiny day

I think I can make it now, the pain is gone
All of the bad feelings have disappeared
Here is the rainbow I've been prayin' for
It's gonna be a bright sun shiny day

Look all around, there's nothin' but blue skies
Look straight ahead, nothin' but blue skies

I can see clearly now, the rain is gone
I can see all obstacles in my way
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind
It's gonna be a bright sun shiny day

i can see clearly now

so the year of the ox has come early for me. as a pig (the chinese zodiac ok?!), it has brought about renewed vigor, rejuvenation, revival, rebirth, o ang muling pagsilang.

ciao!

something really weird AND funny

ok, so i got a call from my mother in the office. we talked about trivial things -- including my digital slr *shivers*
now here's the thing. for no reason at all, my mother asked if i have a love life. KAMON KAMON!
and since when did my mother start asking about my love life?!

*****

i'm having an OK time in the office. as expected, workload is not really that heavy. though it's not that light either. it's just... OK.

also in the office, our messenger whom we call officer 1 jake, made us really laugh. tin was reading her e-mail out loud, " dear vins..." when jake continued, " we invite you to..."
then we all stopped and looked at jake. we were like "JAKE!!! WHERE DID THAT COME FROM?" LOL. then while walking away, he added, " a pleasant hello!" bwahahahahahahaha! i swear jake has one of the best timings in our department!
i know it's not really funny now. but you have to be there and you have to EXPERIENCE jake. haha.

*****

i told tin that i am now indifferent -- past loneliness and past hurt. yun lang =)

ciao!

the month that was

i was browsing through my december posts and found that i barely wrote posted anything haha. well, the past month has been quite busy. fotunately not because of work-work, but there were just a lot of activities and for the first time, i never felt bored on a christmas break.

for the most part, there were pictures and here they are =)

click banners to direct you to each album on my multiply site

ciao!

happy new year!

happy new year!

so how's the new year treating you so far?

my 2008 has been nothing but a blur. everything came in painfully slow yet amazingly fast. i guess the one word that stuck with me throughout the past year was "waiting" -- waiting for that next project to come along, waiting for that big adventure, waiting for unreplied texts, unanswered calls, waiting for that next drinking session, waiting for that last final good bye, final glimpse, waiting for a higher paycheck, waiting for sanity to come barging in, waiting for reality to finally kick me in the gut, yeah that's it... waiting.
but just recently, i figured i'm not getting any younger. they say life is what happens while you wait. so come december, i managed to easily sway myself into not waiting anymore. i know i sound like a schizo right now but sometimes, you just have to psych yourself up into doing things that you normally wouldn't do on a regular or spur of the moment basis. so there. i stopped waiting. so what am i doing now? well just dusting myself up a bit and preparing for the longest run of my life -- or the highest dive -- whatever it is, i'm getting ready. i may be scrambling a bit but i'm readying myself. in a few weeks or (heaven forbid) months to come, i shall be set. and you know what happens after that -- i finally go.
hopefully 2008's lessons thoughened and taught me well.
but i'm still gonna wish for a better paying career, continued friendships, more love, better health, and hopefully a little less bumps on the way. for all we know, 2009 shall be up and over and we begin anew.

anyway, to spare us all the drama (as if going through my blog is not drama enough), this is 2008 in pictures.

have a great year!

ciao!