yearend yakkin'
Dahil sa makabagbag-damdaming ad wars ng nagtatagisang telecom, andito pa ako sa opisina ngayon. At hindi ako nagrereklamo dahil halfday naman ako bukas. God-willing.
Pupunta kami sa Antipolo kasama ng mga kabarkada ni Tatoy at ng kanilang mga kabiyak. Sablay nga lang dahil hindi ako nakapagpaalam sa boss ko nang maaga at kanina ko lang sinabi. Buti pinayagan ako. Bow.
Wala na kong masulat. Nahihilo na ko kaka-type at kaka-proofread sa araw-araw na ginawa ng Diyos. Lahat ng mabasa ko pino-proofread ko na. Kahit mga signage ng talyer at tubero pinapatulan ng mata ko.
Wala na rin akong masabi. Gusto ko lang magsulat para maalala na sa gabing 'to, nag-OT ako nang maluwalhati. Pinakain naman kami ng KFC tsiken at masaya na ko dahil nakakuha ako ng breast part. Paborito ko kasing bahagi ng manok yon.
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Onga pala, hindi ko naabutan ang World Pyro Olympics sa balcony namin ngayong gabi. Nasa 36th floor kasi kaya kitang-kita ang napakarikit na fireworks mula sa Manila Bay. Wala kong sinabi kundi, "Wow. Wooowww. Huwaaaawww!!!" Seryoso. Maganda. Pero mas maganda siguro kung medyo bangag ka. Masaya pa ko kasi nung napanood namin nung Lunes, kasama ko si Mama at si Tatoff. Wala lang, isang magandang alaala. =)
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Huwaw, susunduin ako ni Mama dito sa opisina. Maraming salamat sa kaibigan nyang Opus Dei na nagsabi sa kanyang delikado magtaxi ngayong Holidays dahil maraming mandurukot at holdaper.
Alis na ko. Baka huling entry ko na 'to sa taong 2005.
2006, here I come!!! Humanda ka!
Happy New Year, folks!
love, jenie
10:22 PM
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
post-holiday syndrome
Oh well, despite all my complaints about buying gifts and Christmas shopping, I realized that this is the year I spent the most (of my own money) and gave the most people. I have more geneorous officemates and I feel should return the favor. Hehe :)
It's weird coming from a clan who expects you to give gifts. Unlike most of my friends, my titos and titas don't give me presents every Christmas. Minsan lang 'to, kaya samantalahin na lalo na ng mga kamag-anak ko haha! My Ninongs and Ninangs are nowhere to be found too. Most of them are abroad, and of course, I'm too lazy to visit some at their homes. I feel too old for that. So there, that leaves me with less savings, but I hope I made my less privileged cousins happy somehow. Haay parami sila nang parami. I'm glad my Tito in the province got himself castrated after his 5th child! Wala na syang mapakain noh! He can't depend on all of us to raise his kids. My cousin from Mindoro even wanted to tell him to use the ice candy plastic as a condom, haha nice one!
So there, what else can I say? I died in SM last Friday and failed to enjoy the GCs because of hundreds of kids shrieking and parents panicking. I wasn't even able to buy anything for myself. Although shopping yesterday was a lot more wonderful. Tiendesitas is a great tiangge with nice, affordable finds. I should've shopped there last week in the first place! Ugh. Anyway, thanks to Tatoy for accompanying me during the latter parts of my shopping. Sinadya kong late ka ng dumating para hindi ka maharass masyado hehe!
Now it's back to work and I guess it's time to exercise, right? I'm such a lazy ass, hassle. I need someone to enroll me and drag me to the gym. :S
Oh yeah,
Belated Merry Christmas everyone!!! I'm glad there weren't so much fatalities and calamities this year, unlike the last Season.
And today,
Happy birthday Pau!!! Welcome back to the mainland hehe :) Inuman naaa!!!
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Lastly, isa pang late greeting:
Happy 10th Monthsary, Tatoff!!!
Masaya ako't ikaw ang aking unang sinta ngayong Pasko. Hehehe :-)
Thanks for making my Holidays extra merry and bright.
lovingly yours, jenie :-)
10:43 AM
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
do da krismas rant!
We have another smaller party here in the office. Golly gulay. Ang dami ng namimigay ng regalo at naiinis lang ako sa sarili ko lalo kasi WALA pa kong napapamili kahit isa... Jenie?!!? Anong petsa na?!?!?
Buti na lang half day bukas. Iyon na lang ang pag-asa ko para kahit papano naman, may mabigyan ako ng regalo bago mag-Pasko! Haayyyy. Most sabog Krismas ever, and first Krismas ko naman with a job and I realized that I wasn't able to manage my time well, hence this ranting entry.
Anyway, astig rin pala pag malaki yung company. Maraming regalo. Magkaka-diabetes na ata kami. Salamat sa lahat ng nagbigay ng chocolates, brownies etc. at syempre sa boss kong nagbigay ng MGF wallet at Starbux GC. :)
Sa totoo lang, gusto ko man matuwa nang todo, iba ang pakiramdam kapag ikaw ang binibigyan at wala kang maibigay. Ano nang nangyari sa Christmas spirit of giving ko? Ugh. Dati may listahan pa at todo OC sa pagbalot. Ngayon, Dec.22 na, wala pa kong nabibili kahit isang lapis! Ugh ugh ugh. What happened??!?!
Wala lang, I'm disappointed with myself. Mababaw sa iba, pero para sa isang OC at tinaguriang 'thoughtful', sobrang big deal nito. Haha whatever. Ngayon na nga lang nagsulat, sabog pa.
Oh yeah, sakto yung quote na nabasa ko somewhere:
"Remember that happiness is not in the having or getting - it is in giving."
Salamat ah... No wonder I'm not that happy despite everything I got this week. Haayyy :(
Give, Jenie. Give!
But don't forget your budget limits :P
5:28 PM
Thursday, December 22, 2005
saatchee parteee!
Last Dec. 20, 2005 at Merk's Greenbelt 3...
with hotties Paris, Nicole and Gogo Yubari! Go Nuts, Wiiitwwiiiiiwww!
And the 1st place winner is... Design! Weeeeehhh! :) Kami lang nagpatayan sa stage eh hehe! But I realized that I've no on-the-spot acting skills, ugh! But anyway, go Kill Bilbil!
12:00 PM
OT topak
What if one day you realize that if your parents didn't work so hard to give you good education and a comfortable lifestyle, the life you have now wouldn't be so full of pressure and frustrations and you wouldn't be such a complicated person with all these questions?
Can you imagine if you just lived a tranquil life in the farm or by the beach with no other lifestyles to compare to? You have less wants and needs. You have the simplest dreams, yet you wake up feeling content and happy every single day.
What if your parents gave you that future? Do you think you'd be happier?
Toink. Shut up, Jenie. You're not even done with work yet.
11:07 PM
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Damn.
I never imagined dealing with THIS.
No.
It's not going to happen.
Please.
6:39 PM
Monday, December 19, 2005
design partee! :-)
At Ziggurat, Makati Ave. :-) Sarap ng chibog lalo na pag libre!
Rose-flavored Hookah! Ayus ang tama :-) I'll be back, Ziggurat!
At Music 21, money c/o our Latecomers' Kotong Box and Pondo ng Design box. Second time ko in my entire life kong kumanta in front of more than 1 person hahaha labo! May hidden talent daw, pero itatago ko na ulit :P
Nagpapa-picture sa kumakanta ng Betcha By Golly Wow! :-D
3:16 PM
kuripot krismas
I just realized that it's my first Christmas at work, since I resigned from the last company by November. Then I realized that I envied my friends who had Christmas parties and outings. I stayed at home, (which wasn't even ours since we rented) and had a blue Christmas. Haha baduy.
So now, I guess I should be grateful I didn't resign before the Holidays and received a 14th month bonus. (Binigay yung 13th last August)
Anyway, there's not much work and I guess everyone's distracted. I don't have a Xmas list this time, because I don't plan to buy personal gifts to almost all my close friends. It gets tiring after a while. I used to do that in high school and college. But now that I'm earning my own money, I've become more frugal and practical. I now have a first hand experience of 'money not growing on trees.' Ugh. I don't even know what to give myself. I enjoy giving other people more. I'm that kuripot.
I have no Christmas wishlist - nothing. Well, I'd like to have more savings, that's why. I sometimes don't understand why people give EVERYONE gifts during Christmas. It's Christ's birthday, so I guess we should give him our gift? But some pilosopos will say that He is in each one of us so we should give each other presents. Wow. I'm sure He doesn't want us broke and dreary when the year begins, right? Oh well, Pinas will be Pinas.
So dear friends, don't expect a grand Christmas gift from me because I'm K-U-R-I-P-O-T slash P-R-A-C-T-I-C-A-L. I just really need to save for S-o-m-e-t-h-i-n-g. (wink wink)
P.S. Don't worry, Tatoff I will still give you a wonderful gift. My kuripotness has exceptions. :)
5:25 PM
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
6:05 PM
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
rastro pix
6:00 PM
happy birthday, MaderDear!!! aylabyu!
It's almost 12 midnight and I'm not home for your birthday because of OT!
Waaaaahhhhhhh!!!
I'm a 22-year old workaholic daughter who doesn't have time for her mother!
But I got her a quite pricy (for me) gift.
Argh that won't even suffice for the lost time. Ugh ugh ugh :-P
11:55 PM
Monday, December 12, 2005
calling kabayan captain planet
I was awaken by my Mom's loud and agressive voice. I knew she was talking to my Lola on her cellphone. She plans to go to Mindoro and let her stay in our Laguna house until the floods subside. But my grandmother, like most people from the province in their 60's, she remains stubborn and insists that she stays. Ugh. But my Mom was persistent and still tried to convince her that she might get sick if she stays and if she even tries to clean the house now that the floods up to the waist.
Here's my version of their early conversation:
Mother: Bahala kayo dyan pag magkasakit kayo, walang doktor dyan. Mas mahalaga pa ba yung mga lumang gamit dyan kaysa sa kalusugan nyo?!
Grandmother: Kailangan ayusin yung bahay kasi ang daming nakalutang na gamit, baka mabulok.
Mother: Pabayaan nyo na yan, kahit ilang araw lang kayong makapahinga dito. Birthday ko sa Lunes, kakain tayo sa labas.
Grandmother: Nakakatakot lumuwas sa dagat, baka malakas yung alon kasi may bagyo. Dito na lang muna ko.
Mother: Sige, basta pupunta kami dyan.
The older woman triumphed, still. And my domineering mother failed to manipulate, for the first time.
Photo taken from inq7.net
Kabayan Noli de Castro, your kabayans need you badly right now. I hope your doing everything you can to help the people of Mindoro - the majority who put you in that seat of power.
12:15 PM
Friday, December 09, 2005
somebody lend us a CHOPPER
No I'm not kidding.
Last night, my Mom and I found out that the entire Calapan, Oriental Mindoro has been flooded up to the chest, and it didn't even rained hard. It was the first time in my Lola's 65 year-stay in our province.
Apparently, some dike beside the ocean was destroyed and let all the water in.
Now, she, together with my Tita's family, is stuck in the second level without electricity. They can't even go to the market to buy food because of the water. The entire first floor is drenched and their appliances are packed inside the small rooms of that wooden hut. I'm just scared it might collapse since it's made out of really old wood.
My Mom has been calling them via landline, and they said the waters aren't going down and it even got higher this morning. Both of us feel helpless because we have no idea how we can go there and try to rescue them. They also don't know when the floods will subside so they might be staying up there for a couple of days, hopefully, not weeks.
I really don't know what to do, but pray for them. I hope that's enough for now.
11:40 AM
Thursday, December 08, 2005
buzzzzz-steady :-)
I haven't written since last week because of work and other 'extra-curricular activities'. Here's a recap for my sentiness' sake:
Monday: Holiday - worked on raket, watched DBDs, spent time with Tatoff
Tuesday: OT then worked on raket, finally installed YM on the laptop then chatted
at dahil sabik na sabik na ko sa girl talk...
Wednesday: after work, night out with Ids at GB3. Cafe Bola then Cafe Breton.
Thursday: dinner with Mia at Oody's then went to Coffee Bean. Then inuman at our ECD's condo til 1AM of Friday
Friday: after work, met up with Tatoff then went to Rastro, Rockwell because it's Mikey's (Nicole's bf) birthday. Ate all kinds of my favorite cholesterol-stricken viands, drank 4 kinds of alcohol, plucked Ezra's unibrow to our heart's content and shooed some customers away.
Saturday: watched "Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros" at Gateway with T & Coni then went to Oyster Boy with Pong.
Sunday: couch potato the whole day, mass at Don Bosco with T, ate dinner at the condo then watched "Amelie"
Monday morning (today): I had a weird dream. Tatoff and I got stung by bees when a classmate opened the window of the classroom. He was stung badly on the face while I only had some in my hands. Then we were treated at the nearby hospital. I was so scared for him.
I hurriedly looked for the meanings of my dream's elements and got these:
1) Window - Opening. Opportunity. Feelings of being watched. Need for privacy.
2) Classroom - Ready to learn something
3) Bees - Activity. Productivity. Social life. Happiness in life. Success in love. Good earnings. Bees signify pleasant and profitable engagements.
Cool. Bees in dreams are great. We should get stung more. Hehe.
I hope that dream is a real sign of the best that's yet to come. I can't wait. :-)
I shall go back and read this entry next year.
7:45 PM
Monday, December 05, 2005
woooppppeeeee!!!
We won the ----- pitch!!! Wooohhooooo!!!!
That means more work, but it's okay. I like winning :-)
What a great way to start the last month of the year! Sana... :-D
10:31 AM
Thursday, December 01, 2005
