Day 10 - 5:28pm sky

October 15, 2010 - sky was cloudy from approximately the same spot of our garage
 as yesterday's picture.  Poor spider! Doesn't he know there's a typhoon coming?

Day 9 - Cirrus clouds?

October 14, 2010 - got home at 5:24pm. Clouds in the small window of sky above.

In Yahoo news

Good news for Chile.  If that had happened in the Philippines...tsktsk.

In other news... I read about the Happy Meal Project.  Eeew!  But it sort of makes me want to try it out on my own kitchen...except that my Mom will probably kill me.  Hehehe.

Maybe I could try a McDonald's and Jollibee face-off?

Anyway, I was really hungry when I got home (it's so easy to get used to the 2-hour interval between meals at the office...thehehe). This is what I've been up to...

Mini-monay, choco spread, peanut butter, low-fat milk and tuna spread

Day 8 - Dog lover's mug

October 12, 2010 - my officemate's very cute mug! I don't love dogs (surprise!) but I like this mug :)

Sappy quotes - warning!

It's too early for Valentine's but since I'm still clearing out my stuff (yes, I'm still not finished), I found this old newsletter from college.  It had these quotes...I'm too lazy to check who actually wrote the following gems....but whoever they are, I'm sure all the emo people out there are thanking them. :))

This one sort of makes sense to me, because we all look for someone who meshes well with us:

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird and when we find someone who's weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.

This one's a quote for martyrs.  Maybe someday I'll have such a self-sacrificing love....or not!

A great love? It's when you shed tears and still you care for him, it's when he ignores you and still you long for him.  It's when he begins to love another and yet you still smile and say I'm happy for you.

I totally agree with this one!

If love fails, set yourself free, let your heart spread its wings and fly again.  Remember you may find love and lose it, but when love dies, you never have to die with it.

Then, there's this one.

It's more dangerous to weep inwardly rather than outwardly.  Outward tears can be wiped away while secret tears scar forever.  In love, very rarely do we win but when love is true, even if you lose, you still win just for having the tingle of loving someone more than you love yourself.

The next quotes have to be reconciled with each other:

There comes a time when we have to stop loving someone not because that person has stopped loving us but because we have found out that they'd be happier if we let go.

If you really love someone never let go, don't believe that letting go means that you love best, instead fight for your love, that's what true love is.

Some people don't do anything but wait....I suggest that while waiting you enjoy yourself or do something to make you the best and right one for the one you're waiting for. Whew!

It's best to wait for the one you want than settle for one that's available.  Best to wait for the one you love than one who is around.  Best to wait for the right one because life is too short to waste on just someone.

Maybe some happy endings happen this way...

Sometimes the one you love turns out to be the one you hurts you the most, and sometimes the friend who takes you into his arms and cries when you cry turns out to be the love you never knew you wanted.

Blast from the Past 2

So I've been going crazy being sick at home.  I've read my new book (Matthew Reilly's The Five Greatest Warriors) and I don't have anything else to read, well, none that I want to reread just yet.  There I was contemplating my bookshelves when my eyes fell on, of all things!, my yearbooks.  Hehehe.  I'm kinda bragging here, but I like my write-up in high school. :))

"She's one student who has the guts not to study for a long test.  Born with a brilliant mind and superior IQ, Doodie is also blessed (?) with enough laziness to be considered hazardous to health.  While everyone is in panic over unfinished assignments and deadlines, you'd find her calmly seated at her place, utterly unaware of the chaos around her.  Typically stable and cheerful, she rarely gets moody, but when she does, watch out! Her razor-sharp tongue and sarcastic remarks (spoken in English or Filipino) have been known to reduce people to tears.

Despite her laziness, Doodie can handle responsibilities, being a club officer, and annual staffer.  She's probably schizophrenic (have you found your invisible jet?).  Possessed with an irrepressible optimism and unshakeable self-esteem, you're not likely to find her rattled even in the direst situation, instead, be prepared to laugh when she shows her arsenal of corny jokes and crazy antics.

As an advocate of mind over matter, it's really not hard to believe once you've met Doodie."

Cool di ba?  I'm such a dork. :)

Day 7 - Sickee girl

October 7, 2010 - Been sick since wednesday. Asthma attack + bad cough = :-(

Blast from the Past 3

Since I already started down the road, here are my write-ups from college:

"Doodie is not perfect. She makes you laugh when you're all set to being depressed.  She eggs you on when you're getting angry.  She laughs at you when you humiliate yourself.  She ignores you when you desperately need her attention.  She's never there for you.  She's lazy and tardy and selfish and conceited and a stuck-up snob. She never listens when you're talking.  She looks through you, not at you.  She'll eat all your food when you're not looking.  She'll kick you if you do or say something to irritate her.  She'll stick her tongue out at you when you're in the middle of a really tough recitation.  She's irresponsible and utterly undependable.  She'll take advantage of you if you're not careful.  Her smile is always the most angelic when she's done something particularly devious.  Her eyes start twinkling when she's going to be mean.  She's happiest when she has completely ruined somebody's day.  She isn't really someone you want to be friends with.  She doesn't have a single redeeming quality...Uh, I guess there are some things.  She loves me even though I'm a compulsive liar.  The way I see it, that makes her as close to perfect as a person can hope to get."

 And from law school:

"Sometime in September of her last year in law school, Doodie, the penultimate guru of real-world love claimed that she is now ready to plunge into the abyss of the complicated exclusive inter-human affair commonly referred to as requited love. [Read as: SHE NOW WANTS TO HAVE A BOYFRIEND!] While admittedly the logical step in her well underway trek towards self-actualization, one cannot help but ask the question: Is there a man worthy of Doodie's crazy brand of cool?  Can a man keep up with her ultra-positive 'I just might survive the end of the world' outlook?  With her recurring spur of the moment 'there's a beat in my head and I couldn't care less who's looking' jiggle and her 30-second melancholies, can someone actually measure up?  While Doodie has enchanted many with her 'I can live ten lifetimes but I will never get that out of my head' smile and her constant need to be scratched (in the back), Mr. Right has yet to come along.  Meanwhile, she has the company of her family and friends who are ever so thankful for their daily dose of Doodie's 3 parts sexy, 4 parts crazy and 3 parts sugar and spice."

Nyek!

Day 6 - Home before dark

Oct. 5, 2010 - Got home by 5:30pm.  It's still light outside. Haha..I hope this will be my regular going home time...or even earlier if I could just wake up at 5:30am!

Day 5 - Patriotic Monday

October 4, 2010 - My first flag ceremony in my new office.  The lighting's a bit off since I took the picture surreptitiously, hehe. 

Bye Makati

I moved to a different city (sounds soo faar away!) for a new job.  And while this is a great opportunity for me, I can't help but think of all the things and friends I'm going to miss...

Mace - S's kuya.  He's a super nice guy who took care of us when we started at the office.  He introduced us to his friends and made sure S and I didn't get into too much trouble. He keeps our secrets and gives really good advice too. I love him because he's so pa-strict kunyari but then he goes along with whatever S and I cook up.

Ferdie - gentlemanly hotness :)) hot daddeeh! hehehe. leer*

Paolo - He's also an older brother figure and a perfect gentleman. Very malambing voice :))


RC - our very own "korean" pop star


Eric - my cute (very guapo) little brother :) super mabait and always looks like he has something funny to say, which he usually does!


Jon - need I say more?


Yvette - the best secretary! and makulet too like me and S.


Eu - don't have anything to say, pero siguro I'll miss him too


Al - well, I definitely won't miss the daily dose of drama :) but I wish him all the best.

Hot Momma - I'll miss her kakikayan!

My desk:

S is very busy:

Eu is out of the office (na naman):

Day 4 - sun's a little bright

October 1, 2010 - Morning after mom's surgery...rainy and already running late, but still, is it just me or is my shower curtain extra happy too?