excerpts of my life... or something to that effect

i'm posting at: home
i'm listening to: an album [See Saw - Dreamfield]
i'm feeling: quite hungry *groans*

hey peeps! i'm abandoning this bloggie in favor of a new one... go here and for those who linked me to their webbies, please update your links. domo! ^_^

*bows* sayonara blogger.com

i'm posting at: the office
i'm listening to: the radio monitor
i'm feeling: ... wtf!?!

heh, another week flew by... so many things happened and i wasn't able to put them to writing. ah, screw it! i'm lazy, period!

lesee, let's backtrack: last night i went over to my cousin's place to get the new stuff he's downloaded for me, actually it was already my second visit, and i still need to go back next week for the others; i played badminton Wednesday night with Tropang OPG [David, Jo? & Anna] at a new venue [JVJ Badminton @ Manggahan, Pasig] & it was nice; last Tuesday night, together with Jeng & Anna, we watched a movie premiere for Stuck on You, a funny movie; just went home early last Monday; Sunday morning, i was in Makati for my trade with Alvin & Nald, and then later that night was my first visit to my cousin's place; Saturday was a fully loaded day. morning was our movie premiere for Brother Bear, lotsa kiddies running around and being themselves. After lunch, Tropang OPG in full force, invaded Quiapo for our pDVD hunt! we made sure that none of us bought the same things so that whatever one of us bought will rotate to the rest of the group. David handled the TV series "Friends" [i think he got 2 seasons worth] and Head of State, Jo? got Freaky Friday, Underworld, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle & Nora Jones: Live in New Orleans, while i got the set of Indiana Jones [3 movies + 1 making-of/effects], Lilo & Stitch, Stitch the Movie, & X-Men 2. the 2 ladies just tagged along 'coz they didn't see anything they liked to get. it was a good day... Friday night was a doozy! tropang OPG was also in full force that night, looking for a good place to eat, and we ended up dining at Hue in Greenbelt 3. [a Viet place w/good food, pero konti ang servings plus it's hella expensive, we learned that after nabusog na kami! ] then we played bowling! weeee! been a while since we did 'coz we've been always playing badminton lately. after that, latte's & teas over at The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, where someone surprised us with something. it was such a memorable night, and to cherish having real friends you can count on and trust... [*hikbi* tama na drama, naiiyak na akooh! ]

welp, i think that wraps it all up. as for the other things? well, Tuesday morning i started reading [and finished last night] a book by Danielle Steel entitled Fine Things. it was a good novel about tragedies, misfortunes & miracles that were all intertwined in the life of Bernie Fine. i was feeling stupid when i saw the book lying around the house two weeks ago, and i read the last chapter first. so the ending was already spoiled for me, but i still read it nonetheless and like any other novel i read, i was hooked! it's been quite a while since i read a novel, and i loved feeling the feelings that the author wanted you to feel while reading it. plus it's a known fact that Danielle Steel is a good author... maybe i'll get to read another novel of hers, if i find one, or if someone out there will lend me... *hint?*

anime stuff? like i said earlier, i've been going to my cousin's place for that, and he's got Gigs of eps for me to burn. plus the trades that i've completed and still arranging... my list is updated by the way, why don't you check it out. *points to the link* the only anime i watched was the last remaining episodes for Ai Yori Aoshi ~Enishi~. i don't like how the last two eps became Tina's episodes, but they made up with the last few frames for it. so i guess it'll be up for another season... i hope. /me wonders what i'll watch next any suggestions?

song of the moment

And you're primitive...
And you're cynical to me
And I chewed down on the bit
And almost swallowed it

You sit all alone with your color TV
Your hair starts to glisten
In spite of the fleas
We don't have to stay friends
Let's pretend to be enemies

Yeah, whatever makes you happy
Yeah, whatever makes it beautiful
Yeah, whatever leaves you satisfied
'Cuz I'm out of time
For now

And you're paranoid
As you look me up and down
And I'm soaked in gasoline
Mud and ice cream

You sit by the phone
With your tongue hanging out
You cradle the flies in the back of your mouth
We don't have to stay friend
Let's pretend to be enemies

Damned if you do
Fucked if you don't
Damned if you do
What if you won't

You must be aware what you're
Doing to me
We sunk like a stone on a rock
In the sea

We don't have to stay friends
(Not for very long)
We don't have to stay friends
(Just because you're gone)

You get what you want 'cuz you won't let it die

Yeah, whatever makes you happy
Yeah, whatever leaves you insecure
Yeah, whatever seems to break you down

'Cuz I'm out of time
But I'm feeling fine



-- Splender - Yeah Whatever

i'm posting at: the office
i'm listening to: the radio monitor
i'm feeling: drained, in more ways than one

man, i dunno why, but everytime i woke up since last Monday, i've been tired. whenever i go to sleep at night, i really don't get a good night's rest. i hate it!

new piccie! *points to the right* this time courtesy of Anna's Nokia 3650. kinda sums up my mood for the week.

went out with Tropang OPG last Monday and Wednesday for dinner and shopping. well, sila lang ang nag-shopping actually kse they've got more money than me. remember from my previous post, i said that we'll be getting our performance bonus by the end of this month? well, they gave it after our GenStaff meeting last Monday afternoon, and boy was i not surprised, but still miffed nonetheless at the amount. maybe my boss overheard me commenting during last year's christmas party that i'd be lucky if i get half of it... paksheth!

oh well, the first thing i bought with the money i got was blank cds, 'coz i've been itching to trade with teh adiks eversince last December. i've set up some small trades with 4/5 peeps, so hopefully all of them will push thru over the next few days and i'll have more animes to stock up. [not like i don't have enough to watch! heeheheh! ]

btw, Happy Chinese New Year to everyone, especially to the Chinese peeps. where's my fried tikoy?

hmpft! our stupid 'net connection here is acting up again... /me dropkicks teh server and teh fake 'net admin augh! can't do anything online... *bummed out*

song of the moment

How dare you say that my behavior is unacceptable
So condescending unnecessarily critical
I have the tendency of getting very physical
So watch your step cause if I do you'll need a miracle

You drain me dry and make me wonder why I'm even here
This double vision I was seeing is finally clear
You want to stay but you know very well I want you gone
Not fit to funkin' tread the ground that I'm walking on

When it gets cold outside and you got nobody to love
You'll understand what I mean when I say
There's no way we're gonna give up
And like a little girl cries in the face of a monster that lives in her dreams
Is there anyone out there cause it's getting harder and harder to breathe
Is there anyone out there cause it's getting harder and harder to breathe

What you are doing is screwing things up inside my head
You should know better you never listened to a word I said
Clutching your pillow and writhing in a naked sweat
Hoping somebody someday will do you like I did

When it gets cold outside and you got nobody to love
You'll understand what I mean when I say
There's no way we're gonna give up
And like a little girl cries in the face of a monster that lives in her dreams
Is there anyone out there cause it's getting harder and harder to breathe
Is there anyone out there cause it's getting harder and harder to breathe

Does it kill
Does it burn
Is it painful to learn
That it's me that has all the control

Does it thrill
Does it sting
When you feel what I bring
And you wish that you had me to hold

When it gets cold outside and you got nobody to love
You'll understand what I mean when I say
There's no way we're gonna give up
And like a little girl cries in the face of a monster that lives in her dreams
Is there anyone out there cause it's getting harder and harder to breathe
Is there anyone out there cause it's getting harder and harder to breathe



-- Maroon 5 - Harder To Breathe

i'm posting at: the office
i'm listening to: the radio monitor
i'm feeling: cynically jaded *smirks*

*sigh*

my overseas female friend said i was being too negative/pessimistic about my post in our HS Mailing List. j3n9 said that i was being too dramatic with my last blog. i've unconsiously lost the desire to blog, hence the delay for a week and some days. i also wasn't chatting too much on YM lately. [except for some select few]

so what else have i been doing? going out with officemates to watch some movies over @ the newly opened Eastwod Cinemas; [LOTR: Return of the King / Last Samurai] having a caffeine overdose of either a tall White Choco Mocha coffee from Starbucks [c/o GCs] or a regular Caramel Latte from The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf; played badminton over the weekend @ Greenpark Badminton Center; visited my dentist for my weekly sessions; downloading/queueing some anime/manga/ost [both here and at home] and watched some animes yesterday from noon to night. [Refrain Blue, Magical Nyan Nyan Taruto & first few eps of Sakigake! Cromartie High]

franz told me that i put myself out there and stop being an introvert. she suggested having a friendster account. bah! friendster-schmeindster... she wasn't the first one to ask me to have one though, and i'm sure she wouldn't be the last one. heh! i'm having troubles as it is maintaining this blog, managing/moderating 2 mailing lists, etc. to be a part of another "trend" in the online community. [nah, i'm just lazy! hahahah! ]

anyway, here's something different: imma gonna tell you something about me that you more or less don't know about. it won't be a regular thing though, just whenever i feel like it.

am i a leftie or a rightie?

left: handling rackets [badminton / table tennis]; use of fork; wearing wristwatch; using cellphone/texting; handling a book;

right: use of writing instruments; handling bowling balls, dart pins, basketballs; use of spoon, table knives, glass; use of mouse/trackball; turning pages; handling the TV remote; using keys; carrying bags;

oh, btw, much love to the "regulars" who keep track if there are any new things in this plain-ass blog of mine. heheeh! eron pa pala nagbabasa netong pinaglalalagay ko dito...

song of the moment

I'm trying to keep my feet on the ground
I'm getting to like this feeling I've found
I'm getting to love the thought of
Having you around and
I will never let you down

Your friends were all well-meaning
When they said no one is good enough for you
But if they play with your emotions
Dismiss the notion
And do what you have to do
Cause people don't take chances with their hearts
Since I've met you I am past the hardest part
So remember one thing
I will never let you down

Sometimes you feel defeated
But it's OK...
You're not the only one
And all the complications,
The bad situations - happen to everyone
It doesn't matter how it ended or began
Sometimes the best that you can do is change your plans
I hope you understand that
I will never let you down



-- Verve Pipe - I Will Never Let You Down

i'm posting at: the office
i'm listening to: the radio monitor
i'm feeling: angsty!

hmmm... roughly 2 weeks since i last blogged eh? and this is supposed to be the first one for the "new" year... what's so "new" with this year anyways?! i'm the same old me, same set of friends & acquaintances, same dead-end job, blah², yadda², so on and so forth... tsk², woe is me, for i'm being negative/pessimistic at the start of the new year? lesee why it has become like this:

a) i've been down with the flu for the past two and a half days... i hate it when _that_ happens, 'coz no one believes that i'm _really_ sick! they'd say that i'm only feigning sickness so that i wouldn't go to work... darnit! i especially hate it that i can get this virus easily, even when i'm already taking my daily dose of vitamin supplements...

b) the bonus + last month's salary i got is all but gone now, and i've got so much stuff i want to buy for myself... wait, now that i think of it, the only time i used the money i got for my own enjoyment [except for day-to-day food/transpo allowance] was for my friggin' root canal, and it's only half-paid as of the moment! waaaah!

c) i kept telling myself last year that i'll be outta here by the time june comes, but some friends advised me to "think twice about changing careers" based on the readings for my astrological year. i'm really not into believing everything that those readings say, but is it just a coincidence?

but then again, all is not lost in my life, for i have so many things to be thankful for:

a) i'm still alive, altho still feeling a bit sick. i made it to 2004 with my fingers and digits still intact. [yes, i lit fireworks despite the warning text i got from David TolPu... bleh!]

b) good thing the dentist i go to is a relative of ours, so i get to pay whenever i can, and in installments! weeee! also, the money can be replaced, what's more important is the joy that i've spread by "sharing" the money i earned with the people that i care for the most. besides, there's still a pending bonus from last year that is supposed to be given within this month, so all that will be for me, myself and i! nyahahahah!!!

c) i still have a work to go to. [not that i look forward to it anymore] i just think of all those other unemployed peeps having a hard time looking to make ends meet, and i feel i'm the one of the, if not the, luckiest s.o.b.'s alive right now.

*sigh* but still i ask: what is "new" this year? i guess it's too early to tell what's in store for me this year. so i'll just do what i always do: take it a day at a time and deal with it.

song of the moment

i'm so tired of being here
suppressed by all of my childish fears
and if you have to leave
i wish that you would just leave
because your presence still lingers here
and it won't leave me alone

these wounds won't seem to heal
this pain is just too real
there's just too much that time cannot erase

when you cried i'd wipe away all of your tears
when you'd scream i'd fight away all of your fears
and i've held your hand through all of these years
but you still have all of me

you used to captivate me
by your resonating light
but now i'm bound by the life you left behind
your face it haunts my once pleasant dreams
your voice it chased away all the sanity in me

these wounds won't seem to heal
this pain is just too real
there's just too much that time cannot erase

when you cried i'd wipe away all of your tears
when you'd scream i'd fight away all of your fears
and i've held your hand through all of these years
but you still have all of me

i've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
and though you're still with me
i've been alone all along


-- Evanescence - My Immortal [new arrangement]

Amy Lee roxorz my soxorz!

i'm posting at: the office
i'm listening to: the radio monitor
i'm feeling: bummed!

this blows! i realized that during our sucky christmas party, & i suddenly remembered why i'm supposed to leave this shitty place... i can't win any major prize in the raffle!!! the only time i won was when i got an imitation vcd player that didn't even last the month! drat! plus i [well, all of us actually] only got our christmas bonuses, not the performance bonus. they said we'll get it next month after they re-evaluate each and everyone of us. well there goes half of that bonus... /me watches it fly away i'll be _really_ lucky if i ever get half of that... anyway, after the program was over, i had no intention of staying any longer, 'coz 1) i still lacked sleep from the other night's party & 2) there's no more beer to drink! how sucky is that!?! good thing my officemate who also lives in the Sucat area offered a ride home.

Saturday: as a consolation, we get to come in an hour late than our regular office hours. but guess what? i was an hour late! hahah! anyway, as soon as i timed in, i tried to do some work, 'coz i had to leave after lunch 'coz of my dental appointment. i got there early, and there were already a lot of patients lined up, so i had to wait. good thing i already had lunch before going there. but i was really sleepy so i took a two-hour nap inside the other empty room in the clinic. when i woke up, there were still some patients lined up, and it wasn't my turn yet! wow! after waiting some more, it was finally my turn. after an hour or so, it was finally done! my root canal is over, the molar has been filled, and it's good as new. i've already paid 2k as my first installment, [the RTC costs 6k!] and i still need to go back anyways 'coz she said that i need to have my other amalgam fillings replaced... bye bye christmas bonus!

Sunday: heh! i didn't sleep all day, but i just lounged in bed most of the time. later in the afternoon i went to my old highschool 'coz they had some sort of launching for an event next year. i got to see my teachers, our old room, the buildings... ahh... reminiscing time... but the program sucked bigtime! no coordination with the hosts, the powerpoint presentation was a mess, and they had the audacity to hold an auction! sheesh... we didn't finish the program and just went home.

song of the moment

I wish that I could fly
Into the sky
So very high
Just like a dragonfly

I'd fly above the trees
Over the seas in all degrees
To anywhere I please

Oh I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah yeah yeah

Oh I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah yeah yeah

Let's go and see the stars
The milky way or even Mars
Where it could just be ours

Let's fade into the sun
Let your spirit fly
Where we are one
Just for a little fun
Oh oh oh yeah !

I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah yeah yeah

I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah yeah yeah

I got to get away
Feel I got to get away
Oh oh oh yeah

I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah with you yeah yeah
Oh Yeah !

I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah with you yeah yeah
I got to get away

I want to get away X4
Yeah
I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah with you yeah yeah
I got to get away

I want to get away X4
Yeah

I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah with you
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah


-- Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away

i'm posting at: the office
i'm listening to: the radio monitor
i'm feeling: happeeeh!

weeeeeeee!!! it's our Christmas party here at the office!!! *points at the pic on the right* see how excited i am!?! [huge props to my main man David and his Smart Amazing Phone for the pix]

i'm almost done with my work for today, so i have time to update my bloggie. yay! lesee... last night was fun, 'coz i got to drink free beer! wo0t! it was a surprise-advance-birthday-party for our dear friend/coworker Frannie. i can't believe she had no idea that we were gonna pull something off... [well, she had an inkling that something was up] it was supposed to be held tonight, but since our office will have our Christmas party tonight, they [the organizers] re-scheduled it to last night. it was a huge success 'coz her family & most of her closest friends made it that night. we didn't stay long [left at 12mn] 'coz we still had to go to work the morning after, but we were drunk! [i know i was... hehe!] good thing Anna offered to take me home...

...w/c brings us to today! i woke up with a nasty hangover & got to work an hour late. but all is good 'coz i got to do my work. [i already did the christmas countdown songs yesterday, so i'll have time to prepare my exchange gift for tonight] ooo, i'm all giddy with the alcohol [from last night] and coffee. [had a tall caffé mocha from Starbucks after lunch] hope i'll win a major prize at the raffle... /me crosses everything that needs to be crossed again!

all the free food... free alcohol... all the gifts... and my Christmas bonus!!! wo0t²!!! sana araw² Christmas party!!!!

song of the moment

Deck the halls with boughs of holly,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Tis the season to be jolly,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.

Don we now our gay apparel,
Fa la la, la la la, la la la.
Troll the ancient Yule tide carol,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.

See the blazing Yule before us,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Strike the harp and join the chorus.
Fa la la la la, la la la la.

Follow me in merry measure,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
While I tell of Yule tide treasure,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.

Fast away the old year passes,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Hail the new, ye lads and lasses,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.


Sing we joyous, all together,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Heedless of the wind and weather,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.


-- Deck The Halls [Traditional Christmas Carol... duh!?! ]