Got this from Barbie's Blog. Such a funny list that is just SO true.

• kahit di ka kumain, walang magrereklamo, tiyan mo lang.
• kahit 50 pesos lang laman ng wallet mo, makakaabot ka sa pupuntahan san mang lupalop yun, basta may i-meet kang kaibigan na laging manlilibre.
• kapag naabutan ka ng gutom sa labas, sa mall, wala ka nang ibang tatanungin kung saan gusto kumain. (pucha yoko mag hintay ng desisyon 30 mins after ng gutom ko noh)
• kahit di ka mag-ayos ng kama, walang manenermon sa iyo.
• kahit umuwi ka ng sobrang lasing, di ka maconscious na amoy 'niluwang pulutan' ka...ayan in-english ko.(hehe gross)..at di mo kailangang mag explain.
• kahit ulit-ulitin ko panuorin yung blind date or fifth wheel, or conan or ambush makeover, walang maaasar.
• kahit di ka magpalit ng pambahay, ok! 3-pid pa sa tide! (uy plugging!)
• walang nakiki-share sa huling pancit canton mo.
• kahit walang sibuyas, at kamatis, nakapag-gisa ka...(magiccc!)...at masarap parin!
• kahit nasa computer ako buong araw, walang magseselos.
• kahit gawin kong tubig ang Coke, walang mag-litanya about health.
• kahit hotdog ulit ulam, panalo parin!
• kahit magsukat ka ng isang damakmak na damit na di rin naman bibilhin, walang mabwibwiset sayo na 3 oras kayo naglakad.
• kapag umutot ka, pwedeng malakas at alam-mo-na at walang matuturn-off sa yo (actually, this doesn't apply to us bb, kasi kahit magkasama pa tayo, palakasan pa nga tayo eh)
• sa ibang bagay ok mag-isa...pero iba syempre, sa panahong- alam mo na...(wink,wink hahaha)

I'm posting this for the benefit of people who don't know about this movie. I saw the trailer in YouTube and Paul told me about this. It's already showing in the US and Paul said it was funny. I saw the trailer and I, too, wanna see this now. It's from the makers of Shaun of the Dead and its the british people's version of a spoof/tribute to american action movies (none of that Not Another Teen Movie crap).

I'm so excited to go to work! Since my promotion has already been announced to all the store managers, it's now more official (yung hindi lang ako ang tumatawa sa isang sulok). Tomorrow will be my first day in my new designation and I am so excited to finally have the authority to make changes. For the past month I can sort of feel like I'm being ignored since my word has no real sense of authority to them. Parang ang yabang ko magsalita, ang yabang koba? Hindi naman eh! I just want what's best for the store and I need people to listen to me. In the end hopefully they'll understand that how I work will help them in the long run. Mas madali naman talaga magtrabaho kung maayos ang paligid at process ng pagtrabaho mo eh. Yun lang naman ang end goal ko, na maayos ang lahat. Maiinis lang talaga sila sa akin kasi hindi ko sila titigilan sa pangungulit hanggang makuha nila at gawin nila lahat ng maayos ang trabaho nila. Is that so wrong?

Earlier, sabi mo na terror ako. Hindi naman eh! Sabi ko nga kay Bea, mas masungit pa nga siya sakin eh. I knew this even before I left TPC last year. I've seen Bea work and she is more of a terror than I am. Sasabihin ko naman sa kanila ng maayos ang gusto ko mangyari pero uulit-ulitin ko hanggat sa maintindihan nila ako. Basta, ayaw ko lang na by the time na aalis na ulit ako at tatanungin sa kanilang lahat kung may naitulong nga ba ako sa kanilang lahat, at sasabihin nila na wala namang nagbago. Ayoko ng ganun, I would like to be able to leave a little something behind for the store (not necessarily the employees themselves) to carry on until I am long gone. I just love this store so much to not care what happens to it.

Anyway, in other news, I no longer have my stomach pains. But as a precaution, I bought antacids and a couple of Imodium earlier in case it decides to come back. I also got myself two big tetrapacks of milk, cream cheese for the bagels, toothbrush, blush and two different bottles of shampoo and conditioner. I used my wamu again (kaching) since I didn't have any cash on me and I don't think theres a Banco de Oro ATM in BF. I might re-open a BPI account so it's easier for me to withdraw since they have ATM machines everywhere.

I'm pondering on what movie to watch tonight. The Fountain is almost finished but The Last King of Scotland has been sitting in my HD for weeks. I haven't gotten around to watching that since I haven't been in a "profound movie" mood. Or I might give The Fifth Element another try. We'll see later. Hopefully you wake up early so I can chat with you before I sleep. I don't know what time your dad is picking you up for Patrick's graduation. Do not forget to say hi to everybody for me, specially the little kids if they come for the after grad meal. Tell them Auntie Kari misses them a whole lot and that the drawing Zoe gave me is posted on the wall in my room.

Oh and see those smaller pieces of paper taped beside the drawing? That's a list of episodes of the shows I download every week. I cross out the episode I download so I know what I have already. Pucha, pati yan organized! Panis!

I saw posters of this movie around Edsa so I googled it and saw this on Youtube. Watching this made me laugh out loud considering the amount of pain I'm in right now. It's so stupid you have to see it.



And I forgot to show you this clip which people from work showed me.



That clip came from this movie..hahahaha

Found this in Marla's site and like she said, it made my hair stand on end. I, too, am very excited!

My sister is making me want to bash her face in.

Mama took us to "her" island, Kagaw Island. I say "her" because we had the island to ourselves. The beach was no boracay or bohol but it photographed well. 80% of the photos I took today were of tin'tin's landi shots.

Notice how my sisters are "strategically" covering my whalish bod.

You can view the rest of the photos HERE.

Marla, this shot is for you. Since you love Pinoy Big Brother, they told me a season of PBB was shot here in this house. It was the season where Kim whatshername won.

Left at noon today and arrived at 5pm. Had a good hearty dinner of tilapia, shrimp, crabs and veggies. Leaving early for the beach tomorrow. The two sisters are in the room with their boys playing ps2 (yeboy brought his). I, naturally, am sitting here blogging to you.

Bright and Cloudy skies all the way to the province. Papa was blasting his mixed cd of Backstreet Boys, N'Sync and Westlife songs, so thank god I had my iPod and trusty giant sony headphones. Everyone else opted to sleep through it.


More in the days to come. We obviously do have internet here but I won't be able to chat with you after your work since I'll be at the beach. Hopefully when you wake up I will be here. Just check when you can or drop me an email. Miss you.

Took a little break from watching Infernal Affairs to stare at my wallpaper (everyone roll their eyes now). I didn't expect it to be exactly like The Departed only a shorter version. The Departed was a loooong movie but it filled in gaps where Infernal Affairs didn't bother explaining. I like them both in their own way. Also, I now have a crush on Andy Lau. I didn't like him so much in House of Flying Daggers but he was hot in this movie. I never usually like chinese people, they're never my type, but you looking a little intsik changed that I guess. You're my chinese-looking-black-speaking-jungle-listening-amboy. What a package! Chea boi!

ok..me go back to my movie now. wonder what I'll watch next?

Feefee has a lot of photos already so I decided to take more of chewy's (short for chewbaca) this time. Chewy's not as photogenic since he looks more like a ball of fur than a rodent. His hair is all over the place so we took photos of his many hairstyles.

We wanted to take photos of the boys but the only way we could get them together was by shoving a piece of cabbage between them. You can view the photos here.

Nothing much happened when you got off iChat. I made another batch of cookies for sila mama. Tin tin hates it that I made them since now she's forced to quit her so-called diet. Gonna wait for you to wake up so we can chat before I go to sleep. I can't decide what movie to watch tonight so I might read through my new copy of Instyle instead.

This is what the manager and ex-manager does. That's how we roll.

It's 10:30pm and I just got home from work. Took the long and traffic-filled route just so I won't have to pay the P50 toll fee. It was a one and a half hour drive home, a trip that normally takes me 30 minutes if I take the highway. I'm that broke. I have P500 in my wallet which i have to stretch until next payday. That's TEN days away. Looks like my day is starting to look like an episode of Amazing Race. I don't think I'll make it to the next pit stop.

I'm off tomorrow which is a relief. My neck and back has been killing me for weeks. I'm so tired. Mejo kainis pa, I'm off on thursday too but I have to go to Rockwell for two hours for the staff meeting. Gagastos ako ng gas, toll at parking para umattend ng two hour meeting. Parang lugi ata ako nun ah. Tanginang buhay nga naman oh. Kaya di ka mabubuhay dito sa Pilipinas eh. Paano mo ba naman sisisihin ang mga taong nagkakandarapa umalis ng bansa kung di sila kumikita? Kaya alis nalang tayo. Sama kayo? Jeff? Darwin? HAHAHAHA!

Hello All!

This blog hasn't seen me for a while. What difference a job makes. That, coupled with PLDT DSL being down for a week. Work is fine, exhausting but fine. I'm on my way to work in 40 minutes. Tomorrow, if they don't call me in to work in Alabang, then I'm off hopefully straight through Friday. I'm milking what's left of my money but surviving. Hopefully whatever I have lasts till next payday. Work has given me the chance to not think of anything else outside work. I go to work, do my shit, go home, watch a movie before bed, sleep and wake up and do the whole thing again. I need time off from my personal life since it's been quite chaotic and I've given up trying to deal with it. It's easier with work since I can control things and I re-discovered how taking photos of children can be quite therapeutic. I forgot how I missed this job and why I wanted to do it in the first place. I remember thinking I will never find another job like this again and that little fact saddens me.

I've been wanting to watch House of Flying Daggers for a while now. I managed to get the Divx file from grace but the file she gave me comes with mandarin subtitles. I've googled several subtitle files and tried everything i could find but none of them sync well with the movie file i have. Does anyone know of someone here who can lend me a DVD copy of the movie? I've just about watched all the movies in my hard drive and haven't downloaded new movies since dsl went out. Help?

I know you're out there. You should all drop me a line. I already know Marla and Jenny read this (bless your heart) everyone else should say Hi. :)

First week back at work zipped by fast. I can't believe it's monday again. I'm off today because its my mom's birthday. I've managed to get a grip on work again. I was a slow worker in the beginning since I had to re-familiarize myself with operations. When I resigned last year, I had no idea I will be back again after a year. I was telling Bea that the only thing different with working in TPC now was the people. When I was managing Alabang, my store was a well-oiled machine. I can go on my day off and I can be confident that things will run my way. I had a system and my team worked with it. I was so used to that, that coming back now and working with a whole new set of people can be quite daunting. Things that are "standard" and common knowledge to me seem lost to them. Bea has given me the go signal to re-mold Powerplant operations in the way Alabang used to be and I am so excited. First things first is getting rid of clutter. Ang kalat ng store grabe! One day this week I will sit on the floor, get down and dirty and throw stuff out. Ang hirap magtrabo ng magulo ang paligid ko. It's hard to function when you can't find stuff you need right away. I find great joy in organizing things around me. I realized that my own life is frustratingly out of my control no matter how much I try so I make an effort to fix everything else. Bea asked me if I wanted to be MOA's manager when Nikki leaves. Hindi ko alam kung joke yon or what since I won't be here long anyway (well I'm hoping thats the case) but it was fun just thinking about it. If I take the job and like it, I might opt to just stay here continuously until all my papers are set and I will never have to come back. It's just a thought. Judging the past year and a half, nothing is ever certain in my life.

In other news, I made white chocolate chip cookies that were wiped out fast. I don't have a gift for my mom since I'm really running low on dough that I've decided to just make more cookies today.