Mar 2009

Just got back from Siargao and the experience was very great!
Can't wait to go back.
Pictures and stories soon.

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I have to love my job even at times like these where I'd literally feel sick and tired of everything.
I have to think of my bills to endure the stress.
I have to think of my life for the next 3-6 months just to get some motivation.

I love my job.
Even if it's already boring.

I love my job.
Even if it's already sucking all my brains out.

I love my job.
Even if there are no more straight good-looking men available in the office.

I love my job.
Even if I don't want to go to work anymore.

I love my job!

Say it 1 melyon times!

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This. I really want to quit.

"Red, gold and green -Karma Chameleon?"

You're all set for work. Hair shampooed. Conditioned. Blow-dried. Fixed. Put on the best perfume. Dressed freshly pressed. And you'll pass through thousand candidates of lung cancer victims at the main entrance of the office. Blowned by their smoke. In red. Gold. Green. And sometimes with indonesian tobacco. Choco flabvored bat cigars. You want to beat all of them, but you end up joining them. And you enter the office with a smell like you've been cooking in your grandmother's dirty kitchen.

You're cutting your life short in every 15-30 minute breaks of your daily office life with every cigarette butts you ticked on the cigarette bin. And there's fire. You wanna spit fire instead of the exhaling the smoke up in the air. As soon as the smoke fades, you see you're dead and you can't even solicite a coffin from the Philip Morris Company.

My mentor told me that to quit smoking is to stop right away.

This is my resolution. Not this year. Not on my birthday. Maybe until I'll meet someone who can convince me to stop.

What am I talking?

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Just last week,
I broke my new year's resolution:
never to drink Red Horse again.

PP asked me to chill with 1 Litre of it at City 24.
I told him I'll buy my own bottle of rhum but to my dismay the place he chose doesn't sell hard liquors.
We rushed the first bottle but an old gentleman joined us.
We added another one.
Lionel arrived so another bottle was purhased.
I went home consuming shared 5 litres of RH.

Successfully,
I was able to refuse temptation this morning when March celebrated her post-birthday bash at G-Mik.
I'd successfully turned down the shot when I decided not to attend and resigned myself to sleeping.
I passed the day and turned down the beer.

"Will never beer again."

"Why I just couldn't resist?"

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S I A R G A O

I'm going to Siargao next week.
I'm 50% confirmed and 80% excited.
T's the last part episode of my month-long birthday celebration and Archer's birthday splash since he's not fond of throwing bash.

Archer offered Leo's ticket to Siargao and I grabbed the opportunity since it was part of our plan to pursue our indie film project, "The Beach Bitches".

Goal: get laid by a surfer!

:p

March 15, 2009

Tina Dela Cerna's Birthday Get-away

Gee...

I'm impersonating some penguin!

Photography: Gerald Dumlao

February 29, 2008

My second trip to Boracay is happening next week. That's six days from now. I'll be going with my friends from PETEBulls. I was with some of them when I first went there, but we were in three groups; the PETEBulls, the mean girls and I was mainly with Chet, Patrick and Mac -you can call it the lovers group. I did enjoy the entire group the first time but I got mainly focused with my visitors from Davao with the help of the mean girls, so there are times that I was out of the PETEBulls' pictures. It was a fulfilling trip for first timers like me, details of my first Bora trip will be featured on the following days to come.

I'm looking forward on this trip since it's going to be my 4th 23rd birthday celebration. Yeah, there's gonna be a television special and a tribute of one-week TV series from Monday to Friday (March 03-07) - just kidding. I'm not really excited about this trip, so I just made an itinerary for the group:

MARCH 07 FRIDAY

10:30am PETEBrunch @ McDonalds-JY 10:30am

11:30am Dep. to airport

12:30pm Check-in

01:55pm Departure

- Henna at Noel's Tattoo Studio

- Dinner at Becca's Café & Restaurant

- Drinks at the Red Pirates Pub

- Party at Fridays

March 08 SATURDAY

- Swimming as the sun rises

- Lunch at the Wreck Bar

- Sunset pictorials at Charlh's Bar

- Get wasted at Bazzura

March 09 SUNDAY

- Island Hopping / Eco-Adventure

- Lunch at the Yapak Island

- Mambo Number 5

(For the adventure-driven, "Mambo Number 5" is a little bit of boating and wind surfing, a little bit of scuba diving, a little bit of trekking, a little bit of mountain biking, and a little bit of golf.)

- bitching and ditching at Club Paraw

March 10 MONDAY

- chilly chill-chill

- (1) Snorkling spot

- (2) Crystal Cove

- (3) Pukka Beach

- (4) Butterfly Garden

- (5) Willy's Rock

- Grab some giant shakes at Jonahs and cakes at the Lemon Cafe

March 11 TUESDAY

- morning bliss at the Real Coffee (this is Lucy Torres' fave place)

- pictorials at the beach with pizza and beer from Hey Jude!

10:30am Dep. to airport

1:00pm Check-in

02:15pm Departure

a no-brainer entry

I have been travelling since I was a child. I came from a family who's considered a "professional mover" (got it from the movie, The Perfect Man). Mom said that I have been travelling since I was just in her womb, but I don't include it in my list -it's basically her own travels eventhough she'd provided me pictures of her carrying the third sex goddess on her womb posing on some historical landmarks, but I still can't add it on my list.

My first official trip that I can remember was when I was just 3 years old. It's a school field trip in my nursery school. We rode a bus, and bus symbolizes travel for me. The trip lasted the entire day, and getting tired and exhausted from a long day of riding a bus with annoying kids and pushy moms is travelling.

Currently playing: "Get Far" by Shining Star

Sinner or Saint?

Another no-brainer entry.

"A " was kinda frustrated when we left Boracay because it was very sunny and very hot. We've been waiting for the sun from the first day we arrived in the island. It was raining in Cebu when we left last Friday (March 07), and we only felt the sun on Sunday. It was raining on Monday night so we spent drinking at the hotel celebrating PETEBull's first anniversary.

Didn't have enough of the sun, "A" wanted to make the most of the summer heat, so he insinuated on spending all the summer weekends going to the nearby beaches in Cebu. The first plan was to go to Bantayan island this holy week. But the thought of Bantayan as the main holy week destination of the Cebuano, we decided to go to Moalboal and to Kawasan falls. Almost half of the PETEBulls already confirmed. Anne's taking her brother (our crush for now), Tonton and friend, Tangtang with wife and his kid. Diane's bringing her car, so we don't have problems with the transportatrion anymore. Our contact resort in Moalboal only got 1 airconditioned room available at peak season rate. Plan B's to stay at Kawasan resort instead or take a room in Badian as referred by an officemate. We're all set to travel this coming black Saturday and spend overnight in Moalboal, Badian or in Kawasan. We're bringing our tents incase the resort's fully-booked, we're already expecting it. Next stop would be in Intosan for Jacky's birthday celebration on Sunday. We might stay their overnight.

"A" and I's main goal on this trip: get an even tan for bronzer effects, cool down and get laid. Aaarrgghhh... evil!

Currently playing: "A Stroke of Luck" by Garbage

I just can't believe I'm back to work.
I'm still on my official leave for today and as per email sent by the workforce it's still good until Friday.
I was just supposed to drop by at the office,
to check my mails,
to file for financial discrepancies,
but I just don't know why I'm seated on queue,
solving cases,
working.
I just don't know.

Well,
I have been on a month-long birthday vacation.
My leave got approved from March 03.
I went to Boracay the day after my birthday and stayed there from March 07-11.
Then,
we went to Badian on the 16th and to Kawasan on the 17th.
We then had an extended send-off party at Ms. Forgiveness' place for 2 consecutive nights.
"A" decided to make an early celebration for her birthday,
so we headed to Bantayan on the 28th and stayed there until the 31st.
So I did have another time of my life.

I already used up all my PTOs (paid-time off) and I'm expecting 2-day-deduction (that's for the
UPTO) on the next payroll.
I already used up the remaining funds in my ATM and I'm still meeting dues within this week.
Goddamn!
You worked hard for the money and still it can't sustain your needs.
I said,
I don't care about the money but Meja says it's all about the money,
Abba says money,
money,
money...
gaaaan!
I hate this topic,
let's skip.

My friend slash teamate slash offficemate "K" already tendered her resignation affecting her moods,
another friend slash teamate slash officemate's mood and the people seating next to her.
Oh,
I'm seeing that this topic will just go back to the previous paragraph.
Skip twice.
Ah,
next entry please?