just found out that 2 of my high school classmates are going to get married soon. this is his hilarious take on the traditional marriage bann:
Tawag sa kasal.
Si ____ Celine _____ ay ikakasal kay Danilo _____ sa ika-walo ng Pebrero. Ang sino man na tumututol o may nalalaman kung bakit hindi dapat ikasal ang dalawa ay maari lamang pong magpunta sa pinakamalapit na tulay at tumalon mula sa itaas.Maraming salamat po.
that was really funny...and sweet! i wish these two the best. i am genuinely happy for them and i hope they will have a very blessed family life (i didn't know danes had it in him! i'm so surprised, man!)
Posted by Unknown at 13:33
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the weekend was crazy, in a good sort of way. i did not expect some things to happen but they did. now that it's over, i am more enlightened about "certain things" and i think i have a general idea how to go about them. sure, i was surprised, pleasantly surprised at how things turned out. pretty fast. but i really do hope we can work it out. i want things to work out pretty good for me, for him...and i sure am gonna try my darnest to make sure they will.
Posted by Unknown at 07:47
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uh-oh, seems like i must re-think about posting "more interesting" stuff on my blog. my secrets don't seem to be secret anymore.
Posted by Unknown at 21:50
i just have to convince myself: Er ist ein Freund von mir. Sore dake desu!
Posted by Unknown at 22:48
you know what? i don't really care if it's nothing more than a movie date. he is cute and we're going out tomorrow night. then i will be seeing him again the next day. i'm more than happy; i'm thrilled! ^_^
Posted by Unknown at 07:41
On full rotation on my pc the whole day today:
always - ryota mitsunaga
naitari shinaide - masaharu fukuyama
song for you - exile
real world - exile
hero - exile
a tomorrow song - skoop on somebody
no one else comes close - the gospellers
mimosa - the gospellers
you're so special, girl, to me
and you'll always be, eternally
every time i hord you near...
you can't beat that, wahahaha!! the gospellers rule! this is one group which will stay for a long, long time; they've been around since the 90's and yet they still have such a big fan following. they just get better every year. now, if all groups in japan have as much talent as the gospellers, the japanese music scene will be a much, much better world. down with yuko ogura and the rest of them burikko!! booooo!
Posted by Unknown at 17:16
this morning, i saw a pic of that blond olsen twin (can't tell who's who)...it ruined my day! i totally hate the olsen twins! i don't care if they're called mary-kate and ashley now...i am sick of their semi-puckered, fully-distorted smiles. fugly, fugly, fugly! and the same goes to that girl called yuko ogura. i think there is something seriously twisted with that girl though her oyaji fans might disagree with me completely. fugly!!
multi-tasking
trying to finish a report requested by a client, listening to robbie, reading amazing race threads on the
fort (yay for people who are sick of models!!!*)...i'm a busy girl today! just like any other day, what else is new? i am probably the busiest newbie in the office (but technically, i am not a newbie anymore). why can't i have one client-free, carla-free week?! why can't my workload be like reg's? right now, she's reading some showbiz news, talking to friends on the phone, browsing the net for new shoes and listening to the corrs. i'm so jealous. (btw, the corrs aren't as good as they were before...IMHO. it's like getting tired of glay because you hear the same voice everytime. also, since only one of them writes the majority of the songs, the melodies tend to sound alike. not good.)
*taken from the fort: (someone's post about kris and jon) they are like the perfect Americans who don't bitch about other country's culture like Kendra...as Kris put it: She can't tolerate ugly Americans like Kendra...some stuck up spoilt model who has IMo cannot even make
it in the modelling industry....
the office is a little busier this week (until the end of next week) because people from other country offices are in town, which means the washrooms are more crowded than usual. most of them are surprised (pleasantly surprised, i hope) at how the washrooms are always full of people brushing their teeth after lunch. one singaporean lady saw us in the washroom earlier and said something like "the clean, clean people". obviously, they don't brush as often.
2nd day of german
the guy sitting next to me in class wasn't such a bad sort, after all. but the guy sitting next to him is!! and so are quite a number of people in class. they have this annoying tendency of shouting out the answers even when the questions aren't directed at them. the teacher has a
purpose in having each one of us answer in turn, you know! you see, he wants to know what you know so he can teach you what you don't, duh. everyone's trying to be a teacher's pet this early in the course. unfortunately, annoying classmates don't have an "off" or "mute" button attached to them so beh. well, i've been studying japanese long enough to know that these kinds of people don't usually last until the end. see you there! (not)
Posted by Unknown at 16:35
my ate carla-baw :P
carla's been in our lowly kingdom since monday. representatives from the different asian offices are in town to test jeric's baby, compass. i thought it would be ok, since she's going be to holed up in the conference room almost all day so we won't really see each other. but everytime she goes to the bathroom, she passes by my cube and always stops by to stay hi and to taunt me on my mountains of work. nice. yesterday, she even dragged me to the conference room and troubleshoot the japanese lady's laptop because it won't connect to the network and the IT people cannot read japanese.
ngek! at ginawa pa akong IT...
the iceman is back
the monthly office newsletter came out today and ice, in his typical "exag" english, was the talk of the town again with his monthly column. he wrote about our carol-cum-dance presentation at last month's chrismas party, where we got second place (after a day's practice). it was bad enough that we had to go through all the embarrassment at the party; now he just relived everything all over again, with his step-by-step account of the song-and-dance number. he even included photos, and worse, video clips. everywhere in the office, i can hear chat (and laughter, of course) about his column. the whole day! i am so mortified. >_<>
ice's entire column (uncut, uncensored):
ice: giving not gifting
I think everyone enjoyed the Christmas party, if not, I'm not affected by those who did not enjoy it. I'm sure everyone knows who won or lost the contest. Heart of a champion, finally the IT was able to grab a price with the our DS 1st Quadrant friends. I could say we are friends because we are close with each other in 1st Quadrant. We talk about life, family, heartaches and most specially, alam mo na, crushes. Ok Ok back to the story. Few days before the actual presentation, we still don't know what to do. We are planning to do a pantomime presentation but to no avail. So we decided to do a lively presentation.
The first part is the Pampararam lip-sync with actual singing although it looks like lip-sync. Walk slowly as we arrange ouselves into the stage and must look serious and pocket your smile while walking. Then a sudden up-beat music. Then count one to ten...count to ten ng count to ten...ay one to four lang pala...then elbows in parallel while doing a bit with the fist like hands. Fist like because it's like punching but with a feminine act of beating the chest. Then walk while the girls move backwards. Then twist to the left with the act of washing clothes then twist to the right. Then make a kandirit while the hands do a kandirit to. Do this left and right. After that do a snake on the right and another to the left and end up with a cheering squad position. The head must nod as if you agree.
After that you need to sing the Kampana ng Simbahan. On second stanza Ice will do a Sandara dance while the boys clap clap their hands. Then after the song the up-beat song again. Face to the right all boys then twist left hand like you miss something. Then do the same thing facing right. Then back to position. Prepare for the kutitap song. The Kutitap song must be performance level because it is acapella, which means no music. Then it's over. Very simple isn't it. It took us 4 hours to practice. Imagine just 4 hours for a very beautiful presentation that made people happy as they go home in bed.
Here's the link of the behind the scene during practice time. (i removed the link, wahahahaha! - cat) The practice time is where we made the presentation perfect. It's fun but tiring and I ache my back and front then dancing. But, it was fun and i really enjoyed the Christmas party.
I hope next year it will be a dance competition so that we can be first. Because i think our talent is really dancing or conceptualized dancing. Ever heard of conceptualized dancing? Maybe not because you are a mot-mot. I think we are gifted in dancing. And it is fun to be a gifted child. But now i don;t receive that much gifts anymore. But It's ok because the spirit of Christmas is giving and not gifting. So whether you have or not, it is fine because others don't have. And everytime i reach Christmas, I feel blessed. I hope you feel the same too.
Posted by Unknown at 13:38
guten Tag!
yesterday was my first day of german class. jimmy was supposed to enroll with desiree and me but was unable to make it because there was no one to take care of the baby (the nanny quit). he promised to enroll by thursday, though. anyway, the teacher, herr ang, turned out to be really nice and very funny. of course not in the same level as mojica-sensei (i can never forget "nejiru you!", mwahahaha!!) but close. the whole session was about the german alphabet and pronunciation, as there are some peculiarities with the german language. what i found difficult was the letters with the umlaut: ?, ? and ?. it was awkward, both for me and des because we don't have any background in german, unlike everyone else in class. a class of promil kids, heh! anyway, the trick for ? is to shape your mouth in the [a] sound but forcing the [e] sound. same goes for ? and ?. we progressed to counting from 1 - 99, each one of us reciting a different number. i'm really beginning to hate the number 5 because of "f?nf"...>_< but des and i vowed to hang on till the end, at least until the end of basic german. we may not be promil kids but we're smart too; we just don't like showing off in class. ^_^ (in the next meeting, we will introduce ourselves in german and learn how to ask basic information about another person like age and occupation.)
Posted by Unknown at 17:13
my 2005 candles
on new year's eve, i lit up the colored candles my tita gave me for christmas. she got it from manaoag and they are called "prosperity candles". one is supposed to light them on any special occasion and make a wish. whichever candle melts/dies out first will represent the most abundant blessing he/she will receive. the candles represent the following: (arranged in bioman sequence)
red - love (duh)
green - wealth
blue - peace
yellow - harmony
pink - good health
white - purity
peach - long life
obviously, i wanted the green to die out first. that, or the pink one. i actually thought that the pink would be the first (since it was the first to melt into a stump) and green, second. but red overtook the two and was the first to die out. well! how's that?? so 2005 will be full of love for me?? i'd rather have the money...or health...or both. maybe this means i will find love and money...maybe this guy will be so adorable and rich at the same time! not a bad combination at all...
yay for robbie williams!
yay for reg, my office buddy! she so kindly gave me mp3s of all the songs in robbie william's greatest hits album. woohoo! it was on my christmas wish list at the office but my "mommy" (incidentally, it was kristine, who sits in the same cube as myself. good job keeping this one secret!) gave me quilling kits instead. it's ok; the cd was over the budget anyway and quilling is my latest addiction. now i can listen to bad boy robbie while i work! i hope i won't get carried away again...they won't let me forget that time i sang (shouted?) out loud to a glay song i was listening to with my headphones. i was aware i was singing along to "a boy ~zutto wasurenai~"; i just didn't realize i was singing
that loud!! loud, as in, almost everyone in the first quadrant heard it. it was embarrassing...>_<
robbie is really brilliant! his cheeky lyrics and catchy beats keep me awake all day in front of the pc without the need for coffee, hehe. i particularly like "let love be your energy", not only for its obvious message but for the fact that i feel some beatle influence in the song. is it just me or does robbie sound eerily like john lennon?? i don't know, the song reminds me of the beatles, particularly john in their early days. another song i like is "sexed up" for its cheekiness and its chorus which i find difficult to forget. in fact, it was my lss on the train last night. "angels" and "she's the one", they're given. ^_^ i'm thinking of including them in my "repertoire" (hehe) for the next karaoke daikai of the darake gang...high up on the list: "come undone", wahahahahaha! that'll wake them up, alright!
So rock and roll, so corporate suit
So damn ugly, so damn cute
So well-trained, so animal
So need your love, so f*ck you all
I'm not scared of dying
I just don't want to
If Id stop lying, I'd just disappoint you
I come undone
They're selling razor blades and mirrors in the street
I pray that when I'm coming down you'll be asleep
If I ever hurt you, your revenge will be so sweet
Because I'm scum,
and I'm your son,
I come undone
Posted by Unknown at 13:08
a bit belated but...
happy new year!!
goodbye to a great year and looking forward to a much-better one! for most people, 2004 was a really bad time: politically, economically and everything in between. but for me, 2004 was the year of big decisions. i changed jobs, forced myself to start grad school, worked double (triple?) time on my japanese education...heck, i even broke up with my boyfriend! that last one, it surprised so many people. they thought we'd end up at the altar, or something like that. good thing that didn't happen! or i'd get stuck with a wuss all my life! anyway, i figured i'm much too young to get married and i'm too busy chasing my dreams to allow myself to be tied up by a relationship that wasn't going anywhere. i can just go out with anyone i want, do anything i want with whomever i want. no "where have you been" or "who are you going with? i'll go with you" crap. free like dobby, i am!!! ^_^v
i've already adjusted to my job and i love it here very much. not only did i find great friends, i also found myself working for some of the best bosses and colleagues. jerome the guru (and as i found out today, the asian films freak), jeric the big brother, kawaii joey (formerly hogwards student, now gringotts employee, hehe), jax master kulit, carlo doggie, arlene, jenny, josie, everyone!... they're all very nice! i'm even starting to really like carla! before, i was scared of her and didn't want to answer the phone if i knew it was her. though this kind of work isn't really related with my chosen field, i think i'll be sticking around for a while. leaving all these wonderful people would really suck.
i belong here, i really do think so. during my 6th month evaluation meeting last month with jerome, he told me i was one of the brightest among this batch of hires and that the other office wanted to absorb me because of their japanese projects. he really liked how i work and he couldn't ask for anything more...except one thing: try to "expand" relationships with the other office. we both knew he meant "carla", of course. but as i said, i'm really beginning to like carla. i'm not so scared of her anymore, haha! i really liked the fact that i'm appreciated here and what i do actually matters to others. ^_^
school was ok, until i got bored with it. and of course, work was becoming more demanding too. eventually, i had to stop but i did finish one class and there wasn't any reason for me to fail. i know i did good on my final paper!! maybe development studies isn't really for me. or maybe i just felt i wasn't on the same wavelength as the older people in one of my class. at first, i thought i could learn from all their experiences. instead, they bore me. some people in class have the tendency to take over the discussions that even the professor couldn't get in a word edgewise. they also have the very annoying habit of talking about topics totally irrelevant to the subject!! maybe, when i'm halfway through german, i can already enter the international studies program at the university.
what took most of my time last year was my japanese class. last december, i took the intermediate class while attending the advanced class at the same time. studying wasn't really a problem for me; i can always read inside the train, while at work, inside the bathroom, etc. but my wallet suffered so badly!! the "honorable" school board decided (i'm guessing, decided without consulting the faculty) to increase fees by more than 100%. paying for one class was bad enough; paying for two was hell. i had to make a lot of sacrifices: no more weekly trips to megamall after class, no ordering from cdjapan, jpqueen, yesasia...it was so hard! but i did it anyway and made it till the end! the climax of that, i think, was the jlpt (and not the graduation, hehe).
the jlpt was a nightmare!! i think i did alright with the first part, moji - goi (characters and vocabulary) though i missed some questions. i must've skipped some characters and words when i was reviewing. at least i got higeki (tragedy) right!! surprisingly, the listening exam was easy and i managed to sit through the whole exam without lapsing into a daydream, as i almost always do during listening exams at school. there were a lot of tricky questions, and many unnecessary sentences to further confuse the already bewildered examinee. the most difficult part was the reading - grammar exam. for a little over an hour, you had to answer pages of grammar questions as well as several long paragraphs of selections. as sensei had advised, i went straight to the grammar portion first and answered as quickly as i could. i missed quite a few and ended up using a magic number to fill the blanks in my answer sheet. then i started reading the shortest selections before answering the longer ones. the longest selection had 6 questions and the rest had 3 or less. when our proctor (incidentally, it was violy-sensei, my teacher from elementary 3-4) announced that we had only 5 minutes to finalize our answers, i had to use my
magic number again for my blanks. in the end, i was just relieved it was all over. and even if i don't pass, i wouldn't be too disappointed. i've studied hard for this exam since this year started and i gave everything i could. i learned after the exam that there were quite a number of examinees who were on their second take (or more) for 2kyuu and i didn't feel so bad anymore! it was my first time and if ever i pass, it will be a super big achievement for me.
so really, 2004 was my year. i'm a monkey after all, and 2004 was a monkey year.
what the japanese zodiac says:
Monkey (saru) --- Born 1992, 1980, 1968, 1956, 1944, 1932, 1920, 1908
People born in the year of the Monkey are the erratic geniuses of the Zodiac cycle. They are clever and skilful in grand-scale operations and are smart when making financial deals. They are inventive, original and are able to solve the most difficult problems with ease.
now, i'm looking forward to bigger challenges in the year of the rooster!
i miss my classmates...
john is sick and i think he needs some time off from work. this is precisely the reason why i don't want to be a boss! you can take vacations when you want to!
elvin promised to go to violin class with me next year. i was surprised he remembered that i wanted to buy a violin. but i was more surprised that he didn't know what j-music meant!
homer gave my sis an exam at tasplan, hehe. i hope she passes so she'd have the chance to have a cool colleague like homer. and god knows, she needs a job badly!
grace emailed me 4 times today; i haven't seen her in almost a month and i almost jumped for joy when i saw she has 4 emails for me. then i read them one by one...they were all the same! hay naku...hilo na naman ata ang stage mother ko...
joy is starting to get really busy at school. the new semester's about to start and she's currently bugging everyone to enrol in the intermediate dokkai (reading) class.
elaine is planning to leave her current job; told me she's fed up already.
i wonder what kent is up to now...i miss him...and the fried chicken!
i'll see you all really soon! miss you all, mwah, mwah!
Posted by Unknown at 16:10
i finally did it; i'm really starting german classes soon. desiree & jimmy are going to be my classmates so i expect it's going to be so fun!
Posted by Unknown at 22:08
