silver stands in my pensieve

backstreet boys!

hehe. another one to keep me awake at the office tonight. :)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1595589049983132207&q=bsb

Posted by Unknown at 13:15 0 comments

my heart got it right, and i knew it...

sorry, just a random thought. ganon talaga pag pagod ka na, kung ano-ano na ang naiisip mo. kasi ba naman, i'm spending overnight again at work (tonight and tomorrow). we have to release the results of our company's really big-deal study. ^_~

sige na, minsan lang naman to. as in, once a year lang naman ang peak season and it is only during this time that we're this busy. and besides, may silbi naman ang ino-overnight ko rito. kala ko kasi wala e, hehe. to borrow words of wisdom from my colleague, carla: we are uplifting the filipino worker. ^_~ so true! so in a way, i'm still making a contribution to my country, without being in public service, hehe.

but while i serve my country, i'm just thinking of home, warm bed, schatz, baby bear, hot chocolate...i so want to get out of this building!

Posted by Unknown at 20:30 0 comments

philippine pavilion, aichi world expo

i found this pic of the philippine pavilion at the aichi expo in nagoya, japan. despite a measly budget (sometimes, we just don't know how to really promote our country *sigh*), it won the 'nature's wisdom award' in category c. GOLD prize, mind you. it was one of the most visited too, my boyfriend told me. and guess what? it was my teacher, mojica-sensei, who helped the pcvc people come up with the translation to the theme 'usbong: seed of life'. he suggested 芽生え (mebae) meaning, 'bud, sprout'. it was him who painstakingly taught japanese to the people assigned at the expo. they didn't pay him much, i heard, and he never got anything back for 'mebae'.

aichi expoに行けなかった。楽しそうだったのに。残念！i guess i will just have to ask jimmy and miho-chan to tell me all their aichi stories...

good-bye, morizou and kikkoro!

Posted by Unknown at 08:19 0 comments

quiz mania

i took some really funny quizzes over at quizilla and i'm posting some of my results here.

You are a protector.
Yes, you don't like to kill people. That goes
against everything you belive in. It's not that
you are a coward, but your ideals and morals
wouldn't allow it. You are the typical hero, do
the righteous things, get the bad guys and do
it all legally. But just because you don't kill
doesn't mean you can't kick ass. And that is
what you do. You use your brain and your
strenght to do honourable deeds and protect
people you know and love. If an evil guy is
going to take over the world soon, it's you who
will get involved. You hate watching innocents
suffer, and love seeing bad people getting what
they deserve. You are probably also happy and
optimistic and work pretty good in groups. And
the friends you usually make are true ones.

Main weapon: Anything at all
Quote: "You only live once, but if
you do it right, once is enough" -Joe
Lewis
Facial expression: Smile


What Type of Killer Are You? [cool pictures]
brought to you by Quizilla

Posted by Unknown at 09:48 0 comments

my halloween costume

Posted by Unknown at 10:10 2 comments

the sweetest, the bestest, the mostest

yesterday, schatz had a really nice surprise for me. he gave me an mp3 player! it was really sweet of him. ^_^ he won that as an early bird prize at the cisco thingie he attended yesterday. basta, ang sweet. pwede namang share na lang kami (conjugal property, hehe) but he knew how much i wanted to have one. ^_^

ganito kasi ang istorya. mickey and i wanted to buy mp3 players, kahit ung zen creative lang. pangarap na lang ang ipod-ipod na yan. the models we wanted cost around P6,000 (and they have it in pink too!). that same day, i was itching to get one, but i told mickey i needed to ask my boyfriend first. i wanted to consult him with anything that concerns my credit card (blushes). not because he is forcing me to, but because i respect his opinion and i trust his judgment on a lot of things. as i had expected, he suggested i wait for a little while until i can drastically reduce my credit card balance. so i didn't get myself one.

then, yesterday, schatz told me he had a surprise for me but i have to wait until we get on the bus home. no use trying to wring info from him because i know he will not budge. ^_^ on the bus, he told me to close my eyes while he gets the surprise from his bag. then when he said i can look, i get a....water bottle. hehe. as in, mineral water bottle. toink! :P then he told me to close my eyes again for the real surprise. kala ko joke lang nung nakita ko ung mp3 player. i was like, seryoso ba to? akin to?? he said he was really giving it to me. ^_^ i knew i would get an mp3 player but i never expected to get one so soon. hehe.

thanks so much, schatz. you really are the sweetest, the bestest, the mostest. ich liebe dich. muwah! ^_^

Posted by Unknown at 17:18 1 comments

friendster

this is a funny article i got from click the city. a bit long but worth reading, hehe.

Friendstering
by Freude Baggins

Do you Friendster? It's so much fun, huh? I am totally digging it now, especially the testimonials. Better late than never, like I always say.

When all this Friendster mania exploded a couple of years ago, I couldn't help but be intrigued by it. Then I found out that all the people I despise have accounts so I told myself I'm not going to be part of that thing.

I also thought that it was the work of the devil.

Here's this site where you can find your friends (supposedly) from way, way back or from way, way front and you tell them things like "You are so nice and you can count on this person through thick and thin and she is so cute and smart and yadda yadda yadda" and all that really annoying hypocritical stuff. I mean, if you're really friends, why do you need testimonials to prove it, right? You can say those words to her in front of her pimply face over lunch or something.

Some people would argue "They're living abroad eh" or "I haven't seen them in like years" and all, and I can understand that (I am very understanding, swear to God). But what I am saying is, if you are really fond of this person, you would move heaven, hell and everything in between just to find him or her, right? You wouldn't wait for something like Friendster or Myspace to do it for you. You can also call them. If you think cellphone costs are stratospheric, you can use Skype, you know!

I just didn't get the logic of it all. And all those testimonials! Goodness, if all those testimonials were true, it could only mean that there isn't a single bad person in the world. People are lying left, right and center and everyone is oblivious. It's like they're blowing each other off and they call themselves "friends." Friends aren't supposed to sugarcoat things, they're supposed to tell the truth exactly as it is. Only true friends can tell, and can handle, THE truth. I can't handle the truth that's why I avoid friends.

Another evil thing about it is the narcissism surrounding it all. God, why would anybody announce to the whole world that they read these types of books or they watch these kinds of movies or wanna hang out with these sorts of people or post their recent vacation trips to Burkina Faso or some other isolated place? It's just so phony! It just killed me.

I had the feeling that people do that to make other people envious. It's their way of saying that they've achieved this much in life. Oh, look at me, Little Mister Snot in grade school. I am so successful now, I go to this school, I work at this prestigious company, I am a bigshot now! Be envious! You used to be Miss Prom but now you're pregnant and miserable, while I, former Miss Geek, am very sucessful and a total hot property that every guy wants a piece of me.

Admit it, you are so envious you want to flatten me and turn me into green pea! Nobody says it as straightforward as that in Friendster, of course, but you can read it between the lines. And you can sense it, like a thick fog enveloping, ready to asphyxiate you at any given time.

Apart from revenge, vanity and vindictiveness, Friendster also reeks of immorality, which is the most diabolical thing of all. All those people looking for their long-lost high school crushes and checking out if they're still single and available. If not, they will pursue them anyway just to have a closure of some sort. It's just bad, bad, bad! It gives me the shivers just thinking about all the lascivious things going on in that site.

But that was then. People change, you know. I now think of Friendster as the work of a genius. Whoever invented it should be made recipient of the Nobel Prize. Really.

Speaking of Friendster, the TV director who was recently accidentally shot and killed inside a Makati bar called V (I remember there was a series called "V" which was a cross between the "X-Files" and "Taken") has an account. The creepy thing about it is the fact that he updated it the night before he died. Creeeeepy. I wonder what his Friendsters will do if his profile suddenly changes? Good grief, I would probably faint. It's kinda creepy too that he is buried and all but his account is still floating in cyberspace.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, dear president of the republic I call home, also has a Friendster account. It isn't really hers, of course, but I just want to talk about her and I need a connection of some sort just to make the transition from one topic to another as seamless as possible. See? You didn't even feel a thing. Or did you?

All this issue about GMA cheating in the last elections, her being confident or gullible (whichever) enough to actually use a cellphone to contact the now infamous Garci (Mr. Garcillano) and have a very incriminating exchange with him...it's just so stupid it's almost comical. It's interesting, to say the least, to see what she is going to do now. A Wag the Dog scenario would be good, but with the way things are going, the government may need to wag the whole dogpound, or better yet, wag the whole zoo.

I am currently reading a Dan Brown novel so my frame of mind right now is that of a conspiracy theorist. The main reason why I think that this whole Bishop Cruz molesting an altar boy issue is one of the government's doing is to make people forget (for at least 24 hours) about the scandal plaguing the Prez. The sudden fare increase is also one of them. Cardinal Sin's death is also one of them. I am not saying that they killed him but you never know. (It's so Dan Brown.) And lastly, the Kris Aquino-James Yap wedding. Not only did that news made me forget about the "Hello, Garci" scandal, it also made me avoid the news altogether.

Now that, I can proudly say, is the work of a smart government.

To end this on a Friendster note, if you have the time and inclination, why not befriendster Freude? His addy is freude_baggins@yahoo.com. Don't forget the testimonials. You can make it as brutally honest as possible. If you can insert a few positive things that will make him look good to other people, go ahead and write it. Nobody is stopping you, least of all him. Try to make it as long and lucid as possible. Wow, I am so shameless.

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