after 4 full...=P

Oh my…
After 4 full (as in full! Coz of Paps and my sister.) shots of tequila sombrero, I writing now my blog that I’ve been wanting to post.
Well, I actually wanted to do a blog but I really didn’t know what to really post.
Hmm… let’s see…*still kinda tipsy* haha
This year’s celebration of Christmas was a different one again compared to last year (read my old blog about it).
There are again changes that some of which I really don’t like but then I know I have to deal with it. I still do miss my daddy with all these celebrations (how I wish he is still with us) but yeah, I know…he’s having a blast there with the Lord.
Anyway, we celebrated our Christmas with my Tita Nery’s family. Every one of us prepared together and helped each other with our food for Christmas. Each family had their own food to share too. There were lots of food and booze that made everyone so hyper…makulit…drunk(?)… and simply happy. We actually all had fun, especially when the kids excitedly opened their gifts in the early morning of Christmas. *pictures everywhere again…haha*
Love all my babies…haha

*pictures of us, kids. Haha (with my pamangkins: CJ, Kyla, Adrian and Matthew)*

I just really love being with the family and with my pamangkins. Nothing really beats to be with your family with these occasions. Right? Look.

*the family*

With that, we also surprised our relatives in the US with a call while we were celebrating. They were surprised with our call too! Everyone just talked a bit with each other just to greet a Merry Christmas. It was fun talking to them.

It really feels good to talk and be together with your family…relatives…love ones….that you wish that it will always be that way or even be way better. And I am just thankful for those moments …and of course, thankful to the Lord. He is the reason why all we have these celebrations and happiness. Thank you!

….Just love my family.
….Just love’ em.

*ok…now , I gotta rest…wait…welcome the new year…*

the good stuff at work

I know I haven’t talked about work that much here. Maybe because I don’t want to or there’s nothing to talk about…But last week was a different one! There were some good stuff at work…haha

Actually…it’s nothing much… nothing much these days at work…haha labo!

Not much of work/accounts to do…which is great! easy and not much pressure at all…(so, I have to enjoy it! haha)

What else?

Oh…Last Monday, we had our Christmas Party at the office. We had a dance presentation (that I can’t believe that I did those things…those office stuff…to put it in a better term na lang, “oldy stuff” for me. Haha oh, gah…nuff about it! Don’t want to talk about it na…haha but it was all fun)…and we won! Everyone had fun especially with all the laughtrip presentations of each team! The next day, we treated ourselves with a yellow cab pizza for lunch while watching our presentation in video (for personal consumption lang yun…haha)!

And also the good thing too this week (aside from some surprise bonus? haha), I got regularized! Yay! Together with MM (my batchmate), we had a good talk with my magaling and sobrang bait boss! Haha it was a fun talk too...(thanks, Ma’am Shellane!)

Oh…with that, we gave her a “thank you” gift! It was a calendar stand that says “I love my staff”! haha she was happy about it laugtrip again! Ang kulit namin!

So with the regularization thingy, we were obliged to treat the team with some sundae. And we did! Together with the celebration of Trissa’s birthday…and last day of work before Christmas…Everyone were so happy just having fun as well with the other bosses around! There were gifts…food…pictures all over too! haha

And so before, leaving the office…shot muna? Haha had some tequila rose. Gah! that made me dizzy(?) a bit! Ang kulit ng mga boss kasi! Puro kalokohan and laughtrip! Everyone were just really having fun and feeling the holiday spirit! Haha

Ah…how I wish that it’s always like this at work…fun and not pressure!

(the team!...centers!)

...And of course, being happy too!

close by

Lucas' closing quote: "Happiness comes in many forms-in the company of
good friends, in the feeling you get when you make someone else's dream come
true, or in the promise of hope renewed. It's okay to let yourself be happy
because you never know how fleeting that happiness might be."

Yeah…that's right! happiness...
It really feels good to have friends who are close by…
Friends who understands you (and not mock you! Haaay.), who are feels the same way with things at work…with people and with life…haha
drama, but it's true!

After such a freaking lousy, stressful week…and to the point of not eating dinner because of just being too tired …I needed a break!
Such a stress reliever just to hang with friends…and have a "quick" dinner? Haha tama ba? Quick one? Instant gimik, huh?

After work last Friday, I was able to meet up my friends…butas! Haha well, these are my (close by) friend…that means (aside from being close friends)…uh, we are just like neighbours…haha close by!

I met up Ira and Janet! (So nice to see them both! Awww…haha)
As usual, Janet had a car and drove us to GB.(eating and talking while on traffice ah? haha fun!)

We had dinner at NSG (again..remembering the good times? haha). We just chatted…ranted about everything that's been happening with us now…especially with work. Some things…really just suck..and you just have to let out sometimes..and that's a good thing…I mean, let it out with those friends who listens to you…and understands how you feel. And at least with them, you can be you! And at least be happy despite everything…

So…what else? Yeah… we just had a good dinner…

(look oh? just water for dinner? hahaha)

then when Ira left, Janet and I got coffee and went around Glorietta… as in went around! Haha just to find some dress and blouse that we need for parties coming up…we went to several shops…like until around 11pm. Haha sooo late…tiring but fun!

Yeah…that was all fun! Thanks for making it one, Janet & Ira! (i really needed that break too!)
Oh…til next time?
Ayt?
Friends who are close by?
hahaha
labo!

..t'was scary :(

Today was just a no ordinary day…right?

As usual, I got to work early despite the traffic and the freaking lousy weather. I learned that my boss is on leave. So yeah, last day of work this week and with no boss around…yay! no pressure! haha

So, I just edited some paper works…played some games in the computer. Nothing much! And oh...most of the time, our group was just chatting around…and laughing out loud…haha no pressure with work though. It was all fun at work…

then there…

Things happen! Such crappy things happen.

Really didn’t know what was happening around. All I know there was a walk out by that Trillanes, that Lim and company…they go straight to Manila Peninsula.

So yeah…but nothing much, right?

Yeah.. until we got all calls and texts from our family and friends on what was really happening.

Dang! It’s something serious! Really serious that the military..soldiers…everyone…tanks are all there already at the Manila Pen.

Dang! And it’s like only two blocks from our office! Gah?! The heck! What was really happening?! waaa

Everyone in the building was kinda panicking in the office…oh well.

Then when I was about to leave the office… some people who left just left the office came back! And saying… “wala munang baba…nasa baba na natin sila.”

Wutt? What was that all about?

Some of us looked outside the office…and there you go! I see some people running back to the office…and men in black with guns…snipers…they were the swat team! Yikes!

And there... that hit me! It scared me!

I was really scared…that all these were really all happening and I'm just near the area…

oh, crap!

...t'was scary

Then I call out to my sister again and tell her that I can’t meet here up right away coz some of the swat people are just around the office…and some say they’re gun shots already….waaa scaaary. And hear that there are tanks already at the lobby of the hotel…waaaaaa

So there…We can’t go out in front of the office…kinda locked out for a while…but some people left after some time...and just a few who were left at our floor...that scared me too...It was like I had no one with me already...So, I had to leave despite all things...

So there...people had to use the back of the office to go out…and my sister was there too…scared…and just fetched me…then we stayed a bit at her office coz we do not know how the heck we’ll go home. Haaay.

To cut the story short, we got home safely. And that’s the good thing.

But then...you get to see on TV what really happened. People are sooo pathetic!

Mga walang magawa talaga sa buhay oh! tssssssss! haaay!

Dang! People are just too insensitive. I don’t think they even thought about what they did…and that goes to both sides…haaay.

Elected public official doing that?...

letting the tanks get inside the lobby?...

military men all over?...

What the heck? Does that solve a problem? Pathetic!

Oh please…nuff of these crappiness!

Hope things will get better for everyone…

*prays*

Contemplating?!

Gah! I’ve never encountered about money problems in my life. All my life, I know how to save and budget my money...money was an easy thing for me to manage. Not a problem at all. But now...I’m contemplating onto something that involves money.

As you all know, our house is being constructed. There’s a lot of money that we need to finish it (contrary to what people think or say...tsss! [check out my other blog site if you wanna know something about it]). I am helping out the family in paying some bills (not that I am obliged to)...well, that's the least that I can do given the fact that I have a low salary (duh?! haha).

But then I also have some things that I want to buy and want to do!

I dunno if I should sacrifice with what I want or not.

Or is it wrong to do something? Buy something and do what I really want?

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Jade texted me this morning about a certain trip. We've been talking about it for some time already. And now, I think...it's going to happen. haha (that's all good!)

It’s a Batanes art and photo expedition on April 2008. It’s 16k...all in! There’s food, transpo, tour and photo lectures (am I right?!).

That’s a good deal, right?! The trip is just fine for me!

Not a problem.

But here's the problem for me... (haha I know it’s so shallow...but it's something for me.)

…I want a dslr!!! haha

But I dunno if I can afford it...well, I think I can but I dunno.

It’s something that I want now (oh my...I’m really becoming a photography enthusiast. haha)…but I dunno if my mom and my sister would be happy about it...it's because its not time to spend a lot of money coz there's so many expenses now.

Actually, here's my plan...(well, I do plan a lot...sorry, if it's OC or OCD? haha nuff about that.)

I want to have a dslr by December or January...

After that, I want to enrol to photography classes by the end of January till February.

By that time, I know how it all works and I can use it in trips like the one for Batanes.

It’s more of…

I want to have a dlsr and know something about it ...

use it when I get to Batanes…

coz its once in a lifetime experience and I want it to make it right.

All these…

At the same time, I am able to help out my family.

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Too much to ask?

I think so...haha

So there…for me...

Sacrifice? Even just a bit?

Maybe...

I think so...

But I hope I can do something about it in time? And enjoy both...helping out and doing also what I want...

Gah, why can't I just enjoy both?

Too much to ask?

Nah!

Nah? haha

*prays*

footy crap?

Hmm…well, I just wanted to post this info about footy here.
It’s been sometime that I posted about it. Not so much going on with the team actually.
Why?
Because they’re not going to the SEA Games! How great is that?! Pathetic reasons! No funds of sending ‘em out coz of lack of funding?! while they've actually have been given money?! That’s full of crap!
Or is it because its election time?

Come on…give the guys a break!
They’re peaking already and you guys are hindering them from going far now that they actually have a chance of a medal!

Oh…well. Corruptness.
That’s what makes it suck!

Anyway, I was able to chat with a mate? Haha fine,a friend, i guess…online...
I asked, “aren't you guys going to the * dinner...the * thing on dec? just asking..”.
He said, “no because we were meant to play in * but they wouldnt pay for the * team to go so im not very happy with the *.”

Yeah… way to go! Haha ditch ‘em! Haha just kidding...

Anyway, ...but what’s sad actually…
and I feel for them about this whole thing not playing…
when he said,” just a waste of time. we got so far. now we're taking a step back.”

Oh well, let’s just try to be positive? And hope thing will be GREAT next time? Right?
*hopefully*

my-kind-of-photography? (updated)

You know you are seeing such a photograph if you say to yourself,

"I could have taken that picture. I've seen such a scene before, but never like that."

It is the kind of photography that relies for its strengths not on special equipment or effects but on the intensity of the photographer's seeing.

It is the kind of photography in which the raw materials--light, space, and shape--are arranged in a meaningful and even universal way that gives grace to ordinary objects.

-Sam Abell, "Seeing and Shooting Straight" by Sam Abell

...nothing...

nothing to do in some days...haha
nah, just trying to enjoy whatever i see...
you know, some little things...ordinary things that makes you appreciate it a lot...
and that somehow...someway...you can make it beautiful? hmmm...
and yeah, my kinda way out of the stressful everyday life too? haha

anyway, i just updated the album, my-kind-of photography?
here's the link! :
http://lousy11.multiply.com/photos/album/12

hope you guys check 'em out!
i'd really appreciate some comments...
and just want to learn more and improve on photography actually...
gah! i so want to have a DSLR! waaa
can some one give me that?! hahaha

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i really love photography...

love taking pictures just about anything...and i just want to share it with you guys...

maybe you can say that too, quoting from Sam Abell,

"I could have taken that picture. I've seen such a scene before, but never like that."

just for inspiration...ya know...