Wanted: drinking buddy

Anybody out there may apply.

Pagod na ako

Damned if I do, and damned if I don't. When will this vicious cycle ever stop?

What's up with Kim?

A whole lotta mess! That's what's up with me. I just noticed that I haven't friggin' blogged for over THREE FULL MONTHS! Too preoccupied with the mundane things that have been happening since my last post... Haven't even had time to visit Chrissy's site, or to read CK's latest rantings and ravings, or to even check out the new pup pictures on http://uncivilone.blogspot.com.

Last night, I managed to read an interesting article on an old Reader's Digest edition (Feb 2004, if I'm not mistaken). The article's called "Stress in 10 Minutes Free."

Oops.

I meant "Stress Free in 10 Minutes." (It's that darned confusing layout.)

So, here I am - implementing one of the tricks that the stress doctors that Reader's Digest interviewed had recommended: thinking happy thoughts.

Since the thoughts that are entering my head are fuzzy and warm, I thought I'd post some pictures of the "old" life I'm trying to get rid of... which I'm hoping that I could fully get rid of by the end of this month.

Above's a picture of my temporary desk in the office. It's what my colleagues have started to call "The Blackhole."

Here's my mini-cabinet. The papers on top of it just started to materialise about 7 months ago. And they've obviously taken over the entire BEING of the cabinet. "What's inside it?," you may ask. Food. Lots and lots of food. Junk food to be more precise.

This box has been with me since July 2007. I haven't opened it since that time, but I keep lugging it around with me. I may never open it up at all. I'm too scared to find out what's already grown inside it.

You would think that the bottom of my desk would be "safe" from me. But, noooo. Thank god there's only one pair of shoes underneath it when I took this picture. There used to be 2 pairs. They're spares, by the way. I had my flip flops on when I took this pic.

And, yes, I wear flip flops to the office. I'm too harassed to wear those killer stilettos everyday.

My brother, the rockstar

Acknowledgment: Trixie B. , you're a star photographer, dude.

Thwarted Nationalism

I believe that the Philippine national government needs improvement. I believe that our people deserve better. I believe that there's a time to stand up for one's beliefs and a time to let peace reign.

When Senator Trillanes and his cohorts walked out of the Makati Regional Court and holed themselves up in another 5-start Makati hotel, they said, "let the Philippine economy be damned, let the Philippine reputation for fear and lawlessness remain."

***** Sigh ******

When will we ever learn?

This is my major impetus to blog

C and Uncivil, thank you for looking for me. I feel the love across the Pacific Lake that separates me from you.

Work's been a beeyatch. I'm having fun, for sure, but it's just been toxic, you know? A girl needs to just sit in front of her TV and watch pirated copies of popular American boob-tube prime time shows after being in front of a lousy laptop 10-11 hours everyday. That said, I CANNOT FRIGGIN' BELIEVE MY LAST POST WAS IN AUGUST. :(

But I'm back (or at least I'm trying to be), because I have a new toy that's motivating me to blog like hell. Check it out, world!

This is my desk at work (teehee, you can even see the brand of cigarettes I smoke. The roll of tissue paper is to wipe the desk in the morning, NOT for use in the toilet, mind you!)...


This is my laptop (badly taken but you've seen laptops a-plenty already, I'm sure, so you know what one looks like)...



I was gonna take more pictures, but my batteries ran out, and my friend who sold me this camera has not given me new ones yet, as he had promised (If you're reading this, Ganns, consider this a shout out!) Not just that, but I accidentally deleted other ones that I've taken of my officemates and of myself, because I had stupidly tweaked the folders of the camera's memory card after I plugged and played it on my computer. There were a few hours of panic, coz I couldn't get the darned camera to save the pictures anymore. But thank god for Ganns, he showed me how NOT to screw up my new camera after he finished his meetings that day.

So, expect more blogging to come from my l'il corner, world. This little camera, whom I've named Bubba, is gonna get abused a lot in the next few days (that is, as soon as Ganns gives me the batteries that he's promised me at the onset of our transaction). :)

h0liDae sEa5oNs

Josh Groban came to the Philippines recently. Tickets for his concert cost between PHP3,000 to PHP25,000 (approximately USD70.00 to USD591.00) and Groban still packed 'em in here in "impoverished" Manila, Philippines! He even brought two of the most influential, still powerful, and politically-opposed women in the country, Former First Lady Imelda Marcos and Former President Corazon Aquino, together under one roof, without any political agenda whatsoever.

With the holiday seasons quickly creeping up on us, I wonder how "impoverished" Filipinos will be in term of their spending to give our other underprivileged countrymen peace of mind at this time of the year...