Monday, April 28, 2003
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I am so enamored with this!
I want I want I want! As in. Dilemma: I'm being offered a switch that will entail me to work ten days straight, with a three day break after. Di ko ata kaya yun. Too much noh?
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Friday, April 25, 2003
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Friday Five while waiting for Gwennie.
1. What was the last TV show you watched? Um... if I'm not mistaken, "Alias." But not the most recent episode. 2. What was the last thing you complained about and what was the problem? Silly clients who ask useless, common sense questions. They add to the queue. It drives us crazy. 3. Who was the last person you complimented and what did you say? It might have been C and his new glasses. 4. What was the last thing you threw away? Fliers and old envelopes I found in my bag which I eventually used as scratch paper while killing time anywhere. 5. What was the last website (besides this one) that you visited? The eight girls' journal. I was just wondering why my latest post didn't publish yet. That's done. I am sooo sleepy right now. Gwennie and I are having odds and ends of conversation because she's trying to work (calling up people) and making kwento, as she's all alone and we haven't really chatted each other up lately. Anyhow, I have my blog to humor me. I think I will be forcing myself to have a haircut today. My hair (although I don't really want to admit it) is ratty-looking already (that's not a very charming way to describing it, I think). I am growing it out, but I can't seem to keep it neat. C offered me this leave-on hair moisturizer or conditioner to try out and I did try it, although it didn't really give much improvement to my hair. Hay naku that's why I look harrassed, my hair adds to the stress in my life. Eek. That sounds vain of me, but I want to look neater than usual. Wala lang, I don't want to be forever remembered as sabog, although it's true. Oh, I'm growing it out also because someone commented that long hair looks bagay on me. Naks. First time. A lot of people prefer me with short hair, but I feel I look mannish at times. Will be trying out this long hair thingy for a while. Haven't had long hair since the first few years of college. But I think I have bad timing--it's unbearably hot these days. So my hair is tied up with a chuk chak (is that what those clamp things are really called?) everytime because a pony tail is just so severe. Hay. My hair. What a thing to think about on my day off. I still stress myself out unnecessarily.
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Have a new breakfast discovery: French Toast at Pancake House! *grin* My dad treated me to breakfast there this morning and I drowned my toast in maple syrup. Yummy, although later on I got umay. But anyway, yummy pa rin.
With Gwennie now in school after one month or so of not seeing her! Nice to see her again. Will be going out to lunch in a while. Can I just say I literally slipped off the jeep earlier today kaya I have this big bruise on my arm. *ouch*
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Thursday, April 24, 2003
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I am very out of it these days.
You know those days when you have a set list of things to do and are unable to do any of those because of so many other things that popped up during the day? That's my life for the past week. Doing everything and nothing. My list keeps getting longer [especially with my long weekend up ahead]. Oh well. I need a break.
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Sunday, April 20, 2003
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I have a whole rambling piece I wrote while I was at work today, but I am too sleepy to go back up to my room and get my diskette. I have been up since 3:30 a.m. today because of the Easter Mass and then I went straight to work. I think I was on adrenaline today because I didn't feel sleepy at all (plus I was incredibly and surprisingly mellow--that's not me at work, trust me. Maybe the tagalized marathon of "Seventh Heaven" did me wonders. Hehe), but now, right in front of the pc, I just want to sleep.
Happy Easter!
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Sunday, April 13, 2003
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So much for my fabulous life this weekend. Well, it's Lent and it's supposed to be sort of spiritual in a sense... and I will be working. I was unlucky (or lucky?) enough to be picked as a back up on Thursday night. Not that I mind all that much (means bonuses). Still. No more fabulous life that C & I were planning.
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Saturday, April 12, 2003
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I was in school today and it felt so different. Yes, I was on my home ground for the past five years--I was there almost everyday for those five years (hello, unforgiving summer classes. They were definitely not that memorable. Oh, and save for four months off due to internships for my course--but I still dropped by school a lot during those days...) and then being away from it for only about five or so months makes a world of difference. It didn't feel like the place my friends and I used to know. So many changes that I feel everything else has moved on while I'm still the same old me. I don't feel I've changed much, just settled in another place for now.
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Tuesday, April 08, 2003
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Stuff, stuff
5. Text agent. 6. Look for former mentor (SC's relative). So I won't forget--I have been forgetting a lot of things lately. I'm just so out of it. I'm not even conscious that I have a deadline to meet. Eek.
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Sunday, April 06, 2003
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Could it be that my favorite clothes store will be getting Natalie Portman as their new image model? I noticed that the Alicia Silverstone billboard along Guadalupe's gone and in the shops, no more Alicia pics. And they have these ads in the paper "Kamiseta is shooting for the STARS... may the force be with you." (it's a not-so-subtle teaser).
 Hmm... Natalie Portman? She's pretty, but I find Keira Knightley (the girl who played Queen Amidala's double/decoy just in case there's a war in that place--sorry, I haven't seen Star Wars) prettier. There's a picture of her in Vanity Fair this month for the new movie "Love Actually" and she was beautiful there. Keira is also in "Bend it like Beckham". Keira has said that she used to look like Natalie Portman when she was much younger that their moms couldn't tell them apart when they had make up on. I digress.
Anyway, back to the new image model. Is having a foreign image model really successful? So we have Alicia, Mandy and now Natalie--do they really wear the clothes they endorse? I remember a classmate in college complaining, "I saw Alicia in a fashion mag, eh di naman niya suot yung Kamiseta!" Uh-huh. She was just paid for those pics. I don't really approve of having foreign celebrities as image models for local brands (it's like there isn't any more young and decent Filipina that could be a role model), but the industry people say it works (per what my Retail and Franchising Management teacher told us in class) and who are we to argue with numbers?
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Saturday, April 05, 2003
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Generally, I really enjoy Fridays: we get to wear jeans, everyone is in a more or less carefree mood because it's the weekend (for mostly everyone, anyway) and there's not much to do around in the office. Even more so today, because so many groups are going out tomorrow/tonight for their respective beach outings (the Batangas team is at it again) and because it's a long weekend! And I'm not working on Monday, which probably means I might work during Holy Week. Nyarks.
It's still an unhappy life, but if you have good friends to pull you through, then it's not so horrible. Being a good friend also helps. Case in point today: Elizabeth had to handle a really mean client that she ended up in tears and it was not fun. Lizzie is strong and all that, but this client was being plain evil. Our team's breaks were all adjusted so that we could hang out with Lizzie to boost her morale. And it helped. It made us all feel better that we were in this together. I realized that we do have a strong support system, especially between the two batches and teams (and everyone else, but we're quite bonded already). A long weekend! I definitely did not want to volunteer on Monday because I wanted to stay home and... just stay away from the office. I think I spend at least ten hours there a day and when I get home, thoughts of it still terrorize me (which shouldn't be the case, of course, but that's just me). For once, I would just like not to think of work and all the stuff there. I might get old faster (I am already, I think). Last week, I went to visit my endocrinologist because my mom thinks that I might have problems with my medical examination for work because of my thyroid problem (or something like that--it's a goiter) so I should go to her daw para she could check it out. I hadn't visited her for about five years, after she lowered my dosage of this medicine I have to take forever, especially when I'm pregnant (!). Anyway, I went to her clinic and I swear, they threw away my records na. I had to fill out a new form and when I told them I was an old patient, they looked for my records, but could not find any. I suppose she didn't remember me because she asked about my case and felt my throat, etc., etc. Then she asked me, "Why are you so thin?" Me naman, I didn't expect that question (no one asks me that), so I was going "Um... Um..." [silence]. I was so surprised she found me too thin? Hehe, maybe because I only see my tummy and thighs that's why I was taken aback by her question. She's the second person who asked me in two weeks about my weight. I think I even gained weight, thanks to breakfasts at McDo, so it's hard to think people find me thin. I'll be going on another hospital visit tomorrow, for my cough again. I still have cough even if I've been taking all sorts of medicines. Hay naku when it go away kaya? Almost three weeks of hacking cough. Ick. Off Candy's Sweet Reminders: "Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky or hearts." -John Muir
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