Thursday, April 29, 2004
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I'm sooo lazy. :) The weather is just so warm, I just want to lie down (not in my bed though, my room's really warm) and doze. I've forgotten how hazy summer days are.
 Summer reading means light reading. We've been swapping "Love Stories" and "Sweet Dreams" in the office. For the past week, I must've read through my teammate April's collection. I don't have much to contribute, though, I only have two "Sweet Dreams" books and only one "Love Stories" book. Reading those books brought back high school memories of lying in the Multi and just reading. I've wept all over again over "Sharing Sam", gotten super kilig with "Hot Summer Nights" (there's a part there that's very kilig; I can still remember it vividly even
after seven years) and wished we had a best friend like Cain in "More than a Friend". I think everyone must've read "P.S. I Love You"--that's the definitive "Sweet Dreams" book. We all sigh over Paul Strobe, even if the story details are already vague. Right now, everyone is amused with the books we pass around and the general giddiness we have everytime we have a new book around. It reminds me a lot of high school. Hee. Those were the days.
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Monday, April 26, 2004
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Semi-reunion with the F Girls (di kase complete)! I'm so tired already (had work at 7a today), but I'm wound up from tonight. Super jumbled thoughts and feelings: disillusionment (with politics and people around me), senti (I miss the girls and I've realized that Bliz is really one of the few people close to me), happy (wedding coming up and major gossiping), etc. *sigh* Really different worlds na talaga kami but it was as if we were still officemates. :) Hee. Of course, I'm still huli sa balita about the people at work even if among the four of us who were present, I was the only one who still works there. Goodness. Like, they were naming the cute new hires... hello, I didn't even know that. How funny.
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Thursday, April 22, 2004
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Been in a very blah mood lately. Happy then sad then happy and sad. Fweh. It's a phase, I think.
I'm not going to the excursion this weekend and next weekend because I have work. How unfun. Can't do anything about that. But I have a bridal shower/reunion to go this weekend! Pretty much looking forward to that. I can't find my completed Care Bear sticker book. I was supposed to show it to my friends after our major childhood days reminscing thing (we were laughing over memories about "My Little Pony", "Rainbow Brite", "Thundercats", "Smurfs", etc.). I got it out of the bodega before, but I don't know where I put it. Oh well.  See what Care Bear you are. Bedtime Bear? My favorite was the green one, Wish Bear or something like that? :)
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Sunday, April 18, 2004
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I didn't know I could be very sentimental and mushy during wedding! Usually in weddings, I'm glad for the couple getting married. Really. I don't really cry, I'm just so happy for them. But at April's wedding yesterday, waah, naiyak ako (although I had to control it a bit--the make up artist put lots of eye makeup)! Pia, the maid of honor and I were both teary-eyed when the priest pronounced them man and wife. *boohoo* And also when I was speaking to the bride at the reception, I was about to cry! It hasn't quite sunk in yet though.
I'll never forget what Pia said about the couple: "They're so sure." *sigh*
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Thursday, April 15, 2004
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The most uncooperative wedding entourage member harrassing the bride mainly through text messaging. Yup, I've been mostly communicating with the bride via text. I haven't had time to meet up with her before the wedding at all (in fact the last time we saw each other prior to the wedding plans would be early last year yet. WAF ko noh?) and I'm such a loser by missing the bridal shower-reunion (kase naman... nagpakabayani kase).
The text messaging flurry of all my silly messages (ie, "Can my dress be short?" [no], "How purple?" [like the invite], "11a on Sat? Can I be there at 12?" [happy face]) ended with my last message, "Don't freak out with my purple dress when you see it on Sat ha" and her last reply, "No freaking out in my plans". Okay. That definitely shut me up already. :)
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Wednesday, April 14, 2004
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I'm so full of meat. Ick. I don't like the feeling of being so much a carnivore. Stopped by the grillery with my teammates after work for bbq (I love the bbq there, they like the isaw) and then my dinner when I got home was bbq again. You know that feeling of too much meat but too little greens? I don't know how some of my friends can stand just meat and no greens.
Anyway. I was going to write about how I like my current team, but I miss the Fab Team. Being with the Fab Team was like ages ago already. So many little things changed in the past four months but only now does it seem like one big change that shook me. It was I guess when Puals said something like, remember our late days? Those were the days. It just feels weird because I feel like I was someone else then and am someone else now. Okay, that sounded a bit schizo, but it's hard to explain. Is that possible anyway? That I like being with these people because of who I was/am with them? Is that weird? But then it's not really fair to compare then and now, is it? I feel I've grown so much with the Fab Team... there are just some things I can't admit to them yet. Yiii. But still everything is different now and I feel funny overreacting. I can feel a change, but I don't know how it feels to the others. Oh well. Maybe it's just me. * * * I remember now why I don't like to drive. I'm so exhausted when I get home. Since my bro is living it up in Bora, the car is free so I might as well take advantage and practice my driving. Although I do leave the house and office at odd hours (so less traffic), it still is tiring. I drive along with trucks and jeepneys and buses. Hay. Stressful. Driving is also expensive with gas and parking! Grr. During weekends, I can park in the building for free, but on weekdays, I have to use the pay parking which is expensive. I don't have a sticker yet for free parking, but that might be unlikely because I don't normally bring a car. What I appreciate about driving though, is that I can manage my time and work without having to worry that someone is already waiting for me. That is the one thing I hate when my parents will fetch me. I take long sometimes to finish up so they wait for about 30 or more minutes. Hassle din for them (though they'll never admit it). Most likely next week though back to commuting and sundo for me. * * * Finally tried Ice Monster today! Mango ice. Siguro I overestimated myself and got the regular size instead of the smaller one. I thought the smaller, teaser size would be bitin--I was wrong. It was nice because the mangoes were sweet but I think I had too much for that one serving. Next time I will really get the smaller cup with a scoop of ice cream. Rava's strawberry ice with a scoop of strawberry ice cream looked absolutely interesting.
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Sunday, April 11, 2004
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I just have to post that I'm quite proud of myself being able to overcome my fears in driving. We-ell, I don't particularly enjoy driving (being caught two times and having a flat while driving along Edsa as well as wrecking our previous car gave me enough driving trauma to last a lifetime) and the last time I drove was a year and a half ago. As in no practice at all (I have my dad and my bro to drive me anyway, hehe. And I can always commute). So today, I gathered up all my nerve and drove myself to work. It helped that there was no traffic today. :) And then the girls and I went out for dinner and tambay in Makati. This time, Rava drove to Makati then back to the office, but tonight was also the first time I drove late at night all by myself. Whee--well, not so much. There may be some crazy people out there so I was the cautious kid out there.
My dad's right: once you learn to drive, you don't forget it even if you're out of practice. So there. Point proven. I still know how to drive! Yay. I'm still wound up from tonight's major bonding session and all that, so I can't really sleep yet. But I'm a bit sleepy already--to think also Mass is at 4a today and I had a long day at work. Goodness.
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Sunday, April 04, 2004
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Current Addictions:
Gloria Jean's Coffee - I never went to GJ until I was in a new team. Turns out they like to go to GJ for a coffee fix (Starbucks and Seattle's Best are a bit far). They do have pretty good cold drinks like the coffee for the month of February the Chocolate Macadamia. That was so delicious, but after Feb, they took it off the menu already. Too bad. This month I think it's White Chocolate Mousse or something like that. Interesting. Manila Pen Cheesecake - my dad brought home squares of the cheesecake. I think it's the NY Cheesecake. Sarap. TV - hehe, the past week, I've been watching anything (mostly on Star World). There's "American Idol", "As Told by Ginger" on Nick, "Cheers", "The Simpsons", "Just Shoot Me" and so on. Guilty pleasures include "Baywatch" (first season) and "The Bachelor" on Studio 23. I can never seem to catch "Survivor" though. Extenso (not sure of the spelling) - I love Ais' hair because it looks so nice due to her hair treatment. It looks rebonded, but not as strong, I think. And it's not as expensive as well. It tames the hair so the hair comes off straighter but not as severe as a rebond. I'm suffering from hair envy. I'd like to have that done as well, but I'm afraid my hair won't be able to stand it.
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Thursday, April 01, 2004
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Why does doing the "right thing" now have to be so difficult?
Usually, it's not because it's okay. That's kind of hard to explain. But I don't want to do the "right thing" now because I don't at all. I hate being so... weak about this.
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I'm tired.
I finished the impossible purple dress hunt by going to the one who did my grad dress before. I kind of gave up looking for a ready-to-wear dress after scouring almost all the malls in the Makati and Ortigas area. Most of the dresses on sale made me look like a starlet on her first awards night: sequined within every inch of its life and bathed in tulle. No. Or maybe I just don't know where to look. I did fall in love with a dress at K & Co. It was a short pink shantung silk shift--everything the bride did not want my dress to be (my dress is supposed to be purple and long). I loooved that dress. I wanted to buy it! But I'm not a very dress-y person and I don't know when I'd be able to wear that dress. *sigh* I more or less know how I want to look like on the wedding day of my friend. As a secondary sponsor, I chose to have my dress in purple, Sabrina neck and... long. I wanted an a-line cut for the bottom, but everyone with me (my dad, bro and the dressmaker) vetoed it saying there would have to be a petticoat (?!) underneath. Err... okay. I just didn't want a form-fitting bottom because I'm more pear shaped, so I don't want to enhance my thighs. Eek. As for the accessories, I got new silver sandals (which I have to practice walking in! I just realized they're sort of kitty heels--and I am not used to wearing heels. I would've used the old ones I have but they are ratty already) and a lovely silver handbag. I could have had a purple bag made to match the dress, but nah. I've been thinking about the bag I bought ever since I first saw it. :) What I lack, although a bit unnecessary, is a hair accessory. I want to have a pretty wire-y headband for my hair like what Ais had before for this wedding she went to. My only concern now before my first fitting would be if I should have beadwork along the neckline. I think it's a bit over for an afternoon wedding and I might look exag. Although it's a nice idea, but I honestly think it might be over. But without the beadwork the dress might look plain. I wonder. So in this case, is it better to be overdressed than underdressed (granting, I can't pluck out the beads)?
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