pandesal breakfast

I treated the coaches... correction, I was forced to treat the coaches this morning. Well, both Coach Ron and I had to treat the coaches. It was part of a deal. Even though I'm still disputing that my Gladiator Flats are not "slippers", but the thong design was the clincher...

Anyhoo, we had corned beef, scrambled eggs, hotdogs, herbed cream cheese and wheat pandesal for breakfast.

Parang dinaanan ng bagyo. I'm glad they liked it. I keep telling them I spiked the food with gayuma... hehe... sige, kain lang kayo, hehe.

Clarity

Had a wake up call today... thanks to my best friends.

I thought that if you start to lose the passion, you need to go and find it somewhere else. Maybe that's true, depends on the situation.

How do you find it?

Start counting your blessings.

Stop, regroup and check your bearings... ACT!

Somehow, God put people on this earth to help you find your direction again.

Just as the old song goes, "I can see clearly now, the rain has gone... It's gonna be a bright, bright, sun shiny day!"

It's time to open more doors.

Lunch with Aardvarks

Had my first lunch gimmick with my new team. We ate tons of Japanese food at Yashinoya yday. I'm glad I had a chance to spend time with them and get to know each one a little bit more. After 2 weeks of non-stop hectic work, I really needed a break. We all did.

I waited for them at Powerbooks, they came in just in time. I was on the verge of buying the new Stephanie Meyer book when Gelai called out.

Ano ba ito, pares pares ba? I didn't know we were supposed to come with a partner! Gelai with his boytoy, Jamill with his girlfriend, Mikay brought Neil Chai, Neil! long time no see! Then Berna came with her sister, Nad came late but her girlfriend also joined after a few minutes. And of course the sweetest couple was there, Nina and Nerio were there also.



Ako lang walang bitbit na partner. Good thing Dayrit was there, so kaming dalawang bakla nalang nagpartner. Hehe!


I'm having so much fun with this team coz we all love the same things. We love to take our pictures, mga camera addicts din sila. Most of all, WE LOVE TO EAT!!! I can't wait to go out for our team building.

Thanks Aardvarks! Thanks for ending my stressful week on a high note.

Macky's birthday

Happy Birthday Macky!

It's my best friend's birthday yesterday. Pero since she's 12 hours behind in Eastern Time Zone, I hope this greeting still came on time.

As my birthday gift to you, Macky, I will not reveal your true age when I announce your birthday to the world. Halatang walang budget for a fancy gift to be shipped all the way to Maryland. Hehe!

I wish you all the happiness in the world! Although you're on the opposite side of the world right now, I'm still hoping that you had a wonderful day.

Mwah! Mwah! Mwah!

Lyn's mom

I just read about what happened to QS Lyn's mom from Erisa's post on her blogsite. Her mom suffered another stroke, this is her second one.

Lyn told me that her mom's still in the ICU and they're waiting for her to stabilize.

I hope she gets well soon.

Dream about a tree

I had a dream about an uprooted tree. It crashed into my bedroom window while I was sleeping with Kyle at night. I can't remember which tree, I think it was an Avocado tree. I can still see its roots upheaving as the rest of the branches and leaves filled my room.



I scrambled to save my things and get Kyle out of the room. The first things I saved were my books and CD collection, afraid they might get wet.

What does this dream mean? Anyone care to share their thoughts or interpretations?

Past lives

I remembered what a manghuhula told me years ago...

He was a friend of a friend, back in college. He claimed to be a psychic, can read Tarot cards, NOT gay, can interpret auras, and if he looks hard enough, can tell you your past life, and his name was Richie.

My friends were so enthralled. He said that one of them was a sea witch. The other one was a sea creature, like a dolphin... they actually met in their past life. Another friend was an old soul and she has at least 11 past lives, including a ruler of an ancient land.

He turned to me and started rolling his eyes. With a shake of his shoulder (similar to shaking after one pees) he tried to touch my aura and then blurted out "You have a young soul."

"This is only your third life. Your first life was an african girl, you died young and innocent. Then you were reincarnated into an animal, which was a higher level because animals have basic needs and are closer to God." (whatda?!)

"What? What animal?", I asked.

"As an animal, you bit someone and then after dying your punishment was to become a human again."

"Ano nga?!"

" A bulldog."

Ang manghuhula... translated in English - the "Guesser".

Playing with Geena's camera

I've been testing Geena's camera feature for the past week. She comes with a 5.0 megapixel camera that rivals my old Cybershot T5. In daylight, she takes clear pictures without the flash. The focus was a little off coz I took this shot while in a moving van. So far the details are crisp.

Though I still need to practise taking pictures at arms length. Some people I know, like my best friend's sister, Lynne, can take pictures of herself perfectly centered using her cameraphone. In this one, I forgot that the light was behind us... hehe! Amateur!

Then I tested her torch light. Kyle was not very happy coz he hates the flash. In fairness, I tried it on myself and I started seeing black spots for over a minute after taking the picture.

When I reviewed the images in the phone, the colors were not so bright. I expected the red hues to jump out. Maybe it's the gray skies or the lack of light that caused it. But when I transfered it to the computer, the colors were better. Hmmm, not really wild about that.

I fiddled with Geena's camera at night, and so far I'm kinda disappointed coz the images are blurry and the torch is really blinding me. After pressing the shutter button, she takes 3 secs to focus and shoot.

Overall, Geena's camera is not bad, but it doesn't stand out either. The entire experience is FIDGETY.

Maybe I just need to play around and be more familiar with her. Get to know her better.

numb

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What do you do when you can't feel the passion anymore?

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Birthday at Superbowl

The MV1 choir met up at Superbowl in Trinoma yesterday to celebrate the 21st birthday of our newest member, Edaine. A few peeps couldn't come but we still had a great, and noisy, time at lunch.

We had a lot to eat, pancit, beef with oyster sauce, variety of dimsum, fried rice and shrimps. Yum!

We talked about my theory of "The Tunnel Curse" which seems like Edaine is the newest victim. Hay naku, we really need to get that "blockage" cleared out. Apple wants to test the theory by leaving the choir... ganun!

Anyway, we had Dairy Queen for dessert afterwards. Everyone ordered blizzards! Which is exactly what we SHOULDN'T be eating before singing at Mass at 6pm later. Mga pasaway talaga!

Had a great time bingeing with the choir again! Thanks Edaine for the wonderful lunch!

Happy Birthday Edaine!