Cold December in O...

It's December.

I don't like getting my period, the painful cramps makes me bitchy and irritable hence I just wanna take naps. Hate cramps. Men are sooooo lucky they don't endure this every month.


Saw the commercial for Trust Me last night while watching Cheech & Chong Roasted with NG. I half-squealed when I saw Ed Stevens on the screen, the show will start airing in January 2009. Something to look forward too.


According from Yahoo Movies, The Dark Knight is the most-watched trailer of the year, I thought it would be Twilight with all the buzz on that book/movie. I miss E! Coming Attractions.

My first Thanksgiving went good. It was NG's first Thanksgiving here at the casa. Our first Thanksgiving. I prepared the gravy, stuffing and mashed potatoes. NG was in charge of things that went inside the oven like the pies, biscuits and heating of the smoked turkey breasts. NG enjoyed preparing the our first Thanksgiving as much as I was. MajorDad brought 2 bottles of white wine. I don't normally drink wine or champagne but since it's a special occasion, I finished half a glass. I like my drinks fruity where I can't taste the bitterness of the alcohol. I like it that way with my drink.

It snowed Sunday morning. My first snow experience. I took some pictures. Will just post it when I get them transferred from my camera to my laptop. I'm lazy right now. Speaking of laptops, NG bought additional memory and disk space for my laptop, I didn't ask for it but he said, consider it an advance Christmas gift.

I've been playing Texas Hold'em on Myspace, Facebook and Pokerstars. I win some, I lose lots, good thing they are play money. I've never played poker for real except for that one time with the EBC gurls and most of us didn't know what was going on. Hee. That was fun.

Here's to a good December for you and me. God Bless.

My Long Weekend in Pictures...

Had lunch with my Grade school batchmates/friends last November 30th, since it was a Holiday, most of us were free. It was good seeing the others that I haven't seen since Grade school graduation. I'm in touch with a few thru the years since but lost contact with most. We're still looking for batchmates via Frienster or what not. All good.

After my lunch with friends, spent the rest of the evening with my nieces, nephews and younger cousins @ Star City. Heart-warming to see them enjoy the rides and what not.

December 1st, went to Trinoma mall, scheduled dinner with the EBC gurls, NurseA treated us a yummy dinner @ Bubba Gump. Had shirts made for my sisters, the vodka girl one is for SisterJ, the Charmed One is for SisterM. Laney gave me the Starshine [that term we got from Will & Grace, I actually, haven't seen the episode where Karen said that to Jack but it's all good.] shirt, she said, so, I'd remember her always. Hee. Sweet.

After dinner, went to Redbox Karaoke for an hour, I didn't sing, hee. I don't sing. I don't know. Not much a karaoke person really. I've only did that twice, back in the day. One with family [my sisters and I sang Janet Jackson's AGAIN] and one with my HS friends [I TRIED to sing, BABY I LOVE YOUR WAY...] I know, I was out of key, I don't sing. That's that. Leave me be. Heeee.

Then made our way to Mano's house, to divide the chocolates. Hee. Took Ada back to the hotel. Doctora went home too. Eeee, Mano and I bought pizza and pasta and was eating at 3am. Left Mano's house around 9am-ish. Time flies fast when you're in good company.

Blogged Out...

HUMMINA, HUMMINA, HUMMINA!!! Want to have this. Haven't found it yet. Maybe, this weekend.


Baby shower for one of my HS friends and pre-Halloween dinner. It was a good turn out. Only a few missed it. Even if most of my friends arrived way past over the 3pm call time, we still had fun. Laughed a lot. Played Taboo and Charades. I'll see them again in December for our yearly Christmas get-together.


Met a few of my Grade school friends and our former teacher for a late lunch last Monday. We tried and sometimes was successful in remembering people and events back in our Grade school days. We'll meet again mid of this month. Yay. All good.


Nadine and me...she's growing up so fast.

Been trying to come up with an entry for some time now, I don't know, just been busy, I guess. I am usually tired whenever I get online. Just have time to e-mail NG and check my groups and what not. Not much surfing has been done the last few weeks.

I do spend some time playing the TV and Music Trivia on Facebook. I don't really get to browse that site, so much going on. But I'm enjoying the TV/Music trivia.

53 days before Christmas. I'm thinking of making my own cards again but I don't have much time. Oh well. Will figure something out.

Can't tell you much right now, so, will just have to go. I'm on a 4-day no work days. Filipinos are so spoiled in having non-working holidays. Oh well. I wanted to share my work day but it's been the longest day ever and thinking about it makes me tired. So, I won't talk about it anymore. Hee.

Have a good November. I'm hoping the same for me as well. God Bless.

Friday the 12th...

I'm at home today. It's a declared holiday. No work. Was in bed all day. I got some zzzz time as well. Been having an off time with my sleeping lately with my sleeping. I finally got up around 11am-ish. All good. I had my breakfast [taho] then maybe, will have lunch later. It's almost 1pm now. Not hungry yet. Just relaxing on an extra non-working day. Hope your day is okay as well.

Started watching BROTHERS & SISTERS last Sunday night. I'm liking it so far. I'm on episode 18 now. It's a family drama. Go watch it when you can. I also like the songs played on the show. Will probably finish it later. Then will start with the 7th and final [SIGH] season of the Gilmore Girls. Another favorite show ended. Oh well. Me thinks, B&S is the replacement on my drama genre show.



Took these images last week at work when I had one of our client's refrigerated containers examined. It's more like open and close. I took pics because the assigned examiner to me didn't get to go the examination area. And I gave her 600 for that. Hah. Whatever. That's how things are done way way way before I started working in this line of work. People with the least things done gets the most money. We practically pay for their signatures. Oh well.


Nice? Me thinks so. Impulsive me though. Why is it tough to save and so easy to spend it like that? This could be my Christmas gift to myself. Hee. I felt guilty for getting it the first few days since we're experiencing money issues but didn't get to resist it. Oh well. I will try to be more vigilant in saving money next time.


My sis-in-law gave me this bag. Sweet bag. Whee. I'm not used to shoulder bags but this one I lovelike. The size is right. Wish it had more pockets inside to put stuff in though. Now, I'm thinking of getting a wallet. [YES, I don't have a wallet, don't give me that look...hee...] I've survived not having one since high school. I do have a coin purse from SisterJ though. Hmmm, maybe, I'll get a wallet soon. Will see. If I find something that I like, I just might.


We had VS last weekend. It was just supposed to be dinner since Doctora and Eee wasn't feeling okay. But on the way home, decided to get Vodka Cruisers first, then after a few minutes, just decided to get a bottle of Absolut. We got pizza at 3am. Hee. Doctora didn't get to join us though but she knew the VS was gonna happen. Mrs G and I had 4 glasses of AbCoke. Eeee had 3 of her AbFourseasons. We all got dizzy after. Maybe because we drank fast. I don't know. Last time for me prior to that was back in February. We have 3/4 full of Absolut left. Sidenote: Passed by Cherry Foodarama last night with my cousins, the 1 liter of Absolut Vanilia was only 688 pesos. Hmmm. I was tempted to get one. That's one of my faves Absoluts along with the original Blue and Apeach.


Bob and Rix: WE WANT VODKA TOO!!! Hee. They were actually waiting on Eeee to give them more pizza but she was busy with the Ipod Touch.

Okays, me thinks that's it for now. Have a good weekend. God Bless.

Laces...

I got the shoe laces pics from my HS friend Wawi. It's worth sharing, so, I'm sharing them to you. I got to do the Ladder and the Loopback but I can't do the Zipper. I will try again though. It looks nice.

It's 3am-ish on an early Sunday right now. I am not sleepy yet so, I'm still online, been playing bingo at pogo.com. I thought, an update here would be nice.

Another long weekend for me, Monday is yet another non-working special Holiday here in the Philippines. It's National Heroes Day, which actually falls on a Sunday but for some reason, I think, they made a law out of it. I'm not that familiar. All I know is, I've no work on Monday. Extra day to be in bed and get more rest. Hopefully.

This month has been a slow steady month work-wise, all good. I'm not complaining. It has been busy the past couple of months anyway. Slower work days are fine with me.

Last week, I created an e-mail address for my mom. She now has her own email address. She's still learning but I'm sure she'll get the hang of it as time goes by. Nowadays, she can do other things when in front of the computer aside from playing solitaire. Hee.

This is my favorite cousin Nadine, back when she was 2-3 years old, I think. She's 8 now and just last week, she got her own cellphone. Hee. It was her sister AJ's old one and was handed down to her. She's been texting my sisters in Dubai everyday and she's even texting me whenever she has a question instead of just calling me via the landline. Funny gurl. She's growing fast and this pic just puts a smile on my face.

On Friendster, found a friend from High School, it was good having contact again. Even found my crush too. Hee. Internet is great in things like that no? Making the world a smaller place. Bridging the gap. I'm still trying to find a friend I had back in grade school.

Anyhoo, I think, will go for now. I'm getting sleepy. Here's to a better day for you and me. I'm leaving you with this passage:
Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. [John 14:1 NIV]

Thanks for the time in reading. God Bless.

Me = Grateful...

It has been a rainy week, still raining as I type this entry. We have another storm in the country I believe. It rained all day yesterday too. Good thing, I didn't have a hard time getting home. Traffic was light.

Yesterday on my way to the LRT station from the South Port Zone, the jeepney I was in was held up by two guys with knives. When they declared the hold up and showed their knives and aimed it at a few people demanding for mobile phones [NOT money but phones], it seems surreal, I was unaware at first since I was on the innermost part of the jeepney [behind the driver], and one holdupper was saying: cellphone nyo, dali.... I was reaching for my phone since the guy beside me already gave his and for some reason, the holdupper didn't get to me. I guess, they were running out of time.

It happened so fast, must have been under 2 minutes. All I know is, at that time, the fear is really overwhelming. I just kept praying that they will not hurt anyone inside the jeepney. They didn't, thank God.

The lady across me, didn't budge though, she didn't do anything, she did look at the holduppers but she didn't reach for her bag to give them anything, she later said that her faith is so strong and she knew God was on our side. She said, we just have to be grateful we didn't get hurt. When I got off the jeepney, she said God Bless and I told her the same.

Once, at the LRT train station, I was still in a bit of a shock. I even went to the side of the train going to the opposite direction on where I was suppose to go. Good thing, I realized it while waiting for the train on the platform. Hee. I texted my friends just to release my fear and gratefulness that I was okay after that.

Back in 2003, I was held-up inside a tricycle going to the North Port Zone, my phone was taken with me a few 20 peso bills. I didn't have a lot of money at that time since I was just going there to get some documents from the dispatcher of our hired trucking service. Grateful that time too. That guy had a knife too, aimed at my side. Oh well.

I am grateful to God that he didn't allow those guys to hurt any of the passengers aboard that jeepney yesterday. Those phones that the holduppers got can be replaced but the fear and trauma will be with us for quite some time. Just have to keep thy faith stronger each given day. We can never be too careful. We try to be but there are really bad people in this world who doesn't care about anything else but themselves.

On a lighter note, it's a long weekend for me. No work on Monday. Another one of them many Holidays here in the Philippines. We are so spoiled in having a lot of non-working Holidays. All good, need all the bed time I can get.

May you have a good day/afternoon/evening. Keep the faith and God Bless.

Catching Up [yet again, hee]...

Heys. It's 6am-ish on a Tuesday right now. Early day for work. I didn't have work yesterday since the holiday [which is really today, Independence Day] was moved to that day. Was a 3-day weekend for me. Well, not really, since I had to go to work Saturday but it ended around 2pm-ish. Was sms chatting with NG on my way home, then had a quick cam-chat when I got home. Then I took a nap. Nadine woke me up at 6pm-ish as I requested, then more paperwork. Went online for a bit. Then bed.

Sunday, chatted with NG til about 2pm-ish. Finished the paperwork. Cleaned my room and put up curtains from 3-6pm-ish. Tiring but it was satisfying to see my room looking fresh and clean. Hee. I took out a few old magazines from my plastic containers and finally let go of them. I told my Mom she should keep it, in case Nadine or my cousin Alfred [who's staying here with us and attending school, he's a freshman in HS though he doesn't look it, he looks like he's still in elementary...heee] might use them for school projects and what not. I also took out my paperbacks from years ago, was thinking of selling them but I don't know yet. Mom put them in a box for now until I have time to sort them out. My dvds occupy the container that had my books/magazines before right now. All good.

Early Monday [NG had Sunday off and I have Monday off], we scheduled a chat for 1am [my time] and noon [his time] that lasted til about 5am me thinks. Then bed. Woke up around 11am-ish. Had my taho, which I think the taho guy forgot to add sweetener. Hee. Then played UNO with my cousins Alfred and Nadine til about 2pm-ish. Then I did laundry. 2 and half week's worth of undies. Showered. Went online and replied to NGs mails from 7-9pm-ish. Then bed. Was really sleepy. Was out from 10pm-ish til I got up around 5:30am-ish. All good. I feel recharged. Good I got more hours on the sleep than usual. I can say, I'm ready to face a busy work week. If all works out, we'd be able to finish early Friday. I'm thinking positive. Yes.

Nadine's new hairstyle...it looks good on her. Hee. I'm thinking of having a haircut soon as well. We'll see.
Found these magazines and this lil book of questions about love & sex from a BOOKSALE last Saturday on my home. The book cost 15 pesos, the mags under 200 pesos. It's been a while since I bought a mag. All good buy me feels.

Okays, that will be it for now. Must shower and get ready for work. Have a fine week to us all. God Bless.