We just love buffet meals, don’t we?

It’s Italiannis this time.

We came in early, 5:45PM and finished three and a half hours later.

The food was delicious!

Right then and there, I decided to name my future daughter Maria Lala Lasagne Suarez.

For some reason, Jimmy’s boss calls the place - Italianninis!

However one calls it, the food is still yummymmymmy!!!

This is my office space.

As you can see, my friends’ pics are there to inspire and empower me. It’s quite chaotic, especially when I’m under stress.

The Photography Club of our firm has been planning to put up a gallery.  It’s there now.

There are some nice pieces, and some funny too.

Saw this on Jimmy’s blog, so I made my own.

I like.

As the sunset caught me in the office, I couldn’t help but take my camera out and take pictures in the dark.

These photos were taken from the 10th floor window of my building.

The west side, of course.

To have the ability to find beauty amidst life’s many crises, that is my wish.

After reaching it’s bandwidth limit and getting suspended, the site is back up again, now with a bigger bandwidth and more space.

This has been a most hated holiday for me.  Well, because I had a lot of worries with my work.  I enjoyed spending some time with my friends but it’s different when you have something going on in the back of your mind.

Again, there are some things that I learned during this holiday:

• Don’t second-guess your instincts.  Don’t go when you don’t want to go.  Don’t be pressured to turn right when you wanted to go straight on the road ahead all along… because the detour might not end as well as you expected.
• Don’t commit to doing something that you know you’ll hate doing, especially on the holidays.  Life is short, and when you are hurled into this predicament it becomes shorter.
• I still want to stop myself from being very nice and friendly.  People lose that sense of aspiration around me.

I trust the universe that this week will be made better for me.

I know it’s Good Friday and all, a time for silent reflection for a lot of Christians, but we still enjoyed it.

My week has been filled with trials after all…

… and resolutions… and forgiveness.

I hope that just like mine, your day has been meaningful for you as well.

My swordie rendered by tiger rich.  Eyelavet.

It’s the first time that I tried to shoot in the morning, believe it or not.  Well, aside from my test shots, that is.

This is 32nd Street.

I just love this tree’s form.

Looks very retro, doesn’t it?

Another one of those gorgeous trees.

I had to go to work on a holiday, but still you can have a little fun, right?!

When I recall that ill-fated chat conversation this afternoon that almost made me cry, I start to grip my mouse to the point that I hear a slight creaking sound.  A surge of frustration, disappointment, even anger (yes, anger) flows through me.  Why now?  Why now when some things are down to the wire?  Sick twisted fate has given me the ultimate test of prioritization.

Update 1:24PM 3/20/2008:

I’m glad the universe granted me the resolution to this.  In the end, the fact is that I love my friends.  I don’t want a single statement to make our bonds dissipate, just like that.  I still believe our friendship is stronger than that.

Got this off Friendster.

Kewl!

Update 12:11AM 03/20/2008:  I made this entry last night, and set the entry for auto-post on midnight of the 20th.  My sad expression, very prophetic…

Life is bleak.  This is just the worst week of my life.

As I said in the previous post, I had a fight with a friend.  That was Monday dawn…  I should’ve known it would cascade to worst things.

At lunch as I was wallowing in the misery of my derailed career, Steph told me, “Don’t be negative, you’ll attract more negative things.”  She was right.

Finally, the end of this very short work week, I said some things to my bestfriend that hurt him.  I was only saying the truth at that time.  A speck compared to the whole, just made my world crumble some more.

But the truth is always a good thing… even the negativity comes with its life lessons.

Because of my work thing, I might actually have to be here at the Office the whole holiday.  Heck, I need to use this predicament of being alone, without my bestfriend (He’s asking for time before talking to me again), to reprioritize and reflect. 

I don’t know who I’ll be on Monday.  I do see that old Gelo, the one I left before September - before meeting my friends - the one who’s alone but formidable, in the corner of my eye.  I’m sad… I’m sad because part of me will welcome that old Gelo’s ideals.

Maybe it’s predestined that I be alone.

Taken at the Fort Bonifacio High Street last Sunday…

Vic isn’t even drunk YET.

We went to the Manila Ocean Park last Saturday, late afternoon.  Although the line to the tickets was so long, we still loved the experience.

I got some great shots, too.  Sapsap has never looked so chica, in my opinion.

As we headed for Red Kimono for dinner, I had this awesome idea to celebrate my friend Achi’s birthday.  So under the guise of getting money from the atm, Jimmy and I snuck into Secret Recipe to get another one of their delicious cakes.

Belated happy birthday Achi!

I had a busy week, with work, with friends, with dates…  This has been a very well-rounded weekend, what can I say.  So, dear readers, it would be safe to assume that I barely got any sleep.

I just wished that I could say that the week ended on a good note, but that wouldn’t be so.  A misunderstanding with a friend was the last memory I had with them.  Everyone just became tense.  The air was almost solid.

Of course everything will have to be patched up…

Maybe that is what I am, a pacifist by nature.  Anger drains a lot from me.

Thanks to Tiger Rich, Pyrokinetic Man has been given new life.

I’ve scanned and sent him some of my work.  This is just the collaboration I need for my sketching.

Exciting!!!