While looking through my old pics, I saw these

Pics of me from three years ago so long ago

I was still working for another company then.  We had to come to work in corporate attire.  I can’t imagine doing that now, too hot these days for that

My Internet is back 100%, yipee!!!

Anyway, I finally had the time to upload photos to my facebook.  I also got a new link to my facebook.

Hope you can check it out…

Rummaging thru my photos to upload, I saw this photo

and I thought - pampeysbuk! lol

Have a great weekend!!!

I’m an 80’s biological kid, but I also feel like a 70’s adopted child.  I grew up listening to MJ and loved watching reruns of Charlie’s Angels.  When I woke up today and saw the news on the blogosphere, I felt like part of my childhood died with them.

Rest in peace Michael and Farrah.  You will surely be missed.

I read this on chuvaness and it hit close to home.

If you don’t like something, it is not necessary to say so if circumstances cannot be changed.
For example, if your friend buys an ugly dress and is stuck with it, don’t tell her it’s ugly.
Many times a person’s feelings are more important than your opinion.

Have a great day everyone

Cramming my running gear on my backpack today, I find myself aching for a gym bag hehe

I checked out Jack Spade, after like eons of not going there.  I saw this

I want.  I wanted this before, and I still do now

I haven’t bought a single bag in more than a year (as far as I can remember…  maybe it just felt that long hehe) .  I’ve been good naman.  OK now I’m just rambling to myself, and to you unfortunately, whether I deserve a splurge.  It’s affordable, or attainable, in the realm of Jack Spade of course…

I am at a disconnect right now, in more ways than one.

Perhaps because I over-vacayed myself, as in spent too much time this month vacationing, that I don’t feel like doing anything else except curling under a rock on weekends.  For somebody who travels a lot out of town and everywhere else, my navigation skills in and around the Metro, especially beyond Makati, is slim to none.  I mean… there’s a lot to see in Manila, right?

My internet at home is almost always down.  Well, maybe until the middle of the week, else doing entries here at the office is a near impossibility.  I am temporarily exiled at another site and my area makes it hard to do non-work stuff.  Without resorting to cloak-and-dagger sh*t, that is.  Don’t get me wrong, I’m kinda liking it here - fresh, new environment and all that.

According to my stars, my social life is going to be quiet.  That is a welcome thought. That is also very accurate.  It’s quiet but it has vision and longevity ( ok I’m getting cryptic here hehe).  I’m feeling like I’m on the right track.  Relentless people, who are mostly there last May to bug me have been very quiet.  So this kind of disconnect is good

Circumstances may have been building a moat on my life at the moment, but for the most part, it’s a welcomed silence.  Except for the no-internet part.  I’m wanting my internet at home.  Please universe, make it so

Lech talaga… Leche Plan!!! lol

Saw this on the funny blog Mcvie.  Made me laugh out loud at the office

Have a great weekend everyone!!!

My day started bad enough.  I was almost ready to throw in the towel and just drown in the randomness of it all - the bad random kind.  But it turned out OK, almost.  I settled in nicely at my temporary location. I was more like floating my way throughout the day.  I guess it has yet to sink in.

Good thing about this place though is that there are a lot of people that we’ve missed that work here.  So it was kind of a reunion for me, my team and our friends.  We decided to have our PM snacks at the Pizzeria downstairs called Sicilian.  Mygad their White Pizza (at Joey Pepperoni they call this Bianca) is just amazing.  What’s better is that we get it for free if we buy a large premium pizza.  The pizza went down nicely since it was surprisingly light (4 of us took on the challenge of downing both pizzas), unlike the more commercial pizzas in the Metro that are quite heavy on the bread.

You guys should try it out (The pepperoni italian premium pizza is yummy too).  Their place is at One World Square, Mckinley Hill, Fort Bonifacio, right beside Mcdonald’s.

How was my day?  All in all?  Mixed feelings…

Today was tough.  I caught myself taking deep breaths many times today.  Even my team and friends noticed it.  Tomorrow I transfer to another building temporarily and I’m not liking the idea.  It’s just for a month though.  I hope to survive it hehe

Anyway, Steph and I decided that we deserved an Oliver’s dinner.  So, braving the rains we went

We had some soup, sandwich and cake.  Steph had the corned beef while I got myself some egg mayo sandwich.  For dessert we got yema cakes.  Very nice and satisfying meal at 199Php a pop.  Not bad

Pray for me guys.  The next few weeks will be rough.

It rained almost relentlessly this morning that I had a lot of trouble going to work.  Actually, as soon I woke up I felt that this day wouldn’t be so great.  Then one thing led to another that as I got to the office I was convinced that I should’ve stayed in bed today.  Having said yes to a dinner meeting with friends later notwithstanding, I wanted to make this day as short as possible.

I couldn’t help but wonder, where does that side of me that’s formidable go in hiding on a day like this?

Reality check… I am one who reads the signs.  I know that there is no such thing as coincidences.  Circumstances are threads in the tapestry that is the Universe.  The Universe always points the way, yet when I find that some things are starting to go south my mood does to.  Sometimes I become a slave to the signs, when in fact it should be otherwise.  I am still the master of my fate, as we all are.

There is still one best way to predict the future, and that’s to create it.

It’s always fun to spend a day like this with good friends.  Some of them new although I’ve been working side-by-side with them at the office, but the trip gave us an opportunity to bond with each other.

Of all the pics, this I like best

Hilarious!!!

You can find the gallery Laiya with Friends here and Scenic Laiya here.

I was quite sure it would rain on our little team outing.  But God granted us a nice weekend with a lot of sun

And the surrounding clouds provided an interesting sky for my lens

Eyelavet

You can view the Scenic Laiya gallery through this link and the gallery with friends here.

I’m back from this weekend’s outing in Batangas.  God granted us clear skies, I am so thankful.  Now I have to nurse my sun-burnt skin.  Not too sunburned, I actually think it looks nice on me

For anyone wondering how the rest of my adventure in Baguio went down, it was great.  I went back energized, happy and grateful

You can view the gallery here.

Hope everyone’s having a great weekend… I sure am!!!

…and floating restos hehehe

Having lunch at the Isdaan Floating Restaurant was such a treat.  I love the place…

There were giant statues resembling temples in Thailand.  So that was a definite photo opp

And the best part is the cathartic wall (as I call it), where you can break plates and aim them at the specific people as written on the wall hehe

You might wonder who I aimed my plates at, ei?

You can view the rest of the gallery here.

Sometimes I find myself in awe of God’s creation.  At more than one moment on that balcony, I was in such a state.  How could I…  How could we have deserved this…

The Merging  by Midnight Anxiety (September 2008) 

I gazed at the sky
and saw the birds fly

I sat on the earth
and felt it give birth

To a thousand wonderful things,
so I asked the Infinite Being

“However could I have deserved all these?”
He answered from deep within

“I did not just give you these things”

I am with you as you are with Me
Like drops that merge into the sea

As your heart is capable with infinite goodness
So I am capable of inexhaustible grace

So this is our will intertwined
That grew this world of yours and Mine.

Have a blessed Wednesday everyone.  As blessed as I feel right now…