This is My Life

My sizing is now close to a million dollars, more than twice our initial estimate. I doubt I’ll get this funded. The good news is, the project will be canned and I don’t have to deal with a possibly chaotic testing and implementation. The bad news is, I’m not going anywhere for the rest of the year.

Being the positive, proactive, pa-bibbo kid that I am, below is my action plan:

1. Haircut – Check!
2. Shop for new clothes – Check!
3. Finalize my resume by next week – In Progress
4. Create a list of possible career opportunities outside ACN by next week – In Progress
5. Apply! Apply! Apply! – Not Started
6. Contingency: Demand for roll off by December this year – To Be Completed by first week of August
7. Contingency: Mobilize ACN Network to look for next project – Start Date is August 7

Being the procrastinate-incarnate that I am, this is not going to be easy. Kakailanganin kong samuin ang buong lakas ng aking brilyante. This will surely put to test my beauty queen training. Pagpalain nawa ako ni Emre.

I’m looking for a copy of ‘Boy from

New York City

’ by Manhattan Transfer. Let me know if you have it. Better still, send it. J

The second richest man in the world, Warren Buffett, donates $37 Billion, that’s with a capital B, to Bills Gates’ foundation.

Here are a few questions running through my head when I read the news article in BBC:

1. He has all that money to donate? Seriously?
2. Why would someone donate so much money? Not only is the nominal value staggering, the amount accounts for an approximate 85% of his fortune!
3. Where is the line?
4. Who do I have to sleep with to amass such wealth?

I just got the result of my APE, annual physical exam, and here’s the result:

• I have low HDL (high density lipoprotein) or ‘good cholesterol’ in layman’s term.
• I have high VLDL or ‘bad cholesterol’.
• I’m underweight. For my height, my ideal weight is from 141 to 170 lbs. I only weigh in at 137 lbs.
• There’s something with my ECG result that they want me to check with a cardiologist. I’m prepared to hear them say that I have no heart. J

This week should be a light one for me. I’m off tomorrow and I have a 3-day training starting Wednesday. Life is good…for now. J

I need a haircut. Bong is not coming back until July. I’m scared to go to a different stylist.

Is it possible that pimple and uneven skin tone are stress induced? If you have medical evidence to support this claim, please let me know. I have a pimple the size of Mt. Everest that will dwarf even Enrique Iglesias mole…before he decided to mutilate it of course. And as if this is not enough I have uneven skin tone in spite of my regular exfoliation…ok not so regular but heck I do exfoliate from time to time…and daily cleansing ritual! I was up for almost 24 hours last Friday, I slept at around 930 the following morning and I wasn’t even out partying. I attempted to finish watching season 2 of Greys Anatomy but my eyes won’t cooperate and I had to abandon my ‘attempt’ because I have plans for the night. I was up after 5 hours of sleep. Wins and I are out of the province at around 6. We all barely made it to ‘Doubt’. Consi was working that day. Yes you read it right, she was working and on a Saturday! How weird is that? Rj beat us by a minute or so. Thank god Net was an angel and not one of us. She was there a good 30 minutes before the show. The play was about perception and reality. Sister Aloysius ‘doubts’ a priest and his ‘closeness’ to young boys and is unsure if she should confront the priest even without evidence to support her suspicions. We had dinner after, Consi had to go back to work though. After dinner, we went to Eastwood where Consi is staying for the weekend for a bottle of wine, 3 pints of ice cream, leftover food, and Xtreme Magic Sing! I get to finish Greys Anatomy on Sunday and start on Kim Sam Soon. Meredith is a surgeon from a dysfunctional family fell in love with a married man, who is also her boss whose wife is also working on the same hospital and is also her superior. To describe her life as messy and stressful is an understatement. Funny thing is the way she copes with it, she sleeps around. Don’t get me wrong, I am not judging her, far from it. I envy her! How does one do that? Don’t I have enough stress in my life to resort to such ‘coping’ mechanism? Ok don’t answer that. She’s not my favorite character though, it’s Dr. Yang. She reminds me of myself, detached, shrewd, logical, but soft in the inside. Thanks Nina for giving that fabulous testimonial! Tunay kang maaasahan. For the rest of you guys reading this, this is your last chance! Write me a testimonial or I will write you off my friendsters list and as an added bonus….mababaog kayo!

I’m frustrated that ‘A’ is holding off on approving my ‘assignment’ until we’re go for one of my projects. Bi-atch!

I’m anxious to know if I played my cards well for the past year to merit a good news come September. Hopefully I hear something sometime this month though.

To make matters worse, my perennial quarter life crisis is on a rampage!

Somethings wrong with the stars…my stars that is.

Create a testimonial for me will you? I can use a dose of therapy now.

Thanks to my company’s over zealous security policies I have not visited my friendster account for ages until now.

A number of things have happened since…proclamation of state of emergency by the president…brokeback mountain…zsazsa zaturnah…and just recently the demise of encantadia.

My evaughl friends, Philippine Chapter, went to Hong Kong and Macau for the Holy Week. It was loads of fun adventure wise but a major disappointment shopping wise. There was no sale! We had the most gracious and generous host in Macau. Although, he and his wife are totally clueless with regards to our alternative lifestyle. Or are they really? We’ll have to ask the next time we visit.

The gays are planning on going to Singapore early/mid July. Unfortunately I won’t be able to join. I am hoping I’d be in the sunshine state by then.

Who would have thought that I would actually go on mountain climbing? I am proud to announce that I conquered Mt. Pulag, the highest mountain peak in Luzon, second only to Mt. Apo in the Philippines, without any adverse effect on my skin.

I learned/gained a lot from that climb. One, I should pack light. As usual I brought tons of clothes thinking its best I have choices. So I ended up cursing all the way up and seriously considered throwing some of my clothes along the way. Two, wet ones are the best! They made the whole experience more bearable for me. Three, moisturize and keep your self hydrated. You can never have too much moisturizer and sunblock on. Last, I gained tons of friends.

I am looking forward to my next climb.

Matagal akong napahinga sa Friendster and pag Blog hindi dahil sa kinatamaran ko na naman ito….ok….hindi LAMANG dahil sa kinatamaran ko ito kundi dahil sa blocked ang friendster sa office. Ang simple no?

Ngunit sa di inaasahang pagkakataon….at dahil na rin siguro sa mataimtim kong panalangin ke bathalumang Ether….bigla akong naka access sa friendster account ko today….wag kang OA…di ko araw araw tina try mag log in no….ngayon lang…parang nadama ko lang na makakapasok ako…at tama ako! Kaya heto ako…sinasamantala ang pagkakataon. Sana hindi lamang ito isang fluke.

Ano ang bago sa akin? Ipod Video, sapatos, tsinelas, at dalawang polo. Bukod dito…nothing fundamental…parang macro economic variables…changed.

Nanood ako ng Brokeback nung Saturday…although napanood ko na sya sa Dibidi…panoorin nyo ito…powerful! Sa aking mga gay friends maaaliw kyo dito…para sa aking mga hetero na friends…sana makita ninyo ang tunay na mensahe ng pelikula…love transcends gender, sexual preference, time, and space…sana ma realize nyo ito after nyong maduwal duwal sa bed scene ne Ennis at Jack…ok lang… kami rin naman naduduwal pag may hetero bed scene…etchos!

Zsazsa padilla…mag ta-trabaho na ako…promise.

Total ETC in my workplan. In the ideal 40-hour work week world, my Total ETC should total 40 hours, but that’s rarely the case. I’d say I average around 45 hours. If you think that’s not bad, poor you, you must be working longer hours than I do.

Sleep hours. If it’s less than 6, I am either lethargic or grumpy the whole day. If it’s over 8 hours, more often than not I’d be spending the day in bed watching TV eating a bag of chips with occassional visit to the bathroom.

E-mails read. Another work-related metric. Enough already!

Glasses of water…consequently…number of times I take a leak which is directly proportional to the number of glasses of water I drink in a day.

Number of friends in Friendster. Add me ok…lol.

Number of testimonials in Friendster. If you’re a friend…testimonial…haller…schnell schnell

Measure in love…and how do you propose to do that?!

Did you know that a ’sworn virgin’ is called such because she swears to become a man. From the day she takes this vow, she becomes a man: she dresses likes one, acts like one, walks like one, works like one, talks like one, and her family and community treats her as one. She is referred to as he. He will never marry and will remain celibate all ‘his’ life.

According to Uncle Forbes, most men do not spend a lot of time thinking about shoes. For men, shoes are usually best appreciated when kicked off at the end of a long day. Sneakers for the gym, a good pair of boots, some loafers and a few sober shoes for the office — that’s about it. Better still, for the most part, men’s shoe styles seldom change, so as long as he doesn’t leave them out in the rain for several days or let the dog use them as a chew toy, he doesn’t need buy new pairs every year. I beg to differ. One should also have shoes for driving and shopping. In fact, one could have shoes for every activity or occasion one could think of. I think it’s totally inappropriate for Neal, the one who wrote the article, to generalize men and their relationship with shoes. Don’t worry, I’m not pressing charges.

I read in BBC that the cost of current US military operation in Iraq is $5.6 Billion a month. That’s almost a quarter of the ANNUAL budget of a mid-size Third World country, i.e. the Philippines. This doesn’t even include the billions of dollars the Americans are spending for reconstruction and aid. I think the government and private sector should have explored opportunities on how we could have particiapted on some of the lucrative deals besides sending cheap labor.

Why do I have a boring life? Why do I feel like everybody around me are enjoying their lives to the hilt while my existence is mediocre at best? I contstantly engage myself on trivial pursuits that are, well, trivial. Is this all in my mind? Can I ‘will’ this to change?

I just finished eating a box of chocolates. I tried to stop myself but the flesh is weak. I hope I can force myself out of bed tomorrow and go to the gym.

It’s freezing cold outside. I’m going home soon to bask under the blazing heat of the tropical sun… and sweat like a pig. This is why I have no intention of buying myself a pair of gloves and ear muffs. I am confident I’d be able to endure the cold for the next three weeks without them…so I hope.

I’m watching Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire tomorrow! I hope it’s good. Next week I’m watching Rent. I’m excited just thinking about it, I’m sure I’m going to cry.

‘Traumatic Relationship’… haven’t had one…thank God…or not…but I’ve seen 3 friends of mine go through them in the last 3 weeks I feel traumatized myself.

Why do men…ok people…have the gall to cheat and at the same time profess their undying love to their partners? Worst, why do people put up with it? My theory…these people are in love with the concept of love…they just want to be with someone…they want something constant in their life…I could be wrong though.

How does one fall out of love? Is this even possible? Was he/she in love in the first place? I think that’s what happened to my friend…she fell out of love…correct me if I’m wrong dear. I’m just happy she realized this before 2006.

I pity those who coward behind other people… i.e. their MOTHER…or behind God. I loathe those who don’t have the ‘balls’ to stand for what they believe in…or to make a stand at all…I just described the ‘ex’ of my friend…yes she actually liked him…a momentary lapse in judgment…she is definitely better off without him.

It is cold.