this long weekend was brought to you by my officemate who swapped rest days with me. he took my Saturday [Nov. 29] and he gave me his Monday [Nov. 17]

Saturday night was scheduled for my college barkada. we met up at Greenbelt 3, and then decided to have dinner somewhere else. we wound up in Macapagal Blvd., over at HongKong Chef.


after having that sumptuous meal, we went ahead and checked out some of the "fine establishments" down by the dirrty south. we window-shopped for a couple of minutes, then decided to call it a night. [only because none of them wanted to join me...  ]


Sunday night was devoted to my fellow plurkers shabby, her bro maru,  and joiz. there would've been more of us...

Monday, i was expecting to go out with Mom and Kuya's family as they usually do. but apparently there was none scheduled! so i just "went out for a bit". when evening came, david and jeng texted me if i wanted to meet up with them. and so i did. ended up meeting them in Greenbelt 3, and since all of us had dinner already, i suggested that we play billiards [since i was kinda bitin from the other night]. so we went to Sid's over at Jupiter to drink and play some billiards. we only stayed for like 2 hours 'coz we all had work the next day.

...and that's it!

[will take advantage of the avail time i have here at work to post this...]

• i'm now on the full GY sked [8pm-5am, still weekends off] meaning, no Christmas and New Year at home...
  
• went to the province last Oct. 31 - Nov. 2 to see dead peoples... [and the living ones too!] got smashed and kicked by teh Smiling Horsey while drinking with the relatives...
  
• finally got Tera! [for the uninitiated, it's what i call my 1Tb Western Digital MyBook Essential Edition.] but i haven't converted her to NTFS... will do that this weekend, hopefully.
  
• once again gave in to the urge...
  

uhh... that's it? i guess nothing much happened with my boring and uninspired life... some pix i took will be uploaded this weekend, hopefully.

just go to my plurk page to get the latest, up-to-the-minute happenings.

[i'm posting this while i'm in the province, and seeing that i won't be back home 'til next month, might as well do this already]

the GOOD:

• i won a digicam at a raffle!
  
• got to meet Alodia at a cosplay convention!
  
• plurk! 'nuff said!
  
• learned that i was 5th in the list of the top agents at our account
  
• semi-reunion of the Llave families
  

the BAD:

• gave in to teh urge.
  
• October stats at work = wasak!
  
• friggin' queue!
  

the HMMM:

• lots of leaves applied
  
• new sked for next month [8pm-5am still weekends off]
  
• buying a new [and definately needed] 1 TB harddrive for my compie before the year ends.
  

 

i've been sooo enamored with plurk these past few days that i've failed to give my bloggie some much-deserved attention... *points to teh top of my blog* [haven't i pinmped this link enough!?! ]

last week, i was fortunate enough to have a self-made vacation from work. i got the allocations for Mon-Tue-Wed, so counting my restdays, i was away from work for 5 days! wo0t! ?as you saw in my edited post, Sunday was spent on Cosplay Mania '08. majority of these days were spent at home, relaxing and chilling, primary reason being that i had no more money. ?srsly, i _need_ to learn how to control my "urges".

so i went back to work, refreshed and recharged. even if i only had 2 days on that workweek, man, it was tiring as hell! it seems that no matter how many people they add on the floor, they also increase the volume of the calls.?also, my friends decided to watch Tropic Thunder without me!??i was really bummed out 'coz i wanted to see it with them and i needed to detox as well... i made sure that they knew how i felt through plurk. [at least to one of them though, the others haven't "conformed" yet.] they [david and anna] kinda-sorta made up with me though by meeting up with me?after they finished up with some "thing" that they had to do. i'm still not convinced that they did not enjoy watching the movie.

for family matters, we had a sumptuous dinner over at Max's Sucat. the Llave's from Mon-El Subd., Tahanan Village, BF Las Piñas and Paco have gathered 'coz we had a balik-bayan visitor.

speaking of drama, one of my friends, had some drama of her own on plurk. but since i'm not _really_ involved with the issue, i won't talk about it here. [out of respect to her as well. ] i just mentioned it 'coz she asked for my opinion and support. ?hang in there gurl!

to end up my post, i was on leave yesterday too, and long story short i fucking gave in, again! ?*sigh*

[pix available on my Multiply]

i only went there for one reason only.  /me points to the updated post below. anything and everything else was a bonus.  haven't seen that many cosplayers gathered in one place! [btw, this was my first time to attend an event.] i _technically_ got in for free, eventhough i paid for the entrance. [himistsu desu! ] got a somewhat good position beside the stage to take the pix, but as you'll see, the blasted smoke machine was quite an annoyance. didn't get to stick around for the group cosplay competition though, as the two digicams i brought were already running out of batteries!  besides, i already had taken quite a few photos of Alodia. so i just happily went home with a silly grin on my face.

 

one of the prominent, [if not THE prominent] lady cosplayers in the Philippines right now... her Multiply account has tons of pix of her in action. she's been featured on Danny Choo's site and KidNemo! the kid even has her own Wikipedia entry!!!  that's how famous this girl is, and she ain't even a movie or TV star!

hope i get a chance to meet her...

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!

*edited last October 12 @ 8:37pm

ouch!!! [don't ask what this post means... ]

fscking twin = 320 359 255  989.2 40 140 50

i _really_ need to get a hold of myself...

I WON! I WON! I WON! I WON! I WON! I WON! I freaking WON!!!!

apparently, after i left my work this morning, they decided to draw the raffle for our summer campaign. so when i got here in the evening, i was notified that my name was drawn and i won this. COOL!!!  i rarely win at raffles and contests, so this one is _very_ long overdue.

my dilemma now is since i already have a digicam, [my trusty Sony Cybershot DSC-T1] will i dispose this or vice versa? i'd have to do some comparisons and test this out before i make my final decision.

The GOOD:

• 1st weekend = Tagaytay with friends
  
• 2nd weekend = Babuyan Session with teammates at work
  
• 3rd weekend = APO Weekend with Mom
  
• 4th weekend = bonding time with folks
  
• confirmed that i was the #2 rep for August
  

The BAD:

• finances _really_ suffered with 0 balance left on my ATM!
  

The HMMM:

• no new stuff for my compie.
  
• contemplating on buying 1TB internal or external harddrive.
  

 

well, it's quite a short weekend. i guess i can sum it up in a few phrases:

1. met up with Darwin Saturday afternoon to finish up our deal and then "had a good life".
2. had a nice dinner at home with my folks and then had a bottle or two of San Mig Light.
3. slept all day Sunday then watched some cable movies and anime all night to the wee hours of the morning.

...and with that, my September is done. [pending any ground-breaking or earth-shattering event that would happen from now 'til tomorrow]