Bits and Pieces
Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Let me share with you parts of what happened to me in the past week...

* Had dinner with Kay Anne at Cantinetta last Tuesday. Think quattro formaggi pasta and margherita pizza.... yummmmm!!!

* Jax was in Taiwan the whole week for his 6-sigma training. sad. :( He just got back last Saturday and i picked him up from the airport. I guess he was so tired from the training kasi he slept for 14 hours that night!

* Watched If Only. And Almay's waterworks just wouldn't dry up!! Some lessons learned:

[1] What must happen will happen no matter how hard you try to prevent it.

[2] Make the people you love feel loved.

[3] You can never be prepared for every situation but at least try to be at our best attitude in dealing with it

[4] Acceptance is everything.

[5] "Death does not put an end to love."

* My thoughts on "sweet gestures". It doesn't much matter how often your partner showers you with surprises; because when it happens ever so often, you tend to forget why it's being done in the first place. You need to have ordinary times din in order for you to really appreciate those (rare) special moments. After all, love is not all about fairy tales, flowers, and mushiness. It's all about commitment and having someone stand by your side when things start to suck.

* My conversation with Nix (which lasted as long as an ES1 class or a typical ChE exam) reminded me of how old we are getting! I suddenly got to thinking about how I should fast-track my career and my long-term plans. While I know right now I ain't anywhere I planned to be 3 years back, I've decided to focus on gaining as much knowledge as I can. For now. I'm waiting for my break AND trying to enjoy the trip. Haaaaay.....

@ 1:42 PM

Toxic!
Thursday, July 21, 2005

How my workstation looks today.
Can it get any messier?!?
Yan ang magaling magpanggap sa trabaho.
With props! Hehehe..

@ 3:00 PM

Meet My Jax
Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Yes, I know you're rolling your eyes right now... so I'll try to avoid all the mush. But I just HAVE to talk about MY JAX. I promise it won't be too cheesy. :)

FIRST IMPRESSION. 15th of July, 2003. My first day in my first job. First time I laid my eyes on this man. Al Jeffrey Lacambra y Obusan. AJ. Tall, skinny guy with curly black hair. Jericho Rosales look-alike minus the glasses. I couldn't exactly remember the polo he was wearing but I'm sure it was a solid color. Funny, smart, and witty. Not bad. Nothing special either. Typical fresh grad like me trying to make it to the corporate ladder. Ok ok so he was an ME grad from Mapua, 11th in his batch and placed 9th in the recent board exam. So what? Must be a nerd. I wondered where he gets those (corny) jokes.

PLAYING THE HERO. Back then, I was just starting to drive and Cavite to Makati wasn't exactly my idea of a "practice route". The first Friday that I had to go home to my rents (read: drive alone), I was in doom-land - what's the girl with no sense of direction and beginner's driving skills to do? So here comes my bayani. The next thing I know, there he was with his props (2 other co-leadtechs, Kuya Dennis and Berto) taking me home. Mental note: he lives in San Pedro, Laguna, not anywhere near the Makati area but there he was in my passenger seat, making kwento, and paying my toll fee. Weehee.. That was the start of our bonding sessions. Every Friday thereafter, he was the "guy who took me home" and I was "the girl who needed a companion to make sure she wouldn't add to the horrible list of accidents in the south express way".

GETTING-TO-KNOW STAGE. As days passed, I knew more and more about him. I learned that he's such a basketball freak, that his favorite color is pink, how a lot of girls has been in his little black book... things like that. He constantly made me laugh and his smirk started to look cute to me. We would go to Tagaytay with him driving at a 40-kph speed so we could have longer conversations. He became my wake-up call during boring trainings. We started to look after each other. It was inexplicable.

THINGS HAPPENED SO FAST. By the middle of September, the Almay-AJ "tandem" was in full swing. We were spending so much time with each other and people were starting to notice. We started to call each other Pearl and Jax (short for Perla and Ajax - yep, the laundry soaps). I was between being naive and scared. Naive because I wasn't sure if he looked at what we had then as special and scared because I wasn't ready (regardless of what he thought). But nevertheless, I played the part of the numb lady who was just enjoying the ride and going with the flow. Until October 16th. Can't remember vivid details of how it happened. It just did.


THE MAN I LOVE NOW. Jax is the only person in this world who is capable of lifting my spirits up when I'm in my lowest of lows. He is my friend, my personal adviser, my father, my coach. He has influenced me in a lot of things. The very same person who treats me like a princess is also my worst critic. This is his way of teaching me to be strong. He's one of the reasons I wake up with a smile on my face. He's my big baby. :) In a nutshell, I could say we compliment each other - what the other one lacks, the other fills up. That's why I love this man so much. I know with him I will never be empty.


Your eyes are the windows to heaven. Your smile could heal a million souls. Your love completes my existence. You're the other half that makes me whole. You're the only other half that makes me whole.

@ 5:30 PM

I like

ice cream. hugs. color pink. and purple. starbucks strawberries & cream frappuccino. my cream pin-striped pants. friendster. blueberry cheesecake. playing with my cute pamangkin's. my hair when it's not so unruly. the warm sun on my face in december. oversleeping. italian food. caramel belgian waffle. waking up and remembering sweet dreams i had the night before. birks. french tips. "we belong together" by mariah. dancing. driving at 120kph (my fastest ever). my silver dangling earrings. long walks and talks. making people smile. lemon chicken. october 16th. cheerleading. almond rocha. plain white shirts. cranberry lip gloss. dressing up for a formal party. random kisses from jax. the smell of pancakes in our kitchen. watching no-brainer flicks when i'm tired. hearing the toot-toot-toot-toot from my cellphone (1 message received). violet crumble. tagaytay. AJ's yuppie look. mcdonald's twister fries. hotshots caramelized onion burgers. pompoms. zagu creme brulee. mazda 3 rides. seeing mead johnson products in the grocery. dim lights. DVD's. cherry coke. ryan phillippe in cruel intentions. cantinetta. esc2k3 people. original cast. leanteks. ratskee girls. csa friends. reminiscing. swimming with ali at the vineyard clubhouse. jackets. yellow cab. organizing get-together's. MYMP. taking photos. marshmallows. commuting and not complaining at all. aerodance class. reading. putting babies to sleep. singing. baguio. c2 peach flavor. reality bites. blushing (for nice reasons). stuffed bears and elephants. mums. looking at the stars at night.

@ 10:32 AM



almay here. i'm 25 and act like it when the stars are aligned. i'm currently attached (and loving it!) to the most spoiled big boy in the world aka jax. i'm an augustinian and an iska. i'm not a party person, more of the dinner-coffee type. i miss dancing though (it's been ages!). i'm a self-confessed crybaby and drama queen. i talk a lot, often even in a language only i could understand. recently, i've turned into that boyish kid. i love cars. i like driving, sometimes alone when i want to get away and think. i have a sweet tooth. give me chocolates with almonds and blueberry cheesecake and i'm yours forever.

(someday soon) i'd like to: swim in the pacific ocean. ride a hot air balloon. be (and drive) in a real racing circuit. sing with a band. have a month-long vacation without having to think about work. see the egyptian pyramids. lie in a bed of roses, literally. climb a mountain. have my own butterfly garden. complete my bath and body collection. finish reading the Bible, cover to cover. be in the set of grey's anatomy. go on a totally unplanned road trip. learn three other languages.



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