Tagaytay Friday (09/07/07)

Three Fridays ago, our group in the office had our quarterly bonding. I was 1.5K poorer because of that. That was my pot luck for my Bday last July (it is already a tradition in the officeto treat everyone on or after your Bday).

Office Hour ends at 5pm. But we agreed on a 6pm call time to finish our last minute ekek before the week ends. However, the "Filipino Time" made its move and the earliest time of departure was 640pm. Hubby and I was supposed to leave with them but he had an urgent call from his counterpart. I decided that we just wait for Ron who's official working hour is from 7am to 7pm (4 days only) instead of having him ride a shuttle bus.

We had a budget-meal dinner in the cold veranda of Max's Tagaytay. And at 9pm, we moved to Cafe Lupe. We didn't have our dinner in Cafe Lupe because it is more expensive and we have a limited budget for 25persons.

We had so much fun. 2 of our friends even jammed with the band. There was no dance floor but we even initiated some dancing after the 1st set of the band. The DJ played music of Akon and other pop stars. So much of excitement and fear of missing out the fun, no one even cared to take picture of those " nagwawala naming kasama. Hahaha.

We finished the 2nd set of the band then left @ 2pm. Kapagod yet masaya!

PS KAYA 5 Challenge Entry

Last night I uploaded my Kaya 5 Challenge entry.

It was almost done 1st week on the month but can't figure out what's missing.
I tried adding embellishments but last night I decided to remove the last embellishment that I added.
I think it's better now.

Have a peek of my LO in this Link.

Xmas Tree

Last Saturday, after eating bfast, i got so excited and fixed our xmas tree. No add'l decoration was added from last year. Same old things but was so happy with it.

Ma-AGA ang pasko samin. Hehehe.

Feeling Sick

All of a sudden... I'm not feeling well.
I feel cold.
My eyes are burning.
My head is aching.
I don't know why....

I'm OUT

i did what i can ( i know it's not yet my best)... but i guess it was not good enough.
I JUST got kicked out of the scrappin mom's idol challenge.

honestly, I have a mixed feeling.
happy... coz I'm out of pressure.
kinda sad... because hubby is sad.
He believes so much in me and I failed him.
my pride is all have... but it's gone.

i was never a quiter and so life has to move on.
it is actually a blessing in disguise.
i need to concentrate on my work in the next two weeks because i have a corporate presentation to make.
wish me luck that i'll pass the project review.

for the scrappin moms, thanks for this opportunity.
for the scrappers moving to round 5. Congrats and Good Luck!

For me, it's alright! harhar.

1st weekend of September'07

SATURDAY
Stayed @ Home
Anticipated Mass 7-8pm
Created my Puerto Galera LO
Started my LO for the Kaya Challenge

SUNDAY
6:30am Aero
After Aero, hubby is still sleeping.
He woke up @ 8am to watch her favorite TV series...DRAGON Ball-Z.
Bfast while watching TV.
Left Cavite @ 9:30am.
Luwag ng SLEX.
Red Ribbon in Amber
- Bought Cake for my Mom's early bday Celebration (her bday is Sept. 3)
My Parents House (11am)
- dad cooked a lot of dishes: Spicy Chcken Adobo, Breaded Shrimp, Beef Estopado, Lumpiang Shanghai, Garlic Tofu.
- they also bought Puto Pao, Pansit Bihon, Chocolate Ice Cream and the Cake.
- It was a good lunch.
- Mom's sister (Mama Linda) together with my cousins and nieces also came to celebrate with us. As usual... we have the usual chickahan and tawanan.
- Btw...while everbody is busy with chickahan...hubby continued trouble shooting the PC in the house. He was able to make it work once but the error reccur when he re-booted it. He quited @ 4pm. We are just bringing the PC at home to continue the debug.
- Left my parents house @ 4pm.

At Festival SLEX exit, hubby and I suddenly decided to go to a mall. Initially planned to go to Festival Mall, but saw a heavy traffic going there. We again suddenly changed our plan and headed to ATC.
ATC
- Hubby played in Timezone while I am window shopping.
- Went to nat'l bookstore... there is a 65% off sale on selected All About Scrapbooking supplies. However, didn't buy anything.
- Went to Cinderella, British India and finally met hubby in Esprit. Pero wala pa rin ako nabibili.
- We went to Bossini but didn't find anything we like. Actually, I am looking for a black pants.
- Then we went to Plains in Prints... saw a nice black pants and new dark colored jean. The black pants didn't fit me well. I ended up buying the dark colored jeans.
- We entered Folded and Hung... saw 2 nice shirts. One on sale and 1 on regular price. Hubby insisted that I buy them all. Masunurin naman ako, hehehe.
- Also, went to Kamiseta, Bayo and People are People. Saw a nice tummy belt but didn't buy it kasi over budget nako. However, Ariel saw a nice polo in People are people. Bihira lang sya magkagusto ng damit kaya ako naman nag-insist na bilin na namin yun. And so we did.
- We had dinner in BK after a very tiring walk. However... was so happy... because after a long time... was able to spend some quality time with hubby ng walang asungot ( calls from work).
HOME (@ 8:30pm)
- ayos lang ako ng cabinet before going to bed... Too late to remember that I forgot my plan of xmas decorating our home....next week na lang.
MONDAY
- work work work
- had pm snaks to start my after 6 diet.
- @ home... i still ate.. 2 pcs of lumpiang shainghai and 2 glasses of water.

Di ako Gala

Saw this from someone's link.

My Lakbayan grade is D!

How much of the Philippines have you visited? Find out at Lakbayan!

Created by Eugene Villar.

Onli in the Philippines

This is my entry to scappin moms August '07 Onli in the Philippines Challenge.
Title is Miss kita PINAS.

The journaling was a poem I wrote when I was in US last oct'05. That was almost 2 years ago.
Was happy that I was able to include this in my LO. I actually have lots on poems or random thoughts written recently and long long time ago. But i still don't have any idea on how to store or save them. most of them are still written on the original papers when I wrote them which are now....decaying...hehehe. While some are in my other blog. Please visit if you have time.