SPRING SPECIAL
Posted at 06:16 AM

it's spring time in the faraway land of US of A.  we're offering a spring special in our company, but so far none of my customers has taken the bait.

had my fill of eating, sleeping and reading books during the looong holy week vacation. read 5 pocketbooks, two of them courtesy of a very kind nice benevolent etc etc (hehe) officemate who reminds me of a teddy bear. food trip galore... i gorged myself on my tita's ginisang monggo, bulanglang na bangus and bagoong. plus crunchy chicharon from pampanga and the remains of my mother's birthday cakes. yup, plural cakes, i think she got a dozen last march.

before going back to the grindstone, enjoyed two coffee dates in the same day with ate nez, at a gas station of all places. it was a surprise, finding cheap, delicious coffee just around the corner from our boarding house. we agreed: why splurge on starbucks? much needed counseling occurred esp for financial, emotional and mental health.

well, april is a pretty ordinary month. back to the daily routine (marathon) of:

snatched sleep (all 5 hours of it)

tutorial (dripping hair and all...but worth it)

mrt and bus rides (with wailing and gnashing of teeth)

overnight selling (wherefore art thou oh previews?)

restricted eating (budgeting = dieting)

singing (choir, cr, in between calls)

wishing (i was this, that, anywhere but here and back again...anggulo ko)

counting (the remaining days before sweldo...8 nalang)

looking (for sanity, a practical bs, sales, for help, better opportunities, growth, a little sympathy, for love? haha!)

tama na ito wala na akong sense.

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WANTED: ROOMMATES
Posted at 01:33 AM

i'm looking for 1-2 roommates, FEMALE only. my friend and i are moving this may into a one-bedroom condo in the new cityland at buendia, makati, in front of makro. one ride away from ayala ave/ mrt station. 3500 per month, including utilities (electricity and water). pede magluto and furnished na yung unit.

for inquiries, send an email to mricmariano@yahoo.com.

 

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IT'S BEEN FOUR YEARS...
Posted at 01:34 AM

KC 2K3 REUNION: April 21 Saturday. SM Megamall, 4:30pm-onwards. See you!

Please pass =)

 

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BITTEN
Posted at 05:45 AM

yesterday, i saw the all too familiar confines of an emergency room. But unlike my quarterly trips when I was in my early teens, my ER trip was not caused by asthma. this time, the culprits were a dozen insect bites all over my legs and back. what started out as small mosquito-like spots grew into palm-sized, painful swellings. aside from itching like crazy, they hurt. a lot.

the doctor took one look and said the insect in question was either those small, brown, icky cockroaches, or an assasin bug, a black triangular insect that's notorious for its painful bite. i seem to recall killing members of both species in the past; they have gotten their vengeance after all.

thus, we were forced to clean and spray our room, bed, mattress, everything. i ended up sleeping in the sala, oblivious to my housemates eating lunch and watching inane noontime tv shows.

just goes to show how deep my hibernation is... i slept through the whole assault. tsk tsk tsk. i am now gulping antihistamines, walking gingerly, and cleaning my room more than once a year.

and have i mentioned the heat? aaaaarggg! i want to move. now na.

 

 

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IN MEMORIAM
Posted at 05:38 AM

it really must be a world gone wrong where a young man would take the lives of 32 others and then snuff out his own.

so much potential gone in the space of a few hours. so much heroism, none of them futile, displayed in the face of senseless death. so much words of farewell and testimony, of grief and love for those who were there.

i don't think i can ever get my mind around this.

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in the midst of ho hums
Posted at 04:26 AM

life is pretty ho-hum now compared to the topsy turvy of a year, or even just 6 months ago. wake up, work1, commute, work2, commute, sleep and then the cycle begins anew.

what saves it from falling into boredom are the little pleasures, surprises and excitement along the way:

a nasty suprise was finding, under my pillow, a rice-grain-sized descendant of the bloodsucker who caused my allergy attack last month. waah, the sprays don't work. and when i squashed the little critter, there was blood. mine. arrrg!!!! and a scary clffhanger is being short of a few measly bucks for my monthly goal. less than 2 hours to go....waaaaaaah....

what keeps me sane are my weekends (sat-monday):

saturday mornings after shift: adopt a school in palanan, chasing 10 wriggly grade 2 students, singing action songs, storytelling in tagalog and english (alternating every other sentence) and hearing shouts of "Ma'm, Ma'm!"in singsong.

saturday and sunday night: sleeping in the dark. bliss!

sunday: shopping (usually groceries, although recently went on a tech raid with an offspring and clothes shopping in quiapo with my sister-in-crime), choir (we seem to be singing in a lot of wakes recently), big screen (the last mimzy was the last movie i watched), a series of baptisms for my friends' offspring (i'm getting old...ninang na, di na ate.)

monday: lunch and coffee dates, stolen naps and chitchat

countdown to: MA results, moving, enrolment (i hope), and the return of our p&w team. answered prayers every one of them.

 

 

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