145, 5-1, 5-2

yeah! i literally juggled two sports awhile ago. i was up for 2 games of bowling (games 1 and 3). and in the middle, i had a race-to-5 billiards match. i had my greatest game of bowling ever! i scored a 145. woohoo. beginner's luck! haha

then the race-to-5 match. my opponent was very very very good. but i guess luck was just on my side. two times he scratched, which led to my two wins. as for the other 3, i'd like to think i deserved it. but it should have been a very close fight, instead, it was 5-1. so i got to advance to the quarterfinals. the only problem was, the quarterfinals was held right after. so my game 3 for bowling would be in jeopardy.

solution? do both. i was literally pacing from the pool table to the bowling lanes and vice versa during the quarterfinals match.pocketing a few balls here, hitting a few pins there. i was having this big adrenalin rush! i did okay for the third game of bowling, scoring 86. but hey, i won the quarterfinals match! yey for me! 5-2 was the score. so from 64 players, we are now down to 4. (thanks to a couple of players who didn't show up)

so much for my 'sick leave'. haha =)

on 'sick leave'

i'm on sick leave today. i had a very piss-ful morning. damn truck spill on Ayala. i did have a minor headache and was a bit warm, but i was decided on going to work today. up until i was stuck at the quezon avenue MRT station for a little less than two hours. phew. i thought what the hell, i have plenty more sick leaves to burn, why not use one now. and it'll give me time to practice shooting with cameron.

on the other hand, i'm starting to think that this 'sick leave' was meant for me. for all but five minutes of the time i spent waiting for an fx or falling in line for the mrt, i kept thinking about her. maybe this day was meant for me to think. think more. about her. gaah. this sucks. i'll write more about her one of these days.

i'm going to bowl and play billiards later as part of the rest and relaxation program of the company. i'm hoping for a good shooting game and zero gutters. zero is attainable. haha =)

superstar

i've never really been a boxing fan. two individuals punching each other just doesn't make sense to me. until i watched the manny pacquiao and david diaz fight a while ago.

sure, i've watched pacquiao's other fights. but never like this afternoon. i was really awestruck at the skill and the talent that he showcased against diaz. for the first time, i had an appreciation for boxing. i now truly believe he deserves to have the distinction of being the first Filipino to win a lightweight belt, and the first Asian to win four belts in four weight classes. good job!

and with pacquiao being a Celtics fan, having Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen, Paul Pierce and the rest of the current NBA World Champions cheering "Manny, Manny, Manny.." probably was the biggest reward for PacMan, who is now a sports superstar in his own right.



*First picture is an AP Photo taken by Eric Jamison
**Second picture is a vidcap Iifound online. =)

meet cameron

all i can say is yey. i finally have you. i can tell that we are meant to be.

everyone, meet my little digital rebel (xsi).

meet cameron. =)

embassy closed

heard from a friend early this morning (like 5 am) that embassy superclub was closed. when i read about it, turns out that another brawl happened. a dj mugged a patron. and that was it. the taguig city government ordered the closure of the super-well-known-club. first thought that came to my head? "oh. okay."

i've never really been a fan of clubbing. the dim lights, the crowded room, the high-as-the-sky priced beer, the higher-than-the-sky entrance fee, etc. most of all, the 'cool' people. i write 'cool' with single quotes because i don't mean it and i'm really just being sarcastic. don't get me wrong, there are really nice and cool people there. it's just that some of the people who go to clubs just come there to BE there. to BE seen. to BE 'cool'. and they tick me off more than stepping on dog shit on a fine sunny morning. 'cool' people should be locked inside embassy and then the city government can close it forever. (oh, they might really still be inside. haha)

the only consolation i would get, if ever i do get a chance to go clubbing, is (1) the loud, booming music and (2) the hot girls--event though some of them are 'cool', the hotness can remove the single quotes. =)

anyway, i'm more of the tambay type. go to a nice place, not necessarily quiet or cheap, but a nice place to just hang out. BE with friends. talk. laugh. make fun of each other. make fun of 'cool' people. drink alcohol. play billiards. bowl. watch a movie. watch dvd's. that's my kind of tambay.

and by the way, good morning. =)

yey.

sorry, another post related to work.

im beginning to think that i did make the right choice to work for the company. in all honesty, i just accepted the job because of the name of the company and the compensation package. that's it. i had no idea of what my job was going to be, of what the people there are like, of what lies in store for me. as long as i am paid by a known company, i was content.

but the company surprised me. very pleasantly. i think i want to stay here for a long time, if they'd let me. hehe. i'm so happy that most of the fresh graduates who were also hired are at my floor. our workstations are actually clustered into one area of the floor, so that makes it easier for us to bond. oh, with the exception of debbie. she's stationed on the far side of the floor, where happiness and new-hire bonding does not exist. so she visits us every now and then.

and this sort of leads me to disagreeing with people who are so thankful for fridays. i mean, okay, it signals a weekend of merry-making and resting. but in this company, we don't need weekends to rest and have fun. that's all i can say. i'm thankful for fridays because of one thing: no riding the MRT for two days. yey.

happiness

i'm just happy that you're happy. the fact that I make you happy, makes being happy for you even happier.

i don't want to close my eyes. i don't want to go to work.

waking up early tomorrow morning would probably be the worst feeling i've had in years. i'll realize that i'm a grown up now.. that i'm no longer a student.. that just because it's raining hard doesn't mean i get to stay at home.. that i have to go to work. buti na lang nakita ko na kung saan may FX na diretso Ayala. at least, makakatulog ako papuntang trabaho. but tomorrow doesn't have to be THAT bad.

lately i realized that i'm beginning to love what i do (or what i will be doing in the future). when i entered the company, i had no idea whatsoever about what line of work within IT i will be doing, or what kind of people will i meet, or what my worklife would be. Now, as i enter into my fourth week of not being a college student or an unemployed fresh graduate, i'm starting to feel that i made the right choice. i love walking out of the elevator onto my floor and greeting Kuya Peter a good morning. i love settling into my workstation and just relax while waiting for my computer to power on. i love going to the comfort room every now and then just to wash my hands. i love morning and afternoon stretch breaks. i love having lunch in the pantry with my teammates/officemates. i love free food during meetings and trainings. but most of all, i love walking out of the office satisfied. fulfilled. happy.

you know what? now that i think about it, i won't mind waking up early tomorrow.

missing people

hindi. hindi sila nawawala. pero parang, ako ang nawawala.

last week i was at ateneo twice. and at the end of those two separate days, i came to the same conclusion: i miss this.

i hung out at fack last wednesday. it was really nice to see the people there again. the juniors. whoops, seniors na pala sila ngayon. haha, kami dati yun. i'm really happy to see some of the current juniors hanging out there as well. now there'll be continuity for fack.

yesterday i practically spent the entire day at ateneo for misa's freshmeat opener. two takeaways from that event: (1) 'maganda' ang future ng mis at misa, (2) gets ko na. i'd rather not talk about the second takeaway, because the first is much more interesting. hahaha. even aglo would agree with me on that one. graaabe. bakit kung kelan wala na kami? sad.

anyway, i just really want to say that i missed (and will be missing) all of my friends who are still there. we'll see each other, hopefully, next year. in the meantime, we'll have weekends. haha.

there is always a first for everything

hi there. i've had this blog for awhile, but i haven't really been writing on it. but i guess there is always a first for everything. this will be it. feel free to look around the previous posts, but those are just some artsy crap i made in the past. haha. i moved them here to be my motivation:

< if i could write such elaborate and beautiful stuff like those, then why am I writing fancy crap like this? >

yeah! i think there are two keys to improvement: motivation and feedback. so if you could write down comments/feedback to the things i write, it would be most appreciated. don't mind motivating me, i think the phrase i just concocted up there will last for a very long time.