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busy as a bee

yup, busy as a bee! lately, been running around ... meetings, interviews and more meetings .. hehe ... well been to a couple of job interviews which all ended up as freelance opportunities ... though it's true that i'd prefer not being an employee, i go to interviews just for the sake of going, and exploring at what they have to offer me, aside from the fact that i get to dress up -- yes, i miss dressing up, so if you see me a bit overdressed, please, please don't mind me so long as i dress appropriately for the occasion, i'd appreciate it a lot. surprisingly, though it's a bit tiring, am enjoying it ... especially since the last few months since i left my job, my writing job keeps me home most of the time (except for a few coffee and dinner night outs), which gave me more time to really take a back seat and relax a bit ... but now, am back! i have been rejuvenated and i appreciate all the offers (for freelance work) pouring in. ang galing nga eh, kasi sobrang diverse yun mga offers -- may writing, may coordination, may events, may research, at tutoring!!!! -- ang happy!!! and what i like about it is that, i can do it at my own pace, my own time, pero syempre, still meeting the requirements and deadlines. at at at, i have the option to decline or accept, di ako pressured ... oh life! :)

and since ive been going out lately, i was surprised to see the mrt change a bit -- some of the trains have their own radio system, so uniform na ang nagsasabi ng "buendia station", di tulad dati, un lalaki na minsan bisaya (am a racist! aren't we all? hehe) or minsan di mo maintidihan ang sinasabi, at least now, it's more professional na un voice ... tapos may LCD screens pa un ibang trains, though am sure they're testing it, actually wala naman masyadong silbi un sa mrt eh, more of sagabal pa nga eh ... pero these are also revenue centers for the mrt, malay naten baka mas mapaganda pa nila ang train given these income generating avenues ;)

friday is our market day ... yup! started about a month ago, since the doc advised my mom not to go to the market alone, since anytime she might faint, due to her heart ailment, so I am my mom's alalay. i hate the smell of the wet market, especially whenever i reach the fish, chicken area ... the smell sucks! oh well ... a few things i learned through the course of my travel at the market:

1. that the price of goods are different on saturdays and sundays, which i kept on arguing with my mom ... several times, i have asked her that we go saturdays, she'd tell me "naku mas mahal ang bilihin pag sabado?" and i'd tell her "ma, suki nyo na yun, lam nya na na lam nyo prices, so pwede pa ba taasan yun?" ... and then a couple of saturdays ago, while my mom's suki was offering her to buy talakitok "mommy (that's what the suki's call my mom), P160 lang yan, bukas P200 na yan per kilo" ... nyaaak!!!! was all i could tell myself .. totoo nga!

2. i would often wonder why my mom prefers to buy her goods from certain individuals ONLY! as in pag wala yun suki na yun she'd rather not buy. like the case of tilapia, my mom has a super favorite suki si ten (tomboy na matanda), she sells live tilapia -- na tipong asa banyera pa, at humihinga, tumatalon pa sila -- so this morning, ten was not around so my mom opted to buy her tilapia from one of her sukis ... when we got home, syempre, ako din po ang naghuhugas uli ng fish, my mom saw the tilapia i was cleaning up (wait, napalinis na yun mga fish, banlaw nalang sa house kasi sabi ni mommy malansa daw pag di ni-rinse yun), my mom was surprised kasi may mga dugo pa yun fish, so sabi nya uli "hay naku! kaya mas gusto ko kay ten bumibili eh, kasi pag naglinis yun, linis bahay, di tulad nito". geez!!! ganun pala yun ... and i realized, totoo nga, kasi the past weeks we bought tilapia from ten, i did not have to remove anything, just have to rinse it, tapos this morning, the fish was not that clean nga ... ang galeng!


yun lang, actually, i have another experience pa sa tilapia, pero next time nalang, mas maganda pag may video, i'll try to bring my phone and record the actual video ...

and kanina, i left home, went around the market and went back home .. BALIKTAD PALA T-SHIRT KO!!! demet!

last dec 2004, i was given a rare opportunity to be with the top philippine designers to assist them during the KLAFW, i was with mega magazine then. i was with rajo laurel, kat goulborn, mel vergel de dios (+), jun escario, puey quiñones, jojie lloren, and the mega team kitty and adel. dinner at chinatown, and the fittings, somehow, i was got to know them personally, plus i had to assist them as we did the set up for their clothes at the mega booth, so it was one tough task with only me as their coordinator. yup had to coordinate with the malaysians who at times looked like chinese but, good thing they all speak english which made it easier for me to coordinate. rajo introduced us to dried foodies at chinatown, bought a few samples for us to taste and after dinner we all bought a few for pasalubong. puey, jun and mel were all constant companions at chinatown, and kitty was my companion as we went to other shops to buy shoes -- loads of pairs i would say -- good buys pa! and i guess, the person who touched me the most among all the designers was mel (+), he was like a 'nanay' to all of us, ready to assist anytime, even willing to help me with my load, i will never forget you mel, and though it was for a short period of time, you have touched my heart and you will always be remembered ...

this just in .... after almost 3 months since i left CPK, this is the first time i opened the CD which mark gave me before i left the company ... thanks mark! i really like it .. mark and mira, both my colleagues (as in same department) at CPK ... a collection of some of great moments we've had at CPK -- christmas party, gimmicks, pampanga and baguio trips, my last birthday with them, si teddy!!!! na super katabi ko sa seat ko, it was given by the NSO team during my birthday in 2006 ata un ... i had fun while i was with the company ... thanks again guys!

traveling does not only mean going from one place to another, it could also mean traveling into the wonderful world of life ... which i have always been fascinated with -- it's ups and downs, twists and turns and just about everything! though i've been to quite a few places in the philippines, i have yet to see the beauty of the world ... funny, recently, i realized that i would rather much go around the world and see different places, just like the hosts i see on travel and living, damn! aren't they all so lucky? to be able to travel from one country to another, learn their culture, see great sights ... and it's all part of their job, they don't have to pay a dime!!! plus, they get to be treated really well since they are all part of the press/media ... darn! ... oh but then again, i can always do the same, soon (i hope) ...

i am a traveler ....

and will forever be ...