si don cuervo, bow!

july 27, 12AM, I arrived at my friend's house for a stag/shower party (yup! combined) ... no there were no strippers or dancers, but just friends enjoying the last "singles" party of a couple who's about to get married on 08-08-08. immediately when i entered the door don cuervo greeted me ... it has been quite awhile since I last saw him ... and I missed him! hehe ... I drank the shot minus the lemon and the salt, yum! haha

a few minutes after, another friend of mine our "tagayero" offered me a mixed cocktail with gin, which I welcomingly drank ... and needless to say ... there were more "tagays" offered to me ... and sadly though we (me and another friend of mine) were already hiding from him, he has a way of finding us, so we had to drink the last few "tagays".

i went home drunk (or i'd say, just reasonably tipsy) and numb (from too much alcohol)... and tired from all the "kulitan", "tawanan", and "picturan" ... and we haven't been drunk for quite some time, and odd as it may seem, i kinda miss the feeling of being "reasonably tipsy" when you just laugh your heart out and be as "mababaw" as you can be ... though the only setback is when you lie down your head is spinning and the next day, you get a terrible headache, which i remedied with paracetamol and (more) sleep ... :)

they were crying....

my nephew is in the hospital for dengue .. he's been there for almost a week, but he's getting better, thank God :)

last sunday, while waiting for my brother-in-law at the lobby on our way home, my attention was caught by a woman wailing, "bakit anak ko pa?" obviously, something bad happened to her baby, the ever curious side of me wanted to know the real story behind it, but I can't stand looking at her that long, parang kahit na alam ko na she's in a public place, I would like to give her her privacy and let her grieve her grief ... and my heart felt sorry for her and it felt so heavy, for everytime I see somebody grieve for their loss (especially death of a loved one), I can feel for them , because I too have lost someone close to my heart ... though it has been more than 10 years since my dad died, there are still times when i long for his presence, coz my dad has a way of making life sooo easy -- for everybody.

my dad was my encyclopedia, my dictionary, my driver, my errand boy, name it! and not just for me, even for my older brothers and sisters .. kahit may mga asawa na sila, my dad was still their knight and shining armor, hehe ... and especially with my mom, kaya it was hard for my mom at first, kasi she's sort of dependent on him ... though syempre eventually she became okay, kasi we really did everything we can to 'amuse(?)' her, as in every week we would go out, basta my mom should never be left alone at home. we made her feel na she can depend on us .... my dad wasn't perfect, syempre, but his (selfless) efforts (more than) made up for his imperfections.

well, sabi nga ni mommy, we lost him pero we all learned a lot from the experience, it made everybody stronger and we all learned to stand on our own two feet. plus, it has made our family more in-tact, and we know in our hearts that we can count on each other anytime.

and then today, on our way home (again from the hospital), I saw another woman in tears ... and then i started wondering (again), what happened to her? was it her son? daughter? bakit kaya sya umiiyak? ...

oh well, life, sometimes you're up, sometimes you're down, pero at the end of the day, SYA lang ang may kasagutan ...

ang cool mag lrt!!!!

today, i took the the LRT going to recto. and though was scared, i was actually awed by how clean and how neat the station was at Betty Go station, and not just the station but the train as well. I wonder how long they could keep it up though.

oh well, thanks to Ate J, I saved a lot of time, money and effort going to recto. the trip which lasted for about 20 minutes max (and if i take the long route, would have taken me an hour and a half), was actually relaxing, and i was smiling all throughout the ride, kasi sobrang aliw ... the train was sooo spacious, unlike the mrt ... well, the train was not that full when i rode it. and one reason i was smiling all along was because i felt so "tanga" when i first went in, as in naghihintay nalang akong may lumapit at magtanong ... 'first time mo?' ... as in syempre, was looking around, carefully reading all the signs, making sure that am on the right track, hirap na mag-roundtrip no! ... and so, i looked for the ticket machine ... eto talaga, i was smiling while going through it, kasi the first and only time i used a ticket machine for a train was in KL pa, and yun i was in a group, so super different ang situation ... buti nalang there was just a couple of us in front of the machine, so di masyado halata, na i was figuring it all by myself, which well acutally took me a minute lang naman, pero still!!! ... pero easy lang sya, para lang bumibuli ako ng coffee sa vending machine din ... good thing i immediately found the office i was looking for, and in less than 2 hours time, i was back na in QC! haaayyy... the wonders of the train!!!!

i miss photo shoots

it has been such a long time since i last did a photo shoot ... and when i say shoot, it's not just a pictorial, as in I get to be sort of the coordinator of the shoot -- in a studio, with a photographer, model, stylist, make up artist -- geez, that was eons ago, with cinderella, hehe. i'll upload some of the photos in cinderella soon ... and i missed it!

so my recent photo shoot was last friday, in ortigas for a hair accessory brand. i was the production coordinator, which at first, i thought was just a piece of cake, but really, it was not. there were a lot of glitches along the way, and especially since the first and last meeting with the client was held 4 days before the scheduled shoot, ganda, grabe!

eh anu bang ginawa ko as a coordinator? i was in charge of getting the photographer, videographer, make up/hair stylist and the (clothes) stylist. also, i was to coordinate with my team the entire project and lead them as they meet with the client. and then on the shoot date, make sure that my team is there and we do what we were paid to do.

anyways, at the end of the shoot, the client was happy naman (sana, hehe), except for another issue which came out of nowhere ... haaaay! ... but then again, this too shall pass .. hehe ... so here are some of the group photos we had that day ... :D




with pretty huangarian model, mia ... super beautiful skin, no need for touch-ups ...

and with mina the last model we shot before we called it "a wrap!"

busy for the past weeks

these past few weeks, i have been running around metro manila, jumping from one meeting to another, discussing different matters all together, with different clients, which often happens all in one day(?) tiring .. true, but come to think of it, i like it better than sitting around all day, in my cube, and confined in one small room. i appreciate the fact that now, i get to move around and that i get to do a lot of things. i actually asked myself if i really like what i'm doing now -- freelance -- or start looking for one, stable job, where i can just sit, and not scramble for the next offer i could work on, eh kaso, i'd prefer to be what i am doing now. the cash flow may be uncertain since it depends on whether i get projects or not, or if clients pay me on time or not, but at the end of the day, it's my own time and i am not pushed into something i do not want, or i don't believe in. and if i don't feel like working, then i won't work, i can sleep all day, or just do whatever i feel like doing for the day, minus the worries. :) 4 months of doing freelance work, and am still breathing ... thank God :D

the movie 21, about a group of students who counts to win big on black/jack -- nice movie, but not something i'd reco you watch on the big screen, dvd would suffice .. hehe. and one line from their professor/boss which actually is very typical of today's corporate world goes like 'so you think i'm your friend now? kid, you're only as good as the last money you make for me! this is business!', (geez, i forgot the name of their professor) .. oh well ... and that my friend is reality ;)

for now, the only sort of stable (?) work i am doing is tutoring ... yup am tutoring a 2nd grader, everyday, 5-7PM. good thing he's a smart kid, so all i have to do is really make sure that he does his assignments, check if it's correct, and make sure he studies for his special quizzes. not that big payment, since it's a tutor house (owned by a friend of mine) but it's better than not having anything at all ... ;)