extra passenger

when jason fetched me from office two saturday nights ago, as i approached the car, i heard a cat's meow. it was raining so i thought there's a stray cat somewhere near the car.

however as we drove along, i am still hearing the meow, only a bit softer. i thought i was just hearing things (don't worry it's not that often heee). i asked jason if he's also hearing it. upon straining a little bit, he said he's also hearing it.

so where's the cat? can't probably be inside the car cause the meow was a lot louder when i was outside the car. we thought it was under the car. got worried that it might be on the wheels spinning its head off.

when we got the chance, we stopped at a mall with outside parking, and looked under our car. and there it goes, safely tucked atop the condenser(?).

here's jason trying to get the cat off the car. no luck. jason brought the car from the house to our office, and brought it back from the office to our house. heeee..

we didn't see the cat the morning after.

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changes, changes

we have a new director for applications and he is introducing a lot of things. his resume is quite impressive, with yahoo as previous company.

i thought all his suggestions are pretty good and will actually make the team perform better albeit tight deadlines and substantial deliverables.

i'm just quite wary though about the new employee ranking he suggested. i know that ranking is all but normal to any organization. it's just that, it wasn't always fair (what is fair, anyway). and with the current setting of the organization, we still have a long way to go. i don't mind ranking, just as long as it's pretty clear how the ranking process works and what the metrics are.

i'm seeing worried faces soon...

bohol bummer

just a day before our bohol trip, our agent informed us and said he was not able to book the family room for us.

tsk. i'm pissed. disappointed.

i'll just let jason handle this one.



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accident on floodway bridge

on our way to work today, we witnessed an accident involving a motorcycle rider and a car. if you can see on the first picture below, the rider flew about 5 meters away from his motorcycle. we saw no blood, but think the man is hurty pretty badly. he was conscious but can't move. i saw his legs and feet shaking, i assume from pain.

the motorcyle has the right of way, and the white toyota (UPN311) made a counter flow and hit the motocyle. the lady on black printed blouse (her face partly covered by the man on the motorcyle in blue jacket) was the owner/driver of the car.

according to jason, it happened so fast. he just saw the man flying in the air. look at the expression of the woman on the sidewalk, her face ashened. while the other guy is taking pictures thru his camera phone.





this is the motorcyle, notice the wheels/tire? some of the rider's belongings scattered on the pavement. his shoe almost beneath THE car. wonder where the other pair of his shoe went off ...

didn't know what happened next. we had to rush cause i am already late on my 730am meeting. hope the guy is okay. a lot of other motocycle-riding guys were all over him (and the car owner), some even went ahead to inform the police/traffic officers positioned at the end of the bridge.

there must have been a secret association between riders. i always notice their camaraderie everytime something happens to one of them on the road. they tend to gang up on the offender and help their fellow rider.

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it broke my heart

something happened last night and it broke my heart.

it was not our first away-bati moment. we had our bouts. kaya lang mga kiyeme lang yun na tipong lambingan lang or dahil lang sa kakulitan nya (at ako). but i think it was the first time na nagtampo si aquim over something na feeling ko hinde petty. at nabother din talaga ako.

i did not mean to hurt him, i was just telling his daddy matter of factly, in the same manner like how i tell his daddy if he does something good.

pero, he can understand those things na pala. hayyy.....



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my lost phone

i blogged months ago that i lost my phone. yeah... lost it, darn.

i have always had a problem with the battery life of my o2. kaya i always bring then the charger. and everywhere i go, i always make it a point to look for an outlet, kasi i really have to charge the phone or else, in an hour, i'll be disconnected from the mobile world.

at megamall's bowling alley, where my current BA team decided to have our team building activity, we were located at about 4 lanes away from the exit door. i saw an outlet under a set of chairs behind the alley. i did not have any insinuation or worry that i might lost it kasi the outlet is kinda hidden. that was i thought. and i was checking it like every 5 seconds. really.

we were all 'bano' on bowling. when there was this time that someone got to hit a strike, we were jumping for joy. i remember before jumping with them in joy (hehe) i checked the phone. after 5 seconds, looked back at it, its gone! i asked the others baka pinag titripan lang ako. wala. actually they didn't know that i was charging the phone there.

but apparently, what they did notice is there was this binatilyo hanging around our area. and true enough, it was captured in one of our pics, he was there. siguro, he saw me going back and forth to the phone, kaya when he finally got the chance.... wahhh! ayun.

he got the phone, the charger and the headset. kumpleto. mabilis siya. and magaling. kasi one would have a hard time reaching under the chair to get the phone, include pa the charger. it was arms length underneath. oh well.

back then, i was cool. yung mga kasama ko pa ang nagwoworry. ang sa akin, nangyari na. wala na kong magagawa. i just called jason, using my other phone, to call my provider and have my line cut off temporarily.

i didn't mind (still don't) losing the phone, really. kasi nga, i was having battery life problems na. never mind din my list of contacts, as i thought, i can still retrieve them from the laptop.

what peeved me was losing all my data. i wish he would return the memory card. or atleast let me back it up first. aquim's milestones were there. dates when he had his tooth. dates when he bumped his head (several times). observations when he got sick. history of the first few weeks of his existence like the times he was fed, how much, description of his pupu. really. it was ALL there.


what worries me lang the most is i've saved important information about myself on the memcard. i'm a potential identity theft victim. you see, i used to work in a bank and it's required to submit this complete info of an employee to the BSP. literally, if someone in the know gets to see and really inspect the data in my memory card, tsk. i'm doomed.

it's been 3 months since and i don't have any problem naman like someone posing as me (knock on wood). or receiving huge debt notice, something like that. i'm hoping he disposed off my memcard na. or sana he just deleted everything on it para ibenta na lang uli.

so right now, im stuck with my old nokia 6610. and i never had my list of contacts back. cause the laptop that i used to synchronized it with has to be reformatted.

that's another story.


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old photos

i have a new project. and i hope i would be able to do it every weekend. i'd like to scan old photos, film-based photos. sayang eh diba?

haha, lahat ng makita kong photos sa bahay (sa bahay ng nanay ko), iiscan ko talaga. hmmm....

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one hot momma!

Kim Clijsters and her little girl Jada celebrating

Clijsters' 2009 US Open Women's Singles Final victory.
Photo by: Rob Loud/usopen.org

visit http://www.usopen.org/ for more pictures and stories

 

hah! galing diba? i am not really a tennis fan. i just watch if i'm in the mood or if i have no choice. but this time, i found myself glued on the screen as kim is playing against serena, and eventually, against caroline wozniacki. wala lang. kakabilib kasi si kim. wahaha. nabuhay tuloy ang aking pagnanais na matutong mag tennis. hah!

 

for those who' also not into tennis, just like me, kim went on a two year sabbatical when she got pregnant. making a come back now (and what a come back!), unseeded, and eventually winning the us open. she's only the 3rd mommy who won a tennis title. and the first unseeded to won the us open. there, i hope i got the facts right.

 

 

so, lolo jim, tennis lessons naman diyan!

 

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the cory in me

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Originally uploaded by jolen

i've painted these two about a year ago. didn't post it then because i thought i can still do more to enhance their colors. didn't have the time though to hold some brushes since i started working again.

last holiday-monday, was able to mix some. decided not to touch them, started a new one but failed to finish it.

so, did i improve?

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closer

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Originally uploaded by jolen

not so pink

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Originally uploaded by jolen

watda!

i'm fat, emotionally sensitive, we drove all the way from our house to mc donalds at tiendesitas just to have their hot cakes as our breakfast... and....


no, i'm not pregnant! wah!


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