It's a miracle! My weekend was a blast!

Well, well, well, who would've thought that in spite of my condition last week, my weekend would be such a blast! Last Friday, we had an office party, which was soooooo much fun! I got to be one of the event's photographers (which I love doing, by the way), I laughed a lot -- thanks to our fabulous host, I got drunk (for free!), and I danced my butt off! To cap the night off, my honey and I ate our favorite calzone from Yellow Cab since we didn't do much eating at the party.

Come Saturday, I woke up to have an amazing breakfast of pinoy-style mami, which my beloved yaya prepared for me. She makes one nasty mami so I always end up overeating! Then, my honey and I went grocery-shopping with my mom tagging along and I went crazy buying ingredients for my pasta recipes and I was so excited to find that our local supermarket actually sells Bostik Blu-Tack! And guess what else I found... they actually have coloured Blu-Tack! Of course, I just had to buy one! Hahahaha! I'm such a kid!

Saturday night, my honey and I decided to celebrate the month that was. As much as it was stressful, we recently discovered that all the hard work and the stress that comes with it is all worth it. I recently learned that I'm now a certified Quality Professional with a rather impressive score (not just mediocre, hehehehe!) and that my honey, although she's a part of the youngest batch, has been consistently delivering great work. She even managed to be on the Top 10 for 3 consecutive weeks now. As such, she was awarded as "Most Improved Agent" by her coach at last Friday's party. I was like a proud mama when I took her picture! It was crazy! :) So then we decided to celebrate with a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon GatoNegro (Yup, even my wine of choice has a feline reference. Gato Negro means Black Cat), my favorite cheese, Camembert, and some cappuccino and hazelnut chocolates... trust me, that was heavenly.

After getting drunk for the second time this weekend, we ate left over sinigang for lunch... yummy, yummy, yummy! That's another specialty of my yaya who I love sooooo much. Later tonight, I think my honey wants to eat some more junk food... maybe as some sort of a final hurrah to this fabulous weekend that was. I wish I could get drunk again, but no, I wouldn't push it. I think I'll just cuddle up with my honey tonight... Now that makes a perfect weekend... :)

Sick

Let’s see…

Nagging cough

Stuffy nose

Body pains, especially my neck

Throbbing headache

It’s official.  There goes my weekend… again.

Rest Day

It’s normally a Saturday and a Sunday.  Normally, people go out to have fun as early as Friday night, knowing they could sleep in pretty much the whole day by Saturday.  Normally, people go out-of-town to their favorite retreat.   Some hang-out in coffee shops to read that book they’ve been dying to get their hands on for the past weeks or to catch up with friends they’ve never seen for months.  Then of course you have the regular moviegoers – always updated on what is now showing, what the next attraction is, or even on those movies are coming soon.  Others stay at home to do their favorite things – whether it’s watching reruns or having a DVD marathon, cooking a feast for the family or well, working out to relieve stress and stay fit.  Normally, this is how people spend their rest days.

It’s been a while since I had a normal rest day.  The past couple weeks I’ve spent catching up on my sleep only to find out there’s no such thing.  I’ve also been spending my weekends recuperating from a terrible cough-and-flu combo-bordering-to-flu, and yeah, running errands.  I wish this coming weekend would be a bit different.  By then, I’m hoping that I’m feeling better, that I can sleep late but not the whole day, and still be able to do the thing I enjoy…  You know, to actually have a rest day…

 

 

The "About Me" Article That Got Lost in Cyberspace

When I had a short stint as a web writer a couple of years back, I submitted a short "About Me" article that should go with my articles. Unfortunately, it seem to have disappeared in cyberspace and I ended up being an old English lit fan who likes listening to goth metal music. In some articles, I'm even called "Gem" who loves to read novels that are set back into the Medieval Period. Trust me, these "Not About Me" articles could easily suck the fun out of googling yourself.
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My writing style is one that is straight-forward. No big words, no fuss. I want the maximum number of people to get the maximum amount of message I intend to convey in my articles.

For me, writing is not about pleasing people. It’s about giving a part yourself to people that’s why I always give my best in whatever it is that I’m writing.

The world wide web never ceases to fascinate me – the exact same reason why I love working with it and in it. I’m a certified netizen – both an information-seeker and an information-provider. But don’t get me wrong… I’m not your regular geek… I’m also 50% bad girl. I do have a life outside cyberspace – one that happens in real-time. I love writing short short stories (this isn’t a typo!), blogging, cooking, watching a whole lot of reality TV, and making life miserable for some people. ***Devilish laugh in the background***