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I'm not being kinky here. I am actually thinking of paint colors for our bedroom and we settled on brown for the walls. Our place is currently painted white all over the place, as opposed to the golden brown hue of our parquet floors and kitchen cabinets. The walls will be painted brown (dark brown, I haven't decided on the glaze yet) and the ceiling will be left white. The bedroom and bathroom

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This week marks our ownership of our very own flat located at FBGC. We are very excited and I was so busy planning and thinking and browsing on how to furnish our place that even at work, I sometimes stop whatever I was doing so I could write down something that I should remember to buy or provide for the flat. Just so I could keep up with everything that's popping into my head, I finally wrote

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One of the earliest pictures with office mates in Japan that I have on file. From left: Jolly, Neil, Andrew, Pete, Benedict, Cecil, Onin, Ray, Anna, Boots, Chary and Me.Here's one with the first tsonggos. From left: Pierre (RIP), Alvin, Reno, Bert, Leah, Kat, Mami Bing, Pogs and Me

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I was just browsing through my old files and found some really old pictures that are soooo funny I would have loved to post them here, but too embarassed to do so. So instead, I am posting a commemorative picture of the very first time I ever got drunk. It was on a summer vacation at Subic with the tsonggos and Jo's family. We rented 2 cottages at SBMA, and spent the whole night drinking that

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I don't dare make a new year's resolution. However, I do have things I would really, really like to do this year. I put up a list, no particular order, and here goes:1. Move out of my parent's house and settle down on our new place. Make a home for ourselves, remove, if not reduce, my single-habits (excessive shopping, etc etc), decorate our place to make it a home.2. Live healthy, get lots of

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Today was particularly a nakakatamad day at work because (a) it's Friday (b) it's freezing cold (c) it's the day right before a long weekend (d) not feeling well and (e) our bosses are not around. So the whole day, while we were lounging on our desks, between trying to get some work done and blowing my nose, I finally got the early symptoms of fever. I asked Bea for a Tempra tablet and laid the

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Family Picture Take 1: Tingnan nyo si Mami hihihihi! (sya yung nakanganga)Family Picture Take 2: Tingnan nyo si Dadi, sumisilay kay Mami heheheheFamily Picture Take 3: Walang nag-pose. Pramis, wala ka talagang makukuhang matinong picture ng pamilyang to na hindi stolen.Ito na lang, at least, nagpose kami. Yun lang, maling lugar.. hahaha! Hindi kami yung 50 years old!

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First working day sa office:Frankie: s**t, bat ganito ito? (looking at his explorer sa office PC nya)Frankie: ahhh.. kaya pala hindi ko maintindihan. Chinese pala.-------------* -------------------*-----------------------*Sobrang lamig sa office namin, at labag pa sa kalooban naming ilabas mga kamay namin para mag-code mula sa pagkakasuksok sa aming pwet para mainitan. OA na pagtitipid yan, mas

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I just came in today. It will take me awhile to post everything that's happened on my vacation but I will begin with these:1. Blooper of the day: Nobody remembered to ask for Pao's room key from Jeff. Hayun, he's camping on Frankie's place.2. What NOT to give as a Christmas gift: Portable first aid kit with a set of 3 Chap Sticks lip balm.3. Quotable quote from my annoying seatmate at the plane:

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Today's Japanese class was not really Japanese language class, but Japanese culture classes. Today, we learned the different types of Kimono Japanese ladies wear here in Japan and on what occasion these Kimono were being used. It was an interesting class and we learned a lot of new words to add to our vocabulary.Second half of today's class were devoted on "dress up and take a picture" for the

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Jeff: (typing furiously on his keyboard)...............Jeff: harummphhh! sakit ng (inaudible sound: suspiciously sounding like puson) ko!ako: ano sabi mo?!?! masakit PUSON mo??Jeff: (gulat look, big eyes staring blankly at me)Bea: (snickering)Jeff: hinde! ang sabi ko, "masakit ang ulo ko!"***************************************************(around 858am JST at the office)ako: O Jeff, asan si Bea?

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I was freaked out a couple of months ago when I couldn't find my bag of earrings and somehow resigned myself that they were all gone. I've gone to a lot of travelling without my earrings for the past 3 months and I felt really bad because I bought my collection of earrings from places where I've gone to vacation or a trip. I just couldn't shop for new ones because (a) I couldn't afford them (b)

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With officemates (Tokyo and Chiba Chapter), picture taken last 11/29

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(a scene sometime ago on one of our morning bus rides to the office)special child#1 (standing kasi puno na yung bus) : bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu! (laughs) bu-bu-bu-bu-bu!special child#2 (nakaupo sa pinakalikod ng bus): bububububububububububu! (laughs)(conversation above repeats a few times)ako (seated in between those conversing children): (di nakatingin, nilakasan ko

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Everyday, on the bus, we get to experience commuting with special children. Special children as in children (and adults) that has special ... features and handicaps. Like, Down's syndrome and some degree of autism.So anyway, I don't really know the details of what makes these children (adults) special. Only that I have been around them since I was a child. In fact, I never thought they were "

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today....[keyboard sounds, silence, sound of footsteps on carpeted office floor...]..............[sudden vibrating sound, like a helicopter landing on the rooftop of the office building]..............[nagtitinginan mga pinoy sa workplace]..............ako: may lalabas na monsters sa mga aircon ventsbea and jeff: [dedma]ako: lalabas sila dyan, papatayin tayong lahat, babaha ng dugo, mamamatay

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I enrolled to a nearby sports club exactly 3 weeks ago. Since then, I have been religiously doing weights, walking on the pool (and attempting to swim), joining the dance class and since last week, the aerobic class. Then, I went back to my kambing-or-rabbit-mode-diet that I used before my wedding.So anyway, I just came home from hip-hop dance class today and out of the blue, today's lessons were

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I am: Hazel, a (truly) fat techno-addict, married to another techno-addict-dancer, a race car driver by day, a chef at night.I think: I can swim.I know: I can barely swim.I have: 4 wonderful pilak girls that I miss very much.I wish: that I can really, really swim.I hate: ampalaya.I miss: my bulate so much.I fear: losing my memory.I hear: my airconditioning noise, while writing this.I smell: my

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Rish, me and Tins at an island near Dos Palmas

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Out we went for a roadtrip last weekend. 5 of us (Donits, Bin, Rish, Pogs & me) drove to Zambales on board Donits' Macchu Picchu. Me, Pogs and Donits started off at Makati, then picked up Bin and Rish and our lunch at Balintawak. We had 1 pit stop at Petron in NLEX then off we sped to SCTEX. Changed drivers there and off we go again to SBMA, then San Marcelino then San Antonio and then Pundaquit

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I will be posting here pictures of the Dahikan Island at Camarines Norte, Bicol. Great view, great water! The best one I've seen so far. The tsonggos syokoys would have loved this one.

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Swimming trip to Laiya with officemates. Great water, great company. 22 of us drove on a 4-car convoy from Manila to Laiya, Batangas for a great weekend trip.

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April 2007 is a very enjoyable month indeed. My first vacation after years and years of slaving abroad. From Pogs' birthday bash last March, we started April's list of enjoyable things with the Christening of Andrew and Tin's son, Ethan. My favorite line: "Colonel Burger!" (This was Rumel shouting at the top of his lungs at a coffee shop in Pilar Village when we were playing Taboo. Correct

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I haven't been personal on my posts lately. Because of the blog for all people to see (at least, for people who bothers to look, anyway), I limit my posts to general topics. I like to use my blog to rant about things but the things that bother me most still stays with me, inside my heart and inside my head. I used to be sooooo talkative but since I learned that talking or revealing too much of

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We are all in our 30s (or almost, for others) but we still love to just hang out with each other and just spend the day away squabbling, glorify on each others' weaknesses, insult each other, trade showbiz chismis (or at least, just listen to donits and rish trade these info between them hehehehe) , but most of all, we all love to play a game (and insult each other in between).We may be

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2008 started off with my wedding, and I was happy to attend Aina's wedding. It was a special occasion to witness Aina and Chow exchange vows, and of course, I was sooo excited to see Aina on her wedding dress.So anyway, the occasion not only merits Aina's forever after but it was also an opportunity to see old friends. Although Sheryl and Anto were always present everytime we all chose to meet

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New Year dinner with college friends last January 4 at Greenbelt 3. Anto, all gungho about wearing dresses for my wedding; Aina and Chow will soon tie the knot on March 8; Robin, now working at home (ang cute ng baby nya!); Noel, now trying the fatherhood with mommy Theresa.Some of the guys were busy.. Jayvee (haven't seen him for a while) was doing overtime work, Sybil on a blasted meeting (

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Happy New Year to All!

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Okay, these pictures are looonggg overdue. Donits, Kat, Me and Bert went out sometime in November to try out these food and obviously, busog kami. Just look at our happy faces, hehehe! Hmmn... the 4 of us seems to be the only people present sa mga kainan ah.. hahaha! These pictures were taken at Lime88 (Ang Sosyal na street food!) in Paranaque. Pramis, masarap ang food! The staff was very

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A few more hours until New Year's Day 2008 and here I am, still posting my christmas escapade. So, how was your christmas? I spent mine at Bert's hometown in Camarines Norte, Bicol. Thanks to my balat sa pwet, my 4-day stay was spent indoors, eat-sleep routine. We took the opportunity to visit the pier at the first rays of sunlight, so there we were, with cousins-in-law Rico and Tiptip, jumping

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Mileage accumulated from traveling the Manila-Cavite-Tagaytay-Nasugbu route does not earn any coupons. However, it's what we have been doing insanely these past 2 months from never-ending paperworks to stuff that I never thought of doing until now. So anyway, it was all part of the preparation for the big thing, so I suffer the consequences.I am posting here a picture of me and the bulate all

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Kat celebrated here 30th birthday at Larga Bar in BF Homes last night. It was bongga! with all of Kat's wellwishers, family, crush (yiheee) making the party lively especially with Faye crooning corrs and 80s (dekada ni Kat hehehe) mellows on "stage". We went high (sa cholesterol) on chicharon bulaklak and sisig and cheese sticks and nachos. Kat was all blooming (see picture above) and happy and

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Me and Bert applied for a Marriage License last Nov 15 and we had to sacrifice 1 of our precious vacation leaves to do this because of a seminar and a conselling that is required for the application. The whole application process takes a whole day and the day starts with an 800am counselling session. It was my first time to visit Makati City Hall and I was surprised because it was the biggest

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This is a picture taken on our trip to Tagaytay to look on some flowers. It was a rather short trip from Imus, from which I had my mother and my sister's measurements taken for their dress next year.I was supposed to wander around Tagaytay with only Bert in tow but of course, all possible opportunities for my sister, Zoe and mother to wander around with me will always be taken.

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Last saturday, me and Bert were supposed to go to Tagaytay to look on some flowers but on our way there, I realized that I forgot my driver's license at the Manila Cathedral office. So we had to turn around back to manila to get it back and then drive back again to Tagaytay for the flower. However, due to the usual heavy Saturday traffic at Aguinaldo Highway, we couldn't make it back to Tagaytay

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Yes, blah. That was all three of us did today. We chat our afternoon away in between lunch and coffee and snacks. We did a little window shopping and a lot of catching up a lot of stories to tell. And yes, the usual pilak style of chismisan.. topics ranging from one person to another, one mutual friend to another, social activities within the society, up to who's getting married next. Sooner or

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With 8 years on my tally card since the acquisition of my driver's license, I can't pride myself with an accident-free traffic experience but I do congratulate myself for not having the unpleasant experience of being apprehended due to some traffic violation.... until recently.I have a total of 3 traffic violations so far, 2 of those are beating the red light (the most ambiguous traffic violation

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We enjoyed rafting so much, I'm glad we had this picture to show it all. A picture is one thing we didn't have when we went sea kayaking last July.

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In the spirit of payday and my birthday this week, I treated my 2 loyal minions, Pao and Frankie, for dinner today. We decided to go adventurous on our choice of food, so we decided to try 回転すし (kaiten sushi: conveyor belt sushi bar - a place where sushi is served by a rotating conveyor belt and is surrounded by booths. Payment is based on the number of plates you consumed (automatically counted

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It's 1 day before payday and I started my day with only 380yen coins on my pocket - the only money I have left. Nothing, as in no other source of income, my atm account cashed out.So I started my day shopping for a 105yen onigiri (which has a 30yen discount tag), 105yen 500ml lipton lemon tea, 105yen oatmeal cookies - the entirety of my lunch meal which costs a devastating 285yen. (devastating on

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A visit to Sapporo (in Hokkaido, Japan) is nothing without its famous Sapporo ramen, readily available anywhere at the heart of the city.And of course, what's the use of visiting the city without ever taking a very short stop at the rather incomprehensible and famous Tokeidai (Clock Tower)?And of course, Sapporo is everything with Winter sports beginning with....... 1. The ski jump stadium!2.

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With a little respite from the scorching heat these past few days, we spent our morning at home and then went on to a nice walk along Nakajima Koen, enjoying the scenery, taking pictures, and made a fool of ourselves by posing with the ducks and the crows. We had a grand time watching the ducks on the lake with our Betty in tow for its break-in.After the rather embarrassing picture-taking

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It took a lot of face for me to smile for a picture on the middle of the busiest district of Sapporo, especially at night - Susukino (aka Ropponggi of Sapporo). Oh well, since it's summer vacation and all, I'm not the only one trying to get a kick out of a picture in front of the famous Nikka Whiskey neon sign.In fairness, we went walking around Susukino area starting around 7pm at night. Summer

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This year's summer vacation started with a difficult search for a flight to Sapporo, home of powdered snow. I managed to snag a flight and left last saturday night from Tokyo. Me and Bert started the night with a celebration of our 6th, with a bowl of Sinigang and some tarts to mark up the dinner.. very pinoy hehehe!So off we go the next day on a skin-torching heat to a wonderful travel to Niseko

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Everytime the year hits august, I begin to think that the year is almost over. I know it's too early to look back at this time but this year not just marks the 29th year of my life but also a lot of important milestones.This year, is my last year as a single woman and marks our 6th year together with my husband-to-be.2007 is the year when 3 of my closest, dearest friends whom I love, got married:

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Follow our journey together until the bulates* conquers their real gender in the form of Hazel & Bert. See our progress here. Don't forget to sign our guest book!* worms (and are most commonly referred to earthworms: hermaphrodite wrigglers)

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This was not really day 8. We spent day 8 packing this guy's stuff because he was being sent to Sapporo on another job with our feet still hurting from the 2 days of walking around Odaiba. He spent the night of Day 7 packing his stuff, me on moral support because I couldn't stand up with all the blood pressure on my feet. I couldn't use my feet, so I glorified my existence on Day 8 by dragging

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Day 7 was another fun day at Odaiba, this time with Bin and Rish. We had a knack out of doing a mock prenup pictorials by who else, Bin and Rish, on their brand new SLR camera (not this shot. I still have to get the pictures done by the Pros! hahaha!). We spent the day playing with our camera, riding a lot of cars at the Toyota showroom and then ate a lot of food, all italian. It was great just

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I spend day 5 with a little rest, and packing my clothes to 1 suitcase as I am, again, moving to another apartment. It took us until around 1am of Day 6 to pack a few stuff and to prepare ourselves for a day out at Odaiba. It's an official trip, sponsored by the office for us to refresh ourselves by enjoying the day. We had korean food for lunch, coffee for desert, movies in the afternoon and a

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First day of the month, golden week vacation and cheap cinema rates. We went to see Spiderman 3 yesterday and as usual, effects were great, Tobey McGuire is still spidey and John Franco (the new Goblin), I kind of liked him this time. I didn't like him in the past 2 Spidey movies, but I hate killing his character, not when he's gone nice and cute. MJ was wallowing in self-pity and really,

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Okay, this was his idea of a date. We went to visit the nearby Tokyo Sea Life Park, 1 station away from Disneyland train stop. The fishes were not something new. There was a full tank of tuna fishes on one of the exhibits and while seeing the magnificent fishes swimming around, all I can think of was "yum! yum!". Same thing with the squids and the crabs. I feel so bad for feeling hungry by

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We started the golden week vacation with the april birthday celebrants' (Francis and Bert) party with a yakiniku pig out nearby and then a drinking spree at my place. It was a foodfest rather than a drinking party as there was more food than liquor. We had a birthday toast with a small bottle of wine and then some tequila shots (2 or 3 shots each) then spent the whole night pigging out,

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Together for 5 years 8 months and 14 days today, not one day did my love ever waned for you. 30 years onto this world today, HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!271 days till you're mine forever.mwah! mwah!

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Chiba pips start this year with a diferent kind of bang: food trip! In celebration of pao's birthday, we had a grand time with loads of yakiniku and huge, huge, huggggeee ice cream!

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Our dear bumer passed away on Christmas Day, 12/25/2006. With everyone so busy with the holidays and their personal affairs, nobody noticed that he was sick and was in need of medical attention until it was too late. May he rest in peace and may he forgive us for not taking very good care of him.** a few days after bumer died, our pair of beautiful lovebirds escaped from their cage and flew away

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Poor tigger just died of accidental suffocation while my niece naps peacefully and comfortably!

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.... to my 1 month stay here, I've done a lot of things, it was sooo busy that I barely realized my vacation is almost over. I leave in 2 days' time and I felt like the 1 month passed like a week. The best thing that happened this month was the tsonggos reunion. We haven't seen each other in such a long, long, long time that it was so nice to see everyone soo happy, soo together and so different

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I finally uploaded pictures taken on Dec 21. See them here: http://picasaweb.google.co.jp/hazel.formosoTsonggos @ Balay Indang album for the Nuptial pictures.Tsonngos Exchange Gift 2006 for the well, exchange gift pictures.

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C-H-E-E-R-S for the upcoming year!

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Happy New Year!Hmmn.. I see myself totally busy this year, with the wedding preparations and all, but with me offshore to Japan again in a few days, I hope to accomplish many things even if I'm a little away from home.So, what shall I do for the year 2007?1. Continue my weight loss (this is a MUST!)2. Save, save, save, save, saveeeeee!3. Cut down on my alcohol intake4. Weight loss5. Improve my

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Tanging Yaman Originally uploaded by marts. Yesterday's word-of-the-day at Reno-Minerva Nuptials... all started out with Pogs pauso... Of course, not on the picture are: the newlyweds Reno and Minerva, another newlyweds Bin and Rish, another not-so-newlyweds Tintin and Erwin (they were outside, takot si Erwin sa multo eh), and of course, the source of all SLRs: pogie (he was the one taking

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Amidst all the busy activities concluding my eviction from my previous place of stay, I even managed to squeeze in cough, colds and high fever into my very busy schedule. Not that I'm complaining. After all, it earned me a 1.5 day bed rest, and unwilling weight loss (yay!) to the expense of the temporary restriction of my sense of smell and taste. It is quite interesting to eat without knowing

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In lieu of my early christmas vacation (well, not really) comes early christmas shopping. I went hunting for some family gift goodies at Makuhari outlet shop and with the cold winter slowly creeping up my tired feet, I just can't help but be impatient for my bus ride home (thus the picture, courtesy of my other bulate half excitingly tinkering with his brand new camera, his other not-so-old

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I have been wondering for quite sometime on what my life would have been if I were a pilot, a soldier or a race car driver. Learning to fly a plane, maybe I still have a chance to learn it. Soldier.. fat chance. I learned step 1 on my way to be a race car driver by learning how to drive. The closest thing I can be to be somewhere within race cars is to be a mechanic. Now that, I'm sure I can

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I have 2 books in my toilet. I setup a tiny bookstand on my tiny toilet a couple of months ago because of this vague recollection of enjoying myself reading a really, really old newspaper while doing potty duties when I was in grade school. I tried this practice on my bathroom at home too, but my mom keeps on removing them everytime she visits my room (and my bathroom). So to keep my precious

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I received my birthday presents the week before my birthday and we had a grand yakiniku party the weekend after my birthday. With all the brouhahaha before and after my birthday, the day itself was a day of reckoning. I went to work in the morning, worked overtime until 9pm, then went home, took a picture of myself, printed it and taped it on my journal to remind myself in the future what I

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I'm having the best time of my life this year.... it started with a broken foot in februray, then fraudulent transactions on my credit card in march.. then the loss of my driver's license... and then my bert leaving for ibaraki and now... the loss of my atm.. what can possibly go right next week?

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Today is just an ordinary day for both of us, taking a walk on a sunny sunday afternoon, having fun at the arcade.. Since yesterday I have been so envious of my officemate's collection that I wondered if maybe I should start one on my own. I do have a collection of books but those are for my own "library". Not exactly a collection so I decided to start a Naruto figure collection (well, not yet

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Summer outing marks summer activities like swimming and stuff like that. Unfortunately for people working in Japan, the Philippine summer outing is done at the same timing whereas the weather is still spring in the land of the rising sun.. so I'll rephrase our summer outing to spring food trip instead. We started with a hearty and heavy lunch at Tony Roma's, went shopping at Makuhari outlet

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hooked on a feeling.... again! damn it, it just keeps playing in my head... Well speaking of, I saw a video of David Hasselhoff's version of this song. Take some time to watch it then tell me why I'm having a hard time taking him seriously..

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the conclusion of the golden week vacation is the most difficult of all: I ruined my body clock. I slept at 2am everyday this week, my mind is still soooo, sooo able to do normal thinking but my body is not taking orders from my neurons. Here's what's keeping me up this week (and tonight): 1. Naruto episode this week sucked. Just when I thought the filler episodes finally ended, it looks like

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The song from Ally McBeal, performed by Vonda Sheppard... last song syndrome.. it's been playing in my head for hours already.I'm currently hooked on that very old online yahoo game Super Collapse and while it caused my 2am sleep for the past 4 days, I don't know why I keep on playing it, although it's sooo meaningless just to play and play.. and today, while i'm senselessly clicking the bricks

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If there's one wonderful thing we did during this golden week vacation, that's indulging ourselves with food, food and more food! I learned how to cook this new dish from Yanashima-sensei (who lost the original recipe so we ended up experimenting instead) and I also learned how to make a clam chowder thru canned goods recipe hihihihi! Yesterday's main dish was inspired by the sea.. thus the

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We went to see this underwater museum in Katsuura City today, a city 2 hrs away from our place. We left at 1030am and arrived at 1245pm in Ubara station, a station so remote that they can't accept suica cards and we had to pay the remaining fare in cash (it kind of reminds me of hirooka in nagano during our aots days) and the trains bound for chiba are 1 hour apart. So well, anyway, we (just me

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Sunday night overnight bus to Osaka for Universal Studios Japan, 1 whole day around the theme park on Monday and then back to Chiba on Monday night thru an overnight bus again is definitely exhausting. I was so tired by the end of the day that my heels hurt sooo much that I could not bear to stand on my own two feet. My body was not very tired but it was my feet that hurt like hell. Well, hell

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bulate means worm. It's a long story on how that term got to be as it is being used now. The night before the bulate's birthday, I spent quite some time to write my birthday letter and I really did have a hard time trying to figure out how to fit my gift to that tiny gift wrapper I idiotly purchased before the gift. Belated happy birthday to my bulate!

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I was thinking of cramming for tomorrow's exam but then again, what the heck. I'll rely on my luck and pure guessowrk instead hehehe

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I just remembered that feeling when I had a double shot of tequila on an almost empty stomach. The result: instant knock out!! hahaa! I was suddenly looking at cloudy faces and my head swam over something with the sweet feel of the hot liquid on my stomach, I tried to fight the urge to sleep instead. I do remember everything, of course. I don't believe those things about not remembering anything

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I have no issues recently (even work issues..imagine that). I guess this means I'm breezing thru my life these past few weeks. I'm happy. A little sad because I miss my family and friends. I was not able to visit my friends last month because, well, I'm broke. What an issue.But there are some things that I miss. I miss seeing the tsonggos and hanging out with them. It's been a while. It's such a

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I was so excited to learn about mIRC and torrents that I spent the whole night of Friday night until 4am saturday morning tinkering on my PC. I was also overexcited with the streaming video stuff posted on youtube that I spent that same time checking what videos are online. Too much excitement rendered me unable to wake up early the next morning to make the hanami at Kamakura together with

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I finally had little work to do today. So little that I was actually bored at work. I deliberately slowed down on my work so I wouldn't run out of work to do. I was so used to being swamped by loads of work that I felt weird for not hurrying up on my taks and for not finding anything to do. I should be thankful, this only happens once in a couple of years. I shall enjoy every free moment and I

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I thought being able to do some sports was something very cool that I tried hard so to be good on at least 1 sport. But alas, as much as I want to be good at one, sports doesn't seem to like me. I set my heart out to be good in volleyball since primary school, but unfortunately, I was one of the first kids "voted out" of the team. So I tried some basketball, but with me having the best arm in the

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I started cross stitching as a hobby when I was still in high school. Though I'm not the type of person to just stay in the house and mend someone else's old socks, I kind of enjoy a couple of handicraft works. Well, I had no choice, my mother was so good at doing those things that I kind of got myself to learn them. I started the Oriental Women project in November 2002, and after 3.5 years, I

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DSC00198 Originally uploaded by marts. It's been a while since I last talked to my family. I miss talking to my father, I miss playing baby games with my niece, and I miss shopping with my sisters. I miss talking about different things with my brothers, and I miss driving my mother around. Japan is so peaceful yet sometimes, too much stress and free time makes me miss the very busy

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..was the last time I got my hands on the internet? yesterday...was the last time I updated my blog? new year...was the last time I went shopping? long time ago...am I getting married? soon, I hope.I'm back online.. and I wish to update you from here on. The few months I was offline, I sent my thoughts to my journal. This time, I hope to give my thoughts to you.

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In 2005 we arrived in Japan in January we went skiing in February we had arrozcaldo cooking fiesta in March we had the death march with Yanashima-sensei for the hanami at the Imperial Palace(Tokyo) in April we enjoyed the spring sun at Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo Summerland in May I had the gross pleasure of staying in a room stinking of puke due to a whiskey called early times in June

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IMG_1718 Originally uploaded by marts. Find waldo and you'll find me. Haha, wish ko lang. We enjoyed a really cool winter day at Tokyo Disneyland with friends and officemates. Great weather that day.

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Zoe at 14 monts Originally uploaded by marts. With our office blocking all blog sites in the internet, I didn't feel like updating my blog when I can't see them.

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While tight shirts look sexy on some men, it just isn't so for others. Peace bin!

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Today is just another day... waking early in the morning.. taking my usual morning bath... the usual early morning routine.. I rushed up to work very, very relaxed.. not in a hurry at all since I made the morning GO on the stop-and-go flow of aguinaldo highway to coastal road. As I parked the car and ready to be off to the office, it suddenly hit me that there is something missing... something

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I had another encounter with the third kind yesterday.... 1 nasty flat tire. The wheel was so flat that I was kind of pitiful with the way our 7-yr old car is being treated. The praning driver that I am, I used to always, always take with me the car manual, the pressure gauge and the my pressurized air pump, my new best friend. I've had busted tires, flat tires, underinflated tires, and well, I'm

Martshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16635575182819809921noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701865.post-1125896224550225522005-09-05T12:57:00.000+08:002005-09-05T12:57:04.596+08:00

No matter how many times I come in and out of the country, I always feel different everytime I come back home. It's strange that when I go to Japan, I feel safe and at home and very sure of myself and, strange as it sounds, very, very relaxed. However, everytime I come back, I have this strange feeling of weariness, stress and restlessnes. Maybe because I always have a list of to do items

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..when I witness abuse. As mild as word abuse (bosses raising voices, mothers scolding their children in public, the works) I freeze. Physical abuse is much worse. When I witness some punches thrown out or some kind of malicious shoving and pushing, I suddenly feel myself moving to another planet.. I can't move, my mind stays blank, I hear screams in the background amidst fuzzy images. My heart

Martshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16635575182819809921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701865.post-1116460979646074622005-05-19T08:02:00.000+08:002005-05-19T08:02:59.693+08:00

....from Keni (Japanese officemate) that most Japanese men are not circumcised.

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... walking around the city in cool weather ... living in a small city where you almost know everybody ... cooking and eating barbecue ... driving around ... playing billiards in our basement ... hanging around with my brothers and sisters ... playing goofy with my baby niece ... gossiping with friends ... friday lunch outs ... weekend nights movie dates with friends ... occassional dinner with

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I've done the following in my current job as a Research and Development Engineer: 1. Programming (sometime ago) 2. Testing (every project) 3. Test plan creation (sometime ago) 4. Evaluate members (every project) 5. Check source codes (every project) 6. Create and manage schedule (on some projects) 7. Counselling (as need arises) 8. Personnel advisor (as need arises) 9. Telemarketing, marketing

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