shawarma is my secret lover
February 27, 2008the following post was written while i was sitting last tuesday in our booth waiting for 6pm to roll in. today’s already saturday. bleh.
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its 5:30pm and its raining and its freaking cold. and im sitting here at our booth. Its the Session in Bloom, the third of the three main events for the Panagbenga (Flower Festival). Its when they close the whole stretch of Session Road to make way for food stalls, arts and crafts booths, face painting and henna tattooing, bar and resto caterings and endless free concerts and street parties. for one week. i love.
i almost killed myself trying to get a permit for our own information booth. thing is, the big boss had second thoughts about putting up a both cuz the fee is ridiculously expensive for a 1-week stint. but since we badly need to do this marketing move, she agreed in the end…when the application for booths at the Panagbenga Secretariat is already done and over. i had to resort to asking our building administrators to let us open a booth infront of the building since we’re their tenants anyway. so a mere 5 days before the Session in Bloom opens, i was able to get a contract, lay-out and printed the tarps and flyers and Panagbenga-themed bookmarks (freebies) to be used. i drew blood. cut my finger while cutting flyers. yech.
but now, im actually enjoying myself. enjoying the sights, sounds and smells.
im on the my third chicken and beef shawarma, watching a gaggle of koreans oerusing over items sold at the crafts store while i listen as some guy painfully belt out a lovesong for a singing contest sponsored by a local radio station.
its still 5:30pm. its still raining. and its still freaking cold.
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have tons of pictures. have no time to upload and edit…yet. pictures next week promise!
panagbenga rant part 1
February 24, 2008today is Day 2 of the Panagbenga 2008 Grand Parades. Yesterday was the Streetdancing Parade and today is the Parade of Floats. yey. *snicker*
i decided to take the day off yesterday. woke up around 10:30am to catch the Streetdancing parade on live television almost over. good thing the bebe was there to take pictures so il have some to show later. its his job to take the pictures so teehee, i get to lie down while he has to fight with crazy revelers who are envious he gets to watch the parade close up.
and today is the Parde of Floats (quite similar with Pasadena’s Rose Parade). i need to come to the office to make sure everythings’s in place for our booth opening tomorrow when they close Session Road for a week. i don’t ned to be in the office until 9 but i decided that i would not get caught in a web of people clamoring to watch the parade at 8am. i was walking all bundled up (a sweater and a jacket and a muffler) at 7am praying to the high gods that the float parade was cancelled or atleast moved to a later time since its drizzling and all. but hell no. i was 20 paces to session road when all i see are hordes and hordes of people all stuck together trying to be warm amidst the typical morning baguio climate with that bonus sprinkler. i put my ipod to loud and braved the crowd. from the normal 15 mins brisk walk, it took me almost 45 mins just to reach our office building. i listened to Lily Allen while i shoved and pushed myself through the horde.
im so over Panagbenga.
im just looking forward to Session in Bloom, to our information booth and getting to attract as much of our target market as possible.
btw, i might not get the chance to get wasted this weekend. sensiblity…err…work has taken over. maybe after.
teehee!
i need to get drunk this weekend
February 20, 2008my life is hectic right now. both professional and personal. its 2am and im just so freakin’ tired to elaborate so il be limited to using short phrases in my effort to explain things.
my professional life is a blur of tarpaulin and brochure lay-outs, costings, endless tension-marinated meetings, intermittent office dsl, endless printing of proposals and bitching over the boss calling at 10pm (oh.god.i.hope.the.boss.dont.read.my.blog.)
my personal life is………….omg i cant even find the correct words to describe it. oh yeah, it is a bad koreanovela. go figure.
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the 2008 Flower Festival celebration is nearing its climax. im gonna be having tons of pictures to show off. and tons of ranting. ack.
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another open letter:
b,
why the sudden change?
why the sudden attention?
why the sudden concern about eveything?
i thought you dint care if i was awake until 4am…or if i had eaten lunch when its already 3pm…or that we barely see or talk to each other…or that we havent had a dinner date in months…
you’re suddenly confusing me.
me
my sweetest downfall
February 15, 2008you,
you were unexpected…an unexpected joy…a rare flicker of hope…a reason to open my eyes and finally see the truth of everything that i have right now…
i knew you since then…we had something since then…an unxplainable bond made stronger by time…a commitment to each other that may seem odd…but to us is just something both natural and innate…a force of nature…of feelings… of believeing that in this world we all have someone that is a perfect partner to our souls…
but i didn’t see that then…because for me you were just a special being that makes me smile day by day…who makes me feel that the world is such a wonderful place…i interpreted your sweet musings as mere immature teasings…
but who knew that you’d come to being like this…someone who is suddenly not afraid to bear his soul…even if the idea of rejection has come face to face with you…you continue to be brutally honest about what you feel…
yes, you have become my predicament…it is so wrong to match up with you using my wit as my only source of defense…
because im so damn afraid that a surge of too much emotion might cause me to make a wrong decision…that could hurt either me or you or him…
but im assured that whatever decision i come upon, you would accept that wholeheartedly…because that’s how you are…
and you know i love you…i always have...
…
you are my sweetest downfall…i loved you first…i loved you first…beneath the sheets of paper lies my truth…
i have to go…i have to go…
me
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my life is a rollercoaster right now. im trapped in web of indecision. i started resorting to writing open letters. this the first ive had the coourage to post here. i hope its the last…
when fate plays at you
February 13, 2008he is back…suddenly..
out of nowhere…after almost a year of non existence…
he is back…
and it gets more confusing from there…
……….
stir fried thoughts
February 1, 2008yey my bandwidth headache’s over!
so what did i learn from this problem?
1. to start utilizing my Flickr account (because its the only one spported by i.ph)
2. to start uploading all my photos on my Flickr account.
3. to quit being lazy about uploading my photos first to my Flickr account then inserting it to my posts.
4. to check my bandwidth consumption from time to time.
5. to get my own domain…fast! (but i still love you i.ph)
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so, i had to take down my PhotoHunt: old-fashioned theme photo last tuesday because my entry showed up as an ugly, horrible, heartbreaking BANDWIDTH EXCEEDED the day after i posted it…
but that’s behind me now, so im still posting that photo!
because im damn proud of it!
so here’s my take on PhotoHunt’s "old-fashioned" theme…
yeah, im wearing a native Igorot costume…one of the many indigenous people of the Philippines who reside here in the Cordilleras…here in Baguio City where im currently enjoying a quiet, pollution-free life…
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im slowly feeling the effects of working 7days a week. i slept past 12 last night but had to wake up at 6am to prepare for the Opening Parade of the Panagbenga (Flower Festival) our company would be joining. why the hell would i join a parade? for marketing purposes. i see it as an opportunity to splash the company brand to the whole of Baguio…scatter as many flyers and brochures…charm as many peopla as i can…i see no reason to sleep until 8am…ive got work to do…
and im tired…
physically and mentally tired…
though im not ready to give up yet, i feel that i do need some quick R&R…
i never had a day off in 3 weeks…ive been sleeping less than 6-hour nights…im out and about everyday on client meetings and barangay council meetings organizing free orientations in their respective districts…putting together proposals for our workshops…helping out with the sample outlines…revising our flyers and brochures…worrying if we have enough promotional posters to go around…pulling my hair trying to reach my sales goals every week…im working real hard…
and im trying to live at the same time…
what scares me is that in the past, i work too hard, push myself too much because i feel that im tired but at the same time i still feel pumped…until at some point, i would suddenly have a breakdown…i don’t want that to happen…
so im gonna take a weekend leave next week…il go to my paternal side’s ancestral house in la union…leave the laptop, turn off my phone and read a good book under one of our flowering mango trees…
im crossing my fingers i get enough courage to leave all the work and appointments for 2 days to my assistant…im ready for rest…
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btw, amidst all that work, i still do find time to catch some flicks especially on cable television…i often work while at the same time watchiing a movie…oh yeah, multi tasking queen i am! LOLZ
here’s the latest:
1. stormbreaker
2. alvin and the chipmunks
3. the glass house: good mother
and im curious about Cloverfield.
