holiday week
too many things have happened over the past 8 days. though, i could say that my holiday week was quite uneventful, that the events that happened over the past 8 days didnt really make an impression. so i guess my holiday season was a series of uneventful events.
so Christmas came, and well, ho-hum. it was the first year to celebrate xmas without household help, so our preparations werent really as mabongga as the previous years. the annual africa reunion came, and though the theme of the night was 70s, the people weren't really in "disco" mood. wala lang, kebs lang sila. which was rather disappointing, especially i looked forward to wearing a 70s costume in going retro-inspired party. it was also a first that we werent complete in the party - mom and denise had to stay home due to illness and fatigue. the after-party at cubao was... let's not talk about it. basta, it can be described with a word that starts with a "b" and ends with a "g", and it's definitely not big. *roll-eyes*.
i guess what made this Christmas "unusual" was my text-greeting to people. weirdo komikero chuck had to greet people with knock knock jokes of their names used in christmas carols. the best i did was for iceal, with "said the night wind to the little lamb, do you see what ICEAL?" hehe. just little moments of fun for me.
december 26. yeah, the christmas dinner with high school friends - mikael, eske, scheds and jay-r, and migo. though we didnt go to tagaytay this year, we still had fun eating at jay-j's at the dampa area near sm mall of asia. then having post-dinner at starbucks binondo (perfect site for cruising all those chinois hahaha). the exchanging of gifts was fun, since scheds, mika and i decided to give group gifts. well, we already went home at 4 am (despite work for me the following day), since we thought going home at 2am was still too early on a holiday week. ayun, after the road trip to balete drive, we ended up kwentuhan inside the L300 outside mikael's place.
27th-29th at work was really uneventful, as expected. support groups didnt go to work, so we couldnt follow up on projects. less than half of the brand people went to work. syempre, everyone was still in holiday mode. so what did i do at work? sleep (because of 2 days of puyat), 3 hour lunch breaks (one with carl at market market), endless chit-chat with anj, poker, and oh yes, transfering my files to donna's place. good luck to me this coming week (maghahabol ako ng projects, urgness).
cause of my puyat: qaf dvd (aside from going home at 4am last tuesday night). gosh, im so addicted. mikael and schedar gave me that as my present. and of course, i couldnt resist a marathon of this "interesting" series, about 4 episodes on average per night. i could so relate to the story and the characters, especially mikey and ted. more on the series in my next entries.
was supposed to meet up with mamel last friday night, 29th. but she couldnt make it since she was not feeling well. so i cancelled the thing and decided to... hmmm what did i do? ah yeah, go to makati, met up with ikay to shop for gifts (and for her to share her mic story). then afterwards, hehe. jerome, was it? wala lang, it was just empty - a reminder of how it generally feels like. felt a bit guilty though. but in the end, kebs.
30th. jingle bell rock: the oc's christmas party 2006. rockstar was the theme of the night; spent at michelle's place in taytay. almost everyone was there - carl, miko, pay, anj, boni, rizza, mich, ikay, jay, tim, teef and joanne (his new gf). it was fun dressing up as a rockstar - my black vest (which i wore 6 times already this past month), tight jeans, white polo, trenchcoat, lots of bling, and a faux hawk. fun fun night, though i was really TINATAMAD hours before the 6pm call time. but hey, this happens just once a year, so what the heck. funny lang that after the party which ended at 2am, i had time and enough strength to go to gov (because of ryan's insistence). i also just wanted to end the year with a commemoration of a year spent in gov. naks!
31st. i wasn't in the mood to celebrate the new year. even if i was supposed to donate dessert for the family (fondue and mango bravo at conti's), i was tinatamad na to go out to buy stuff. our family didnt even participate much with the revelry - this year we only had 4 fireworks in the house. even if i was adamant to celebrate with the world, i unexpectedly found the party at cubao to be fun. carlo was the host emcee this year, and the games he prepared surprised me (my cousins actually enjoyed). weird. had fun too playing boxing and sting with the kids - half-cousin charles and inaanak migs. it's one of the few recent new year's which i wasnt keeping track of the time (maybe because i didnt wear my watch that night).
oh well... it's good din that i wont be doing my year in review tonight - i might just be too depressed to recount the past year (and think that 2006 was really a BAD year).
i'll just post my "year in review" in my next entry. :)
so Christmas came, and well, ho-hum. it was the first year to celebrate xmas without household help, so our preparations werent really as mabongga as the previous years. the annual africa reunion came, and though the theme of the night was 70s, the people weren't really in "disco" mood. wala lang, kebs lang sila. which was rather disappointing, especially i looked forward to wearing a 70s costume in going retro-inspired party. it was also a first that we werent complete in the party - mom and denise had to stay home due to illness and fatigue. the after-party at cubao was... let's not talk about it. basta, it can be described with a word that starts with a "b" and ends with a "g", and it's definitely not big. *roll-eyes*.
i guess what made this Christmas "unusual" was my text-greeting to people. weirdo komikero chuck had to greet people with knock knock jokes of their names used in christmas carols. the best i did was for iceal, with "said the night wind to the little lamb, do you see what ICEAL?" hehe. just little moments of fun for me.
december 26. yeah, the christmas dinner with high school friends - mikael, eske, scheds and jay-r, and migo. though we didnt go to tagaytay this year, we still had fun eating at jay-j's at the dampa area near sm mall of asia. then having post-dinner at starbucks binondo (perfect site for cruising all those chinois hahaha). the exchanging of gifts was fun, since scheds, mika and i decided to give group gifts. well, we already went home at 4 am (despite work for me the following day), since we thought going home at 2am was still too early on a holiday week. ayun, after the road trip to balete drive, we ended up kwentuhan inside the L300 outside mikael's place.
27th-29th at work was really uneventful, as expected. support groups didnt go to work, so we couldnt follow up on projects. less than half of the brand people went to work. syempre, everyone was still in holiday mode. so what did i do at work? sleep (because of 2 days of puyat), 3 hour lunch breaks (one with carl at market market), endless chit-chat with anj, poker, and oh yes, transfering my files to donna's place. good luck to me this coming week (maghahabol ako ng projects, urgness).
cause of my puyat: qaf dvd (aside from going home at 4am last tuesday night). gosh, im so addicted. mikael and schedar gave me that as my present. and of course, i couldnt resist a marathon of this "interesting" series, about 4 episodes on average per night. i could so relate to the story and the characters, especially mikey and ted. more on the series in my next entries.
was supposed to meet up with mamel last friday night, 29th. but she couldnt make it since she was not feeling well. so i cancelled the thing and decided to... hmmm what did i do? ah yeah, go to makati, met up with ikay to shop for gifts (and for her to share her mic story). then afterwards, hehe. jerome, was it? wala lang, it was just empty - a reminder of how it generally feels like. felt a bit guilty though. but in the end, kebs.
30th. jingle bell rock: the oc's christmas party 2006. rockstar was the theme of the night; spent at michelle's place in taytay. almost everyone was there - carl, miko, pay, anj, boni, rizza, mich, ikay, jay, tim, teef and joanne (his new gf). it was fun dressing up as a rockstar - my black vest (which i wore 6 times already this past month), tight jeans, white polo, trenchcoat, lots of bling, and a faux hawk. fun fun night, though i was really TINATAMAD hours before the 6pm call time. but hey, this happens just once a year, so what the heck. funny lang that after the party which ended at 2am, i had time and enough strength to go to gov (because of ryan's insistence). i also just wanted to end the year with a commemoration of a year spent in gov. naks!
31st. i wasn't in the mood to celebrate the new year. even if i was supposed to donate dessert for the family (fondue and mango bravo at conti's), i was tinatamad na to go out to buy stuff. our family didnt even participate much with the revelry - this year we only had 4 fireworks in the house. even if i was adamant to celebrate with the world, i unexpectedly found the party at cubao to be fun. carlo was the host emcee this year, and the games he prepared surprised me (my cousins actually enjoyed). weird. had fun too playing boxing and sting with the kids - half-cousin charles and inaanak migs. it's one of the few recent new year's which i wasnt keeping track of the time (maybe because i didnt wear my watch that night).
oh well... it's good din that i wont be doing my year in review tonight - i might just be too depressed to recount the past year (and think that 2006 was really a BAD year).
i'll just post my "year in review" in my next entry. :)