The weeks before our official solemnizing ceremony (in layman's terms "wedding"), I managed to squeeze in some time to surf the Net in the hopes of getting some tips on simplifying the process of getting married, sans the the frills that normally come with a wedding -- dresses, flowers, food, etc ( Read more... )

When I used to handle "Advil" back in TBWA, one of our campaigns was about something called techno-stress. In it, we postulate that because technology makes everything and everyone so easily accessible, then there's no escaping anything or anyone anymore.

I could so relate to that before. But moreso now.

Take today, for instance.

I've waited for ( Read more... )

Living the modern urban and cosmopolitan lifestyle which today is no longer any different from the legendary fast-paced, breakneck speed, cutthroat New Yorker lifestyle has slowly made me into a person who has less and less patience with the non-essentials, the mundane and the superficial.

Nowadays I seem to have less tolerance for idle chitchat ( Read more... )

It's 1:46am, I'm sitting Indian-style on our living room rug typing away at this blog entry (with a flicker of hope that my normally articulate brain will come back to life after months with absolute nothingness coming out of my right brain). My hubby has fallen into exhausted slumber in the bedroom; as I sneak in a little bit of "me" time after a ( Read more... )

...and aside from the beautifully done Christmas lights along Ayala Avenue (which I've scarcely paid attention to since it was installed last month), and the occasional December night's chill, and a Kris Kringle in the office (where I've been an extremely delinquent mom)... I barely feel Christmas.
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I left Harrison Communications almost 2 and a half years ago not because I wasn't happy with the Agency. I left because I was no longer happy being in Account Management. And so I left Harrison, for supposedly greener pastures, and supposedly a job description that gave me less stress, less heartache, less pain.

I did find it... For a while. But as ( Read more... )

There's a Christmas party on the 12th floor hosted by our media counterparts. It was quite enjoyable though I think what friends have been telling me is coming to be.

I'm becoming a certified genuine manang.

I don't enjoy noisy places anymore. Though i still enjoy my mug of beer... I don't like crowded venues, loud music that still hums in your ear ( Read more... )

I don't know how I did it in my younger years.

I could party and go drinking all night til 2-3 in the morning and still wake up early the following morning to make it to work by 8am. And I used to live in Quezon City before, worked in Makati, and commuted everyday.

I would be beset with a bad cold, a fever and general malaise... and still manage to ( Read more... )

On some level, I've always known I would be the kind of boss who will have a hard time separating my personal thoughts and feelings about my people, from my professional opinion and point-of-view about them.

Which is why I'm quite proud of myself that for the last few years, although I've been accused time and again of being "too nice", I'm glad ( Read more... )

Closing in very closely to the hour of midnight, all alone in the vast giant jungle that is my office, hunched over my laptop in my office cubicle, attempting (in vain) to finish cleaning up a presentation, alternately munching away on 7-11's "Hotta Rice" microwaveable rice toppings (I got tapa and laing... yum!), nursing horrible dysmenorrhea, ( Read more... )