the race is on....

Amazing Race 6 is on! I've seen the first 2 legs already and it's pretty clear which team's hated the most. It's Jonathan and ... some girl. It's hard to be remembered when your teamate's getting all the attention with all his shouting and arrogance. I sometimes wonder if these American's are "instructed" to have a personality just fot the sake of the show. A TV show has to have a villain. I guess, they(or Jonathan's) just doing this for his 15 minutes.

It's no surprise also that the producers opted to have 2 races in a single year, much like what CBS did for Survivor(and they did it twice). Hey, if you have an award winning show show, better have it on all year. One observation though, is their names are sure getting unique everytime a new race begins. Lori and Bolo, Gus and Hera, and Avi and ... I forgot. Nevermind with the names though, I sure hope Lena and Christy get out of last place before the next leg or they will be eliminated, and so is my reason for continuing to watch the show. Or maybe not.

Our Manonica!

A very Happy, happy birthday! She's the first real celebrity that I personally know and recognizes me too. I got to know you the first time I tuned to that station you worked before and I got hooked. She has such a lovely voice, and a face not made for radio. You deserve to be in front of the camera not just behind it. I can't exactly verify this but if I remember correctly, did you used to read those love letter on air on one of those Sunday noontime shows for WRR? Anyway, I may have been dreaming.

I wish for you all the blessings and the happiness you deserve. May you be fulfilled in all you endeavors and always keep your chin up! Happy Birthday!

a lazy saturday afternoon.

It's one of those days again, when I have too much time to kill in between appointments. It's not that I have nothing to do but I can't go home just yet and go out again for the next "meeting". I hate that. When I get home I want to stay home. There was a time when I was younger that I didn't like staying at home, but that all changed when I graduated and began working. Nowadays, I want to be home as much as I could. I'm getting old, (or worse, mature).

Back to my story, I promised an officemate that I would help her get a brand new cellphone using my credit background because hers was not high enough. I've been successful postponing it for about a week but I had no excuse yesterday. My work is up to lunch only but the other staff in the office has work up to 5 so I had 3 or 4 hours to kill.

After finishing up my other meeting somewhere after lunch, I headed to the mall where we're supposed to meet and watched "National Treasure". It was an enjoyable film because Diane Kruger is so beautiful. Nevermind the story which was waht you'd expect from a Jerry Bruckheimer movie. I still recommend it though.

I left the cinema after not seeing any trailers of upcoming films. I'm still waiting to see the new Batman and Star Wars trailers anytime now. I want the full trailers and not the teasers. I can watch those online. Anyway, after much walking and gawking at the PDA's in the store windows, I'm finally at the store waiting for my number. It's been 30 minutes and still the sales rep is still with customer 32, I'm number 37. "Customer 41 please." she barked. Hey, what happened to the other 9? With a little complaint, my turn was up.

" I would like to get a new subscription please."

"Ok sir, If I could just get your I.D and proof of billing address with ITR and Certificate of Employment and or your past 2 months billing statements with receipt of payment..."

" (My what?) 2 months billing with receipt? I only brought 1 month. Is that ok?"

(sigh) The sales rep wouldn't budge. I just wasted an hour and no new phone and it's still raining. I rushed home with my take-out cheese pizza and baked ziti with tomato sauce hoping to catch part of the Pacers-Piston brawl on cable. ahh. just another day.

of Maiden's breasts, Francine Prieto and Belgian Malinois..

spent the weekend in batangas at a friends farm at the foot of a "maiden's breast," Loosely translated from "susong dalaga", which is the name of the mountains (or hills?) that is the backdrop of our friends farm. Took the trip with my friend Cocoy who dreamt about Francine Prieto being an transexual and proved wrong. No wonder he was smiling.
I helped our friend design this farm as thier weekend hideaway. My friend and his husband bought this property so that they could make things grow. They already have at least 10 kinds of fruit trees and vegetables here. It may take a few years before it can be harvested but it gonna be worth the wait. They also have 10 or so dogs of different breeds, from Japanese Spitz, Belgian Malinois and German Sheperds, black and white. There's also Cocoy's bitch, Trixie, their first dog, a huge, black Rottwieler. They also keep 3 young falcons in a birdcage in the property.
Half of the propoerty has a steep slope, dropping by 50meters to a river below. It's a long trek down with 4 pit stops along a stairway carved into the mountain-side. I always love going here, and I can't wait to finish the pool they've asked me to add into this small piece of paradise.

unplugged... almost.

It's a neat thing about cellphones these days is you can almost do everthing on it. There's been some hype that in the future, cellphones would become portable media devices (if it isn't already), where you can have a live feed of programs that you can watch,very much like the television now.

Last night I attempted to browse this blog from my cellphone. I really don't expect it to work it but to my surprise it did, pictures and all. I went a step further and tried to post a blog from it but all i got was a "cannot find the page you looking for". So much for my experiment.

I do wish I can have the devices to be able to blog even when I'm on the road so that it would be more spontaneous. We'll, that's just one more thing to wish for.

FRIENDS' back!

Yehey! FRIENDS is back on Star World! Thanks Vee for the heads up! I'll probably be tardy fot the office again because of this. Got this pic from the commemorative book they released a few months ago. Tweaked it a little bit.

Gellie!

This is Gellie! My niece who will celebrate her 2nd birthday on the 17th! Hope you'll enjoy your bicycle!

eventful weekend.

I thought last week was just gonna be the same as all my other weekends. I watched 2 movies from my backlog of flicks to see. First was "Before Sunset", which my friend recommended. It's really an entertaining "conversation" movie, much to the dismay of my officemates. The movie really showed that some of my notions in life and love exists in other people, even if it's in a movie. Especially the one where Celine is asking (while shouting, on the verge of tears) why is all her previous boyfriends got married after they broke up. I can relate to that. My only comlplain was the film's only 80 minutes long. I guess the director wanted the "real time" feel for this movie.

The other movie I saw was "The Incredibles", a CGI flick from PIXAR and has a running time longer than Before Sunset. I always love watching animated movies, whether it's 30 minutes or 2 hours. Maybe because a long time ago, before I was in my profession now, I wanted to draw for comic books and cartoons. Well, They're called graphic novels and animation today but who cares! The movie was great, just as all PIXAR movies. It has a simple story with great editing and fast-paced sequences which everyone will love. I'm still amazed how realistic the background and the "look" of the film had.

To top it all off, I went home to an "empty" house. My brother who was supposed to be home wasn't and he brought with him the key. I had no choice but to wait for about 2 hours, which brings everything back to normal.