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A Date with Clouie

Last week I received a txt message from Lara informing me that our friend Clouie is already here in the Philippines. He is now residing and working in Belgium. It's been three years since we last saw him. He went there to attend the World Youth Day and never came back. Lucky for him he was able to find work so his stay there became legal.

We scheduled our date last Sunday. We were supposed to meet at 11 am because one of our friend will be having their Christmas party that day but Clouie came almost 12 noon. We had lunch at Huey Ying (I love their sizzling sisig!). After which we had a few picture taking and then brought Rizza to the terminal. I don't know what's gotten into Clouie, he wanted to skate. I never had the chance to skate but I wanted to try, so I said yes. When we got to the ice skating rink, I was a bit nervous. Falling down on your butt in front of a lot of people would be humiliating. I envy those kids who knew how to skate. With a few practice, someday I might be able to skate like a hockey player or a figure skater (just dreaming...*LOL*). I must mention that it was freezing in there. I did not bring any jacket so it was a good thing that we only pay for an hour of skating.

After skating we had coffee. It didn't do any good with the cold feeling that I had because I ordered a frapuccino. Clouie got the planner from starbucks. Seriously, it was the ugliest planner starbucks has yet to release. It's not worth paying and drinking so much coffee. There was a time when I heard one of the barista say that they have a great planner this year. I guess most of the strabucks' afficionados got disappointed. Anyways, we wanted our date to be memorable for Clouie so we each wrote a note for him on the starbucks' tissue paper and we also had our group picture developed.

He will be leaving on saturday but before that we planned another get together. A movie date. We will be watching Desperadas 2. We were joking around, he will be like ogie in the movie and us will be Ruffa, Ruffa Mae, Marian and Iza...The Desperadas... I really hope I could join them. It's my grandmother's birthday and as of now we don't know what the family is planning.

So here are some of our pictures from our date. I haven't transferred the photo from the skating rink. I'll just post it another time...

Christmas Party '08

Our company had its Christmas Party at Techno Park Hotel in Sta. Rosa Laguna. When we got there, we first had our merienda of baked zitti and two slices of brownies. It was yummy! I wanted to ask for a refill but I guess it was only limited.

Then the party started with an opening prayer and remarks from our Sales Manager, Mr. Takahashi. We had games, raffle and Bingo. I got the 33rd prize, a single burner gas stove (which I will give to my friend who is getting married) and 1500 pesos cash. BF only got the consolation prize of 1200 pesos. I was only able to join one game, the newspaper dance. My partner? Who else?! *LOL* We did not win because BF has a big foot..hehe...

Our HR OIC rented an acoustic band as per request of our operators. The band was ok except for the female vocalist who was frowning the whole time. I don't know what her problem was but it sure is unethical to show it while they were performing.

Except for the band, the party was enjoyable!

With our Japanese Bosses

Red Outfit

BF won in bring me game

My S-IK family

The theme of the party was Red and Green. The colors of Christmas...

My New Toy

I just bought my Canon EOS 1000d last saturday at Henry's in Hidalgo....

Worst Delivery Service!

Eversince we (Emee and I) received our share in our paluwagan, my officemates were bugging us to treat them. In return, Emee and I also bugged Kuya Remy to treat us for receiving a complete attendance for the whole year. Aside from the complete encashment of VL/SL, he will receive a cash price on our Christmas party.

To lower our expenses, we decided to share.

We called Chowking as early as 9:30 so we can have lunch at 10:30. An hour is already too much allowance for time of delivery. 10:30 came but our order hasn't arrived yet. We were already pissed! It's way past our lunchtime. We called chowking again and informed them that we were already waiting for over an hour. We wanted to cancel our order. They kept telling us that their rider left a long time ago and was already on the way. You know how long we've waited?! 2 hours! What kind of delivery service was that! If I were you, if you wanted a fast delivery service, don't order at Chowking. Establishments like these should have a time allotment for not more than an hour when it comes to delivery. Their customers will have second thoughts when it comes to ordering at their store if they continue to give us service like this. Grrrgh!!!

Feeling Sick

I have a cold today and a fever as well. I already took medicine but I still don't feel any better.
I don't want to take a sick leave. I'm running for perfect attendance! I really hope this would all go away. I blame the cold weather...Grrgh!

Frustrating

Today was supposed to be the day I will purchase my DSLR. I reminded my father about the money I was going to borrow. To my disappointment, he lend it to someone else. Arrgh! He thought I wasn't resolved yet, that I was still waiting for the news in our company. I have already decided. BF and I already made plans to go to Hidalgo. Now we don't know what to do today. The purchase will be re-scheduled on the 19th. Good thing our Christmas party was moved from 13 to 22. I still have a little time to practice *LOL*.

Another boring day

I don't understand why we still need to go the office during saturdays. It's just a waste of time and money. We don't have any production so there really is nothing to do. Our company is experiencing a crisis. We don't know how much longer we can stay afloat. There were rumors that we're going to close. There was supposed to be a management meeting yesterday to inform employees about the status and plans of the company. But it was postponed to who knows when. A lot of us were irritated. If they're going to close down it's better to tell it sooner so we can prepare for unemployment. *LOL*.