#37 Run in a marathon Done with #37 in my 100-things-to-do-before-i-die list. That makes it the 5th of a hundred. A long way to go, man. Okay, okay, so maybe I ran just a third of the way and brisk-walked the rest, but at least I still ran, didn’t I? And can I help it […]
My First Swimming Lesson
Last night I attended my first swimming lesson with my officemates Ivy and Jaypee and my roommate Maya. It was held in the Mandarin Hotel swimming pool. P&G’ers have a 50% discount on the classes. We had been planning this since last year but due to some weird circusmtances involving Jaypee and his nose, we […]
Milenyo Moments: a Typhoon Story
Last September 27, typhoon Milenyo hit Metro Manila and hit it hard. For the first time since I’ve lived here, I could not go to work because early in the morning, the flood had reached our door. Then the lights went out and since we were stuck in a dark house with nothing else to […]
The Spotlight
Thom, our P2P rockstar, was talking to me last Sunday about how nice it felt when he sang onstage and everybody was screaming his name. Afterwards, lots of people even wanted to pose for pictures with him (including me – guilty as charged!). No wonder people crave the spotlight, he said. I can relate. During […]
Rhyza
When Liza was a new hire in P&G, and we welcomed her to our lunches, she did not tell us she was pregnant until two months later. She said that she kept it a secret because some companies don’t regularize pregnant employees, which I think is a ridiculous practice. Thankfully, P&G is not like them. […]
Mission Impossible 3 & Fuzion
Saturday night found Chu, Maya and me leaving the house just a bit after 10:00 to head for Greenbelt. And our mission? To watch Mission Impossible 3. We were expecting to get into the 11:20pm show or if not, the 11:59 shows. Greenbelt 3 was showing MI3 in 4 out of 5 cinemas. Surely, we […]
Drawing
Last night Reggie and Maya were complaining about the sweltering summer heat. Man, it was hot, even though it was the dead of night. We started talking about the possibility of installing an airconditioner in the house. But when we realized the implications it would have on our electricity bill, we also realized that it […]
Getting the Chicken Pox Vaccine
I don’t understand why I became such a scaredy cat when I became an adult. When I was a kid I was not at all afraid of injections. Doctors and dentists even used to praise me for being a brave kid because I didn’t cry when I got my first teeth pulled out or when […]
Housemate Bloopers
Funny thing happened to a couple of my roommates yesterday morning. One noticed that her towel was wet even though she hadn’t used it yet. Turns out that in her haste, our other roommate had used the wrong towel! Both were color blue and hung over the same bed railings, that’s why. But that’s not […]
Zenie’s Happy Hearts Day
Last year was a special valentine’s day, if not for me, then at least for one of my friends, and I was happy enough. Zenie’s boyfriend John had contacted me and asked for my help. He was in their hometown Basilan so he couldn’t give his valentines gift personally, so he asked if I could […]