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I turned 24 a couple of weeks ago. My office friends gave me a cake, a video, and some messages. They said they didn’t know how to make a blog for the messages which is what I usually do for their birthdays, so Drew just emailed them in different colored fonts. Haha! Happy Birthday Heids! […]

Site Rep Symposium 2006

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In our line of work we get to handle the markets of different countries. We have counterparts in those countries, and we call them site reps. Every year we hold a site rep symposium and invite them over here. This year the dates picked were September 6-8. I was picked by one of the team […]

Deja Vu High School Reunion

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I notice a pattern here. Everytime I see Flisha, I also see Rey and Jerome within that same week or so. Like last time. And now. Last Saturday I went to meet Flisha in SM Makati. She was apparently in Manila for some sort of seminar, so I took this opportunity to give her birthday […]

Bye Bye Reylyn

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When Reylyn announced that she was migrating to the Cayman Islands with her hubby, an instant despedida was definitely called for. So I booked a one-bedroom condo in Millennium Plaza Hotels for Friday night and told the gang to be there then. But the night before that, Gelle and I started singing “Lost in Your […]

The Spotlight

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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 […]

Rockin’ Yearend

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Yeah I know what you’re thinking. Yearend? But it’s not even into the ‘ber months yet! Well, our company does not follow the calendar year, and we close our fiscal years every June. And to celebrate that, we usually have a party after about a couple of months. So for this year, the following were […]

Bye Bye Kes & Arni (part 3)

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As if two despedida’s were not enough, we pushed for one more — our original plan, the sleepover. We rented out a condo room in Millenium Plaza Hotels for one night and checked ourselves in at around 9pm last Friday. But before that, Gelle, Yen and I stopped by Caltex Starmart to buy food and […]

Bye Bye Kes & Arni (part 2)

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I mentioned in the previous blog that two of my friends from the office are resigning. Our despedida session in IO was kind of bitin, so we decided to have a surprise lunch for them in their last day in the office, which is today. We gathered everyone together, including those who have been so […]

Bye Bye Kes & Arni

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Don’t you just hate goodbyes? Actually, it’s not all goodbyes I hate, only when I am the one being left behind. I mean, when I was the one who had to leave, somehow saying goodbye was more bearable. So it was kind of a blow to me when two of my dearest friends in the […]

Rhyza

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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. […]