life is short, live it!
love is rare, grab it!
anger is bad, dump it!
fear is awful, face it!
memories are sweet, cherish it!
cute tayo, accept it!

once there was an island where the feelings live. it was announced that the island was going to sink in the ocean. Feelings prepared to leave.
love asked richness: can i come with you on your boat?
richness: sorry but many gold and silvers here.
love: sadness please stay.
sadness: i'm sorry i want to be alone.
love: happiness i'll go with you but happiness don't hear what love said.
time: love, come i'll take you with me.
love felt so blessed and overjoyed asked, why did you help me time?
time: coz only time is capable of understanding how great love is.

as the moon winks at you tonight, i wish sweet dreams embrace you tight.. i hope your day was quite alright and now i bid you a lovely goodnight.
sleep tight!

saying to live by...
do unto others what they paid for
an apple a day is not an apple at night
when the cat is away the mouse is alone
if others can do it, don't help

may your salty nights be peppered with spicy love
may you bask in lemon dreams, sleep on strawberry bed inside a vanilla room...
in short... have a yummy night

pedro bumps a forener
p: ay sori
f: sori 2
p: sori 3
f: wat r u sori 4?
p: (kala mo bobo ako ha!) sori 5
f: i think u r sick!
p: hahaha! sick daw, six gani

Memorandum No. 16, s. 2006

Subject: Designation as ICT Campus Coordinator

In addition to your functions, you are hereby designated as ICT Campus Coordinator. As such, you are to exercise its powers, duties and responsibilities as defined in the attached terms of reference.

This designation shall not entail additional compensation except reimbursement of travelling expenses and allowances for official travel relative to this function.

This designation takes effect upon receipt and shall remain enforced until revoked.

Signed.

Just this Saturday, I saw an extravagant display of "love" when an allegedly millionaire Norwegian married a nineteen-year-old Filipina. I don't know if theirs is a wedding out of love but I'm pretty sure they wanted everybody to know about the event.

Days before 'd day, everybody's already talking about it - officemates, neighbors, strangers - everybody. Why? Because there were talks of a "parade" in a carriage around town. Pretty exciting, isn't it?

I almost forgot about it (as I'm not one to remember things that don't directly concern me) when my mum and I passed by a church overflowing with people. Just then I remembered what/whose wedding that was suppose to be.

Out of curiousity (and coz I wanted to see how "fairytale-like" the carriage is) we went in and saw the newly-weds still at the altar - with the endless picture-takings. We walked around the corner and saw this kalesa - decorated with flowers - daisies and anthuriums. Now, I don't mean to be mean but I didn't like it. Anthuriums remind me of burials. The daisies would have been fine if they were blended with other nicely-colored flowers. Overall assessment - not romantic at all.

I did like the bridesmaids thought. They were all dressed in baby pink asymmetrical dresses with little tiara-liked headbands. They all looked yong (expectely coz the bride is still very yong) and still wanted to play.

After maybe an hour (it felt like it anyway) of waiting, husband and wife finally stepped out of the church. Inch by square inch (they were tiptoeing along squares lined up across the churchyard) they walked - girl holding her scalloped wedding dress in one arm (with a very long train which were made fun by streetchildren behind her back) while holding her husband's hand in another. The husband didn't seem at ease walking though. Towards the end, nobody's sure who's helping who.

Now comes the moment of truth - getting on the carriage.

The ever graceful bride tried once, twice and finally, at the third managed to get on and inched inside the now wobbling carriage. The groom went after and yep, luckily made it but not gracefully.

It struck me as weird when the girl paid more attention to the crowd - smiled and waved and muttered something while her husband seemed like he was talking to her. Very, very odd.

The carriage finally made its way out and we prepared to go, too. Coincidentally, they went towards where we're going so that we seem to be driving behind them. I found it fun so I decided to stay behind. Along the way people came out to see the "show". To add humor the naughty horse pooped. hehe. Not something you would see in Julia Robert's wedding.

Well, we only went as far as the street leading to our place came. It was the talk of the neighborhood when we got home. A few minutes, we heard fireworks, presumably from the wedding. Really over the top.

Today it is still the office topic. Turned out the couple were already drivng around town since lunch, and the wedding didnt't start until 3pm! They invited almost everybody then they were complaining that it was so messy. lol! You just can't have everything.

Everybody wants their wedding to be unique, spectacular, magical ... ever after. Some even uses gimmicks like saying "I do" while hanged, exchanging vows under water (even on shark tanks!).

How far will you go to be unique?

I am having an internet-withdrawal syndrome. My offline office workload has decreased dramatically since the reorganization of key administration officials which I should really be grateful about but not when I can't do the things I want to do when I have some free time - internet.

There was a time when I almost felt like I've had enough of being online so all I ever did was talk to my boyfriend online, nothing more. I don't even read the news anymore (which I did during the first few months of having unlimited online access), don't have something to google about, got bored with friendster and rarely forwards mails anymore. Now I miss all that.

I miss being cretive. Blogging made me wanna learn little coding and designing here and there. The more I learn, the more I find out that there's little I know. No matter how hard I work at it, there would always be those really cool blog sites and new features and add-ons and everything that I still haven't done or possibly can't do because I don't have the newest software or the most hi-tech gadgets. But as much as it frustrates me, at the same time it inspires me.

Blogging aside, I also wish that I can upload and upload and upload all I want without having to transfer building just to do so (it's for our official website). Now that it's up, most of the work is to keep updating it. I am so willing to work on updating it everyday, if they'll giveme the freedom. I like working on it, not only because it's easy to upload and edit and stff now that it's finish but also because I like knowing that what I did would be out there for everybody to see, that in my own little way, I'm helping promote my agency.

I've always wanted to put up a website but I can't barely fill up my blog, let alone mainatain a website. What could I possibly put there that would be remotely interesting? I am not a celebrity, not a very outgoing person. I'm pretty sure I would be a very boring housemate if I ever joine Pinoy Big Brother. hehe.

So, working on our official website sort of gives me the chance to be a part of a website project without having to do something drastic as to chop my hair just to be able to write something interesting on it.

*giggles*

It's final, I'm officially one of the staff of the newly established ICT Office. Yey! I've long since wanted to be a part of it, well, I am already, just wanted it to be official. I was designated as the secretary - part of the core team. Basically, I work hand in hand with the Director so it's quite an interesting work.

Aside from clerical work, I'm also part of the maintenance committee where we're assigned offices to maintain their ICT facilities, system analysis and development where I'll work with some three others to analyze the system needs of offices and as web editor, all I do recently is upload updates but it's already quite fantastic.

These are the types of work that I will do willingly and lovingly - no pushing needed - because I love learning new things. I love being able to think and work. I like being treated as equal and my views heard, even if I rarely speak. hehe.

And just this afternoon, I was told to prepare job order designating me as the campus coordinator, which is quite thrilling and pressuring at the same time. Thrilling to be given the honor but pressuring since there are a lot others who I know would be willing to be assigned as well.

It just seems funny though that there would be committtees where I, as secretary, am a member as well as being a coordinator. Which role shoud I assume if I'm representing myself twice? Lol!

Now I understand why some people write such long slashed designations when signing letters - it does exist. What about if I have to write something to the coordinators as a secretary... Should it go... Dear Mermaid.. Very truly yours, Mermaid? Already, this sounds so promising.