the weekend that was apr 26-27

Hay! I don’t like Mondays. I was close to making excuses, but of course I can’t take the guilty feeling hehe. Irvin drove me to the shuttle terminal in his Suzuki Raider 150, we even saw his brother Enald. Irvin will be going to Batangas and will be staying there tonight for their company outing. I will miss him, of course! Perhaps, I would just chat with Nanay until I yawn continuously.

Irvin says they will be going to Blue Coral Beach Resort, somewhere along Laiya, San Juan, Batangas. I remember, it was around February of last year when we (my Chevron colleagues, GL team) had our 1st quarter team bonding there. A night of charades and other parlor games, bluff and other card games, Fundador (for them), videoke and food. The next morning, we enjoyed the sea!

Let me write about my weekend. Even if I had a tiring one, the weekend had been nice. Well, the first part is not nice though. I had a bad Friday night, stayed up until around 3 am of Saturday. Been reading Yes! Magazine when suddenly, I was bitten by the loneliness bug again. It’s April 26 and a month later, my uber cute nephew Clyron will be celebrating his 1st birthday…in Canada. And before that, Ate will be giving birth to my 3rd pamangkin. Irvin caught me sniffing, my eyes are swelling then, so I can’t deny that I’m okay. He hugged me telling me why things happen even if you don’t want them to. I already know that. It’s just that I miss them so much.

Irvin woke me up to tell me he’ll be going to the office, I don’t feel well so I stayed in bed for another hour. I tried to sleep but I can’t, when I went to the bathroom to check myself…lo and behold! My eye bags almost reached my chin! Hehe! Nanay is downstairs waiting for me, my gulay! I can’t afford to let Nanay think that Irvin and I quarreled so I just told her the truth. She has her share of the same sentiment and I saw her cry, so I cried again. Must be more painful to her. Haaay! Kung mayaman lang ako.

Oh-kay, have gotten over it after 1 hour. I washed Irvin’s underwear, semi-cleaned the bathroom, fixed the beddings, uploaded some videos, took a bath and prepared to leave. We (Irvin, Nanay and me) ate at Lydia’s before heading home to Rosario, then to Tanza. I have not spent much time in both homes (naks!) because we have to leave for Nonoy’s despedida. Irvin and I picked up Agnes and Nonoy in Noveleta around 6 pm.

Yahoo! This is the fun part - food, friends and videoke! We - Nonoy, Agnes, Leng, John, Irvin and me - ate at Countryside first before going to Island Songs at Island Cove. Geh followed us there. So there we are, microphone addicts and chicha-lovers, all together. Ang saya-saya! Of course, I did my usual dance routines for entertainment. At siyempre, pityur pityur!

We left Island Cove around 11 pm and were home by 1 am. Before going home, we stopped by a gasoline station. Irvin said to the gasoline boy, “Boss, 150 nga.” I looked up after approximately 10 seconds and I saw the “Sale” meter at 390 and running! I called out Irvin’s attention and he called out the gasoline boy’s attention, stopping the meter at 415. Goodness! The gasoline boy punched 550. Irvin exclaimed, “Pa’no kung wala akong 400?!” Haaay. He took out a 500 peso bill and we received a 100 peso bill change (aba, discounted ng 15). “Kawawa naman baka i-deduct sa sweldo nya.” I agreed. Besides it is Ate Sette’s car.

Sunday, we got up at 11 am. Nothing special today except that I got to watch Van Helsing again! Hugh Jackman is so gwapo! Hehe! We went home to Rosario around 8 pm. Whew, been through a lot of transferring in 2 days!

That’s all. Tsk, Monday na ulit.

lex kulet 1

Nanay: Lex! Kung ikaw e ki-kiss, mag-kiss ka na. Kung kelan nasa tricycle tsaka ka hahabol!
Lex: * Dedma *
Nanay and Tatay walks away, opens the gate, ready to leave.
Lex: (running) Nanay!!! Kiss muna! Bless muna! Waaaaah!
Nanay (now furious): Sinabi ng...!

~ 0 ~

Sinundo ni Ninong si Tita, nakahiram si Ninong ng car. Pagdating sa bahay…
Lex: Ninong, meron car?
Ninong: Wala po.
Lex: (sniffs Ninong) Meron car e!
Ninong looks at Tita, very surprised. (Interpretation: Paano nya nalaman?)
Tita: (sniffs Ninong din) Irvin, pwede! (Pwede as in nalaman ni Lex na may car dahil amoy car si Ninong.)
Lex: Bebe! (Bulol na “Pwede!”)
Now, everytime Tita sniffs Ninong, Lex exclaims “Bebe!”

~ 0 ~

Tita shows wedding album to Mommy and Lex via webcam, zooms to Clyron.
Lex: Clyron is so cute-ing! (Hehe, why not-ing?!)
Another hirit…
Lex: Ki-kiss ni Ninong si Tita, yuuuccccckkkk! (Hoy, wedding album to ‘no! Hindi porno magazine! Hmph!)

what drives me

I had a college instructor, a former auditor, telling the class her experiences as an auditor. She tells it with so much enthusiasm, providing us a vista of the auditing world. She tells of counting chickens and goats, overtimes, client meetings and furious bosses.

I thought, “No, I can’t live with that.”

A couple of weeks after the board exam, afraid of not finding a decent job, I submitted my resume to one of the biggest auditing firms. And I got hired.

In just a few weeks, I have made self-adjustments, and over time, I got used to it. Sleepless nights, overtimes, working weekends, forgotten holidays, Chowking and Tropical Hut, Hidden Tapsihan, traffic, inventory counts, laptop and working papers - these filled my three and a half years as an auditor. But honestly, I loved it. I got the chance to meet and talk to a lot of people from production staff to manager. I learned the art of multi-tasking (eating while working, thinking while eating and sleeping while thinking). I found out that I can survive three days and three nights with three hours of sleep. I discovered that I can endure twenty hours without food or drinks. I enjoyed counting logs while elevated in a forklift. I liked footing and crossfooting and checking wordings. Best of all, I got to build friendships which I can treasure, along with some happy and sad moments, videoke, summer outings, parties, and chit-chatting over ice cream.

Back then, my satisfaction would include fieldwork and closing meetings, newly printed financial statements, the I-know-something-you-don’t feeling, April 15 BIR and April 30 SEC deadline. Yes, quality in everything I do.

Eventually, I realized I never had the time to spend quality time with myself, and more importantly, with my family. Unsure of the path I am going to take, I made one of the biggest decisions and walked out of auditing with 95% fear and 5% excitement.

I am currently working in an organization which favors competence and quality, alongside safety and diversity. Luckily, I became part of a team composed of hyper individuals who takes their time to help. Here, I realized that it is okay to ask when you don’t know something, and that you need not experience a mistake in order to learn because you can always learn from the mistakes of others. I recognized that the others are just as crazy as I am.

Now, email pranks, picture taking, birthday greetings, corny jokes, outings and eating out fill my daily life outside of home. I enjoy being in the company of jolly colleagues and being able to have time for myself and my loved ones.

one of these days

Written a few months before our wedding, I presented this composition to Irvin on our 91st month together...

One of these days, I will marry him and we will share more jokes, more sweet nothings, more laughter, more tears, more arguments, more nonstop talking and more dreams.

I will make him watch jologs movies and will find him sleeping next to me. I will pinch his nose to wake him up and ask him to accompany me to the bathroom because I am afraid of the dark. He will make me watch The Beatles concerts and will find me snoring faintly next to him. He will tickle me and joke about my snoring.

I will not be able to sleep so I will ask him to scratch my back or get me a glass of water at the middle of the night He will be tired of paperworks or a basketball game so he will ask for a massage until he falls asleep.

I will be coughing hysterically at night and he will be rubbing my back. He will be having stomachache and I will be serving him meals in bed. We will take the other to the doctor for checkup.

I will be reading books while he watches basketball games. I will be preparing food while he washes and polishes his bike. We will watch DVDs we have already viewed many times before, reruns of television shows and National Geographic.

One of these days, I will occasionally take a leave from work to bring him food during lunch break. He will pick me up from work at night. We will text each other if we have eaten lunch. We will talk and joke about work and colleagues and office stuff.

I will learn to cook during weekends and he will judge my recipe. We will do household chores while watching a basketball game or showbiz talk show, depending on who has the remote control. We will enjoy wiping each other’s perspirations and drinking ice cold soda together.

We will visit our parents for some chit-chats and do errands for them. We will play with our nieces and nephews and amuse them with funny facial expressions. We will cuddle our pets.

We will go out-of-town sometimes. We will take pleasure in building sand castles or just walking along the shore during sunset. We will sit by the shore at night with coffee cups in our hands, we will hold hands and talk. At sunrise, we will enjoy the sea. I will urge him to swim while I watch him. He will teach me to swim and to float in the water. We will love the sea, the sand and the sun. We will take pictures with them.

We will share financial issues and save for the future. I will constantly think of money matters while he tells me not to be bothered by such things.

We will sing our songs with glow in our eyes. I will amplify the volume when our favorite song comes in the radio and he will wink at me. We will sing together and dance with each other.

We will still quarrel about petty things. I will get mad in a childish mode and hold my pride. He will talk to me and break my wall. I will shut my mouth while he carefully chooses his words. At the end of the day, we will laugh, kiss and makeup.

We will passionately make love and one day, I will bear his child. He will be the most supportive soon-to-be-father during my nine-month pregnancy. I will look at myself with disappointment while he assures that I still am the most beautiful woman. We will buy baby stuffs and collect some usable items from our nieces and nephews. We will brainstorm for a baby name. We will do a research to keep the baby in my tummy healthy. I will endure the labor and his eyes will encourage me that I can do it. We will become good parents, and even grandparents.

We will grow old loving each other, earning due respect and honesty for one another.

One of these days, I will wake up to the finest sight in the world…a man who rides his bike outdoors and takes care of me when he is home. I will watch him sleep like a child and breathe under the covers. His eyes will grace my mornings and his dimple will bring a smile on my face, making me feel blessed more than any woman in this world.

missing pamangkins

ate has just sent me some photos, mostly lex and clyron with their new dora and diego stuffed toys.

"ay nako, neng! alam mo ba kung san napunta sweldo ko nung isang linggo?!"

"binili mo ulet ako ng RL na bag?! i'm so touched..." (joke lang)

"beh, binili ko cla lex ng dora at diego, kasinglaki nya!"

so there it is.

we were chatting a while ago. she's so excited to have downloaded the photos from the digicam all by herself, hehehe (hindi siya tech-y na tao e). as usual, i asked her how's the kids.

lex has got long hair and clyron has got big teeth haha! seems the girl grows to be a very smart kid. ate tells that lex would ask if she can use the words "i don't care" or "nothing happened" or "get out of my way."

basta bago sa pandinig, itatanong niya kung pwede ba nya gamitin yun. smart di ba?

with clyron, ayun awa ng Diyos, clap your hands pa lang ang alam. (sana naman madagdagan ng konting close-open at appear sa susunod...) he's so cute, i wonder paano nagkaanak si ate ng ganyan, sa tita siguro nakuha.

i think they miss us just as we miss them. norly misses the fresh seafoods here, ate misses the chismax :P

ako? miss ko lang silang lahat. period.

haaaay! *singhot*