Im back...

Finally, I finished tons of work here at the office. Guess I'm back,sort of.

After finishing those deadlines, I haven't feeling myself lately. Maybe because Im still tired from those demanding deadlines that I have. There are times that I almost do nothing here at work and there are times that workload seems to overflow. Yeah it's hard but I love my job. I find fulfillment and joy. I feel that Im important. The joy of being a woman....For me, its finding contentment, finding a place where I can show my craft and artistry.

Looking back, my parents came from a poor family. They were both from the province and decided to try their luck here at Manila. My father tried his best to send us three siblings to school. As a kid, I've seen my parents endeavor just to give us good education. So in return, I tried my very best to study hard. So when I graduated college, my parents where very proud of me. I can see their smile and their hearts are jumping for joy. Parents are really wise ei. It's true that they only want the best for us.

So now, the things that I've learn from school and the perseverance that my parent taught me is what Im practicing here at work. The knowledge and virtue that I've known from them (school & my parents) makes me a better person.

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After office we'll have a bowling tournament. The tournament started last Friday. The last game was victorious for us. Our team won two games in a row which made us top in the team standing. I got an 80-120 score for the first and second game. Hopefully, we will win the next game tonight. I'll keep my fingers cross.

That's it for now and Happy weekend to all!!!

A restful weekend...

Last Saturday was a total rest day for me. I woke up at 10:00am, had grilled hotdogs and some wheat bread. Then I decided to watch tv when my eyes bit by bit closes. So there were I sleepy after breakfast. What a neat way to relax huh. I woke up at 2:30pm. When I open my eyes, saw hubby doing some ofc work, so with all my strength I jump off from bed and drink lots water. Hubby then asked me if I want to go at the mall. I was a little lazy to go out but cant help it. SM malls are on sale. I hurriedly took a shower, get dressed and we hit the road to visit SM Fairview.

Argggghhh...There were lots of people at SM (Im hating sale already), so I asked hubby if we could go at Robinson (which is infront of SM). After a few minutes, we were at robinson. I did a little shopping. Bought some shirt for me and hubby. Bought a new pair of shoes, a Christmas decor, and ofcourse the shoe rack that we really need at home. I got tired after 5 hours of shopping. So we decided to have dinner. We had shawarma with lots of veggies ( I asked the food server to add more veggies than the meat), it was delicious. After finishing the shawarma, I was really full then. We then went home and fix the shoe rack that we bought.

At home, hubby was very excited to assemble the rack, after 30 minutes, he finished it and cleaned those shoes which are under our bed. The shoes are all messy, with all those dust, It made me sneeze a couple of times. Hubby laugh and laugh in my sneezing. Anyway, while he was assembling the rack, I don't know what's with me that night that I decided to clean our ref at around 9:30pm, (maybe because I wake up late that made me energetic) After the ref, I cleaned the dish organizer, the bathroom, replaced bedding and pillow case. Dust the tv, computer, dvd player and other things that my eyes can see. While Im cleaning, hubby washes the car outside. We finished doing our late midnight cleaning at around 3:00am. We're both filthy, I took a shower, while hubby did some net surfing. When it was his turn to take a shower,I checked my emails. At around 3:45am, we kisses goodnight and went to bed. But before we have some shut eyes, I said to him "hmmm...I think I'll wake up a late again"

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To Cez who is a dear ym chat friend, congratulation, she's 6 weeks pregnant.

Let's go at the grocery...

When I was still single my favorite things to shop was purely clothes, shoes, make up, perfumes and my cosmopolitan magazine. Now that I’m married for a year and a couple of months, my priority changed a bit in buying. I still buy those things (except for cosmopolitan magazine, Im a good housekeeping reader already) but ofcourse, im a more of a wise shopper than the spend all girl. Since Im the wife, I do handle all the budgeting and spending. My budget are divided in paying the electric bill, water bill, phone bill, cellphone bill, credit cards, groceries and other minor things. Before when we were newly married, I got problems in budgeting our earnings, which end up in having no money at all before the next pay day come (gastadora talaga ko). Hubby then taught me on how to budget our money. He is the thrifty kind of person and I’m not. He taught me to have a couple of envelopes where I will write the the bills that I have to pay. So during payday, I put money in the envelopes, let say 700 pesos for the elctric bill, so on the next payday, I should complete our monthly payment for the electric bill. I do the same on the other monthly bills that I have to pay. It’s very effective for me.

As a wise shopper, I do make it a point that I find a supermarket where the groceries are at a competitive price and has clean environment. I shop twice a month for meat, vegetables, dry goods, bread and juices. I've done shopping at some major supermarket here at Q.C. and among the supermarkets I’ve been, it's Shopwise Cubao which I loved and enjoy. Why do I enjoy shopping at Shopwise? Purely because, it has a big and clean selling area. They also have an ample aisle space and not to mention, the very clean and fresh smelling meat/fish section that they have. The parking is a no problem to shopper too. Aside from having a covered secure parking slots, shopper can also enjoy a free parking for a minimun purchase of 300 pesos. It also have a long shopping hours from 10 am to 11pm not like other shops that only stay up till 9pm or 10 pm.

Oh hubby bought this Kyowa Steam grill, its like a george foreman grill but a much cheaper. I don’t know if kyowa brands are okay buy I find the the stem grill efficient. It cooks our porkchops very tasty and it has a flavor reservoir which collect all the fat and grease from the grilled food. The collected oil can be used as a dip if added with some herbs and seasoning (which I don’t intend to do ha). Since hubby loves grilled foods, he can now enjoy, this dishes which are fat free and not to mention the non smoke cooking.

My new health routine

It was only yesterday that I got a chance to go at the supermarket and bought little something for the weekend. Actually, Dj and I are scheduled to go at the grocery tomorrow but I was a bit tempted to went last night after work because I wanted to buy some romaine lettuce. Im into a low carb diet, so keep on eating lots of fresh veggies, fruits, fish, meat and lots and lots of water. I haven't eaten rice for five days since I started dieting. It's a bit hard but by thinking that I must lose weight and the health benifits that it will give me, keep me going on. So as a result I've lose 6 pounds already, isn't that something. I intended to do this diet until i achieve my ideal weight based on my BMI. I'm a bit overweight and being overweight is not healthy. Also my Ob advice me to lose weight, it will help me regulate my monthly period and eventually help me concieve.

This dieting seems to be very exciting for me. I really don't like raw veggies like lettuce, tomatoes and cucumber to name some but now, I like them a lot. So goodbye to pasta (my favorite), pizza, hamburgers, rice and those carbo foods for a while. But I'll be eating them again in moderation once I achieved my ideal weight and I do promise that once I achieved it, I'll take foods in moderation to avoid gaining too much weight. I'll keep you updated regarding this dieting that I'm doing. So this is all for now.

Let's stay healthy and happy weekend to all.

My Prayer...

"Buntis na naman si Mayet" (Mayet is pregnant again)
A text that I recieved a minute ago from a close officemate.
I texted back "talaga, panigurado aasarin na naman ako bukas ng mga ka officemate natin"(really, for sure, I know our officemates will make fun of me tomorrow)

We've been married for a year and 4 months already and still with no baby. I know I must wait, I know God has His reason for everything. Here I am, praying and not losing hope that soon our Mighty Creator will give us a little baby,an angel coming from my tummy. I'll patiently wait for for our baby as like how I patiently wait for the right man to came along.

The 67th UAAP Championship

In the 67th UAAP basketball final games, the Green Archers won the crown last night. Too bad, my fellow Tamarraws' didn't won the championship (with a sad voice). Oh well that's life, sometimes you win sometimes you don't.

I missed the game last night. I cant skipped work and I didn't got the chance to watched it on TV (I think its was a live telecast).

If Im not mistakin' the first time I attended a game was in 1st year in college, attending the UAAP was very exciting and breathtaking. It's a must for freshmen student to watch the game and it serves as an attendance in our P.E class. The game I attended that time was a FEU vs. DLSU playoff. As a remember it was Abbarientos and Limpot who were very famous that time. I went home very proud and without a voice (for cheering so much for my team) that time because it was my school who won that game.

jennie, a lasalista, YM me earlier and told me that it's everybody's game last night, DLSU or the FEU team might win. She was sick since Tuesday and so she was able watched the game on TV. I also congratulate a friend (a lasalista too)thru yahoo ym. Funny she too was also sick yesterday and was able to watch the live telecast, hmmmm...What a coincidence.

Well, to all Green Archers congrats congrats......and see you on the 68th championship.

For the rest of the story about the game last night visit this

Btw, Happy weekend to all!!!