A New Template

I woke up late so I decided to skipped work today (sarap matulog maulan). Since I got nothing to do, I tried changing my template. I'm still doing some changes here, maybe later I'll do it. Hmmm...this is all for now. :D

Dj's funny ways...

Since I did the cleaning last Thursday, I and Dj just have a very relaxing week. With no household chores to do so we watched some DVD's, while eating popcorn. When we got tired of watching, he turned on the vcd player and listen to his mp3 collections. Then suddenly, Dj started dancing. He was so funny. He's like a strip tease dancer. Oh men, then I told him, take it off, take it off. He took his shirt off and continued dancing with his cute belly, I find him sexy. When he was about to take his pants off, he said in a minimal voice "Labs, Im hungry". Ha ha ha. He went hungry with his dancing. Enough of his strip tease gig. So I prepared an upside down cake for him.

While baking, I decide to check on my emails and I found out that our PC have some problem, so Dj reformatted our PC. I think we have to buy a new video card and sound card for our PC for its not that efficient anymore.

Well, after reformatting the PC, Dj asked if I wanted to go somewhere else. I told him "nah, I enjoy just being here and there's no place like home"

He then again played his mp3 and start dancing again. This time the music was a love song, he then took my and hands and we dance as if we were in a ball. Ha ha ha. I find it corny but its sweet. :D

A Cat and An Ogre on a Holiday

It's Quezon City day, as expected it's a special non working holiday and since Dj works at Cavite, it's only me here at home.

I had a chance to do some cleaning here. Did some sweeping and some dusting, wash the dishes, and laundry some clothes. It's a bit tiring but I enjoy every single moment of it. Anyway, after cleaning the house, I asked my niece to accompany me here to watch two DVD's

Garfield the Movie

It's a funny movie. Garfield(voice of Bill Murray), everyone's favorite feline. A self confessed lasagna lover, who parked hiself on his favorite comforter in front of the television. When Jon(Breckin Meyer), takes Garfield to visit veterinarian Liz Wilson(Jennifer Love Hewitt), she gaved Jon a tag-wagging, panting creatures named Odie, A lovable, witty dog that Garfield become jealous of.

This movie really is cute. It makes me laugh when Garfield does his funny dancing with Odie and when Garfield was ask by Jon to eat the mouse but he refuse to. Can you imagine, a cat who hates eating mouse and even hates cat food. Oh well, since Garfield is my favorite since high school, this movie is a must see for me.

Shrek 2

If Part 1 of the movie was about dragons and fighting the evil lord Farquaad , This time, Shrek faces his greatest challenge, the in-laws.

Shrek and Princess Fiona return from their honeymoon to an invitation to visit the princess' parents. So the newly weds set off to Far Far Away Kingdom.

All the villagers of the Kingdom greet their returning Princess, and her parents joyfully anticipate the homecoming of their daughter and her new prince but no one could have prepared them for the sight of their new son-in-law, not to mention how much their little girl had well changed.

This movie is a heart warming love story. I love it when, Shrek become a good looking guy when he drank the potion, the potion also changes Princess Fiona into her real self. The potion's effect will only remain forever if Shrek will kiss his true love. At the end of the story, the princess chose the Ogre, the old Shrek he loves and not the good looking Shrek. Hmmm.. the last part of the movie made me cry. Promise, it really made me cry.

And so, I and my niece enjoy watching the two movies. I think, I'll watch it again on Saturday with Dj. I know Dj will also enjoy the movie since he has a kid like attitude like me :D

My Saturday was Fun

Last Saturday, Hubby and I went at the World Trade Center for the Manila International Book Fair which celebrated its 25th Anniversary

I really had fun that day. Seeing those wide choices of books. I really wanted to buy all the books I found but some are not on sale and expensive. So I decided to buy 2 Sophie Kinsella books which are "Confession of a Shapaholic" and "Shapaholic Takes Manhattan". I got them with a 10% discount. That's a big thing. I started reading the first Shapaholic book and it's really hilarious. Cant wait to finish it and start reading the second book.

There were lots of booth there such as ABS-CBN booth which sell kiddy vhs, Readers's Digest, Powerbooks, Fullybook(where I bought the Kinsella book), Aviba, Summmit Publication and many more. National Bookstore has a booth also, a big one, as Jennie had mentioned in her previous post, it's more of a branch than a booth. Too bad she went on a Friday. I wasn't able too see her personally.

The fair has a P5.00 entrance fee, but some guy gave us a leaflet which allows us to enter the fair for free. So we had a P10.00 saving. Yup we got a discount on the books and on the entrance fee but the prices of softdrink are a bit higher that the original price. A can of Pepsi cost P35.00. Dj joke a bit, he said " mura nga mga books dito pero ang pagkain hindi". I told him nevermind the food, we can eat outside, the books are much important here :)

We left the place at around 4:00pm. I was wearing a huge smile that time. I was very hapy with the two books that I bought at the fair. By the way, I kept the name tags given to us at the entrance. I will put it in the scrapbook I'll soon start. It will serve as a souvenir :D

TGIF and Im home.

Well, I’m just here at home. Resting. I’m sick. Got cough and cold and worse I’ve been sneezing too much. Oh it really gives me a headache. But I manage to blog. Ha ha ha, I’m a certified blog addict).

I texted hubby, Told him that I'm not feeling good and got to stay home. He answered back. “Okay, you take care. Let nanay muna take care of you and I’ll do the rest later after work. Miss you”.
I’m very lucky of having a husband who is so caring and a mom who is just next door, who cooks for me and Dj when we get home late, wash our dishes when I'm late for work in the morning and don’t have time to wash them. Teaches me to cook and mend worn clothes. I'm a mama’s girl. Though I'm married now, my mom takes care of me that is, if Dj is not around. Like now, she prepared a sumptuous arroz caldo for me. Yumyum. Oh well, I got to go back to bed now before mom sees me hitting the keyboard.

I love you mom and your the best mom in the world!

Happy Weekend everyone!

Looking back, 13 years behind

Its been a long time since I visited my friendster account, So I did check it, one by one I look at each friend that I have in my list. Most of my college barkada are there. Looking at them, brings back the time when I was in college. It was June of 1991 when I first entered the university ground. My first subject was on the 7th floor of the Technology Building. Yaiks, the elevator was broke. So i got to hit the stairs. Upon reaching the 7th floor, I was tired and sweating. Good thing I brought a handy towelette. Hmmm...People here are very odd. Some are wearing rugged jeans with painted designs, others are wearing those funny looking shade. Its their fashion statement. Its kinda odd but I find it cool. I was wearing a plain shirt, denim pants and a slip on. I look like a freshman alright.

Anyway, on my first subject, my professor was kinda rude in his wordings. He uses words like ass____, f__ck and words like that. I was shock at his wording but after a while I got used to it na. Months have passed and I gained friends. I have 9 barkadas. Three of them are Chinese Filipino, another one from Bataan who much prepare to be a priest that to finish his architectural course, one from Laguna who loves to paint, another one from q.c who likes photography. This guy really is good at it. And four (including me), boyish girls. We have different likes and hobbies but we get along together perfectly.

Studying in a university seated at university belt is kinda hard. With all those malls, cinemas and hangouts near the school, its tempting but Im lucky of having such responsible friends. So its was, year 1994 when Jerome, the oldest in our group decided to run for student council president. He won the election. So then on, the SC room become our hangout. Its the place were we do our assignments, were we eat our snacks and have some chats. In 1995, I joined the theater club. I auditioned and luckily bang the lead role. We did the play at our school auditorium. The rest of my friend were happy for me. In 1995 TO 1996, it was our last year in the university. We have 2 thesis. For the first semester, it was a feasibility study. Its an individual thesis but we create a study group compose of us ten ofcourse. We passed Thesis 1. Then on the second semester, thesis 2 was a bit harder. After those feasibility study on Thesis 1, The second thesis is all about making those study into drawings, do a building model, do plans and some schematic drawings, do presentations. Man, I really lose weight that time. After, 4 months, we took the deliberations individually. Its was frightening for a college student but everyone has to undergo it to pass the whole course. We passed the delibs and finally, it was march 23 1996 when we wore those black gown, We graduated college atlast after 5 long years.

My college days was fun and heartbreaking. Its were I had a failing grade in one of those math subject in 4th year. Its were I first had my first heartbreak. I cried during those days but now looking back, I just laugh at it. I'm just a girl that time. Now, Im a woman (but still boyish).

Well, if you'll wondering what happen to the rest of the barkada, five of them are working abroad (4 guys and 1 girl) and still single. My two girl pals are here in the country working in an construction firm and both have boyfriends and as I've heard, both couples are planning for marriage. The other guy from Bataan has a family now, he decided to finish architecture rather than becoming a priest. The other guy who love photography still do his photography stint and has a wife and a kid. Me, Im happily married and enjoying my life as a wife.

Looking back really is fun. Remembering those days in college really makes me smile. Its been 13 years since I first took the elevator of Tech building, 8 years since I wore the black gown for graduation and 2 hours ago since I send email to my friends through friendster. Technology rocks woohaaa! :D

No work at work (does it make sense)

I've been working here at the office for almost 4 years now. For 4 years, I've experienced going home late, pressured deadlines, doing two project at a time and worse, same date datelines. Looking back at all those, It makes me really proud of surviving those times.
Right now, we don't have any new projects to work on. We have existing projects but only a few and soon completion of those project will come. IM afraid that, if our marketing manager cant find any new project for the company, we might lose our jobs. For me its okay, I can easily find another job but for those who didn't finish any 4 year course in college like the janitor or the messenger, finding is not that easy. Mr.N, one of the company driver mentioned that if after 3 months and still were like this, retrenchment might follow. We've been like this for a couple of months already. That's why, I have ample time to do blogging here at work. Sometimes, I find it boring doing nothing at all.
I do make use of my VL now. Before when deadlines seems to overcome our working hours, we can't use of our VLs. Seems like its forbidden here. But now, I've used my 7th VL just last week, consumed all my SLs and I can go home early now. Oh well, that's life. Sometimes your on top sometimes your not. Funny just this morning, I noticed a print out in our printer. I don't know who printed it but it says "Love your work but not your company, because you'll never know when the company stop loving you". Is it a sign, a sign that my boss will terminate me...ha ha ha, hope its not.

On the Lighter side
I found this article,I wanna share with you guys. It discuss ways on how to fall in love with our job all over again. Know the secrets in bringing back the spark. :)

One Question - A blog community

Just joined One Question and posted my first question yesterday. Its a blog community wherein a member can ask a question and anyone (member and non-member)can answer it. Its a cool blog community.

Thanks Toni for this.

Come and join us.Hope to see you there!

Things to do...

Its a Monday and Its the first week of the month. Its been a habit of mine to do some listing that I should do for the rest of the month. I scheduled things in order not to forget them. I wrote all this in my planner. Here are the things I got to do for the rest of the month:

1. Design a Cabinet for our kitchen (Dj been asking me to do this since June)
2. Have a Haircut
3. Buy a new book to read, maybe I'll try "Veronika decides to Die"
4. I'll start having a grocery list when doing grocery. Im avoiding to buy those things that aren't necessary for us.
5. Start taking Vitamins.
6. Avoiding sleeping late if not needed. (hope I can do this)
7. Register the Car (though Im not the one who'll bring it at LTO). Just need to remind hubby.
8. Try to prepare Embutido which the recipe is from my officemate.

This are few of the things I got to do/accomplish for this month. Hope I can do all of this.
Have a greet week everyone.

Thursday Tips-On Ovens

ruth , As a promise here are some tips on how to clean the oven & stoves.
The inside of ovens and stoves can become disgustingly dirty over time. The best method of cleaning of them is to keep on top of the spills that occur. Below are great tips for keeping ontop of the mess caused inside your oven or stove whilst cooking:

1. Aluminum foil is quickly to the rescue in this case. You can keep your oven cleaner by lining the bottom of your oven with aluminum foil. When it is dirty, remove the foil and put new down.

2. Keep your pans that you use for baking cleaner without the hassle of a sticky mess by lining the baking pan with foil, with the dull side up and then spray with cooking spray - this allows you to cook with out the big clean up mess!

3. When spills occur on our cooker immediately sprinkle the spill with salt. Wipe it up once things have cooled down. It will absorb the spill.

4.To dissolve baked on spills apply a paste of baking soda and water it will shift the mark with a bit of rubbing.

5. Place a small dish of ammonia on the upper rack of the oven and a pan of water on the bottom. Leave the oven warm over night. Air the oven in the morning and wipe away the grease with an all purpose cleaner and warm water.

6. Try to avoid spills in your oven by placing casseroles or pies which are the main offenders of spills on a baking sheet or silver foil when cooking.

6. If you have been busy cooking and now you have a bunch of grease in the bottom of your stove you can clean this out fast. Just sprinkle the bottom of your over with a bit if dishwasher powder. Just the area with a few paper towels and wipe out clean with a wet wash rag.