Standing against all odds is my flight in a one-man department in the plant. I am a fighter, I can even dare to disagree and question the plant manager and other managers but the pressure working with unhappy, critical, and hypocrite people is too much that my berks served as my absorber. I am too thankful that they’ve been supportive of all the HR initiatives without too much fuss.

Anyway, one year after my resignation, I got a call from one of my “berks”. She came in choppy at first (obviously they need a cell phone signal booster inside the building and I remember discussing about it with one of the representatives of Digitel before I resigned) but when I told her we will meet for a buffet dinner, she heard me right clearly!LOL. That is one of the favorite bonding time during my URC days…E-A-T-I-N-G.

That same evening, we met. We had dinner and endless catching up with each other.

me, Mama Nancy, Ate Elvie, Rose, Mama Juliet

Then we decided to visit People’s Park which is two blocks away from where we had dinner

Hmmm….excuse the uniform pants. That’s what we call “many forms”.LOL. Mama Juliet is in her new prescribed office uniform while Ate Elvie and Mama Nancy are in their operations uniform. I can’t recall who among the two are wearing the correct pants that time.

Now it’s been more than a year since I have seen them all. It’s high time once again to meet-up and update each other with plant happenings and with each other’s personal lives. Can’t wait to see my “berks” again!

and this…

A few more weeks and I’ll get my hands on those loots.

Photos are grabbed from Faye’s flickr® but not everybody could see her stream now so if you wanna reward yourself from working hard, check out Faye’s blog. Shopping again? My Coach bag is late birthday gift, the DKNY watch is a late Holiday gift and the Lacoste beach bag is a late Valentine gift.hahaha. Is that enough justification?

Since we’re done with shopping for our clothes late last year, it’s accessories this time. Of course I don’t wanna go out and look like a person from the cave – without an eye for fashion like wearing floral capri and stipes top or checkered bermuda shorts and stripes top (both in dark colors that doesn’t complement with each other) with printed bag in bold colors. Ewww! Where did the basic in dressing up that is taught in Home Economics during 5th or 6th grade go? Regardless if we don’t have lots of money, even if we don’t have insurances like disability insurance and the like, as long as I and Ace does not look like a WALKING RUG (imagine the rug made of scrap cloth in different colors), we’re fine. It’s looking good and feeling good that matters regardless if it’s branded or brand-less (though I prefer those with brands now because of its quality and it is not overly mass produced).

When we arrived there, my sister’s hand painted personalized gifts such as pillows and scrolls she’s making are all over their living area. Her items will be sold in Crafts Corner in Gaisano Mall and that explains why my laptop sleeve isn’t done yet. I was planning to take a photo of the pillows and decorative scrolls while I was holding Eman and as soon as my hands are free, I forgot to take out the camera. I’ll take photos next time or maybe later because we’re planning to go there so we could take a bath. We don’t have water here since last night (when we arrived) until 4PM today that I was so pissed because water district isn’t efficient (as always) in disseminating the information to the affected concessionaires. They posted the announcement in their website and maybe had their public information officer guested in the local morning show where not everyone with TV were able to watch. They should have public service ads running during primetime when everybody’s hooked in front of the TV. I still have lots to do today but I might push it aside so we could go to my sister’s place and have a refreshing bath. We don’t have water hence we cannot take a bath and cook.

My sister Carol is selling her handcrafted baby sling and cloth diapers for months and she has served a lot of happy customers already. That made her very busy that I cannot ask her to sew window curtains and pillow cases for me because I don’t know how to sew. I wanna learn actually and I am planning to borrow her sewing machine months ago. But since she started her small business, the sewing machine has been very busy that I just cannot borrow it for a week – enough for me to learn the basics of sewing.

Now she’s into another sewing project that would be very useful for laptops, notebooks and netbooks owners. She’s now figuring out how to sew sleeves! She asked me one time how many I would order from her because she’ll start making one. I only need one, actually because I am not going out bringing with me my laptop. Hope the laptop sleeve will be out in the market soon so I can brag about it in my blogs.LOL

Sometimes I wish Ace is home all-the-time. It’s crazy being alone whole day…with just the cat and the dogs to accompany me. It’s been so quiet! Thanks goodness the TV has been repaired (after 2 months of waiting) at least there’s something that could keep me company when I wanted to stay away from the computer. I even came to a point of considering to adopt a baby and Ace is amenable with it. We’re not just lucky because the DSWD adoption help desk in SM isn’t there anymore last weekend. Sometimes I silently pray that somebody will leave a baby in our gate and we will surely accept it.

Anyway, sometimes Ace wishes he’s working from home too. He might be tired of being a corporate slave (oh well, I am still a corporate slave but not in the office setting). I told him to start blogging as his sideline just to have a feel of the online world. Who knows he might find an online job in the long run. Now we’re in the dilemma of thinking for a domain name so he could also start blogging. It’s been weeks since we’re brainstorming for a nice and catchy domain name. I want a domain that speaks of itself, I mean with just the domain name, one would know what the site is all about like www.jointsupplementreviews.net. Hope we could think of a nice name soon before Ace will lost his interest in blogging.

It was so nice to see Verj during Gizelle’s wedding. Though we haven’t seen each other for years, seems nothing has changed, seems it was just yesterday when we last met.

Wish our faucet is one of the Toto sink faucets so it’s more presentable (well, at least for me because I want everything to look nice and presentable. Thanks to my late mother for that trait.). If this is our own home, then I would have asked Ace to install Toto faucets and Toto toilets instead of those cheapo ones. Hmmm…then I’ll wait for that time when we have full control over our place.

Due to so much craving of Krispy Kreme, I made sure we will bring home Krispy Kreme from our Manila getaway last year. Hence, before heading to the airport to catch our flight to Davao, we dropped by SM Mall of Asia to buy my most sought-after doughnuts and we brought home not one but 5 dozens of it!

We love the original glazed more than the filled and other variants. So yummy! Would you believe we consumed 3 and a half dozen of those doughnuts? That’s what you call doughnut overload!