Alabogs 1997

whoooh! i just got back from a girls (plus 2 boys... oh 3!) night out with my highschool barkada and still i am capable of typing this amidst heavy tipsyness and drowsiness. i am in a euphoric state and can not resist typing whatever flows in my head. i am not yet in the mood to sleep though i know i should be waking up in about 4 hours.

i can say that this has been one of the best nights of the year. me and my barkada just stayed at sidebar, el pueblo and celebrated one of my kabarkada's (TepTep) birthday - slash - reunion. i couldnt explain what has happened for the past 7 hours. all i know is that we did a lot of silly stuff, ate and ate and ate and ate and drank and drank and drank and drank the entire night. buy one take one pa ang beer! plus masarap ang bagong mule ice! shoot masarap din ang tequilla lalo na ang asin and lemon! and the fruit margarita is a crime! enough of that...

i soooooooo missed my barkada! i just wish i could be with them often.. always!!! i had so many memories with them and i can say that nothing still compares to that. we've been friends for about 9 years already and the crazysexycoolness still hasn't faded away. we've been for each other through thick and thicker and no one really can replace their company. well.. im just so overwhelmed with our get-together a few hours ago. cant wait for the 30th! im gonna see ya'll again soon! AJA!!!!!!!!! >>> what was that Mac??? what happens in vegas stays in vegas. yeah right!!!

Denouement

im here.. guess where! in the office. im done with my ojt but here i am. my boss said he wanted to talk to us, me and droz, but droz couldn't find time to come so here i am, alone, waiting for my boss. he's in a conference right now and so I’m just using one of the PCs here in the MBD whilst awaiting for his arrival. hmm... a lot of things to write about. first, i was so surprised that there's music being played in the plant already! wow! they installed a sound system in the entire plant! Perhaps that’s where the budget for my and droz’s ojt went to since our contracts just ended haha! when i entered the plant, the song that was playing was... i'm blue im in need of a guy im in need of a guy... hahaha! wow! I was just reminded of our Boracay trip... and right now.. the song that's playing is loveshack! lololoveshack! oh that's my favorite song to sing especially when my footballmate shaq is around! We used to sing that to him just to make him laugh. hahaha funny!!! anyway anyway anyway... The songs being played are so if not techno and upbeat, very boy-bandish! If not, they are music from the 80’s. the peeps in MBD are singin'! cool! Voice from the loud speaker enters: SOUNDS CHECK ONE TWO.. SOUNDS CHECK ONE TWO.. talagang sounds eh with the S!!! MBD people are laughing their hearts out! Funny situation over here! Whoops it’s 4:30! i lost track of time with the sounds that are being played. Oh.. so that’s its purpose.. anyway, where is my boss???

He’s still not around. one reason im here is to file my request for payment. i wanted to file it but as I’ve mentioned, boss ain’t around and so no one would be able to sign it. filing starts at 3pm up to 4pm only and so, there's no chance of filing it today. ima' just let jen file it. thanks jen!

and another reason that im here, aside from the request for pay and my meeting with my boss, is because i wanted to fix my final report for OJT. i added some stuff that wasn’t included in my report that i was able to ring bind last friday. i wanted to bind it again but we’ve got no binder at home. and if i bind it somewhere else, I then would have to pay. since i brought my own materials, I guess it would be just fine if I used the binder in the office. That ain’t that wicked right?

It’s 5 pm now! im still waiting while sippin’ a cup of coffee.. oh my last cup of free coffee! huhuhu =( im also playing dynomite. A game that I, Kelly and Droz would play after meals until lunchbreak is over. This would have to be my last dynomite game as well because it doesn’t work athome!

........ Will I go now or would i just wait instead? I’ve stayed for more than 2 hours already, with nothing left to surf. Sayang naman ang pag hintay ko if I wouldn’t be able to meet my boss. I even didn’t go with my dad to makati for this. but if their meeting aint done in 30 mins… im gone…


TYPED AFTER “THE PANEL INTERVIEW” :

I ended up waiting for their meeting to finish. anyway…

CI people are bloody cool! My first impression of them was that they were silent people. Lalo na the girls of CI. they never talked to me before. only my direct boss and boss’ boss did! Well they had to ‘cause I was their trainee. I was too shy then. I merely talked…only when asked to. And I remember my first day.. perhaps Jen (cadet engineer) was so irritated because I made her stand up everytime the phone rang. The phone that was beside me…Just an arm away. I didn’t want to answer it because I knew nothing about the people and the company then. Besides, If I picked up the phone, I wouldn’t know who they were looking for, and what to answer incase i was asked about something. only thing I knew then was that Kraft were the makers of eden and cheddar cheese. And mayo! And oreos and chips ahoys.. and tang and maxwell.. and yeah.. a bunch more. I wouldn’t want to enumerate every product.... Anyway, as time went by, I knew a lot of people, a lot of production processes, a lot of techniques on how to obtain data, on how to approach the line people.. a whole lot of things indeed! Include kproxy and blogspot there. I gradually loved what I was doing inside the plant. I found amazing things to do at the peak of boredom. I kept myself pretty much busy, even though I technically wasn’t. what do I do??? it’s exactly what you (if you’re a reader from Kraft) is doing right now! huli ka!!!

Droz = B.I. HAHA! =) I had a hell lot of fun especially on learning different things from Droz. They say he’s the Kilabot! Haha! yeah.. super Kilabot! The self proclaimed OJT Manager. He’s got his own ways on handling things inside the plant, may it be work related or just plain foolishness. I surely learned a lot from him… more on the foolishness side though… kidding!

The fact is… I enjoyed my stay in kraft. During the meeting, feeling cozy at the finance board room, I was asked a hell lot of questions. I thought ojt was over. But then I was kinda like panel- interviewed. Not a serious one though. A lot of funny insights were shared during the “panel interview”. they caught me off guard there. I really didn’t know that they were to ask me questions, I just thought I went there to have a meeting with my boss and not with the entire crew. Oh well.. it was my first time seeing them in their not-so-serious side. They made funny remarks which kept me smiling all the time. Well good! Because I wanted my last day inside the office to be worth remembering. Then i saw jen playing with her hair. Her sign of i-want-to-go-home-now!!! ~ which really distracted me.. I couldn’t understand what the rest were saying due to this amusing act of jen, pulling her long hair upwards then sideways… I think she wanted to kill me for not going home at once… for waiting for their meeting to end. Right jen? Im sorry. haha! then entered sir Abet (spoonables analyst): “cream puff ko!” hahaha! I’ll try to find time to bake for him…really, if I could.

well perhaps it’s my last day to enter the plant today. I know im gonna miss everything in there. Even the sanitation area. Yeah, really ~ counting the foils and everything else…

I really can’t wait for the year-end get-together! ‘hope to see them all soon…

TO THE CI GROUP: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. And yeah.. i still want my buffet! Heehee…

shimmer in shiver

I was so lazy today, yet, productive. I was awakened by the loud knockings of my mother on my door. It’s been a long time since I’ve heard those knockings because I usually get up earlier than my mom since I had to go to the office. She woke me up for it was breakfast time. I was so sluggish on getting up, having frosted feet due to cold weather plus slight head ache and symptoms of cold attack. But since I hated eating alone, I had no choice! I got up, ate breakfast and then prepared for mass.

At 10:30am I got back from church and lounged while watching Paradigm Chef at Studio23. Just then i remembered that I was supposed to cook some cheese sticks or burritos as requested by my brother. Damn! i missed cooking for my siblings. Before, I used to cook merienda or lunch meals for them. Sometimes I even make desserts, but ever since I started playing football, my Saturdays became occupied (due to tournaments) and my Sundays were spent on resting/studying/working/shopping. =) I was supposed to be at a “Jingle Bowl” tournament right now by the way, but I refused since I planned to stay with my family, as how it has always been, on a Sunday. Anyway, I felt like I’ve abandoned my siblings and so I planned on making them something to munch on for merienda. I first searched for salsa recipes over the internet, but due to lack of ingredients, I made my own version. It tasted good after all! i also made cheese sticks because I knew it would be easier than making burritos. I was tamad pa naman! My brother was so excited and gladly helped me with the wrapping of the cheese. We used KRAFT eden and cheddar cheese…just to let you know! Hahaha! Anyway, I’m so touched to see the delight in my brother’s face while watching me cook the cheese sticks and the salsa for the dip. I felt like he really missed me and my cooking. =)

I finished at around 4:30 ~ finished cooking and tasting, that is. I headed to my room, cleaned my salsa-smelling self, and lounged again at my mom’s sofa in their room. Me and my mom looked for something nice to watch and as I was channel surfing, I passed by some channel, ETC I think, where they featured Christmas decorations. Shockamommah!!! I forgot that I was supposed to put up the other Christmas decors in our home. That was way long overdue! i immediately transferred the channel and sneaked out of their room to avoid being reminded of the Christmas decors that I promised to put up. Heehee. =) I then asked for help from our helper to get the decors from the boxes just so I could set it up and get the job done. Yes I did it!!! To think that I was so lazy to get myself outta bed!

Right now.. im doing the finishing touches on my OJT final report for school. I’m so home alone. well.. technically. my mom’s at a party. My dad’s out buying stuff. My sister’s out with her choir mates making caroling, my brother’s asleep,, the helpers are, well.. I don’t know, I couldn’t see nor hear them from where I’m at. it’s me alone in the me-loud glade…

I’m just staring at the shiny shimmery lights and decors around me as I type this while listening to some Christmas songs… feeling the cold breeze of Christmas air. I’m feeling soooo c-o-o-o-old! Wow! It’s only 2 weeks before Christmas… I hope I get nice gifts! =)

Pinoy BIG KRAFT House

today was my last day in kraft.

funny that pinoy big brother relinquishes the memories i had there. on my first day, when i entered MBD, sabi ng boss ko: "Goodmorning Cielo! aga mo ah! nanunuod ka ba ng pinoy big brother?" ayos ah! first morning greeting ko yun nung first day ha! and then on lunch breaks during my first 2 weeks there, puro PBB ang topic! and so, just to be able to catch up to what they were talking about, i started watching it narin. but nung natanggal si franzen, i stopped. i dont know why. perhaps i just didnt have time na. well.. droz is right! we are now officially evicted from the "Pinoy Big Kraft house". yeah... at the hype of PBB, i was also at the hype of my work. and on the last eviction night of PBB, our contracts just ended as well. parang eviction din for us! haha! anyway, im watching PBB kasi right now that's why that's what first came into my mind.

well.... wala lang naman... ayun lang. hehe =)

just random bloggin'

i have just arrived from lunch with jen, droz and jing. we ate at Mongolian "quick" Stop at SM sucat (new wing)~ same as the original Mongolian Stop, only, mas masarap sa original. sobrang nakakabusog talaga! in fairness, naubos ko! pano konti lang nilagay ko na rice! anyway, i wanted to eat FIC pistacio ice cream after sana kaya lang naubos na! naubusan nanaman ako! always nalang! hay...

hayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy............................

i am supposed to be in a meeting right now but it got rescheduled. tomorrow na at 10am. wow! my last day in kraft should be extremely bonggacious, and hopefully, productive (Jen!!! Yoohoo!!!)... basta kelangan special!!! hmm... i have a meeting from 10-12am. lunch-out or special lunch perhaps (kasi never pa ko bumili sa special meals sa canteen dito sa kraft, always yung tipid meals lang hehe) , then xmas party at night ~im not sure if im invited though. haha! im really gonna miss the kraft peeps! waaaaaah!!! next time nalang ang drama...

THE VHS

my VHS is broken. i dont know how and i dont know why. i was planning to watch some ol' movie and since the VHS ain't working, i ain't doin' nothin'! iv'e got lots of VHS tapes over here and now i cant watch 'em! i know DVD players are swarming electronic stores, and i've got lots of DVD's scattered around, but i wonder if VHS players are still being sold somewhere... gotta find me one!!!

SANTA COUSIN IS COMING TO TOWN

MY SUPER DUPER ADORABLE, KIND, AND GORGEOUS COUSIN JELLYN (HAHA SIPSIP!) IS COMING HOME AND SHE'LL BE BRINGING ALONG THIS FOOTBALL WITH HER. FOR WHOM??? FOR ME!!! WALA KASI AKONG MAHANAP NA GANYAN DITO SA PILIPINAS! PURO "VOLT" YUNG BRAND NA MATABANG PATULIS! MAHIRAP I-GRIP! EXCITED NA AKO!!! YEYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHY WOMEN ARE PHYSICALLY STRONGER THAN MEN

women are
physically stronger
than men

why???!!!

because WOMEN
can carry
two mountains
at a time

while MEN
can only carry
two eggs..

TAKE NOTE:

with the help
of a bird!

hahahahahaha! =)

TIME OF YOUR LIFE

Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road.
Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go.
So make the best of this test, and don't ask why.
It's not a question, but a lesson learned in time.

It's something unpredictable, but in the end is right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

So take the photographs, and still frames in your mind.
Hang it on a shelf of good health and good time.
Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial.
For what it's worth, it was worth all the while.

It's something unpredictable, but in the end is right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

It's something unpredictable, but in the end is right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

(Greenday)


..... just heard the song awhile ago and it's very timely for the st scho barkada "highness" i had yesterday. this was one of the songs that we considered meaningful.... waaaaah i just wish i was back in grade 7... i'm missing them again!!!

la muchacha conmuta

As I’ve said in my latest blog, today was gonna be a hectic day for me. It was, indeed! It started with waking up at 6:58 in the morning. Had breakfast, took a shower, and headed straight to school for my last OJT monthly meeting and some thesis orientation. It ended at around 1130am, earlier than expected, and so I had time to mingle with my college friends while having lunch at Chowking even just for a few minutes. At 12 noon, I met Darcee, one of my highschool buddies, together with the boyfriend of my other highschool buddy, Patty. We were there waiting for Patty to arrive just so we could leave and go to Ateneo where UA&P Days With The Lord batch 13 is being held. At around 1:30, Patty arrived. A few minutes later, the four of us rode the taft LRT and got off at Doroteo Jose station. We then transferred to LRT 2 for a long ride to Katipunan but first, we met Steph (another highschool buddy) at Pureza station. WHOOOHOOO IT WAS MY FIRST TIME TO RIDE LRT 2!!! the place was so tidy.. parang airport!!! It was fully airconditioned, the train itself was very spacey, and there were no cashiers! instead, they had vendo-like machines where you drop your money then the card comes out. AMAZING!!! we got off at katipunan station, walked a bit, had a little break at Ministop, then rode the tricycle to Pollock Hall in Ateneo.

In Ateneo, we met Mac, another kabarkada of mine, who happened to be the rector for the DWTL of the said batch! We just had a little chit-chat, as in little, because she was hella busy minding the Days participants.. the 5 of us had nothing to do while waiting for Mac and so we just sat at some diner (i forgot where), ate lunch, reminisced, and laughed at anything and everything like crazy people just for the sake of having something to do… we talked a lot about some highschool moments with friends and teachers, some we made fun of, ofcourse! Haha! we then walked around… into the streets while having a gaze at their GRASSY field (I put a stress on that coz st scho field is not grassy… it’s dusty according to Darcee! Haha!) and at the verdant and eye-soothing surroundings. Just pure barkada chill went on before I left the place.

At 6pm, Arjun and I started waiting for some tricycle to pass by. Heck, all tricycles who passed us by had passengers on it! Man!!!!!! We waited for 25 mins till we finally got one! When we got out of the ateneo campus, these police officers held the tricycles that were passing by. WHAT THAAAA??? Tricycles aren’t supposed to pass by the area according to the officer... DAMN!!! we got held for like another 15 minutes till they finally let us go. There was no other choice than to wait for the entire police-tricycle driver thing to finish. We rode the tryc and dropped off at the LRT 2 station. We then rode up to Cubao station (Gateway).

This is supposed to be another entry but what the heck…

At Gateway, I went around and looked for Mango to look for my lover ~ the adorable pair of exquisite brownish goldish shoes! Oh my! i found it but they didn’t have my size! i was a size 38 and 1/2 and all they got was size 38! I asked them to ask some other branches on what sizes they’ve got but not a single branch had my size!!! that was bull!!!!!!! I couldn’t believe that every Mango branch in the Philippines didn’t have my size… RARRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I knew it! The lovely shoes were so hot that a lot of people bought it.. damn! maybe it was not meant for me… I just looked around instead in hopes of buying something for myself but nothing that I found pleased me.

And so I went to the MRT station at Farmer’s Market and headed to Ayala. DAMN!!!!!! it was the first time I rode a SUPER SUPER TREMENDOULSY jam-packed chock-a-block train! even if I didn’t get a hold on any of the metal posts or straps to grasp on while in motion, I still was stagnant with bodies compressed on me. thank God no maniac was standing behind me. I had a hard time to breathe for a moment when one guy raised one of his arms as his armpit was positioned in front of my face. Yikes! Haha! no option of moving was ever possible in that train ride that I took. I didn’t wait for the next train ride because i knew i wont be able to get on time for the colorum at Landmark. When i arrived at Ayala, i checked out the Mango boutique just to configure the shoe sizes they had there and as expected.. they really didn’t have my size for the pair that i was rooting for. I then went looking around while walking towards Landmark, sad, annoyed with my self thinking that I should have bought it the first time I saw it, which was last Monday. I didn’t buy it then thinking I would be able to find something better. I spotted the Lacoste Chaussures boutique just across Mango and surprisingly, the store was crowded. Just as I remembered, the Lacoste Chaussures boutique in Gateway was too packed out as well. Was it on sale??? I checked it out…braving the crowded store to see a glimpse of the shoes and to know what the heavens was going on. Nope, it wasn’t on sale! are people into Lacoste shoes now??? hmmm... I found a nice pair by the way, but i’m gonna look first for something much nicer than that. and HERE I GO AGAIN…

I then walked towards Landmark still thinking about the things that happened during the day. I came across the area where they sold Luggage bags ~ the one with wheels. It was also on sale! 40% off everywhere ~ Samsonite, Elle, and some other brands that I couldn’t remember. I then remembered our trip to Boracay where I brought this HUGE bag and carried it along with me while on travel (aside from the plane trip, ofcourse). it was soooo heavy!!! and my shoulders ached like hell especially on my way back to Manila due to sunburn combined with the bag strap attached to it! Wala lang! I wanted to buy a luggage bag but I know I wont be needing it soon. Malay natin???!!! Haha! =) anyway, I went to the colorum station, rode the shuttle, and arrived home, washed up and then now... typing this. whew!!! i am feeling every bit of exhaustion and energy drain right now! i’ma have to hit the sheets! ZzzZzzZzzZzzzzzzzzzzz………………..

happy birthday F.I.C.

that stands for Fartner In Crime!!!

Whew! Just got back from Aubrey’s “surprise” party at joe’s house! Awww I find it amusing on how she reacted when she found out that we went there just to surprise her ~ she cried!!! YOU'RE ALWAYS WELCOME AUBS....incase you're reading this...and HAPPY BIRTHDAY! anyway, today was quite tiring. woke up at 7:30am! gosh!!! my phone didnt alarm.. i had to rush my meal a little to get to work on time coz i knew i had to do some stuff in the morning (helping Drozzie with the posting of bulletin board design, briefing elsie with TS at S4, some curd weighing, etc..). good thing the bulletin board designs were already posted when i arrived. yoohoo Droz, you did a great job! i was quite guilty though cause i didnt attach the double sided tape at the back of the design for easier posting..i went plant touring instead, haha! damn! it made Droz stay at the plant till 8pm just to finish the job..

after realizing that it has been posted, i went straight to S4, just gave a few pointers to elsie (FEELING BOSS AKO!!! haha), talked to some crew, went back to my cube, discussed my new assigned task with Jen, went to the curd cutting area, asked assistance from some casual, weighed unsliced and sliced curd, went back to my mine-then-not-mine cube, worked on some excel, then headed to PIZZA HUT for lunch where i made new friends haha! we ate lunch with the new cadets of Kraft! funny, i feel like i am back in st scho everytime i see Jackie around (hello to you!). haha! totoo!! anyway, at 5:45pm i left the office. hell! the rain just faded, just a little drizzling left. it was soooo damn traffic! i arrived at McDo at around 6:10 and the tricycle line was so freakin long! i was able to ride the tryc at around 6:35! mannn!!! its been almost an hour and i havent gotten home yet! to think that it only takes me around 15 mins to travel from my house to office everyday. that's because i do not commute in the morning, my dad brings me there. =)

ANYWAY!!! i arrived home at around 7:30 cause i went straight to church from Kraft. took a bath and ate dinner. oh yeah! surprise party for aubrey tonight THOU SHALL NOT FORGET...PLUS THE CAKE! my mind keeps on telling me that for i am prone to hit the sheets due to tiresome experiences today! hah! luckily, some of my friends who were to go to the "surprise party" planned to arrive there at past 10pm! great! it gave me more time to unwind and fix my things that i am gonna bring to school tomorrow.

hmmmmmmmmmmm.... tomorow's a hectic day for sure! i am gonna go to school for my final ojt monthly meeting (10am - 12pm), then.. either go to glorietta then home then go to cuenca bazaar with Kathy then to shangri-la mall and meet Regina there then go to Ateneo with her (for DWLT), OR!!! just wait till 2pm and meet my st scho barkada at taft who are gonna go to Ateneo for the DWTL as well. i really wanna go to glorietta because i am gonna go back for the nice pair of shoes i saw at Mango! yeah!!! im soooo excited! but the problem is, my friends from st scho would be leaving taft on or before 2pm. i wonder if i could get back there on time before they leave. and i wonder what schedule am i to follow... another dilemma i have is whether to sleep there in Ateneo or not. its very tiring to travel back and forth... i hope i'd be able to find an easy way to commute going home or better yet, i hope my dad fetches me! hahaha!

though all my energy was totally drained, i really felt glad on how my day ended cause going to the surprise thing was so worth it. i met my friends, had some funny moments, and to top it all, made a close friend cry.. almost made me cry as well... hahaha! (pareho lang tayong nagpipigil!!!) i really missed them!!!

meeting!!!

waaaaah today was my very first time to receive a formal meeting request throughout the entire duration of my stay in kraft!!! dahil laging kung hindi biglaang meeting na bigla nalang "cielo..meeting taio ngaun na eden2 conference room!", ako yung nagrerequest for a meeting! o diba, christmas get-together lang, formal meeting request pa!!! =) sosyal!!!