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Saturday, November 19, 2005
Last Wednesday, nagpagupit kami ni Aldrin sa Britanico sa Glorietta. Naghanap kami ng mapapagupitan sa glorietta kasi wala na kaming time magpagupit sa mga barbero namin kasi gabi na lagi umuuwi. Anyway, yung una namin nakita is yung parlor sa bridge ng Landmark and Glorietta pero putcha P500 ang pagupit. Wag na uy… Kaya yun nag hanap pa kami ng iba at napadpad kami sa Crispin Britanico Salon. 180 pesos… Sige na nga kahit katumbas na yun ng 4 na pagupit ko sa barber shop samin kasi 45 pesos lang dun. First time ko mag salon kasi practical akong tao (kuripot). Hehehe… Anyway, dahil wala nang ibang oras magpagupit patulan na ang P180. Ok yung place… maganda ang ambiance… Maganda ang equipments… Mukhang magagaling ang mga barbero pero hindi ako natuwa sa gupit ko… hehehe… gupit gupit lang siya nang kung ano maisipan nya… cool na cool naggugupit… tapos sinampuhan na ako… tapos… winax ang buhok ko… ginawa akong super sian… pinatayo yung buhok ko na parang pwet ng pato… hehehe… cool na cool… hehehe… feeling artista pero mukhang tangga… hehehe… Basta hindi na mauulit itong gupit britanico na ito… hehehe… nasayang ang 180 ko…
Posted at 01:38 am by yogiyahoowee
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Red with Anonymous Client, Anonymous Partner, and Anonymous Manager
Last-Last Thursday (November 10), the whole team had a dinner with our Client and Accenture Management namely Anonymous Client, Anonymous Partner, and Anonymous Manager. Walang time magkwento at tinatamad na rin ako kaya bibilisan ko na lang. Picture na lang. Yun kumain kami sa Red sa Shangri-La hotel syempre kailangan sosi kasi may Expat e. hehehe... Anyway, grabe parang dinning table ng isang palasyo yung kinainan namin. Private room siya. Tapos yung mga pagkain syempre ang mahal. Nagkanya-kanya kaming pili ng oorderin kaya yung pinakamahal ang pinili ko. hehehe... minsan lang naman e... hehehe... P1800 yung main dish ko na lobster and beef steak... P300 yung dessert... Tapos drinks... In summary, ok ang food don pero sobrang mahal... hehehe...
P.S. Inubos at unuwi ko pala yung mga coffee candies at pang wipe ng face dun sa CR...
Posted at 01:14 am by yogiyahoowee
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Wednesday, November 09, 2005
Last Friday ay Holiday… Yahoooo… Kaya nagkayayaang magTagaytay kami ng college friends ko. All boys gimik – Dru, Kowtz, Mon, Vic, and Me. Nagmeet kami sa may McDo sa Lasalle. Ang usapan ay 4:30pm. I was already there before 4. Dumating si Mon and Kowtz ng sakto 4:30. Si Dru… hmmmm… 4:30 kakagising pa lang daw… Anoooooohhhhh?!?! Anyway, dumating siya ng pass 5 na ata. Oks lang… Tapos dinaanan namin si Vic sa Shell sa Magallanes. Akala ko matagal na si Dru pero mas matagal pa namin hinintay si Vic. We were already at Shell before 6 and Vic arrived malapit na mag 7. Hehehe. Pero oks lang din… Buti na lang mabilis magdrive si Kowtz kaya before 8 ay nasa Tagaytay na kami. We went there without any plan kung ano ang gagawin. Bahala na kung ano maisipan… hehehe… Syempre naghanap muna kami ng makakainan ng dinner… Hmmmm… Saan kaya maganda kumain… Yung wala sa Manila dapat… McDo kaya… O kaya JoBee… O KFC kaya… hehehe… Labo… Anyway, kumain kami sa mushroom burger. I ordered mushroom burger (syempre kailangan matikman), Tapsilog, and black gulaman. OK yung mushroom burger… Masarap siya… Atleast naiba ang lasa niya compared sa mga burgers na karaniwan nating nakakain sa fast-food chains. Kain-kain… Kwento-Kwento… Kain-kain… Kwento-Kwento… After nun dapat magkacasino kami, kaso nung nandun na kami nagback-outan kasi namahalan sa entrance na P100. Hehehe… Kaya bagsak na kami sa final agenda namin which is maginuman sa Starbucks. Bumili muna kami sa 711 ng mga ingredients sa special cocktail ni Kowtz namely Velocity and Diesel. Velocity contains mixes of GSM Blue, Sprite, and Gatorade (the blue one) while Diesel contains GSM Blue, Sprite, and Gatorade (the orange one). I’m not sure of the mixes, hinulaan ko lang based sa mga binili namin sa 711. Hehehe… Yung una naming plan was to back-up the van near the cliff and don uninom sa likod ng van para over-looking. Hehehe… Pero may naisip kaming way para maipasok yung drinks sa loob ng Starbucks. Minix na ni Kowtz yung drinks sa van and nilagay sa 1.5 bottle ng Sprite tapos saka namin pinasok sa Starbucks. Velocity yung una naming ininom. I’m not really a drinker but I could safely say that Velocity doesn’t taste as hard as other alcoholic drinks. Masarap siya… Manamisnamis… hehehe… After namin maubos yung isang 1.5 ng velocity, gumawa si Kowtz ng isang bote ng Diesel and isang bote ng Velocity. So inakyat na namin yung dalawang bote ng Sprite kuno. Mas malakas na yung tama nung dalawang huli kasi mas konti na yung Sprite content niya. Ramdam mo na yung Ginebra. So inubos na lang namin yung isang 1.5 ng Diesel and konti na lang Velocity. Ang tagal namin dun sa Starbucks from 9 to 12 ata. Tapos ang inorder lang namin ay isang chocolate dome at isang chicken empanada. Hehehe… at coffee nung paalis na kami. Nagtataka na nga samin yung crew sa counter kasi hingi kami ng hingi ng yelo. Hehehe… Inaano kaya ng mga ito yung yelo… hehehe… Kung ano-ano ang napagkwentuhan namin. Kaso hindi pwede sabihan sa blog na ito. Hehehe… Anyway, Astig kasi nakapaginuman kami sa Starbucks ng hindi nahuhuli. Hehehe… After nun, nag Select kami then umuwi na ng pass 1am. Si Dru bumaba na sa may Bicutan dahil may lakad siya ng morning. Tapos kaming apat dumeretsyo sa bahay namin para magovernight at magPS2. Doon nagtatapos ang Tunggaan sa Tagaytay adventure ko… Bagiuo naman sa susunod… Tapos Hong Kong na… hehehe…
Posted at 06:24 pm by yogiyahoowee
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Monday, November 07, 2005
Alam nyo ba ibig sabihin ng pangalan nyo?!?! Ako alam ko... hehehe... My Name Is...
Posted at 09:13 pm by yogiyahoowee
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Last Sunday, I can't believe that I was asleep for almost 15 hours. Wowwww... I slept at 12 midnight of Saturday and woke up almost 3 pm of Sunday. Grabeeee… Gutom na gutom ako paggising ko... This was the longest as far as I could remember. 4 hours lang kasi sleep ko nung Friday because nag Tagaytay kami and about 6 hours for 2 weeks straight. Kaya naman nung nakakuha ng timing ang body ko para matulog… Yun inabuso… hehehe… Wala lang gusto ko lang ishare…
Posted at 08:13 pm by yogiyahoowee
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Friday, November 04, 2005
The whole of Last week (October 26-30), I took the English Skill Training - Basic. It would just be fair if I wrote this entry in the English language. Anyway, I’m not suppose to attend this training due to hectic project demands but my manager insisted that I take this training since we couldn’t find any replacement. So there I was attending the 8-hour training and going back to office to do SCM activities. Woahhhhhhhh… The training started with a pre-assessment exam (both written and oral). As usual, I got a passing score at the written part but not so good on the oral part, especially the pronunciation portion. Cop… Cap… Still… Steal… Tall… Toll… Woahhhhh… Aren’t they pronounced in the same way?!?!? Too bad they aren’t. Anyway, after the pre-assessment, we started with the first agenda which is Confidence-Building. Liz, our facilitator, was able to present the topic in an interesting way. I was intrigued by her because she was a DJ at RT 99.5 yet she’s very pretty. I have a notion that DJs have good voices but not so good physical features. “Her beauty was intimidating.” This was one of the comments on her from her previous class. We had a different proctor from Tuesday ‘til Friday since Liz has to handle the Intermediate class. Ahhhhhhhh… Her replacement was Mark. Mark is a well-spoken individual who can express himself with confidence and pride. He has an immense knowledge on the English language. Of course he has a vast knowledge on the English dialect. Why would he be a facilitator if not? How stupid of me to write that line. Anyway, for the next four days, we tackled Organization and Structure, Accent Neutralization, Grammar Skills, Idiomatic Phrases, and English Comprehension. We also had numerous activities and CFUs which gave us time and chance to bond with our classmates. The training was wrapped up with our final exam which all of us passed with flying colors. I already miss my classmates, the activities, and most especially the free foods. Hi to my classmates Ruel, Arjay, Red, Jet, Tom, Reah, Sylvie, and Sarah. Hello to our facilitators, Liz and Mark, and our HR Rep, Reah. I better end this entry before I get criticized for attending a 1 week English training and still write this bad. Hehehe…
P.S. Schwa is a mid-central neutral vowel, typically occurring in unstressed syllables.
Posted at 07:40 pm by yogiyahoowee
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Last Tuesday (October 25), I had my annual review with my career counselor at Accenture. Each employee in Accenture has a career counselor to whom he/she could track and plan his career growth and share some career concerns and problems. The good thing about this career counseling is that Accenture provides financial budget for counseling activities. An annual review is required every start of a fiscal year (September for Accenture). I together with my career counselor decided to have our annual review over dinner at Old Manila in Manila Peninsula Hotel. Yahooooo… Free Food… Anyway, I have no idea what to order since it was my first time to eat at this restaurant. So I let my career counselor decide what we would eat. She ordered Tuna Something and Soup Something for her and Roast Beef, Giant Prawns, and Ox’s Tail Soup for me. I didn’t see the price of her orders but mine cost P1,700 for Roast Beef and Giant Prawns and P500 for the Ox’s Tail Soap. Whaaaaatttt?!?! Buti na lang Libre… hehehe… The waitress gave us bread and butter for appetizer. Wowwww… Sarap… Then the soaps followed. Afterwards, a scoop of calamansi ice cream was delivered to us. According to my counselor, it is used to remove the aftertaste of the soap before we eat the main dish. At last, the main dish came. Grabe sobrang SARAP ng roast beef and giant prawns ko. No wonder it was that expensive. I’ve never tasted something as delicious and as tasty as this. The dinner was wrapped up by chocolate candies for dessert courtesy of the chef. I recommend this place for the financially unchallenged people out there.
Posted at 01:26 pm by yogiyahoowee
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Friday, October 21, 2005
Last Thursday, JPMC had its October team building. The original plan was to watch a movie, have a dinner, and play at time zone. But since two of our team members are not available on Thursday night, we decided to just have a lunch buffet then movie, light dinner, and time zone after office. We had a buffet at Hard Rock for lunch. There were numerous choices from rice and various heavy viands, to pastas, to soups, to salads, to Japanese foods, to fruits, to sweets… As usual I tried everything even though my doctor told me to cut-off eating fatty foods since my cholesterol is high. Cut-off ka dyan… libre toh noh… hehehe… After eating, we went back to office to work and wait for the clock to hit 5:30pm so that we could continue our team building. After office hours, we went straight to Glorietta 4 to watch Deuce Bigalow. Some wanted to watch Into the Blue with Jessica’s sexy body but majority wins. Hehehe… Deuce Bigalow was funny though some scenes were really really really “Bastos”. Hehehe… The movie was a no brainer and to a point ay nakakabobo… Hehehe… On a positive note, it was very relaxing and helps you laugh out some of your stress at work. After the movie, we ate a light dinner at Mongkok with a P150 budget for each person. I shared my budget with Allan to order a beef with broccoli, lemon chicken, and rice. Others were still full from our buffet at Hard Rock so they just ordered dim sums. After eating our dinner, Lalaine, Erwin, and Karren already went home while Allan, Nanah, Aldrin, and I planned to have a shoot-out at Toby’s and spend the rest of the budget at time zone. On our way to Toby’s, we noticed that were no more people so we took that opportunity to take pictures at the kiddy rides near Filbars (Just refer to the pictures above. Parang mga bata… Hehehe…). Unfortunately, Toby’s was already closed and nagkatamaran kami to play at timezone so we just ordered coffee at San Francisco Coffee then nag kwentuhan for more than 30 minutes, I guess. Tapos… Tapos na… Hehehe… Uwian na kami…
Posted at 09:31 pm by yogiyahoowee
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Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Last Friday was a sad and happy affair in our office. It was sad since Paulo, our longtime officemate and teammate, is resigning from Accenture. On the other hand, it was a meaningful day for our officemate Leya wherein her husband (Aldrin) prepared a surprise baby shower for her. Aldrin and Paulo treated the whole Ariba capability to a scrumptious dinner (2 huge bilao of palabok, 2 huge bilao of spaghetti, 2 huge bilao of puto, 2 chocolate cake rolls, 1 huge bilao of lumpiang shanghai, and softdrinks). Ariba pips prepared a PowerPoint presentation for Paulo with his pictures in Accenture and heart warming messages from his colleagues. As for Leya, the Ariba pips gave gifts (stroller, baby tub, diapers, baby milk bottles, toys, and other accessories) for her upcoming baby SAM. Kain-kain… Kwento-kwento… Picture-picture… Kain-kain ulit… Kwento-kwento ulit… Picture-picture ulit… Kain-kain ulit… Kwento-kwento ulit… Picture-picture ulit…
The day ended with Paulo having a coffee-kwentuhan with the Aribakids (his start group) at Seattle’s Best in Greenbelt 3. The original plan was to have a dinner at TGIF but we were all already full. We gave Paulo a John Cena (his ultimate idol) CD and we plan to give him a mosaic picture of AribaKids but it was not yet finished so we would just give it to him maybe next week or when we meet again as a group. Coffee-coffee… Kain-kain… Picture-picture… Kwento-kwento… Asaran-asaran… Coffee-coffee ulit… Kain-kain ulit… Picture-picture ulit… Kwento-kwento ulit… Asaran-asaran ulit…
Good Luck to You Papa Pau… and Best Wishes and Good Health to the upcoming parents (Aldrin and Leya)… Hope to see you soon Sam…
Posted at 11:39 pm by yogiyahoowee
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Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Last Monday, I went to Medical city to have my blood tested. Waaaaaaahhhhhhhhh… Takot ako sa karayum… I like to donate blood for Red Cross but my fear of Needle and Injection hinders me to do so. So that morning, I was really scared. Plus I don’t have any idea of how much blood would be collected for testing. Waaaahhhhhhh… I arrived at the lab at 7 am in the morning. I saw the large needle and bottle that needs to be filled with my blood. Waaaaahhhhh… Ayaw ko na… hehehe… I even asked the nurse “Masakit ba yan?”. Siguro naisip nun… ang tanda-tanda na nito… takot pa sa karayum… hehehe… Paki mo ba… e first time ko e… hehehe… Anyway, there it was closed fist and a rubber tied in my right arm. Nooooo… Stopppp… hehehe… ang arte… But when the needle was stuck to my vein, wala naman palang sakit e… hehehe… Maybe next time I can donate blood at Red Cross… Naaaaahhhhhhh…
Posted at 09:26 pm by yogiyahoowee
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