My Pink Shoelace

I haven’t updated my blog for quite some time now. Working full time as a human switchboard, part time tutor and studying full time certainly took all of my time. I barely have any time to do anything like grab a cup of signature hot chocolate. A good friend of mine asked me why am doing the tutorial thingy when the pay according to them “doesn’t really compensate” for all the preparations I have to go through for everydays lessons … yeah I did asked myself that. I’ve grown to like the kids, I mean they’re fun and enthusiastic and really eager to learn.

Plus I kinda liked preparing cute and colorful materials. It’s fun and really creative. I liked it a lot.

Farm Town

So above is a screenshot of a game in Facebook called Farm Town which got almost everyone at work addicted including me. Hehehe it started with a few friends playing it and when they got hooked they spread the word and now am hooked. If you have a Facebook account, try searching for Farm Town and give it a shot.

I was just playing yesterday morning when I received a text message from a friend of mine back in college. She asked if I’d be interested to do part time work as a tutor to 2 Korean kids with the ages, 7 and 9. Two hours every day from Mondays – Fridays and that I start that afternoon. I told her that’s pretty fast so she said we’ll just go their place today and see how things go. So I was there and we met the parents and the kids who are very cute and disciplined. I liked them instantly. So here I am preparing my lessons for today’s session. Am beginning to like this … finally am able to put 4 years of studies and the TESOL course into good use.

Wish me luck.

When my notebook was busted I resorted to reading and my one stop source of good read is Momie Cherry, I saw her recently bringing with her a book entitled “The Time Traveller’s Wife” by Audrey Niffeneger and she told me it’s really good. So when she was done reading it I asked her if I could borrow the book, she readily said yes and brought the book the next day.

So am reading it and almost done and I love it. It’s gonna be in the cinemas soon, later this year probably here as it’d be shown sometime in August in the US. It stars Eric Bana (ultimate hunk) and Rachel McAdams (of Mean Girls) I cannot wait how the screenplay would go for this astonishing book. The story in itself is moving and original, the author is highly inspired and creative to have been able to come up with something as delicate as this.

If you’re hunting for a good read then do check this book out. I even asked Druggie to get me a copy instead of buying me a skateboard. Above was the cover of the book and below is the poster for the movie, showing Clare and Henry.

I pinged RJ about the 3 of us hanging out, lunch and then see a movie. She readily said yes and I asked her to text Lovely about it after a couple of minutes it was confirmed. This was last Tuesday and the date we’ve set was the day after, Wednesday.

So we met at KFC Ayala, had lunch and I finally get to meet RJ’s boyfriend, Vince and talk was flowing. It was decided that we’ll watch Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen which was shown that day.

It was amazing! The movie theater was jam packed, people were clapping when it ended and boy I love the soundtrack. Gotta grab a copy as soon as it hits the stores.

My laptop has been in the works for 5 days. It started with a bad hard disk drive which we replaced, so from 160 GB to a whooping 320 GB. It worked for a couple of days and then it started giving me black screens with undecipherable codes to total nothing. I brought it back to the tech who fixed it and after thorough check up, diagnoses was “fried motherboard”.

So I left it at the shop since Saturday and I got it earlier tonight, new motherboard, heat sing, fan and dvd drive. If this baby works like it s’pose to then I’d consider what I just shelled out money well spent.

I’m crossing my fingers here.

Am ecstatic actually, I just got the email that I passed the initial interview conducted last night by the assistant director. I look forward to starting the course but as this is not urgent I can take it anytime within the year or next I’ll finish my masters first and then go for it. At least knowing that I passed the interview meant am already profiled as one of their prospective students.

I was terribly pissed off, I went to my old school to get my certificate of good moral so I can comply with the needed requirements for my upcoming comprehensive examination. I haven’t been in there since graduation day and boy the system still hasn’t changed and it’s been 3 years.

The crappy woman at the accounting department gave me my form after 30 minutes of waiting so I gave it to the old asshole at the Registrar’s Office only to be told that I have to take it back to the crappy witch to have her write the words “Approved for Seal”. Can you imagine?

So I went back to the accounting office spoke to the same crappy witch, cutting in the line, shoving the my form at the tiny window only to be told smugly that I’d have to take it to the Registrar’s Office.

I told her, I wouldn’t be here if they’ve accepted it. Now write down that stupid phrase so they can seal it. She gave the form to the woman next to her saying, “Hey you didn’t write it”. My nose was flaring and I just told her face off, “If you guys haven’t been so reckless I would have been done and home by now … do your job right bitches.”

I literally said that and I remembered feeling rather better after. The release was instantaneous and I can’t believe I have a hidden “bitchy streak” in me.

So I got my Certificate of Good Moral after 3 hours and a once in a blue moon bitchiness act.

My notebook died on me last Wednesday, it won’t boot to the desktop and gives out an annoying beep sound when you turn it on. It doesn’t recognize the hard disk and keeps on giving out the message: No Boot Device Found. *sigh* Guess after using so many windows based computer I’ve seen this coming and I hate it.

Can’t wait to get my hands on a new macbook.

So it’s June and classes have started. Bought these school supplies for my lil girl, Jenny, she’s 9 and is in grade 3. Oh don’t get that first statement wrong, she’s not my daughter, she’s my neighbor’s daughter. Her mom and my mom were pretty tight buds and she’s like my adopted lil sister (am biologically an only child). She had an older sister who died at the age 5 coz of dengue, my mom and I just love them, I mean they were practically growing up at our place. We live so close it’s like a stone throw away and she’s almost always at home trying my stilettos on, ransacking the ref, checking on the dvd’s and all that. So it has been our tradition that I get her, her school things … they wouldn’t let me take care of the tuition but I guess that’s parent’s pride coming in. So I satisfied myself with buying her anything pink … hehehehe

P.S.

To the winners of My Pink Summer Contest, do holler guys when you get your prices they are well on their way to you and I’d like to know when you get them. Hate it when things get lost in the mail. Entreproints will be settled within the week. Thanks much for your patience. Appreciate it.

Around 3:30 AM earlier my tummy was hurting so bad I complained about it to my seatmate. When Momie Tyneen arrived she asked if she could take over my station during my lunch and I told her about the tummy pain, she went to the clinic and asked for meds on my behalf. During lunch I went to the pantry to eat and took the meds. But the pain didn’t subside Around 5AM when am suppose to go back and start taking calls I started puking, my team lead sent me home.

Kathy accompanied me to Jobee to have breakfast and got home at around 6AM. I was asleep from 6 AM all the way to 6 PM. The pain is still here but it’s manageable. Good thing it’s already my rest day tomorrow. *sigh*

- My Pink Shoelace Teddy Bear -

- My Pink Shoelace Dongle -

- Hello Kitty 1 GB USB Flash Drive -

** Am sending these items out before the week ends. Congratulations to the winners and thanks much for joing My Pink Summer Contest. Till next time. **

Are you a gadget freak like me? If so then you must be ecstatic to know about Cyber Monday from buy.com about the vast electronic sale that occurs every Monday. So go get on your notebook’s hooked to the net and scourge the site for the best deals of the latest gadgets around town.

So in need of a new notebook? Go look for one.

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Like all good things (lol), My Pink Summer Contest has come to an end. As promised I am announcing the winners today. And they are the following:

First Prize: Sherry (http://anothercontest.blogspot.com/)

Second Prize: Hopeful (http://learn-earn-for-livin.blogspot.com/)

Third Prize: Genejosh (http://www.genejostory.com/)

Fourth Prize: Princess Sarah (http://mymemoriesandcrystals.blogspot.com/)

Fifth Prize: Abie (http://nurseabie.blogspot.com/)

Congratulation guys!!!! and thank you so much for joining. For the winners kindly send me an email through mypinkshoelace@mypinkshoelace.com and mypinkshoelace@gmail.com. Pls. include your name, complete mailing address, mobile number, email address and username in entrecard.

Just so I can follow up with you guys if you indeed receive the items. They tend to get lost in the mail. Hope to hear from you soon.

Whopeeee!!!! They just delivered my certificate and am damn happy. Well after working on it for 6 months and cramming in the last two weeks before the deadline it was a relief to see the fruit of my labor. Now am wondering what my next course of action will be …. am certainly looking at various options but have not finalized anything yet.

Anyways, to the participants I know you guys are super excited as to who the winners are. But looking at the sidebar of my site I guess you’ll know who they are already. Hehehe I do hope that even when the contest has ended you will still come to visit me every now and then.

Will announce the winners on the 1st of June. Goodluck.

MJ used to say and she still does say it out loud that I am strict in person. Well, I don’t talk to strangers (mom’s golden rule), I avoid eye contact which is an opening for conversation with strangers, my eyebrows always seem to meet at the middle and most often than not I hide behind my earphones to avoid people from talking to me directly. Yeah yeah yeah … that’s me. Pretty uptight huh?

Now the last time I was there with Doi, we didn’t meet anyone not that there weren’t any worth meeting but because Doi and I are pretty much tight lipped. But this year with MJ with me it was amazing, being friendly sure brings quite a lot of fun. Talk and talk about everything under the sun.

Thanks to MJ I befriended Wuteim (an Israeli), Sala (an Egyptian who now lives in Denmark) and the pretty Marietta (from England but she’s Polish). Guess coz we’re girls we were pretty much close to Marietta what with dinner and drinks as well as breakfast together either at her place or at ours. It was pretty cool.

Here are some of the photos taken.

** upon arrival **

** MJ and I **

** Starbucks in Khao San Road **

** Moi, MJ and Marietta **

** A very good dessert at May Kadees **

The rest of the photos are here – Bangkok : May 2009 | Dinner/Meeting New Friends.

Do check them out.

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Am not sure if I am all pleased but I guess I am thankful that I still have a job to come home to. Though how long I am holding the forth that I am not sure. Things have gotten kinda hard for me given my long absence and sometimes just letting go and walking away is very tempting. A good friend of mine is leaving the company to do what he loves the most and I envy him for having the courage to walk away while I on the other hand is too much of a coward to do the same. I don’t have the strength to leave my comfort zone and explore the unknown. It’s like history repeating itself. I go on LOA on summer and come back to work struggling and grumpy. What a waste!!!

My Pink Summer Contest is about to end. It was fun and am looking forward to setting up more contest.

The faucet in out kitchen sink is getting pretty cranky which leaks water all over the moment you turn it on. It needs replacement and I know soon but I guess I’ll have to sort out of priorities as far money is concerned. I saw some really fancy Kohler faucets for sale at various online shops and they’re very elegant. But am checking things out locally and see if there’s anything I can find that are relatively cheaper than what am seeing online, hopefully there’s something really nice and elegant.

I was chatting with my aunt earlier and I informed her of my desire to get a playstation 3 and she said she’d see if she can get one for m when she goes to Singapore. Gadgets are relatively cheaper over there than from here. Or maybe an Xbox 360 or a pink psp, now that would be totally fancy but still I’d want the Egypt trip for my birthday.

A colleague of mine just came back to work from being sick for I guess a week or so, he had some sort of operation and is now filing for social security disability through HR. I was wondering if I could do the same with the one month leave that I was gone due to the dermatitis. Someone told me that I could still file for it so long as I have the form and the medical certificate.

Hopefully I can still file for it as I lost several days and it’d certainly help out my finances if I can get some scraps out of it. I’ll check with HR as well and see what happens.

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The first thing we did was in the morning after our arrival was sign up for the River Cruise (I believe this is a must do for every first timers in Bangkok) which takes you around the Chao Phraya River which is the biggest river in Thailand (I think, I’ll confirm that with wiki) while serving dinner on board and getting entertained by Thai dancers performing some of their classic dances. It was nice and the food has not changed since I last went there.

** inside the van on our way to the River Cruise Hotel **

** the Chao Phraya River **

** inside the River Cruise Hotel **

** the boat **

** Moi and a not so yummy carbonara **

** my partner in crime : MJ **

** the view **

** taking a pose before hopping in **

There are several more shots found in the album Bangkok : May 2009 | River Cruise. Do take a look.

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We find ourselves amongst other tourist on the 2nd day of our arrival, we were all headed to the ancient city of Ayutthaya, the former capital of Thailand.  The old city was packed with ruins of temples, castles and budhha’s. Our tour guide gave us a brief history of what each site used to be and how it came to its downfall. Pretty interesting if you ask me. Here are some photos taken from that day though don’t be surprised if most of the photos are of the temples and the budhha’s not much on us.

** first stop **

** statue of a golden lady **

** one of the many buddhas **

** entrance to the prayer room **

** pose before climbing all the way up **

** pose from the top **

** cooling down from all the walking **

More of the photos can be found here: Bangkok : May 2009 | Ayutthaya Day Tour.

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To satisfy my love for music not only to do I keep a mounting amount of music files on my notebook to which I listed to when I am at home. I’ve had several types of mp3 players, only 2 topped the list: the Zen Creative Player and my recent one, a 32gig iPod Touch which I have had since December of last year and boy I love it.

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Susie and her brother Lyle are looking for nursing home services within the city to take care of their beloved grandma as both of them are working full time it’d be hard for them to take care of her. So the siblings resorted to looking for an institution offering elderly care, friends of friends recommended a few names but so far they have not selected one yet. They hope to find a nursing home for her fast to better take care of their grandmother’s needs.

Being the only grandchildren the duty to look after her falls on them and they love her dearly so its natural that they would only want the best for her. She’s nearing her 70th birthday and they’ve planned a special and intimate gathering for her. They’ve invited her close friends over for dinner and small talk. It would be great and am hoping everything will be a success. The rest of their friends would be there as well to help facilitate and prepare for the party, Lindsay and her husband Paul have already volunteered to take care of the food cooking and preparation (they’re both wonderful cooks) so that’s already taken care of.

The day after we arrived, we decided to take on the River Cruise on the Chao Phraya River and have dinner while being entertained by Thai dancers. Since the cruise begins at around 7PM we had the whole day all to ourselves. Had breakfast at my favorite restaurant a few blocks away from where we stayed and went to see the malls around town. Roamed around MBK and Siam Paragon.

** Siam Paragon **

** portrait of the king and queen**

**on board the tuk-tuk **

** inside MBK **

More photos here: Bangkok: May 2009 | Around Town

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Excuse the language but thats just how I feel right now. I just got home from work and its 3AM. I went to work with good intentions in a rush because I was afraid of being late … guess am trying my hardest to be good. I took calls from 1:30 AM to 2:40 AM had I not pinged Dio I would have stayed on the floor till the end of my supposed shift not knowing that am not suppose to come in for work today. My training is scheduled Tuesday 12NN so I don’t work at 1:30AM. But how was I s’pose to know?

Crap!!!!! Am so pissed off and am not sure if am pissed off at myself or at work in general. Am fuming mad, imagine what a waste it was for the cab fare back and forth not to mention how I could have slept till sunrise. Grrrrr….

Am such a slowpoke when it comes to uploading photos from my travels that Dang and Julie kept on bugging me to post the photos from our Baguio escapade. Waaaaaaaaaaa its just that I don’t seem to have any time!!!! Now MJ was very religious in uploading our photos from Bangkok in Facebook and she has arranged them in separate albums. So in this entry, I’ll post the photos she placed on the album called “To and Fro”.

** waiting at gate # 4 **

** waiting for our flight**

** on board the plane **

** inside the plane **

** Suvarnabhumi airport **

**waiting for our flight back home**

**me and my iPod**

Do visit the album here: Bangkok : May 2009 | To and Fro

It was fun that we both didn’t want the vacation to end and most certainly we didn’t wanna come back, to work and to the worries we left behind at home. *sigh* Oh well … working on the next travel escapade

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Lets face it almost everyone would wanna have their own ride, and I must admit that it did have its own appeal to me at some point but realizing the maintenance and all that hassle that comes along with the package I decided I’d rather commute. Now a good friend of mine living and thriving in the US of A just emailed saying she’s on the look out for auto insurance quotes before filling out that auto car loan that the bank has graciously offered her. Good Luck Tish.

Originally the plan was for us to visit Bangkok and Cambodia but due to the limited number of days that we had, we decided to explore Bangkok and set Cambodia aside for the next adventure. It’s my second time visiting Bangkok, the first being last year with Doi of doispeaks.com. We stayed in the same hotel Doi and I stayed last year (familiarity reasons) and explored the many temples the city has to offer as well as the shopping district. We also had dinner on the river boat in Chaopraya River (did I spell that right?), took a smaller boat from the Bang Paan canal to Pratunam, took the Chaopraya River Express boat in going to Chinatown. We spent one day in the ancient city of Ayutthaya and upon seeing the structure I wondered if going to Aztec would give me the same feeling.  Here are some of the photos we’ve had. Some are in MJ’s cam, I’ll have to give her my flash drive so I can have a copy.

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Just got home from Bangkok and I dread going back to work and facing reality. *sigh* No presents for anyone this time … somehow some if not most people tend to like me for what I can give and not for who I really am. Bangkok was a swell especially with MJ who was just super friendly, we made friends with 3 tourists like us, Salah from Denmark (he’s Egyptian); Wuteim from Israel (he’s been travelling in the last 7 mos.) and the lovely Marietta from London (she’s Polish). It was a cool bunch they were all so talkative, between food and drinks talk was from whatever topic that sprung to mind. Photos later My Pink Summer Contest is still up and running, click on the banner below to join.