tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35633362012-01-16T11:42:07.446+08:00muted mind of minemine thoughts, ever fleeting if not elusive, painted here in colors, swirls, strokes, and words as i try to break free of disjointedness.Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comBlogger681100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-1154691461250762512006-08-04T19:28:00.000+08:002006-08-04T19:37:41.263+08:00the beautiful queen nefertiti's mummy has not been found yet all these years. perhaps she is among the undead who still roams this realm and watches you from among the shadows. will you become her next victim?Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-1145681267041408702006-04-22T12:45:00.000+08:002006-11-18T14:39:43.046+08:00the magical kingdom of captialismnot exactly a place i’d wish upon a star just so i can go. wouldn’t even put it in my list of places to see before i die. well now that i’ve been to one i can see i don’t need to see the rest of it anywhere around the world for the rest of my life, unless my [future] kids wanted to. you’ve already paid up a lot of money to get in, later you’ll end up paying up much more for expensive disney Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-1145441820968531892006-04-19T18:15:00.000+08:002006-11-18T12:29:16.043+08:00a good hearty laugh is like falling in love in this singular manner:when it hits you right, you just have to give into it and let it all out till it leaves you breathless.Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-1133591787137007262005-12-03T14:29:00.000+08:002005-12-03T14:42:45.536+08:00we've been burglarized yesterday. here at our home, south of the city, sometime in the late afternoon towards the late evening. my mom lost a considerable amount of money (to spend for our year-end party) and some jewelry. all the spare keys to all our vehicles are missing. the scaled-model evo 7 which i gave my brother MJ for his birthday last year was also taken, my brother CJ lost all of his Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-1107259210453525342005-02-01T20:00:00.000+08:002005-02-01T20:00:10.453+08:00La LuzLa Luz Originally uploaded by snaphappy.this is how i chose to spend my birthday. at la luz resort in san juan, batangas. far away from everyone, from the busy city, traffic jams, and deadlines. i've managed to reallocate 3 unused leave days from last year into this year. luckily my boss agreed not to have HR forfeit them. i missed out on spending summer at the beach last year, so here i am Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-1104649551998365902005-01-02T14:56:00.000+08:002005-01-02T15:05:51.996+08:00who'd ever think my family name had ever stood for anything? well at least to some people in regional america it did mean something.
Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-1103519405569416072004-12-20T13:08:00.000+08:002004-12-20T13:10:05.570+08:00 long dresses are lovebrought to you by the isLove GeneratorJethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-1102869313135794222004-12-12T21:36:00.000+08:002004-12-13T03:10:25.836+08:00has anyone seen renee zellweger and the cast of bridget jones 2 on the oprah show? my gawd was she far thin now compared to what her body type was on the movie. lost so much so fast. what the heck did she do?
i've been working out about 3x a week for a year now, i've sworn off red meat and watched my food portions, yet i couldn't shed off A SINGLE FRIGGIN POUND. if this just goes on am inclinedJethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-1096367759305087142004-09-28T14:33:00.000+08:002004-09-30T10:13:40.203+08:00security alert email i got last week. thought i should share it to all concerned.
Date: 09/23/2004 01:28 PM
To: All Employees
Subject: ALERT: Eastwood City Frustrated Kidnapping Incident
Please take necessary precaution when bringing your children to Eastwood, or to any location for that matter.
There was a reported incident of frustrated kidnapping at the Eastwood City last night. A 5-yearJethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-1091788506991425382004-08-06T18:15:00.000+08:002004-08-09T17:24:57.806+08:00good bye henri. you've truly been a great inspiration and influence to me. maybe someday my works will come close to how great yours are. you may have left us now, but you've left us with the remarkable gift that is your legacy. God rest your soul monsieur. merci pour vos photographs, et pour la beauté, que vous m'avez aidée voir. au revoir.
Photographer Cartier-Bresson dies
Henri Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-1088495619135054792004-06-29T15:39:00.002+08:002008-04-29T18:00:46.745+08:00what if it rains? it doesn't matter really. i imagined that rally driving on soft earth would be an interesting challenge just as long as it doesn't rain all day. like what my brother mark had feared, it did rain on the first morning of our 2-day rally driving clinic and it rained hard but only for an hour or so. james deakin of C! magazine had put out a paper poll on whether we'd prefer to Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-1087813216027977722004-06-21T18:04:00.000+08:002004-06-21T18:25:38.346+08:00david letterman's top ten signs you may be working for IBM:
[10] you lecture the neighborhood kids selling lemonade on ways to improve their process[9] you get all excited when it's saturday so you can wear shorts to work[8] you refer to the tomatoes grown in your garden as deliverables[7] you find you really need freelance to explain what you do for a living[6] you normally eat out of vending Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-1085118333264678302004-05-21T13:38:00.000+08:002004-09-15T18:44:04.753+08:00one more night left and i'll be flying out of kuala lumpur and back to manila. i've spent the last five days working in this cosmopolitan city.
more later. when i get back.
Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-1082720274167101962004-04-23T19:36:00.000+08:002004-05-13T12:34:29.320+08:00focaccia is an italian bread that goes great with a dip made out of olive oil, balsamic vinegar, and parmesan cheese.it's not a cookie, it's focaccia bread and my first attempt at baking it. on the weekend of palm sunday i was going through some old cookbooks that i bought on sale years ago then went throught the pages of a glossy-paged bread book. upon going thru the recipe for rosemary focacciaJethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-1082441247407166482004-04-20T12:53:00.000+08:002004-04-20T14:38:39.560+08:00this was in my inbox this morning with the words "ladies versus real women" on the subject line. after reading through it (which came right after a hesitated decision to read it at all), i thought i'll put some of my words in it too.
Ladies - If you accidentally over-salt a dish while it's still cooking, drop in a peeled potato and it will absorb
the excess salt for an instant fix-me up.
RealJethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-1082115643462038282004-04-16T19:15:00.000+08:002004-04-16T19:44:36.043+08:00am ranking the things i did the most during the easter holidays begining thursday. here's the top 5..
5 - cook and eat lots of tofu
4 - learn j2SE while watching tv every afternoon
3 - sleep all morning
2 - stay up all night
1 - play neverwinter nights
my brother asked me if i honestly like the game when he saw how it's got too many game details to be fun to play with. of course i did enjoy itJethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-1081249555679141232004-04-06T18:43:00.001+08:002004-05-13T13:05:36.576+08:00in a few minutes the second longest weekend (after christmas and new year) of the working year shall begin. to us catholics, it's the holy week commemorating the passion of Christ.
am hardly the religious type, but the only religious tradition i usually keep is to reflect upon the sermons of the 7 last words brodcast and go attend easter mass.
with the exception of spending it in boracay lastJethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-1081077082966987132004-04-04T19:11:00.000+08:002004-04-04T19:15:00.123+08:00fine. am back at blogger. upsaid kicked out we free users. even if i wanted to pay for blog space, i don't write as much. so that means i'll only waste a good amount of my dough. if i can't get a decent service when it's free, i doubt it gets way better paid.
i shouldn't have stepped out of blogger. but how was i to know? Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-1058605017021166392003-07-19T16:56:00.000+08:002003-07-19T16:57:25.210+08:00i have warped out over here.Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-955014602003-06-10T19:40:00.000+08:002003-06-10T19:43:34.000+08:00my beloved morpheus died last week. tragically. morph is our dog, a massive chocolate labrador who just turned a year and seven months. i couldn't believe the SMS message i received from my brother that day. it absolutely crushed my heart. morph stuck his head between the metal bars of his cage's truss. when he couldn't get his head out of the gap, he struggled till he was weary and could no Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-932870792003-04-26T16:11:00.000+08:002003-04-26T16:12:02.000+08:00sand, surf, sunburns and five fabulous days in boracay! i am lovin the beach more than ever. vacation has never been this good. we've booked this since february and lodgings at the boracay penninsula were almost fully booked. luckily someone cancelled and we made no second thoughts about it. boracay is paradise and commercialism put together. all over the long stretch of beach are ads and promos Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-922133942003-04-08T18:44:00.000+08:002003-04-08T18:44:35.640+08:00the trouble with this writer's block every attempt at putting down thoughts turns out to be sappy. and this is all but another quick relief. they trickle slowly, barely leaving its source. hardly tasted by the dry grounds that most needs it.
perhaps i should do a rain dance? ah but not in this glorious summer. Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-914744602003-03-27T19:57:00.000+08:002003-03-27T19:57:59.293+08:00the coffee shop radio began playing sting's shape of my heart as i step out to sit at a table by the sidewalk. i munch on a blueberry muffin while my hot chocolate is letting out its steam from a china cup. it's already 9 AM, my breakfast hour is just begining but i feel i could sit out here for the rest of the morning and drown myself in the string of samba-jazzy music and the soft breeze of theJethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-910521992003-03-20T19:13:00.000+08:002003-03-21T11:21:56.000+08:00try addle-brained. that's what i'd describe the state of my noodle right now. the momentum of the changes in my world, particularly in the enterprise in which i operate, the career which i chase, and my personal life which i try so much to hold together, is dragging me to the point that everything's a blur before my eyes.
there's just so many things i just need to be aware of here at work and Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-903514762003-03-08T19:40:00.000+08:002003-03-08T20:18:05.000+08:00yes. i've finally flew out of my parents coop. it has been a week since and i've been enjoying it. havent been late since monday. i think am gonna like this whole setup.
back home this weekend. alone. and nothing to eat but instant noodles. not exactly nothing. i just dont feel like having leftovers from lunch. i would have made a batch of tuna crabstick spread but we're fresh out of bread. Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-896478172003-02-24T23:46:00.000+08:002003-03-08T16:51:10.000+08:00where's the quickest place one could get a suit dry cleaned, i wonder? am gonna need it for friday so it ought to be ready by thursday. how i wish tomorrow isn't a non-working holiday, for it comes at a wrong time, and i need people to be at work to help me get some things done. i'm afraid i may still have to work tomorrow. right now i've had enough work for a day.
perhaps i shall amuse myself Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-895938472003-02-23T19:00:00.000+08:002003-02-23T18:59:47.000+08:00Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-894938772003-02-21T21:08:00.000+08:002003-02-21T21:08:30.870+08:00it's just a bit too loud and i can't hear myself think. that's all am saying.
my mind was constantly shifting between two thoughts and i was so confused at what i want to accomplish first. shall i get on with resolving these incident reports? or shall i try to begin putting together a write up for the Lotus apps to be exhibited at the iSeries event next week?
i need more info to really figure Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-888470872003-02-10T20:46:00.000+08:002003-02-10T20:46:24.080+08:00argh! am so harrased today.Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-887605442003-02-09T01:03:00.000+08:002003-02-10T20:11:35.000+08:00things took a complete turn at work yesterday. just when i thought work was getting dull, here comes a new opportunity that i need to work on with my team. i've been working on coming up with a proof-of-concept demo of a loans origination system and i am doing it by working the gaps between a loan system and a credit application system that we currently have. the gaps are wide, and there are Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-885955672003-02-06T00:22:00.000+08:002003-02-06T00:46:03.000+08:00t'was a blah-di-dah day today and all i did all day is go through this piece of program code and figure out if there was really anything wrong with it. it got really boring to a point that i dozed-off on my colleague's desk with the code print-out in my hand. well i blame myself too for staying up and go through my e-mail backlog until three in the morning (and am not even done yet). i took a Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-880073142003-01-25T23:41:00.000+08:002003-01-26T00:36:25.000+08:00i renewed my driver's liscense yesterday, and the card got released on the same day. took me over three hours to complete the process because of the sheer amount of people but after the time i got to the step where my photograph was taken, in less than five minutes, and voila, my card was handed to me. no need to come back for it in sixty or ninety days. how convenient!
i had to skip lunch tho. Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-879030932003-01-23T23:50:00.000+08:002003-01-23T23:50:42.790+08:00i have really felt that i've been long overdue, and elmer had to teach me a thing or two, about things that i should have known and understood. all things technical, and all things political in nature in this business. it feels as tho i had a career change. more like a drastic upgrade perhaps. through time i really do realize that i cannot forever immerse myself in mere creation. creativity will Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-877406142003-01-21T03:18:00.000+08:002003-01-21T03:18:14.766+08:00yawn! yawn! my FlexBenefit report still needs a couple or more things to be worked on. couldn't get most of the day to work solely on this thing. am barely done and here comes about two other things to do which practically reads "needed yesterday." and look at the time! well there goes my beauty sleep. i've about three or four hours left to my brain recharge sleep. the dog beside me is so much Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-876340052003-01-18T18:35:00.000+08:002003-02-23T19:26:44.000+08:00remnants of the holiday slack is good as gone, and the hectic pace of my normal life is quickly gaining ground once again. i am still thankful that i've still managed to pull a getaway. it left me with a nice tan which also consequently left me with subtly sore limbs and dry flaky skin. all from roughing and toughing it under the sun a lot. on the first week of heading back to work, i told jany iJethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-867594332003-01-01T03:51:00.000+08:002003-01-03T22:51:33.000+08:00some boy cried wolf and messed up a really good opportunity for adventure in cebu. here we are, all psyched up for a vacation and nowhere to go. so what are we to do? regroup and head elsewhere. and that elsewhere happens to be puerto galera.
this happened to be my first trip to this place. how could i say no? i had no regrets whatsoever except for forgetting to pack a polarizer in my camera bagJethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-864220532002-12-23T13:00:00.000+08:002002-12-23T13:00:07.663+08:00jany woke me up with a phone call to ask me to go to cebu with her. what a way to wake me up! fare (aboard sulpicio lines) and lodging is free. sounds wonderful. i havent been to cebu before so i guess this is a good time. come to think to it, i havent had a decent vacation this year, so looks like i should go.
where's mom? i have to tell mom. Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-862795112002-12-20T02:13:00.000+08:002002-12-20T02:32:22.000+08:00i found my cokin filters stashed at some corner of my chaotic room. how did i ever forget i had those things? i probably have not used them in for more than two years. looking at my assortment of filters, which i had collected back when all i had was my AE-1P, made me realize i could reuse them with the sigma lens that i use with my other two EOS cameras. so in my afternoon break the other day, iJethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-861064132002-12-16T20:46:00.000+08:002002-12-20T02:20:27.000+08:00i've passed the class exam! 23 out of 25. geez! just two points away from a perfect score. i knew there were some trick questions in there. i wonder which ones they are? we've only been given the scores. oh well..Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-860328092002-12-16T00:21:00.000+08:002002-12-23T12:50:59.000+08:00like i was mighty late for the show. i knew i over-indulged at waxing trinity which i shouldnt have coz it rained anyway by the time i hit ortigas avenue. edwin said it was the last play he'll ever do in his career in musical theatre. so i better go see him in the fiddler on the roof. Fr. James Reuter SJ directs the play.
Father James looks really old and fragile now. right after the play i Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-859411382002-12-13T19:51:00.000+08:002002-12-21T05:02:12.000+08:00the project management class turned out to be a very enjoying one. having my wacky colleagues as classmates took away any likelihood of boredom. project management is no walk in the park. all my career i was keeping projects from falling apart (and still doing programming at the same time) by arming myself with common sense and lessons learned from past endeavors. for the past four days we've Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-856861102002-12-09T02:21:00.000+08:002002-12-10T20:38:34.000+08:00there's something wrong with my prescription glasses, i realized. the left lens is a bit off my grade. last saturday i went to the optometrist for an eye check, primarily because i am still entitled to medical reimbursements of a certain amount which i have to claim before the year ends, secondly because i wanted to know whether or not my eye problem has something to do with the blurriness of Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-855890222002-12-06T20:55:00.000+08:002002-12-06T21:06:43.000+08:00after doing a wedding shoot on my own for the first time, i can definitely say it's no easy task. i went to shoot in both film and digital, and i packed my AE-1P and my D30. i would have wanted to use my EOS-5 but i couldn't for two reasons: i don't think its built-in flash is sufficient for the job, and i was to use my only EF lens on the D30. being too pre-occupied with work has not given me Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-854895392002-12-05T01:09:00.000+08:002002-12-06T20:00:23.000+08:00how do i feel today? i feel a lot of things simultaneously, i dont know where to begin. and if i could really sing, i would begin singing...
I read you and God I'm good at it I'm so spot on
Chord shapes in air go press that dissonance if you dare
And you breathing in finesse an innocent
From her partying
i feel sleepy for being still up at this hour. puzzled at why i'm staying up. relieved thatJethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-850138232002-11-25T02:09:00.000+08:002002-11-25T02:09:08.396+08:00the labrador pups are almost twenty days old now. their ears have dropped forward, their eyes have begun to open, and they're crawling much faster on their bellies. one pup is already making what seems to be barking sounds and i am quite amused. soon enough they will be running around the house on all fours and they will be pulling, tearing, and gnawing up things in sight. all four of them! geez!Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-847604352002-11-19T21:15:00.000+08:002002-11-19T21:15:14.820+08:00browsed for books at bibliarch right after the sundae treat. quite a small store compared to its other outlets and the selection of books was not as vast. almost all the books were wrapped up in plastic which made it difficult for me to evaluate some content. i have to rely entirely on back-cover synopsis that are, more often than not, a bit vague. i checked-out the photography shelf and they Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-847545382002-11-19T17:30:00.000+08:002002-11-19T17:30:27.943+08:00i feel a headache coming and i better get me something to eat. haven't had anything since brunch. i should have brought some food from home coz there's no decent food that's cheap out here in eastwood city. a frequent trip to mcdonald's just spells slow suicide.
now where's that courseware file? i need to go through the topics, have it printed, and probably reproduced. next week we have a Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-847400082002-11-19T10:41:00.000+08:002002-11-25T02:25:33.000+08:00i like to be in this place, where i can run and untangle the complexities of a busy day. where i can escape, and return to being myself, flaws and all, without having to conform to the whims and vanities of youth. where there are no rules, and time is nothing empirical.
this place is called solitude.
this place undefines, humbles, simplifies.
i find that in this place, acknowlegement and Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-847038182002-11-18T20:39:00.000+08:002002-11-18T20:39:31.986+08:00opportunities come in different forms everyday, like flavors that range from the subtle to the strong, ignorable to the irresistable. every now and then, i stumble upon a chance to change the course of my life. these changes typically involve new working environments, a new culture, and perhaps a whole new lifestyle. i feel excited, and at the same time overwhelmed. i want change. i long for it Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-846662612002-11-18T01:55:00.000+08:002002-11-18T02:22:44.000+08:00in an attempt to fall asleep i have finally completed my reading of one hundred years of solitude and for some reason i realized that i have skipped about forty pages of the story about renata remedios. upon reading the last page, i wondered why i did not recall how meme conceived a son, nor of the story that transpired between her and mauricio babilonia, nor what has become of her and how come Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-846638472002-11-18T00:37:00.000+08:002002-11-18T01:08:35.000+08:00i better get to bed. i've got a solution delivery & QA process lecture at the office tomorrow that i was invited to attend. it's gonna be at 9 AM and i need to drive all the way to libis. after the lecture i may have a discussion with my new boss about another workflow enabled application and help out in the proposal process. i haven't gone through the functional specs and the RFP sent to me on Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-846623912002-11-17T23:46:00.000+08:002002-11-18T00:19:32.000+08:00sunday. porkchops · cauliflower · carrots · day-old news · weapons · hiding in the desert · not knowing who · late · where · scraps falling · filthy floor · keys · pressing · printing · photos · red · scratch · dent · talking · deep · bland lazy voice · cold water · shower · yesterday's jeans · today's shirt · praying dusk · gone · traffic jam · town center · sky lights · glittery gold · night · Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-842873822002-11-10T04:18:00.000+08:002002-11-17T23:19:51.000+08:00how many times can one hear the word vagina and its derivatives in under two hours? i lost count when my friends and i went to see Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues at the music museum friday night. since i've heard the radio ad of the stageplay i've been asking around friends if they've seen it and telling them that they shouldn't miss it. i've gathered only four and yes four is a fairly good Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-842816302002-11-10T01:16:00.000+08:002002-11-18T01:30:12.000+08:00california pizza kitchen seemed to be where everybody headed during the lunch break of the ND6 launch. whenever i turned my head, i find colleagues and aquaintances in the business having lunch with other business partners or prospect clients. i shared my lunch hour with two of my girl friends whom i have worked with in the past. we had our favorite portabello mushroom raviolli and barbecue Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-842815582002-11-10T01:14:00.000+08:002002-11-10T01:14:40.823+08:00the ND6 launch was held last thursday at the shangri-la hotel. the morning talks were about overviews of weaving together key IBM collaborative solutions which are Lotus Domino, Webshpere, Tivoli, and DB2. they've shown a number of integrated applications which makes use of the mentioned technologies, and honestly i am just about "almost" impressed. it's not at all that i don't believe in them, Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-842813992002-11-10T01:09:00.000+08:002002-11-10T02:31:12.000+08:00reconquering the gym: day 2. i was reading the group exercise schedules and saw that the body pump class was about to begin in thirty minutes. it was an aerobic workout involving barbels (not dumbels), and what was written in the class description says that it was the fastest program to getting back in shape. quite an attractive proposition that i found myself signing up for that evening's Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-839559382002-11-03T21:22:00.000+08:002002-11-03T21:28:00.000+08:00 a four-day weekend just aint enough and the only thing that's certain is that things won't always go as planned. i realized that the cookbooks gathering dust on our kitchen shelf doesn't have anything that reads cordon bleu. thursday was spent on sleeping off the entire morning, and scanning negatives taken of chartres, france. friday was spent helping mom and dad prepare food to serve a handfulJethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-838668492002-11-01T17:31:00.000+08:002002-11-01T17:31:59.613+08:00i dreamt of him last night. my peter pan muffin luv. there was a gathering of people, and we were sitting casually on a soft couch. he was sipping his drink when we turned to look at each other. i slowly touched his face, then he smiled with all his boyish charms. i've never seen him in my dreams till now. i feel i may not see him again. not in a long time. but perhaps next time i shall give him Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-838664592002-11-01T17:12:00.000+08:002002-11-03T20:20:26.000+08:00words elude me quickly and so do my thoughts. i write so that i may be able to entrap them, or perhaps to excavate. when i am all alone with my thoughts they flow easily because perhaps i can understand my own thoughts even when they flash across my mind at lightning speed. when it comes to writing them down or expressing them verbally, i cant believe how lost and addle-brained i sound, as if my Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-837819942002-10-31T02:45:00.000+08:002002-11-01T17:37:03.000+08:00i cant hear my own thoughts in that sea of guitar music being played by the duo Velcro over at that bar at palanca street last night. superb playing i should say, and after two-and-a-half bottles of san mig super dry, it just keeps getting better. except for the part when they played a few glam-rock era songs. not that i didnt like glam-rock songs. in fact, when i first opened my ears (and heart)Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-836708472002-10-29T01:35:00.000+08:002002-10-29T01:35:59.370+08:00talk about being lazy. i've probably got around fourteen more photos of paris to scan, enhance, and upload, but i am a bit tired of doing it for the last three nights this weekend. and speaking of weekends, there's a mighty long one coming up. four out of seven days and i'm already thinking of what to do. preferably i'd like to go out of town, but on an all-saints-day holiday, of course that Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-835648402002-10-27T04:00:00.000+08:002002-10-29T01:59:40.000+08:00what has transpired between now and the last post? quite a lot tho not that entirely significant, i should say. i'm now working on documenting BPI's workflow designs and configurations, and for ISD i've assisted in a number sales calls for new lotus notes opportunities to put into the pipeline. went to eastwood city two weekends ago for the IBM PC sale and tripped on taking photos. i also wanted Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-809083482002-08-30T15:34:00.000+08:002002-10-29T01:41:50.000+08:00almost forgot about this spot. i am in a transition right now and there are about a handful of changes going on in my life.
first of all my current development project with our client (BPI) is heading towards completion. i am not so much needed to be on-site like before and because of that i've been helping out my company's marketing group on prime opportunities in the pipeline. early this weekJethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-787705312002-07-10T18:16:00.000+08:002002-08-30T15:39:32.000+08:00i forgot to tell you about my photo workshop last weekend. it was both technical and fun and you can definitely say i had enjoyed it. though i was awfully sick on the afternoon of the first day, i had some sort of miraculously gotten much better the next day. sheer determination.
the class was about different lighting techniques for product and people shots. we were taught how to position lightsJethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-779859312002-06-21T01:06:00.000+08:002002-06-21T01:07:42.000+08:00toyed around with the eye-controlled focus of my EOS-5 including the eye-controlled depth of field preview. day by day i am learning more about my new friend and it gets me really excited.
for just an additional amount of money, i have been given an option to upgrade it to the more advanced EOS-3. this camera was once my dream along with the EOS-1. the thing is, the EOS-5 has got a built-in Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-779398012002-06-20T00:53:00.000+08:002002-06-20T00:53:13.130+08:00i got this year's pay raise.Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-776194372002-06-12T02:51:00.000+08:002002-06-21T01:08:22.000+08:00last sunday, at mary the queen parish baptistry. i did some photography on baby daphne's christening. her mom tintin let me shoot with black & white film and gave me a roll of kodak T-max 100. i enjoyed doing this a lot. the baptistry was charming, unlike any i've seen in the city.
to our surprise. some member of their family also hired/invited another photographer and a videographer. the video Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563336.post-774974402002-06-08T20:36:00.000+08:002002-06-08T20:36:13.256+08:00i finaly bought myself a flatbed scanner with a built-in transparency unit. i have been trying it out since i took it home, scanning negatives from my travels years ago. this is my first step into digital photography. i still very much like taking photographs using 35mm film. early this year i bought a canon EOS-5, my first auto-focus auto-exposure SLR. prior to this camera, i used a canon AE-1 Jethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147000069117758999noreply@blogger.com