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i'm having another thank-god-it's-friday moment because i'm looking forward to the looong weekend coz it's holiday on monday here AND i asked my boss if i can get a day off on tuesday and he approved!!!! yay!!! so i have 4 days off work. but then i'm not gonna be going out much because of *tooot*. hah! not telling...maybe later i would tell. for now, i'm keeping my mouth shut.

on other news, damn this friday talaga. when i got on the bus this morning, there was this man harrassing the bus driver because he didn't stop when he signaled for him to stop (heller!!! there are bus stops here, you can't just stop anywhere you wish to) and then one of the passengers started yelling at that horrible man, resulting in a fistfight (of the harrassing man and yelling passenger). i was so scared because they were exactly infront me (like a meter away). even the passenger infront of me looked at me because she thought i was gonna cry. goodness, i must have look terrified (and stupid). the story ended with the horrible man leaving because the bus driver called a police already because he doesn't wanna get off the bus. thank god, he left. it won't be a pleasant ride incase he stayed.

on a happier note, chris called me at 5:30 in the morning because he was with our former east west bank workmates in dubai. he put me on speaker phone so i was somehow able to say hello to everyone (although i don't really know who everyone was). really wish i was there, nakakainggit. it made me look forward to my visit there next year :)

bakit ba dito sa sydney walang east west banker na pumupunta???? ay meron pala! si vener (of direct banking) nandito na. pero wala na bang iba??? yung close sa akin??? please, my dear friends of mine in the phils, can you please visit me soon????? i would really love to show you around ;)

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whatta week!!!

it went by so quickly but there were moments when i just want to go faster like today (syempre friday) .

imagine, this is the last work week for the month of september? tapos na ang september??? shyet! gotta get my act together (and i'll probably ask chris to do this too)...gotta start working on the wedding again (i've had lull periods this month) and gotta start working on my pasalubongs list (if you're a friend of mine, email me on what you want and maybe, just maybe, i'll buy it for you---better cross your fingers coz i don't have much moolah to start with but then if i really love you, why not? hah!).

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i gotta go! need to get out here so that my boss would stop asking me things hehehe...and i have a date with ara and chloe at the sydney opera house (again!). pictorial again before chloe goes to brisbane. photos to be uploaded later.

happy friday! mwah!

ciao!

xoxo,
i :)

this made my day today....

i'm just so happy that i got flowers today =) a trainee of mine gave me flowers, sort of thanking me for arranging her flights and accommodation during her training.

i feel so fulfilled. sarap ng feeling ;)

to those who waited for photos of last friday's gimik, sorry it's only now that i got to upload the photos. had a massive headache last saturday and i was feeling really realy sick. then yesterday (sunday) when i was trying to upload, my internet connection seemed to have a very bad connection due to the windstorm (that's my theory). anyway, enough of the blahs...please check them out here.

details to follow later...need to work na (argh! monday na naman!). tah!

“The wind blows out of the gates of the day, The wind blows over the lonely of heart, And the lonely of heart is withered away” - William Butler Yeats

this is one of my bday gifts for chris today:




if you're having difficulty viewing this video, please check it out here.

this video was created by me :) my first attempt at making a photo montage using windows movie maker...so just bear with it ;)

anyway, professional or not, this was created due to so much love for one person.

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this post is a tribute to my one and only loving husband-to-be chris! so this entry is all about him.

first of all, it's chris' birthday today (yay!)...another year, another milestone, another achievement and i'm so thankful for all the blessings given to chris for the past year. it's one amazing ride isn't baby?

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yesterday, i hung out with my girlfriends ara, chloe and ruth at parramatta. we had a loooong lunch at tomodachi resto where we 'celebrated' chris' bday during dessert---i bought a cake for him!

chris' happy bday cake!

i decided that regardless of the thousand miles between us, i needed to do something like this for him. i know he wouldn't be having a birthday cake (if i'm not mistaken) in dubai and since we got together, i have always made it a point to have a birthday cake for him. walang mintis yun. so why change it now? so even if he's only gonna see his bday cake in photos, i don't care, it's still the gesture that counts. i know when he sees this entry, it will warm his heart...eventhough he won't be able to eat his cake.

for photos of my day with the girls, please check this out.

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a year ago, chris was just dreaming of working abroad, of spreading his wings and being able to fly. we would always spend saturday nights talking, stargazing in the front porch of our house and he would tell me of all his dreams, of his plans, of his visions. and now look where his dreams led him?---to dubai! hehehe. kidding aside, he got the break that he wanted in his career and is now internationally exposed in the field of graphic arts and design. and with financial stability that comes with his career change, he's encouraged to take his interest in photography on a professional level.

one of the things i am so thankful for having chris into my life was his gift of dreaming (oh, and he makes his dreams come true too). he taught me how to really dream. before i was so scared to let anyone know of what i want, of what i dream about...but chris told me, "libre lang naman ang mangarap diba? so bakit hindi ka mangarap?".

and other than believing in dreams, he taught me how to have faith, to never stop believing that dreams do come true if you work hard for it. you see, he taught me the ART of DREAMING. before all i knew was to plan, organize and work for what i want. it was so mechanical! it was all mind but not much heart. but chris, being born an artist, he knew better how to make things happen with the use of his heart and mind together.

and the beautiful thing is, his dreams, his visions, include me :)

happy happy birthday baby, may all your wishes and dreams come true. i love you so much that i will always, always be one with your dreams and visions. mwah!!!!

had a long day today.

my day started at 1:00 am (in the middle of the night), was actually sleeping, when my phone rang...it was chris. he greeted me a happy 45th monthsary :) was a very quick conversation, just a couple of how are you? what time is it? happy monthsary, love yous, miss yous, go back to sleep na, good night. chris knew that if we stayed too long on the phone, it'll be too hard for me to go back to sleep--and i'd be masungit the whole day. it was short, but always sweet (hehehe). {thanks chris for remembering and calling}. and so i went back to sleep.

when i woke up, my back hurts! it so hurts. damn! i felt like a hundred years old :( i think i'm REALLY getting old. or maybe i'm just stressed. i think i have so much stuff inside my head my spinal cord can't carry my head anymore (hahaha).

backache or not, i had to go to work. but it was a pain to keep my back straight the whole day...sakit talaga walang biro.

so my day was all about work, work, and work...and a little bit of fun. i stayed in the office til 5:30 pm ----can you believe it? (ibyang is that you?)---ako mag-stay til 5:30 sa office? oh well, believe it. there's just too much work at the moment and i just knew i had to get it done today or else i'll be more stressed tomorrow. and after all my hard work today, i feel good about myself. i really miss being hectic (if you know what i mean) once in a while, so it wouldn't be so bad if i have days like these.

when i came out of the office, the sun had set already...i felt so happy when i came out, it's almost dark and the city nightlife of sydney was slowly coming alive and i love it! reminded me of the times i'd go out of my makati office in manila--the energy of city nightlife where you feel each part of the city coming alive with people coming out, noise from all over, and lights that embrace you. oh god, how i miss manila. believe it or not, it's really one of best cities in the world.

so i took a bus going to world square coz i met with chloe because we needed to celebrate her getting a job in brisbane (congrats chloe--sama ako hehehe). we had coffee at gloria jeans and talked and talked to death. wala lang update lang. we stayed there for 2 hours then we went home.

and now i'm home, just wanted to write down about this beautiful day amidst all my challenges (my backache and tons of work).

yun lang...tulog nako...ayaw na gumana ng utak ko. good night! :)

i was greeted by chris' email this morning and his email brought pain...our invites supplier, AMIS Printing, has backed-out from doing our wedding invites!

as soon as i read the email, i frantically called chris and asked him what happened. he said rica told him that AMIS cannot accommodate us due to heavy workload. for the first few minutes of conversation, all we did was cry together. we felt betrayed by a friend.

before we left for work overseas, chris assured rica that we have picked AMIS to do the invites for us and she agreed. for months, we kept in touch via email and sometimes talked about invites. in one of the emails, rica even mentioned to me that she's excited to see the design of chris' invites.

when august came, chris sent the design to rica for quotation. the design was complete with specifications. it was chris' masterpiece and we can't wait to see the output. we were very excited.

last week, rica gave chris an estimated quote. we found it too pricey. so chris made alterations with the design and sent it again this monday. it was yesterday that chris called to confirm the costs of invites. and it was ONLY then that rica dropped the news like a bomb.

what hurts us most was that rica was a friend that we trusted. she could have told us in june or july what the situation was, just to warn us or something. but she waited til we were able to send the design TWICE and were settling the final costs. she could have had the etiquette or decency to tell us beforehand, knowing that we're both overseas, SANA she was sensitive enough to know that chris and i were somehow not accessible enough to find suppliers that easy. hindi biro ang mag-organize ng wedding overseas, lalo na kung magkahiwalay ang bride and groom.

chris and i cried together because we felt cheated and betrayed. ang sakit sakit ng ginawa nya lalo na kay chris.

when we were talking and somehow trying to cope with the pain, i said " let's try to be happy, kasi malapit na ang bday mo" and he said, "oo nga, happy bday to me". lalo akong naiyak. a person as nice as chris, he doesn't deserve to be betrayed just like that.

please don't get us wrong, we were not merely crying just because of the invites (invites lang yan, marami pang suppliers dyan na baka mas magaling pa), we are hurt we can't believe somebody we treated as a friend can be mean to us at a time like this. it's hard to trust people tapos bigla kang iiwanan sa ere (take note, we only have 4 months before the wedding).

after talking to chris, i called our wedding coordinator regarding this concern and as any professional coordinator, she has a solution already. hopefully, we'll be able to negotiate with a new invites supplier soon.

so now we're moving on. we've cried about this and that's enough. no more sense in more crying over spilled milk. maybe someday, we'll be able to forgive (more than anything else, this is about friendship that's lost), but things will never be the same again. we will never forget the pain and trauma that AMIS has caused us.

that is one of the most beautiful things i've seen here---a double rainbow :)

although the second rainbow isn't very clear (it was still raining and we were inside a playground thingy so my photo was not really as good as i wanted it to be.

let me tell my story from the beginning, as to why i was able to see a spectacular show by one of god's magic trippings.

we (tita bess, patrick and i) wanted to spend a leisurely walk in the park this afternoon so off we went out. but as we turn a corner on our street, it rained! so we had to run back home. it was a good run...although a short one, it nevertheless made me sweat (hah! pinagpawisan na ako!!! yipee! ang tagal ko nang di pinagpapawisan!!! shyet! tapos na talaga ang winter! woohoo!).

eventually the rain subsided, so we decided to go out again. this time rachel came with us. when we arrived at the park, it rained again! and it rained hard. the only hiding place that we found was the playground house.

now the reason why i brought my camera with me was to take sunset photos. i've been meaning to do this for a long time but i guess i was just too lazy before. but it rained so no sunset photos today. instead i got rainbow photos :)

the other bonus was getting to spend a really funny afternoon with tita bess, rachel and patrick. it rained hard but inside the playground house thingy, we were actually enjoying it. we were laughing our hearts out while tita bess told tito andy via mobile phone that we're stuck at the playground while patrick kept on screaming "my legs, my legs" (referring to his legs getting wet). and i kept on saying "shyet!" (when i say "shyet!" it usually means i'm finding something/someone amusing) because i love that i was getting wet (haha). whatta trip talaga :)

this is us inside the playground house (buti na lang "cute" kami at nagkasya kami sa loob):


as the rain subsided (and tito andy arrived to pick us up), the rainbow showed thy lovely self to us and i was just in awe to realize what a beautiful this world is. and as if to prove that the world is really beautiful, a second rainbow turned up. it was simply amazing.

see more photos here.