hi lj! it's good to see you and update you today! a small update about life and work and stuff that go in between :)

a) work's picked up again and the slump we suffered mid-year is now gone and replaced with a lot of deadlines and travel. DENR bought our software and it's up to the teams to go to the provinces and train LGU users. this is so exciting and i think they are considering me to accompany some of the training teams. my organizational skills do come in handy sometimes!

b) went to makati medical center yesterday and sat in for a co-worker. the meeting is about interface and is pretty much a nifty but tedious topic for developers. anyway. it was tiring, mostly because it took a while and i had absolutely no idea how far they've gone in their production. i hate passing through mmc's backdoor. the chemical smells are horrendous.

c) had major burnout last night and i told friends i was going to NAP but ended up sleeping in an epic snorefest way. i slept around 845 and wok up at 430 in the morning. some nap, huh? hopefully i can stay awake longer tonight. but then again i keep yawning and yawning some more as i type this!

d) my fic for the 80/S community is slowly getting done. i never thought it would be this difficult to write them. i think it's because i am conflicted and i like 80/27 too, i have to moderate their interactions and stuff :3 i want it to write itself. and sakura addiction has come and gone - and i came up with what hm ONE contribution for it blahaha! oh well, when inspiration does not strike...then it doesn't XD

e) sent out emails today for our early xmas meet-up. GUYS please read your emails and please pass on the message to other famiglia. my bugging has just begun!!

f) my eye is once again infected. i really need to see a specialist why it's ALWAYS this eye and why we can't seem to find a solution to this problem. bad timing too because i'm writing an installation manual and haha it's a pain having one eye bandaged.

h) ate a lot of meat yesterday. BAGNET. BAGNET. oh my god. then i felt sick afterward. will eat veggies today and try to remember that i am not as young as i used to be and consuming that much unhealthy stuff will kill me in my sleep. i think i was channeling ICEPICK because he loves meat. a lot of it! for those who do not know ICEPICK is a character i own/made over at a chat-place called TinierMe. he's on mini-hiatus at the moment - anyway this is what he looks like. a manly man!

stationslash

rinnakins

first off, because i can...

SUGAAHCUBE HIIII! welcome to my journal XD

it's been a series of strange days for me. it all started last saturday when i thought i was being haunted. it was cold where i live so i was wearing a sweater and i was in the home office chatting with amanda. anyway, so i felt something tap my arm, then again my head and then again my other shoulder. i was getting afraid so i turned on the lights and WTF OMG it was a FROG. something i am more afraid of than snakes or lizards! I SCREAMED and people in the house thought we were being robbed =\ sorry i couldn't help it. they caught the darn thing and put it outside. i have no idea how it got in and i really don't want to know. i just wanted it out! out! out! and so my odd days followed. i couldn't sleep after that. this is how much i fear frogs. my period came back with a vengeance too @_@ my mother told me to start thinking right because obviously this was all psychological. i agree with her, tbh. so tonight i will force myself to sleep no matter what!

>> i finished a fic for 6918 and it's called : a train straight to okinawa. i realize now that using "straight" when referring to 6918/1869 was a grave error on my part >3

* i didn't get to sleep very well last night, mostly because of work-stress and the fact that my period's coming up so i'm mostly like experiencing hormonal implosion. i also, seem to have developed a fondness for menthol products. the shampoo, the soap and even the deodorant needs to be mentholated. i mean...really don't get it myself XD

* i've been reading up on "kaddish" the 1995 album by the multimedia group called "towering inferno" it's an epic album that goes on for a full 75 minutes. there's also a dvd i think. and they didn't hire a producer or editor so it's mostly amazing true blue indie stuff :P a used album is selling for $2 a pop over at amazon, so that's not bad at all.

* top chef tonight...i wonder who will be eliminated?? not stefan! please! i think he is my favorite now >E

* watched the first two episodes of the winter sonata anime. i'm happy with it, amused that the story's been pretty much faithful to the drama which made the series popular to begin with. the music is the same (much to my mother's delight) and it's also dubbed in korean. subbed in japanese. yujin, the protagonist is SO spot on, down to the little gestures that the actress in the drama does. i love it. it's cute. it's not something i'm excited about following each week, but i'd like to watch it whe i have free time. i cannot wait for the mega-drama crying bits.

(sharona1x2, were you able to watch it? happy? sad? mad? XD)

* and someone awesome from the flist *cough* sage *cough* posted up a LOT of 6918/1869 Djs and yeah. i can live on that for a year and a half. thank you for sharing. kaze, you are an 1869/6918 santa. brb dling between editing and writing work stuffs.

first of all: THANK YOU TO ALL THE LOVELY PEOPLE WHO LEFT MESSAGES, PLURKED, TEXTED AND FACEBOOKED THEIR GREETINGS. thank you so much guys. my heart is full and grand and happy even if i am now officially an Obasan/Ossan creature! but happily so. (kazehaya is ikemen who is controlled by obasan! watttt?!) XD


i really didn't want anyone to remember my birthday to be honest. i felt like 32 is such a weird number and that i'm really so far away from my desired 18-forever-dream, lol. but people remembered anyway. especially amanda who had given my present two days before the actual day which really set the mood for my weekend. i was simply happy. and that's really all one can wish for on their birthday, right? ( stomping on the floor with my stilettos on )


there has been a recent avalanche of rebocomm fsts and while i prefer the old/veteran/seasoned fst makers over these new guys. i do admit that some songs are worth discovering and listening to. i was talking to pam and eri over at plurk about it as well. while i always thought fst-making was a really nice fan contribution to a fandom...having it as a 'bandwagon' now can be very irritating. especially when some fst-makers make it a point to add a lectre about how one's particular technique is THE proper way to make an fst. i have an issue with that because i am a genre-purist when it comes to music. it means i stick to particular genre and the sub-genres it gives birth to as the years go by. i do not dare swing and dabble in other genres out of...first and foremost respect and then comes choice: that's my stand as an audiophile.

an fst isn't rocket science to begin with. an fst is picking out songs that resonate with you when you are working on something related to a character, a series or a storyline. an fst is putting together a collection that's cohesive enough to give others a clear picture of what pairing or character you are doing the fst for. that's it. the mood, the depth follows right after one has established that. which is really WHY i prefer the seasoned and old-timers because i get what they are doing. their humility doesn't hide the fact that they have good taste in music.

though in the end - i think for the three of us - our love for music overrides everything else and we ended up downloading the songs that were worth listening to. personally, i just could not ignore jethro tull's "aqualung" and that song was SO worth the dl.

i'm still waking up despite having showered at 530 in the morning. work requires me to finish a write up regarding the web interface for some software that we're developing for a government agency. it's really not that exciting and i am working with very little material so it's really not that easy. but what can you do, right? you just have to roll with the punches and say it's fine. a friend of mine had mentioned how nice it seemed to be working from home. i told her it was a shitty deal because there's no work-clock to tell you to stop working. the only upside to it is you get to pad around the house in pajamas and fuzzy slippers all day: like a mental patient XD

i'm not going to order in today.

like iron chef, i have my not-so secret ingredient! i worked on this for a bout 45 minutes. it's a little twist on stir-fried shrimp/deconstructed sinigang. instead of using butter and spinach, i used water cabbage and vegetable oil. i made the sauce out of fish sauce and tamarind base for the stock. it turned out pretty well. something i can eat a lot of rice with, definitely. now, if only i can buy green mangoes to make ensalada then it'd be a perfect lunch.