ladies and gentlemen, meet my boss...
...authoritative...
...dignified...
...respectable...
...and sane...
...don't you just love working for this guy.
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and this is me watching someone make a fool of himself while singing karaoke.
woe #1
caught up with my old trainer at the gym earlier today (or yesterday). it seems i've lost some weight, he noted. i've been doing high intensity cardio these past two weeks, i explained.
while the words "you look thinner" and/or "you've lost some weight" are very much music to my ears, my mom and grandmother will surely cringe when they see me like this. for them, chubby means healthy, and being lean means frailty.
it's always been a vicious cycle. i'll workout hard and try to get rid of the fat around my belly. i'll successfully lose some weight. but whenever i head home, i've got to put some weight back intentionally so my mom and grandmother won't see me thin (not stick thin though, if i may clarify) and they won't worry.
in the end, my dream of being a hunky hot papa remains a dream - just a figment of my imagination - and i end up being forever tigang. hay...
woe #2
while i was still on personal training, my trainer would always notice that whenever we do back exercises, my back isn't straight - that i tend to curve towards one side.
recently, someone also noticed the same problem. it seems like my back is curving to the right like a letter s.
is this scoliosis? i think i should get myself checked when i head home this christmas. i just don't know which doctor i should visit though.
woe #3
seems like i've been dropping a lot of balls at work lately. the reason? it's either i've got to much to do or i've just been too stressed out that i would rather loaf.
besides, things have been pretty chaotic with the recent product launch and more product launches at the end of the year. and being the o.c. me, i really need time to pause, sit down and think about my battle plan. unfortunately, my company doesn't recognize this need since the bosses want a whole damn lot of things to happen instantly, simultaneously.
it's day 3 and counting... my tummy is still not in tip-top shape.
suddenly had upset tummy friday afternoon. maybe it's our dimsum lunch. but i'm not sure - i'm the only one in the group that's having a tummy problem, i think.
apart from a few toilet trips i made that afternoon, i was just fine. no stomachache, no fever, just a queasy feeling that can easily pass as hyperacidity. but since i'm kinda stubborn, my tummy problem didn't stop me from enjoying a friday night out.
had a japanese dinner with three other colleagues friday at dozo!, where right at one corner of the bar sat a guy that really really looked like david spade. downed a lot of raw salmon. i think 90% of what i ate that night was raw salmon.
the group was supposed to be bigger, but two had an emergency, and one decided to just head home and not make habol. well, the latter was my fault because this taklesa told her that there wasn't any seat for her at the bar where we were. funny thing is, a minute after she hang up, we got transferred to a table with enough room for two or three more. oh well!
after dinner, one had to leave, leaving only three of us going for drinks. and yes, the japanese shochu cocktail i had over dinner wasn't enough. we checked out chocolux at peel st. where i sampled a fab mochatini (mocha martini). then to cap the night, we moved to a middle-eastern themed lounge where i tried out a maraquesh (i hope i spelled it correctly).
told you i was really fine.
right at this moment, my tummy is still queasy. but i've stopped heading to the loo after taking some chinese herbal medicine yesterday afternoon.
and now, although i'm just fine, i hope my tummy will get better soon.
got a call last night from my local friend. he told me that he and his friends are planning to go on holiday in a couple of weeks (we have a long weekend on the 17th). and since they prefer not to travel far, they are looking at flying down to manila.
of course, his first instinct was to ask me what's there to see in manila. and i was stumped. really. i didn't know what to recommend. and it's not because there's so much to see in manila. it's more like "you wouldn't want to go down there - seriously".
i actually kept on directing him to just fly down to cebu which personally i think has more character and charm. or head for boracay to check out what many have told me is the best beach in the world (i can't vouch for that since i haven't been there yet).
but definitely not manila. come to think of it, what's there to see or do in manila?
shopping? we've got malls and relatively cheap stuff so that's possible.
museums, culture and history? ayala museum's one that comes to mind. there's fort santiago and intramuros. rizal park, maybe? or even binondo's horse-shit-laden streets.
food tripping? well pinoys love to eat so we should know what good food is. let's show them how good balut, isaw, betamax and tukneneng are. adidas doesn't count because they love chicken feet here.
adventure sports? does crossing edsa during rush hour count? oh wait, that's not even a sport, it's a mere stroll since traffic's on standstill anyway.
theatre and the arts? hmmm, well we've got something seen nowhere else. only in the philippines... the impeachment political circus. now showing at the batasang pambansa plenary.
