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omg!

nagkakagulo na naman dito sa Pilipinas due to trillanes, guingona, et al. 

manila penn naman venue this time. ang daming sundalo along ayala avenue daw.

Tuesday morning, Xwind’s left rear tire seem malambot. 

After work, I couldn’t get out of RP’s basement parking ‘coz said tire was kinda flat.  Added air via my mini-air compressor (I noticed the pito was kinda leaking after I removed the cap) and went to a gasoline station.  Since wet ang roads due to rain, I heard a singaw from the tire na talaga.   And so, off to a vulcanizing shop.

Ang salarin — a fat screw.

Arg. 

Oh well, at least hindi tire-bursting kind of flat and I was able to drive to the vulcanizing shop pa in time.

Remembering Lola Bets…

we just experienced an earthquake.

medyo malakas din; thus, we had quite a scare. our office kasi is on the third floor of this old four-storey building.  our door in this floor in particular is permanently locked (so our exit is at our main door, still one flight down pa).

napaisip tuloy kami, what is the best option kung lumakas at tumagal pa yung lindol: stay under our tables?  go down and out?  go to the top-most floor para kung gumuho yung building namin, una and madali kaming mahuhukay? 

knock on wood that we won’t experience a great intensity and destructive earthquake while we’re here at work…

My college friend and Nihongo sensei, Tricia, asked why are we taking Japanese Language classes.

Classmate 1: For further studies in Japan and a possibility of making a Filipino-Japanese children’s book.

Classmate 2: Been interested since grade 2 (he graduated from college and works in a call center already) and for further studies in Japan.

Classmate 3:  Interest in foreign languages; took nihongo during undergrad; and as audit units while finishing masteral studies in psychology.

Ria: My friend lent me a DVD of Hana Yori Dango Live middle of this year and I super liked the series. The lead actor there (Matsumoto Jun) is also a member of a boy band, Arashi.  I am now a fan of the group and I am sooo excited to watch the finale of Hana Yori Dango in 2008. Just for fun, I want to understand Arashi’s songs and the upcoming movie.

Toink!

Did I really say that out loud? Hahaha! I could have been more imaginative and told a ‘better’ reason; pero in truth, yun lang naman talaga dahilan ko for now eh :o)

welcome back to the Philippines, David, after 5 years in melbourne! dang, i last saw you as a teenager; now, we’re all in our 20s!

david with the remaining Philippine-based cousins. shucks, we’re soooo few — can’t even finish the fingers in one hand!

Some friends have been asking about plans for Christmas parties already. 

Gosh, December is really sooo near na nga pala talaga!

However, I just reply to those inquiring, "wala pa akong naririnig from the others."

I don’t know how it started, but in my groups of friends, I usually instigate yuletide-get-together plans, getting concensus regarding venue and date, doing follow-ups, and giving updates. Part of this set up is my fault din kasi siguro ‘coz my previous excitement over the Christmas season and my alleged O.C.-ness make me ask friends early on about our annual gathering.

Unfortunately, my excitement for the holidays has waned since 2003; plus efforts going unappreciated  [friends considering it's my designated duty already to do the planning/booking] and getting the ire of people when majority votes don’t go their way with the venue &/or date over the years have lessened my drive to actually do any planning. 

So, this year, I am just sticking to my post-2006-holiday-season resolution to just wait for someone else in my different groups of friends to initiate the planning.  Besides, I remember joking before na iba naman mag-plan next year [pertaining to this year].  With my relatives, I even told them last year that I pass on the torch of hosting and being the gamemaster to my younger cousins (parang awa na nila! and in preparation na rin of the possibility that I might not celebrate Christmas 2007 with them).

Don’t get me wrong; I am not being a scrooge.  I just want a change and have a different holiday season this year.  Just granting a personal wish of not being overly stressed by others and hopefully enjoy a yuletide season again after all these years.

for more information about KL, Malaysia - http://wikitravel.org/en/Kuala_Lumpur

posing by the monorail.  dang, KL has got one good transport system — from MRTs, to monorails, to organized buses, to the very fast airport trains!

http://www.oldtown.com.my — yummy white coffee!

bukit nanas.  dang, tiring trail to go to the KL tower.  we could have walked the other and easier way.  oh well, the amazing race asia 1 people tried this so we also got to. haha.

the effort to take these photos!  sigh, no other tourists passed by so we don’t have a photo together with the Menara KL tower at the background.

  Hahaha, goofing around at the park in front of the Menara KL Tower. Sayang kasi under maintenance yung Flying Fox Park ng AJ Hackett (same company which handles the SkyJump in Macau — http://www.ajhackett.com/malaysia/flying-fox.html), kaya photo-ops and view deck lang nagawa namin dito.

again, another back breaking moments just to get perfect shots of the Petronas Twin Towers. again, no other tourists to trust our camera with and exert efforts to get a perfect shot of Kris and I together.

Merdeka Square.

ang walang humpay na china town!

Eye on Malaysia. donning our Manila-tourist shirts.