Finally...

Finally...I've seen her...

After hanging up the phone with Jen (hs bf), I thought, why not give it one last try...and for some reason the search engine that time looked different from what it usually is...I've searched their names for a million times and never found any. I even tried to use which I thought "could be" their nicknames but found none. And then...my eyes widened, my heart beat so fast, I can feel the excitement within me...there it was, one of the names I've been searching for a very long time...his hometown gave me the hint that it was him...thank goodness it wasn't private at all...browsing his pictures just proved that it was indeed him! I felt so relieved, so happy, and so nervous - will this lead me to what my heart desires to see???

His profile wasn't the answer at all...and for a moment I thought a light bulb just popped out of my head like in cartoons and comics and so I looked at his testimonials hoping that it may lead me to her...And yet again, an idea came to mind when I saw a familiar name - my heart was beating faster this time...slowly, one at a time I viewed the pictures...picture 51, 52 - my hand froze seeing the guy I've used to dream about...the guy I thought I will one day marry...it was the first time I've seen him in the picture after 4 years and to my amazement he still looks exactly the same --- I continued looking at the pictures hoping to finally see her - the woman that he married...the woman who stole his heart from me...I don't know why I wanted to see her but I know that it will give me peace of mind - maybe so I could wake up from my dream and face reality...picture 64, 65, 66..........67, though I've been hoping and praying to see her one day (even in a picture), I didn't realize that I wasn't prepared at all - I didn't know how much hurt it will bring back to me - but then I also felt a sense of relief - "It's finally over. I have finally seen her."

A birthday celebration

Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday, happy birthday, happy birthday to me! Well, I know it's been 2 days since I turned 29 but I just felt like singing a happy birthday song to myself :) this post is all about my birthday anyways :D

It's already given that I'm not going to have a celebration on my birthday because my "single" friends either got married or moved back to the Philippines and for the past 4 years that I've been here in Colorado, I've always celebrated my birthday hanging out with them. So anyway, what I didn't expect was not receiving a birthday greeting from my other friends (by other I meant they already have a family)! Geeezzzz...all they needed to do was call me but I guess they forgot that it's my birthday because it coincides with the tax deadline and they were probably busy doing their taxes????!!!! So sad but hey! there were also some people who, for the first time ever, greeted me on my birthday (so I guess I can call it quits?).

Since this blog is now my official diary (that is open to public), I thought of writing down the things that would remind me of my special day - things that I can looked back at after 29 more years :D (emote mode).


First 5 people who greeted me on April 15th, Philippine time:
1. Jay Ocampo (high school classmate and friend)
2. Ojhen Iratay (college classmate and friend)
3. Weng Manzano (my sister)
4. Jen Arizabal (high school classmate and kada)
5. Deng Manzano (my sister)

Things that made me happy:
1. Chatted with Florishel Saligbon (high school classmate, friend and penpal :D) for more than 4 hours
2. Gilberto Santos (high school classmate and friend) posted a shoutout birthday greeting in his yahoo messenger
3. Aimee Nillos and Love Caras (high school classmate and best friends) tried to make excuses for not greeting me first thing in the morning of April 15th so they made it up with me by spending P300 to call me!
4. Janet Cayabyab (my brother's gf who is very close to us) sent me a personalized card (and she did it from scratch, well, it's actually more of a picture, I need to print it to make it look like a card)
5. After doing Mylette Namoc's taxes (always at the last minute!), she shocked me by giving me a huge birthday gift ($200!) - now I have money to take the CPA exams!
6. My mom cooked spag, pancit, etc with the help of some of her friends and invited our neighbors and her friends to celebrate my birthday (without the celebrant of course! my sister emailed me the pix)
7. Called my family in Pinas so that they can greet me (hehehehe...)
8. My mom's birthday wish - for me not to get laid off :D

And here are the things that made me sad :(
1. Anxiously waited for a friend to go online and greet me but it turned out that he forgot it was my birthday (he got online though) :(
2. Answered a phone call from an "obsessed" suitor and annoyed me so much it almost ruined my day (April 15th US time)! (grrrrrrrrrr)
3. Worked until 7pm at Boulder, Colorado (take note, my manager knew it was my birthday! April 15th US time)
4. Ate leftovers for dinner (what a good way to celebrate huh!)

Overall, it was really a HAPPY birthday for me! :)

T.G.I.F.

Thank God It's Friday!

Yipee! The end of weekday finally got to an end! Though weekend flies so fast at least I'm gonna have two days of rest and relaxation (minus the chores that I need to do but nothing that is work related!). I'm actually "working from home" today because of the snow storm warning that will take effect this afternoon...oh well, that was just an excuse for me not to go to the office because I'm just too lazy to get up early and go to work :D I don't need anything from the office anyway, so why bother drive and spend money on gas and parking if I can do the same stuff at home, eh?! I did work though for maybe less than 2 hours just because I really really need to send the file to my manager or else I'm dead...this is what I like from "working from home" - I can work, rest, play games, watch soaps without being eyed by my boss hehehe...Okay, it's exactly 12 noon now and I need to cook (really???) something to feed my hunger, then go back to completing the unfinished internal control letter (which I really hate doing that's why it's taking a while before I get it done) so I can send it to my manager. So byers for now! Hmmm...I think I'm starting to like this blogging thingy :D (thanks 10-4!)

Another day in colorado...

Blogging is something that I don't really do but I guess it wouldn't hurt to try something new (it sounded like I'm writing a poem), right? Well, here it goes...

(I can't think of a good title for my first blog so I thought I'll just use the title that my friend told me...it's his fault that I enlisted myself to this site anyways.) Well, it was just an ordinary day for me...just did the usual stuff that I do when I get home...eat "salty", "fatty", "sweet" junk foods for dinner *oinkoink* - play with my pet in pet society (c/o facebook) - check emails - browse the net - etc etc - until I got this friendster comment from a long lost friend which was really a surprise to me because I haven't heard from him for a very looonnnnggg time (according to him it's been 17 years) although we are friendster friends. So anyway, thank you to friendster and yahoo messenger we were able to restore our communication! We talked about a lot of stuff, mostly about business, memory gap and BLOGGING :D It may seem so silly but for me, talking to a friend after 17 years is something that turned my ordinary day into something extraordinary (come on, it's not something that happen everyday!).

Okay, that's it for my first post :) I have to go to bed now since it's getting late and I still have to go to work tomorrow (TGIF!).

:D