excitement!

I'm so psyched! For the following reasons:
1. My birthday is coming up this Sunday. Celebrations will be held for it on Friday with my FILC girls and our boys, on Saturday with my darling beau, on Sunday with my brothers and grandma (my parents are in Europe), and on Monday with my best friend who's visiting from Canada. Love it! Back to back to back celebrations :)

2. As mentioned above, my best friend will be visiting from Canada. She's bringing her boyfriend with her too, and we've planned out some exciting trips and tours to take them on. Should be pretty exciting, especially for Sterling since it's his first time ever in Manila.

3. All the holidays coming up are just so so so timely! We'll have a 3-day weekend this weekend and a 4-day weekend the next. I can't wait to relax, unwind and recharge. Been a hectic couple of days at work...

4. An upcoming trip to either Rome or Madrid for work (read: FREE). Hopefully everything goes as planned and I get to haggle with my teammate to get the Rome leg instead of the Madrid. Can't wait!

5. I'll be finalizing my application to DLSU Graduate School within the next few weeks, then will take the test on Dec 1. To be honest, I'm quite apprehensive about the exam (read: WHAT IF I FAIL IT?) but hey, let's cross the bridge when we get there. Lest you think I'm some sort of freak plagued with fake-humility or, worse, a pathetic loser fishing for compliments, you should know that I do very badly on aptitude tests. I have records to prove it. Especially when they're about abstract reasoning. They're really abstract to me. I'm soooo not a visual reasoning type of person.

6. CHRISTMAS! About 8 weeks to go nalang before the holidays roll around. Can't wait because not only is it my favorite holiday of all time, it also marks.. you've guessed it, bonus time :p Well, this time around, being a manager, I won't get to receive the bonus at year-end like before but it gets announced then anyway at the Christmas party, which is always a happy factor of the event. :)

PSYCHED PSYCHED PSYCHED!

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You make life worth living.

yay!

Congratulations to my darling beau for being invited to teach in law school! He's one of the youngest lawyers to get a teaching post. I'm so proud! :-) So now, all his Wednesday evenings will be occupied... reserved for the learning minds in his legal forms class.

Congrats, Prof Chan :p

*In other news... Can I just say... LV's Spring/Summer 2008 line is just plain ugly. I don't care what "fashionistas" say about it but I think it's just plain hideous. As in hideous! I don't know why one would even want to carry those kinds of bags. Ugly ugly ugly. Please. Let's call a spade a spade.

shopped again!

Wasn't supposed to shop anymore, given my recent splurges, but as I was hanging out in Loraine's store today, I just couldn't resist getting this pair of Melissa Campana Zigzag III in gold--



Love it! It's super comfy (even more comfy that Crocs) and just as light. Oh, and prettier too :-) I highly recommend them :-)

grateful

Someone reminded me today just how lucky I am to have him in my life. Someone who loves me more than he does himself, someone who'll put me ahead of anything and anyone in his life, and someone who makes me the center of his every decision and his every day.

Someone reminded me today that though the frills may not be there and that some things I would want are not currently available, I'm still better off because, in all areas that matter, I've hit the jackpot.

Thanks, L.

new gadgets!

I've never been a gadget fiend or a hard-core techie, which is ironic given my tech-heavy profession. Which is why it may be a little uncharacteristic for me to be over the moon over my latest purchases:



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I've also never been a mac user until now and have never really been much of an ipod person. So, let's see how this goes.. It should be fun :-)

This habit can really get very expensive though. Tsk tsk tsk.. My wallet is bleeding again. Account is fully depleted :-( Thank God for gas allowances...