happy new year from the villanueva clan!

before we leave home to go to my in-law's place, i would like to greet everyone a very happy and prosperous new year! greetings from the aquino family and my villanueva clan. the picture above was taken on Christmas day with the rest of the villanueva family. yeah, we're that many but we actually missed 4 people here. ate jean, kuya badong, jan and justin are now all in the US. anyway, we just spent Christmas over their place in cainta so they could still be with us in spirit. i'd try to share some Christmas stories before i finally get back to work on monday. but for the meantime...

BYE 2008 & WELCOME 2009!!!

catholic chat city

in just a few hours time 2009 will be here and we all have to say goodbye to 2008. people are still in a hustle doing last minute shopping for the new year eve's feast they would have to prepare. as for me and my family, we also have a couple of last minute things to do. for one, i need to have my se c902 repaired. it's been useless for three days now. it just kept on restarting and restarting. i was hoping we could have it received by the repair shop before the new year comes. next, we have to have the little boy's hair done. yes, i finally decided i could let go of his long curly hair just so he wouldn't be mistaken for a girl anymore. also, the mommy needs some makeover too. i've had this long hair now for over a year now. i'm already bored with it. and besides, it's already becoming expensive to maintain it with more shampoo and conditioner than i usually use when i still have a shorter hair. we really need to get to the mall today because the husband was also asking me to buy him a bluetooth headset as anniversary gift for him. if time still permits we could also catch an evening mass later. otherwise, we'll just attend one over the weekend. for the meantime, those who don't have so much to do today before 2008 finally says goodbye should try Catholic Chat. it's a good idea to make 2008 reflections and new year resolutions while talking online with devout Catholics. have fun! :)

happy 1st bday alexi!

djuan and i attended alexi's first birthday today. alexi is the first born of my good old friend from college, dennis and his wife, che. there's not so much to tell about the birthday party because i wasn't able to take that much pics. the little boy's drama these days was to just cling and cling to mommy so the photog wannabe in me was a big joke today. lol. even worse because the daddy was on duty the whole day so i had to settle with my cousin and her uber kulit son to accompany us to the party. actually the party was a blast, knowing that my friends got kidstar kastle to do most of the party works for them. kudos to kidstar kastle for the wonderful setup! it was amazing!!! and of course, kudos to my friends for pulling up such a great party for your darling princess. thanks also for the invite, it was a pleasure seeing you guys again after a very long long time. kitakits sa inuman! ;)

celebrating anniv on a sunday morning

today marks the 2nd anniversary of our church wedding. legally speaking, in about two weeks time, we'd be celebrating our 3rd year anniversary as husband and wife. ;) this morning, the husband got up so early. i thought he was preparing for work early so i just let him be. i know he was taking so long than usual in prepping himself up but i was just too lazy and sleepy to check him out. little did i know that he went out and bought me these:



aww, sweet! ok don't mind me still trying to snooze in the picture. lol. djuan and i were still on a sunday mood here. and of course, for blogging purposes, we had more pictures. mind you, my mom was also taking some pics from her new camera phone (our gift). i was wondering if she would also blog about our anniv. hehehe.

moi and the husband


pheng and donar together forever (yiihaa!)


the little boy checking out the choco cake (yummy!)


moi blowing the candles on the cake (bday?)




happy anniversary daddy! here's to more fruitful years with you. real celebration in two weeks time. ;) i love you so much!!! mwah =*


among all the things you gave me on our anniversary, i believe this is the best one...


lol. we love you chukoy-chukoy! forgive your dad for taking so much pics this morning. =*

Maligayang Pasko mula sa Pamilya Aquino

Merry Christmas from the Aquino Family!!! :)

make new friends this Christmas

tired of thinking what to give to yourself on Christmas? why not try making new friends over the Asian Chat Rooms. get to know more people within asia. have a feel of the culture, the language and friendliness of the asians. if you're not a filipino, try looking for one in asian chat city. they're one of the best. i should know, i am a filipino. and a very proud one. :)

the weekend before Christmas

our family was busy the weekend before Christmas. it was probably my busiest weekend for the whole year. saturday, the husband was to go to work. i was up very early because i had to do some grocery shopping with my mom and my sister. all of my three nieces tagged along so we were doing grocery shopping while looking after the kulit and kikay girls. i also went to globe business center before going to the supermarket since i've been meaning to have my mms/gprs set up in my se c902. oh well, too bad until now it wasn't properly configured. i dunno what's with globe's config sending. it's been sending the config forever, i still haven't received it. ggrrr. anyway, in the afternoon, we continued to do more shopping. my siblings and i went to raon in quiapo and got this thing for our parents:




actually, my kuya and i just accompanied our sister in the shop. she was the one buying the videoke machine for our parents. of course we have a magic sing at home but it's been acting up lately. and besides my parents have been wishing to have something like this at home. hehehe. here's my tatay happily singing over the new toy while carrying djuan with him. beside him is my nanay seriously checking out her fave songs. =p

year-end, new year money matters

just 8 days to go and 2008 is finally over. we're about to start a new year again. for me, new year means a lot of things to do involving money matters. of course, before the year ends we get to receive our 13th month pay but most of it goes to Christmas gift shopping anyway so it's good as gone. then we also have the annualization of the salary. i think we're expecting a tax refund come january since there was a significant change in the tax table and exemptions last june. for most companies, this is also the time they get to convert the unused sick leave credits of their employees to cash. i'm definitely getting that on january too. i know it's pretty exciting that a lot of money is coming in but it's just so timely that most of it will go to planned expenses. good thing my parents do pay for our property tax. january also means having to pay our car insurance again (so i could avail of personal injury claims just in case).

so few days left, still so many things to do. my husband was even bugging me if i would already allow him to get his dream motorbike. i told him i would just probably let him do so if he could avail of bicycle accident claims if ever he gets into trouble. that reminds me, he doesn't even have a life insurance/ pension plan to start with. argh. i should probably take that also into account when we do new year planning for our family. but for now i'd stick with my list first: car insurance, unused sl credits cash conversion, tax refund, pag-ibig loan, real estate tax (i'd help my parents since their business almost went down this month). good thing i don't have to renew any health insurance because the company i'm working with already provides for the three of us: me, the husband and the little boy. so it's like we can avail of whiplash injury claims. that's it for my money matters for the year-end and for the new year. have to go now. still have to catch up with the last two banking days of the year. ciao!

it's all over the news

the press release was finally out last friday. so it's no longer a hush-hush here in the office. i won't go into details and i won't even dare give the company names as google might suggest my blog if somebody searches for them. =p anyway, you can read the news in yahoo biz and another one in business travel. right now, we're business as usual. there are a lot of concerns from the employees particularly the security of tenure. but for now it's good to hear that all of us gets to keep our jobs. lol. let's just see how it goes in the next 24 months or so. ;)

google fun tag

i got this fun tag from jes. thanks! :)

the rules will start by using google images to search for your answers to the questions below. you must choose pictures from the first page from the results and post it as your answer.

1. age of my next birthday


2. place/places i would like to travel

el nido


singapore



3. my favorite place



4. a favorite thing


5. my favorite food





6. my favorite color/s




7. the city i reside now


8. the city i was born

manila


9. my college major

computer engineering


10. name of your first lover


11. a bad habit


12. a hobby/hobbies



13. my wish list (max of 3)

more kids and family holidays


a new house


lose weight




and of course, world peace! :)

passing this on to lisa, ela, kaye and abie. have fun girls!

we're now a US company

yes, the company i'm working with is now a US company. i can't disclose more information since this is supposedly still confidential because we don't have a press release yet. i really don't know how i would or should feel about this merging thing. afaik, when nokia and siemens merged together, it was a disaster. or at least for us vendors who were so highly dependent of the businesses we were dealing with them. i actually asked in the orientation earlier if our company name is changing but it seems we're retaining the name of the company. i believe they will just put something like "a XXXXX company" underneath our company name. i actually wanted to ask the vp (of the acquiring company) who welcomed/oriented us on how they are affected by the recession in the US. i chickened out. lol. but i think they're good. the vp was talking about billions of dollars anyway. =p i know there's so much challenges ahead. it's gonna be a bumpy ride. but taking it from our ceo, we welcome change. change is good (but we need cash? =p). a lot of employees are confused. some are even scared. for me, it's exciting. the presentation earlier looked promising. for the first time in my IT career, i'm gonna be a part of a big company. a really BIG one. not just BIG business but small company. but really a BIG company and a BIG business. hope everything goes well. aja for us! :)

make friends all over the world

probably i've been watching too much barney with my son that's why the phrase "friends all over the world" kept ringing in my head. it's like a last song syndrome for the day. hahaha! anyway, for an ex-consultant like me who've been traveling a lot from manila to europe before, it was a great pleasure to meet new people from different countries. it also felt great whenever i ended up being friends with them. now that i no longer have business trips, i rarely get a chance to meet and greet people from other side of the world. good thing there's Interracial Chat Room where i could still make friends all over the world while i'm sitting comfortably here in my office the whole day. :)

lessons learned from the hk trip

in the IT industry, every time we finish a project (it goes LIVE to the production environment), we do post mortem evaluation. we usually discuss about the lessons we learned along the way. in our trip to hk, i'd say i learned a lot. i've been traveling a lot abroad for the past 5 years but this one was so different. the little boy was in tow and God know how challenging it was to be with a toddler abroad. i thought it was just the usual domestic trip that we took but no, it was far more different. lemme share with you guys some of the things i have learned when you're traveling abroad with a kid:

- you can't do amazing race in your itinerary. you just have to learn to let go of some of the must sees in the places. save them for an intimate trip with the husband.
- you can't start on time. you can't even start early because you have to wait for the baby to complete his sleep. otherwise, he'd just be cranky the whole day. read: whole day of craziness.
- you don't have the luxury of time to shop 'til you drop. whatever you see, pick it up, haggle if you're allowed to do so, then buy it as soon as you learn you really wanted the item. there's no second time for any shop.
- bring lightweight comfy things for the baby. it would give you some good night sleep. it would also save you from the embarrassment caused by tantrums in public. =p

having said those, it looks like we're not traveling abroad with the little boy for a very long time. if ever i'd go abroad, it's probably a business trip or a romantic date with the husband or "me" time with girl friends. so it looks like we're not bringing the little boy to sg next year. oh well, for now, i'd say no. let's see if i could keep up with this one. =p

go for online chat

my sister has been bugging me with all her requests for errands, bills payments/settlements and a whole lot more since she went to the US with her family. at some point i already got pissed with her because it was as if her requests are the only things i should do and i could do on my time. i don't have to remind her that i'm an office girl and when i get home i'm a full time mom. but i think i should do now. what makes it even more challenging to assist her is that she loves to send instructions over the phone. i told her i prefer to communicate through emails so i could always go back. i also told her that Online Chat would also doand in most cases it's the fastest, if not most efficient/reliable, way of exchanging messages.

affected by some bad/sad news

a few mins ago, i was talking to my sister in the US over the phone reporting all the accomplishments i did to her never ending list and explaining what happened on those that i missed (*sigh*, as if these were just the only things i should do! darn.) when she mentioned about her friend's kids who died in fire. i was so shocked to hear the news. i barely know the guy and his family but my heart really crushed for the kids who died of suffocation. i am so affected by this news that i can't take it off my mind. it's like i fear of the same thing happening to us. oh God, no please. i'd be sad to lose the things i bought but who cares, i could buy them anyway again. just not my loved ones. especially my son. just imagining things make me crazy. i need to pray to take away all these bad feelings i have right now. i'd also include in my prayers the two kids who died in the fire. may they soul rest in peace. and may their family heal in God's time and will. please also include these kids and their family in your prayers today.

meet and chat with Jewish people

i am actually overwhelmed on how much social networking web sites have emerged over the internet. there's friendster we got crazy over with for some time. now we have multiply, plurk, twitter, facebook and a whole lot more to socialize over the net. yes, it is possible to have a social life even if you're practically on the computer the whole day just like me. one good find i came across recently is Jewish Chat, a place where you could meet and chat with Jewish people. cool, isn't it? you'd get to have friends all over the world. oh i remember monica and ross geller from the tv series friends. they're probably the coolest Jewish characters i've ever known. :)

missing europe

yesterday when i was going through our hong kong pics, i somehow felt that i missed europe. the picture above is not taken anywhere in europe. it's the building of the canal shoppes in the venetian hotel in macau. if you'd look closely, the banners there are all written in chinese characters. so it can't really be chinatown somewhere in spain. my good friend had been asking me if i didn't miss the consulting days and those crazy times i had to travel for almost 24hours. right now, i don't miss consulting. as much as possible i want to stay away from it. it's causing me too much stress. but i do miss traveling. specially the amazing race i had to deal with just to finish all the must-sees in the places i visited. plus the airport anecdotes i've been collecting. oh, i have another one by the way in hong kong. this time courtesy of my loving husband. lol. will just post about it separately. just looking at this pic, i miss europe already. i miss going to amsterdam. i miss seing that amazing blue sky. it's so picture perfect. but i don't want to see the greeks for now. =p

amazing blogger

thanks to irmee for this award. really appreciate it sis! :)



passing this on to my blogger friends dropping by today to check on me. ;)

pepperjam for your search engine marketing needs

after four days of being offline because of the family holiday, i'm now back at the happy world of the internet and of course, the blogosphere. and oh i miss plurking too. well. i tried to plurk while i was in hk but my son was just too demanding. as if it was a sin to send an sms or sneak plurking while taking care of him. we arrived home at almost 2am. the little boy was already asleep then. by 2:30am, my husband and i were already snoozing, not caring who snores much louder. lol. come 7:30am, my husband was already and up and ready to go to work. too bad i was that wasted to join him for breakfast. i already got up at around 9:30am, too late already for our 10:15 start of work.

needless to say, i'm back to work today. yes, the day after my holiday. i should have extended my vacation but there's just so many things to do today. i was supposed to work from home in the morning but my laptop battery only gave me some 30minutes of his precious life. as soon as i got back from the office, i couldn't get online because of dns (domain name system) problems. as soon as my internet connection got resolved, i immediately checked out pepperjam, a Search Engine Marketing. this company provides full service internet marketing and search engine marketing. why am i that interested? because i have a couple of sites in mind to launch. and the sites are supposed to earn money so i need to drive enough (or so much) traffic to earn a lot. i know at some point i would need professional help to boost traffic on my sites. probably i was just lucky to came across pepperjam today for my search engine marketing needs.

we're back from hk

good morning, tuesday! we're back from our hong kong trip. whew! it was fun yet very tiring family holiday. we enjoyed shopping so much although our bank accounts, not to mention credit cards, would not allow us to go overboard. we went to ocean park, toys 'r' us in harbour city, macau (venetian hotel and other popular landmarks), ladies night market, avenue of stars, disneyland, and tung chung citygate outlet. we skipped going to victoria peak because of the weather, it was too foggy. and besides we don't have time to go there anymore. the little boy won't appreciate it anyway. i have so much to tell about the trip but i need to go back to work today. another UAT release is set for tomorrow. i'm wishing it's now Christmas so i won't have to deal with this. hehe. but come to think of it, i'm not yet done with shopping and gift wrapping so might as well not push fast forwarding to Christmas. =p anyway, we have roughly around 500 pictures for the whole trip. not so much i guess because most of the time we had to chase the little boy running around the place. lol. so that's it for now, i will just go over the picture when i still have time later tonight. ciao! ;)

shopwiki: for shopaholics like me

in just few hours time we will leave the house for the airport. today is the first day of our much awaited hong kong trip. yes, i'm still wide awake and haven't taken a sleep for the past 18 hours or so. i'm actually so sleepy now. i need to finish our itinerary, particularly the shops that we need to stop by to check for some video and games. well, i'm planning to buy the husband a game console unit for Christmas. i'm still undecided so i'd just see when we get there.

if shopping to the max isn't possible when we get to hk (oh well i do hope shopping would be a breeze), i might just settle shopping online when we come back home. i found one great site called shopwiki.com. i'd say the most recommended sites for shopaholics like me. it's a revolution in web crawling, well actually similar to google. but the thing is, the results it would give you are online stores. cool, isn't it? i would love to get some books for Christmas. i actually wished for a twilight book in our office Christmas party. too bad the party coincides with my family holiday. anyway, if we couldn't find my son's big toy car in hong kong, might as well check shopwiki for other toys for boys. oh i can't wait to shop!

2 nights to go

yey, just 2 nights to go and we'd be off to hong kong. yipee! i already told our client yesterday that i'd be on a family holiday and that our program manager would take over for the meantime. ooops, i have yet to tell him that. lol. anyway, i woke up early today because i'm in a panic mode. i haven't packed anything. i just started picking out clothes for the little boy last night. this morning i need to finish picking out my clothes. later when the husband comes home he'd do it for himself. i need to finish as much as i can before i leave this morning. i might go overtime (read: come home very very late) because of a scheduled user acceptance testing today. but since the greeks are kinda chaotic these days (rallies almost everyday), i think we can still make use of the time until they get to start their business day tomorrow. but i'd still like to get things over and done with today. so i could have the whole day tomorrow for meetings, reports and some fun office stuff (Christmas party, Christmas tree/parol contest, etc.). it's gonna be an uber long day again. wish me luck. aja! =)

nationwide phone lookup

i know a lot of people in the US. my best friend is in los angeles. my sister and her family are in burlingame in california. another close friend and previous colleague is in arizona. and a cousin is in new york. so just imagine the craziness when they move from one to state to another and you have to find out their contact numbers. good thing there's Nationwide Phone Lookup. it's a reverse phone number lookup. oh well, at least if i have a number, i could easily check first if it's theirs. i won't have to deal with people hanging up on me because i got the wrong number. that's rude, of course, but it does happen.

djuan is sick

good morning. yeah, i'm already up at this wee hour in the morning. i'm waiting for the warm water to clean djuan's tushy. the little boy has been not feeling well since sunday morning. he got up so early because he pooped. when i came back in the afternoon from the wedding (yeah, i missed watching pacquiao's game on tv) his fever was already high. we made him take tempra. we thought it was just sore throat because the peeps at home admitted that my dad let djuan eat ice cream last saturday. pasaway na lolo. anyway, in the afternoon it turned out it wasn't (or it was not just) sore throat, he was having lbm too. then he puked once after drinking his milk straight. come monday morning, we were up again early because djuan woke up crying. he was in pain pooping. as in every time he poops, he'd cry and we would really see in his face that it hurts pooping. we were so alarmed especially when djuan acted he was about to puke again. we brought him at once to the hospital where the daddy works so we could immediately get the lab results. we had his stool examined and found out that he has amoeba. *sigh*. it was painful to see that the little boy was in pain. when we were at the hospital i think we had to change his diapers thrice. we weren't even there for an hour. he actually fell asleep at the hospital but woke up again because the dad asked the nurse to give djuan vitamin A even if he was still sleeping. ending: djuan woke up cranky and vomited the milk, incl the vit A, he took. ggrrr. pasaway na tatay! i was heart broken when the daddy decided we were bringing djuan to cgh to have him confined. just imagining my son would be in dextrose made my heart cry out in pain for the little boy. haaay. good thing my husband changed his mind when he saw djuan was becoming more active again. we believe djuan was happy again that we took him out. he was just at home since saturday because the daddy worked in lieu of our holiday the following week. as of this writing, no more fever but the poop is still watery. i was actually up at this time because i heard him fart but i know something came with it. warm water's ready. have to go. that's all for now. i hope djuan will be much better in the coming days. even if that means i have to skip work again and take care him of the whole day. we know he's really not feeling well since he won't go with anyone else. just with mommy and daddy. especially to ah-yee (me, the mommy). :(

the plan to get out of debt

for the past months i've been talking about how i wanted to get out of debt and how i really wanted to get rid of my credit cards. well, i even rant about my previous company delaying my last pay. oh well that's actually another and i'm glad it's over. and yeah, the last pay is gone. i already used it to buy my staff some starbucks coffee. the rest of it i used for gift shopping. oh i love and hate this season at the same time. this is the time wherein i get to have lots and lots of money. but then again i'm forced to use it to buy gifts. oh well, i just have to remind myself about the true spirit of Christmas. ;) going back to the plan to get rid of credit cards, i was actually able to close one and another one is to be closed this month. i'd really congratulate myself if i could do the second one since we're leaving for hong kong in a few days. after the Christmas holidays i also plan to close another card. i should be ok after that. not yet debt free but i'd say manageable debts. if i won't be able execute that plan, i'd probably need some professional help to reduce my debts, finally build my wealth (oh i love to hear that word) and then become financially independent. good luck to me!

countdown to our hk trip begins

yesterday, my husband was sweet enough to remind me that it's just 6 days to go for our much awaited family holiday in hong kong. and i just realized he was right. lol. i'm swamped with work in the office, not to mention that the todo list from my sister is still not over. ggrrrr. i want to panic now but i just can't. my weekend is busier than ever. actually my weekend is usually more exhausting and tiring than my weekdays because it requires physical energy. yesterday i was just driving the whole day. today i'd drive again for my mom. good thing it will be just for this morning. oh i really can't wait anymore for our hk trip. the countdown begins. and when i get back later, i'd start packing up our things. weee! =p

am i really that heavy?

i am actually confused now if i'm really that heavy or not. most of the people who know me way back when i was still that walking stick, i am fat now. but for those people that i am spending time with almost every day, i'm just ok. not slim, not fat. or are they just too nice with me? naah. i've been meaning to be on a strict diet. i actually have here an oolong tea and natural food supplement from healthy options. but it's been a long time since i have taken any of those. probably it has been half a year since i tasted the tea and that chocolate energy drink. my work doesn't permit me to be on a diet. not that i'm an aspiring actress. it's just that i'm so busy at work and i have always wanted to eat something good to cheer me up. and yeah, that meant eating comfy foods that aren't healthy. now i'm thinking of trying acai berry diet. let's just see. for now, since Christmas is fast approaching, i really really doubt if a diet is such a good idea.

Christmas snow globes

these are my Christmas snow globes which i bought last year. i'm a snow globe addict. lol. of course, the snow globe in the middle is not Christmasy. it was a gift from the husband. he wanted to add something to my collection. sweet, di ba? hehe. and finally (*drums rolling*), i'm not late for toy hunt. yipee! :))

fulfilling that house and lot dream

good morning! i must be really getting old. i slept late but i am now wide awake at 8am. actually i was already up by 7am since the husband has to go to work today. he's usually free on a saturday but since we're off to hong kong next week, he has to make up for work today. i actually tried to get back to sleep with the little boy but i figured out i might overslept and jeopardize my plans for the day. you see i'd been meaning to go to pag-ibig office in makati to attend that housing loan orientation. it's actually the first step in the housing loan application since attending that orientation is a must. i really hope this plan pushes through as i really wanted to have our house reconstructed. next year would be ten years since our house was put down by fire.

still on that house and lot dream, i read from a friend's blog that she dreams of having a house in sedona, arizona. she even posted a couple of pics of the supposedly backyard view of her dream house. lol. i'm not sure what her real plans are. does she really want to retire in the US where she currently works as an IT consultant? or does she still plan to come back here in our country for good? oh well, that's probably when she thinks she has enough money to support her retirement. well, that's too far from now anyway. she's still young but i guess planning early would be a good idea especially now that she's at the peak of her career. going back to her dream house in arizona, i probably should tell her to check out scottsdale real estate. i think they're one of the best sites to find arizona homes for sale. i actually checked out the site and liked the properties they put in there. my friend would be glad to check out this site. probably sedona wouldn't be the only one in her list after she checks out scottsdale's site.

eksayted! (excited)

ito ay larawan ng asawa ko noong nagpunta kami ng hong kong noong isang taon. nandoon kami para sa kaniyang nclex at saka para na rin magbakasyon kasama ang aking mga kaibigan. eksayted ang asawa ko dito. unang beses pa lang kasi niya na lumabas ng bansa. perstaymer kumbaga. hehe. hindi naman masyado halatang eksayted siya kasi nagpakuha siya ng larawan sa harap ng hindi kilalang monumento na ito paglabas lamang namin sa paliparan ng hong kong. =p babalik kami ng hong kong sa isang linggo. eksayted kami pareho kasi kasama namin ang aming anak. pupunta kami ng disney! =)


this is my husband's picture when we went to hk last year. we were there for his nclex and also for a vacation with some of my friends. my husband was excited here because it was his first time to travel abroad. needless to say, it was also his first time in hk. my husband wasn't really that excited you see. he just asked me to take his picture in front of this unpopular monument just outside the airport. =p we're going back to hong kong next week. both of us are excited this time because we're bringing our son with us. we're going to disney! =)

shot on the spot!

thanks to jes for this tag. aliw!

instructions:

1. take a picture of yourself right now! (the moment you read this tag)

2. don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair, just take a picture.

3. post that picture without editing.

4. post these instructions with your picture.

5. tag 10 people to do this. and don't forget to leave them a message about the tag.


this is me @6-ish in the morning. i'm still wrapped with a blanket coz i was too lazy to grab a jacket inside the cabinet. it's still cold here in the room. the aircon is still on for the little boss. hehehe. had to violate the rules a bit because i had to turn on the lights and grab our lampshade so i could take my picture in our laptop's webcam. this cam sucks if i don't put a nice lighting. otherwise, i'd just post a very dark picture here. i'm not really a morning person but i'm already up this time because i have a lot of things to do. i'm planning to work from home this morning. i'd leave home around 9:45 so i could get on the main road by 10am. bebe honda's coding day today so i'd take her with me during the coding window (10am-3pm). it's hard to commute these days (esp going back home) so i really want to use my car. well, so long for now. still have a couple of posts to do before i do the real work from home stuff. ;)

oops, i don't have ten people to tag. but i'd love to see irmee and emz do this. go girls!

bad credit credit cards, anyone?

21 days before Christmas. tic tac tic tac. :) most people are now doing their gift shopping since a lot of companies (unfortunately, ours not included) already released their respective bonuses last week. i can already feel Christmas is so near. cold breeze, heavy traffic on the road, hustle and bustle at the mall, Christmas carols everywhere. well, i'm not supposed to think of Christmas first. i have lots and lots of things to do and accomplish even before i can enjoy Christmas. first, i need to get our projects get going. finally, the other one (which has been in the UAT for almost forever) is going live today. and then the rest i need to put in UAT, if not in production. good thing i have that hong kong trip next week to look forward to. that reminds me i need to settle my credit cards so i can use them next week. in this season wherein you'd love to use cash but you don't want to because of security reasons (robbers are everywhere), you'd definitely end up using your credit cards. for those with bad credit history, i believe they could still get a credit card. bad credit credit cards are credit cards designed for people who has bad credit history but wants to start anew with using a credit card. i'm not into it (yet =p) but i'd say bad credit credit cards, anyone? :)