Another long weekend

Yes, it's another long weekend which I am not going to enjoy. I need to report to the office on Sunday for the bookmonth close. As much as I hate taking off weekends from my family time, there is a comforting thought about this particular bookmonth close. Whatever that is, you will know soon enough *winks*. Now, is not the time to share that yet.

I am happy with my accomplishments at work, I am almost done with my main project. I am very satisfied with the models and screen designs I did in Cognos Analyst (an additional skill acquired by the way). I have not shown it to my business partner yet (my parter from the business operations side). But I am 100% sure that she is going to love it. Aside from the very good graphical design, my model is very user friendly and very dummy proof! I have yet to start on my documentations, but that I can do from home. I will just have to capture some screens to be able to work from home.

I am so excited! So many things to look forward to in the near future. I have my short term plan in place (3 years ahead), that of course, includes plans for my young family. May the Lord guide me in the execution part, which by the way (and I know everybody will agree with me) is the most difficult to do *laughs*.

I so wanted to blog

I wanted to blog last night but because of the poor internet connection provided by Globe Visibility, I lost my patience with the very slow speed and just went to bed early.

Ok now, moving on, I was viewing Trisha's "baby" pictures (when she was just a few months old) and wanted to share some of my personal favorites :). We have so many nice shots of her and I'm planning to put together a digital photo album of her. I should also have my favorite pictures printed, there is nothing like the traditional photo album that my mom keeps of us. So yes, that's a good plan. I will make time for that.

So now, here's one shot that I really love. She is really a very happy baby.

This shot was taken in Tagaytay, I think this was her first out of town trip after our long stay in Baguio for my maternity leave. She was only 2 mos old when this shot was taken. She is just the cutest!

2008 = my completion year

I declare 2008 as my completion year! If you are wondering where this came from, read the article on Mirriam Quiambao's self-cleansing experience from HealthToday magazine last February 2007.

I will also subject myself into a de-cluttering stage which will help me achieve the completion year in 2008. So, I will start to do away with unnecessary things and emotions in my life. I will only keep what I need, I will stick only with the basic, keep only what is good, let the bad be a learning experience.

Now, defining what is "basic" is a totally different matter. I might have to review my definition of terms *giggles*. Let's discuss basic next time.

I am Fat :(

Yes, I am fat! I am at my heaviest now at 124lbs! I weighed after my night bath, because MS just told me that I am fat. The 124lbs on the scale proved that. This was around the same weight I had when I was in Nestle, just before I was treated for Kidney stones back in 2005. But diet and work out brought that down to 105lbs.

I must get back to a 105lbs. I keep telling MS that I'll take rice off my diet, but was unable to until now :(. I must really start eating healthy and working out. I must, I must, I must!

New picture of Trisha & Me

Notice my new picture with Trisha? :) This is one of our shots from her most recent photoshoot at Blow Up Babies. I love this shot! The other shots are nice as well, when I am not too lazy to post pictures, I will post them here for your viewing :).

I have been really lazy to blog lately, good thing MS consistently updates his blog for the past few days, so if you noticed, instead of catching up on my blog, I just posted links to his blog entries :).

We spent our weekend at Clark (Clark Hostel) in time for MS's New Balance Marathon last Sunday. We arrived there around 2pm, then just spent the afternoon going around the duty free shops, which are NOT good. I was expecting a lot more than what I saw in the shops. Most of the duty free shops are now closed so we just just ended up buying junk food and chocolates in one of the open ones :). Then we spent the evening resting, we only had dinner at the hotel. Food is okay for the price :). The place itself is nice, the place is not big, only one floor with a couple of rooms. But the ambiance is very cozy and it's really clean. Sherwin also had a 20% discount because of his participation in the NB Marathon. I would stay there again :).

Sunday was a blur, MS woke up really early for his 630 marathon. Trisha and I were suppose to join him as soon as Trisha woke up, but this was already around 830. We went to the park though as soon as she woke up, but was unable to find Dada. He and Ninong Jon found us walking back to the hotel. We had breakfast and was on our way back to Manila as soon as we were ready to leave. We headed straight to Bonifacio High Street to see Lola MTB and Ninang MCA (My Cousin Ayesha) off to the airport (their 3 weeks holiday was over and they were leaving for Australia that day). We were just in time to say bye bye at the parking lot. We had lunch there before heading home. So there, that was our weekend.

This weekend, MS is joining the Men's Health Marathon here at the Fort. :)

Trisha's Photo Shoots Samplers

MS has posted some of Trisha's best shots from her photo shoots at Blow Up Babies at his blog. These are only a few of her really nice shots :).

Enjoy viewing.

http://31thirtyone.blogspot.com/2007/11/favorite-photos-of-trisha.html

Pictures at Cribs

My husband wrote a detailed blog regarding our visit at Cribs. So instead of posting my own pictures here, I am redirecting my readers to his blog (with pictures) :D.

http://31thirtyone.blogspot.com/2007/11/cribs.html

Enjoy reading!

quiet sunday

it has been a crazy week since trisha's birthday party the previous saturday (oct 27). my family, except MSL (My Sister Len) who is now based in dubai, was here with us since monday night. it has been really fun having them here. i wasn't able to spend much time with them as i wanted to since i had to report to work for our project go-live within the week, but i enjoyed coming home in the afternoons and having my mom and my siblings to talk to. i highly appreciate the fact that my husband took them around while i was at work - yep, MS has been great :). thanks hon!

today is a quiet day for us, well for me and trisha at least. MS went to have lunch at his parents' house and our "ate" went out for her day-off. so it's just me and trisha this afternoon. she is now taking her nap while i write this blog. i am hoping that we could still take trisha to bonifacio high street for a walk and to see the dogs. she has been crazy about dogs for a few weeks now. her new favorite work is "gog" which really means "dog" :D.

i will post some pictures later, i want to share a picture of our loot bag, which i designed personally for my daughter's 1st birthday. good thing my mom was able to find somebody to sew it for me and cai was able to find a shop to silk-screen print it (all in about 4 days all the way in baguio!). it turned out very nice and a lot of people are asking for one.

this is it for now, i will be back later with the pictures.

at work on Nov 2

yep, i am writing this blog from my workplace at the office. we're asked to report to work today and be on-call tomorrow and sunday for our project go-live this month-end. i only have a few things to finalize for my module, then the documentations to complete it. i also still have several "smaller" projects to complete before this fiscal year ends.

i am not happy reporting to work within this supposedly long vacation. imagine filing a leave for only 1.5 days for a 9-days vacation? im suppose to be in baguio getting a long rest along with my family. oh well, darn it all, better luck next time for me :(.

i can't wait for this year to end. i am so excited to get this year over and done with. yahu! there's so much to look forward to in 2008.

trisha's birthday cake

i love our birthday cake! it might not be in the shade of gray and red that i wanted and the bears are not "our" teddy bear, but i really love how the cake came out to be, it's perfect for a one year old's birthday cake :).


bohemia cakes are really pretty. i have seen their cake portfolio at the rockwell exhibit and all of their cakes are really unique with very detailed designs. the cake itself is also good. our's, i think, is lemon cake with mocha filling.

Our Teddy Bears & Hearts Cake :)

so color-coordinated!

did you notice how color-coordinated we were in the picture i posted in my earlier post? MS wearing the gray polo shirt from springfield, i was wearing a red blouse from iora and trisha wearing her polka dot dress and red shoes from zara. all in the perfect shade of gray and red we chose for trisha's party motif. her party balloons were also in the perfect shade of gray and red! im so proud to say that i designed her birthday banner in the background. i so love how everything fit perfectly during the party.

i would also like to thank all our guests for bringing the teddy bears we requested for the kids at CRIBS, we were able to collect about 3 balikbayan boxes of bears from our guests. we already brought the teddy bears to the orphanage last Sunday (day after the party). my next plan is to invite friends to spend half a day with us as volunteers at CRIBS.

i will be posting our pictures in front of CRIBS very soon. have not had the time to upload the pictures yet. again, thanks so much to all the guests of trisha for sharing the teddy bears with us :).

im the happiest mom

im the happiest mom :). last saturday, we celebrated our daughter's first birthday. we have prepared for this party for the longest time and im really happy to share with you all that the party was a success. all the kids enjoyed the entire party, and so did the "big kids" ;).

here's to share with you a picture perfect moment of my young family during trisha's 1st birthday party.

a lot of people have been telling me that im one of the happiest mothers they ever saw, haha, so true. i am super happy having trisha with me. having her is so far the best thing that ever happened in my life.

true, true.. i am indeed the happiest mom :).