Breakaway

Today is the last day I will be sitting beside Mr. Stinky aka Mr. Fart Machine. This weekend the first phase of the renovation in Maybank Ang Mo Kio will commence and it's our side that must start the packing and movement to a temporary working place on Monday. One week after that I will be sitting in my new cubicle far from Mr. Scratch.

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My desk all cleaned-up and ready to be dismantled.

Things to do if I won a BMW car

If ever I would receive a call telling me that I have won a brand new BMW car, here's the list of things I would do:

1. I'd make sure that the call was not a hoax. If it is then I'd forget about the rest on this list.
2. Since it is the real deal, I would arrange for the day to claim the prize.
3. I'd go to the church and sponsor a thanksgiving mass.
4. I'd start looking for the current market price of the car that I have won.
5. I would look for a car agent who could sell my brand new car without COE at a great deal. Yes, I'd sell it for I don't know how to drive and neither does Herman.
6. I'd start taking driving lessons.
7. Once it is sold, I'd go looking for a cheaper car and buy it.
8. The rest of the sales from the BMW I would use to pay-up some debts and maybe pay our condo in Mandaluyong in full.
9. And of course, treat friends for some luxurious meals.
10. Give out the latest iPod Nanos to my Filipino officemates for Christmas.
11. Donate a Mac Powerbook to be the major prize in our office Christmas party.

Isn't it nice just thinking about it? But then again I'm not the one who won a brand new car. I'd just have to wait for an iPod nano this Christmas and hope that I'd be lucky enough to win that Powerbook.

Keep on wishing. Keep on dreaming.

JOLOGS

I've been reading of this newly opened food joint at Lucky Plaza along Orchard Road. Its opening was advertised at the Pinoy IT Group in Singapore and days after, people were already lauding about the great tasting food they are offering - it belongs to the Calle Real Group, how could it go amiss. The food menu was not as elaborate as that of Cafe Real, but they are a great treat for those who are simply out to run errands at LP.

So I told my Filipino colleagues at work that we ought to give this place a try; afterall, we too had trekked all the way to Millenia Walk from our Ang Mo Kio office when they opened a Calle Real at Food Junction more than three years ago. Luckily we already heard that we can call up before going there to make a reservation and even order the food so that when we get there the food are ready. Even under heavy rain and slow traffic jam, their small place is packed with working Filipinos out for their usual Friday lunchbreak.

I tried the Tapsilog and fell in love with it; it only costs S$6 including a free flow of drinks. Herman loved the ensalada included in the meal and the sago gulaman has the right sweetness. I could definitely recommend Jologs: far cheaper and tastes way better than GP, maybe slightly expensive than the grub at Kabayan but it's of a different league when it comes to the taste.

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Bugger!

I so hate Yahoo! Mail today. After days of trying and re-trying to set-up my yahoo account on my new PDA phone, I finally went to their site to get some help. Little did I know that their POP service is only available to Yahoo! Mail Plus subscribers; this was originally free but they disabled this access to their free account last April 2002. Gmail, however, offers free POP3 access and I've enabled that one a long time ago.

So, yes, I am now accessing my Gmail account in my O2 wherever I go - or when I could get a GPRS connection or Wi-fi. If you don't have a gmail account yet, let me know I still have lots of invites to spare.

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit

Herman and I passed by the cosmetics section of Seiyu at Bugis Junction a week ago on our way to the Cold Storage, a grocery shop. He made a remark that got me miffed for awhile; he asked me why women bother to put-on some make-up when they look the same anyway. I am not sure where to put the blame on whether it is a man thing or simply because he can sometimes be oblivious and can't see past those foundations. I pity now those who spend fifteen or thirty minutes in front of the mirror going thru those compact make-ups, eye shadows, mascaras, eyeliners, lip liners, lipsticks, and blushers; I never thought that all those hard work can be for naught.

Back when I was still working in the Philippines, I put on make-up when I go to the office; but when I moved to Singapore I got lazy and decided to give my skin a rest. So I just go to work with nothing on my face except the needed moisturiser; it did wonders to my skin for it is a little bit sensitive. As time moved on I finally added wearing a Lancome's Juicy Tubes ultra shiny lip gloss and a few months later I bought a Hermes Rouge lipstick. So for a year those are all I have inside my "kikay" pouch. Last June, a couple of weeks before we went back to the Philippines for a vacation, I stopped by the cosmetics section at Paragon and thought of buying a compact make-up for me to use when I attend those wedding ceremonies I have to be present in.

With much thought on my sensitive skin, I decided to shy away from the previous brands I had used, but then those brands I haven't tried before are the most expensive ones. After checking-out all the other products I decided to buy the Lancome foundation and loose powder with my eyes closed as they swipe my ATM card burning a minute hole on it and me praying that they would work on my skin and not cause any breakouts.

Well, thank heavens it did work for my sensitive skin and I am now loving this brand; I even bought a mascara even if the Shiseido one is way cheaper. Now, I wear make-up again to work because I have to use those costly things I bought for they will be worthless in a year. And guess what comment I got from a Filipino guy colleague, he said there's something different with my eyebrows (he actually meant eyelashes) and that I might have done some kind of hocus-pocus.