Pito-pito

Jolana tagged me again. Read on…
Seven things that scare me: loosing the people I love most, nightmares, earthquake, ivy needle, horror movies, ghosts (i’ve never outgrown this one), walking in the dark
Seven things I like the most: being with my hubby, travelling places, listening to music, cooking a great meal for my hubby, nature tripping, keeping in touch with friends, bringing out the best in me (naks!)
Seven random facts about me: i’m a good listener, i am a moody person, i am born under cancer zodiac sign, i started to learn how to drive years ago but didn’t push thru, i am the 2nd child from a family of six children, i had my first hospitalization days before my 29th birthday, i a married to the man i love most=)
Seven important things in our bedroom: pillows, electric fan(summer) or heater(winter), rosary, my chamberpot hahaha, the bed of course!, blanket, cellphone or alarm clock
Seven things I plan to do before I die: visit Rome and the whole of Europe with my hubby/family, establish a charitable institution, raise good children and grandchildren, write a book about life, spend time praying, direct a play/show, visit my family/friends and spend quality time with them
Seven things I can do: cook good meals, hike for two hours or more, read a good book until early morning, pound rice the provincial way, twist my eyelids(my niece love seeing it hehehe), cross-stitch, be a couch potato for a day or two
Seven things I can’t do: cycle, play basketball, dance, speak Mandarin (I hope soon I can because I need to), split, ride on an Anchor or any other wild rides, get thru a day without eating rice
Seven things that attract me to the opposite sex: eyes, intelligence, good humor, thoughtfulness, sweetness, masculinity =), eloquence
Seven things I say the most: pish!, shesh!, ano ba?, jerk!, ish!, so?, anya metten!
Seven celebrity crushes (whether local or foreign): The one I can think of just now is Vince Vaughn =)
Seven people you want to see take this quiz: Jols has already tagged those who have blogspots that I know of =)

READ MORE...

A day at the zoo

Last Saturday, my hubby’s boss and his girlfriend brought us to the Taipei Zoo. We were so excited to see once more other creatures that coexist with man. We learned that our friends haven’t been to the zoo for several years now that’s why it was not a surprise to us when we got lost in the road few times after we dropped to buy our meals from none other but the famous Mc Donalds store.

The weather forecast said it was going to rain in the morning so we brought an umbrella. Luckily, it did not. It turned out to be just another very hot day. The zoo is very wide so we took the shuttle to get to the farthest area and would soon walk back. I’d say we weren’t so comfortable walking around because of the weather that we only took very few pictures. I wasn’t really in a pictorial mood. Our friend offered to take a picture of us but we declined. My hubby took shots only of the animals we’ve never seen in other zoos. The following pictures show how lazy we were then. Even our hosts were not in a very good mood for they too were too conscious of the heat. We expected to spend half of the day walking around but it turned out that we were able to tour the area for just more than an hour stopping only for few minutes on each animal cage or simply passing by each one of them.

My hubby's favorite is the Bongo, a large forest antelope of central Africa having a reddish-brown coat with white stripes and spiral horns



Another member of the deer family. Notice the curly horn =)

They too, seem uncomfortable, or they just want to get an afternoon nap...

I guess this hippo rolled over the mud that's why it turned brown =)

While these two are about to doze off...

READ MORE...

Shortened day at the office...

Whew, we’re lucky to be home early this afternoon. The government announced that work stops at 4:00pm due to the heavy storm. Typhoon Talim (that’s how they named it here) has already reached Taiwan. Right now, the strong wind and heavy rain have started to pour. It’s expected to be in the vicinity until tomorrow. If it maintains its strength like this until the morrow, we might have a day off! On the other hand, I hope the storm won’t cause much damage in the place.

Hmnnn, it’s time to cuddle in bed.

READ MORE...

Working after a long "rest"

I am just two weeks old in my new job as a project manager for key customers but I am starting to feel the pressure already. Actually, the 1st week was more of familiarization of the work place, the processes and the people especially the key contacts from the different departments. It was just last Thursday that my projects were formally given, that makes it barely a week of formal job assignment. At first, I paid attention only to two major projects then at the start of this week, I realized there are so much things to do. Luckily, the engineering group I work with are very supportive and accomodating. My boss too is supportive but he got too many projects as well that is more of a concern to him. So I have to learn how to become independent. The bad thing though is I don’t know how to speak Taiwan’s native language. I attented few meetings where the people communicated in Chinese. I am lucky if there’s somebody who’ll volunteer to interpret stuffs for me. Today, I attended a weekly meeting for regular updates of schedule. After I raised my concern on the items attentioned to me, I excused myself since I can’t understand the rest they’re discussing. I had to spend my 1st official overtime to finish several tasks and project schedule preparation that my boss will check tomorrow. When I was about to leave the office, I saw my task lists for the morrow and shesh, my day sched is almost full, and I have an evening conference call meeting at 9pm which reminds me that I have to update the progress reports in the morning.

But then I realized that it’s how things are at work. You have to be tough to survive ( After almost nine months of unemployment, I think I missed working =)

READ MORE...

Prandial

Two days passed but I am still wondering how my blog got “deleted” by whoever, be it myself without knowing. Anyway, I had to let it go…how sad!

Anyway, today, my hubby and I had a great meal in one of the restaurants along the way to Fisherman’s Wharf. It’s like we were in one of the restos in Manila Boardwalk area. It was a celebration of our birthdays (July and August) since we weren’t together during those times so we thought of celebrating it together once I get back to Taiwan.

Our meal was a combination of shabu-shabu and barbeque dishes where we had to do all the cooking. It was an “eat-all-you-can” serving. Pork, beef and chicken meat slices were among those served. My hubby enjoyed the well-done barbequed intestine slices that came with it. Squid slices, fish, shrimps and a bowl of vegetable salad were also part of the meal.

Few shots during lunch...

After one and a half hours of enjoying the food, we both realized that we were already full. My hubby savored two cups of ice cream for dessert. We rested for a while and thanked God for the great time and lunch we had together.

A pose before we left the place ...

READ MORE...

wala na ung mga nilagay ko, IT"S GONE!!!

I don't know what went wrong. I was browsing different blogspots of friends (including my own) earlier today at the office and everything was just fine. I came home from work, surfed the net, as always, check for new posts in different sites and checked my personal site. I checked on my links and when I got back to my page ..... nada! It was gone. I got a message that said something like the page does not exist or the page can not be found. I tried to make use of the blogger help but to no avail. I did not even sign in huh! Now I have to start all over again =( unless blogger support can recover it!

READ MORE...