kakenkoyan sa work

Even if dreary ang weather ganundin ang work because of deadlines, good natured officemates make your day naman :)

there's Gil infront of his station, (super busy and dedma to the world as usual!), here kuya Benny and April posed for my cam (this was taken during the last Friday that April is employed by the company (she opted to work in Singapore)

hehehee, kiliti naman dyan!

busy! hehee, si Teri (back at the cam) at April nagko-conference

di talaga matipid ngumiti si Araj at Irvin!

minsan talaga di umiimik si Macoy, serious yan sa work parang tong si Harvs serious din at magaling na layout artist (nagbabasa kasi at dinidiskartehan ang pag-layout unlike other external and inhouse suppliers)

hmmmm...at ano naman ang pinagkakaabalahan nyo, hmmm? (super busy guys, from the left (seated) Martin, Macoy (cream jacket), and Irvin

buhos

There are days na I can hardly raise myself from the bed or rouse myself from deep slumber. Maybe, yan ay dahil sa distance ng work ko from our house. Imagine I have to travel from Monday to Saturday(half day lang naman) from Cavite to Makati. At first I can hardly raise my head from the pillow, ganun!

my cluttered desk at work

I have often contemplated leaving Makati and work in Cavite near our home(of which I did job hunt, unfortunately karamihan grads of IT courses ang preferred, heheheee).

And there’s the horrifying traffic scheme in Cavite – daily travelers refer to it as “buhos.” Buhos works like this – Cavite’s traffic enforcers stop the Cavite bound vehicles at Longos (bottleneck area at the flyover sa bungad ng Emilio Aguinaldo Highway) and they let the Manila bound vehicles occupy both sides of the road. The Manila bound vehicles roar onwards like scurrying wildebeests (ngek, exagz!). Bohus for Manila bound or Cavite bound vehiclesmay last up to 5 to 10(?) minutes then the ongoing vehicular flow is stopped then yong isa naman. Kaya kung ang sinasakyan mo (Manila bound) at di nakalampas sa SM Bacoor ng quarter to 7am at pa-Makati ka well bukas ka na lang pumasok. 'Coz the vehicle flow creates a bottleneck traffic at Niog on to Talaba and again by the tollgate or at the MIA road parallel to Uniwide Sales Coastal Mall. Whew!

Fortunately, it seems that Cavite's traffic management partnered with the MMDA in the current road widening project along Emilio Aguinaldo Highway. The last time I looked the spray painted structures and "USLI" posters has reached Dasmariñas, Cavite. Yeeey!

crazy dance

My daughter likes to dance! Hay naku! I am sometimes amazed with the way she dances to the latest TV soap craze (chan. 7’s Marimar) and (also of Chan. 7’s lunchtime TV show) EatBulaga’s “Kagat Labi.” More so when I found out that my husband taught her how to do the “Kagat Labi” dance.

Hay talaga! Here she is doing the “Kagat Labi.” J

My children's antics keeps me sane from life's daily concerns. My kids are my true joy...

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park in the middle

The Washington SyCip Park is a refreshing green island in the middle of Legazpi and Gamboa Sts., near Greenbelt 1.

On this huge rock and on two other huge rocks at the other two park entrances, the park's name were hammerred.

The entrance to the park from Legazpi street.

One of two gazebos inside the park. Beside this gazebo is a pond populated with kois. Fountains and an artificial waterfall aerates the pond water.

I like walking through this park when I have the time, it somehow gives me the feeling of being transported somewhere far from the city.

Here are photos of other parts of the Sycip Park.

Here's an interesting structure, a mobile sculpture, it rises in the park's center



Here's another sculpture, well I'll take a better shot of this, so for now I think this will do.

And here's what welcomes you at the Gamboa street entrance of the park, a cute big stone tortoise(?)

my other joy - beading...

Here are some of the pearl, glass, and wire earrings I did. The designs are simple for I'm still a newbie.

Next is an enlarged photo of the dangling pearl earring, in the photo above.

Sorry for the resolution, the photos were taken with an N70, and the light was poor where I took it. Next is a colored glass bracelet. I do sell these bead jewelries at very low prices. The pearl earrings were sold at Ph35.00 each to my officemates, the cultured pearls and swarovzki crystal I used there are real.

And below are the Swarovzki crystals in 10K gold bracelet (price starts at Ph300 up, price depends on th amount of gold and Swarovzki crystals used) and the cultured pearl bracelet (Ph 60.00) that I also did. I usually wrap the jewelries, such as bracelets, I sell in string pouches such as the one in the photo below.

I will soon post my other creations. If you are interested you may contact me at lmerjb@yahoo.com or at 09103492214

our little Joy

Here, are some photos of Joy with the family last December 2007.

This was taken at the Aviation Security Group-Special Operations Unit HQ at the NAIA compound. My husband took the kids with him to their unit's christmas party.

Joy, carried by her Papa posed with two of her ninongs, Sam dela China(in blue and white striped shirt) and David(in ASG black shirt).

Here, Joy and kuya JB plays with the other kids at SOU's 2007 christmas party

bag enamoured

She was so keen on having that pink Disney princesses bag that she gamely posed for it, of course mama thought of alibi's just so nothing is bought on a whim!

Here my daughter plays with the doll that her lola Pilar bought for her instead of the pink Disney bag (see previous photo).

Taken hours before New Year 2008 (ooooops! house in disarray, hehehee...)

mostly of Joy

Joy is a typical 3-year old, makulit na malikot and madaldal kahit bulol pa. Noong mas bata pa sya ang tahimik and very shy, she was to me a very fragile kid (even now kahit makulit at malikot na) she would cry whenever her kuya is being makulit. I even considered staying at home so I can take care of her, I was afraid she was not being taken cared (by the yaya) of the way I would want her to be.

I sometimes tell JB to look after his kid sister and not to leave her sister while they are outside. I told him as gently as I could, that some people are not good, that those people sometimes take away kids and make them work for money. My son of course is still young and he forgets some serious talks we've had but he did look after his sister most of the time more so if the yaya is not around. Joy is turning up to be a hardy kid like her brother. My fears after all can be set aside. But, of course nothing's lost in being cautious.
Joy loves to dance the "Marimar," it is the most popular cinenovela on TV's primetime these days.

Here is Joy dancing the "Marimar" even on the street!

Macalelon Public Market

From the mananahi we went to the market to check if there's still some fresh fish. Here's the banner for the town's fiesta we missed. It was over when we got there.

We love it when we are in Macalelon, 'coz there fish is not just a bit cheaper the fish there are freshly caught from the sea.

That was the first time JB and Joy watched how a fish is cleaned at the market.

Upon seeing the burger stand, the kids asked if they can each have a burger. Knowing that they may not like all of the ulam at dinner later, I agreed just so they won't go hungry later and then ask for midnight snack! If we were at home, midnight snack is ok, but in Macalelon the stores are closed by 7 or 8 in the evening. My kids really are not that picky, it's just that when it comes to seafood they like fish but they dislike crabs, prawns or shrimps, squids, octuposes, sea shells, etc. They only like fish, be it fried, paksiw, pinangat, inihaw, basta fish.

to Macalelon

We took some potshots while we were on the bus to Quezon and here's one of Joy and her Papa.

We arrived at my in-laws' home at around 2-3 in the afternoon. They were happy to see the kids, "ooh, they've grown so fast!""you're taller than your kuya," "you're taller than your ate, you don't look like a 3 year old!" were just some of the cheerful comments we heard of our kids. We'll they've got good genes! Heheheee!

After a bit of rest, we went to the mananahi for Joy's flower girl dress/gown. She was excited then was a bit disappointed when the yellow orange gown was handed to me so we can check if it fits Joy.

"Bakit hindi kulay pink?"

Our little girl have this fixation with the color pink. She prefers almost everything in pink. We learned the art of evasive alibis even white lies just so we can make her use not pink things. Were we glad when she acquiesced to wearing the orange gown. We were so relieved, 'coz she didn't like the color at all.