Thursday, December 16, 2004

Tayo na sa Antipolo, at doon maligo tayo!

*Stolen from a big, white, hairy man's blog. (Forgive me. It's Thursday and it's my last day at the office for the year 2004.)*

THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. Jo - born with it, adopted by close friends, abused by the Boss
2. Joan Ong - short, simple, as common as Jane Doe
3. Jong - born in the INQ7 office, my office e-mail address

THREE SCREEN/PEN NAMES YOU HAVE HAD:
1. Odessa - my pen name in the Filipino essay that I wrote in 4th year high school that um...managed to um...win a trophy (stupid grin)
2. Sporty Spice - my favorite Spice Girl
3. Texas - long story

THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
1. ruminating
2. walking
3. listening to music

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1. my expensive authentic hand-carved Maori pounamu matau pendant from New Zealand
2. 2 silver rings
3. clothes - jeans, black t-shirt, expensive vroom vroom-giddyap boots

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS AT PRESENT:
1. Señorita by Justin Timberlake - What's so funny?
2. Chestnuts roasting on an open fire - my favorite Christmas song
3. Broken by Amy Lee and Seether

THREE NEW THINGS YOU WANT TO TRY IN THE NEXT 12 MONTHS:
1. have a 2-week vacation for the first time in 15 months
2. drive to Tagaytay or Batangas
3. swim like a shark - next time, just call me "Hammerhead"

THREE THINGS YOU JUST CAN'T DO:
1. swim
2. write a novel
3. sing through the mike in videoke sessions

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW:
1. sleep
2. go to the beach
3. hop on a Harley and get the hell out of here

THREE CAREERS YOU'RE CONSIDERING:
1. copywriter
2. artist
3. English or Literature professor

THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO ON VACATION:
1. New Zealand!
2. a secluded beach with clear waters and white sand
3. home alone

THREE KID'S NAMES:
1. Gabrielle
2. Sulu
3. Selena - I'm sure it's gonna be a girl.

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:
1. bungee jump, base-jump, or sky dive - "Face your fears," they said.
2. go to New Zealand
3. watch the Vagina Monologues in English and Filipino

Thursday, December 09, 2004

Beezly!! Yes, No-Heart?

I'm Bed Time Bear when my "Favortie Hobby" is drawing.

Which Care Bear are you?
First and Last name
Age
Favortie Hobby
Your Care-Bear
This fun quiz by spastic_kitty - Taken 1924 Times.

Diet or Light?


What kind of Dr. Pepper are YOU

Diet Dr. Pepper

healthy, but still has the caffine, and tastes almost as good as regular Dr. Pepper

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Tuesday, December 07, 2004

Merry Christmas to me.


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Monday, December 06, 2004

holiday humbug.

There’s the anti-Christ, the anti-venom, and...

The Top 5 ANTI-WISHLIST(or stuff that I don’t want to receive this Christmas, not on my birthday, not ever):

5. Desk lamp.
4. Fruitcake.
3. Picture frame without a picture or with a picture that comes free with the frame.
2. Girly shirt. (You’re waiting for a black eye if it’s with floral print.)

1. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (or The 8th Habit, or any variations of that crap).

Thursday, December 02, 2004

The joys of being 7.

It's Thursday, and I'm early as usual.
It's 8:07 am and I've been here for more than an hour.

They call it color-coding. Private vehicles with plate numbers ending in 7 or 8 are grounded from 7am to 7pm on Thursdays, but they can stay on the road before and / or after that 12-hour hiatus. Our dusty black Honda Civic with the scraped door (an injury it suffered after my battle with a cargo truck at 2am in Taft Avenue about three months ago) has a plate number that ends in 7.

So every Thursday, I beat the sun up and drive like hell to get me and sis to the office, after dropping off Ma at the park for her daily Tai Chi sessions. We used to take a cab to work on color-coded days and then commute home via bus and jeepney, but we finally got fed up doing that after battling with bouts of nausea several times.

So now I'm sitting here in my workstation, typing away on this here blog, soaking in the joys of being early, while listening to Jimmy Cliff sing about bright, sun-shiny days on Yahoo Launch Radio. This is perhaps the only time I get to post a long entry here, leave sarcastic comments on other blogs, check on Friendster and see if somebody has posted a new list of survey questions, and read some Xena fanfics.

Then at 5pm, my head starts to hurt from lack of sleep.

Gee, the weather outside looks like it has just lost a fight with Cerberus. Tuttut! Tuttut! Oh look, I got a text message at 7:30 in the morning.

Pa: No color coding today, jo