Maxim Christmas party 2011

We had our christ,as party last dec 16 at SMX SM mall of Asia. I was an usherette for the first time. After some pilit and me being pakipot, i finally gave in. On one condition, that our theme should be SAILORMOON. Thinking that it will have more impact if we dress up as sailormoons rather than individual superheroes. And true enough, it was a hit. Im sharing some pictures.

23 days to go!

23 days to go before christmas! yey! so excited. though i wont be home in Baguio this christmas.

this song gives comfort though.

Merry Christmas everyone! =)

Madison!

i saw this girl on America's Next Top Model latest episode. boy oh boy! she know's her stuff!. im almost 30 and i cant even do my own makeup. But i say patience is a virtue. with time and moolah i can do it too! feeling nagdadalaga lang ako! hahaha!

you guys can check her out in youtube. i learned swimming thru facebook, maybe i can learn to do my own makeup thru youtue too!

you can find her here!

on my way to kikaydom

Now that im older and more adventurous, I would like to delve into the world of makeups or anything kikay that will enhance one’s appearance. Ive been boyish most of my life. Being insecure and all and now that im older, I wanna try to do something im not familiar with. I getting interested in makeups and nail arts. I often watch my collegues put on makeup am im just like a kid watching putting on eye shadow and then erasing it with tissue. Silly and naïve me! Hahaha!

Upon research and reading so many beauty blogs below are items I wanna purchase for my kikay kit:

1.    BB cream – I fancy the Tony Moly and Face shop although I haven’t really tried any of them. I am currently using the cheapest BB cream on the market which is the Maybelline. Works fine with me. Tint really suits me since im on the morena side.

2.    Marrionaud brush – according to the blog I read, works fine and its cheap too!

3.    In2it blush – review says that it stays on the cheek all throughout the entire day. No need for retouch.

4.    MAC lipstick – any shade, any matte

5.    Loose powder/face powder– ive tried in2it but ive got to try fanny Serrano. Told y aim on morena side and his products are made for Filipinas.

6.    Eyeshadow – would like to have Human Nature’s line. Cheap and earth friendly too.

7.    Eyelash curler – shu emura if I have the budget, Fanny Serrano, almost same as Shu Emura but cheaper.

8.    Charms brushes – cheap and complete set of brushes.

9.    Nail polish – any bright colored nail polish. Just to keep me entertained when I get bored waiting for friends.

Diving.

I want to put this into words. Hoping one day it will come true. Oh im so positive it will. We had a taglayan session last night. It was fun, cool, light hang out with the peeps whom I missed so much. Parang may kanya kanya na rin kasing buhay. I wanna do a lot of things now. Number 1 on the list is diving, why diving, coz, rare lang ang magblog ng ganito. Rare din ang gumagawa neto. At bago pamaubos ang mga isda at masira ang lahat ng coral reefs, I need to explore. If everthing goes well, by 2013, apol and I will go to tubatahha reef and explore! Woot! So excited. Hopefully, a little toddler will come along but only mommy and daddy will swim with the sharks. Im so excited! I wanted to do something new. And I think that this is really it! Yey! Thank you Lord for this wonderful experience of seeing you beautiful creation.

 

(Nike) We Run Manila 10k

my race result

Finally results for the nike we run manila already came out. As you get older, short distances become longer and harder to finish. Although i was slow running my last 10k, glad lovey and i finished strong at 1 hr and 22 minutes. Hubby was a bandit but still glad that we came running with me. Without him, im not sure if i could finish the whole 10k.

waiting for gun start

reunion with the future triathlete. its been a long time since ive seen one of our closest friend, xerxis.

our own after party. too bad we couldnt stay long to watch the concerts. we needed to fill out tummies. :))

Hit Girl

Our Christmas theme for this year is Superhero or "I need a hero to that effect". So now im thinking of being the "Hit Girl" from the movie Kickass. She's just a kid with a "balisong" or hand knife as her main weapon.


Ain't she a a truly kick-ass beauty?

Diving

Oh! how i miss the underwater. Or even miss swimming. Been raining a lot lately and been busy with work so i didnt have the chance to practice swimming. I saw a pretty good deal at beeconomics.ph.

http://www.beeconomic.com.ph/deals/metro_manila/up-to-57-off-on-diving-packages-at-el-canonero-starting-at-p7550/715872403

here are more deatils:

Highlights

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• Accommodation, Breakfast, Welcome Drink, Transfer Return, Scuba Diving inclusive of Dive Instructor, Equipment and One Dive

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• 3D/2N Accommodation, Breakfast, Welcome Drinks, Transfers (White Beach-Resort-White Beach)
• Excellent Resort for Family; Secluded White Beach) Beach Front, Secluded Beach, Fridge, Aircon, Swimming Pool, Seaview Terrace

El Canonero Diving Beach Resort

Talipanan Beach, Puerto Galera
Puerto Galera 5203
http://www.divingresortelcanonero.com/index_eng.html

El Canonero Diving Beach Resort presented by Groupon Philippines

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Hey Santa, i would love to have this deal.. puhleezzzz???????

RIP Steve Jobs

RIP Steve Jobs. Thank you for making our world a better one.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much.

(This is a prepared text of the Commencement address delivered by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, on June 12, 2005

SponsoRUN Mo 2011

October 02, 2011 @ 5AM
The Mills Country Club, Carmeltown, Canlubang, Calamba City
3K/5K/10K/20K

After months of lying low on organized races, I've joined SponsoRUN Mo, a scholarship fun run organized by the Alumni association of Dualtech. What's nice about this run is it aims to share giving quality education to the less fortunate young boys, and provide them with academic, technical and spiritual formation as we have experienced from their Alma Mater.

Read more: http://www.pinoyfitness.com/2011/09/sponsorun-mo-calamba-october-2-2011/#ixzz1ZcmHLfxd

As soon as the invitation from our HR came out, i did not hesitate to join this event. I signed up for 10k run even without having a practice run since the Philippines is being attacked by storms. And of course, the company paid for our registration fees and transportation. i was sleepless the night before the event. Slept at 10 pm, woke up 11pm, then 12am and then 1 am and finally when it hit 2am, i got up and headed to bathroom to take a bath and then change my running gear. Obviously, i was that excited. One more thing is that I'm finally seeing Carmelray Business Park and i say that it is a beautiful and well maintained business Park. The roads are long and straight and best of all, no humps! I can also say that it is a sosy place beacause they have their own country club inside, The Mills Country Club.

The Mills Country club entrance flocked by exhausted but happy runners.

Beautiful pool and i couldn't resist touching the water. One minute more and i could have jumped in right to the pool! hahaha!

More photo-ops and i would like to thank my co-runner Jules for patiently taking pictures of me. Photo addict talaga!

SponsoRun Mo lootbag! So many stuffs given away. :) running was well worth it! Not in picture was the goto/lugaw. Thank you to all the organizers and sponsors for another successful run. Hoping to run again next year!

hello there

been very busy for the past months so was i was not able to send out updates about me.
life's been very good this year. ive gotten married to a very wonderful and loving person.
My lovey and i are blessed to visit my beautiful provinces here in my beloved country. spent lotsa times with my family and sister.
Though ive been busy there are still lots of plans that i wish to accomplished this year though. my priority would be to have a little angel to complete my new family. That would be the Christmas gift ever but i still believe it would come in God's time (fingers crossed).

So long for now, i will let you know more about me these coming days. :)

Every gising is a blessing!

Got the title from ogie diaz tweet this morning! and i couldnt agree less. Thank God for another day! My big day is coming up. and am so excited about it. though a lot of things are still pending (flowers and cake) im praying that everything's gonna be alright on the wedding day. im so lucky to have a great sister who is helping me out. we are handling it well. positive vibes only. so happy that May is fast approaching. also, im new to twitter. so much positive vibe in their and i have no regrets of having my own account. so happy to be surrounded by happy and beautiful people. tagay!

Ramdom thoughts 411

• Thank god for the warm sunshine outside. gitta get those melanin working. oopss, forgot to wear sunblock though..


• I want to cook and bake and saw be the classic house wife. take care of my husband and kids.


• I want to go to the beach.


• i want a 6 room apartment. that is where my income will be coming from.


• I need to work on my financial wellness plan. ASAP!


• Im getting married soon. I will tell about the details. later, most probably after the big day.


• ive been running for three straight days now. whew! im loving ett!

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Happy new year everyone!

May the God Lord continue to bless us with only the best!

Cheers!