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Yesterday morning when I woke up, it was raining. Actually, the night before, it was already raining hard. Pop told me to start putting up my things just in case it floods. I raised my noodle stash, and some other stuff. I put Taba and Teacup on the top bunk as well. Usually when it floods here inside the house, maximum would only be 6 inches deep, so I wasn’t bothered. When the water started coming in, it was just coming in slowly. And then it was rising more and more… and it was rising fast. I told myself that I didn’t want to step in that murky water, but I had to.

The half-foot deep of murky water became a foot. And then more. And then it was knee-deep. Mama was able to save my clothes. I wasn’t able to save my shoes. They were already floating about. I tried to save some of the lower drawers, boxes, whatever I can save. I dumped them all on my bed. Some stuff were falling off the side, and when I knelt on my bed, it sank. My bed was floating already. I quickly got off. I’d rather it float than have it soaked.

The power went out as well. We were just using candles, and my UPS was still able to power up my router and modem. My netbook still had some life to it. Tried to go online for a bit to read up on what was happening to my side of the world. And if my colleagues were able to go to work. With chest-deep water and higher, some opted not to risk their lives just to go to work. It was just not be worth it. Even if I try to get a life insurance quote to wade through the waters to go to work, I’ll probably not go too, if I had work last night. Good thing it was still my rest day.

But now I’ve got to get some rest. I’ve got to sleep. I’ve got work tonight. It’s not raining much anymore. I’ll go to work. There’s no such thing as severe weather condition as a reason for not coming to work.

I know I’m lucky that the water has receded at my place. In some areas the water is still high, and people are stranded inside their very homes. For now, I’m good. For the others, I’m hoping for everyone’s safety.

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With people recently getting engaged (Momon and Ros, high school classmates) and clothes quarterlife crisis, I’m starting to think of dieting seriously. I know, I know! I’ve said this at least a hundred times… but this time I’m doing it! So far, I’ve been into it for 2 weeks already. There’s no noticeable change yet. I’m going to take this slow.

What am I doing?

I’m starting with breakfast which is actually my dinner.

I’m not going to eat rice anymore in the mornings when I get home. I usually feel so hungry after work that I could eat 2 cups of rice, depending on how good the food for breakfast is. I overeat until I’m satisfied. So, I’m switching to healthy sandwiches for breakfast. Well, just 1 sandwich. Two slices of whole wheat or multi-grain bread. Tuna or Egg spread (I know, the mayo -_-), and if available, other meat like bacon or whatever’s there on the table. AND! Lettuce, Cucumber, and Tomato.

I don’t really like bread, and I’m not into sandwiches because I get full easily. So instead of eating a mountain of rice, I just eat a sandwich, I’m limited to that and I won’t want to eat another sandwich unlike with what I sometimes do with rice. If for some reason I still feel hungry, I just eat a couple of more slices of cucumber and/or tomatoes and/or some lettuce.

I’ll start with breakfast! I also walk more now. I’ve got such a sedentary lifestyle that when I went out with Lori last time and played a few games in the arcade, my arm went sore. I’m thinking of incorporating maybe some weight loss supplements in this breakfast diet, so when I wake up, I can do the exit dance. I don’t want to take them after dinner because I don’t want anything funny happening to me at work.

We’ll see how long this will last!

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Originally, I usually only had one dog in my room, and that is Taba. But the past few weeks, Teacup, the Chow, has been hanging out in my room as well. I think this has a big impact on my air conditioner’s air filters. It’s becoming dirty faster, like every week, I’ll have to clean it. I’m getting tired.

So I kicked Teacup out of my room. She only stays inside now when my mother’s here too, playing on facebook. Taba stays in as well, whenever he wants. but Teacup sheds a lot more fur than Taba.

I’ve got favoritism, uh-huh.

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I have this ring that was given to me by my brother’s friend. And I thought I lost it last Saturday. It was raining so hard and I was running about to get under a shade so I don’t get soaked too much. It was past midnight, I was tired with only 2 hours of sleep and I was just wanting to go to bed. My ring kept on slipping off that time.

When I arrived home, I just threw my bag on my chair and removed my shoes and socks and shirt. I fell asleep the moment my head fell on a pillow. I woke up with a start a few hours later and realized that my ring was gone. I checked all the sides of my bed where it would usually fall off, checked all pillows, under the bed, inside the fridge, my messy desk… it was nowhere to be found. I ran outside to check the street, the gutter, the garbage dump, just to see if it’s there somewhere, but I couldn’t find it.

I really felt sad. I plurked about it. I tweeted about it. I cried about it. I blogged about this before since I thought I lost it a couple of years ago. I really thought it was lost. I even started checking out websites where to get puzzle rings where I was surprised to see a lot of designs like some with dolphins or certified diamonds… They were all beautiful, and I was really about to order one, had I figured out faster how to determine my ring size.

Well, yesterday, I knelt on my bed and felt something poking from under the cover. Hope filled my heart as I inserted my hand inside the hole on my bed cover to the middle of the cushion… and I found it! My ring.

So it wasn’t gone after all. So much for being so emo about it.

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Papas been bugging me about borrowing my flash drive because he’s wanting to install windows on their computer which is currently running on Ubuntu. I do have a 4gb flash drive but it’s personal and I’ve got stuff there and there had been times when he gets the computer infected with viruses when we had the old desktop on Windows.

Promotional flash drives, anyone willing to share? Haha, well, I told Papa that I’ll lend him my flash drive at P500/day. Of course he didn’t agree to that. Well, it’s up to him. I told him to just buy his own since it’s about the same price, but he doesn’t want to. Blah.

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I didn’t include how I just LOVE the restroom in G5. The greenness is soothing. I sometimes just go there during my break just to un-wind a bit. The 3 shades of the green glass tiles have this effect that makes me feel calm and peaceful and happy. Yes! Happy. Like a little giddy and excited to face whatever’s coming my way when I leave the restroom.

Ever went to a place that just being in that place makes you feel that way? I don’t know as well if I’m the only one who feels this way about the restroom. When I first saw it, I said, “Ooooh it’s so pretty!” and then whenever I go there and I’m alone, I activate all the flush thingies in the toilets and the faucets. I’m wasting water, yeah, I’m bad. But but …. it’s just fun. I don’t do it all the time though.

Do you have a special place at your work place, too?

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A month ago, my new team officially moved to Glorietta 5 or G5. I’ve gotten used to the new location already. It’s not that I was getting lost going to the place, but rather inside the building itself. But now I’ve figured out the fastest way to go to the restroom, making the automatic flushing thing of the toilets work, the automatic faucets as well. I’ve gotten used to the super cold lounge as well. They’ve got really nice and comfortable beds in the lounge, but the couches just really prove to be warmer to sleep in. They shouldn’t put comfortable office furniture in a place meant for employees to sleep in if they don’t want it to be used that way. Or maybe we just haven’t gotten over the PBCom lounges wherein we really used the couches for our beds.

I thought it was going to be a lot cheaper going to and from work since the building itself is near the Ayala MRT Station, but the part where I get off from GMA-Kamuning station and walk to Kamias Road is about 10 minutes of brisk walking, and sometimes I end up taking a cab from there which triples my transportation cost.

It would have been really good if the station was closer to my road. If I weren’t so lazy to walk, my total transportation expenses would only be P42 both ways. Instead, I take an ordinary bus which costs P18 or P20, depending on how fair the bus conductor (the one who collects the fare) is. But really, it should only be P18. So, plus the P7 for the jeepney, my total fare is P50 to P54. I know I should be taking the train instead to save money and have some exercise, but I really prefer to be relaxed and smelling good on my way to work and not extra tired on my way home. But at least there’s less traffic and I’ve got better options in case I wake up or leave a little late. I can always take the train if I have to.

The food is just fine. At first it was really good, the food served in the pantry. They were in big servings and delicious. Not to mention a lot cheaper than the PBCom pantry food. I thought it was too good to be true. True enough, the food started to become less in portions and not as good. But at least it’s cheap. It’s funny that we sometimes go down to the lower floors’ pantries because they might be better, but it’s not. The grass is just greener on the other side. So I just stick to my floor.

We have guest concessionaires like Wendy’s but by the time I take my lunch, usually they don’t have much left anymore. And there’s not a lot of places that are open 24/7 near G5, unlike in PBCom. But I guess I save more money since there’s no McDonald’s nearby. I haven’t been able to try looking for Starbucks. I know there’s one near the building, I just don’t know where exactly since I use my lunch to take a nap. I judge a Starbucks branch through their coffee jelly.

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