Poke Your Face

I just remembered this particular wowowee scene I have watched the past few days where the contestant answered "Poke Your Face" instead of Poker Face. I find it funny and decided to have the title of my post for this blog. Haha (It's not related to Wowowee though...)

Anyway, it's my third absence in work this week. (I need to mention this... Thanks for the medical certificate, Bets! Hehe.) Tomorrow is supposed to be the fourth one in a row for I got a text late this afternoon inviting me to an exam and interview. I got so excited that I texted some friends about it. I was so prepared to have another absence in work when I got a reply that the company that just invited me for the interview is said to have a bad record as an employer. So the fun stopped there. I wanted to poke my face.

Going back to my life... I dropped by Canon in Pasong Tamo early this afternoon before heading to Summit Media for my second interview only to find out that my lens' flex is broken and I have to spend Php1400 for its part and repair. Toinks. Poke my face again. I need donations. In cash or in kind (only accepts new Canon lens for 1000D).

Poke your face. Po-po-po-po-poke your face.

My 2010 so far...

So far, I feel very glad and lucky that opportunities are here for my 2010 bucket list. I feel that I need to update this.. add some more goals, especially now that my stars are aligned. I will really really think what more to aim this year. For the meantime, here's the update with my bucket list. :) Expect to have different looks of my list everytime I update. Hehe. Click the pic to enlarge.

Wow Mali?

I don't know if these experiences were part of the show Wow Mali. Or sadya lang na may mga batang gago?

I took the public bus coming back to Manila after the New Year's and was dropped off along EDSA-Cubao. It was already dark. Few people were walking along the streets. Indeed, the ambience was like may-estrangherong-snatcher-sa-kanto-at-may-manggagahasa-sa-dulo. But I was not scared. All I was thinking was to go home, watch TV and be consistent that riding a public bus to and from Pangasinan is long and tiring. Then, a kid suddenly came out from a sack lying on the middle of the bangketa saying something like "bulaga." Shet. What the hell?

The next one was just half an hour ago. Still hot and fresh from the oven.

I didn't go to work today, because I am "sick." So while walking along Taft Avenue this afternoon, two to three dirty kids suddenly went out from hiding from the bushes of McDonald's! Goodness gracious!

>.<

Please let me know if you've seen me in TV. I might not be aware that I am already famous.

Halik Sa Lupa

Woot. Woot. I just came from a free 3D2N trip to Punta Fuego courtesy of my employer. Sarap! Syempre, una, kasi libre. Secondly, it was really really nice. Very relaxing. Beautiful. A love.

The experience was really a halik-sa-lupa. As what I mentioned in my "To Dos's" blog, I am aiming to experience beach and be able to go out of Region 1. So far, fate has been very kind to give such opportunity for me.

Savoring the beach was halik-sa-lupa, because I am not much of a beach-lover. Syempre, kung Bonuan at San Fabian beaches lang naman ang nararanas mo, hindi talaga maghahangad ang isang pessimistic ng beach. This time, parang naisip ko, gusto kong parang luho ang beach. Dati, wa ako care kung hindi man ako makarating ng Boracay. Iba na ako ngayon.

PS. BTW, the beach experience could have been a photography experience for me as well. But my Dslr suddenly stopped focusing. At first, it was only having a hard time looking for a focus. Then after a shot, it gave up. And until now, it still doesn't work. Sad.

Work-In Progress

Solomon Guest House

My sister and I went to Solomon Guest House for lunch yesterday. Though it's my second time around, it felt like it was the first time.

I could not remember much on my first experience in Solomon other than the oh-so-delightful Tiramisu. So other than the fact that CSB students are the ones who cook your food, it's just the Tiramisu that's stuck in my head. Even the menu layout and content yesterday were new to me. That's when I started to get a hunch that the restaurant depends on whichever batch or group of students to do the business.

Yes, CSB students serving you from ordering up to the billing was something new to me. As what my sister described, she's like in a Jolly Kiddie land. Students running and manning the restaurant. Cool. To have an OJT or a course like that, it's really cool.

I don't really know much on how the HRIM course runs in College of St. Benilde. But I assume the cooks are Culinary students and the waitresses and waiters are Hospitality students.

About the experience yesterday... I am sorry to say that I was disappointed. And for a first-timer like my sister who expected a lot because of my Tiramisu testimonial, it was totally not a love. Sorry, but I have to say this... The Tiramisu we ordered yesterday was totally not like the Tiramisu I ordered the first time I went there.

Nevertheless, it could be a fun practice for Simon Cowell-like people to visit Solomon once in a while and judge every group assigned on that particular period.