36 … AND STILL A STREETKID January 18, 2009

I’m 36 now.  I am,  in many ways and to many people, a relic from ancient times.  Haha!
Too bad I don’t feel it. I was, in reality, much older when I was 25 and carrying the full weight of my ambition on my shoulders.  Goodness!
                      
Life’s a lot simpler now.  I just assign myself one major [...]

LIVE LIKE A ROCK STAR December 19, 2008

                     
The truth is, I could die now and it wouldn’t change anything.
I have nothing to live for.  No one to live for.  No reason to work hard or to make the kind of money I do.   
The meaninglessness of my existence has been facing me every morning, when I try to decide whether I should [...]

OVERCOMMUNICATED December 4, 2008

Facebook is making me feel claustrophobic. 
Yes, that’s how antisocial I am.  Even a networking site can make me want to run away and hide! 
It was my fault to begin with, of course.  The result of updating regularly and then uploading my Sydney photos with half naked men on them.  I woke up the next morning to find more than 60 comments on my Facebook [...]

NONSENSE IN THE GARDEN November 24, 2008

So, we were eating arugula and a virtuous vegetarian pasta and sipping dalandan juice in a pretty garden.  But we sounded like we were on our third pitcher of frozen margaritas in some sleazy bar — shrieking while other diners looked at us askance.
“Oh my god, he was hoping for a threesome!” “What the f…?”  “Then she really is [...]

HAPPY CORNER November 11, 2008

This is my management team. 
I should be worried, right?
But believe it or not, these people are some of the most gifted television producers I have ever met … running what are factually the most awarded programs in the country. 

This shot was taken inside the boardroom half an hour before we made an important presentation. 
Sure, we have a high stress, toxic office.  Bad [...]

SUGAR RUSH October 7, 2008

Been craving Coffee Bean’s banana caramel cake, which is topped with a very thick layer of what looks like pure sugar. 
Just had two slices.

And all the glucose in my blood’s driving me up the wall.
Can’t think straight.  Can’t concentrate.  Can’t remember things.
I forgot about my meeting this afternoon.  Which made me check my notes and realize I’d said [...]

GREEN MINDED September 7, 2008

I was at my gym yesterday, watching the big game from the treadmill surrounded by noisy, sweaty guys. 
And I found myself cheering for De La Salle. 
I didn’t feel disloyal.  I was making up for years of discriminating against my archer bros. 
Because most of my life, logic notwithstanding, I believed that La Sallites were generally stupid poseurs.  Conditioning that came from [...]

CARE PACKAGES August 10, 2008

I’m carrying a lot of love in my suitcase.
Or maybe I should just say, a lot of PALAMAN!
                        
My island team is craving familiar spreads for breakfast.  They’re starting to tire of spicy food.  They’re getting homesick. 
I’m the lucky one who gets to fly in and out — not that I have anyone to come home to or leave, anyway [...]

CHICK THERAPY July 14, 2008

Camped out in the living room this weekend.
And had a blast.
Mounted my very own chick flick festival. 
Mean Girls.  The Devil Wears Prada. 
Pride and Prejudice.  Memoirs of a Geisha. 
Before Sunset.
The final episodes of Gossip Girl’s first season.
        
Then went shopping.  Major league shopping ala                                   Blair Waldorf, haha.
Capped it all off with a slab of meat — a wondrous, seriously substantial steak at Friday’s. 
Went [...]

CONFESSIONS OF A WANNABE GIRLY GIRL July 2, 2008

I’ve never been a girly girl. 
Never liked pink.  Never wore make-up.  Never had pedicures or my eyebrows threaded. Never bothered to condition my hair or shave my legs regularly.  Never put on skirts or dresses or low cut anythings because I didn’t want to remember that I had stubbly legs and stretchmarks behind my knees [...]