happy happy new year everyone!!! *yehey* *fireworks* *kablog*
ive made a compilation of some of my pics chronicling memorable highlights in 2004.
and although ive had some big dramas last year, it was still a very good year for me,
and i look forward on what's instore for me this year 2005!
id like to ask everyone to offer a prayer for the many victims of the tragic tsunami in southeast asia...
God bless us all. thank you.
~ blow me away ~ geri lamented [+] Sunday, 2nd of December 2004, 18:26 pm
i had my first"multiple opponent" exercises as purple belt tonite,
it was nerve racking, as you have to go passed thru 3 padded guys,
who will be blocking your way and sometimes will be grabbing you as well, and so you
have to hit them and push them away (or you be trapped) and run
whenever you can so you can reach the other corner but then once you reach the "other corner"
you still have to go back from where you started and go thru the same process again.
it was extremely exhausting, and scary.
but after like 30 minutes (and a very short break) we had to do "multiple usages" which is quite similar to the first one we did,
the only difference is you dont have to run for your life and you can take your time kekekeke
and we took turns too so i also got to be one of the attackers as well,
i actually feel more confident attacking someone, coz you just attack like give a straight punch and then you dont
have to do much afterwards coz you just let the person sort of defend himself or herself for the matter.
the only bad thing about it is you basically just let him/her beat you up thats all! kekekek.
it was good fun though, i just hope i wont have bruises tomorrow coz i still have a wedding to attend to on friday,
and bruises take days to disappear -_- oh well, if i do get one ill just probably put some concealer on it or something.
who cares about bruises now, my bigger problem is: i still dont know what song to sing for janiz' wedding... bugga!!!
~ blow me away ~ geri lamented [+] Wednesday, 8th of December 2004, 22:13 pm
1st strike:
i ate some paper today O__o uhm incidentally. well i went down to d back office to get some paperwork, and pete gave me a pack of nougat.
i love nougats, it was the hard one though, so i even joke that i might break my teeth or something, i was thoroughly enjoying my nougat but halfway munching d pack i saw that it actually had a very thin paper at the back like a covering or protection and ive been eating it too ahahahahaha
hesitantly i showed to pete and asked if it was indeed paper. and he said: oh gee, looks like weve been eating paper havent we? *chuckles*
i continued munching it anyway, with paper and all.
2nd strike:
i am from a tropical country and therefore i have less tolerance on collllddddd. i think if i live in alaska id die.
me and tracey always find ourselves freezing in the office, tracey by the way is not asian like me, but anyways, we would alternately adjust the aircon (when no one is watching) and we'd turn the heater on *kekekekek* whenever we pass the corridors to the toilet. but Graeme our big and fat and grumpy sales manager would turn d aircon up again when he passes by. i would just know it coz i would have goosebumps THIS high. and i would again sneak out of my office and adjust it.
oh but today i got caught :P
3rd strike:
i mentioned Graeme being fat and grumpy earlier, well u can add, racist too. my boss said he should retire already ahahaha but hes olrite i think (some other times) hopefully id learn to analyze and "adjust" to his attitude soon enough. i think hes just old fashioned, he thinks women are hopeless and will always be d weaker sex, worst for him, he has to deal with me, hahahahaha earlier i had to clarify some quotes with him and on my way to his office i realized i was still chewing this "mint chews" yummy lollies that my boss gave me (he bought me a pack) but the lolly gets stuck on your gums and in between your teeth when u chew it and it doesnt melt straight away, not reli smart of me especially that i was about to speak to him, anyways, i couldnt go back coz Graeme saw me olridi. so there i was discussing with him, with a big bulge on my left cheek. and trying desperately not to laugh.
the things you do when youre 24.
sorry, the things i do, i mean.
~ blow me away ~ geri lamented [+] Friday, 1st of December 2004, 15:22 pm
its almost 7 days now since i turned 24...
but guess what? ive never felt so much better.
this year has proven to be one of the most dramatic and the most uhm,
colorful yet should i say for me and the fun continues :P
although i got some reli nice and some very expensive gifts from yous guys.
here are the ones thats touched me d most!
1.) getting my purple belt (a gift for myself) i love my new weapon!
2.) getting Bel, my new teddy, hes not only a cuddle bear, he will also help me
when i have cramps and stomach aches, coz he's got wheat inside his tummy that u can heat up in d microwave.
oh i love him already ahahaha.
3.) My cosmopolitan ultimate quiz book (but of course), from vikay, sent all d way from sydney, with post it notes and all. charming!
4.) my belated birthday card from mama, she just handed it to me today, the message was so nice and the things that my mom wrote
made me cry. i am so lucky to be her daughter. shes d best mom in the world.
i have so many things to be thankful to. my family for their unconditional love and support,
my wonderful wonderful friends for always being there, and for putting up with me ahahaha, and so much more.
God is so good to me. i hope i can share the many blessings i have to others.
coz even if my achievements may not be uberly great to some standards, i believe its more than anyone can ask for.
(it also helps when ur happiness is shallow like mine kekekekek)
and now i only wish for one more... and that would be...
whatchatink? you go have a guess!!!
~ blow me away ~ geri lamented [+] Monday, 30th of November 2004, 00:51 am
hapi bertday to mi, hapi bertday to mi hehe
yay its my bertday bertday today.
oh my gosh am 24!!!
i wanna thank my family and my friends
for greeting me today and also for those wonderful pipol who greeted me by phone call, sms, email, snail mails.
thank u so so much!!!*sniff*
hope u can all be with me on my party this saturday.
huggles everyone!
p.s. tomorrow im going to grade for my purple belt!!! yehey! i hope i pass ^-~ (haha i dont even know the philosophy yet, oh well cram cramm cramming time again)
~ blow me away ~ geri lamented [+] Tuesday, 23rd of November 2004, 19:15 pm
im gonna be 24 very very soon. exactly uhm, 6 days from now. yay!!!
i was talking to my bestfriend vikay the other day, and she was telling
me that when she was a lil girl, she thought that anyone aged 25 was like really really old olridi
and shes gna be 25 next march so were like tingalingaling!!!
and my colleague at work said that once u hit 25 u just go downhill -_-
but im only gna be 24 so ill just wori about dat issue next year ahahaha
actuali, i cant wait to be 24. coz im gna be soooooo grown up then!
~ blow me away ~ geri lamented [+] Wednesday, 17th of November 2004, 23:11 pm
i had my fone repaired yesterday, coz the camera's broken, i cant seem to take pictures anymore (maybe bcoz i take
tooo many pics its finally given up olridi ahahaha) unfortunately they didnt have any spare fones for me to use, but my warranty is only till next month,
so i decided to have it fix now *the pain*
but luckily i have successfully negotiated with my mom (as always) to use her fone temporarily say till my birthday, so i still have easy contact with the outside world,
and also, i will start sending my invite next week and ive written my fone number there for RSVP purposes and therfore i really need to have a fone within that period. yeah yeah :P
sighs, i think i miss my fone olridi, but a few weeks sacrifice will surely save me some hundred dollars next next month.
~ blow me away ~ geri lamented [+] Thursday, 14th of October 2004, 14:11 pm
i think my lunar alignment is pretty off today.
i went down the back office to help matt with some interstate paperworks
and lan who just came back from her holi-holidays offered me some of her sea weeds.
i actually dont like sea weeds, but since she was raving about it, i gave it a go.
i was thinking its something similar to that rice cracker with sea weeds
that i liked back in sydney, coz once u went pass d sea weed, its not that bad anymore.
but this one that she gave me (its actuali korean made) was just plain dried sea weeds,
and while i was opening d pack i was contemplating hard whether to eat it or not, coz i had this gut feeling u know,
and daniel was like holding his breath kekekekek
and then i bit it, and i stopped and i puked. it was awful. worse, there was no water around coz u have to go out the other side
or go to the top office which is anoder building, but it was raining hard, so i felt like crying.
i was desperate, all i know was that i needed to take that taste off my mouth.
anyways, i saw a plastic of resin bread, and i decided to make a toast, coz that could help, but just as i was about
to get it, matt said, "i wont touch that geri", and i asked why and he said, "that breads been sitting there for months"
O__o
but i had to do something or ill feel really sick so i kept looking for anything. and i found a vegemite jar, and i opened it and took a dip and ate it.
and i realized i dont like vegemite too, so i felt like banging my head on d wall, but finally i saw a peanut butter jar (thank God for peanut butter)
that saved me *sniff*
lan was asking me later that day if i liked it and i told her, NO.
at lunch time, i had fish again, usuali if i have fish i wont put it in d microwave to heat it
coz i know it would smell, but after the earlier incident, i just wanted to enjoy and savour my lunch.
and i was right, some of my colleagues were complaining about the smell afterwards in the kitchen ahahahaha.
well theyre were not reli complaining, they were just asking, who was having fish for lunch, and that they
cud smell that distinctive fish smell. watever. same thing.
wat can i do? i cant eat chicken (at d moment) coz im friggin allergic to it.
can u imagine someone having allergies to chicken *ugh*
and i love fish :P and im pretty sure ill have fish again tomorrow ahahahaha.
and oh, hanh called me up just now, i was telling her wat happened and she told me
that what i ate is supposed to be cooked first.
*twaaaaannnnggg*
~ blow me away ~ geri lamented [+] Thursday, 11th of November 2004, 23:59 pm
i went to church this morning and was prayed over by international guest pastor Dr. Ananda Stira,
apparently this man died 3 times already but is still remarkably very much alive today,
and he actually guessed im suffering from skin allergies at the moment (cant eat chicken and some shell foods *torture*) but theyre only in some areas of my skin and are not that visible so am like "huh?"
and he added that ive tried putting on some expensive medications to it already but theyre still not healing and he was right
so i was really surprised. (how do you explain that?)
also our church band rehearsal is now finalized and will happen this tuesday night, up at Maida Vale (wherever that is) in preparation for a big show this December.
anyways right after church, my lovely friend Phoung asked if i could drop her home and i ended up staying over for lunch and she cooked this yummy vegetable meal for me,
in our country we call that vege "kangkong" but the vietnamese cooks it differently, its quite easy to cook so i might cook some next time.
but just as we were finishing our lunch, her friend larry came over with his adorable baby girl Kim, and we decided to have a "te a tete" and then siesta.
i left almost 5.30pm already, just a few minutes after Phoungs kids got home.
and oh, i almost had a kitten today too, phoung and her daughter claudia was going to give me one of their gorgeous kittens, it was sooo cute, i was inlove with it,
but i already know im not allowed to have a cat coz we have birds at home and a dog, but i tried anyway so i called home and tried talking to my parents if i could bring
the kitten home. i tried reverse psychology, uhm emotional blackmail, sweet talking what else uhm, begging and more begging... didnt work waaaaa, so am a litol broken hearted *sniff*
claudia's still optimistic though and said she will give me the kitten (with ribbons and all) when i have my b-day party instead hahahaha. wish her luck guys!!!
~ blow me away ~ geri lamented [+] Saturday, 7th of November 2004, 21:18 pm
mavic celebrated her 22nd birthday at heatcote park today and we had a ball *yay*
the last time we were there, we terrorized the swing and the slides of d kidz playground,
but this afternoon we managed to invade the ropes and the fallopian tube slides (is that how its called?)
and the other holes (that we can possibly fit ourselves into) as well :P
bwahahahahaha victory!!!
~ blow me away ~ geri lamented [+] Saturday, 6th of November 2004, 20:42 pm
my dad bought me a puppy stuffed toy today *yaay i feel love!!!*
its soooo cute, ive decided to call him Klaus, pressuming of course that he's a boy, but then again you never know :P
now hes gonna have to squeeze in with Cookie, Kuhanh and Russ the Bear in my litol bed,
hmmm but i think hes settling in already.
...charming :o)
~ blow me away ~ geri lamented [+] Thursday, 4th of November 2004, 21:59 pm
the world today, as viewed by yours truly. our first stop, australia, we had the famous "melbourne cup" the race that stops the nation, and while my boss and colleauges were watching seriously in the board room TV,
i was happily munching my lunch, reason being, i didnt bet anyway.
next stop, the philippines, it is "all souls day" after the more popular "all saints day" yesterday (its more popular coz the latter is an official holiday and the former is not), i propose we have an "all geri's day" too! and that should stretch up to my birthday hehe
and third and last, USA, the presidential election day has finally come to an end. i wonder who will win?
meanwhile... (on a more personal note) i wish i'll have the time to finish off my escaflowne drawing... before it only takes me 4 days the latest to finish one,
now this one has been sitting on my desk for over a year already. ive been so busy focusing on other things (some not even that important)
that ive sort of neglected one of my real passions -- drawing that is. and its always therapheutic.
i was showing some drawings to my little friend claudia on saturday night and the look of amazement and fascination on her face was like u know master card's
"priceless" thingie *twaanngg* ... its probably because theyre all cartoons ahahahaha but her mom was telling me im her hero at the moment *sniff*
kinda scary but i know that the span of kids hero worshipping phase doesnt last that long anyway, so it should be olrite :P
but i think that mainly is the essence of having a talent or a gift... doesnt matter which field at all,
whats important is you inspire or touch people by becoming the medium or the instrument, by sharing what you can do, and what you can make "others" do.
~ blow me away ~ geri lamented [+] Tuesday, 2nd of November 2004, 23:19 pm
i must say, perth beaches are more beautiful than the beaches in sydney :P
i was invited to a beach party last sunday, i thought since i havent been to any beaches here in perth,
i might as well accept the invite and so i asked marissa, bryan and mavic to come with me coz i dont really know
the birthday celebrant that well and the last thing i want is to be OP kekekek.
came sunday morning and i got this call from mavic telling me she couldnt make it at all.
but since we were all ready (the 4 of us, me, marisa, bryan and the little mariah), we decided to go anyway.
we got there 1pm and we're like 2 hours late hehe (typical).
i saw adrian, the birthday guy playing volleyball, i was a bit hesitant to go to him coz i was scared of getting hit by the ball,
i was hit once before, it was really hard, the left side of my face was almost bruised
so im kinda scared of them volley balls watever. but i finally came to him anyway and greeted him happy birthday,
he said he almost didnt recognize me O__o
what the heck! kekekek and then i introduced marisa and bryan to him.
he told us to make ourselves comfortable and blend in with the rest of d jabronisis but we didnt feel too friendly that day or something,
we were so fixated to the beach, coz it was actually all our first time to go down the beach here,
we decided to just have our own picnic, i brought some foods from mama's birthday party the previous night and marisa and bryan had some drinks and chips
so we were kinda packed anyway.
after putting some sunblock lotion, we headed straight down the beach :-> the weather was beautiful, not too hot and not too cold, clear blue skies, and soft sea breeze.
i wished i had a white hammock, and an ice cold red bean bubbletea right at that moment, and i could have been settled already.
and there were hardly people swimming so it was like we had the beach to ourselves. we were enjoying so much, i forgot about adrian *tweng* and by the time we finished,
i coudnt find him anywhere anymore T-T and we sort of left without saying goodbye.
later that night i had a miscall from him, i didnt hear my fone so i rang him back, i realized we were quite rude, me the most, coz i was the one he invited
in the first place. i apologised to him (me bad bad)... he said he was looking for me and was asking his friends like an idiot if they saw me and i thought huh? if he could
hardly recognize me how much more his friends, i dont even know any of them.
but still, i should have stayed a lil bit with the rest of the jabronisis before hitting the beach.
oh well...
anyways, here are some pics we took at floreat beach! summer is finally just around the corner ^-~
~ blow me away ~ geri lamented [+] monday, 1st of November 2004, 23:32 pm
ive got gazillions of email adds, half of which i cannot even remember the password or the username
anymore.
although currently im using GMAIL as my official email (and why not when it offers 1000MB space)
im thinking of switching back to one of my yahoo or hotmail accounts.
reason being, i think GMAIL uses spyware, well i can be wrong, but its not far from possible since theyre a web based
email service. i might revert back to yahoo, but i just found out tonite that my other hotmail account has gone up to 250MB (whilst yahoo is 100MB)
uhm confuses me litol head coz how come my original hotmail account is still 2MB, what the feh!!! hotmail should make up their minds
and go 250MB all the way (but of course!)
ill most likely continue using GMAIL for my ever reliable email forwards and other emails e.g. unpaid accounts and stuff kekekek,
but i will choose between my yahoo and hotmail account for my personal or private one.
but, speaking of "Private"... everytime i hear that word, i always think of the movie "Saving Private Ryan"
NO, it was not one of my favorite movies, i didnt even finish watching it but
years ago when that movie became a hit, our school newspaper made a spoof of the
title and made it into "Shaving Ryans Private" instead.
hmmn very educational.
~ blow me away ~ geri lamented [+] Wednesday, 27th of October 2004, 23:00 pm
happy 51st birthday to my beloved Mama!!! me loves u always. muah and huggles and kisses and huggles more.
~ blow me away ~ geri lamented [+] Tuesday, 26th of October 2004, 01:50 am
my big boss gave me the position i wanted last thursday *yay* hapi hapi joys joys.
actually, our admin manager wasnt really keen on giving it to me, he wanted someone more experienced, coz its quite
a complicated role.
the new role comes with more responsibility and maybe more stress again, but my current position at the moment is sooo brain dead, im going nutso.
im so bored already, you can tell from the amount of emails you've all been getting from me lately.
i will have my own room, so ill have more privacy --> to email some more hahaha kidding
but once i start training for my new role id probably go incognito for some time and just focus on understanding the
role first before i go *easy breezy* again... if its work, its really work for me.
i still have to proove to them that i can do the job. ive done it once, i can do it again kekekek
i think my problem is, i look and act really dumb sometimes (can you just imagine if i was blonde?)
i usually have this blank expression written on my face when someone
is talking to me or explaining something to me, and they'd often think that i am not paying attention or i dont understand what theyre talking
about at all. but believe it or not, most of the time i do... maybe i just have a strange way of showing it or a different way of listening or something.
its quite embarrassing actually. but ive always been like that.
that's why i dont blame my admin manager for giving me this job with misgiving. oh well :P
by the way, my congratulations to my young friend anthony for becoming the new finance manager of our Victoria branch!!!
dont know bout u guys, but im gonna be super extra nice to this guy coz apparently hes going to do my tax returns next year for free ahahahaha *yay* lucky! lucky!
im outta here.
~ blow me away ~ geri lamented [+] Monday, 25th of October 2004, 00:54 am
i broke my nail at kung fu today, it hurts!!! T-T
~ blow me away ~ geri lamented [+] Monday, 18th of October 2004, 23:10 pm
my dads hooked into collecting dvds of (tantsaran) Star Trek the TV series and now (guess what?) hes added Star Gate *falls off my chair*
dont get me wrong, but i do watch some episodes of these 2 star/space inspired shows (when nothing else is on TV),
but to actually collect them nyay!!!
i have underestimated my dads fascination or maybe obsession,
and now every fortnight, we wont only be watching star trek, were gonna be watching star gate too waaahahahahaha.
torture. fun.
not that we really have to watch with him, but you should see how his face lits up when hes about to watch it right. and
you end up watching it with him anyway.
oh well, if it keeps him happy, why not. at least its not "the days of our lives" or bloody "the bold and beautiful"
~ blow me away ~ geri lamented [+] Sunday, 17th of October 2004, 23:57 pm
+++
ei guys, am sorry i went on an uninformed hiatus last week.
and have not blogged at all.
a family friend died in his sleep last sunday night at age 27, it was quite a shock,
i actually saw him a few weeks ago, and even sang with him. it was quite disturbing.
noel was buried last friday... it was really really sad, but we shouldnt dwell on this things.
on a much lighter note, i went to a bbq yesterday and had a good time. we played at d kidz playground
and my bully instincts came upon me *lols* there was a lil girl on d swing before we came,
and i asked her if we could have a go, it was obvious she didnt want to go yet, but she didnt really have a choice
bwahahahaha.
vince managed to record us when we were gliding on the slides, some pipol were curiously
looking at us coz i think we were the only adults playing there ahahahaha
then again, oh well!!!
P.S. apparently just after we left, a guy stabbed a man eating his breakfast or lunch (for no reason, he just felt like it -_-)
at mcdonalds, which is just a few meters away from the park. gessh, talk about psychos...
~ blow me away ~ geri lamented [+] Sunday, 17th of October 2004, 23:13 pm
ive been asked to join a band, and its one band that i like ^-^
and i said yes already, initial rehearsals will be finalized next week
so i hope i dont stuff up or anything :->
i was actually planning to sell my microphone, my "bilabid" shure B58,
for 2 reasons, i dont use it anymore and i can do with some hundreds extra at d moment hehe but
that is if im lucky enough to sell it.
if i dont meet my cut-off price limit then i wont sell it. hmmmnn we will see...
and i think most of u have taken my quiz already, but if u havent, its not too late yet *lolz*
click "here!" (go alert!)
and finally (on a more serious note) the election mania in australia is over, with John Howard
winning his impressive 4th term as Prime Minister.
i coudnt vote yet so i kept my mouth shut on certain political opinions but ive been
silently observing the 2 candidates in the past 6 weeks of their campaign, quite fascinating...
it was obvious, that both parties "liberal and labour" have got calculated self interest.
but i do agree that its not the time for experiments in the highest political job
in australia so i was glad that john howard won again, for all his flaws,
i think he has presided over a flourishing economy w/ low inflation and interest rates for australia.
and then next month its the US election, tsk tsk.
scary but these leaders of super power nations, will greatly influence the
future of the world. I pray that God will give these "leaders" the wisdom and the heart
to serve their country with honesty and integrity and implement justice without prejudice.
but since i have not exercised my right to vote at all, even
in the philippines (coz i never had d opportunity yet),
i feel like im not a citizen of either of
the 2 countries >-<
but even so i pledge my loyalty to both the Philippines and Australia.
i was actually very happy when chou told me that the phil. congress succesfully
passed the law for dual citizenship. so when i get my aus. citizeship early next year,
ill be able to retain my Filipino citizenship
:-> and i dont have to renounce my heritage after all...
~ blow me away ~ geri lamented [+] Thursday, 10th of October 2004, 15:56 pm
im trying my best to learn how to speak slower so that people can understand me,
ive had too many complaints lately (even before, am just ignoring them ahahahaha) that they just
cant understand me at all
it has always been my problem, talking fast...
so i told myself, ill practice to speak more clearly and slowly and maybe start at work
like when i answer my calls.
(phone rings) me: good morning patrick lostifhik logtik bllee pwe! client: (laughing) you ok? me: im sorry (laughing)
(phone rings again) me: (ahem ahem) good morning patrick lgistifs am sorry logistics geri speaking! (crap)
(phone rings 3) me: (inhales, exhales) good morning patrick lo-gis-tics geri speaking! (sounded like a retard -_-)
(phone rings strike 4) me: good morning patrick yogistics ahahaha sorry logistics geri speaking (i give up)
i realized i cant actually pronounce words properly if i say them slowly, far out!!!
i probably need to go back to grade school or something. humhum ladida...
~ blow me away ~ geri lamented [+] Thursday, 7th of October 2004, 21:37 pm
nyay! im singing in a wedding!!!
a big one, my friend janis will tie the knot on the 10th of december
and shes asked me to sing a song waaahahaha
golly here we go... im not about to embarrass myself again, so
ill skip the "four weddings and a funeral" theme song this time
and opt for something more decent :P
im thinking jazz perhaps? lolz.
kinda ambitious.
ive never sang jazz before, i mean not in front of many people, but i do love classic jazz songs,
i think theyre really romantic and perfect for weddings *sighs*
but on the other hand, i think my voice is not very jazzy, i dont think its soulful enough to sing jazz
and i may end up murdering the song instead.
but im giving it a go anyway. im singing ella fitzgeralds "at last"
oh i love that song.
wish me luck-luck!
~ blow me away ~ geri lamented [+] Tuesday, 5th of October 2004, 21:05 pm
im going to the royal show yehey!!! i havent been there for the last 3 years...
ive always wanted to go but for some reason, i couldnt make it everytime ahahaha
its either im having a gig, or my friends are not going, but yay im finally going this year hehe.
its actually opening this week i think. i am so excited. si-hing rhys was asking
me this morning if i like all the rides and things, you kidding? im crazy about rides and stuff.
they're one of my favorite cheap thrills (well theyre not really cheap figuratively speaking) but
i love the thrill and the momentum and most of all, i love heights,
i love the feeling when you are up there overlooking the view below, and then you go
down. fast!!! it makes my inside go whirly whirly, but its really fun ahahaha.
and you can just scream your head off like theres no tomorrow so yeah.
but i will miss my bestfriend teresa when i ride one this sunday.
she is really really scared of heights, but every year, when we have this masskara festival, she would ride with me in the ferris wheel for the hell of it,
and everytime where at the top, id rock and wobble our seats and she would panic until she's teary eyed already.
i cant wait for sunday ^-^
~ blow me away ~ geri lamented [+] Thursday, 30th of September 2004, 22:27 pm
i finished off my stay at burswood with a formal dinner party with some hundreds of Biochemest
from all over the world, although the program was pretty boring (the speaker was talking about his underwears,
like hello? too much information) we still had a great time ^-~
marini asked me to be her partner for the night and so from work i headed back to the hotel
to change to our "dress" but because dressing up always take such a loooong time, we ended up
coming to the party fashionably late ahahaha good thing the party started officially late anyway, so it was ok, but
i was so hungry already.
later on, since marinis company was the organizer of the said event, i volunteered to help on distributing
the balloons (one per table), coz apparently one balloon's got the grand prize in it.
the funny thing was, after giving out the balloons to all the tables, we realized that we forgot
to give the "prized" balloon, and marini's boss asked if i could exchange it to one of the tables.
we decided we'd give it to the table across ours, so i went there
but when i asked if i could exchange their balloon with mine, one of the lady doctors snapped at me,
she was like, "no! i dont want to exchange my balloon with yours, this is the grand prize!" and i told her,
i dont think so, and was actually hinting them that ive got the lucky one, and the lady beside her was telling her to swap the balloon, but she snapped at her too O__o
she was saying, "ok! if you want to swap it, you go swap it!" and so i just said to them, "oh no, its ok!
don't worry about it, ill just give this to another table!" and i went back to marini's boss and told
her what happened and she said to just give it to any table i like.
by that time i guess, that lady doctor realized she's made a big mistake on turning me down, and the other doctors
were motioning to me to swap again, but it was too late, ive got my pride you know ahahahaha. i deliberately went pass their
table and gave it to the one in front of them. hehe *tough!*
the program finished off with a nice jazz band and after dancing with some doctors, i decided to go home, marini wanted me to
sleep at the hotel but i didnt have any work clothes with me ahahaha, all in all it was fun
some pics from the party...
~ blow me away ~ geri lamented [+] Thursday, 23th of September 2004, 21:52 pm
Can this get any better?
spring is finally here and the weather is just beautiful. The sun seems to make
any color of nature more vivid than it already is.
and i particulary like driving in the afternoon with my window down, and play smashing pumpkins "Today" really loud and singing along with it
while the soft wind blows my hair. it's like nothing bad can happen to you!
and it just keeps getting better ^-~
im currently staying in a five star hotel for the next 2 to 4 nights - for FREE!!!
compliments of my friend Marini. their company is having their global convention at burswood convention centre and she's asked me if could stay
with her at the hotel for the next few days hehe!
and with all the birthday parties this weekend and the following weekend that i have to go to (the invites are still coming)
i dont think i even have to worry about feeding myself ahahahaha (how come so many people were born in september?)
oh well, thats more reason to have fun!!! life is indeed, beautiful! God bless everyone!!!
~ blow me away ~ geri lamented [+] Saturday, 18th of September 2004, 15:31 pm
i've been given a second name today! pete came up to see me to get some of his paperwork and as we were going thru the pile, i commented how all the workers have got second names and i
dont kekekek, and pete said he will think of one for me, and after a short pause, he told me that from now on my second name will be Louise. im now called Geraldine Louise,
or Geri Louise or GLG *twink* and now everyones calling me Geri Louise, even my big boss ahahahaha.
hmmmn, ill go with the flow and adopt it for now. i hope Geri Louise can get away with sending naughty jokes...
~ blow me away ~ geri lamented [+] Wednesday, 15th of September 2004, 19:40 pm
I declare Mondays my "winge day"!
first off, i started my new role today without any idea what i was doing.
i basically jumped in the job cold. i was hardly trained and deep inside i was trying to stop myself from panicking.
so i was forced to really use my brains and common sense today ahahahaha.
the painful part was, my new role involves some accounting, as in NUMBERS
like hello? thats the main reason why i took up mass communications, so i didnt have to study
MATH coz im really crap at it T-T, oh well ill found out soon if ive stuffed up anyway.
but i survived my first day. and that's all that matters i suppose :-)
i think i actually like my new role, except for the math thing (obviously),
coz after all the dramas ive been thru with my previous position, its a nice change for me.
up at the front, its more peaceful, its more relaxed and its not rush rush rush all the time
and i dont get bugged with so many queries and so many phone calls and so many clients
and so many people lining up waiting for me.
but... what im gonna miss the most working down there is working with peter.
my dear ole pete, i love pete. he is not actually my direct manager, but our work is greatly connected.
he's really funny, and very direct. he wont hesitate on telling you what he thinks
and he adores his grandchildren and fondly talks about them, especially Spud and Nate-Nate
and the Drama Queen and he reminds me so much of santa claus hehe.
peter has always looked after me, he calls me "ger" or "kid", coz when i first started working
down there 2 and a half yrs ago, i was so skinny and someone said i looked like a 14 year old good looking boy ahahahaha.
and ive sort of grown up in there, that's why they're all very protective of me.
i know he was not happy on my transferring to the top office, not because on the career side of it,
but more on the bonding that we all have down there. aside from pete, theres zelda, and my dad and paul and matt and the rest of the guys
that ill surely miss... *sighs* but it shouldnt be that bad, im still in the same company, same location, just different building.
and oh before i forget, i will also miss calling the sweet sweet dianna :P
waaaa this is getting too emotional for me... *twaanngg*
but they know i'll always care for them no matter, and they will always be dear to me.
so i guess i'll sleep on that thought :-) and i say, goodnight goodnight to everyone.
~ blow me away ~ geri lamented [+] Monday, 13th of September 2004, 23:45 pm
i was watching the aerial championships on TV with my parents, when a commercial about
learning how to swim popped up.
i knew my dad was going to say something, but i was secretly hoping he'd let it pass,
i was keeping my mouth shut and pretending it was just another advertisement, but i should know better ahahaha.
he's told me so many times before that i should really try to learn how to swim. he would stress on the importance of
knowing it (like i dont know already) and i think it frustrates him a lot that im not doing anything about it.
but i am trying :P (well maybe not enough) i love the ocean but im just scared to go in it past my knees
coz i dont know how to swim. i dont even know how the heck i passed my swimming class before.
i remember when i was in sydney a few months ago, we went to bondai beach and
vikay would ask me to go with her further from the shore and she would even hold my hands but once the waves reached us
(and wed get smashed in d processed, as in SMASHED) that was it, we'd be separated and id go tumbling over to the shore and believe me,
it wasnt a very pretty site (talk about loosing poise) but we would just crack out laughing afterwards anyway.
hmmmn, well summer is coming soon... maybe i'll learn it this time.
i need more motivation, uhm, another holiday perhaps?
~ blow me away ~ geri lamented [+] Sunday, 12th of September 2004, 16:32 pm
tanstaran!!! i finally finished the new lay out of "the blog" (yehey!!!)
after some 4 late nights of doing MAJOR alterations, its now up and loaded and ready for my rantings
again and MORE rantings to keep you guys enlightened *twink*
a warning to my new visitors, like most blogs, the following entries are "subject" to contain excessive rantings plus emoticons/emotions (eg. ^-^, ^-~, O__o & ahahaha, wink wink, *sighs*, kekekeke)
and from time to time you might encounter some ODD looking words -- just ignore them, they're most likely misspelled only.
in some cases, you might even find yourselves incredibly lost as to what the heck i am blabbing about -- (just keep reading) it usually is nothing serious or life threatening, unless its directly addressed to you, then yeah...
im still half way through redesigning "the old guestbook" but the TAG board will do (for now)
ill blog some more later.
~ blow me away ~ geri lamented [+] Sunday, 12th of September 2004, 13:40 pm
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