Newbie.
So the start of the Ber season-which, if not for the late slew of typhoons plaguing the country on a weekly basis, would have ushered in the dry, chilly Yule season which happens to be the only season I’m truly giddy and happy, with moola or underfunded-has arrived, and while this post is a week old past the official harkening, it’s only because life has been a tad busier than usual, and my only respite is to retweet, laugh out loud at tweets, cyber stalk, watch pirated DVDs, or re-read Gaiman short stories, in that order; but not to blog. Blogging requires a more active role: I have to think, type, recall and most horridly, be entertaining while making sense, so this took quite a backseat.
But that exhausting first paragraph being the opening salvo, I’m on a blabber mode, so a few updates to past posts:
1. That additional credit card application is epic fail, with the lot of applications I’ve sent out being ignored (a week is usually a gentle reminder that CC companies might deem me too unstable, cash-strapped or otherwise irresponsible to be able to maintain more than one). Which is sad, because my top reason for trying to get a new one is to ensure immediate confirmation on seat sales, in order to grab next year’s low fare promos. Which is just as well, since:
2. I did manage to book flights online (my first time to do it, as usual) with an OTC payment with a pre-determined expiration date on payment, but sadly, only my grand ambitions at another out-of-the-country trip before the year ends took flight, but not the actual execution. Sched conflict, flight availability, and too poor planning-well being too poor, if it came to that-got in the way. BUT:
3. I have a new Blackberry phone! I’m 27 and my first time to have a postpaid subscription. Yeah, I suck at these things as usual, but I’m easily swayed, and an offer of a free BB provided I agree to a 24-month lock down period where I’m given unlimited surfing powers and more than enough load to last me for 30 days were the prime suspects at making me commit. I’m being eaten whole by all the apps and downloads and the actual marvel that is BBM and OMG wait for this: actually tweeting from a phone, but slowly getting the hang of it.
4. Jerwin signed up for a condo unit near Sucat. Our last week was spent being driven on oculars and model unit viewings, and a tempting 14-month wait before RFO (ready for occupancy) turnover (that’s December 2012 babeee!) along with DMCI’s resort-style execution of their projects clinched the deal. We’re thinking a weekend home while we maintain our Makati apartment, ambisyosa! Provided we save, and not buy anything and scrimp and NOT EAT FOR A YEAR, then all our grand furnishing and decorating plans might actually come true. Check it out: http://www.rhapsodyresidence.com/
5. What’s also new, and this on the funny side, was purchasing my first ever DVD set of Pinoy soap opera. I am now a proud owner of a 4-disc DVD collection of one of Kapamilya’s unforgettable teledramas: Iisa Pa Lamang. Katherine (Claudine), Isadora (Cherry Pie), Scarlett (Angelica Panganiban), and Aura (Susan Roces) breathed life to a Devil-Wears-Prada slash Gossip Girl level of bitching and scheming and killing, so my after-work hours (that’s 3am-7am kiddo) are filled with endless rewinds of memorable lines. Which reminds me, the most recent film I’ve watched with the same brand of bitchy retorts is Star Cinema’s No Other Woman (Anne vs. Christine? Cam Onst, pak na pak!). But nothing beats my JIRD’s favorite killer line. I can do no justice writing about it. Thus:
Have a high-kickin’ week, all!
