Oodles of Kudos! – things that made me smile this year:
change of work, change of pace
commencing my Blog-O-Rama column
Blog interviewees who reply promptly to my emails
the twins going to kindergarten school (and loving it!)
Paolo’s joining the Boy Scouts, wearing his BS uniform and going on his first camping trip
i baked my first cheesecake (yummy!)
my first trip to Japan:)
my dream vacation to Palawan realized
male and female lanes in the LRT
blog comments (thank you, you make my day)
eyeballs with the Blogkada
SkyDSL
Skype, Yahoo Voice Chat, Google Talk (Anna Lyn in Norway seems so near:)
getting in touch with long-lost friends like my high-school, college buddies
best cellphone reviewed this year: Sony Ericsson k750i
best music player listened to: Sony Walkman NW-E507 (sorry, it’s not the iPod)
never-ending food trips in and out of the metro
weekend markets
three hula sessions with Mme. M
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bargain shopping galore and products Made in China
Citations for AWOTW
free blog designs from my friends
Switching to WordPress
kvetch ~ meaning, to complain. Some of the things worth frowning about:
having no time to cook (and not updating my food blog in the process)
reading nothing but chick lit in the league of titles like Bergdorf Blondes
domestic helpers from hell (my friends are so full of stories about them, and so am i)
taxi drivers who don’t know their destinations.. when they should
this publicist who told me : “but we expected more” in response to a half page story i wrote on their client-company (go ahead miss, buy the whole newspaper)
publicists who run out of giveaways during presscons
media friends na mahirap pakiusapan (it’s pretty frustrating to request 20x for a particular press release to come out and then nothing happens. that’s why i’d rather plant camote than be a PR.. again)
Blog interviewees who ask me to feature them and when the article comes out, I hear nothing from them (one word for you: user! :D)
People sorely lacking in etiquette and don’t reply to courteous and urgent emails
Blog snobs and bloggers with a false sense of importance
Supposed friends who enlist in email groups and then leave without a word
Supposed friends who delete you from Friendster without a moment’s notice
This investigative journalists’ organization (kuno) who did not even give me the courtesy of replying to my email when I registered for their bloggers’ conference (sige na nga, kayo lang ang magagaling magsulat. Go forth and multiply with your ‘racket’)
Insecure peeps like ‘Obscure Blogger’ who take it against other women if they don’t have a sex life and are unattractive to men (ugh!)
Office tsismis and office politics
This Chinese restaurant in Malate which works ‘magic’ on your take-out food: e.g. if you take take out 1 lb. of pata tim, it becomes 1/2 lb. when you get home (ang takaw siguro ng mga tao sa kitchen!)
hobo fashion overload
fuel price hikes and the corresponding increases in $ of commodities
(to be continued)
You had a good year! That is what counts.
Some obstacles along the way and bumping into “ingratos” — forget them and look forward to another beautiful year for you and your family. 😉
whapaak! tinamaan ako, aruy! I still have to reply ( email) …pero hindi naman urgent di ba? 😆 😉
kisses to your angels (bumabawi, d kita nadadalaw kasi)
sabunutan mo si thess haha nag itlog ball pala kami ni thess at yong ponget nya baby… gwapo mo lami mo tila kiss sa imo…
salamat for al…we chat almost daily na rin from norwegian food – weather have a reason to go back to oslo , also we plan to tour north west norway to the arctic circle, sorry inday ha gidukot na nako imo amiga..
sige inday malayo pa end of the year dag dag pa sa lista… hehehe gikan ko party mga pinoy diri (niabot ko didto 12 na, disco na human na ang mga speech )
Hahahaha Analyn. Galing mo talaga.
Sige sulat pa.
Hi Ajay! I’m glad to see you like SkyDSL. Just curious… if you would like anything changed about SkyDSL, what would it be? (Aside from the present price) [Kainggit naman ang Blogkada…] 🙂
hello ajay!
well, panalo ka pa rin naman…nevermind the ingrates, kasama yan sa buhay! 🙂 kumusta na? hope you had a good weekend!
Dear friends, as you can see I have quite a lot of kvetches during the year but many things to be thankful for too. The best thing is to laugh off the negatives and hope for the best which is the way it should be….
Sha and Anna Lyn, sana someday soon we can tour Norway and the Arctic Circle together:grin: and also to visit Thess in Holland and Anna B in South Korea (SK seems the nearest of all these)
Manuel, just been using SkyDSL for a few weeks, no glitches so far except of course the glitch in my wallet when I have to pay the next bill. 😀 Makes me wonder if you’re connected with Sky or just makig a survey, hehe.
It seems DSL is really sulit because the kids are learning to be online too and enjoying the best of the kiddie games.
Well, I hope so too ju! I would really like to go to the North take the Cruise sha is talking about. Hope that I would have the time this summer but if you or sha will come here, I will make time. 😀
A reminder for all of us to count our blessings!
That was an eventful 2005 ajay! well it’s not over yet. im sure you’ll be having more blasts before it finally closes.
:mrgreen:errr…. what’s your favorite color, miss sexy?
di pa kami nagkikita ni sachi eh; hopefully before christmas para makuha ko na rin yung pasalubong mo sa akon. merci bukubuku ha, inday :lol::razz: sige gagayahin kita gagawa rin ako ng kvetches con escaveche entry :lol::cool:
It would be a dream come true to take on the Northern cruise, AL!
Owen, advanced wishes for a happy and event-filled 2006. Hope we’ll get to travel more too.
Atinna, red ang favorite color ko ateng. Sige abangan ko ang iyong skeveche entry:grin:
Net, it was a great year right? 🙂
the kudos list always outweighs the kvetches 🙂
Very good reading. Peace until next time.
WaltDe
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