update??...

my last entry for the month of june.

nope, nothing new as useless... i just arrived this morning from Cebu to have a few days of bumming around the ol' homefront. should be back to work on the 4th of july (reporting for duty, SIR! gah, i don't wish...).

currently eating chinese grass jelly (odd, i can't detect any trace of grass taste in it. and yes, i've tasted grass. honestly.)... and listening to a sappy lurve song by Alistair Griffin: You & Me (Tonight). yeah, i have my sappy moments.

hmm... what else? oh yeah, yesterday was our last day in Basic Japanese Conversation. i still can't make heads or tails of the whole language if served to me outright. but am proud to say that i can formulate half-coherent sentences now, as long as it's something simple. like: dare to kyokai de ikimasu ka, or tomodachi to kyokai de ikimasu. and all that shyte... ahaha XD

end of post. Ü

hanging-out at Portofino...

last Saturday, our team went to Portofino Beach Resort in Lapulapu for team-building... some games, much food, goofing around, and just hanging out in general... to the right is a view of the beach with the yacht in the background.

some finer points of the day (eye-openers?): Uly being the typical chauvinistic guy T_T, Grace getting sea-sick just by looking at the beach front =P, and a relaxed Tony 0_o...

i didn't take a lot of pix, just some beach front scenes and one of the resort huts (with Chaos & Inda & Crystal & Michelle's back in the foreground)...


i went to the airport afterwards to see ivyJay off to Singapore... her sis Carrie & Kaloi's mom, Tita Inday was there, too. didn't take pictures coz didn't wanna show off the Treo & didn't wanna appear like a noob, too... =P wish i was also flying to SG that day... T_T anywayz, Tita Inday suggested we all go to SG for a short larag-larag this coming October... i really wanna go, even with the on-going personal financial crisis...ehehehe XD

ah well whatever...

another long one...

to start this post off, here's another pic of the condo behind Castle Peak hotel that i took while walking to the jeep-stop on the way to work... i noticed the clouds overhead looking suspiciously scenic and decided to get a shot.. i guess the result is not that bad, considering i used a crappy camera phone, VGA resolution to boot... although i wouldn't say that a treo650 is that crappy... but i can tell you some things about it hehehe (insert evuhhl laugh here XD)...

hmm, what else??... me and my mom went to Bohol last 26 May to go visit her mom's grave and make a follow-up on land transfers and such... didn't do anything much.. only took some shots of the Tubigon Cathedral ceiling art and one definitely NOT noteworthy subject: a pile of rocks. yep, rocks. i know, i am so not creative as i want to think i am. it's a fact. but i refuse to accept it =P. about the rocks... the cross-sectioning looked a bit interesting. found it at the back of one of my relatives' house. i guess it was being used for construction or some stuff like that... end the rocks topic...hehehe

so, nothing much about the Cathedral ceiling art. it's quite old i guess.. i never really asked my mom about it but it was there when she was young, and then the Cathedral looked like it belonged to the Spanish era. i tried picturing Bohol in colonial times and imagining the people in Spanish costume and such but can't. well, i suppose it must have been hard work, painting murals in ceilings... it all makes me want to go see the Sistine Chapel and all of Vatican. hope i get to travel the world sooner than later o_O...


and on a lighter note, here are a couple of pics of the stuff ivyJay bought back to me from Singapore! (and from Malaysia, too...) nothing much, just a shirt from her visit to Malaysia, a Petronas keychain, a lil memopad from Melaka and a Singapore keychain but i'm so happy(!).. luv ya lots, ivyJay!

wish i can be in Singapore awready so i can get to make "rampa" the Orchard road wit u!! and hang out in Sentosa... and pahrt-ay in Ministry of Sound and Chimes!! T_T

just u wait, Singapore!...!