土曜日, 8月 27, 2005
Mixing Number 5 and Strawberries & Champaigne
Chanel and Victoria Secret should be paying me for this! hahahaha
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I accidentally spilled my perfume and so I rushed at Takashimaya to grab a new one. I'm this type of person who'd dare experiment on different scents. I just finished with a Christian Dior and I've been hearing so much fuzz on Chanel Number 5 for at least a couple of years now. I honestly don't like its smell so I never purchased one. To me, it's too classical. 'Twas around lunchtime and surpringly only the Chanel counter had an attendant so I went there and grabbed my first Chanel Number 5. Tried it the following day, but it was just aweful. The smell's just not me at all. It lacks vigor and a carefree aura. I wanted to throw the perfume away but on second thought, I wouldn't want to waste hard-earned money. So I looked over my lotion stocks. U-huh, I like lotions and body oils and tried the perfume with all what I have. Nothing seems to work until after a week I chanced upon Victoria Secret's strawberries and champaigne lotion. I didn't like it so much because it was too sweet and too fruity for me. I bought it simply because I happen to drop by a VS store in LA which offers huge discount [aaahhh impulse buyer!] Anyway, I tried it together with Chanel Number 5 and viola! I totally like the smell. I've been wearing that for about 3 weeks now. Two days ago I chanced upon a colleague of mine in the elevator. Busy as a bee, I didn't really have a chance to chat. Yesterday my colleague approached my cube and asked me 'what is the perfume you're wearing? it smells so good and it's so you and when you went out of the elevator, your smell lingered and it smelled so vibrantly elegant'...and I said 'ohh~ i'm speechless.' I told her it was Chanel Number 5. She said she's not familiar with the smell but she knows Chanel Number 5. And then I remembered the trick....I mixed it with Victoria Secret's Strawberries & Champaigne ~ viola, I feel like pink champaigne!
The moral lesson? Don't give up on something just because upfront it doesn't meet your expectation. Experiment! Work with it. Play it. Until you finally come to terms with it... this applies with human beings too, you know!
# posted by Unknown : 10:57 午前
Weekend dinner with Yuki
A totally toxic week couldn't dampen my spirit down! My schedule's been crazy with all the things I need to do at work but I was sure not to let my crazy sched ruin my dinner date with Yuki. We had so much fun together, and for a while I forgot everything related to work. It was honest girl talk and she actually gave me tips on how to make my life a little bit more colorful! Like bake a cake for someone special hahaha. It's crazy but she dared me to bake a cake for HB?! whoa!!! And she made me promise to update her via email hahahaha. It's crazy!
Heard there's no wedding bell yet for Yuki but they're thinking about taking things a bit further by living together. That'll be great because they rarely see each other, as usual because of work. But it's nice to hear that they're relationship is getting better again. I should have taken our pic together, tsk tsk sayang!
It feels great to have friends like her. Next month we promised to meet again and I said for a change I'll be visiting her in her office hehehe.
# posted by Unknown : 12:27 午前
木曜日, 8月 25, 2005
To laugh often and much.To earn the respect of intelligent people. To gain the affection of children. To win the appreciation of honest critics. To endure the betrayal of false friends.To leave this world a little better - whether by a healthy child or a garden patch. To know that one life has breathed easier...because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
# posted by Unknown : 9:58 午後
水曜日, 8月 24, 2005
Young Girls At The Piano
I never have imagined that puzzle portrait will have a long way.
This was the last jigsaw puzzle that has witnessed my depressions when I broke up with my boyfriend a long long time ago. I did finish this but I put this in a box and hid it somewhere in my old apartment in Fujisawa. Went back to the Phils to nurse a wounded heart, and then I finally decided not to go back again. After a while, Blesh asked me about the puzzle coz I think it would be either for bizarre or would go straight in the trash. Somehow the puzzle went back to me but I never did have the desire to put it together. Until early this year, when I was packing my stuffs to permanently settle back to Japan, I noticed this puzzle and I decided, what the heck, I'd bring it back with me.
Just last weekend, I thought of putting it together and framing it. I lost the paper that says its frame size and so I layed it section by section, and tried to estimate the size (with the use of the tape measure of course!).
I took my chance and purchased a frame and guess what, after 6 years of hiding in the dark, my Young Girls At The Piano jigsaw puzzle finally found its rightful place.
Who would have thought that this puzzle will find its way back to me. Moreover, who would have thought that I would still have the complete pieces after having traveled from Fujisawa-Alabang-Pasig-Mandaluyong-Tokyo?? And how lucky am I to actually find the perfect frame that would fit this puzzle. ...and oh, did I say that this puzzle actually took 6 years to put together?
If there is such thing as a miracle, then I believe this is one.
# posted by Unknown : 8:27 午後
日曜日, 8月 21, 2005
Say hello to the coming week!
OK. I choose optimism. Some things have been clear. I just have to do what I have to do. And this week, my plan is to say "Hello to the coming week?!"
I shall close the CP cleanup project this week. That will be one down. [cross my finger on this]
I shall release the SI cleanup this week. That's another dirt that I want to get rid of! [should get consensus from Yayoi-san on this]
Need to finish the Named Account List - EN this week! [betcha I will!]
Need to have SalesDir sign my subprojects contract.[I have to!]
Tom and Yusuf are coming and I would probably need to play a good host.
On Friday I shall have a great time with Yukiko, can't hardly wait to hear her stories 'bout her new job!
I shall miss HB this week. We've been catching up on each other lately. I admit it's fragile at this point but we both seem to have innate talents and mutual desire for rebuilding, so we'll just gonna be fine. But with the tons of work this week, I have my hands full.
I wish though that I could meet HB's Mom someday, I feel she's a very nice and caring person. It'd be really nice to have a surrogate Jap Mom, won't it?
# posted by Unknown : 11:30 午後
Introducing My Two Lovers!
My newest collection to my living room, a pink and a blue flipper! Perfect compliments to my pink and blue pairs of pillows!
I sure am spending most of my time enjoying every minute of my home.
HB laughs hard whenever I told him that I can live without ever going out. I have my DVDs, my flippers, my pillows, my red yummy sofa, and a small house that I proudly maintain on my own! What else could a girl ask for?
# posted by Unknown : 11:19 午後
Couch potato!
I've got all I need to be crowned as the Couch Potato Queen! - My recent collection of DVDs, some audio CDs, MDs, my iRiver, clocks to remind me what time it is, multitude of remote controls and flowers (almost drying up though hehehe). On an average of 4 DVDs per weekend, HB says I'm unbelievable.
Beside the rack is my 25 inch sony vega trusurround TV, my component and my all region DVD player.
All perfectly matching my yummy, red sofa...all's there but the potato, eh!
# posted by Unknown : 11:08 午後
My Caricature!
This is how the cartoonist at Universal thought I'd look if I was an anime character! :) How would I fare???
Except for the sleepy eyes and the wide forehead, I hardly recognize myself though ahahaha.
# posted by Unknown : 11:02 午後
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