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Okay, healthy-healthy tayo kunyari…Bobby, Kiko and I joined the gym — oo shocking I know. Maybe not really for Bob and Kiko at active naman yung dalawang yon e, but for me? This is really a huge step and commitment! Well, anyway the monthly fees were quite reasonable. The gym may not be as fancy as 24 Hour Fitness’ facilities but they have practically anything you would need, well don’t take my word for it, I’m not exactly a health buff so…well anyway, they have daily classes: kick-boxing, spinning, yoga and lots others.

I decided to give yoga a try last Tuesday, I was skeptical at first coz I tried it once, we have a DVD at home. Nakakainip sobra! I didn’t even have a mat so I used whatever was there that was used by everybody — oo nakakakilabot, so if ever you try it, bring your own mat– I don’t think it costs a lot. Anyway, the warmups were fine –  I thought ok, this is easy. When we started to move along, pahirap na ng pahirap. Sometimes I couldn’t even do it. Well what would I expect? But the instructor kept iterating that it is not a contest — you should listen to your body — naks…ok so I just did what I could but still minsan nanginginig na ako sa hirap. But afterwards? Wow ang sarap ng pakiramdam! I really felt relieved of a ton of stress…I could fall asleep right there.

For folks who do not want massages bcoz you don’t like the feeling of someone touching your body, this is a great alternative.

The stork has dropped the sweet little angel Kathleen Alyssa last September 22, 2005 1:01 am 7.4 lbs. Dada and Mom are coming home tomorrow from Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City. Kamille is spending the night at Tito Bob and Tata’s. Just wanted to share the great news with all of you…Congratulations to Dada, Mom and Ate Kamille!!!

Okay, before folks start thinking about any wars going on at home, let me clarify that everything is okay, no need to worry. It’s the title of the new TV series I’m sure I’ll be watching this season. OC just finished and it came right after so we decided to give it a few minutes to see if it was any good. Yep it was. Go see my blog entry at BarangayAmerika for details.

Sorry to have been out of touch for a couple of weeks sobrang dami kong trabaho, actually I feel this is a break right now not thinking about it. Even if I still have a lot of deliverables left. I’ve been sleeping at 3am for the past couple of days to finish quite a bit of work — don’t think this will make me rich, wala kaming overtime pay — just to be able to catch up at least but I feel like I’m still in the same amount of shit (sorry for the word) since I started. I have not even been able to open my personal email the past couple of weeks and have been dreading doing so because I might see there is already a ton of emails I need to respond to. Gosh! I hope it gets better soon, I don’t know how much more stress I can take. To add to it, my manager called me for being late at one of our meetings since I was at another meeting that ran over.  Maybe I should get one of those Treo’s or Blackberry’s? Recently, the only way I can remember anything is if it is in my Outlook calendar. Sometimes I feel like need a reminder to remind myself that I need to remember something.

Anyway, there is a loophole. Outlook is only useful if you have your laptop with you. When you’re at a lunch meeting like the one where I was, I didn’t know I had another meeting right after. Shoot! Another problem with it is early in the mornings, you can’t even tell if you have a meeting or not unless you turn on your computer and check your calendar. It is just tedious and I’m whiny. Well, our work email requires VPN access and the bootup process isn’t really quick.

I hope that there is something that would not require me to dock the gadget to get the calendar, the idea of docking to get data is still kludge. It means you still need to be remember to get your reminders.

I know, I know I’m just trying to justify my likings for yet another gadget. "You need a thousand reasons to justify something you like — you only need one for something you don’t". Or is it the other way around? Now I’m confused. But I haven’t figured out if getting another gadget to stick in my purse is a good idea nor do I know which model is okay and does it solve my problem and if it is money’s worth spending, please I’d love suggestions.

Finally, the week is over. I just finished my last deliverable for the week and am so ready for the long weekend. Woohoo! Labor day sa Monday kaya walang pasok…wow salamat naman…I really need a break. I feel I’ve been on a rat wheel at work, not getting any of my planned things done recently, lalo tuloy exhausting ang pakiramdam. Sometimes I feel no matter how hard you work, there is still the same amount of work left to be done as when you’ve started. Yeah I think I should take it easy. Still haven’t figured out how though.

Anyway, I just finished work (3am na pala) and no matter how late it is, i couldn’t sleep anymore, I guess I’m way past sleepy. So I just decided to write something here. Even if I finished late, it felt great coz the work I just finished was for the communications we sent to our customers who were affected by Hurricane Katrina. Our general manager approved giving 6 month free subscriptions to our customers in QuickBooks Online Edition who have been affected by the calamity. See our groups’ blog. One of the things I love about Intuit is that they really do reach out to the community. It feels great to be working with people who knows that the smallest things can make a big difference.