QIL - 2007 year-end meeting...

They're sooo cuteee...YAY!!!

QIL'ians

All remaining members of QIL (Queens investment and loans) were all together last night. It’s been a while that we all meet up. The last time we meet as far as I can remember was during the term of QA months ago. It has always been an online meeting thru email to update things and finally last night we all made it, all seven of us, in flesh.

It was a late night meeting since some of us had prior commitments to attend to. I thought, all along, I was the only one who’s late.

The reason everyone was there, is for us to finalize what we have discussed prior to the meeting. We have cleared some things and it’s finally ok.

We also managed to have a late xmas exchange gifts as pahabol. I got a zync shirt from QR. Thanks QR.

We had pizza as merienda!

The way I look at it, QIL is far from over. We may soon be in different companies in the future but QIL will stay for sure. I know how hard it is to run and maintain a group esp. if you deal with investments and loans.

QIL is a 2-yr old group and counting…..

Break the ice - part 2

"It’s been a while,
I know I shouldn’t have kept you waiting
but I’m here now"

That’s exactly the lines of brit’s breathy voice on the fourth track of his album blackout. I felt like I could easily relate to those lines. I know it’s been over a week since I last updated my blog and I’m aware of that. It has been a refreshing vacation I just had. 7-days off from work means having lots lots of rest, just exactly what I needed. Infact right now I gained a few pounds and i'm trying to get rid of those extra pounds.

I'm glad that i'm back, but not fully back yet, please bear with me. Anyway, I posted a few pictures days ago of our gala last dec. 20 at redsand. I'll post more in the coming days.

And btw, to all those who posted comments at my chatbox, to rexie, kat, krisJ, ner, kittie, fionixe, robin, charmed and J, thank you very much. I appreciate your effort in visiting my blog, i do. U guys i'll make it up to you!!! i know i haven't been able to bloghop, but i'm sure i will soon. Hang in there!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!!

Hajj Vac. 2007 Gala...

Break the ice....

I know I haven’t been able to update for days now. I’m trying and squeezing my brain on what to write and what to post. But to no avail. I feel like I have posted everything I wanted to post. There maybe some things out there interesting enough to post about but I don’t know what it is. Or maybe the laziness part of myself just overtakes the not-so-lazy part of me. It’s like I’m having difficulty concentrating on what topic to write. Although I still have the desire about my blog and I just can’t leave this blogging thing just like that.

Like what I said, blogging really helps clear my mind. Instead of like visiting a psychologist or a shrink, I might as well blog and write Lolz! I guess I just have to focus more and get motivated. As in philosophy puts it, without stimulus or focus, the individual is confronted with nothingness, the meaninglessness of existence, and experiences existential anxiety.

So what’s there to write about??? Britney, Britney and more Britney. Give me a break! It’s like I have written about her a lot already. Makes me wanna puke if I’d write more of her. Well, it’s her bday last dec. 2 and she just released a new video of her second single “piece of me” from her hot new album. The video? It’s amazing I just love it. Met every expectation that I have and the last 30 seconds when she starts dancing just gave me the shivers down my spine. She’s really back bitchessssss. OMG, can’t believe I just talked about her again. I’m sick! Wahhhhhhhh! LMAO!

It seems like my world is not cooperating this days so to speak. For one, the past weekend had been boring. I wanna welcome myself to the “boring-weekend-club” if there’s any. I wonder how people spend their boring weekends and have fun. Don't get me wrong, there is stuff to do. There just wasn't enough stuff to keep me busy through the weekend here, being that I always have to have something to do.

With two days of dissatisfying weekend. I have to do something. Don’t what to happen it again. Goshhh I don’t wanna think this would be the end of my social life. What I guess is that I am just another case of the too-much-partying gets u burned out kind of thing.

The other thing that bothers me now is the fact that I could not update my blog at the office. Since my personal account had been block by EY-IT. No yahoo, no google, no personal sites for me. I’m telling you it’s totally blocked. I have been updating my site at the office since I started blogging. How am I supposed to do that now? Especially that I could write easily when I am at my office desk more than in my room. There’s just too much to face in the house, too many forces I had to deal. It’s kind of like hard to do that at home. Do I have a choice? The answer is NO!

Well, believe me that’s more of the two things that bothers me now in a nutshell, a boring weekend and a no-internet-access for me at the office.

With these things in my way, I know for sure that updates will be a bit slow in the coming days. Esp. that hajj vacation will be in 2 days and I will have 5 days off with one itinerary during that 5 days. God, life can be boring. Lolz!

Anyway, I will try to post some pictures and a story for that next week.

BTW, who is the readership for this supposed to be??? BORING!!!

Early X-mas present....

It’s been days since my last post, my 100th post actually and so I wanted my 101th post to be something special. Not that I’m abandoning my site already, it’s just that I’ve been actually contemplating on what to post out here. Then finally I came up with an idea, something that I can actually call special. It’s about Christmas present, my Christmas present.

A few days ago, I got my early Christmas present from a special friend. Although we’ve been friends for months only, obviously for a short a time. I know that what we have is something for keeps, something that I can truly say our friendship is worth treasuring.

For the longest time that I’ve spent my xmas here in Saudi Arabia. It’s always me who’s giving but there are a few instances that I received gifts if I got lucky. But I am not complaining. Everybody enjoys Christmas presents, children and adults alike and it’s customary to give presents to each other very often.

They say, esp. people in today’s world claim that, Christmas is all about presents. I’d say no. It’s about making an effort to reach out to family and friends this time of the year. It’s very nice when people give presents to each other from love. It doesn’t have to be very expensive, it could be a small modest presents but it is important that is given with love and not from obligation.

As you can see, I have posted pictures of my early X-mas present and I really really like it. Just the way I like it. The billabong shirt, the havaianas flipflops and the hot new album of brit. WOW! I couldn’t ask for more!

To my dearest friend, I got this poem esp. for you.

Your friendship is a glowing ember

Through the year; and each December
From its warm and living spark
We kindle flame against the dark
And with its shining radiance light
Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

-Thelma J. Lund

Christmas is the most beautiful holiday of the year. It has a special charm. Peace, love, various traditional habits, Christmas carols and glamorous Midnight Mass participates on its joy, too.

I may have not experience all of this things for years anymore since I started working in KSA but the fun of Christmas memories will stay in me forever!

Having said all that, i'd like to finally say thanks to you my friendship for the gifts. Means a lot to me. I maybe light in saying gratitude sometimes but i really really appreciate what you've done, I do!

Merry Christmas to you and your family!!!

Blogging - 100th post...

To tell one’s story to the world is something that I have not dream of doing but here I am revealing myself and some of my thoughts out there to the open, that’s what I am talking about.

Today and this topic happens to be my 100th post since I started blogging 4 months ago and I thought I’d take the time to reflect on how it has impacted my life during the last 4 months.

Chris a.k.a. charmed one, has been encouraging me to have my own blog. Telling me how much fun it is to document some of your thoughts online. And then it happen one day that I decided to go for it and create a blog of my own.

At first I just wanted to make an online journal for fun and to have a place to post pictures of what goes on in my life. And for the most part, that is still what this blog is all about. Whether it is a photograph of myself having fun with friends or my latest happenings with them, or another photograph of my family back home. I like this blog to serve as my own personal photo album.

A few days ago, Jaleesa and I had a good conversation over the phone like we always do. We talked about a lot of things. How our friendship started etc etc. I told her how I spent a lot of time that day going through just about every post and reminiscing over the past four months.. Although my life is quite boring so to speak, I just can’t believe all that has transpired. From RAGI, my trip to khobar, my birthday celebration, rl’s b-day, my friends b-days, Halloween, all the dramas of my life and let’s not forget the recent anniversary celebration of jun and mark-it.

Documenting my life thru my blog has kind of been a daily routine for me since then. I love being able to update it almost everyday. I love being able to share my experiences somehow. I love getting comments on my blog. I am even learning to appreciate people and points of views that I readily condemned before. In fact, I find myself embracing many of them now.

And the thing is - I can always come and bitch about anything out my blog.
Sure, there are times when I need to regulate what I write because a lot of people who know me read this blog, but for the most part, I share whatever I want to share and keep it mostly light-hearted. It’s just some thoughts that I put out there, a way to record some memories and increasingly, a way to interact with other people.

It has been a surreal experience sharing so much of my life online and for the public to see and it's nice to know that some of my friends and blog friends are interested. Eversince I started blogging, I know a few of my friends have started their own blogs. They are much more fun to visit than any regular website. So this makes me an infant in blogging from the rest of them. I know I still have a lot to learn in blogging. But what I have learned is that a blog will do you no good at all unless you’re prepared to be open and honest about who you are and what you do. I know that there are risks in blogging. I just have to be careful who I talk about, taking pictures and writing about private stuff without permission. It’s common sense really.

But really I can't think of a better way to say thank you to everyone out there that is so nice and so supportive of me. And for somehow letting me post all your pix in my blog esp to those friends of mine who are featured prominently.

This blogging thing still I think it will be a lovely thing for us too look back on and see where we have been.

Frienship Mark-it....

Last Thursday was supposed to be the best day of friendship mark, which it did. We were all there to witness their moment. I just can’t believe how time fly by so fast.

It’s been a year that I got to know mark-it and how our friendship flourished into something personal. He pours out to me as I do to him. I remember one time I was crying so hard and he was there for me at my lowest of low. Mark may be young and all but he gives great advices and I thank him for that. It’s not always about me or about him, but it’s always about us, about our friendship, we compliment each other. He listens, I listen and vice versa.

I’m glad he had the opportunity to meet this wonderful guy who understands him in all aspects. They may have their happy and not-so happy moments but still they stick to each other. I was once a witness to all this or many times maybe. I’m talking about his partner JR.

Last Thursday night, while celebrating their anniversary at ranco, I was mainly focus on taking pictures of him and JR. It’s their night, their moment to celebrate after a year of sharing each others lives. I may not have a gift for both of them but taking some good pictures would do.

To u friendship mark-it: “Do what makes you happy. Life is not based on money you earn and the success you have achieved. It’s all about being happy with who you are, who you are with, who you’ve got, who you love and who makes your life worth living”.

Anniversary Pix Eklavu!

Pictures from last thursday's Anniv of Jun and Mark-it.