BAD BLOGGER!

…raise your right hand! Pwede mag raise din ng left hand including both feet? Hehe.

Life has been really crazy for me for the past weeks. Ang dami nangyari sobra! How I wanted to share them but got no time at all hence my zero blog post for almost 3 weeks. Thank God everything is slowly falling into place now and hopefully, I’m back in regular blogging again.

I don’t want to go in details anymore, it’ll make me think lang of those sleepless nights for 101 family. What’s important is we are now all moving on and that no matter what happened, we all stick together, showing that our friendship is not only for good times but even more in bad times. Although financially hindi pa kami totally nakaka move on haha! And we are getting sick of KFC, ang hirap ng walang kitchen wheew!

But the best part here is we will soon be transferring to our new home :) Super level up! I’ll be blogging that soon. Watch out for our chuchal crib! We are all very excited for it. Here’s a sneek peak of our empty living room with Bert. Take note, salas pa lang yan ;)

Aside from “smoky” issues in our present flat, I have more issues at work. Just like what I shared here, work is making me totally insane. I couldn’t even find time to have a decent breakfast, lunch and toothbrush break. There are lots of emails waiting for my reply, fax waiting for my confirmation, phone calls from banks, shipping lines, agents, suppliers, clients and team mates bugging me about almost everything. Nakakaloka! And the worst part is, my counterpart who has been in my current department for 3 years went for his annual leave. Kamusta naman yun?! Just today, I had my lunch at almost 2pm already and I didn’t even enjoy it because I had to return back to my table. Management hired an assistant for me to somehow lessen my load, but the problem is I have no time to train her and she’s making me kulit more which is very irritating. Sorry pero lalo ako hina highblood sa kanya. Short kwento: I asked this assistant to make some copies of bank documents through the copier machine. I taught her how to use the machine and even asked her if she can do it na and she said yes. After sometime she remained standing in front of the Xerox copier. Siguro she was there na for almost 10 mins.

Me: Where are the copies?

She: This machine is not working.

Me: Really? Let me see…

I put the papers in the feeding tray and made copies. Ok naman si Xerox machine.

Me: There’s nothing wrong in this machine. It’s working.

She: Ohhh!! I see. I forgot to press the start button!

Nani: deadz!

And again aside from work issues, husband and I are facing this dilemma about his passport. Due to an accident in husband’s company, being the Safety Officer, his passport was on-hold in court for investigation. It has been almost 6 months and the case is still on-going so the chance of getting his passport for our upcoming vacation to Pinas is becoming a little wobbly. The case is not really serious as the cause of death of the deceased employee is accident. But as per Dubai’s court procedure, although husband’s company is willing to pay for the blood money, it will really take time and our vacation is coming in less than 3 weeks. This is currently under prayers and we really claim that everything will be okay before our scheduled flight. Join us in prayer guys.

I have to end this post. Masyado ko naexcite and it’s 2 am already. Goodnight!

Happy Friday everyone!

THIS MADE MY DAY =)

I came to office today, Saturday, with a heavy heart. I was absent last Thursday due to fever and pharyngitis and I’m still not feeling okay until this morning. I just NEED to come because of tons of work waiting for me. Sigh!

And as expected, my to do list for today including my backlogs last Thursday, filled almost 3 pages of my notepad. Sigh again! I was really feeling low and sick, but that is not until I overheard my officemate in the powder room singing her heart and lungs out.

“I don’t have to say I’m sorry just because of him, I don’t have to tell forever you’ll not understand, believe meeee, believe meee, oh oh!!”

Naloka ako mga ateh! As in pulang pula sya while singing that with all her might!

To ate,

Super thank you! Dahil sa malupit mong lyrics, nawala ang lagnat ko. Hahaha!!!

1 YEAR NA KAMI!

Last Monday, hubby and I celebrated our first year anniversary here in the Land of Extremes! It’s now been a year since the day me and hubby left our home country to look for a greener pasture. Parang kailan lang, para akong baliw sa airport hanggang sa airplane kaiiyak ng walang humpay. You will not imagine how disastrous I look then. Honestly, I have never dreamed of working abroad. Never in my wildest dreams. But everything changed when we had Mimay. I became praning and worried of her future, of our future as family, hence the decision of coming here in Dubai.   

Hongkong airport, waiting for our flight to Dubai

I just want to praise God for all his blessings to us for the past year of being away from our family. God has always been faithful and kept His promises to us. I remember when we are planning to come here, our family and friends were very much worried because crisis daw sa Dubai. It’s very risky daw. But we believe, in God there is no crisis. True enough, it has been a fruitful and blessed year for me and Poy. 

My endless gratitude to my kumareng Joy for her unselfish love, concern and support to me and Poy. Thank you so so much mare! To my Dubai family and of course to my 101 family for the very warm friendship. Sobrang love namin kayong lahat!

On the sad note, it’s been a year too since we haven’t seen our family. I miss my siblings. I miss my family. I miss all of them so much! 42 days to go... Just the thought of seeing them all soon makes my heart jump in excitement and happiness!

my ate and kuya, they're the best! i miss them much much!

kuya dong (BIL), ate chelo, mommy, ineng, ate jona (SIL), nani & bibi poy

my Quezon family (mom's side)

Again, we bring back all the praises and glory to Jesus! He’s good, all the time!

FFF!

stands for Fun Filled Friday!! 

It was again a fun fun fun Friday for the 101. Together with Len, Lyn, Carl and Jo, we girls spent our Friday off in a very relaxing and tipid way. Instead of going to the spa or salon, which is very expensive here in Dubai, we taught of bringing the salon in 101 instead.

Watchunid:

For the hair,                                                                  For the face,

Hair shampoo                                                                  Facial wash      

Hot oil treatment available in the supermarket                    Mud mask

Hair treatment cap                                                           Fresh cucumber

For the feet,                                                                  For the nail grooming,

Pumice                                                                            Mani/Pedi set

Spa salt                                                                           Array of colorful nail polish

Glysolid or lotion

For the nice laugh,

Make sure you have the best and talented set of girlfriends to make sure the session will turn to be a fun and enjoyable one.

Let me share all these photos to you because I want to brag how blessed I am for having these girls =)

 

cheers to our kakirihans!

hair wash session

hot oil is next

papahuli ba naman ang aming 1 and only bert?

because pink lipstick is our fave!

facial this time

mud mask to rejuvenate our skin

feeling nasa salon talaga ;) lyn is allergic to the mask ;( nki-read na lang sya ;)

getting to that perfect looking skin =)

cucumber to remove our eyebags

doing our own foot spa, me with len

jo with carl, lyn is the photographer =)

it's pedi time!

pati sa manicure session ksama si bert :)

our well manicured hands, we so loveeet!

top L-R: Lyn and Len; bottom L-R: Jo, Carl and Nani

the wacky 101 girls!

It was another perfect Friday for us. 12 hours of kikayness! I super love my 101 girls, they’re really making my Dubai stay so so much fun! 

*Mareng Joy wasn’t able to join us, sayang! While Leah was at work and ofcourse from Sg, we miss you Rea boi!

FUNNY SKYPE CONVERSATIONS

Nani to naynay: Mi lapit na June, uuwi na kami! Miss na miss ko na yellowcab!

Mimay (sumingit): Naman! (tonong pasusot promise!)

Nani to naynay: Mi wag ka naman lumabas ng bahay ng naka duster. Masagwa eh.

Mimay (sumingit ulit): Bakit ba?

I use to tease Mimay that food in Jollibee is not good. She gets easily pikon because she loves Jollibee.

Nani to Mimay: Hindi naman masarap sa Jollibee. Lalo na spaghetti dun hindi masarap.

Mimay to me: Giti (spaghetti it is) di sayap? (in galit tone) Sayap kaya! (sabay walk out)

Sometimes I’m really thinking if my daughter is just two years, baka kasi nagkatawang bata lang sya pero the truth is 40 yrs old na, lam mo un?

PANIC BUYING

I’m back in blogging, hopefully! I am slowly getting used with my additional workloads and I wish I can squeeze in atleast one blog post a day. Sana sana!

I still have in my draft my post about our pampering day with the 101 girls last Friday. I just haven’t finished it yet but I promise to post it the soonest =)

For now this is my Monday entry. Just like what I blogged here, I have discovered the product that made my skin pimple free and I am loving it to bits! I am a proud Olay fan, I admit. So yesterday, while Poy and I were doing our weekly grocery, we saw the Olay set is on sale again after 3 months! I’m a sucker for sale pa naman tapos Olay pa. If you’ll buy it on retail, the price is almost doubled! So I’m literally palpitating when I saw it. I’m shy to tell husband coz I know we’re on a tight budget this month but I’m just human, very weak when it comes to things like this hehe. So I immediately grabbed the set and showed it to Poy.

Napailing na lang ang asawa ko haha! Naka tipid kaya sya kasi sale =)

I actually have Olay products pa at home, but I’m so obsessed talaga with Olay kaya nag panic buying ako hehe. This is the only product na sobrang hiyang ako. I never get pimples now and I am not wearing my concealer anymore. Less hassle sobra. Nothing can beat a clear skin. Just a dab of powder, cheek tint and lipgloss, I’m ready to face the world. Thanks to Olay!

Calling P&G! You may want to sponsor me at ng iblog ko ang Olay everyday haha!

MIMAY’S BABY FASHIONISTA PICTORIAL

Before my blog leave officially starts, let me make a little update about our Mimay’s new career hehe. I was supposed to blog it yesterday but work is eating so much of my time. Currently, system is being updated here in the office, hence I was able to squeeze in this post.

Let me just warn you that although the title says that this is about Mimay’s pictorial, you will not see a single photo here. Hehe patawa no? As much as I want to post all the photos here, not allowed eh. Mimay will be disqualified in the contest. Even before sending nga the photos in my mail, my ate dear cautioned me not to post the photos or else she will kill me. Eh I love my life, so bibitinin ko muna kayo.

Mimay had her pictorial for the Baby Fashionista 2011 last Sunday. The shoot was scheduled at 2pm in SM North Edsa. As usual, my stage family came to support our baby. From my mommy, ate, kuya, bro in law and future sis in law, they are all present to cheer our Mimay. Lucky lucky Nani for having the most loving and supportive family!

According to my sister, kuya and mommy, Mimay was super adorable in her Patriotic and Colorful attire. The photographers and the event organizer were all caught by Mimay’s charm =) And I have to agree not because I’m the Mamee but because she is really indeed A.D.O.R.A.B.L.E. Kating kati na talaga ko to show her photos to all of you kaya lang bawal talaga. I saved the photos in my phone and showed them to my closest friends. They all shriek in excitement! Ang kire kire daw talaga ni ineng which is so so true!  

Watch out for the official photos in May. There will be an online votation as well. I will post the details soon!