Coming from the MBAPs party, we were supposed to go to two more dinners. One with a relative celebrating that passed the nursing board exams, while the other with friends one of whom is celebrating his birthday.

But just after our first commitment, the streets have flooded. No car can pass through and people have been stranded. Some business has closed down early, well except for fastfoods. I wonder if flood is covered by business insurance.

Anyway, we just head off for some coffee and tea. My daughter had an oreo cheese tart which made her so active and funny. I think I won’t let her eat that again beyond 6pm. Ok, noted!

It was raining cats and dogs yesterday I was surprised that most of the MBAPs made it to the party. I thought everybody will be stranded somewhere along the way. Good thing though, we didn’t, or we would have missed the fun get-together with these ladies. But at the back of my mind I was thinking hard if I was able to tell the help to put the motorcycle covers over the bike. I just had to call home just to make sure.

Anyway, I really had fun meeting up with these ladies again.

I just noticed one thing though. I don’t have much pictures of myself!!!
Calling Alpha, Kelly and Joy! Ahem! :p

I have a guy friend who co-owns a shoe store in the provinces. I must say he is quite successful. I asked him why not have a branch in the metro. He said they have done more than that. They now have an online store that ships to anywhere in the world! It may look easy to put up an online store that you’d think you could do it on your own. When in fact, he said they owe their online store’s success to an ecommerce fulfillment program they have invested on.

Well, for a non-business person like me, I always thought those online stores were so easy to put up without knowing you really need experts to succeed. Now I know better.

This weekend is so unpredictable. Hahaha.

First, husband and his team mates will have an outing. Husband says if they will stay overnight, he can’t bring me and BG along. But if it is just a day trip, my daughter and I could come. So there, that’s one possibility.

Second, if it is indeed an overnight thing, BG and I will attend a swimming party instead. It is a birthday celebration of her cousin, a daughter of hubby’s cousin. Although we’re not sure how we will get there.

Third, a mexican night with friends. This one I think BG and I will surely attend. Unless my daughter gets too tired from swimming or from being out with daddy and mommy the whole day (possibilities 1 & 2)

I sure hope even just one of these three gets realized.

Wow, my first post for the year.

Anyway, remember the ranting that I did last week (uhm, last year)? About wanting to go back to embedded systems engineering. That same day, I met with friends for coffee. They were my former officemates from Fujitsu. Unlike me, after resigning, they continued on embedded systems specializing in automotives. (Note: we used to do firmware for car audio-visual systems)

Two of them are working in Japan while one in Singapore. They were telling me about the global recession and how it has affected the stability of their jobs. You probably heard about GM. It’s as simple as if no car is sold, who needs a car radio (doesn’t matter much if you can plug in your i-pod or your thumb drive on it)?

So yes, it got me thinking, I love and need my current job.

The other friend who came an hour late isn’t in this picture.

As I have previously blogged, we were to attend a wedding. I tried curling my hair but couldn’t. The (xtenso) treatment had been making my hair straight defying any heat to curl it. It shouldn’t be a surprise since I don’t normally comb or brush my hair after shower and yet, my hair is straight all day.

Anyway, I sought the help of a friend who lives beside our house. She decided to just pull my hair in a half-pony. And she had done a great make-up too. All these for free!

Yesterday, the original (twitter) meet-up time was between 12 noon and 1pm. But around that time, I was just still preparing. Because I am a late-riser, all I had before I left home was brunch. When I came to our meet-up place, they have finished eating. So I had to order a solo meal. They continued on chatting while I eat listening to their chat. We planned on hopping to Starbucks so that Joy and Aggie could connect to the net while we continue on bashing someone. Joke!

When it was time to go, I was supposed to say, “bill out na tayo“. But instead I said, “log out na tayo“.

Don’t you think I’m spending too much time in the cyberworld?

Here are some pics I grabbed from Litz’ flickr:

On my way to our meet-up, I realized how early it was. Yes, it is Friday but it used to be that at that hour, I am likely to be still in bed. Meet-ups were scheduled usually at 8pm the earliest. But now that mommies were meeting up, it wasn’t a night out. It was lunch and coffee meet-up.

It turned out that I wasn’t the only one who have this observation. One mom related that once she went out with friends on a late night to be “in” and cool. But instead of “chillaxin”, she was yawning at 10pm.

Expectedly, at 6pm, everyone was in a hurry to leave.

I have been waiting for an airfare promo and last Tuesday, an officemate informed me that there is. I checked it at once and informed our friends. We have been planning to go on a trip to the beach for the longest time. I thought this would be a good opportunity. Everyone agreed although one couple would like a breakdown of the total expenses. Everything went well and settled with an agreement.

Yesterday, we bought the tickets (finally!) for 10 adults and 1 toddler (DDs’s ticket costs as much as an adult’s) but instead of the initially planned dates of March 6-8, Fri-Sun, we opted to schedule the trip on March 4-6 Wed-Fri to make sure we could squeeze in more swimming time. Just the same, I know this would be super fun!

As planned, hubby and I went out last Friday. The original plan was a date, just the two of us. But it was already 8pm and I was still working. Plus I was busy looking for Los Angeles jobs online. So instead of a dinner date, we went out with friends for a late night fun.

I’ve been holding off alcohol for more than a year now. I was always worrying about its effect in case I’m pregnant. Alas, it has been more than a year now since I last breastfed BG and free to have some alcohol in my system, I am still not pregnant. Haha.

I’m telling you, at the first sip of my ice cold beer, it felt like I’ve released all the stress (I got from my work). The sad thing though, after just 3 bottles of beer, I was drunk. That’s ok because as hubby has always said, we’re not 21 anymore. (Ok, honestly, even when I was younger, I can only handle 4-5 bottles of beer. Beyond that, I’d start throwing up.)

Now I’m ready for Monday.