hey, guys...remember prince? remember his dancers diamond and pearl?

this one's for my die-hard buffy fans: check out pearl. or should i say.....miss calendar????? =O

yes way.

thank you EEEVVVEERRRYYYOOONNNEE for your birthday wishes!! =D

*big hugs all around*

love you guys.

JON YANG IS THE MAN.

thank you thank you thank you for my new page!! i love it!!

guess what i'm doing. PLAYING HOOKY!!! woohoo!!

my day-long site visit turned into a short morning visit and an early lunch....
and people at work don't expect me back....
so woohoo!!!

and since i'm already home, i figure i'll skip class cuz i don't want to go ALL the way back to southfield in rush hour traffic. =)

irregardless.

it's not a word!!! irrespective is a word. but not irregardles. check it out.

just like supposably. that's not a word either.

i totally just spent the last hour and a half trying to get through to vote for kelly. and i did. ha. i'm obsessed and i don't care.

cleaning the rollers on the inside of your mouse does wonders for its performance. it feels like i have an infinitely faster computer!

the clock on my desk that wasn't tick-tocking a minute ago is now tick-tocking. what the hell???

since martin has no comment box yet, i must comment here on the enormous accomplishment it is to actually get a coin on those little platforms in the water thingie at taco bell. woohoo!! personally, i feel the taco bell people should have given martin any free thing he wanted since he's such a good customer and on a first name basis with the employees. haha...way to go, martin!!! and since we're celebrating, happy birthday (one day belated), james!! and happy first anniversary, g and mads!! =)

how necessary is it to actually do work when everyone else in your group is absent? i've been here for an hour and a half and haven't done a darn thing. i lie. i found 5 potential foyer tables for my mom. sooooo bored!!! someone im me, please! fung is apparently too busy to recieve my random banter cuz her away message is up. i kinda hope no one shows up so i can sneak out early. heehee...then i can find a pretty cake for g and mad's first anniversary. =P

i found out yesterday that i have spend my birthday at a site and then spend the evening in a three-hour review class for the first exam that i have to pass to be a licensed professional engineer. it's like a pre-boards exam you have to take before you take the actual boards. yuck. this whole working on my birthday is a new thing to me. i did it last year for the first time and i didn't tell anyone at work that it was my birthday. i felt so alone. and now i have to spend my birthday looking at stormwater sewers with a bunch of strangers. i think maybe i've been too spoiled on my birthdays in the past....

today is a very sloooooow day. hence, i blog for the 4th time before lunch.

dinner friend got me a calendar last christmas that lists 5 things to be happy about each day. yesterday's included a white shirt and khakis and beautiful thimbles. hmm...i'm not really sure why i should be happy about clothes as dull as a white shirt and khakis (think de la salle) and i'm not sure i've ever been taught to appreciate a thimble in any form. i didn't even know they make decorative ones. do kids these days even know what a thimble's for?

people!! guess what me and chrissy got martin to do....

alvin just told me that tamyra got booted off american idol.

i'm in shock. this is so so so wrong. if justin wins then the entire thing it proves that the voting pool is a bunch of retards.

the question of the day: where is everybody?

i swear there's only three cars in the parking lot. figures. the day i get in at 7:30 (yes, 7:30 am, you can close your mouth now) there's no one here to witness it. i must say the good thing about being jet lagged is that waking up isn't as rough cuz it feels like noon and not 6am....so this is what it's like to be a morning person....;D

it's so nice that i'm not bombarded with work after being gone for a week and a half. i was expecting a bunch of emails and voicemails saying that all these things went wrong and this client didn't get this and that person needed that thing on my desk that wasn't there...

but all is well. and things are kinda slow so i'm just chillin' and catching up on your blogs with my cheez-its and coke. coke tastes different here than it did in italy. hmm. and cheez-its are the greatest food to me right now. all i could think about on my way to work was the cheez-its in my desk. haha.

europe was AMAZING. my brain is on overload with everything i saw....but i took lots of pictures so i could remember some of them. the whole time i was wishing 2 things: 1) that i had taken a photography class at some point in my life so that i could do the views justice and 2) that i knew how to speak more than just english and small tagalog and spanish phrases. ugh. i didn't think my spanish was that bad, but it didn't matter anyway cuz they speak catalonian in barcelona. =P and all we ate was tapas in spain..at first it was exciting but then i started to wonder what else they had cuz every place had tapas. and those sandwiches on french baguettes.

but yeah....barcelona, palma de mallorca, cannes, monaco/monte carlo (we were totally in a james bond movie), portofino, florence, and rome.

italy was by far my favorite, but maybe because we spent the most time there. we visited the vatican a couple times and that in itself is worthy of a vacation. forget the colleseum and the roman forum...this is where's it's at. we visited the basilicas where st. peter, st. paul, and st. john the baptist were entombed, and we went through the vatican museum and the sistine chapel. breathtaking. all of it. i think i left a trail of drool everywhere cuz my mouth was hanging open so much. i could spend days and days in every place we went. i wish i could spend a day in an empty sistine chapel just laying on the floor and taking in the walls and the ceiling. i can't imagine growing up in a place like rome...there's just so much history wherever you look, but i can see how it could be taken for granted...and people are just chillin' everywhere. i love it. i must go back. anyone wanna come? of course, porta will be there to give us the guided non-touristy tour of the city...right, porta? =D by the way...i am an expert at riding tour buses. so expert am i that i don't ever want to do it again. hahaha...

it's good to be home. i love my bed.

later, everyone!! i'll be back in a couple weeks...i'll tell europe hi for you. =P

isn't it funny when you roll into work looking like you just woke up...hair in headband, dorky glasses, the clothes you slept in....and everyone sorta jumps back when they take a first look at you. hahaha...i didn't know if i should have laughed or been offended. ahh..new york. i miss everybody. not a spare moment, which is good and bad. it would have been nice to just sit and have some qt with everyone...but everything we did we did together so it's a good time either way. yesterday was a rough day. very rough. well worth it. =)

isn't it funny when the same thing is happening to you and a friend, but neither of you talk about it because it's one of those things that you don't want the other to know because the thoughts that you think regarding the situation are just not thoughts that you would necessarily want anyone to know? or even in denial that the situation is even taking place? hahaha...no one has any idea what i'm talking about. maybe except one. ;D because talking about it becomes inevitable when it goes far enough, no?

hahaha...the whole thing is funny, really. perhaps (very) mildly sweet? maybe i'll tell you if i see you in person. =P