materialistic me is happy

The materialistic me is very happy for the past week.

January 14, 2011
The talent acquisition team in our company has these gimiks to entice us employees to send out referrals to them. Aside from getting a nice sum of money when your referral is a success, they also have a raffle giveaway to those who were successful in their referrals.

I didn't have one successful referral last year, but a friend of mine who now works in TELUS asked me to refer someone, and tag it under my name. Lo and behold, she got in and my friend and I split the referral fee. Also, since technically I had one successful referral, I was part of the raffle draw held last January 14.

Surprise surprise - I won an IPOD shuffle.

January 19, 2011
I've been eyeing this coat from Zara for a couple of weeks now. Initially priced at 6450, it was marked down to 5950. Still too expensive. So I didn't buy it. A couple of weeks later, Zara marked down their items even more, so when I went to checked it out, it's just now 2990!. And there's only one Small size left, so i decided to get it! It may get marked down further by the end of the year, but I don't want to risk it, my size is hard to find. Anyway, another 3k down the drain, but I love it! I can't wear it here, but since I go to Canada anyway, I can finally have a more "formal" jacket to wear there instead of my usual sports jacket!

January 22, 2011
Yesterday was our office department's 2010 Awards and Recognition Event. We decided to make it a party/event instead of just an office "meeting" to make it more fun! I also volunteered to be part of the organizing committee and to be the co-host of the event. The games we prepared were similar to the game show Minute to Win It. Very simple games, but fun! Gasgas na yung mga pinoy henyo games and charades!!

And so far, I heard good feedback that they enjoyed the event. It's probably one of the most memorable events we had so far. (Patting myself in the back now.)

Part of the event, we had 5 raffle draws to give away. And I don't know what God is telling me, but I got the third prize!! Magic Sing! Can you believe it? I don't win in raffles but two in a row? Unbelievable!

Not only that, I got a 2000 pesos electronic gift card, plus our team got a 5000 pesos worth gcs!! Blessings indeed! Now I will go to church later to thank Him up there for all these kind and wonderful blessings he's been showering me with.

IPOD Touch
My next materialistic task is to get that new IPOD touch replacement I've been clamoring for.

See, materialistic me is very very happy.

wedding and a tv show

Been very busy and tired the past week. I think it'll be like this in the next few weeks pa (or probably months). I told myself I will be anti social this past week so that I can catch up with work. I did catch up with work a bit, but still a long way to go.

My Cousin Ryan's Wedding

This week wouldn't have been complete if it were not for my cousin's wedding yesterday. As I didn't have time to get a new dress, a simply reused the old black dress I had in my closet. Same event, a wedding, but different crowd. I tried something different this time, I went to the parlor to get some nice eye makeup on. Leave it to the experts ika nga. Unfortunately... I didn't like the end result at all (or maybe I'm not used to it). I felt like it was too dark. See for yourself.

It was also the first time my nephew is part of the entourage. I still think he's too young to even listen to what he has to do. My brother had to "assist" him along the center aisle, and he even dropped what he was carrying. My sister and her husband couldn't make it, so it was only Grant who was there, thus, we were the babysitters.

Here are the newlyweds! I wish them all the best!

Pretty Little Liars

I now have a new tv show to watch. I'm still a fan of Grey's Anatomy and Bones. But this one now adds to the list of the tv shows I look forward to watching every week. It's a teeny bopper show, Desperate Housewives + Gossip Girl type. I finished up the first 12 episodes yesterday. Yes, I was a bum and a coach potato altogether.

The story revolves around a group of girls, who are being tormented by a mysterious person named 'A'. I think the reason why I like this show is that there's this mystery and intrigue aspect to it, and of course, there's this teeny bopper aspect to it, which I still love even though I've obviously outgrown that age. It's generally entertaining. Kinda reminds me of Gossip girl and Dawson's Creek too.

Cecille's Wedding / Subic Trip

I like attending weddings. The only time I don't like attending weddings is when I am not particularly close to the couple getting married. And so when a close friend of ours invited us for her wedding to be held at Subic, I didn't make any excuses of not attending. Even if we were busy prior to the event and practically no one planned this out beforehand, the girls and I still pushed through. And the whole weekend actually went well.

Saturday morning, November 06, 2010, started with us meeting up at, as usual, Balintawak LRT station. It's no surprise that both girls Mae and Sally are on time, but the other girl, Marcy, is late, as usual. Apparently, she decided to go to LRT2 instead of LRT1. Haha I think we left around 7:30 am, and then had a nice breakfast at Tropical Hut in one of the gas stations along NLEX.

Going to Subic is fun fun fun! I loooved driving in SCTEX. Road is beautiful, scenery is awesome, and there's pretty much no traffic. Hindi nakakapagod mag drive! It just took us around 2-2.5 hours to reach Subic itself. The only irk I had was that you had to go through 3 toll stations altogether! And that's just one way!

Now at Subic Freeport, surprisingly, the hotel Sally picked was very nice. It's huge, it's clean, it's cheap, and the location was nice. Getting there was half the battle, the next one was preparing for the wedding and it was fun fun fun! Si Sally ang official taga plantsa. Mae helped me with the eye makeup!

The wedding itself took place in a small chapel also around the area. Ang ganda ganda ng mood, tapos itong pari, nagmamadali, kept on saying "buksan na mga pinto para makapasok". Siyempre close yung pinto para may drama effect!

Mae was standing in the aisle area so she was holding my camera, unfortunately, puros malabo! This is one of those that was clear. Nakatalikod nga lang! Peace Mae!

So reception followed afterwards... best part was the Photo booth! after taking this picture, hindi na kami matigil sa kakatawa... literally! Halos maiyak na kami ni Sally.

All in all, that weekend was memorable. And I won't forget Sally breaking the strap of her 3 inch heel shoes. Who's next?