nothing much today

I bought the spiderman 2 dvd today. Probably will watch it tonight.
I actually liked this movie better than the 1st one, which is rare.

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UUUGGGHHH

why is it that when you go into Ikea planning on buying a $50 side bed table you end up walking out of there with $300 worth of merchandise. Man, I gotta stop going there, I'm broke as it is and here I am buying things that I think would look "good" in my bedroom. I swear I'm not going back there until after x-mas, or at least until I've finished buying people's presents.

Today was a good day at work, very minimal happenings, just BLAH.

It was good to see the Laxa's last nite. It was funny watching AJ run and slide across the floor in the family room.

I also saw National Treasures over the weekend. It was actually pretty entertaining and a pretty good movie to watch if you have time to kill. It wasn't spectacular or anything like that, but it wasn't bad either.

That's all for now

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Stuff, Stuff, and more Stuff

I just got done cleaning up my old room and my new room. (Switched rooms so that I will have more room for my junk) All I have to say is, you don't really know how muck crap you have until you start weaning out things to be either donated or thrown away and you end up working a sweat just walking up and down the stairs with it. I tell you (probably Laurie and Ledge too) that I have a LOT of STUFF, I managed to cut it all down to a very manageable pile and good thing too. I can donate a lot of clothes and that would mean I'll have more things to write off and claim come tax time. WOO-HOO. Maybe I'll get a big enough check that I can put it on a down payment for either a condo or a new ride. Probably a condo or townhouse will be good.

Well, the Laxa's are here to take me to IKEA and the Emeryville outdoor mall.

'Til next time

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Day After Thanksgiving

Well, it's the day after Thanksgiving and all the malls and retail outlets are just packed with people trying to get deals for their x-mas gifts. I for one did not go shop today (yes Mur, I didn't go shopping) Don't get me wrong, I like spending money I don't have just as much as the next guy, but I just can't deal with all the crowd madness. I think I'm going back to online shopping for this yuletide season. A bit more peaceful that way.

Take care people

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Gobble Gobble

To all my Family, friends, enemies, and anyone in between, I wish y'all a Happy Thanksgiving Holiday. May your glasses be filled, your plates full and your stomachs pumped after eating all the food in sight. ( just kidding)

I'm just thankful that I have a lot of friends and that I'm alive and well.

Be safe everyone

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I'm Back

Well I'm back here in Cali.

I just finished a workshop with our sister company KP of B.C. It was fun to see everyone up there since I haven't most of them since last Nov. '03. The workshops were long for some people, although it felt normal to me, I guess I've been doing this thing a little too long.

Kudos to the musicians of KP for learning the music in what relatively is a short time to learn it. You guys are talented and you guys ROCK!! Hopefully next time the music workshop will be more intense and focused so that the music can really be broken down and learned properly.

Today I worked for about 10 hours, man, I guess x-mas is here 'cause it's getting crazy at work.
People are just buying gifts online like crazy and then having it shipped to their workplace.
I guess people are making money again, or are just plunging themselves into more debt. Oh well, it keeps me employed.

Tonight I passed by Mur's place to give her the box of candies that the Correia family bought (thanks for my box of Purdy's too VJ and Mish and Baby E) and saw the construction going on at her house. It's starting to look really nice and I'm sure that when it's all done it will look awesome.
Kobi (Mur's dog) is getting big too, man, I don't remember seeing him this big last 4th of july. What are you feeding him?!

I also saw her new Ipod and know what...I think I'm gonna get one too as my b-day/x-mas present to myself.

'til then

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Greetings from up north

Well, I'm here in Vancouver and can you say, "where's the heat at?" It's a little nipply up here, but that was to be expected.

We just finished day 1 of the KP workshops and I think it went very well. They ended up learning the Birth of Nation piece and I think it came out good. Then they learned pangalay, sagayan and R.S.C. took time to go over the sinkil solos with the respective soloists.

We are about to go to Richmond for sushi so I know that would be good.

Tomorrow we are going to go over the cordillera dances with the group before we fly back home.

'til then

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Good Fraktis

I decided to go to rondalla fraktis last nite, and I'm glad I did. Maestro B made us to some different playing styles with some of the songs we are doing for our concert in dec. It was pretty kewl to hear the songs in a different manner and I think this concert is going to be a blast. I hope a lot of people will show up to watch, so if you are reading this and you are in the SF bay area on Dec. 11, be sure to check us out at the Pioneer theater in USF.

Well, I'm going to be leaving for the airport in a few minutes, I have to go to Vancouver B.C. to do a workshop with KP alongside our fearless leader R.C.S.

So everyone, have a good weekend and I shall catch you on the flipside next week.

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Random Thoughts

I saw Polar Express last nite with the David family. I must say the CGI animation on this film was pretty dramatic. The character looked like Tom Hanks, even Santa Claus had a hint of Hanks, although very subtle. The facial expressions caught by the computer was awesome.

I would say that this movie was well worth the matinee price. (not that it's a bad thing)

I bought Smallville season 3 since I think I saw 1 episode on tv. This is probably one of the few shows that I'm addicted to that doesn't teach me how to build (or destroy something) that I watched consistently. Kristin Kreuk aint so bad to look at either.

Well, I finished Bloodrayne 2 on PS2, I must say that this was much better than the first one and a bit harder to finish. My wrist were so sore after playing from all the button punching, control gripping going on.

That's it for now. I shall take a break for a few days, I will be heading up to Vancouver this weekend for a little workshop with KP.

Peace Out

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X-mas around the corner

Today, while working, it suddenly hit me. The x-mas holiday is just around the bend. I mean, I'm getting a lot of pkgs. for people that are more for their personal use rather than something for the company. People that haven't even said a single word to me all year, are now all of a sudden my "friends" as they wait for all the stuff they ordered online to be delivered by yours truly. It's not even December yet and we are already scrambling for staffing as there are more work than people to do 'em. Well, at least this means the company is doing well and that should mean that our stocks will be going up. Coolness.


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Busy Day

Today was a busy day for me. First of, I got home last nite after watching the Incredibles with some friends. It was pretty late as it is, but I just had to play BloodRayne 2 on the PS2 and before I knew it, it was 2 am already, I've been awake for 21 hours already, time to go to bed.

So here I am sleeping like a log and then I feel a jolt as my bed started to shake, I woke up abruptly, thinking there was an earthquake and who do I see looking down on me at the edge of the bed, it was Ledge waking me up to help me carry some stuff in and out of my room and the garage. It was 8:51 am. I wasn't quite ready to wake up yet, but since Ledge was there already, I forced myself to wake up.

We then proceeded to go get breakfast at a local diner called "the alley" here in Pinole (we do know our priorities people). After eating what seemed like the bigest serving of an omellette I've ever seen (Ledge did recommend this place, so you know the servings will be hearty) we went back to my house and proceeded to carry 2 beds out of the upstairs bedroom, to be donated to charity, and we then carried up the 2 wardrobe dressers that I bought for my room.

Afterwards we proceeded to Home Depot, bought some power tools and some other stuff.
Went back home and assembled the storage closets.

Later on that nite, John came over and we went to Best Buy to browse around. Bought nothing which is a good thing since I'm already in debt.

Then here I am putting an entry on my blog.

Oh well, it felt good to do something productive on a non fishing day. Although you know I would've dropped everything if I had a chance to go fishing. :p

Til next time

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Lineup

I would just like to let everyone know that the Likha rondalla will be having a concert recital at the University of San Francisco's Pioneer theater on Dec. 11. If you are in town, come check us out. For more info pls. go to the website link.

Here's the lineup
1) Rosas Pandan
2) Sarungbanggi
3) Sa Dalampasigan
4) Mutya Ng Pasig (Soloist: Beverly / rondalla)
5) Kalesa (Choir / rondalla)
6) Tiririt ng Maya
7) Ang Alibangbang
8) Maalaala Mo Kaya (Soloists: Jenn & Bryan / Bass & Guitar)
9) Dahil sa Isang Bulaklak
10) Payapang Daidig (Choir / rondalla)
11) Pandanggo Sa Ilaw/Oasiwas to Parol Dance (rondalla / dancers)
12) Pasko Na Naman (rondalla / Choir)
13) Noche Buena (rondalla / Choir)

Hope to see you there.

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Lord Help Us

Well, it's official, those yahoos from Ohio voted for G.W. and we have four more years of this bumbling fool as president. Like everyone at work said, when the draft comes, I would like to see all those "red" states send their equally inept citizens to fight this moron's war.
I bet they all still believe that there are WMD's in Iraq that have yet to be uncovered.

On the flipside, the democrats better get united and gat control of this country back from these love the rich, don't care about everyone else republicans.

nuff venting

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Day of days

Today is an important day for a lot of people.
It is a day where the american people gets to choose who will serve the presidency of these United States for the next 4 years.

But more importantly ( :p) today is the first day of the NBA season. It's time to see basketball at its best now that baseball is done. Hockey is nowhere in sight, and the niners are sucking big time. At least we have Cal football, Ranked no. 4 in the country baby. Go Bears.

Anyways, I think George Bush is winning the election so far, so I guess we will be going to war against who knows who. At least, Jay Leno and David Letterman will still get plenty of materials from this bumbling buffoon.

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Hard Day

Today was a heavy workload day. Everyone and their mama had deliveries today and it was so heavy that I didn't get to finish my route today. Oh well, I guess the economy is not as bad as they say it is, either that or the consumers confidence is growing and that they are starting to spend again. I guess that's a good sign. I just hope that Bush loses tomorrow as I don't believe he has the best interest or middle class americans in mind.

So for anyone that's reading this, go out and vote. It's one of the rights that this country has bequethed upon its citizens and I hope that you would utilize it wisely.

Last nite, I went to the Laxa's house to celebrate Andres' birthday and Halloween. All the kids looked cute with their outfits. A.J. and Miyo were power rangers. Antonio was on of the Incredibles. Butch (the big kid) was Black belt Jones complete with sideburns and afro-hair.
Good Times.

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