Manigong Bagong Taon sa inyong lahat!!

Here's a very Happy and Prosperous New Year greeting to all.

The past year went by really fast. I really didn't ste any goals for the year, except to just make it through unscathed. Although there were times when my faith was tested, with my grandmother's situation, who I'm happy to say has recovered quite a bit and is now living with us so we can better take care of her. I've also taken on a lot of the financial obligations in regards to her care so I guess, I'm not going on a lot of trips this coming year, but hey, I don't mind at all.

Anyways, have a Fun, Safe new year celebration everyone and I shall see most of you in the new year.

Raise the Glass!!

Day after x-mas sales

There wasn't a lot of things on sale that I really needed to get, so surprisingly enough, I dodn't get that much. I took advantage of the sale at the timberland outlet stores where I was getting dress sweaters and shirts for less than $15 each, not bad I guess. Went and got the necessary cables I needed for my new TV and then just relaxed the rest of the day.

As for today (monday) I finally assembled the last of the two wardrobe closets that I've bought so many moons ago. Now if this rain can only stop long enough for me to be able to go and pickup the last storage cabinet I need, I'll be set on the tiiziite.

That's all for now folks.

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Merry X-mas to all

Happy New Year Too

Tired

I feel so tired. Today was considered the Heaviest day for deliveries at my company, for the year. I mean, we had everyone out doing deliveries, including some management personnels. I think in my center alone we ran about 103 delivery cars for the day, and that just covers, 1/3 of San Francisco (4 zip codes), Daly City, South San Francisco, Pacifica, Brisbane and San Bruno. I guess when they said all hands on deck, they meant it.

Weekend Shopping
This past saturday, I was suppose to go help out at work, but since I was so behind in my shopping (I haven't started at all) I decided to go ahead and take care of it last saturday. I went to Ledge and Aileen's abode and accompanied them on a little shopping spree. I think I got everything that I needed to get, if not then I guess I will venture again during the week after work.

Afterwards, we decided to check out the new house that was bought by Melissa and John, Melissa is Aileen's sister. It's a nice little house out by Redwood shores.
We then proceeded to shop again at Hillsdale Mall and the mall by Foster City (forgot the name). By the time all is said and done, I finally got home at 1:30 am.

Oh to top it all off, I had to go to the DMV and take a picture for my new license and this was at 8:00 am when they opened, but I got there at 7:45 am. Long Day indeed.


Oh I also ended up buying This I guess I needed to give myself a birthday/x-mas present since they are back to back.

Merry X-mas Everybody.

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What's on?

Thursday nites are usually rondalla fraktis nites so I don't get to watch tv. But now that we are on hiatus for the rest of the year, I'm here at home, flipping through channels not knowing what's showing. I actually have a bit of withdrawal from not playing music, I mean sure I can play with my octavina here at home by myself, but it's just not the same. I don't have the rhythm of the guitars and bass to accompany me, neither are the melodies from the bandurias. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to figure something else out.

Hmmm maybe I can ask Gary if I can get a copy of the music from the concert. It would be nice to listen to it while I tackle the neverending gridlock on the freeways.

Oh well, maybe I'll just put on a DVD, maybe I Robot or Collateral. Oh well.

G'nite

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Blade

Last monday, I watched Blade Trinity with John and Ledge. It was pretty entertaining, the actor who played Van Wilder (forgot his name) was funny. His line deliveries as the comic relief was good. We were rolling with laughter. As for the action, it's pretty much what you would expect from a Blade movie, lots of fighting and vampires exploding. I would give it a B-/C+ grade. It's not Oscar material, but it's not garbage material. Try to catch it in Matinee.

During the same night, we saw Tin and OJ, they went to watch Ocean's Twelve. According to them it's a rental, so I guess I won't even bother watching it in the theater and just wait until I can get it on Netflix.


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waiting...........

I'm at my friend Mur's house, trying to configure her network system. I'm not having any luck in doing so, so I finally decided to upgrade the OS on her computer. Only thing is that it takes forever to upgrade, so I'm here waiting for it to finish. So I decided to what the hey, update my blog since I haven't done it in a couple of days.

For those that have seen the pictures from her blog, I tell ya, it looks a lot better in real time. It has gone a long way from when she first got the house to now.......if we can only get a house warming party goin.....wink wink.

As for work it's just blah. Getting busier as we approach x-mas, but I guess I'm used to it. The only thing that sucks is that I have NOT done any gift shopping. Even online, I just don't have the time and patience to shop anymore. uuuggghhh I better get a move on this gift buying thing or else like in musical chairs, I will be the one left without a chair when the music stops.

Oh well, time to go, I think the install is just about done.

Hasta La Pasta

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HARANA atbp.

We just finished our first rondalla concert and I think that it went well.

The music was good and eventhough we didn't have the turnout that I was hoping for, we still had enough people in the audience to play music for, and from what I've heard, everyone really enjoyed it. The only complaint was that the show was too short. Oh well, there's always next year. I think it would be a good idea to have a rondalla concert every year to help showcase the many talented musicians that Likha has.
This definitely will go down as one of my favorite performances.

Busted light

So I got up to go to work last friday and the fog was HELLA thick so as I proceeded to go on the road, I turn on my headlights. While driving I noticed that something was amiss, my headlights seems to be not giving me enough light as I was moving on, turns out that my left headlight was busted (it was working the night before when I went home from rondalla fraktis). Talk about starting your day on a bad note. So I finally got to work (thank god that I didn't get pulled over) and we had major problems. One of our planes that supposed to bring in our overnite shipments couldn't land at Oakland airpot because it lacked the necessary equipment to land in thick fog. So it was diverted to Ontario airport down south, then the contents had to be reloaded on another plane then flown back up to Oakland. A lot of our customers didn't get their shipments on time, so there were some unhappy people, but most understood the situation and didn't complain.
I guess the x-mas spirit does make some people a little less grumpy.

Tomorrow will be our pseudo x-mas party for Likha. I'm looking forward to it as this will probably be the last time we will get together for the year. I hope I get a nice gift from our white elephant gift exchange. Hmmmm what should I get for it. Ahh, I'll just go to Target, I'm sure I'll find something.

Be good everyone.

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In a nutshell

here it goes;

Last wednesday nite I went to dinner at the Cruz's (1) residence in Fremont. It was the 1st time I've visited their house since they bought it from their ferents. Rockstar and my gooseneps were also there.

Thursday was rondalla fraktis, I think it went very well, everything ran smooth, except for Ms. Luzon's bout with the giggles.

been working long hours at work since it's the season for SHOPPING, and everyone seems to be keen on doing it online, or catalog shopping.

Tomorrow is the HARANA concert at the University of San Francisco's presentation theater.
Wish me luck.

'Til then

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weekend update

This past weekend was a blur. Saturday I went fishing out in Clearlake, which is up northern Cali. It was HELLA cold in the morning, when we got up to the lake at around 7:20 am the temp was about 24 degrees F. just a little chilly. But as soon as the sun rose, it wasn't too bad.
I ended up just cathching 3 fish. Nothing big, about 2 lbs or so. Stayed there 'til about 5 then we headed back for the 2 hour drive home.

Sunday, I went to the David's residence for a luncheon to celebrate Ledge's B-day (Happy B-day Bud) Lots of food, as always.
Then I proceeded to the rehearsal for our concert that's coming up on Dec.11.

Afterwards, some of us went to Cafe Colma to celebrate Laurie's b-day (same day as Ledge's)
and ate some more. Needles to say, as soon as I got home, all I wanted to do was take a nap.
Good Times!

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$$$$$ Mall

Today I got off work early so I decided to pass by the Emeryville shopping area. I walked around the stores to see if I can get any deals for gifts. Man, they have some really nice stores in there, like Coach, Aldo, Banana Republic, Apple Store among others. But with style comes matching price. Everything, as Kuya Rudi would say, was Mahalia Jackson. Even the matinee price for the theater was $8.00. Uuhh that's full price at the theater by my house and it's newer than the one in Emeryville (I think). Anyways so I just ended buying a book at Barnes and Nobles. It's called the Amber Room by Steve Berry, who also wrote the Romanov Prophecy. Then I went to go get a haircut. I want to look good for the Rondalla pictorial tomorrow nite. BAH

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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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