random thoughts

hmmm … my life is settling to a routine pace again … i set the alarm to 7am … snooze until 8am …finally wake up by 830am … in the office by 9am! (hmmm … we go to work by 8am! ;=) — there’s something inherently wrong with my schedule! ;=) hehe … well, working on it! ;=) — i don’t have a lot of morning meetings anymore … i have a lot of night meetings! my day officially ends by 7pm … and i have to attend night meetings around 10pm which usually lasts until 12mn — not a very nice schedule especially if i need to go somewhere at night! i planned on attending yoga lessons while i am here … and my counterpart here invited me to a salsa class! i also hooked up with old SFC friends and they invited me to some SFC activities which typically happens on a weeknight as well! haay … i used to talk about not having a life … i think my Cavite life was even better than this! … the only good thing that’s working out was this fits nicely to my internal body clock — i am so not a morning person (though i want to be … but some things are just not meant to be! … hmmm … i am talking about body clocks, not something else! ;=) hehe and it is a struggle to wake up at 545am everyday! … which i have to do every single weekday in Cavite! — yeah … this may be the only good thing out of this! ;=)

what else was exciting about this week? oh … i met up with an old israeli colleague who’s here on a business trip! really nice timing and i didn’t know he will be in town when i chatted with him on IM last week … as it turns out he will be here for three days and was arriving the next week — this week! so that really worked out! i invited him out for dinner (yeah … i am really getting good at inviting guys — NOT! ;=) … we had a really good … er nerdy … time! well, we were in a nice bar/resto serving their own brewed beer … and i had a nice pasta meal … and we were talking about converged core … and the lebanon war and how his unit in the army during the war was in the israeli-lebanon border shooting missiles … we talked about the conflict in gaza strip! ;=) see really fun, educational dinner! ;=) i even went home with a table napkin with a drawing of the israel map, its territories and its neighboring Arab countries! ;=) hehe well … we did talk about those … but there were a lot other more persnal topics we talked about as well! ;=) it was good catching up after three years! ;=)

… and not only him … this coming weekend, am meeting up with an old DLSU/Intel friend … i don’t know how to describe Bong … because technically he’s more than that … he’s such a huge influence in my life even until now … so to put him categorically as DLSU/Intel friend is understating our half-a-lifetime friendship! (yeah, met him when i was 15 yrs old — when i was a college freshman!) he’s in town visiting his mom … good timing as well! ;=) and last but definitely not the least … am meeting my old (one of the best i ever had!) boss from Penang from my SJ days in the Bay Area on Sunday … he’s also here in Cali for a business trip! haay … if at all … if i won’t have a chance to really lose the weight i want to lose … and if i won’t have a chance to do all the activities i lined up to do … i will remember this trip as a trip that i went back in time and touched base with old, dear friends! … yeah … that’s good enough for me! (haha! i accomplished so much already on my first week! … i think i set my expectations too low! ;=) hehe hmmm, well … am not giving up yet on losing weight … well, not yet! ;=)