Our Precious..

Got a surprise overseas call from dad this noon..la lang nangungumusta and informing me na he's in jeddah right now for a few-days-work-assignment...(my dad's a civil engineer and he's based in dammam, saudi arabia where he works as a consultant for saudi electric company). He also told me na they ordered our wedding rings na (their wedding present to us aside from the monetary gift they gave us last January) yahooo! white gold and "kagaya daw ng nasa pic" which i gave them as their guide in finding our ideal bands. Makukuha daw siya after a week. Yahoo! excited na ako..can't wait to see the pics. Kaso nga lang sa november pa namin siya mahahawakan at masusukat since my dad and stepmom will be home by the end of november pa. :(

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Am not happy with what's going on in our center. Two of my colleagues will be transferred to another center -- all because of cost-cutting. We have to cut down the center's salary expenses. (Kung sabagay, lahat naman yata ng companies ngayon sobrang nagtitipid). Kaso siyempre, sino ba naman ang gustong magpalipat pa sa ibang center. Marami ngang naiinggit samin because of our 8 am - 6 pm fixed business hours and holidays, saturday-sunday rest days. Halos lahat kasi ng business centers ng Globe eh mall-based so siyempre mall hours and hindi fixed ang rest days nila. So yun, since walang magvovolunteer talaga, the officers (including us, mga cashiers ooopppsss cash officers pala..we're no ordinary kahera, y' know hehe!) voted for these two people na malilipat. Labag man sa kalooban namin pero we have to. These two colleagues of mine have been informed na of their transfer..and siyempre nakakaawa. I just wish them the best of luck and may they excel and ipakita na nila na basta trained sa Tower One..the best! (waahh good luck din samin na maiiwan..undermanned na kami sobra! huhuhu!)

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Got a new mobile phone today! yipee and i love it! It's a SE K700i...



I just couldn't resist the promo - Existing Globe G-Plan subscribers may avail of a handset under HANDSET BASE PRICING at 0% interest up to 18 months when using any of the participating Credit Card for payment. O siya..kalikutin ko muna... :D

Church Wed Seminars skeds and other blurbs

Yipee! We had a productive Saturday today...First, we went to Sta. Rita this noon to have our Canonical Interview, Pre-Cana Seminar and other required Formations scheduled. The parish holds these activities once every month. We scheduled ours as follows:

Canonical Interview - September 7, Wednesday

Pre-Cana Seminar - September 11, Sunday

and another seminar (hehe! ano nga ulit yun?) - September 18, Sunday

We have to schedule it ahead so that we could already file our leaves from work. In my case, so that we could ask for a reliever. I'm a frontliner and with our center having a high-foot traffic and now already undermanned (cost-cutting ek-ek), it's hard when one takes a leave. Sobrang kawawa. I'll be celebrating my first year with Globe this 27th, and would you believe I've only had .5 vacation leave out of 15 days allowed to date? Whew! half-day lang yun...that's a record for me hehe! It's not that super loyal ako or what, it's just that I could not leave my colleagues behind na nahihirapan. I know the feeling kasi. Imagine..kulang na lang di ka makapag-lunch sa sobrang dami ng payment transactions. Anyway, that's fine with me naman..besides, am saving it for december hehehe!

Side kwento: Before going to the parish office, it was 2 pm and there's a wedding being held. Sakto sa bridal entourage kaya I told Paul na panoorin muna namin...to get ideas siyempre. As always, medyo nagiging tear-jerker ako talaga everytime I watch a bridal march. After the entourage and the parents have marched and prior to the bride's entrance, the church doors were closed. The bridal march was an instrumental of "The Prayer". Very solemn ng mood and after some notes, the doors were openned and there was the beaming bride. Waahhh..ako na nanood lang and I didn't even know the couple pero naiiyak ako. I wonder pano kaya ako sa mismong march ko. Di kaya magngangawa ako dun hehehe! Ngapala, definitely we'll be adapting the closing doors effect..para may drama! hehe!

After talking with Cecille and all our queries answered, we proceded to Prestige Paper. We bought the sample paper Paul will be using for our invitation covers. Since our motif is powder blue and canary yellow, we chose the paper type, Hong Kong 230 gsm light blue. Hard enough for the cover and nice shade..though di talaga siya sakto na powder blue pero pwede na. Finally, we were able to complete the names of our entourage and principal sponsors. Yehey! Paul was able to print a few inserts na. Galing-galing talaga...I'm proud kasi DIY (do-it-yourself) lang siya pero ang ganda! Parang pinagawa sa labas.

Since walang magawa habang nagbabantay dito sa shop nila Paul, I scanned the choices (from the mags) for the entourage gowns. Since maaarte mga ate ko who are my Maids of Honor, I reminded them to have their preferred design ready this weekend. Aba ang reply ba naman ng isa, "akalain mong seryoso pala na magpapakasal ka noh!" ang kulit! heheh! As for my bridesmaids and secondary sponsors, will just email them the designs and I hope approve sa kanila mga yun.

I also exchanged text messages with our photographer, Kenneth Uy. I asked if we could possibly schedule our prenups shoot this September. Sabi niya he's available on weekdays only..if we want daw sa october, medyo free siya on weekends. I just told him na we'll check our schedule first. So yun, pag-uusapan pa muna namin ni Paul.

So yun, medyo productive talaga ngayon hehehe! Back to wed preps ulit yahoo!

Our Honeymoon Destination is....

where kaya? (considering the meager budget, of course)...

Option No. 1: HONG KONG

Option No. 2: BORACAY

Option No. 3 : EL NIDO

(yun eh kung bibigyan ako ni Angie ng big, big discount!)

--hehe isinima kunwari--

The poll is now open..hehehe!

...chentleens forever

I was browsing over my saved messages on my mobile phone and this one made me smile once again...

I'd b hapi 2 emcee 4 ur wedding mai..D least i cud do..Ay grbe dti mga debut nyo lng ang iniemcee k, ngyn wedding na..Awww rgards to paul, too. Mis u! Mwah! :)

Got this last Apr 23 from my HS bestfriend, Gretchen, when I asked her the favor to emcee our wedding reception program along with a HS classmate, Archie. While Paul's family and I were on our way to Pampanga for an outing, we were delighted to hear our names over the fm radio..

"Hi to Mai and Paul who are tuned in right now...they were my classmates in high school and it's nice to know that they're tying the knot on December..so I'm wishing you all the best guys!".

That's Gretch greeting us over the airwaves..she's a deejay at Blazin 105.9 (10 am - 2 pm weekdays, 2-6pm on saturdays). O di ba astig ang emcees namin! Archie and Gretch were the best debaters we have on our batch. (Archies's working for Miriam Defensor-Santiago). I'm sure they'll do great on our day, eversince, lagi na silang nag-e-emcee, besides, it'll have a more personal touch since they know a lot about us..especially Gretch, whom I shared almost all of my HS secrets with. We used to have a journal where we would alternately write a message for each other everyday...andun lahat ng secrets, pen names of our crushes, doodles ng kung anu-ano, poems, our theme songs for our moods, heartaches, sama ng loob, anything we'd like to write.

She really was indeed my bestfriend as we had lots of similarities kaya nag-jive talaga kami..we're both small (body built and height), we both wore braces, we're both moody, we loved the songs even if by jam morales and tell me by joey albert, etc. Awww, reminiscin such makes me miss her a lot. We parted ways na kasi nung college. She took up AB Legal Management while I took up Business Ad..though we went to the same college building at UST, we rarely saw or even bumped into each other as we had different sched and eventually, had different circle of friends :( Di pa uso cellfone nun, la naman siyang landline sa dorm..so ayun...nawalan ng communication. It was just the other year, i think, when I got hold of her mobile number. Ayun, tapos nakita ko siya sa friendster..and there..ayan may balita na ako sa knya. The last time I saw her..sa underpass ng Ayala-Paseo. Papasok me ng office while siya naman pauwi na. She works at Sykes in the evening and hits the airwaves in the morning..hay ang sipag ng lola! (not to mention ang yaman na nito!)

When Paul and I were planning who to get as our emcee..without second thoughts, i texted gretch right away. If there's one person who knows how it all started between Paul and I, that would be Gretch. Kaya Gretch..manlibre ka naman..(haha! ang layo)

You may be wondering why with that title, "chentleens" was how we fondly called our "best-friendship". "Chent" taken from her name, Gretchen, and "leen" from my long nickname, Maileen. (Uy trivia yun..now you know kung san galing ang "mai"..eh ang layo sa real name ko na napaka-santacruzan ang dating na "maria elena").

And with Gretch accepting the favor, ngayon pa lang, thankful na ako. Indeed, chentleens forever..right Gretch?

More Today Than Yesterday...

As the Ayala Center commercial jingle goes...

Oh, I love you more today than yesterday

But not as much as tomorrow

I love you more today than yesterday

But, darling, not as much as tomorrow...

hmm.. a good song to be heard on the reception...a wedding song, indeed. Have to include this in the repertoire that Enamel of Senti Groove shall play on our day. Speaking of Sentimental Groove, haven't got in touch with them since the last time we attended a demo..that was our fourth visit and hehehe yup with uncertainty, (because of negative feedbacks we heard about them at the weddingsatwork yahoogroups on how they deal with their clients) we booked them. We also had our share of disappointments with them.."magulo kausap, magulo ang pricing, etc"..but ewan super galing kasi nila. Performance wise...galing! Anyway, I just hope that everything will be ok..I'm sure Kitte, our coord, will be there to back us up. We'll schedule to have our Production Meeting with them some time on october, at the same time, have to pay kahit mga 40% lang of our balance...para di naman mabigat bayaran come our wedding day.


La lang..i'm blogging about this song because just received this from a fellow w @ wie (thanks apols!). Last song syndrome? Maybe maya-maya ng konti pag natapos na at nagsawa na ako sa kauulit-ulit nito.