In Between

after a very boring morning followed by an equally lazy afternoon, i dragged my feet towards the 26th floor for another round of those company-sponsored training/seminar a.k.a. snoozefest. i seriously don't know why i'm here. i don't think i need this shit. although....the free food almost compensates for the trainer's inability to keep me interested, it's not enough to make me NOT feel that this is a colossal waste of my time. wait scratch that. i just spotted my crush. OK, this could be well worth my while after all. hahahaha. the instructor came in late. he seems perky enough. nice diction. great presence. but i still feel kind of blah. i am so bored i'm beginning to contemplate taking up knitting. wait, that would require purchasing yarns and stuff... wag na pala . EFFORT. what happened today? why do i feel like it was such a blur?

ewan mcgregor is <3 this film did not particulary spark my interest the first time i heard about it. i thought it would just be another one of those boring thrillers. but late one night, i saw the dvd being sold near the bus stop and thought...well what the heck. it wouldn't hurt to give it a shot. and it turned out to be a pleasant surprise. the ghostwriter had the right elements of what a thriller should be. the entire movie felt like an agatha christie book brought to life. i really felt scared for ewan's character as he tries to piece together the mess he got himself in. and the plot twist was just delicious. 4/5 stars on a kind of off-topic note: i must admit, this film left me so much more intrigued about the ghostwriting profession. i knew about the existence of ghostwriters, mostly on collaborating with politicians who can't put together words for their speeches and students who are too lazy to come up with research/term papers or celebri

this shot is so...cheesy. it just didn't work for me. i saw the losers last night. the title says it all. period.

instead of spending my evening staring into the void, i thought of playing my not-so-newly-purchased game, the sims 3. after working for 4 hours decorating my house and visiting the community, i finally was able to pry myself away from my laptop and call it a night. goodness, my life is such a bore. i remember the first life-simulation PC game that got me hooked. believe it or not, the sims is like Jones in the Fast Lane, only that the former is so much cooler. i am not certain if i played this game in DOS or Windows 3.1 (or was it 3.0?). geeez...i felt super old mentioning those. anyway, Jones in the Fast Lane sort of works the same as the sims. you create a character (i think this is mainly choosing whether you want a male or female character, nothing complicated like choosing hair color or getting a tattoo), and you feed them, make them go to school, get a job, clothe them. it's like a fancier version of a tamagochi. it's funny that i remember this game well. i real

day started pretty slow. i think it's because i'm trying to take my time with work. i've been stress eating lately. i really need to chill or my hips will balloon in no time. anyway, as i mentioned, day started pretty slow. i spent the entire morning updating my BDJ planner. hahaha! i wasn't in the mood to review documents. and besides my team lead is MIA. so, naturally, i took advantage. he finally showed up after lunch. so my productivity meter spiked a bit (about a couple of hours). and after sending massive loads of files to our PM, i had nothing more to do. that wasn't exactly true though. i have plenty of shit to finish. but it was 545PM. starting a new task would incur OT. and i don't want that. i. am. so. LAZY. it's mike's birthday today. northpark. dinner. not bad. anyhoo. must sleep. tomorrow is another day.

so after working yesterday (yes, it was a holiday...no...it's not a paid OT), i decided to take a break from all my tasks this morning and tried to relax a bit. but of course, knowing myself too well, i began to get bored after a mere 10 minutes of quiet time. curse that darn network administrator for blocking the important social networking sites. there's no IM, no web mail. then both my "cube-mates" decided to have a meeting at the exact same time so i'm just basically left here in my station, alone with my thoughts. what a drag. sitting around and "trying to look busy" is hard work people. i pretended to review an old document or flipped through a series of screenshots. my eyes got tired of staring at the computer screen so i thought, hey maybe this could be a good time to write something. i took out my notebook...and for some bizarre reason, started listing all the major events that happened this year. well not the major major nationwide news