July 30, 2007

tylord's 3rd birthday bash

another month as a developer. i still had a few items left in my project timeline which i had to finish & polish. i was so proud of myself i exceeded my own expectations in this project that i have done stuff w/c initially appeared technically impossible! anyhow, the 'magic' application w/ all its new features was introduced to the users in the US & UK. gladly enough, almost 90% of the users accepted the new system. the rest were just jabbering about not being able to access it via their firefox or mac browsers. geesh. IE only folks!

july 4
independence day in the US. my manager told me i didn't have to go to work. teehee!!!

july 7
tylord's 3rd birthday celebration.
the celebration was in advance. tylord's birthday was on the next, the 8th. the venue was at the don antonio royale's clubhouse. the presentation was way too neat it appeared like a debutant's birthday bash or a wedding perhaps. the center of the room was where the cake, gifts, give aways were displayed. a huge tarpaulin hang at the north wall w/ tylord's graphically-enhanced picture sitting at the hood of a red ferrari. it was a ferrari birthday themed party. the rest of the walls were embellished with racing flags of varied colors & ofcourse balloons. the host was wearing a red ferrari jacket by which ofcourse the handsome birthday celebrant's attire was as well.

family picture


the event kicked off w/ a crayola coloring contest while the host waited for all the guests to arrive. the line for the face painting was piling up as well. my daughter was so frightened at her turn. she thought she was about to get the needle, probably thinking it was one of her vaccination appointments w/ her pedia haha!
my sis alex came along. my best friend che & her 2 kids arrived an hour later. the room filled up entirely during the reception.

a magic show started after meals. i paid the clowns at my daughter's 1st birthday party to do magic tricks as well w/c when i saw this one at tylord's, proved only to charm babies (who don't even have a grasp of what they are doing). this magic show at tylor'd party deserved claps, 'ahhhhs' and 'wows' from its audience.

anyhow, after tylord blew his cake, sam announced as well that they were celebrating my brother's birthday. his birthday was on the 10th. we packed before 6pm. the party went on for the 'young' adults at the gilligan's bar inside the trinoma mall. alex & myself, followed hours later buying my kid first her new pair of purple crocs. my sister, her bf, my nieces & mom followed before 10pm. we stayed for an hour only coz my brother's & sam's friends had started piling up & we could no longer fit the very long table.

july 8

the prince's actual birth date. sam brought tylord to our house that sunday. ian invited everyone out for dinner & malling at the trinoma. dad asked to be left home to guard the house, as usual. ate anna, aj & my nieces were already at trinoma shopping so we all met inside the mall. we had dinner at the 'chicken inasal' restaurant.

a few shots of bonding moments of my daughter & her cousing tylord. the last 2 pictures where shot when tylord was imitating rayne's blissful & playful shouts *:)

July 29, 2007

what? where was i last june?

i've been totally busy. workload came like pressure coz i was given, oh wait, i gave myself a timeline to accomplish my project.

project? u may ask. i thought i was a supervisor. yes i still am actually. for a month i did 'supervise', then i was assigned back to develop 'magic'. i was asked to integrate another ticketing system to our 'magic' so we didn't have to use both. simply put but terrifyingly complex & difficult. i had no help, i did the planning, the testing, the programming, developing, & implementation myself!!! that went on for 2 months! and it's finally over! i finished it, efficiently on time, and anyone who should grade me should give me 101%! anyway, lemme enumerate the inbetweens of my 'so-few' happenings this month.

june 8
my sister anna's bday. she turned 33 my gosh! and for those who doesn't know, we were born 3 years apart so that means i'm turning?? stop guessing.

i gave her a gift, for her diet, which seemed so expensive now, so i wasn't able to give her follow ups so she's still fat as a cow. haha! peace sis! love u!

june 9
rayne's flu shot schedule. expensive again. had lunch at the pancake house w/ rye & rayne then to her lola's for a visit.

june 10
was havin' problems w/ rayne's yaya so i had her replaced. i hired a neighbor who applied for the position. that didn't work out. rayne was afraid of her, cried everytime she gets anywhere near her. she was not capable of handling my fragile little baby for a few more days that i've observed her so i fired her eventually.

sorority sisters alex and preggy salie visited. i lent salie my electronic womb song and a few clothes to fit her bulging belly. my best friend sheila's pregnant as well! they are both expecting to give birth on the same dates! and these are 2 of my best friends! wow!
june 12
mom's bday! we didn't celebrate at home. she went to our grandma's to celebrate. there was school and office anyway.
months ago, the hospital where i gave birth to rayne called & advised me that i was expecting a few thousand pesos as refund from philhealth. i went to capitol this day and claimed the check. ryan fetched me from the hospital & we ran into a minor car accident as we were about to leave the vicinity. the car behind us hit us thrice. the driver was apologetic explaining that her car was having engine problems & was just about to send it for repair after she dropped her kid to school behind the hospital. our car didn't have any scratches anyway. the back bumper had an indentation from the main car's body which can be ignored. ryan settled for P500 & let it pass. i sent ryan home & brought the car to work.
june 15
night out with workmates. we went to the makati replublic after we clocked out at midnight, drank a few beers & cocktail then went home.
june 17
father's day! i bought dad cake from red ribbon and shopped at the grocery w/ mom & rayne.
june 27
i took a leave coz my baby was sick.
june 28
rayne was still havin' a flu so we decided to bring her to the doctor. she was just prescribed with the usual meds for her condition. we took her afterwards to her lola's since ryan was on a day off & i had to go to work.
june 29
night out with workmates. the original plan was to bring them to saguijo but the place was jump packed when we got there (we clock out at past midnight), everyone was outside. looked like an mtv event was held inside. so we checked jupiter st. instead, thought of settling for videoke but there were no rooms available. we drove a few blocks later and eventually landed at the strumms bar. good thing we came late, we were no longer charged with the entrance fee of P300.
june 30
rayne's still at her lola's so ryan took me out for a date at the eastwood mall. we watched transformers the movie which was superb by the way. we went to trinoma first hoping to experience the theaters there but the ticket lines for transformers were the longest we have ever seen so we transferred to eastwood hoping to get good seats after we had lunch at heaven & eggs. at the eastwood theaters, we did get reserved seats but we got the ones nearest to the screen. shocks! we enjoyed the movie anyway, then suffered stiff necks after hehehe.
i managed to hire a yaya from an agency this day as well. worth it? let's see.