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Hi, I’m Katherine de Guzman, 25 years old. As I am writing this, I am listening to a song. To my favorite song… a song from the movie that captured my heart, My Sassy Girl, which I’ve watched countless times. I never imagined that this song would also be the one that I am going to hear when I get to answer the one question that almost all girls are waiting for to hear.   I am not really used to writing but right now? I feel like doing it. It gets me into thinking, what would life be after this? Would I be leaving my bachelorette life behind? Will my priorities change? Will life be easier or harder? Too many questions pop in my mind right now.  And it seems like some, I can think of the answers, but some… I can’t think of any definite and right answer.  Answers, which I think should leave for myself as you also have your own opinion on that.   I want to describe that that special instance of my life.  For once, I felt like the world stopped, my lips were sealed and I can’t say anything. For 2-3 seconds, I am not sure if he’s asking me or that I was just daydreaming that he was asking me.  When I get back on my mind, the ring was already there and when I spoke, the first words that came out of my mouth was definitely not “yes” and the worst thing is I can’t remember it.  But that time, I sure want to kiss and hug him.  I am not sure how things are going to be after this.  I still have plenty of work to do and I think the next time that we’ll be discussing this is after this week, when all our other commitments are finished.  As of this writing, no one knows that I am engaged to my long-time boyfriend.  By the time that I post this, everyone will know that my parent’s only daughter, my friends so called no-plan-in-life girl, my high school-friends’ so called “kaladkarin” (term for a person who always travel), my officemate’s so called “Pare” (Bro) and my relatives’ so called “Ate” (elder sister) will be walking down the aisle, will exchange vows with someone who she wants to spend the rest of her life with and in a year’s time, will take the name,  Katherine de Guzman-Saba                  

as it goes every year, december 10 ends with us receiving our company bonuses, not only limited to the moolah (and gift checks!), but some other holiday items as well.  the haul for this year is not really bad – 2 kilos of christmas (?) sausages (down from 5 kilos last year), imported goodies (canned stuff), body/laptop bag (without the laptop), company tumbler, and another sack-like bag emblazoned with the company logo, with nylon cords to close it (knapsack? shoe bag?).

my problem now is what to do with them: i’ve bought a bodybag this year (of the same color), which looks to be much more serviceable than the company-issued one; i’m currently using a starbucks tumbler, with several other tumblers (seattle’s best, disney) gathering cobwebs at home.  and as a souvenir for watching the blueman show, i got myself knapsack/shoe bag, just barely 3 months ago!

not that i’m complaining, i know there are people who don’t get bonuses and stuff, so i’m extremely thankful for that, i just find it (worth blogging?) exasperating that i might not be able to put these goodies into good use after all.

at least there’s always next year.  if only christmas bonus are given every month…

was there anything bad said about the combination of the element water and the zodiac sign cancer this year?

seems like most of my mishaps recently has got to do with contact with water. yesterday’s did not exactly start with water contact problem (i mean, i took a bath, and nothing bad happened!), however during the span of the day lots of bad luck happened culminating with – what else? – a watery conclusion.

i guess enumeration would be the best way to dole it out: (continue reading…)

… or with any written language exam for that matter, is that they don’t really cover one’s capability or grasp of the language in its entirety.

i’ve just received my internal jlpt score, and while it is more than what i expected (especially since i was not able to study, and that the night before the exam i spent the wee hours creating a monthly report!), i didn’t get the least bit elated.  i’m really not that confident that i am almost at the 二級 level (yes, my career high stil does not meet the company target!).  my main concern is that i could not really speak nihongo when the need arises (as compared with some of the people here).  i really wouldn’t mind my score if not for how some view the meaning of its value.  unfortunately, i believe there are those who would think that since one is able to get a certain amount of score, one should be able to read, write, and speak in a certain level.  the life of a japanese-owned company employee.

on the bright side, my ever-increasing score disproves my idea that i can’t progress with my japanese.  progress is slow, yes, but at least there’s still progress!

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last week, kyashi just bought herself a new toy:

thanks to an officemate of mine, we were able to purchase the laptop for only (?) php25k flat. add 900 for converting the ram into 2gig, and we got ourselves one hell of a deal.

more of a luxury than a need (rich man’s replacement for the ds?), although the initial idea why we bought the mini-note was so that i can have a means to contact kyashi when i go to my us vacation in september. however for the 9 days that we own the eeepc, i’ve only used it for maybe 4 hours tops! now i wonder if i’ll really be bringing it to the us with me…

photo courtesy of the asus site. i forgot to take a picture of kyashi and the black version of the eeepc.