Mr. Lago

I would like to introduce Mr. Lago, one of the finance professors in DLSU.



He's my professor for two terms now, first was in Investment Finance class then now in Investment Banking class.

Honestly he is a boring prof because he lectures as if he is talking to himself. Imagine, a huge class and a soft voice. The following are the reasons why I consider him temperamental:
1. He'll only speak louder at times when he gets excited.
2. He makes remarks such as he'll hit his clients with a bottle of hennessy, at least they'd get a taste of a P10,000 liquor.
3. Look where he lays his foot - ON A TABLE. good god.
4. He laughs at his own jokes, and he alone laughs. and the class is as silent as mute. In fairness I almost snorted this afternoon when he was laughing all by himself. ( i know, sorry such a bitch of me)
5. His email id is Jetlagzz.
6. And now he strikes a pose.


And this is what happens when you get a doze of 5 hours of FINESBA in one day.



There's another "barumbadong" prof which I will write about next time, if i could get a picture of him because he looks scary he might explode when he sees me taking a pic of him. well, i know it's really freaky to take other people's pics discreetly haha.

Hope no one significant finds this blog. hihihi.

June 25, 2009

Today is the feast day of Blessed Jose Maria Escriva, the founder of Opus Dei. My dad woke me up so so so early (5am) and my brother to attend this 6am celebration at San Roque Parish near our home. I havent gone to mass in that church for quite a long time now ( we attend mass somewhere else every Sunday) but all i could remember about this parish is that it is forever being under construction, ever since when i was a kid. Lo and behold, it is still under construction.



Look at the ceiling, it still has those bits of wood hammered together to serve as a support for the construction workers as they fix the main ceiling. and those bars of steel, damn! what if during the mass all these fall on us?!?! i wonder when this parish would be completed, maybe when i already have 10 kids? kidding. :) from the outside this church looks nice, so keep up the good work guys and i hope you complete this God speed ahead!

Anyways, just as i was lining up for the communion, i noticed i was standing behind a very tall man. and this man happens to be an "old friend".. of my sister's and his name was Mr. Raffy Madarang. I felt like a midget behind him, i think i was only in his waist level, good lord that's how tall he is. (or maybe im just too short?) suddenly i remember my dad told me he lived somewhere near so that makes us, technically speaking, "neighbors". my dad also told me he often attends morning mass there with his mom, but today he was also with a tall white guy, his brother, so probably this is the guy my boss was referring to when i told him i knew Mr. Raffy. I wonder, what if my sister married this guy, instead of her husband now as my brother in law? they'd probably be brooding mini OD kids and mom and dad will be soooo proud! again, im just kidding.

after mass, i insisted we eat breakfast at Jollibee. man oh man i love their hot chocolate! i rarely drink jollibee hot chocolate since they only serve them until 11am and i dont usually eat breakfast out so i drank 2 cups and barely ate my food. it's like as if the hot chocolate was enough as my main coarse for breakfast :)



then after this, i went to school because we were supposed to have a make up class for strategic finance. However when our prof came in, she said she might have h1n1 (she should not have to come to school, man) and i had no choice but to go near her because i had to consult a lot of things regarding our thesis. i have great trust in my immune system, i chug down lots of vitamin Cs, so hopefully i wont get sick :)

Then, while i was waiting for my thesis mates, i had lunch with my guy/girl friend at Pizza Hut, UM. He's top 1 in our batch. (great brains!) He's an eco-finance guy.

I know, he looks like a total nerd. but girls go GaGa over him! dayum!

and so now, I am just at home doing this post because i'm still too lazy to study and waiting for my it-takes-10-years-adviser to check our thesis amendments, while everyone's out and about watching Transformers 2. I WISH IT'S TUESDAY NIGHT ALREADY!!!!! we have reservations on imax this coming tuesday night, 1015pm. if youll be in MOA that time, see you! :)

DLSU. then and now

I stumbled upon an old picture of how my school looked like before. I'm not really sure what year this picture was taken. Check it out.



Obviously, Vito Cruz looked way better during this time, DLSU in particular. If you are a La Sallian, you'd probably notice there were no conservatories during that time. Plus, the road was wider, no traffic and NO POLLUTION. I don't need to post a pic on how it looks like today, obviously it's pretty bad, but not sh*tty.

Sigh, time changes all things. Whether for the better, or for the worst.

Happy, happy fathers' day! 2009

Last Sunday was Fathers' day. What did you give your father this year? :) I bought my dad a small cake, however, I dont think he enjoyed it because it was mocha flavored. I forgot he doesnt like any caffeine flavored food. But i ate 2 slices of the cake since the day i surprised him with, and today i still see it in our ref. Maybe deep inside he feels happy about it, siyempre dads are ma-pride so fine i'll let him be. haha!

For fathers' day, i insisted (haha!) we eat dinner at Savory GH, and we did and boy i slept soundly that night. exagge, kidding! but i was so happy because ive been craving for their chicken, pancit and most especially their very delicious gravy since god knows when and finally i was satisfied wooohhooo!!!

My sister called me and said she and her hubby will just be having dessert because they already ate dinner at their home so i just ordered 2 whole roasted chickens, 2 long life pancit cantons, and 2 yang chow fried rice. 15 minutes after the food was laid before us, it was gone! (hey i just had 2 pcs of chicken :) ) it was my two brothers' task to finish all the food we ordered, no left overs pls. and that was just what they did. they even made soup of the gravy, good thing it was bottomless, like their tap water.

cant wait for bj's birthday! savory escolta here we come! :)

Laughtrip #1

Currently playing: Whip it - Devo

I'm just at home on a Friday night. My groupmates and I were supposed to do our thesis amendments now, good thing it was moved tomorrow night. Wow, sucky weekend! Anyways, I was just plurking and surfing the net, when my friends Bj and Reymart decided to make fun of me and they made this pic


ako lang naman yung nagmukang basura sakanila noh?!?!?!

HAHAHAHAHAHA grabe sobrang laughtrip, I cant stop laughing, even right this sec. They even said "Babs and friends on the way to Wai Ying." Wai Ying is our favorite chinese resto in Binondo. You should try eating there it's sooooo addictingly (imbento ng word eh noh) delicious and cheap at the same time like a rice meal which is really big costs P100 and steamed tofu for P40?!?!?!

"just keep laughing... :)"

Joe's Apartment

Remember that movie? It was premiered in the 1990's. Back then I was still a kid and for some reason I enjoyed it. But I had bittersweet feelings for this movie. I find Jerry O'Connell hot and handsome - back then. hahaha! and just how they made the movie, how they made the scenes as such, really amused me. Kind of like the early Adam Sandler movies which were dumb but hilarious.

Anyways, I just hate the whole cockroach brouhaha in the movie. Especially when Joe was about to eat the 2 roaches in his cereal, and they were already inside his mouth. OMG. I THINK I'M GONNA DIE IF THAT WAS ME. I remember my sister accidentally sucked on a roach egg when she thought it was a black bean because the viand she ate had lots of black beans. AAACCCKKK. I really hate roaches. They were even zoomed in the movie, you could see their whole physique. Yuck, just thinking about the things to include in this entry freaks me out. I don't even know why they exist in the world when everyone kills them, even animals though unconsciously they do so. Don't get me wrong, I can kill them when they're on the floor, but when they're flying or in the wall.. uhhmm.. I try to leave the place asap before it lands on me. hahaha! They say the more you hate, the more you love. I could even smell their presence. Even if they're hiding in something and that thing is in a room full of other things, I could smell them and my senses don't lie. Here are some reasons why I could hate them so much: I've been bitten in the eye lid once when we were in the province, accidentally stepped on one bare foot and one time I was just standing, minding my own business when one suddenly crept up on me!

Anyways, even if roaches in real life are as helpful as the ones in the movie, I still can't embrace them as a relevant living creature. I'm sorry but they just gotta go!

Quotable Quotes #1 by Babskidoodles

LSS: Blame It by Jamie Foxx featuring T-Pain
Current mood: sleepy and sticky

Numero Uno : OPINIONS are a MUST at work.

However, only for work related matters. :)

I got a grade of 4 for the Judgment part because I guess I don't "Use logic or common sense, foresee effects of errors; able to choose options to do job better."

Hmmm.. a 4 isn't really bad, I'm just a little grade conscious because 5 is the perfect score. But I was just thinking when I didn't use COMMON SENSE during my OJT. It's like saying I'm dumb, you know? I'm just scared if I speak up, they won't take it seriously... (reason accepted!)

Probably my boss remembered my xerox machine incident, when I forgot to remove the stapler from the papers and just shoved them in the originals compartment because I was so hungry and my friends were already in the restaurant waiting for me so it got stuck and I panicked because their xerox machine looked so expensive, it was super hi-tech, like touch screen and all.

Anyways, lesson learned! There's always a first time for everything. :)

If I were a Boy

WARNING: This post is just my opinion, so please don't get mad at the things you are about to read. :)

No, this post isn't about Beyonce's song. I've been "one of the boys" ever since god knows when, never the girlfriend. huhuhu. but wait, that's not the reason why I'm blogging. hahaha. So, just for a day, I want to be a boy and see the world from a different perspective.

While some of my guy friends are completely honest with me, for instance, opening up about their sex lives, and in general, how they think, some still act like they're real gentlemen but the obvious is the obvious and most often than not I say it to their face to stop pretending. BOYS WILL BE BOYS!

I'm not being a sexist, I'm not saying that women are better than men either. I believe men and women are equal. :) It's just that for some reason, based on my experience, it is quite easier to make friends with boys. They easily open up to me. But I don't easily open up to them :( You can do more things with them like sports, hard core travelling and stuff when I'm the adventurous type.

I want to be a boy for a day because I would want to know what they think about their girlfriends and girl friends. How they back stab them and dish out their secrets to their "compares". I know, I know. As if we don't do such things. hahaha Like I said, I just want to know. So maybe I can figure out if they are judging us fair and square.

And maybe, just maybe, I can figure out how to act so women can get the man they want (now didn't that just sound so desperate?) because the saying "Just be yourself" doesn't work for some people, right? Oh, also maybe I can give guys some points on what women like with men. What and what not to do, you know.

Besides, If I were a Boy, I'd probably have had a lot of chicks and girlfriends by now. Because in school they always scream my name like I'm some celebrity and give me the biggest hugs like we haven't seen each other for the longest time. Cracking jokes and teasing boys is easier compared to doing it to women because they are less sensitive. But that less of sensitiveness is also bad because when the couple fights, the guy tends to be apathetic. Or is that term too harsh? you get what I mean!

Anyways, I can't think of any more reasons why I want to be a Boy for a day. But I do have plenty. I just can't get it out of my mind. Maybe next time. :)