how was the dinner with gigi? did u guys have fun?

puma guy was ok...i swear, i honestly just wanna be friends...and i cannot totally shut him off because he's pinoy...it's always good to have a fellow pinoy na ka-chika...

anyways, hope the message got through...will blog later on...

btw, i went shopping last sunday, i saw this amazing sandals...very chinese, with chinese character on strap and all...will prolly get one for you before i go home...it's wooden but it's light and it doesnt make that clunky noise...i would have gotten one if i had nice feet hihihi...

anyways, sige ingats kayo...

hi!

so what happened when you went out with the puma guy (alone!)? maybe he's nice naman if you were able to go home safe. but i agree with oprah that if you don't wanna go out with him then don't, no excuses. period. but because you already went out with him once (alone!) then he may have this idea that in a way you like him also. no girl goes out with a guy (alone!) if she doesn't like him kahit konti lang. maybe you saw a flicker of "likeable qualities" in him and you're just in denial. anyway, just have fune!

baka magkita kami nila gigi again later. tell you about it next blog. i'll also tell gigi to join the blog.

cge, till next time.

ciao!

ay ok si gigi gurl ah! panalo :) hi mo ko dun...sayang naman she dint get in touch with me when she was here...

anyways, so rob is past na...goodluck :)

that puma guy...it's my broker's fault...coz two saturdays ago, i started looking for an apartment...that guy was one of her clients and then since she found out that we're both pinoys, she introduced us...i was fine with it too because im a naturally friendly person hahaha! kidding...i just like the idea of meeting fellow pinoys really...being in a foreign land, you kindda have this desire to bond with fellow pinoys (especially me since for 2 years, most of my friends are viets)...anyways, so my broker took me to his unit (which he shared with another puma pinoy guy) in 'phu my hung'...it was a nice place really, it's one of those better places in vietnam (quite far from the business district)...just to give you an idea, their rent was 800usd per month (very strange broker, she gave me that info without me asking for it)...i actually wanted to get a unit there, but i calculated time cost, and now emotional cost (kidding only!)...and i thought it was not worth it...but i do wanna be friends with him/them bec he's pinoy...it would have been easier to shut him off if he's viet/foreigner...but he's a fellow pinoy...oh well, i'll just be careful...it's funny what you said about that one incident- a guy inviting me to his house to show some stuff, i am so naive...sometimes i forget that im grown up; and that guys sometimes have some ulterior motives...

going back...im still shocked, i mean, i met him once and then he calls me up like 4-6 times a day (minus the ignored calls)...then he'd tell me what he's doing ie. he's going to work now, he's in the car, he's checking the designs, he rejected this design...and today, he said he misses me! duh...how is that possible...i dunno why guys do that...is it a strategy? like pester the girl with your presence so she wont forget you? i dunno...and what i do not understand is that ive been rejecting his invitations, and he still doesnt show signs of slowing down (hopefully this week!)...and i think im running out of excuses already (im busy, i have a client meeting, im entertaining my client/mom's friends etc.- all true though, to some extent)...my fault, oprah once said that if you dont wanna go out with a guy, just say no- no excuses needed...but i do not think it's polite...i think he at least should know why im saying no...because in fairness, he's pretty polite as well, when i say dont go to my house (he knows bec of that broker) or office (he knows bec i told him that i worked in acnielsen when we met, thinking that he was one of those fleeting acquaintances again), he does not....

dont hate me...today, i said yes- i can meet up with him sa weekend...but on the condition that we will be with some friends...he was reluctant at first- he wanted just the 2 of us (im still hoping that he just wanna be friends bec i honestly do)- but i was adamant...anyways, that's all...

ingats...kwento kayo pa...

can you invite gigi to blog as well? :)

hi!

marlon was somewhat annoyed when he read my last blog. kasi, he wasn't obsessed naman daw with the boylet. he even told me that they no longer have any communication (wonder how long this will last! chuks lang marlon!). so he may react again if he reads your blog belinda (sigh!).

rob and i met na. we were at greenhills (officemates) when he called up and asked if we could meet. so i told him sa greenhills na lang sya punta. nagpa-coffee naman sya (we were with glenda) so ok naman. haha! but i don't really see him as a potential...

nga pala, lani, shiela, gigi (yes!) and i went out last friday. actually, it was gigi who was insistent on meeting us. she missed na daw the bench girls. sobrang happy. she told me na she went to vietnam late last year but she didn't know how to contact you. anyway, she looked the same, but more sophisticated (kasi naka-corporate outfit at nakamamatay na boots!). she had two boyfriends na (the first one was her boss!). we even talked about her sexual excapades. but no, she didn't go all the way with either of them. pero grabe na ang gigi, natalo ang parking lot ko. mapa-table sa office or sa elevator lumalaban. kakaiba! we also talked about you and your........ work sa vietnam (hahaha!). they are planning nga pala to go to hk (lani and gigi!) sosyal di ba?

lani nga pala filed for a sabbatical leave (for one year) starting this june. she wants to try daw the corporate world. hope she wont be disillusioned. gigi nga pala promised that she would set us up with her lawyer friends (win!). but i told her unahin na si lani. and guess what, last saturday she texted me that she already found someone for lani. sana this time wag ng mag-inarte ang lani! sabi ko magpapancit ako pag naka-first kiss na si lani. si shiela day magpapa-puto, at si gigi magpapa-biko. sabi naman ni marlon sya na bahala sa 1.5 na coke. hahaha! kaw ano contribution mo sa first kiss party for lani? :)

about the pinoy you met (the puma supervisor), as i've texted you, be friendly lang. if he doesn't do anything naman na masama ok lang. if he wants to go out or hang out with you make sure na you're with other friends. get to know him more din coz you'll never know..... when you'll be needing sneakersssssss. but don't be over-friendly ha (like going to the house of the guy if he tells you that he will just show you something! chuks lang! :) )

when are you coming back to manila pala? si suzanne di namin nakita. sad!

thanks for whatever you bought for me/us! ingats! :)

marlon
and here i thought he was over him...oh well, maybe he loves misery...i mean how can u possibly want to be with someone when you cant have 100% of him...i distinctly remember us having a conversation wherein he (and the rest of us agreed) that in relationships, there should be no gray areas, either you have him completely or you dont...hmm change of heart, change of mind...

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rob
so he cancelled your date/semi-date for the nth time? not very nice of him...and to think, we were 'trying' to like him despite his negative status in, err, academics (we're so mean, i swear!)....sometimes methinks we'll never really introduce potential/actual boyfriends to each other because we know how each other thinks/scrutinizes...but really, despite how we are i think that we would accept/respect anyone's decision in the boyfriend arena (think suzanne)...

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final calls
in hcmc airport, i intentionally went in late (had already checked in about 2 hours in advance) to the pre-boarding area...i actually heard my name being called... "this is the final call for ms. belinda molina, please proceed to gate no. 6 for boarding"...i dunno, i guess i get a natural high in seeing if i can still make it given that i was only minutes or seconds away from flight time... the fear of not being to roam around hk prior to my conference got the better of me so i hurried up...

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hongkong
it was way too cold for me...12-15 degrees C on average...now i understand why people wear trench coats...they actually have a function...i thought it was just for fashion's sake...

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lonely planet
never called marlon's friend because i assumed he dint really wanna be bothered (called him when i was in cambodia 2 days before i left for hk)...he said something like "ok, you can tag along if we go out on saturday"...i got the idea...rude guy- or gay or whatever...thank god there's lonely planet, the single girl's guide to adventure when a man aint around...hahaha...anways, at first i was reluctant to go around alone (i swear i almost did call rude guy mark)...i dunno, i chickened out...this was my first time really because last time i did this, i was with marlon who took care of reading maps and stuff...then i challenged myself, "if you do this, then you can do anything"...hahaha...it seems weird, but it worked...i managed by using the book and asking around (mostly pinays, there were lots)- i never claimed to be totally adept at reading maps...i got into a tram (double-decked), a bus (double-decked as well), a ferry, into another island (kowloon)...hah! it was liberating...travelling is about stretching your limits, exploring the unknown and finding out you can do so much...i remembered why people travel... :)

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maids
went to the central exchange station (statue square) wherein i saw a deluge of pinay maids...they were there- around the square, along the underpass; having mass, reading bibles/pinoy novels, listening to pinoy songs, playing cards...it was quite an emotional experience for me- thinking about how much they have sacrificed (living away from home, having to deal with cruel chinese employers) and how they stood up for each other so they can remain strong together...cant explain, you have to be there to know...

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fleeting acquaintances
in one of my help-can-you-show-me-how-i-can-get-to-this-place moments, i met a guy named bal (he laughed when he found out that i was bel)...oh well...anways, he was seated next to me in the tram and i was on my way back to the hotel...turns out that he lived in the building next to the excelsior (my hotel)...it was a building that bore the name 'the president'...he asked for my business card, told him i dint have one (actually i did, but heck, para que)...so he offered to give me his number 'in case i need help'...so being the polite person that i am, i did, he wrote his number down on my book...now, im not a phony or anything, but somehow you just know that those moments are just transitory and that you'll never to get to meet that person again in your lifetime...and the only reason you met them for a while was for them to help you get to your hotel safe and sound...
had a similar experience pre-hk...i was seated next to this vietnamese guy (i would later find out that his name is vinh)...he was about my age...a viet khieu (overseas vietnamese)...he's been in the states for 20 years...grew up in la and now works as pharmacist in texas...the flight was quite long (2 hours!) so there was enough time for us to share each other's life stories...anyways, he asked me how long i'd work in vietnam, i said perhaps for just another year...then he explained later on (when we got a lil closer) that the reason he asked how long i was gonna stay in vietnam is that he would have gotten my number because he'd be going back again to visit (vietnam) some time next year...he also implied about having dinner (and asked me if i was gonna have dinner with colleagues when we land); thank god he had to follow an arrow going the left way (for the la flight he was taking in the next hour or 2), while my arrow was to the right; i dint like making excuses not to go to dinner with him... so there goes the perfect fleeting acquaintance...no numbers asked because it will all be futile...

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me bitching out
went to the front desk to check out at around 10 minutes to 7am (time the hotel transpo leaves for the airport; my flight was at 9)...i was asked by the concierge the night before to go down 15 minutes before that...but i was just too lazy to wake up earlier, i like to cherish my extra 15 minutes...so anways, the front desk girl was slow (it was early)...she made a mistake (computed for 2 night's stay only when it should have been 3)...and the concierge was bugging me about the shuttle having to wait for me, that there were others already in the shuttle...it was only then that i realized that this wasnt my normal hotel transpo, wherein i would be the only passenger...and to think the transpo costs 20USD! oh well...i felt quite guilty really but i dint show that to them hotel people...as it looked like the front desk was taking forever, the concierge said that we better let the shuttle leave without me...that i just take the airport express and a taxi...i agreed...but they would still charge me 20USD! so was infuriated...i was not about to pay for service that i dint get, i told them...the argument took quite some time (but we were pretty civilized, we weren't screaming freaks)...but i finally won in the end...so much for being bitchy...i dint feel quite myself...but somehow i knew i had to do it...

anyways, there...bought some stuff pala for you guys...sana u'll like them...