Hisashiburi~~~

Okay, it's been a good 1 and a half month that I have not posted a single character on this blog - shame on me! I was not even busy at work! I was just busy watching anime and playing The Sims 3 during weekends... I am such a lazy person. @__@

Work.. There was the deploy last June which looked like it went out smoothly -- big thanks to Shinri who managed to stay awake for the whole duration... unlike me who is supposed to be the role model @__@ gawd, I am sooo horrible. I was like asleep for a good 30 minutes! Now here's a reminder for me.. DON'T LIE ON YOUR BACK WITH THE LAPTOP ON YOUR TUMMY DURING DEPLOY. It could have been worse! Good thing I was able to come back to life after 30 minutes. xD hontou ni gomen ne, Shinri! And thanks for taking care of almost everything!!! Banzai~ Shinri! xD

Then.. came July. No prod support issues to take care of except for a few text changes to be merged with ezpdb, but they were already taken care of by ezpdb testers. Sachiko was here on the week of the deploy, and they were just working most of the time! We had time for lunch on Monday at Cabalen, with everything reimbursed by the company xD and Sachiko was very happy with the ensaladang mangga! She was not picky at all, she would try everything! She was also taking pictures of the food. And oh right, Tokyo testers sent us some really nice gifts~ I was like smelling the gifts because it might have brought some Tokyo air.. xD isn't this like the kind of thing a perverted person would do?! Aaaaa iie, watashi wa hentai janai.. @___@

Annnnnd the topic is already diverted from Sachiko! So.. my boss tried to lure us into drinking by Thursday night. Everyone has already gone to their Java training and it was just me, Crystal and Mark left in the office. Sachiko was already invited, and he invited us three to come along. So.. we went, hoping that we could also go home early. But then it started, there was some problem with the deploy and they had to use Sachiko's laptop to work in Subzero. And it was really noisy because of the band, very weird place to work. Then when it kinda went out of hand, they had to go back to the office to work seriously, leaving us three in the bar with some money to pay for the food and drinks. They even had to pull the others from training! But my boss asked us to wait for them to finish and to not go anywhere.... ooookaaay... Then it was already past 9pm, he suddenly called my phone -- and I think I misunderstood him. I thought we were just going to wait awhile for P-chan to pick us up at Subzero and he will drop us off to SM.... So we paid for the bill, went out of Subzero and said goodbye to Crystal. We waited and waited until we thought that we can still go home by ourselves and it must be troublesome for P-chan to drop us off somewhere far. Plus, he's not a driver, you know.. xD But then again, Sachiko forgot her new shoes at Subzero so we had to bring it back to her at the office.. and when we arrived there, my boss was asking "why did you leave there?" Good thing I was in the toilet, so unfortunately for Mark, he had to answer the question by himself. He just said that someone called me and we had to go home. Pretty vague for an answer, though we didn't expect the question. Then, that was the time when we realized that... our boss must have meant that we wait for them to finish working, and it's okay if we come home late since P-chan will be dropping us off to SM. Okay, we're screwed.. especially when he seems to be desperate to drink.

Anywaaay, Friday came and the whole team finally got the chance to drink! We all went to tavern, with the bosses' girlfriends and some more bosses - which ensures that the whole thing will be reimbursed again.. xD and it was really fun~ except that Mark really wants to go home early and he had to finish 3 different beers in less than 2 hours. And they weren't just SML. Me... I stupidly went again for margarita, which I didn't finish at all because finally, I got to taste the correct mix and it was something I couldn't handle much that night. So, 1 hour has passed and I have only drank half of it. I ordered a fruit juice so that I can finish the margarita little by little. It was really fun to hang out with everyone~ but too bad, I cannot talk much to Sachiko since she was seated a bit far from us... and I didn't know quite what to say. I can only talk too much on jabber, but I'm still so damn quiet in person. xD Really, why am I so damn shy?! xD

Then Saturday.. we were supposed to go to Tagaytay. But something came up with Mark, so we cannot leave as early as 7AM. In the end, only the bosses and Sachiko were able to leave that early. Mark and I caught up after lunch.. it was a looong trip there.. maybe about 2 hours? We only rode the bus and followed the directions on the map I got from Google. We came from Cavite and ended up on the other side of Cavite. Within 2 hours. So.. we waited in rotonda, the bosses came to pick us up. We went for some lunch, and Sachiko ordered the ensaladang mangga again~ xD and she was drinking beer that early! Mark and I tried the binagoongang rice and it was gooood~! The others also tried to catch up with us, Herson and Jaymee were calling me. Finally, we passed by them on our way to People's Park. Did just a bit of sightseeing and souvenir-buying up there. The air was reaaaally cool and it was really up high.. xD Then we proceeded to Picnic Grove and we did the zipline. I did it twice~ first was with Sachiko, and second with Mark. Our boss did it alone and we took a picture of him. I call it "The Flying Ashvin".. xD Sorry I don't have much pictures~ it was really high and I was always thinking I might drop my camera phone.. @__@ Going home, we took the Sta. Rosa route, and we ended up in Alabang. P-chan offered to drop us off to SM, after he went for some groceries first.

..While Mark and I went to withdraw all of our savings to pay for the car... Oh yeah, Mark is buying our oldest car.. xD and he was going to pay it in installments.... thanks to my mom for allowing this kind of aggreement~!

Anyway... today is supposed to be our first time to bring the car to the office so..... I have to get the car out of the garage first... Hopefully, it will still be in one piece when it gets out. xD good luck to me!!!

So here is the 1 and a half month's worth of stories. It's been a really long post and now I have to sign off. Ja ne~~~