Year: 2008

Where’s The Warranty?

If I could return my body to the manufacturer I would. Lately I’ve been waking up to pounding headaches, and spend most of my day battling it. It leaves me tired, completely uninterested in getting any work done and wanting only to stay my ass in bed. In fact, work is a chore and it takes all sorts of convincing to get me to do anything.

Obviously I’ve even less energy to go to the gym and its almost two weeks now. The result? I feel guilty about not getting work done and not going to the gym, so not only do I have a pounding headache, I am super annoyed at myself as well.

Sigh.

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What I Learned From My Talk

The talk went well. I thought there were only a few attendees at the start but 5 minutes into my talk it was SRO.

I learned a few things about myself plus a few observations. Lemme break it down so I won’t forget.

  1. Detailed pics of the sites won’t show up well on a not – so – good projector.
  2. Ten or more pages can translate to more than an hour.

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Tentative Outline for My Talk on Wednesday (rescheded for the 22nd)

may 21 – I was rather quickly bumped off for some celebrity who they decided was more important than me. I suppose I should’ve quit at that point but heck, sure let’s get on with it. I was rescheduled for tomorrow instead, 4-5PM. So if you went, so sorry. I’m just as surprised as you are.

I figure IV – 4 is the interesting part. The rest is just me taking up time.

  1. Introduction
  2. Who Am I?
  3. My Blogs
      Basketball Exchange

    1. Stats
    2. I Work With
    3. Content Type
    4. Services
      Mom Exchange

    1. Stats
    2. I Work With
    3. Content Type
    4. Services
      Kikay Exchange

    1. Stats
    2. I Work With
    3. Content Type
    4. Services

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Goodbye Sleep

First it’s the Playoffs, leading to the Finals. Then in a few days from now *gasp* ROLAND GARROS.

Federer is gonna try again and Nadal will have something to say about that. But the big story is Henin’s early retirement, which kinda pulls the rug out of Sharapova’s bid. A pity since she’s looking stronger than ever.

Ahh Sharapova. Wait, what was it I was talking about?

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Carlos Celdran Is One Of My Idols

I’ve never met him, I’m one of those losers who say ‘oh let’s join one of his tours!‘, and doesn’t do anything about it, and I’m occasionally shocked at the things he does.

But to those who want to make a change in this world, you can’t go wrong in finding inspiration at the ostentatious, silly looking man in the top hat who, crazily enough, finds beauty in the Philippines. What an out of this world opinion, right? I mean, isn’t the logical thing to get the hell out of here?

And so to you Carlos, whose tour I wanna join one day but probably won’t do anything about (being a loser), here’s my little post on my blog that serves to say how much I admire you, and people like you, who work against the literal tide of humanity making a beeline for the exit.

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On Getting Press and What To Do With It

At this very moment, my picture has come out on several newspapers in an advertorial by Lipton for their Milk Tea, featuring an event I attended a few weeks ago. Hence I’ve been called and texted by friends re this phenomenon.

This bothers me obviously, because now my extreme handsomeness and rugged muscularity is all over the world to see. Sigh. As if I have enough problems with the pap.

But seriously folks, this is exactly what I didn’t wanna happen, especially given I represented Kikay Exchange. It was a workday and so I went on Jill’s behalf, then bang, I got my ugly mug taken in the middle of sipping the stuff (which is delicious btw – no I’m not obligated to say that).

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Our Interview No Show

If it weren’t for Dong and My Dearest Cuz’s wonderful wedding yesterday (I was Best Man), I’d not have easily forgotten my disappointment about our TV no – show interview on Wednesday night.

Well, here’s what happened.

interview

About 3 weeks ago Jill and I were interviewed by QTV‘s Fit and Fab, a beauty – wellness – fashion tv magazine type show hosted by Theresa Licaros and Maggie Wilson (no they didn’t do the interviewing). Topic was primarily the Kikay Shop for an online shopping segment.

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My First Speaking Engagement *Changed Sked

Today I received below email. I actually said no the first time I was asked, being allergic to making presentations (I’ve had enough of that in previous jobs!). But I guess I’m too much of a sucker for a good compliment:

We’re hoping that you could do a 30-minute to an hour talk about blogging as a business venture. I would have chosen from our blogger-attendees during the 88DB Bloggers Night last month but I deemed that your Exchange sites are more successful than other blog sites. Since it is a short talk, I think you would be able to come up with a minimal presentation. A projector will be provided.

Man they sure know how to get a guy’s attention. But then they said this:

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