• My dad and sister came into town.  We had a good time and went up to NYC, where we had more good times.  Tim and my dad got along pretty well, so yay.
• New hires started on April 28, and have finally settled into their positions enough that I actually feel like I'm fully staffed.
• I turned 30.  Had a nice, sedate, dare-I-say "adult" send off to my ( Read more... )

MK, so youtube apparently automatically resizes everything to itsy bitsy, so i also uploaded it to vimeo, which left the dimensions a little closer to the actual video. Not whether their servers are any good, so I'm posting both.

New Year's Eve in Manila is really something else.

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New Years in Manila from Dawn Perlas on Vimeo.

sometimes my heart feels so heavy i imagine it's going to just break away from the spot where it sits in my chest, crashing through my stomach and my intestine and uterus ( Read more... )

So, there has been a lot going on that i haven't quite had the opportunity to wrap my head around, what with work swallowing up my life the way it has ( Read more... )

Manila is good so far. Not as hot as I was expecting, which is nice. At 9am in the morning it's 86 degrees with 70% humidity making it feel like 95 degrees, according to weatherbug. This is actually only my second day in Manila thus far... my flight got in at around 11pm the evening of the 9th and then at 6am on the 10th the bros and I flew ( Read more... )

It's interesting how the fatigue borne of being too anxious to sleep generally makes one further prone to becoming too anxious to sleep. Vicious cycle, anyone ( Read more... )

So I haven't written in awhile it would seem, though not out of nothing to say. I dorked my sleep cycle up pretty royally last weekend and am still feeling the effects...

Highlights of the last 10 days or so: Went out to Baltimore with my crew and caught a drag show, and learned a couple things:

• The word "chump" inexplicably sends me into fits ( Read more... )

It's unfortunate that I only feel impetus to really write when I feel blue, because the fact of the matter is that these are the times I'd really like to get down for posterity ( Read more... )

This snippet of conversation with my sister made me giggle:

Robin: I-Google mo kaya.
Me: Ginoogle ko nga. Ginagago mo ata ako.

I miss speaking in tagalog.

When I miss speaking in Tagalog the voice I hear in my head (not to mention hearing it LOUD AND CLEAR) is that of angat_sa_batas; Garon has the greatest talent for inflection of anyone I've ever met, ( Read more... )

As I've previously mentioned, my paternal uncle had set up a yahoo group for my family to keep in touch.. I emailed them about the show last Saturday and my dad's response just made me giggle. This man never responded so excitedly when any of us got good grades, got a job, got a promotion, etc... ( it just makes me giggle... )