Big medical spender and other drama
I spent Php 8,500 on medicines today at GNC that I had to get a Gold Card to avail of the 20% discount! Haha. It’s reimbursable anyway for my company’s Php 12,000 annual medical benefit that I haven’t used– and have to consume by the end of the year. Guess what I bought?
I sure hope this works!!! A bottle with 150 capsules cost Php 5,500! Crazy! Buti nalang it’s technically the company buying it for me. They say it really works though so let’s see! I go to the gym naman regularly and I try to keep a reduced healthy diet so hopefully I see some results soon… if not then at least I tried it :)
I also bought three bottles of Glutathione– one each for me, my mom, and my dad. It’s really an antioxidant dietary supplement but the side effect is skin whitening so it’s like hitting two birds with one stone!
I didn’t get exactly this one– the one I bought was actually stronger since it contained 250mg of glutathione. I have Php 3,500 to spend more, maybe I’ll get a new pair of glasses and another pair of contact lenses this time. When I transfer to Colgate I have Php 16,000 a year to spend so that would mean more Hydroxycut?! Haha. Joking!
In fairness I feel like I’ve lost some weight and I can already see it on my pictures, though I dunno if it’s just the angle? :P
Before– this was last July in Davao, and after– just last Friday, and that was already after I had a heavy lunch at Azul in MOA with Ian and Peter (yummy binagoongang paella, white cheese sticks, and ginataang pakbet!), Razon’s halo-halo, (Peter’s libre), and Krispy Kreme (John’s birthday treat) for dessert! Do you see the difference or is it just me? :P
In other news it feels so good to be back, I’m totally loving it! I love just being at home on weekends with my family around, with my friends conveniently near, and just being in Manila once again. Ask me again to come back to Davao and I’ll decline outright– this place is my home and nothing else will ever come close, despite the grueling traffic and the fact that I have to commute on weekdays! The office is right in front of Mall of Asia, and Fitness First is just downstairs that I don’t have to take a bath and dress up here at home since I shower there in the morning after gymming. The only thing I don’t like about MOA is that it’s difficult to commute especially late at night and I spend about Php 250-300 for a cab, crazy! It’s not stopping me from going out though, just last Friday I did videoke after work with Ian, Kristine and Acey. And last Friday was my last MISE get-together– well because I’ll be in Colgate by January, plus Mariel and Kaye will still be away in Denmark by the time my resignation is effective.
That’s all of us (Jade, Mariel, Ian, Me, and Kaye) with Martin, our HR Manager, at Via Mare last Friday. We had another round of stuffy, carby merienda before heading back to the office for some Friday beers at the pantry. Oh yeah, technically I’m no longer a MISE since I already graduated (gasp!) from the program but we won’t be this complete again, at least until my last day at work…
I love it that it’s a four day weekend for me– we’ve got no work on Tuesday since it’s Pasay Day, but I’ll be spending it to get an NBI clearance as a pre-employment requirement for Colgate. I’ll also be fixing the mess that is my room, I’ve still got the 2GO boxes scattered around plus my sister’s usual mess. Grrr! Anyway I had a good week and a good weekend too. Last night naman I was out with JC and Sunny– we had late, fatty chicharon and rice dinner at Baliwag then coffee at Kopiroti. I miss my best friends!!! Even if I’m not in Boracay (ehem, ehemmm!!!) this weekend, (and even without HB in my life right now) I’m loving it– I don’t even have the spare time to download all the top songs on iTunes as I did back in Davao!
Anyhoo I’m excited for Christmas :) Our office Christmas party is on December 12 and I’m glad I’ll be celebrating it here with all the young people at the office, haha. We’ve got these company presentations to look forward to and the theme this year is a chorale, so we have to do a chorale-style presentation of one 80’s song and one Christmas carol. My department is doing Head Over Heels by The Go-Go’s and Carol of the Bells, but we’re absolutely unprepared as of now while the other departments are really taking it seriously with all the organs and vocalizing pa talaga after work. And so Ian volunteered us to emcee the Christmas party to try to get out of the presentation since we don’t wanna be embarrassed to be part of a lousy presentation (of course we’re still not sure about that at this point)– but I don’t think it’s gonna work! We now have another duty to fulfill and that’s to emcee, grrr!!! But no worries though, I would have liked to emcee again after a successful one (also at the office Christmas party) back in 2006. At least it will be a fun last Christmas party for me…
And in other other news I have a new crush at the office! Hahaha! He’s cute and hot. Siyempre I can’t post the pic here but he’s really nice and we’re chummy chummy na. LOL. Things aren’t going so well with HB– actually there’s nothing going on since I haven’t heard from him in days but I’m actually thinking of him less so that’s good. Leche siya, che! Haha.
By now I realized this post was totally random! I just had too much to say :P Till the next one.












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