the friday five for may 23

1. What brand of toothpaste do you use?

Colgate.

2. What brand of toilet paper do you prefer?

Kleenex.

3. What brand(s) of shoes do you wear?

Celine. Nine West. Reebok. Nike. Keds. Mendrez.

4. What brand of soda do you drink?

Coca-Cola Light / Diet Coke.

5. What brand of gum do you chew?

Juicy Fruit.

self-righteousness?

since i'm still in work limbo, here's something that made me forget all my work baggage momentarily.

Sometimes we are asked
to get good at something we have
no talent for,
or we excel at something we will never
have the opportunity to prove.

Often we ask ourselves
to make absolute sense
out of what just happens,
and in this way, what we are practicing

is suffering,
which everybody practices,
but strangely few of us
grow graceful in.

The climaxes of suffering are complex,
costly, beautiful, but secret.

SIGH.

blog, blog, blog, blog

i just realized i really haven't been blogging for the past weeks. often, when i'm out of the office, i remember to put something here but i can't somehow blog about it when i'm at work already. well, of course, work always gets in the way. hmmm, but if i'm really serious of writing it down, i make time for it right?

creative thinking

i just got back from a creative thinking seminar with half of the office people. i swear it was soooo tiring. we had lots of activities that required brain power. for every activity, we always had to write something serious and sensible. ugh.

supposedly, it would help us think "out of the box" but it turned out to be a forum of work issues and problems. the HR had a pretty rough day because of all the openness and honesty we shared in the discussions. at the very least, we were able to air out our issues and problems even if it was at the wrong place.

my groupmates and i kept changing our group name. from The Foxy Girls to The Beautiful Girls to The PMS Girls to The Selfish Girls. by the afternoon session, the facilitators were confused already. they didn't know by which group name they would call us. hee hee. coming up with a new group name was loads of fun ü