neither your place nor mine

guy calls and wants to visit me at the house this weekend...

no way...  no guys allowed at my place...

why???

because.  period.

i'll help you with your laundry...

no need.

hmmm...

he then invites me to his place instead.  (he lives alone.)

huh?!  i wouldn't let you go to my place, why would i go to yours?

i just want to show you the place.

eh?!  no, thanks...  i don't go to guys' houses unless it's their birthday.  AND there's a party AND there are many people around.

not quite the same

my sister will be renting out her place.  she's had it for more than ten years and she's barely even occupied it.  stuff and fixtures just deteriorate and go out of order because of disuse.

well, this morning she had a caller.  my sister was telling her she couldn't show her the place because she's going there next weekend yet.  guess what, the prospective tenant wanted to reserve the place, offering even a one-year contract, without even seeing the interior.

my sister was telling her to check out the house first.

the caller was saying she has seen the gate and the facade and she's already fine with it.

they were going back and forth trying to convince each other on the phone and, being the owner, my sister won out.

that is the right outcome, i would say.  i am not at all convinced of the caller's stand.

not necessarily about the house but about life in general, you don't make certain judgments and decisions without checking out certain things.  just because you like something from the outside does not mean you'll like it from the inside as well.  things are different from the outside looking in...

good and bad

it's a saturday and i'm not doing laundry.  i didn't go home to my place last night (i slept over at my parents' place) thinking the party i'll be attending is today.  ' turns out it's tomorrow.  now i have a whole day to relax...

sometimes a mistake has its rewards... : )

it has its payback, too, though...  next week i'll be tackling twice my normal laundry... : }

finding me, yo ; )

guy says he's been moving around market! market! (my haunt, haha) wishing to bump into me again...

oh...  there is a method to this thing...  just check out facebook / foursquare to find out where i am...  i post a lot, you see...  not always though... and sometimes i check in when i'm already about to leave the place...

hmmm...  you have to be either quick or lucky...  ; )

technology detox

i forgot my phones yesterday...

i went to estrel's and i wasn't able to check in at foursquare...

there was a considerate driver and i wasn't able to do a facebook status update...

i wasn't able to read my texts right away...

i wasn't able to make unlimited same-network calls...

i survived though...  but was ridiculously happy when i finally got hold of my phones again...

i made a comment in facebook that 'maybe we should go on tech detox every once in a while... ; )'

guess what, someone replied challenging me to a week-long cell detox...

ooops...  i wimped out...  : }

day-long tech detox, ok...  deliberate week-long one, uhm, i'll reserve that for when i unintentionally leave my phones that long...  ; )

tragicomic

yesterday...

me:  either you bring this up or you adjust that...

other party:  of course you should bring up...

me:  nah, ah.  that's what i've been saying.  but they say that standard's too high...

the guy did not seem to get what i just said.  i did not elaborate and instead jumped to the next topic.  i was thinking maybe it's better that he did not understand.

the situation would have been shockingly ridiculous and alarming to a knowledgeable person.  (those who don't know any better, however, would have remained blissfully unperturbed.)  the supposedly acceptable and 'not too high' standard has resulted in efforts that are just way off-tangent and unduly time- and resource-consuming, missing the mark by leaps and bounds.  tragicomic.

i sincerely hope the tragedy never outweighs the comedy...

sweet not

at the elevator this morning...

officemate:  there's an ant in your hair!

me:  yikes!  how did it get there?

officemate:  ' must have fallen from the tree...

me:  huh?!

officemate:  you're sweet, that's why...

ooops...  hahaha...

you can use a lot of adjectives to describe me...  i don't think sweet is one of them...  ; p

exposed

there's this guy whose facebook status posts are supposedly for me.  i believe him actually.  most of the time, we're on the phone when the posts are made.  i know the context, i know where the posts are coming from.

the thing is, once the message is posted, his friends and, uhm, 'close' friends comment and associate the post to someone else  ->  this and that girl, hahaha...  i am a combination amused and dismayed...

maybe you're better off off the wall, guy...  the posts are nice...  but the corresponding comments reveal much to be desired...  ; p

all of them

i received a call this afternoon and in the course of diagnosing the problem the caller mentioned the name of the head of this certain office.  to clarify things, i called said head of office on my mobile while talking to the caller on the landline.

then just as the other end answered my call, i realized that his geographical jurisdiction does not cover the caller's place of assignment.  (they're on opposite ends of the archipelago!)  i said sorry, thank you and goodbye.

going back to the caller, i asked how come the person's name cropped up when he does not handle her area.

her reply:  i was told you know him so i mentioned his name.

huh?!  hahaha...  actually, i know all the heads of office handling each major geographic area...

new year picture-taking

a cousin-in-law was about to take a picture.

me:  ooops... please don't include my footwear...

cousin-in-law:  up to where?

me:  legs ok but don't show my slippers.

'healthy' cousin:  me, don't include my tummy.

fit and sexy sis-in-law:  ok, ok, let's just have a head shot.

chuckles  ; p

all the best for the new year everyone...  : )