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The Visit

Chubs — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:02:34 +0000

As most of you know, I’ve been very busy this past few weeks because of recent visit of my bosses. I tried to plan everything so that I can maximize their very short stay in the Philippines. I wanted to make sure too that everything was well planned out and they made use of their time wisely and efficiently. Their itinerary included meetings, eating, more meetings, a grand dinner and finally a send off! I hope Tim and Ming enjoyed. For now I shall rest. This was a great opportunity for me to practice events planning and running an event. Also, more than anything else it was a great way to test myself in handling such events. If I were really capable. But the at end of the day, I wanted everyone to have fun. If they had fun, I had fun.

Place card

Got a great big hug from Jane at the end of the night!

I got a big hug from Janey at the end of the night. I knew I did well then. I hope everyone had fun. So much planning and coordination was put into such a short event, but all the work goes before the event so that during the event itself, only a little effort is needed.

I am eternally grateful for a great team and friends. Without them, this event would not have gone so well. Thank you to my bosses Sir Eric and Sir Jay for trusting me to the point where almost everything was my call. I learned so much and proved so much not only to everyone else but more importantly to myself. I am continuously learning and growing into a better person and hopefully a better manager.

Judd had 3, no 4 no 5, no 6 of these little cakes

The Magnificent Lawn

Dinner Setting

The Lanai

At the end of the day, learning from all the mistakes as well as success, is the key. Never stop learning. Mom asked me how the event went. She asked if it was perfect. I said No. Far from it. She asked what went wrong. I said nothing. Then how come it wasn’t perfect? I told it didn’t have to take something going wrong to ruin perfection. As long as you see parts, and areas, where things could be improved upon then you will never hit perfection and will continue to strive for it. It will be better.

24 on the 24th

Chubs — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:17:24 +0000

A day after everything started to return back to normal, I write my obligatory birthday post. After all the thank you’s have been said, replied, sms’ed, and typed, the belated greetings are now starting to pour in. Just like an earthquake after the initial quake, the aftershock of things that have been are actually reverberating throughout the day, and maybe even the week.

This year’s birthday was a bittersweet birthday. It was bitter because of all the memories and underlying feelings of loss and emptiness it brings due to recent events. I used to use my birthday as a time to spend it with the person I loved the most and for the past 2 years I have. The first one being the day I first said “I love you” and the second when I woke up to someone special in my life. Just like life, the latter phase was full of sadness. Thinking about how happy I was before, the sadness was inevitable, somewhat expected I suppose. No one can live happily ever after. Those are just reserved for movies and fairytales. The very lucky few that do experience that happily ever after are the few blessed individuals. Just like how some people are incredibly smart or good at math or a musically gifted, some are blessed to have their own happily ever after.

Strawberry Shortcake

But oddly enough, the most unexpected sweetness arose from the entire situation. Due to the loss I experienced, I saw the simplest gestures from some friends as both opportunities to re-evaluate my life and what it means to be a friend. My was pretty much an ordinary day. From talking to someone till 12am just so she could greet me happy birthday, to walking into starbucks and having the baristas sing happy birthday, and finally, my co-workers whisking me away for a lunch despite my vehement cries of being busy, and preparing a small surprise for me, the day was actually served as a venue for me to actually feel, even if it was just in a small way, what it was to be special.

Strawberry Shortcake

As I had my cake (and I ate it as well!), I was uber grateful for the friends I had around me. I may not have a shit load of friends, but the quality of people I keep around me speaks volumes for the kind of person I am. I may not have been a good friend for the past 2-3 years, but look at these people going unexpectedly out of their way to actually plan something and take time to think about it. With every strawberry I swallowed, (I had strawberry shortcake as my bday cake), it was both bitter and sweet and I thought, “how apt that it was the cake they chose for me.”

Nuffies Lunch

Friends asking me what my wish was!

Conti's for my Bday!

I will thank people in order of the surprises they actually gave me.

Jan thanks for that late night pick me upper during my bday.

Danes thanks for the incredibly embarrasing gift. I will not be going back to that place anytime soon.

Patty thanks for making me kulit to go to lunch. I know you told me already that you guys were going to treat me to lunch but you didn’t have to and despite my enormous amount of work, you made me take a break even if for a little while on my birthday.

Judd, Marcelle, Anne, Mikey and Alex, Maki, thanks for sharing my day with me. You guys are really awesome. To the nuffnang team, thank you for bearing with the growing pains of our company as well as bearing with me trying to get everything done in the best way I know how. The molave peeps, Mikey and Alex, you guys didn’t have to, but you were there. I know Jenny would have wanted to be there as well. I’ve grown to look past what we do and see you guys for the people you really are and I like what I see. Maki we haven’t known each other for a long time, and yet I feel like we’re one of the closest friends. I enjoy taking time to teach you and build your confidence back to how it was before. I enjoy seeing you grow and learn both as a manager as well as a person and friend. I will always be here if you need help both for work or life.

MY Nuffies!

Thanks to MY and SG Nuffies. You guys are awesome. Nuffnang is indeed more than a company, it is a family. Thanks to Tim for the MY Celebration of my Birthday! Grabing the BB pic you took from twitter!

To everyone who greeted me whether via SMS, E-mail, or Facebook. A big big thank you to you guys. I may have not received the one greeting I was looking for but all you guys greeting me more than made up for it. Again thank you very much!

Beef Salpicao

I ended the day on a happy note and yet I do not see the end of feb 24 as the end of my day, but rather the start of a new year; a new me. So raise your glasses, here’s to moving forward. To becoming a better person and a new year, a new me. Hello 2010. 24 years ago, we ousted a dictator who threatened to run our country into ruin. 24 year later, I have decided to pick up the pieces, and from the ashes of my failure, will rise a monument of my success.

L’s First Day

Chubs — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:23:45 +0000

So today I decided to show L around the workplace. I was really proud that our company was actually doing well for the past 3 months and I have the board to show it. It was L’s first time the Nuffnang PH’s HQ! I naturally introduced him to some people, but none took the time to actually take a picture with L. He did however take the time to pose with the Nuffnang Sign. L enjoys being at Nuffnang. He likes the Nuffies and the Molave Peeps as well. Mikey though tried to grab him from the window. L says: “so not cool Mikey.”

I shall take L out to lunch today. I wonder where he likes to eat?

L's First Day At Nuffnang

L checking out our campaign board

Woah! Nuffnang has a lot of campaigns running!

And it was only the morning! There will be more fore L!

Bloggers Tour (more images)

Chubs — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:34:32 +0000

So my previous update regarding the blogger tour was incomplete. I have a lot of pictures from Royal Selangor and The Singapore Flyer! This will be a mostly image post. I don’t know what to say. Thanks Nuffnang. The PH contingent enjoyed so much. I enjoyed so much. Working so hard was worth it seeing the bloggers happy. I don’t consider Nuffnang bloggers, clients or bloggers per se. I consider them friends already. I hope I did a good enough job for them. But like I promised, here are the pictures. I will caption them so you basically know what is happening!

Robb taking time to pose before the tour

Pinoy Bloggers

Maki trying to be creative and hammer out a design!

Photog Posing!

Judd and Hannah by the F1 Trophy Race

Alodia and Ashley reverting back to Anime Poses!

Ang Kulit tlga. What a fun group!

School of Hard Knocks nga

Even Sago of Let's Go Sago.net made a guest Appearance

Mr. Ramon Bautista Himself Approves!

Frances parang photoshoot!

Alodia says "rawr" and ashley is "nomnomnom"

PH Bloggers making a Pewter Bowl now

Nuffies Tim Teoh and Carol Koh taking pictures of their bowl! AWww

ayan kasi jehz, ang gulo mo! Mica: Oooopsss I missed!

PH nuffies anne and patty making their own bowls!

Free ride on the Singapore Flyer!!

PH bloggers excited to get it on! Mr.Ramon Bautista Approves!

Here’s one cool dude Ming. He’s a Singaporean blogger! Really awesome guy too bad he shoots canon. I like reading his blog though! You may want to check out his blog too.

Cool Guy Ming

Well, that’s it for photos for now. I hope you guys enjoyed!

P.S. I felt bad that all HuiWen knew to say in Tagalog were curse words, so when she asked me to teach her a new one I said Ang Ganda Mo. (She thought it was a curse word when it means You are Pretty!) Here’s the video

Uniquely Singapore: Day 1 Touchdown

Chubs — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:13:23 +0000

We arrived at NAIA Terminal 3 shortly after 11:00 AM. We checked-in our baggage and after some minor drama we barely made it to the plane. The plane ride in was a bit bumpy. There was quite a bit of turbulence. The flight felt like an eternity! Aside from the noisy couple who had a friend come over every time the fasten your seatbelt sign was lifted their kid either kept shouting at such a high pitch that those should be banned within any confined space. The friend of the couple on the other hand kept blabbering about the most inane things. Little bits of conversation I picked was…

Guy 1: “so sandali lang ako eh. 5 days. tapos lipat na naman. buti nga nakapagleave eh.”

Girl1: “talaga? Daan ka lutuan mo naman ako!”

Guy1: ” Sige!”

Singapore!

I mean the plane didn’t have the largest cabin space and they had loud voices. With the kid crying and shouting at me or rather us to break our sleep, the 3 1/2 hour flight felt like an eternity. Did I mention I wanted to smack the kid for waking me up at least 3 times by shouting?

Terminal

We finally touched down at SG and were greeted by the CM Hui Wen! We took a cab to our hotel located in Little India. It was the Perak Lodge at Perak St! We quickly unloaded and headed on over to our office. The building was the most modern looking in the entire neighborhood. Boss Ming’s family owned the building. We were introduced to our fellow Nuffies, Raine, Wen, Elise, Robb, and of course the Ripplewerkz people Lionel and our fellow Pinoy Mark. Ming quickly asked us to talk to Mark in tagalog which we gladly obliged.

Nuffnang SG Office

Ming took us out for dinner. For the food the shots I will be posting them on Foodie Manila.

After eating, Ming took us for a drive through Orchard road. The malls looked so…. expensive. Oh did I mention I’ve never seen so many Mercedez Benz S and C class cars as well as Porsche’s, Volvos, Audi’s (I saw an 3 R8′s!) and Austin Martin’s parked along side streets. You know how Hyundai or Kia’s are parked along any street? That’s how they parked. Waiting to see a Lambo and Ferrari.

Hallway to our room

Back at the hotel we were so restless that we (Judd and I) decided to go shooting at night. A bit apprehensive at first because of safety concerns (talagang pinoy parin ang puso) but was reassured that crime rate in Singapore is almost at zero percent. So at first we shot nearby but then went exploring. Even using a tripod for long exposures. We bought a liter of Pepsi because it was so damn hot. I saw a guy on scooter get side swiped and he flew off his bike. Somethings never change no matter where.

Singapore at Night

Going back to the room I decided to check the company e-mail and in my inbox I saw a little surprise. I decided then to work and by the time I semi-finished it was 3AM in the morning. After drinking both coffee and pepsi at the same time, I couldn’t take it any longer. My head was spinning. I could feel my eyelids closing on their own. My body was screaming for rest. But how could I? Singapore is a great place. I’ve had thoughts of actually moving here! Maybe someday? But for now I leave you with my Uniquely Singapore Experience on Day 1.

Some random pictures:

Perak Hotel

Hotel Design

Hotel Dining Area

Cebu Pacific International Flights

Singapore at Night

Decor in the Office