on saturday…

…it will be the company's christmas party, 10am, at congo grill el pueblo.

we're in a bit of a quandary. of course we would like to attend the party, since it will be the first for the company. our shifts end at 10am and el pueblo's like, what, 5 or 10 minutes away (i don't know, they said it's at the back of megamall, but i don't remember the place that much), so there shouldn't be a problem if we want to attend.

the problem is that we have work at 11pm of the same day, and of course we would want to go home and sleep. the party won't end at 12 noon, and we certainly don't want to leave after staying only an hour. our options are:

a) not attend the party. nope. not possible.
b) attend the party, stay until about 1pm then go home.
c) attend the party, stay till it ends, then go home. which means getting only an hour or two of sleep because there might be traffic on the way home (it is the christmas season, no doubt about it, and the traffic will be horrible, especially at edsa crossing).
d) make reservations at the legend villas so that we can sleep longer and not have to go home.
e) be absent from work. nope.
f) attend the party, still until 1pm, then check in at sogo hotel in guadalupe with female teammates. feasible.

we're toying around with option (f). it will be cheaper than staying at the legend villas (a unit is worth Php4,000++ for a 24-hour stay).  it's actually better to do this, especially for most of us who live far from work, like gracie who lives in cavite and ella who goes home to san pedro. as for me, going home isn't really a hard thing to do, but with the christmas rush and the time (around 2pm), it might be hard.

i don't know. we still have to discuss it on wednesday.

*****

read in juliana palermo's column in yesterday's philippine star that she presented the awards to the 2007 ginoong pilipinas-USA winners. the event was held last nov. 25th in SF.

i was surprised to see the name of the second runner up, because it was very familiar to me.

ingel catindig.

yes, tito gani and tita girlie's bunso before they left for the US in 1983 (they had another son after him, named vincent), and my childhood friend isah's younger brother. last time i saw him was in 1999 when the whole family came home for a vacation. i didn't see him when i visited in 2001. he was asleep or something.

anyway, he's grown into a hunk. well, i guess he is, because he wouldn't have gotten the 2nd runner up award if he weren't.
 


 

there he is, smaller version.