Lazy Weekend Thoughts

The weekend is about over and I'm wondering when I'm ending my hibernation weekend mode... Still not my usual outgoing self lately... Probably conserving energy for the busy days... Some cluttered thoughts to unload...

Thoughts... that something I'm lacking now... Haven't really thought about anything long term... Just living by the day... I haven't really stopped... synthesize and come up with a plan... I'm somewhere in the middle ground but fortunately doing fine... Safe baby steps instead of giant leaps...

It's really a Transformers centric week... First half, spent anticipating the upcoming movie, the next half still struck by such a brilliant movie... Ended the week watching the first movie... Funny how you can sound profound by just quoting Optimus Prime's dialogues...

Overslept on a Sunday... That explains why weekends are so short... Imagine spending half the day in deep slumber... Should think of some stuff to do on a weekends... Rise and shine and have to push myself out of bed... Or else it'll be late afternoon before I get out of the house...

At least, I was able to manage some Wii Time... was able to win in Punch Out against bigger boxers now... beating Aran Ryan and Soda Papinski... and just starting with Bald Bull... Also, playing Mario Tennis and hopefully, I get back to my regular Wii Fit routine... That's my best shot at an exercise...

Lately, I've been trying to finish as much as I can within work hours... and glad to say that I'm able to finish everything on time or with time to spare... After getting past an exhausting fund raiser I guess, I'm taking advantage of some slack...

Travel... hasn't been on top of my list now with the swine flu lurking around... Come to think of it, you can contract the virus anywhere... so maybe I get to recover some of my travel appetite soon... As of now, been to 4 foreign trips and 3 domestic trips... When the appetite's back, there are still some destinations to cover...

Anyway, have to sign off on a lazy weekend... and on this note...

Transferia

I guess a lot of people had a dilemma on whether to stay home safe on the heels of Typhoon Feria in the Philippines or watch the night screening of Transformers 2... I choose to watch Transformers instead since I though the worst scenario was me being stuck in a mall in the middle of the typhoon... Luckily, the strong Typhoon never did hit Manila yesterday...

And the result... I really loved the movie... The action... The humor... The chase... The adventure... and the effects... Not to mention, Megan Fox was still so cute even when tormenting mini Decepticons... I really don't want to spoil some story lines as some people reading this might have not yet watched the movie... All I can say, it's a must see 2 1/2 hour movie that I'd like to watch over and over again... Maybe on IMAX next time...

I'm sure its gonna be a long wait before the next installment of the movie... so the wait begins...

Days in a Week

I am now... enjoying just twittin' about just a description of each day of the week... For how long, we'll see...

Half Awake Monday - Always starts my week this way... Early to rise and an early start, makes more of a zombie for a day...

Twisted Tuesday - Had a twisting headache... Seriously, how many interpretation can you make out of a formula??? One to many...

Wake Me Up Wednesday - Had a hard time dozing off Tuesday night, so I am barely awake on Wednesday...

Thrilling Thursday - I was expecting the response matching wits about Twisted Tuesday but it never came...

Finally, Friday - What else can I say... Friday is such a day to look forward too...

Sleep Time Saturday... and Sunday - Well, it's a weekend so might as well sleep as much as I can... though I did spend some time in the mall...

I wonder how this week will turn up...

Introducing Franckenstein's Travel Tales

I just realized that I've done my share of globetrotting... and travel has been such a common event for me... so I decided to have a separate section of my blog... that's purely travel...
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Hence, I'm introducing Franckenstein's Travel Tales (http://franckenstein.blogspot.com)... It's just a glimpse of the my travels and the tales that come with it...
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If this site is Blogging Whatever... Whenever... and my Twitter site is Twittin' Whatever... Whenever... then Franckenstein's Travel Tales is Travelin' Anywhere... Anytime...
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Excess Inkblogs: I hope to write more about my future travels... but I guess, I don't see a new location in the near future... but who know's, I'm such an impulsive person... =>

Half Awake Monday

I'm in the middle of my breakfast in the office and I still find myself Half Awake... I guess the pull of a long weekend is much stronger that somehow going up early on a Monday is such a burden... Hopefully, my tall mocha would work its wonders and pull the other half awake on a Monday...

Nothing special this long weekend... I was barely out but I did have a great time playing punch out on Wii... Glass Joe... Von Kaiser... Disco Kid... King Hippo... Piston Honda... Bear Hugger... Great Tiger and Don Flamenco down... More to go... It's a bit fun since you're actually swinging to knock down the other fighter...

Mid of June... In other words, a few days short of the half year report preparations AKA Busy days... the days are quick but I'd rather not think of that yet... The week to come... I haven't thought about what's in store yet... I just hope that we resume badminton soon... Still need to shed some pounds...

Well, I'm might as well focus my effort in surviving my half awake Monday... =>

Excess Inkblogs: Lakers up 3-1... Hope they clinch the championship today...

Circles

Circles... That's how my day evolve... A Problem solving roulette that always ended up with same point...

I had my two hands full of work today in my very brief business trip to Taipei... I guess that's expected with me squeezing everything today so I can get back to Ph tom... so a whole days worth of meeting that seems to go in circles... The solutions are obvious but stubborn heads are hard to sway... Patience my dear Franc... and patience it is as I was occupied until 11 pm today...

Small victories that's how I take satisfaction on improbable task... and at least we're on the right track... and the little patience gained and the baby steps taken could go a long way... we'll see where this is headed... I'm just glad that I would still make my flight tom... and from circles, I'd want to switch to several big letters....ZZZZZZZ....

Excess Inkblogs: Slightly feel bad that I wasn't able to catch Starbucks still open due to the meetings... I really wanted to check out if they have their Taipei mini mugs... I might try to catch early tom before I take my flight...

False Start on a Monday

Up early on account of bad dreams... One on account of failure and another on account of lost possession but woke up just in time as things became desperate... A false start... Hopefully, the tide would turn and things won't be a bad reality...

Early Monday is not always my favorite of times but at least I'm up... Might as well start trying to turn the tide... Yeah, I remember I'm a bit sore from Wii Yesterday... I reckon weekdays are made for working people like me to afford to spend something on a weekend...

Not quite an eventful day... except that after all the thoughts, I'm now bound for a very short trip to Taipei... Leaving tomorrow morning, be back Wednesday... barring unforeseen and sometimes expected extensions... However, entering a long weekend, I'd want to spend a day to finish some stuff...

Watched Up on the weekend and somehow it reminded me of work... Carl Fredricksen, the main character was a carbon copy of our CEO... the outfit, the glasses, the hair texture (except the hair color) and the shape of the face... Well, it's still a fun movie... I just hope I don't end up calling our CEO Carl Fredricksen tomorrow in Taipei... hehe...


Still some minor things to pack... Not really something to waste too much time... How many variations can you pack your stuff for one full night... hehe... Anyway, I hope to get some cup noodles which served as dinner most of the time the last time, I was here with Jing... Ph rainy season is the season of cup noodles... Also, I hope to get myself a mini Starbucks mug... I already have several and is next in line in things to collect after key chains, ref magnet and shot glass...

I would have waited for a longer time before traveling out of the country but I guess half my feet is always out of the country... I just hope that I won't get annoyed with the paranoia that comes with the swine flu scare at the airport... I just have to think that this will be a breeze and be back to the comfort of my room...

Excess Inkblogs: The Lakers are up 2 - 0!!! Hopefully, the Lakers go all the way... The question is will the current superman proved better than the previous superman in a Magic uniform during the finals...

Fridays > Mondays

Having a hard time rising up and starting early... must be the weather... just glad that its a Friday... and the next day is a sleep all you can event... hehe...

Just when I had the thought that the upside to the cold rainy weather is that I get to wear those warm knitted long sleeves in my closet and actually go to work wearing it... The sun shines real hard... Looks like I share the same sense of timing with the weather bureau canceling class on such a sunny day...

Fridays is way better than Monday as it signals the end of the week... and it starts a fun event or just a time to rest... Monday sucks since it’s a full five days away from the weekend plus I get up so early having to meet the coding cutoff...

A simple cycle... It's just good that I can still tell apart days since it could only mean one thing when every day seems like Monday... These are busy times... Thankfully, I'm still not in that phase... =>

Excess Inkblogs: The Lakers are up 1-0 in the NBA finals and in these series, I'm rooting for Lakers to win unless Superman saves the day yet again...

Twits and Pieces

Met my The Louisian colleague in High School John last Monday who's now an ordained priest... An interesting bit of XCV trivia out of the 400+ XCV graduates, only John ended up as a priest... It was ages ago since I last saw him and after half a life time later, we meet last Monday in GB5... Nice crossing path and catching up....

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Jing and I met with Rondz for snacks at UCC Tuesday afternoon for Jing last day of being 27 (Haha... that's an occasion now)... Just a quick snack but we did enjoy UCC's Omurice and was able to catch up with Rondz... Rondz, Good luck on Fx trading... It's a real heart beat stopping activity...

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A busy day today... Meeting galore... Good thing, we were able to buy some food early morning at Mandarin... I may need to go on a short business trip to Taiwan next week... But given the scare on AH1N1, I'm having second thoughts... We'll see if I can make progress on what I have to do tomorrow even without taking the trip...

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I'm also setting tomorrow as the deadline on my to book or not to book dilemma on availing PAL's getaway promo... We'll see...

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Tweetin' whatever whenever... Was able to setup my tweeter account today... so should have fun tweeting shortly...

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Excess Inkblogs: Happy Birthday Mrs MJ V!! (June 3) Happy Birthday Jingy Bear!!! (June 3) Happy Birthday Cousin Ethan!!! (June 2) Happy Birthday SLU Friend Byron!!! (June 1)

Can work starts on Tuesdays???

Had a hard time catching sleep last night... Random thoughts...

"Late to Bed and Early to Rise keeps Francky cranky, sleepy and tired."

Coding on Mondays means I have to be at the office before 7 am... and since I got back to not waking early routine, It's quite a struggle to just be up early... With the thought...

"Can work start on Tuesdays?"

Apparently not, so just have to remain more than half awake... It's a new month and time just keep breezing by and with the rainy season in full swing that translate to more time indoors (at least, I'm spending it away from the office... hehe)...

Still sleepy though even after a cough of coffee... maybe try a different approach... a second cup of coffee... =>

Excess Inkblogs: I'm still on the book or not to book dilemma... It seemed that I've been booking a lot of trips lately... and glad that I've just finished booking the plane and the hotel for the Family Boracay Christmas getaway... For my dilemma, I've less than a week to avail the promo... Hmmm...