Monthly Archive for October, 2007

That archetypical pinay with poorly straightened hair

Published
by
mai
on October 24, 2007
in happiness is a warm gun and wide awake in america
. 9 Comments

Grabe asar the lady at the front desk of this armpit of a hotel in San Diego was such a grade-A rude bitch. And I have a feeling she recognized that I was Pinoy (like she was, only my hair wasn’t cheaply straightened like hers was, and I can speak english, albeit without that EEEEnnglish accent that she had) and gave me this condescending attitude. This is so bizarre but it came to a point when she told me only elite members of the Priority Club could get nonsmoking rooms… and that fucking buntunghininga and eyeroll that made me want to grab her across the counter so I could throw her on the floor and stomp on her ugly flat face.

Motherfucker. In Manila I would not hobnob with pa-cute lowlifes like her, who probably came from a secondary saint school. Yuk.

Anyway, I really complained to the manager, in as non-seething and calm a way as possible. I totally understood that they were understaffed because of the fire evacuations and all and I dont hold that against them, but that lady at the front desk, she was the most inhospitable person I have ever encountered in that position.

Fuck you Christine from Holiday Inn Downtown San Diego, youre an unprofessional liar and I hope you get a talking to. Actually I hope you get fired heeh.

Dine with PAWS

Published
by
mai
on October 12, 2007
in Noteworthy, heartland and zooropa
. 0 Comments

May we bare our hearts to you?

The PAWS animal shelter has a monthly overhead cost of P75,000 - an amount that goes to the purchase of food and medicine for the animals and the payment of utilities and allowances for our skeletal staff of six.

Monthly donations do not even reach 1/4 of the amount of overhead expenses and so we have to organize a lot of local fundraising events just to get by.

DINE WITH PAWS is our biggest fundraiser this year. Help us keep our shelter so that we can continue help animals.

Buy a ticket or tell a friend to buy one. We’ve prepared a special dinner with a show for you. (please see details below).

Volunteers, please disseminate the attached posters and forward this invitation widely.

Thank you for your support.

-The Philippine Animal Welfare Society (PAWS)
For ticket reservations: 475-1688 / 0917-8315970

________________________

PAWS, in cooperation with Globe Broadband, invites all animal and dog lovers to “DINE WITH PAWS”, a Charity Dinner to be held at the Bonifacio High Street OCT 20 (SAT), 7pm.

There will be a red carpet where you and your dog can get your photos taken plus a delicious buffet for all guardians and a separate buffet for your dogs.

Celebrity friends and supporters will perform during the main programwhich starts at 8PM

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Ticket Prices :
P1,000 for Humans without dogs
P1,200 for Guardians with dogs

Call 4751688 / 0917-8315970 for ticket reservations. Tickets may also be purchased at Hobbes and Landes -Fort Boni High Street and at the PAWS Animal Rehabilitation Center in Loyola Hts., QC. PAWS will deliver directly to those Metro Manila residents who will order at least ten (10) tickets.

All funds raised for Dine with PAWS will go to the PAWS Animal Shelter (PARC) which currently houses over 100 dogs and cats rescued from cruelty and neglect. To read more about PAWS work, please go to www.paws.org.ph

I’m alive :P

Published
by
mai
on October 9, 2007
in happiness is a warm gun and lady with the spinning head
. 4 Comments

driving on the freeway alone was not so bad, and I thank my friends E and R for lending me their new GPS.  How I would have done without a GPS I don’t even want to think about.  Ours is arriving early next week so I don’t think I will worry too much about freeway driving anymore.  I guess I just had to jump into it.

(I have to admit this morning before leaving I was almost chickening out and would have asked J to drop me off at the BART station with a maleta of finish samples but he had worked late and is stressed with work and I didn’t have the heart to ask him.  I almost through up in fear though eeeh)

Freeway freakoutway

Published
by
mai
on October 7, 2007
in happiness is a warm gun, lady with the spinning head and the electric company
. 1 Comment

Going to work now feels like I have finally emerged from an underground hellhole and although I know I am doing things I used to do before…shoosh, I am really appreciating things.  I think for the past 2 weeks I have told J daily “man, I love my new job…” and I am sure he is happy because for 2 years he had listened to my whining and griping and pity party sessions. Heheh.

Now this new job of mine…it involves some travelling.  So the plan is that in the next 2 weeks I will be in San Diego and Oregon to do some site visits…and on Tuesday this week I have a meeting in Pleasanton which is about 45 or so miles from SF via the 580 freeway.

And believe it or not I have never driven that way and I am shit scared.  Today J and I drove from our apartment to Marin (via 101N) then cut through 37 to Vallejo / American Canyon because the traffic back looked deadly.  From there we missed the exit and ended up doing a U at American Canyon.  Then a restroom stop in Pinole (where we ended up getting diet cokes in a bar that looked like it belonged in a movie like Deerhunter hehe), then a stop at Emoryville to get a drink and wait for the sun to set a bit at Ikea, then back on the freeway to SF.  Shit stressssssssful.  But not as bad as I thought.

So I think I will try to gather courage to do the drive to Pleasanton alone, but worst case I guess I can take the BART and then the bus or a taxi.  Then I will definitely practice again this coming weekend so I get the hang of things.

Oh and J bought us a GPS haay salamat can’t wait for it to arrive.