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Office treats

Since I moved to a new organization, I am now into becoming accustomed to yummy treats being distributed here and there when someone becomes a daddy (first photo: chocolates shared with us with a very nice baby boy-themed packaging), healed from an illness (second photo: someone showered us Patchi chocolates when she returned from a sick leave), and many other reasons (third photo:  I forgot for which reason the rose petals ala-candies were shared with us. But I did not forget that it was oddly delicious. My first time to consume rose in a petal form. I remember I had a rose lassi in 2007 from an Indian restaurant in the Philippines. The extract of course tasted like rose.)

So far, the kookiest packaging I saw was for the pieces of bread stuffed inside a huge shelly shaped bread. Now I am thinking if I should also share things like these and when? And when the situation comes, I think I want to make a difference. Maybe I should distribute something with durian, balut, penoy, etc. It is either they would be amused or dislike me. Suggestions are welcome.

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what happened to your feet
(Taken in April 2009. Not another juon feet.)

That one odd day in April, a few of my male officemates thought that something bad happened to my feet. I guess that’s what happens when you wear the wrong foot stockings and/or the male observers are not too oriented with the different kind of foot socks a female can wear. Like in this case, they thought I had a bandage.

Not for too long, I came with patches of salonpas on my left foot. Just when I thought it will draw attention, it did not. Heehee. Except for the smell, maybe. Incidentally, my left foot twisted while I was walking in too much hurry few days ago. When a friend learned about it, she exclaimed “Na naman? (Again?)”. More than two years ago, I fell off from the stairs of an office building. It was tax season that time and we worked until 3:00 AM. Maybe I was already sleepwalking that I didn’t notice that there were at least still five steps before the ground. So, I fell with my two-inch heeled shoes. The guard and a friend-teammate saw me. From then on, I became a fan of flats. And I’ve been very careful. Until my most recent fall. Heehee. Don’t worry, I’m salonpas-free now.

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milktoof book 1

(My copy of the limited edition “Ickle and Lardee’s Grand Adventure”, debuting in this blog together with my newly set up 5-foot Christmas tree. I almost gave up finding a fine tree for this season in the Gulf).

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2 December 2009 Full Moon at Corniche Beach

I was one of the many who weren’t able to resist taking snapshots of the full moon last night. It was playing hard to get though. In a split second it was fully shown, the next time it was partly covered by clouds. In a way, it was fun achieving the right time to click the shutter. Another just in time moment was that I was in this particular area of Corniche for the UAE National Day celebration. The humble skyline added to the sight.

Did you know that the blue moon would be appearing soon?

We would often hear the phrase “once in a blue moon”. That means it would happen only once every two-three years. In a month’s time, a full moon comes. However, when it has two full moons, the second is termed “blue moon”. This coming December 31 (yay, in time for the New Year’s eve), we will meet one. Will it be literally colored blue? No. The color just implies that it’s something rare. The next blue moons will appear on 31 August, 2012 and 31 July, 2015.

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Photo Hunt_Technology

Taken in August 2009, Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Center

We panicked when we saw her. We personally tried to be “beheaded”. We did fit ourselves individually. I wonder what mechanism they used to make it appear like this. Even with the cameras.

Technology or trick? ;)

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