21 March 2006
at republic glassyou just gotta love how we adapt english words to our culture.
here in manila, fashion is a verb. all you have to do is insert the ever flexible "um" between f and the rest of the letters and viola, you have the past tense form. for the present form of this verb, you add "fuma" to fashion. accent always on the last syllable. here are girls who are fumafashion:
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now, stuff about me. (i typed this yesterday. today, after arriving at the office an hour late, i decided that the first thing to attend to would have to be the blog.)
when i first entered the office of the creatives department, the head honcho said "so carl will stay in the middle first?" he was referring to one of the long tables in the middle where people put stuff and cut paper and eat and play and basically do anything they want that they wouldn't do in their workstations. i was about to bring out my pen and my notepad and a paperbag to put on my head.
however, randy, a former college blockmate and friend and now officemate, pointed out to the empty workstation. needless to say, I was assigned to said workstation but only after clearing it of betacam tapes and paper and random stuff; apparently, in my advent, the corner, the vacant workstation, moonlighted as dump site for the creatives team. so i was confused; did i get lucky, or did i not? i heard the ants on the table answer me but i wasn't able to understand what they said.
this was yesterday.
i spent the rest of yesterday wiping and cleaning the station. i spent the first half of today doing just that too. the computer did not have internet access. that was ok. however, i was trying to configure the settings when i realized that i was having a reunion with a long-lost os whim i haven't seen for a very long time; his name was windows 98. after hanging on me two times while i was in the middle of working on something, the computer had to be whisked away in a stretcher. i was hearing syrens as this was happening. meanwhile, my work was recovered and i realized that omg, i really am part of the working force now.
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