August 20, 2005

Timeline

Now it's my turn to present you with a timeline of my life... Tagged by the Math Wizard bonne maman to be... Analyse

20 YEARS AGO:
I started going to Kindergarten class. I was put to school at a later age and never went through Nursery and other pre-school stuff. I was excited to go to school and learn at that time but didn't realize how mean other kids can be... you see.. was a big fat kid with a cleopatra like hairstyle ( eeek!)

15 YEARS AGO:
I graduated from elementary and was transferred by my parents to an all girls school. It was a totally different world for me suddenly. Me and my tomboy self became more refined and kikay later on. I missed my old school though and the friends I had. My mom enrolled me and my brother to an acting workshop where I met the coolest people ever. I was with the Cultural Center of the Philippine's Tanghalang Pilipino Teen Theater.

10 YEARS AGO:
I was actively involved in a Catholic Charismatic Community for teenagers and loved every bit of it.Saturdays were reserved for prayer meetings in Santuario de San Antonio activity hall. I was a freshman in college and it was my first time to live on my own. I was "dumped" by my parents in a townhouse with other college girls sharing the place. I used to go out most of the time with my room mates. Studied in Mac Donald's Katipunan all the time for Math 17. I was active in the university org -JMA. I discovered I like bowling and took it for my Physical Ed. Class.

FIVE YEARS AGO:
I was working in a five star hotel in Manila. I had the weirdest shifts but I loved it. I worked from 3pm-11pm or 5pm-1am or 6pm-2am. I became the president of the Employee-Management Council of the hotel.

THREE YEARS AGO:
I went to Hong Kong with colleagues from work on a vacation and a week after I went to Singapore. When I got back from my vacation I met X- now my husband. He was the new pastry chef of the hotel.I was promoted in my job and got TONS of workload. I became a certified workaholic and yet I was partying til the wee hours of the morning to de stress.. Result- I was at 95 pounds in weight.

LAST YEAR:
I had my church wedding in Manila and had a total of 26 guests.I planned all the details of the wedding from HK. I was living and working in HK but moved out at the end of the year.

My husband and I went to France and stayed there for three months. It was my first time to go on a long haul flight ( europe). I decided to grow my hair long. I went to Manila twice not counting the one this year.

THIS YEAR:
I was living in France for the first two months of the year.Got back to Manila from France. Took summer classes in my old school. Learned basic German and advance French. I was constantly living with my suitcase and finally landed in Istanbul,Turkey. Been to three different countries in the last 8 months.

I finally went to SAGADA in the Philippines and tried Spelunking ( cave exploration).

Here in Istanbul I became more fit. Little by little I have acquired the taste to brocolli ( I never eat vegetables!) and find myself get bored with meat dishes. I have decided to go to the gym regularly and enrolled myself in tennis.

YESTERDAY:
I had a haircut. My first haircut in Istanbul. The experience was kinda weird. I found myself doing acrobatics during the haircut. The hairdresser asked me to stand up at one point and then bend forward while he'she was cutting my hair. I felt like I was in the mercy of Edward Scissorhands! The end result - not bad at all but it was quite heavy on the pocket( uh oh.. here I am computing again...)

LAST NIGHT:
I cooked dinner. Lamb chops with mashed potato for husband and Chicken Adobo for me!--->( coz I don't eat lamb). Watched The Missing on TV and ate an orange for dessert.

TODAY:
I was supposed to play tennis but it rained just on the time slot I reserved ( grrr!) . I went to the gym instead. Now, I am at the business center doing my blog and all my internet stuff (we still don't have our stuff).

TOMORROW:
I will go and eat at the brunch buffet of the coffee shop. I like Sunday brunch because they have a sushi corner and ice creams!

NEXT YEAR:
Hubby and I will have our grand vacance! Hopefully we were able to invest on something by then. I should have something more concrete to do ( spells like J-O-B) but by next year I have targeted to learn conversational Turkish. Hopefully we won't be moving to another country by then.

FIVE - TEN YEARS FROM NOW:
Hopefully, husband and I will be living permanently in a country by then and have a house and business of our own.

Wow, that wasn't hard at all. It was actually fun doing this meme... So now I nominate the following to experience this journey....

1. Knoizki- my colorful blog friend who grows in me.. makes me want to go back to HK and meet him for real.. a long lost friend..
2. Gracei - my former colleague now wifey and mother in the land of Taj Mahal
3. Isay- A very down to earth pinay in OZ
4. Jeff - who does the Dubai Chronicles with two thumbs up!

Posted by duke at 8/20/2005 07:04:00 PM

12 Comments:

Anonymous said...: Susmaryosep! I was just reading these "taglines" from ashpaire and praying "Dear St Joseph, Please Do Not Pass It On To Me".

A complete revelation huh? After the Sunday mass, I'll do a "short" list. Thanks anyway Duke. You owe me some siopao ha?; 8/20/2005 09:35:00 PM
Anonymous said...: I also joined a Catholic Charismatic Comuunity back in college.

My sister-in-law also worked for Diamond and Heritage hotels before she embarked on the Royal Carribean cruise ship. She got her HRM cert from Holy Spirit.

Maybe one way or the other, your paths crossed.; 8/21/2005 04:11:00 AM
silentmode_v2 said...: i cannot answer the first question..i'm only nineteen! hehehehe.; 8/21/2005 07:38:00 AM
Analyse said...: shhh, i have this boyish side of me too..and studying in a male-dominated school didnt really help! naging jokla ako hehe..; 8/21/2005 03:26:00 PM
Anonymous said...: para akong nanood ng autobiography ni Duke in fast motion.Ba't walang malaking pic si hubby?; 8/22/2005 05:17:00 AM
Airwind said...: sarap balikan nang nakaraan noh .. huwaa makata kuno? wehehe... kakatuwa nakikilala ka ng readers mo .. wehehe smile poh!!; 8/22/2005 06:15:00 AM
Anonymous said...: sister! ano ba tong timeline na ito? naku po, lagot... sya, i will do it pag may oras ha sis. basahin ko muna yong knoizki :); 8/22/2005 10:32:00 AM
nikki said...: fast-forwarded na teleserye...

ako din may utang pa na timeline. :-D; 8/22/2005 02:00:00 PM
duke said...: knoizki-a siopao it is! which do you prefer? asado or bola bola?

evi- ah we have the same thing with the Community.. maybe I met your sister in law in one way or another.. the hotel industry is such a small world pa naman..

jeff- hahahaha! very funny!

ana- eh engineering ba naman ang banat mo sa college? ang ratio siguro ng female to male ay 1 is to 5! hahahaha

airwind- oo sarap balikan! yun nga lang.. na realize ko matanda na ako! waaaaahhhh!

bel- oo nga.. feeeling ko sumagot ako ng slaaaaammmm boook! camera shy si hubby eh :)

isay - sige antayin ko ah!

nikki- oo nga fast forward na teleserye wala lang yung mga kontrabida! :); 8/22/2005 04:47:00 PM
dreaming-neko said...: great post! cool site :)
trade links?

happy blogging~; 8/23/2005 04:15:00 AM
Abaniko said...: jetsetter!; 8/24/2005 05:32:00 PM
JO said...: wow! you've been all over the world...

just blog hopping...; 8/29/2005 09:07:00 PM

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