single women.

this is my attempt to make a post valentine write-up.

valentine's day. monday. other than the rush of greetings i received from friends, valentine's is but an ordinary regular day. 

a year ago, i remember myself wishing to have someone special to celebrate this occasion with. in my mind, i play a lot of cheesy romantic ideas and gimmicks to do for the man i love. fortunately, i'm given a year or so more to just toy with those ideas, instead of fret about them.

and i thought, maybe God should put priority on other women. after all, 23 is pretty much a young age. i could wait for some years more. ☺

here goes the priority list i propose to God:

ate jo. (joselin lampitoc)

♥businesswoman. my caring group leader. cheery. bubbly. pious. very positive.

she's always on the go. she’s the type of person whose energy never runs out, no matter how many appointments she attends to in a day, no matter how many tasks she accomplishes, and no matter how far the distance is from one place of appointment to another. she always always always carries a bright face. i once told her she's too good to be true, and i mean it bigtime. it's like she doesn't know how to get mad on anything or to anyone even for one second. i know she's praying for her right man to come along, but i think i'm more "atat " for her than she is for herself.

ma'am may. (may nuñez)

♥metrobank branch manager. former boss. rich. sophisticated. brainy. superrrr generous. 

i got to work with her back when i was working with AXA, when i was assigned to ocean tower branch. i was in her passenger's seat one time, and either for lack of anything else to talk about or out of pure curiosity, she asked if i have a boyfriend. saying that i don't, she asked what keeps me single. that was an unusual follow up question, to which i don't have a ready answer for. i thought that that query should be asked to a thirty-something woman, or to someone who is in her late-twenties. what i usually get is the "what are the qualities you are looking for in a man" question, to which i don't have a ready answer for either. anyway, that question really got us to talking. she told me not to be too choosy or i'll end up like her, loveless with no more good alibi left. up to this day, though i haven't told her, i don't agree to that "not-to-be-choosy" advice. i believe it's every woman's right. and i believe, too, that she has all the right in the world. she’s a fulfilled woman, career-wise. and i really believe she's a great catch.

ate onence (florence austria santos)

♥financial executive. former colleague. tender-hearted. well-mannered. cool. 

she's married actually,  but with all the marriage blahs. in one of our long walks downtown ayala, hearing her sweet-talk to her hubby on the phone, i just knew how much she loves him despite and inspite of everything. so right there and then, teary-eyed, silently, and yes while walking, i prayed a heartfelt prayer to God to give her husband completely back to her, if not a completely new man to love and who’ll love her back truly, completely, madly.








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on our tagaytay getaway

random office day at the branch

on our usual glorietta walk

all three of them are awesome beautiful women, inside and out, and i genuinely earnestly sincerely pray that they find their right men soon, pretty soon.


...so i find mine next.☺

fancy facebooker.

i went straight to the apartment from work.

my ultimate plan: sleep early, 1. so i wouldn't have to suffer sleepy hours at work, and 2. so i wouldn't overdose myself with caffeine (the last time i checked, i have an average of 3 cups of coffee intake per work shift--which, for me, is OVER.)

but here i am, with barely three hours of sleep left, setting my eyes, and time, on facebook page.

yes, even with eyes half open and mind half awake, i am all too busy setting profile banners.

i just love personalizing things..and i love doing it for people i care about too. so my victims: ate, louie, baby, joicee and joona.

i wish to do it to as much friends as i have. maybe i will some time next.

*now, sleep.
i just wish i wouldn't give myself a hard time when it's time to wake up already.

i ♥ mondays.

to say that today is an awesomely grand day is an understatement.

my work shift is crazy that i don't share the same sentiment as regular employees have. they who hate mondays.

i don't.

monday is my weekend.

my holiday.

my sabbath.

my day.

and i begin to call it gaze's day.

and though i'm the type of person who doesn't follow a strict stiff schedule, i want mondays to be somewhat a routine of top five things.

1. monday is the only day of the week that i wake up early, fresh from bed. and by early, i mean 5 a.m. early.

i work night shift so mornings are like nights to me on ordinary days, and on regular weekends i sleep for long hours.

2. monday is my laundry day. and doing my laundry reminds me that i am still able to attend to my personal errand, which means work has not consumed all the energy left of me.

3. monday is Friends-dvd-marathon day. this is my current addiction, to say the least.

4. monday is my mass day. I get to attend the 12 noon mass in Greenbelt chapel.

5. monday is my free day. for the remaining hours, i am free to visit shopping malls, read a book, walk around, and practically do whatever i want.

and to be a working girl for the most part of the day, of the week, this freedom means more than anything else.