Hangover Baby

I can't get over how CUTE this baby is! He's baby Tyler from the movie Hangover.

That movie btw was effing hilarious. You guys gotta watch it.

Oh Hilarity!

Won't Let Me Go

Something for your Sunday morning.



Here's the playlist

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=B739706CD03B3FD4&search_query=amos+lee

Thoughts During the 100km Hike

These, among other expletives which I'd rather not say, were going through my mind as we were slaving through the rain and the heat during the 100km hike:

Ooohh I'm melting!
Don't think about the pain!
Please God, let there be no frogs this time. I hate frogs!
Why the hell am I doing this again?
36 plus 6 plus 12....54km, so 46 kms to go? Only halfway done???
One step at a time, one step at a time, one ste-- ouch!
C'mon jenny, look alive, look alive, 2 kms more and you can see Raza at Checkpoint 6!
Again, why am I doing this?
F*ck the pain, f*ck the pain, keep walking!
OUCH, OUCH, OUCH, OUCH!

I have to say though that giving up NEVER crossed my mind. Noooo Backing Out was our team name after all.

Thoughts Before the 100km Hike Tomorrow

Alright guys, we're down to the home stretch. The Oxfam charity hike will start in about 24 hours. I've been training for this since February, have lost about 10 pounds, have developed all sorts of muscles on my legs (not to mention all sorts of blisters on my feet - disgusting, yeah), AND we've raised about $4,000 for charity. DAMMIT I'm ready to hike for 30 hours straight! We are so ready!

You know the funny thing is I have never really been the sporty, outdoorsy type. As a kid, my Long Jumps were never long, my Long Reach just didn't reach anywhere, I could not - still can't - do a cartwheel (I know!) and I can run (like anybody else) but somehow running feels unnatural to me (on the other hand I think watching tv for 6 hours straight without moving a muscle AND partying all night are both valid olympic categories). I try to do all sorts of sports - swimming, badminton, tennis - but I am just not good at any of those. I'm a geek, which to some is at the opposite end of the spectrum, and I'm good at being a geek. Anyway my point is you don't have to be much of sporty type to be able to do this 100km hike. All you need is a good motivator and energizer (Pei), teammates whom you can talk to (and sing with) for hours (Yukiko and Raj), an awesome, unselfish support crew (you know who you are), friends and family who would support you no matter how far you wanna go, and a boyfriend who wouldn't let you give up even if you throw a tantrum and scream, I wanna give up! I wanna give up!

Much, much love and thanks to you guys, and we promise you, we will not give up! See you at the finish line!

**Btw I will be posting twitter updates and photos on my twitter page http://twitter.com/jennypot27. And you can email me at galang-jnnfr@ezweb.ne.jp during the hike, your encouraging words especially during the wee hours of Friday night/Saturday morning will be much loved by my team :)

I quit, so shoot me

I just finished the most recent project that has been assigned to me at work. And now I have time to study for my CFA again. But I only have three weeks left! THREE WEEKS! I am so not ready! I think I'm going to flunk it. Like flunk it big time. I've never flunked an exam before. Seriously. I'm a big geek and I take exams seriously. But this time I've been caught up with other stuff (i.e. hiking, student loans, American Idol (lol), etc.) that I haven't had time to study. So okay, okay, I've been lazy and I haven't had the motivation to study. Because you know what, since I'm going to switch to NGO/non-profit field after my MBA, what good would this CFA do me? Yeah, it's a great qualification to fall back on, I know, but seriously, do I have to be EVERYTHING that I can be? (Clearly I am having a major crisis here.) Being an "achiever" is just too much hard work! Why can't I just watch TV all day and skip the gym and the studying? (I made this exact big speech to Raza, so that he would let me quit this CFA exam - and you know what, it didn't work, which is why I'm back to studying again. But maybe it would work with you?) I have the right to be lazy. I don't have to take this stoooopid CFA exam, right? Tell me, tell me!

Will You Follow Me into the Dark?

I need to write something. Because I just can't concentrate on reading how to value companies in emerging markets. Something's bothering me and I can't quite put my finger on it. Is it because of what happened on American Idol? Is it because it's dawning on me that July is just oh-too-soon and I know that there's nothing I can do to keep it from coming? Is it because I'm falling into an abyss and I couldn't decide whether I actually jumped or I was pushed? Is it because it doesn't really matter either way because I keep falling, falling, falling...waiting?

People ask me when I'm gonna get settled down (when being the operative word here, and noticeably not if). I always say, mataas pa mga pangarap ko (I still have big dreams to fulfill). Which got me into thinking – is settling down not in my dreams? Will getting married keep me from achieving my dreams? Hard to say, really. Maybe for me, a dream is something I have to work for, and settling down is something inevitable that'll come no matter what. (Wow, if that's how I've been thinking all along, then I'm screwed. Big time.)

Oh I know what this is about. It's because I've got a plan. And big dreams. Planning and dreaming – it's all good, right? No. It sucks having a plan. Because I'm just all tied to it. Having a plan makes me feel like I'm just waiting for things to happen as planned. Makes me feel like I'm just waiting for something that already arrived. (Certainty's a bitch? Yeah. And Uncertainty is too? Yeah. Catch 22 much?)

In any case, I'll keep waiting. Wait for things to unfold. For fate to unravel itself and my plans to materialize. Perhaps I'll spend the rest of my life waiting (then again, won't we all?). That's not a bad thing. Because waiting is time spent hoping. And hope is always a good thing, I think.