Welcome, me!

Just signing on my very first blog. Hmmm. As you can tell from my blog title, I think I represent the twentyish[hah]goingonthirty-BridgetJoneish Pinay career gal definitely in need of a new job, new clothes, and new life!

Anyway, I finally am doing something about the rut I am in by lodging an application to migrate in cooler and greener pasture. While I do love my country, things are really going downhill with nary the light at the end of the tunnel in sight. Also, I love myself and my family more to want to have better lives for all of us.

While waiting for things to pick up [migration processing is kinda like waiting for moss to grow on a garden wall], I am here, in Makati, working my butt off doing God-knows-what for a cool but demanding boss. Hah. And of course, like all Manila born and bred Pinays, I am also preparing as early as now for the coming holidays.

Just yesterday, I went out for lunch and browsed through the stuff available in Landmark (to get a headstart on my Christmas list). I got a little confused with the decor as candles and Halloween masks stood alongside huge Christmas trees and twinkling lights. That's capitalism for you, even as Pinoys don't actually celebrate Halloween [except maybe for the rich who spend for all holidays including spend-your-fortune-on-useless-stuff day -- hah!], the one day 'celebration' merits shelf space.

I was also reminded of an art teacher who discussed how Filipinos fear empty spaces -- those huge Christmas trees were decorated to the max! One tree must have carried all available stock of these newfangled see-thru Christmas balls and their color-coordinated floral counterpart. Of course, enterprising store decorators also had the same balls hung from the ceiling to give a pseudo-chandelier effect. I think my contact lenses fogged with perspiration after five minutes on the floor...

I got back to the office of course with candles for Halloween instead of a Christmas gift for someone in my list.
Go figure.