Shitty Times

Been hell of a week and its almost summer. Can't feel it though - it's been raining and its just a shame cos I wanna go to the beach before christmas holidays back home.



Its tough this time. Two of my friends were made redundant. Its scary. Like there's no security with jobs here. And what I've heard this might continue and even to audit division. I've known how hard it is to get a job. Two of my mates really had a hard time landing a job. But on of 'em has just been accepted yesterday after few months unemployed.



Again, these 2-3 weeks have been a disaster for me. And now I just feel that I deserve to eat at Pancakes on the Rocks this morning. Offset life's misery with good treats for the soul. Haha...



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friends' therapy

i seem to come back to my ol' usual self of watching reruns
friends (the reel and real one) are equally significant at this point
i found it to be a good therapy for stressful times
i'm reading humour books as well... david sedaris cracks me up!

finally i was able to get these things that i've longed for as well:
- cleaning my house (dishes, laundry, killing all bloody fucking bugs)
- submitting my leave form (8 days unpaid ~ can it be any worse?)
- sending new house keys to my agent (i lost my keys ages ago)
- physical checkup for immigration (and i can breathe again!)
- submitting my expenses (amex repayments finally!)
- grocery shopping for sweets and chips (diet no more!)

its all about creating a clearer pathway in yer mind
decongesting the stuffy cobwebs of intricate problems
gaining a better perspective and adjusting lil by lil
and feeling light and keep smiling takes away all zepin*

*i guess no one here would know what it means...
hint: think french!

the accused

i was trying to search for my name in google and here's what happened:
- i realised that "rondz" is not that uncommon at all;
- i found one in pampanga but turned out to be weird and totally unlike me; and
- I also realised that there is a company in Miami called 'Le Penguin Rondz, Inc.' (unfortunately I never realised what their main operation was as it is now inactive...

- i realised that "Ronald Mercado" is not uncommon as well;
- i found one living in PH who's kinda cool person (i guess)
- and the most shocking thing of all:

... my name is now stained! People of the Philippines vs. Ronald Mercado! Yeah... and guess what's the crime? Estafa.

Apparently my namesake pretended to be an agent to assist the travel documents of this someone for Php 92.4k and for that my namesake was sent to jail to serve 8-14 years imprisonment. He is still in jail as we speak. No wonder it was a bit hard getting my police clearance before.

Darn. I feel so bad and I wanted to change my name to Ronald... Macintosh!

here's the link -> http://ca.supremecourt.gov.ph/cardis/CR27627.pdf

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...now all i ask of you is to give me a space i well deserve
let time heal the wounds of letting go
and one day I will come back and tell you
that i am ready to move on...

Dying inside 'cause I can't stand it
Make or break up
Can't take this madness
We don't even really know why
All I know is baby
I try and try so hard
To keep our love alive

If you don't know me at this point
Then I highly doubt you ever will
I really need you to give me
That unconditional love I used to feel
It's a mistake if we just erase it
From our hearts and minds and I know

We said let go
But I kept on hanging on
Inside I know it's over
You're really gone
It's killing me
'cause there ain't nothing
That I can do
Baby, I stay in love with you
And I keep on telling myself
That you'll come back around
And I try to front like "Oh well"
Each time you let me down
See I can't get over you now
No matter what I do
But baby, baby
I stay in love with you

It cuts so deep
It hurts down to my soul
My friends tell me
I ain't the same no more
We still need each other
When we stumble and fall
How we gonna act
Like what we had
Ain't nothin' at all now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_21AIVTZLXE
new single from mc. the best time to launch the best single in e=mc2. i appreciate it mc!

Somebody told me you were leavin’
I didn’t know
Somebody told me you’re unhappy
But it doesn’t show
Somebody told me that you don’t want me no more
So you’re walkin’ out the door
Nobody told me you’ve been cryin’
Every night
Nobody told me you’d been dyin’
But didn’t want to fight
Nobody told me that you fell out of love from me
So I’m settin’ you free

Let me be the one to break it up
So you won’t have to make excuses
We don’t need to find a set up where
Someone wins and someone loses
We just have to say our love was true
But has now become a lie
So I’m tellin’ you I love you one last time
And goodbye
Somebody told me you still loved me
Don’t know why
Nobody told me that you only
Needed time to fly
Somebody told me that you want to come back when
Our love is real again

Just turn around and walk away
You don’t have to live like this
But if you love me still then stay
Don’t keep me waiting for that final kiss
We can work together through this test
Or we can work through it apart
I just need to get this off my chest
That you will always have my heart

my caramel slice...

Presenting my caramel slice:



I baked it awhile ago and its soo yummy! One of the joys of baking is that you enjoy the residual chocolate filling. I recall Joey's Peanut Fingers... My version of Chocolate Fingers to celebrate the success.

*forgive my pointless blog today - just flat out with the work and all*

... but still - its phenomenal.

melbourne cup sweep

for the first time in my 3rd melbourne cup here in Australia - I missed the race. just because i was too busy with meetings for my clients - I missed it. but on the brighter side i joined the sweep for the first time. I randomly chose my bet - Bauer. This was based on my fave number which is 012 - simply stated Horse 12. He ended up on 2nd place while Viewer won the race - and I got $10 richer.

I recall 2 years ago, someone from our client approached me
Client: 'Do you want to join the sweep?'
Rondz: 'No thanks, I'm good'

Simply because i don't understand what he meant. I thought he wanted to get some charity from me - LOL. And I remember doing this on my first client - Thales. I also watched the sweep last year for the 2nd time - again on Thales. but this time I was just in the office and i failed to witness it - Good thing there's youtube to see it. now I'm satisfied. But still... :c

melbourne experience

first night was a horrific event mainly because of
- turbulent qantas fly
- smelly curry for dinner
- delayed baggage claim
- major change of temperature (36C at Syd; 13C at Mel)

to offset this dreadful experience, the halloween party was not bad at all. i was able to see September perform live and singing the famous' oxland song - Cry for you.

food's fantastic by the way, i reckon the two pears (roi's term for niko and me cos we're pear shaped) are getting bigger! friday's, sambal (malay cuisine), pizza haven (oxland of melbie) and many more fattening experience.

crowd here is much better than syd. or maybe because of the melbourne cup weekend where everyone's wearing their fancy dresses and lavish hats...

to end the day - just because we got sooo tired from walking, i removed my shoes and walked barefoot in South Yarra. fantastic experience. twas rejuvinating. finally i realised why those aussies with stelletos would love to walk barefoot even when dressed perfectly.