There's A B-Side To Every Story

I retired from work unusually late today at 9PM despite the fact that I've been mindlessly doing almost nothing since 6PM. Heck, it's been a rather uneventful day come to think of it. My new daily sked of 10AM-7PM (from the previous of 9AM-6PM) is still hard to digest that's why. Plus I've been having a hard time getting my mind on my job lately with too much going on in my topsy-turvy head. Good thing though I had my guitar with me (yes, in the office) to distract me from the boredom called work.

This billboard showcasing the new Penshoppe B-Side collection pretty much summed up my day today - B-side material. Doesn't B-side connote something like "not good enough for A-side material but will rather suffice"? Hmmm... I wonder if Penshoppe marketing ever thought of that.

Making up for lost time

OMG! How time flies when you're too caught up! June 27th was the last post in this blog I tried so hard to find time to maintain. And here I am 7 months later, wanting a new blog, a photo blog in particular, to compliment my new toy and hobby.

To recap the last 7 months:

• The project that rid me of blogging time, or any other personal time for that matter, is finally over (yey!)
• Only to be replaced by an equally demanding new project (boo!) but less time-consuming at that (yey!)
• Spent almost a week in Singapore for a well-deserved respite (yey!)
  
• 300 bucks for a beer in over-hyped and undersized Hooters (boo!)
  
• A business opportunity itself for a partnership to revive a provincial road-side bar (yey!)
• Only to have me, and eventually the principal partner, retract for the very same reason I wasn't able to blog (boo!)
  
• I turned 1 year in the coolest company I'm currently working my ass off for by the time the project went live (yey!)
• But it took less for me and the love-of-my-life to call it off (sob...)
  
• I was able to finally grab my hands on the much-coveted Nikon D40, an early Christmas present and long-overdue birthday gift in one! (yey!)
• While some cheap bastard was able to get his hands on my wallet at the same time (boo!)
• I'm loving every bit of my new found hobby - digital photography (yey!)
• While still struggling to find that oh so precious time (boo!)
  
• Our barkada finally was able to book a trip to Bangkok (yey!)
• Which only purged my purse empty, at least for the time being, for my dream lens, a Nikkor 18-200mm VR (boo!)

T'was not a bad year after all.
Ok, I'm gonna stick it out with Blogger.