a traveling week: a tale in three cities

this is just the journal entry to complement the photo album of what i did last week, which isn't done yet. have to post photos of pamilacan, which are still in my cam =) and yes, these are the perks of my work. almost makes me not want to leave....


 


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FEB 20


8pm: FORD annual report finally finished and emailed


1130pm: finish mexican dinner; VST & Co and Jose Mari Chan songs playing alternately in the background


 


FEB 21


530am: wake up to pack for trip; contemplate bringing mask & snorkel, tripod for bohol; dress rehearsal and borrow heels for Supreme Court hearing


9am: wake up for 11am flight


1015am: arrive at airport, check in, change MLA-CBU ticket to MLA-TAG


1215pm: arrive at Manila Domestic, walk to road to get taxi because of long queue


1pm: arrive at Supreme Court for the hearing on EO 464 (where GMA prohibits anyone in the Executive branch to testify in Congress for whatever reason--including budget hearings--unless she gives her consent), change into “court wear”, watch as SC employees get starstruck with all the showbiz senators


5pm: finish listening to Joker Arroyo being questioned by SC justices for 4hours straight, go out for food, work on MacArthur Annual Report


730pm: leave for QC (hearing actually finished at 1130pm)


930pm: real meal at last at Grill Queen


1030pm: wait for Chinqui at Greenbelt with Kikoy


 


FEB 22


130am: walk barefoot to Greenbelt parking lot (skin raw from heels), drop off Chinqui, drive back to QC with Kikoy while watching moonrise


230am: ready to sleep


930am: meeting with media pool


12pm: sneak out over lunch to meet with Dumaguete co-fellows


145pm: back at the planning meeting


3pm: sneak in email while having merienda


5pm: spacing out from meeting, coloring puppets for Sunday School


6pm: end of meeting, time for nap


8pm: walk to Gate 2 to meet Bacolod co-fellows (after one year)


930pm: move to cafe ysabel for drinks


 


FEB 23


1230am: home to ateneo


130am: ready to sleep


5am: wake up for 7am flight


540am: read Proverbs 23, pray that taxi arrives


550am: taxi arrives


640am: eat second ensaymada at pre-departure


8am: tricycle to Bohol office


9am: work on MacArthur Annual Report


1230pm: arrive at Bohol Bee Farm, lunch


4pm: merienda of herbal tea, kape made of corn, sour mango, camote pie


6pm: leave for Bohol Divers after succumbing to buying cute bag


7pm: dinner of chicken curry and bee farm leftovers


1030pm: MacArthur Annual Report finally finished


 


FEB 24


530am: wake up for dolphin-watching


730am: spot a pod of pilot whales; whales dive deep because too many pumpboats crowd them in, surface only after every 20-30 minutes


930am: make friends with cute orange cat and white goats at Pamilacan Island; breakfast of egg, native chicken, and fresh kinilaw; swim, lose anklet


11am: sail for Baclayon, change on pumpboat; fine salt crystals appearing on arms and face


1230: buy fastcraft ticket for Cebu, board fastcraft


245pm: arrive in Cebu, email MacArthur Report


3pm: meeting on Sun.Star Yearbook


5pm: home to shower and rinse swimming things


6pm: meeting on WILA journal


7pm: meeting on Olango Medical Mission


830pm: Bible Study


1030pm: home, read Yearbook, set alarm for 8am Sunday School Teachers’ Training

Comments

  1. Sus ubb622February 27, 2006 at 5:09 AM

    It's incredible how you juggle and keep up with your schedule! May internal and integrated Palm Pilot ka ba? Hahaa!

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  2. Jeneen GarciaFebruary 27, 2006 at 6:33 PM

    i think i'm only able to do it because i believe i can ("i think i can, i think i can"). if in the middle of all my rushing from one place to the next i'd suddenly realize i was pushing the limits of human teleportation, i'd probably fall down and crash. so just let me think i can for now, while my body can still handle it =) (oh, and 30-minute to 1-hour naps help a lot)

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  3. Sus ubb622February 27, 2006 at 6:47 PM

    Good point. Do it now. You won't be scooting around that comfortably at 60.

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  4. Jeneen GarciaFebruary 27, 2006 at 7:19 PM

    and i hope at 60, i won't feel the need to =)

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