I know it just hit June, but look who was in the April issue of Total Fitness magazine!
This was for a piece I did about Pharmaton's Amazing Race media challenge at Misibis Bay, Albay, with the good people of Bridges PR, a few other media folk, and Pharmaton's newest endorsers Derek Ramsay and Karylle.
I realize the irony of me writing for a magazine like Total Fitness, but I also didn't finish 2nd in that race for nothing. :D
The weather's been crazier than usual in bipolar Manila. At the heaviest point of this afternoon's deluge, I could barely see the Pinoy Big Brother house and the castle in front of my office.
Today is the exception because I'm new at my job and am impressionable and willing to impress, but on any other day like this, I'd much rather stick to my (literally) old-school practices and stay home, curl up under the my thick, leopard-skin comforter with a movie on. Alas, my comforter is at the dry-cleaners and I am at the office. The alternate is to put on The Ventures' "Sleepwalk" but I've worm that record out.
My sister Ella Fitzgerald is going to preach it for us with a live, more-gorgeous-than-the-studio version of the 1933 song "Stormy Weather," all the way from 1975. Just Ella and Joe Pass' guitar
Ella Fitzgerald feat. Joe Pass, "Stormy Weather"
Here's another flood favorite from the same performance:
In a few days I will be entering the week which will round off my first month working at ABS-CBN. So far it's been a ride, and is probably one of the biggest accomplishments I've attained for myself, all by myself(i.e. sin nepotism).
So far I haven't run out of things to do, and I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon. As a matter of fact, I'm assuming that this is as light of a load as it comes. And so far, I love what I do -- watching screeners of TV shows from all around the world, evaluating them, and putting my recommendations on the table. With all this content, needless to say, I'm getting an education in world cultures without even leaving my desk -- the desk that will pay for the traveling that all this culture education will supplement.
The goal is to hit Europe next year. Numero uno is to be deemed worthy to go on a buying trip with the bosses to Cannes in April and then stay behind maybe a week or two. Dos is to hit it on my own in August with my amigas. Cue belt-tightening sound effects.
The one tiny downside is that I feel like my social life is very slowly but equally surely slipping away. My friends are all either moving away or getting chained somewhere. Now I can't even chat with them online anymore as my lifelines to the outside world (and pretty much everything else) have been blocked at work. And coming from a small team of very busy people, there aren't too many people to talk to here besides the be-subtitled Koreans and the Latin Americans.
I'm a bit of an old soul which would explain why more than modern, my tastes have always had a more vintage flair. I'm curvy rather than cutting edge, so I relate better to insane figures and sexy skeeze, and everything from the 1920s to the 1970s. And then the '90s; the '80s are just totally lost on me.
Anyway, her first run was amazing, but the 2nd Amy Winehouse - Fred Perry Spring/Summer 2011 collection is even more fun. It's the same '50s style, but she's incorporated Oriental flavors into it; Hawaiian print has never been hotter.
