team building last saturday at kabayan beach resort in san juan, batangas. for the first time, sumama ako hahaha last year sumama din ako eh. ika nga nila, once a year lang ako nakikisali =)

here are some pics (i went swimming in a bikini with my tummy out hahaha) more pictures at http://photos.yahoo.com/jpcastillon under macromedia team building

my latest pictures @ 5 months pregnant





i've gained 20 lbs since getting pregnant. my OB did advised me to eat less rice because i gained 10 lbs since my last checkup which was just 4 weeks ago. please ignore the nose. i never had a nice nose but its bigger than the usual.

i havent been religiously updating my blog lately because of so many things going on right now. add the fact that blogger/blogspot is blocked in our network. well, that really doesnt stop me from getting to blogger since the mac G5 is outside of the firewall. i just dont have anything to say.

work. still the usual. pretty busy with assisting the new hires with their trainings, monitoring calls and emails, and consultations. meetings too eats up most of my time here. then tambay mode =)

soda, we think, is pregnant again and if our calculation is correct she should give birth end of july or first week of august. i really hope the babies will be ok this time. sachi is staying in san juan since bart's maid left three weeks ago. its pretty hard to have the three dogs together. its doesnt help that bart's busy with work that he gets home around 8 or 9 in the evening. you can really count on him to clean the cages.

speaking of bart, his foot will again be operated on this friday (or is it saturday morning). remember the cyst on his toe? its gotten big again and needs operation. it has been operated on twice before the last was just four years ago. the last doctor who operated on it said that they could not remove everything since some are sticking to the bone and they only used local anaesthesia. he will feel the pain if they take it off. so the doctor now will use general anaesthesia (to the spinal) so he would be asleep. scary but i know he'll be ok. i do remember being under general anaesthesia last year for my D&C (raspa po iyon) but it was injected to the IV. prior to that, i was asking the assisting doctors around if it's painful. i guess they thought i was high or something coz they were all smiling at me. i was asked to count to 10. i think i just reached 6 and woke up in the recovery room after 4 hours. i didnt feel anything. the physical pain was finally over. it was the worst feeling of cramps ever. 20 times than the usual plus the fear of losing all your blood because goodness, i've never lost that much blood in my life. grabe.

bact to bart, i really hope that they get to remove all the cyst from his toe.

kaye gave birth last june 8 at chinese general hospital. she was due july 11. baby came in early (only at 36 weeks) and so she had to stay for 6 days in the hospital. it was a normal delivery. it was nice texting kaye and so funny how she recalls the things that happened. sabi nya, nawalan sya ng poise at lahat ng kahinhinan nya sa mundo eh nawala. naalala ko tuloy si soda hahaha seriously. i mean soda gave birth a week early too and kasi feel namin she's too small to handle those many puppies. si kaye naman, syadong maliit to carry the baby and i cant imagine kung san nalagay yung baby =) congrats kaye! sabi ko dapat "joy" name nun baby nya para lumaking mabait, maganda, at matalino. eh pinangalan "zanya ysabelle" ewan ko kung san napulot yung "zanya" or na-mistype lang nya hehehe

i was making a mental list of disappointing things that happened to me recently. the list was long that i lost count already. then i just decided to be thankful im still alive and surviving. so why the sad ek-ek again? i dont know...

i've discovered so many things in the past few months. some made me happy, some made me sad. i dont know. i really dont understand.

and we watched cars =) i loved it!