coffee break

ne way for me to get the latest office scoop is seduction. i know it’s bad, and i might get fired or maybe even get sued harassment style. but every time i open my starbucks coffee bean canister, throngs of people follow me to the pantry, willing to dish out the dirtiest secrets just for a cup of brewed coffee. talks about coffee whores! who would ever figure that these people can be lured by the stimulating smell of fresh coffee beans?

oday, would-be-manager invited me to the pantry after reviewing a stack of proposals and sow (statement of work). he’s a coffee addict as well so i brought my beans which i keep at my bin (coffee beans should be kept in a cool place away from direct sunlight). as we were preparing the coffee press for brewing, we go about our usual catching up, read as chika and gossiping. we talked about project assignment, my new role, an offer for him to be a project manager of a highly visible project and somehow the conversation went to personal hygiene. he digress that one of his pet peeves is people who don’t wash hands after peeing. i think it’s because of the cut-off plastic spoon in the sugar jar that was being used as a scoop. he can’t stand the idea of an unwashed hand digging into the jar. admittedly, it’s one of those things that filipino men are guilty of, maybe because of our culture of peeing in the streets and unavailability of a washroom, or plain laziness. he further elaborates that as respected, revered, intelligent a person maybe, he thinks less of him once he found out that he doesn’t wash his hand and that he secretly watch who wash hands at the restroom.

y over active mind then wandered to this thinking. is it redundant to for gay men to wash hands after peeing? <adult topic> since we do *stuff*, stuff that involves that part, mouth, tongue and saliva, is washing hands just a waste of water and soap?  is not washing hands an act of auto-felatio? unless you’re o.c. that you really do wash everything you put in your mouth. </adult topic> my dentist really is telling the truth when she told me that the mouth is the filthiest part of a person.

offee, i need more coffee. or should i have less?

listening to:
MR. A-Z – Jason Mraz : Mr. Curiosity

ow far will you go to be a friend? erase that, how do you know that a person is your friend? i am not one of those people who considers acquaintances as friends; acquaintance is an acquaintance, nothing more. a lot of people feel offended when i don’t do friend stuff with them. i don’t know, it’s as if i am obligated to share my life, or what i had for lunch, to a person just because we sit opposite each other. i don’t even do small talk with my friends, why would i to someone who might turn out to be freaking jack the ripper. when does an acquaintance become a friend?

log hopping, i came across an interesting blog. it relates the adventures, and misadventures of a guy and his friend. i used the term friend as it is how the blogger called the other guy. they do what normal friends do, eat out, have coffee, watch movies, sleep together. they’re both gay guys, though not explicitly said in words but graphically expressed in multitudes of images and from time to time, a home made video. yes, according to them sleeping together is one of those friend activities-again, not in words. if you’re still a bit slow, sleeping together = having sex. what baffles me more is that they have ménage à trois with other people, most of the time with their so called partner.

o judgment please, but i do want to pose this question: in a time of acceptance, tolerance and endless possibility, is having sex now part of the friendship plate? and how much of a friend are you? please don’t argue that they are not friends, they are because they said so, evidently proven by the abundance of the words friend, pare, buddy, and ‘tol.

listening to:
Girlfriend – Avril Lavigne: Girlfriend

i recently purchased/gifted myself a sonyericsson p1. i figured with  my new role, i need to a business phone that’s email on the go as well. i’m happy with with the phone, i can ready my office mail as well as my gmail account. the phone is feature rich that is right to the alley of what i’m looking for. however i  have a predicament. by specs, the phone is only UMTS capable. i put the sim of my globe visibility in this phone. although it connects seamlessly to the internet and i can still use it as a phone modem,  the full hspda speed would be utilize as i would want it.

for me to get the hspda speed, i need to buy this, the k850i. so far, it’s the only sonyericsson phone that is 3.5g (hspda) capable. it boasts of a 5 megapixel camera but i don’t need it. i rarely take pictures and i have a good digital camera to do that. oh yes, i can use the usb modem that globe gave me, but i rather not. the damn thing is not something i am fond of and it’s sticking like a sore thumb when i plug it in in my laptop. something that i am so offended seeing. and the fact that someone offered to buy it, the usb modem. see, a colleague lost her visibility and she’s still in contract with globe. she knows that i am not using my modem as i have used the sim card with my p1.

so if i do decide to but this one, i’ll use my personal line with this phone and the visibility with p1 so i can google and mail all i want without paying extra. but if i need to use it as a modem, i need to swap it so i can use the hspda speed. that turns me off. the mail client of k850i is no where near that of the p1. the thing that bugs me the most is that why sonyericsson decided to have the hspda connectivity tied to a camera phone and have their business phones still in the old ages of umts. really, i don’t get it.

am selling my not so old and not so used n80 internet edition. if you’re interested, shoot me an email. it’s bought from an authorized nokia retailer and still have the receipt, the box, cds, everything. and it’s black!

listening to:
Trip The Light Fantastic – Sophie Ellis Bextor: love Is Here