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April 28, 2007  7:19am
Ahhh.The agony! Slept through most of the evening with goo dripping down my nose, my brain half-conscious and fighting fever and chills. "I can’t get sick" I keep telling myself. I won’t. Refuse to lose!

Oh well, woke up today and dropped by the Family Mart convenience store to pick up some Vitamin C drinks, and some fruit. I am fighting this thing baby!

Saw a bunch of pictures of my friends from Fujitsu. James, Pete, Joman, Joel, Obias etc.. WOW! Brings back so much memories. Good times mga pare ko!

Right after finishing college at Don Bosco, I joined Fujitsu Computer Products of the Philippines(FCPP). Out of 800 applicants, there were about 61 of us that were selected after going through three rounds of interviews. We were the first batch of engineers hired by Fujitsu.  Me and my buddy Pedro (who later changed his name to "Pete") made the cut. How we did it? That was the million dollar question. In fact most people in our school during the graduation ceremonies could not believe that me and Pedro made it. Ha ha! Others that came from Don Bosco included Charlemagne "Teng" Vicente, Yul Sabio, Van "Gwapo Time" Miranda, Allan Obias(who was also a co-instructor of mine at the Technical Faculty, working under living legend Master Mefragata), Richard Chua and Alvin Manager Mantilla.

For those of you who don’t know, Don Bosco was an all boy’s Catholic School back then. So like most of the guys who made the cut, we never had a chance to be in the same room with members of the opposite sex. So imagine the awe and fascination that losers like me and Pedro felt when we entered the room at Ateneo Business School for our orientation/pre training. There were girls! "Hey that girl looks like Aiko" Pete would say. "Hey that one looks like Carmina" I would quip back. Wow wow wee! Good times indeed.

Anyway, that was the start of my Fujitsu career. So many things happened, so many adventures and rich experiences. I ended up working for FCPP for four(4) years.

To all my Fujitsu friends….musta na ba kayo? Kelan reunion?

By the way I managed to dig up some old FCPP Pics: Check them out:

http://community.webshots.com/album/297267301aHvpuW

April 27, 2007  6:29PM
yo wazup peeps?
just wanted to say hi to everyone. The Golden Week has officially started in Japan. What it means is that for next week, Monday, Thursday and Friday are national holidays. We do have to work on Tuesday and Wednesday. Go figure.

Just got back from Manila where I got to spend time with my lovely wife and my adorable daughter(kanino pa ba magma-mana?), who is now 1 year, 4 months and 16 days old. Little Pat-pat as I love to call her, is starting to say words like "papa" and "dada". Ask her how old she is, she stretches out one finger. Simply amazing! Mana sa daddy sa pagka-bibo! Hehehe

Is that Daddy’s little girl or what? I love you Patpat!

Me, the family, and my dad too and my sister Cel with her family went to ACE Water Spa in Quezon City. Wow, what a place. Enjoyed the "rain massage" immensely. You guys should check it out.

Well, now I am back in Tokyo. Caught a cold possibly from my overzealous coworker who did not want to be absent from work (thanks a lot, buddy), but other than that, got a long weekend of basketball ahead of me. Its the NBA Playoffs!!! My favorite NBA Team Miami Heat is down 0-2 to the upstart Chicago Bulls. Game 3 is tomorrow and I’ll be watching the game cheering from my apartment. Let’s go HEAT! In the afternoon, I am heading to Odaiba to play basketball. Should be a good one. Got to bring my A-game, despite my flu-like symtoms, ala MJ in game 5 of the 1997 NBA Finals. He he he!

Have a good weekend my friends. Peace out and God bless!