Goodbye Corporate World, Hello NonProfit Sector!

It's official.
I have been offered the Administrative Assistant position at the Californita Partnership to End Domestic Violence.
What's amazingly rewarding about this transition is that I get to leave Corporate America and the Capitalist game (except of course when I'm a consumer). I'm so excited to finally be able to say that I work towards a cause "for a living. I used to have to find spare time to make a difference.I know that I'll be starting from the beginning once again, learning a new industry all over again... but it's all part of living from a beginner's mind.

What Memory Serves Me

What Memory Serves Me
By KalydaSPOKE

It's just so bittersweet
That we had to leave things
So incomplete
"The timing was off"
And yet our hearts matched
Beat-for-beat

And if my memory serves me
It's been serving up some memories
Of you and me
Of us laughing together
And it's been on repeat and repeat
It's like I changed my address
To that spot on your chest
Where I used to lay my head
As we watched movies and
YouTube clips
From your Batzmaru bed
A thousand kisses
That you promised in a text
You delivered
And started on my neck
Those days on your calendar
If my memory serves me
They're marked with exes
Every which way from here to Texas
Lovin' leavin' both of us breathless
Yes this
Was physical and more
It was like the comfort in your arms
Gave me the freedom to snore
And that's nearly a miracle
But if my memory serves me
It's been serving up some memories
Before you was heartbreak and disappointment
So you can see why I'd be so reluctant
I gave and gave
With little or no reciprocity
But hey
That's just what my memory
has been serving me
And for you
Oddly enough
That was our commonality

What memory serves
Is obviously selective
So I can understand why you've been
So protective
I just want you to know
It was never my objective
To hurt you
Like the last prospective Mrs.
This is
The last skewed perspective

It's just so bittersweet
That we had to leave things
So incomplete
"The timing was off"
And yet our hearts matched
Beat-for-beat

So if what serves me is truth
I'd stop squandering my youth
Looking for proof
And allow myself the memory
Of you.

Currently listening : Floetic By Floetry Release date: 01 October, 2002

Crush

I'm ready to admire someone, albeit secretly.
I'm ready to write sigh-inducing poetry
that elicits profound discovery
of perhaps intimacy,
Veritably from fantasy.
I'm ready for the butterflies and the palpitations,
Undercover exhilaration and lightweight perspiration,
Stolen glances with some eye-contact hesitation,
Tongue-tied invitations
for private conversations,
All for the object of my fascination.
I am ready.

1st Survey of 2007

1. What bill do you hate paying the most?

PARKING TICKETS! They've followed me from LA...

2. Where's the best place to eat a romantic dinner?
there's a secluded grotto in Boracay (so I've heard) where your meal is brought up by dumbwaiter to ensure the utmost privacy of you and your date

3. Last time you puked from drinking? Yeesh, my bday in Vegas last July

4. When is the last time you got drunk and danced on a bar?
I don't need to be drunk to do that!

5. Name of your 2nd grade teacher?
Penso que es Sra. Hernandez

6. What do you really want to be doing right now?
healing from my cold

7. What did you want to be when you were growing up?
first, the presiden; then, a detective; then, an actress who plays 'em on TV

8. How many colleges did you attend?
3

9. Why did you wear the shirt that you have on right now?
It's chic, comfy, yet professional

10. GAS PRICES First thought?
I try not to.

11. If you could be anywhere and take someone with you...Who WOULD IT BE?
I'd be in London with Patrick whattya say, Pat?

12. First thought when the alarm went off this morning?
Gotta get up, gotta NOT be sick, gotta make a good impression for the boss

13. Last thought before going to sleep last night?
I hope I'm not too sick to go to work...

14. What chore do you despise?
De-clogging anything

15. If you didn't have to work, would you volunteer at an art gallery?
Abso-fruitly! SF Moma or Tate Modern in London!

16. Get up early or sleep in?
Depends on the day... but I'm not characteristically a morning person

17. Who is your favorite cartoon character?
Strawberry Shortcake

20. Favorite NON sexual thing to do at night with a girl/guy?

Stimulating conversations that seem to never end...

21. A secret that you wouldn't mind everyone knowing?
I wouldn't mind everyone knowing that I have an electricity phobia... There! I said it.

22. Are you planning on remaining in your current field?
No, I don't plan on remaining in telecom sales... I'm ready to be a talk show host/superhero now please...

23. If you are not married, do you see yourself married in the next five years?
Not yet... but who knows?

24. Your favorite fake lunch meat?

What's fake lunch meat? tofu-based stuff?

25. What do you get every time you go into a Wal-Mart?
I don't really shop there at all

26. Beach or lake?
Venice Beach, baby!

27. Do you think marriage is an outdated ritual that was invented by people who died at 20?
not at all

28. Who do you stalk on MySpace?
YOU

29. Favorite guilty pleasure?
Flavor of Love and MYSPACE of course!

30. Favorite movie you wouldn't want anyone to find out about?
Dreamquest

31. What's "your" drink?
They were Scooby Snax, but lately it's B-52's

Non alcoholic:
Voss water

32. Cowboys or Indians?
Kings... LOL

33. Cops or Robbers?
Badges AND Bad Boys?

34. Do you cheer for the bad guy?

"Make way for da bad guy!"

35. What Hollywood star do you think you most look like?
Sadly, there aren't many Filipina stars-- Kimora Lee or Emmett Smith's dance partner Cheryl

36. If you had to pick one, which cast member of Lost would you be?
Er, this question's LOST on me... I don't watch the show

37. What do you want when you are sick?
Arroz caldo with calamansi and black pepper or Seafood Pho

38. Who from high school would you like to run into?
I just saw my hs friends at a wedding... but I'd love to see what happened to the hot jocks who graduated Florin in 1994... Running for public office? Running from the law?

39. What radio station is your car radio tuned to right now?
NPR/Public radio

42. Norm or Cliff? (Cheers)
Carla, bitches!

43. The Cosby Show or the Simpsons?
Awwwh man...

44. Worst relationship mistake that you wish you could take back?
Not being more assertive-- not looking out for myself

45. Do you like the person who sits directly across from you at work?
Typically, yes. They're the customers

46. If you could get away with it, whom would you kill?
absolutely NOBODY

47. What famous person would you like to have dinner with?
GEORGE CLOONEY or Nelson Mandela

48. Have you ever had to use a fire extinguisher for its intended purpose?
nope

49. Last book you read for real?
True Love by Thich Nhat Than

50. Do you have a teddy bear?
Like a real teddy bear? Nope, just my Xavi-bear

51. Strangest place you have ever brushed your teeth?
a train from Hanover to Berlin

52. Somewhere in California you've never been and would like to go?
Santa Barbara

53. Number of texts in a day?

I know that I average 300/week... hey, it's unlimited for me

54. At this point in your life would you rather start a new career or relationship?
career

55. Pencil or pen?
pen

56. bueller??? bueller??? bueller???
anyone?

57. How many jobs have you had?

So many... from Children's party entertainer to Chevy truck sales...

58. Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
Entertainer, Philanthropist, Diva, wife and mother