interesting tidbits

interesting names and lines from past two days:
Bocateja - surname of the lady in Cebu that I've been having nightmares about the past two months. she holds my future in her hands. She is the all-powerful being who's processing my delayed registration of birth and who I've texted and called practically every week since start of the year..
Frauke - now that is a very unusual name. Name of the Swedish lady Anton and I met with yesterday morning who works with New York Times. Now why does she merit space in my blog? Only because she has a very strange name (to me). It's pronounced frock -- like, you know, that other word without the r but pronounced with a british accent, followed by 'yeew' instead of you. tee hee. I couldn't for the life of me say her name during the meeting, me and my prudish ways, was so scared it might come out sounding like the other word. ANYWAY, this lady was tall like me, slim like me (naks!), blonde straight shoulder length hair, yes very blonde, pretty, pero siyempre hindi kasing ganda ko!! Tinagalog ko yon dahil baka blogger siya. Alam mo naman itong mga taga NY, mga high tech yang mga yan..lahing nasa internet. kahit matanda na, baka nagbabasa pa ng blog.
"Put the bunny back in the box". -- For some reason, Corinne, May Anne and I had a hey day (that spelled correctly?) mimicking Nicolas Cage during that famous scene in Con Air. But we pronounced it differently...you know..the way non-urban folk would pronounce it. Poot instead of put, bah-neeee instead of bunny, bax instead of box. Or change all the b's to v's and the p to f. We had all sorts of variations and we were in stitches the whole time...so what else is new in our office, we are just way too mababaw. shallow humor. And finally...
"How do I look?" -- story goes Ate Vi was taping that eksena for a hair or was it beauty product commercial and she could not get the right pronunciation for 'look'. There were many many MANY takes... luk, looooook, leuk, and of course we tried saying all those different variations and as a result, all work ceased again for a good 15 minutes as we just needed the time to laugh. Sorry, SSI, that went out of your payroll. 15 managerial minutes.
So...my schedule next two days (in case I don't get to blog) -
This morning... am off to a meeting with our president at...the Coconut Palace!! Love that name, unusual name for an events place. It sounds like the kingdom of the apes. Anyway, the meeting is about the forthcoming Italian Festival where we are supposed to assist the Italian ambassador to put together an entire evening of festivities...complete with fashion show featuring our Italian brands, i.e. Furla, S.Ferragamo, Diesel and the like. So we're meeting with the ambassador's wife. Incidentally there is a funny incident from last year's festival. We have code named somebody McJim, but then again the story is for another time for another journal.
Tonight at 6pm - Attending the cocktails and 7-course dinner hosted by Hotel Sofitel. This is their grand grand GRAND celebration to inaugurate their new hotel since the Sofitel group took over. Cielo says it's a must-attend affair...she says there are fireworks and surprise entertainment numbers, and that everything is just going to be so lavish. So....I shall attend. Will wear my old black chiffon pantsuit thing..the one that looks like a cat suit with flowing stuff on top..kinda plunging neckline but that's ok coz I gained 15 pounds already and my front doesn't look like my back anymore. gold evening bag. very nice neckpiece given to me by Eliza. my hair I shall fix myself..I kinda like the way Julia Roberts fixed her 3 years ago during the Academy Awards...you know, pulled back, but kinda poof-like on the top back, like the sixties. Wow, 3 years ago, and it made an impression on me! So all I have to do is tease my hair at the back, pony tail it, hair spray, and then voila...the 'Julia look' i hope.
Tomorrow evening, photo exhibit of dear sweet Alex Van Hagen, and I promised him I wouldn't miss it for the world. I'll be going with my entire team...he was sweet enough to call and text each of us...