When it rains, it pours

Monday, June 26
7:00AM - arrive in Manila from Baguio
9:00 - Arrive at the office. I'm late!
There's supposed to be a meeting in the morning but no confirmed time so I don't attend.

4:00PM - there's a plenary session but we did not attend because we're having problems with our event on Wednesday.
5:00 - release the news to sales about the Wednesday event changes
5:30 - get called to the Principal's Office to explain what happened.
6:30 - haul office things to pad for ingress
9:00 - sleep with slight fever.

Tuesday, June 27
4:00AM - wake up groggily
5:00 - ingress at hotel for event with Pauline
6:30 - go back to apartment to haul things to pad
8:00 - take a ride back to pad; couldn't help but take a nap at the apartment
9:00 - Pauline informs me that she's the only one at the booth; I rush to get changed
9:30 - in the hotel at last
11:45 - writing this post at the booth via 3G. Nice.

2:00PM - Return to office to prepare things for tomorrow's event.
2:00PM onwards - who knows what will happen next?

Wednesday, June 28
Morning: who knows what will happen next?
Afternoon: The much-anticipated event ingress
5:00PM - start to meet and greet guests
7:15PM - finally relax. I wish.

Thursday, June 29
8:00AM - another event until 12 Noon!
2:00PM - Pauline goes to another event.

Friday - sleep day. I WISH.

Jo-Lo's First Birthday!

Oh wow. I'm having a most hectic week in Manila. Our company is a sponsor to the Call Center Conference happening at Edsa Shangri-La. We had our ingress last Monday, from 8PM til 6AM! I only had a half hour sleep, slouched on one of the chairs in our booth. Then I had to man the booth for Tuesday and Wednesday (along with some help from colleagues who drop by, and with Pauline of course) and go back and forth the office and the trade show floor for some needed items. But of course, you also have to always show a smiling face and alertly entertain guests. Ah well ... one of the "perks" being in Marketing I guess.

Enough about that. I'm here to share with you some photos of last weekend's big event: Jo-Lo's first birthday! I'm selecting some photos for this blog, then feel free to follow the link after this post to visit other blogs for more photos!

Jo-Lo had clowns and superhero-themed cake on his birthday! The clowns performed tricks and the kids had games as well.
Friends from Manila took time out from their busy schedules to celebrate the day with us.

Some of the grown-ups participated in a relay game.
Nearing the end of the party, the kids lined up to claim their goody bags.
Ummm... okay, so the "bigger kids" got into the act as well. :-)
Guests wrote their greetings on the birthday banner before leaving. Thanks again everyone!

View more photos at baby Jo-Lo's Blog!

Happy First Birthday, Jo-Lo!

Jo-Lo's celebrating his first birthday in Baguio City this coming Sunday! Yipee!