Promoted!

I got promoted! :)

Rising ranks to a new title - Creative Director. Together with the Programming Director and the Sales Director, we now stand as Wave 89.1's Station Manager. The three of us will be reporting directly to our General Manager, Joe D'Mango. It's a big leap for me, and a huge responsibility as well. I have so many plans in mind already, and I never really thought I'd find it thrilling. Well, it is. And the salary jump is exciting too. :) I just hope I won't disappoint.

Say cheese!

Look what my beau got for me!

A brand new Canon Ixus digicam. Yey! :) I've always wanted to buy a cam, so I could easily take pictures anytime, anywhere for my blog. And my honey made my wish come true!

Thanks baby! Now I'm ready to snap and click away! Yey! I've actually taken a couple of pictures already but I haven't had the time to transfer them to my PC. So I'll feature them next time. :)

I believe in love...

It surprises me why people who married on the rebound, and after a couple of years end up fighting and wanting out, try to put the blame on something else. It's the husband's fault, the wife's, the kids...

Why'd you get married in the first place? Because you were broken hearted and you said "yes" to this "convenient" guy without thinking twice...without thinking at all.

I believe that if you marry for the wrong reasons, you'll end up making the annulment lawyers richer. Either that, or you'll be stuck in a bottomless pit feeling so very unhappy.

I want to believe that love is real, that happy-ever-after tales do happen. If only everyone would listen to Diana Ross - you can't hurry love, you just have to wait. Why tie the knot in a rush when you'd want to be untied afterwards? Why not wait and be really, really sure before jumping in? Better safe than sorry.

I have a friend in talks with an annulment lawyer. After 18 years, she wants out. Married for the wrong reasons. She believes in love, too. And I know it's not too late for her. Or anyone for that matter. She's bound to find Mr. Right (the right Mr. Right this time), fall head-over-heels in love, walk down the aisle a blushing, happy bride, and after many many years hold hands with the same Mr. Right, toothless and wrinkled but still in-love.

It can happen. It HAS happened to some. The first step: MARRY FOR LOVE, NOT FOR ANYTHING ELSE. That's non-negotiable.

Sigh...

Been so busy the past few weeks. My dubbing projects have all started. Two at Roadrunner and two more at Twenty Plus. It's a blessing, and one should never complain. But I must admit that it can get exhausting. Driving to and from Makati almost everyday...what a feat.

But I love my job. I don't consider it a sideline anymore. It's my work. It's my career. I enjoy the acting, the drama. I enjoy being the star, the bida, even if it's just my voice they're hearing.

I've been thinking of resigning from radio and concentrating hundred percent on dubbing. It's going to be a big jump, a great risk. I also love radio. But I find more fulfillment in being a voice talent, a dubber. Maybe because in dubbing, I feel important. I play a big role. I'm needed.

I don't know...

So I just sigh...and let things be for a while.

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I miss a lot of things lately...

Free time.
Nights-out with Pam.
Hours of talk and good food with my besty.
Holding hands with my man.

To compensate...

I shop!

Thanks Bets! :)

Look what my sister Adie's friend BETTY made for the D&G!



Rye and I LOVE it! Thanks Betty! Kudos to you Angelina Betty Jolie! hehehe :)

Top 5 Reads!

One of the resolutions I've so diligently kept this year is to read more books. My fave shop: A Different Bookstore. Powerbooks is OK, but if you really want to trim down the shelves to the really good titles, A Different Bookstore is the perfect place to go.

Five wonderful reads you might want to check out...


THE SHIP OF BRIDES, Jojo Moyes
A glimpse at the lives, adventures and the drama of WWII war brides, shipped from Australia to England. Beautifully written. Each varying emotion captured without being oversentimental. Love this one!


CAUSE CELEB, Helen Fielding
From the writer of Bridget Jones' Diary. You might find the first couple of chapters uneventful. But the plot elevates towards the end, and you'll find yourself teary-eyed, or maybe overwhelmed with emotion if you're a softie. Starvation and death in Africa is the main setting, and you'll be amazed at how fame and celebrities can actually save the day.


ANGRY HOUSEWIVES EATING BON BONS, Lorna Landvik
I love this book! The story is so REAL. The title states the plot quite clearly. Angry housewives. Different lives, different domestic dilemmas, bound together by their incredible friendship and their book club. Light without being too chick.


SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN, Lisa See
The extraordinary friendship of two laotongs, their adventures as they grow up and the lessons they learn along the way, is what this novel is all about. Very beautifully written. Like me, you might find the story incredibly sad. But the plot is magnificent. Don't be deceived by the seriousness of the cover. You'll have a hard time putting this down.


THE MAKEUP GIRL, Andrea Semple
If chick lit is your thing, then this book is a must-grab. Light, funny, exciting and fun! You'll love the Makeup Girl and her everyday adventures in the city she lives in and the world she has spun for her mother's good graces. Nakakakilig! You'll love the ending. It's definitely feel-good.

D&G Rules! Hurrah!

Hear ye, hear ye!

The AC Nielsen 2nd Quarter 2006 Car Survey says...

D&G Rules!


The Drive & Grind with Anne & Rye is the highest-rating show over Wave 89.1

In behalf of my partner (and Simon, hehehe) THANK YOU, dear listeners, for making the D&G your favorite afternoon staple.

On top...yet again!

In the recently concluded AC Nielsen 2nd Quarter 2006 Car Survey, Wave 89.1 reigns again! Monday to Sunday, 5:30AM to 12MN, the metro's most influential radio station soars high, topping the charts, and leaving the other upscale frequencies eating our dust.

From the bottom of our hearts...THANK YOU dear listeners!

Wave 89.1 is #1...
on-air...
on the road.

I am loved!

On our monthsary yesterday, my beau surprised me with a beautiful bouquet of flowers sent to my office. We celebrated 6 years and 4 months of loving and togetherness. I have never received delivered flowers before, and you can just imagine the surprised look on my face when the delivery boy announced it was for me. Mababaw for others, but I was ecstatic. I was enveloped by that warm feeling you get when you know you are truly loved.

Happy 6 years and 4 months baby boy! Thank you for loving everything about me - even my crazy impossible side. Mahal na mahal kita!

XOXOxxOXxoxOo! :)

On love...

Have you seen Sense & Sensibility, the film adaptation of one of Jane Austen's works, that starred Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman? Wonderful movie. I don't know, but there's something about these films or stories that I just love. I get lost in it. Absorbed. Moved. Like I'm part of it, and I feel every emotion. Maybe in my past life I was an Elinor Dashwood.

Or Elizabeth Bennet in Pride & Prejudice.

Maybe I once lived in the romantic olden days, when men knelt down when they proposed, read poetry and spoke so beautifully. The old world where women dreamt of true love and passion, and men stammered with emotion when professing their love.

Yes, I am a hopeless romantic. Blame it on authors like Jane Austen. They keep the memories of of a kind of romance long forgotten alive in the hearts of few dreamers like me, who still imagine rainbows and Shakespeare and being swept off one's feet. Aah.. glorious love. If only it still existed in our time. The future has changed the face of romance. No more dashing debonaire on horseback. Or gentleman so besotted he cannot speak straight or dace touch a girl's hand for fear of rejection. No kissing, only curtsies and staring passionately into each other's eyes.

You cannot imagine the pleasure your presence has brought upon me has long been replaced with phrases bolder but far less romantic. Love is so different now. It has changed with the times, evolved into something shinier, slicker, compact, quick, uncomplicated and more daring - but in the process has lost all its elegance. You can just imagine how things - relationships - will be years or generations from now. One simply cannot bear to imagine.

But, for as long as the stories of Jane Austen exist and are remembered, the glory that was once Love shall live on - yes, in the hearts of few dreamers like me.