The Bear Bitch’s Project

From the one and only Filipino Polar Bear

No matter how good your pick-up line is, if you follow it up with a "funny" anecdote about getting arrested when you were 16, you will definitely not endear yourself to me.
And if you try to encourage me out of my reticence and share an anecdote with you by saying "we should open up to each other", you will officially be classified under ‘Creepy’.
And to top it all off by breathing on my face; you will definitely be avoided at all costs, MBA or otherwise.

Where, oh where, have all the decent guys gone?

Speaking of introductions, Noee introduced me to a yummy, yummy drink, Midori Sour. I liked it so much, it may actually replace Baileys as my favorite alcoholic drink. As Rachel Ray says, Its "yum-o!"

1. Caviar:  Iranian, Russian, Californian, Kalles, etc.

As long as its caviar, I love it; especially straight out of the jar with a spoon.

2. The now defunct 103.5 K-Lite. It was the bestest radio station ever. I miss it dreadfully.

3. Adolphe-William Bouguereau’s paintings. They’re simply beautiful!

4. A good bargain. But what shopaholic doesn’t love a sweet deal? I also adore discount cards and frequent shopper cards.

5. Coloured pens & pretty notebooks. Don’t ask me why. I just do.

6. Black nailpolish: It looks wicked hot on me, if I do say so myself

7. Dark/Bitter Chocolate: The darker, the better.

I also love chocolate scented bath products. They’re deelish - but not as much as eating the real stuff. A smooth 70% is worth its weight in gold in my book.

8. Big words and Grammar rules: They’re fun and they make me sound smart. I love how words like "thrasonical" and "acrimonious" roll off the tongue.

9. Getting letters and cards in the mail: they give me a warm, fuzzy feeling.

10. Poetry (including poetic song lyrics). "O lift me from the grass, I die, I faint, I fail. Let thy love in kisses rain on my lips and eyelids pale." and "Try to catch a deluge in a paper cup." Just a few words can make your soul soar and your mind wander. What’s not to love?

11. A male Celtic accent: whether the voice is singing or talking, I can listen to it for hours - with a silly smile on my face. Something about guys with Celtic accents just make me swoon. Check out the Artemis Fowl audio books!

12. "Data" My MacBook & "Geordi" My iPod: I can’t imagine life without
them!

13.  Black and baby pink. Its my new favorite color  combination. Its girly and goth at the same time.

14. HOME: Makati/Manila/the Philippines. There is absolutely no place like home.
 

Want instant fame?
Sure you do.
Everyone who has ever gone to high school has wanted to be popular.
So what do you do?
Get yourself a goddamn system bug that will e-mail your name and contact information to the entire Stanford University!
One minute I’m minding my own beeswax and being the model employee that I am (Hey. My supervisor is the one who called me that. Sure he may have been sarcastic, but he called me "model employee" all the same!) and the next thing I know I have 182 new messages in my e-mail inbox and my phone is ringing off the hook! Practically every single Stanford employee  with an e-mail address who works past 3:30 either called or e-mailed me (or had their secretary call or e-mail me) to ask why they received a message from the Remedy system telling them to contact me if they had any questions about some random case they know nothing about.
By 4pm I had an e-mail auto-responder in place to say "if you’re e-mailing me about a message you got from Remedy, ignore it. Its a system bug and IT is working on it." I also programed my phone to go directly to voicemail with a similar message: if you’re calling about an e-mail you received, its a bug - ignore it. If you’re really calling for me (which is not likely since no one ever calls me these days), then go ahead an leave a message. I’ll call you back once I’m done throttling the Remedy programmers.

I can’t imagine how many more e-mails and voice messages I’ll have tomorrow morning from the people who had already gone home when the message was sent.

On the bright side, it was a good way to meet new people. Most people were very sympathetic when they heard what happened. And now the entire Stanford knows my -full- name (take note, Remedy broadcasted "Kristine Laurel DeCastro) and contact information. - I arguably have one of the most popular (though not necessarily in a good way) names in the entire 94305 zip code.

Who needs Hollywood when a system bug can give you fame in an instant?