Some of my officemates are infected with my Anderlove virus!

I mentioned the word 'pag-ibig' (love) yesterday and they actually thought I was talking about Anderson, when in fact, I was talking about my loan in Pag-Ibig fund. So, I half jokingly told them that I will make a memo in the office, forbidding everyone not to go on a halfday's work in the office instead they should go Andertime, I love mentioning Anderson anywhere and I do mention him any chance I get. Some of them are actually waiting for my next blog entry to just to get their daily anderfix. Or just to be updated on what's happening to my anderlovelife.

I LEFT THE OFFICE A LITTLE EARLIER THAN USUAL LAST MONDAY. Why? Well, hurricane Wilma was about to make a landfall in Florida at around 7:30 in the morning (ET), my TV boyfriend was in Marco Island risking his life and I felt like the least thing that I can do is to watch him, to show support. We have cable TV in the office but it just didn't feel right. So I decided to go home instead.

I was supposed to meet my Korean student on the same night but I had to cancel. We weren't able to meet last Saturday because my niece was confined (again) at the Manila Doctor's Hospital. We re-scheduled for Sunday night but I had to cancel (again) because I was expecting Wilma to make a landfall, but she didn't. What a mess Anderson made! my life nowadays is scheduled around hurricanes! (charing!!!)

I cancelled my Monday night sked with Gee (the Korean girl) on that same night because I cannot let Wilma make a landfall without me! I made my husband & kids go somewhere, I think they ended up having dinner at Jollibee. I cannot have distractions, I gotta concentrate, I hope he doesn't get blown away! Everything turned out as I planned, I was alone in the room...waiting for my Anderson.

Chad Myers was great, he somehow took over as 'anchor' for the whole day and night, and when he called Anderson to report, I held my breathe........for a very long time....

ANDERSON WAS WITH JOHN ZARELLA!!! What the #*@! What was he doing with John? It's not like Andy needed any help, Wilma was only a cat3 hurricane! He survived Katrina, he rode out Rita, he's been handling hurricanes like a pro, why are they together? I have nothing against John, I know that Miami is his territory, I also know that he "anchored" Anderson when hurricane Dennis hit Florida a few years ago and I also know that he's a big man, anything goes wrong, he could easily save Anderson. BUT, I don't like my Andy near John!

Anyway, I watched them together for a few minutes until I couldn't take it anymore, I called up Frauline and told her that I'll be tutoring Gee, after all. Walk-out talaga ako! And to think na hindi ako selosa sa totoong buhay, ha!

How can you not love them?

I find it so hard to talk to my daughter these days, and she's only 6 years old! Everytime she says something, I need to decode it. About a year ago, when she was starting to learn how to spell words, a typical conversation in our house would be like this:

Gillian: Nanay, can we have H-O-T-D-O-G for B-R-E-K-F-A-S-T?
Me: Sure, anak. Pero B-R-E-A-K-F-A-S-T yun.

Gillian: Nanay, sabi ni T-E-A-C-H-E-R bring daw kami ng M-A-N-I-L-A P-A-P-E-R sa S-C-H-O-O-L T-O-M-O-R-R-O-W.
Me: Sige, pero sleep ka na.
Gillian: O-K-A-Y.

Now that she's in grade one, she's taking it a notch higher, she's now talking backwards. She now talks like this:

Gillian: Nanay, gagawa daw kami ng glaf sa school para sa margorp next keew.
Me: What!?

Gillian: Sakal naman ng nalu!
Me: Ano!

Gillian: Yannan, where's the etomer?
Me: Ano daw? Tony, kausapin mo nga anak mo!

How can you not enjoy motherhood? I only wish somebody told me that things like this will happen. I wonder what she's gonna do next year?

And about my Balong, well, he's not too crazy about school, he lives for the weekend, may pinagmanahan. I'm a little worried about him, though. He looks normal but I think something is wrong with him. I suspect he is dyslexic, how else can you explain his disability to write? Baka nahihirapan yun bata? It's okay, I told myself. A lot of successful people are dyslexic, it shouldn't be too much of a problem naman siguro. Tom Cruise is dyslexic, i-compare talaga kay Tom, of all people. Even Anderson Cooper had a mild form of dyslexia. But then again, I can be too paranoid sometimes. OA lang siguro ako. He can write his name but he doesn't write like Gillian. My friends keep telling me not to compare him to Gillian, but I can't help it.

All he does is draw, he loves drawing and coloring. And he loves me, I'm still the only girl in his life and I so enjoy it. Although, just last week, he told me something that still brings smile to my face everytime I am reminded of it, he said "Nanay, mahal ko na sya, ok lang?" referring to Kitchie Nadal, we were watching her "Same Ground" video at the time. "Yes anak, it's ok," I told him. I'm not worried, I'm sure he'll get over her. I don't really think Kitchie is a competition, I am my son's only girl, or at least for now.

Feeling a little restless here... Wilma is about to make a landfall in Florida by daybreak and I'm stuck in the office! Gosh! can't wait to go home and watch CNN... this is like torture! gotta get outta here! Gotta find me a TV with cable connection!

I wonder where Anderson is? I hope he finds a safe place, I hope he doesn't get blown away or something. *sigh*

Another hurricane is threatening to hit the US. It is about to make a landfall in Florida this weekend. I'm a bit thrilled.

I'm not thrilled about the hurricane hitting Florida, I hope nobody gets hurt and be stupid enough to think that they can ride the storm. See, I'm a good person, I think about the safety of the people who will be Wilma's path. And then I think about my Anderlove, will he be there to cover Wilma? I don't wish for hurricanes to happen but if they (USA) have to have a hurricane I do wish Andy will be there to cover it. My weekend will probably be (mis)spent again, glued to the TV all day and night. Waiting for some andersightings. hahaha!!!

JUST BE CAREFUL, ANDY!

It's been 9 days since the 7.6 eartquake hit Pakistan and still no sign of Anderson going there. I've been waiting since last week for him to appear in Balakot or in Kashmir, be it Indian-controlled or Pakistan-controlled, I don't care!

Anderson in Asia means more Anderson exposure in CNNI and more Anderson in CNNI means more Anderson exposure for me!!! All for me!

Had an accident last Wednesday, I fell two steps down the stairs...thought I broke a bone or something but luckily it's just some minor sprain. But I couldn't walk just the same.

I had to take a few days leave from the office, I hated the thought for a moment but I took it as an opportunity to cleanse my system from my ander-addiction. From the moment I turn on my Mac till I turn it off, it's Anderson Cooper all day! I'ts like an addiction, I couldn't stop even if I wanted to.

Since I was at home, I was ander-deprived for 4 days and I think it helped me in my rehabilitation. I can't do anything Anderson related at home because my daughter doesn't like him at all.

My officemate (fellow internet addict) and I swore that we would change starting Monday (which happens to be today). We made an agreement that we would turn off our computers 5 minutes earlier so as not to be tempted to overstay in the office.

If you have these symptoms, you are, more than likely, an addict like us:

• You stay in the office more than you should. All your officemates have gone home and you're still stuck in the office browsing the net.
• You'd rather "talk" with your friends online than in person.
• Once in front of the monitor, you no longer talk.
• You don't talk to your officemates anymore but you email them with forwarded messages.
• You'd rather blog your thoughts than actually telling it to people you know.
• You used to love weekends, Saturday and Sunday used to be your favourite days of the week, now it feels more of a torture – not spending 8 hours or more in front of the computer.
• Mondays used to be a drag but now you just can't wait to get your butt in the office.

If you suffer these symptoms, feel free to contact us...we actually have our own support groups to help you through it. It's a long and bumpy road ahead, we can help you. We're online every weekdays.

Well, I'm still obsessed and head-over-heels-in-love with Anderson Cooper! Nothing new, right? But, actually, there is one thing new right now, i'm obsessing over something else – anderrelated still, I'm afraid. I am now thinking of ways to go to New York! I really feel that I must do this, I need to see him in person, I need to be near him, that is if I gather enough courage to walk up to him and say hello, and if don't faint first at the sight of him.

Here are my surefire lists, I'm sure one these plans will eventually land my ass in NYC!


1. Apply for a job in CNN. I read somewhere that CNN New York is looking for a freelance graphic artist with heavy Mac skills. Hello... it's me they're looking for. I've only been using the Mac for the last 10 years or so. I knew it, I am destined to be in New York!

2. I am tutoring a very sweet Korean girl from International School, she was looking for a "teacher" to guide her on her school projects. I really didn't want to accept the job at first because I'm not sure if I could still do freehand drawing but she was really sweet...and she told me that she wants to be a fashion designer and she plans to study in New York next year.
So here's the plan, I'm gonna make her completely dependent on me, I'm gonna be extra caring and loving even. I'm gonna be a caring tutor. So when she goes to NYC, she'll have to take me with her. Poor girl, she's gonna be all by her lonesome, there's no way she could survive without me. She's gonna be like George – totally lost when he's not around Lucy in "Two Weeks Notice." I won't mind being a nanny as long as I'm in NYC.
3. I'm gonna quit my job and go study again. I'll take up Nursing.

4. I'll write Oprah a letter – I watch her shows regularly, she grants wishes all the time even your "Wildest Dreams." I will tell her my undying love for Cooper and I'll tell her that all I want is to see him, just see him but if she could make Cooper talk to me, I'm not complaining. I'm sure she's gonna fall for it, after all, I'm not making this up. I really am in love with Cooper. *giggle* *faint*

Wish me luck!!!

So, ok, I do realize that I'm a grown woman, I shouldn't be drooling over the TV so much everytime I see Anderson Cooper but I just can't help it. He's too cute for words. Even when he's sleeping.....yay! Don't you just want to snuggle next to him! *giggle*


Poor Andy, must be really, really exhausted. But I'm sure glad he's in a different shirt color, not that I'm complaining, I looooove him in blue shirts, all shades of it.

I first saw Anderson Cooper last January (shame, shame... where have I been hiding all these years?) I didn’t catch his name then, he was in Sri Lanka covering the South East Asian Tsunami. From the moment he talked, I couldn’t change the channel, I was glued.

He is so different, not a typical anchor/reporter, sometimes he talks too fast and he also stutters a lot. His reports and views are very heartfelt and personal. Maybe because he writes his own reports. Or maybe because he's seen his own share of tragedies in his life so he knows how to relate to them.Not just a talking head I guarantee, he reports with his heart on his sleeves, really!

And then I never saw him again...I even forgot all about him until last August... eversince the tsunami hit our neighboring countries I’ve become some sort of a news junkie, switching the channels from CNN, BBC to Channel News Asia like some crazy-mental person. And after 7 months of channel surfing... one saturday morning, there he was again on CNN! the prematurely grey-haired, blue-eyed, pale, skinny and insanely gorgeous anchor/reporter that I’ve gone completely silly for!

He was in Maradi, Niger in a makeshift hospital where children are literally starving and dying in plain sight. He really felt badly when the 2 of the 3 kids in the hospital that he visited died because of severe malnutrition...he was upset because these children will soon be forgotten, no one will ever know that they existed except for their parents. In time, their parents may no longer remember their faces, they may no longer remember how they laugh or smell like...only their names will remain.

I love watching his news program, because of his very different approach in reporting and I especially love his Reporter’s Notebook segments, this is where he expresses all his emotions. And his writings – almost poetic. And the best one he did so far is “The Trouble I’ve Seen.” This piece is very poignant and in a way showed how much he respected and loved his father.

When hurricane katrina hit some part of the gulf coast in the US, I was glued on CNN because I know Anderson will be there, I know this for a fact because he’s been reporting on every hurricane that hit the US eversince he joined CNN (I think). He must have a hurricane fetish or something. True enough, he was in Baton Rouge that day, CNNI hooked up with CNN US and I was watching my Anderson live!!! wahooo!!! Don’t get me wrong, my heart goes out to all the victims of Katrina, I don’t wish anybody or any place any harm but when it does, I’d be watching it on CNN with the hope of seeing my Anderson, of course. Katrina’s aftermath was so severe and so unbelievable, and to say that they were all shocked and stunned by what katrina did to the historic New Orleans is not an overstatement. I couldn’t help but thank God we don’t have hurricanes and tornadoes here in our country. Had katrina hit us, i’m sure it will take us forever to recover. Even America, a country of great resources and power was paralyzed for days before they got it together.

And when Andy lashed out on some senator for not answering questions that needed to be answered and thanking fellow politicians when she should be doing something to help the victims,(our politicians are not so different naman pala) man! I didn’t really think that I could love him more that I already do!!! I didn’t think it was possible. On that episode, he choked-up about 10 times before he finally looked to his side and cried as he signalled the camera to look away or something. Everyone who watched that episode was shocked, and gone crazy over him, I’m sure. How could you not love the guy! He’s sensitive, intelligent (he was "JEOPARDY!" champion, by the way) and all human.

With Andy around,watching the news suddenly became more interesting and meaningful ;) hahaha!!!