Beach bunny

no, it's not an early vacation (HA! i wish!). beach as in SOUTH BEACH, as in majorly hyped up diet du jour. yes i bought the hype. yes i'm on it (it's my second week). and yes it's working. people whom i only see once a week will back me up on this. (bawal sumagot ate ko! hahaha!) chrissie ongie told me yesterday that there has been a noticeable effect on my face. and of course aui, my diet partner and food supplier noticed too. (i found myself looking up salad recipes on the internet and wondered briefly if i was turning into a slightly tech-savvier aui.) better than that though, i now fit into clothes that i used to wear before i started dating marlon (before the weekly crab dinners, for-no-occasion-at-all gifts of dark chocolate, pugon pandesal, fraps, di rigeur dessert, yadda yadda yadda. you get the picture). the weight lost so far should be about 6 pounds--i don't know, i don't weigh myself everyday like some anorexic ninny. marlon's on the diet too, and we plan to shock each other when he comes home for my birthday. then we'll go and pig out on some sinfully chocolatey birthday cake. mwehehe. i won't bore you with the finer details of the 3-phase diet, but suffice it to say that: 1. i am never hungry. 2. this is more fun than i expected. although i had a slight identity crisis while carefully considering the merits of kraft part-skim mozzarella vs. bega super-light slices. "is this really me?" 3. if i can afford to do groceries like i do them now, i could seriously consider eating like this forever. of course you're supposed to gradually reintroduce fat/sugar into your diet after 2 weeks, so my eating habits won't be as strict as they are now. 4. eating out on the diet is surprisingly easy. i went to bizu, of the truffles and to-die-for mini chocolate cakes and sublime desserts, with jonathan and bea saturday night. i ordered A SALAD. AND I LIKED IT. i am cured! (bizu does make a really good hot mushroom salad by the way, with yummy giant portabella mushrooms. try it if you can tear yourself away from the desserts.) 5. i actually like salads. i had one today with tuna, olives, feta cheese, iceberg and green coral lettuce with italian pesto dressing. yum yum.

ok

so that is that. don't want to turn into a diet bore. you'll just hear about this again when i am sufficiently ecstatic about my weight.

in other news, there is a total hottie young lawyer in our building (eep! sorry marlon!). he looks suspiciously atenean (i.e. familiar), but i can't place him. he goes to the siguion reyna, ongsiako and montecillo law office on the 4th to 6th floors. (funny, whenever i see that name flash on the elevator LCD, i keep thinking of lots of irate armida siguion reynas in power suits. scaryyyy.) his cuteness may very well be due to the bango factor of lawyers' white linen polo barongs.

anyway, i've been in the elevator with him a couple times, and i seem to be powerless to do anything else except let more of my feet peek out from under my jeans. ganyan nga siguro kapag may boyfriend ka.

wonder how he liked my gold ballet flats from ukay-ukay.