i love....

pretzels!!! auntie anne's not yet here in the city :((

photo from wikipedia.com

whenever i'm in manila i always bring home auntie anne's with me...but cold pretzels are not that yummy anymore..

is there anybody who would love to bring the franchise here?  please please please...

photo from auntie anne's.com

now i wanted to eat pretzels!! aaahhhh

what's your fooda love now?

sayang the effort...

having been a government employee for a number of years....i know who works from the heart and who follows the 'sulsol' of advisers AND who is 'bobo na nagdudunong dunungan'!! makes me puke. aaaccckkkk!

we need a leader with a brilliant mind, and subordinates with more than brilliant minds too!! 

ano bah! ang mga bobo nyo!

given the chance, i would rather live and raise my kid outside the country, in a country with leaders who takes care of their people not the other way around...

'sayang ang edsa 1 at edsa 2'....@$*&!!?!!!

i better stop watching senate inquiries and press cons.

what i my eyes saw...

clear blue skies...lots of greens...

the colors of nature...wonderful..i love what my eyes saw.

the day i flew and slammed.

February 27, 1996. The day i thought would be my last day on earth. 

I was 17 years old, and the man whose picture appears below, was 16 years old. He was driving his father's car WITHOUT a driver's license, with his four friends with him inside the car. Recklessly smashed the trike i'm riding. i was seated behind and the impact of his father's car was in my side of seat.

Maybe you are wondering why am i writing about this, why am i posting his picture. three things:  

first, i am writing about this because after the accident, while suffering from trauma and  severe fear riding a trike again, i told myself that this city is so small, one day i will meet this asshole, although i don't exactly remember what my plan was after meeting him, but if my memory is right, i thought of slapping the guy. and guess what, last january i met this guy....and i did not slap him. he said 'sorry'..and i answered, 'okay lg'..and i turned around..walked away from him and his wife..yeah, i did. i walked away and never looked back.

second, i am about to enroll in driving school and i am scared as hell.

third, mr. no license, i wanted to share that you gave me a lot you know that?

1. every time i hear a tire screeechh my heart would stop beating and i feel like exploding...

2. riding a fast vehicle would give me cold, clammy hands...

3. every now and then i have nightmares of accidents and me slamming into a car...

4. after the accident, six months of no-trike...imagine the taxi fares..or my brother would fetch me..

5. my disfigured lower lip after the stitches inside and outside..

6. the back of my two legs were a bit hollow because of the palm-sized hematoma that never brought back the shape of my flawless legs..

but despite the negative stuff, your recklessness gave me things i never expected i would have...

a. i found myself in the schoolpaper after the accident and i graduated with a journalism award.

b. a waist i've been aiming for..after15 dextrose, and no food for two weeks i think, since i cannot open my mouth and eat...hah! instant waist!

c. the accident was my life's turning point. it gave me direction. at first i wanted to be a lawyer so that i can get back to you. but no, i didn't became a lawyer. but i became a well-rounded person who understood perfectly how people like you ended up irresponsible and reckless.

but with all honesty, you are forgiven already. i did many years ago, the wound in my heart just healed, my mind in some way forgot the date (because i've been sulking and staying inside the house every time feb. 27 comes)...

I never saw the day that what i thought would be my last day on earth is going to be just  an ordinary day. 

It's not what happened that day that matters now, it's what that day taught and made me as a person matters to me now.

Goodnight!

my mind..

got so many things in my mind right now...

1. BB still busted. i'm currently using a samsung phone and i'm having a hard time texting..been a QWERTY user for almost 6 years;

2. finding Australian Dollars in this city is kind of frustrating...i hope i get it all tomorrow. mabe needs it for the Australian Conservatoire of Ballet registration;

3. i have colds.

4. i have to learn how to drive by next month. great, how can i ever learn when i have this fear of speed and breaks..ahhh!

5. a friend of mine invited me to join an online job thing. i like the idea and i'm in the process of wrapping up my profile and stuff for me to get ready and start working as an online writer, rewriter, copyreader, etc.

6. and the last thing that bothers me, no, not really bother because this is what i really want my whole life....to take up interior design next schoolyear. i'm keeping my fingers crossed. wish me luck!!
 

so there you go, i spilled what i'm thinking...my mind's a crazy little place sometimes...

good day everyone!!

bb gone mad.

last december i slammed my blackberry in the wall...hmmm don't ask me why. right now my bb's like a popcorn machine. everytime i received a text or a call, bb seemed to explode from popping and sskkrrsstttt-ing. 

i don't know if local cellphone stores can fix my bb.

do you know anybody who can fix my blackberry?

on vampires and bookstores...

take a look at my october 8, 2008 entry from my republic memoir...(eewww) can't believe i sacrificed blogging because of twilight series.

i remember sue asked me around september 2008 if i have read the twilight series...i said no, i was so busy in republic that i couldn't find time for some paperbacks...she said her brother got the books from abroad august of 2008...that was around the last book of the series, breaking dawn, went out. since i love black, the cover of the book stuck in my mind easily...

october 4-6, 2008 came, that was the sisterhood with makati if my republic memory is still functioning...the moment we had dinner at glorietta, i sneaked out and visit my favorite bookstore, fullybooked...then lo and behold, the books i'm looking for were neatly stacked, nobody seemed interested in browsing. i bought the three available books in the series.. the third to the last book, eclipse, wasn't available. i think it was there way of keeping some excitement...how can you finish the series without the third book...so i'm sure they intended to make it available on the later part...when the public began to talk about the book, and when the movie began some early publicity...(cat theory only, ok?)

in manila, i started reading twilight. knowing that we had a whole day activity with makati city, still, i kept on reading until two in the morning. my roommate nesaleh, who grew up in the mountains of republic (haha) and hits the sack at eight in the evening, cannot bare the thought that i can stay awake and read until my eyes hurt..hehehe sorry nesah, i have to spill the beans that you're sleeping habit is so barrio-tic..

even tita edna or taed, as we fondly call her, my seatmate in the plane going back to bacolod was curious what book am i reading...taed had this fear in flying that i kept her company by narrating to her the edward-bella story since i'm half-way in reading the book...

i got the eclipse book at the national bookstore in bacolod...i had my name on waitlist... i was so persistent that i finally had the book in my hands..it was a loonggg story...hahaha

then after the twilight saga, i got hooked in more vampire stories. i discovered charlaine harris' sookie stackhouse series. seven books..some i got in national bookstore here in bacolod, then others in fullybooked in manila. the problem with national bookstore here is, whenever you  look  for not so popular books, you're going to have a hard time finding it in their shelves. but after i completed my sookie stackhouse series, trueblood (the hbo series based on the book) was out in cable tv, national bookstore laid all the books in their display table. sheeesh.

the 8th book came out later...my cousin aileen in australia sent me a downloaded from internet version, my eyes hurt reading from my computer screen and i cannot concentrate, so i kept on coming back to national bookstore until i found this.

oh, and after the sookie thing, there's the circle trilogy of nora roberts...i borrowed sue's paperback, but i haven't completed reading the other two books :((

photo from pbsstatic.com

now whenever i see kristen stewart's face in tv, i shut it off..i cannot bear to look at her face, her acting, the slouching posture, the tired and hungry face, everything about her. and robert pattinson?? ugh...shoot me when you see me lining up for the fourth movie. kill me!

enough of vampires. goodnight real people!!

can't think of a title right now.

Don't ever grow in anybody's shadow. 

You cannot grow in someone else's shadow. 

You find your own sunlight, and you get as big and as wonderful and as glorious as possible. 

And you share telling them " let's communicate, let's talk, let's let it happen". 

"but it doesn't happen in someone else's shadow. There you wilt, you forget who you are, you lose you, and when you have lost you, you've lost the most essential thing you have. The oak tree and the cypress do not grow in each other's shadow"-- Leo B.

from my tita binky's fb status...

the timing is so perfect. i don't want to elaborate. i want this blog to be a happy blog.

best find: messy bessy

ever encountered a smelly restaurant or a public bathroom you're about to use?

wait, i am not paid to write about this product. i only blog great and cheap products i stumbled upon while malling..sometimes through a friend, some i happen to see while browsing my favorite blogs, or stores i frequently visit...

this is Messy Bessy. a 3-in-1 germ busting cleaner. a hand sanitizer, a disinfectant, a surface cleaner. i got this from Beauty Bar for Php70.00. but sad to say, messy bessy comes in 50ml bottles only. 

so the next time somebody beside you smells uhhmm bad, just one spray of messy bessy, everybody happy. lol!

goodnight!

flowers...or no flowers.

you may not believe it but i am the kind of person who doesn't want flowers and chocolates on valentine's day or in any occasions. when i was single, i would run away from guys (as if, there's so many..hello) who would try to give me flowers. i don't understand...can somebody explain that? girls always love flowers, i don't.

i remember somebody gave me a box of roses on valentine's day (circa nevermind), so when i was about to leave the office i threw it in the trash. simple.

then one time my husband, (well he's not yet my husband then) picked a flower from a garden and gave it to me, then i threw it off the fence..he got angry hahaha.

am i a killjoy?

happy valentine's day everyone!! no flowers please!

s.o.u.e (series of unfortunate events)

the trip i had with sue last thursday was one of the scariest of all the travels i had in the past. i don't want to say that 'it seemed that the trip was cursed'...because it makes me scared more...

i cannot give you specific details of the trip, like the location and the reason of the trip, sorry, i  need to. don't ask. just read.

here's what sunrise looked like from sue's house...heavenly until we reached the tarmac at the  airport when the series of unfortunate events happened.

let's give it a code...like: Series Of Unfortunate Events (SOUE)

SOUE No. 1: forgot to leave something!! and that something is so important...that freakin' something was someone's fault... gets? no? okay lg. let's continue..

SOUE No. 2:  had to find a post office amidst the place we don't know about..plus the fact that i'm hungry already :((

after the second SOUE, time to check in..

the interior of the hotel was done by tessa prieto-valdez, i like it but not our (sue and i) kind of design. we're muji kind of people.

front desk lady...liked her hat!

sue had this thing about elevators...uhmmm she wanted to use the stairs, so i'm like 'whaaatt'!?

my breakfast plate..

sue's plate...

i looked up the ceiling again...

SOUE No. 3: time to go home...we reached the airport an hour and a half before boarding, so perfect right?...but it turned out far from perfection..our ticket was dated the next day..ugh!! what the...but thanks to the accommodating airline people, we made some arrangements, so we were able to book ourselves a seat. 

SOUE No. 4: how i wish our plane was a big as this, you know why? because that damn plane we took was the worst plane!! sue and i were holding our hands, praying, sue talking to me distracting my scared thoughts...i was never the panicky type but the flight was different, the weather was good, no typhoon, no rain even...and yet it was soooo bad. when the sudden turbulence shaked our plane, i said 'oh my, what's that?!!' (yeah, ingols..lol!)

SOUE No. 5: as we descend for landing, i already have a feeling that landing will be bad, so i was peeking at the window so i can have a view of the runway, because i want to breathe out when it touches the ground..that's my way of coping with bad landings. sue was talking to me and i can't just talk to her back because i knew landing's going to be bad..and it was more than bad..it was a painful landing...my heart was in my throat, the crepe i ate before the flight almost went out of my nose.

but despite the series of unfortunate events, we were able to accomplish our task, no question about it.

there's one more good thing that the trip gave us, it was the time we had..the bonding, the laughs, the tears...i'm glad to experience all that with you sue!!

good night!

i'm back!!

just arrived home.

the worst flight!!! i'm too tired and exhausted that i can't think anymore how to describe every single thing...but i promise to blog all about it tomorrow.

but first, guess which luggage is mine?

goodnight people.

attack of the egg kind..

i am still out of town right now...the cat is in a place where these egg people go crazy!! look at them, they are everywhere...

some are disguised as breads...

some appeared on the computer screen of the bread store where the bread talks! lol

what am i blogging? 

crazy day.

goodnight everyone!!

the park.

pana-ad park and stadium is the venue of the battle between the Philippine Azkals and the Mongolian Blue Wolves, tomorrow, February 9, 2011.

but first, i am not blogging about the game. i am no football crazy woman...my husband is, but he's not here in the country so he can't watch.

i live near pana-ad park, that is.

here are some of the photos of what pana-ad park looks like on ordinary days...

sunset is lovely in the woods beside the park...

that's it. goodnight people! goodluck azkals!

love love love

guys, i know you're leaving on wednesday..i will post my farewell blog now because tomorrow night i might not be able to post anything...i have to pack my bags too, and my flight is at 8:20am so there's no chance of meeting you at the airport, your flight is earlier than mine.  

funny, tomorrow we still have some things to finish together...

i did enjoy your company sheba and owen! 

have a safe trip!

iamtired.com

i am tired...but not really that tired tired, maybe i'm just exhausted.

but it's okay, i'll just have to think of something to perk me up. food? nah, believe it or not, i can't think of any food right now. 

then, i saw what i did with my gloss the other night...

crazy right. 

though it's not much and expensivo but i have simple joys in lip gloss and lib balms...which reminds me to buy bloom lip gloss in _____ on wednesday. i will leave it blank for now because i can't tell where i'm going yet.

have a lot of things in mind to blog about but the cat is too lowbat (haha), so that's all for now...

goodnight everyone!

i want!!

i want to grab a copy of this!! because:

i am a chuvaness army. i love wearing heather miss grey. i am a 90's kid. i love grunge. i love black. i love purple. i am not pretty. i am just your little big weirdo. 

:)