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Dear Google:

The  above message was bugging me for nearly a month now. I cannot upload my photos. It says that I have to UPGRADE, which means I have to pay so I can have a 5GB storage.  

FML.

I have a lot in my head right now. This additional paid storage is the least of all the problems that I have to deal with. Wrong timing dude. Please. Please. Please. All I want is to post my photos and pour my freaking thoughts out.

Love,

Me, who's now holding self from untoward breakdown due to absence of photos which inspires me and helps me express when blogging at this lowest moment of my life.

Newborn Calorie Counting Freak

I woke up last Wednesday morning, headed straight to the gym, and enrolled myself. After an hour of sweat, I went out and felt sooo good.

The next morning, I cannot get off from bed. (no laughing okay)

It's been days since the first painful day of working out. Right now, I am turning into a calorie counting freak. 

Goodluck to me.

hello

Cyber and Real. I'm back.

Yes. I am still here, living my life in the real world. It's been a real crazy busy week. JITB left the country last Friday. Mabe and I were trying to get back to our normal routine for a week now. 

A lot of things to do like Mabe going back to ballet, she's four weeks behind class trying to keep up. All of her ballet classmates are into pointe shoes class now but Mabe's too young to start the lesson yet. She just turned nine and ideal age for pointe shoes is 10 or 11 years old.

A friend of ours passed away last Friday night due to complications of his illness and was laid to rest Tuesday. His daughter is a good friend of Mabe. Helping his wife in little things like seeing the kid have lunch as she does other errands and stuff was the least we could do. 

 

My internet broke down. Apparently the power adaptor conked out and left us disconnected in the cyberworld. It's like a major meltdown in our house. Lol! I was able to be online in Twitter because of my Blackberry and Globe connection which was not enough because how about Instagram, Viber, Mabe's watching her cartoon series in Youtube, emails, blogs I have to read! haha.

Without internet made me a tv series freak. JITB downloaded some television series for me before he left. I can't believe I finished the whole Season1 of Falling Skies and Homeland. 

Anyway, life must go on. I have a PTA meeting to attend at exactly four hours from now, Mabe's ballet class later. 

So, bye for now.

Have a great weekend ahead everyone!! 

Diet Saga Part I

As I am writing this post, my stomach is slowly getting into normalcy..lol. Last night was one of the worst. Sleeping was so difficult that I felt like sleeping in the bathroom would be a better idea. It was really bad. My stomach was overly upset and aching. It must be the japanese food I got in the supermarket...and NOT my diet regimen.

I have been on this experimental diet scheme for the past three weeks. Combining a liquid food supplement and less food intake, I can say that I am indeed losing some fats and bulges especially in the waistline area to the back part of the body and the arms.

I don't want to fully reveal this diet scheme yet because I am still in the process of shedding that fats. Lol!

In every losing weight saga, I have learned that pills or any drugs can't totally help you without controlling the food you're eating and of course exercise. Right now, I am not back in my morning walk ritual but hopefully I will get into the walking track again. Food is another story. 

I eat a complete meal three times a day (sometimes two, especially on weekends when I wake up late). In each meal, I am trying to avoid rice so I am having Roti Paratha intead (at least in one meal). The food supplement I'm taking kills my cravings for in between snacks. Really. I used to eat junk foods or whatever I can find inside the fridge when watching tv, surfing the net, or even when I'm reading, now I don't and right after each meal, I will have a mug of hot green tea. (Sounds like not me, huh)

Anyway, writing this entry took me a while to finish because I still keep on coming back to the bathroom. Lol!

Happy 4th of July everyone! 

Water Cabbage

I thought these plants belong to the water lily family, but it's not. These are Water Cabbage or Pistia. (Wala lang, haha. Thank you Wikipedia)

Flores de Mayo

 

I know, this is a late post, but Flores de Mayo has three more days to go. Mabe will join the other girls tomorrow since she never heard of this festival yet. I wanted her to experience Flores de Mayo like I did twenty five years ago.

Aside from the religious side of it, my memories of Flores de Mayo is all about the flowers I can find (like the ones I posted above), the plastic bowls and utensils that I have to bring for the afternoon snacks (Lol!), and of course playing with the rest of the kids, running around the church grounds. To those who experienced the same thing feet up :))

This festival is not complete without the Santacruzan, a pageant on the last day of Flores de Mayo in honor of Helena and Constantine finding the True Cross in Jerusalem (that is according to Wikipedia), nowadays Santacruzan seems to have a different approach. When I was in college taking up English Literature, I remember discussing the Helena and Constantine stuff in class (hmm, nevermind. haha!). What I only wanted you to know is, I was once invited to be Reyna Emperatriz (this was in the 90's, while studying in Baguio). Haha!

Okay, enough of my Flores de Mayo memories. 

Goodnight everyone!

I'm still here!!

Blogging seemed to be at the backseat of everything right now. I'm still here, living my day to day not-so-busy-stagemotherlife anymore. I am savoring two more weeks of me-time until our family vacation in June. We are heading to a cooler place for a couple of days.

I will try to update this site as much as I can, getting into the blogging track again. I will surely do.

Goodnight everyone!

Homecoming

Homecomings. What do you exactly do in homecomings. A lot. A lot of gossips. Lol! It's a joke but actually, there's truth in it.

Some says high school was the best days of their life. Personally, high school was ONE of the best days of my life because I cannot exactly say that it was THE best. My life was more exciting after high school. 

At 15, I traveled and explored a different culture from what I grew up in. The summer I turned 16, I was about to enroll in a university my high school friends never heard of. I would watch rock concerts all by myself. Travel alone. Lived a life away from family and the comfort of my own bed. 

I went back to the hometown and continued the course I had. Joined the college paper, became an editor, graduated with a special award in journalism. Despite all that, I was a rule breaker, I was not a good student, I live my life the way I wanted. I don't burn candles, I don't aim for A's. I never had a decent notebook. Instead, I buried my face in paperbacks reading fiction, stayed away from normal co-eds who would spend the whole 20minutes in the restroom putting make-ups, while I could hardly comb my hair twice a day.

This afternoon in our high school homecoming, I hardly knew my batchmates. I cannot recognize a classmate in sophomore year or in junior year, aside from the ones whom I became friends with. My memory was so blocked that I sucked in remembering names and faces. My high school memory was blurred, even college was a haze. 

I don't think I'm normal, the word normal was never in my vocabulary. I think I'm different. 

Homecomings and gossip comes together. I had a gossip juicy life, real homecoming worthy. 

Don't you just love homecomings?

I do.

Scattered Thoughts

Since last week my schedule was focused in Mabe's summer ballet and contemporary dance classes in Dancepull School of Performing Arts.

I would do my other errands on days without dance classes, and that includes driving lessons. Scared as rat but I'm really trying my best to learn. I'm kind of shy to say this, but my husband gave me a second hand car, an advance birthday present for next week :)

I'm having scattered thoughts right now, first I have a number of books to read but I don't any time and plan to curl up in bed and read. Second, my pre-birthday hang out with my close friends next week is conflict with Mabe's pictorial in the dance studio. Third, driving is primarily in my mind, I don't want anything more . I know these are all petty thoughts. Don't mind me. Lol!

At the back of all this craziness, I have a personal concern I cannot tell you about because this is a happy blog with young readers so Parental Guidance. Maseselang Usapan ay Hindi Maari. Lol!

So that's it. Enjoy your weekend everyone!

Today

Even if i'm about to drag my feet to bed, eyes about to close, brain switching offline. I will do this post. (Not to mention that my whole body ached because of morning walk: day 2) I will blog how my day was even if it will bore you to death, even if i'm too exhausted with mother duties the whole day, even if i'm toooo sleepy!!

I started my day in a relax mode. Coffee. Carrot Bread. Chillax...then morning walk.

Off to ballet studio, by 9:30AM mabe just have enough time to do some stretching and for mama to catch up with fellow ballet moms and ballet yayas.

Back at home after lunch, I had to deal with mabe's chipped and damaged toenails (her teacher said ballerinas got damaged toenails all the time). Problem toenails solved. Swimming party in Costa Brava tomorrow, go!

Inspired to draw a beach scene? Mabe we're going to a pool not the beach.

By 4:30PM I got a call from mabe's pre-school teacher. She was chosen to join a group to do some intermission number on Monday. I was informed two weeks ago, but I thought its not pushing through since I got no phone call from her previous school. They rehearsed from 6:00PM to 7:00PM. Dance done!

This costume is three years old and needs repair and makeover. ugh. Mabe used this in a hula number when she graduated from pre-school. They will revive the dance on Monday.

So, where do you think will you find me first thing tomorrow morning?  

(after my morning walk...ahem)

Where else but Central Market! lol looking for rafia of course.

I'm so sleepy. I know it's hard to believe but it's true. I will sleep NOW.

Have a great Sunday tomorrow :)

Monotony

Lately, I have been living in monotony.

Coffee.

Hot Chocolate.

Spicy Korean Noodles.

Cherry Temple.

The Cherry in Cherry Temple.

Coffee.

Spicy Korean Noodles.

Cherry Temple.

Hot Chocolate.

Somewhat a comfort zone as some experts would call it.

Maybe you want to ask me, have I been outside my comfort zone? 

Yes. I have been to the worst freakin' zone. 

This monotony is making me nuts. I am turning into a spoiled idiot. Oopps I am not supposed to say that.

Shoe Story: Ballet Flats

Okay, feet up! and let's talk about shoes.

Flat shoes in particular, the Dolly shoes or better known as Ballet Flats. So what kind of Ballet Flats do you like?

Square Toe

Anthology

Rounded Toe 

Black Sheep

Glittery with huge embellishment at top

Gap

Flexible and Folds in half

Gap

Crocs

Crocs McCall Hello Kitty

Quilted with ribbon on top

Grendha

My favorites: Black Round Toe from Black Sheep and Gold Quilted Round Toe from Grendha. (Read: Comfortable, super comfortable).

Okay, feet down.  Goodnight everyone! 

Tabletiquette

Yes. There is such a thing called Tabletiquette. With the fast trend and the arrival of all versions of iPad and Tablets in the market, there are some rules in behaving and handling your gadgets in public.

I was a victim of an iPad user last night WITHOUT a Tabletiquette:

See?

So I am re-posting CNN.Com's article about iPad Etiquette:

Expect the stares.

Embrace them, even. Sure, the aforementioned gawking died down once we all got used to seeing iPads in public spaces/transportation, but if you have a non-Apple tablet, the thing will arouse some curiosity. Be nice. Answer questions about whether you consider it a worthwhile purchase. If you're not wearing headphones, you might as well have a big "Talk to me!" sticker on the back of your device.

Don't put anything embarrassing on your tablet.

Your iPad is an open e-book. You can expect a little privacy on your Kindle (no one needs to know you downloaded "The Dance of Intimacy") or on your smartphone (anyone with any social grace knows they should stay away from your personal lockbox of texts, voice mails and e-mail), but a tablet is just begging to be played with.

In more ways than one: A friend shared a tale of being handed a PR person's personal tablet and told to look up something related to a client. Said friend obediently typed a letter into the address bar -- and up popped a list of recently visited URLs, all beginning with the same letter, and all of them, yes, porn. Clear your browsing history, OK? On an iPad's Safari, you just click on Bookmarks/History/Clear History. And please, clean your tablet regularly. Shudder.

Don't get it out during a movie.

We're not just talking about theaters (keep it under wraps there, too), but home movies. The glowing screen steals your fellow viewers' attention when they're trying to get lost in the plot line. Honestly, this goes for your smartphone, too. If you can't make it through 120 minutes without checking Words With Friends, you're choosing the wrong flicks.

Use caution when bringing it into a meeting.

Sure, tablets can be the glowing stars at a conference room table: They let you look up results or give quick PowerPoint presentations on the spot. But pecking at the screen while someone else is talking -- even if you're just taking notes -- looks rude. Stick with pen and paper for note-taking unless the rest of your co-workers have gone digital, too.

Stop plunking it in front of your child as if it were a mesmerizing electric babysitter. 

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Anyway, to make the long story short, I wasn't able to get any decent photos. All I got were photos of this lady's freakin' iPad in my camera.

AND yes, I do own a tablet too but I do have proper Tabletiquette. 

World peace!

food (comedy)

Warning: The following food photos might bring severe cravings and uncontrollable hunger at this very minute. Let us all pause and give the following food photos a little twist of humor.

This is a french sandwich (i forgot the exact name). - a shusyal version of my childhood favorite: condense milk sandwich.

This one is Lenguine churva - i call this Punaw pasta (punaw is an ilonggo term for Venus Clam). lol

 

Oh well...this is a bur-jer. Seriously, a Cake A'holic yummy burger.

A BIG breakfast. ugh. What's inside was not really a BIG breakfast, just a BIG customer. lol!

Japanese Halo Halo. Really? Razon's have this too and they call it White Halo Halo. Ano ba talaga kuya? (Translation: What really Big Brother?)

I am a trying hard comedian. Sorry. haha!