Friendly Bonding on a Not-So-Friendly Weather

What a weather we had here yesterday, it rained almost the whole day! At times like that I would have cozied on my bed the whole day but I didn't. After I got off from work I went to The Fort to meet with Janny, one of my closest friends in college. We haven't met for more than a year, and we rarely communicate. I found out just about a couple of weeks ago that she's been here for almost six months now and so I felt that I really need to meet her and catch up on things. We're both nocturnal workers so it was easy for us to meet up early on a Saturday morning. We had breakfast at a fast food near her workplace and we had quite a long chat. We catch up with each other's lives as well as our friends' and we were also nostalgic. We talked about the things that we did way back in college, the friends we made (as well as the enemies), and the "issues" we had. Oh, those issues are too many to mention, but for the record Shobe (or Janny) and I never had an issue it was always between us (me and Janny) and other (insecure) people in college! Hahaha!

Anyway, after breakfast we decided to watch a movie at Shang. So we braved the heavy rain and went to Shang. When we got there it was quite early, we waited outside for 10 minutes or so. Then when they have opened we went to see the movie schedules but unfortunately the earliest schedule of the movie we want to watch was 2:30PM but we couldn't wait that late because I still have work come night time and I really need to get some sleep first before going back to work. We decided to watch the movie at Mega, but before we went there we went to Zara because I saw a jacket and a dress that I like just a week ago, unluckily it was sold out! Huh! What a great start! First the movie sched, then the stuff that I really like is sold out. I can imagine how this day would turn to be.

When we got to Mega we checked the sched and glad there was a 1:15PM schedule, and that's the earliest we can get. Since it was still 12 we decided to grab some pizza and pistachio ice cream for lunch and we talked and talked and talked. Did I mention that we did a lot of talking? After that we finally watched the movie. And what we did after watching? We went home! We were both tired and sleepless the night before and I wasn't planning on going to work the following night without getting some sleep too. Though we were both sleepless, and the weather wasn't so friendly but we had a great six hours together. It was worth the time and effort. I won't trade it for a "good-day-sleep", I only slept for 4 hours and now I'm here at work.

Thank you Shobe, hope that wouldn't be the last but the start of our spending time together again!

Reasons Why I Love my Office/Seat mate

Just barely an hour before my week officially ends, since I have nothing else to do except wait for the time to pass by I am making this post. And before I decided to spew words here I got an IM from Shein my officemate/seat mate here at work and everything else and our convo went like this:

»-(¯`§hê¿n´¯)-» : have a break.. have oreo
X-teen: hahaha
»-(¯`§hê¿n´¯)-» : hahaha
X-teen: bago yan ah!
»-(¯`§hê¿n´¯)-» : hahaha
»-(¯`§hê¿n´¯)-» : eto ung binili natin di ko din nakain
»-(¯`§hê¿n´¯)-» : buti di sinugod ni kuya
X-teen: hehehe sge hingi ako
»-(¯`§hê¿n´¯)-» : unlike yours
X-teen: andami pala nyan! (after looking at her single packet of Oreo)
»-(¯`§hê¿n´¯)-» : :))
X-teen: overwhelming!
»-(¯`§hê¿n´¯)-» : ganyan ako kagenerous
»-(¯`§hê¿n´¯)-» : :))
X-teen: :))

I really love her, and so thankful for this girl. She shared her Oreo, a single packet that consists of 3 Oreo cookies! She's so generous, right? If I were her, and I so love Oreo (like her)I wouldn't share it with anybody, I'll eat it all by myself! Hahaha Selfish! Hahaha just kidding, of course I'll share it with her, but ONLY with her. And so because of the Oreo cookie I'm making a post on "Reasons Why I Love Her".

First, that's because she's so generous (as well as I am)... we share almost everything(food, toothpaste, paper towels, tissues, etc..) that we have here at work. And second, she rarely makes fun of me, take note there's rarely, she still makes fun of me when she wanted too. But I get to gang up on her as often as I want to, and she admits that I'm the only person who can gang up on her the way that I do. Am I making sense? No?

Anyway, let's continue with the list: she's the only person who I can text when I'm in the office, soaking wet and when I needed some dry clothes to wear. She also puts up with my insanity, because basically I also put up with hers. As they say birds of the same feather flock together. So, you see the picture? And when I really needed someone to talk to either with sense or none she's willing to lend her ears. And she feeds me a lot! Maybe she wants me to stay healthy or maybe she just wants me to be fat but I'm leaning on the former people. And also because she's a great officemate, we take turns in monitoring the dialers and sleeping during office hours, we share proxy sites/softwares to access friendster, youtube, myspace, dailymotion etc.. And because she actually reads all the books that I let her read and watch the same TV shows that watch.

I could go on with this list for like forever.... There are so many reasons why I love her so much, but to sum it all up I love her for the simplest reason... Because she's Sheina and there are no reasons why you shouldn't love Shein.

Ok, I need to stop. I was psyched to make this a funny(not), light(yes) post but I'm sorry if it went kinda mushy in the end. Anyway, I know you people out there are just about to start your week but me? I'm capping it off 17 minutes from now. Rest days are here! I so love Mondays! (Is it just me?) Sorry for those who hate Mondays but for me it's the other way around. I SO LOVE MONDAYS!

Have a great week everyone and have a great weekend to me! Ciao. :)

Littlest Mistakes

I barely slept today because there were lots of noise around, there were the electricians fixing the wirings of our place, I also talked to a long lost friend and lastly because I've been thinking about the thing I did on impulse last Monday.

I just hate myself sometimes because when I wanted to do something so little I tend to do it right away without even going through it thinking that it wouldn't do much harm because it's just 'so little' but here I am, restless. I don't want to admit that I regretted sending that stuff, because I'm always the type of person who have no time for regrets and I really think that everything happens for a reason, but this doesn't feel right. Who am I kidding? And thinking about it now, I don't really think I made sense. And honestly, I can't find a reason good enough to justify what I did.

What was I thinking? Or why did I think about it on the first place? Duh! I can't turn back the hands of time (but I really wish I could). Do you know a doctor who can erase a part of my memory like in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind? I just wish to have a selective amnesia at this point, I want to forget that I ever sent that stuff, and I also don't want to remember that I even came to a point of having that thought.

I'm expecting the worst out of it but a part of me still have the littlest spark of hope that it will be the other way around. Wishful thinking...

Nancy Drew

Went to the mall yesterday with my brother to catch a movie, and yes that's what we only did. No actual and window shopping, and no book reading/scanning in a book store. We watched Nancy Drew at the Premiere cinema of Shang and there were only 6 of us who came to watch the movie. And it was kinda funny because we were like seated on 2 columns consisting of 3 persons.

our seating arrangement at the cinema

It was I who picked that movie because I used to read Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys when I was little, about 3rd grade maybe. Now it's really obvious how dorky I was, so you don't have to wonder if sometimes the dorky side of me surfaces every once in a while. While watching the movie I was kinda nostalgic, I missed the days when I was a kid pretending to be Nancy Drew and how I lead a bunch of kids my age from our block and "sleuth" around as if there was a mystery to be solved.

As expected it was a teenybopper movie, but with a mystery (It's Nancy Drew remember?). But I still enjoyed watching the film.

Happy Birthday Mama!

It's the 17th of September and it's the birthday of the most important person in my life. She's like a sister, and a best friend to me, she's my most love person on the planet, she's no other than Grace Joy Cañete Atilano, my mom and the greatest mom in the whole wide world (for me and my brother). My mom is not the typical mom, she's not perfect and she admits that she's not even close to being one. She has her own flaws, limitations and weaknesses, and you've got to believe me she has a lot of those, but the thing that makes her the best for us her children, is that she knows how to admit to her own faults and she learns from her mistakes.

My mom got married when she was barely an adult, and she had my brother at 21. It was like she and my brother were learning and growing up together; my brother was learning to walk and my mom was also learning how to walk the path of married life and motherhood. When I was on the 3rd grade my parents decided to live separate lives, we were left under the care of my mom and later on to our grandparents because my mom's got to work for a living to give us a better life and future. Though her parents can help her raise us financially she chose to leave and make a living for me and my brother. At first, I didn't quite understand why she had to leave when she already got a good paying job back in our province and her family is willing to support us, but when I think about it now maybe she did that because of her pride, or maybe she wanted to getaway from our little town to forget and to heal. But though she was far away she never fails to call and write us letters, and she provides for us too even she didn't have to because basically we got everything that we needed or even the things that we don't really need from our grandparents. And also we got to see her too during vacations, either she goes home to our province or we go somewhere else for a vacation with her and during the times when I got sick, she was there.

When I started high school my mom went back and have lived with us ever since, and because she's the youngest of three sisters she gets to live with her parents and eventually takes care of them though not literally because my grandparents are very active senior citizens (thank god). When we lived at the same roof it never occurred to me that I was living with my mom because it was like living with an older sister, not only because my grandparents treats her like an adolescent (you know how it is when you have strict and guardia civils for grandparents) but also we share clothes, she was/is the fashionista teacher and I was the dorky high schooler, she's friends with all my cliques and she helps me sneak out from our house too. As she always say she wants me to live the life that she didn't get the chance to live that much, and she doesn't want to be hard on me because she doesn't want me to rebel.

My mom is a very cool one, all my friends envied me for having her. And they even wished they had her as their own mom too. Though my mom looks tough and carefree on the outside but deep inside her I now there's a very emotional person. My mom is the kind of person that sees joys and miracles in the littlest things. And that is one thing I would love to think that I've inherited from her.

My mom now is still in the province with my grandparents and my brother and I are here in Manila but we always make it a point to see each other when we have time, either we go home or she comes here.

I made this post because I just want to say thank you to her for all the things that she did and she will do for us, my brother and I will always be grateful for having her as our mom. And I would like to say sorry for all the things that I did and I didn't do. Also, I want to say sorry because I won't be able to keep my promise, to tour Seoul with her. Maybe next year mom I'll be able to do that, but we can always do that this year if you'll bail me out for paying for the trip. Hahaha! Anyway, I know it doesn't matter to you whether we go to Seoul this year or not but promise we'll get there... someday, somehow... Love you mama and happy, happy birthday!

New Blog Look

I’m sick since last Friday but though I’m sick I still went to work and in fact I’m still here at work today. I have tonsillitis with fever, cough and colds on the side. Good thing today is my last day at work for the week and I’ll be able to rest and ‘recharge’ myself.

The other night I was so bored here at work that’s why I played with Adobe Photoshop again and made a new header for my little blog and tweaked my old template a little to give my blog a not so new look. I also changed my banner from Kristinion’s – Kristin’s opinions to Diaphanousness – life of a country girl/city girl blogged, and I think this is more appropriate, I just think. Maybe because it’s not all the time that I write or blog about my opinions here, but most of the time I just blab about anything I can think of and anything that happened to me, even senseless and shameful stuff… so basically this blog is all about diaphanousness (transparency), me (country girl/city girl), my life being blogged.

Switchfoot Concert

Yesterday afternoon, I met up with Shein, her BF (bestfriend/boyfriend) Bonok and kuya Red at the Taft MRT station to watch the Switchfoot benefit concert in Cuneta astrodome. When we got at the venue the gates were still closed but there were already long lines of excited audience. We made our way to the end of the line, while we're there we were chatting and joking around. We were almost 30 minutes on that line when Shein heard some guy asked if it was the Php600 line, after hearing what the guy just asked she relayed what she heard to us and we were all bursting in laughter! We were at the wrong line! Hahahaha When we asked around we've gathered that the mosh pit (Php1400) entrance is on the other side of the astrodome. When we got there the line was über long. While the line was very slowly moving, we were not so bothered at all we just chat and laugh the long line away! And there was also a bonus because we had our chance for a photo op with Champ of Hale and we also saw Rica Peralejo, Anne Curtis and some print models and model-look-a-likes.

When we finally got inside, we waited again for about an hour! The concert was supposed to start at 7:30 but it actually started after an hour. My feet and legs were already hurting even before the show started, and most of us there were already annoyed with the hundred times repetition of their ads/presentation. When the lights were finally turned off the crowd was screaming and almost went mad! And alas the concert started! The front act was Salamin band, with Paolo Valenciano as the vocalist. I didn't really jam with the band, aside from the fact that I don't know their songs (shhhh) and I just want to reserve the littlest energy I had for the Switchfoot performance. After Salamin's act, of course it was Switchfoot's turn! And at that time the crowd didn't almost go mad, they were or should I say we were really mad!!! Oh, Switchfoot is just so good. I really love them. I can't remember exactly what I did but I know there were lots of singing, screaming, jumping and dancing involved. So there, can you see the picture? If not I'll just post it! Hahahaha

while waiting in line photo op with Champ of Halemosh pit, before the concert started

After the concert, we bee lined to the "freebies area", for every 2 mosh pit tickets you can have an autographed poster of Switchfoot and a shirt from IJM (International Justice Mission). Kuya Red and Bonok got the posters and Shein and I got the shirts (the shirts were ladies' size). After the concert we capped of the night with very sumptuous dinner at Gerry's grill in Blue Wave (Kuya Red's birthday treat). I got home past midnight.

Anyway, tonight I'm going to Araneta for the Be Bench night, kuya Red have a ticket for two and he asked me to come with him... Something to blog again!

Faceoff

"why are you wearing the same shirt as mine?"

What will you do if you and a co-worker wore exactly the same shirt to work at the same day?

This happened to me today but I don't mind because it's not really a heinous crime, and you won't go to jail if ever you commit this. In fact I just shrugged and laughed it off. But to the other person (my co-worker) she felt like she was humiliated. And I sensed that if she could just go home and change her shirt, she would really do it. She even told me not to go near her, I think she doesn't want us to be seen together. But me, I haven't had the slightest hint of embarrassment. I even joked around the workplace about it, and I even asked her to have her picture taken with me so that we'll have a 'proof' that we wore the same shirt at the same day. But of course she refused. So, what I did is just take pictures with Shein since we were both wearing striped shirts today.

On a different note, my brother arrived yesterday morning from Thailand. Happy days are here again! :p

Home Alone Days

Day 2

I met up with some of the Stoneground (Vanessa, Joey and Tin), it was so much fun! It was February I think since the last time we saw each other. We had late lunch or early dinner at Tender Bob's in Shangrila mall and we had quite along chat at Starbucks' veranda at the ledge.

Day 3

After going to work, I met up with a new friend for coffee.

Day4

I had no choice but to cook myself a dinner so I won't starve myself.

Day5 & 6

Nothing much happened... because I slept early and woke up super late so I was in a haste for work.

Day 7 & 8

Shein spent the day here in my place, but when night comes she decided not to go to work anymore. I really had fun with her staying/sleeping over here in my place. It felt like I was a child again! We were like playing house! We cook our food, we talk a lot about anything, we had DVD marathon and of course the sleeping marathon!

Day 9

The day is just about to start... I woke up early just to watch TV. I am a huge news and current affairs junkie. I so love news shows and even documentaries. I am also quite not feeling good today, I haven't heard from my brother yet and I really have no idea on what exact day he's coming back.

Anyway, I'm going to eat my breakfast now, I'm super starved!