Blogging from Home

Hey everyone! I'm blogging straight from my beloved hometown! It just feels so great to be home again for new year's. We had a great dinner last night, with my grandparents, my mom and all of my cousins. We had lots of fun, as usual there's never a down time with them. I'm yet to meet my childhood friends, I've only met one of them last night. I know for sure that this break would do me great.

Hope you'll have a great start this coming 2008 friends!

Happy New Year to everyone! Ciao. :)

Happy Holidays!

Happy Christmas everyone! I know I'm late in greeting you, but as I always say 'better late than later'. I've spent Christmas at my aunt's house in Antipolo with some friends from our province. If you'll ask what happened to spending Christmas at my dad's... well, we didn't. We only went there on the 23rd to celebrate my brother's birthday and after dinner we went to DV to accompany ate Jet to buy presents for the families in the GK village in Nueva Ecija. We went home at around 3AM. Prior to that day we also went to the mall and joined the whole country on the Christmas rush and we went home at past midnight also. I promised myself that next year I'll try to have an early Christmas shopping, because it's really hard when you have it on the last minute. There are thousands of people in the mall! And everyone's going crazy! I don't want to experience the rush, never again!

Our Christmas celebration is fun filled, but it's still not the same as last year's when we spent it with mom. But it's ok because we'll be leaving tomorrow for the province to spend New year's there. Yippee! I'm so excited to see my family and friends again!

Happy Holidays everyone!

Holidays are Almost Here

It's almost Christmas! Are you done with your Christmas shopping? If you'll ask me, well... uhm.. all I've done so far is my list. Yes! You read it right, just my list. I haven't done any real shopping yet, I'll start shopping later after my shift. I know I'm so late, but it's better late than later, right? Hahahaha. I hate myself for procrastinating sometimes, err often times.

Anyway, let's forget (let me forget) about shopping for a while. There are just some things that I want to share with you, whoever you are reading this piece of wasteblog here. Wasteblog? Anyway, I know I've posted here that I'm spending the holidays at home (my dear hometown), but not anymore... not 'not' that I won't be spending any holidays there just a 'holiday'. Unluckily for us, we weren't able to book a flight before Christmas, but we were able to score a flight on the 28th so no merry Christmas in my dear hometown for me, just a happy new year's. My brother and I will either be spending Christmas' at my aunt's house in Antipolo, same as last year's or at our dad's place in Fairview. But we're not really sure yet. Aunt's place = 70%, Dad's place = 30%. :)

And, also I want to ask some gift suggestions for my brother, he'll be celebrating his birthday on the 23rd, so I want to give him something special since it's Christmas as well. Any suggestions anyone? Until now, I haven't thought of anything to give him. Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated.

Lastly, my college classmate Joannie will be coming over to spend new year's here in the Philippines with me. I am so excited to see her again, it's been over 4 years since the last time we saw each other face to face (webcam sessions not included). She'll be here for a month. We would have enough time to catch up with each other's lives and I will also have enough time to bring her to almost all the best places in the country. I am super excited! I know I'll have as much fun as I had last new year's.

OK, I need to get back to my shopping list now to finalize everything. I can't afford to lose more minutes, I've wasted so much time already. Till my next blogging session. Ciao.

Dubrovnik, Croatia

I've watched the live telecast of the Amazing Race last Monday, and they were in Croatia. I don't know but I have this penchant for old cities and I fell in love with the city of Dubrovnik right there and then.

I love the city's architecture, it's like Santorini but different. They have the same oldish look but most of Santorini's architecture is in white but in Dubrovnik it's off-white and the roofs of their houses are in red brick tiles. The city seems so medieval for me.

Dubrovnik, Croatia

"The 'Pearl of the Adriatic', situated on the Dalmatian coast, became an important Mediterranean sea power from the 13th century onwards. Although severely damaged by an earthquake in 1667, Dubrovnik managed to preserve its beautiful Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque churches, monasteries, palaces and fountains. Damaged again in the 1990s by armed conflict, it is now the focus of a major restoration programme co-ordinated by UNESCO." -- Yahoo! Travel

Dubrovnik will be one of my future destinations. Hopefully I can get to visit the city next year. I really need to save up for my travel sprees, if not there'll be a bigger chance that I'll pass on school again so I could fund my travel. And I really need to cut on my shopping too!

If I'll get to visit Dubrovnik, I won't miss Zagreb for the world. I heard it's a city rich of history and culture. I just love immersing myself in different places and cultures. Trust me, it's a different yet fulfilling experience.

If you want to learn more about Dubrovnik just click on the "Places I would love to visit" on the right side of this page.

Ciao.

Timing is Everything

Have you had the chance and you missed it? I did, I just did. And the feeling really sucks!

I've been told by my brother and some friends to do this 'thing', coz it is what I really like doing and they think I'm suited for it but I don't always fall for their persuasions. The other night, I finally put my guards off and allowed myself to be persuaded, I was finally doing the 'thing'. I planned everything the night before. My brother and his friend offered to accompany me. And I even ditched my last hour at work yesterday just to be there. I didn't get to eat breakfast and lunch just to finish all tasks that needs to be done at work and just to be there on time. Unfortunately, when I got there for some reasons my brother didn't get to know the right venue, I don't know if he really exerted an effort to find it or what. When I got there they were only having lunch and that 'thing' was only until 3pm and I got there around quarter to 3. So it was really over for me.

I really cried, I was so upset (I still am) its because they forced me to do it but they didn't help me out. I was upset not because I didn't get to do that 'thing', but because I exerted time and effort just to be there and also I ditched work, and all for nothing. I know I shouldn't be upset, I'm part to be blame because I didn't go there earlier but that's part of our plan, they should go there first to have me listed for I have work, but they didn't.

I just want to think that maybe that 'thing' isn't for me, or maybe the time's not right yet. I just wish I'll still have the chance and not miss it again.

Enchanted

I went to watch Enchanted at the movies last Saturday. It was a nice film. Their idea of mixing animation and 3D is so brilliant! Amy Adams owned the character Giselle in the film, she was really great at playing that character and she have that "fairytale princess" voice. And there's James Marsden (aka Cyclops)... the guy who've never ended up with the girl he wanted in every movie that he starred. And of course there's His Royal Hotness McDreamy (Patrick Dempsey), who played as a lawyer/single father and modern day prince charming to Giselle. I enjoyed watching the movie because I love all Disney fairytales and this movie is like Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Little Mermaid and Beauty in the Beast in one. If the movie's a song it'll be like a Disney medley.

I'll leave you with Enchanted's movie trailer and some tracks from the soundtrack album.

First Day of the Last Month

It's the first day of the last month of the year! And that means 24 days before Christmas, and 23 days before we go home for the holidays! Yippeee! I am so happy, it's been three years since the last time I've spent Christmas with my grandparents in the province. I am super excited!

I started planning on my shopping list, but until now I haven't finalize my list yet. There are just names that keeps on popping in my head... family, friends, co-workers, friends' babies, family friends and all sorts of friends! Gosh! I can see that I'll be penniless by the time Christmas comes. But I don't really care, I know it'll be worth every penny. The smiles on their faces when they will receive my presents will be priceless. That's for sure.

I am so excited to spend the holidays back in the province, not only that I'll get to spend it with my family but also with some friends way back in grade school. I haven't seen some of them for years. And I also want to see the babies of my buddies in high school, as you know some of them (most I think) are already married. There are only few of us left that are not yet married. And I want to keep it that way for the next three years, at least.

Anyway, it's my last day at work (for the week), and I'm going to have some fun tonight! :) Happy weekend everyone!