The Hills and The Girl

What's with the entry title? I just played with the words, 'The Hills' and 'Kiss the Girl'. The Hills Season 2 is now airing on MTV I am so happy and excited about it since the last episode of season 1. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to watch it on MTV last January 15. Good thing, I found a site that hosts that video, I was able to download it this morning... Tadaa! I'll be watching it any minute from now! I am so thankful for those file sharing sites, I'll be able to watch episodes of any shows that I missed. I owe you a lot and I so love you! Heheheh

Anyway, here's the full trailer of The Hills Season 2...



If you want a video of that episode, just tell me and I can give you..

Have you watched The Little Mermaid, the first one, where Ariel was the little mermaid? Anyway, do you still remember the songs in that movie? I do! I can still sing it now, I memorized each song by heart even the lines of the characters! I'm such a mermaid fanatic when I was young, I even got hooked on Marina before! Hahahaha! Let's keep that as our little secret, okey? Anyway, we also had an activity during my senior year in high school where every year level should present a Disney play, and we presented the The Little Mermaid. But I wasn't Ariel nor any of her sisters, I played Vanessa. You know her? She's a villain! Actually, she's Ursula, she morphed into a beautiful lady with Ariel's voice (Ursula got Ariel's voice as payment for her feet) , who will steal the prince from Ariel. As they say the rest is history... Anyway, I'm writing this entry because I bumped into a video of 'Kiss the Girl' , one of the songs in that movie but not the Sebastian version. I just find it cute, Ashley made a good and cute version of the song. (Ashley, is High School Musical's Sharpay Evans, the blond girl.) And here it is..

Ashley Tisdale - Kiss The Girl

I was thinking of a title for this post a while ago, I almost named this post as 'Kiss the Hills' . Hahaha but I don't think it's appropriate. :p

Ciao.

(Don't laugh... alam ko last week lang Incubus yung sinasabi ko, then Hilary Duff, now Ashley Tisdale... next week... hmnn... watch out!)

The Classic

Today isn't as ordinary as my other days at work. One proof that this isn't like any other day, I wasn't late for work. I arrived just on time, literally on time no more no less. I was really glad that I made it on time today, I didn't even take the cab! But I had no time to celebrate for that achievement... I was also very pressured this morning just as our Aussie campaign started, why? It's because our strata engine today got crazy! It doesn't read the leads that we have loaded. I tried almost everything to get it working but to no avail. I had no choice but to call on our supervisor. Good thing the strategy he suggested worked. I edited the task on the dynacall and voila! It worked! ... I know you think that I'm nuts.. talking about stuff not all people know.. but I just want to let it out. I was really nervous.. tensed.. confused.. I caused an hour of downtime! And come to think of how much money's lost because of that downtime?! Geesh! But my supervisor said that I need not worry because it's really an application problem, and it doesn't have to do with the dialer administrator. Huh! Upon hearing that I was relieved. Thank god!

Anyway, after that... I relaxed myself by listening to the Princess Hours' OST, I already got a copy of those, my colleague downloaded it for me. (napapaghalata na ba talagang adik na ako dun? hehehe)

And after my soundtrip I watched The Classic, another Korean movie. Actually, I just finished watching it. And until now my eyes are still sore. I was really trying my best not to cry (I was afraid my officemates would see me) but my tears won over me. Sniff. K'Anne you didn't warn me that that movie was a tearjerker. Sniff. It's a good movie, if you want to fall in love and be sentimental and emotional, or if you want to to cry over something but afraid to let it show watch this movie so you'll have all the reasons in this world to cry.

Here's the synopsis of the movie >>>>>

One more day, and I'm off from work. My rest days are almost here! I can see them waving at me! We're just a night away! Rest days I'm dying to see you ASAP! :p

Anyway, it's getting late... need to go home now and catch up on some Nick and Disney shows that I love! And it's The OC day today and I almost forgot I need to catch the Incubus concert today on MYX! I'm really hard to spell, right? I watch different kinds of shows... I'm not stereo-typed, and that's what makes me unique!

And FYI, I'm also listening to Hilary Duff's songs now! Hehehehe... Unpredictable(jologs ba yun?)!

Ciao.

Nonsense Blabbing

Today is such a lazy day, I woke up late.. And what do you expect? I arrived at work late too! Hehehe. I'm here at work, multi-tasking! Monitoring the dialer, listening to music, blogging, surfing the net and eating my breakfast. Anyway, do you consider eating stik-o as a meal? Hehehe. I almost forgot I'm also chatting with some friends now and also waiting for Zoey 101 and The OC videos to buffer... I am really a multi-tasker, I'm proud and so loving it! (Wasting company time again... :p)

After campaign monitoring today, I'm going to watch videos again! Yippee! Lucky me! But after my shift today, I'm going to the supermarket to do our grocery shopping and buy some stuff maybe.. and I'll also pick-up our laundry this afternoon. I'm such a busy bee. But for sure I won't go impulsive buying, coz I don't have enough money.. heheheh maybe tomorrow... Tomorrow's a happy day.. it's payday! Shhhh!

Anyway, I'm going back to my work... So much company time wasted and I don't think I'm making sense now.

Ciao.

Crossing the Bridge

I don't really feel like blogging today but on second thought I just felt that I need to let my thoughts out. So, here I am trying to "let it all out" . It's been two weeks since we came back from our Big Fat Greek Holiday and since mom left for Zamboanga. I'm really missing her and other family members already. I miss my dad and mom (my grandparents, we call them dad and mom) so much. Especially now that my dad is sickly. I am dying to come home to the province, I want to see them so badly. I miss my daddy so much!

Also, I've been very confused this past week. I'm the kind of person that 'crosses the bridge when I get there', but here I am right at the start of the bridge and undecided whether to cross or not to cross. I'm in the point that I need to decide if I would like to stay or leave in what I have and what I am now.

I am tempted to leave, there's a part of me thinks that there may be greener pastures and greater heights that awaits me somewhere if I'll leave, but there's also this little voice inside me that's having cold feet. What if I'll leave now and found out later that the pasture is greener and the heights are greater here than in the place that I'll be if I'll leave? What if I fail? And what if I’ll loose the chance of a lifetime if I will stay? Sigh. I think I’m going crazy weighing things out. This is really a tough and hard point of my life. Any decision I’ll choose will make my life turn 360 degrees, and there’s no way of turning it back just the way it is.

I need all the enlightenment that I could get.

Big Fat Greek Holiday

Afroessa Hotel

Our hotel room



Fira, Santorini

Two weeks after my Big Fat Greek Holiday! At the first day of our trip, we spent the whole day exploring the hotel that we were staying. We were staying at the Afroessa Hotel, it is located in Fira, the capital of Santorini. The hotel is just a five minute walk to the shops of Fira, unfortunately my mom and brother kept reminding me that our trip is exclusively a family bonding trip and NOT a shopping trip. So sad.. I was really drooling over the fabulous shops there. But.. nothing can stop me from spending my own money... I still get to buy something for myself as my souvenir but after that I didn't spend a cent na kasi ang mahal pagkinonvert mo sa piso mamumulubi ako!!!

I'll upload our pics later after my shift. :p

Last Post for 2006?

This would probably be my last entry for this month and this year, in case I won't be able to update tomorrow. I'm here at work spending the last 3 minutes of my shift blogging (after spending more than 8 hours of watching Princess Hours:p). We are leaving tonight, we are going to celebrate new year's eve at the wedding/honeymoon island of Santorini in Greece. I've been dying to be on that island since the first time I heard about it. From the leaflet that I've got the view is very breathtaking! I'll be taking tons of pictures there! Hehehe. I had a good start this 2006, and I hope to beat that on 2007 if not maybe just as good as this year will be perfectly fine. It's only 5 hours before our departure time. My bags are all packed and I'm ready to go! (humming Leaving on a Jetplane

)

See you all tomorrow if not, just next year! Wheheheh! If I'll be able to log tomorrow, I'll write about our trip and some recap on what happened this year.

I'm off the office... Ciao!

Have a Happy, Happy New Year! :D

Post Christmas Post

How did you spend your christmas?

I spent mine at my aunt's house in Antipolo, we really had a great time! All fun! We had a great feast too! There were lots of food. We also had our DVD marathon of Princess Hours! Hahaha! This is my favorite Korean series now after My Girl, the story is great, it's like a modern-day Cinderella but with a HUGE twist! (Is it just me or I've been really using this 'HUGE' word?) Hehehe Anyway, we also went to my cousin's friend's resort on the night of the 25th, it's somewhere in Teresa in Antipolo. We had drinking spree, my relatives had their videoke moments and some cousins went swimming. I was only indulged on my texting spree and some booze. Though I was sick since the 22nd, it didn't hinder me to have fun still. But on the 26th my body gave up, I thought I only had the ordinary fever and cough, and clogged and runny nose alternating. But I found out I was already down with flu, I was really, really sick. And because of that I wasn't able to come with my office buddies on their post Christmas Happening in a hotel in Manila. I was really sad, if only I could get out from the hospital and take my dextrose with me to the hotel, I might have done it. Hahaha! The receptionist in the hotel might think that I went to the wrong place("Miss hindi po ito hospital, hotel po itong napuntahan n'yo!") Hahaha it would be fun! But I know I can't do it... I really felt I missed half of my life. I don't want them to elaborate what they did that time coz I don't want to feel bad and sad, but I know for sure they had lots and lots of fun just judging on the pictures they took. Sigh.

Anyway, I was discharged from the hospital 27th after lunch, but my officemate called me that no one will man the shift that night so I was forced to report for work. See how lucky a person can get? Another reason to sigh. I didn't really feel well that time but I had no choice. I didn't help myself that night, I dozed off, three hours I think. Heheheh. That's the price they had to pay for making work at a bad shape. heheheh. Good thing there was a 3-hour downtime so I had the license to have my nap time. Thank god, I'm still born lucky. Heheheh.

I'm now in the office, but on a day shift again! I'm not so sick, just a little cold. I'm so excited now, I can't wait till the night of the 30th because we're leaving! Yehey! And after tomorrow I'll have my vacation leave and I'll be out of the office for nine days straight!

And oh.. it's almost my blog's anniversary. Kristinions will be turning one! Yippeee! Can't believe I've gone blogging this far...

Have a happy new year everyone!!!

A Day Before Christmas

It's a day after my brother's birthday, a day before Christmas, I am sick and I am here in the office working. I am really sick, I was down with fever since Friday and I also have this terrible dry cough and this runny nose but it's not enough reason for me not to be here working, and to think today is my rest day. See how lucky I can get this Christmas?

Anyway, mom arrived last night just in time for my brother's birthday celebration. We had a very intimate family dinner, minus the dad. I already accepted the fact that when I speak of 'family' it's just and will always be me, my mom and my brother. I'm not bitter, I'm only stating facts.

And later tonight we're going up to Antipolo, we'll be celebrating Christmas with my mom's cousin's family. I know it will be fun! Last year I wasn't able to celebrate Christmas with my mom, we celebrated it with my dad and his family but this year it will be different. We're going to celebrate Christmas with mom again. I am looking forward to it. I don't know if dad will remember us tomorrow, I'm hoping that he will but I'm not expecting.. It's a different thing.

Anyway, so much of the drama it's only 11 hours before Christmas. I should be going home now.

Have a merry Christmas everyone!

Unwritten

I am so into 'The Hills' and Lauren/LC of course. And I also love the show's theme. The lyrics of the song is so true.

Unwritten

UNWRITTEN
--Natasha Bedingfield
(current LSS)

I am unwritten,
Can't read my mind
I'm undefined
I'm just beginning
The pen's in my hand
Ending unplanned

Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words
That you could not find
Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten Oh

Oh, oh

I break tradition
Sometimes my tries
Are outside the lines
We've been conditioned
To not make mistakes
But I can't live that way oh, oh

Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words
That you could not find
Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten

Gifts, Gifts and Lots of Gifts!

Attention everyone I'm now accepting gifts for christmas. Send your gifts now to avoid the holiday rush... :-D

Xmas Stocking

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My Christmas Wishlist

It's already the 12th, 13 more days to go before christmas. I just can't wait for that day. Anyway, since it's almost christmas I'll write here some things I wanted for the holidays.

1. I want to have those two books by (surprise) Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist and By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept, Lauren Weisberger's Everyone Worth Knowing and Mitch Albom's For One More Day. I know I wrote it before that I already got these books, unfortunately, I lost them. I was in this coffee shop and I think I left my bagful of books there. How sad... Though I already read those books I'll still be very happy if I'll get to keep a copy of those.

2. A coin purse, I really want to have a coin purse. I had one but my cousin took it from me, literally. She was like inlove with my coin purse when she saw it and she just got all my pennies out from the purse and place it in a plastic-like purse, or whatever you call it and she took my coin purse like it was hers. But I know somebody got me a purse already, was it you K'Anne? (assuming)

3. A necklace from Tiffany's. Calling the attention of mom and bro... I'm still expecting to have that gift before the holidays. Hehehe. Demanding!

4. Season 1 DVD of The Hills, I don't know I'm not really fond of reality shows but I just love that show. I'm hoping that Season 2 will be airing soon. Go Lauren! Also, I'm some kind of a Nick fanatic so Zoey 101 and Unfabulous will do. Don't laugh! I know it's a teenybopper show, but who cares I enjoy watching those shows! (walang pakialamanan) I watch Laguna Beach too. I like Lauren but I also like Kristin though she's being a beyotch at times.

That's it! But I don't really care if I won't have any of those. I just want to have a good time during the holidays with family and freinds. A christmas card, a phone call, a text and an e-mail will be greatly appreciated.

Looking Forward

Woohoo! Veinte más días antes de Navidad! Soy apenas tan feliz! I really can't wait till its christmas, and I also can't wait till our 13th month pay will be released. :D

Anyway, Kuya Red told me before that Bridge to Terabithia is now on film. I checked the trailer earlier and the visual effects are great, because it is by Weta Digital (Lord of the Rings, King Kong) and of course they have Warner Bros. as the producer. I can't wait for this movie to be released. I so love this book by Katherine Patterson.

Happy Feet

We've got the happiest feet last Thursday. First we went to a Call Center Expo at the EDSA Shangrila, the event was 'uneventful' but the food were really great! The salad, steak... and specially the desserts! We all love it! We had our pictorial again. And this time with more people... and most of it were taken inside the ladies' room. Hehehe. So don't be surprised if you'll see tissue papers and all...

After lunch or after the event, we went to EDSA Shang (mall) to watch Happy Feet, we got there at quarter to 1, but the movie already started at 12:40 so we need to wait for the next show, good thing Happy Feet is also shown in Cinema 1 at 1:40 so we bought our tickets right away! After buying our tickets we acompany Kitty near the MRT station for she's going back to work (poor kitty). When we got to the 4th floor, we saw Power Station so we decided to spend some time and dime there. We played the table hockey and we shot some hoops! We took photos and videos of us. We were having a really fun time!

Then when its half past 1 we went off to the cinema, but before that we saw the canopy (whatever you call that) for Happy Feet. We wanted our picture to be taken there, so we asked some manong/kuya to take our pic. Luckily he was kind enough to give in to our whims. So there, we had our picture!

We went straight to the cinema after. It is a very funny family movie! Mumble is just sooo cute... and so is Ramon (i'm starting to love him na nga eh). And the sound effects are so great, as well as the voices of the people behind the animated characters. Kudos Warner Bros.!

Okei, so that's all we did for that day. And take note we were awake since Wednesday afternoon, and we barely slept or napped while we were on the night shift... I just don't know with K'Anne... Hehehehe

If you want to see our pics.. Just click here.

Woohoo!

Pacman won! I don't care if this post is a little too late, what matters is Pacquiao won. Period. He made every Filipino in the world very proud to be Pinoy! He is so great in his field. Sa sobrang galing nya... nabitin ako sa fight nila ni Morales. Ang bilis kasi, parang whirlwind! Hehehe. Pero ok lang... panalo naman ang pinoy eh!

OK na si Pacquiao na maging boksingero at negosyante at the same time. Wag lang talaga syang tumakbo... kasi hindi naman s'ya runner eh. Boxer sya... B-O-X-E-R. Boxer!

Basta. Yun lang yun. Akala ko pa naman totohanin ni Morales yung sinabi n'ya. Yun pala... s'ya ang tinapos! Anyway... di naman ako mean eh.. Naawa naman ako sa kanya kasi di na nga sya nanalo, di pa maganda yung pagkatalo n'ya...

Anyway.. ganyan talaga buhay! Mabuhay ka Pacman!

Christmas is Almost Here

My to-die for rest days are here again... Just three more hours before my week officially ends! Life is so great! It just seemed like yesterday was Tuesday and I had a hard time getting my self up for work.. and now it's already Sunday! Geez, how quickly time flies by. We won't notice it but soon it will be Decemeber, and that means only one thing, christmas! As I wrote before Decemember is one of my favorite months. For the obvious reason... And also it's the time of the year where everybody is happy. People put aside their problems for a while for the merriment of the season. And even you have loads on your shoulders just seeing the surroundings full of christmas decors, makes your load lighter and even makes you feel better.

Christmas, if not the happiest but, is one of the happiest holidays on earth. And we filipinos do a lot of preparations for the holiday. For one, we decorate our homes with joyous decors, we go christmas shopping not only for ourselves but for everyone we love, even for some persons that we don't know. my family does that, when someone we don't know comes knocking on our door on christmas day we give them something, like christmas give-aways. Its our simple way of sharing our blessings to the less fortunate. And last but not the least... We prepare a very sumptous and joyous feast on the eve of christmas.

What I love about christmas is the Simbang Gabi, which I haven't completed the 9 mornings yet ever, coz it seems like something comes up or just me feeling too lazy to get-up early in the morning. I also like the decorating part... I love decorating our house. I also love shopping for christmas presents, I like giving gifts but I love receiving gifts more! Hahahaha. I won't be hypocrite here... tell me who among you who doesn't want to receive presents? Raise your feet! Hehehehe. Though I know that "it's better to receive than to give... err to give than to receive" but ... I love receiving presents still!

Also I love the food, though I don't really help prepare. I only do the taste test and of course the eating! And... last but not the least.. I love the christmas gatherings.. be it with family... close friends... high school batchmates.. college firends.. company... organizations... affiliations... or simply the village's christmas party.

The only not-so-downside of christmas for me is.. you spend more.. and you eat more than the usual! But I already planned for that before-hand.. About the spending.. I already saved some money for that just a month after the year started, and I'm trying my hardest not to eat much these past months.. err weeks.. or days I think to prepare for the christmas feast.

Haaaayyy... I'm so excited. I just can't wait till its christmas..

Have a happy weekend evreryone... And pray that Pacquiao wins! Hehehehe

Busy Me

During my rest days I did nothing but sleep. Last Sunday I slept at noon then I woke up the following morning. I can feel my back aching because of oversleeping I think. Then yesterday, I made myself useful and I tidied or place. And its clutter-free now! Yay! Thanks to me! Also after cleaning, I had my dose of reading, its a book called The Java Man, I must admit it was boring but I don't know what keeps me glued to it. Maybe because part of me expects or wants to read something good from it. Or maybe there would be a twist in the story. True, there's a twist in the story and that's the only thing that keeps me going with that book. For me, only a quarter of that book is worht reading... the rest? nah! Don't ask.. it only made me sleepy the whole time I was reading it

After reading the book, I switch to writing. I'm writing a fictional story, I already wrote the first few chapters of the story. I already have the plot in mind. the story is like a film that is shown in my head, it keeps rolling everytime I close my eyes. I so like this story, I have my heart and soul in it. If ever this will the longest composition I ever made.

Anyway, first working day of the week for me. And I'm pretty sure I got a very long week ahead of me. With all the training and campaign monitoring. But I know it pays to be good, so I'll be good! Hehehe Ciao.

XOXO

Update

It's already November and I haven't updated my little blog since mom arrived. Anyway, I had a great time when mom was here, yeah she's left last Tue. We've got to visit our relatives when she was here and my brother and I were able to meet some of our second degree cousins. When mom was here I barely slept, we always have itineraries for the day. We go shopping, visit our relatives, go shopping again, dine out and any mother and daughter bonding you can think of. And it really felt good waking up and seeing her face. And also great to have her around because she we felt really pampered, she cooks for us and she helps or rather she keeps our place free of clutter. It was really great having her around, unfortunately she had to leave because she have work in the province. But it's still fine because we'll be seeing each other in a month's time. She'll be here before the holidays. We haven't decided yet as to where to celebrate the holidays but for sure the three of us will be together. Anyway we're still thinking about Santorini, Hongkong or Zamboanga as our holiday destination this year.

Ei, I'm forgetting an important news here... Sheina and I had been transferred from MIS to Technical department. We started last Tuesday here and so far so good. People here are also warm and friendly just like from our previous department.Our job now is not a database developer anymore, we are I dunno what to call it but I think we're most likely Dialer officers. Is there such thing? Hehehe.

oops .. we also had a seminar last Monday at the makati Shangrila. If you want to see our pictures you can view it here.

Anyway got to work, Ciao.

Mom's here

My mom finally arrived in our humble place last night after changing airlines, and delayed flight. I was the one who fetch her at the airport, it was my first time going to the airport commuting and alone. And believe me, it was hard... so many hitches but still I was able to fetch my mom. Hehehe. I won't elaborate everything that I went through... it's just very time consuming. Also, I wasn't able to report for work last night because the three of us, my mom, brother and I had a feast! We had a special reunion dinner and a great time conversing. After dinner, the bed was so tempting so I decided to take a power nap, unfortunately I wasn't able to get up for work. So there... I was absent! Hehehe. I don't have regrets though... It's so worth it

Still about High School Musical
I like this song... so true... I think this is my life's OST as of the moment. Heheheh

When There Was Me and You
Vanessa Anne Hudgens

It's funny when you find yourself
Looking from the outside
I'm standing here but all I want
Is to be over there
Why did I let myself believe
Miracles could happen
Cause now I have to pretend
That I don't really care

I thought you were my fairytale
A dream when I'm not sleeping
A wish upon a star Thats coming true
But everybody else could tell
That I confused my feelings with the truth
When there was me and you

I swore I knew the melody
That I heard you singing
And when you smiled
You made me feel
Like I could sing along
But then you went and changed the words
Now my heart is empty
I'm only left with used-to-be's
And once upon a song

Now I know you're not a fairytale
And dreams were meant for sleeping
And wishes on a star
Just don't come true
Cause now even I can tell
That I confused my feelings with the truth
Because I liked the view
When there was me and you

I can't believe that
I could be so blind
It's like you were floating
While I was falling
And I didn't mind
Cause I liked the view
Thought you felt it too
When there was me and you

Addiction

I'm addicted! This time not only to the idiot box, I'm way over it. Maybe I just got used to not being able to watch TV for quite a while for I've been a nocturnal worker for almost a couple of months, no time for channel surfing and for the couch potato in me. All I do nowadays, is just sleep, eat, shop.. and did I mention sleep? I'm getting all the sleep that I needed. And I feel that I'm gaining weight now, I don't know if it's a good sign or not. Some says it is, but some also says it isn't. Geez, I don't know what to believe now. Anyway back to my addiction/s... I so like Debenhams store now, I like the designer brands they offer: Pineapple, Redherring, Rocha.John Rocha, Jasper Conran, Star.. and a lot more! I'm so into Debenhams now, but not like my being 'into Kamiseta', it's my true love dude! Speaking of Kamiseta, my plans of having my own store will soon be realized! I'm openning my very own shop before the year ends. I'm working on it now. My second addiction... anything oatmeal. Whether oatmeal for for breakfast, lunch or dinner, oatmeal cookie, oatmeal soap... anything so long as it has oatmeal tattooed on it! Third, the High School Musical, I like the movie so much, I watched it a little more than 5 times I think. It's like my childhood favorite movie, the Sound of Music. I just love those kind of movies... musical. They are so lively! And I like the songs too, I mean the whole soundtrack of it. And basing on the number of times I watched it... you bet I memorized the songs by now. And lastly the newest addition to my addiction? Fruit juices! I'm sort of into a fruit juice diet, I can't really live with the fruit only diet literally so I just made it to an 'eat-anything-but-with-fruit-juice'


Reunited soon...

My mom's coming over for the first time to our new place in Mandaluyong on Tuesday... I'm excited to see her... I don't care if she'll go rant again on how I handle my finances... just the thought of her coming over makes me feel really good. Even better. She's like my comfort zone. I can't wait for her to arrive and for us to have our mother and daughter bonding.

Congratulations...

Kuya Red and K'Anne... They're not getting married, ok? They just got regularized. Way to go! Don't forget our treat!

Holidays...

Yay! Christmas is coming... and I can already feel the cool breeze of December... Christmas decors are visible almost everywhere... I sooo lurve christmas... it's the time of the year that everyone's got a reason to be happy. For the obvious reason... But it also means... spending... spending time with family and friends... and spending money for christmas presents. But it's ok, as my BIG sistah puts it 'it's like sharing our blessings..'. Can't wait for christmas to come! But before that, I have the next couple of days as my rest days... a reason to be happy!

My LSS' at the moment...

What I've Been Looking For
(from the movie High School Musical.. I love both versions.)

It’s hard to believe
That I couldn’t see
You were always there beside me

Thought I was alone
With no one to hold
But you were always right beside me

This feeling’s like no other
I want you to know

I’ve never had someone
that knows me like you do
The way you do
I’ve never had someone
as good for me as you
No one like you

So lonely before
I finally found
What I’ve been looking for diet. And it goes just fine with me, I don't feel so deprived and starved. I still get to eat anything that I want. How about you? Do you have recent addiction/s?

Antipolo Day!

K'Anne and I agreed to visit the cathedral of Nuestra Señora dela Paz Y Buen Viaje (Our Lady Of Peace and Good Voyage) in Antipolo last Monday. And prior to that day I, along with my FTI friends went to hear mass at the Quiapo church. When I told my brother about my going to Quaipo and Antipolo he even teased me that he wants her sister back. He thought that I was possessed or something, 'coz you know... I pray but I'm not really the type who does Visita Iglesia every once in a while. I jokingly answered him with a 'Ano ka ba, I'm even going to Baclaran and Manaoag next week.' And his jaw almost dropped, he just had the shock of his life!

Anyway, K'Anne and I met up at Mc Donalds in Starmall, we haven't been there before that really. It's just that the FX/van terminal to Antipolo is just at the front parking of the mall. We left Manila at past 11. We arrived in Antipolo at past 12 too, then we went straight to the church. Before we reached the church it was already drizzling, luckily each of us brought our own umbrella so it wasn't a hasle at all. When we were about to leave the cathedral, the rain stopped. So we headed out to the pasalubong center, we were welcomed by a lady who's in her thirties, I guess. And she ushered us to her stall, and offered us free taste of her suman and cashew nuts. I ate the suman, but I didn't buy it... Hehehe... K'Anne and I also tasted the cashew nuts, flavored and unflavored and she decided to buy the adobong kasuy, of course she didn't buy it right away. We haggled! Even just for ten pesos, hehehe. It's a good feeling when you're able to haggle. We even managed to ask for dagdag!

After buying the adobong kasuy, we went to look for a restaurant that is just unique in Antipolo. Unfortunately, we didn't get to find one. We asked almost every tricycle driver but all they suggested were fastfood chains, not unique eh? We also asked a tricycle driver to get us to Barrio Fiesta but he told us that it's way too far and we need to pay over a hundred bucks. So we just left the manong that we asked, and continued walking... searching for a good resto. We thought of going to Padi's point, so we went near the gas station to wait for a jeep that will take us to Sumulong highway, we waited for about 15 minutes but still no trace of jeep. So we walked further, and asked a police officer that we saw along the way, but still he can't suggest any resto aside form the fastfood chains. There was also a guy who offered to get us to a kainan and bulaluhan, but we refused. We didn't like the idea. Another tricycle driver offered to take us to Circumferential Road, 'coz he said that there might be restos there that we would somehow like. We gave in. We rode on his tryke, it was just about 5 minutes then he stopped to Alejandro's Grill and Restaurant, he asked us if we wanted to check it. We did, and just decided to have our lunch there. The driver charged us Php35! Not overpricing! (Sarcastic)

We went inside the resto, their guests were only a group of three persons. But since, were near hopeless, we just stayed. There were huts outside the resto, we took the hut that is in the far corner, away from the road but near the shade of the mango trees. I had sisig and K'Anne had sizzling squid and cream of mushroom soup for both of us. It was only I who ordered for rice 'coz K'Anne's on a diet. We were chatting endlessly while having our lunch, we had our pitures taken. We had a great time. We talked about what were going to do next, since we were both not familiar with the place we had no idea. But a memory of hinulugang taktak glided on my mind so I suggested that we go there, and see for ourselves.

After paying for our bill, we waited for a tryke outside the resto. When there was one, we asked the driver to take us to the sakayan to the waterfalls coz we thought that it was also far, but he suggested that he take us there. We asked for the price and he said that it would only cost us Php28, so off we go! When we got there, the trail down to the falls was muddy and slippery due to the rain. There were also a bunch of people there, having 'discussions', i suppose and some of them are just tourists like us, 'coz you know.. they were also taking pictures like us. The national park neither looks good nor bad, its state is somewhere in between. But from the looks of it, I can tell that the place used to be really great. (yeah right, how would it become a national park if it wasn't?) You can also see the trace of the recent super typhoon Milenyo, most of the branches of the trees were broken, there was a landslide, and the basin of the waterfalls is full of broken branches, leaves and some garbage. Its so sorry to see how the once great place had ended that way. Some people are just ungrateful to nature... it is also so sad to know that some people are also the cause of the destruction of nature. But its also great to know that they are planning to restore the national park, but I still think that prevention is better than cure... It only had me wished that they took great care of the place, it wouldn't have come to this state. But even with the destruction... we still managed to take great pitures! hehehehe thanks to our 'photographer' selves. Hehehehe.

After almost an hour, we left the place and went back to the city proper, we got off at McDo, used the toilet, buy us drinks (we were exhausted of the uphill climb from the falls to the exit.). Then went to the terminal... We arrived at Crossing at half past four. I walked K'Anne to the bus stop, then I headed to megamall to pay for my credit card bills and do some grocery shopping. haaayy, I'm not yet married but I get to do the housewives' stuff. I also brought mine and my brother's clothes to the laundromat. coz he asked me too. What a way to end a great day.... :)

Our Antipolo pictures here...