Shopping Bug Strikes (Again!)

As usual I woke up early this morning, a quarter past five. I had my dose of morning show while lying in bed. When the show ended I was still swimming on my bed, contemplating on what to do next. I don't know what got into me but I felt like doing the laundry, though I loathed doing it I did it anyway. I did the laundry, cleaned my closet, had pilates, bathed and even prepared our lunch. It's the first time in months that I had a very productive morning.

After we had our lunch me and my brother went to Baclaran church, and said our prayers. If you want to ask me what I prayed for, I won't tell you for now. It might get jinxed, and those are some things that have to be kept for the moment. Since we're near the MOA area we decided to swing by the mall. We scouted some of our favorite shops but we didn't get anything other than hunger and thirst. Of course you know what's next... we had our dinner there at Jatujak! I really missed their Bagoong rice, Chicken in Pandan leaves and their super tall and flavorful Thai iced tea. Our dinner was totally superb!

We we're already heading home when we passed by Marionnaud and I saw the big MAC sign! I begged my brother that we stop there for a minute and I will just "glance" around. The "glance" wasn't really a glance because I ended up testing some products and later did I know that I already spent 4.5 grand! Oh my! You may call me a late bloomer, but to tell you the truth it was the first time that I splurged that much on make-up. I know for some people what I spent was just a measly amount given that it was spent for make-up, but for me it IS the most! Honestly, most of the costly stuff in my kit are just given to me by my mom, aunt and grandmother. I think 500 was the most that I spent for a product, but today I spent 4.5 grand just for a compact powder, lip gloss and eye shadow palette! Aghhhh... But hey I think it was a good buy (that's what the MAC beauty consultant told me) because the eye shadow usually costs 800 bucks for a shade but the palette has 4 shades and I got it for only 2.1 grand, see my point? Anyway, I have no regrets it was so worth it (Don't argue with me please!)!


When we left Marionnaud we passed by Kamiseta and surprise, surprise! It's their first day on sale, and they're having up to 50% off! Gosh! I just can't let it pass! And luckily (or unluckily for my pocket) I wasn't able to leave empty-handed. I bought a dress and a top with 50% stashed from the original price. Lucky, lucky me! Unlucky, unlucky for my pocket.


I just have a simple wish.. I hope my mom won't read this post, on second thought I might want her to read this, not because I want to upset her but I want her to know that I have my very first MACs that I can call my own! Lucky me, my mom is a huge make-up fan! She has a vast collection! You can find any shade you need from her kit, from the very basic to the rarest shades. And she's very good at "painting" her face as well as others', I even think she could make it as her career if ever she wants to give up teaching in the future. And not only that, my mom as well as my aunts and grandma have these shoe/clothes/bag fetishes as well. So, I think I don't need to be surprised anymore... it runs in our genes... :p

8 is Enough!

The six of us have known each other since preschool. We went to the same grade school for awhile, but Joy and I transferred to different schools. The six of us met again in high school, we were at same school again, but with different set of friends. We knew each other quite well so if you asked me that time if we could ever be friends I'll say "NO" straight to your face for we have different and extreme personalities except from the fact that we were/are all achievers not only academically but as well as in arts and sports. But aside from that we have nothing in common.

It all started when we were nearing the end of our sophomore year in high school, we began hanging out together because one of our friends (from our own different cliques) are either cousins or started being cool with each other. And because of that we got to know each other better. And what used to be 3 different circles became one, not only that from 6 girls we grew to 8, and Jeyeen's aunt named us "8 is enough". And later did we know that most of our parents were also friends since high school! And as they say the rest is history.

The 8 of us have always been there for each other, for the best times and the worst times of our teenage lives. My friends are really crazy and unpredictable but that made them the best. We were the "cream of the crop" in our batch, and when we work together expect that there will only be two outcomes either the best or the worst! Hahaha! I won't mention here what my friends did to me or the things they made me do. But it wasn't that bad... just enough for me to grow and be ready for the bigger world in college.

We hang out everyday even after school, we used to have a group study but we don't really get to study, we always end up chatting the time away. We have sleepovers and we go shopping together like what most teenagers our age do back then. We go swimming, camping, hiking.. we basically do everything together. We never get tired of our faces. My high school life would be very different if I didn't get the chance to be friends with them.

I decided to blog about them because I recently talked to 2 of them, and after that I found out that I missed them so much. We're hoping to meet up again during the holidays, and hopefully I can make it home this Christmas.

And don't be surprised if my next posts will be about each of them.. I'll try my best to introduce them to you one by one, and hope that I can give them justice on my entries. Ciao.

Don't Read: Boring!

I really don't have anything to blog about except from the thing that happened to me/us, but I don't want to talk about it now, might get jinxed. So anyway since I don't have other choices might as well blog something that happened yesterday, but seriously if you don't want to fall asleep while or after reading this blog please STOP now but if you want to have a little yawn and some snoring after, carry on. But please don't blame the blogger, I already warned you. Ok, so here goes nothing....

After getting off from work last Saturday, I went to have breakfast with some 'friends' and then met up with friends (notice that there's a BIG difference between 'friends' and friends) at Watering Hole in Shang. Then we went to a bookstore because my friend Jeff wanted to buy a book for his girlfriend and he wants me to suggest or find a good book for her. I am not really an expert when it comes to books but it helps that I read a lot or should I say I read anything that I see that have words plastered on it. And mind you, all my friends love the book that I suggest them to read. After Jeff bought the book we went loitering around the mall. We basically just look around the shops. Then while Jeff went to fetch her girlfriend, Janny and I went to another bookstore and did some reading. I was almost halfway done with the book I'm reading when Janny got a text from Jeff telling us to meet him at the cinema. We went to the cinema and watched The Seeker. The movie wasn't so bad but it wasn't so good either, to say it's just so-so. When the movie ended Janny and I were like "That's it?". The plot is predictable but though it was, there was still a little part of me hoping that it will turn out quite well. But surprise, surprise! It didn't. It was just so-so. Period.

After watching the movie, we went home straight. I need to get some sleep because of work. What else could there be? There's no Saturday night out for me! Just work-ing out.

I just hope my mom won't find out about my malling yesterday, she would be mad at me. Because she was telling me that I shouldn't be going to the mall for a while after the Glorietta 2 explosion last Friday. And there I was, just a day after the explosion. Sorry mom, but I think it's safer to go malling after the explosion because there are guards everywhere (with their huge bomb sniffing dogs) and the security is really tight, they're on full red alert, remember? I think I made my point.... so don't you worry mom. And I made it home yesterday without a bruise or a splinter, only numbed feet.

Superpowers, Super Cool!

While waiting for Heroes to buffer what's better thing to do? Of course spew some words on my blog! I was almost mad, and I almost want to send a letter to NBC on why Nikki/Jessica, DL and Micah aren't on the first 2 episodes of the show. I love their family, they are all special, not in the sense that they are some 'special people/child', but they all have powers man! Though I'm not really convinced that Nikki/Jessica's MPD (multiple personality disorder) is a gift but nonetheless DL and specially Micah got the coolest. Think talking to an ATM, and asking it to release cash even without the use of an ATM card nor a bank account. That's superb right? I can't even imagine on what I'm going to buy with all those bucks! Hahaha! Maybe that's one of the million reasons why I'm not given that kind of power, or any power on that matter.

DL, Nikki and Micah

Speaking of superpowers, what superpower do you want to have? I know it's like a kiddie question but I just wanna know, or maybe I'm asking you this for me to also have a reason to tell you what powers I wanna have. Whatever! Anyway, I want Micah's powers, but what will I do with all those cash if I can't even defend myself? So that made me want to have Claire's... she can regenerate everything in her body. She may not stay dead forever but the point is she still can't defend herself and she can't talk to ATMs and ask for money! Hahaha! So, I now decided that I would love to have Peter Petrelli's. That man has SUPERPOWERS, and I mean literally! He has the ability to adopt/share any power from any gifted person he came in contact with just by being beside them or even just think of them. Ain't that SUPER COOL? Of course it is! I know that made you also want to have Peter's powers, but hey I'm the first. Just kidding! You can still have Peter's powers...

Claire Bennet/Buttler and Peter Petrelli

I am starting to imagine the things that I can do with Peter's powers... hmnn.. fly, paint the future, regenerate, teleport, talk to computers, be invisible, be a tracking device, walk on walls, hear everything even a person's heartbeat, heal... I could go on with a very long list. And literally I could be one of the most powerful persons in the world. Of course, that would be me, Peter and Sylar (if he's still alive, bet he is).

Ok, I'll check the video now if it's over buffering....

Not yet done, but it's almost halfway.

Need to do something, for me not to get bored... Aha! I'll do some bloghopping for a while. I'll get back to you later and I'll tell you what happened in season 2's third episode. Ciao!

Opa! Cyma!

We went to Robinson's Galleria yesterday, I've been there once, but I only met up with a friend at NBS, and yesterday was the first time that I went around the entire place. I had a little shopping spree there but we went to Shang (not again?)after for dinner.

We dined at Cyma Greek Taverna at the ledge. The food's really great! Evgefstos! (delicious). We had Spinach and Artichoke fondue for appetizer, then we also had Mousakka and Roka pasta. As always their lemon iced tea is still the best!

our food

my brotherand myself!

Shopping Bug

I got the bug these past three days. My spending got overboard, and way, way overboard! Been spending non-stop. I've been splurging on shopping, dining, spa and other things. I just don't want to get over my complete list because I might get a heart attack. Seriously, I was kinda out of the spending scene the past month, I abstained. But this week? Never mind... don't really want to think about it. A girl can't have too many shoes, clothes and bags, right? (yeah, right, talk to the hand Kristina!) But some of the stuff I bought were on sale, like how many times you get to find good stuff on sale?! Just rarely.. so you see, I'm still being reasonable. Please don't argue because I don't want to confuse myself... I'm still on the process of convincing her that what I did is very reasonable.

And this morning a friend asked me to 'visit' TriNoMa with her after lunch... I'm still thinking if I'll go with her.

"No you won't Kristina!", said the little voice in my head.

"But a little window shopping won't hurt, right? And who knows I might find some best buys there too! It'll be great!", said I.

"Ok, but just a little shopping, ok?", reminded the little voice.

"I won't promise but I'll try!", (grins)

Ok, fine! I know I need to stop this nonsense. I need to get up and take a bath now. I feel that I just got out from the sauna, it's not really hot though. The weather's just fine but I just finished doing Pilates. So, I'm really sweating and panting while typing. Ewww gross! Hahahah.

Ciao.

Something Different

I wrote an entry before about me wanting to do something new/different. Well... I did! It's not really that different or new because I already did something like it before but it's still kinda different because it's so nice to be doing it again after months and months. I know I'm making things complicated and my explanation doesn't make any sense. All I know is that it feels so good to deviate every once in a while. :)

MIS Reunion

We had our little reunion today, unlike the last time we have more attendees today (+Rhostle/Kitty). Master Wilson couldn't make it because of work (work sucks, it gets in the way of everything!) and Elza ... we don't really know about her, she's been out of reach.

We met up at Mega, as usual we didn't know where we're going all we knew is that we were starving! We had late lunch at Cavana a Singaporean resto. We lingered for about an hour there even after we finished our lunch, we had so many catching up to do. We were really loud, I swear! After we left Cavana we still didn't know where we're going after, we made our feet do the walking and thinking. After quite sometime we decided to have our dessert at Cold Rock at The Fort Strip.

When we got at Cold Rock, we changed our minds, because we don't feel like eating ice cream anymore, we want cake! So our feet went on and on till we got to the Bonifacio High Street. We had our pictures taken at their 'plaza', and we strolled along the high street. But after a few rounds there we still couldn't find a place where we could have our cake. We walked a little more again and we landed at Piazza Serendra, we had another series of photo shoot and finally we arrived at Chelsea! We had our dinner there which is consist of pizza, cheesecake, Pavlova and the teas with a twist. We weren't able to get the best seats in the resto because there was a private party, we only dined alfresco but it was still fine. The food there is really great only the service wasn't maybe because they were busy catering for the private party inside. After our sumptuous meal K'Anne and Kitty left. K'Anne is the Cinderella of our group, she has a curfew at the age of 23! And Kitty left earlier also because she's meeting her college friends, I think.

After the two of them left Shein, kuya Red and I decided to stay for a while since it's too early for us to go to work. Our shift does not start before 11PM and it was only half past 7 when we finished our dinner. We decided to go to Market Market and watch a movie, unluckily the LFS starts at 9PM, we can't wait for that. We dismissed the idea, then we thought about wall climbing. But since I was wearing skirt, I decided to buy myself a pair of pants but when I was fitting some pants kuya Red said that he can't wall climb anymore wala na daw syang energy, he's sleepless like me because we both had work the night before. Again our wall climbing session is called off and is scheduled to another day when we're all energized and had enough sleep unlike today. After some walking, more likely dragging ourselves we were really tired and exhausted.

at mega undecided on where to go next


The Fort Strip Parking

Bonifacio High Street

Still at BHS


Piazza Serendra


Dinner at Chelsea


Our food for dinner


tea monsters at Chelsea

Instead of going straight to work, Shein and I went to my place and took a nap before going to work. And now we are here working our little butts, monitoring the dialer, uploading pics, in my case blogging and troubleshooting some problems here in the office. I know I won't be able to have my little nap tonight... I know tonight will be a very tough night. Good luck to sleepless me. But no regrets! I had so much fun! I had more than one good laugh today!

Seriously Anticipating

Yey! MIS Day!

We've been planning to get together with my ex-IS officemates and finally it will be happening today! The last time we went out together was the 5th of May this year, so it's like 5 months ago and it was only I, Shein, K'Anne and kuya Red. And today I am hoping that we'll have more attendees if not complete attendance. I am soooo excited! Ironically, we've been planning this since the last week of August I think but until now we haven't decided yet on where we're going. We only agreed to meet up somewhere near and accessible to all of us.

But I know whatever happens and wherever we'll be today it will be so much fun. As far as I can remember there was never a dull moment with these people... even at work! We just simply click! When we're all together we can make even the gloomiest day fun!

I can't wait to get off from work! I'll post here later everything that will happen today.

When There's Too Much Drama, It's Scripted!

The other day I was (almost) sleepless,
Yesterday I overslept.
Today, I dunno yet...


There is so much drama going around. I really think that my life is scripted but I'm the only person who haven't got the script.

I'm having a hard time and I feel that my life is becoming more like a routine. I want to do something, something new, something different from the things I do.

Is this the time when I need to take some time off for myself and breakaway from everything? They say timing is everything but I just don't know when is the right time.

Does anyone happen to have the script? I just want to have it photocopied, I'll give it back to you, I promise.

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!