Thursday, October 31, 2002
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Hah! I didn't hit my knee on any table leg today! I made sure I stayed away from the table legs. Hehe.
Anyway, to celebrate that (as if! Sa akin lang yun), the long weekend, a working week of training (technically five days) and new friendships formed (aww), the four girls in my batch went to Bargo to just hang around (the only other guy had to go). It was fun, though we weren't complete. We just sat around, talked about life before we met, like college and high school and life after this job we're in together. Funny noh? Whenever I'm with a group of people my age, we never fail to pause and wonder at how old we've become. It's still kind of hard to believe that we're in our early twenties already and some things we envisioned to happen, just have to happen! I know some people who planned to get married at 25, but now, it's a bit too soon. How weird. Just a few years ago, being twenty something was a vague idea that we filled in with all sorts of somewhat realistic and attainable dreams. Now those ideas are a bit hard to reach and imagine we thought of such. But I know some people (Jo! Super nakakaaliw talaga! I'm excited for you! *grin*) are taking steps to those dreams, which serve as an inspiration in helping one consider and chart life's direction to where you want it to go. Getting into college, my world view really expanded (and that isn't much pa because my college was a bit 'elite'), but it's funny to realize that your world also gets smaller with the people you know and get to know. Hay life.
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Tuesday, October 29, 2002
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Ugh. I just really checked my knees tonight. I swear, my knees take a beating everyday. Like for example, for the past few days, I always accidentally bump it (and I mean, really bump) into metal table legs. I tend pa naman to move around and sit in various areas of the table--and yet, I still hit any (or both) knees. So both my knees have bruises. *ouch* Everyone has taken to counting how many times I whisper loudly, "Owowowowow!" (sunod sunod talaga yan). It's funny sometimes, but it's just so bad! I was so glad today we weren't in that room.
I'm feeling so senti talaga these days, it's weird. So on KaZaA, I am always playing "Suddenly" by Soraya, "Again" by Janet Jackson or "Tattooed on My Mind" by D'Sound (I regret missing their by-invite concert at Shang), etc. Wonder what's with all this ka-senti-han.
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Monday, October 28, 2002
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How do kindred souls meet?
I'm just feeling a bit sentimental. I've been missing a lot of people lately.
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Sunday, October 27, 2002
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Just checked Penshoppe's website. My mistake. They don't have pics of Mandy Moore. Just of Brad Turvey, the guy with her in the commercial (also a member of their Youth Council).
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The Site Meter is pretty useful for checking out site referrals. The keywords people use to land into my blog are pretty interesting:
andy roddick mandy moore - I love Andy (I have this huge crush on the guy) and I actually like Mandy. In fact, some of my favorite songs are from her: "I Wanna Be With You", "Crush". But I'm not sure if I want them together. Although medyo bagay naman sila... gallery prince harry mario testino Prince Harry 18th birthday pics prince harry pics october 2002 Oh. Check out Prince Harry's birthday pics by Mario Testino here. mandy moore penshoppe pics - Penshoppe would have that. john mayer your body is a wonderland video model - Umm... well, I don't know who that girl is, but I do recall kidding my friends I wouldn't mind being the girl in that video. After all, who wouldn't want John Mayer singing to you that song? mandy moore a penshoppe model penshoppe and MANDY MOORE Yep, it's her alright. I'm not really into the idea, plus the ad promoted more of her than the brand. Oh well. gma channel 7 - Not my favorite channel on TV. The Pondering Bear - Aww. I thought of grizzly bears or polar bears in the "Thinker" pose. It was a cute thought. A bit irreverent, but cute.
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Yesterday, someone asked me what country I'd like to go to if I had the time and money. I usually say "France"--I mean, I was so influenced by all the postcards my dad sends me from there (always, always beautifully done) and my friends and former classmates always say it's lovely talaga. But after Episode 4 of The Amazing Race 3, I blurted out, "Portugal!" It really is a nice place daw with lots of culture and history. One day, one day, one day...
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Thursday, October 24, 2002
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I love TARsdays! But I am so annoyed at today's episode (Episode 4)! Kainis! Gwennie was right, maiinis ka sa ending! Grr. Well, til next TARsday (as well as the replays at 12mn tonight and on Sundays! Hehe).
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Tuesday, October 22, 2002
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 I'd love to get a copy of this book, Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss. I just stumbled on it one time while browsing in the store and go so into it. I keep on reading this in Power Books whenever I see it or when I have time to dawdle. It's pretty inspiring and a fun read. A lot of the words make a lot of sense to older people, even if written in rhyme and meant to be read to kids. (Some striking points: "The Waiting Place", the place where you're alone and have to depend on yourself.) Too bad it's more than Php500 (just checked the price--it's Php699!), but if and when I do have money to spare, that's one book I'd definitely get.
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Sunday, October 20, 2002
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Why does Alias have to be tagalized here? What's the point? Tagalized shows somehow always lose the essence of what the person is saying. Can you imagine shows like Friends in Tagalog? The humor would lose its quality. Who said Tagalized shows are mabenta here (well, aside from Spanish soaps, but that's from Spanish to Tagalog. That's not so bad. But English to Tagalog? I think a sizable number of Filipinos do understand English)? *hmph*
Cute quiz result--ooh, I'm craving for cake all of a sudden.  Take the Dessert Quiz
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Friday, October 18, 2002
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Can I just say that the hospital visit Ami and I went to yesterday will probably go down as one of the most emotionally draining and depressing one?
We went to Rizal Hospital in Pasig, which is a government-run place. We asked the social workers there who we could visit at the children's ward and they referred us to two cases. The children's ward is located at the basement and it's always full. There are beds in the hallway and the bantays sometimes don't have stools to sit on, so they stand or walk around. Kids and infants infect one another as well. The first case was this girl. She was found wandering in Quiapo and this kind hearted small time fish vendor willingly took her in (and that woman has five school age children and a husband who earns below minimum wage) because she was afraid of the girl being abused in the streets. The girl apparently left her family because they abused her. The girl then happened to have a kidney disease, so the woman brought her to the hospital. All I can say is, I cannot imagine the spirit of the woman. She took the girl in and took care of her. The woman can't sell now because of the MMDA's rules against selling on the sidewalks, so no income on her part. She stays with the girl overnight in the hospital and takes care of her, as a real mother would (with all the dialysis, cleaning the girl up and stuff). The second case is this little boy who has a tumor on his face--like along his jaw. I think he's a wish kid, but I'm not sure if he's with Make-A-Wish or the wish show on GMA. Anyway, the social worker mentioned that that kid's bed was outside the ward (as in, in the hallway for everyone to see, right by the stairs) because no one wanted to come near him already because, well, it seems that the kid's time is near. The mother is single, unemployed with two other children. The little boy undergoes chemo and he's so skinny. He can't eat and all that. It was so sad. It wasn't only me whose eyes were welling up with tears, but that of the mother's, as she chatted us up. They need so much--chemo, drugs, blood (to repay the blood bank), etc., but it's not easy. And yet, the mother is not as broken as a weaker person would be. I was pretty much humbled yesterday after the visit.
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Thursday, October 17, 2002
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I feel so blah today. I don't feel like communicating with anyone. Which is bad because I'll be meeting Gwen for lunch and Amity for lunch again. Then Ami and I will go on a hospital visit. You can't really be dreary in a visit--and I feel so blah. Yech. I haven't even been responding to text messages from friends this morning. What is it with me today?
I can tell I am not myself today: I'm not wearing any of my dangling earrings (arte!). How sad.
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Tuesday, October 15, 2002
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Just found a site that has the audio and video clip of Andy Roddick rapping to "Ice Ice Baby". Yay... I think I can save it. 38 seconds of amusement. I am that shallow.
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Weird dream last night. It involved one of my friends from high school and she wanted to run away or something, I forgot. I was just mulling over that dream because I haven't spoken to that girl for about two to three years already. Our group of friends sort of estranged her already, considering the mess she made out of her life (or something like that)--along with everyone else around her. So now I wonder how she is. I can't just call her anymore--I don't think she lives with her parents anymore. I think her mom gave up on her already. I don't even know her cell number because the last number she gave me, when I called it, she had apparently sold the sim card to someone already. I don't know where or how she is. My dream got me thinking and by chance, I found a looong letter she gave me for my 17th birthday, which came along with my friends' gifts to me then: a sleeping teddy bear in blue, a porcelain pencil holder with a teddy bear in blue, a pair of blue flowered earrings and a blue anklet. The last two, my friend chose them, and I wore the anklet to college until it snapped during Chem class and fell into the gutter that ran along the science lab. Anyway, I wonder how she is, where she is and all that. It's so weird how someone who supported my peanut butter addiction, wrote long letters and all that in high school could be so, so different now.
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Monday, October 14, 2002
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Thanks to Jo for the resurrection of the bubbles banner! Super thank you!  It's true--got attached to them, somehow!
The lines from John Mayer's "Your Body is a Wonderland", which are just about the sweetest I've heard lately: Something 'bout the way your hair falls in your face I love the shape you take when crawling towards the pillowcase You tell me where to go and Though I might leave to find it I'll never let your head hit the bed Without my hand behind it *Sigh* I see that video almost every time I turn on the TV and flip to MTV or Myx. Lately, it's also an LSS (last song syndrome). But it's such a sweet song kase, although some of my friends beg to differ.
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Saturday, October 12, 2002
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Thursday, October 10, 2002
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I am in an Internet cafe right now and sobrang awful ng keyboard! Argh! (I always seem to have something to complain about noh?)
Just met up with Gwennie and she left already because she had to go to work. It's a Thursday habit which I don't mind at all. We met up for one in Glorietta--a change of scenery and maybe, just maybe, "run into" Jerk. Haha. Of course we didn't see him! It's an unspoken rule: if we're looking for someone, chances are, we wouldn't see that person because we're expecting to see him. Which is just as well. I don't want to see Jerk anyway. Not now! Everytime I pass by Penshoppe, it's always blaring a Mandy Moore song. Duh. She's the image model. But someone told me that that ad (which I see at least once in every primetime TV show I watch on every channel) promotes Mandy and not Penshoppe. Is it because she sang "Cry" and the background music was "Cry" as well? At least she's in Penshoppe clothes di ba? Tessa told me to check this site out. It has pics of Prince Harry on his 18th birthday by Mario Testino. Wow, Hars (Tessa and I are feeling close) is so grown-up already. My... how fast time flies. Ew. I realized I sound like an old woman already. But, aw. The limelight has always been on Prince William, so it's nice to see Harry for a change. I am dying to check out the TAR3 website just to see who got eliminated. I missed the via satellite telecast this morning because I left the house already. Yes, I am that kind of person. I don't like surprises so much. In S3, I just had to see if Ethan would win, so I went online during lunch in the school libe just to see it. But maybe this time, I'll try not to check the site out para exciting later. Hay. I hate this keyboard.
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Wednesday, October 09, 2002
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Sometimes, Hotmail and MSN frustrate me so much. Or maybe it's not their fault, really. But my account is always overflowing with lots of useless mail, even with the junk mail filter. I almost cried when I saw I had 986 messages from some "Melanie" inviting me to her, uh, dorm room in my junk mail. Grr. That creature sent me more than what Hotmail provides (and that isn't much), so my account size is "always critical. You may not be getting all of your messages". And my MSN Messenger never connects to wherever. Or disconnects when it feels like it. So grr. I just felt like ranting.
These aren't the results of the quiz I took (I should be wearing Gap daw), but... ... I was hoping they put Marat Safin on that image. Now he's a cutie. Hehe.
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Monday, October 07, 2002
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Just rambling...
Aww, I received in my e-mail today pictures of the newborn daughter of this teacher in school, who happens to be a good friend of mine (mainly because of our org). What a pretty name they gave her--Mira Alexandra! Super cute. I bet that kid's going to be as makulit as her dad! Let's see. Andy Roddick finally admitted in his live chat last Saturday that it's him and Mandy Moore na talaga (finally, finally! The mod said, "Level with your fans now..."). Then this weekend was the debut of Mandy's ad for Penshoppe. I thought her singing voice was a tad too loud in the ad? But it was cute, alright. Wonder how Penshoppe's sales are going to be now due to Mandy? Well. I won't comment na on the game last Saturday. Enough has been said about it. The team I was rooting for lost. *sigh*
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Saturday, October 05, 2002
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I must be so well-rested in this interim of my life. For the past few days, I've been sleeping at 2a and getting up at around 8 or 9a. Six to seven hours is enough already, right? I wouldn't have woken up early this morning if not for this maya bird that went in the area between the screen and the windows. I could hear it flapping (it was right above my bed) until it found the open window where it got in. I was already feeling sorry for it, but I was too scared to open the screen because it might get even more agitated and fly into the house. Good thing it got out safely. *whew*
Friday Five on a Saturday! 1. What size shoe do you wear? A 7! 2. How many pairs of shoes do you own? More than ten? 3. What type of shoe do you prefer (boots, sneakers, pumps, etc.)? I love to wear slip ons or sandals. 4. Describe your favorite pair of shoes. Why are they your favorite? One is my old pair of slip ons which I've had since second year college. It's classic and black and goes with anything. 5. What's the most you've spent on one pair of shoes? I think Php 2,500. But that was because I was pretty desperate already. I needed another pair of "full" shoes for school (business attire kase *roll eyes*) My feet don't look good in some (a lot, actually) shoes and I found this pair fit my feet really well. Besides, I reasoned, the brand of shoes was known to last. 
take the nerd test. and go to mewing.net. a nerd utopia. Interesting.
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Friday, October 04, 2002
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Andy Roddick will have a live chat 7p CST... so I am assuming that's 8a here on Saturday or something. Hmmm... I'm sure people will throw at him the Mandy question! It would be interesting to be there, but I'm sure the site will be clogged (just like the site which had Andy rapping "Ice Ice Baby"). I'm not a rabid fan as the others (you should hear about other people and what they do just to get close to the guy--and I definitely don't obsess over him as much as they do), but it's still interesting to see what he's up to.
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Thursday, October 03, 2002
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Why does Channel 5 have to count the days before Christmas? No one else is counting (except for the most jologs radio stations here). Why ba? Why are they rushing?
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I really enjoy Amazing Race. I like it better than S4. Maybe because TAR is all about the team's own strategy and how they cope with everything else and most importantly, themselves. Funny personalities for this season. I also like the idea of the challenges (sky diving in the 1st ep) and being able to go to different places all over the world (downside: yes, you get to go all over the world, but can't enjoy it because you're running all over and racing against other people).
I remember when my friends were talking about TAR and who would we like to be partnered with among our friends. I think Tessa and Loids wanted to be partners with each other, while me and Ina daw would be partners (we're sisters in our barkada), but they teased us that we would take quite a while because we would be eating! *lol* Ina and I like to eat, but I'm sure in a competition like that, it would be different! Local reality TV shows. The only one I know now is Single, a 30 minute show tracking the dating and daily adventures of an interesting girl. Last season (which I didn't watch) was about a guy, but I think in the end it didn't work out for him and the girl (Julia Clarete). This time it's about Asia, who seems pretty cool. A lot of people don't like her because she comes on too strong or she's too liberated or wild or whatever. But I guess that's what makes her unique. Today's episode wasn't much, just a little more about her day. Maybe next week. Wonder if local reality TV shows will click here? I missed "The Exchange"--come to think of it, I don't know anyone who has seen that show. It was a Probe production. A girl was sent to the Czech Republic and lived with a foster family and this Czech guy was sent here to live in that girl's family. The show showed them in various experiences, how they coped with the quirks of either country, etc. I think that was the basic premise. It looked nice (based on the website), but above all, it was intelligent. Compared to the shows on, say, Channel 2 and Channel 7 during primetime. I swear! Some of those shows are the silliest ever.
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Heehee. So I said I would lay off reality TV shows muna. Looks like I won't. (I said "might" naman di ba?) I caught Amazing Race 3 this morning (at 9a--how early! And Studio 23 said 11a before. Buti na lang my bro flipped to Studio 23). And how can I miss the first episode of Asia's dating adventures in Single? My high school batchmate pala is the producer of that show. Aliw.
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Tuesday, October 01, 2002
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Loids and I met up today... the usual, hang around, chat over lunch (unlimited potato wedges with ketchup and mayo). It was fun. I miss those days that Gwennie and I could meet each other everyday. We're settling for once a week or two and it's not that bad, really.
Argh... I might overhaul na naman the look of my blog. I got so into looking through sites with different blog designs, I couldn't resist. My problem is now choosing a new template. But that means endless "post and publish"-ing. And I don't feel patience is my particular virtue right now. Grr. My OCness is working again. Because I know once I'm done changing the look, I'll want another one again. Sheesh. I may never get satisfied, so I'll keep this template muna. Oh... Loids updated me on the Jerk of my universe. Seems like he's working where we met before. Ho ho ho.
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