Tuesday, January 30, 2007
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Right now craving for a lot of things - not helped by my friends who tell me they're craving for the same things too - and I'm not helping myself by trawling through food blogs. Go figure. Will have to remedy this soon. Labels: random
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Sunday, January 28, 2007
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 I was up until about 5a, trying to figure out who I was with the whole day (I've been thinking about it for the past few days, ever since Jo emailed this to us) since I know I was with one of them (the celebrants) but I can't recall who. Goodness, old school picture! :) It just says in my planner in 2000 that it was a surprise birthday party and that it was a tiring day in school and Megamall before heading to Jo's place where it was held.Wahaha I still have braces there! Gwennie and Anna K both have short hair! I wonder why almost everyone's in slacks (I look grubby, as usual). This was a surprise in my email and I won't deny I got senti again (haha whenever I'm this senti, it prompts Gwennie to tell me I'm delikado again)! I asked for our EK pics as well (the one and only trip to EK). Now that's an interesting bunch of photos I can't wait to see.
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Saturday, January 27, 2007
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I have never been a manicure-pedicure addict (thanks to my mom who, early on, dissuaded me from using nail polish and the like), but you know me. With the emergence of nail places, I go every now and then - usually when finances allow or when badly needed. My latest pedicure was badly needed as my nails suffered from my adventure going to the pier with Amity - to which I will write about one day. My usual nail place is Nail Spa in Shangrila because it's accessible and I love the place and the treatments. But when I received some gift certificates last year for Nail Tropics in Libis, I might shift loyalties there. I've also received rave reviews from my friends who swear by their treatments and facilities. I usually go for the Nail Tropics Organic Mani or Pedi spa, which is a bit cheaper than the same treatment I have at Nail Spa. The package has a choice of treatment (when I got the manispa, it was cucumber something that had my hands feeling like a sandwich), scrub, massage and polish. As opposed to Nail Spa, though, I have to pay additional for certain polishes, but I prefer my polish nude, so it didn't really bother me the least. Nail Tropics is fairly small, but cozy enough. I love their cushy chairs wherein one can fall asleep - and my friends do. I don't particularly like the choice of reading materials, more so targeted to older women, but that's okay. I read what I can. The technicians know their regular clients, adding to the comfy atmosphere. I don't know if it was a coincidence or what, but the technician assigned to me was the one I had more than half a year ago. My nails came out pretty and my legs and feet relaxed after the massage and scrub. I wish I could do this regularly! But definitely a good place to go to relax and treat myself. Another place I'd love to try is Dashing Diva, thanks to a heads up from Jo. Imagine that, I didn't know about Dashing Diva until Jo mentioned it - and she's in the US. Warrants a trip to Rockwell for that. :)
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Thursday, January 25, 2007
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I'm in an Internet cafe right now, waiting for Patty and dying of envy as I see my barkada's pictures last Christmas. Yes, I was unfortunately sick at the beginning of the year - happily not on January 1 (still believe in that whatever I do/feel/am on the first day of the year...), but on January 2 onwards. I do get sick that time of the year. Humored myself by taking pictures in Starbucks while waiting for an appointment. Picture was inspired by the barista my friends and I encountered a few weeks ago. I like to look at how the baristas write my name and the barista before had such pretty cursive. I regret not taking a picture of the her handwriting. I regretted it even more when I started eyeing Patty's drink and saw what was written on her cup: Pathy! Even Patty didn't notice until I pointed it out. Pathy, written in the big, beautiful script. That got us amused - how many ways can you spell "Patty" and would you be named "Pathy" anyway? Pathy is unusual enough. The one in the picture was written by a very nice barista who said I looked quite familiar and if I worked in the area. Yes, my friends and I used to pop over all the time, but I left them already. Sigh.Oh, awkward moment today. I ran into a classmate of mine. Now we're not close and in school, I didn't really talk to him and vice versa. And so running into him today? Awkward. I am so not the queen of small talk. He said hi and said I was getting thin and... I really didn't know what to say to that. Argh. You could tell. Awful. I've been thinking of cutting my hair short again. I miss having short hair - last time was in college yet? - and I'm a bit bored with my shoulder length hair. I don't really do anything with my hair and I miss the flippy shortness of it all. But then, longish hair looks nice especially in formal events since there are a lot of options for it - not that any stylist could do anything to my fine hair whenever I have hair and make up done for an event. Oh well. We'll see. A rambly, useless, random post. I just need to get everything off my mind right now. Labels: friends, random, vanity
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007
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-It's the End of the World, Grey's Anatomy, 2x16 Cristina is one of my favorite characters on Grey's Anatomy. I was watching this episode today for the nth time and how Meredith feels? Pretty much struck me for once. I know I don't need a Cristina to kick me out of bed, but just sometimes... :( Labels: favorites, grey's anatomy, life
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Friday, January 12, 2007
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I'm a bit I mean, come on! I already gave the ones who took my call the details I needed and they just have to call me back to inform me. Hmph. I'm charming naman (and that's saying a lot since I'm quite the surly one! Hahaha!) to the people I leave my messages, name and landline number to. It's just a simple request. *whiiiine* Hehe. I can be so bratinella, my friends tell me. But seriously. I really, really need the information and a return call is all I need. (Hey, it took me a lot of nerve to even call at first!) Please. :)
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007
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I've been staring about my room day in and day out, trying to figure out how to clean out and organize my room. I just feel like it's no longer the "organized chaos" I used to think it was. I'm so tempted to actually hire a professional organizer to help me declutter my room and hopefully, my life. I initially thought of embarking in the overhaul of my room by starting out with my closet and then later on, the desk and dresser. The clothes closet? Not working out well, although I was able to donate some for my mom's Christmas drive. The desk? Not working out well either. Found lots of letters from my grade school and high school friends (I digress: I receive a lot of letters, but I don't think I'm very diligent in answering them. That's sad). Some I could read and gush over, others, especially from one particular friend, I still can't bring to re-read. Too painful, I think. But that shouldn't be the case, right? It's a new year and I've decided to really move on and up. So there. I thought it would be easy to just throw and throw away, but it's not that simple. I really am a sentimental packrat. Sigh. Not good. Although I had fun (somewhat) looking through my stuff. As with the interesting stuff I found: Palancas from my high school retreats - I will never forget making out palancas to everyone in class the night before the retreat. One classmate actually printed out a generic albeit funny one and pencilled our names in. I received a lot as well, especially from my kids from my org before. My organizer from college - hahaha! With my teeny tiny writing that could fit into a one inch by two inch rectangle detailing my day! Hahaha! That includes the "Honeybunch" taxi and the Ledge days. Various Post-It notes from my friends - My friend Ina and I carried on a conversation about conjugal communion on a small Post-It. Actually, it doesn't have to be Post-It, but it's the medium of choice since I could stick it in my planner. Scratch paper does the job, like when Anch and I would do in some boring class or meeting we had. Tickles stationery - I looooved Tickles' stationery, the pretty ones with the bears? I used to collect that. I was pretty much a suki of Tickles in Glorietta and Shangrila for the binders, fillers, organizers, but super the stationery talaga was my favorite. Kind of bummed they don't have it anymore, but I still have a lot of those. Ideal for palancas! More high school stuff - my CAT tickler and nameplate, my class ring, class pictures (I look so... eep), fair and Family Day pictures (wah), some papers (I don't know why I didn't throw those away because the others, I did), programmes where I wrote, school paper (but of course!), etc. Argh so much stuff! Especially when I see my high school stuff, I stop and remember who I was (and how I came to be! Hehe). And it's interesting! No wonder it's taking forever! Wah.
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Thursday, January 04, 2007
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If what you do/feel/are in January 1 is any indication of how the rest of the year will turn out - or so they say - I'd have to admit mine would be boring. I had a fairly interesting but distracting holiday weekend caused by some kerfuffles. Oddly, the new year somehow brought forth some kind of courage. I hope I'd have that courage for the whole year. My friend Gwennie told me of this pamahiin her mom told her about the first 24 days of the year as well. Like the weather for January 1 will be the weather for the month of January, weather for January 2 - February and so on. I didn't get the second part, but I think January 13 is the weather for December, January 14 - November and so on. Aliw no? In college, we used to religiously take down the weather per day (I'll never forget a January 7 or 8, when it rained real bad while walking from school to Shangri-la Mall), although I don't really recall if it was accurate. Maybe it was. Today's weather supposedly for April was weird. It rained - shouldn't it be summer? Labels: new year
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007
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Here's my usual survey. I got another one with more questions. :) What did you do in 2006 that you'd never done before? My crazy leap of faith, receiving flowers and so much more this year, having the pc fixed, bought a lot of heels, tried to achieve and let go one of my biggest dreams, tried boxing, checked myself into the ER... Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year? No on both counts. Did anyone close to you give birth? Yes, Tetty gave birth to Nicolette Franchesca, my fifth godchild. Did anyone close to you die? Yes. What countries did you visit? None. What would you like to have in 2007 that you lacked in 2006? More faith, becoming more proactive. I wish I knew what I was getting into and understanding that there's more to life that what I have been accustomed to. Grr. I really have to do something. What date from 2006 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? That's a lot! Not just a single date, but a whole bunch of dates. There's the todo na 'to weekends (as in more than 14-plus days together with my friends pero okay lang), Boracay with family in June, my emancipation dinner (lol), third week of June to second week of July (hahaha! This was the nervous breakdown stage), October - November. It's a lot. What was your biggest achievement of the year? My crazy leap of faith! What was your biggest failure? Not speaking up when it counted. Did you suffer illness or injury? Was down with cough, colds and fever last August. It's memorable because I had to go to the hospital by myself and it was sooo bad I really felt like I wouldn't get any better at all! Seriously, I thought I was not going to make it. What was the best thing you bought? Shoes? Whose behavior merited celebration? Ngek. Not mine. I could say my family and friends, for not questioning my craziness and for always being there. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? Mine! Because I know I could have done more and I wasted a lot. Where did most of your money go? Coffee (as in my number one expenditure this year), food, books, shoes. What did you get really, really, really excited about? My breaks, days off, the end of the day when my friends and I would nip out of the office to eat and hang around. Buying coffee. Buying new books! What song(s) will always remind you of 2006? "SexyBack" and "My Love" by Justin Timberlake, "Oo" by Up Dharma Down, "Para Sa Akin" and "Invisible War" by Sitti, "Blind" by Lifehouse. :P Compared to this time last year, are you: i. happier or sadder? Steady. ii. thinner or fatter? Everyone says thinner. Maybe it's because I've been pulling back my hair. iii. richer or poorer? Ay poorer. Consequence of leaps of faith. What do you wish you'd done more? Ummm write and look for stuff that could've helped my half forgotten dream. What do you wish you'd done less of? Laze around. :) How many one-night stands? None. Did you fall in love in 2006? No. What was your favorite TV program? "Grey's Anatomy", hands down! Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? Well yes, I do... did. I'm trying to get over it. What was the best book you read? I enjoyed "The Time Traveller's Wife" as well as "Lost and Found". What was your greatest musical discovery? Justin Timberlake! Haha! Seriously, a lot of local artists and bands. I became a big fan of Sitti! What did you want and get? A whole bunch of books that were sold at a discount a Powerbooks this year, these shoes from my officemate, etc. Nothing big because the big thing I wanted, I didn't get. :( What was your favorite film of this year? "The Prestige" was pretty good. I haven't actually watched much movies this year. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? Went to Mass with my brother - our parents went to the province, then dinner with the rest of my family at Heat. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? That I had the chance and was able to go for my biggest dream earlier this year. It was completely unexpected and I went for it, but nothing happened afterwards. It was then that I started giving up on some dreams. Oh no I'm getting sad. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2006? Oh-so-boring, but I've been trying new stuff. I've started wearing heels, thanks to Tessa's suggestion plus other stuff. And I discovered Zara! What kept you sane? Given, my family since I go home ranting to them everyday, but also my friends! Yes, they're the best. Super supportive and always there, putting up with my rants and all. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? Err... Justin Timberlake. Hee. What political issue stirred you the most? None. I really didn't care this year. Who did you miss? A lot of friends and people abroad or who've moved on. Who was the best new person you met? A lot of people naman. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2006: Things happen for a reason. Never give up or lose hope. Things will always get better. People who love and know you best will always be there for you. What was the nicest thing someone told you about yourself: That someone learned a lot from me. :) And that that person believes in the goodness that I have in me to make my dreams come true. The most touching experience you've had this year? I can't think of one... am I that dry and unemotional already? What did you like most about yourself this year? That I tried to let go. That I decided to sort of take charge. What did you hate most about yourself this year? I didn't like myself much this year - too safe, too worried. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year: Tap out only because I'm too lazy think of something. Was 2006 a good year for you? I initially thought it wasn't. Well, 2006 was an odd year. Made a lot of decisions, went through stuff to help me realize some dreams, not much worked out... it's been hard. I realized I cried a lot this year! In front of my parents, my friends, my officemates, complete strangers, while driving (not recommended while on Edsa), alone. Gaaah. It's been rough. My emotional quotient has been going up and down throughout the year. I've also had my fair share of happy and kilig moments though. I sincerely hope I came out stronger. What was your favorite moment of the year? Again, like the answer from an earlier question, outings with my friends, our dinners and coffee breaks. What was your least favorite moment of the year? When I got sick last August - so not fun. Oh and driving home last November 28, when it finally sunk in the gravity of what I did. Where were you when 2006 began? At home. Who were you with? My family. Where will you be when 2006 ends? At home. Who will you be with when 2006 ends? With my family pa rin. Do you have a new years resolution for 2007? Nah. How many concerts did you see in 2006? Do the Sitti performances Patty and I always watch count? Did you drink a lot of alchohol in 2006? Ngek. Not much - I think more pa in 2003-04, during the Team F days. Hahaha feeling as if that was much (really, it's not)! Do a lot of drugs in 2006? Nope. You do anything you are ashamed of this year? Nah. How much money did you spend in 2006? Waaahhh... don't ask. I'm hoping to win Visa International's contest to win back all my purchases this year. Hehe! What was your proudest moment of 2006? Eep. Can't think of anything. What was your most embarrassing moment of 2006? Umm... I can't really think of any. If you could go back in time to any moment of 2006 and change something, what would it be? Honestly - maybe not go to Subic last April or moved this appointment after Subic. I wouldn't trade Subic for anything - it was one of the "todo na 'to" weekends with my friends, but it coincided with something I just had to do. But then, maybe things happen for a reason. What are your plans for 2007? It's all up in the air right now because I am waiting for something. But definitely, I've sorted to mapped it around the one I am waiting for. If not, well... there goes that plan. There's a fuzzy Plan B. How are you different now that the year has ended? I know now that this is my life, all decisions have an effect and that everything happens for a reason, I just don't know it yet. But now I have more control and I know now that everything is also in my power to make changes. What are your wishes for the new year? That it will be a better year, my year since I feel like all the past years have been nothing at all. I wish to be happy and content. I wish I could travel more this year. I wish my career would work out already and I wish I could discover my passion. Labels: 2006, new year, survey
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