My digital perm adventure

We passed by Tony and Jackey the other day. I told Manila that I wanted for the longest time to try getting a haircut there and she had the same idea as mine. We agreed to check out the prices and low and behold, they had a promo! So instead of just getting a haircut, I went all out and got a digital perm. Hopefully it lasts as long as Jinny, the Korean hairstylist, said.

Acme thoughts

Long time ago, I wanted a piano to fall down from thin air on this creature I knew from way back then. Little did I know, she had a distant relative up here. So I wished my hardest that a piano would fall once again. A grand one.

Then I realized that there's another creature that I want to pummel. Maybe with an electric organ.

Lousy day.

Another attempt at Hello Kitty Food

Noticed that some of the stuff I bought from Lyn were about to expire so I decided to cook it for my test subjects name Randy and Pia. First I tried the Hello Kitty Microwaveable Chocolate Cake. Since the instructions were in Japanese, I had to guess approximately what the recipe was. Got milk, mixed the stuff then placed it in the microwave...after a minute, I could smell it burning! Gah! I took it out and it was as hard as a rock (but still very cute). My willing victim for the day(Randy) still ate it though. Para daw cookie instead of being a cake.

I made the Hello Kitty Pudding/Flan the next day. Made another mistake by assuming it's like leche flan and placed the sauce into the molds first (after na pala dapat) so my Kitties ended up looking sunog hahahaha... Pia didn't like the taste much but again my willing victim, Randy ate it all up.



I have still one more box of each to perfect things mwahahahah...

A happy day

Randy and I went out the other night to watch Iron Man's first day at the cinemas. He's gotten spoiled watching movies at the Shang so since the 7:15 pm showing was already full we had no choice but to get tickets for the 10pm run. We even ran into Jinky and her boyfriend, who I met for the first time. Wanted to chat with Jinx since we haven't seen each other for a long time but I didn't want to impose a double date so I just said hi and hello.

We then counted the minutes at Wham Burger (where he was irritated to death by the fellas at the other table who spoke in cono english quite loudly). We also walked around the shops at the 5th floor then finally settled for a java chip frap at Starbucks to pass the time.

Iron Man time came and I was really impressed with all the robotics (and with Robert Downey jr. for some reason). One thing bothered me though, and it has nothing to do with the movie. There were kids ages 5-7 watching the movie that involved war, sex and violence. I was wondering why the MTRCB gave it a ratedPG rating when it wasn't a simple super hero movie. Can a 5-year-old understand the concept of arms dealing, betrayal and the reason behind Tony Stark's change of mind to do good? Ayyy...di ko maubos maisip kung ano na ang mangyayari sa kids nowadays...

Anyway, the movie was good and I'm definitely gonna watch the sequel (Bitin kasi hehehe)

I edit

Since I've been doing marathon editing for the past months, I can't seem to turn off this machine in my brain. I mean I'm even editing articles in my sleep (napanaginipan ko pati yung mga headlines namin and I could cleary hear the clickety-clack of my keyboard)...

anyway, even commercials sa TV ngayon I see copy to edit.

For example:

"After waiting for two years, the wait is finally over."

It's an advertisement for a party for the gimikero crowd. Gah. Whoever approved their copy ... ah ayoko na magsalita...

Di rin naman perfect grammar ko. Thanks to Cherry for the OCness in editing lately. :)

PBB season nanaman

This is probably the closest I'll get to a body of water this summer. With the new PBB season set to start in a few days, I passed up a free trip to Boracay...Waaaah. *sniff*

Free, as in accomodation, food and party. sheesh.

Kuya really knows how to ruin the summer. Consuelo na yung inside silip sa house. Ang layo sa Boracay di ba... :))

Weirdo

Went home late last night and missed the MRT so I had to ride a bus. On the verge of having a migrane because of editing a lot of articles (marami pang nakapila huhuhu), I was distracted by a flashing light coming from the left side of the bus. I then realized it was coming from a digital camera and this girl was posing as if taking photos for her friendster account. What's more shocking is that she didn't do it once but a gazillion of times! And she was sitting beside another passenger (a young man) who was also looking at her strangely.

I admit I was a camwhore once in my life, but never did I pose in a moving public vehicle, alone and with a stranger beside me. And I only used my cellphone to take pics in the mall, and discreetly pa! The girl did her poses til her stop...di ko alam kung matatawa ba ko o ano...

Been Sick

I went home early last Monday, feeling down and out. That feeling became a full blown stomach flu that made me stuck at home for 2 days. Even had to go to the hospital to have things checked out (it was that bad).

Well, had to muster my strength today and go back to work because I had an inkling that my office inbox's flooded, red (was right). My pages were all missing me (had no updates). They felt abandoned (hehehe). Gah!

And I can't even eat yummy stuff (fried and dairy products) til my stomach clears up. Sniff.

I hate getting sick.

Sehe Bokmanee Bateuseyo!

Had to bust out the school girl outfit again at the Lunar New Year celebration for my Korean class.

Had fun being silly again with Uchi and the gang this time. We even had a song and dance number on stage, something I haven't done in age! There's a video of the performance actually but I think Uchi wouldn't dare post it on You Tube. Unless Bambie really tries to.... hahaha...

More pics here!

Lunch Out

After a quick lunch at Italianni's (thanks to Cherry), we went over to Kozui's, a Japanese-themed cafe. The place was super cozy and cute, I couldn't resist taking pictures. I had a strawberry animitsu while Manila and Cherry had double taro animitsu.

The lousy light of my Nokia 6630 camera compared to Cherry's Sony Ericsson made me wanna consider buying a new handy phone harharhar (as if Patty). More pics in my multiply.

We should do this more often :)

Our lesson for today...

Since I'm still warming up to write my Star Studio assignment for Cherrie Pie, I'm gonna teach you guys some words I learned in my Korean class today. I'll be posting the romanized version since my PC has no capacity to post in hangul. :)

SEASON - kye-jol
SPRING - pom
SUMMER - yo-rum
FALL - ka-ul
WINTER - kyo-ul
NEW YEAR - so-lal
CHRISTMAS - kurisumasu or songtangjol
GIFT - son-mul

I'll try to post more Korean vocabulary again next time (meaning when I get masipag again) :) I'm so behind my class...even 13 year old Issa is better than me.
Back to serious writing now... toodles!

2008 na!

How time flies, even when you're not having much fun... just kidding. :)

I dunno what to make out of 2007 really. It's been OK. Not fabulous. More of so-so. I felt like I just went with the flow. Though there are highlights -- my regularization, trip to Singapore with Glody, saying good-bye to Sandy, Lyn's package from Japan, our 2nd year anniversary.

New Year's resolutions? 1.) Diet 2.) Come to work on time 3.) Save
Sana lahat yan magawa ko. (Clocked in at 9:34AM btw hehehe)

Hopefully things will get better this 2008.
Happy New Year friends!

My eyes are getting hey-vi (finally, an update!)

I've been up pretty late yesterday and had coffee at starbucks before going home. Imagine me wide awake still at 2am and my alarm set for 7am. I even fought with Pia over rights to use the bathroom first for I was going to be late for my Korean class at the rate she was moving. So by the time I reach my class in Taguig, my eyes were getting pretty heavy (sorry songsengnim!).

Then Uchi tells me that we're going to the Korean Bazaar at the Korean Church near her place. My eyes tell me I have to go ask her for a spot to take a quick nap before our scheduled departure with Marianne (our teacher) at 2pm. BUT Uchi popped in a CD of Hana Kimi the Japanese version and I couldn't help but watch it with her while the rest of her sisters and Leah slept! Daya niyo guys hehehe... anyway, when we finally got ourselves to the bazaar, Leah and I instantly gravitated towards booths selling kimchi. Hehehe. We also bought chapchae, kimbap, the spicy rice cakes and rice flour and veggie cake (dont know what it's called so guys help me with that), in other words nag-pig out kami. We also watched their production numbers which were hilarious but highly entertaining. Nakakahiya lang, my eyes were really going on overtime (naluluha na ako so I had to close them for a while) and Uchi finally decided we go home.

In the cab on the way to the office (sila lang ang 'home' bound ako hindi) I forced myself not to sleep, sayang din ang 'gab' time namin ni Leah kasi hehehe. When I got to the office, Flow and I bought dinner at the newly opened Loop downstairs before it closed. Then I finally bee-lined for the couch and plopped down to get some shut eye. However, before I even got 'somewhere', I already heard PBB's opening theme calling me. *sigh*

So here I am, bleary and red eyed, typing away on my blog while simulataneously writing an article for the site. Oh and I'm smelling my kimchi beside me too. Yun yata yung gumigising sa akin...

You Know You Love Me...

I know, I know I'm juvenille. Eversince Teddy posted the Gossip Girl TV series trailer on his multiply, I became curious of what the books were all about. I have this rule you see of reading the original story of a series or movie before watching it on screen. I've done it with the Bone Collector, Harry Potter and LOTR -- well the first two books anyways. Bone Collector BTW had a lousy movie adaptation while LOTR stayed true to the books. Anyway, so I searched high and low at all the bookstores in Megamall the first book in the GG series and lucky me it was out of stock. But I did find it in National Megamall after some digging around and bought it at P299. Funny was the following day, my sis Pia saw a huge stack of books outside National Shangri-la. And lo and behold books 1&2 were on sale at P149 only! Imagine my inis hahaha...I bought the second book na rin.

Then just yesterday, my Tita Muriel asked us to go with her to David's Salon at Starmall to have a haircut. On the way there, we passed by this book sale and we started rummaging at the P99 bin. Well, well guess what...they had books 1-8 of the GG series there! Argh! I ended up buying books 3-8 for only P600! It was really a steal. I've rarely bought books in the last 4 years cause book collecting got sooo expensive. I only invested in the Travelling Pants series and the last HP books since I couldn't wait for mom to send our copies from the US. Since I've discovered a book mine at Starmall, I can't wait to get back to reading again :)

Drool

In the midst of a busy day in the office and my ton of Korean class assignments, I just had to stop and drool over this:

It approximately costs P72, +++ so I'm just gonna drool some more... Ok, a puddle's forming on my cubicle floor. Gotta go mop it up.

Medicated Strips

Yes. I'm indulging on them at the moment. My shoulder feels really painful, I've been enduring the pain since last night. I finally could not stand it (cause of the cold temp of the office) and bought myself a box of salonpas.

Now I'm stinking up the office with my "amoy matanda" smell pretty good. *lol*

Shameless Plugging Part 401

Buy the September issue of Star Studio Magazine with Angel Locsin and the Barretto sisters on the cover. I did the Sandara Park (again) article in The Biz section of the mag. :)

I thank you *bow*

I'm sick

I know, I know...I'm sick in the head a long long time ago. I haven't blogged much lately so might as well update you in the world of viruses...I've been nursing a terrible cough since Sunday. My throat hurts from coughing too much but mind you I've been drinking up on cough syrup and such (Di ako adik!). I dunno when the coughing fits will end. Had to attend a meeting a while ago and boy, was it hard suppressing my virus from spreading around the conference room. *spray ng lysol*

Anyways, It was our 2nd year anniv last Aug 28, but with this cough (also butas na bulsa) it was a so-so celebration. Actually may advance party yun eh, but maganda pa rin on the day it self di ba?

Enough na of this rambling baka maikwento ko pa sa inyo yung cheesy details masuka pa kayo hahaha...

My 2nd Singapore Adventure (long overdue)

Well, as some of you know, I have been to Singapore before, in 2003 when my fan girlishness took me to meet a stranger (turned friend -- Hi Jeanette!) and watch the MTV Music Awards then hosted by Vanness Wu and Michelle Branch. I was there for almost 4 days but they were spent preparing stuff, lining up at the Singapore Indoor Stadium, stalking Vanness at the Fullerton (yeah,yeah) and artist sight seeing. Jeanette also had a job so I only got to roam around the places near her home and not touristy stuff. Hence I didn't see much of Singapore.

Glody, my bff from highschool invited me to go on a trip with her to Singapore last June and I said yes. I was determined to tour Singapore this time but the problem was I had time restrictions so we had to stick to our schedule religiously. However as you can imagine our flight was forever delayed courtesy of PAL (never had a flight there na on time). Day one was wasted as you can see for instead of arriving at Changi Airport around 6PM we got there at 1130PM! While passing the time at the Centennial though, Glody and I were amused by Korean couples dressed up in matching outfits! Is that the "In" thing there? Everywhere you looked you can see pairs wearing the same tee...You know me I'm a sucker for Korean trends so I tried that 'pair dressing' here with Randy, but that's for another story.

Anyway so first day all I got to see was the Moren (who I met at the Mc Donalds in the airport) and Fragrance hotel where we stayed. Following day, I got to meet Thomas, Glody's boyfriend and the 'tour marathon' started. We ate at a nearby fast food and ordered hainanese chicken curry noodles and some beef with rice. Thomas ate only egg and toast so he was looking at me and Glody oddly gobbling everything in sight. Of course, it's going to be a busy day so we really have to gas up hehe... By 11 AM we were already on our way to Orchard Road and first on the agenda was shopping! Hahaha, yes I blew half of my pocket money in a few minutes. We went to Lucky Plaza to have money changed then off to Wisma and the nearby malls. Actually almost all the stuff I brought were for other people. We planned to go to Sentosa next and all off a sudden it started to rain. Bummer, so we decided to browse some electronic shops nearby while waiting for the rain to stop, which fortunately was over quickly.

Then our next stop was Vivo City, which the taxi driver said was the biggest shopping mall in Singapore. It was not really impressive (mas higante pa ang Mall of Asia) but the train to Sentosa was located there. We stopped at a cafe there (gosh I forgot its name) because of the delicious looking cakes displayed at the window. And besides Thomas was feeling the aftermath of his tiny breakfast. Haha... Couldn't resist taking pics of the cakes. They were too pretty to eat. Then we were off again... Got to Sentosa finally! We went to take pics at the Merlion then saw their mini museum. After that we had to take the bus to the Aquarium. Here I experienced what Phoebe (my college bud) was talking about when she worked there. We were squashed inside the bus with a bunch of 'them' and we couldn't breathe. As the bus started lurching forward, it was like they had a signal and everyone of them raised their arms to hold the safety bars. I didn't know where to look hahaha di ako makahinga... anyway at the aquarium we also experienced the same thing. Glody tried her best not to breathe but how can you not breathe? *lol* The place was fun though and Thomas even brought me a souvenir. :)

It's already around 5 in the PM and we had another place on our list...the Singapore Night Safari! Di pa kami pagod (or pretending lang)! We had dinner first at Bongo Burgers and I bought some cutesy stuff toys for my niece and nephew afterwards. Then we had to stand for 30 minutes in a stuffy area for the animal show. Then it was off to the train were we toured the forest (or is it a jungle) and looked at some animals. Our tired feet got to rest at this part, they were screaming for us to stop walking already. We got back to the hotel at around 10 or so. I was so dead tired, I didn't even join Glody and Thomas for a quick drink somewhere.

Third day. The day of my departure. Glody and I planned some last minute shopping without Thomas, who wanted more time to sleep. Then at around 12, we were all off to the airport and lo and behold, my flight was delayed once again. If you're wondering why I returned alone, Glody and Thomas spent 3 more days of quality time together without me the third wheel hanging around. *lol* The two stayed at the airport for a while and we had lunch at a restaurant there. Then at around 2PM, I had to go in and say good-bye to them. I browsed the duty free shop and unloaded the remaining Singapore dollars I had with me. 5:30PM I got on board the plane and at around 9PM I landed at the Centennial Airport (real crummy compared to Changi). I'm home once again.

So there goes my Singapore marathon. I hope you drink a lot of water after racing with me, reading this story (this was in my draft folder since July 14. Hehehe).

Visit the rest of my pics here. *bow*

More on Hello Kitty

Abby told me to go to this site and instead of annoying me it amused me to no end. The site lead me to this link and it rated me as a self-centered, evil person hehehehe...

Oh more Hello Kitty food to share...courtesy of the "kitty" site!