Missing Home

Haven't been around here lately. Well, work has me occupied once more. Actually it's not work perse but my "extra stuff" to earn "extra lot". I guess I'm eager to get a lot of writing jobs because as of recent there's a huge rift between me and my mom. I dunno there's been some kind of 'thing' that we've been circling around on and I just keep pushing it at the back of my to-do list. And you know me I don't really like getting into confrontations.

Uh you might be wondering what has this got to do with my financial stats... Oh-k. My mom just remarried and she's fixing a lot of papers here and there. Don't ask me the details...Anyway I think my time as the favored daughter is up since she's been talking to my sister a lot (Sometimes I feel that it's all because she has an American fiance who's gonna bring her to the US). All I'm getting are pretty much second hand info from Pia. I'm just a phone call or email away and I just hate to be the last person to know that I AM going to be encountering something BIG.

Since I was young I hate digressing about money stuff. Traumatized probably by my father's irresponsible ways. Then the burden of handling OUR financial stuff more or less made me --- I don't know how to describe it. Materialistic? Thrifty? A money worry wart? I have been keeping home eversince she left and believe me its hard, not just keeping house but keeping everything and everyone together.

Ah, well to continue, I have been informed that we will not be receiving our monthly allowance from her. 'Til further notice. So dear friends don't expect to see me in a few months or so *heh* Seriously, I have wracked my brain for resources other than my freaking slave salary. I'm sour graping too that she can send my older sister money anytime she asks for help. But when its our turn, know what she said? "Malalaki na nga kayo dapat di ko na kayo iniintindi." WTF.

Some of you are lucky. You have a family -- a daddy, a mommy, a dog. A roof on your head to call your own. No one to throw you out...Really sometimes I just feel a bit lost.

I guess the angsty me is still in here after all. This scar's probably deeper than all the other scars that i have. I'm ending it here for now. I can feel the tears welling at the corners of my eyes. It's not good for the eye make-up I put on for 20 minutes this morning.

Kissing Diet

I want to lose weight!!!(I'm dead serious)

Eating dinners with my significant other had the pounds I lost catching up on me again. So I was searching the internet for dieting tips (yeah yeah) and I chanced upon this one in Reader's Digest

But what caught my attention (and Flow's too) was this one:

53. Passionately kiss your partner 10 times a day. According to the 1991 Kinsey Institute New Report on Sex, a passionate kiss burns 6.4 calories per minute. Ten minutes a day of kissing equates to about 23,000 calories -- or eight pounds -- a year!

Nice idea don't you think hehehe ^^

The Day I Went Back to School

Yes, I went back to U.P. the other week. I really wanted to take those Korean lessons so Pia, Flow, Abby together with Grace and Cors who were paying for advanced Korean classes trekked to U.P. It's the first time I went back to my unibersidad na mahal ^^ for like almost 6 years. I went there last in 2000 for the latern parade.

We got off at the Palma Hall Annex, near the Educ bldg. Man, it was like a trip back to 1995! I remember taking my Philo 1 class at the 2nd floor of the Educ bldg. The entire block ran off to the Sunken Garden to escape our boring teacher (who was late for 15 mins BTW and suddenly popped out of nowhere. Remember the rule?) *lol* I remember walking to math class after that with my whole freshie block. *sigh* I remember being just 16 years old!!!! geez...


feeling tourist kadiri...

Ayway we ate at the Beach House (mga pare at mare 24 pesos na po ang isang stick ng bbq dati 12 lang yun...) and walked towards the Asian Center through the Main Library and around the Sunken Garden. Here I am doing skips here and there with Flow.


ladidah...ang laki ng likod ni Flow...

After Grace and Cors stop over at the AC, we walked (still) going to the chapel and Shopping Center. Sobrang memories talaga everywhere! The smell of zerox powder, Miranda's, UP souvenir shirts, bluebooks, ice cream and the coop grocery.

Hay I miss going to school, the time when all you thought about was passing your subjects, graduating, torturing your org applicants and saving enough money from your allowance to watch movies at SM North Edsa during breaks. *sigh*

The Eiffel Tower...

Not. We got a bit tired of our 9th floor restroom so we decided to primp ourselves in one of the 13th floor CRs. It also got us to tour Abby, our new writer around. This is the view from there...a deranged man once tried to climb the tower but he got caught. I wonder though how he got there without security noticing him.

Anyway just to put this on record, I'm acting up on my boyfriend today. Ala lang. Nice to rile him up once in a while. ;)

And for some independence day entertainment you can either watch this or this...tell me if you were entertained ha!

Back to Normal

* I now have time to post and tag everyone on my blog mwahahaha...

10 FIRSTS

first best friend: Lucille is the only best friend I remember from grade school
first screen name: prettyjupiter
first pet name: Jack the pusa-cat in the back yard
first piercing: my ears when I was a baby
first crush: si Jonathan Knight ng NKOTB (umangal panget)
first school: Our Lady of Grace Academy
first house location: Caloocan
first kiss: Walang kwenta haha...
first thing bought with your savings/allowance: Sweet Valley Twins #16
first perfume: Angel's Breath (yan ang IN dati)

9 LASTS

last time you smoked: 3 years ago, I was an occasional smoker anyway
last food you ate: Clover Chips
last car ride: Taxi last Saturday
last phone call: Yesterday
last song you listened to: Bagay ba sa kin ang kulot? (LSS)
last words you said: "Lagot ka kay Abby"

8 HAVE-YOU-EVERS

dated a best friend: I considered 'him' a very good one so I guess...
been arrested: Not yet (parang may balak)
been on TV: So far zero since i like dodging the cam
eaten sushi: yes
cheated on your BF/GF: they cheated on me haha
been on a blind date: almost, sinet-up ako ni Mai. Buti na lang di natuloy :)
been in love: I am now
cried in public: yes

7 THINGS YOU ARE WEARING

1. Green Herbench shirt
2. Jeans
3. Dirty Puma sneakers
4. Gray blazer
5. A watch
6. Underwear
7. Socks

6 THINGS YOU HAVE DONE TODAY

1. Wrote the headline
2. Cooked our baon
3. Took the MRT
4. watched Mirmo de Pon
5. Thawed at the roofdeck with Flow, Pia and Abby
6. Texted Cherry about the pics

5 FAVORITE THINGS

1. My cellphone
2. My flip-flops (about 12 pairs or so)
3. All of my pumps
4. My kpop cds
5. My jackets

4 PEOPLE YOU TRUST THE MOST

1. Mom
2. Tita Muriel
3. Randy
4. Jiale and the Sisterhood

3 THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE
YOU DIE

1. Travel around the world
2. Drive my own car
3. Have a family

2 CHOICES

1. vanilla or chocolate: chocolate
2. hugs or kisses: both!

1 PERSON YOU WANT TO SEE RIGHT NOW?

1.) My mom

Tag! Your IT!

Pia
Cherry Berry
Meowok
Mai
Chelo
Kalypso
Uchisan
Danielle
Tina
Lelai

A Letter to My Sleepy Self

Dear Self,

Well, well. So you thought it was all over last Saturday, right? But here you are still experiencing the ripples from the giant wave that crashed over you. Oh it might last for a few months or so, just to let you know.

And yeah, i just heard there's a new site for the new 'one' so brace yourself. I have a strong inkling that it is another tunami in the making. Lord help us or make that Lord help you.

Toodles dear. Good luck and snap out of your hazy dream.

Love,

Your looney selfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff

Sniff...

His eyes pleaded. But she did not feel any remorse. She knew that he loved her yet she couldn't control what was happening to her. Their eyes connected. Their world was spinning. It was a painful ending. He knew it was time. He couldn't stop her. He wished her well...




Sniff...I had to borrow my boyfriend's hanky. Naiyak ako nung namatay si Professor X. ^^

plugging again

Buy the current issue of Star Studio Magazine with ex-PBB HMs (housemates) on the cover. I did the story on John Prats and Sandara Park.

Toodles.

What's your edition?

Because of my current work load (which will end by Saturday hopefully) I have come up with a proposal of future edition themes...

1.) Gay Edition - Sino sa kanila ang tunay na nagpasalon?
2.) Politician Edition - Who will not be murdered in their sleep?
3.) UAAP Edition - Let's switch colors, let Ateneo wear green and La Salle don blue then see what happens.
4.) Magkakagalit Celebrity Special - Sinong galit kanino? Sabunutan 'to at sampalan.
5.) The Guess Whos Gay Edition - Think of that reality game show. Yun na yun. (The one who goes "Pare pa-kiss." is the culprit)
6.) Family Celebrity Edition - Mga Gutierrez vs Mga Cruz (something to that extent mwahahah)
7.) The Sosy Edition - Make them live inside Big Brother's Barong Barong house. I can imagine the dialogue..."Kuya like edible ba ang isaw?"

!

Today, I'm officially declaring myself B-O-R-I-N-G.

"Arrgh!"

That was everyone's general expression on our floor when the lights went out. It was weird really to think that we are supposedly the "IT" section of the company and here we were, without any protection system for our PCs. At my former office in the other building, when the lights go out my PC remains open. Haha.

To go back to the "Aarrgh!" expression from yesterday, I was updating my site then and what frustrated me was, since my PC takes forever to upload and insert pictures, I have to restart AND add pics again. I was 2 pictures away to pressing update. Boo-hoo.

And when I looked up everyone was on their feet. Cursing. Parang stock market ang nagcrash...

Whizzy Thing

I was so tired last night that I took a cab home. I felt really beat so i was slouching and pouting in the backseat. Then all of a sudden this thing whizzed by my cab...








Can one call a car pretty darn cute? It made my day. :)

Ps. Just noticed all my posts lately pertain to being tired, stressed, toxic...hehehe.

Zzzz...

Guess where I am?

*hint: sa madilim at sa malamig...

Dead Tired

I've only been in-charge of the site's content since Saturday and I feel that's its already taking a toll on me. It's only 12:49 PM and I feel so tired. I've drank a cup of caffe mocha despite my deminishing financial resources to keep me awake. I forgot to tell you guys that I got home at 1:30 AM last Saturday. Looks like there's gonna be a repeat in a few days.

To those who know which site I'm talking about please visit and give me a feed back. I'm working my ass off it and I'm still partly doing editing for www.abs-cbn.com eventhough my boss told me a switch of duties meant me being hands-off my former responsibilities. Guess I was wrong. And this PC I'm using stinks. Last night it took me ages to edit pictures and uploading stuff that I wanted to end my misery (and the comp's) by pitching the CPU outside the window, from the 9th floor. If there was one open that is.

I'll probably be seeing you guys at the end of this edition. (hint,hint) Hopefully I haven't pulled all my hair out by that time.

Tagged by Katie

Instructions: Name ten of life's simple pleasures that you like the most, then pick ten people to do the same. Try to be original and creative and not to use things that someone else has already used.

1. Apple Juice!
2. Having a K-movie marathon with friends.
3. Buying the shoe you have been drooling on for ages at a 50% discount.
4. Snuggling and burying my face in my bf's back.
5. Finishing a novel overnight.
6. Listening to my favorite CD on repeat while preparing to go to the office.
7. My F4FU mods yahoogroups turned barkada YG (especially when the girls flood it)
8. Eating tofu soup and kalbi wehehehe
9. Hearing from my mom.
10. Buying stuff for my niece Gabby.

Ten people I'm tagging?

*Pia
*Flow
*Cherry
*Igor
*Tina Bebe
*Uchi Babe
*Ivy Wu
*Leah LJ
*Tselo
*Kalypso

The Temp

Kuya: Sino ka?
Si ako: Ako po ang bago ninyong katulong.

dem it.

When F4 and K-pop Collide

Parang Brokeback ang dating ah. *ngisi*

Don't get me wrong. I like Vanness. And I think Kang Ta's one of the best male Korean singers there is. But mhen. Look at 'em.

I repeat -- Parang Brokeback ang dating. *lol*

2006 Labor Day

hol·i·day
Pronunciation: 'hä-l&-"dA, British usually 'hä-l&-dE
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English hAligdæg, from hAlig holy + dæg day
1 : HOLY DAY
2 : a day on which one is exempt from work; specifically : a day marked by a general suspension of work in commemoration of an event
3 chiefly British : a period of relaxation : VACATION -- often used in the phrase on holiday; often used in plural.

Holidays don't exist in my world.
Text niyo na lang BBNews and send to 2366. Para naman mabasa niyo ang ipinasok ko ngayon. Check niyo na rin www.abs-cbn.com later. I'm still working on the headline.

stumped

After churning out word after word yesterday, seems like I'm finally stumped. I'm forcing myself to write (work wise) but my eyes, hands and brain coordination seem not to be in sync. The episode guides are now getting to be quite a mountain. And I don't think it will become even a mole hill any time soon.

And since I am financially strapped I accepted another writing job for Star Studio yesterday with a deadline today. I turned in another assignment from them last Tuesday (that was due Monday, blame my 'surprise' work assignment). This is the most number of articles I've done in a week. I think it could be an equivalent of my half a year's work in TC, oh way back then.

Should go back to my article. It's due in about 2 hours.

hell week

I've been work ladden since Monday. The word processing machine in my brain is probably overheating. I can't even put a decent entry in here. Haven't seen my friends in ages (a week feels jurassic to me). My boyfriend is threatening to take me to a horror flick on our monthsary. I'm having a hard time finding clothes that fit. My episode guides are piling up and Panday is just killing me.



This is probably what I'd look like by Friday. @_@