Thank God for a really good night with skating friends and non-toxic skating and dinner times.
Thank God for another good night with start group colleagues, even if the dinner food weren't great and non-caffeine drink I ordered wasn't the greatest, I still had a great time sharing the night with these people.
And most of all thank God for my parents who can fetch me in the middle of the night because it's too hard for me to go home with a really huge bag and laptop bag.
Happy Birthday to me!!! I didn't mind that I'm actually getting older! I don't feel like 25. It's because I still have a lot to achieve and accomplish. :\ But today, I didn't worry about it. Instead, I actually had a great day. Treated my ex-project teammates with ice cream then they surprised me with a cake! I was so touched. Well, that's aside from the fact that my friend/colleague spent hours last night doing artwork for postcard e-mail for my greeting. I was so touched and happy! =) Then had pizza with old team lead and shared the rest of the ice cream with another set of ex-projectmates, yum! And might have gained an admirer too! Haha... Then actually compromised with family's wants and schedule and had Sbarro pizza and pasta and chicken birthday dinner with them. :)
Thank God for this special day! =)
I woke up early for a Sunday today because my sister and brother-in-law (BIL) had another of their spontaneous trip.
My and my parents prepared really quickly and were on the road in no time! I was just soo happy with this surprise trip because all along I thought me and my family wouldn't be able to go out this weekend since the original plan was for my sister and BIL to only go out of town so I was more than happy to wake up early when my parents said we'd go along. I love out of town trips with my family! My dad even wants to bring along our cats since my sister always brought along their dog. Haha!
Even though there were heavy rains even before we reached the place that didn't stop our spirit! We still had a sumptuous lunch over at Mahogany Market in Tagaytay! Try Amy’s when you’re there. Not only Tagaytay’s Bulalo was great, all of the stuff we ordered too like Pinaputok na Tulingan, Fried small Tawilis and Papaitan. The baby bananas and pineapples were even free!! Also their service was great! Who could’ve thought market place could be such a fulfilling dining place! And then we were off to my sister’s meeting. But the view that resulted from the rain of Taal Volcano was enough to make us stop and take some pictures! When we reached my sister’s appointment place, we didn’t even left the car. Haha, we just stayed inside, rested and waited for my sister. Then my dad and BIL stopped over for the local bakery, at first we were in doubt of the breads they were selling. But they got back with plastic bag full of different kinds of breads all for P60 (P5 each!) I’m happy to know when my dad told us that the seller was happy to offer almost everything and we were able to help the bakery somehow. J
I was just more then glad that I get to spend this time with my family again since I thought the day before we weren’t able to see each other on Sunday and was trying hard to go spend the night at my sister’s but my parents were already tired for the day and I was also with my blockmates. This was another spontaneous thing, they texted me and good timing I wasn’t doing anything for the rest of day. It was awhile since I’ve been out with these girls. It was also a great time spending it with them on a relaxed way. We just ate heavy snack and spent the rest of the night sharing stories for more or less 4 hours(!!!) at Starbuck’s! Lots of stories to share, lots of topic to talk about, stimulating arguments and plainly lots of laughter!
Earlier that day, I went to the general assembly of the photo club I joined form the office. I’m glad I did even if I had to go alone because there were lots of things I learned and also just talking about something that interests me was satisfying. I’m happy that I get to learn some things about one of my passion even if I will not be able to apply most of them, at least I’m familiar. It’s just also great to know that I was with the people who share the same passion with me. And I know they’re not discriminating point and shoot users but I know someday… I will get a DSLR, someday when I have more than enough. Haha.
Okay, I haven't blogged for awhile and I noticed I often blogged about my weekends. I figured that my weekends are either full-packed or nothing at all. Haha. Anyway, last weekend was full. Friday was spent with colleagues. I'm glad that I have projectmates I can go out with now. You know, the good feeling that you can talk about anything about the project and the people without being conscious since you're away from the office and practically just relaxing with friends.We just had dinner and didn't have to go home too late which was good since I planned to leave the next day. Saturday, I planned to watch the 2009 Philippines National Figure Skating Challenge with my parents. We got there around 4:30pm and it looked like the Hockey Challenge just finished. And I thought the Nationals went first. Good thing my mom saw from the ad that it's still at 6pm. And I was glad that I watched it up to the last skater! It was fun watching the skaters in higher levels even if it finished at 11pm(!!!) since the winner might have the chance to compete for the Olympics 2010! It's a good experience to see double jumps and bielmann spins live!
Then on Sunday, me and my highschool friends cooked up a little photoshoot and ended up making our school the venue I felt a bit awkward since they made me a model! Haha. But it turned out a fun time with friends. I hope to do that again!
After that me and my parents watched Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince at the new Eastwood Mall! The dinner at my sister and BIL's after the movie! I'm not quite sure my parents liked it much but I loved loved it! I love the cinematography! And all those magical details! I wish all HP movies were made magical like that. I also loved those little parts with funny comments. I really want to watch it again!
I'm afraid I've been neglecting my blogging here in Vox. Not that I'm blogging anywhere else, my LJ's not being updated as well. It's just that I'm too caught up with Twitter and I'm definitely hanging around much in Flickr. Ooh, I've been wanting an SLR for the longest time but it's not in my priority list, not even on the "necessity" list.
It's just that, it looks like I'm lonely here. No friends around. Non-Vox member can't leave messages. :| But I'm still leaning on the thought of not giving up this blog since I've already started a lot of things. I guess I need to find a way to liven it up...but how?
It's been awhile since I last posted an entry. As much as I want to, I don't have the luxury of time to do it. I cannot stress more that work is taking up most of my time but my weekends are packed too! I almost don't have enough time to rest. But everything's good! Anyway, the pics are just snippet of what I've been up to lately...
Fun times again with my colleagues start group! I almost didn't look like I only have less than 3 hours of sleep! Congrats to the newly weds! And 'til the next getaway! :)
Hopefully, I will have enough time to post other pics from my other getaways and what not. ;p
I felt like I've taken this blog for granted since I always find the urge to update but once I've gotten into it I get lazy to go into details. Since there's Twitter for one-liner update, there's my Livejournal which I had for more than 5 years already, I got contacts which got interesting entries and enough to keep me busy, there's also Flickr which I started to love ever since I learned about the communites I can join.. sun shots are my weakness! But I don't think I want to give this up since I've poured memories in this. I even thought of bringing back my wordpress account. I signed up last last year for the hopes of making my own website but I just never found the time to learn anything about web-designing which I've been wanting to ever since. I really hope someday I will get into it! =p
Anyway, I've been spending a lot of time with work lately. Not that there's a gazillion things needed to be done but I felt the need to work hard since I need catching up to do. If I'm not working I try to work with my skating. I hope I wouldn't lose the urge for it since I learned to love the sport already. Aside from that I felt lucky I'm able to spend time with my family almost every week. This time we went to Laguna for lunch and Mass, basically relaxation getaway.
It's just a bit sad I've only realize this now that my sister and her family is already in the US. We miss them so much. But I'm glad it isn't too late for me to know the importance of my family and I am looking forward that my family, all of us, will have to go on to another getaway.
This is an overdue post and I thought to post it because I simply couldn't bear to get this experience be forgotten! :)
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What a good way to end the vacation is to watch Ms. congeniality. Just when you felt horrified of going back to work, watching Ms. Congeniality Armed and Fabulous couldn't set the mood any better. My Christmas break has been great, I may not had the dream vacation but it was damn good. Aside from the fact that I was well rested, I get to do all of the things I wanted: sleep a lot, watch tv a lot, skate with friends [and even had dinner with ther during the Christmas break!:) ], hang out with family, practice driving, go to Sonya's garden(somewhere I've been wanting to go since I was first year college), attended choir service tiring before holiday with dinner.
Schedule during the holidays:
December
- 20 - celebrated Christmas with skating friends
21 - dinner with college blockmates and friends
22 - anticipated Dawn Mass choir service
23 - last minute skating/shopping with Len and Erwin [the mall was 'til 12mn and the rink was 'til past 10pm! :) ]
24 - noche buena in eastwood, still went to work earlier this day but we were dismissed early and had dinner with my father's-side relative
25 - PGH (this one was actually sad that we visited our cousin in the hospital who has a stage 4 cancer but almost all of the relatives was there!
26 - went to work but it was cool since we didn't have much to do. ;P
28 - stayed and relaxed in Eastwood
29 - stayed and relaxed in Eastwood again! =p
30 - we had dinner with Len and Chris after 1hour of skating. :)
31 - went to work again but it's okay since we don't have much to do plus we're paid. =p - January
1 - new year (watched the fireworks in Eastwood, was disappointed that it only lasted barely 10mins!)
2 - finally we visited Sonya's Garden in Tagaytay. It was already dark when we got there but it was still beautiful! I hope to come back at daytime. :)
3 - went shopping with my sister. hassle-free strolling around. :)
4 - house blessing in eastwood.
Aside from that I get to watch a lot of tv, it's seemed quite awhile since I stopped to watch a movie but this
time I stayed and watch I don't care if the movies were played repeatedly. I love watching Men in Black, Spiderman 3 in HBO and of course, Ellen, The World's Funniest Animals even if they're reruns and
of course, the teleserye's. =p
It's been awhile since I get to do all these things when exactly I want it and hassle-free. =p
My first attempt to food blog entry or not. Me and my family went out today to do some shopping in Clark, Pampanga. The long drive was fun aside from the fun-fact that we're all crammed in the car, we ate and we brought the cooler with us. So we just bought drinks of our choice from the supermarket and brought it with us the whole trip, it's cheaper that way. It's just one of those stress-free out of town trips. We often go out of town but this experience is something new since we didn't swim or stayed overnight or whatever.
Then on our way home almost everyone was asleep when we woke up we could have thought we're almost home but no, we got lost. Haha! When we finally got our way home we stopped by for dinner. Since home-y restaurants like Sonya's Garden (still have to try this on a daylight. =p ) and Antonio's in Tagaytay and Kusina Salud in Laguna (which I've never been to yet.) are very in nowadays and Restaurant reviews and recommendation blogs are very common, I thought this one was really cool. Luma't Bago (Old and New as translated in English) has a great ambiance and aside from that it is very home-y and relaxing, it is airconditioned as well! But there were some open-air space if you prefer. I didn't get to take a pic of the food before it was all consumed so below's my best shot of their Tuna Sisig. It is indeed yummy! Also it wasn't very pricey! The manager (or atleast I think she is. Lolz!) there is welcoming as well. The service is good as well. The best of all is that you can get all these in the heart of the Metro.I don't know exactly how to get there though but it's along Katipunan, I think. It's on the way to White Plains in QC.
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I've been meaning to make an entry these past few days on how my holidays went, there just didn't seem to have enought time. Hopefully soon! At the mean time, here's an article I've gotten from Yahoo! Top Ten Resolutions Not to Make This Year Here at Cosmo, we feel the same way about New Year’s resolutions as we do about rules — some are just meant to be broken. Here, ten things that shouldn’t show up on any Cosmo girl’s list of do’s and don’ts for 2009. Buzz up! By Zoe Ruderman Photo: Tamara Schlesinger 1. Quit your job and wait for a dream career opportunity to present itself. Recession shmecession. Reality check: Suck it up and hang on to your gig for now. Appease yourself by taking a class or picking up a hobby that will make your résumé stand out, like learning a foreign language or starting a blog. - This is one reality a lot of people are aware of nowadays. I'm just lucky I still have mine. Thank God! 2. Lose five pounds. Reality check: Hot chicks like Jessica Biel, Beyoncé, and ScarJo are proof that toned and curvy is the new skinny. - I guess that means gain five pounds for me. =) (At the right places of my body though. =p ) 3. Finally win back your ex-boyfriend. Reality check: Move on. We give you permission to engage in some rebound relationship therapy. - I've moved on and have let go and it's great! =) 4. Buy into all the latest trends. Reality check: It’s okay to be a slave to fashion...just be a slave to cheap fashion, rather than dropping serious bank on each and every look. Kick yourself later for wearing it, but don’t kick yourself for blowing your paycheck on it. - Okay, I want to look trendy-professional (even on dressdown days) nothing that will say arrogant or lousy and definitely not pricey! 5. Change your man. Reality check: While some relationship tweaking is to be expected (hey, few guys are natural-born good kissers), if the words “fixer-upper” and “project” could describe your boyfriend, it’s time to get real. - I'm looking forward to meeting him this year. Even just meeting him, no jumping in a commitment. But then I don't want to get my hopes up. 6. Triple the number of friends you have on Facebook. Reality check: Less time stalking your friends’ friends’ friends. More time catching up with buddies you actually care about. - I'm a horrible Facebook/Friendster user, I almost never update it. I just check it less than five minutes. Multiply loyalist here. =p 7. Don’t eat any junk food. Reality check: Cutting out all unhealthy food from your diet will most likely lead to binge eating, followed by intense guilt, by mid-January. - I actually thought about it this morning. Doesn't mean I'm slim, gives me the right to eat fat and more junk food. My goal is never to starve myself yet eat something that cause less harm to my body. This doesn't mean giving up junk food totally. Balanced diet will be the key. 8. Watch less trashy TV. Reality check: Zoning out and de-stressing for a bit every night with the help of good bad television is harmless. - Whatever this means. You can't move me away infront of the TV, weighing TV and internet and a book. TV comes first then the internet and book. Plus I thought of practicing myself to help out around the house - not a new year's resolution. I've been thinking about this for the longest time. =p 9. Save more money. Reality check: Let’s be honest. In this economy, we’re just happy to be able to pay our rent, gas, and credit card bill. - Again, whatever it is said here will be ignored. I'm determined to save more money nowadays! =) That is without sacrificing the bills to pay, everyday living expenses and helping out to parents. I'll just have to keep thinking of ways to save not actually cutting out. 10. Keep your number down. Reality check: Nothin’ wrong with notches on your bedpost, as long as you’re being safe. - I'm not really sure I understand this right. But if it means having more sleeping time. I will definitely have proper hours of sleep which takes me back to #7. But if this means going out, I'll definitely go out more with friends. As long as it's nothing risky/dangerous and will make my parents worrried about me. =p And definitely not sacrificng working habit/hours. =p | |
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