I am, I love, I have

Got this again from my yahoogroups. Feel free to copy and post it in your blog.

I AM proud of myself for having the will power not to eat rice. Its been 3 days now, though I don’t know if i can stop myself from eating tonight as we will have dinner out with officemates. It’s amazing what rice-deprivation can do, I swear my belly is a wee bit smaller than before hehe.

I HAVE two feet the left and right. Hold them up high so clean and bright.

I WISH I could just go home and watch Charmed. nabitin ako kagabi eh..

I HATE being corrected even though I know that I’m wrong. Ma-pride kasi na tao.

I MISS Mr. Pesky, no one to tickle me at night, no hugs *sigh*. On the other hand, I really like the peace right now.

I FEAR that I might be dead without me making a difference. Naks deep.

I LOVE chocolates, especially Lindts, kisses, Ferrero, Mon Cherie and Gabo.

I AM NOT docile. Medyo may pagka resistant to change ako

I DANCE when I am really wasted.

I SING when i hear someone singing. Last Song Syndrome.

I CRY when I am frustrated. Specially when I don’t get what I want (spoiled brat ba?)

I WRITE when I feel the tingling on my fingers. I love writing, writing does not love me hehe

I SHOULD get back to work and quit blogging but I can’t stop the tingling eh.

Loner thoughts

So Mr. Pesky left me last friday, am not good at goodbyes so I just said “bye bye”, gave him a quick kiss and went my merry way.

The first 3 days weren’t so bad because Georgia slept over for 2 nights and washed my boredom away. We went to mall of asia, quite big but packed with people then proceeded to go to Fitness First and danced hip hop, flash dance complete with turning and jumping like a ballerina and running in circles.

Stayed the whole day at home on Sunday watched t.v., surf the net before it went kapot and slept. Sunday night was bad, I had a tanga moment see previous post and I had an attack of insomnia. The apartment was at its loneliest state, with me just staring at the wall, hoping that I will go to dreamland.

Monday, ate breakfast at home alone, ate lunch alone, went to fitness first (i’m going to do this everyday its the only way to speed up time) and ate sardines for dinner straight from the can

Tuesday, breakfast and lunch alone. How exciting is that? huh? The bed has gotten quite big, and well I am adjusting to being a loner.

Being single again, is not that bad, I bought myself headphones with mic and got 20 pesos off with me just flashing a smile.

I’m slowly getting into a routine with four months(max) more to endure, I have to get used to this kind of life. By that time I’ll probably be full of preservatives due to eating can goods and ready to cook meals

On other news, Mr. Pesky is getting better with his craft. I am defeated *sigh*. He is just more talented and I still have more learning to do or maybe I’m just too lazy to study a new craft. Oh! well, I promised to myself that I will be better than him in photoshop. I have tons of tutorials here started on the first few chapters but got side-tracked in watching t.v. My Girl from ABS seems interesting so I’ll be just be a couch potato for now watching My Girl, PBB and then my backlog of charmed, desperate and lost.

This is such a boring entry…because personally am bored in here. LINGAWA ko!

Ka tangahan

I am literally banging my head right now. I can’t believe i can be this stupid! I was VERY irritated with mydestiny sincee they promised to me an hour before that they will reconnect my internet in 5 minutes. I called their customer service not once but 7 times and using cellphone at that. Very irritated, I stormed out of my unit and went down to go to an internet cafe and find a landline. I chatted with Yiek for a while and he told me the right way to contact destiny’s customer service. After 5-10 minutes, their representative contacted me but they needed to check my modem so I told them to give me a call in 15 minutes. I rushed to the elevator pressured that they’d be calling soon, only to realize that I don’t have the keys with me. Oh my God! I can’t believe I left the keys at home. Pisti! So I went to the guard to ask for help, goodthing (or bad thing) there was a locksmith but I had to pay 450. So, after unlocking my door, I found out that my keys were not in the apartment afterall, I left them on the internet cafe. My god! I am banging my head right now. I am so TANGA. Shet na lang. The bad news is my internet is not yet fixed and i am here in the internet cafe blogging my stupidity. I feel so shitty right now. Grr!

MCP na daw ako

Ok I was suppose to brag that I passed the certification I’ve been painstakingly studying but I got busy with work, getting ready for our trip to cebu, vacationing in cebu and preparing for Yiek’s things for his upcoming business trip this friday. So I guess by friday night, I’ll just be sitting my ass off staring at the pc or tv. Sigh! I am not used to being alone or rather this is the first in my life that I’ll be alone. Alone, meaning my constant companion will be our t.v. and my pc. I guess I’ll have all the time in the world to blog so expect to see more entries for the next few days because really I can’t think of anything else to do. I can of course do a tv-series-marathon, watch all my backlogs of charmed and desperate housewives, start watching Grey’s Anatomy. Yeah! its soo much fun watching it alone yeah riigghtt!.

Funny when you have soo much time you can’t think of a single “fun” thing to do, oh well! I’m psyching myself to study adobe photoshop so I can shift my career from applications programmer to graphic artist (kidding). I want to draw some kick-ass arts i.e. zoombies and other effects. I’ll probably learn flash animation too. Soo this weekend, I’ll stack up on photoshop and flash animation tutorials. This is soo much fun I’m looking forward to learning. Grabe .

Ok! I’m done with being sarcastic. Here is the result of my certification. So I am officially a Microsoft Certified Programmer or so it seems.

In case the picture is not clear. Here is my score: 980/1000. Yes, I am gloating!

I’m dead serious..

..I am, really!

Happy Mothers day to all! even though I’m not one I certainly have one reason to celebrate. First and foremost I finally finally enrolled myself at the gym. Since it is mother’s day, the joining fee was waived wow! lucky, lucky me.

I was really amazed with their facilities, poor poor ignoy me, wala kasi to sa bundok namin. YOu can do the threadmill while watching t.v. , have a free sauna, and their classes are really AMAZING. I am really excited to do Belly Dancing, Latin Dancing, Yoga, Pilates and other stuffs. Not at all boring! On top of that, my gosh my golly wow, free refillable coffee, softdrinks. Double wow! I can even borrow their vcd’s for my viewing pleasure and and and the view is really te-ri-ffic! I can see ortigas from afar since we are at the 35th floor. I’m loving it already!

I shopped and shopped for my attire. I have to look good y’know

Freebies!!! Well not really since I paid for it but this is what

you get when you pay the joining fee but since it was waived. I got this for free!

The road to a coffee-free existence. Tea!

Told you I was serious in sculpting mah body. Got to be able to wear the skimpy two piece I’ve been eyeing. Oh well, good luck to me.

Darn cellulite

I was fitting swimsuits at NafNaf and was planning to buy one to “inspire” me to shed off all those freakin’ cellulites but I got turned off looking at my helpless flabs that I just took a peek 0n the mirror.

Darn! I used to have flat abs and darn I used to eat anything I can get my hands on and not gain a pound. But times have changed and my metabolism has slowed down. Darn this age thing or it must be the nature of my work, me staring at the monitor and sitting all day no wonder I look like a pig.

Now see, my college mates and I have booked ourselves a trip to boracay this coming June and the last time I went there I was fatter than I am now so imagine my chubby cheeks and super flabby stomach arrgg! the reason I can’t stand looking at our pictures. I don’t want that happening again. I want to look drop dead gorgeous and see men ogling at me hahaha wish ko lang.

I have very little self control when it comes to food and any caffeinated beverages. I’ve tried South beach for 2 days and it did work wonders. I simply cannot resist food when it is in front of me. So, watching while mr. Pesky eats those yummy food will not work for me. No sirree..

Good thing, Mr. Pesky will be out on a business trip (if the visa gets approve which I hope to God it does) so I have all these quality time all by myself. I don’t have to cook anymore and my life will finally be peaceful. hurrah! yipee! I am doing cartwheels here (hehehe Plastic as if hindi ma mi-miss ang peskiness ni mr. pesky). So I can finally go on a full blown South beach diet (ok! I know I will cheat a little). I can live by bacon and egg breakfast, lunch and dinner! I can eat tuna straight from the can. no bad carbs. I can do this! I can do this! Yiek is probably laughing his ass off while reading this because he knows how little my self control is. But if he’s not around then I won’t be around to soo much food right? Ergo, I won’t be tempted to eat those bad bad carbs.

Darn, I am probably ranting here but this is my journal so I’ll rant all I want. I will enroll myself at fitness first on Monday. That I promise I will do. Work my ass off at least 4 times a week. I mean, it is 10 minutes away from where I live and it is just across my office for the love of Arroyo (hmm bago to ah!). So I can do this, with only a month more to go before the bora trip I have to “inspire” myself to do so.

Zigzag, Charm and Stones

Saturday

After all that hullaballo and running around like a naked chicken, we were finally able to relax inside the bus.

I was not able to sleep the entire trip to Baguio, maybe I had adrenaline overdose. During stop over, I downed in a bottle of C2 and later regretted doing so. 30 minutes after stop over, I felt like emptying my bladder. I counted the hours for our ETA. 2-3 freakin’ hours. I tried to sleep it off but who am I kidding? I even tried counting the buses and trucks that our driver passed by but my efforts remained futile. After an hour of a half of holding it, I finally mustered enough guts to go to the driver and say “Manong, pwede ba pa stop ihing-ihi na talaga ako”. To which he replied, “ok lang ba sayo na sa gilid2x lang”

“Ok lang manong kahit saan.Di ko na kaya!!!!”

So, I peed around some bushes, to which Yiek attested that he saw my butt. I don’t care, as long I peed my guts out.

We arrived earlier than the scheduled time because luckily our driver was a maniac on the road. He overtakes any vehicle, yes even the big trucks that gets on his way. We were even faster than the Victory Deluxe. So thank God, we were on time with our itinerary.

We were on time for the first trip going to Sagada but sadly we were not able to board the bus because there were too many passengers who arrived earlier than us.

We finally boarded the bus at around 6:30 am, we were unluckily seated at the back (you know the back of all backs were 6 persons can be crammed up.).The ride from hell started. I was cursing all the guide books and forums for not telling or forewarning us of the hellish ride. 6 hours of zigzag road, 2 hours of that was on zigzag rocky road. I discarded any attempts of sleeping. How can I sleep if I can feel every turn, bump and curves of the road. WE felt like being placed in a washing machine for 6 hours! 4 hours after the ride I declared and sweared “Sa sunod di na dyud ta magpalubot ha! (let’s not get ourselves assed)”.

We arrive Sagada around 12:30, I can just imagine our disgruntled looks, hair in total disarray, hollowed eyes and skin full of all the dust we accumulated while on the road. We decided to eat lunch first since our stomachs were shouting for food. We ate at masferre and got shocked when we were billed. The food was a little bit expensive (100php per dish), food was carenderia style.

Next adventure, find a place to stay. We search every nook and cranny but couldn’t find one to stay. Our last option was to go to the hospital were the bed was tagged at 50php per night. But we feared going there and tried our best to find a room no matter how small it may be. We saw some americans on the way out with their luggage so we figured there must be some inn there.

We were right, there was a discrete little inn called “Green House”. Initially the owner, an old woman who speaks in straight english (a la Call Center) declined. Georgia and I were so tired from the walk that we just sat in their sala to catch our breath. We worked double time to exude our charm even begging her to just let us stay on their sala’s floor. It worked and we were given a room good for 2. Makamandag talaga charm namin!

Without any ounce of sleep, we proceeded to register ourselves at the municipal hall to explore sumaging cave (oh yeah!).

There were so many people exploring the cave that it took us twice the time, but we really didn’t mind since the place was soo majestic. I’ve never seen a cave this big and I’ve never experienced this much of an adventure (a little slip will mean falling into abyss). Tsaka, ngayon lang ako nahulugan ng Bat poopoo, ang daming poopoo nang bat, lahat na ata ng bato merong poopoo, pero kevs. Gusto kung mag explore, ito na ang hinahanap ko na adventure (Switch to tagalog muna, I’m getting tired of looking and correcting my english grammar). Aba! Flexible pala katawan ko, nag split, nag climb ng rope, nag climb ng bato, jump 4 feet below wow! pwede na akong maging climber pwede ko na ngang i-replace si spiderman. Tsaka ang lamig ng tubig! grabe parang binuhusan ng balde-baldeng ice. para nga kaming nasa states dahil makikita ang binubuga naming breath. Don’ ko rin nakita na umuusok yung balat ko sa sobrang lamig (pwede pala ‘yun?) at yung the best.. libre foot spa, dahil nga limestone yung ina-apakan namin sa lower cave at naka barefoot kami, nawala lahat ng kalyo namin sa kaka-hold on sa mga bato. Maraming stone formations i.e. elephant, king’s curtain, and the newly devirgenized maiden (totoo!) pakita ko pa picture namin.

Recommended talaga! 4 hours kami ‘don sa cave. It is that big.

After the cave exploration, we took some pictures of the fabulous mini rice terraces. Went to have a dinner at Youghurt house, drank some blueberry wine, shared sa corny stories and called it a night. Patay na patay yung tulog namin.

See more pictures here

Next: Trekking and Alaxan

Mystical Sagada: Boarding the bus

We’ve heard all the raves from Ria that SADAGA is a mystical and one of the 100-things-to-see-before-you-die place. So curious, Georgia, Joseph(Joe), Yiek and I decided to go to there last weekend.

This trip from start to finish was one heck of an adventure. All my other trips paled in comparison. So I hope I can tell this story as interesting as the time we spent there.

Monday

I’m not really an O.C. in planning a trip, I didn’t make any room reservations, didn’t have a clear itinerary. I think it is more fun this way; I like surprises and what a surprise the trip proved to be. I reserved our selves’ seats to Baguio since all other buses going to banaue or bontoc were all full. I attempted to make some room reservations but forgot about it by the middle of the day that I ended up with no reservations at all. I just trusted Ria’s claims that it would be easy to find a place to stay.

Friday

We were scheduled to leave at 12:15 am Saturday morning. So, I went home 7:30 to prepare our things and watch PBB. All right, I admit I went home early so I can watch PBB teen edition. But to my chagrin, I left my keys at the office and I had to wait 45 minutes for Yiek to go home. I was too lazy to go back to the office to get my keys. So, I just sat at the fire exit stairs and ate my dinner, I felt like a homeless nobody.

We were told to go to Victory Liner station 2 hours before the trip. I was watching a little bit of “Sa piling mo” (I know jologs), so we were a bit late in going there and arrived 10:30. Georgia wanted to watched Encantadia and Kim San Soon’s finale so Yiek and I just went ahead.

I was smug enough to gloat that I have reserve tickets while others were waiting for cancelled ones just so they can ride the bus. But but .. the tickets we reserved were for April 28 not April 29! (it was a misunderstanding) and we were left with no reservations, no tickets and no bus to go to Baguio. Yiek was pretty much irritated because our other companions were not yet there. We were having a mini shouting match and I wanted to throw our bags for the heck of burning out my frustrations. I called Georgia to please please hurry up because our trip to Baguio was scheduled at 11:30 pm and Makati is quite faraway and the traffic was terrible in Edsa.

11:30 pm…wala pa rin sina Georgia! The bus was leaving and there were still at the skywalk! They didn’t even know where the station was. I was running around trying to look for them and Yiek was VERY pissed off. Good thing the driver was very kind and suggested that they go to a certain hotel and they would just pass them by. The passengers were pretty much grumbling. It was an amazing race experience to the two of them.