weekend nattering

Christmas christmas time is near

Time to put up the christmas tree and decorations! Had a super busy busy weekend,  last minute shopping to update our christmas decor and to get those outrageously expensive LED lights which should also be safer daw. Our family usually puts up the christmas tree on November 30 (which is a Philippine holiday), but with the moving around of holidays now, we compromised and put it up today.

Woke up early to avoid the midday heat while putting up the new lights. (sorry forgot to take pictures of the general chaos and the finished product! will get around to it tomorrow night)  christmas carols playing in the background...everyone was in a good mood! hehehe

finished at around 11am.  Sat down to lotsa pizza (also tradition!) and ice cold royal true orange for me, mountain due (seriously, what was I thinking?) dew for the kuya, and coke zero for the oldies.

I was hoping to get through the christmas season without hearing "last christmas" by wham, and I had a pretty good start, already well into november without my hearing it.  but unfortunately, I was at robinsons marquinton for just a super duper quick grocery run and what do i hear going into the grocery? yup, last christmas i gave you my heart...grumble mutter

Next project - gift wrapping!

And I should probably prepare my birthday wishlist too!

Autumn Monologue on the Fiction We Live

because i'm still feeling kinda emo...my favorites from From Autumn to Ashes (2003)

See videos here and here.

Autumn's Monologue

Oh why can't I be what you need?
A new improved version of me.
But I'm nothing so good
no, I'm nothing...
just bones, a lonely ghost burning down songs
of violence, of love, and of sorrow.
I beg for just one more tomorrow!
Where you'd hold me down, fold me in
deep deep deep in the heart of your sins.

I'd break in two over you
I'd break in two
and each piece of me dies
and only you can give the breath of life!
But you don't see me. You dont.

Here I'm pinned between darkness and light,
bleached and blinded by these nights.
Where I'm tossing and tortured till dawn
by you, visions of you, then you're gone.
The shock bleeds the red from my face,
when i hear someone's taken my place.
How could love be so thoughtless, so cruel?
When all, all that i did was for you...

I'd break in two over you
I'd break in two
and each piece of me dies
and only you can give the breath of life!
But you dont see me. You don't.

I'd break in two over you
I'd break in two
and each piece of me dies
and only you can give the breath of life!
But you don't see me. You don't.

I'd break in two over you,
I'd break in two over you! Over you
I'd break in two,
I would break in two for you.
Now you see me, now you don't.
Now you need me, now you don't. 


 The Fiction We Live


You might be just what I need
No I would not change a thing
Been dreaming of this so long
But we only exist in this song
The thing is, I'm not worth the sorrow
And if you come and meet me tomorrow
I will hold you down, fold you in
Deep, deep, deep in the fiction we live
I break in two over you
I break in two
And if a piece of you dies
Autumn, I will bring you back to life
Of course I see you
I do.

self-doubt

your continued absence is making me begin to wonder if you're avoiding me.

i miss our daily catch-ups through phone calls, chat, or when we're too busy, through text.

ok, I'm sounding clingy and needy.  please don't hold it against me.

i wonder how you're doing...

i get that you don't like me that way.

i get that you like her.  i'm not holding that against you.


what i don't get is why you're avoiding me. are you?

I tweet!

My 365-day project was a bust! So I decided to join Twitter to occupy the rest of my time. Harhar. Since I'm also on a phone withdrawal project, my twitter won't be updated through my mobile. Exciting.  Unfortunately, my life only involves work and home, my tweets would probably be something like this...

5:30am  woke up

7:00am going to the office

7:45am at the office

9:30am 2nd breakfast

11:00am waiting for lunch

12:30pm nap time

3:00pm snack time

4:30pm going home

5:30pm home

7:00pm eating dinner

9:30pm going to bed

:))

A night to remember

I went to Makati to finish some paperwork and run some errands.  Quite productive actually.

Met with K and S for lunch -- had chicken and mojos at Shakey's (because I was missing mojos).  Planned some future trips. Went our separate ways for the rest of the afternoon, then met with S and N for dinner.  Definitely turned into a mega-gossip session.  But since we were all pooped from our busy weeks (and stress) called it a night by 9pm.  (Maybe I'm beginning to feel my age or 2 decades older, harhar).

Since I didn't have transpo nor my trusty driver, I rode the shuttle with N.  What an adventure!!!  I used to ride the shuttle before since the terminal was right behind the SGV building.  Anyway, tonight the shuttle broke down right at the corner of paseo de roxas and dela rosa...Traffic was so terrible that we broke down there and we didn't even inconvenience the cars behind us (well, not so much anyway).  Driver said it was his fault since he made a mistake with the clutch (apparently, the engine had to be revved up or else it would shut down).  But! The van only started when two male passengers (there was one other male passenger, but I think he was batting for the other team) pushed the van.  N and I being good samaritans (No! We did not help push.) got off the van to lessen the weight somewhat.   We walked beside the van while crossing paseo. I'm just glad we got through the ride without any other mishap.

I can't sleep yet since I have a lot of forbidden sugar coursing through my veins...pretty hyped.  Waiting for the sugar crash...  I wonder if it's worth it to watch Harry Potter on Imax?  I wonder how the UP Law Alumni Homecoming went?  Planning a stargazing trip around the first week of december (it's the new moon, so a lot of stars will be visible).  Orion's visible again, right above our house.

Rambling rambling rambling...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Wow Seb!

When McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton won the 2008 drivers’ title, his entry into the record books was made all the more special as he became the sport’s youngest-ever world champion. Just two seasons later and Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel has outshone even Hamilton, clinching his maiden championship in Abu Dhabi at 23 years and four months-old - a full five months younger than Hamilton was back in ‘08. Read more here.  

Plus, Red Bull also won the constructors' championship!  This is great because I really didn't want Alonso to win (I'm a Kimi fan!).

I completely forgot about the F1 finale last sunday -- being so busy Christmas shopping.  I'm hoping to catch a replay on Star Sports this weekend.  On the upside, I'm almost done with my Christmas list.  Only the adults left and they're usually the ones I have a hard time shopping for, probably because I love shopping for books and toys for the kids!

Anyway, I was also at Honda for car maintenance and I was looking at the new models.  They have paddle shifting for some of their cars! Now, I can bring home my own "F1" car.  Hahaha!  Oh, Daddy daddy please!

One less prince

Prince William is engaged. How come he looks so old? And balding?  Anyway, this is hooray for ordinary girls like me wishing to marry prince charming.:)) 

Since everyone's getting engaged or married (I have 3 friends getting married this December), I was feeling sort of jealous and lonely.  So what did I do? Engaged in self-destructive behavior!

I already promised myself to move on from a bad relationship. The guy isn't bad per se, just not good for me.  And since he's always available to me...I'm like an addict who keeps coming back for a fix. :(   And it isn't even that great a fix.  Lord, please help me!!!

In other depressing news, an average woman will kiss 29 men before she gets married. (I think I read this in a Yahoo article.)  Anyway, either I'm not an average woman, or I'm a really really  REALLY LATE BLOOMER!

Pffftt.

Dawn appointments

It's a holiday today!!! Unfortunately, I forgot to reset my alarm clock and instead woke up at 4:30am.  Yes, my first alarm is at 4:30...I tend to go right back to sleep, so I have 2 more alarms before I finally get up at around 6am.  Anyway, so my alarm went off at the usual time, waking me up from a rather unusual (and somewhat disturbing) dream of me floating in the ocean in total darkness.  I know I'm staring up at the sky but I can't see any stars...I couldn't go back to sleep so I padded down to the kitchen for something to eat.

The house was really quiet...but one other person was up.  My mom was checking her online armies and probably attacking some poor fellow halfway around the world.  That or she was organizing some mass action in their clan's war room.

I decided to cook pancakes and bacon...

Yum!!!

 Even my dad enjoyed the treat (he declared a diet holiday)!

Went back to sleep at I don't know what time and woke up again at 10am.

I love holidays, even when I wake up early!  I love my job which lets me enjoy my holidays! Hehe.

*Leans back...sighs...scratches tummy*

Gonna stop now

I quit I quit I quit my 365-project (waving white flag)....and to celebrate, I went to Pizza Hut and didn't order pizza. :)

Plants vs Zombies

So I've been nursing my PvZ Survival Endless for the longest time...with a great trainer engine...but it got kinda boring so I let them eat my brainssssss!

Starting the level

Getting overrun

No more lawnmower to save me

Zombies already inside!!!

Try Again!!!

The internet is for...

I don't know what happened to pldt and dsl but our street had no phones and dsl for the entire weekend.  We only had everything restored at 4 this afternoon.  Anyway, being a completely wired family, we suddenly found ourselves at a loss...short tempers, spastic jerking of fingers on phantom mouse and keyboards, obsessive checking of time and bemoaning missed turns on online games, losing wars and quests, etc.


For my family, the internet is for --

My dad uses the internet to manage his stock portfolio.
My mom emails and plays various online games.
My older sister plays Runescape and Torn.
My other older sister (who's married and doesn't live with us anymore) plays various online puzzles.
My older brother plays a lot of those turn-based games (and porn?).
My younger brother uses it for email, social networking, special interest chatrooms (including porn?) and games.
I do email, chat, facebook, blog, and my games...Kado kado, Caverns of Hammerfest and Natural Chemist.  I also sometimes log in to Ruins of Chaos and Kings of Chaos.

Finally, we're all back online.  Everyone's quite content and all you can hear (if you're not wearing your skullcandy) will be the frantic tapping on keyboards and clicking mice.  Aaaaaahhh, the family that internets together stays together.

Blue-eyed children sounds good

Why is it that whenever my friends and I get together, the talk invariably turns to marriage and relationships (or lack thereof)?  Is it inevitable when a group of single 30-somethings catch up over coffee?

Of course, this also led me to recognize the fact that I don't have a significant someone nowadays.  I don't even have a "may be" significant someone. :(  Which now leads me to the question..."Am I going to be single for the rest of my life?"

While I refuse to actually spend time thinking about it, the question does burn at the back of my head.  Plus the increasingly doomsday-like dong of my body clock counting  down my reproductive capability. (Hahaha!)  To add even more pressure, my mom has gotten it into her head that she actually wants more grandchildren (she only has one right now), and not only that! She's also gotten a hankering for blond blue-eyed grandchildren!!!  I'm like "Ok Mom.  Give me money and I'll go to Europe pronto!" (I'm assuming she wants European caucasians, hehehe!)

So I'm definitely open to starting a relationship now.  Accepting applications now...previous applicants may be reconsidered. :)

Day 17 - Flat Tops

November 3, 2010 - working hard...I started with about 20 :)