Sunday, May 28, 2006
Summer is again over!
The rainy season is about to start. A part of me is liking the end of the hot summer nights and the start of rainy days and stormy nights which would want you to curl in bed, under the covers and wish for Signal No. 3 so that you're excused from going to the office. But a part of me will definitely miss the summer season and its sunny skies which makes you want to get into a bikini and hit the beach and just drink cold shakes on the sand.
This week signalled the start of classes. As usual, my schedule will be full of group meetings and case studies. Last friday was my first Marketing course and I am very fortunate to have Anton (
who's about to get married in a few days) and Trexyl (
who will be my wedding date to Anton's wedding) as classmates because it means that I won't fall asleep in class. But the drawback of having them as classmates and seatmates also mean that I am again part of the "noisy group at the back of the class". No wonder our professer transferred Trexyl to a different group.
Aside from starting with my graduate school courses, I have also enrolled in
Slimmers World with Connie. Since Connie and I got the 2-year program, I went to Nike Park Glorietta to purchase my first-ever Nike rubber shoes in pink and gray! Karir! I have officially worked out in the gym for 2 days. I have to tell you that going to the gym is definitely a lot of hard work, perseverance and patience. I love using the treadmill. The hatest equipment that I have to do is
The Transport and the hatest thing that is also in my program is crunches. Dear God! Crunches hurt like hell. But I guess if there's no pain, there's no gain. From the time I started working for Select until this day, I have gained about 6 lbs. For a lot of people, this number is so miniscule and can be shed off in a few days. But for a petite girl like me, 6 pounds is A LOT of FAT! So aside from going to gym, I'm cutting down on my food intake, skipping dinner and avoiding fast food like the plague. I am hoping that by the time I walk down the aisle I have already attained my fitness goals such as smaller tummy, smaller arms and thighs and toned muscles.
Speaking of weddings and getting married,
my college summer fling, Claude, will be getting married on January 2007 also. According to chinese beliefs, he should not attend my wedding nor I attend his because this would cause bad luck. Talk about BUMMER! As much as possible, I want all my close friends to be at my wedding and Claude is one of those people. Unfortunately, a belief is a belief. So even if I am not chinese, I have to respect Claude's decisions. I'm hoping that before January 2007, I will be able to convince him and his fiancee that we just need to wear red underwear to counter off whatever bad luck would come during our married life.
So what else is new with me? Well, I recently saw
X-men 3 with Red at Greenbelt earlier. Last week Red and I saw
The Da Vinci Code and we also bumped into Tina and her friends at ATC. The week before that, Jas and I saw
Aquamarine starring Jojo.
Last sunday Jas and I went to BF Homes for dinner at a japanese resto, a little shopping at BF Ruins and a little pampering at
Medispa. BF Homes is my home away from home. It almost has everything in it except a shopping mall and cinema. It's so commercialized in an urbanized way. It's contradicting but I just can't explain it. I like to live in BF Homes again and by the time I can afford to buy a house there, I hope that there would already be water readily available. By the way, BF Homes already has
Sinigang Express which serves very cheap
tapsilog and all the
silogs you can think of.
Sinigang Express is fondly called "SEx". So if ever I tell you,
"Sex tayo.", it just means I want to eat at
Sinigang Express.
It's already a sunday and I still haven't finished this entry. I'm still bored so I guess I'll stay online for a few more minutes and hope that Leny gets back so we can resume chatting.
Maan @ 1:16 AM
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Cannonball
There's still a little bit of your taste in my mouth
There's still a little bit of you laced with my doubt
It's still a little harder to say what's going on
There's still a little bit of your ghost, your witness
There's still a little bit of your face, I haven't kissed
You step a little closer each day
That I can't see what's going on
Stones taught me to fly
Love, it taught me to lie
Life, it taught me to die
So it's not hard to fall
When you float like a cannonball
There's still a little bit of your song in my ear
There's still a little bit of your words I long to hear
You step a little closer to me
So close that I can't see what's going on
Stones taught me to fly
Love, it taught me to lie
Life, it taught me to die
So it's not hard to fall
When you float like a cannon-
Stones taught me to fly
Love, it taught me to cry
So come on courage
Teach me to be shy
'Cause it's not hard to fall
And I don't wanna scare her
It's not hard to fall
And I don't wanna lose
It's not hard to grow
When you know that you just don't know
--- Cannonball, Damien Rice
Maan @ 7:03 PM
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Saturday, May 13, 2006
Time Traveling
The rain just stopped pouring and the winds have finally ceased. I was planning to go to the office to hopefully finish everything that needs to be done as well as attend my last swimming class with Thea under Tatang (who we thought was dead). Unfortunately, the storm hit and I am forced to stay home. But in every cloud there is a silver lining. Due to the heavy rains and I have no choice but to stay indoors, I had the time to start with my newest book
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. I've been reading the book for half a day already and I'm halfway through it. If I didn't watch a little tv such as
The OC and
Grey's Anatomy, I might be finished with it by now. As much as I want to finish the book because I want to know how Henry and Clare's love story will end, I am also feeling a bit sad that in a few hours from now, my adventure with Clare and her time traveling husband will be over. And I have to look for a new book to purchase which must be better than this one.
Since we're on the subject, let's talk about time travel. If it is possible, would you time travel? If you did, will you change a thing? I don't have big regrets in life. I believe that every thing happens for a reason. That everything we do, no matter how small it is, contributes to something really big. But if I could time travel and if my changing something would not cause another World War or destroy the universe, I guess there are some things that I would change like...
...studied more in school. I've never been given any award when I was in grade school and high school and I'm thinking that if I studied rather than just watch tv and being an average Jane, I could have gotten higher grades and walked on stage with medals on my neck. That wouldn't be so bad.
...fought with my brother less. Now that he's far, far away and I haven't seen him for more than a year, I realized that I haven't been the best
Ate in the whole world. It would really be great to go back and just be a little less meaner to my brother and a lot more of a great big sister.
...be more outspoken and confident. Believe me, I was very shy when I was in grade school and high school. Terribly and painfully shy that I seldom recite in class and my hatest subject is Speech class. The student that I am now is the total opposite of what I was more than 10 years ago. If I were overly confident back then like I am right now, I'm sure that I'll be loving Speech class and maybe I'll be on the Debate team. I will be able to stand up to the "bullies" on our bus who always sit at the back and I'll be able to tell my 3rd year grammar teacher, Ms. Agnir, "Manigas ka!" when I accidentally stepped on her shoe and she ordered me to wipe it. I wonder where she is right now?
Yeah! If I can time travel, I will definitely do all those stuff and then some.
Maan @ 11:14 PM
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