Monday, April 28, 2008
weekend guide: blasts from the past edition
fridaydrive from makati to qc
pastry passion/west gallery
drive back to makati from qc
all it took to press the start button was a long drive to visit a friend who's been in the hospital for nearly a week, the reason for which shall remain unknown until i learn how to spell the diagnosis correctly. rich and i were on a roll swapping stories that were both embarrassing and amusing. you see i have already fogotten how i froze whenever this one particular guy was in a proximity of at least 10 meters away from me. yes, it was that bad. although he wasn't my biggest, i hate to use the word but fine, crush then the thought of him had me smiling all evening. i can be cheesy i know. in case you're wondering we're still friends now and i'll reco him to all the other girls out there. over pasta and cake at pastry passion, we continued to dissect our seemingly odd taste in guys but i'm happy to say that rich agrees that i made good choices i.e. one of them might even be a future cannes winner ;)
saturday
rockwell
in one's life there will always be those people who might not now everything about you but who knows a part of you that others might not know of. cherry knows about and shares my passion for sports. our highs then were watching from the sidelines and getting to know the people behind the glitz and glamour of their respective sports. in the course of immersing ourselves in championship series and swooning at some of the campus celebritites, we formed a bond that brought us to where we are now - to two people who decided to meet up for brunch at 10am in gram's diner and wrapped up at around 330pm in fic ice cream bar. che saw me not so discreetly keep my loyalty to someone from a rival team all those years and now she's here again to see me through a quite similar situation.
i thought that after i resumed to my OC-ness with paper works, indulged myself with my fave movie food combo - oliver's egg mayo and mango big chill, agreed to watching a kung fu movie i know nothing about that i'd be totally back to the here and now and then sunday came.
sunday
rockwell again
i met up with a third of the ebench for some food trip at som's followed by dessert at fic ice cream bar again. we talked about past loves and possible gossip girl entries we can come up with based on then and now. we babbled about our crazy theories and we closed the night with a set-up of one of us to this guy who used to be a college geek now unanimously voted as a certified hottie. looks like the sunday club is here to stay.
it's really okay that i missed the F1 spanish grand prix qualifying and race day for all of these. i actually enjoyed every bit of it so until next time. =)
p.s.
i discovered there is nothing too much with God because he gave me the ferrari 1-2 finish i asked for in the post script of my previous entry ;)
(1:41 AM) ♥ tal
Thursday, April 24, 2008
thanks for the little everyday things ;)
dear God,it's been quite a while. i know that we talk here and there but most especially when i'm down. so now for a change i just want to say thanks for the little things that make the seemingly big problems small.
it's weird how i knew i had to go to mass today but only remembered it was my tatay's birthday late in the evening. thanks for saving me from forgetting a big day such as this.
it's also great that you found a common free time for me and D. she surprised me by dispensing the kind of advice i need with "if your really like him enough" being the qualifying phrase that ended the dilemma. and by the way the answer is no. sometimes it's that easy to let go.
positive distractions also came in handy. decky's late night text inviting me to be ninang to jesca catalina was happy news. reminded me of the family i'm terribly missing these days.
spur of the moment tea date with zar was superb. it gave us the energy to tackle the upcoming projects we have to do at work. i really missed her and it was nice to be on the same page and at the same time provide each other with the much needed laugh and again perspective.
a frantic call from my best friend in davao was another welcome distraction. she's torn between taking a vacation to vietnam with the boyfriend and staying here for work. for others it's easy but for crazy people like us who are members of the workaholics anonymous, it's hard so i told her she needs to get away, that's rehab for you.
and last but certainly not the least, thanks again for danica patrick's win in japan. with raging girl power in my heart, as cheesy as it may sound, it will now be easier to move on.
until next time. i'm hanging on with a smile on my face.
p.s. would it be too much to ask for 1-2 ferrari finish in the upcoming spanish grand prix? ;)
amen.
(9:04 PM) ♥ tal
Monday, April 21, 2008
celebrating in boracay
even if i missed the race, i'm so happy!!! danica patrick won the Indy Japan 300, FINALLY =)good times indeed ;)
(2:31 PM) ♥ tal
Saturday, April 19, 2008
move on, let go
i'm off to boracay tomorrow. i'm going there for work so i don't expect to have some alone time thinking about my life but generally leaving manila has this detaching effect. now i can think of moving on because it's for the best and of letting go because it's the right thing to do. it's never easy but i told myself when i get back i would have done that.perspective, i sometimes lose it but almost always something random and unexpected reminds me of who i am and what really matters. today i got text messages from my very good and dearly missed friend chawi, she told me that she's coming home in may from london AND that she's getting married! chawi's older but we were classmates in some psychology classes. her highlighted notes in class is the greatest contrast to my messed up scribbles in college. imagine we were both irregular students with crazy schedules but somehow we found ourselves here, now with a friendship that survived the distance. i'm very, very happy for her.
that was all i needed. it's really time to move on to better and even greater things and it's just but right to let go of a feeling, of a possibility. nothing's certain but i am now, more than ever.
(11:45 PM) ♥ tal
Sunday, April 13, 2008
stay hungry, stay foolish
"You want to be really great? Then have the courage to fail big and stick around. Make them wonder why you're still smiling. That's true greatness to me."-elizabethtown (one of my favorite movie quotes)
"You are nearer than you think to a development that pleases your heart and your pocket, too."
-cainer.com (says jonathan in my horoscope for the week)
"Not only is the end not in sight, the pace is not slackening. We have many future joys."
-Fred Brooks (posted by eric case in his farewell letter to his colleagues at blogger)
"You're not Miranda Priestly. I'm not Emily."
-Anonymous (the clean version lifted from a blogspot)
That's all ;)
(10:52 PM) ♥ tal
Friday, April 11, 2008
you are nowhere near miranda priestly...
which simply means i'm not your freakin' emily ;)(12:51 AM) ♥ tal
Monday, April 07, 2008
all smiles because of ferrari
a 1-2 finish in bahrain now what's happier than that? i guess NKOTB's new video for most of my friends ;)i re-discovered my being a morning person at least when it comes to working on articles and marketing plans but my to do list and planner plotting is still reserved for evenings before sleeping. afternnoons and dinner times are of course for friends.
two of the surefire ways to enjoy on a weekend: bringing a friend to red box for the first time and bonding at an ice cream bar. we still rocked the usual playlist but adding a lot of hip hop and rock sure did spice up our ebench videoke party. other higlights include D grabbing the mic the instant she came in, gem learning some vocabulary from sharon cuneta songs, rich rapping with gem, didy in her make me a supermodel outfit and me being bothered by the vanilla smell that constantly comes out of this machine set up in every room. i love FIC so even if i know that the double scoop in the ice cream bar costs the same as the pint sold in the mall, i still ordered it anyway my dear teppy is leaving for the US soon and it's one of the rare times i'm with inengsky. ice cream is love when it's summer.
tep and i also dropped by the rockwell souk market and the bazaar but i didn't buy anything save for some interesting food items ;)
long weekends whether here or anywhwere else is really fun. the extra day leaves you with the luxury to spread out your weekend activitites that you usually pack in two days.
ferrari's spectacular finish is enough for me to go through the long f1 break before the europe grand prixs start. it will still be happy weekends without kimi and his red car.
(3:25 PM) ♥ tal
Friday, April 04, 2008
crazy for you...
google reader! thanks to geminem who, aside from being my fave photographer, turns out to be the techno mentor i never had ;) my online social life now rocks.sponge cola, i find myself playing your transit album again and again - pasubali more specifically although i don't really watch lovers.
kimi, i'm looking forward to more very happy weekends because of you and the sport that we both love.
and yes, you! ;)
(9:30 AM) ♥ tal
