Monday, June 30, 2008
weekend mood: celebratory
fridaytiananmen bar/power plant mall
makati avenue/rockwell
D called to say that she'll pick me and richelle up because it was raining and so traffic. awwww. so on to the ride to makati avenue, it was fun most especially after D's revelation. haha. so while D's rattling off how her radio debut went, i somehow managed to show the way to tiananmen via some short cut. we had a round and a half of beer courtesy of teppy and stephen (thank you guys!!!) because teppy had a very good news to share to everyone;) afterwards us girls minus teppy, who had to go home and sleep because she was too excited to sleep the night before (hehe), went to zara for some shopping.
saturday
home
rockwell
i woke up with a stiff neck so i stayed home the whole day which wasn't so bad because i had a chance to literally do nothing except read. it's been quite a while. i restrained myself from watching tv and turning on the pc so it was a day of much deserved detox.
sunday
power plant mall/rufo's/krispy kreme
rockwell/kalayaan/bonifacio high street
D texts "Im trying to watch f1 now. Lets see if i can last 4 5min." so I rush down and remembered that the french grand prix replay was on. i certainly appreciate D's effort and later that day i found out she actually finished the race. i love her. i guess that's what best friends are for. then my tatay texts "panalo c manny" because he was watching via pay per view. whoa! what a sunday morning of victories. then i'm off to mass to the mall which was ridiculously over crowded because of the mall wide sale. so before i spent like crazy in liz claiborne, gem arrived to scoot me out of there. as soon as D came, we went to rufo's where i gobbled up so much food. adri followed. the rest of the night was spent with D and adri getting lost in mandaluyong and ending up in krispy kreme.
i can really feel weekends now and it's not such a bad thing ;)
(9:05 PM) ♥ tal
Sunday, June 22, 2008
thoughts on a stormy day
i was awaken by the howling of the winds and the rage of the rain at dawn. today was to be a stay-in day, a perfect time to read that murakami book i have been craving to finish. with this kind of weather, i can easily be deep in thought and i welcome even the weirdest ideas thrown at me by this author whom i have grown to be fond of.people
although i can be a loner and a big time believer in me time, i know in my heart that we need people in our lives. in fact i think that the statement everyone is looking for something from someone is true. it is just the same as saying that we meet people for a reason, that people stay in our lives because it's either they are our mission or that we are their mission.
fear
they tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself but i don't believe that. what i belive is that we are beyond our fears, that we can conquer our fears. there has never been a more perfect explanation to this than the acknowledgment that fear is there. it comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelm us. but the most frightening and perhaps the biggest mistake we can do at such times is to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes. because then we take the most precious thing inside us and surrender it to something else.
chance
thanks to cile, i read cainer but that's about it as far as astrology and me is concerned. i don't want to leave anything to chance but maybe chance is a pretty common thing after all. coincidences are happening all around us, all the time, but most of them don't catch our attention and we just let them go by. it's like fireworks in the daytime. you might hear a faint sound, but even if you look up the sky you can't see a thing. but if we're really hoping something may come true, it may become visible, like a message rising to the surface. then we're able to make it out clearly, decipher what it means.
it took one stormy day for me to delve deeper in my thoughts about people, fear and chance. nature and its wonders ... ;)
(5:29 PM) ♥ tal
Thursday, June 19, 2008
la vita e durissima pero bellisima
i fell in love with italy even if i've never been there because of two things - the movie under the tuscan sun and john grisham's playing for pizza. now there's a third, jam's recent trip to italy (and his blogs about it). one of the latest ones he posted had something to do with this wonderful italian phrase courtesy of a lola he met in a train station! classic ;)"life is very tough but very beautiful"
never has such a contrasting statement made so much sense to me than now, during these times when i've declared that i'm starting over to a certain extent. i think once you embrace the toughness, the beauty comes naturally.
so to those who made me see the toughness and the beauty of life all in one momentous event...
*boston celtics - it's time
*tiger woods - i'll always be a fan
and to those who simply dropped a line...
*Z - good luck on your first day of work :) (na may follow up text pa because i didn't get to reply right away)
*D - Oy tal buhay ka pa ba jan? Kamusta trabaho? (the concern is very much apparent, haha)
*kara - Leaving tomorrow for the us but let's do something on the Friday I get back :) (mishu! hugs to bei and aish)
*kaye - yey! I heard the promo in RX! Love it :) (first week at my new work and already there's something good)
*kuya ton - cool ang wedding ni flavio briatore, fernando alonso ang driver ng wedding car nila! (as i said to him, kimi will drive my f1 ferrari wedding car because he can't be the groom anymore, haha)
*our hr director - how are you adjusting? (i'm touched)
*my achie - Hi tal! Just wanted to find out how you're doing. Hope all is well with you! =) (i really miss you and everyone else)
**teppy - for the multiply reply (praning man, haha)
grazie to my top ten picks of the week :)
(10:27 PM) ♥ tal
Sunday, June 15, 2008
sex and the city weekend
scene 1after work on a friday
the night i got a rare dinner treat from sunshine and fashion friend
the cast would have been complete but D's text would come in later in the evening when we've already went our separate ways. anyway poor me got a ucc (park cafe)dinner treat and by the end of the evening fashion friend has already decided what kind of roi they would get out of this good deed. i'm game as long as it's still related to food. topic for the night was the bench and how it's so satc sans the sex. haha. maybe not exactly totally without the sex but something close to that. also in the agenda was to imagine how i would handle a broken heart. seeing that i can beat charlotte in delivering the line "i curse the day you were born" to their mr. bigs, my friends are so worried that when it's my turn to wallow i'd be a handful. i think about that too but i don't worry, just give me a box of royce and i'll be fine ;)
scene 2
busy saturday
where i nailed an article, some errands and a bridal shower all in one day
i woke up early to finish up a smart buys page for a mommy magazine (yes, i happen to like writing for mommy magazines too). i've been thinking about it since the time we shot the products so it was kind of easy to let the words flow. i failed at my attempt to start on the next article so insteadi went to rustan's for some retail exercise. my roomie's mom and sister are arriving tomorrow so buying the bulb for the kitchen cannot be delayed plus i had to do all the planning over the phone for snicket's shower away from her and near my fellow weekend shoppers.
bea and i were the advance party for the shower. thanks to cecilia, we had the executive suite as the perfect scene of the crime. as bea said "i could live here" and i second the motion because i loved the view of the manila bay sunset. some of the unforgettables of that evening: learning how to blow and tie a balloon (over a dozen of them), m&m's game and these lines...
"aaaah, aaaaah"
"i'm a lawyer, this is harrassment. you can go home na."
"okay na, tama na."
to the tune of mariah's always be my baby the original version.
oh and a bubble bath to end the night while listening to saving jane's albums in my ipod.
scene 3
not so lazy sunday
where i went from steady to flat out dead to panic and then to steady again
cecilia texts - the room comes with free breakfast so eat ;) i love my friends, they know what i need even if i don't say it =) i didn't care if i slept at 4am, i dragged myself to palm court for breakfast with janice and ira. ira and i then spent the rest of the morning making silly videos before experiencing car sick on our way home. i slept for 3 hours in my own bed and then when i woke up i got stressed over knowing that i haven't ticked off any of my things to do for the day. i called my dad to greet him happy father's day. check. i rushed to the mall to hear mass. check. i ate somewhere nice so i can finalize the draft i have to write. i wrote my draft. check. so now i'm steady again. thank God.
so this is what it feels like to really, finally move on. june 16, it's the date ;)
(11:49 PM) ♥ tal
Monday, June 09, 2008
'twas a good weekend because of...
pricless moments at lora's wedding
- bumping into a college friend who turns out to be the new gf of lar's former teammate
- exchanging meaningful glances with lora while one of the best men was talking ;) good taste talaga ako, haha
- believing in love once more as i witness a dear friend very happy at an event that marked the beginning of the rest day of her life with the man of her dreams
saturday shopping date with snikcet and her sister inky
- as proof i'm still smiling after a day of walking around glorietta (to think it's always been power plant for me) and getting hassle-d by my new do. kasi naman as usual i jsut sat on the chair and told the guy i need a haricut, the next thing i know i have bangs na. haha.
sunday rendezvous with rich
- as sunshine said it was a good mini break for both of us especially since there was no sunday club dinner for that day.
- it was fun "shooting" at R.O.X. in bonifacio high street (check out the snapshots) and we actually saw so many things in the store that we plan on wasting our money on in the near future.
- i ordered starbucks hot chocolate iced, suggested by rich, for the very first time. sounds weird but surprisingly really good.
sports victories
- nadal speaking in broken french was just so endearing.
- celtics winning game 2 and moving closer to winning the trophy.
so kimi's accident in montreal was terrible and i still have that all important article to write but i know i'll get through it because the good things still (and always) outweigh the not so good =)
big day tomorrow, i'm hoping for the best! until next weekend =)
(6:24 PM) ♥ tal
Thursday, June 05, 2008
miss mo na ba ako?
yun na yun! haha ;)(6:56 PM) ♥ tal
