Thursday, July 24, 2008
it's my turn ;)
25 years is quite a milestone so here's an ode, a reflection/look back at how i spent all those years with some help from pop culture :)i always try to keep it steady but i'm telling you i have my confessions of a drama queen moments too but it's close to being extinct now ;) still i can't help but cringe and be embarrassed every single time i see myself in the women of grey's anatomy. i dislike, to the point of hating, mer because she's crazy for love and she doesn't seem to have a backbone at all. in short she's too broken. it was a love hate relationship when it comes to izzy. i love it that she rocked but always with a tinge of real emotion and then she went psycho so i so wanted to strangle her and then i cheered her again and then...that's the way it is. i felt distant with cristina but as each layer is peeled i feel oddly close to her. now i know why a. i get so affected b. i stay up all night keeping vigil while i dl and c. why i wake up early to watch the freshly donwloaded episode only to watch it again later in the evening. it's because i see me in each of them, that no matter how steady i'd like to think i am, i'm not. i'm also broken. i'm also a psycho. i'm also distant. so i'll keep on watching and then one day it'll just come, the day i can say i used to be them and i sense that's coming soon :)
from the moment i met dilbert, i knew that office life would be so much easier. real people have come to my rescue so many times to keep me sane but no one's ever made me feel so understood than my dear old dilbert.
finally, i now have a rough sketch of the "man of my dreams" presenting...macgyver is handsome but dorky, charming but self-effacing, and though he has every opportunity for indiscretion, he's always a gentleman around women. his gigs are of the usual action-hero variety -- find stolen missiles, escape assassins, rescue civilians, humiliate dictators. but his near chastity, along with his staunch opposition to guns and capacity to solve every problem through the judicious application of chemistry and physics, sets him apart from the others. macgyver is the thinking man's hero. and he's mine. haha.
it's my turn to be 26 and i can't wait to see what this year has in store for me especially knowing that there's more to come from my daily dose of pop culture ;)
(11:14 AM) ♥ tal
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
attraversiamo
no one ever said it would be easy. you need a lot of focus and discipline. you have to know what you really want and quietly work hard on getting that - no more, no less. you slip, you get off track but you go back on course as soon as you can. it takes passion for the things that really matter and letting go of all petty distractions. in the end, it all boils down to you and what you make of your life. real happiness is love and it's always just around the corner ;)thank you fashion friend, i had a good one tonight! :)
(1:23 AM) ♥ tal
Sunday, July 20, 2008
bithday kick-off
it wasn't such a great f1 weekend for ferrari and by default for me but nelson piquet jr.'s win was such a pleasant but sort of prayed for surpise that i can't concentrate on the tour de france because i still keep thinking about it. hehe. and personal plans to go for a round of karting didn't push through either but enough of my sports weekend.i spent most of my weekend in alabang but before we headed south. i had the chance to laze around while reading mags and listening to my ipod. we - that's me, D and ma - also wasted some hours in power plant while waiting for each other and resto hopping because we had early dinners at different places. we bought some movies from the ruins in still goddamn bf. i took care of dinner courtesy of north park, D the ice cream and neil the wine. it was a fun sleepover peppered with a lot of comments from tipsy and sleepy kids, haha.
the next day we woke up to the sound of laughter and a lot of splahing by the neighbors. not to be outdone we went swimming too and as an added treat ate kc and baby caloy joined in. brunch followed. then the next thing i know i'm back in rockwell to meet up with steph for our sunday date. i can't believe she convinced me to buy 2 pairs of shoes in one day! the other one is her birthday gift to me but still two pairs and both high heels?! happy birthday to me indeed, haha. it was a pretty fruitful shopping though. i bought a pretty pearl necklace at sale price that i discovered, when i got home, would go well with quite a lot of the stuff i already have. steph also sort of forced me into watching the dark knight with her and stephen. i'm always like a kid when i'm the third wheel and it was quite reminiscent of an earlier experience with my college best friend grasche. the point is as usual i sit one row below, where i would be visible to my parents for two hours or in this case three hours, with junk food at hand. i look at the back before the movie starts just to make sure when joker appears and i get really scared i know that they are just right there. the movie was not as depressing as i imagined it to be so i was still in a happy mood come dinner time. if i love the food and your resto, rest assured i will come back. chinese it is and for the second time in two weeks i was at solihiya again.
so that's how i kicked off my birthday week - with my friends (thank you D, ma, teppy & stephen), lots of chinese food and doing things that i love i.e. reading, listening to music, eating, watching movies, "shopping" and just having a steady good time:)
(11:54 PM) ♥ tal
Saturday, July 19, 2008
what a pretty good week it was :)
my weekend was supposed to be packed but since brunch with che was postponed to a later date (wow sounds so official, haha) it was quite difficult to uproot myself out of my bed. i spent the morning reading my supply of magazines then later moved on to the couch to watch some tv. now i've some spare time to recap the pretty good week that was.monday was teppy's despedida. it was so great spending time with my boys (and girls) and in our fave hang out syfus. i managed to keep up witn my one beer quota but boy did i make it up for the amount of food that i ate that evening. these people have taught me a lot, about how i can be the best i can be and how when i'm in my worst they simply would find a way to bring me back to finding me again. everyday that i spend away from them, i miss them but i know that they would always be there for me and i certainly would always be there for them.
tuesday was my first ever trade launch with mediacom and although it would have been made more memorable had i won one of the fabulous prizes it was a good start. the usual people i hang around with in the office weren't able to join us so i had the chance to get to know the others. one person at a time ;)
wednesday i get a text from cile asking if i'm free for dinner and i was! she always picks the good restos but then i get a text from her "see you :) don't kill me but can we eat pepper coz I haven't tried the one here" so i reply "only because it's you" now i didn't hate pepper lunch it's just that i said it's not a place i'd go back to or i'd crave for. anyway it was such a funny experience because by the middle of our dinner cile and i swapped plates, turned out she likes the chicken pepper rice and i love the beef pepper rice. she also happy news, something that will make me smile forever. haha. woohoo, something to do with chocs ;)
thursday i came home early and decided to stay in with my best companions on a lazy weekday night - a bit of tv, loads of pc time and even more junk food!
friday i spent with sunshine/monday girl. it was another one of those impromptu meet-ups although i've noticed she's becoming literally my friday girl and i love it. we had some kfc but splurged ont he deseert by ordering my fave ucc cake - chocolate xanadu. oooh and we came up with two projects for the bench that will hopefully push through. an auntie and uncle also paid me a visit and it's nice to have been told that i'm such a good girl. a cousin has an unfolding drama ahead of her but i know in my heart everything will be fine.
next week would certainly be very busy for me, this is the calm before a storm of happy events. ta-ta for now, i've to run down to the mall :)
(2:39 PM) ♥ tal
Sunday, July 13, 2008
birthday hints, chinese day and a pretty slow weekend
if the first three birthday greetings you get are pointers on how to run your life or what are the things you should prioritize as soon as you gain one more year then mine will look like this:1. continue your love for food. dome sent in a post card with a greeting and some discount but only if you oder 5000 pesos worth of food. not that i don't mind spending that much for food because i love dome food but i have to think that over especially since amber delivers. haha.
2. no matter how busy you are, keep up with reading. powerbooks sent me an e-greeting with their usual fabulous discount every birthday month. so if you have plans of buying really expensive books this month just holler and i'll gladly let you use my birthday discount. the amount they allow me to spend is pretty big so why not use it wisely.
3. don't be afraid of your dentist. my dentist (one-time only) sent me a greeting attached to a note that it's time i pay them a visit. she'll be shocked to know i still have the same set. i hope she doesn't hate me for not paying attention to anything she said the last time i had my cleaning.
so there you go. food, books/learning and dentist/health. not bad for an idiot's guide to surviving her 26th year in this world.
on another note, this weekend was a slow one for me because i wasn't feeling so good. it's the time of the month again but still i made the most out of the energy i could muster.
friday was chinese food day for me. i was tired from my sleepover at crowne with my dear trixie but i still came to work early. to reward myself for not falling asleep during the morning meeting, i finally bought the zara dress my monday girl has been bugging me to buy. chinese number one was lunch at mann yann with officemates. later in the evening, i dropped by my old office to say hello before meeting with kara a.k.a. maskara girl (;) who just got back from a US vacation. she picked our resto for the night, solihiya, and though i noticed as i was browsing through the menu that the food is chinese i didn't bother switching restos. chinese number two. that's how much i love yang chow fried rice. monday girl joined us later that evening and she's with some good news which is that she's moving to a new job. cheers! we were supposed to head to bizu for dessert but kara remembered right at the doorstep that she has a whole bizu cake at her place, haha. so we spent the evening eating off kara's bizu cake and talking about eraserheads and everything that happened around that time that this band rocked our life.
i stayed home the whole saturday eating quality junk food by which i mean ruffles and my favorite chocolates in the world. my high school friend jo anne paid me a visit and we talked for a good two hours about our life then and now. she just got back from one year of working in the US so that's a lot of catching up considering i haven't seen her since college graduation. another highlight of my day was the movie august rush. loved it. so much.
it was an early sunday for me. had breakfast, went to mass and ran some errands. was supposed to go to a premiere of a friend's movie but i don't think the energy i have can make it to manila. so here i am, raking in some more rest so that the remaining days of this time of the month wouldn't be bad. i need a fresh stash of chocs ;)
(4:46 PM) ♥ tal
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
unexpectedly loaded weekend
friday was the calm before the rest happened, i spent the evening writing some articles that i want done so i can free up my weekend to relax. then again relax isn't exactly the word to describe my packed saturday.i woke up early to go with my tita to salcedo market. i kinda miss it so it was fun going around while the aroma of the delish food wafted in the air. it makes me high. haha. as soon as i got home, i sampled some of our take home before dozing off for a bit. up next was fitting with ben farrales which happened pretty quickly. i mean seriously i think the trip to and from remedios circle where his shop's located took longer. obviously i'm not fashion. i then attended the anticipated mass at ateneo rockwell where the priest reminded us that the next day was THE game. after a quick trip to zara, i rushed home to catch the oh so exciting qualifying of the british grand prix. mark webber in 2nd place, who would have thought. anyway wrapping up my saturday was tea with grunch. finally!!! i haven't spent time with him in a long while, we survived thanks to phone calls and texts but that can never be enough. i'm so glad ... to take hold of my long overdue twix. haha. kidding grunch.
another early start for me so i can bid goodbye to snicket and her mom as she's off to her hometown for wedding preps. i'm home alone but not for long as gem, janus and din came over to watch the ateneo-dlsu game with me. i think that watching uaap games is one of the few occasions i can't help but curse like it's normal. i miss the good old days but again my dear chris tiu makes up for the champion team of my senior year. okay fine, maybe not but ain't he something? sunday club was all over rockwell that evening. the rest of my sunday was spent with my girls teppy and inengsky. again not exactly because phone call with D lasted for almost an hour and chatting with sunshine monday girl maybe around 30 minutes. multi tasking galore.
this is not exaclty how i relax but wednesday just greeted me with a smile and i'm still up and not complaining. so i guess that's my plan b for relaxing - the unexpected consisting of good food, great company and lots of wins (after saying viva espana during the world cup finals win, here i come with my i love you nadal. and of course i still love you kimi). cheers ;)
(11:55 PM) ♥ tal
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
happy tuesday
screw the crazy monday traffic, it was a great monday. our clients are abroad but no expectations here, just hoping that work would be relatively steady. and so far it's been steady.yesterday i was able to sneak in some quality time with my dear teppy. i think i'm so frazzled that i sort of didn't pay enough attention to the other people but i shall make time for that in the near future. i'm just delighted that it was a not so hurried starbucks lunch though i still kept glancing at my watch, haha. i was so hungry but for some weird reason the banana loaf and iced hot chocolate sprinkled with lots of stories (i guess these bits were the culprit) made me full. so full that i survived the rest of the afternoon eating only a kitkat and twix bar courtesy of teppy. yes, no rice. i spent the rest of the evening with sunshine monday girl for a quick visit to folded and hung (where i bumped itno my boss, see he also left the office early) and then i also finally ate rice for dinner - chowking (my original plan for lunch). when i went home i actually had time to read a considerable number of chapters from my book for the month plus since i was kind of relaxed i actually plucked out some ideas from my brain for a scheduled brainstorming. but before that (i am crossing my fingers for this), i found out that my dear sports buddy cherry (the one who will not curse me whatsoever even if i will honestly tell her how much my f1 trip would cost me) might watch the singapore grand prix too. AND last but certainly not the least, i found out that one of my dearest friends is pregnant!
which brings us to today. my very happy friend calls me and shares the news. i find a way to get in touch with our friend in the US because i know she'd be ecstatic. the day was a breeze. i finished two scripts while chatting with B, read my book while eating my lunch, joined some officemates for lunch to defrost, brainstormed on my own and went home very early again. i passed by the mall (yahoo, the mall's still open, forgive me but it's a treat these days) but psyched myself that liz claiborne can wait so instead i drop by the atm to deposit (not withdraw, good girl) and the chapel to say a word or two of thanks for the good things coming my way. this comes from a girl who still hasn't gotten her last pay nor her salary for the first few works of brain drain. wow, the book i'm reading is getting to me, it's creeping me out. you'll find out what it's about when i'm done with it. so now i'm here blogging away on a weekday, watching the holiday on hbo (again but it still makes me giddy. i need corny in my life) and waiting for my roomie because for the first time in a while i arrived at home first ;) i love it! hello july indeed =)
(8:48 PM) ♥ tal
