Ang huling kokak

The family went to Tagaytay. We fetched Auntie Madre from the convent to take her to lunch somewhere nearby. My sisters and I had a photo-op again. We could not resist taking pictures with the lush greenery as background. I loved it there. The whiff of fresh air and a view that is relaxing to the eyes. Everything's beautiful. It is just unfortunate for a tiny creature here on earth that he has become a statistic of a phenomenon we call roadkill~




The plan was to have lunch at Viewpoint but the elders insisted that we should go to RSM instead. After lunch, we went to Sonya's Garden just to look at the place. I liked it.



The cottages had an Old Manila feel. They give off a somewhat eerie feeling. Four-poster beds with immaculate white, clean sheets. Parang feeling mo anytime may lalabas na white lady.

During the trip, a family secret came out into the open. While walking around Sonya's Garden, we came across upside-down, lily-looking flowers. My daddy shared that whenever my lolo had asthma attacks, he would smoke those leaves which are known to the modern world as talampunay. Talampunay?? aka trumpets aka dungshroom?? E diba drugs yun?? Haha!!! :) Apparently, it was used as an alternative cure for asthma. It just happened that it also has a narcotic element akin to marijuana.


ang talampunay... bow!

The trip was fun though the trip back was horrendous. It took us 3 frickin' hours to reach Manila. I wasn't planning on going to the World Pyro Olympics but at the last minute, decided to go with Vicky and her boyfriend. We left the house at 8:15, reached Taft at 8:30. At this side of the city, traffic began to build up. We reached Taft corner Buendia at 9pm. Then someone sent my sister a text message saying that it would be better if we don't proceed anymore since there was only one fireworks exhibition left and traffic's really, really, really bad. We decided to turn around and just eat at McDo instead. It took us na hour to make a U-turn along Buendia. On normal circumstances, that would only take 5 minutes. Dahil lang sa fireworks...

Holiday!

I am still on leave from work. Yay!

I planned on having a DVD marathon of all the new series I bought. There are 4 Korean series waiting in line and I am not yet finished watching BuHwal. BuHwal is nice but it got a bit dragging in the middle. It's not interesting enough to hold my attention for long and since I watch it on the computer, I got easily distracted by the internet and games. After just 2 episodes, I decided to stop forcing myself into watching.

Instead of a DVD marathon, I did a little cleaning instead. Bitten by the anti-tamaditis bug, I cleaned the room, sorted, repacked and sealed my files in plastic packs, cleaned the library, vacuumed and polished the floor, organized my VCD, DVD and audio CD collection and magazines. So that was what kept me busy this week. Plus, there was this Magic Pad my sister bought from SM. It came with a free folding guide. I put the folding guide to the test and before I knew it, I was still folding clothes at 4 am in the morning. D*mn folding guide even gave me a papercut. Fortunately, it didn't hurt and didn't bleed as much.

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The family went to Bluwave in Macapagal to watch the World Pyro Olympics. It was supposed to start at 7pm but it started around 8pm instead. We just had to live up to the infamous Filipino time, 'no? But I think it was worth the wait. The display of lights in the night sky was a feast for the eyes.

Everyone was present. It was daddy's special request that everyone should be there. We had dinner at Max's.

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I had a dream last night. And it was the nicest dream I've had for a long time. I'm glad that I was able to remember that particular dream and it was not lost together with all the hundreds of dreams we had during sleep. This might be a premonition that the coming year would be a good year for me. Hmmm.. I hope so. Well, I had a dream about my crush and I have these two conflicting theories with regard to dreaming about the object of my affection:

(1) they will remain only in my dreams and there would be no chance of translating such into reality; and,

(2) if I dreamt about that somebody, he might be thinking/dreaming about me, too.

The first one was theorized during my Savage Garden days wherein I have never dreamed of Darren Hayes (pathetic, I know). Meanwhile, the second theory was formulated when I kept on dreaming about a crush. Hulaan na lang kung sino. Pero sa totoo lang, sino'ng linoko ko???

But I just wish that 2006 would indeed be a better year for me. I'm a Dog in Chinese Astrology and it'll be my year. I hope it'll be a better year in all aspects of my life.