Long Weekend

Long weekend ahead. Hopefully, it would be good for business. I know people will be going to cemeteries, on vacations, etc. Whereas, I will be here at home doing nothing. Which is not a bad thing, actually. I might as well start watching all those korean series I bought.

For the past days, I haven't had the opportunity to write lengthy posts since there were always people (aka my sisters) in the room. Since the existence of this blog is supposedly unknown to them, I cannot and will not write entries in their presence.

We went to Quiapo yesterday to have the portable DVD fixed. I was glad that the repair cost and the cost for swapping the defective adapter for a new one aren't expensive. Everything will cost me P550 whereas buying a new adapter from Ace Hardware costs a whopping P2,500. I just feel that it is a bit preposterous to pay for an adapter which costs half of the DVD player itself.

I've noticed that PBB Celebrity is using most of the songs used in Gossip Girl.

Hmmm...

I Heart Dan

Penn Badgley (Dan Humphrey) pre-Gossip Girl days.

Michael Bolton, isdatchu?

Armida told me he played John Tucker's younger brother in John Tucker Must Die. At first I didn't believe her. As far as I could remember, the brother was an ugly one. I didn't even give him much attention. Basta all I could remember was he's not crushworthy.



And much to my amazement, he is crushworthy NOW. Key operative word: Now.


And here is Penn Badgley now.

Good thing he decided to chop off his dreadful locks.
But I am not really crushing on the actor, more like on the character he is playing.

Tell me, where can I find a real-life Dan?

Menudo

I tried my hand at cooking last night. I cooked menudo for dinner.

Well, it wasn't bad considering it was my first time to cook such. It was decent looking. It tasted just fine but I don't know if tasted the way menudo should. But according to Juno, if it's deemed fit for human consumption, taste wouldn't be much of an issue.

Noemi woke me up today with her call. She called to inform me that we won't have classes on Saturday. Yahoo! She said that most of my classmates sent her messages, telling her that they can't make it Saturday so we'll have our examen oral next Saturday instead. Buti naman... I could rest this Saturday. (As if naman... )

Armida and I met up at Shangri-la yesterday. The last time we saw each other was last June 6 on her father's birthday. So that's 4 months after... The good thing about Armida is that no matter how long the time we don't get to see nor communicate with each other, we don't lose that connection. Even after 4 months of non-communication, when we see each other again it's as if there was no time spent apart. The same goes with my closest friends now and I like it like that. Kumbaga, low maintenance ang friendships ko... although I still consider it a mortal sin against friendship to not greet your friends on their birthdays.

Armida gave me a book for my birthday (which was almost 2 months ago!). She gave me The Secret. She asked if I already have a copy and I said yes. She just bought it anyway so it would be wiser to just have it replaced. After an hour of scouring the bookshelves for a book that I like, we settled with Porras, Emery and Thompson's Success Built to Last. Hopefully, the book could help me on my way to greatness. Bwahahaha!!!

Armida will be going to the States during her sembreak to visit her sister. She must have been abroad more often than I have been to my province. But she said she'll get me some tights ;)

The Holiday

Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz, Jude Law, Jack Black

I love it! It was a very nice movie and it also got me into the Christmas vibe already (since the movie was set Christmas-time).

I love Kate Winslet's English accent.

And I love this loooong monologue by Iris (Kate Winslet) at the very start of the movie...

For some, quite inexplicably, love fades.
For others, love is simply lost.
But then of course, love can also be found even if just for the night.
And then there's another kind of love, the cruelest kind, the one that almost kills its victims.

It's called unrequited love...

Of that I'm an expert.

Most love stories are about two people who fall in love with each other. But what about our stories? Those of us who fall in love alone... We are the victims of the one-sided affair. We are the cursed of the loved ones. We are the unloved ones. The walking wounded, the handicapped without the advantage of a great parking space. Yes, you are looking at one such individual. And I have willingly loved that man for over 3 miserable years, the absolute worst years of my life- the worst Christmases, the worst birthdays. New year's eves are brought about by tears and valium. These years that I've been in love have been the darkest days of my life. All because I've been cursed by being in love with a man who does not and will not love me back. Oh God! Just the sight of him... Heart-pounding, throat-thickening, absolutely can't swallow... oh, the usual symptoms...

Medyo familiar lang... :D

And I also liked the answer to the Miles' (Jack Black) question of why he is attracted to a person who he knows is not good-

Miles: Why am I attracted to a person I know isn't good?

Iris: I happen to know the answer to this... Because you're hoping you're wrong and everytime she does something that tells you she's no good, you ignore it. And everytime she comes through and surprises you, she wins you over and you lose the argument with yourself what she's not for you.

Winner!

Basta, I like this movie. The only (green) shitty thing was the audio kept shifting from English to Russian and the subtitles are incomprehensible. (Don't ask why. I bet you know the answer.)

Current Obsession

"Good morning Upper East siders, Gossip Girl here"

Gossip Girl is the shizz! I am obsessed with it!

I have watched until episode 3 and am downloading episode 4 right now. It's like a good book that you just couldn't put down. I haven't read the book it was based from and I was wondering whether it was based on the book as in everything's the same or they just got the idea of the show from the book. Anyway...

The storyline is great (so far) and the fashion is to die for. Honestly, the only reason why I want to go somewhere cold is just so I could be able to wear something like this...

...mid-length trench coat, tights and knee-high boots. O diba, bongga? Yes, that's the primary reason why I would want to go some place cool. I also love short uniforms. And way back in high school when it was the shizz to sport ankle-length skirts (which is a violation of school rules), I was perfectly comfortable with the 2-inches-below-the-knee rule.

Going back... Another reason to watch is the Hunkfest. Nate and Dan are both dashing but as of now...I like Dan better. Nate's actually the beautiful boy type while Dan's the rugged one. I guess I like Dan's character better since he's smart although I find his face annoying at times (especially when he juts his lip out then drops his jaw inward... ang tigas ng mukha eh)...

And remember little Cindy Lou Who from the movie The Grinch Who Stole Christmas?

This is her now...Shock me, Shock me, Shock me! And now I am thisclose to believing that I am retarded. They grow up so fast. What do they feed people in the States? Or, what are they not feeding me? Hehe. Anyway, even if she's all grown up and glammed-up, I still can't help but hear "Where are you Christmas? Why can't I find you?" in my head every time I see her.

And my new fashion goddesses, Serena van der Woodsen and The Blair Bitch. Equally gorgeous. And their closets are filled with wardrobes to die for. These are the times when I wish I were taller... and thinner.

You know you love me.
xoxo
Gossip Girl

Books

Just finished reading two books, The Rules of Life (Richard Templar) and Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life (Amy Krouse Rosenthal), and I am now reading Harry Potter 5.

Three books is 2 months... not bad. Not bad at all... in fact, I consider it a big improvement from reading one book a year. As much as I would love to read a new book every week, my AD/HD syndrome gets in the way. Alongside with book reading, I would want to watch more movies and series.

Liked it. Although it took me more than a month to finish, I still loved it... me being a sucker for self-help books.
As much as I enjoyed the book, I reckon I am not yet ready to become a Rules Player for the main reason that I can't remember them anymore. And the one rule I can clearly remember is the very first one, which I have already violated and that is Rule #1: Keep it under your hat... Don't preach, propagate, even mention this.

Anyway, I have my set of favorite rules. Here are my top 5 ( I still don't remember them. I am holding the book while writing this.)

1. Accept what done is done.
There's no use in crying over spilled milk or something to that effect. "There is no going back, only forwards. Make it a motto for life- keep moving forwards."

2. Only dead fish swim with the stream.
Honestly, tinamaan ako dito. I'm only 25 and for a moment there I was about to lose hope. I was a dead fish. I still am. But, I'm slowly working my way wherever it is I want to go (although its not that clear to me). "Keep swimming, little fish, keep swimming."

3. Get on with life- it's whooshing past.
"I'm sure you get the idea. You have to get on with life, but it is so easy to wallow if you don't have a goal (or goals) and a plan. It's very easy for the days to blur into each other of you've mp idea where you are going or what you want to achieve."

4. Have a belief system.

5. Don't dwell on the past.
Guilty again. Up until now, I am doing this. It is hard not to dwell on the past when the my best memories (yet) belonged to yesteryears... According to the author, "Don't miss what is happening now because you were too busy looking back..." And I guess I have to do just that. When I'm thirty, I don't want to look back and wonder where all the time has gone...

Blog-style. Maybe that's why I was able to breeze through the pages of the book. My favorite parts were when she would recall her childhood because it made me reminisce too.

It made me want to something similar to it in this blog but reckon I am much too unimaginative to come up with something. But her idea was brilliant. Someday, I would like to do an Alphabetized Existence myself.

Maybe I'll do something like it right now...

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Ano ba?
Wala ako maisip eh..
Next time na lang.

Nice Text Messages

If you give up when it's winter,
you'll miss the promise of your spring,
the beauty of your summer,
and the fulfillment of your fall.
Don't let the pain of one season destroy the rest.
Don't judge life by one difficult season.

Not everything is meant to be but everything is worth a try.

Nothing dries sooner than tears.
Life can never promise to be always happy,
but life gets better after you accept things you can't change.

Life has great options.
You don't always have to pick what seems best.
Sometimes, the best and the perfect aren't always the ones that make you happy.

Sometimes...
we wish we were young,
wish we were somewhere,
wish we had that something.
But sometimes...
we wish too much that we miss to enjoy who we are, where we are, and what we have.
Stay happy...
The secret to happiness is to embrace and appreciate everything that happens in our life.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
- Oprah Winfrey, Reader's Digest Aug 1992

Ya es Octubre

The start of a new month. I'm still hoping that business will pick up soon. Lately, it's been sort of at a low. I don't know if its mainly because of the weather (raining cats and dogs!) or something else. I'm trying to apply the same strategy used in competing in track & field competitions~ to not look at your competitor. I don't know if that would be a good strategy but I hope it would work for us.

Supposedly, Christmas season has started in the country last month pa since last month was September, the first -BER month. However, in my case, it is only now that I can feel the Christmas season. Whenever I go to malls, they're playing christmas jingles already! It's cuh-raazy! But I'm loving it!