5/365

01-29-09

A reunion in Eastwood with our childhood friend.
She came with her co-staff who owns this adorable chow chow puppy.
Cuteness...

Days 1 to 4/ 365

Day 1: 01-25-09
Watercolor painting

Day 2: 01-26-09
At an average, I drink around 5 cups of (hot) coffee in a year. A year!
Some people drink 5 cups of coffee in a day.
And oh, that excludes mocha frap...

Day 3: 01-27-09
Korean side dish

Day 4: 01-28-09
A crappy manicure job on my nails.
But I love the color~ OPI's Strawberry Margarita

Just stuff

I promised myself I should limit my use of the internet. There are a gazillion things I need to accomplish (according to my ACCOMPLISH form) and I've only ticked a couple of items. A hundred more to go. But first, I just have to write about stuff now or I would end up writing them later, meaning I didn't get off the computer as I should.


I got addicted to Grey's Anatomy.

I thought I wouldn't like it. But I did. Like The OC, I didn't want to watch this series because everybody else is watching it. I didn't want to get on the bandwagon, so to speak. But there must be a reason why people watch and love this series... And now I know.

What got me to watch Grey's was... tumblr. Yes, tumblr has that effect on me. I'm loving all the drama and the mush. I just watched Season 1 and can't wait to watch season 2 but I shouldn't start with it yet or else I won't be able to do anything else.


I watched Love Me Again with AB.

Crap.

Buti na lang libre.
But then again, that's 1.5 hours of my life I'll never get back...









Cousin Jamie's birthday celebration last night at WooRiJib. Or was it WooRiJub? It was fun. I never expected it would be fun.

I've been craving for a Mocha Frap since yesterday. I just have to satisfy that craving or else... I'll just think about it for the rest of the day. What to do? What to do? I WANT MOCHA FRIGGIN' FRAAAAAAAAAAAAP!

And oh, I've been meaning to start Project 365. In a nutshell, it is to take one photo a day and post it in your blog, flickr, wherever. Discovered it just last week so it won't be Project 365 for me... more like 330 or something. But you get the point...

GG S02 E16: You've Got Yale

What I think of episode 16, in bullet points:

• Wow! For once (or twice), Serena van der Woodsen's fully-clothed and looking like a real student. I like Serena's hair in this episode... it's so high school.
• Blair's dad is so gay.

• Blair didn't get into Yale. Karma.

• Even if I think Lily's alembong, I can't seem not to not like her. Kelly Rutherford's pregnant belly is already obvious and it's only the 16th episode. I'm not sure but I think there are supposed to be 24 episodes of GG. So what would they do with her growing tummy? Please not another Rufus-Lily spawn storyline!

• Lily and Chuck reconciles. It almost brought a tear to my eye...
  

• I'm interested and excited as to what Ms. Carr's role would be in the following GG episodes. I don't know if whether to like her or hate her. Something tells me she's not really as sweet as she looks, but then again maybe she is just acting like a teacher when she told Headmistress Queller what Blair did. Though I think she might be interested in Dan. I might be wrong but when you let your student call you by your first name, hmm...

Hoy Dan, ano'ng ibig sabihin ng mga tingin na yan?
Isusumbong kita kay Serena...

• Blair's on to something big. She wouldn't be walking that slow if she's not planning something devious...

But only Blair can get away with it, being mean and scheming, I mean.

I don't really have much to say about this episode except I love it! Got to watch it only this morning... which is better cos they there won't be a new episode this week meaning I won't have to wait that long for a new episode. Well, if I was able to wait a week before watching a Gossip Girl episode that was already in my computer, I could wait for a new episode til next week. I'm actually feeling a little guilty that I am not as obsessed about Gossip Girl as I once was. But I think that's good... a girl can't have too many things to obsess over.

gloton

I seriously need to lose weight. Before the Christmas holidays, I managed to shed 5 lbs but it seems that I've gained it back, doubled it even. My tummy has decided to play the role of a bottomless pit these days. I always find myself hungry even after just an hour after eating lunch, snacks, etc. And that is so not good. I find myself craving for food, food and more food. I feel so bloated but I can't stop eating. If I suppress the hunger, I just find myself even hungrier and then I give in and eat more.

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I'm addicted to tumblr big time! It used to be Friendster. Then Facebook. And Perez Hilton, Robsessed and soompi too. tumblr is currently the shizz, y'all! I can't not check out the posts on tumblr~ lots of pretty stuff and nice quotes. It's also the reason why I feel so mushy these days.

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I forgot to mention that last Friday, my sister and I went to Joli's for art supplies shopping. I bought a Reeves 16-color watercolor set for art journaling. Reeves is the cheapest brand of watercolor. I'll settle with Reeves since I will only use it for my art journals. No need to buy the more expensive Prang (even if the colors are much nicer). Also bought gesso paint. Finally. Although I am still clueless as to how to really use it. It's supposed to make the paper thicker to support the weight of baubles and whathaveyous you'll put on paper. I'm happy I waited for this trip. I was thisclose to buying the gesso paint for P500+ I saw in National. The gesso paint I bought from Joli's only costs P168.

After the art supplies buying spree, we went to Juno's place near UST. We brought siomai, kwek-kwek and chicken balls for merienda. Sarap. Nalula ako sa dami ng food choices! They even had a small (and cheap) Thai restaurant nearby. I ♥ kwek-kwek. Cholesterol.

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January's almost over and I'm always halfway through The Book Thief. A new book every two weeks, huh? Yeah, right.

Though I still intend to keep that resolution. Just a bit backlogged...

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I suddenly feel so pathetic. I won't expound. Hmph.

time wasters

I have quite an addictive personality and here are the things I am currently wasting my time on:

Tumblr is my current major time waster. And brings out the emo in me. I swear I could spend hours and hours and hours on tumblr just swooning and squee-ing over mushy pictures and quotes. Especially the quotes, for example...

“ When I see you, the world. It stops and all that exists for me, is you and my eyes staring at you. There’s nothing else. No noise, no other people, no thoughts or worries, no yesterday, no tomorrow. The world just stops and it’s a beautiful place and there’s only you. Just you. And my eyes staring at you. When you’re gone, the world starts again and I don’t like it as much. I can live in it, but I don’t like it. I just walk around in it, and wait to see you again and wait for it to stop again. I love it when it stops. It’s the best thing I’ve ever known or ever felt, the best thing, and that, is why I stare at you.

— James Frey, A Million Little Pieces (via hearttosoul)

Chanel quilted purse I'm not really into designer bags and I do think that spending lots of money on a bag is ridiculous. But if I have money to spare, I want a Chanel quilted purse. Ya esta. Nada más. It's so pretty. I like it very much. I always want to look at it at baka umepekto ang the secret at ma-attract ko siya sa buhay ko...

Watercolors for art journaling. Since I'm not really the artsy-fartsy kind, I can't really come up with real works of art. I can't draw. I can't sketch. Etc. But I'm good at doing letterings. So to design my journal, I do letterings instead then decorate the page using watercolor.

Lee Min-ho is such a cutie. Reminds me of Dao Ming-si, of Meteor Garden and all the kilig. Well, Boys Before Flowers is also good but nothing beats the original. And I reckon it's getting toooo cute, in a negative way. Episode 5 was boring and I do hope episode 6 will make up for it. As of now, Lee Min-ho is the only reason why I would want to keep on watching the series.

Typewriter for art journaling, again. Daddy brought home this old typewriter from the province. I wanted one so bad. I thought typewriters would be dirt cheap since they're kind of nearing extinction as it's the computer age and all. But I was so surprised that a brand new typewriter costs a whopping P4,000.00! Expensive. No way would I spend that much money on something I want just so my journal would look pretty (I'm the only person who sees it anyway). And so I asked my father if he has an extra typewriter, he did and brought it home for me. Yay!

rewind

They said the cool weather would last til the first week of February. It's starting to get friggin' hot. I miss the cool weather.

Summer's here.
Bummer.

...effect

cause...

I just can't seem to get enough of tumblr. Lots of beautiful graphics, quotes and words of wisdom that inspire me to take pictures, create emo-ish stuff and more. With my addictive personality, I sure can waste my time away on this site...

"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted at all."
--John Lennon (daw)

Strange & Beautiful

Para sa mga emo sa mundo... Ycel (haha, peace)

Strange & Beautiful- Aqualung

Marley and Me

LOVE LOVE LOVE Marley and Me!

I started watching this movie (on video streaming) without any expectations at all. I almost did not watch it because Jennifer Aniston annoys me (with all the John Mayer sh*t). But I got curious about this movie when 1) my cousin posted as her Facebook profile, "**** new favorite movie is Marley and Me," and 2) it was the #1 movie in the US for quite some time amongst other good movies with equally stellar cast.

I love this movie! It is very entertaining and funny although the ending's sad. But all good things must come to an end, right? Good thing I didn't watch it in the cinemas or else I wouldn't be able to cry my eyes out. I was sobbing right from the time Marley displayed signs of weakness/sickness up until the end of the movie. And to think I don't even consider myself attached to our dog.

Marley reminded me of Sunday (Sandee to househelps). Sunday's as lovable, adorable and sweet as Marley. There was this scene when Grogan said that they feel this dog is not your regular dog, as if he's a person... that's exactly what we feel about Sunday. I love big, non-fluffy dogs. Somewhat, they seem sweeter than those rat-sized toy dogs. Maybe dogs are really meant to wreak havoc in their persons' lives. But dogs also have this way of making you feel loved so even if their piss smells terrible and they poop just anywhere, you still love them in return. But I still don't consider myself as a dog person. I am a Sunday-person. I don't care about other people's dogs.

I agree with John Grogan when he said:

"A dog has no use for fancy cars or big homes or designer clothes. Status symbol means nothing to him. A waterlogged stick will do just fine. A dog judges others not by their color or creed or class but by who they are inside. A dog doesn't care if you are rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his. It was really quite simple, and yet we humans, so much wiser and more sophisticated, have always had trouble figuring out what really counts and what does not. As I wrote that farewell column to Marley, I realized it was all right there in front of us, if only we opened our eyes. Sometimes it took a dog with bad breath, worse manners, and pure intentions to help us see."

Dear Sunday,
I promise to walk you, as much as possible, every night.
I love you, Sunday!

xoxo

ps. let's get you a pooper-scooper...

"How many people can make you feel extraordinary?"

teehee...

Found another nice site...

more music charts

Sarisari

• Went to Serendra last Sunday for the family's weekly Lunch Out.

We ate a "healthy" lunch at Healthy Kitchen. I always thought that healthy food doesn't taste as good as normal food would but Healthy Kitchen put a halt at that thinking. Healthy food can be yummy. If it really is healthy... They don't serve Coke regular, hindi daw kasi healthy. As if healthy and Coke Zero at Coke Light.

Dessert was at Cupcakes by Sonja. I had Mint Condition. I tasted one of Sonja's cupcakes before and I thought that it was one of those overrated and overpriced stuff people get into since it's uso. But this time, I loved it.
Kinain ko na naman ang sinabi ko. Hehe.

• Accompanied my cousins yesterday. My cousin Dodoy is graduating from law school this March. He and Manang Marimi came here to make the arrangements for his stay here for his review classes and for the bar exams he'll be taking on September. He will be staying in the San Lorenzo dorm near San Beda. Though he hasn't decided yet where he'll enroll for the review classes. He's choosing between San Sebastian and San Beda.

• We went to St. Jude Church yesterday. St. Jude is the patron saint of hopeless cases. Andami ng tao. Andaming hopeless. Haha. Well, I'd say hopeful pa rin sila kasi kung wala na silang pag-asa, either wala sila dun or nagpakamatay na sila. I lit a bundle of green candles for Financial chuva. And since it was my first time in the Church, I made three wishes. Sana magkatotoo...

• We also went to Tutuban and 168 Mall. Wala masyadong tao. Good. Pero wala rin kaming nabili. We went to RP afterwards. After RP, I brought them to Manila Doctors and I went home.
  

• Thank you Lord for the LRT. It has decreased my travel time from Pasig to Manila tremendously.

• I realized that listening to only one song from AM to PM can give you head-splitting headaches. I listened to John Legend's Everybody Knows on repeat. I remembered doing this some 6 months ago and it had the same effect. I'm never doing this again.

• I'm excited for this. Sa Monday na, yay! Jake Cuencaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

• Have to end this now. Will have to do some things for the biz. Permits and licenses renewal. Blech.

GG S02 E15: Gone with the Will

I failed to write my review on episode 14. I was too distracted. I still am distracted so this might be a short review.

Meet Uncle Jack. We all know Uncle Jack is up to no good. Bass's are scheming and devious. From whom else would Chuck take after?

I guess we will be seeing more of him in the next episodes since he won't be letting go of Bass Industries that easily. Plus, we have to know what happened between him and Blair, right? We're not even sure if it was anything scandalous. It's just that the way Blair said it, it sounded like it.

Chuck was set up. By Uncle Jack. We all saw that coming. Chuck might lose Bass Industries to Uncle Jack because of the morality clause. Morality clause? This might be applicable to a 50-something CEO but to a 17-year old boy? Only in GG.

The King and Queen of PDA are back, y'all!

Third time's a charm.
Maybe.
Maybe not.

Really, I feel sorry for these two. Sorry is an understatement. To be more precise, I feel my heart being crushed for these two. They want each other so bad but it seems that they can't be together. Well, it's not really incest. It's just weird that you and your boyfriend share a sibling. Totally weird. So weird.

Dan and Serena are Rufus and Lily's reincarnation. Rufus and Lily still do love each other after all these years. The powers of the universe are all conspiring against them. And that's just what could happen to Dan and Serena. I could just imagine thirty-something D and S canoodling and them being in a relationship isn't really a pre-requisite. A lá Rufus and Lily...

The fruit doesn't fall far from the tree indeed.


Lily and Rufus, back from Boston. They were told that their son "Andrew" had drowned and died. This made Lily arrive at the conclusion that maybe Rufus and her weren't meant to be a family. And when they open the door, this is what they see...
Perfect for Rufus and Lily. Awkward for Dan & Serena.

PS. Don't you find it weird that Dan didn't realize his phone was missing?

LSS of the Moment: Everybody Knows

I'm loving this new song by John Legend and would just wanna share it.

Everybody Knows- John Legend

Sad song.

re-post

I'm doing a repost of a past entry, a re-post of a quote I got from the Korean drama, Resurrection (Bu Hwal) starring Uhm Tae-woong and Han Ji-min.

(Eunha and Haeun talking, referring to two lighthouses)

"It's so unfortunate... that they stand so far apart from each other."
- "Well you know, it's okay... because they're still able to see each other from afar."

Awww.... isn't it just tragic? But at the same time oh-so-beautiful? Yeah, I feel mushy today.

love it

The nice thing about blog-hopping is you get to discover new, nice and purdy things... like this song and music video by Ingrid Michaelson, The Way I Am

Postsecret of the Week

kots

Let the mush begin...

“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.”
— Lao Tzu

“Never put everything into one person, because when they leave, you’ll have nothing.”

“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief…and unspeakable love.”

—	Washington Irving

“You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”

—	The Notebook

“The worst thing you can do for love is to deny it. So when you find that special someone, don’t let anyone or anything stand in your way.”

“Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.”

—	Albert Einstein

“I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”

—	Henry David Thoreau

“We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don’t think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you’re hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.”

—	Art Buchwald

New KDrama Alert: Boys Over Flowers

Oh my golly banana-Q! I LOVE IT! Of course nothing beats the original F4 but this Korean version of F4 is actually not bad. I think they have the look that grows on you. Just like the Taiwanese F4. I'm sure almost everyone had a crush first on Xi Men (Ken Zhu's character) and then everyone's attention shifted to Dao Ming Si (Jerry Yan).

Episode 1 was a little different from Meteor Garden but I must say mas grand ang entrance ng Taiwanese F4. Pero medyo kabog sila ng Korean F4 kasi yung entrance nila may matching rays of light pa! At mas mukhang mayaman ang Korean F4...
O diba? Parang mga aparisyon!?!

Jan Di (Shan Cai) , played by Goo Hye-sun, is waaaay cuter than Barbie Hsu. What's different from her character here than in the Taiwanese version is Jan Di is more feisty and noisy. At least, Shan Cai tried to be invisible. Though I think this makes the drama more interesting~ new twists and turns to a story we all know by heart. Hehe.

Isn't she cute? Buti na lang they got someone closer to my age bracket. At least I won't feel too old while watching the series. And I like Goo Hye-sun. She was in Taebin's The Reason I Close My Eyes music video. She's so purdy. And no, she doesn't look 24.

I am not in research mode to find out the names of the actors playing the F4 boys. What's important right now is that they're cute. The actor who plays Dao Ming Si's character is cute. But he's such an arschloch~

Of course, his hair had to look like it was styled by a curling iron but I must say Taiwanese Dao Ming Si's legendary pineapple hairstyle can't be beaten, with matching bandanna pa! I like him already. Can't wait for the kilig-inducing parts...

The actor playing Lei's role isn't as cute as I initially thought he was when I first saw the poster of the series. But yeah, he kinda grows on you... kasi after mga 10 minutes, cute na siya uli sa mga mata ko. Pero parang medyo hawig sila ni Iwa Moto...

He is cute but he's a looks a little too feminine. But I like his smile. Sino kaya dentista niya? His pose on his last pic is so gay. I'm just saying...

As for the other 2 members of F4... we just have to admit that they're not that significant. Mga chuwariwap lang kumbaga. We could do without them.

I have to end this already. It's 3am and I am hungry. I better go to sleep and silence my hunger pangs.

Thanks to Juno for informing me about the existence of this drama.

desde entonces

All I know is this: in that very place
my heart has been knocking
at a single
door,
knocking since yesterday, from afar,
since long ago,
since my birth-
Oda al tiempo venidero
Pablo Neruda

bisyo

Hi, I'm Joy and I'm a pen-aholic.

I have this thing with ballpens and pencils. I want lots and lots. I want my pencil cases stuffed with them. I feel so destitute when my pencil case doesn't have much in it. Kaya as much as possible, I horde ballpens. And pencils. And anything like it.

Dear Lola

Book 09-01: The Book Thief

Included in my NYR list is to read a new book every two weeks. I'm starting the year off with The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.

Recommended by AB. Well, almost all books I read were AB's since I'm too stingy to buy books. She said this one's a real tearjerker and that her head hurt from crying while reading it. It must be that good. Then again I would have to stop expecting too much.

I started reading it already and it is indeed very interesting. Haven't reached the 100th page since I always fall asleep just after a few minutes. That doesn't mean it's boring, it just means I fall asleep easily. Meanwhile, just a few pages into the book, I've already learned a few German words:

saumensch - "sau" refers to pigs; it serves to castigate, berate or plain humiliate a female
saukerl- male counterpart of a saumensch
arschloch- asshole

Just yesterday I found myself calling someone an arschloch. Oh joy, my vocabulary of profanities just got wider.

The Curious Case of the Missing Remote Control

The remote control for the DVD has been missing since Tuesday. Last time I checked it was on our bed together with the TV remote control. I even used it the night before to turn the DVD off but when I looked for it in the morning as I wanted to watch something, I can't frickin' find it. As in I've looked for it in every nook and cranny but to no avail. It even made me do an emergency clean-up of our room. But there was no DVD remote control.

Please, ilabas niyo na.

It's 2009, B*tches!

Here's my NY resolutions for this year which I did again following the template I used last year. Most of the stuff that were in last year's list have made a comeback, meaning I was unsuccessful in accomplishing such resolutions. But all I can do is make them (again) and hope to be able to keep them this time. No hard feelings for dear me.


I would like to be able to tell you that in the past year I...

• lost 30 lbs.
• finished reading Paulo Coelho's El Zahir
• have gone on a scholarship to Spain
• have come up with a system for the nail spa that works
• earned my first million
• had the self-discipline to not spend too much time on the net
• had put the competitor nail spa out of business
• learned how to drive
  

Instead, I have to tell you that in the past year...

• lost only 2 lbs (and looks like I gained 5lbs more after the holidays)
• finished reading Paulo Coelho's Like the Flowing River
• applied for a scholarship in Spain (Zaragoza, here I come!)
• still haven't found the perfect inventory management system
• have earned my first thousands. Baby steps...
• still spend TOO MUCH time on the internet
• I haven't put the competitor out of business but annoyed the hell out of them (which is actually involuntary)
• just drove people crazy
  

However, in the past year I also...

• traveled outside the country for the very first time. I heart Thailand!
• participated in a Christmas bazaar
• found the perfect brow-shaping salon. Browhaus is love.
  
• discovered Chuck (tv series)
• looked at the brighter side of life
• finished until nivel 22 of the Spanish course at IC
• doubled my vocabulary of expletives (which is so not good)

In the next year, I am hoping to...

• go to Thailand again
• travel to other countries
• participate in more bazaars
• read a book every two weeks
• earn my first 3 million pesosesoses
• discover the perfect inventory management system for the business
• really really really (x infinity) lose 30lbs.
• see the Eiffel Tower (not in pictures!)
• crush the competition with my bare hands
• have hair like Ashley Tisdale's or Nicole Scherzinger's
• stop worrying about trivial things
• get off my lazy arse
• have the BEST YEAR EVARRRRRR! (and then the following years would just have to keep getting better)

I have nothing but high hopes this 2009. Whatever the so-called psychics and Chinese horoscopes are saying, I'm sticking to what my instinct is telling me~ that it will be a spankin' helluva GOOD YEAR for me.