i'd click my heels three times

My newest favorite program is Fun Asia! I was never really a fan of the Discovery Travel & Living channel... I used to watch it when David Tutera's show is on. Uhh, not that I don't like traveling but I kind of get bored watching it. But with Fun Asia, it's different. The host, Janet Hsieh, is fun to watch. You could really tell that she is having fun, hence the title Fun Asia. D'oh.

I saw Janet Hsieh's blog on her wikipedia page and read it. It's fun to read, too. I also liked looking at the pictures she took, especially those she took when they went up a mountain in Taiwan. She shares with her readers her travels and other stuff she does... and you really feel she's a real fun person. Plus, she shares inspirational stories... like live-life-to-the-fullest stuff. But I like that... makes me want to actually live life... outside the four walls of my bedroom I oh-so-frequently stay within.

Anyway... here's the Top 5 Cities I definitely would like to visit:





And on September, I'm off to my first city: Bangkok. I'm so so so excited na! That'll be the first time ever that I'll be leaving the country and that'll be the first tatak on my passport. Yay! And it certainly wouldn't be the last :) The main, if not the only, reason why I would want to go to Bangkok is spicy dilis. And sampaloc, too. Aside from food trip, we're also planning on doing some scouring for stuff we could sell on bazaars this coming Christmas season. Seryoso na 'to!

I have a hunch that Spain will be next ;)

P.S. Ooops, Spain isn't a city. It is a country. What I meant was Madrid and Barcelona :)

Nothing really

Solo me gusta compartir con vosotros las fotos he tomado. Ojala que disfruteis... :)

What do you do with a BA in English?

Well, more of a BS in Legal Management...


Five years after, the answer is.... I still don't frickin' know. But that is not what I'm here to write about. The civil service exam results were strategically released just before the last two days of Avenue Q's farewell run. Translation: AC took me to see the musical cum puppet show. And I LOVED IT! The Filipino cast was great!

A few months ago, I was totally clueless as to what Avenue Q was. I also remember AB asking me whether I would like to watch but I passed up since I don't what it was exactly. The soundtrack was in AD's laptop but I didn't bother to listen since, again, I don't know what it was. One day I was scanning AD's playlist and I came across this song I Wish I Could Go Back to College. And I thought, "perfect song to describe what I was feeling that day (and today)." So I listened to all the other songs from the musical and found out that it was about issues that twenty-somethings, fresh out of college kids deal with. Well, I'm not exactly fresh out of college... but I could relate. A LOT.

Avenue Q- It sucks to be me


Avenue Q- I wish I could go back to college


Two songs from the musical that hits the spot. Yup, it sucks to be me and I really wanna go back to college. But here is the song that made me feel better...

Avenue Q- For Now

Everything's only for now.

And it's never too late for anything.

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I passed the civil service exams!
yehey!!!

I am so so so happy! It was as if I won an award... siempre, I thank God for this very wonderful news. Imagine, I had almost no preparations for this exam. Two days before, I just answered some college entrance and civil service practice tests and after doing so, I was still so so so clueless as to what the test would be like. I am this happy because the exam was hard. I never thought it would be that hard... but it was, hence the doubt as to whether I would pass. But I did! Yayyyyyyyyyyy!!! It felt great. Sobra! Ano pa kaya kung sa bar/board ka pumasa?

At long last, I did it! I took and passed the civil service exams. Masaya na daddy ko niyan. And he would also stop "reminding" me to take the civil service, with matching drama. Hehehe. At least menos na itong issue na 'to... among others. :P

Thunder only happens when it's raining

Lately, I've been having weird dreams... actually, more like nightmares. Dreams are associated with pleasurable things and what I have dreamt about were nothing near pleasurable. Maybe I haven't been praying before I went to sleep... or I haven't been really praying. Call it old-fashioned but I think that has something to do with it. Or maybe it also has something to do with the subconscious, I don't know.

First dream was two nights ago. I was in my mommy's home in the province. I can't really remember much, only the details that I was being chased by punk-ish creatures who wear black shirts with skulls on them. After a long chase, I went some place I thought they wouldn't find me- sa kisame. But they found me and once they got me cornered, they started stabbing my feet and legs with... ballpens.

Dream #2 happened just this morning. I was supposed to marry someone I haven't met nor seen nor talked to-- fixed-marriage, in other words. And I was really crying because I didn't want to do it. I dreamt I was already in the hotel room, in a wedding dress, just waiting to go to the ceremony... but I was crying really really hard. I really wanted to run away but there were a lot of guests coming already. I felt as if I couldn't run away. Even people I haven't really talked to for the past 9 years or so were coming. Batchmates from high school were showing up. Playmates from childhood were showing up. Now I know how it feels to be in a marriage you were forced into.

Now, let me interpret my dreams.

Dream #1: I've always had dreams wherein I was chased a lot. According to dream interpretations, "Chase dreams may represent your way of coping with fears, stress or various situations in your waking life. Instead of confronting the situation, you are running away and avoiding it." Hmm... parang may katotohanan. When I worked in a call center, I dreamt of being chased. When I went into law school, I dreamt I was being chased up the neverending stairs of a tower where I had to have my cases photocopied and the photocopying machine is at the top floor. I went AWOL from the call center. I withdrew from law school. Go figure.

Dream #2: "To see a wedding in your dream, symbolizes a new beginning or transition in your current life. Dreams involving weddings are often negative and highlight some anxiety or fear. It often refers to feelings of bitterness, sorrow, or death. Alternatively, wedding dreams reflect your issues about commitment and independence. "

Maybe I have dreamt about this because of a sister's impending wedding. Maybe I'm scared as to how life would be without them. I hope it's nothing negative. But then again it may also has something to do with my issues about independence. And bitterness. And sorrow.

But there's also another interpretation: "A wedding is a union of opposites. To dream of a wedding is most likely to represent the coming together of the opposite aspects of your personality." This is much much better. I hope this one is it.

I'm a happy girl

Updates, updates and more updates.

1. And we're back at 5... AC arrived from China yesterday. She brought back with her lots of knock-off bags and slimming tea. I was more excited about the tea and I hope that it would be the answer to my prayers. Haha! It's good having her back again and it's good that she came just in time to meet Big J and hubby since they're flying back to Canada this afternoon.

2. Mommy's biopsy results are out and turns out they're only fibrous breast lumps and nothing serious. But I guess she still has to be more careful from now on with what she eats. However, she could be pretty stubborn. I guess we know who I took after then.

3. I had a yummy lunch, I watched Sex and the City on widescreen and had mocha frap and cheese floss. I swear I wish everyday could be like today.

It was a lunch with the cousins- Big J and Rob and Little J. Big J and hubby are leaving that afternoon and so we just had to meet one last time. They invited us to lunch and it's an offer we just can't refuse because who knows after how many years would we be able to see each other again. We gave them souvenirs- cute shirts from Team Manila.

For Rob

For Big J

and for Little J

I think it's weird that we were able to meet some of our cousins after 26... 30 years. But I guess that is much much better than not meeting them at all. There were a lot of awkward moments. It's weird that before you met for the first time, technically, you don't really know each other but you're expected to act as if you've known each other all your lives. Well, we do know each other but only through pictures and stories. You're expected to act close-y close-y when all you know about them you've learned through Facebook. It's hard because you're all kind of groping for the right words, the right everything. I just hope that there'll be a next time and by that time it will be a lot easier and more natural and free-flowing.

Now... reasons why I am a happy girl...
I had a scrumptious lunch, I had mocha frap and cheese floss and I watched Sex and the City. Yup, it doesn't take much to make me happy.

= HAPPINESS!

Yes, it's the fleeting kind of happiness but I don't frickin' care... I still was happy even for that given period of time.

About Sandara

Before PBB, the only local star search/reality tv program I watched was Star Circle Quest. The very first season and it was all because of Sandara. That time, I was into Korean entertainment- series, movies, music, etc. And when this cute Korean girl tried out for local star search program, I became a fan... a closet fan, for that matter. She was funny and adorable even though she pronounces stuffed toy as istap toy. Haha! The tv show made her big even if she didn't really have any talent to back her up, just her Korean-ness. But all of a sudden, she became so annoying.

I was annoyed that she has gotten too thin. I was annoyed that she doesn't really have talent. She can't even speak straight Tagalog for crying out loud. I was annoyed that her lankly limbs seemed to fly at all directions whenever she danced. I was annoyed that it seemed that she doesn't really give importance to the Philippines. I even reacted violently to her decision to try it in the Korean entertainment scene~ there were a lot of girls prettier than her and actually have talents.

But I was surprised when I found this on youtube via soompi

She's the skinny girl in a tank top
I never thought she could be capable of this :P

Whoa! What an improvement! Which goes to show that if a talent is trained well, she can actually acquire a talent. I like it that Korean entertainment doesn't rest on cuteness (although is may seem like it) alone. Unlike ABS-CBN, they do train their talents and they train them well and not only see them as cash cows.

one of the songs/videos she made in the PI. This video compared with the first one proves that she has improved an awful lot.

I'm happy for her.