: : PBB... : :

Ok... Ok... I admit... I'm currently hooked on this reality show... Unbelievable!!! Pero grabe na ito... :-) I can't seem to help myself, but I just have to have my fix on what's going on inside the house...
Nakakaloka...

: : itching for the beach!!!! : :

One more week to go!!! Palawan here we come!!!
I can't wait!!!

And next month, it's gonna be BORACAY baby!!!!

B O R A C A Y ! ! ! !


Yep!!!
I'm making up for lost time with the beach...
Stocking up on mucho SPFs...
:-)

: : busy body me : :

I think my last post made quite a stir... Some people I tell yah... If you can't take it, then no nobody's forcing you to read on. Leave!
Makes me think about MTRCB on Pinoy Big Brother... Censoring reality? If only life can also be cut & edited like a movie, but unfortunately, it can't be so. On life whatever happens is the final cut, no chance for a second take to replace the "bad cut". You can try again of course, but what's done is done...

Moving on...
I attended a kiddie party over the weekend! It's the 1st bday of the daughter of one of our bosses - she was so adorable! A bubbling baby with such a happy disposition - she was just smiling the whole time!!! Afterwards, Pia, Erik & I went to watch a movie at Greenbelt - 40 year old virgin. It was hilarious!!! Hella funny.

I was off from work last Monday to Wednesday - a welcome break... I was originally planning to go home to Laguna, but lil sis was sick so I decided to stay in the Metro & be the caring big sis that I am (most of the time...). Nevertheless, I must say that I was able to do a lot during my "off days" - except for Monday... hehe

Monday ~ woke up with a start at around 06:00AM and freaked out. I thought I had work at 6AM! Thru a cloud of sleepiness I realized that I didn't have work so went back to bed... Grrr.... Woke up at around 11:30 with a slight headache from too much sleeping... I basically just bummed around the entire day & watched TV & eat! Felt horribly lazy...

Tuesday ~ I promised myself that I WILL do something, and I did! I decided to have my very first boxing lesson at Elorde as recommended by my roommate. It was great! Though I must admit I was comical when trying to box + footwork. I swear my instructor was laughing at me when I asked if I had to change foot when doing a left uppercut... And when I sashayed backward when asked to step back. Kinda had my dancing lessons mixed up with the session. Afterwards, with a stinky wrap at hand and with my knuckles red (naks!), I still felt ambitious enough to hit the gym and run! Was able to do some weights & even a bit of crunches. Damn I was on a roll that day. Well, at least I was able to release all that pent-up emotions!

Wednesday ~ Coding day! So had no choice but to stay indoors til after 7pm. Went to the gym and did my usual run on the threadmill, crunches, etc... To cap off my workout, I did Body Balance, a combination of yoga/tai chi/pilates. It felt great to stretch out...

So there you have it! I was quite the busy bee these past few days... :-)

: : casual sex? : :

If you do it, chances are it's not going to go anywhere. But if you both know it's not going anywhere, then there's nothing wrong with it.

--Paul Walker in Us, on having sex on the first date. Woo-hoo, the '70s are back! Around the office, we call it Casual Sex Fridays... (from Eonline.com)

: : All about LoVe AcTuAlLy... : :

I finally saw "Love actually" & I have to say it's one of the most charming movies I've ever seen!!! One of those rare movies that have me gushing over it with oodles & oodles of aaawhhsss & sighs... :-) I was already enthralled at the very beginning of the movie!

Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around.

With that kind of intro, who wouldn't? I'm lovin it!
Here are some more quotes from the movie that will definitely make you go "hmm..." or "awhhh...":

But you know the thing about romance is people only get together right at the very end. by Sam

Sometimes the chase is better than the actual "taking" they say... They call it romantic when he's courting you. Sometimes the romance ends when two people actually o get together! One of life's ironies...

Jamie: It's my favorite time of day, driving you.
Aurelia: [in Portuguese] It is the saddest part of my day, leaving you.

A definite "awwhhhhh" moment!

Natalie(secretary): Hello, David. I mean "sir". Shit, I can't believe I've just said that. Oh, and now I've gone and said "shit" - twice. I'm so sorry, sir.
Prime Minister: It's fine, it's fine. You could've said "fuck", and then we'd have been in real trouble.
Natalie: Thank you, sir. I did have an awful premonition that I was going to fuck up on the first day. Oh, piss-it!

A bloody good ole English humor... Had me laughing!
I dunno, maybe it's the British acccent, or just Hugh Grant (possibly!) but "Love Actually" actually made me re-think my views on Love (yes it did!)... Love is definitely everywhere. One doesn't have to search for it really, coz for all you know, it's just right there in front of you...

: : In the midst of a foggy morning & sleepy me... : :

* {YAWN!!!!!}
It's been extremely hard to get up in the morning these past few days... What with the weather getting colder & wetter as we delve deeper into the -ber months... Argh... I really have to struggle to wake up... And it's a failing battle between me & my bed- with my comfy warm blankets & plump pillows... But I have to say I am more than the willing victim as I press the snooze button yet again for the upteenth time... Before I know it, I look at the clock & I know I'll be late yet again... I force myself to go to the bathroom and prepare myself for a cold COLD shower. My senses would temporarily awaken at this point, but as I put on my clothes & reach the office... The sight of the computers immediately transports me back into a kind of stupor... Haaay.... This is how I am every morning this past week.


* I saw a VCD of "Patch Adams" lying around the apartment one afternoon (one of my sister's reference materials) & being too lazy to go the gym (eventhough I promised myself to go to the gym to "buff it up" before the Palawan trip...), decided to watch it... It wasn't such a good movie to be perfectly honest, it was too sentimental to the point of being sappy, but the story (it was based on a true story) was touching indeed nevertheless... There was one particular line in the movie that struck a nerve in me...

See what no one else sees.

See what everyone chooses not to see...

out of fear, conformity or laziness.

See the whole world anew each day!

HOW TRUE!!!! I can particullarly apply this to a recent "event" that happened... I know a lot of people that claims & thinks that they're so tough, nonchalant, the usual I-don't-give-a-fuck attitude. But then something happened that is obviously screaming OFF & FOUL - an incident that is practically begging for an action-- ANY action! An admonition? Some censure? Castigation? SOMETHING - ANYTHING!!! But these same people with their devil may care attitude chose to turn a blind eye on it... Why? Out of FEAR of course...
It's crap I tell yah.
It's all about "politics" they say... But then again politics is crap.
I never was a people person... And I never did care much about "politics".
I'd rather keep the respect that I have for myself and stick to what I believe in rather than conform to anyone out of this so called "fear"...