sleeping to dream

moving out and moving on?

2005-11-09T09:04:00.000+08:00

ok well not really moving on. hehe. (i just liked the sound of it ;b)

i think it's time to abandon this. anyway, i'm still here :)

wooohoooo

2005-05-31T19:39:00.000+08:00

got (or should i say downloaded) the new coldplay album, X & Y even before it hits the stores! :) haven't listened to the whole thing yet, but i'm sure it's great =D

woot!

ay nako

2005-05-29T21:50:00.000+08:00

i hate it when guys can be such siguristas. :x

***
A New Tattoo
urbandub

Great moments they pass by
If you're careless
Desperately trying to speak the words
I've been wanting to say for a long time.
Tongue tied, every time I try to talk to you
In time, I'll find the right line.

Caught a glimpse of you
I tremble every time you walk by
Hopelessly trying to find a way
To be near you, to get near you.
In my mind, plays thoughts of you all the time
I'll find the right line...

I'll bleed for you
Like a new tattoo in my heart
You'll stay permanent

Am I too late now?
Will I find a way to get to you somehow?
She's breaking me down again
She's breaking me down.

***

i'm depressed. i dunno why. :(

and to add more to my depression, i listen to aqualung songs.

hay, kay lungkot. sana di na 'ko ganito bukas.

hay...

2005-05-26T18:34:00.000+08:00

ok, so i have 1 too many blogs.

i'm thinking of abandoning this one, but i like the way it looks (nyeh) so i'll still update this once in a while.

***

got the new DDC album. whoooppeeee!!!! one of the reasons why i went to capone's was to buy the cd (as well as see those guys. it's been quite a long time...) japs says i'm the second buyer. yay!

new music! it sorta reminds me of the postal service (na hindi). anyhow, i like it :) really indie. and dreamy. the type of music to listen to when you want to daydream. hehe. really worth your money with 21 tracks. ;) personal favorite? lousy judge of character! :D it's been my favorite ever since i listened to their music on soundclick. i like their version better than the shermans although it's just as good.

so there are other cd's i was planning to buy but what the heck right? anyway, it's payday tomorrow, and i can buy some cd's. yessssss!

almost a month of no updates..

2005-04-01T17:57:00.000+08:00

oh well, life could be pretty busy at times. i've been swamped with work recently. staying at the office for about 10-12 hours is now considered normal (with no OT pay, mind you). and yes, i've been working. really. not watching videos, as unfortunately, my new pc does not have a soundcard, meaning i could not listen to my mp3s while working, either. boohoo. i feel so deprived. =(

***

i miss rivermaya.it's been quite a while since i last saw them...i miss the music and the guys (well, maybe 'xcept for rico. haha) it's been a while since i last chatted with mark!...i wanna see akemi! wish i'd have gone to her baptism... wish i could go to the ground anniv party tom! but of course, family does always have to come first. and besides, i'd choose swimming over a party any day. ;) but i do miss them. the next time i'll be seeing them would be in two weeks at their araneta concert. and i'm hoping they'd give us free tickets. hee. i'm keeping my fingers crossed.

***

i miss going to a gig! i think i've been on hiatus for quite a long time now, it's about time to start going to one again =D

still on hiatus

2005-03-03T18:02:00.000+08:00

it was urbandub's last gig at capone's last night. i wanted to go, but it was a weeknight and i still had to go to work the following day. i didn't plan on going but out of the blue, sarah texted me and asked if i wanted to watch lemony snicket. hmm. an instant opportunity to maybe drop by later at capone's (prolly just to buy a shirt). so i said yes and then called my mom and told her i was going home with them. we watched the movie and then off i went to capone's. i got there around 10pm only to find out that there weren't a lot of people yet and what's worse, i was all alone. ack. it was really a good thing that i saw brutalgrace whom i haven't seen in a year! instant company. we got around to talking and reminiscing the incubus encounter and concert. hehe. saw mark, who was being really nice, as usual (feel ko talaga close na kami, na hindi =b), even asking urbandub's manager to reserve a shirt for me. hee. saw trisha a few minutes later and had a little chitchat. it was already getting late, about past 11, i still haven't gotten around to doing the reason i was there in the first place and my parents are still waiting for me!:o (if only i had a car or a driver; i would've stayed longer..) so i just asked trisha to buy a shirt for me. boo.

so i went home without a shirt i was meaning to buy and not being able to watch urbandub. hay... but all's well that end's well i guess, because it had been quite an interesting evening ;)

gurl on hiatus

2005-02-24T10:24:00.000+08:00

yes, i am on hiatus, from going to gigs that is. the past few weeks have been quite a whirl, it seems i've been going to gigs a lot! so i decided to take time off, enjoy the comforts of home and rest. there are just certain gigs i'll be going to (like say, an urbandub gig? =D) don't get me wrong, i haven't gotten sick of going. gigs are always fun. i see and meet different kinds of people who are oh so nice and very friendly. ;) it's always a unique experience every time.

such a sweet victory :)

2005-02-04T11:35:00.000+08:00

and they won! yay! :) :)

i didn't want to expect because the past few awards have been well, quite disappointing (even more disappointing for me sometimes, than for them) but i kinda knew in my heart that this award was in the bag. they've lost one too many times last year, i think it was about time they finally won, and erm, this was it.

yep, while 2004 was bamboo's year (though i hate to admit it), 2005 is maya's. ;)

God has been truly GREAT! =D

no music, no life =D

2005-01-31T14:19:00.000+08:00

i have never been as crazy about music as i was before. really.

i've been downloading a lot of different stuff lately, some i didn't even know existed, which is all good because my musical knowledge is expanding and i'm starting to like what i hear. :)

and thankfully, it's not at all that hard anymore to ask my mom if i can go to gigs. yay! going to gigs is now a typical weekend thing. hehe.

now if only i had the money to buy all those CD's of those bands i like (both local and foreign - please DO NOT SUPPORT PIRACY!) and an IPOD for all my songs. that would be sheer bliss. :)

standing here, slowing down as i try to hustle..

2005-01-17T11:28:00.000+08:00

saturday night was fun fun fun :)

first had dinner (well it was actually desert) with pat, cha, ponay and mark at cibo then off we went to yero bar for some drinks :) had the chance to catch up on things..it's just too bad reese wasn't there to join us. finally met mark! (well, i think we already met at penguin last year, although this time we had the chance to talk) such a nice guy..he and punky look cute together. heehee.

at about 12, pat and i left them to go to saguijo and catch what's left of revolver. got there just in time for wolfmann's para. yay! finally i got to see him, although it was already his last song. oh well, i know there'll be other gigs. pat left in the middle of svc so off i went to ask chuckie where i could buy wolfmann's diner. he brought me outside where i was able to buy the cd and he also introduced me to wolfmann. yay! he also signed my cd. kewlness. :) then chuckie introduced me to the other listers (yay! new friends) who were kinda erm makulit but very friendly :) hehe. really had fun.

oh i saw daydreamkathy :) sayang i didn't get to see her sing baked mussels (which is turning out to be my fave! ♥) hopefully, next time. ;)

im not a lurker in wolfmann's ML anymore...they got me to post! haha. and i probably will be posting frequently (probably more frequently than in the maya ML...hehe, oops). they are such nice people. awshucks.

2005? definitely will be a great year! :)

helping the tsunami victims in my own little way :)

2005-01-13T02:29:00.000+08:00

they need all the help they can get!

International aid organizations:
UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund)
United Nations' World Food Programme
Medecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors without Borders (donate!)
CARE International
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

UK/Europe:
Disasters Emergency Comittee (DEC) - comprises a raft of aid agencies, including the below and others
British Red Cross
Oxfam
Save the Children UK

North America:
American Red Cross
Canadian Red Cross
Save The Children
Oxfam America

Anders Jacobsen: Webloggers: Give to tsunami victims and I'll give too!

and for all you fellow bloggers out there, you can help too. :) just go to the last link and follow the instructions. ;)

on a music hunt

2005-01-11T23:23:00.000+08:00

realization: just when i'm going on a cd splurge (which i rarely do but should, more often), the cd's i want (jeff buckley, ani difranco, the best of the cure, etc) are hard to find (uhm, well i didn't find it in tower and m1 makati) :( eeeeeppp. it's such a great thing that i could rely on my good old mp3s. sheesh.

i would've wanted to buy bamboo's as the music plays but there was none in m1 (tsk, should have already bought in tower where they had) so i just bought a copy of orange and lemons' love in the land of rubber shoes and dirty ice cream and i'm loving it. :) yay opm! :)

all things work together for good ;)

2005-01-10T03:07:00.000+08:00

Saturday was just another one of those days when you think things were already bad, they were just getting worse.

We had no work for about 6 and something hours and then suddenly the client sends us something to do which had to be finished by end of day, thus we had to work overtime. Instead of leaving the office at the usual 7:30 in the morning, i left at 9:30. grr... i got home at a little before 11, had lunch then planned to sleep afterwards because i was already feeling terribly sleepy but decided instead to watch tv because a good movies was on (trapped!) after which was myx live where rivermaya played (i've already watched this but i can't resist on watching it again) i finally got to sleep after that and then woke up an hour later, around 4ish, because i had to get ready for my buddy rache's birthday celeb (which was at the other side of the world in novaliches, caloocan). then my mom tells me that there's no driver and i had to commute! my dad could only bring me to as far as mandaluyong. grrr... and i was actually looking forward to having a driver. hmph. so i got ready faster than usual coz i knew that it would take me longer to get there if i commuted. we were about to leave right then and there and then my unbelievable sister apparently doesn't know the directions on how to get to her party in mandaluyong. grr. it took about 40 minutes just to figure it out. by that time my mom and dad were already pissed and i was mega pissed! i was already late! grrrr... i couldn't believe it.

a good thing there was no traffic, i got to finally meet harris (although i was late) and then sarah and the rest of our friends (sarah at the last minute decided not to go because she had to be home early. boo ='( ) and then off we went to go to rache's.

after what seemed like ages, we finally got to her place and were actually the last ones to get there. awww..i felt happy when we reached the place coz some of my orgmates whom i haven't seen for a long time were there! reunion! i've missed them sooo much. it was hugs and kisses galore. after everything i went through throughout the day, somehow it didn't bother me that much anymore. :) i had a grand time. :) lotsa great food, catching up on each others' lives (the buzz! haha =b), videoke, camwhoring and trying my hand at playing the drums, going there was so worth it (even though the time i spent going there was actually longer than the time i spent there). i'm glad i did. =)

i hope we have one of these get-togethers again. no matter how far, trust me to be there. ;)

CSI:NY

2005-01-06T05:48:00.000+08:00

if i were to be a kid again, i now know what i want to be when i grow up... =b i wanna be a crime scene investigator!! damn, they're good! the way they look at evidence, inspect them using different kinds of watchamacallits and see the bigger picture, it just totally blows me away. astig talaga!

it's quite hard to compare this csi from the original and csi:miami as i'm not a regular follower of both shows but in my opinion, this one's looking pretty good. :)

oh and speaking of the show, detective bonasera's really a deadringer for sarah jessica parker. heh. i thought it was her. =b ooh, and tag of f.r.i.e.n.d.s is there. kewlness.

the look on my face was PRICELESS :)

2005-01-04T22:54:00.000+08:00

i finally got around to watching my incubus, live at red rocks dvd. awww... it brought back memories of the time they came here almost a year ago, and i was fortunate enough to have my pic taken with them twice! hehe.

this was supposedly just me and brandon but ben and dj decided to be in the pic too. hehe

they're so tall! haha. i'm again grinning from ear to ear, as i was in the first pic :)

yep, that's me with 3/5s of the band and it's not photoshopped or edited. =b it was taken at westin on march 11,2004, a day before the concert; a time when i, along with a few other incubus freaks decided to be stalkers for a day (i still stand firm by my word that i'm no stalker =b hey, it's incubus!). we started out in the airport (would you believe?) and ended up in their hotel where brutalgrace and i finally got the chance to meet the three of them in the flesh (lucky grace had her pic taken with brandon! *inggit!* but it's ok, meeting them was good enough for me). stalking them actually paid off. haha.

it was almost a year ago, but ask me about it and i'd probably be able to still give you all the details, well, almost all. we went through a lot that day you know. (all for incubus! hehe)

this is one of those memories i'm gonna be treasuring for a very long time ;)

***
can i just say that brandon boyd is just sooo HOT??? aaahh!! here's me again crushing on a rockstar! =b first it was gavin rossdale (who is just as HOT!) and now it's brandon. eeeepppp! what is it with lead singers and how they exude some hotness, eh?

jopay, kamusta ka na?

2005-01-03T22:42:00.000+08:00

i only learned just recently that jopay is one of the sex bomb dancers. hehe. (incidentally, today is jopay's birthday, or so i read in the mayonnaise y!groups) and to think i consider myself updated of the "current events". hah. is it because i haven't been watching the buzz or those showbiz talk shows lately? =b

on to the subject of jopay, mayonnaise is already gonna be filming its video! :) yippee! and lee of slapshock is directing it! astig!

i super ♥ ♥ ♥ mayonnaise! i can't quite remember how i came to find out about them but i think it was just one of those random days when i was bored and couldn't think of any other site to go to so i went to soundclick.com and went through all the pinoy bands who uploaded their music there (whew, that was a long one). mayonnaise caught my eye so i downloaded all their songs. and i wasn't disappointed. really. they are a truly great band. :) my sister says they're the typical pinoy band whose music everyone could like and could be considered mainstream but i like them just the same. they've got the talent and i hope they make it big. ;)

random schmuck

2005-01-03T04:31:00.000+08:00

i'm just 2 stickers away from getting my starbucks planner. yay! 2 more peppermint mochas to go. you know, had i only known that the starbucks planner would be that great i would have started ages ago with the sticker thing and gotten the planner in time for new year. hee. oh well.

speaking of starbucks, they finally got my name right. hah. i dunno if it was just noisy or they're just a bit deaf but they keep on putting belle instead of mel on my cups. i just think that belle means beauty and i don't mind it at all =b (although yesternight, our hot drinks got quite cold and grace's frap sorta melted already because i was looking for the wrong name..a good thing the barista kinda looked at me as if telling me that hey, your drinks are ready. they were ready alright, with the name belle written on them. hay...)

***
my parents are sometimes mistaken for kate's grandparents. hahahaha. funsville. they always have to say "anak namin 'yan, di namin apo" when they meet someone and kate is with them. hehe. i don't think my parents look that old to be grandparents (and when you think about it, do i look like the type to already have a kid? i think not. i'd like to think that i look young. =b)

***
i am such a sucker for romantic shows/films. there's something about them that makes me feel all giddy and kilig. heehee. currently, i am hooked to lovers in paris and am now on the 12th cd (of 20), after which i plan to watch those other korean romantic movies that we bought a while back. i can't believe i'm watching this over incubus. heh.

speaking of incubus, i bought the incubus dvd! coolness. considering it's uhm, original, its already cheap at P549. along with it, i bought coldplay's parachutes and onwards to galaxy which is a compilation of pinoy indie bands' music. all great buys i must say. and i plan to spend more on cds next week. cd splurge baby! i think it's about time i spend on cds. a bit expensive, but quite an investment =D

a different kind of new year

2005-01-01T06:45:00.000+08:00

it's my first new year away from home and without my family ( i guess there's always a first time for everything). my teammates and i had to work this new year's eve since we follow the schedule of the US (and our new year's eve is just their 31st)

i thought it was gonna be pretty bad. but honestly, apart from the work, i had a great time. my office mate and i met at around 8pm to catch the new year's eve countdown party between ayala and paseo. it was fun. lotsa bands played and the ones we caught were itchyworms, asin (who played a very loooong set..we kinda walked out in the middle and went to watch the clowns and unicyclist. haha), bamboo (who opened with elisi followed by kung ayaw mo huwag mo and after few songs, ulan. uhm yeah. would've been better if they only played their own songs, i don't think the people kinda minded if they were playing rivermaya songs though. but i kinda did. >_<), sugarfree and sandwich (no marc abaya :( and trish of nu sessioned as guitarist). after that, we had to go back to the office for work (boo). it was already 11 and we had to be in by 10:30. =b a good thing, ella may saison was up next. hee.

around 5 minutes before 12 we all went down to catch the fireworks display. there was a fireworks display near mandarin and one near ayala/paseo. my sneaky officemate and i kinda left our other officemates, walked faster, and went to the ayala new year's eve party =b although the fireworks display that we saw was the one near mandarin. we stayed to watch (it was really a pretty and amazing sight =D) and then moved near the stage to watch parokya. haha. my officemate wanted to see them play so off we went. i also figured if i watched a gig on new year, i'll be watching gigs all year long. hehehe. (just like the belief that if you have money on new year's, you'll have money all year long =D)

we went back to the office after parokya's set. we then had a kinda good media noche, even if it was mostly take out. hehe. i got quite full. then it was work work work. i would have wanted to stay and see more bands such as imago, cambio, sponge cola and orange and lemons but there was work to be done and work does come first before play, right?

i'm then off to laguna later with my family to visit our relatives on our dad's side. i'll probably be sleeping on the way and when we get there, i'll probably be sleeping some more, as i always do when we go there =b haha. i am the sleepaholic ;)

argh

2004-12-29T21:45:00.000+08:00

sound at aposento and sandwich, 6 cycle mind and 2 other great bands at capones TONIGHT. just a few meters away from my office. I WANNA GO! but then i don't have anyone to go with so boohoo! (my officemates aren't the type who goes to gigs and i don't wanna go alone) ='( just when the gigs are oh so near, they seem to be so far...

little miss smarty pants

2004-12-29T11:38:00.000+08:00

i just recently bought a copy of sophie's world.

for someone who reads quite fast compared to the rest of the world (okay, so i'm exaggerating..but i do really read fast), i'm just on my 40 sumthing page (which my sister noticed). i dunno, i think i'm trying to absorb what i'm reading? it's a great bulk of information on philosophy and when i finish it, i hope to have at least learned something from it (not the usual type that when you're finished with a book, you forget about it). i think this is the new me. i want to learn more, gain new information, be smart? haha =b i'm in a "i wanna be like my dad who's really brilliant and knows a bit of everything about anything" phase, and hopefully, it's something i won't grow out of very easily.

i was browsing through the rivermaya forums a few days ago and i can't help but admire (hmm, can't think of a better word) at how rico answered one of the questions there. i can't remember what he actually said but i think he compared other's music as a drop of water (rain?) in the ocean which isn't enough to cause a wave (or something to that effect). how profound. yea, well, i know he's like fucking smart and everything. and somehow, now that i'm in this "gain more new information" phase, i wanna be able to say something quite profound too. right now, i don't see myself saying those words, heck, i'm not even that good in writing. maybe someday, i will.

feliz navidad!

2004-12-26T01:57:00.000+08:00

you know how some people say to not get uber excited and hyped up for something a few days before because your excitement might not last till the day itself? i find it kinda true (well, the opposite of it, actually).

christmas is really something to be excited for, yet as i've mentioned earlier, i haven't quite felt that it was already nearing. not until several hours later when it finally sank in - hey, it is really gonna be christmas! hehe. it was the only time i got really psyched up for it, and i was really really hyped up at that. it was a wonderful feeling; i don't think i've been that excited for christmas in years. maybe having to work till the 24th is a good thing after all. ;)

we had the usual noche buena, after having said a christmas prayer, with christmas carols playing at the background. kinda funny, when feliz navidad played, we all started swaying our heads, even my dad! haha. crazy crazy.

gifts were opened later on, not the usual number, probably because my dad already retired from the bank early this year (and we all know how working in a bank draws a lot of gifts). it was still fun nevertheless. i was really happy when i saw my mom's reaction when she got my gift (a red bag from girbaud which she really wanted); she was ecstatic. so was my sister kate and my sister grace when they saw their gifts. gayle, when she opened my gift, acted surprised because she actually already saw what was inside before it was wrapped! :( but anyway, she liked it. i think my dad liked his gift too, which was a ducks unlimited shirt. as usual, when he got the gift, he made such a kulit comment like ano to, nakuha mo ng 90% discount ano? my dad can be a riot sometimes, one of the traits that i truly love about him.

while i really like receiving more than giving (i mean, who doesn't, right?), giving comes a really close second (and there are only two choices. haha). it gives you this great feeling that you made a person really happy, never mind if you spend a lot, and you turn out less richer in the end (even broke, probably). the payback is doubled, even tripled. :)

to everyone, i hope you all had a merry and blessed christmas just like i did. =)

christmas

2004-12-24T06:40:00.000+08:00

In less than a day, it's gonna be christmas. Yet no matter how much i psyched myself up, playing those christmas carols on my pc, doing my christmas shopping and oogling over the gifts i received (no matter how few), i just don't feel it. :(

Must it be because i'm already working? Back when i was still in school, i looked forward to our last day because then, there would be nothing to worry about on the next few days. i was free to do whatever i want, focus on the fact that it's nearing christmas and just enjoy being, umm lazy? haha. Now that i'm working, my mind seems to be all so caught up with it that i didn't quite notice that christmas was approaching. well yeah, i could feel the cold (thus signaling the season) but it still lacks the spirit. i even missed simbang gabi :( and that's one christmas ritual that i've always looked forward to every year.

is this how "grown-ups" feel during the christmas season? i wonder how they do it. i don't think i've adjusted.

hopefully, when christmas is just a few hours away, i'd truly feel it and really celebrate. it is a time of great celebration after all.

thank god we have the christmas eve off. i don't know how i'd survive christmas in the office and without my family. although, boo, i think we have to work on new year's eve. aww shucks.

grrr

2004-12-23T22:35:00.000+08:00

It pisses me off how some people come off as if they are sincere and really mean what they say even though their actions speak otherwise.

You don't need to suck up to be on any one's good side. The truth, even it hurts, is still appreciated. Better yet, don't say anything at all.

Anyway, on to other better(?) news, i just downloaded pachelbel's canon in D and i think it's gonna be my song on repeat for the next hour (and maybe the next? hehe). makes you wanna get married! (on second thought, not really) I remember my sassy girl, one of my favorite movies! (it's the movie to watch..not your typical chick flick ;))

i hope one day, i find my own gyeon woo! awwwwww.. so cute and wonderful! :)

lsd!

2004-12-23T09:57:00.000+08:00

Honestly speaking, i didn't plan on buying the special edition, because one, i already have the album and two, i already have the lsd mp3. Let's be practical here. If i were to spend 250 bucks on a cd, I'd probably buy something from my wish list. but when i saw this...

I didn't think twice. heck, I'm buying the album! (despite the reasons mentioned above =b) And I did. For a new release, I didn't think it was that hard to find. There was none in tower records and music one, makati (is it really sold out or do they not have it yet? i'm thinking it's the former) I finally found one in odyssey in park square, and there were only two copies left (now, there's only one =b). Yay!

I told lia the news a few days ago and she was just as happy as I am. :) We were like, let's buy the album and give it as a christmas gift! haha.(o diba, more people are gonna be having the album just because mike thanked us. hahahahaha)

I think i just might do that.

faithless

2004-12-22T02:24:00.000+08:00

until we tumble we are faithless...
until our senses fail we are faithless...
until we falter we are faithless...

this song has been on repeat for the past hour already. haha. and i haven't gotten tired of it. i don't think i ever will...yet. what's with this song? probably the beat.

shucks, i'm thinking i must have said the wrong word when i sang this one line. ack, isang linya na nga lang, mali pa >_< hey, give me a break, i don't exactly sing in front of a lot of people, and i was really nervous at that time. (haha, defensive)

i think i'm just being paranoid.

the ground christmas party!

2004-12-21T22:15:00.000+08:00

the ground christmas party was fun fun fun! hehe.

i met new friends - nabz and neil (who came all the way from bulacan!) and maya! i hope to see them at future gigs ;)

i actually won something at the raffle! haha. i knew i've always been really lucky. back in college at my org, i actually won in the only two raffles we had during my time, one was a cake (which i incidentally donated as a prize. haha) and a P300 worth prepaid card.

bad trip, they made me sing. boo. (and i thought trisha and i got away from it when we went out for a while for coffee). i thought they were just gonna ask a question or something. sneaky!! ah, i guess it was ok, it was just one line, after all. heh.

too bad i wasn't able to take a lot of pictures, being the camwhore that i am (i only have just one). :( well, there's always maya's video. haha. hopefully i'll get to have a copy and see how i made a fool of myself (no one can make me sing anymore after that!)

here's me and trisha =)

here's what i won =)

i am a very proud owner of a signed drum head of mark escueta! yeah baby! this one's gonna be worth a lot of money someday, and i own it! ^_^ it'd be fun to show it off to my kids and grandkids someday (maybe around 20-30 years from now) and tell them of how i actually knew the band. hehe.

my birthWEEK! and some stuff

2004-12-20T03:03:00.000+08:00

i just didn't celebrate my birthday, i celebrated my birthweek! hehe. up until saturday, a lot of people still greeted me for my birthday (and my birthday was a wednesday.) haha. i've always believed that it's the thought that counts so i don't mind if they greeted me later. :) it was awfully nice that they remembered.

my officemates gave me this really big birthday card and this cake from bizu which i didn't really expect (expect the unexpected!). awwwww... thanks guys! i really do have a family in pointwest ^_^

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last saturday has been really tiring. i attended our christmas party at merck's at the earlier part of the evening. (i didn't win any raffle prizes. :( but i did have a star under my chair and for that i won a prize! hehe. i've always been lucky ;)) i had to leave early coz it was also the same night my friends were coming to the house to celebrate my birthday (it was the only day they were free). i was a bit disappointed coz the others who promised to go kinda backed out (due to unavoidable reasons) and only a few came. but i was really glad and thankful for the few that came (it was already a blessing in itself). we got the chance to catch up on stuff. hope we do this again sometime (and next time, we should be complete!)

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i've been recently addicted to movie and music quizzes lately (those excel files wherein you score a point for getting the right answer). it was fun to figure out how much i knew about music and movies(and how much i don't) kinda nerve-racking but still fun nevertheless. for a specific quiz, it was hard figuring the title of the songs (i had to sing through the entire song just to find out that the title wasn't there. =b) but it was a good thing there were a lot of us answering so we just traded answers. =b i was quite inis when they told me the titles of some of the songs because i knew them too, i just didn't remember them at that time (i was like, oo nga noh)

it was fun answering this one quiz with mark! haha. i was kinda not so surprised at the number of songs he was able to guess the title of (since he was older than me and he was in the music business), but i was surprised he knew a LOT (really) and for that i look up to him (wish i also knew that amount of music info). it was already a given that he'd get a higher score than me. without any help, he got an 80+ out of a 100 while a got a measely 60+ (same as rico's! haha). together we were able to figure out the rest of the songs except two (98's not so bad! =b). it was really fun giving out clues to each other.

mark: ginawang zesto commercial...
me: first word? 19 kopong kopong pa ata yung commercial na yun eh

mark: 71?
mel: hahahaha. backstreet boys kumanta nyan
mark: ah, dapat alam ko yan...
mel: lol
mark: ano ibang words?
mel: di ko alam e. baka yung masabi ko, sounds like lang. hehe
mark: ahh... i want it that way?
mark: yun tama :)
basta, ang kukulit ng mga hirit. hehe.

:(

2004-12-16T23:09:00.000+08:00

am i that forgettable that i had to be introduced again to the same person on several occasions? boo me. =(

birthday!

2004-12-16T02:55:00.000+08:00

and so my birthday finally ended.

it was spent rather okay, with a gig capping the evening off. roxy actually forgot it was tonight! good thing she still went, otherwise, i'd be alone. oh but wait, i saw belay, farah and elaine and i hung out with them after roxy left. hehe. we even got to go backstage =b god's really good to me. :)

i feel like posting here rather than in lj all the people who greeted me.

lots of thanks --
to all who greeted me way before it was my birthday and through friendster - tito jom, buddy sam, jen, buddy vangie, tet, miss beth! that little cake in friendster really is quite useful. ;)

to tracy - yep, hopefully one day, i'll meet (and you'll also meet) THE one. :)

to sarah and jm - i can't wait for saturday!!! miss you guys ^_^

to joycesan and reden - you surprised me. i didn't think you remembered. awwww ^_^

to cha, ponay, reese and mara - my AC friends/barkada! hope to see you one of these days, during a gig maybe? ;)

to ronnie, buddy rache, buddy ervin, boubert, chris! - miss you my UPMC fwends =)

to vina - kelan nga kaya kyo magkakadady noh? =b ...sus naman, diba pag anak mo, forever na yun? hehe. =)

to jown - parang kailan nga lang nung ipinanganak kita! wahahahahaha! so that would be when i was umm, 3 years old? you are 19 now right? hehe.

to markmaya, my nfymf (newly found y!mate and friend! hehe =b). if ever you get to read this, i owe you a libre one of these days (pramiz!). hindi ka naman cguro ganun katakaw. haha =b

to belay, farah, elaine, mike who greeted me just because i told them it was my birthday. hehe. (cge na, loser na kung loser. =b)

to roxy - losers stick together =b

to kate - my cute little sister, who gave me for a present a piece of candy, 2 barbie stickers from her collection and a picture of herself. awwww. ^_^

to grace - cge, ok na kahit wala kong gift =b

to gayle - thanks for the card and everyone who signed. sayang walang pirma ni lia at ng maya. pero ok na rin. touched ako. heehee.

to all those whom i failed to mention, i thank you guys too. i'm sorry i forgot :o

*kissabayhug*

edit: how could i forget my officemates? hehe. andie, ner, mabel, chow, cathy, pj and mam beth, lotsa thanks!!! :)

to dang and kharmie - thanksamunchie! better late than never.

22!

2004-12-14T22:37:00.000+08:00

in a few hours, i'm turning 22. a year older and hopefully a year wiser. another year to discover what life has to offer and know more about how the world works.

looking back at my 21 years, i'd say i had a pretty good life. i've been really blessed, so much blessed in fact that i sometimes don't think i deserve it. i've also been really loved by the people around me, one of the things i am most grateful of. there hasn't been any moments which you'd call really low and down (which i hope wouldn't happen anytime in the near future =b)

the year that was has certainly been quite eventful, though not exactly the type that would make today's news. highlights would probably be getting my job (which i'm really enjoying :) i'm so loving it) and meeting this really great band which i think has done quite a bit of change in my life. i certainly wasn't the same person i was before.

i'm wondering what's in store for me as i turn 22.

aw gawd

2004-12-14T03:25:00.000+08:00

just got news that FPJ's dead. well, given his condition, i kinda already saw this one coming.

it's a good thing he didn't win the presidency. otherwise, noli de castro would succeed him and given the news/rumors circulating about him, i don't think that it would be great for the country. him being vice president is bad enough.

<\3

2004-12-14T02:07:00.000+08:00

i just realized i want out.

i didn't think i'd fall out of love. :'(

a prayer

2004-12-12T14:46:00.000+08:00

We often experience life's struggles and difficulties
...it has become natural for us to zero in on the difficulties
We fail to see the light in the darkness,
to see the joy in sadness
We fail to see the purpose in the life He gave us
We fail to realize that it is in Him we should trust
We fail to be patient when he does not answer
We fail to recognize that He makes our lives better...

my wish list

2004-12-12T04:31:00.000+08:00

everyone seems to be in a wish list frenzy these days (given that it is nearing christmas).

joining the bandwagon, i'm posting my own wish list =b

edit:i've decided to retain my wish list, just in case anyone feels generous =b

♥ cd's of the following:
[opm] full rivermaya and eheads discography,~~orange and lemons~~, nancyspungen, ~~kitchie nadal~~, sandwich's grip stand and throw (i only have it on tape), parokya ni edgar's inuman sessions, ciudad, stonefree, barbie's cradle

[foreign]~~coldplay's parachutes~~, jeff buckley's grace, any of ani difranco, third eye blind's first album, matchbox 20's yourself or someone like you, dashboard confessional's a mark, a mission, a brand, a scar, maroon 5's songs about jane, best of the cure, goo goo dolls' a boy named goo, any of counting crows, punk goes pop, the OC ost, Disney OST's (such as the Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast)

♥ an IPOD with all my mp3s

♥ original DVD's of the following:
Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Alladin, Pocahontas, the Lion King, Mulan, Anastasia, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, the Sound of Music (notice the pattern? =b)

♥ full seasons of the following: (either on VCD or DVD)
FRIENDS (1-10), Alias (1-3), Smallville (1-2), Gilmore Girls (1-5)

♥ books:
those by John Grisham, Paulo Coelho and Dan Brown (i've read all his books but only on pdf, i want all of 'em in paperback), Chronicles of Narnia

♥ laptop with wi-fi

♥ new cellphone!

♥ new digicam

♥ shoes, shoes and more shoes (you can never have enough of these) ~~especially new birks~~

♥ guitar (my skills have really been quite rusty) and driving lessons (even though i know i'd rather have someone drive me, which is why until now, i still don't know how to =b)

♥ to learn flash, dreamweaver, programming, etc. anything IT-related

♥ meet and hang out with all my friends whom i haven't seen in a long time (because everyone's been busy)

♥ ~~for everyone to enjoy and have a very happy christmas (despite the unfortunate events that happened); the birth of Christ is reason enough to celebrate~~ i'd like to believe that everyone had a happy christmas ;)

♥ happiness and world peace! :) (hehe, mala-beauty pageant! =b)

whew, now that was a long one.

it's a small world

2004-12-11T08:12:00.000+08:00

blogger's been having problems. boo.

anyhoo, here i was again browsing through lj's and i actually chanced upon the lj of the sister of none other than mr mark =b

from reading it, there's just one thing i have to say - parang i want to be his sister na! hehe. ;)

the world is indeed getting smaller and smaller because of lj.

from lj

2004-12-09T23:16:00.000+08:00

something i got from livejournal:

I want you to post anything that you want in reply to this entry.

Anything. A story, a secret, a confession, a fear, a love, an opinion, a critique --- anything. Be sure to post anonymously and honestly. Post twice if you'd like. (Maybe more.) Then, put this in your LJ (or in this case, blog) to see what your friends (and perhaps others who you don't even realize read your blog) have to say. This can be about me, or anything you want. Regardless, just use the "anonymous" radio button to post anonymously. You can reveal who you are if you want.

i'm wondering if anyone does read my blog. well erm, let's see.

on mass and cellphones

2004-12-09T01:20:00.000+08:00

it irks me how some people do not seem to put their phones to silent mode during the mass. a while ago, while i attended the mass (since it was a holy day of obligation), the phone of the woman beside me goes off. it was bad enough that her phone was ringing. what's worse is that she answered it! >_<

can't one be phone-deprived even for an hour for God's sake? is that how much of a necessity it is these days?

2004-12-03T03:32:00.000+08:00

finally, after working for 11 months or so, i finally experience having not to go to work because of the storm. and to think we were all joking the night before about not going to work (calling in sick) because of the ton of load we were going to have.heh :b

oh the storm. hope and pray it doesn't do damage than it already has.

on unrelated news, dial-up sucks! gah. i've been wanting to download some pretty good covers from this great community i've joined recently but it would take too long a time if i download them now at home. wish i was on T1 or DSL. now that would make my day. guess i would just have to wait on going back to work to download them. hehe. the perks of working for an IT company - uber fast connection and download to the max! (well, just not using kazaa or limewire, we do still have limitations) :)

2004-12-02T18:40:00.000+08:00

given the luxury of time i have in the office, i've been hopping from blog to blog and journal to journal lately. it seems addicting reading the entries of different people, both whom i know and don't. somehow i am able to sneak a peak into their lives which are maybe not that interesting yet seem to be quite colorful by the way they write. makes me wish sometimes that i could write as well as them so that maybe, even in writing, my life wouldn't turn out as ordinary as it really is.

hugs!

2004-11-30T22:29:00.000+08:00

so many things can be said with a hug.

a hug can say i miss you, i'm thinking of you, you're special and best of all, i miss you friend.

i felt all these when i was greeted with hugs by my orgmates whom i haven't seen for a long time.

sigh. one can never have too many hugs. <3

hmmm

2004-11-22T01:49:00.000+08:00

it annoys me that while i'm out late at night i receive a text from my mom or dad asking me where i am and that i should go home. yet at the same time it bothers me when i don't receive any from them (why aren't they texting? don't they care about me? ;b).

2004-11-11T00:21:00.000+08:00

i was avoiding looking into his eyes, in fear that he would look right into mine.

somehow, such a circumstance can't be kept from happening.

our eyes met for a split second.

and at that moment, the world seemed to lay perfectly still.

<3

2004-11-09T14:57:00.000+08:00

Everyone's either starting to have a significant other or trying to mend a broken heart these days.

Is love now the name of the game?

Or maybe it's just me.

this one made my day =)

2004-11-04T08:23:00.000+08:00

thank u sa pagpunta mo kagabi. sana nag-enjoy ka. kitakits na lang ulit! :)
(thank you for coming last night. hope you enjoyed. let's see each other again!)

awww... he's always the type to remember. i'm thinking he also sent the same message to the others who went but i'd like to think that he just sent it only to me =b

hay, this makes me like him even more (and not in the romantic kind of way)

count on me to be there again next week. ;)

gah

2004-11-03T06:06:00.000+08:00

i'm starting to feel the effect of the alcohol i drank. the itch. and to think it was only 2 shots.

ah, the effect of alcohol. i so badly want to sleep.but then my mind's pretty much awake. and it's the one winning the battle.

:)

2004-10-30T04:03:00.000+08:00

blogger na rin ako =b