j, even if it wasn't a ride back home, it felt like home riding with you.

It's so hard to go on diet. Argghh. When you want to look good, my advice?
Just smile :-)
Take it from the diephobics (fear of diet).

I can’t believe I’m finished with strama. Well, almost. Last Monday was our final exams and I did review – to the best of my ability…
Mgbabasa then pupunta sa kitchen to cook something then panty to brew coffee or sa ref, mghahanap ng makakain then magbabasa then pupunta kay j, makikikipagkwentuhan then mgbabasa.
I think all in all, in my attempt to review for 2 days (Saturday and Sunday), 2 hours lang talaga siguro ung sum of the minutes and seconds that I actually sat down and reviewed.

Hehe. Sooo on the day of the exam itself, I was just praying and hoping for the best – ganun talaga pag guilty. The exam was long, it’s one case study but you have to apply all that you’ve learned. grabe, the effort of writing, i just wish maging forgiving si sir, that there are people who because of computer technology have made handwriting a herculean task.

well, 4 hours later and at long last, my classmates and I found ourselves in TGIFs, dun kami ng party. Buffet setting sya so good for us who were all dead tired and drained. I love the ceasar salad and the spag na simple lang ang lasa.
We had a great party – I saw jo in action as an events’ organizer. She got us all standing and look for our zodiac counterparts – and there I found out how rare Capricornians are – rare and precious that’s who they are :)

Here, see the group pic, they’re the toughest school kids today because of a tough teacher. hmmm, why am I missing?


Well, at least I made it on this one pic – that one big smile, you know what it all means, it’s triumph for having survived hahah :)

For the past six days, I've been sleeping very early.. early morning becoz
of my strama paper.
That's the paper you have to cross over.. once in your mba life. Its just
one pero super deadly sya.

Our prof turned it into a rollercoaster experience for us. Originally it
should be submitted on aug 13th. My charming classmates begged and begged.
Ayun, very untypical of sir, he agreed, Friday daw, aug 18th na lang. But on
two conditions, the 10 or so reporters that he assigned should report and
EVERYONE should be present on Monday.
Imagine, everyone's anxiety during the weekend before Monday, what if may
isang merciless creature na mag-absent. Grr. I guess that potentially
merciless being pitied himself if someday he finds himself murdered. Ganun
talaga sa mba. Do or die.

Now that its Thursday, im floating from lack of sleep... and finally gave in
to red bull, my 1st time to try an energy drink plus Pharmaton (doctor j's
prescription). Am in panic, I never imagined I can type this fast! And you
know what.. the unexpected happened..Nagemail si class prexy, our
phenomenally kind, caring and responsible prexy, postponed daw to Saturday!
Imagine? Saturday! Hayyy God is so good! :-)

Although agony prolonged, ok na rin yun, at least ill have time to sleep a
little bit before I write the last few sections - hirap mag-isip while
floating... thank you Lord again.

Pagbigyan nyo na ako, am enjoying photostitch care of canon heheee.

Shepherd’s pie from capriccio at Greenbelt 3.


This was Ays’ despedida last January. Can’t believe 6 months has passed and there’s another aileen in the team now.


Me, eating dessert. As usual in heaven na naman ako.


Diwa, lovely petite diwa. A doting friend. Any guy would be luck to have her. Sobrang maalaga pero palaban as in. sya ung epitome of small but terrible.

Grabe ang toothache ko kahapon, samahan pa ng excessive coughing. Nasal drip
daw sabi ni doc. But really, the worse part is toothache, you lie down, it
doesn't make you feel better. You eat healthy foods, still the same. In
short helpless talaga ang feeling pag ganitong situation. buti na lang, j
stayed by my side. he kept me company the whole day. Hindi lang yan, he
tried cleaning up our unit. How lucky I am. Kaya all I can say is, thank you
thank you thank you, my j. you don't know how much better you make me feel.

we had chez andre pizza (which i learned to love because of sands) at my place then watched dvd, three movies at 30minutes each and then played games, kung anu-ano. wacky shot daw. look at one of us, si gladys (the girl in orange top), wacky pero calculated hehe. ill try to study how that works.hmmm..

Right now, am taking up my last formal class, that is strama. I can't
believe am this close. Tough ung professor kaya we all have to be up on our
toes everytime. Okay na rin coz sabi nila that will help us prepare for the
worst, which is our OCE. MBA hayyy. I think am gonna miss this when its
over. the campus. the people. the deadlines. the case studies. the study
groups, este study kuno groups. In the meantime, ill just enjoy these tough
strama classes. Bahala na si Lord.

Happy burppday my j!!

stay as goofy, thoughtful, kind, sweet, generous and funny as you've always
been. you truly deserve everything that's happened in your life. including
having me by your side. Hihi. :-)

My weekend is g-r-e-a-t. fulfilling. Coz na-fulfill naming lahat ng balak
namin namely:
1. to be veggie people. we cooked toge and thumbs up sila johan and
mors. johan is my housemate and mors is her bf. two lovely people. very
sweet and thoughtful. also we cooked eggplant. It turned out na half-cooked
lang sya. no more eggplant next time.
2. to be fruits people. papaya. banana. mangoes. avocado.
3. to cook something homey. we had spag and thumbs up ulit sila johan
and mors.
4. to repeat our sports day, me and j. Table tennis, yes. but not
swimming coz we ended up fighting. hmmm, how many times have we gotten in
each other's nerves. Di ko na mabilang. Pero all these fighting, arguments
that we have only makes me feel that we genuinely care for each other.
5. swim. the next day we did.

I'm on the 12th episode of felicity! And guess what I'm laughing by myself,
and crying by myself in my room.
Sobra sobrang high school and I miss it terribly.

To have something to look forward to...

Isn't that the most wonderful feeling in the world?

Happy burpppdayyy my pretty jenny :-)
You are four years old, about to go to school, wear black shoes, white
socks, bring baon...


slow down sa paglaki. puhleeezzz...

I wonder how it's like to be a lawyer. Will I be more defensive, more
argumentative than I am now? Will I get into a fight, an argument, much more
often than I do now?

Last Saturday was our sports day.
Imagine me and sports – hugely incompatible.
Pero I was amazed coz even so, nag-enjoy ako.
I enjoyed playing table tennis even if my backhand strokes were imperfect, even if my j had to pick the ball many times over.
Sabi niya, I was doing just fine coz we could manage to hit the ball back and forth. And that’s why after several hits, I deserved the C2.
After that we invaded tutuban and divisoria. We were there at 1p and madaming tao coz it was a Saturday. We bought pei pa koa 350ml for 200 pesos.
Koren pumps na uso for 250. comfy slip-ons for 100 and 2 long sleeved barong for 550 each. Not bad.
And….
To continue with our sports day, nagswim kami when we got home. Grabe ang tawa niya whenever I swim. And everytime, he would turn to me and ask, “why have I been busy with books when I was still a kid?” Sabi ko sa kanya, he can go ask my parents.
Well, ganun talaga.
Some people are sports-minded.
Hanggang sa mind lang ang sports.

But it’s never too late to learn right?

Lord, ang dami dami mong blessings samin ngayon. maraming salamat po.

How I said it must have been really, really bad coz I hurt someone way older than me who I’m sure was very broadminded, fair and sensible person. I was also hurt coz I didn’t know I could be capable of hurting someone that bad and no amount of explanation justified how or why I said it.

Plan B on Tuesday night

Plan A : swimming
Plan B : pig out


YIPEEEE!!!!

We planned to swim but it rained so hard.
Ung kidlat and thunder nakakatakot. Is it possible to get hit by a lightning?
Sabi ni diwa, di naman daw. I trusted her kahit feel ko ung sound ng thunder kasabay nung lightning is literally in my ears – we were seated kase by the window and the windows were open and we were on the 21st floor!
I think the storm danced to our conversation kase diwa who was on the hot seat, was sharing her stormy past with us. Bwahaha.


Not drunk yet. Just feeling drunk-happy.

Acting lang ba to, diwa?


And ava, when the cat is away, este isko is away, the mouse will play.

I enjoyed this swimming kuno session girls. Next time ulet.

Chow Funs

Katie: I want to go to Chow Funs

Ben: I thought we agreed we couldn't really talk at Chow Funs

Katie: I know

Ben: Are you saying Chow Funs because you can't face telling the kids? Because if that's why you're saying Chow Funs, don't say Chow Funs

Katie: That's not why I'm saying Chow Funs. Funs, I'm saying Chow Funs because we're an us. There's a history here, and histories don't happen overnight. In Mesopotamia or Ancient Troy there are cities built on top of other cities, but I don't want another city, I like this city. I know what kind of mood your in when you wake up by which eyebrow is higher, and you know I'm a little quiet in the morning and compensate accordingly, that's a dance you perfect over time. And it's hard, it's much harder than I thought it would be, but there's more good than bad and you don't just give up! And it's not for the sake of the children, but God they're great kids aren't they? And we made them, I mean think about that! It's like there were no people there, and then there were people and they grew, and an an an I won't be able to say to some stranger Josh has your hands or remember how Erin threw up at the Lincoln Memorial And I'll try to relax, let's face it, anybody is going to have traits that get on your nerves, I mean, why shouldn't it be your annoying traits, and I know I'm no day at the beach, but I do have a good sense of direction so I can at least find the beach, which isn't a weakness of yours, it's a strength of mine. And God your a good friend and good friends are hard to find. Charlotte said that in Charlottes Web and I love how you read that to Erin and you take on the voice of Wilber the Pig with such dedication even when your bone tired. That speaks volumes about character! And ultimately, isn't that what it comes down too? What a person is made of? That girl in the pin helmet is still here 'bee boo bee boo' I didn't even know she existed until you and I'm afraid if you leave I may never see her again, even though I said at times you beat her out of me, isn't that the paradox? Haven't we hit the essential paradox? Give and take, push and pull, the yen the yang. The best of times, the worst of times!I think Dickens said it best, 'He could eat no fat, his wife could eat no lean', but, doesn't really apply here does it? What I'm trying to say is, I'm saying Chow Funs because, I love you

Ben: Did you hear that kids? Mom wants to go to chow Funs

-from the story of us
my j, will this be our story too? hihi:)