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"posted on november 07, 2005 at 9:02am"

10:08 am…

listening to Jeff Buckley

Some of my favorite songs…in no particular order

1. Come fly me to the moon – Frank Sinatra
2. I’ve got you under my skin – Frank Sinatra
3. New York New York – Frank Sinatra
4. The Way you look tonight – Frank Sinatra
5. Fly me to the moon – Frank Sinatra
6. Strangers in the Night – Frank Sinatra
7. Don’t miss you at all – Norah Jones
8. Sunrise – Norah Jones
9. Those sweet words – Norah Jones
10. Don’t know why – Norah Jones
11. Come away with me – Norah Jones
12. Hallelujah – Jeff Buckley
13. Lord of the rings – Enya
14. You learn – Alanis Morissette
15. Only Time – Enya
16. Daughter – Vienna Teng
17. Passage – Vienna Teng
18. Mission Street – Vienna Teng
19. My Medea – Vienna Teng
20. Feather Moon – Vienna Teng

As you might have noticed, I have varied taste. I prefer to think of myself as old school. I enjoyed the songs that my grandfather actually enjoyed. We enjoy quite moments together with those music that he loves. I think I got my love of those kinds of music from him. Brings me to the point. I miss and love my grandfather…Anyway, those are just 20 of those songs…I like even a lot more just cant list it all down here. Prelude to THE LIST!

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a long weekend

“posted on november 07, 2005 at 6:05am”

6:44am

listening to norah jones, enya and Vienna teng

Monday morning, November 07, 2005

Sick, working and abominably bored. This is what happens to somebody like me who goes on rest day for three straight days without nothing better to do than catch up on some reading for some new books that I had just gotten. First on the list is the book, “The Devil Wears Prada”. Interesting one full of designer clothes, stars being mentioned. The book sort of actually brings you a little bit closer to that world of glamour that we can only dream of. Oh well, I had a nice weekend though.

Quite into my cups by the afternoon of Thursday after Jason, wackow, meljen, my sister and I played badminton for like three hours. Shoot! I needed the exercise and was it refreshing. We promised to do it all again next Thursday but this time, wall climbing. Afternoon was pretty rowdy, we finished around 8pm and my sister and me collapsed gratefully into our beds out of exhaustion. Before that we even had a small adventure into which Jason was the sole actor. Somebody almost succeeded in getting his cellphone from the jeepney that we were riding. Good for him he had the sense to just drop and barrage all the passengers with the shake that he had bought. Eeewww, mango shake but it saved his phone! =) Whew! It was a close call.

Friday got me waking up early and then finished another book. This time 2 love stories. I just have this fetish for love stories. Apparently cynical as I may be I am still a romantic at heart as evidenced by the books I read. Some times, my friends even accuse me of having those storybook lines that they are forever fond of repeating to me. I can be quite melodramatic at times.

Saturday morning found me awake at dawn in which I finished my book. Then sister and I watched another movie. We are bonding quite often nowadays. I am going to miss her and our fights. Even though we have a lot of “wars” I do so love my little sister. She just makes me act like a parent sometime. The feeling is great but it is also kinda stressing! He he he! Saturday night was spent attending service in Mommy Ai’s church. A different kind of worship to our God. These days I have a lot of questions theologically speaking that’s why I am starting to reconsider a lot of things and do a little bit of searching and hopefully in the process get closer to my God. Dinner was at 9pm with one of the friends that I had sorely missed over the weeks. Mooon Café at its very best. Chimichangas and the likes.Yummy! As the night wore on I was surprised that this guy I had been seeing for the past months showed up and dropped by for a quick while. He wanted to just hang out. Hmmm…I do wonder what he did want. I don’t want to ponder on that. Let us just leave it alone for the time being. He apparently lost weight. Maybe because he missed me! Fat chance of that being the case. CYNIC! But then we have to face reality and I have to admit I have very good realistic sense although I want the fairy tales sometimes. Wishful thinking!

Sunday morning I had my feet done. I was feeling moody, sick and whatever it is that I was feeling. Felt like my life was on the routinary route. I guess we all go through this phase. The irony of it all. I just have this new enterprise to look forward to. Hopefully by early next year I am off to find my dreams. My dreams…

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seis, noviembre 2007

“posted last november 06, 2005 at 23:45pm”

Yo queria dejar

A mi amante,

Pero antes de que pudiera,

Hacerlo ella me abandono

Y destrozo mi Corazon

That in a nutshell sums it all up! I guess…

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just another ordinary day

“posted last october 25, 2005 at 9:05am”

25^th of October and its raining hard outside and I can hear the rains pouring down and it sounds like the roaring of crowds working itself into a remarkable riot. Here I am making myself as inconspicuous as I can be in this office and not attracting too much attention because I am trying to concentrate on this entry. Yesterday was an ordinary day as ordinary days go. Nothing much to point out and harrumph about. The only thing worthwhile about it was my early breakfast at around 530am with cherryl and wackow. It was an interesting breakfast with the three of us putting in our 2-cents worth of ideas about what kind of partners we would want to have. Judging from that phrase alone you might say the three of us are blessedly single. Then my friends narrowed for the kill. They proceeded to talk about MOI. Wackow male as he was did tell me some things that he thought were inherent in my character for me to have eluded capture. He told me some truths about myself that I had guessed all along. Things or rather behavior that tends to discourage the opposite sex where I am concerned. AARRRRGGGHH!!! He told me that I am so comfortable about interaction with boys that when they get close I then proceed to hold them at arm’s length. My answer to that was a resounding YES, of course I can’t help it if I have that kind of a reaction. I mean if I am friends with someone and if they felt something out of the ordinary with and then I don’t return the feeling I might as well to avoid some nasty confrontations that might happen in the future and then break our friendship. Mind you I am speaking from experience.

Anyway, enough about all that gory stuff I had an enlightening conversation via IM with my adopted and treasured aunt, Chic. We had a small talk about life and all its hardships and triumphs, trials and tribulations and how those things help us become the persons we are right now and that they do not deter and hamper our growth but make us more mature in the process. I whole-heartedly agree. She started the day with that conversation and she told me that she was glad that she did. She is also single just as I am and out of the numerous relations that Filipinos seem to have, I would like to think that at this point she is the closest I can get to an older sister of my own. I have always had this yearning to have an older sister to whom I can go to when I have problems. It’s hard because I am the eldest and somehow she makes it all better. Nothing beats the comfort of family.

Now, what I am doing is slowly digesting the fact that I might have kidney stones. Jeezzz how uncomfy can you get. I had tests run the other week and I think I need some more to really verify their existence. Stones, stones, and stones. Well I still have to see the doctor so that I can have a clear prognosis of whatever it is that is bothering me. It might be kidney stones or it might not be. I hope it isn’t.

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sunday blues

“posted last october 23, 2005 at 12:31 pm”

A day in my life…23rd of October (nearing Samhain)

Opened my eyes to sunshine and birds chirping.6am and I am already wide-awake. Its my rest day but sadly enough I have woken up early because I got used to working the night shift and it seems my body works differently nowadays. What to do? Read a book…reading Harry Potter’s 6^th book and finding it full of sad things. Damn, I hear my stomach grumble. The pangs of hunger have gotten to me even though I had fries and an apple pie last night before I went to sleep. My sister and I had pigged out for lack of nothing better to do. I was starting to eat when all of a sudden my hands felt clammy and I went cold…I was suddenly on a fainting spell. Now what the heck is the matter with me at this point? I went back to my bed and closed my eyes. It was probably too much eyestrain over the past couple of days. I have been reading too much and now it’s taking their toll on me. Closed my eyes for a bit and opened them to afternoon rays slanting in the room and my sister humming this tune that was out of her portable CD. 2:00pm and I had previously cancelled my 1pm chitchat appointment with one of my good friends. Now, I texted her back and told her if it was too late for us to meet and lo and behold she was watching a movie with her sibs so I decided to join in together with my sister as well. The movie was the usual love story with happy endings. I guess people still have happy endings and honestly speaking it was like eating loads of chocolate with a cake on the side…sugary sweet. Cynicism from me but then again I love seeing those kinds of movies that make you feel good for even just a second but then we crash to the bitter reality of broken hearts and the like and you come crashing back to reality. We hang out at the nearby cafe and talk about noncommittal stuff that we can discuss with so many people present around us. I see that she is so happy with her present relationship and I am happy for her and her partner. They are living proof that relationships do exist and remain aplenty. They are even talking about marriage a couple of years from now. How about that and here I was contemplating matrimony at the age of 30. Wanting to be the woman bachelor of the decade. Well some people are just made for it I guess but Im hopefully thinking that maybe because I haven’t met the right match yet that’s why I cant seem to settle down with somebody and added to that loads of responsibility as me being the eldest in a brood of 4. I cant foul up or else I will have a mutiny in my hands. But then again, I did meet my match and it broke my heart! Men break hearts easily! Damn, the polygamous male of the species…damn! But then again, we can’t also live without them…*sigh* Are we just resigned to being the lesser sex? Do we just accept the fact that women are not allowed to be polygamous but men are? Damn them again! And when we do retaliate it bodes badly on us. Shoot! Society and all its norms and dictates!

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WISHLIST…

If you had the power to do something and you knew you wouldn’t fail at it, what would that thing be?

A friend asked me this question and somehow I never got around to giving the answers because I hadn’t thought of those answers yet…

Well here I am trying to answer the question as honestly as possible. It’s just that I haven’t dwelt on this question and therefore I need time to think and to ponder the answers and in what order they are supposed to be.

1) Bring about world peace so that humankind doesn’t suffer anymore, utopian existence but I prefer it to war and bloodshed.

2) Be extremely good at earning loads of money so that I can start my philanthropic life and do all that I need to be able to extinguish world hunger. Noble ideas huh! But I can’t seem to help them. I just want to make my contribution somehow and give back to this world and our creator how much it has given me.

3) Now, on to the more selfish ideas…win the lottery and build my place on the city, sea and mountain and own my own ranch with horses bred for racing and be a world-class equestrian and see my family happily settled in one of those homes I plan to own.

4) Hone my skills in fencing and go on to win the world title for this elegant and magnificent sport that I find myself constantly fascinated with. It helps me air out my aggressions…mind you! =)

5) Build and plan a house that is to be a family home open to all of my dear relatives and it should be at my soon-to-be ranch.

6) Be filthy rich and go backpacking throughout Asia and Europe and probably throughout the world. Travel has been one of the most favorite things on my list and I intend to accomplish this before I am tied to the matrimonial knot. Traveling probably with a good friend who shares the same likes and is the same in spirit with regards to adventure seeking.

7) Go bungee jumping, skydiving and some more daredevil stunts that I have long wanted to do.

Live in Paris, Madrid, Rome, Italy, and Greece for about 2 years each and be sufficiently fluent in all the languages of the places that I have lived in.

9) Own a thousand pairs of shoes…Imelda like fascination with shoes…

10) Climb the corporate ladder and be a top caliber CEO…hehehehehe! This one is good for the ego

11) Be happily married at the age of 30 to a man that understands and equals me. Hard to do! Probably stay unmarried and live an exciting life if you know what I mean.

12) Drive my own DUCATE and Ferrari and win top marks in RACING those babies.

Whew, this seems like a wish list already. Sad to say, for all of the things that I have listed, money is a very big consideration. Seems like I can’t do all the things above without money but then again that particular concern isn’t factored into the question so I guess I can dream BIG!

-polgara-

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