And by tomorrow, I'm gonna be in Manila again.
Just finished (quite finished) packing my things up. Quite a first for me who's used to spending the entire night packing for the next day's flight.
When i look back, it seems like it was just a while ago that we arrived here. Funny though that when you're just waiting to be done with your assignment, it seems that it could go on forever and if you could only whip the sun to go hurry about its business, you could have done it already just so you could go back home.
A friend asked me a few days back if im gonna miss Singapore. And with conviction then, i said, "I wont!".
But then again, I spent 15 months here and that i did a lot of growing up here so yeah, i think even a little bit, i'm gonna miss it.
Two things im gonna miss for sure: the libraries and Yaz' Love Songs in Class 95! Heck, im missing it already!
Wednesday, 31 January 2007
Tuesday, 30 January 2007
Surprise! Surprise!
Today's my last day at site office.
And, surprisingly, i think im gonna miss the place and some warm and nice people along with it.
Weird....
Surprisingly, I found myself dillydallying whilst on my way to the bus stop (and the 4th bus in the afternoon at that!)..
Weird....
Surprised too that this post is the 200th one...
And, surprisingly, i think im gonna miss the place and some warm and nice people along with it.
Weird....
Surprisingly, I found myself dillydallying whilst on my way to the bus stop (and the 4th bus in the afternoon at that!)..
Weird....
Surprised too that this post is the 200th one...
Sunday, 31 December 2006
Love Letters - An Animated Proposal - v2.0
Whoa, quite an expensive way to propose but real real sweet and cute..hick hick hick..The guy (Jeffrey Paul) has to assemble a team of 20 animators and when it was completed, he surprised his girlfriend Natasha, now his wife, by bringing her to the Parkway Movie Theater in Oakland, where they played the animation on the big screen in front of over 100 of their friends and family.
Gash!...she's one lucky girl..^_^
Sunday, 10 December 2006
Friday, 10 November 2006
Tell Him
I read in an article once that it was a dream come true for Celine Dion to have been able to have a duet with Barbra Streisand in the song "Tell Him".
And for me, tonight was of some sort like it...
A high school classmate whom I have never seen in quite a number of years visited her boyfriend here in Singapore. She was very much famous back in highschool for her singing prowess and whenever there was any program/event, she sure would be part of it to render a number and entertain the audience.
And tonight, as I have never expected it would be, I was able to sing "Tell Him" with her.
And with all much honesty without, i hope, too much bragging, I think, we did a wonderful number.... =)
And for me, tonight was of some sort like it...
A high school classmate whom I have never seen in quite a number of years visited her boyfriend here in Singapore. She was very much famous back in highschool for her singing prowess and whenever there was any program/event, she sure would be part of it to render a number and entertain the audience.
And tonight, as I have never expected it would be, I was able to sing "Tell Him" with her.
And with all much honesty without, i hope, too much bragging, I think, we did a wonderful number.... =)
Monday, 30 October 2006
Wallflowers and Divas
I was walking along Chijmes to Mass when i noticed a bicyclist going to the opposite direction. He was waving prettily his fingers at me to get my attention and i was surprised to see a frail-yet-neat-looking, white haired grandpa riding his bicycle. My eyes bulged with surprise though when he suddenly pursed his lips in such a way that he was like giving me a smooch from a distance and I could just stare at him until he was already beyond me. Far from being disgusted with the act, I laughed hard at the innocence with which he did the act that you couldnt help but be endeared with the lolo. I felt like a 5-yr-old did that flying smooch to me; yes, it was THAT innocent. haha!
Head bent, i walked on, smiling to myself and laughing inside my head. Something made my head jerk up and hence i saw two papable Westerners looking at me from a coffee shop. Immediately, i wiped away my grin. They must have thought me half crazy; grinning that way all by myself.
Farther on, I met another Westerner looking at me. Goodlooking yet too stocky-built for my taste (hehe). With a smile, he said a bright "hello!" and it was all I could do to force a weak smile in response.
That last one made me slow my pace a bit. There MUST be some soot on my face for them to look at me; for a wallflower cant be as attactive as a tulip. Yes, there must be some soot.
Anyways, after mass, Vanz and I had a 5-hour play at being divas and sang ourselves hoarse. =)
Head bent, i walked on, smiling to myself and laughing inside my head. Something made my head jerk up and hence i saw two papable Westerners looking at me from a coffee shop. Immediately, i wiped away my grin. They must have thought me half crazy; grinning that way all by myself.
Farther on, I met another Westerner looking at me. Goodlooking yet too stocky-built for my taste (hehe). With a smile, he said a bright "hello!" and it was all I could do to force a weak smile in response.
That last one made me slow my pace a bit. There MUST be some soot on my face for them to look at me; for a wallflower cant be as attactive as a tulip. Yes, there must be some soot.
Anyways, after mass, Vanz and I had a 5-hour play at being divas and sang ourselves hoarse. =)
Sunday, 29 October 2006
Chicken a la King
Good for parties, this one. Very filling. A quickmelt cheese would make it much yummier though.
Sunday, 15 October 2006
Embutido
my first try on this one was just so-so... =(
the pickles weren't quite so good and well, the presentation's not that great either..
next try then!
=)
the pickles weren't quite so good and well, the presentation's not that great either..
next try then!
=)
Saturday, 14 October 2006
Binagoongang Baboy
my first try at it...and a great tasting one at that! (hehe, lookie here, im a-praising me-self) the meat's quite rubbery though..hmm...gotta research on how to cook tender meat.
Thursday, 12 October 2006
Super Duper Mega Hot Gambas
whoa! it does feel like your tongue's in some kind of hell..hahaha! gotta find that website again so i could make some comment on their recipe...
Wednesday, 11 October 2006
Pillow Talk on Class 95
This Tuesday night's "Pillow Talk", Yaz had Dr. John Gray (the bestselling author of "Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus") in her studio.
It's so so so interesting to hear him talk that i can only gape with amazement (though im only hearing him speak) and nod & laugh at his smart funny talks. I will try to blog here some of tonight's interesting topics (though i would very much would have preferred to have recorded their talk as i know i wouldnt be able to wholly capture in here what Dr. Gray said as boy, boy, boy! there just are lots of things to think about and remember. He-really-makes-sense. But I will try real hard anyways).
Dr Gray says:
1. 90% of people who go to counselling are women. It appears that what women want really is just someone to listen about their woes and to show them that somebody cares for them and hence they're willing to pay just to have someone to listen to them.
2. Three most common misunderstandings between a man and a woman:
- when women talk of how their day went, sometimes it's just like letting off steam and getting things out their minds and what they just want, is to have someone to listen to them. Men though, upon hearing the women's woes, feel like they have a problem to solve so they cut in even while the woman is still talking and offer some solutions that sometimes women really doesnt need as what they need is just a listening ear and someone to talk to. (The hormone oxytosin was mentioned and in searching for what this hormone's about, i came about THIS yet another interesting write-up).
- men cope with stress by forgetting about their problems and just by being silent but women cope with stress by talking about it. So the problem is when men begin to be silent, women begin asking "what's bothering you?" and the like when all he really wants is to forget about it and so the guy starts not feeling good about it. (I cant remember now how the talk came to it, but then Dr. Gray mentioned that men feel good when they see a woman smile at something they had done. My comment - are all men really flirts?hehehe..joke only..a twisted interpretation, my comment is).
-when a man loves a woman he thinks of things that would make her happy. But in his vocabulary, it may only be two things that he did some time ago. Like men tend to think about big things to make his woman happy. But he doesnt understand that for women, it's the every day little things that really count. It's like for the guy, giving her a dozen roses at one time is like 24 points already but for the woman, it's just one point and the scoreboard goes back to zero almost every other day. So, for the guy to make the woman he loves feel loved, he has to make that "every day little effort".
One tip on resolving arguments to keep relationships: when you've been hurt, lie low (be quiet for a bit) and wait till you've cooled down as the tendency when you're hurt is that you're likely to hurt your partner back as your defense mechanism and it gets nasty from there.
There just are so many stuff Yaz and Dr. Gray has talked about that I would have liked to have written here but, alas, that's all that I can remember..hehehe..tsk!too bad..but still.. quite helpful eh?
It's so so so interesting to hear him talk that i can only gape with amazement (though im only hearing him speak) and nod & laugh at his smart funny talks. I will try to blog here some of tonight's interesting topics (though i would very much would have preferred to have recorded their talk as i know i wouldnt be able to wholly capture in here what Dr. Gray said as boy, boy, boy! there just are lots of things to think about and remember. He-really-makes-sense. But I will try real hard anyways).
Dr Gray says:
1. 90% of people who go to counselling are women. It appears that what women want really is just someone to listen about their woes and to show them that somebody cares for them and hence they're willing to pay just to have someone to listen to them.
2. Three most common misunderstandings between a man and a woman:
- when women talk of how their day went, sometimes it's just like letting off steam and getting things out their minds and what they just want, is to have someone to listen to them. Men though, upon hearing the women's woes, feel like they have a problem to solve so they cut in even while the woman is still talking and offer some solutions that sometimes women really doesnt need as what they need is just a listening ear and someone to talk to. (The hormone oxytosin was mentioned and in searching for what this hormone's about, i came about THIS yet another interesting write-up).
- men cope with stress by forgetting about their problems and just by being silent but women cope with stress by talking about it. So the problem is when men begin to be silent, women begin asking "what's bothering you?" and the like when all he really wants is to forget about it and so the guy starts not feeling good about it. (I cant remember now how the talk came to it, but then Dr. Gray mentioned that men feel good when they see a woman smile at something they had done. My comment - are all men really flirts?hehehe..joke only..a twisted interpretation, my comment is).
-when a man loves a woman he thinks of things that would make her happy. But in his vocabulary, it may only be two things that he did some time ago. Like men tend to think about big things to make his woman happy. But he doesnt understand that for women, it's the every day little things that really count. It's like for the guy, giving her a dozen roses at one time is like 24 points already but for the woman, it's just one point and the scoreboard goes back to zero almost every other day. So, for the guy to make the woman he loves feel loved, he has to make that "every day little effort".
One tip on resolving arguments to keep relationships: when you've been hurt, lie low (be quiet for a bit) and wait till you've cooled down as the tendency when you're hurt is that you're likely to hurt your partner back as your defense mechanism and it gets nasty from there.
There just are so many stuff Yaz and Dr. Gray has talked about that I would have liked to have written here but, alas, that's all that I can remember..hehehe..tsk!too bad..but still.. quite helpful eh?
Sunday, 8 October 2006
Indulgence
Ah! After a year of stay here in our condo (well, 10 days to a year to be exact, hehe), ive finally made use of our condo's steam bath.
After a number of laps and lounging in the pool, i headed to the steam bath room. Carefully reading the instructions on the wall, I experimented on the panel for the room temp and steam bath duration and afterwhich, finally snuggled at a corner. I laughed at myself, when i tensed as the steam generator revved up. I was all alone in the room and as the room got hazy, morbid thoughts crept up at me...thoughts like, I could suffocate in here and it might be sometime before somebody could find my body..brrr! But after a few minutes, I relaxed and enjoyed as I look at the fats sweating out my body (i hope! hehe).
That-was-good...though i've been sneezing every now and then since i took the shower. Hmmm..gotta discover too how the sauna works...
After a number of laps and lounging in the pool, i headed to the steam bath room. Carefully reading the instructions on the wall, I experimented on the panel for the room temp and steam bath duration and afterwhich, finally snuggled at a corner. I laughed at myself, when i tensed as the steam generator revved up. I was all alone in the room and as the room got hazy, morbid thoughts crept up at me...thoughts like, I could suffocate in here and it might be sometime before somebody could find my body..brrr! But after a few minutes, I relaxed and enjoyed as I look at the fats sweating out my body (i hope! hehe).
That-was-good...though i've been sneezing every now and then since i took the shower. Hmmm..gotta discover too how the sauna works...
Friday, 6 October 2006
Some Girls are Just so Dang Lucky
Our internet connection's already turned off and all, but I still took the trouble to turn on my laptop and connect to the web thru the generosity of our neighbors (hihihi) just to blog what I have just heard from Class 95. (sigh)
I'm a true-blooded hopeless romantic alright and I just cant help but sigh over what Yaz shared with her listeners.
Right after some commercials, I heard a phone ringing on the radio and a girl named Lanys answered Yaz' call. Yaz confirmed if she called up the right person and if she knows a guy named Eric. When Lanys affirmed, Yaz then said she has a message from Eric and immediately played the recorded phone conversation with Eric. Boy, I myself am surprised as I just imagined Yaz would read something out so I could only imagine Lanys' reaction (Lanys' tone though was a guarded one..hmm..a wise woman).
Turned out this Eric, having had no courage to call up Lanys, asked Yaz to relay his message on air and ask Lanys to call him if she heard his message. Yaz though, went beyond by really airing out her phone conversation with Eric and hearing the sincerity in Eric's voice.....WOW!
He says he's been a fool to have been blind and to have wasted what he had had all along. That he truly does treasure all the moments they had shared together and would like to have them making new memories again if only she'd give him another chance.
Lanys' voice held some skepticism but I do hope she'd give Eric a chance, as, for all the sincerity (and near desperation) in Eric's voice, I think he deserves a second chance....
I'm a true-blooded hopeless romantic alright and I just cant help but sigh over what Yaz shared with her listeners.
Right after some commercials, I heard a phone ringing on the radio and a girl named Lanys answered Yaz' call. Yaz confirmed if she called up the right person and if she knows a guy named Eric. When Lanys affirmed, Yaz then said she has a message from Eric and immediately played the recorded phone conversation with Eric. Boy, I myself am surprised as I just imagined Yaz would read something out so I could only imagine Lanys' reaction (Lanys' tone though was a guarded one..hmm..a wise woman).
Turned out this Eric, having had no courage to call up Lanys, asked Yaz to relay his message on air and ask Lanys to call him if she heard his message. Yaz though, went beyond by really airing out her phone conversation with Eric and hearing the sincerity in Eric's voice.....WOW!
He says he's been a fool to have been blind and to have wasted what he had had all along. That he truly does treasure all the moments they had shared together and would like to have them making new memories again if only she'd give him another chance.
Lanys' voice held some skepticism but I do hope she'd give Eric a chance, as, for all the sincerity (and near desperation) in Eric's voice, I think he deserves a second chance....
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