Songs in the Air

Heard these songs on the plane on my way to Japan. Old songs but i just so SO love them...=D


You Cant' Hurry Love
(Phil Collins)

I need love, love
ooh, ease my mind
And I need to find time
someone to call mine;

My mama said
You can't hurry love
No, you'll just have to wait
She said love don't come easy
But it's a game of give and take
You can't hurry love
No, you'll just have to wait
Just trust in a good time
No matter how long it takes

How many heartaches must I stand
Before I find the love to let me live again
Right now the only thing that keeps me hanging on
when I feel my strength, ooh, it's almost gone

I remember mama said
You can't hurry love
No you'll just have to wait
She said love don't come easy
It's a game of give and take

How long must I wait
How much more must I take
Before loneliness
Will cause my heart, heart to break?

No, I cant bear to live my life alone
I grow impatient for a love to call my own
But when I feel that I,
I can't go on
Well these precious words keep me hanging on

I remember mama said
You can't hurry love
No, you'll just have to wait
She said love don't come easy
Well, it's a game of give and take

You can't hurry love
No, you'll just have to wait
Just trust in a good time
No matter how long it takes, now break!

Now love, love don't come easy
But I keep on waiting
Anticipating for that soft voice
To talk to me at night
For some tender armshold me tight
I keep waiting
Ooh, till that day

But it ain't easy
(Love don't come easy)
No, you know it ain't easy
My mama said
You can't hurry love
No, you'll just have to wait
She said love don't come easy
It's a game of give and take...

I'm in the Mood For Dancing

*I'm in the mood for dancin', romancin'
Ooh I'm given' it all tonight
I'm in the mood for chancin'
I feel like dancin'
Ooh so come on and hold me tight

Dancin', I'm in the mood, babe
So let the music play
Ooh I'm dancin',
I'm in the groove, babe
So get on up and let your body sway

I'm in the mood for dancin', romancin'
You know I shan't ever stop tonight
I'm in the mood for chancin'
I feel like dancin'
Ooh from head to my toes
Take me again
And heaven who knows
Just where it will end

So dance, yeah let's dance,
come on and dance
Dance, yeah let's dance,
come on and dance
(*Repeat)

Dancin', just feel the beat, babe
That's all you've gotta do
I can't stop dancin'
So move your feet, babe
when I get up close to you

I'm in the mood for dancin', romancin'
You know I shan't ever stop tonight
I'm in the mood I'm in the mood
Im in the mood
to dance, yeah let's dance
C'mon let's dance
In in the mood so baby dance
yeah let's dance
I'm the mood to take a chance
Can't you hear the music baby, dance
Get on your feet now baby, dance

Yokoso Nihon!

It's so good to be back here! After 2 years, it's still much the same as it used to be albeit you could see some telltale changes here and there.

Though looking forward to new memories im yet to have, I do find myself reminiscing old memories..things and places that me and my old friends did and went to. This place makes me miss you more guys!..(well, the sooner dorm itself was fullpacked of memories too and being alone there in the last 2 weekends didnt help in bottling up emotions..hehe..) As I hang around with the young engineers, I get to be reminded of when me and my buddies were exploring this area...

My trip here started off real nice with a couple of angels allowing our 25kg excess baggage to be checked in free of charge! how's that for starters? The plane ride itself though was uneventful as we just slept it off while listening to the radio (yeah, i missed the DJ on JPop channel).

Twas different though when we reached the airport and was claiming our baggage. I found my cute pink small suitcase in the middle of the platform, away from the converyor belt. When I gestured to the attendant to hand me my suitcase, she hurried over to my side and showed me what happened - the front cornerside was shattered and there was a slightly big gaping hole. Good thing the inner cloth lining held hence I didnt loose my things through that hole. She told me to go to the baggage claiming center. The center, it turned out, was at the other end of the hall. Frankly, i was almost tempted to just give it up, to not report the damage and just throw my suitcase once I get to my dorm. But the thought that my suitcase should have some justice over its untimely death willed me to go and take the trouble. Good thing the officer has a really good command with English hence I didnt have much difficulty talking with him. When he told me my suitcase is beyond repair already and that they would like to replace my suitcase with a new one, I was almost decided on saying no and just go out the door - thought it was such a hassle transferring my stuff from one suitcase to another in their office. When I saw the suitcase he was offerring though, my mind was instantly decided...hehehe..who'd blame me? the one he was offering me was of superior quality to the one i had! So now a new gray jap suitcase sits in my living room cum bedroom cum dining area cum kitchen (you decide what function depending on when you use it..haha!). The pink suitcase is prettier though..

My room is quite pretty really. The outer room has a miniature receiving hall, separate bath and toilet and the inner room's the bedroom, dining room, living room, kitchen and (yeah!) laundry room. But im not complaining cause it sure is pretty although it lacks a cabinet or two for my personal "epektos". And there's free fast internet for my sole use so who's complaining? I just run the risk though of being an otome (female otaku) should I spend much of time just watching anime and browsing the internet (heck, i started to have the makings of one while I was still in Singapore!). But i dont mind really...=)

Here's to hoping for an entertaining, funfilled and enriching assignment!

Back to Pinas

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!

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...

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..^_^

Bicol Express

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.... =)

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. =)

Chicken a la King

Good for parties, this one. Very filling. A quickmelt cheese would make it much yummier though.

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!
=)

Don Brusko...

...to aid me in my jaunt towards chefdom..hehe..

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.

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...

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?

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...