Watching Glee's season finale on a Saturday is the best way to spend a lazy day at home. The last 2 episodes were soooooo intense! Aaaaaack! I actually cried while watching the sectionals. Heehee :)
The past 2 days at work weren't really good ones because, well...people problems. Actually, I have a problem with only one person in the office. Am trying my best not to react in a way that would make things worse. This will pass....it's not as if this is the first time I've had problems with that person. Lord, please grant me the patience I need to deal with her...
Got off later than usual from work. I was trying to contact people if they were free to drive off to Tagaytay last night, alas no one was available. Thankfully, Simon went online right before I left the office so I asked if he was free. He was a bit down in the dumps as well so we decided to chill at Farsi (it's a cool kebab place near Tomas Morato; great ambiance, yummy food, FREE WIFI! I think it's at Scout Lozano). Seppi followed after a few hours. After Farsi we were supposed to hang out at Coffee Bean at the UP Ayala Technohub but it was closed already so we settled for Starbucks (hahaha!). Spent just an hour there...was too sleepy I had to go home.
I woke up late this morning so I wasn't able to go to the doctor. I've been having this throbbing pain in the right side of my head since Sunday...I hope it's not something bad, but I do need to get it checked...maybe this coming Tuesday I can drop by the doctor's.
Okay, I have to go and prepare for dinner...Raiz, Kten and I are having dinner at Isabelo's. Yay! I'm sure I'll be posting something about that but I'll post it maybe in a couple of weeks next year (hahaha!). I have lots of backlog entries--am really sorry :| So many things to write about! :) Actually, I already made an entry about Isabelo a few months back. Isabelo is DEFINITELY one of Manila's hidden culinary treasures. If you're looking for a laid back yet sophisticated ambiance, Isabelo is one place you should try. No walk-in customers, though. You have to place your reservation at least 3 days before and you should pre-order your menu because Portia (the owner) cooks everything! Okay, I will really have to make a separate entry about Isabelo.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Monday, December 7, 2009
I really don't get why in Glee, to be a part of glee club is social suicide. Why????? After watching the 12th episode, I feel like it's so unfair to be deemed as a loser when you're part of such an awesome club. You'd have to be talented, and not afraid to perform in front of lots of people. It takes so much dedication to be part of the glee club. Haha I'm sorry...I'm so affected after watching the latest episode. Being a former glee club member, I got upset after the last scene.
I miss singing with my glee girls :( I miss spending the entire afternoon until late at night rehearsing our songs. I miss spending Saturdays either in someone's house or at the school's music room for workshops or more rehearsals. I miss running out of the gym after practice when Manong Bebot would turn off all the lights. I miss how we would all just get sooo into a song that after singing, we'd get giddy with goosebumps. I miss suddenly breaking out into song, singing the melody first, then slowly adding the other voices--we'd end up with another song to add to our repertoire :) How I wish we'd have a reunion of sorts. I would have to bring this up with Krina!
I miss singing with my glee girls :( I miss spending the entire afternoon until late at night rehearsing our songs. I miss spending Saturdays either in someone's house or at the school's music room for workshops or more rehearsals. I miss running out of the gym after practice when Manong Bebot would turn off all the lights. I miss how we would all just get sooo into a song that after singing, we'd get giddy with goosebumps. I miss suddenly breaking out into song, singing the melody first, then slowly adding the other voices--we'd end up with another song to add to our repertoire :) How I wish we'd have a reunion of sorts. I would have to bring this up with Krina!
my wish list
Precisely why it's called a wish list...wish ko lang naman. Hahaha! I am hoping I'd be able to buy item number one on my list, though. Or number two. If I had oodles of money, I'd go to Spain right this minute. I'm trying to destress my brain just for now. I was assigned to plan my office's Christmas party and outreach and I have barely 2 weeks to plan both. Hurrah for me! Ugh...wish me luck. Plus, my mom told me to plan our itinerary in Hong Kong. AND, I have to plan a few Christmas dinners/parties. And yes, I have to come in for work on the 28th and 29th which totally sucks. Blech. ANYWAY, going back to my list...lemme see...
1. Lomo Fisheye 2: I've been eyeing this baby since last year. Unfortunately I still don't have it and please please pretty please Santa, if you really exist, can I have this for Christmas?
2. Leica X-1: Hindi masamang mangarap, okay? Hahaha!
photo from here
1. Lomo Fisheye 2: I've been eyeing this baby since last year. Unfortunately I still don't have it and please please pretty please Santa, if you really exist, can I have this for Christmas?
2. Leica X-1: Hindi masamang mangarap, okay? Hahaha!
photo from here
3. Steve Madden Findd platforms. See here : Though I prefer wearing ballet flats to work, for the sake of my feet, there's something about wearing heels that makes one feel sexy and confident...then after an hour of walking, you just want to sit down and take your shoes off! Haha!
4. More ballet flats!One can never get tired of ballet flats :) Don't you agree? Not necessarily Tory Burch (but if you want to give me a pair by all means go ahead! heehee), but really nice, classic yet stylish pairs would be great.
got the photo here
4. More ballet flats!One can never get tired of ballet flats :) Don't you agree? Not necessarily Tory Burch (but if you want to give me a pair by all means go ahead! heehee), but really nice, classic yet stylish pairs would be great.
got the photo here
5. A gift certificate to The Spa: I think I need to spend a day here...to prepare myself for next year. Haha! I have a feeling we have a lot of projects waiting for us in 2010. Good thing for the company, bad thing for my health and well-being. WHICH REMINDS ME...what happened to our Strat Planning? Weaw.
6. A decent, sturdy, large, stylish dark brown bag (I don't like bazaar bags because they don't last long...my bags that I bought in ukay ukays are sturdier).
7. A document bag from Fino
8. A Filed document folder so I don't look so ugh when I'm in meetings (with my brown envelope and folder. ha!)
These are my top 8 items on my Christmas wish list. There are 17 more. Hahahaha!
6. A decent, sturdy, large, stylish dark brown bag (I don't like bazaar bags because they don't last long...my bags that I bought in ukay ukays are sturdier).
7. A document bag from Fino
8. A Filed document folder so I don't look so ugh when I'm in meetings (with my brown envelope and folder. ha!)
These are my top 8 items on my Christmas wish list. There are 17 more. Hahahaha!Sunday, December 6, 2009
learning to live on chicken and fish
I haven't been able to post entries on what I've been eating since I came back from my out-of-town trip last week. I'll start from today going back to Tuesday so it'll be easier for me to remember...
Today (Day 17)- I had fried tilapia for lunch. For dinner, I prepared baked penne with spaghetti sauce (I used ground chicken), honey glazed grilled chicken, and grilled minute steaks. Of course I only had the pasta and chicken. I prepared the steak for my family in case they were already sick of chicken (haha!).
Saturday (Day 16)- My friends Esther, Tin and I had a bit of girlfriend bonding/adventure day. We went to Sitio de Amor in San Pablo, Laguna. Can I just say, it was soooo worth the long drive! But, I'll devote another entry about that..back to my diet--we were served lots of food for lunch but of course I didn't eat anything made from pork or beef. We were served blue marlin, liempo, bopis, soy chicken, pako salad (sooo yummy!), and this dish that was made of baby shrimp cooked with coconut milk then wrapped in gabi leaves then steamed (to die for!). For our afternoon snack, we were served this special kind of suman (that was bought in Lucban, I think) with a slice of mango and drizzled with a light caramel sauce. I swear, that was the best suman I've ever tasted. After spending the entire afternoon at Sitio de Amor, we headed off to Kusina Salud for dinner. We had their fried lumpiang ubod for our appetizer, and the Hot Crispy Tilapia as our main dish.
Friday (Day 15)- lunch out with my college friends Ria and Eia. We ate at Kimono Ken at Podium. I had salmon sashimi, chicken teriyaki and japanese fried rice. I don't think I had dinner. Hahaha! I think after my dgroup, I went to this spa near my house and had a very relaxing massage. Me thinks that's why I woke up late yesterday. Hahaha!
Thursday (Day 14)- I think I had shrimp and ginataang papaya for lunch.
I can't remember what I had for Days 12 and 13. But I'm sure I didn't break my diet :)
Today (Day 17)- I had fried tilapia for lunch. For dinner, I prepared baked penne with spaghetti sauce (I used ground chicken), honey glazed grilled chicken, and grilled minute steaks. Of course I only had the pasta and chicken. I prepared the steak for my family in case they were already sick of chicken (haha!).
Saturday (Day 16)- My friends Esther, Tin and I had a bit of girlfriend bonding/adventure day. We went to Sitio de Amor in San Pablo, Laguna. Can I just say, it was soooo worth the long drive! But, I'll devote another entry about that..back to my diet--we were served lots of food for lunch but of course I didn't eat anything made from pork or beef. We were served blue marlin, liempo, bopis, soy chicken, pako salad (sooo yummy!), and this dish that was made of baby shrimp cooked with coconut milk then wrapped in gabi leaves then steamed (to die for!). For our afternoon snack, we were served this special kind of suman (that was bought in Lucban, I think) with a slice of mango and drizzled with a light caramel sauce. I swear, that was the best suman I've ever tasted. After spending the entire afternoon at Sitio de Amor, we headed off to Kusina Salud for dinner. We had their fried lumpiang ubod for our appetizer, and the Hot Crispy Tilapia as our main dish.
Friday (Day 15)- lunch out with my college friends Ria and Eia. We ate at Kimono Ken at Podium. I had salmon sashimi, chicken teriyaki and japanese fried rice. I don't think I had dinner. Hahaha! I think after my dgroup, I went to this spa near my house and had a very relaxing massage. Me thinks that's why I woke up late yesterday. Hahaha!
Thursday (Day 14)- I think I had shrimp and ginataang papaya for lunch.
I can't remember what I had for Days 12 and 13. But I'm sure I didn't break my diet :)
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
just noticed...
I've never been able to post any of my daily outfit shots. Hahaha! Ugh. Am sorry...I've been terribly self-consious as of late, you see...because my camera's quality sucks. The camera (s) I used taking the shots I've been posting here are either my friends' or my mom's. I haven't been able to buy my own digital camera yet. Oh yeah, I have lots of film cameras but no digi ones...I have a thing for vintage shots, but sadly I haven't had the time to take out my babies. For convenience' sake, I need a digital camera. As a Christmas gift, is anyone willing to give me one? :) Hahaha! I'll forever love you (whoever you are) and I will bake you cookies or cupcakes every month. Game? Thank you in advanced! Heehee :)
Please do watch out for my photo entries on my recent long weekend trip and the last installment of my Ilocos trip (previous posts here and here). Also! My long time friends Esther, Tin, and I are going to Sitio de Amor in Laguna this weekend. Watch out for my post on that, as well :)
I just noticed...it's the 2nd day of December already! How 3 more weeks till Christmas! :) Have you started shopping for gifts already? Or are you already done (half way done?)? Unfortunately...I haven't been able to start yet!! Waaaaah!
Please do watch out for my photo entries on my recent long weekend trip and the last installment of my Ilocos trip (previous posts here and here). Also! My long time friends Esther, Tin, and I are going to Sitio de Amor in Laguna this weekend. Watch out for my post on that, as well :)
I just noticed...it's the 2nd day of December already! How 3 more weeks till Christmas! :) Have you started shopping for gifts already? Or are you already done (half way done?)? Unfortunately...I haven't been able to start yet!! Waaaaah!
my out-of-town long weekend...bitin!
As you dear readers know, I went to Davao, Malaybalay, and Cagayan de Oro this weekend. For this entry, I'd like to share a few favorites of mine from all the pictures I took this long weekend.
DAVAO
Lunch by the beach. After a very long interview that morning, Ma'am Carmen (the field supervisor), Ma'am Ofel (our contact in Davao) and I had lunch at a Dampa type of restaurant somewhere in Davao...seaside! :) Lovely view while eating, don't you think?
There's something enchanting about this tree...I took this shot while waiting for the interviewers to screen one of the possible respondents (unfortunately, she wasn't qualified for the interview :|). Mind you, this was at a slum type of area. Back to the tree...the branches are all green and bare, with just a few that still had their leaves. This tree brightens up the place a bit.
After my very tiring afternoon doing fieldwork, I went to the Davao Convention Center to check out the Christmas bazaar. There really wasn't anything spectacular about it, except that I was in a bazaar in Davao. Hahaha! I was able to buy something for my family which I thought was worth the excess baggage fee I had to pay at the airport--organic products from Kablon Farms in South Cotabato. I bought tablea, wild honey, and passion fruit-pineapple marmalade (soooo good!) for my lola. And yes, I bought lots of suha for my officemates and friends. And durian candies.EN ROUTE TO MALAYBALAY
I asked the guy sitting behind me to take my picture on the bus before the bus got full. You see, it was my first time EVER to ride a bus alone. Considering the trip was 5 hours long, it really was a milestone sort of thing for me. I just had to document it. And yeah, I have really bad posture...need to work on that.
Really happy to be on a bus. Haha! I got lucky...buses in the terminal in Davao City left every 30 minutes so when my bus left, I didn't have a seatmate yet :) I was enjoying the view, actually.
Our first stop was the Provincial Sanitation Checkpoint, where we all had to get off the bus and walk on the floor that was doused with water mixed with meds...to avoid foot and mouth disease (the bacteria usually latches on to the body through the feet/shoes).
Wonderful view once I got off the bus :)
Pretty flowers at the checkpoint. I don't even think they were selling these.
Okay, I'll continue this post later because I have other entries I need to work on...as in delayed ones like the last installment of my Ilocos trip, and a new one about my trip yesterday to San Pablo, Laguna. SORRY!!!! I tend to forget about making certain entries or I procrastinate. Haha!
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Day 9, 10 and 11
I'm back in Manila! I arrived last night around 7, I think. I'm still pretty tired from the entire trip but am glad to be back. Although, I wish I stayed a bit longer in Malaybalay--maybe two more days? It's so nice to get away from the city once in a while and just relax somewhere far from all the hustle and bustle of the Metro.
I wasn't able to share what I've been eating for the past three days. Don't worry, I was able to veer away from all tempting kinds of food and I'm still sticking with my diet :) Okay, last Saturday I wasn't able to eat breakfast because when I arrived from the airport in Davao I went straight to my uncle's house and slept for a couple of hours before heading to my meeting. For lunch, I had inihaw na tuna belly (yum!) and sinigang na hitang (??). I had fish for lunch, and I had fish for dinner as well (fish and chips) at Coco's in downtown Davao.
On Sunday, I took a 5-hr bus trip from Davao to Malaybalay. So I left at 7:30 a.m and arrived at Malaybalay before 1. My dad and brother picked me up before heading off for lunch to Chicken Ati-Atihan, a local restaurant near our place. The grilled chicken's quite good, actually. The ambiance is nice as well. Too bad I wasn't able to take any pictures of the place...maybe on my next trip there :) I slept the entire afternoon because the bus ride was a bit tiring. Woke up around 6 (thinking it was already 8. hahaha!) and hung out at our cafe--which reminds me, I have to make a facebook page for it! Hahaha! Anyway, I hung out at BBC with Ate Abie, a close friend of mine from Malaybalay. She brought her super cute and kulit daughter Bianca. We spent a few hours talking about whatever. It's been a while since we last saw each other (I think March of this year for the Kaamulan Festival). I was only able to eat dinner after we closed the cafe. Had chicken again. Hahaha!
Yesterday, I left Malaybalay around 7 so that my dad and I could run errands first at Cagayan de Oro before he dropped me off to do fieldwork. Upon our arrival at CDO, we had breakfast first at Pancake House. I had the Continental breakfast (scrambled eggs, hashbrown, and toast with butter) and my dad had the regular pancakes. It's a good thing I checked in first at the airport before heading off to do fieldwork. At least I didn't have to worry about making it back on time to check in and being able to buy pasalubong. I did fieldwork from 1-3:30 before goign back to the airport. Had a super late lunch there (chicken again. wow.) and spent the next two hours waiting for my flight. I arrived at Manila around 7 and I went home right away. Guess what we had for dinner? Chicken. Hahahaha! I might start growing wings already.
Now, I'm in the office (sooo early) but I want to go home. I'm still so tired and I think I'm going to get sick if I don't get more rest. The weather in Davao and Cagayan de Oro was just..ack! It was soooo hot!! I love both cities, but I just couldn't stand the heat. It doesn't help that from Davao (hot) I went up to Malaybalay (super cold), then from there I went down to CDO (hot). From CDO, I'm now in Manila (humid). Wow. I don't usually drink vitamins, but I think I need to. I can't afford to get sick because I have loads and loads of stuff to do--projects to finish, a bazaar, shopping for gifts, organizing dinners with different sets of friends, etc. Whew!
I wasn't able to share what I've been eating for the past three days. Don't worry, I was able to veer away from all tempting kinds of food and I'm still sticking with my diet :) Okay, last Saturday I wasn't able to eat breakfast because when I arrived from the airport in Davao I went straight to my uncle's house and slept for a couple of hours before heading to my meeting. For lunch, I had inihaw na tuna belly (yum!) and sinigang na hitang (??). I had fish for lunch, and I had fish for dinner as well (fish and chips) at Coco's in downtown Davao.
On Sunday, I took a 5-hr bus trip from Davao to Malaybalay. So I left at 7:30 a.m and arrived at Malaybalay before 1. My dad and brother picked me up before heading off for lunch to Chicken Ati-Atihan, a local restaurant near our place. The grilled chicken's quite good, actually. The ambiance is nice as well. Too bad I wasn't able to take any pictures of the place...maybe on my next trip there :) I slept the entire afternoon because the bus ride was a bit tiring. Woke up around 6 (thinking it was already 8. hahaha!) and hung out at our cafe--which reminds me, I have to make a facebook page for it! Hahaha! Anyway, I hung out at BBC with Ate Abie, a close friend of mine from Malaybalay. She brought her super cute and kulit daughter Bianca. We spent a few hours talking about whatever. It's been a while since we last saw each other (I think March of this year for the Kaamulan Festival). I was only able to eat dinner after we closed the cafe. Had chicken again. Hahaha!
Yesterday, I left Malaybalay around 7 so that my dad and I could run errands first at Cagayan de Oro before he dropped me off to do fieldwork. Upon our arrival at CDO, we had breakfast first at Pancake House. I had the Continental breakfast (scrambled eggs, hashbrown, and toast with butter) and my dad had the regular pancakes. It's a good thing I checked in first at the airport before heading off to do fieldwork. At least I didn't have to worry about making it back on time to check in and being able to buy pasalubong. I did fieldwork from 1-3:30 before goign back to the airport. Had a super late lunch there (chicken again. wow.) and spent the next two hours waiting for my flight. I arrived at Manila around 7 and I went home right away. Guess what we had for dinner? Chicken. Hahahaha! I might start growing wings already.
Now, I'm in the office (sooo early) but I want to go home. I'm still so tired and I think I'm going to get sick if I don't get more rest. The weather in Davao and Cagayan de Oro was just..ack! It was soooo hot!! I love both cities, but I just couldn't stand the heat. It doesn't help that from Davao (hot) I went up to Malaybalay (super cold), then from there I went down to CDO (hot). From CDO, I'm now in Manila (humid). Wow. I don't usually drink vitamins, but I think I need to. I can't afford to get sick because I have loads and loads of stuff to do--projects to finish, a bazaar, shopping for gifts, organizing dinners with different sets of friends, etc. Whew!
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