That Perfect Dress for the Holiday Season

Just looking around the Sophie Martin boutique and this particular dress caught my eyes. It is not your typical polka dots dress or a dress-customized-for-the-holiday-season per se but it is very comfy once your body get to feel its soft cotton fabric

It costs 890php and it really is worth it. And I said to myself I already have my dress for the holiday season :)

Cine Europa 2009

THURSDAY.

This is the end of my vacation leave. Too bad, this is the only time my friend send me a message if I wanna go out. But hey, I still have my friday as my restday so hopefully, he'd say let's go out Friday night.

Fortunately, he did.

Cine Europa is going to showcase their very own movies and it is for FREE!!!. Good thing before that, I still need to run some errands near Shangri-La Mall so I won't be afraid to become lazy meeting my friends.

Well, I won't bore you with what happened during the entire day. Let's just focus on Cine Europa.

FRIDAY.

It was a blast!

They said that they are just going to give tickets ten minutes before the movie starts but even 30 minutes before the movie, the line up of people are already jampacked! We already created a circle because straight line is going to look messy already.

There are lots of celebrities, hippies, yuppies and etc. all vying for a free ticket to Cine Europa. Good thing that I have my frieds with me on the line so it was not at all boring. We we're laughing the whole, making fun of some things we see and even joking about ourselves already.

It was a fun experience.

Next stop? Korean fever movies at MegaMall! Yipee!!!

The BookWorm in Me

It is the start of my 5-day out of the office galore. And what is the best thing to do? Go out of town just like what I normally do. But then -- I don't want to spend my money. I am really drooling over that new cellphone because I REALLY need to replace my old one. It's dying, so to say.

So what? I just decided to stay at home and be productive. But before I did that, I made a stop at Books For Less store in their Commonwealth branch. Instead of buying DVD's for a marathon watching, I want to feed myself some great ideas and useful thoughts.

It is my first time to go to the store. I never thought it would be this fun. I've seen a lot of great books that you will normally see at a price of more than 1k but there, it just costs less than 500 pesos. I promise myself that that would be my favorite bookstore from now on.

So, I had my first book from them. The title is "Earn What You Deserve" -- simply put "how to be debt-free".

Yeah -- instead of spending money, I am thinking of earning money and saving it.

Now, is there a nicer idea?

Best Bantering Scene I've Ever Seen

I just so love "The Notebook" movie. Here is my favorite scene of all in the movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww1WvFZzv4A

It's not just because of their bantering scenes but I just remember some cheesy lines that my bf one time imitated for me because I am so drooling over this movie

"Can you picture your life for me .... ?" Blah blah blah

But I am always stuck on the last question of Noah to Allie -- "What do you want? What do you really want?" And to stress the point of Noah of what do you just want without thinking what just anybody wants. It's not easy. Even if you have your life in your own hands, you can't just care less about what other people around you may / will think. I love to care less on what they may think on what I am really doing [because it makes me happy] but I do CARE for them. Jeez!!!

Well, I am being EMO again. Not the way I want this post to be. But hey, if me and my boyfriend will fight, I want it this way. Hahaha! Nice fight with a lot of "think-it-over" moments! Maybe I should tell him we can do our fight better than this and let's record it Hahahaha

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"I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them."

Living The Non-Conventional Life

"A little bit of everything and a lot of anything"

That, can somehow, I can explain my life for now. If I were to choose conventional vs. the non-conventional life, I would choose the latter. Life has a lot of things in store of us. They're just hidden in your life and just waiting to be opened. And you won't be able to know it unless you get to be curious on the other side[s] of your life.

So far, at this moment, aside from the job that I have and blogging, I also have an online job, an extra business, attending some short courses [e.g., like lomo photography, photoshopping, cooking!!!], hang-out with my friends, going to some developmental seminars, going out of town, etc ...

Go out of your comfort zone. You might be branded as "Jack of all trades, master of none" but what the heck?!?!? This is the purpose of life! Enjoy every minute as long as you can! You'll never know what you're missing until the day you only have a day to live :)

Letting Myself Be New

In a few weeks time, I'll be giving myself a chance to give me a new me. For more than thirty years of my life, I just let myself stay in my comfort zone. Here, there are no big deals, it's just me that matters, what I care about is just what I do, totally harmless world .. but atop of all these -- a very limited space. Where I have been going through eversince I have one half of my freedom [which is when I turned college because I can go to a more far places], that's where I am still going to right now. Workplace, malling, and home. This is just where my life evolves.

My out of town is just a refresher to my life. When all of them can say they have been to these places, I can only tell them what I have told my other friends a few years back. Not much of a movement. Staying away from the dangerous path so I got myself contented in my own little world.

But nevertheless, my friends thought of me as a very strong woman. Because I have lived and surpassed all the challenges I have gone through all these years.

However, this time, I'll be going places. Places I've never been to before. People I have never encountered in my life. New culture. New path. New views. New environment. An additional language. I know it will be a shock to me but I am determined to come face to face with it.

I dare myself to accept this challenge.

Network of Friends

At this moment, I already have a subscription to Multiply, Tagged, Friendster and Facebook.


Multiply / Tagged, I rarely open it. In multiply, my friends from my previous company told me it is a cool friends network. So, I decided to sign up. But as soon as I sign up and got some friends to be on my network, I stopped.

Then Tagged. It is because that is where my bestfriend is connected to. But I don't really go there.

Friendster, this is where I have 76 friends to date. Even my nieces which is not really a friend, they are already my relative hehe ... is also in the network of my friends.

Facebook, this is where I am really going crazy. I only have 36 friends but the applications is a blast. I really log in to this site everyday.

But you may ask, why only 76 or 36 friends if I am really into it.

Very simple. I choose the people that I am most comfortable with. Even if I can't call them my close friends, I can chat/talk/laugh to them freely and no pretensions. I really use the options "Ignore" and "Delete" most of the times. Even if a friend of mine suggested to me to add this person, but I don't really like him/her in the first place or they just want me to add them so they can accumulate number of friends on their network, I just really ignore the invitation or suggestion. For me, it is so pathetic to add a friend on your network which is not really your friend. I just want to be true to myself.

What i want is after years of logging in to that site, I would still remember every person that is connected to me even if they changed their screen names or nick names. Isn't that nice? :)

For me, these sites should not to be a contest of having a lot of "n" friends connected to them. It should promote connecting to friends you really know and wanting to be with them truly. What's the use of collecting a hundred of friends [or people] you can't really remember or you just really don't know?

2009: Year of Re-Acquainting With My Old Friends

There are nights you were wondering what happened to your 'BFF ' in elementary or where is your 'bff' in high school or did your 'bff' in college already got married ...
And you also wish that hopefully you'd be able to see them again.

Well, it just happened to me.

My bestfriend way back my elementary days just saw me in Facebook. Or should I say it was me who saw him. He posted his real name and i sent him a message if its really him and he said yes. And then we met and I am so happy. So really thrilled with this. Imagine, of all places!!! I just love technology .. haha

And then this friend of mine while we were in college. Since I never changed my cellphone number since I bought it [2001], my friend thought of calling while she was in Korea and working there. And then she was able to contact me and just imagine the endless girl talk.

I also happened to see my friend during the early times that I am working. She is now based in Singapore and we're just sending message thru mobile and our Friendster account.

I hope there's more to come :)

Been Working Like A Dog

It was not supposed to be like this. But since working in a company that operates at 24/7, you'd be expecting a shift rotation. But it has not been like this for a year and a half.

It all started last July 4. THe US Independence Day. Because our client won't be needing us that much, they decided to put our restdays in split off. That's one of the things I hate -- split off. I want to rest completely. And going to the office today and resting tomorrow then will go back the next day after is not my cup of tea really.

But hey, I am not the only affected so they said, just say yes.

And yeah, I forgot I am applying for another job in our company. So as soon as I am going to Tagaytay with my officemates to savor the 3 days off that our office gave us to compensate the two straight weeks of split off restdays, came the call that I am promoted and I need to report to work the day after.

So, I realized after saying yes to the new schedule, I'll be having a one day off again and the rest I'll be working again.

Argh!

I hate it soooooo much

To calm myself, I just thought, just look at the bright side. You are promoted.

Oh yeah yeah yeah -- but that is after working straight for 3 straight weeks of blah blah blah blah.... !!!!!