I’ve found Multiply to be a better blog site than this. It’s more interactive and I can put videos, music and every digital picture I’ve ever taken. Anyway, those who religiously read my blogs would most likely have their own Multiply site, so I’ll just see you on the other side! Thanks for reading and commenting and tolerating my rollercoaster of sentiments. Mwah!
I think I’m coming down with a cold or something and my throat feels really weird… All the puyat and erratic weather may be catching up with me. Sigh… I want to sleep because of these little headaches but the pull of Veronica Mars is stronger than the bed hehehe. Sucks that I’ll have training in Makati for the next 6 days (ang layo!) and I dunno if I can visit the gym pa. Duh, as if it’s going to make much of a difference for the Bora trip WHICH IS ALREADY NEXT MONDAY!!! Sigh. Cathi and I are keeping our expectations low but I’m keeping my fingers crossed in secret that the weather will cooperate with us at least. And what do you know, on Friday I’ll be whisked off to another swimming thingee in Laguna! I’ll again be swimming in Tequila Rose hahaha. I bet I’ll be as dark as coffee when I get back in time for the new schoolyear. Good luck to me.
Yesterday, Fara and I were able to watch Dead Man’s chest at Trinoma after having lunch at Aveneto (yum yum!). O di ba sobrang layo? Although I didn’t understand anything that Calypso said, we thought the movie was kick-ass. Johnny Depp was as great as always! It was a delight seeing Chow Yun Fat (he’s always been my crush), Reggie Lee and their horde of Oriental swashbucklers. Good thing Rona tipped me to stay after the credits… I’d rather not tell you what I saw! Hahaha.
What was my next stop after Trinoma? Mall of Asia to meet my parents for dinner! Hahaha. That was one hell of an MRT joyride that I didn’t fully appreciate until I looked at the heavy traffic caught in the drizzle below. Of course I was pooped after traversing that stretch of Metro Manila in my not so comfortable sandals. I really think it’s time to purchase my second pair of Crocs 
… with Globe’s Unlimitxt. I recently got my bill and was surprised to see that I spent a little more than 400 bucks for Unlimitxt ON TOP OF my monthly subscription. It doesn’t get deducted pala even if I was on G-flex. But how come it wasn’t the case a few months ago? I rarely call, so it’s as if I didn’t use my subscription for May AT ALL! I could complain to Globe for hours on end, but bottomline is, I threw away good money to send jokes for goodness’ sake! Sigh. Money’s hard to come by pa naman these days, with the previous trips and our upcoming Bora trip in 2 weeks, and I’m itching pa to buy a pair of Crocs Mary Janes! Sheesh. Talk about priorities. So to those who I send jokes to on a regular basis, I hope you understand. Money certainly does not grow on trees. And so far, my account balance has stabilized in the critical level AND I’m still indebted to Dad for the longest time. I’M STRESSING OUT!
…with drinking, FOR NOW. Last night we were at Elbow Room Metrowalk and Gilda had to bring out a second bottle of Tequila Rose maybe an hour after we three girls came in. I had a field day with the videoke, and I hope Singaporean visitor Chris (who looked so much like Arvi) didn’t mind us belting out with our veins about to burst. I wanted to join in Tovi’s and Moira’s religion talk but I was feeling lightheaded already. I remembered dozing off as soon as I settled in the car, and didn’t wake up until I was in front of my house. Man, traydor! Pero sarap haha.
TR, see you again in two weeks 
**SPOILER ALERT: DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THE LAST OF GREY’S!**
One by one, the TV shows I’ve become addicted to are bidding farewell for the meantime. In the last week of April, we bore witness to Michael Scoffield entering the hellhole that is Sona Penitentiary. This week, Heroes will tell us how to stop an exploding man, House will make a human error and Grissom will try to save his living doll Sara in CSI. Last week they showed Grey’s Anatomy’s very painful finale, one that caused the puffiness in my eyes when I woke up Sunday morning. Only the incomparable Shonda Rimes can make me snort in laughter one moment and weep buckets the next. This season finale however, it squeezed more tears out of me.
Why does Burke have to leave eyebrow-less Cristina at the altar? Won’t we be seeing more of Isaiah Washington in Season 4? What’s going to happen to George and his horribly beaten up ego with the failed intern exams and Callie’s promotion to Chief Resident? Will Bailey still keep up with her Nazi rep after her disappointment? Will Derek reconsider the Chief of Surgery position now that he more or less knows that Meredith isn’t in it for the long haul? Will there be no happy ending for Mark and Addison now that she’s reconsidering LA? And WHEN will Izzie get booted out from SGH?! Can she not fall in love with every guy she makes eye contact with? Sheesh. What a selfish b*tch. Karev, on the other hand, is too stupid for his own good. Ava/Rebecca/Jane Doe was simply asking for a reason from him to stay, and he can only mutter, "I think you should go with the decent guy." Putek.
And here I go again with my cheesy metaphors hahaha. Life can be a series of one-hour episodes that can either leave you in stitches or with an anvil-laden heart. But it’s the supporting characters (no matter how big or small their part is in the whole scheme of things) that bring out the best and the worst in the lead. Some characters you can’t wait to kill, some just fade into the background, some disappear only to reappear several years after, more often than not to wreak havoc (or at least confuse the lead). Feelings are expressed or hidden, strewn around and taken for granted. Consequences (dire or otherwise) are born out of previous actions (stupid, most of the time) and the lead can only make do with what she has at that moment. And when you do find other people’s dramas (real or reel) ending with a sea of tears and empty boxes of tissues, sometimes it’s pretty hard to imagine having a happy ending yourself.
*Sigh* Sheer poetry
SIGNAL FIRE
Snow Patrol
The perfect words never crossed my mind
’cause there was nothing in there but you
I felt every ounce of me screaming out
But the sound was trapped deep in me
All I wanted just sped right past me
While I was rooted fast to the earth
I could be stuck here for a thousand years
Without your arms to drag me out
There you are standing right in front of me
All this fear falls away to leave me naked
Hold me close cause I need you to guide me to safety
No I don’t want to wait forever
In the confusion and the aftermath
You are my signal fire
The only resolution and the only joy
Is the faint spark of forgiveness in your eyes
There you are standing right in front of me
All this fear falls away to leave me naked
Hold me close cause I need you to guide me to safety
No I don’t want to wait forever…
Caught the 2:40 screening of Shrek the Third with Cathy and Tina at
Festival Mall last Friday. Nobody wanted to go home yet, it was blazing outside and
we had time to kill. After grabbing a hungarian sausage sandwich
smothered in mustard **drool** we entered Cinema 8 and settled on the
first middle row upstairs.
I remembered the time I watched Shrek
2 with Cathi, Tenten, Keysi and some of their officemates in Greenbelt.
Tapos na yung funny part, I was still laughing myself to death! I knew
people were staring at me already but I couldn’t help it. And the third
installment still had that same effect on me. Sobrang hilarious! Wait
until you hear the opening strings of "That’s What Friends Are For"
hahaha! Just thinking about it makes me laugh And Gingy’s flashbacks…oh man, sent me in stitches! However, I think Shrek
2 still takes the cake.
Where else would you find Larry King and
Regis Philbin to be the voices of the ugly stepsisters and the other
Princesses given more exposure (specifically that biatch Snow White
hahaha)? Okay, I have to stop myself now. Wouldn’t want to spoil the
experience for you
This has been going on for weeks. I awaken at 3:30am for no reason at all. I toss and turn for I dunno how long and then I fall asleep… only to be awakened by my alarm clock at 5:30am! A sullen face in the mirror greets me, and no amount of caffeine can make me alert. It’s doubly hard that I have to be perky and magaslaw at 8:00am for the kids. As we end class at 12:30, I go low-batt again… until I wind down at night, unless it’s hiphop or street jazz day.
Here’s the thing. I’m once again hooked on reading the Buhay Pinoy forum on Pinoyexchange, specifically the Scary Pinoy Ghost Stories thread! I’m not really a scaredy-cat (I have watched The Ring in our living room with the lights turned off) AS LONG AS I don’t remember the images hahaha. A number of posts tell of weird sounds heard at night, voices in your head, moving furniture, cold drafts through the window, shadows and apparitions in your peripheral view, and the warning to avoid being awake between 3 and 4 am because IT’S THE DEVIL’S HOUR! WAAAAAAAH!!! Nowadays I only turn off the lights if I’m really, really, absolutely sleepy. Kaya lang it’s taking its toll on my eyebags. Maybe it’s time for me to use eye creams? Sheesh. All in the name of vanity! I will have to sleep early tonight, only after Maging Sino Ka Man hahaha 
It’s my parents’ 28th wedding anniversary today. It’s quite a feat you know. I can’t even go beyond the 3-month mark with my relationships haha! I think their marriage worked because my dad is all too understanding, minsan to the point of being taken for granted. He loves my mom to death that I think he’ll pick her any day over me and my brother. I think that’s the secret to a lasting marriage - the guy has to let the girl take the reins, or at least let her think that’s what he’s doing. Then again, it’s only pure love that will drive a man to do that. Kudos to my dad! I’d be one of the luckiest women on earth if I can still find someone like him in this lifetime.
I think I’m a really bad daughter for not getting them anything tsk tsk… Last Thursday I had a Eureka moment; I thought of giving them a sketch of themselves. Then I realized that it’s TWO DAYS before their anniversary, I have yet to find one of their better pictures together and I have no idea how much it would cost. My brother said his future dad-in-law (naks) can sketch daw and he’ll ask how much it’ll cost. It will take at least a week before we get it. Bottomline, I haven’t found a good pic yet! Sigh. I hope they won’t mind if it’s a tad bit late.
My bro’s at the Fedex Subic hub for a meeting or something (or maybe he just felt like shopping for PX goods, I dunno) so it was only me who joined my parents for dinner. We went to MOA just to buy a new showerhead for the bathroom and found ourselves trying out Tokyo Cafe on the ground floor. Nothing fancy, and it wasn’t bad for its price range. The display by the door definitely lured us into trying it. We had the Demi Hamburg, Garlic and Shrimp Pasta and Chicken Barbecue Pizza. DEE-LISH! To cap it off, we had 2 kinds of crepe - Choco Strawberry and Manila Mango. Definitely a better alternative to Cafe Breton’s pricey selections! I was full, but not to the brink of puking or anything like that. Try it yourself
Before going home, we stopped by Chocolat and I bought the Chocolate Caramel Cake for tomorrow’s little celebration. Sheesh. Dieting is really way out of the question! It’s my lola’s birthday on the 21st and she’ll have a party here and my dad’s birthday is on the 23rd. Sigh…
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I’m on Multiply! Add me up, teresapatricia172. I have a blog there too, which I’m starting to think has better features. Maybe I’ll write there more, maybe not. Let’s see
For the first time in my life, I was Beyonce on my favorite slot #13 on the dance floor. And Hermes (my unnamed gay friend whose name I just asked Jenny today) was Shakira. Really, can you imagine?! Because I can’t hahaha! But in any case, I love it I love it I love it! The floor was literally swept clean with all the floorwork (lying down, slithering like snakes) but I’m glad there are no pained muscles tonight, just sexy attitudes hehehe.
Tina and Cathy already saw Neil last Friday, and today Jen did. Pogi nga daw! At proud daw ba ko? Hahaha! Kung pwede ko lang kayo marecruit lahat to join our dance classes, why not? And for the record, he’s not my boyfriend nor a suitor. Dance instructor lang sya. Magaling kasi kaya ko crush. Eye candy lang talaga. My undying devotion to him I chose over a Red Crad dinner tonight (Sorry Night Group!) Pero ako, magkakaron ng boyfriend who tells Fran (another student) "sige text WITH me kung ilan"?! Ewww. I shudder at the thought. Tenten and Cathi, you’ll have to agree with me on this, right? Now you have an idea why I’m still single hahaha.
… I was fixing up my Multiply site! There’s not much to see, but at least I’ve personalized it a little bit. I was supposed to change my theme to Hed Kandi pero nahilo lang ako kasi it looked so cluttered. I will try to upload some more pics in the future. Maybe I’ll even get rid of Sony Imagestation altogether. But how come I can’t edit the captions in Multiply? Or is that a stupid question? Hehehe help naman! Anyhoo, click here to access my Multiply account And what do you know? This person (who is no longer my friend) accessed my site hahaha. What is he looking for?
Have you seen The Other Side of This Life parts 1 and 2 in Grey’s Anatomy? They guested some characters of the new Grey’s spinoff, Private Practice (tentative title daw). Oh man, got me hooked! Imagine, Paul Kellerman from Prison Break has become this really hilariously sensitive pediatrician who loves to hook up with Internet chicks like sexyboobs316. And how about Piz from Veronica Mars as this six-pack surfer dude who’s got the hots for Addison’s best friend, Naomi who incidentally told him, "You’re old enough to be my fetus" hahaha!
Naomi’s character is a 38-year-old mom of 2 who was divorced by her husband Sam. She feels that she has grown old without really enjoying life, because she has done everything that she’s supposed to - get married to her longtime boyfriend (was it her first?), and have 2 kids - without really knowing what it’s like to date more men and do all the other stuff that Addison’s been known to do. And now her husband left her, she feels she has nothing to live for. And surfer dude who keeps throwing himself at her doesn’t stand a chance only because he’s way too young. NOT THAT I CAN RELATE MY LIFE TO HERS… but I hope I don’t get to the point where I feel there’s so much I would still like to do but the opportunities have already passed me by. So, while I have yet to be hitched and milk formula is not yet in my grocery list, PARTY ON! Give it to me, give it to me! Hahaha
I fell in love with a pair of sandals… Gisele Bundchen’s Ipanemas. I think I first laid my eyes on them back in December. And since I was saving up for my Shanghai and Bangkok trips back then, I didn’t think too much about it. But it had always been at the back of my mind. I even knew which of my outfits go best with it! Now that I am ready to purchase a pair, I can’t find a white one with my size! Huhuhu 
And no, I’m not about to relate this to my lovelife. I’m just telling this as a matter-of-fact, that I haven’t seen a pair of white sandals that I really like such as this. I’m just hoping that at least one of the Shoe Salons I will call tomorrow will have a white pair size 8.
