Sunday, August 28, 2005

Scammers bummer-ed

Last Thursday, an unknown cellphone number texted me saying that I won a Nokia 6630 in a raffle. At may DTI Permit number pang nalalaman. The text message told me to call another number (toll free daw eh ibang cellphone number rin. G*go.) to get directions on how to get my so-called prize. It was obviously one of those text scams circulating around the metro. I wanted to report it to NTC but I just had to make a scathing statement to the scammers. So, therefore, I let my inner bitch take over and texted the scammers:

"Sorry, but I don't need a 6630 'coz I already have an 8800. Ang cheap niyo ha."

Good riddance.


Caught Unawares

Suave, Pogito and I were pseudo-hosting a videoke party after our strategic planning in Subic. All our seniors were supposed to sing at least one song, or else, they'd be paying P500 if they didn't. Everything was going well until one of our female SAVPs who was younger (she's in her early 30s), single and has an X-factor went up to the mike and sang a song by the Carpenters entitled "I Need To Be In Love."

"The hardest thing I’ve ever done is keep believing
There’s someone in this crazy world for me
The way that people come and go thru temporary lives
My chance could come and I might never know

I used to say 'no promises, let’s keep it simple'
But freedom only helps you say good-bye
It took a while for me to learn that nothin’ comes for free
The price I’ve paid is high enough for me

(*) I know I need to be in love
I know I’ve wasted too much time
I know I ask perfection of
A quite imperfect world
And fool enough to think that’s what I’ll find..."

Somehow the song made me feel sad all of a sudden. Para bang nananadya. Eh tinamaan naman ako. Kainis. It's another reminder of my humanity.


Breaking Up and Breaking Down

One of my guy friends' girlfriend broke up with my friend two days before his birthday party. Oh dear. My heart goes out to both of them. I'm stressed out. I'm praying that those two could settle things in the most loving way possible and that whatever happens, they'd come out of it as stronger human beings. Sigh.


On to other joyous things...

Wheeeee! One member of the Single Since Birth Fan Club is no more! My college friend, Jen, finally took the leap to fly with someone just yesterday, a day before she turned twenty-five! I was ecstatic. Jen and I were such good friends back in college. We've shared our heartaches. Even if I don't know the whole story on how they got together, I'm so ecstatic 'coz I know a big part of her journey that brought her to where she is right now. I'm getting excited just thinking about it! I'm so happy for her. I asled her, "Pwede bang mag-pa-party ako?"


Max Brenner is sixth, Jon is the seventh person

Max Brenner told me last Tuesday, "Yung kutob ko sa iyo, ligaw-kasal ka na."

Last night at a party, Jon told me, "Alam mo, yung sa iyo, one time big time. Kung sino yung una, siya na yun."

Ngiii. We'll see.

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

An Open Letter From an Atzi to her Shoti

hey bro. mukhang hiyang ka diyan sa japan ah. nagkalaman ka ng konti sa pictyurs mo and as usual, pa cute ka pa ren wahahahahah no but seriously engget ako kase hindi pa ako nakakapunta sa kahit anong disneyland.

anyway, as you've probably received mum's package by now, the bottle of the steak sauce she's ordering you to buy is seriously good. masarap siya kaya plis bumili ka jan nun. mum has a current obsession with steaks right now kaya medyo every other week nag-gi-grill siya ng steak.

dumalaw sina kowa and ninang with their respective broods last sunday. kaw lang ang kulang. chloe asked about you. si mm taba pa rin at si kenken ay maarte kagaya ko, naka dangling earrings kami pareho! ang gusto kong pasalubong ay hair chopsticks. yung maganda ha. ayaw ko ng makislap. simple designs lang ha, ha, ha please =P saka dala ka ng masasarap na food. yun lang naman kaligayahan ko eh.

ang aking mp3 player ay sira na naman. pinadala ulit kay dad sa singapore at ayun, papaplitan na ng creative. epal. kung hindi lang jologs ang ipod mini sana yun na lang yung binili ko. u bought any gadgets there?

o ano, enjoy ka lang diyan. buti hindi na nag-e-emote si mommy. a few weeks before sabi ba naman niya gusto daw niya bumili ng webcam para she can see who she's chatting with (as if ang dami niyang ka-chat!). i told her, "ma, please lang ha, it's just a month and a half to go at andito na si shots no..." i guess moms are just like that.

sige. take care and God bless! don't forget to pray.

XOXO,
atzi



sigh. i miss my brother.

Sunday, August 21, 2005

Lists Again

My Birthday Wish List

1. More time for myself
2. A text message, or better yet a phone call greeting from my younger bro and dad (mum no need kasi for sure siya naman gigising sa akin nun at mauunang i-greet ako)
3. CDs: Lifehouse – No Name Face and Lifehouse. Sure, I have the mp3s already, but nothing beats an original CD; Tori Amos: From the Choirgirl Hotel, Little Earthquakes and Scarlet’s Walk
4. Even more time to eat, sleep and just bum around.
5. Greetings from friends (hoy yung mga kailangang tumawag…u know who you are! Hahaha demanding ba)
6. A kiss from Liam Isaac!
7. The tops featured in the cover of Preview magazine (August 2005) [I'm such a girl.]
8. New sticky film for Shmooshy
9. Birthday noodles, hakaw, pork asado, shrimp hakaw and good old-fashioned hot tea (hahaha my Chinese blood manifesting)
10.World peace (no, seriously, I really want world peace and everything that goes with it.)
11.Have a shopping spree in National Bookstore and Powerbooks.


I've been tagged.
Se7en


Here it goes:
Seven things that scare you:
1) losing someone i love in a grisly, heinous manner
2) murderers
3) snakes
4) rodents
5) worms and maggots
6) presence of evil and malevolence
7) what poverty does to people

Seven things that you like the most:
1) food!
2) books
3) driving
4) beaches
5) sleeping
6) combat! Haiiii-eeeeeyah! (It releases endorphins. ‘Endorphins make you happy. Happy people don’t just shoot their husbands.’ – Elle Woods)
7) friends

Seven important things in your room:
1) bed
2) clothes
3) books/journals
4) laptop
5) mirror
6) pictures
7) my window’s metal grills

Seven random facts about you:
1) I have an eclectic taste in music (think Sharon Cuneta, Backstreet Boys, Westlife, Aqua, Lifehouse, Jay Z, Eve, Tori Amos and Andrea Bocelli)
2) I miss my brother.
3) I can’t cook to save my life.
4) I crazily dance around in my room when I’m alone.
5) I love giggling.
6) I use The Body Shop’s Honey Shampoo and Conditioner that smells like coco jam. Weird, but I have to use it since my hair is seriously stressed out.
7) I have very low alcohol tolerance. Two glasses of Kurant 7 and I’m bonkers.

Seven things you plan to do before you die:
1) meet my future husband, have a family with at least one boy and one girl, and rear them to the best of my knowledge
2) backpack across Europe with one person
3) have a farm and a resthouse
4) be a UN ambassador
5) take singing and piano lessons
6) go parasailing
7) live in Boracay for one month by myself

Seven things you can do:
1) sing my heart out kahit wala sa tono
2) do a very accurate imitation of how goofy and NR Champ is on Hale’s music video of The Day You Said Goodnight (haha Jody will kill me if she sees this)
3) compile historical data on fifteen different products in four and a half hours
4) play the guitar and the organ
5) make saliva bubbles
6) make my youngest cousin cry (awww…I’m such a bully.)
7) dance really well (ahem, ahem…all my friends tell me I do! [No actually sinuhulan ko sila wehehehehehe])

Seven things you can't do:
1) smoke
2) make a knot out of a cherry stem using my tongue
3) commit suicide
4) fall in love…YET!
5) go on a vacation for one month right now
6) extravagant living
7) go to a buffet prepared by fear factor

Seven things that attract you to the opposite sex:
1) simple
2) beautiful eyes
3) gorgeous smile
4) has a lot of substance
5) a great sense of humor
6) very real and upfront
7) sensible

Seven things you say the most:
1) lunch?
2) break?
3) combat? combat?
4) lolo/lola
5) (Friend’s name), stop it!
6) achuchuchu
7) all right (I hate, hate, hate, hate the term ‘ayt’ kahit sa text lang. Grrrrrr…)

Seven celeb crushes (whether local or foreign):
1) Hayden Christensen
2) Orlando Bloom
3) Jude Law
4) The guy in the Close Up commercial (the one that’s shot inside a bus)
5) Chris Evans
6) Chad Michael Murray
7) Brad Pitt (gasp! Only Number 7!!!)

Sunday, August 14, 2005

SMILE

Finally! I got to make a collage featuring the most beautiful feature on a person's face. All I have to do is to look at this picture and I automatically smile...hihihi =)



The bigger version is even better. Keep on smiling!

Meet my current love

I fell in love with him the second time we met. Sigh…meet my newest crush, Liam Isaac! He’s so malikot and makulit! He looks like his lola, my Tita Lita. He’s not afraid of people, medyo pasaway nga eto eh. Nagpapapansin parati! He does silly things to get your attention. He smells so good. He readily smiles whenever you ask him to, and more often than not, you don’t need to tell him to smile whenever he sees any camera pointing at him. Well-trained by his oh-so-gorgeous mother. Sigh. Makes me wanna have my own kid tuloy. And I repeat, I AM such a big sucker for gorgeous smiles.

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Tulo laway!!! Kakagigil!!!!!!!!

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Snippets

Another text conversation (between Lorenzo and I this time):

Lorenzo: Napanaginipan kita!
Me: Ano naman yung napanaginipan mo?
Lorenzo: Nasa beach eh. Basta what I can remember is naka-white skirt ka (yes that sounds like me) then nagbikini. Tapos may yacht. You were drinking lemonade. Basta lahat ng things nasa white except water and sky. (Huh? Ano daw?)
Me: Bikini? Whaaaat? Hahaha Ü ‘stig, I never wore a bikini ever. Sa bora ba yun? Ü
Lorenzo: D ko alam eh…alam mo yung mga “Am I dead?” sequence ng mga movies? Parang paradise watchamacallit. Don’t worry bagay naman at di bastusin. (Hahaha he knows me too well)
Me: Ah ok, no offense taken =P I like that better. Anghel na naka-bikini hehehe ang feeling ko! (Nagbuhat po ako ng sariling bangko. Thank you.)
Lorenzo: Hehe and besides there was nothing lewd. Just baskin’ the sun Ü
Me: Haha thank you for being hinest, lolo Ü
Lorenzo: Wala yun no…panaginip lang yun Ü dapat may digicam akong dala Ü
Me: Ang defensive ng lolo ko ha =P Wala akong kasama?
Lorenzo: May ibang tao pero ikaw yung kilala ko.
----------Pause as I attend my combat classes.-----------
Lorenzo: Hope you’re not mad or something…
Me: No I’m not mad. Nag-gym lang ako lolo Ü
Lorenzo: Whew! Ü kala ko nagalit ka. Good night lola Ü

(Honestly, what is it with me and lolo/lola?)

Gosh, do guys really think I’m that easily pricked? (Rolling eyes.) Give me some credit, man!


Random things about my friends

Jenjen and Laney NEVER let a Mango sale pass without buying anything. I think it rubbed off on me a little bit.

Law has the hairiest legs I’ve ever seen (makes me wanna shave them off mwahahahahahahah!!!!! I can just imagine him retorting, “Lay off my legs, you crazy pervert!!! [Haha you wish!]))

Sap twirls her hair around her fingers whenever she’s nervous or unsure about something.

Pogito, Suave and Torpeh are crazy about shoes (oh yes they are. Grabe! Can’t let a midnight madness sale pass by without buying at least a pair.)

Torpeh eats 5 jumbo cheese hotdogs for dinner at least twice a week. (Torps, do you remember Sir Ipe’s veggie lecture back then?)

Pogito has a birthmark on her butt. So does Torpeh. (They told me, ok? I didn’t peek!)

Suave is a closet sentimental girl. She pretends to hate mushy love songs. Wehehehehehe. She calls her Zen Micro “my precious.”

Pogito’s blood composition is half red blood cells, one fourth hot Nescafe and ¼ Nescafe Ice.

Didit reminds me of those adorable little kids in ‘Going Bulilit’ whenever she says “Nye!”

Law likes to write his thoughts on the border of the pages of the book he’s reading.

Jae has beautiful penmanship. His heiroglyphics are so much better looking than mine.

Law introduced the muscovado to me one afternoon in Odd Manila, UP Diliman.

Law and Petweet were my companions when I ate isaw for the first time.

Zee always smells like the strawberry lip balm of The Body Shop. Sweet!

Carlo is the second beefiest guy friend I have. Cax the hunk is the first, Will the meek hunk’s the third.

Jaypee has a three-word description of himself emblazoned on the hood of his car. (M-------- when wet!)

Wesley is the snootiest, pinakamataray guy friend that I have.

Pat loves to play the game “pretend-to-be-bag-snatchers-and-make-your-girl-friends-scream” right in the middle of a high-foot traffic street.

Mousey’s bloodline is directly linked to her credit cards.

S. Beauty is twenty three but looks like seventeen.

And Karlo is the only guy friend I know who splurged P12,000 for clothes in just one store. Now who says only girls love shopping?

Sunday, August 07, 2005

Torpeh-isms

This entry is a tribute to one of my good friends, whom I shall call "Torpeh." It will showcase her most memorable bloopers and blunders ever in delivering her lines (I Have permission from her, hehehe).. Gosh, she's such a sweetheart!

On fighting with her kabarkada's then boyfriend:
"You're such a loser!!! L-O-C-E-R!!! Loser!!!" (Ahhhhmmmm...)

On buying a hotdog in Galera:
"...yah, Tender Jocy hotdog..." (Our little boy repeated it over and over and over again...)

On teasing Jerome and Pao as Echo and Rustom:
"Uy...pwedeng mag-pa-ow-tograph?"

Upon leaving Bubba Gump because of the body odor of the caucasians sitting right behind us:
Me: Uy, tara na please, alis na tayo...(I was dying of the smell...phew!)
Torpeh (in a very loud voice): Why, can you not stand the smell?
Me: Ahm, [Torpeh], English yon, naiintindihan nila...

And this, by far, is my favorite:

On a Filipino saying:
"Ang hindi marunong lumingon sa pinanggalingan ay mas masahol pa sa malansang isda." (ano daw?!?!?)