A Long One

Got this from some blog:

A - Accent: Filipino. I can also do Singaporean, Malaysian, Indian and British accents when I’m in the mood.
B - Breakfast Item: Four pieces of pandesal with palaman lovingly prepared by mum, and a plastic cup of Milo Freeze courtesy of Mini-Stop.
C - Chore you hate: Wiping food bits off the table, plates, pots and pans.
D - Dad's Name Ed
E - Essential everyday item: Kikay kit, Shmooshy and my handphone
F - Flavour ice cream: Amici di Don Bosco’s Chocolate Marble gelato
G - Gold or Silver?: Gold
H - Hometown: Quezon City, Phils.
I - Insomnia: Seldom visits me. Tampo na nga ako eh hahaha joke!
J - Job Title: Uhm feeling part-time combat instructor with the girls hahahahaha
K - Kids: Love them to death. Just don’t make me clean up their crap or their vomit. Ugh.
L - Living arrangements: Parents, brother, grandparents, two helpers. Four rooms.
M - Mom's birthplace: Manila, Philippines.
N - Number of significant others you’ve ever had: HAHAHAHAHAHA my friends know the answer to this!
O - Overnight hospital stays: Four days three nights because of one teeny weeny dengue mosquito.
P - Phobia: rats! Snakes!
Q - Queer?: Queer what?
R - Religious Affiliation:
S - Siblings: One younger brother
T - Time you wake up: 5.30 am
U - Unnatural hair colours you've worn: Pink highlights for one night!
V - Vegetable you refuse to eat: Okra and ampalaya.
W - Worst habit: Being blunt and straightforward to the point of pain, and I am such a BIG procrastinator.
X - X-rays you’ve had: uhm…three I think.
Y - Yummy: Sushi, dark chocolate hahaha (sori inside joke namin ng girlfriends ko to), isaw
Z - Zodiac sign: Virgo the Virgin and Rooster.

Uhh...

Found a website where supposedly single people can meet and interact with other supposedly single people via chat initially. It has the photo/s, age, location, and a short description of a person’s profile (a la Friendster with the more blatant intention to meet other people – and you don’t even have to be signed up for the service in order to see the profiles). So why am I blogging about this, you ask?

I found a guy’s profile with his photo, age, location and a description of who he wants to meet. It went “I want to meet a girl who I am comfortable!!!” (yes, it has three exclamation points, my dears.) Needless to say, I didn’t even bother to browse his page. Besides, I am looking for a guy who can speak good English. I’m such a bi-yotch.

My point is, if you are going to put your face, your location and (heaven forbid!) your contact details (yes, I’m surprised that a number of the profiles I’ve viewed did this) over the internet (where a gazillion people can see it) on a website that simulates a soiree, be sure as hell that you use correct grammar. Or, if you’re not sure, mag-tagalog ka na lang pre. Mas maganda pang pakinggan.

But then again, you don’t know if the information contained there is true. Maybe the guy’s just fooling around...


Wanted: Creative EP880 earphones

Arrrggghhhh!!! Darn it darn it darn it! I just lost my Creative EP880 earphones at the MRT today! Just now! Some snatcher must've thought that he could get Shmooshy as well! Kainis. My dad will kill me this time - he was the one who bought it for me (doesn't he always buy things for his princess? hehe) just last September! Darn it! Siyempre hindi ko sasabihing nawala. Hay. So I have to put up with Shmooshy's standard earphones. Don't get me wrong. The stock earphones are good, but man, once you've experienced the quality of the EP880 you won't settle for anything less. Sigh. Kaartehan, ano?

What the EFF?

I’ve always considered myself very open minded about things, although I do tend to be conservative when it comes to the way I live my life. Being born into a Filipino-Chinese family has me celebrating two new years, speaking four languages – two of which belong to my other half’s celestial ancestors (Hokien and Mandarin), and widening how I see things. Add to that some months living on extremely conservative/liberated environments and I’d like to think the result is a female with very well-balanced views.

Perhaps this issue I’m writing about may touch some of the sensitive friends who take the time to read my blog, but please hear me out. (You know I treat these topics with great delicacy). I came across an article in the newspaper today that there’s a new phenomenon sweeping the US market – particularly the female segment. There’s a new medical operation that restores the hymen on the female genitalia – yep, one could be a virgin again! It costs about USD 1,500 – 5,000 per operation, but who knows, the prices might go down in the near future. Just look at rhinoplastic surgery. Add to that the possibility of having ‘it’ tightened again and we’re now looking into commercialized morality.

What has got me reacting strongly is this: it bothers me to think of the future of girls everywhere. It seems that science has put in another way to circumvent, ahem, morality. Do not get me wrong. I have girl friends who are virgins and who are not, but all of them say one thing: virginity may not be that big an issue nowadays, but you don’t just throw it away. It is a big decision on any girl’s life, and it is special, and it is a gift. And it doesn’t mean that if you’re not a virgin anymore you are automatically promiscuous and immoral (gosh, can someone please drum that into close-minded and judgmental people? Thank you.) I guess what I’m just worried about is a future wherein girls would treat their virginity as something they can throw away easily (or is it happening already?) and flaunting how many times they’ve undergone that restoring the hymen thing and how many guys they’ve bedded. Shudder shudder.

I fear for my future daughters, future nieces, future little girls. But knowing the kinds of friends I have, I KNOW they’re going to do their utmost in raising their daughters well. Sana na lang maging magkakaibigan yung mga magiging anak namin.

This Year's Promise

First I'd like to share two light hearted things that I know would make everyone who knows me roll their eyes and smile. The first light hearted thing was that I got in touch with my inner jologs on CCAD's year end party last Dec. 29. It happened towards the end of the said party. Ms. Marlette hired Ate Shawie (the only guy who could impersonate Ate Shawie flawlessly! Think Laughline!) for the night and most of the people during that time already left. It was up to Ate Shawie to liven up things a bit so what he did was that he played the theme song of Pinoy Big Brother over the speakers and everyone just went crazy! From the FVPs and guests to the tellers who were there, everyone went to the center and just danced! Wahahahah! Including me (even though I've never, as in never, seen any episode of that program). Ang sarap palang magsayaw nun, hahahaha! I enjoyed myself so much!



Second is that I have new eye candies who are pretty much unreachable. Notice the similarities between them?






Jonathan Bennett from "Mean Girls" and Archie Kao from "CSI." SIGH.


I was talking to one of my close friends last night and he asked me how I'd been this year. I said I was very happy with the way things worked out for me, and I didn't want to change anything in my year, I mean, wala akong gustong balikan. I did everything the way I wanted to, and most of all I have no regrets in stuff that happened or did not happen. I was very happy, and felt more content than I ever felt in a long time. He said that I was one of the few people he knew that was really happy this year. Well, I think I have the answer.

Most of my more personal greetings this new year are from people who know me well. And ALL of them had one underlying theme in their wishes: that I'll fall in love this year. THIS year! Even my relatives were all saying, "Sweetie, it's about time someone sweep you off your feet! That's the ONLY thing missing!" Of course, most of the time I'd just smile and let the remarks pass, but I can't help noticing that everyone's excited for me to find someone. It's too much of a coincidence.

Furthermore, I've been having this gut feeling since November when I was in the Merlion City, that something significant is going to happen to me in 2006, and my instinct tells me that that significant moment concerns that mysterious four letter word: L-O-V-E. I am sincerely excited to see what 2006 has in store for me, and this hope of falling in love is gotta be the best of them all. But the bottomline is: will I let it happen? We'll see!