gifts worthy of second level reading

a survival kit for everyday snags and tears
a dreamcatcher that i have to put together

i've been equipped :p-slash-:)

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pia and alfred, my favourite couple in the universe (haha i'm biased, sorry)

i always have so much fun with these two, kahit na i have to wear stilts when i'm with them kasi they're two full heads taller than me. it's like barbie, ken and skipper hahaha.

i can't wait for the sleepover. high school! and now pa lang i'm excited sa b/w 120 slides hahaha (alfred, sabi mo ha?)

but shempre, pinaka-pinaka excited ako for siquijor and dumaguete!
i'm so there! i hope there's a motor na small enough for me. or a vespa.
vespa to valencia!!!

acccckkk.
*blocks cosmic powers of udlot*

feeling better + quest for the elusive cheap thai food

but i'm still keeping my appointment with sister luisa :)

more on yesterday because i got sleepy.

iza texted in the morning asking if i wanted to meet up because she was craving for sr thai.
i asked her if she was craving for thai food or sr thai specifically.
"cheap thai food mare. i have budget constraints but my friend needs me."
** is that not the sweetest?

anyway, cheap thai food. eh di soms ... but more on that later.

so we made plans to go out after mass. planned to get my hair cut (didn't happen) so i went to phase 3. heard mass sa phase 2 and ito na, the soms adventure.

iza said that there's soms na sa QC. i didn't know that.
she was positive that there was, around the ABS-CBN area. so we were driving around for an hour na when we finally gave up. i told na we'll just have dinner sa thai kitchen so we parked there but it was so second rate so outside the place, we called people! siguro naman at least one of the 40 billion people we called would know where it was. i even called an ex's friend who lived in the scout area. we were that desperate hahahaha we were hungry na eh. our EQ was room temp na no.
of all the people we called only iza's brother chico and marco picked up. marco didn't know where it was, chico even asked chikoy and and he didnt know where it was.
it felt like the twilight zone. francis, who texted an hour later i think, reckons people were avoiding us :p
so far,our response rate was
pick up - marco, chico
sms - francis after an hour, ge-ann and kerol, the following morning.

the rest? wala hahaha. maybe francis is right or MAYBE god is trimming the fat and leaving me with my handful nyahahaha
so yeah, we decided to just go for sr thai so from timog, we drove back to katupunan (and this is after seriously contemplating driving to espana fo the sr thai behind UST ha? pag gutom talaga, irrational!)
we had like really sabaw hirits in the car:
"ayun o thai! thai massage. pamasahe na lang tayo."
"asian food! ayun! filipino!"
"pa-tattoo na lang kaya ako?"
"thai-wanese food ayaw mo?"
"hap chan na lang kaya? chowking?"
and the dialogue of the night:
"alam ko may maliit na thai karinderia sa katipunan. di ko alam pangalan pero may drawing ng elephant tapos yellow and purple."
"of course! pag may purple na elephant, sure na thai yun."
hahahaha! love her to bits.

anyway off to sr thai:
when we got to where it was, guess what. the place was closed. as in closed, closed! not just for the day but forever :p
so we made our way around again, deciding on cantina but ending up where?
here:



churyaki voy. hahaha.

to replace our catfish mango salad, bagoong rice, pad thai and tom yum craving we got






and



plus i finally got what i didn't get sa jonah's:



avocado shake yay!

after being bondat, we went to seattle's best. we had tea and sympathy, coffee and tears, talked about our kabakyaan with boys nung college para naman we'll laugh ... being tanga, and blind and scared and bokya hahaha

it's always like that with iza.
i heart her.

thank you for making friday better

friday was made bearable by my college friends and this little guy:



and i didn't need to talk about anything (although iza and i will still have brunch tomorrow so that's that).
these people are magic.

receptacle of useless information

So we were going down the escalade -- hahaha joke! escalator lang :p
so yun nga, we were going down the escalator when Red saw the tarp for the Psychic Festival.
Anyway...

R: Runes? What are those?
V: Elder Futhark Alphabet.
R: Huh?
V: Norse Alphabet. They were given to Odin, some NOrse god.
R: Si Thor ba 'to?
V: Hindi, si Odin nga. Basta, he hung himself upside down some tree ... I forget ... on the 9th day, yung point between life and death, he saw the Runes.
R: (gives me a weird look)
V: Totoo nga.
R: (look gets weirder)
V: Nagtatanong ka tapos pag sinagot, hindi maniniwala.

*kamot ulo*

haha ive always been the go-to gal for stuff that are walang kwenta,
like joao miranda --> the foriegn minister of angola hahahaha ngek diba? eh ano ngayon?
i'm pretty sure mu cousin ja can kick my ass now but at least it's still in the family :p

breathing blog entry

(of course i had to upload an old picture. payat days, you know :p)

anyway.
he doesn't look it 'no? but yeah, that's what marco is.
a walking, breathing, blog entry.

so i was browsing through the bestseller aisle a couple of hours ago, right?
and my mobile rings.

vera: yezzz marco?
marco: mare, meron ako tatanong sa yo.
vera: how to pronounce a word again?¹
marco: hindi. heeheehee (i swear he laughs like that)
vera: ano yun?
marco: matatawa ka.
vera: ano nga? (anticipating another endearingly absurd question hahaha)
marco: sino kumanta ng "...i'll be your wish, i'll be your dream, i'll be your fantasy?"

you knw at this point, if i weren't in a public place i would have either fainted or laughed like a hyena but since marco was laughing(slightly like a hyena) at the other end of the line and i was too vain to faint nga (plus masakit yun), sinagot ko na alng yung tanong nya.

vera: savage garden.
marco: ah ... heehee. nag d-download kasi ako ng songs nung kabataan² natin eh. may mga songs ako na ng boyzone ...

hahaha that was the clincher.
see?
walking, breathing blog entry.

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1 I received a phone call a couple of weeks back from marco's wife, duckee telling me that marco wanted to ask me something. of course, sheepish laughter could be heard in the background before the phone was passed. "mare, how do you pronounce w-a-n-d? waaand or wahnd? HAHAHA!

2 apparently kabataan for marco, is college. of course i had to tell him to download boyzone's cover of 'baby can i hold you' because our kabakyaan is the tie that binds us.

poveda repreznt!

eh hindi ako goldilocks eh.
ako yung ver HAHAHAH corny!
tama na nga.

ayan ang classic example ng 'greyish pallor' thanks to carl zeiss and his flashy thingy. i swear after that shot, phosphenes abound ngarf

we got stranded sa xocolat because it was raining really hard (see my hair? bad weather=bad hair) pero kebs. i was trying to take a picture of the rain kasi malaki yung patak nya and it was kind of pretty and ugly at the same time.

"iza, i can't capture the rain!" and she goes "... parang lang yan love ..."

i looked at her like she was some strange bruha and handed her the phone para sha na mag picture.
pinicturan si john lloyd. gotta love iza!

then we saw benny and lea and they hopped over, from coffee bean. laugh trip with benny and his "bora circa 97 sounds" hahaha and mistaking celine lopez for precious hipolito + lea's story about her 'avant garde' videographer who wanted to shoot the pre-nup sa bahay na pula in bulacan. heehee.

hay. these guys saved my sanity nung sunday.
after nun, i had to spend 9 hours in my hell with flourescent lighting.


ang buhay, walang kulay :(

na-try mo na trinoma?

si honey hindi pa so binitbit ko dun.


three little pigs sa five cows


i always have fun when i'm with the hipe sisters.
sayang honey is leaving again for singapore next weekend.
kerol, meet up with us!
we'll take happy pictures like this:

honey is eating my shirt hahaha!

and bakya ones like this:


kamote who'd believe that none of us is under 26? hahahaha!

ad astra :-)

"ngayon lang ako nakahinga. pero di kita nakalimutan: gusto ko lang ibalita sa yo na nanalo ako sa miclat, at maraming salamat at nagig bahagi ka nito." :-)

parang kelan lang, nagtutulungan tayo gawin yung poetry homework mo.

congratulations, you deserve it, and hello, given!

see you soon. five cows na 'to! :p

now i can write

i had two kilos of "aarrgh" in my chest (and no, i'm not talking about the girls :p) and i didn't want to soil my blog by writing about them.
i let it out na so that's over.

i guess i'm just really lucky thankful to have people in my life who get me, and they are the ones i laugh with, and run to and keep.
PLUS they know the irritating, annoying, unlovable side of me
--- like how cranky i get when i'm hungry, how condescending i can sometimes sound, how i wish all the bad karma in the universe be reaped by a certain co-dependent, attention-whoring girl who is rotten rotten rotten to the very core ---
AND STILL forgive me for it because they get it.

i hope everyone has at least one person in their life who gets them, you know, people who not just understand but as in really really GET them.
yes, even that co-dependent, attention-whoring girl who is rotten rotten rotten to the very core.

the inner quiet you get by just being around them (even if your chismisan and laughter is loud enough to wake the dead) is priceless.
i can't describe what it's like but
if you have people like that in yours, you'll get it.

Patô

[if you don't have a dog, might as well skip this post. you won't understand.]

my dog died this morning.
i stayed up holding her and she died in my arms.
i felt her life ebb.

i've been crying since.

i was planning on writing several anecdotes about her to turn this entry into something cathartic, and so that you can see why i love her and how much i love her but her death's reduced me to this grieving pile of tissue and tears.

she was this spitz-shepherd mix, she looked like a wolf, hardly cuddly-cute.
most of my friends were scared of her but she was the gentlest.



i dont know how long i'll be sad. i havent' been this sad in years but
i'd rather go through all the heartbreak i went through the past decade AGAIN than be this hurt now.

10 years we were together.
she saw me through turning points, bad fashion and horrendous men.

i was planning on bringing her with me to dumaguete, dammit.
she would have loved siliman.
i was just brave enough to decide on moving because my dog was coming with me.
i didnt care if i had to go through a ton of paperwork.
pato was my non-negotiable.
leave everything behind except my dog.

now i don't even want to go.

i'll miss her.
good bye bebidog.
i love you.


[iza, ge-ann, duckee, mark, jojo and pet, thanks. i'll be okay.]