A Really Good Friday

I've been itching to go to Subic Beach off of Matnog, Sorsogon and the week-long holiday seemed like the perfect timing. Although it was a half-baked plan with the cousins, I kind of banked on it, until I found out the family had other plans.

I was dead-set on going. I rarely set my sight on things, but when I want something, I (do everything to) get it. The Universe helps me out, of course -- this time, in the form of my cousin Kai and her adventurous ways + Google.

There were a few curve balls along the way --  pulled over for obstruction of traffic (gotta love jeepney drivers), getting stranded in Matnog, staying overnight in a seedy motel -- but it was worth it.

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*

maybe i'm not as histrionic as i think i am.

it still makes me senti everytime someone sincerely tells me i've touched his/her life, that i've moved them in some way, or opened their eyes to new things.


i guess it was always enough na lang kasi for me to know that they have a place in my life, and that i would not -- and could not be the me i am now had it not been for them.
knowing that i have a place in their universe -- and not just them in mine -- makes me all emotera and iyakin and hiya and thankful and lucky and humbled and happy
basta seven million emotions cramped in my fist-sized heart (and you know how small my hands are.)

thank you, i love you and even if you stop, it will be a long time before i do, if at all.

good start

no, GREAT start.
okay
now, sustain :)

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I usually do this pre-Christas but (insert excuse here) so I'm doing it now :p

1. What did you do in 2007 that you'd never done before?
Have dinner with myself in PUBLIC.


2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
See previous post.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Ging, Cla, Audrey :)


4. Did anyone close to you die?
Pato.


5. What countries did you visit?
Divisoria :p parang India din sya.


6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007?
sleep!


7. What date from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Apr 15 - hello, dolphins! ang dami nyo!
June 10 - my bebidog died


8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
weeding


9. What was your biggest failure?
weeding


10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
carpal tunnel of love! hahaha kidding!
nothing major. flu mga 4 times this year, fever, food poisoning hahaha


11. What was the best thing you bought?
Sabel!


12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
mine. i can see now in black and white.


13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
ay nako. wag na. stalker yun eh. fan ko :p


14. Where did most of your money go?
i don't know.


15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
the dolphins. really. it was raining when we headed out to the sandbar and there was no sun so i was kind of resigned na but i'm favoured (hahahaha) so yun. yay!
and i'm forever thankful.


16. What song will always remind you of 2007?
a lot of old songs
Last Good Day of the Year - Cousteau


17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? always happier
ii. thinner or fatter? same i guess. i maintained my fatness hahahaha
iii. richer or poorer? poorer but eh ano :p


18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
rest and eat healthy


19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
smoke.


20. How will you be spending Christmas?
i ate, saw friends and then slept because i had work in the evening.


22. Did you fall in love in 2007?
yes, with dumaguete :)


23. How many one-night stands?
nuninu
n/a HAHAHAHAHA


24. What was your favorite TV program?
kitchen confidential, gossip girl, jake in progress


25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
nope


26. What was the best book you read?
6 keys to buddhist living


27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
ATB, 4 strings


28. What did you want and got?
vacation and promotion


30. What was your favorite film of this year?
shrek 3 hahaha


31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
i was late for a surprise birthday dinner hahaha i turned 30.


32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
um, 4 weeks in sardinia :p


33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007?
swordfish, ie misdirection.
for people not to look at your bilbil, show cleavage HAHAHAHA!


34. What kept you sane?
replaying happy dumaguete days in my head. and music.


35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
wala naman.


36. What political issue stirred you the most?
spiritual boycott in burma -- monks refusing to accept alms from junta cronies. winner! no nirvana for you, general.


37. Who did you miss?
you. everyday.


38. Who was the best new person you met?
Patrick! I heart him all the more because he saw sakal, sakali, saklolo hahahaha!


39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007:
it is true what ammu said.


40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
There's a place I dream about
Where the sun never goes out.
And the sky is deep and blue.
Won't you take me there with you.

Ohhh, we can begin again.
Shed our skin, let the sun shine in.
At the edge of the ocean
We can start over again.
-Edge of the Ocean, Ivy