April Round-up

Round Up Prompts from Katie the Scrapbook Lady :)

Books and/or magazines I read:
As usual, local chismis mags (Hi!, Starstudio, Yes and Buzz) and Ane’s FHM. Honestly, I need to read more books than mags just as I used to...

Movies I watched:
Seventh Heaven marathon courtesy of Studio 23 on Good Friday and Black Saturday; The Departed on dibide (I got a bit confused in the middle so I decided not to finish it nyehehe); The Holiday on dibibe.

Special days?
4 - Li'l Bro's 17th Birthday (did not celebrate yet)
8 - Easter Sunday (just heard mass and went to Eastwood later that night)
26 - The day our US visas got approved (sad though because my other brother was denied)

Gifts given and/or received?
Given: Orange Cartunista for Li'l Bro from all of us.

Received: A new pair of Havaianas (High Summer Black) from Mom; Phone chain from Korea.

Illnesses or health concerns I had?
Allergic Rhinitis for me. None for Ane.


Fun things I did with my friends and/or family?
4 Tried our free Airborne Access account with my Brother Yang at the Cafe Xocolat, Promenade (yup, we spent around 300 bucks to try free internet access huh? Illogical hehehe);
4 Chikahan and Eating galore with the E's in the kubo under the mango tree, Ane wasn't able to make it and I went home at 2am! (I suppose by the way our conversations went that our relationship as friends have levelled-up, which is nice really);
8 Lunch with the Rotary GSE Team from Korea;
9 Shopping for clothes with Li'l Bro, hehehe...

14-15 Jala-jala getaway with the E's (ang nagutom, olats!!! we did nothing but eat, chika and sleep!!!);
20 Half day spent at the Agent's office to prepare our documents.

21 Strolled at Market Market and Serendra with Ane and Anong.

26 Interview at the US Embassy

30 Chat with Rissa :)

New foods, recipes or restaurants I tried?
Churros and Specialty Choco Drink from Xocolat (Yum!); Cheese and Mushroom Baked Oysters at Somethin' Fishy (Double yummy!); Dessert at Kok Eastwood (nothing extraordinary).

Special or unusual purchases I made?
Uh-hmmmm Havaianas? hehehe Also the educational toys (make the mind think!) we bought from Hobbes and Landes in Serendra.

Disappointments?
- Knowing that my brother R will not be able to join us in visiting our sis.
- Services at this country's government offices, sheesh.

Accomplishments?
Nothing much...that makes my life really suck, eh? I gotta think and remember what I did this month! Scraps – 2 (nyek!)

Anything else noteworthy to record?
- Leaving for a vacation soon.

LO Share: Hush

Credits here.

It's Vittoria once again. :) Can't help but do LO's of her. She's got lots of pictures, eh! TFL!

Where have I been?

Around, I'd say.

Was too busy the past few days. Fixing papers and documents. Here and there.

The efforts paid off.

LEAVING ON A JETPLANE SOON. Finally, our Visa was approved on Thursday. I'll come back to post more kwento. Hehe.

Can't wait to see darling Joaquin again. :)

Certified

JOLOGS!


Mwahahahahaha!

The picture was taken a few months before we got married. It was one of those days, with Ane's college friends, when we had the urge to just take pictures of each other and just be ourselves -- funny and kulet!

So DEP photoshopped us and applied art that made the shot even more ridiculous! Hahahaha. She even posted this in one of her photoblogs. While bloghopping, I saw this again...I actually forgot i't's been there since last year!! :) Thanks, Day for adding colors...(also for "allowing" me to nenok your work) :)

Spark of hope

When I heard of the birth of the Asis Twins (conjoined, two heads, one body) I instantly thought of the Aguirre Twins. Carl and Clarence were born conjoined at their heads and were successfully separated just before they turned two.

Now their case was given attention wordlwide when a doctor and a hospital in the US sponsored them. Even Dateline got interested in their case that a series of reports were shown. Then I stopped hearing about them.

While reading the paper this afternoon, I found an article about Carl and Clarence and was happy to realize that the boys are now five years old. Their recovery is one for the books because it is said that in cases like theirs, it is very slim for both twins to survive. Look at them now! I believe they still have a long way to go but since they are given proper care, I'm quite sure they will be able to get through everything just fine.

Now isn't that a spark of hope? Anything is possible :).

Ps. for more information on the twins, go here.

Funny...

Read in one of the forums Ane frequents. Wala lang, we were laughing out loud when we read this. This apparently came from the SMS messages being forwarded around.

Juan: Father, nakakita po ako ng pilay sa may altar, mataimtim na nagdadasal, tapos bigla nya hinagis ang mga saklay niya! (Father, I saw a crippled person praying at the altar and he suddenly threw his crutches away!)

Priest: Aba! Ito'y isang himala! Nasaan na yung sinasabi mo? (Oh my! This is a miracle. Where is this person you are talking about?)

Juan: Ayun, nasa altar pa din, nakadapa at dumudugo ang ilong...(still by the altar, face down and nose is bleeding...)

Yesterday

I cried.

Ane and I were at this government office fixing some papers for my FIL. Since Ane and I are both idealistic, we won't give in to red-tape and bureaucracy (sad to say, some civil service offices here are only "efficient" when one resort to such activities). So we were both ready for whatever hurdles we had to go through.

But we weren't so ready to wait for FIVE long hours. Outside the office (while we see all employees thru the glass in the airconditioned rooms, laughing and chitchatting, noh). In the heat of the weather (must have been more than 30 degrees out there). Really thirsty. We were both tired and sleepy. And me on the first day of my period with no clean washrooms around (it was nasty and yucky).

So when we were told everything was done, after five hours, I couldn't help it anymore. I cried out of relief, frustration and all the other feelings in the world...and found out that they had an encoding error! Encoding could have been the first step in our transaction and yet they still misspelled FIL's name (we would have cared less if the address was wrong) and nobody bothered to correct it while the papers were inside! They simply smiled on their booboo, didn't reprint our documents, and promised to just fix the records in their computer. Talk about efficiency. Sheesh. We decided to push not it anymore because 1) we had another errand to do, and 2) FIL said we will just do something about it later (naawa na siguro sa amin, huhu).

We rushed to the grocery to buy a few things for the garden and raced immediately after that to our event that night. It was a very tiring day but while driving, Ane playing his IPod and this song came up:

ORDINARY SONG

By Janno Gibbs

Just an ordinary song

To a special girl like you

From a simple guy

Who's so in love with you

I may not have much to show

No diamonds a glow

No limousines

To take you where you go

But if you ever find yourself

Tired of all the games you play

When all the world seems so unfair

You can count on me to stay

Just take sometime to lend an ear

To this ordinary song

Just an ordinary song

To a special girl like you

From a simple guy

Who's so in love with you

I don't even have the looks

To make you glance my way

The clothes I wear

May just seem so absurd

But deep inside of me is you

You give life to what I do

All those years may see you thru

Still I'll be waiting here for you

If you have time

Please lend an ear to this ordinary song

Just an ordinary song

To a special girl like you

From a simple guy

Who's so in love with you...

Ane reminded me that this is his song for me. Ain't that really sweet? The day must have started so bad and yet my dear husband ended it perfectly :)

The heat is on

Definitely! The weather has been humid for the last few days, kinda irritating. It's so hot I feel dirty all the time. You know the feeling that you just wanna stay under the shower with cold water running? And it sucks that right after I towel the excess water off, I get sweaty again.

It didn't help that I woke up this morning with no electricity, aarrrghhhh!

I think I need some days off, hehehehe (like my days are always hectic, noh?!?). The beach is definitely not in my favorite list of destinations. I'd rather stay in an airconditioned hotel room, snuggling with Ane all day under the 300+ count sheets! :) Cozy, huh? I hope we have the extra money to spend though hihihi.

Anyway, the other day I was browsing Friendster accounts and I came across a picture in Lara's that totally made my day :) I just had to do a LO of it (I remember Lara asking that I make one for her). Here it is:

Credits

How adorable, this Ryan kid! :) He can even dance like that dancing internet baby, remember that one? Hehe...

Oh, like him, I wish I can forget how hot it is, and be a kid again :)

So true...

I read somewhere that:


The best intangible gift a father could give his children is loving their mother.

Or something to that effect. I forgot who said that but the message rings in my head every now and then that I just have to post it here.

Now I understand...

why I see a lot of blogs with very short but frequent entries (read:everyday?). I need to start doing the same if I want "this little project" to push thru. Hehehe, and I gotta figure out something else. I'm gonna keep mum about it muna.

Today I busied myself by reading Illustrator tutorials and looking for downloads...that I missed my college girl friends while they were ALL online. Geesh. Anyway, I was surprised to see an email from Rissa and I am glad that they are doing okay on the other side of the world. Back to Illustrator, it's amazing how much I could learn! The techniques may very well help me in Digiscrapping. :) More on that later.

It's 10pm and I gotta start packing up. I have a hungry husband waiting for me at home, eheheh.