konkering da pilipins!

still a long way to go beybi!need to work out on the visayas part :)

travel week

i remember i always chide adrian whenever he goes someplace new and he doesnt make prior arrangements on his hotel accommodation. i always ask him why guys live that, bara-bara na lang.kung saan maabutan ng gabi.

well, surprise, surprise!because am gonna do just that this week.am going to koronadal city without any idea where am gonna sleep.my best bet is in a hotel.worst case? in a bus terminal.gudlak na lang sa akin.and then by mid-week am off to zambo via davao.gotta spend the night in davao becuase its an early morning flight.and since there's no big moolah for marco polo hotel anymore, am gonna make do with mtrc, a govt training dorm inside the compound of davao medical school foundation. but there's no guarantee since its always full there.so goodluck again.

i just hope the documents that i ought to retrieve will all be in electronic file.or else.hell on earth again.

i remember what Hawk said in G.I.Joe:

"when all else fails... we dont."

i just hope i dont too.

rainy days

nakakamiss ang baguio pag umuulan.yung sobrang lamig.yung hindi ka na halos makapagsalita ng maayos kasi pati ngalangala mo nanginginig.

sigma delta pi sorority

"Pero sa gitna ng larangan, patuloy ding nasala ang mga tunay at huwad; naihiwalay ang binhi sa ipa. Bumaba at umuwi ang mga di nakatagal, o lumabas at sumuko, humalik sa paa ng kaaway. Naiwan ang mga butil na ginto para patuloy na itanim at payabungin ang binhi ng pagkamakabayan..."


--- Desaparesidos ni Lualhati Bautista


Happy anniv sisses!

current mood

"...sometimes the shifting of rocks is deep, deep below, and it's powerful and scary down there, but that all we feel on the surface is a slight tremor. Only a slight tremor."



-- A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini)

scenes from my weekend

someone from my family thought of eating goat meat for sunday lunch and invited everyone so we had a family gathering last weekend. it was a nice time to catch up with each other's lives. a cousin is graduating this year from a nursing course. an uncle brought home his nikon d700 and let me take some shots.he also gave me some tips on long exposure, aperture and stuff. another cousin whose into science class in highschool has a thesis --hell yeah-- on making bamboo shoot as a food supplement. muntik ng dumanak ang dugo when she started talking about chemical analysis, capsules and microwave.and then the talk shifted to her preferred course in college. intarmed in up manila.nothing but.

we had caldereta, pinapaitan, kilawin and my favorite: sinampalukang ulo.downed with mugs of red horse. in the middle of all this, i noticed my 11 year old cousin who wasnt touching any of the dishes except for the pork barbecue. i asked him why, and this was his reply:

"a goat is not one of my pets. i only eat my pets, ya know."

like dogs and cats?

"yeah."

i dunno where he got that line, but it sure made me laughing so hard! haha.

oh, and by the way, he is already a freshman in a public high school. got accelerated twice in grade school. he shares the same genes with my bamboo-shoot-food-supplement-intarmed-in-the-making cousin. he did magic tricks when he was done eating, and announced to the world later on that he already has a girlfriend.

"not a geek after all, yeah?," was what his dad could only say.

to which an uncle countered, "alam ba niya rafael?"

adeeeek! =)

anyhoo, we watched transformers after lunch. and while we were still setting up the dvd, i asked him if he's already watched kung fu panda. he said yes and dragged me to their kitchen. showed me their cupboard. in one of his mom's tupperwares, he made this label:

kung fu panda's secret ingredient

"you know what the secret ingredient is, ate kat? nothing."

he's still a kid after all.

zamboanga itinerary

i've been sitting in the office for a month now without any out of town trip and i must admit that i am bored. and since ceb pac and pal's websites are bookmarked in my browser, i decided to check their pages yesterday. surprise, surprise! ceb pac is offering 50% discount on their fares. checked zambo... 2,500 roundtrip. now all i have to do is finish the questionnaire so i would have good enough reason for a travel order to tawi-tawi and sulu.yihee! i just wish the security situation would be ok. but hey, zambo is the home base so i decided to check out some good beaches there.

while it is true that adrian lives in zambo, we havent had enough time to actually go to the beaches. just la vista del mar, which i didnt quite enjoy because its kinda populated.

so this is the most amazing discovery i had: A PINK SAND BEACH! how cool is that huh?

so according to this blog,

A pink sand beach is very rare and there are only a few of them around the globe. They can be found in Horseshoe Bay in Bermuda, 3 islands from the Bahamas, Culebra in Puerto Rico, Maui in Hawaii, Santorini in Greece, Barbuda in the Carribean, Crane Beach in Barbados, and here in The Great Santa Cruz Islands in the Philippines.

So how did this beach got its pink sand qualities? It’s mainly because of these endangered Red Organ-Pipe Corals. From eons of natural surf erosion, these red organ-pipe corals were pulverized and mixed with the white sands resulting to its colorization. These corals are considered rare due to it’s unique qualities of a soft coral having a hard skeleton.

so there. am off to that pink sand beach in august! who's coming with me? =)

daydreaming

i wish i live in batanes..

so i could enjoy some midmorning chat by the swing


or read a good book with a nice view of the beach


and then maybe go for a ride around the countryside
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...and see the rolling hills


... take a walk around the community and meet some locals


...go up a lighthouse and enjoy the sunset from there


..maybe even stop by the beach and enjoy a comfortable silence



...i could even get married in this lovely church.just me, panda and the priest =)

@ sis yeh

masakit ang dysmenorrhea sis.waaa.about the cysts naman, its ok having them around, basta il start taking pills next month.three months yun and then il go back to the OB to have it checked again.

she can prescribe some meds if i want to have a baby na daw. dunno lang how effective these meds are. plus il get a second opinion on this one.

i suggest everyone should visit an OB so you would all know how to deal with your health issues.dati i was so afraid going to the OB but now i realized na i should have done it noon pa.

good luck sis! =)

my visit to the OB

i had been suffering from dysmenorrhea since last weekend so i decided to visit the OB yesterday. it was a brave act for me because i so dread going to the doctor. being the chicken that i am, i had to beg one of my friends to be with me.

according to the doctor, i was born with a retroverted uterus. which means my uterus tilts backwards, pointing to the spine instead of the other way. this causes my dysmenorrhea. she also told me i have polycystic ovaries, where there are many small cysts in my ovaries. the eggs do not mature so they form cysts. i would have to undergo medical treatment just to get pregnant.

when i learned about this i immediately texted panda, where i made it a bit exaggerated. sabi niya, "ok lang yan, we could always adopt a kid.at para hindi na dumami ang maldita sa mundo." hahaha.

si mama naman: "get a second opinion from your tita's OB."
so i asked her, "bakit, gusto mo na ba akong magkaanak?"
no reply yet as of press time. hihi. naloka ang lola mo!

and so i was feeling a little down yesterday. and what better way to cheer me up than go shopping! i bought new purple ipanema flip flops.happiness! =)

when we get too busy

...we sometimes forget to check on the people close to us

DAVAO TRIP

after touching down at naia on the last flight from davao, i texted adrian. (i was being a brat again so that was the first text in two days)

me: where are you?
ian: davao.just arrived this morning.


gaddemit.


me: waaaaaat???just landed here in mnla!we tuk the last flight frm dvo.
ian: bakit hindi mo sinabi na pupunta ka ng davao?
me: ....
ian: ayan kasi, inaaway mo ako lagi.

ui, di ah.

***

a few moments ago i was chatting with a cousin whose family is based in surigao. i was telling her about an aunt who came home from abroad because she had to see her doctor here.tapos she told me that her mom also had to undergo a medical procedure recently.

me: did she go to davao for it?
cuz: uhmm.. yeah.
me: i was there last week!
cuz: oh.that was when she had her operation.


sheesh.

downloading...

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random thoughts

the one that got away
his pics in fs seems he's enjoying life...single and contented. am glad =) felt surreal when i attended this conference and his dad was called out for an award.laglag panga ko! ang weird lang kasi his dad and i belong to the same society pala. sooner or later mas closer na ang encounter namin ng dad niya. weird lang. oh well, the time with him was good while it lasted. too bad we never got to meet each other. ganun ka weird.hay weird talaga.

fear
i never really bothered about plane rides until the trip to cgy last summer. the plane was caught in the middle of an airpocket.i was sleeping when we took off in mnla, too tired from the conference in dumaguete. bigla akong nagising, the plane was shaking sideways and then bam!sudden drop.the turbulence was so strong that my seatmate's coffe cup flew off and landed on my feet.mainit na kape un.amfufu.and so i developed this fear of flying.i get scared stiff everytime i ride a plane now.kanina lang malakas ang turbulence while approaching dvo. ate dem was right, mas matapang ka kung mag-isa ka because you only have yourself to rely on.

fully booked
i have a very suicidal sked for the next two months. terminal evaluation, surveys and more surveys happening all at the same time. parang yung feeling na gasping for air, always out of breath. i see my nightmare everytime i look at my calendar. and then of course the dreaded plane rides again.kung pwede nga lang video conference na lang para hindi na ako pupunta sa kanila.

career plans
gusto ko ng mag-aral!deym.ang tagal ng plano yan, hindi matutuloy-tuloy. friends and colleagues are going to school, some have even graduated na. habol tayo. please god, give me this chance. nakakamiss ang feeling ng maging estudyante. =)


regional languages
i have been observing these non-tagalog speaking pinoys.they prefer using english than tagalog. when i was in college, i took this jeepney ride from plaza-tuba.one time there was this old lady chatting with a neighbor: "napan ak nag-market yisterdi!" kunana.
translation: she went to the market yesterday.they were speaking in ilokano.

and now, here at the hotel lobby: "wala man diay kayong bugnaw na water?unsa ni, chocolate drink?naa mo o." gyud gyud! =)

vaughn, a cebuano, explained that they wont be caught dead speaking in tagalog.owkeifayn.

food exchange list

woke up rather late this morning, had to finish the database last night.when i got to the office, everyone was readying up for the wellness seminar downstairs. filled up my coffee mug, grabbed a pen and a notebook then headed off to the training room.after the seminar, RNDs were on hand for the nutritional counseling. so for a walking junk food like me, it seemed like a nightmare which ended up with a happy ending.

so here's a look at my daily FEL guide according to the RND:

* 2 cups green leafy vegetables [the darker the color, the better.hell yeah!]

* 1 cup of vegetable B [from this group i can only take in carrot, mungbean, singkamas, squash & sitao]

* 4 pcs of banana

* a cup of skimmed milk [ay sobrang nagprotesta ako dito!i hate milk.ugh.kaya tumawad ako.so nagkasundo kami na i can still have my tea tapos lagyan ko nalang ng milk.owkeifayn]

* 3.5 cups of rice [a half cup can be exchanged with: 1/2 cup binatog na dadayuhin ko pa sa session road sa baguio because they have the best binatog in da world, 8 pcs soda crackers, 1 pc boiled corn, 3 small pcs pan de sal, 1 cup macaroni/spag.just had herb and garlic pasta for dinner kanina.left over from my comfort food last weekend.bukas na lang ang diet!tse.]

* 4 matchbox-size slices of meat [ito talaga ang kalamidad.matchbox size??pero sabi naman ng RND, you are allowed to eat meat slices that have the same size as your palm.tapos may nag-react from the crowd: 2 inches thick?

* 1 tablespoon cream cheese [i did not see how many bagels i can consume]

* 1 pc chewing gum/bubble gum [wahaha!]

this list is based from my BMI. i am classified as 1st degree obese.so i have to lose 9kls in 18 months.no yo-yo dieters here. and of course para daw maging habit na ang pagkain ng matchbox-size slices of meat.gudlak na lang.

and now for the physical activity part.

i've been planning to jog for the longest time. philrice has a wide compound ideal for jogging, lalo na sa airstrip.but of course, sleep is my passion so until now drawing pa lang ang jogging.jaime has been asking me to join him pero there's this pull of my bed talaga eh.and of course aside from my addiction to sleeping is yung pangloloko sa sarili ko na i have to buy nice running shoes first. so hanggat wala akong nike equalon or adidas supernova, i can delay my jogging muna.yan ang mga stupid justifications ko.hehe.

ims, rache and i are planning to play badminton once the covered court is ok na.so habang wala pa yun,tuloy tuloy lang ang masasayang araw ko. =)

TRANSPORTMERS!

thanks to jec for this. was able to trace the guy who did it pero unfortunately the images in his deviantart site were deleted because of some copyright issues. so i googled them na lang.

which reminds me, hey manny, kamusta na yung joint account natin sa deviantart?