i miss my blog

its been a while since my last post. i really miss this page. i must admit that i became so busy lately. work and non-work related stuff, some are bad, many are good :) and since blogging is really my thing, i don't want to neglect this account anymore yet my mind is kinda juggling of different memories i'd been thru. haha! i have no idea where to begin... geeezze!

ok, to start of - i was out of the city 3x since july. id been in tarlac to visit and experience the much awaited tacsiapo in isdaan restaurant. love the ambiance and the foods, i must go back and have a dinner there next time..soon! Second destination is Bolinao. this is one of the longest hour travel experienced i ever had.. so many things happened, so many places and attractions that i need to describe, so i guess i'll be needing an extra page for it. and lastly, Palawan escapade. i was in Puerto Princessa and El Nido last September (again, a separate blog for this). 

Enough with the places, the past months i can say was really a blast for me, for my friends and for my family. and because i don't want to make this blog looks like an e-diary of mine, i will not gonna go into details. But the events that i been referring to were really a life changing for all of us involved. 

but here's one personal thing that i am willing to share, one way of giving tribute to the man who started it all up. on the first day of October my Lolo past away. he was 91 y/o. he is a living legacy for he touched our life with his strict but generous hands. You will be forever remembered Lolo. RIP. 

falcon with an "F"

i really have no idea that this storm falcon will gonna marked my day. as in. wala! i know it's rainy season, for a busy person, its time to bring umbrella, jackets and slippers..in short, ready yourself to hassle but i really have no idea i'm gonna meet falcon personally.. and bonded with him for a long period of my time.

office hours ended up @ 6pm. heavy rains and mini floods were with us. in my mind, it's just an ordinary rainy days, til i got numbers of text msgs telling me to take care and find other ways aside from taking magallanes route. flooded road here yah! and so i realized, i'm on a serious case...needs serious attention. 

to begin with, i started mentally planning my route home. as norm, my way is to take prc jeep going south, luckily, magallanes was closed as expected. i have no choice but to go north tru mrt. i was blessed that i was surrounded with hp men, who protected me all throughout. i didn't had a hard "balyahan" moment in the mrt because of them (if iver it'll be my first time) that's why i'm super thankful that i was with them. pila palang sa mrt naku naman.. hay sabayan pa ng powerwind ni falcon. however, we never stop laughing despite the fact that we all felt the intensified falcon storm. thanks to nas james mon sam and the rest of hp men..thank you sobra for keeping me company. haha.. i knew i'm gonna face the real challenge after i rode mrt. parting ways na. magkakasubukan na kami ni falcon. ayayay...i decided to hit boni way. i just thought that this place is the best alternative way for me. besides its so accessible and i'm kinda familiar. 

to make the long story short, i got stranded for more than 3hrs in boni station. all drivers refused to load passengers due to flooded area along mandaluyong. to be honest, i really have no intention of riding any kind of public vehicle that time cause i know it'll be useless. completely useless. i wasn't ready to swim at all and i don't want to accept challenge that involves floods as much as i can. so my options are: #1 call for help, ask someone to pick me up, preferably via motorcycle so we can hit some shortcuts. #2 stay in any hotel/motel/lodge/ for a night. #3 going back in the office or just stay in mrt vicinity (makiki-ondoy moment lang?). 

i was so blessed that i won the option 1. papa approached my direction immediately. he picked me-up and we found some shortcuts to avoid flooded area.. i don't know if it is right to call it shortcuts when in fact it took us so long on our way home. haha. i got the chance to took some photos of some mini flooded roads that we've been through. 

after 30 minutes or less - finally, we'r home safe! and before i forgot, i also took a shot of my greatest armor in facing falcon. my wonder jacket, my bonggang-bonggang waterproof tote bag and my astig tsinelas. thank you all.. you'll be loved.

and this is my very last shot on my dirty feet, tho i didn't tried to have a single step on flooded area, still my feet caught some raindrops and mad-drops. hahaha.

deep inside, i am so happy because this experienced of mine was filled with realizations that i am so blessed in so many aspects. i may not consider this as worst as ever because i know there are so many who really experienced the real worst of the worst.. and the only thing i can do for them, is to pray for their safety and for them to have enough strength and courage to face this kind of challenge. have faith and we can get over falcon and any other difficulties. 

"f" is all we need

long in short

since the time i made a drastic change in my look, i can't stand the fact that my hair is growing so fast coz it seems to me so hassle and uneasy to maintain it's volume. as a matter of fact, this is way too difficult to handle compare to long-straight/perm hair (i had it both). 

keeping the hair healthy and prevent fly-away are the main concerns of a girl who look after her aura. well, there's nothing to deny of - it's so normal.. i know everyone thinks the same way! remember, people care about people who knows how to care themselves.

so here i am again, approached the salon direction a while ago. i had my hair trimmed. short length needed to maintain and the bangs are now more obvious. i think i'm having an intimate relationship with the scissors who cut my hair short. there's a part of me who keeps coming back in salon. haha can't resist. 

alright, i won't make this blog long and boring besides all i want is to post my latest look.. hereyah! 

and here is my favorite shot

im so gay

trying hard

i think i'm starving myself to death for more than a week as i suffered for a terrible diet. as much as possible, only foods that can easily swallow. damn soft diet! it's not just the teeth that i hate most but those mouth sores due to the brackets that i have. 

at home, i am comfortable eating any solid foods whatever it takes pa cause i can handle all the pain as long as i'm on my nest.. but never did i tried to do the same outside... until today.  

i had my lunch at tokyo cafe located in venetian mall (mckinley hills). this is the very first time i felt so worried of eating meals. haha! well i think..i have a reason to feel that way cause this is also my first ever pig out after my braces on. so honestly, don't know how to deal with it. start of 'trying hard' acts. there you go =)

i ordered oyako-ju and iced chocolano. i chose this because it is chicken fillet so i'm not having a hard time cutting the meat into pieces (tamad lang haha). and i'm so happy when i saw that my side dish is a veggy salad. hehe. yummy! the foods was so delissshhhh!! i do enjoyed the taste of my first major meal.. maybe because i miss being like this. haha.. (nangungulila na tlga ako sa pagkain hay)

as expected my mate was the first one to finished his meal while i'm on a process of having a hard time swallowing and swallowing and swallowing GENTLY! there's a need for me to be more careful not to place the food in my mouth's sensitive area and my tongue did an excellent job. though the ouch factor and conscious awareness were still there. 

tik tok tik tok.. lunch time was over.. didn't empty my plate, but i was full tho. 

and that's how my happy meal ended

thanks for the food i ate today and for more to come.. painless i wish =)

boracay walkway...

the past

look what i've found in my auntie nita's old old photo album in bicol. before i begin i just want to make a brief  info about some history.. hehe. my mother was born and raised in ligao city, albay, bicol in the small town of bay just near the rail road and tuburan elementary school. her full name is angelita termino quililan, now since she's a married woman she became angelita quililan-penaranda. here's one unbelievable trivia - my mama have 17  siblings. 11 of them was born alive.. o yeah! whatta big family.. 

every summer, as much as possible, May, we (together with some relatives here in manila) visit they're hometown in ligao, albay. to see and bond with other quililans and also it's Bay fiesta on 19th of May, giving honor to their patron - St. Joseph. 

May 19, 2011 - i flew to legazpi city (albay, bicol) from manila to spend 4 days vacation. and since it's fiesta - i felt so special coz on the day that i came in there's so many foods and happenings...i was so happy to see familiar faces welcomed me =) nice to be back! 

going back -- auntie nita showed some old albums, and this pictures make me laugh.. my 3 elder sisters when they are young =) hehe! 

i am so happy when i saw this, we don't have old pictures of ourselves cause all of our valuables was vanished by the fire way way back 1997. 

si mama, ate, che-che at kathy

si ate with lola gloria and others (unknown) hehe

che-che, ate, kathy, ate bhez (left-right)

auntie nita, che-che, ate, kathy, mama (left-right) 

krisanta "che-che" penaranda 

 i look like che-che di ba? hehe

this was rochel's (anak ni tiya tita) bday daw sabi ni auntie 

 ate gina (cousin father side) ate, cheche, mama and auntie nita

kathy and che-che

so cute hehe!

ate ko! hehe (iba tlaga ang nagagawa ng syensya)

i don't have baby pictures sa album na yun.. don't knnow why.. =( sad! maybe because sobrang bata pa ko nyan.. i'm seven yrs younger kay kathy. 2nd to the youngest. hehe.. but it's ok atleast i have they're pictures... i know i can make them laugh. 

boracay synopsis

"Awwwwtssss and Shit" are the most famous words for me now. haha! i keep on screaming in my mind since day 1. nevertheless i don't wanna spoil every single day of my vacation because of the pain i have. literally, it's killing me softly. Rarrr!

well, anyhow, back to wer we've been through... we had our helmet diving experienced yesterday and our first ever invasion in station 1 boracay beach. so nice! also we never missed to try jonah's (must try in boracay). and as expected it didn't disappoint me. sarap ng mocha rhum shake =) new fave! kudos!

on our second day here in boracay (thats today), we woke up so early (5am) to hit our first itinerary for today and that was atv going to puka beach. on our way there's an unforgettable scene happened. guess who's the "bida" ? hahaha! i'll make a separate blog to reveal that's story and our complete boracay escapades. 

looking forward for more happy beachin' acts for all of us (my accenture and thomson pals)...hope we can do it as 1 group now, i know it's not easy to hold big group all together but as long as we are here...i keep on hoping! haha.. we still have day and a half to make this vacation memorable and ofcourse meet the equilibrium of our satisfactions. 

happy boraday guys!! 

*cheers 

braces mode on!

seriously...i'm in pain!!!! duhhhhh!! what do i expect. the sad part is - i'm in a loOOoooong vacation this week (not because of my aching teeth) but for my adventureland. Tomorrow i'll be in Boracay til 18th of May..then right after that i have an early flight going to Bicol (mama's hometown). Do you think i made the right decision of putting my braces on?

Oh well, it's all done! haha. funny. tiis ganda ang drama ko for this week.

May 14th, i woke up early because my dentist texted me that she'll be doing my braces na today at 2pm. I agreed considering that i have the above reasons :) naisip ko kasi, if not now kelan pa. haha! ayun lang. So i went to her clinic at Sandico St.

fast forward... while she's in the process of putting each brackets in place, i was so surprised that it didn't hurt, i mean it's tolerable, the only thing that made me feel uncomfy was my saliva that stuck on the other side of my mouth, also the mouth piece that hold my lips away from my teeth and ofcorz the fact that i kept my mouth wide opened for almost 3hrs! whew! ohyeah 3hrs!

i felt that it was not an easy procedure to make.. so i salute all the dentist in the world! such a tiny object that you manage to perfectly attached to every single tooth and keep your patient calm while doing that :) good job dr.babes :)

i'm so excited to see how it looks, so right after we're done, i look at it in the mirror and judge how i look. btw, the color of the rubber i chose is gray. nyaha! actually, what's in my heart is light blue or aqua blue...but my concern was - it may look so obvious if i go with it so in the end - i'm in gray. so metallic aura, nice! bagay naman pala. i look younger daw sabi.

so this is the most important part, while doing some facial expression in front of the mirror and keep on smiling to see if my braces are fitted, one thing came into my mind that makes me so worried.....

how do i enjoy the wonderful world of kissing????!!!!!

bwahahahaha! seriously it is a major concern ha! (aminin) oh well, all things can be learn... nyaha! I can't get over this, i can't figure it out! waaahhh.. laughtrip! pano nga ba?!

enough of that funny part.. i know that this is only the first phase. there's more phases to come. i'll be wearing this for almost 2yrs or if i'm a good patient daw maybe 1 and a half yr. i'll be going along with it every single day and ready myself to hassle.

nice smile :)