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call me crazy. call me excited. call me anything you want.. coz I'll probably tell you, whatever!!

yes! I am excited. wouldn't you also be excited? If you knew that in a matter of days, you're gonna fly off somewhere to study and be with a new set of people and get the chance to be just YOU!! Seriously guys, exciting sha!!

In a matter of days, I, together with my fellow scholars from GBF, will be flying off to Shanghai for a 5-month study tour. And while my mom's probably right in saying that "5 months is not the whole entirety of your life noh!", still, I am excited! That's still half a year! and yes! that makes it a BIG DEAL! at least for someone like me!!

I am really excited for all the possible things I will experience in Shanghai. I went on a 1-month study tour before in high school and that was definitely one of the best experiences I had! ANU PA KAYA ETOH!!

The more important question my mom's always bugging me now is this: "what do you plan to do when you come back? you can't just bum around!" and yes, it bothers me!! because while I wanna answer that question also, I really have NO IDEA of what I wanna be doing after 5 months!! It's still a 5 month road ahead. and what do we know, Shanghai might just have the power to change my game plan, right??? So I just wanna live the NOW! coz NOW's all that matters for me!!

Kinda done with my shopping and so now, I have to read up (now that I'm done na with my Birkin book!)!! On all the places to check out! and all the things I NEED TO DO ONCE IN SHANGHAI!! After all, it's not like an opportunity like this comes to me all the time!!

I Wanna Watch!!

aside from Paano Na Kaya, that is!!

I seriously wanna watch Rent The Musical!! Does anybody know until when this is showing at the RCBC??

You see, am not really a fan of musicals! But RENT is kinda interesting noh?? A professor, Sir Espiritu at DLSU made us watch this film for ARTAPRE and I loved it ever since! Even the songs are winner! So yeah I wanna watch the moment I saw the ad! The only problem though is that I am not in Manila right now!! and am going back just in time for our Shanghai pre-departure orientation!!

Oh, time!! how do I manage thee!!!

prisoners..

a few years back I volunteered as paralegal in Quezon City Jail for our RELS subject.. some people told me that that's usually the last option they choose for that particular RELS subject.. well, I tell them I'm different. It was actually my first choice. Why? I don't know also. I guess, it was because of the excitement I felt when I thought about it when we were choosing what we wanted to do for RELS. Also, probably because I was ma-arteh as usual!!

You see, I don't like animals. Was never a fan. So I definitely didn't wanna go to an animal shelter to make them poo, give them a shower, and stuff like that! I also didn't wanna sweep the streets of Metro Manila. I kinda wanted to go to Zambales (where we ended up also anyway) but the thought of talking to actual prisoners and going to an actual jail was wayyyyyyy more exciting for me. Believe me!! It was one of those things you kinda dream of getting the chance to do. So when I got the opportunity, I brought some friends along and signed up immediately!!

The jail scenario was soooo heart-warming. I felt sooooo lucky and realized a whole lot of things! Too bad though my two friends who were with me backed out. I wanted to continue but didn't wanna do it alone. My mother, was beyond furious when I called her up after my visit to the jail and told her:

Me: Ma, alam mo isang prisoner dito theft lang case nya, napagbintangan na nagnakaw cp, kawawa naman di alam ng family nya na nakakulong, 200 lang fine nya di nya mabayaran!!

Mama: and so??

Me: pwede ba ako nalang magbayad pyansa nya??

Mama: sira ulo ka! tigil-tigilan mo nga ako ha! pag ginawa mo yan, baka ikaw pa nakawan nyan!!

Me: pero ma, innocent sya sabi nya!

Mama: lahat yan sasabihin sayo innocent sila!

Me: sabi din nga ng police pero kawawa eh..

Mama: tumigil ka nga jan!! umalis ka na jan sa program na yan!!

Me: alam mo ma, mata-criminal ka!! totoo!!

The last line made that unforgettable for me! When I told my mom that she was "mata-criminal!" Even the coordinator, when I explained my situation to him, laughed at me!! Because in the end, mom won. And so I ended up in Zambales, planting instead with the farmers!! cool din!!

So I was really glad and happy when I saw this video of the Cebu Dancing Inmates! It feels soooo good to know that people actually care about them and that efforts are actually being made so that they will have something productive to do while in jail! So thank you Sony for initiating. The warden is probably good too!! and Travis, oh I heart you!! esp. when he was kinda crying!! nakakiyak nga the jail situation talaga when you get the chance to see it!!

On the side though, this particular jail in Cebu, kinda looks like the QC jail. only this is cleaner I think.. and hopefully, the conditions of the prisoners, better. After all, they deserve it! They're some kinda popular na kaya!!

;-)

how to.. 101!

how to forget 101!

new year, new life! and this 2010, as much as possible, I sooooo don't wanna hang out with people completely not worth it!! people who are just plain major *toots*! Period.

So how to forget people not worth our time..

1. hang out with better people!
2. divert. divert. divert.
3. tell yourself: 'isa syang walang kwentang tao!'
4. busy yourself.
5. forget, forget, and forget!!

if i come up with more, I'll be sure to tell you guys more!!

CDQ: you're the MAN!!

medyo.. medyo.. may point sya noh!!

you just haftooo, hafttoooo, LLOOOOVVVEEE the man for the courage! ALWAYS.

No. I won't be here for this coming 2010 elections, true! but anyhoo, kung nadirito man ako, I only have one thing to say: "GO NOY!" Period.

True, it is a choice. Between the lesser evil and the good! Whichever one you pick, do know and keep in mind please.. that YOU are voting for our nation's future!!

Theres The Rub
‘Mahirap’

By Conrado de Quiros
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 04:01:00 01/27/2010

Filed Under: Inquirer Politics, Manny Villar, Benigno Aquino III,Congress, Eleksyon 2010

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It’s almost enough to make you believe in an invisible hand that guides human affairs. Twice already the best laid plots of mice and Manny have been thwarted by an unexpected turn of events. Unexpected at least from his end.

The first was Cory Aquino dying and reviving something everyone thought was dead. Before that, Manny Villar was the leading presidential candidate, aided in no small way by a culture of apathy that made people settle for the lesser evil, the mediocre, the pwede na rin. But with Cory dying and Noynoy’s bid being born, the culture changed suddenly, the Edsa spirit returned with a vengeance, with its hallmarks of idealism and voluntarism, people now demanding not just the lesser evil but the good. And just as suddenly Villar—as well indeed as Arroyo and Erap (Joseph Estrada’s nickname), who had loomed large in the landscape—was swept aside. Condemned now to languish in the shadows, Villar finds himself desperate to catch up with the new frontrunner, resorting to interpreting a commissioned survey in various ways, not unlike the devil quoting Scripture to suit his purposes.

The second is the Senate censure of Villar for unethical conduct. He hasn’t been attending the sessions, preferring instead to plead his case before media. But whether before the one or the other, he has been put on the defensive at a time when everyone, not least the Aquino camp, expected him to open the year with guns blazing. He did try to, conjuring images of the Mendiola massacre and reviving the specter of Hacienda Luisita. Neither has flown off, which has little to do with the Aquino camp putting them down with brilliant ploys. Or indeed with doing anything to put them down. It has to do simply with Villar himself offering, if not ample refutation of them, ample diversion from them. It’s his sordid case that has grabbed public attention.

It’s not just SOBs, as Joey Salceda observed of his favorite one, that turn out to be lucky. Decent ones do too. Or the wind has changed, it’s no longer Arroyo’s enemies who are dying. The religious of course are bound to say this is not luck at all, somebody up there must be making pakiusap to the Big Boss.

Whatever the outcome of the Senate hearings—and this is not going to go away easily, to go by the shrillness of the exchanges—this case will hang over Villar’s campaign like an albatross, giving it the aura of a doomed ship. His own defense little helps to shoo away the accursed aerial apparition, being either extrinsic (it’s politically motivated) or glib (what he did was perfectly legal, if arguably unethical). Of course it’s politically motivated, but he didn’t particularly rail against the concept when the Department of Justice filed murder charges against Panfilo Lacson at the very time the Ampatuans were going to trial. As to his justifying the C-5 diversion as legal, it doesn’t make things better, it makes it worse.

Villar’s argument is that the diversion has greatly benefited the residents of Las Piñas and environs. Of course it has also greatly benefited him, the extension traversing his land and increasing its value. Unfortunately for him, that is not an incidental point, that is the heart of the matter. If the road had been diverted to other towns, then they would have greatly benefited from it. Far more importantly, that simply means that anything Villar does to improve his fortunes can always be argued to be legal by being beneficial to at least some people, thereby raising the prospect of a national policy—a chilling one should he become president—that says: What is good for Vista Land is good for the country.

That is a variation of “What is good for Standard Oil is good for America,” a concept that has driven the US to imperialistic wars, at great cost to its citizens, for the good of a few multinationals. On a smaller scale (though not for us who have to bear the brunt of its ravage), that is a concept that can drive the country nuts, neither government nor the citizens knowing where Villar ends and the country begins, and vice versa. The day you start arguing that what is good for you is good for everybody else is the day you should land in a nuthouse or in jail in lieu of Malacañang. Of course it’s not always easy to see where a nuthouse or jail ends and Malacañang begins, but that’s another story.

I am glad Satur Ocampo has found his voice, bidding his standard-bearer face the music, however the music sounds like Faure’s “Requiem.” It can’t help his cause harping on Hacienda Luisita while turning a blind eye on this, unless the argument is that corruption fells only the rich and not the poor, the landed and not the landless.

I have always wondered why of all the possible themes or images or identities, Villar had to choose being “mahirap.” The last time somebody tried it, who was Ramon Mitra, who projected himself so in an ad where he rode a horse and looked every inch like a cacique, he only shot himself in the foot. Villar repeats the farce, projecting himself as poor in a campaign that teems with money, reeks of money, regurgitates with money—of the ill-gotten kind given the way it is spent, which is not unlike that of a sailor hitting port. And whose standard bearer is named Manny. His foot is the last place he will shoot.

Mahirap is a curious word that translates in English both as “poor” and “hard” or “difficult.” The way things are, Villar may have just have found the perfect label for himself. Mahirap: mahirap kausapin, or hard to talk to, refusing to stand before the Senate to explain his conduct; mahirap pagkatiwalaan, or hard to trust, you never know what kinds of extensions he will justify in the future; mahirap ang kalooban, or depleted in the inside while endowed on the outside.

Someone like that proposes to lead you, you’re bound to say:

Mahirap na.

why Naga is..

definitely better than Manila right now!!

After soooo, sooo many years, this has officially been my longest stay in Naga.. and because I am still in Naga as of the moment, it is really like that I am once again, back to my hometown!! oh.yeah.boy!

Naga, as of now, is so much better than my life back in Manila because here I get to:

1. eat home-cooked meals from Ate (yum, yum, and more yum!)
2. learn how to go about my mama's files (ang sakit sa ulo though!)
3. learn how it's like to be kahera in Hoyeh and actually start getting used to it!
4. walk home from my Hoyeh duty (ang sarap ng fresh air!)
5. get to be with my family and friends.. and..
6. because it's like a brand new start all over for me again, I also get to meet new friends sometimes!! (fun, fun, fun)

So these things, makes my brand new Naga experience = LOVE!!

;-)

of all the things I hate..

Of all the things I hate..

IKAW.. o ang mga taong tulad mo ang PINAKA-HATE KO!!

AS IN!!

I just HATE, HATE, HATE them people who make promises to you..

and never, ever fulfill them!!

It's okay lang naman sana as I'm not really the ASA type..

but dude! stick to your word naman! MAKE BAWI when you say

"BABAWI AKO SAYO NEXT TIME!"

Seriously, people don't even need to say that every time they aren't able to do one thing..

Saying I'M SORRY is ENOUGH!! No need to say anything else!!

Esp. pag tinanggap na SORRY MO!!

dahil ngayon.. asan na ang BAWI mo???

Read: where are you na when people actually need you?!?

You say, "the way I see it, he's just all talk!"

Well guess what!! the way I see it,

YOU ARE JUST THE SAME!!

YOU ARE JUST ALL TALK AS WELL!!

and NO! HWAG KA NA BUMAWI!!

Let the countdown begin..

No! Break muna tayo from my Shanghai countdown!

This is a different countdown for a different thing!!

When I resigned from work I told myself I would get me something nice from all my IMS ipon..

After disobeying and disregarding mom's suggestion (dahil itatago ko lang naman yan mom and so not worthy YET for me..

After months and months and months of thinking over and over and over and over about it,

I have finally made my decision!!

And the long wait is worth it!! coz now nag promo and mas mababa na ang price by 2k!

Good for me!!

But dahil may promo, I still have to wait for another 2-3 weeks or so!!

So LET THE COUNTDOWN BEGIN!!

This comes in right exactly before my Shanghai trip!!

Oh yeah!!

MAKE ME HAPPY MY DEAR!!

Like a kid..

CURRENT MOOD: GIDDY!!

Oh Tagaytay..

I have been to Tagaytay so, so many times before. It is one of those places you go to with your friends or cousins whenever you are sick and tired of the same old things you see/do in Manila!! The weather in Tagaytay, of course, is also an added bonus!!

My Tagaytay trip last Jan. 14-16 was the first trip I had (outside Bicol) for 2010! It was also my first trip with Yuchi, Hannah, and Tanni. At first I was hesitant.. coz I had stuff to do at home and so on.. but when my Bangkok trip got cancelled, I decided, that I might as well enjoy myself before I really get depressed over that wasted Bangkok trip! right?!?

And so I went with them to Tagaytay. Flight was 7:45, I arrived at Naga airport at 7:25! Don't blame me I almost left my passport which I needed to submit to GBF so I had to go back! And so we arrived in Manila and began our search for Kuya Bert. Yuchi said, kilala ko daw sya as per our previous encounter.. I said "okay.. yeah.. let's search for him nalang.." because in my mind, I had no idea! That was months ago kaya!!

And so imagine our surprise when a car stopped in front of us. Apparently, sya na si Kuya Bert (talagang hindi ko sya makikilala dahil semi-kalbo na sya!) and so we went to Tagaytay! Arrived there at the Basic office mga 10 and ate lunch na with our host..

Day 1:

Arrived at the house..

toured around Highlands..

si Hannah ang nag drive!

Went to the Highlands farm..

Oh so many animals!!

Kami lang ang mga tao!!

Day 2: My FAVORITE day!! Also dubbed (in my mind) as "Ang Kakaibang Tagaytay!"

toured the Basic Necessity farm..

Oh my goodness GULAY!!

As in LITERALLY!!

Left at around 12 noon to go to Taal! Yahoo!!

Arrived at the resort at around 1!

GUTOM!! Pero walang kainan dun!!

So let's do this OLD SCHOOL STYLE, DLSU STYLE: SKYFLAKES!! Ang dakilang pantawid gutom!

Started to board our boat..

eventually, this was what we called

"THE CRAZIEST BOAT RIDE"

dahil ang lakas ng alon so basang basa kami!

parang naligo din lang kami!

then horse ride naman to the crater!

yahoo!!

ang aking guide na feeling cowgirl!

so ako din FEELING COWGIRL!!

Take note: naka slippers yan ha!!

Side note: "Ms., nakakahinga ka pa ba?? hindi ka masyado afraid sa alikabok!"

1 hour after..

THIS WAS WHAT WE SAW!!

TOTALLY WORTH IT!!

FANTASTIC VIEW OF TAAL!!

and of course and kawa-kawayan na kina-inggittan ko kay Manong!

after the CRAZY BOAT RIDE

and the

MALA-COWGIRL HORSE RIDE

I got this!!

So in the end, it was REALLY FUN!

Never mind if we weren't able to go zipline..

or spa..

THIS ALL MADE MY TRIP WORTH IT!!

Ti'll next time GALS!!

I came back to Manila and thought:

"Oh that wasted Bangkok trip!"

Oh My Golly GULAY!!

Oh my GULAY!! Like you've never seen before!!

I mean, seriously people! I have never seen as much gulay in my whole life!!

Part of our Day 2 in Tagaytay was spent in the Basic Necessity Salad Time (not sure if I'm right there) farm.. ANG DAMING GULAY!!

Imagine eating togue straight from the plant..

walking amidst all these plentiful (obvious ba?) lettuce..

being amazed at lettuce this big??

smelling the wonderful aroma of the herbs while walking..

the lavender was my personal favorite!!

and eating the leaf of a certain plant straight from the plant? walang hugas, hugas!!

Whoa!! diba!!

when we arrived in Manila 2 days later, we realized.. hindi nga pala kumain ng gulay sa Tagaytay!! but our eyes were definitely, nabusog sa gulay!!

Mind you, sosyal ang mga hala-halaman na itoh ha.. they are washed using mineral water.. so it's safe to eat agad kahit na leaf pa sya or whatever! So now, I am eating gulay once again!! Picked up a bag from the grocery the other day!!

Ang healthy lang!!

When there's 0 chance..

Of getting that something you want. I guess that's what you call the IMPOSSIBLE na talaga!!

That's when you're left wondering with soooo much what-if's!

That's when you just seriously want to forget all about it!!

Weird!!

2 in 1

Tried to learn two things today. This has officially been my most productive day perhaps ever since my vacation started!

It's vacation time once again! At least for me. Summer came in kinda early for me and the rest of my GBF YYP mates! And yes, as usual, I went home here in Naga. Wanted to. Had to. People see me here and they get shocked. They say, "Kei, akala ko bumalik ka na sa Manila?" And so I go ahead and tell them, "No tito/tita, I'm on vacation now.." and they say, "why? anu na ginagawa mo ngayon?" and instead of me answering, my mom says, "wala.. waiting for their departure." So tito/tita says, "Saan ka pupunta? For what? Akala ko ba nag masters ka?" and the list of questions goes on and on and on.. But no complaints here! I love my titos and titas to bits! Read: mom's friends and our relatives. I feel so lucky to have them. They add a little more fun and chica factor to our lives.

But the thing here is, there are also those whom you don't feel sharing with kasi. Because, deep inside, I know and I feel that they are asking to judge you. Reason: because they think they know what is right for you. Because they think they know what you should do so you can be happy. People often do this. Not only titos and titas. Sometimes, even your age-mates do this. They talk, and you are left with no choice but to make salo all their talk. But let us all remember please, that talking is easy! Never feel that you know what is good for another or that you know his current disposition in life because truth is, you have no idea! Truth is, there is always two ways on which people can look at it. And yes, people will always talk. That's what they love to do!

So to pass the time, I decided to help my mom around the business. She needed help, I had nothing to do. Today I learned how to encode payroll forms. Something I did na for her before but stopped doing when I went to college. Behind me, are loads and loads more of papers and files to sort, compute, encode, and file. All before I leave for Shanghai! So help me Lord!

And just when I thought that I was doing mostly computer work in the house as our office is in the house also, she brought me with her to one of her ongoing projects. The market. She had to do on-site inspection, I was there meddling, looking around, trying to absorb and learn everything. How inspiring!! I thought to myself: "Forget my school, this is what I wanna do ata.." Later on, I told my mom: "Mom, it's kinda fun and inspiring din pala doing this.. as long as the projects are kinda big." Her reply: "masaya lang yan tingnan ngayon.." But who cares right?? I am not about to bash her field of work. And I am definitely not against it. Because whatever happens, fact will always remain that this is what made me afford to live the life I have now. This is what gave me my education and the little I have now. And so, yes, you got it, I love it! Someday, I wouldn't be surprised if I find myself in this road too. After all, I love flexi time! and oh yeah, being boss.

Then comes learning no. 2. How to operate a restaurant. In short, how to make bantay. When I was little, I was never given the chance to take charge in the family bakery as I had cousins who were older than me. They were the bosses everytime it was peak season. We were merely their tinderas (but with our own cash registers, mind you). And so with my recent cancellation of my trip to Bangkok (maybe another post), my oh so awesome of a mother volunteered me to take charge of my cousins resto for the time being! I have to admit it was kinda tiring absorbing everything after coming from the project site but it was fun. It was actually exciting. Now at least I have something to look forward to in lieu of my Bangkok trip.

My mom told me, "kung may mag ooffer lang sa stocks, ivvolunteer pa kita because i want you to learn a lot of things in various fields." And yes I cannot agree more. I personally want to try them too. And see perhaps, where I can find what I truly, truly wanna do. Coz' let's face it, I don't think anyone's ever really contented and happy with what they are doing. Sometime, somewhere you will want to try something, everything. And so I believe that it's better to try them all while we're young pa! Then later on, you can truly say that "yes. I have tried them all. And I know this is what I wanna do. This is what I wanna be doing today, tomorrow, and until that next exciting, interesting thing comes my way." At least alam mong hindi ka maninibago at mapapawala ng landas at a time when hindi na bagay sa age mo!

And so yes. I do what I feel like doing. Applied for GBF after I resigned. Dropped my masters when I got GBF. Trying construction while on break from GBF. And who knows what I'll do in Shanghai.. It's a journey. And I can only hope that the going will continue becoming better at this time when I can ride it pa!! One day, someday, I know I'll find my place knowing to myself that I have lived a life that I wanted for myself!

;-)

nangangamoy Shanghai na nga!!

Before, we would often joke sa class na 'zai Shanghai, wo men look for wai guo ren!' hahaha..

wai guo ren = foreigners... so meaning, pwede Chinese di ba???!! wohooooo!!!

So this morning while I was having my 'break' from mom's pang aalila, I suddenly saw this ad sa yahoo!! and I thought 'hmmm.. nangangamoy Shanghai na nga!!' dui, dui, dui, dui huan lu!!

So, classmates (read: GBF people; YYP's).. you know na what to do!!

READY, SET, SEARCH!! NOW NA!!

Ooooppppsss.. sorry guys pang gals lang pala itei!!

Skewed China birth rate to leave 24 mln men single

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AFP – Chinese couples parade during a mass wedding ceremony at a shopping mall in Beijing in 2006. More than …

Mon Jan 11, 5:59 am ET

BEIJING (AFP) – More than 24 million Chinese men of marrying age could find themselves without spouses in 2020, state media reported on Monday, citing a study that blamed sex-specific abortions as a major factor.

The study, by the government-backed Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, named the gender imbalance among newborns as the most serious demographic problem for the country's population of 1.3 billion, the Global Times said.

"Sex-specific abortions remained extremely commonplace, especially in rural areas," where the cultural preference for boys over girls is strongest, the study said, while noting the reasons for the gender imbalance were "complex."

Researcher Wang Guangzhou said the skewed birth ratio could lead to difficulties for men with lower incomes in finding spouses, as well as a widening age gap between partners, according to the Global Times.

Another researcher quoted by the newspaper, Wang Yuesheng, said men in poorer parts of China would be forced to accept marriages late in life or remain single for life, which could "cause a break in family lines."

"The chance of getting married will be rare if a man is more than 40 years old in the countryside. They will be more dependent on social security as they age and have fewer household resources to rely on," Wang said.

The study said the key contributing factors to the phenomenon included the nation's family-planning policy, which restricts the number of children citizens may have, as well as an insufficient social security system.

The situation influenced people to seek male offspring, who are preferred for their greater earning potential as adults and thus their ability to care for their elderly parents.

The Global Times said abductions and trafficking of women were "rampant" in areas with excess numbers of men, citing the National Population and Family Planning Commission.

Illegal marriages and forced prostitution were also problems in those areas, it said.

Authorities put the normal male-female ratio at between 103-107 males for every 100 females. But in 2005, the last year for which data were made available, there were 119 boys for every 100 girls, the newspaper said.

However, the study said that in some areas the male-female ratio was as high as 130 males for every 100 females, a report by the Mirror Evening newspaper said.

The report said the study urged the government to relax the so-called "one-child" policy and study the possibility of encouraging "cross-country marriages."

China first implemented its population control policy in 1979, generally limiting families to one child, with some exceptions for rural farmers, ethnic minorities and other groups.

It has said the policy has averted 400 million births.

Researchers said the gender imbalance problem cropped up in the late 1980s when the use of ultrasound technology became more prevalent.

This allowed women to easily determine the sex of their foetuses, leading to an increased number of sex-selective abortions.

*hint, hint* to my mares, friends.. esp. Si Si, alam mo na yun!! bwahahaha...

Malabsay Jump

Thanks Linette, because we had to tour you around, we were able to go to Malabsay Falls once again!! (after millions of years!) ahh.. it feels so good to have visitors from Manila around coz I get to luxing, luxing the places that are really uniquely pang-probinsya!! coz otherwise, matatapos ang aking xuexi dito sa Naga na ang napuntahan lang ay ang TCB, Avenue, SM, and The Tent!!

Next time, I'm going back to jump from a higher spot!! sayang kasi wala nang time!! it's so nakakatamad kasi to wake up early!! hapon na tuloy kami nakapunta!! boo!! at natigil pa ang swimming for a while dahil akala naman may ahas (pero leaf lang naman pala!) kasi naman.. bakit yellow sha and glowing!!

The water was soooo cold.. perfect practice for Shanghai weather in my and Ace's case perhaps?? Oh, BRING IT ON!!

the hike was defs nakakapagod but it was all worth it!!

lovett!!

MY NEW LIFESTYLE FOR 2010 (dry run lang..)

I am not really good with promises I make to myself! I know. But so what?!? I just wanna try!

While eating with mom and B2 earlier, I thought about some stuff I wanna "try" for the nth time!

And so.. (plus, somehow in preparation for Shanghai), I came up with my new list of no-no's for the next two months!! Until Shanghai that is..

1. NO MORE SOFT DRINKS! Diabetes runs in the family!
2. NO MORE CHOCOLATES! Health reason. Diabetes runs in the family! Ang lakas talaga!
3. NO MORE JUNK FOOD. If I can give up the above stuff, I need to give this up too!!
4. NO MORE MEAT. Faster way to loose weight! Plus, meat everyday is yucky!!
5. NO MORE BOOZE. Seriously! I wanna stop my drinking habit!! wala lang! pang efek!!

And dahil may NO-No's, there are also some stuff I wanna try to do (again, until Shanghai lang)..

1. GO TO THE GYM. I've been saying this again and again. Try lang. Beat my katamaran!
2. EXERCISE. Again, to be less tamad! Plus, faster way to loose weight again!
3. TRY TO WAKE UP EARLY. wala lang.
4. BE LESS MATAKAW!! Seriously!! Everyday, every minute I'm awake, parang I wanna eat!

So, since I will be in Naga (most of the time).. and jobless.. and not to mention, out-of-school, I have asked my mom (future boss) to:

1. ASK ME TO DO STUFF THAT WILL MAKE ME STAY AWAY FROM FOOD!
2. GIVE ME WORK, WORK, WORK!! SO I WON'T BE THINKING OF FOOD ALL THE TIME!!
3. REMIND ME THAT I WANNA LOOSE WEIGHT BEFORE SHANGHAI!
4. STOP FEEDING THE PIG (READ: ME)!!

Thankfully,

1. I have 2 months more or less before Shanghai.
2. I will be in Naga. So I can walk around the city lang whenever I wanna go somewhere.
3. Ate will be at home. Yey to yummy food!! So I can just ask her to cook 'healthy' food for me!!

So tomorrow (later) is my first day!! yey!! GOOD LUCK TO ME!! WISH ME LUCK 2010!!