thou shall return

I'm back and I have returned...links and tagboards and all.
Lost a coupla' hours of sleep to trace my sources,
but hey, my blog is back albeit with a different interface.
It's worth it, demmet!

AAGGGGHHHH!!!

Agggghhhhhh!!!!!
Kill me, kill me now!
I have almost erased my entire blog content..!
I was fooling around with my template and forgot to save anything...

All my customizations lost!
Tagbar included!
Isa't-kalahating tae sa nagmamagaling sa HTML na si Jing!

au revoir

Hey guys! As promised, here are the pics from my recent out of town trip with my old friends. I've taken the liberty to edit some of the photos thru my good ol' Picassa, okey dokey? Oh, by the way, since this gimik was basically chelie's and mader's despedida, I will be including most of their pics here.

My friends Chelie and Mader are both going to the States for graduate studies (soshal!). Chelie willl be attending Georgetown and Mader is heading for Virginia Tech. By posting time, they'll be there already. But better late in posting than never, eh? Enjoy! Miss you guys!

First pic up there is Pau getting carried away with beesspreeen's (WHO?) dance step...
And then of course, these girls here all smiles and whatever...pa-simple si siyoks, wag mo na itago bilbil mu..and fe? arte mo pa rin mag-pose...












Cardinal and fe here trying to fool themselves into lovers. Haha, mas mukha kayong mag-ama! Lagot ke ke fafa Mike fefay! hala!









...And speaking of lovers nga pala, Mel surprised me by announcing her marriage to Lakay the following weekend. Shempre shocked ako pero happy...Best wishes MEllowtouch










..These 2 were lovey dovey the whole night! Pagbigyan na, Pader and Mader nga kase eh! Hamo mader, kame bahala dyan dito ke pader. HEhehe.









Here's a shot of Chelie that I particularly like. Kaya sorry na lang muna Fe and Bella, edit ko muna kayo ha..despedida naman to ni chel.. :p












Ayan, here's the tres marias in full attendance.. Kunwari black and white para nostalgic ang dating...









Months before the affair, Mabelle and I had a long standing cold war. Never knew what triggered it pero it has been months since we heard from each other. Di pa kame bati sa pic na to pero lapit na, hehe..










And yes, before I forget, here's our all-time favorite piñacolada! Concocted by who else? Siyoktong of course! This particular mix, however had a bit of Fe's pacham (patsamba!)--> she added a whisk of C2 (ice tea, if you should ask!) -- and it tasted rather good.
Cheers!







Here's one of the group pics. Cardinal, playboy? Isa-isa lang po...












And of course, like any other Bogas gimik night, it wouldn't really be complete without videoke, ryt? Here's yours truly trying to reach those falsetto notes.







Here's a couple of mugshots. I was never aware taking these myself, but then again, anyone could have. especially with Richard in attendance? Nakow, best photographer...



































Here's the mader and pader pictorial exclusive:
















Couldn't resist adding this pic (singit lang!)..this pic was taken just a little bit before I'm almost tempted to hit Mabelle from the back...hehe, magkaaway nga kame eh..pero friends na po kame..favorite friend kona ulit sha, haha!










Here are the almost-morning to morning-after photos--Shempre almost wala tulugan na naman..old times baga...Paidlip-idlip lang mga tao pero laging me gising, kuwentuhan buong gabi..




Si Cardinal naghila ng mga upuan para higan...











Pinatulog na namin si Mommy Mel..kahit ayaw..baka maging lakwatsera daw kase ang bogas baby naten... :)














I was awake the whole night...as usual, Siyoktong is still teh eternal vampire...











Hala, tanghali na, anung petsa na! Magsi-uwian na kayo...!






I saved some of my favorite pics from the gimik for last..ala lang, pag nakikita ko tong mga pics na to, bigla ko na lang naiisip sumakay ng bus at pumuntang ELBI--tapos maiisip ko, ala na pala ang marami sa tin dun..






Pauwi na ulit kame..bus ulit..alis na ulit..









Au revoir Chelie and Mader!
Farewell.










Until then..
Mader and Chelie, take care of yourselves, okay?
Pagbalik niyo, we'll doit again..
Promise, we'll be here..
Mwah!

This Is Not Friendster!

This is not Friendster and I seldomly answer surveys. But I've been tagged and as a rule of thumb of bloggers out there, there's no escapin'.
So here:

Three names you go by
1.Jing
2.Siyoktog
3.Shax

The screen names you have had:
1. Dats (Dats, Amor, Petchay by L. Bucoy)
2. Jing (Sherman Freshman by L. Fermo)
3. Lucresia (Arba by J. Trinidad)

Three physical things you like about yourself:
1. analytic and calculating mind
2. left ring finger
3. chinkey eyes from my father

Three physical things you don’t like about yourself:
1. height
2. weight
3. teeth

Three parts of your heritage:
1. Austronesian
2. Chinese (from my great lolo)
3. Spanish (from my great lola)

Three things that scare you:
1. sudden death
2. rats
3. holduppers

Three of your everyday essentials:
1. isopropyl alcohol
2. eyeglasses
3. a 7-hour sleep

Three of your favorite musical artists:
1. Madonna
2. Carpenters
3. Debbie Gibson

Three of your favorite songs:
1. Under The Bridge
2. Love Me Like The First Time
3. Two Beds and a Coffee Machine

Three things you want in a relationship:
1. spontaneity
2.meaningful and academic conversations
3. great sex

Three lies and truths (in no particular order):
1. I believe I'm perfect
2. I hate my bestfriend
3. I have regrets on how I lived my life

Three physical things you want to do really badly now:
1. eat breakfast
2. read
3. sleep

Three careers you’re considering/you’ve considered:
1. teach in the academe
2. work for an advertising firm
3. be a lawyer

Three places you want to go on vacation:
1. Cambodia
2. New York
3. Spain

Three kids names you like:
1. Juan
2. Jason
3. Gabby

Three things you want to do before you die:
1. Write and publish a book
2. Record all my songs
3. Have at least one kid

Three ways that you are stereotypically a boy:
1. I have a pride as high as the Himalayas
2. I seldomly show affection
3. I face problems with cigarettes and alcohol

Three ways that you are stereotypically a girl:
1. I cry easily when I fight
2. I love attention and being pampered
3. I have secret guy fanstasies

Three celeb crushes:
1. Eric Bana
2. Angelina Jolie
3. Jeff Goldblum

By the way, if you came across this and you keep a blog, I'm tagging you. Your turn!

My Everyday Wish List

• tocino for breakfast
• 7 hours of sleep
• a text or a call from my old friends
• watch the early morning news
• sunlight for my newly-planted shrubs (damn this rain! my plants are rotting!)
• stop drinking coffee so much
• join meng on her daily belly-dancing or taebo
• spend at least an hour of warm bath
• read at least 2 chapters of my current book craze (The Wheel of Time, read it guys. I'm on the 4th book already, I have 7 more to go)
• keep looking for a driver of my scanner (so Richard and I can finally create the Bogas MTV)
• cut down on my rice meals (yeah right!)-- more like, "get enough resolve to wish to cut down on rice" (does that make sense?)
• finally get that elusive footspa I've been planning since my last one 4 months ago
• text papa and mama with a simple "good morning"
• go out for lunch with Cinds (Let's go out na kase! :p)
• really, really quit smoking (haaay..)
• say sorry to the people I've wronged
• repentance of dirty and greedy politicians all over the world
• and..as mundane as it may sound, I do wish for world peace and prosperity

thelma & louise

"Somebody told them to get a life...so they did."

There you go. That was the movie's tag line. It was a stormy Saturday night and whadda ya know, I spent it at home watching TV (what's new!). But hey, this CD's been sitting on top of my player for maybe a couple of weeks now and I've been ignoring it. Hah, to think that both Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon have both been my favorites at certain different points of my life. So there, I finally felt bored enough to watch an old movie of two old favorites, and demmet, it's good!

You know the feeling when you've just watched a good movie and you felt like cryin? Nah, I didnt feel like that this time. What I felt was kinda more nostalgic. I couldn't really explain. Maybe I should just talk about the movie first. It might give me some clues on how I really feel.

Basically the movie was about 2 friends who felt like having a vacation coz they were getting tired of the old life. Louise (Sarandon) was a waitress and Thelma (Davis) was a housewife. Typical lifestyle but both bored to death, they embarked on a trip for a supposedly nice vacation. Well, somewhere along the way, Louise killed a guy coz this guy tried to rape Thelma and before they knew it, they were both running away from the police. Things got more and more complicated since later in the movie, they needed to have money to survive. So Thelma robbed a convenient store and while driving away from it, they also managed to get pulled over by a policeman whom they trapped inside the car trunk. Towards the end of the movie, things got so complicated and problematical that they had to choose between turning themselves in to the police or keep on running. The scene was quite picturesque with Thelma and Louise inside their T-bird '64 facing a cliff with police cars trapping them from behind. Thelma goes, "I say we keep going..." And Louise says, "You sure?" All they had to do was hug and they held hands while their car falls off the cliff.

The movie had a pretty simple plot. Which basically makes it so natural and realistic. The end kinda grabs you though since you never expect that they would drive off just like that..

Now, I don't usually talk about movies, you see. Much less critique it, just like what I'm almost doing now. But see, I've always been a sucker for movies about friends and shit like that, so I can't help myself.

Watching Thelma & Louise kinda' makes me miss my bestfriends. Yeah, they're all too far and far-gone now, and I've dealt with that already. Yup, that's been dealt with already..see, I've resorted to critiquing movies about friends now when what I actually wanted to do was to write a little something for my besfriends too. Nah, too late. Too late.

As Ms. Thelma would put it, "I say keep going..keep going now".
I am.
Going...
Gone.

pain in the neck

before today, i always thought that "pain-in-the- neck" was a phrase used by people who wanted to express frustration and want to vent it on someone. i guess this was a narrow-minded way of looking at things.

i was absent from work last monday. it was raining cats and dogs and my way to work from our house was pretty much flooded. since i felt a cold coming too, i opted it best to stay at home for the night.

so there. i was at home the whole night - relaxing, reading -- and finally before i knew it, i fell asleep on the couch. i woke up at around 4am. i went up to my room and slept some more. by the next day, i knew i had pain in the neck. no, i wasn't a pain in the neck (to my boss or my sisters-- or to anyone for that matter!). but i had pain in the neck, literally, conspicuously feeling PAIN, that i could not even begin to describe.

it might have been that stupid, lumpy sofa. it might have been the long hours of sleep. whatever the reason was, i had stiff neck! i had freakin stiff neck just when i just had a long night of well-deserved sleep.

oh well, welcome to the mid-range 20's. an age when you seem to be in denial of all diseases and pains that your (not so) youthful body could take. damn it, stiff neck was something my mama or my tita would feel after a hard day's work. it's not so me! i should not be feeling this (pain in the neck) just yet!

but here, i do have it. and im already on my 2nd pack of chili pack from the clinic. i work, eat and sleep with chili pack between my shoulders blades.

word of advice everyone, if it rains really hard and if you have to cross the murky floodwaters of manila just so you can go to work while feeling really sick, GO AHEAD! it's so much better than having this stupid PAIN IN THE NECK!

i rest my case.

ouch--move my screen to the left please..i can't move...