detour new jersey

march 25, 2012

going to new jersey was out of the plan. it was hecel, who is kind enough to invite us and offer to tour in the city where he lives which we're more than ecstatic to accept.

it was freezing cold which we didn't expect coz georgia is on spring already and is very hot. the clothes we're wearing wasn't sufficient enough for the harsh weather so it's hard for us to stay outside the car longer but we did it anyway. i couldn't care less if it'll give me colds afterwards, new jersey is worth the risk. 

i was so tan already which i got from wandering around new york city for more than 12 hours the previous day. the cold weather makes me forget the sun...

just landed in nj, right after the statue of liberty tour

braving the freezing weather

waiting for the ride

too bad all i could do was to take a photo,

too damn cold to sit on the bench

see?, tan

and here is hecel with his car and his heart-warming hospitality

nj with love

it looks like not, but the cold almost killed me

the jersey shore, i havent seen any filming happened, though

jersey shore premium outlets

the holland tunnel

connecting  manhattan, nyc and jersey city, nj

the holland tunnel

above this is the hudson river

♥

my favorite tv nerds dancing, uh!

fell in love with new york

march 24, 2012

i've heard so much of your beauty that passed from tongue to tongue. 

you're the topic of so many movies since motion picture ever began!

i never tought i could see a glipse of you

and now that i did, i am in total awe

nevertheless, i am in love with you

could i just be forever in your nest

coz that'll be i feel at my best

brooklyn, ny: this was where we stayed

empire state building, i love ♥

in the busy streets of manhattan

gotta love central park

rockefeller center

st patrick's cathedral

i have a thing for yellow cabs

the infamous  time square

the ball that was dropped last new year! i saw it in person... or in object... whatever!

broadway, now where's my ticket?!

no, it's no fairytale

this place do exist

central park 

it was nice meeting you, liberty 

to the port going to new jersey! 

grand central station clock

waiting for the train at new york subway

gotta put "i love" word in this shirt

acknowledgement: thank you sir ladislao for sharing your humble apartment with us and for showing the beauty of nyc. you too, hecel..

elevator

do you have those moments where you met a person in the hallway, then you just see that you have the same id sling imprinted with the company name you're in? then you immediately dislike her for... you don't know... maybe because she's skinnier than you, which a lot of people are, so that's a lot of hating for you to make. she attempted to smile at you, you think that's what she does to all the people she share the company with, and you chose to be mean that time so you turn to the other cheek. you're not proud of what you did but that's your "mood for the day". then it's seems like you're gonna be in the same elevator, which she presses the button for the both of you. then she let you in first which you kinda hate that. of course you hate it when a person you decided to not-like is being nice and warm to you. that makes you guilty. she pressed 5 and you pressed 6 and the mechanical box started to lift you up. then before you just reached her floor, the universe started to punish you, there's a power black-out and the elevator just went a floor or two down at a freefall. so, given if each floor measures 10 meters high, you just fell 20 meters high at a speed of 9.8 meters per second square - with the gravity pulling you down (huh, my physics teacher would be so proud). okay, you don't really know if that's 20 meters but it feels like it. you feel like you're heart had just jump out off your mouth and then swallowed it back. for the first time, you gotta press the emergency button, and man, that is hardcore! then you're trap for another 4 minutes or so, so you gotta talk to ease the nervousness you have. then, you started talking to her and shared the experience you're just into. then you started to like her and she become your favorite person of the day. and you gonna remember each other as the other girl you were trapped in an elevator with. funny, but sometimes, that's how you make friends.

:-?

boss calling makes me skip a heartbeat, never fails! and it's not what your lovestruck brain think what it is.. it's just that they're just gonna call you if you did something good or bad. and i didn't recall doing a former, lately!

lexie

05-18-2012

one of my favorite tv characters, died. feels like my heart is chopped to the tiniest bits. i liked her so much coz she makes me laugh so hard.

rest in peace, lexie

now there's only a sloan in the SLEXIE team-up and it makes me so sad i even forgot to eat my lunch. omg, i shipped them so hard.

slexie

mer's grief when she learned that her sister died made me cried (really, i cried) a little, too.

what can i say, best season finale

bro is coming

this is late but the pics below are too cute not to share..

this is a follow-up post (please click here for related post) of what had happened while waiting for bro's flight from UAE.

so, we're waiting til tomorrow. and you know, when you wait that long, bad scenarios will camp on your brain and here comes the what ifs: what if he was arrested for bringing illegal whatever inside the airport, or he slept inside the plane long enough for the plane to go to another destination, or he was peeing inside the lavatory and was flushed himself down the toilet, or worst, A PLANE CRASH!

then, we stumbled on this news: plane crash in pakistan while browsing on the free internet. so much to say, this started my panic attack.

for a second, i really thought that my brother is dead. yuh, i came this close *see pic below* of bawling my eyes out. 

my hands were shaking so bad, it makes too hard for me to scroll the news page down on my kindle. my sister's comment "hala mao na ni!" makes me more frighten if that's even possible. coz, looking at the time and the location of the plane crash, it really is possible that it's my brother's flight(pakistan is near to UAE).

the only persons who were far from having heart attacks at that time were these cute little bugs...

yup, the airport clock says 11:00 o'clock and we're running out of money, so, this gal got some serious strippin job to do!

thank God, i've got some time-off chasing this rugrat. man, u have no idea what i went through with this little fella. she must have drunk a year's supply of energy drink that we don't know of. she was bossing around like she owned the place.

pre-pic before we went through hell!

twittering

i was busy the whole day... finding the best username for my twitter account... i want to change @vella_oslobanon which i've been using for 3 years already.. i just realized, it doesn't sound cool.

i opted for @rockevella (sound like rockefella/r) at first, which i find cute, not until @LadyNorin mocked it to death!

it's as if she has the best username in twitterworld. @LadyNorin? what is that even means - ladybug's sister? hehehhehe. bitter..

here are the list of usernames that i was tempted to use, i'm just to scared to be mocked again:

@vellacious - coz i'm delicious

@avellable - to all the men out there

@novella - wala lang, it just a proper word with my name in it

@mozzavella - coz i love cheese

@salivella - this is too gross..

then i came up with @unvellabable and there... i already have a new username :)

now, i'm waiting of who'll ever mocks it and he/she will surely lose 1 follower... 

the lunch

i just had a hearty lunch. as if my silhouette wasn't enough as a show off, here's a trivia about me: lunch is what i most look forward to everytime i come to the office. who's with me, raise your hands! and since we're talking about lunch, i'm gonna share the last lunch i had in the US. I discussed it in my past posts but i want to go into details.

so, i'm having my last lunch together with the team. that's their treat for me for making it through the 5 months of training/work without going nuts. that alone, is an achievement! after the lunch, the manager then made a short speech of whatnots and a very cliche question:

manager: what was the best thing you ever did here in the US?

adlib: now, there are tons of things that i could consider as best! clue: people, sceneries, inter-state trips, work... WORK?! i don't like ambush interviews, specially when i cannot use my mother's tongue to answer it. have i known it earlier that there's this speech, i could have composed a lengthy essay of thank you's and appreciation. so, the only word that popped out of my brain was the last activity we had, so i said:

me: eating!?

adlib: yuh, the exclamation point and the question mark are very important to end that sentence.. coz i said it like it is the only reason i came to their country. i'm not a fan of cyber acronyms but WTF???

then i forget to notice what everyone's reactions coz i'm busy contemplating of how much damage my answer would cause to my well-being! then, as if the wreck of my first answer wasn't enough, and in my attempt to save me from humiliation, which on every account, i failed to do so... i added...

me: oh, should have i said work?!

adlib: and that was it. i created a irrevocable havoc. i interchanged the question mark and exclamation point on purpose coz at that time, i was asking first then exclaim! and again, WTF?!! 

i heard a collective laugh from the other 10 people in the room. oh mother, what is wrong with me?

just a thougt

no fun at work

i should have make those powerpoint presentations, instead, i busied myself doing anything but it! oh, reporting! how can i love thee? it's college all over again... minus the cutting of classes.