second hand smoking

I wish there's a law that will enforce those who smoke to just smoke in an enclose area (like a huge bubble) so that it's only them who can inhale all that the cigarettes could offer without sharing it to anyone. I mean, there's a reason we do not smoke, people. Don't just rub all your left-over smokes out of our faces. So what, just because you wanna kill yourself, you get to kill others, too?! THAT'S NOT COOL.

I hate it when people smoke in public places. My brother smokes and it bothers me when he does that in front of me much more to his children.

Second hand smoking is as bad as having yourself doing it, so, people, let everyone decides what they wanna do with their lungs. If you wanna bathe your lungs with nicotine, you can do it as much as you want, I do not care. Repeat, I DO NOT CARE! You just don't have the right to shove it to everyone's nostrils around you. Do not bother all the healthy lungs around you. For all you know, it's those owners who will send you to the hospital in the future. Again, NOT COOL!

fiction

I posted a short story in this website and I received so many hateful reviews. They hated one of the characters so much I even consider a possibility of killing him in the next chapter. First timer, people, have some slacks.

All those haters... Now, I get you Lindsay Lo.

yes, yes show

These are the top 8 of my list of tv series:

Grey's Anatomy

this is my favorite show, ever! i've been rewatching all episodes over and over again and still couldn't get enough of it. I've been trying to persuade my sisters to watched it for so long and they didn't think it as a good pasttime. They always think that I have a poor taste when it comes to tv series and movies. They didn't even bother to try watching it - well 'til lately. They (my elder sisters) had watched every movies and series that I supplied so they didn't have much choice but to watched Grey's (yes, I'm hurt). And I'm gonna tell you this, THEY LOVE IT!!! We will gather around and talk about it incessantly. Oh my God, there's this tiny portion in my brain reserved for fangirling and it's exploding. They are on their 30's and we'll talk about it like a crazy teenagers, hehe, we are so cute... Or not, but I don't care! 

FRIENDS

If you just wanna be entertained without using too much brain (like me), then this show is for you. Just the body gestures of the characters drives me to the brink. one time, i laughed so hard I spit on my laptop monitor. I had to stopped watching just to clean it up.

The Big Bang Theory

Opposite to FRIENDS, this needs a lot of brains. They're talking about science and stuff and complex characters from epic/fantasy movies and tv shows (that i don't watch) that are sometimes needs a lot of understanding. It just funny crazy how geeky/brain-y people interacts with normal ones. They are all awkward (in a funny) as they tackle about girls and relationships.

Modern Family

It's about family and the problems that comes with it. 

Oh I just love Gloria and Cam. They steal the show, everytime.

Happily Divorced

Story of divorced couple who still lives together due to economic recession. The husband comes out as GAY after 18 years of marriage that triggers the divorce. And because of the poor economy, they cannot afford to live separately so they live within the same roof while each re-entering the dating pool. The first three episodes were so funny that I needed to pause the player from time to time just to contend myself from giggling - no, laughing... hysterically!

The Nanny

I remember watching it when I was still young and didn't understand a single thing. I just watched it coz the lady in it has a funny voice. And then lately, I secured a copy from Edward and watched it for 2 weeks straight. I looked forward going home from work just to watch every single episodes. Fran (the protagonist) is so Fran-tastic, she delivers funny lines, effortlessly, and is the reason why I watched Happily Divorced

How I Met Your Mother

Just like FRIENDS. They exaggerated small things/happenings in life. I missed the last season coz Dwight, my HIMYM supplier, is on different part of the world now so I guess I'll be missing my own dosage of this show in a very long time :(

Two and A Half Men

I love it 'til charlie Sheen is gone. It's dirty, which I like. Haha! But Kutcher enters and I stopped!

I always wanted to have a selective amnesia and forgot everything about these shows and just re-watched everything and fell in love again. And while most of my friends opt for vampire and musical shows, these are what gets me. What can I say, I always have a knack for funny show. 

mana

I don't know what does that mean and I don't even know if I spelled it right but that's what we called her.

She's the oldest relative I've seen in person. She was my grandmother's big sister. She was always been very old and slouchy and had this grouchy face as I can remember. She was very strong and I never saw her crying, even when grandmother died. 

One day, she greeted me on my birthday and I asked her when was her's so I could greet here back when that time comes. She said she couldn't remember when and nobody else does. I could have asked "how about your mother, didn't she tell you?", but I was so young then that I thought old people doesn't have mothers because they are old. I was five or six and still didn't get the circle of life.

I always remember her as someone who always has something for me. She kept food (mostly fruits) amongst her dresses, wrapped in towels (not the fancy kind where it's all fluffy, she couldn't afford it; it's custom-made, cut out from the flour's sack; in our dialect, we called it sako sa harina). She spent most of her mornings in our babaw (mountain) where she got all those fruits and kept it for us. My fun afternoon was consist of going to their house, which is a stone's throw away from ours, and get whatever she had stored for me. She had no husband and children and she wasn't friendly or so I thought. I just never seen her socializing - yes, I've got that genes - but she was always good with children.

towel cut out from sako sa harina

Our bonding moments consist of going to our babaw (mountains) where they grow crops like corns and camote. We would start walking as early as five o'clock in the morning and reached our destination in time for breakfast - my favorite part of the journey. We will soon rest in the small nipa hut where we would open whatever baons we brought along. Then she and my grandma would do the farming while I roamed around together with my cousin and siblings in the wide land full of wild berries and fruits and get everything our dainty hands could bring. My cousin once said that mana even climbed a coconut tree once to get some coconuts just because my cousin (and company) wanted to drink coco juice. Hardcore, right?

Then time passes and she became ill and couldn't walk and was bedridden for a very long time. She stopped giving treats and I stopped seeing her. Playmates and friends became more fun than shes was and soon I lost my interest to her. There were times that I went to her room and she would just stare at me. I think she felt bad because she couldn't give anything to me anymore. She never forgets our names but there are times she mismatched names with another person. One day she said "dakoa na nimo day oi (you look so big already)" and I realized she must be sick long enough for her to never saw me growing. The chit-chats we always shared just stopped and being a child and immature, I blamed her for that. She stopped being strong and I was afraid that she was not the same mana I was so fond of. Sometimes, I even went in there and just peek at a small opening in her door, not wanting to get inside and acknowledge my presence. She was so different. She was not the mana I used to know.

She died when I was 12 (I think) and it made me very sad. But I can't remember if I ever did shed a tear. Maybe, I never fully appreciated the beauty of having her in my life. I couldn't even remember if I ever said thank you to every guyabano or guava or senegwelas or lomboy her frailly hands offered unselfishly. Hands that was aged beautifully through years...

Going back today, it made me think that I was cut in the same stone as she was. All the traits she had, I saw it in me the more I aged. Like she was, I am shy, I don't like people most of the time, I don't cry easily and I love children. And did I mention  that she didn't get married? Now, I know where I'm going.

zumba

here's a thing. i really tried to be healthy so i go to this zumba class (not far away from where i work) and tried to go there, regularly. i started this thing like 5 months ago and didn't tell anybody so that i'll just show up being thin and surprise everybody and GLOAT with all my glory in this blog.. and guess what?.. nah, don't even ask!

so, i guess what i just mentioned above wouldn't gonna happen, so might as well make a fun out of it and write it here. coz that's what i do best.

as usual, lazyness got the better of me and i ended up having 3 sessions only for each of the last 2 months. i think (I THINK) i lost weight on the first 3 months but then holidays came and put back all the lost pounds in me - with a little extra more :(((

i categorized the participants into two kinds: 1) those who makes me fell bad about myself and 2) those who makes me fell good! no need to expand here.

being shy as always and wanna be left unnoticed, i usually situated myself behind everyone else. so i could see everyone like a "big brother" and do some critics. 

there were grandmas who are so cute i just wanna stare at them the whole time. very inspiring! there are a couple of people who continue to do routines even during the water break, i mean, couldn't they feel exhausted? i was on fire the whole time my body temperature couldn't go any higher. and then there's this pretty lady. the first time i saw her i immediately decided to hate her for no reason at all [coz that's what i do]. but then she decided to smile and it warmed my heart. so now i'm all girl crushing and i don't even know what's her name. yeah, wrong gene squad, again. and then there are just some people who's purpose of going in there is to piss me off. i mean they're long legs are from here to there and they didn't have an ounce of body fat. i mean any small amount of weight their losing and they'll disappear. and based on the way they dance, they've been doing this long enough to memorize all the basic steps. seriously, why everyone can't just be lazy like me?! hahaha.. BITTER OCAMPO! 

and also, i like the fact that my rubber shoes has served its purpose and could take a vacation leave from collecting cobwebs and dusts from the shoe stand. that's all.

here's an evidence that sometime in my lazy life, i lift my butt off and exercised!