madmas

i havent had sleep for the last 26 hours. that gal in orange just came from singapore and as usual we talked (no we dont talk, we shout at each other) for 5 hours til 4:30 in the morning. as usual we tackled about body issues, boys, we made ukray over famous people, and the puzzling quest that despite our awesomeness (we declared it ourselves), why are we still single!

have you experience when you talk to someone else and then you were running out of topic to talk about and there comes a moment of silence? - that never happened to us! it's always like we're in a competition where we're being judged on who will have the most number of words spoken in the conversation. and when you see us, you'll think that we're arguing because, as i've said, we shout at one another and we made ukray at each other and we never get hurt. we laughed over our broken hearts and failed relationships, too. i think there's a word for that... craziness.

now, let's go back to the zero number of hours i've slept for the past 26 hours, so, to all my officemates, if you see a zombie walking down the hall, do not panick, that just me!

gihimog diary ang blog

dear diary,

i am once again in my favorite place. it's far from being classy or luxurious room that can be seen in magazine. to be fact, it's messy with used dress hanging on the wall and an unmade bed nearby. i am sitting not on a soft padded swivel chair that i've been sitting 5 days a week in the office, but, on a plastic stool that i am not even sure if it can hold my [aherms] voluptuous body long enough for me to post this blog. 

my mother just came in to gave me my favorite pillows for my tonight's favorite event - sleeping. uh, can i just tag her along with me when i get married? life would be much comfortable with her. my father is in the next room, watching tv. actually, it's just the idea of him watching juan dela cruz, ang bakal na krus, but really, he's just sleeping through it. 

on the next barrio, there's a fiesta going on, and a singing contest is held tonight in the plaza. my sisters didn't want to miss that so off they went to watch it. my mother asked me to go with her to watch, too, and as usual i said "i don't want to". i don't know why this 5x6-meter room is more interesting to me than anything outside on it. 

i travel 3 hours almost every weekend just to be here. this place is far from being perfect but i wouldn't trade it for paris hilton's place. uhm... on the second thoght...

until then,

vella

ps: believe me, i tried so hard but this is the best i could get. i'm not good in selfies :(

They call it cooking

I was cooking chopsuey (my first attempt) then I thought here's my chance to be creative, why not put a whole can of century tuna on it. Turn out to be not a very good idea. The flavor of canned tuna mixed with chorizo is just... its... I couldn't explain it in words. Just the distorted face of my sister when she tasted it is the best way to describe it. 

The second one is chicken caldereta. I bought a caldereta mix (1 sachet) from a grocery store. Since, I'm the only one at home that time, I only cook 3 pieces of chicken. I just mix everything and cook it. Remember when your teacher told you how important it is to read instructions before taking exams? Well, I do now. Because the caldereta mix that I bought was for a kilo worth of meat. So imagine an over powering caldereta sauce to my chicken. It taste funny and weird.

malling with zoie and 3rdy

I was sooooooo excited to see these little bugs.

 We met up at SM last Saturday and it was the little girl who saw me first while I was descending from an escalator and I swear to God she was so excited to see me, it was all written in her tiny little face. She dis-entangled her hand from her mother and run as much as her little feet could do towards me - it just melts my heart. I was a bit afraid though that she might jump into the descending escalator, hehe. Now I know how did the The Beatles felt amidst the screaming fans while descending from this airplane. Rock star.

Anyways, while their parents were running some errands, I was more than happy to entertain this tiny humans and what's the best place to go for that? Yeah right, Bibbo (SM City)! So, I spent like a hundred bucks only and got a priceless worth of laughter and memories in return. Am I the best Aunt or what? hehe. I don't have photos of it, I only had the video and it's lengthy and I don't have the time to wait up (for uploading).

After having lunch, they went up for shopping. And you know what comes with shopping, right? WALKING!! Lots and lots of them. So, after they got their bikes as promised, those little bugs lost their interest to shop clothes for the grown ups and started having their long faces on. So being an appointed SUPER AUNT from the universe and beyond, I came to the rescue. I pulled them out from the arduous task of shopping and we went to have snacks instead. It was past 3pm already so I knew they needed a recharge. We went to this sandwich station near the movie house, it's the nearest snack eatery with chairs, which I needed more than them. My legs were hurting from walking for 3 hours. I bought them buko shakes, hotdogs and junk foods (shhhh, don't tell their mom) and they're loving it!

So, they're having some serious business of waiting up for the grown-ups to finish their shopping!

And then the little girl thought that she needed something to wrap her meal up and since she's not old enough for a beer, she went for her second best option instead. She looked down the table and what did she got from the table roof? Of course a GUM, where else can you find a free gum, huh?

I diverted my attention to something other than them for just a brief second and the next thing I saw was this little girl putting the gum on her mouth (again, don't tell their mom). THE HORROR! I asked her where did she find it and she re-enact how did she get it. I tell you, this kid, she is just the wisest. And she is only two. 

We've been there for an hour already and they're starting to get bored so the SUPER AUNT got to do what she really needed to do - to let them play in the movie house waiting area (with people walking everywhere because the Iron Man 3 was on). Not my best decision ever, coz this little minions swagged around like a 'boss'. So, I was chasing them here and there, like a true Super Aunt will do. I think there were some shouting involved, of course that's what a super aunt do when things got out of hand. And with the people around.... uh! 

Just look at that, she boss around like she own the place. 

Later on, people were coming out from the movie house and tried to sit down on the bench, but oh! oh!, she never scoot. There's no way she would scoot. Look how she occupied half of the bench and how those 3 women settled on what little space that was left for them.

And here's the best part. After I activated my sweat glands on, I was sweaty all over (akong nawong murag gikumot ug engkanto), I saw a familiar face from a coffee shop nearby and tsadaaaan... he was my ex-crush whom I haven't seen for five years or more. He was with 3 other people. I wanted to go hide but with 2 extra little people with me, it's not that easy. So, he saw me and he went near me and he started a conversation and as usual, I started to act weird. I smiled a lot and asked stupid questions like 'why he was there?'. My God, its a mall. That's what people do, they go to the mall. I excused myself the first chance I could get to avoid further awkwardness.